The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 788

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Chapter 788.
Bu Eunseol gazed at the Cheon Dok Mun disciples sprawled in pitiful states and wore an apologetic expression.
Then she sighed and looked toward Jo Seung Ji.
“I told you to stop, didn’t I?”
Jo Seung Ji mistakenly believed that Bu Eunseol was a poison master who had cultivated a terrifying poison technique.
He clenched his teeth, thinking her composed and serene demeanor was meant to mock him.
“Did you come to steal our sect’s treasure?”
“Treasure? You mean the Poison Dragon?”
Bu Eunseol waved her hand dismissively.
“I didn’t kill it—it attacked me first.”
“Attacked you first? That’s ridiculous. Does the dragon have legs sprouting from its inner core?”
Bu Eunseol wore a bitter smile.
She could claim it was unintentional.
But the truth was, she had inadvertently stolen another sect’s mountain-guarding treasure.
Moreover, since she needed to ask about the antidote to the poison, she had no choice but to respond courteously to Jo Seung Ji’s arrogant attitude.
“I didn’t steal it—it shot at me.”
Bu Eunseol extended her palm.
“When I blocked it, the poison was absorbed through my skin.”
“Nonsense. The Poison Dragon’s inner core can pierce through diamond itself. You’re telling me it couldn’t pierce a human palm and was absorbed instead?”
His eyes flashed with killing intent.
“Hand over the Poison Dragon’s inner core at once!”
At his murderous words, a middle-aged man who had been listening quietly stepped forward and spoke.
“Sect Leader, it appears this person has already absorbed the Poison Dragon’s inner core.”
He pointed to the mysterious radiance emanating from Bu Eunseol’s body as he spoke.
“That is the auspicious qi that manifests when an inner core is absorbed.”
And in an even lower voice, he continued.
“This person is a master our sect cannot contend with. We should report this immediately and follow their judgment.”
“Nonsense. You speak such words knowing their power?”
Jo Seung Ji shook his head as if aggrieved.
“Moreover, we failed to protect the Poison Dragon’s inner core—no matter what is said, our sect is finished.”
Turning his head, Jo Seung Ji cried out loudly.
“An inner core cannot be absorbed in one go unless one reaches the realm of Poison Mastery!”
He bellowed with thunderous force.
“Rip open this person’s belly! There must be an undigested inner core remaining!”
“Hyaaaaa!”
With his shout, the Cheon Dok Mun disciples who received the order charged at Bu Eunseol with desperate ferocity.
Their poison techniques and martial power were formidable, enough to dominate an entire region.
But unfortunately, their opponent was Bu Eunseol.
Boom!
Thanks to containing the maximum amount of martial power a human body could hold within her physical form.
Each time Bu Eunseol came under attack, a protective aura naturally unfurled around her body.
Moreover, the Cheon Dok Mun disciples charged forward boldly, striking at that aura with all their might.
Instead, the rebound force sent them tumbling backward, spewing blood as they fell.
‘If I leave this as is, they will be annihilated.’
Watching the Cheon Dok Mun disciples collapse one after another, Bu Eunseol gently extended both hands, creating a shockwave of inner force.
‘Without causing injury.’
And she released the shockwave of inner force with extreme restraint.
Whoosh!
Yet due to the still-overflowing inner power, the charging Cheon Dok Mun disciples were sent flying back more than a dozen zhang.
“Cease! I have no desire to fight you!”
Despite Bu Eunseol’s cry, they charged forward without fear.
Each time, a spherical protective aura formed around her body.
It was as hard as diamond, and its rebound force was like that of a rubber ball.
Boom! Boom!
Eventually, half of the three hundred disciples attacking
Were sent flying dozens of zhang away, suffering grievous wounds from the rebound force.
‘They think because I remain still, there is still a chance to fight.’
Bu Eunseol understood why the Cheon Dok Mun disciples continued to charge despite the overwhelming protective aura.
‘I must make it so they cannot charge at all.’
Since they were only suffering injuries from the rebound and not from direct contact, they seemed to believe there was still a chance.
If I handled this clumsily, the disciples would charge again.
Bu Eunseol drew upon her inner force once more.
Keeeeng.
With a strange resonant sound, a spherical barrier of force five zhang in size unfurled around her.
The problem was that her inner power was overflowing so abundantly
That the spherical barrier extended even into the ground beneath her feet.
