The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 693

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Chapter 693.
“I…”
Just as Bu Eunseol was about to speak,
“I understand.”
The Middle-Aged Woman cut her off sharply and bowed her head to So Young Hwa.
With a soft rustle,
The Seolhwa Moonju rose from her jade throne and vanished into the inner chamber.
“Follow me.”
The Middle-Aged Woman walked briskly away with cold, measured steps.
Bu Eunseol stood bewildered, her expression vacant as she watched the woman’s retreating figure.
‘So it was all arranged beforehand. I don’t understand what this is about.’
Judging by the Seolhwa Moonju’s demeanor,
Why I had come here, what I sought—
It seemed everything had already been discussed.
But then why hadn’t she been told in advance?
‘In any mission, information is paramount.’
To succeed in any task, one must provide as much information as possible.
Yet Mu Jon had deliberately withheld information before assigning me this mission.
‘He even concealed details about the Snowflake Sect from Gong Son Chong Sa herself.’
If he had wanted the mission to fail, there would be no need for such an elaborate scheme.
Then this could only mean he orchestrated it to hide the true circumstances from Gong Son Dan Gyeong.
But then why? The question lingered.
Mu Jon had capable subordinates, including Mu Gyeol.
Through Gong Son Dan Gyeong and others, he could easily issue secret orders to me.
So why go through such a convoluted scheme?
‘I’ll understand once I see what unfolds.’
The fortunate thing was that the Snowflake Sect didn’t seem to practice the sinister martial arts rumored throughout Murim.
Though their temperament was extraordinarily cold, they were not corrupted by evil.
Otherwise, I would not have followed them so willingly.
“Enter here.”
Following the Middle-Aged Woman inside, a vast Great Hall suddenly revealed itself at a dizzying height.
The Snowflake Sect had established their headquarters on Jade Dragon Mountain, carving passages through the stone,
Creating a network of corridors that allowed movement throughout the interior.
“If you proceed in that direction, you will encounter a gate.”
The Middle-Aged Woman pointed toward a massive door at the far end of the Great Hall.
“At the end of the gate, you will see an ice wall. If you can shatter the ice wall, you will obtain the Frost Jade there.”
“Is it truly that simple?”
“Whether it is simple or not, you will discover once you enter.”
The woman’s expression was as pitiful as one gazing upon a frozen corpse.
‘There is something more to this.’
Bu Eunseol wore a bitter smile.
In all of Murim today, there was no one more versed in navigating every manner of facility and trap than I.
Whether it was any mechanism or snare, I possessed the confidence to pierce through it with ease.
Especially when it came to shattering walls—had I not recently demolished the Profound Yin Wall at the Gong Sun Estate?
“Understood.”
As Bu Eunseol stepped through the doorway, the Iron Gate slammed shut with a thunderous boom.
Thump, thump.
Bu Eunseol advanced without hesitation.
Then, from directly ahead, a torrential gale erupted with savage fury.
It was a wind so violent that one could not stand upright without deploying the Thousand-Pound Anchor technique.
But that was not the true problem.
“This… this frigid aura…”
Bu Eunseol could not conceal her shock.
The wind carried within it a terrifying cold that threatened to freeze the meridians solid in an instant.
Without damaging the skin, it penetrated the body directly…
A most unfamiliar extreme yin energy that froze the meridians instantaneously.
“So that is why they warned against it.”
Moreover, with each step forward, bloodstains and human remains lay scattered to either side of the corridor.
Those who had entered this place,
unable to withstand that grotesque cold, had perished here.
The Snowflake Sect had carelessly disposed of the corpses, leaving various remnants scattered throughout the passage.
‘This makes no sense.’
Bu Eunseol had mastered the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate, reaching the pinnacle of ice cultivation.
Exposure to extreme yin energy should have left me nearly unaffected.
Yet the cold contained within the wind pouring forth here was extraordinarily peculiar.
Even I, who possessed the essence of extreme yin studies, felt my blood vessels freezing in agony.
And I could not even block the cascading cold.
‘Could this be a test of my inner power level?’
To withstand cold of this magnitude, one would need at least three hundred years of cultivation to maintain a protective aura—and even then, barely.
Bu Eunseol found it strange, but soon nodded to herself.
‘Let me test my strength against it.’
Seon Woo Jin’s maximum inner power had been set at just under six decades of the sixty-year cycle.
Of course, the actual power differed greatly from the facade, but even this level matched the inner reserves of ancient masters without falling short.
Whoosh.
As three hundred years’ worth of inner power spread throughout my body, a transparent protective aura formed.
Bu Eunseol advanced step by step, resisting the cold.
‘Even the protective aura proves insufficient.’
Yet despite maintaining the protective aura, I could not completely block the cold woven into the wind.
