The Time-Limited Elixir of the Ruined Clan - Chapter 108

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The Fallen Clan’s Limited Lifespan Spiritual Remedy — Episode 108

Soon a servant hurried over and relayed that Mo Yong Chui Ryeo had already gone in first. It seemed Mo Yong Seol Ho had been waiting.
At Nam Gung Seo Geon’s words—’Now we’ll finally get to see inside the clan house?’—Mo Yong Seol Ho nodded slowly.
Dan Mok Ryeon, for reasons she couldn’t name, felt her mood grow complicated as she watched Nam Gung Seo Geon’s retreating figure.
Having told the sparrow to study alongside the crane didn’t seem like the right choice after all.

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“You must have had a long and arduous journey.”
Once, ages past, the Mo Yong Clan had been called the greatest house in the world, but now it stood one step removed from the Central Plains.
Yet when the calamity of Blood Coral Valley swept over the whole of the Central Plains, the Mo Yong Clan too had taken up arms and done everything in their power to cleanse away that blood-soaked stain.
Because the White Dragon Sword, Mo Yong Chui Ryeo, had left behind such remarkable deeds, and because she exchanged greetings with those who showed her such honor before returning, it was only then that Mo Yong Chui Ryeo could face Dan Mok Cheon Gi.
“The journey was easy enough, so there’s no hardship to speak of.”
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo said this and took a sip of the tea, which had steeped to a perfect clarity. As she did, her gaze drifted toward the space beyond the door.
She was thinking of the siblings standing near the wall on the other side—Dan Mok Hyeon Yo and Dan Mok Hyeon U.
“Hyeon Yo has gone through so much these past years…….”
“…….”
“Even with the canal, it doesn’t reach all the way to the far north. The path is long and the journey is hard. And yet, every single time, she returns with empty hands, and still she comes unfailingly—such devotion is no small thing.”
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo spoke thus, lowering her eyes to savor the fragrance of the tea. Warm steam drifted across her weathered face.
“I heard Hyeon U had succumbed to a Heart Demon and did nothing but Closed Door Cultivation, but seeing him today, he’s completely different. So full of life and vigor—just like when he was young.”
“……Fortune is turning toward the Dan Mok Clan.”
At these words, Mo Yong Chui Ryeo’s eyes opened.
“It does seem so. But could that fortune bypass Bing Xue Yan? She too is one of the Dan Mok Clan.”
“How old are we, and still calling each other children?”
“That’s what friendship is, isn’t it? It’s as if we remain forever the children we were the day we first met.”
Far to the north lay the Mo Yong Clan. And beyond that, even farther north, in a place called the Frontier,

stood the Northern Sea Ice Palace.

Mo Yong Chui Ryeo recalled the day she first saw young Bing Xue Yan.
A girl who had left the Ice Palace on a whim, burning with curiosity about the Martial Arts World of the Central Plains.
The girl who had traveled that long road alone with only a horse, dust caked on her cheeks from the journey and her sleeves stained black with grime, yet her eyes were as deep as lakes and as clear as spring water.
— Are you the young clan head of the Mo Yong Clan?
— What? We don’t call it that. We say clan head.
— Is that so? Then let me serve under you.
— What did you just say?
— What, manage a mere house? I’m destined to rule the Ice Palace!
After that came quite pleasant times. They proved themselves to each other through the exchange of blades and fists.
After their hair had become disheveled and their clothes turned to rags, they agreed to call each other by name instead of by titles like clan head or palace head.
Much later, Mo Yong Chui Ryeo had reflected. Those eyes were likely crafted from the Ice Essence,

the treasure of the Northern Sea Ice Palace.
“I don’t even know when I grew this old. My spirit still feels unseasoned, uncertain even how to live, and yet everyone asks me where I’m headed as if I should know—I have nothing to say.”
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo spoke thus and laughed softly. At that laugh, Dan Mok Cheon Gi managed a weak smile, but soon his expression hardened again.
Watching that expression, Mo Yong Chui Ryeo’s face grew bitter.
“Life brings unavoidable things. Did you mean to spend your whole existence blaming yourself in that shadow?”
“Her misfortune is not unavoidable. It is my responsibility. I brought her here, and I…….”
Dan Mok Cheon Gi spoke quickly, but could not finish his words.
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo gazed at him quietly, then produced two small boxes from her things.
“This is from earlier…….”
And when Dan Mok Cheon Gi opened the boxes, he fell silent for a moment.
At the gathering where the Mo Yong Clan had been honored earlier, Mo Yong Chui Ryeo had herself brought out a large, flat box.
She said she had brought small Inner Cores as gifts to distribute among the children to commemorate their first attendance at the Gyeong Hang Un Ryeon. Within that case lay ten pills arranged in neat rows.
That was no ordinary gift. Truth be told, it wasn’t the sort of thing one typically brings to a gathering of young people.
“The first was contributed by the Mo Yong Clan, but this one comes from the Northern Sea Ice Palace—she asked me to deliver it on her behalf. That’s why it arrived a bit late.”
“This is… what exactly?”
“I heard that two people helped Dan with the Baoluo Seven Marks, so I sent two pills. Surely there aren’t three of them?”
The last remark was meant as a joke, but the atmosphere didn’t lighten. Mo Yong Chui Ryeo exhaled softly and explained the Spiritual Pill.
A Spiritual Pill made by combining the Inner Cores of Snow Lotus Fruit

and Sun Golden Carp.

