Surviving as the Terminally Ill Young Lady of the North Sea Ice Palace - Chapter 59

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Episode 59
“Kiyah! You showed your true skills! From now on, that bastard will tremble just seeing Seol’s shadow!”
“Right. Did he really have to lose consciousness?”
I descended from the Match Arena amid the cheers and made my way toward Maeng Ryeong Ji.
“You subdued him without using the Ice Technique at all…… remarkable!”
So Un was thoroughly impressed.
“To think that level of Internal Energy alone could subdue the heavyweight…….”
Jeong Ha Rin, who’d sat through the same lectures, looked as though she’d received quite a shock.
Well, even I’d expected to need the Ice Technique at least once.
But it worked out.
“Ah, that was satisfying!”
“I always knew you’d win, young lady!”
Yeon Mu Jin, the representative of Inbon Hall, and his companion congratulated me as well.
“Seol.”
Just then, Wi Jong Haeng pushed through the knot of our Dormitory students surrounding us.
“Every moment of what I witnessed today, I’ll carve into my bones without leaving out a single thing. That was truly…… the most magnificent match I’ve ever seen.”
“Ah…… yes.”
He bit his lower lip, his eyes reddening at the edges.
Honestly, was it really that impressive?
I’d used underhanded tactics, and I found it difficult to say the match was magnificent myself—I didn’t know what to say without sounding self-conscious.
“Wasn’t that final rush using the Ice Technique?”
“I thought so too. Right after that, he collapsed coughing blood.”
“The blood inside his body must have frozen, causing his Qi to surge! That’s certain!”
Not only Pung Seung but several senior students as well began spinning wild rumors about the Ice Technique.
Watching the common folk from Luoyang listen intently to their nonsense, it seemed such stories would spread soon enough.
Of course, I made no effort to correct them.
“Move aside.”
Meanwhile, Jin Young Hu remained motionless on the Match Arena.
Eventually the martial instructors climbed onto the platform to examine him.
“Is he all right?”
“His Internal Injuries are worse than expected.”
Paeng Jung Geol, as Dormitory Supervisor of Jijeong Hall, and Gwak Do Cheon, seemingly out of simple kindness, both tended to the student.
The other martial instructors who’d come to watch all returned to the Academy the moment the match ended.
‘Ah, there’s no instructor from the Gong Dong Sect here.’
True enough—if their sect’s senior had been at the Academy, they wouldn’t have carried themselves so recklessly.
“Cough—!”
“Instructor, are you heading to the Medicinal Hall?”
“Yes. Are you injured anywhere?”
As they came toward me, I quickly asked the two of them.
“No, I’m fine. I did exactly as Instructor Gwak taught me, and Jin Young Master couldn’t move a muscle!”
“Heuk Ryeong Geom, did you teach him that?”
“Me? Hmm? Ah…… I suppose I did……?”
For some reason, Gwak Do Cheon answered with obvious reluctance.
Wait, I did it exactly as he showed me—why is he reacting like that?
“I’ve never seen you fight so cheaply before…….”
“Ha, Seol just applied it creatively.”
“Her External Force technique was quite fine! The way she mobilized strength from specific muscles in an instant, her reaction speed was outstanding.”
I’d thought Paeng Jung Geol would criticize me for using underhanded tactics rather than overpowering him with pure strength.
But the praise came unexpectedly.
“Well, if that fellow Young Hu had built his body as I instructed from the Initial Stage, there’d have been no contest. Tsk, how does he take Internal Injuries from lacking even the muscle to absorb recoil?”
“Young Hu was careless. I hope this loss to a new student will help him set his mind straight.”
“All of you, I need to visit the Medicinal Hall as well. Go on to your lessons first.”
In any case, I had business at the Medicinal Hall, so I waved goodbye to Maeng Ryeong Ji and So Un, then followed the martial instructors.
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“You, boldly fought a match with Young Hu, I heard…… wait? You look perfectly fine?”
Upon arriving at the Medicinal Hall, Yak Seon greeted me as usual with a stern voice.
As I opened the door for the martial instructors, he had begun to scold me but stopped short.
“Hmm, the patient is Young Hu?”
“Yes. I was fortunate enough to win.”
“You did? At that level?”
“Were you worried about me? I’m touched.”
“Oh please, don’t flatter yourself. I wasn’t worried.”
Even Yak Seon seemed to have been waiting for a patient, having heard the news of my martial match with Jin Young Hu.
Though it was reluctant, it seemed he did care about me, even as he played the role of medicinal herbs teacher.
“Hmm? The internal injuries are quite severe, aren’t they? A Recovery Pill won’t be enough.”
He checked Jin Young Hu’s meridians and then stared at me with a look that asked what I’d done.
“I didn’t do anything in particular. He suddenly coughed up blood and collapsed.”
Paeng Jung Geol and Gwak Do Cheon both regarded me with strange eyes.
What? I didn’t actually use my techniques that cruelly, did I?
My sword did catch him slightly at the end, but that’s standard in a real martial match.
When I think about it, Heuk Ryeong Geom was similar.
He didn’t even get stabbed directly by me.