I, who had mastered the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate.
Even with the protective aura deployed, I could not withstand the cold embedded in this wind?
Which meant that within the entire Murim, the number of masters capable of walking through this wind and into the Corridor could be counted on one hand.
Across all of Murim, there were scarcely more than a handful.
‘Should I amplify my inner force, or employ a different method?’
Bu Eunseol paused to consider.
If I unleashed my true inner force—accumulated over five hundred years—I could effortlessly withstand even several times the bitter cold currently assailing me.
But that would exceed the parameters of Seon Woo Jin’s abilities.
‘No, martial arts should be solved through martial arts alone.’
I halted my steps and recalled every subtle principle of martial technique I had ever mastered.
‘Let me employ the mysteries of the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate—the principle of “ice within the heart” and “will becomes ice complete.”‘
The Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate was praised as the pinnacle of extreme yin martial arts.
Not only could it generate the most formidable glacial true qi within the body, surpassing any other ice technique,
but it could also store the frigid energy pouring in from outside within the dantian itself.
In the past, I had used this very method to absorb all the cold from the Pond filled with eternal frost spirits within the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate,
storing glacial true qi exceeding that of the Buk Hae Bing Gung Master, allowing me to deploy the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate instantaneously.
‘Let me try.’
A deep resonance hummed through me.
As I elevated the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate to its maximum, my hair turned white and my eyes gleamed with an icy blue radiance.
A piercing whistle echoed.
The mysterious cold woven into the wind began to accumulate gradually within my dantian.
Since cultivating the Water Spirit Technique, I had ceased storing cold in my dantian and instead expelled it,
allowing me to generate cold instantaneously when deploying the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate.
Harboring both extreme yin and extreme yang energies simultaneously would ultimately destroy the body.
‘I need only absorb it temporarily.’
As I continued absorbing formidable glacial qi through the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate, my breathing became labored.
Yet something was strange.
As I continued absorbing cold beyond a certain threshold, the glacial true qi accumulated steadily in my dantian, and yet…
It was merging immediately with my original true qi, was it not?
It was being stored gently, without colliding against the extreme yang energy I possessed.
A piercing whistle sounded.
The approaching wind now felt pleasant, and I no longer sensed the cold that threatened to freeze my meridians.
‘How extraordinary.’
But there was no time now to analyze this mysterious cold.
After walking for some distance, I finally reached the end of the Corridor.
Before me loomed an ice wall of dizzying height.
Given that the ceiling was nowhere in sight, this must surely be the Profound Yin Wall.
‘Am I supposed to shatter this?’
I wore an expression of helplessness.
The ice wall towered at least a hundred zhang high.
And I was expected to break through it in one breath?
Surely this would require a master of the Wuji Realm to appear and pour forth their Wuji power repeatedly?
“This is impossible.”
Bu Eunseol knew nothing of surrender.
Yet she could distinguish between what was possible and what was not.
This ice wall could only be shattered by a master capable of unleashing the full force of their supreme power.
“Hmm.”
Bu Eunseol placed her hand lightly against the ice wall.
Immediately, a biting cold surged through her hand as though her meridians were freezing solid.
The wind pouring from the corridor seemed to be generated through this very ice wall.
“This won’t do.”
Bu Eunseol gazed up at the ice wall that stretched to a dizzying height.
To shatter such a colossal ice wall in a single breath—only a Martial God could accomplish such a feat, not a mortal.
*Click.*
Yet something was amiss.
Though she tried to withdraw her hand, it would not come free.
It was as though the essence of ice dwelling within this vast wall was attempting to absorb her Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol through her palm.
Could this ice wall possess sentience?
‘Absurd.’
A mere ice wall dared to drain her strength?
A piercing azure radiance blazed from Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
‘Let us see whether my Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol is stronger, or your ice force.’
Pride kindled within her, and rather than resist the suction emanating from the wall,
she began drawing in the ice force through her own absorption technique.
*Whoooosh.*
As Bu Eunseol drew her Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol to its peak, her hair transformed from white to translucent,
and her eyes blazed with endless azure light.
*Whoosh! Whoooosh!*
An endless contest of frigid forces had begun.
The ice wall’s suction was more powerful and refined than Bu Eunseol’s Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol.
Yet Bu Eunseol possessed the endurance of a camel and formidable inner strength beyond measure.
At first, her Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol was rapidly depleted.
But as time passed, the ice wall’s suction gradually weakened.
*Whoooosh.*
The tide had turned.
Bu Eunseol had begun absorbing the cold emanating from the ice wall into her body.
‘This is…’
As the peculiar extreme yin force flowed into her body, Bu Eunseol understood.
‘It is the force of a human body.’