Obtaining the Inner Core of Sun Golden Carp in the northern seas would not have been easy, so I hope you’ll appreciate the care that went into it.”
Snow Lotus Fruit grows only in cold places—lotus fruits, among which the rare crimson variety is prized.
Moreover, Sun Golden Carp belonged to the species of carp that dwell in hot water—Fire Carp

—and was the most exceptional of its kind.
While ordinary Fire Carp bore Yang Qi in their bodies yet possessed Yin Qi in their Inner Cores, Sun Golden Carp was pure Yang Qi through and through, body and core alike.
Had the person from the Northern Sea been meant to consume this, Snow Lotus Fruit alone would have sufficed. Yet she deliberately sought out Sun Golden Carp and combined them.
“Why would she go to such lengths…?”
“Why? As a grandmother, she said it was only natural to repay those who sacrificed for her granddaughter. She explained that by taking this Spiritual Pill and diligently practicing the Heart Method, what was lost could be restored before long.”
Spiritual Pills of this caliber were not something one could simply procure with money.
Timing and fortune had to align, and one could only create them through karmic connection. To have obtained two of them was no small feat.
“Originally, she intended to come deliver it herself…”
“…!”
Dan Mok Cheon Gi’s head snapped up. Mo Yong Chui Ryeo smiled with a bittersweet expression.
“Though much improved, her body is not yet equal to such a journey. It was too soon, so she asked me to bring it in her stead. Please accept this, Mu Wol Geom.”
Dan Mok Cheon Gi gazed at the small box for a long while before slowly closing it. Pain flickered across his eyes.
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo, watching him quietly, then spoke.
“Since Hyeon Yo resembles that girl so closely, she couldn’t take a pulse reading during summer. Are the children the same?”
Caught off guard by the sudden shift in conversation, Dan Mok Cheon Gi nodded quietly, though confusion lingered in his expression.
“Both Dan and Seong simply sprawl about as the heat intensifies. They lament that Invulnerability to Cold and Heat

feels like a distant dream…”
Invulnerability to Cold and Heat—unmoved by summer or winter—was a distant realm few could reach with ordinary cultivation.
Thinking of his young granddaughters dreaming of such a far future, he felt only tenderness, and a faint smile spread across his face.
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo, observing his expression closely, spoke softly.
“Why not seek refuge from the heat somewhere far away? The distant Northern Sea would surely be cool. Ha, though it might even be too cold.”
Mo Yong Chui Ryeo added this with a playful tone.
“…What do you mean by that?”
“By that time, once Bing Xue Yan has recovered her strength, she’ll be eager to meet the granddaughters she’s never seen, so it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go soothe her yourself.”
Though indirectly phrased, she meant it would be welcome for them to make the journey north.

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“What is… what is this?”
Dan Mok Ryeon’s eyes widened as she stared at the two medicinal pills Dan Mok Cheon Gi had quietly shown her.
In her eyes, they appeared like small balls of colored dough through which a pale blue radiance shimmered and swirled. Her hand reached out instinctively—

* A properly crafted Cold Lotus Summer Carp Pill

Coming close will gradually accelerate the accumulation of Spiritual Energy. *

A vision of an immortal realm bloomed before Dan Mok Ryeon’s eyes. She started and withdrew her hand.
Seeing her shocked expression, Dan Mok Cheon Gi realized his granddaughter had perceived the true nature of the Spiritual Pill.
“Do you understand what it is?”
Dan Mok Ryeon nodded quietly.
“Cold and heat harmonized together. Snow Lotus Fruit… and Sun Golden Carp.”
As she finished speaking, she suddenly recalled the small carp in the pond within the Dan Mok Clan residence, and her heart grew heavy with inexplicable sadness.
‘Could that child possibly become a Spiritual Creature? No… surely not?’
“I knew you would recognize it.”
“But why, and where did this come from?”
“You should remember that Cheong Yun Jin In and Yu Seong burned through the internal energy they had painstakingly accumulated over time to help you with the Baoluo Seven Marks.”
“…Yes.”
How could she forget it? The fact that she had opened her eyes by stealing fragments of another’s life.
How warmly, how tenderly they had cherished this small thief.
Even when Dan Mok Ryeon—despite their pouring their entire lives into her—had merely clung to breath for a decade before meaninglessly withering away, they had harbored no resentment, and she knew it.

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