Surviving as the Villainess’s Servant in a Martial Arts Novel - Chapter 78

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Episode 78

[To the Young Miss I miss so much.

Young Miss, have you been staying healthy?

It’s me, Seo Dan.

You’re wondering why I’m writing a letter today?

I’ve been learning to write from Hyeon-a lately. She said if I practice by writing directly like this, I can learn much faster, so I decided to write this for practice.

That’s one reason… and actually, I don’t know when I’ll get to meet you, Young Miss. So I’m writing letters to keep records. That way I can tell you everything whenever we meet.

I’ve really experienced so many things during this time.

After parting with you, Young Miss, I was chased, fell off a cliff, and oh, after falling off the cliff, there was someone I met…

…(omitted)…

So that’s how I became the Head Priest!

Haha, surprising, right? A guy who used to shovel manure suddenly became the leader of an organization in an instant.

Honestly, I was really worried. Even if it’s a somewhat strange religion, I wondered if someone like me who hasn’t learned or knows nothing could suddenly lead so many people.

But it turns out there’s actually nothing for me to do.

Eom Father has been handling all the major and minor affairs of the sect from the beginning, and all I have to do is find the ‘sacred scripture,’ which is the Head Priest’s duty.

Oh, about what the sacred scripture is, it’s a divine treasure of Gwangjin-gyo… well, I’ll explain this again when we meet!

Anyway, I’m doing well.

Contrary to my worries, everyone here treats me well too.

How about you, Young Miss?

Are you… doing well?

I really hope you are. Wherever you are, I hope you’re staying healthy and living happily.

But you can’t be too happy. If you’re too happy, you might forget me. I won’t forget you, Young Miss!

So let’s promise to meet soon.

It’s a promise!

—Seo Dan, who will always miss you, Young Miss.

P.S. I made a new alias.

Since I can’t use my real name outside until I find out who the mastermind behind what happened to the Seo Family is, I thought I’d use a new name while I’m at it.

Of course, Eom Father and Sa-hyeon know my real name.

You’re curious too, aren’t you, Young Miss? The alias I created after much deliberation is…

Dan Yeon-jeong .

I’ll tell you what it means when we meet♥]

[To the Young Miss who must be well somewhere.

Young Miss, I’ve finally started learning martial arts!

I told you before about how I somehow came to learn Gwangjin-gyo’s divine technique, right?

That divine technique is precisely an ascension mental cultivation method, and my body condition was reformed into a form that could learn that mental method.

After that, I have to go through training according to the incantations for the divine technique’s true value to appear.

Anyway, what I learned first was the Blood Path.

I need to know where the blood paths are in the human body to circulate energy in the order of blood paths mentioned in the incantations.

Eom Father taught me about the Blood Path.

I didn’t know this, but usually someone of the same gender teaches these blood paths. Since they teach by touching the body, if someone of a different gender teaches, romantic feelings might develop.

There were actually martial artists who developed such feelings. The woman who developed those feelings was even a married woman with a husband…

…Ahem, anyway, the Blood Path is incredibly complex. There’s so much to memorize too.

But do you know what’s really amazing? I’m not having any trouble at all. I’ve become so smart that I can memorize everything after hearing it just once or twice!

Shocking, right? I’m shocked too.

I asked Hyeon-a about it, and she doesn’t know for sure, but it might be an effect of learning the divine technique.

If that’s real, isn’t that totally overpowered? It would be great if you could learn it too, Young Miss, but the initiation is a bit tricky. But you’re much smarter than me, Young Miss, so you’d be fine, right?

Anyway, I memorized all the Blood Paths in just a few days, so I’ll soon enter internal energy training. According to Hyeon-a, I need to start by training the Six Yin Meridians…

Sigh, I’m already scared I might become too strong.

Please wait just a little longer. I’ll come to get you when I become incredibly strong, Young Miss!

You can hit me anytime then♡

—Seo Dan, who misses the feeling of Young Miss’s hands.]

[To the delicate Young Miss.

Young Miss, I think I’m really going to become incredibly strong…

I’ve already finished training all the Six Yin Meridians and moved on to the Yin Heel Vessel.

Hyeon-a was amazed. Usually this takes several years, but I achieved it in just over a year.

I can feel my body changing every day too.

Normal people get tired if they move around all day, right? But I don’t get tired. The more I move, the more energy overflows!