The extreme yin force she absorbed was not naturally generated—it was ice technique created within a human form.
In other words, someone had been using the ice wall as a conduit to absorb her Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol.
But they could not withstand her formidable inner strength and the resilience of her Bing Ha Tian Liu Gyeol, and now they were the ones being drained instead.
“Ahhh!”
A scream pierced the air from atop the towering ice wall, and a white figure plummeted downward into the darkness.
Bu Eunseol, who could pierce through the veil of shadow with her sight, instantly recognized the falling silhouette as a woman clad in crimson robes.
‘Dangerous.’
If I caught the unconscious woman directly, her body would shatter against my hands rather than be saved.
Shwish!
I immediately drew upon the profound mysteries of the Flower Butterfly Jade technique’s principle of diminishing force.
Reducing the woman’s acceleration and suspending her momentarily in the void.
Tap.
I caught the gently descending shadow with both hands, my eyes widening.
She was a young beauty of exquisite features, her porcelain skin luminous as a flower blooming brilliantly across the pale snow plain.
Even the word “peerless” seemed insufficient to capture her beauty.
“A disciple of the Snowflake Sect?”
As I gazed upon the unconscious woman, I attempted to diagnose her injuries, but hesitated briefly.
I could not carelessly touch the body of an unconscious maiden.
‘That’s right.’
Recalling how the Shen Shui Gong Master had diagnosed me with her crystalline divine technique,
Whoosh.
I immediately manifested a transparent hand.
“Her vital essence is severely damaged… so she is the one who attempted to seize the Bing Ha Tian Liu Gate.”
As I continued my diagnosis with the crystalline divine technique, I furrowed my brow.
The woman’s features were graceful and beautiful—she bore no resemblance to a villainess who would steal another’s cultivation.
“There is no need for me to treat her.”
I lifted her body with my inner force and turned back toward the Palace Hall where the Snowflake Sect Master had been staying.
“There is an injured person.”
Upon entering and calling out, the interior stirred briefly before the middle-aged woman who had guided me earlier rushed out.
“Sect Master So?”
Greatly alarmed, she hurried back inside, returning moments later with a middle-aged woman in ornate robes and a silk veil.
It was So Young Hwa, the Sect Master.
“Hyang Ah!”
So Young Hwa gasped in shock and questioned me urgently.
“What in the heavens has happened?”
“While passing through the gate you indicated, I was attempting to break through the ice wall when I suddenly sensed an aura within the ice that was absorbing my inner force.”
I explained the situation calmly.
“As I resisted that aura, a scream rang out, and she fell from an ice wall over a hundred zhang high.”
“Over a hundred zhang? We went to the Profound Yin Wall—how did the Cheonum Ice Wall appear?”
At her outcry, the middle-aged woman who had guided me stepped forward trembling with fear.
“I was displeased that he entered our sect without permission, so I directed him to the Cheonum Ice Wall instead…”
“What?”
So Young Hwa’s fury erupted in a terrible roar.
But upon seeing the beautiful woman unconscious in Bu Eunseol’s arms, she cried out urgently.
“To the Huihun Palace Lord! No, I shall go myself.”
So Young Hwa lifted the beautiful woman from Bu Eunseol’s embrace and rushed inward like the wind.
Her disciples followed her in a tumultuous stream.
“….”
Bu Eunseol stood with a vacant expression, watching them depart.
Following them inside felt awkward, yet stepping outside left me with nowhere to go.
I had no choice but to stand motionless before the entrance for a considerable time, observing the situation.
How much time had elapsed?
The door opened again, and So Young Hwa emerged with a grave expression.
The middle-aged woman who followed bore a complexion as pallid as a corpse, suggesting the situation was dire.
“What did you say your name was?”
Her face hardened like stone as she offered Bu Eunseol a forced smile.
“I can only recall the Murim Alliance.”
“It is Seon Woo Jin.”
“Ah yes, Seon Woo Dae Ju.”
She drew a deep breath before asking again.
“Tell me in detail once more—what exactly transpired?”
Bu Eunseol explained calmly.
I had endured the corridor where cold winds poured forth and proceeded to where a massive ice wall stood.
When I placed my hand upon the ice wall to shatter it, a sudden suction force erupted, and I deployed the Suction Technique to counter it.
“As I suspected… it was so.”
So Young Hwa nodded, now fully grasping the situation.
“The place you reached was not the Profound Yin Chamber where the Ice Jade resides, but the Cheonum Chamber where the Cheonum Ice Wall stands.”
“The Cheonum Chamber.”
“Indeed. It was created by the Patriarch of our sect, and within the Cheonum Ice Wall lies a mysterious treasure that emanates boundless extreme yin energy—the Snow Jade.”