Thud.
As the force created a massive crater roughly four zhang deep,
“…!”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes turned as cold as the glaciers of the Northern Sea.
Upon unintentionally creating the deep pit, she discovered hundreds of corpses buried deep within the earth.
“You vile creatures.”
Bu Eunseol could not contain her fury.
The corpses buried in the earth near this pond had all been gnawed upon by something.
Most of the flesh had been torn away, leaving only bones and the remnants of organs.
“They were feeding innocent people to it!”
Bu Eunseol finally understood why Cheon Dok Mun had been rebuilt on this uninhabited island.
By creating the Poison Pond here and raising the Poison Dragon,
They had been secretly abducting innocent civilians to evade the Gwan Bu’s notice, using them as feed for the Poison Dragon.
Crackle crackle crackle crackle… Flash!
The earth trembled from the shockwave of my inner energy, and my eyes blazed with killing intent fierce enough to tear the world asunder.
Until now, I had never spared a single soul who dared to harm innocent civilians.
“You are not worthy of living.”
In that moment, intense inner energy and poison simultaneously erupted from my body.
The venom of the Poison Dragon, fused with my Anti-Extreme True Energy, began radiating outward once more.
Kwaaah!
I hurled a colossal mass of energy at the Cheon Dok Mun disciples.
The Cheon Dok Mun disciples possessed modest martial prowess, and their bodies froze under the weight of my terrifying presence.
Thus, witnessing the massive, pitch-black sphere of energy, they could not even muster the thought to evade—they merely stared in a daze.
Kurrrr.
The darkened energy engulfed all the Cheon Dok Mun disciples and instantaneously transformed the surrounding terrain.
Those struck by the energy dissolved without a trace.
Even those untouched by the direct blast perished as the spreading venom completely paralyzed their nerves.
“So you truly came to steal the inner elixir from the start.”
Jo Seung Ji watched as I, without moving a single finger, annihilated the disciples with merely one colossal surge of energy.
He concluded that I was indeed a master of poison arts who had come with designs on the inner elixir from the beginning.
“Hmph.”
I felt no compulsion to dignify that with a response.
“Think as you wish.”
Then I slowly turned my body away.
Thud.
At that moment, Jo Seung Ji too fell to his knees.
Though he had cultivated formidable poison arts and his body did not dissolve,
he could not withstand the venom of the Poison Dragon’s inner elixir.
Shuuuu.
Suddenly, pale smoke rose from the corpses of most of the disciples, save Jo Seung Ji.
Drip, drip.
Simultaneously, the bodies began melting away steadily.
With the power from the Poison Dragon’s inner elixir properly unleashed, the poison worked as if I had wielded Hwa Gol San itself,
dissolving the corpses like taffy.
“Relentless indeed.”
At that moment, my skin began darkening once more.
The power of the Poison Dragon’s inner elixir, which had been fused with my Anti-Extreme True Energy, had reverted to pure venom.
“Ugh.”
As the Poison Dragon’s venom spread, my vision blurred and nausea welled up.
“So I have not yet achieved perfect fusion with the Anti-Extreme True Energy.”
What if I had completely absorbed the elixir’s essence?
I would instantly reach the realm of the Poison Sage, capable of generating all poisons within my body.
“It seems I must separate this from my original true energy after all.”
Bu Eunseol shook her head and spoke softly.
“If I continue to use this poison’s power now, I will ultimately destroy my own body as well.”
If I could wield the Poison Dragon’s venom freely, I could easily dispatch countless formidable enemies.
However, I have merely stored the Poison Dragon’s toxic essence in the form of true energy using the Reverse Extreme Heart Method.
I have not perfectly absorbed it, nor have I learned the poison techniques to use it at will.
If I continue to use this power, Bu Eunseol would inevitably succumb to poison poisoning as well.
“There’s no helping it.”
To wield the Poison Dragon’s venom freely, I would need to master poison techniques that have reached the very pinnacle of the Murim.
Closing my eyes briefly, I began to operate the Daoist heart method that Gong Son Dan Ah had once taught me.
Then, beyond the inner elixir created from pure true energy,
an inner elixir formed from the Poison Dragon’s toxic essence was neatly stored in a corner of my dantian.
Thereupon, all the toxic essence flowing through my body vanished.