Why did people who fought me keep naturally accumulating internal injuries?
“If Yak Seon says treatment is necessary, then it’s necessary. Use an Internal Recovery Pill.”
Paeng Jung Geol said this.
So when someone passes out, the Dormitory Supervisor as guardian can use Merit Points?
A Recovery Pill could restore energy in a single day from wounds that would normally require days of bed rest—it cost 20 Merit Points.
But the Internal Recovery Pill, one tier higher, which addressed internal injuries, consumed a full 100 points.
When Jin Young Hu opened his eyes, I’d already lost 462 points.
And another 100 would vanish on treatment.
Why did he have to pick a fight with me, of all people?
“Tsk.”
Yak Seon placed a pill on Jin Young Hu’s lips.
Paeng Jung Geol laid him on the bed, clicked his tongue, and left the Medicinal Hall.
Gwak Do Cheon also seemed relieved once Jin Young Hu’s face looked peaceful.
“But why did you come? You don’t seem to have a single injury. If it’s just scratches, don’t ask for medicine—practice your Qi Circulation Breathing instead!”
Since I wasn’t leaving after he’d treated the patient, Yak Seon grumbled without reason.
I had only been waiting for him to finish with the patient, yet his temperament was something else.
“I’m not looking for recovery medicine—I’d like to purchase an Internal Energy advancement elixir. Just one Small Heaven Pill, please.”
Of course, with Zheng Qi Gong my speed of accumulating Internal Energy was already quite high, but an elixir would make it a bit faster.
Gwak Do Cheon had also said it would be good to take a few Small Heaven Pills if I wanted to keep up with academy lessons without using the Ice Technique.
Since Small Heaven Pills only cost 20 points anyway, I thought it made sense to follow his advice.
“Small Heaven Pill? You don’t need that. Haven’t you already perfected the Ice Technique?”
But Yak Seon shook his head without giving me the pill.
“Yes, of course I’ve trained the Ice Technique for a long time, and my Internal Energy reserves aren’t small. But given my circumstances, I’d prefer not to use the Ice Technique if possible, and I want to accumulate Qi quickly without leaning too far toward Extreme Yin.”
Maeng Ryeong Ji had also said Small Heaven Pills wouldn’t mean much for me, but I wasn’t in a normal situation now.
Even if the Yin-Cold Energy was minimal compared to before, I wanted to build up enough to match the Inbon Hall students for peaceful academy life.
“Hmm? That’s quite an unusual thing to do.”
“Hehe…”
“Well, you still don’t need it. Small Heaven Pills are entrance-level medicine for children first building their Internal Energy! Rather than increasing quantity, they settle and ground the newly gathered True Qi into the meridians.”
Even after he explained, Yak Seon tried to dissuade me.
Of course, for those warriors who hadn’t yet accumulated sufficient Internal Energy, it would be good.
But for a warrior who already knew the technique, the efficiency dropped off.
“Then, to accumulate the amount of Internal Energy I need, must I take something higher?”
The next tier, the Heavenly Spirit Pill, cost a full 100 points.
My current Merit Points stood at 616, but I owed 100 to the Blacksmith.
Internal Energy wasn’t desperately urgent, so spending 100 at once seemed wasteful.
“The Heavenly Spirit Pill doesn’t increase quantity either. Rather, it filters impurities from your Internal Energy to clarify your Qi, and opens your Spiritual Sense.”
But the Heavenly Spirit Pill wasn’t the answer either.
It let you sense the flow of surrounding Qi, an enemy’s killing intent, even minute vibrations.
…So it just made your perception better and gave the feeling of becoming an expert, but your total Internal Energy remained the same?
Even placed side by side, it raised the quality of Internal Energy, not the quantity.
I already had keen perception to begin with, and my Qi was pure and accumulating steadily with nothing to filter out.
So it was completely unnecessary for me.
“If you want to aim for increasing the quantity of Internal Energy, you need to eat at least a Completed Origin Pill. But honestly, even that’s hard to recommend if we’re talking efficiency.”
Yak Seon also explained the remaining two Internal Energy advancement elixirs.
“To be honest, to dramatically increase your Internal Energy quantity, you absolutely must take the Great Heaven Pill. This special elixir of mine pours ten-plus years’ worth of cultivation compressed into True Qi directly into your body. Rather than buy a Completed Origin Pill, add a bit more and go for the Great Heaven Pill!”
A Completed Origin Pill sold for 400 points, while the Great Heaven Pill went for 2,000.
The price was five times higher, but the effect was ten times better.
For any student who felt lacking in Internal Energy, the Great Heaven Pill was what you absolutely had to take before graduation, even if it meant delaying graduation by half a year.
Eat this alone, and at the Post-Qi Realm Student level, you won’t have a single regret.
“I’m the person at Cheon Mu Academy who knows healing pills better than anyone! There’s nothing to deliberate about!”
R-really?
I came to the Medicinal Hall specifically to buy a Small Heaven Pill for twenty points.
Somehow I’d ended up listening to a sales pitch for the Great Heaven Pill—a hundred times as expensive.
Surviving as the Buk Hae Ice Palace’s Heir with a Time Limit (Serialized)
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