So much energy overflows that last time I ended up smashing a tree. I just thought I’d make some fruit fall, but when I saw the tree fall backward after one hit, I was so surprised…

Later when I heard from Eom Father, he said it’s because I can’t control my internal energy output yet.

This can happen when internal energy suddenly improves from taking spirit medicine or encountering a fortuitous opportunity. So these days I’m learning internal energy control methods from Eom Father.

For internal energy application, I’ve started training external arts alongside internal energy cultivation.

Palm techniques, leg techniques, fist techniques, lightness skills, etc…

Just one thing, I’m still terrible at sword techniques.

Why on earth can’t I get used to swords? Just holding a sword makes me nauseous, so I can’t use it properly…

Anyway, except for sword techniques, I’m improving so fast that even I find it scary.

What… what if I become the greatest under heaven?

Be nervous, Young Miss.

Soon you’ll become the master of the greatest under heaven!

—Seo Dan, who will become the future greatest under heaven.

P.S. I’ve been feeling a bit chilly lately.

Usually I’m fine, but every time I circulate energy, I get cold once.

At first I thought it was just a feeling, but last time it was so cold that I stopped my energy circulation and opened my eyes to find frost on my clothes.

Could there still be cold poison remaining in my body? I definitely heard it was all cured…

I should ask Eom Father about it later.]

[To the Young Miss I especially miss today.

Young Miss, something terrible has happened.

Remember when I said I was a bit cold last time?

Back then I thought I just caught a cold, or maybe my body wasn’t feeling well.

But it was neither of those.

This was a side effect that comes as martial arts achievements deepen!

No, how can this be? I thought after the difficult initiation, I just had to learn the martial arts, but suddenly there are side effects?

But according to Hyeon-a, it can’t be helped.

Rather, she said my body changed to match the martial arts, which is why I could endure this much.

That’s because this divine technique is somewhat special.

Usually martial arts are based on the harmony of yin and yang. So if you learn lesser yin, you learn lesser yang, alternating between yin and yang meridians.

But this martial art is the complete opposite.

First, you train the yin meridians to their limit to create extreme yin energy. Then you train the yang meridians to create extreme yang energy again.

By containing these opposing energies in one body, when the two energies are accumulated to the extreme, combining them according to the incantations gives you tremendous internal energy…

Haha… I’m not going to get into real trouble learning this, am I?

It obviously doesn’t seem ordinary.

Even dikes burst when the current is too strong, so if I can’t endure while gathering the two energies, won’t my body eventually burst too…

Sigh, I’ll stop having such scary thoughts.

Since I’ve already started learning it, I can’t stop anyway.

Still, Eom Father’s medical skills are excellent, so I have no choice but to trust in that. Well, even if things go wrong, what more could happen than death?

Just death… but that can’t happen, right?

Young Miss, I’ll be okay, right…?

—Seo Dan, trembling with fear.]

[To the Young Miss who must be curious about news.

Young Miss, fortunately I’m still alive!

I was being a bit dramatic last time, wasn’t I?

Of course it wasn’t completely painless… but fortunately it was bearable for me.

In the middle of circulating my energy, the yin energy invaded once and I almost lost consciousness, but I gritted my teeth and endured it somehow, and it worked out.

Looking at it this way, I really do have a tenacious grip on life, don’t I?

It’s all probably a miracle that came about because Young Miss prayed so earnestly day and night for my safety, isn’t it? Or maybe not.

Anyway, I’ve trained all my yin meridians and am resting now.

When I train my yang meridians, I’ll truly possess both energies, so I want to build up my body a bit and make various preparations before starting.

During this time, I went out with Eom Father several times.

It was actually my first outing in a very long time. While training, I couldn’t have distractions in my heart, so I refrained from going out as much as possible and stayed holed up in the mountain forest training.

Outside was still the same.

The world is monotonous to the point of being boring, and people are living day by day without any particular incidents.

If such things hadn’t happened to us, would we have been living like them?

These are all pointless hypotheticals.

But sometimes I think about it. Being the best under heaven and all that – isn’t living with precious people actually the happiest thing?

Seeing people outside these days makes me think of Young Miss a lot.

Young Miss, are you doing well?

Please send me news sometime.

I’ll always be waiting for Young Miss.

—Seo Dan, who misses Young Miss.]

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