Even the inner power that had been overflowing uncontrollably became calm and stable.
“Truly, this is a wondrous secret.”
I took a deep breath.
“Perhaps this Daoist secret was created through careful deliberation by a master who, like me, had accumulated such profound inner power that it became uncontrollable.”
This secret, which combined Hwa Ta’s Five Sinews Convergence and the secrets of the Zhen Zhen School, stabilized the mixed energies within my body.
It allowed the inner power that the physical body could not contain to be transformed into inner elixirs.
In other words, just as with Bu Eunseol,
it was undoubtedly created by some master who had accumulated unimaginable levels of inner power, designing it to protect their own body.
“In the past, there were also outstanding masters in the Murim, and through them, martial arts have continuously advanced.”
I gazed toward the distant sky.
Though human potential is said to be infinite, how could it develop so endlessly?
“If such a Poison Pond remains, it will surely nurture another demonic creature like the Poison Dragon.”
I ran my hand across the transparent liquid filling the Poison Pond.
Because I had absorbed the Poison Dragon’s inner elixir, the poison in the pond could no longer invade my body.
“Now that I think about it,”
I suddenly recalled a certain fact.
Thanks to consuming this Poison Dragon’s inner elixir, the Prajna Great Ability that had only manifested in moments of crisis
had finally merged with my true essence energy.
“Would it be possible now?”
I drew forth all the power within my body.
Then golden light flickered across my entire form, and five-colored radiance suddenly surged forth in a torrent.
“It works.”
My expression filled with joy.
Without forcibly drawing power and causing it to collide,
I had managed to align the forces within my body in a short span of time, enabling me to manifest harmony.
“With this,”
I clenched my fist tightly.
Though it cannot be called instantaneous, if I can shorten the time required for harmony to this degree,
could I not engage in a proper battle against Gwon In?
‘Could I respond immediately to the force of his Mujik Gyeong unfolding?’
Bu Eunseol, recalling Gwon In’s strike, extended her hand.
Whoosh!
In an instant, a portion of the Poison Pond vanished.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
After that, Bu Eunseol deployed her harmony technique three more times.
Sometimes spreading the range widely, other times concentrating the force as if channeling it through a single line.
Rumble…
Finally, having completely erased the Poison Pond, Bu Eunseol exhaled deeply.
“Still not fast enough to manifest at will, and I cannot use it consecutively.”
Her forehead glistened with sweat.
Even using harmony, she could manifest it consecutively at most three times.
If she switched to a form wrapping around her body, perhaps a quarter of an hour was possible.
Since she had not yet obtained all the Sasin artifacts, anything beyond that would destroy her body.
“In the end, I must obtain the Sasin artifacts.”
Bu Eunseol gazed toward the distant sky.
No matter how much she used Prajna’s great power to align the forces within her body, with only the lesser artifacts she could not perfectly harmonize the power within.
To freely use all the power she had obtained, she needed all of the Sasin artifacts.
Creak.
As the Poison Pond disappeared, a strange mechanical sound echoed from that vicinity.
Bu Eunseol, examining the area carefully, used her inner force to clear away the accumulated earth.
Then a massive iron gate was revealed.
It turned out that Cheon Dok Mun had secretly constructed an underground facility near the Poison Pond.
‘Was this where the person managing the Poison Dragon dwelled?’
Creak.
Bu Eunseol entered without hesitation.
“This place…”
Upon opening the iron gate and stepping inside.
A vast underground facility connected to the Pond was revealed.
They had invested enormous resources to systematically construct a facility within the Poison Pond capable of raising the Poison Dragon.
‘An Underground Prison?’
Yet something was strange.
Near that facility lay a small Underground Prison with multiple, extremely robust formation arrays layered upon it.
Crack!
Bu Eunseol shattered the formation array and tore open the prison door.
Inside sat a middle-aged man with hair grayed at the temples, looking haggard and unkempt.
“Get out.”
The middle-aged man appeared to have been denied proper sustenance and subjected to severe torture.
His body bore wounds in many places, and his vital essence was greatly damaged.
Yet his gaze was sharp and commanding, suggesting he was no ordinary person.
“I will never reveal the Cheon Dok Secret Technique.”
Bu Eunseol’s expression grew puzzled.
The Cheon Dok Secret Technique was the highest poison art of the Cheon Dok Mun, something only the sect leader could master.
