The Chaotic Immortal Wood Sect: Immortal Cultivation War - Chapter 44

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44. Waiting for the Perfect Moment

“Yes, how did you do it?”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk asked while looking at Kang Hyeon.

Just as Kang Hyeon was about to respond.

“It would be best not to make clumsy excuses about innate divine abilities or such nonsense. I won’t even consider the possibility that two people could be born with the same innate divine ability.”

He was actually warning Kang Hyeon by saying exactly what Kang Hyeon had been planning to use as an excuse.

“This was something accomplished by someone at merely the Qi Accumulation stage, yet you can’t figure it out and threaten a young junior? Why don’t you figure it out yourself?”

“You bastard! Do you think such desperate measures will work on me? Do you think I have no way to make you talk?!”

“If you have a method, then by all means use it. Since I’m already facing death, what reason would I have to make things convenient for you, elder?”

“Yes, yes. It’s been truly a long time since I’ve seen such a bold fellow. I always get excited whenever I see people like you. Kahahahahaha.”

Contrary to his words, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk’s aura raged violently, as if Kang Hyeon’s retort had greatly offended him.

“Uuuugh!”

At that moment, In Deok, who had been motionless like a corpse until now, trembled with a groan.

“Oh? It seems he’s waking up. That fellow was also disguising his spiritual root, so he would know the method. But I wonder if he’ll be as stubborn as you. Kehehehe.”

As In Deok regained consciousness, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk’s expression brightened, thinking he had found another avenue to discover the spiritual root disguise technique.

“He seems to have suffered severe internal injuries and looks like he might die at any moment. Please allow me to provide some treatment. I happen to possess wood-attribute spiritual energy and have some skill in healing.”

Kang Hyeon asked the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk for permission to treat In Deok.

To treat In Deok, he would need to move his spiritual energy, and if the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk allowed him to move his spiritual energy externally, he planned to jump into the Mystic Realm with In Deok without looking back.

“Hmph! That’s something I’ll handle myself.”

However, instead of releasing Kang Hyeon’s spiritual energy, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk sent his own blood energy flowing into In Deok.

With a light wave of his hand, a stream of red energy extended toward In Deok’s chest and seeped in.

“Uuuugh!”

As the blood energy entered, In Deok frowned and groaned.

He clearly appeared to be in much more pain than before.

“Endure it! Pain means you’re being healed.”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk lightly scolded In Deok.

And along with that, he made the energy constraining Kang Hyeon and In Deok even more solid.

“Uuuugh!”

Kang Hyeon also let out a pained groan as he felt the energy suppressing him grow even stronger.

“Hmm, but a Heavenly Spirit Root… That’s quite troublesome.”

Meanwhile, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk frowned as if something didn’t add up, alternately looking at In Deok and Kang Hyeon.

Kang Hyeon couldn’t guess the monk’s inner thoughts, but he suspected the man was contemplating whether or not to use them as pill refining materials.

“Hmm! This isn’t easy, not easy at all.”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk shook his head and muttered meaningless words, then pulled out a golden paper from his robes and infused it with spiritual energy, leaving some kind of mark.

Kang Hyeon recognized it as some sort of letter.

He was trying to send news to someone.

“May I know what it says?”

Since he was already trapped and unable to move anyway.

The other party wouldn’t comply, but there wasn’t much to lose either, so it was worth a try.

Surprisingly, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk looked at Kang Hyeon and actually answered.

“You can probably guess that Cheonroemun in Hyeop Province is looking for you. An elder from Cheonroemun put out a request through the Great Alliance to find you, and I was lucky enough to discover you like this.”

“Then shouldn’t you treat us well instead of being so harsh?”

“Treat you well? What reason would there be for that? I just need to bring you back alive to receive the reward.”

“How could merely being alive satisfy their requirements? If Cheonroemun is looking for us, they surely intend to make us future pillars of their sect, so we should be unharmed in body and mind.”

“Hmph! If I have to worry about such things, it would be better to just use you as pill refining materials here. And I was just asking about that. What will the Cheonroemun elder give me if I hand you over?”

“Even so, whether we’re damaged or not can’t be completely meaningless.”

“Perhaps. But I’m not interested in that. Ah, since I’ve found you, I should hear what kind of reward they’ll offer. So wait a moment.”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk said this, then projected spiritual energy into the golden paper several more times before creating a hole in the air and pushing it through.

Kang Hyeon felt that the hole created in the air was similar to the entrance to his own Mystic Realm.