She continued.
“And above that ice wall is a cultivation chamber. The frigid energy radiating from the Snow Jade makes it ideal for cultivating the Ice Essence Snowflake Qi.”
So Young Hwa shook her head.
“And Hyang Yi was cultivating there.”
“But why did you send me to that place?”
As Bu Eunseol asked, So Young Hwa bit her lip.
“The Binghwa Wonju led you not to the Profound Yin Wall, but to where the Cheonum Ice Wall stands. Going there means certain death—all who enter perish.”
Bu Eunseol finally understood the situation.
The middle-aged woman who should have guided me to the Profound Yin Wall had instead sent me to the Cheonum Ice Wall to freeze me to death.
Naturally expecting to die there, I broke through the Cheonum Chamber and placed my hand upon the Cheonum Ice Wall.
By misfortune, I was exposed to the Ice Essence Snowflake Qi of the woman above, who was absorbing the ice wall’s frigid energy.
The woman mistook my Bing Ha Tian Liu Technique for the energy of the Snow Jade within the Cheonum Ice Wall and absorbed it.
I, believing the ice wall was absorbing my ice cultivation, deployed the Suction Technique.
Thus it became an inner energy confrontation, and the woman who lost that battle sustained injuries.
“Is she going to be alright?”
“Her life is not in danger. However….”
The middle-aged woman lowered her head, and So Young Hwa, who had been glaring at Binghwa Wonju as if to kill her, sighed and spoke.
“Because you unleashed the Suction Palm technique, that child’s True Yin has dissipated.”
“True Yin, you say….”
“Yes, without even a dual cultivation, she has lost her chastity.”
Bu Eunseol’s mouth fell open.
A woman of pure virtue possessed True Yin within her body.
And when a man absorbs this True Yin, it greatly enhances his martial power.
This is why the lustful demons of Murim greedily steal True Yin using the Yin-Nourishing technique to increase their cultivation.
‘But.’
Bu Eunseol had merely unleashed the Suction Palm to absorb her ice energy. How could she have stolen her True Yin?
“I believe there is a misunderstanding.”
Bu Eunseol explained urgently.
“Even if we both unleashed the Suction Palm technique, what would be damaged is only her ice cultivation and internal force. There is no way I could absorb her True Yin, is there?”
In fact, my internal cultivation level remained unchanged, and I felt no sensation of absorbing True Yin.
“That cannot be.”
“It is true. If you wish, you may examine my meridians.”
Observing the sincerity in Bu Eunseol’s expression, So Young Hwa tilted her head in confusion.
But soon she realized something and her eyes gleamed.
“Did you perhaps learn martial arts of the Yin-Cold lineage?”
Seeing the certainty blazing in her eyes, Bu Eunseol had no choice but to say:
“By fortunate circumstance, I have trained a technique or two of Buk Hae Bing Gung’s ice cultivation.”
“Buk Hae Bing Gung… I see.”
So Young Hwa sighed deeply.
“Our sect’s ice cultivation shares the same origin as Buk Hae Bing Gung’s. Both martial arts were born from a secret scripture called the Cold Ice Snowflake Scripture.”
“You mean Buk Hae Bing Gung and we share the same roots?”
“That is correct.”
She explained calmly.
“The founding ancestors of both sects were once lovers. They happened to obtain a secret scripture containing the Cold Ice Snowflake Scripture, a celestial forbidden art that became the source of ice cultivation, and each gained profound enlightenment.”
“….”
“Buk Hae Bing Gung created the Glacial Heavenly Flow Method as the secret to cultivating true cold ice energy, while our sect’s founder created the Ice Spirit Snowflake Art.”
Bu Eunseol’s mouth fell open.
The founding ancestors of Buk Hae Bing Gung and Snowflake Sect were lovers, and their martial arts shared the same origin?
This was a secret history of Buk Hae Bing Gung and Snowflake Sect unknown to Murim.
“Do you understand why I am telling you this?”
“I do not.”
So Young Hwa sighed deeply and spoke.
“Save our Hyang Yi.”
“What do you mean.”
“That child has lost their true essence and can no longer cultivate the Bing Hua Xue Hua technique. Yet we cannot return the true essence already absorbed into your body.”
So Young Hwa swallowed her anguish, speaking with the firmness of steel cutting through iron.
“In the end, the only method remaining is to use the Hui Jing Huan Yin Phoenix Grand Technique to slowly transmit the true essence absorbed into your body to that child over one hundred days in the form of vital qi.”
“Hui Jing Huan Yin….”
Bu Eunseol murmured with a dizzy expression.
From the characters alone, she could discern that this grand technique embodied the mysteries of union.
That is, the vital qi would be transmitted through intimate union—she understood this all too clearly.

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