So why was an elderly man who appeared to be a sect leader imprisoned near the Poison Pond at the location where the Cheon Dok Mun had been rebuilt?
‘Then that means…’
Bu Eunseol, sensing something, asked.
“Are you the leader of the Cheon Dok Mun?”
“Why do you ask when you already know?”
Remarkably, the man imprisoned in this Underground Prison was Jo Baek San, the leader of the rebuilt Cheon Dok Mun.
“All the disciples are dead. So I can leave now.”
“What?”
Instead of answering, Bu Eunseol grasped the chains and locks that had bound him so tightly and tore them apart with her bare hands.
Crack.
As sparks flew and Bu Eunseol effortlessly ripped them free, Jo Baek San’s eyes widened in shock.
“You tear apart chains made of hyun-steel with your bare hands?”
Jo Baek San spoke with a fearful expression.
“Are you from the Sam Gye?”
“No.”
Bu Eunseol laughed with a hollow sound.
“I actually stand in opposition to the Sam Gye, so you can set your mind at ease.”
“Then you come from the Poison Human Heaven?”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes flashed.
“You mean the Eight Immortals Heaven among Jin Ma’s subordinates?”
“Is that not so?”
“No.”
Bu Eunseol furrowed her brow and asked.
“But how does the sect leader know of the Eight Immortals Heaven?”
“The Sam Gye said they are raising the Poison Dragon to bring them down.”
Jo Baek San shook his head.
“They said those people are the primary culprits destroying the Murim.”
Bu Eunseol finally understood.
The Sam Gye, which could be called a subordinate force of the Baek Ri Family, was still clashing with the Eight Immortals Heaven.
And they were conducting various research and preparing countermeasures to withstand their formidable power.
‘Even a fallen Sam Gye is still the Sam Gye, I suppose?’
As Bu Eunseol pondered this, she shook her head.
“I have no connection with them. I simply…”
Bu Eunseol sighed deeply and spoke.
“I came to visit because I heard the Cheon Dok Mun had been rebuilt and had questions to ask.”
“Questions, you say?”
“I am searching for a way to detoxify the Triple Death Poison.”
“The Three Poisons Technique?”
Jo Baek San’s expression shifted subtly.
He had just realized that Bu Eunseol truly had no connection to Sam Gye or the Eight Immortals Heaven.
“You possess such martial prowess without being affiliated with Sam Gye or the Eight Immortals Heaven?”
“The Tianxia is vast. There are many masters beyond those two powers.”
“Is that so indeed.”
As Bu Eunseol opened the door to the Underground Prison, Jo Baek San emerged with a bewildered expression.
But when he saw the entrance to the Underground Prison—which had vanished entirely—his eyes widened.
“There was an iron gate made of bronze here.”
His expression grew strange as he surveyed the surroundings, his eyes widening further.
An iron gate so massive it resembled a mountain—five feet thick and towering over five stories high—a gate that even sacred blades could not shatter.
Yet it had disappeared without a trace.
‘An incomprehensible master.’
Jo Baek San realized that Bu Eunseol’s martial prowess had reached an unfathomable level, and fear gripped him.
Yet he concealed his feelings and slowly made his way out of the Underground Facility.
“This is…”
As Jo Baek San emerged, he gazed upon hundreds of corpses melted into sludge, his eyes growing dim.
“Alchemical fire and blood poison… No, this is body poison scattered by one who has entered the realm of the Poison Demon.”
He turned to Bu Eunseol, who had followed him, and spoke with a trembling voice.
“You have absorbed the inner core of the Poison Dragon.”
One who could absorb the inner core of the Poison Dragon.
That would be the pinnacle of poison mastery—an invincible toxin that could never be stopped.
Could only the Sage of Poisons accomplish such a feat?
‘This is unbelievable.’
Jo Baek San’s body trembled.
The supreme poison master who could taint the entire Tianxia with toxin was so young?
“It was not something I sought.”
Bu Eunseol explained calmly how the Poison Dragon had attacked and how she had absorbed its inner core.
She recounted the circumstances with composure.
Jo Baek San, who had been listening silently, opened his mouth in disbelief.
“A cultivation method that can convert poison into inner energy without practicing poison mastery exists?”
“Yes.”