“It won’t take long, but since waiting is boring, I’ll ask again. How did you disguise your spiritual roots?”

While Kang Hyeon was curious about the contents of the golden paper and who would receive it, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk asked again about the spiritual root disguise technique.

“I won’t tell you.”

Kang Hyeon said this with a resolute expression and closed his mouth.

“Yes, I expected as much. There was no reason for your feelings to change in the meantime. Then, boy, what about you? Do you intend to tell me the technique for changing a single thunder-gold spiritual root into a thunder-gold-wood triple spiritual root?”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk then asked In Deok, who still couldn’t open his eyes.

But In Deok was still unconscious.

Then Kang Hyeon spoke to In Deok.

“In Deok, we’ve already been found out. If even I noticed, how could a Spirit Body Stage elder not know?”

“Huh? Is, is that so?”

At Kang Hyeon’s words, Hwang In Deok opened his eyes with an embarrassed expression.

He had closed his eyes and pretended to be unconscious, but the moment In Deok regained consciousness, his body revealed that fact on its own.

Even Kang Hyeon, who couldn’t release a single strand of spiritual energy, had noticed that the muscle contractions and relaxations in In Deok’s body were different from before, so how could a cultivator at the Spirit Body Stage not know?

“Are you alright?”

Kang Hyeon asked about In Deok’s condition.

“Well, it’s not good, but it’s not fatal. The internal injury isn’t as severe as I thought. Cough! Cough!”

In Deok said he was fine while coughing up blood.

Kang Hyeon showed a serious expression at his friend’s appearance, but soon his expression relaxed somewhat.

He could tell that the blood In Deok spat out was dead blood, not fresh blood.

Dead blood was evidence of healing, meaning In Deok’s internal injury was gradually improving.

“As expected, you have a sturdy body. That’s a relief.”

“Phew, but I’m still not completely fine. Don’t look so relieved.”

“Hahaha.”

Kang Hyeon burst into laughter at In Deok’s complaint.

Though they were captured by a Spirit Body Stage monk and being treated like objects, his friend’s banter still made him laugh, even if forced.

“What insolent brats. How dare you show such behavior before me?”

Their conversation checking on each other’s well-being seemed to provoke the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk.

He suddenly became angry and increased the energy suppressing Kang Hyeon and In Deok.

“Krrgh.”

“Nnngh!”

Kang Hyeon and In Deok groaned as they were crushed by that energy, their skin reddening from the pressure.

“Young ones, you are merely tools that have fallen into my hands. I will use you according to my needs, yet such things dare ignore me and chatter among yourselves?”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk scolded Kang Hyeon and In Deok, then opened his mouth and spat out red streams of blood.

The blood streams he spat split into two branches, each seeping into Kang Hyeon and Hwang In Deok’s bodies.

“What did you do?”

“This is blocking the flow of spiritual energy, isn’t it?”

Kang Hyeon and In Deok felt the movement of blood entering their bodies and cried out in shock toward the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk.

“I have work to do, and I don’t want to be bothered by trivial matters. So you just need to wait quietly.”

“Ugh!”

“Ouch!”

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk suppressed Kang Hyeon and In Deok with his blood, then threw them both into a corner.

Where the two fell was outside the formation centered on that monk, and as they hit the ground, stone pillars rose up to form a rectangular cage.

This was no different from becoming beasts trapped in a cage.

“Damn it!”

“Nngh, Hyeon, are you okay?”

“How could I be okay? My spiritual energy has completely solidified. Same for you, right?”

“Huh? Earlier I could still move my internal spiritual energy somewhat, but after this blood entered, the spiritual energy pathways have completely hardened.”

“At this rate, we’re no different from ordinary people.”

“What do we do?”

“We’ve been caught by a Spirit Body Stage old monster, so finding a solution won’t be easy.”

“Sigh, I’m sorry.”

“Huh? In Deok, why are you sorry?”

“Of all places, my escape technique brought us here. So I’m sorry.”

“It’s not like you knew and did it on purpose, so if you’re sorry about that, what about me who relied on your escape technique?”

“Relied on it? It’s just that my Thunder Escape Technique is slightly better than yours. Besides, you helped me maintain the escape technique continuously.”

“So in the end, the current situation can’t be blamed on either you or me alone. It’s the result of countless previous situations overlapping to reach this point.”

“That’s true, but…”

“Let’s first examine our physical condition more accurately. The old monster doesn’t seem like he’ll pay attention to us for a while.”

“Right. That seems right.”

In Deok nodded while glaring at the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk sitting in lotus position at the center of the formation.