Jo Baek San, knowing that Bu Eunseol did not lie, spoke with a bewildered expression.
“If you truly converted the poison of the inner core into inner energy… you have already reached the very edge of the Poison Demon realm.”
For you converted the poison of the Poison Dragon—the most vicious toxin in the Tianxia—into inner energy.
Bu Eunseol had transcended the realm of the Poison Person and reached the Poison Demon without even learning poison mastery.
“Seung Ji.”
Yet as Jo Baek San surveyed the surroundings, he suddenly discovered a familiar corpse and cried out, rushing toward it.
There lay the body of his beloved son, half-dissolved in the toxic sludge.
“You should have shown restraint, you fool!”
He wept with anguished cries that shook his entire being.
“To obtain the inner core of a demonic creature like the Poison Dragon, you would slaughter countless innocent civilians?”
Bu Eunseol could now grasp the situation with clarity.
Jo Baek San had rejected Sam Gye’s proposal.
His ambitious son had imprisoned his father in the Underground Prison and now led the Cheon Dok Mun in his stead.
“Did you not realize that their proposal would plunge our sect into the abyss of damnation?”
Jo Baek San’s anguished sobs echoed across the uninhabited island.
Listening to his grief-laden laments, Bu Eunseol could now discern the full truth.
Sam Gye had discovered the Poison Dragon by chance.
To study its poison and inner core, and to tame it, he realized that only the Poison Pond of the Cheon Dok Mun would suffice.
Thus, Sam Gye provided vast resources along with numerous secret techniques to rebuild the lost poison arts of the Cheon Dok Mun.
At last, the Cheon Dok Mun was gloriously resurrected, but the price of reconstruction was the management of the Poison Dragon.
The Cheon Dok Mun created a Poison Pond on this uninhabited island to rear the Poison Dragon.
Yet by misfortune, one of the Cheon Dok Mun disciples was caught and devoured by the Poison Dragon.
From that moment, it transformed into a demonic creature that endlessly craved human flesh.
However, Jo Baek San, as the sect master of the Cheon Dok Mun, possessed immense pride in his poison arts.
When the Cheon Dok Mun became merely a tool of Sam Gye for managing the Poison Dragon,
and committed atrocities by abducting innocent civilians to serve as food for the creature, he could bear it no longer.
“In the end, it was all of my own making.”
As if surrendering everything, Jo Baek San’s tear-stained face gradually grew serene.
He had failed to properly govern his disciples, and ultimately could not preserve the sect he had rebuilt.
He had cruelly slaughtered innocent civilians to feed them to the demonic creature.
For this alone, he had become a sinner who could not face the spirits of the Cheon Dok Mun.
The deaths of his son and disciples were merely the just price of his sins.
“Sect Master, I have a question.”
Bu Eunseol spoke carefully.
“I must detoxify the Three-Time Worms. How can this be done?”
“The Three-Time Worms?”
Jo Baek San shook his head.
“That poison cannot be detoxified, for it is connected to the spirit of its user.”
“There is truly no method?”
“If I must speak of one, there is a way.”
Jo Baek San spoke in a low voice.
“If you reach the realm of Poison Saint, you could detoxify them.”
He continued.
“Even the Three-Time Worms that devour the brain are ultimately poison in nature.”
He gazed at her lower abdomen as he spoke.
“You have already consumed the inner core of the Poison Dragon, so you have laid the foundation to reach the realm of Poison Saint.”
“I see.”
“If you absorb one more extreme poison comparable to the Poison Dragon… then you would become a Poison Saint Body, capable of detoxifying any poison.”
A strange heat radiated from Jo Baek San’s eyes as he continued speaking.
“If you absorb two more cores… you will reach the Sage of Poison, a realm that has not appeared in Murim for three hundred years.”
By absorbing the Poison Dragon’s inner core in the form of Anti-Extreme True Qi,
Bu Eunseol not only obtained the inner power of ten heavenly stems and earthly branches, but also discovered a method to detoxify the Three-Time Poison,
and could now fuse all poisons—including lethal extreme toxins and supernatural heart poison—within her body to strengthen both flesh and cultivation.
She could instantly create any poison she desired within her body,
and with merely a light breath, reduce dozens of zhang in all directions to scorched earth with toxic miasma.
The legendary realm of the Poison Master.
The path to becoming the Sage of Poison had opened before her.

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