The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk was currently adjusting the formation with dark red blood energy, conducting some profound work.

Even at a glance, he was deeply absorbed in that task, seemingly not allocating any consciousness to external situations.

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The Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk, whom Kang Hyeon and In Deok called an old monster, didn’t open his eyes for a full day.

During that time, the Blood Extreme Mountain Villa disciples who had been chasing Kang Hyeon and In Deok appeared in the distance, but they didn’t come close and soon hid themselves.

Seeing this, Kang Hyeon was once again convinced that the old monster was a high-ranking monk of Blood Extreme Mountain Villa.

“Phew. It’s no use.”

At that moment, In Deok, who had been treating his internal injuries with closed eyes, woke up with a short sigh.

“There’s no way to deal with the old monster’s blood, right?”

Kang Hyeon asked as if guessing In Deok’s situation.

“Yeah. The blood seems to possess spirituality and move alive, controlling my body.”

“It’s not ordinary blood but seems to contain true blood.”

“I think so too. That’s why even without the old monster’s attention, it reacts on its own and blocks all my attempts.”

“True blood of a Spirit Body Stage monk, and that of a Blood Extreme Mountain Villa monk who mainly learned blood qi techniques at that. How frightening.”

Kang Hyeon himself had fought with the old monster’s blood that seeped into his body several times.

It would flare up angrily every time Kang Hyeon tried to move his spiritual energy, blocking all pathways through which spiritual energy could flow.

The old monster’s blood controlled all spiritual energy pathways even normally, but when Kang Hyeon tried to move even a little spiritual energy, it would block those passages even more firmly.

The reaction was extremely fast and delicate, so Kang Hyeon couldn’t make even a strand of spiritual energy stir.

“Only the mental space remains.”

“That’s right.”

At least Kang Hyeon and In Deok’s mental spaces were still safe.

The mental space was a conceptual space existing in a monk’s consciousness, so the old monster’s blood couldn’t penetrate it.

However, they couldn’t draw out the spiritual energy from their mental spaces either, so they couldn’t exert any power in the current situation.

“Hyeon, do you have absolutely no method either?”

In Deok looked at Kang Hyeon with a hopeful expression and asked.

Since Kang Hyeon had always found solutions in crisis situations, he was naturally harboring expectations.

“Hmm.”

However, Kang Hyeon, who seemed like he would immediately shake his head, unexpectedly didn’t give an immediate answer and wore a serious expression.

“Huh? What? There’s something, isn’t there?”

At Kang Hyeon’s reaction, In Deok shifted his buttocks and moved closer.

“Calm down. If the Old Monster notices, even that thread-like hope will disappear.”

“Oh, oh. Got it.”

At Kang Hyeon’s serious words, In Deok also seemed to snap to attention and suppressed his excitement.

“So what method do you have?”

In Deok asked cautiously, lowering his voice.

“Sigh, you think the Old Monster can’t hear just because you do that?”

“If he’s already heard our conversation anyway, wouldn’t closing our mouths now be meaningless?”

“It’s better than getting caught in the middle of chattering, right? So just keep your mouth shut. I’ll handle it myself.”

“Huh? Oh! Then I’ll trust and wait?”

Even after being scolded by Kang Hyeon, In Deok sat back with a bright expression.

Since Kang Hyeon said he had a method anyway, his attitude was to trust and wait.

‘It’s fortunate that the Old Monster used blood to place the restriction. Since it entered my body, a method has emerged.’

Kang Hyeon also couldn’t find a way to resolve the Old Monster’s blood at first.

What could he do in a state where he couldn’t move even a strand of spiritual energy?

Only his Mental Space was free from the Old Monster’s restriction at best.

But the only thing Kang Hyeon could rely on was precisely that freedom of his Mental Space.

Thus, Kang Hyeon, who had been concentrating on his Mental Space to find a method, was eventually able to find the answer there.

‘The Absorption Divine Ability can absorb anything and use it as power for growth. The Old Monster’s true blood that has entered my body now can also become a target for absorption, so if I move Trent instead of spiritual energy, the Old Monster’s blood will block it, and then it should be possible to absorb it by making contact with Trent.’

Kang Hyeon saw a ray of hope with such expectations.

‘However, the problem is that if the Old Monster’s blood that entered my body starts being absorbed, there’s a high possibility the Old Monster will notice it. So I need to absorb the blood in one go and open the entrance to the Mysterious Mirror.’

With such thoughts, Kang Hyeon was waiting, aiming for a momentary opportunity.

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