The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 250

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Part 2, Chapter 42

—You found Yeomwang’s spirit body?

—What do you mean, Baby Bird?

—Yeomwang’s divine artifact is already… Wait, don’t tell me…!

The divine beasts who had been puzzled by Soya’s words suddenly looked at Heuksa with faces of realization.

The ‘spirit body of a divine beast’ was one of the three conditions needed to awaken a divine beast.

Long ago, the divine beasts entered eternal sleep and left behind divine artifacts made from their spirit bodies.

So that their descendants could awaken them again when they needed help someday.

Until now, when awakening the other three divine beasts, Soya had used the divine artifacts they left behind.

So naturally, she thought that to awaken Hyeonmu, she would need Hyeonmu’s divine artifact, the Hyeonmu Iron Plate.

However, the important thing was that what was needed to awaken a divine beast wasn’t the ‘divine artifact’ but the ‘spirit body’.

And here, there was a being that Hyeonmu had created from part of his own body.

“Even without the Hyeonmu Iron Plate, if we have Heuksa, we can awaken Lord Yeomwang! Since Heuksa was made from part of Lord Yeomwang’s body, Heuksa is also Lord Yeomwang’s spirit body!”

Because the essence of Heuksa, this black snake, was also Hyeonmu’s spirit body.

—My goodness, that’s right, Baby Bird!

—Oh my, how could I not have thought of that.

—As expected, our Baby Bird is so clever!

It was a point that even the divine beasts, who had been thinking of Hyeonmu and Heuksa as separate for too long, had overlooked.

—I, I can awaken Lord Yeomwang…?

Even Heuksa himself was dumbfounded and blinked his eyes.

“I’ll go find Evil again to awaken Lord Hyeonmu, defeat Evil, and bring back Seolyeo too.”

Soya looked at Heuksa and spoke with a firm voice.

“For that, you need to come with me.”

—You want me to go together to where that guy is?

Heuksa cowered with a frightened expression, but soon nodded as if he had made up his mind.

—A-alright. This time I’ll go with you too. I’ll help you awaken Lord Yeomwang and save Seolyeo, that child too.

The divine beasts asked with surprise at Heuksa’s determination.

—What’s gotten into you, Black Snake?

—It’s been my long-cherished wish. To awaken Lord Yeomwang and restore the Xuanwu Clan that Hyeonrabaek destroyed.

For that purpose too, Evil was an existence that must be destroyed.

“Evil said that Seolyeo’s consciousness was locked away.”

—His consciousness is locked, but his soul should still be alive. But it’ll be hard to endure for long.

Just like souls afflicted by evil magic eventually become corrupted, Seolyeo’s soul devoured by Evil would also crumble before long.

—We can only hope he endures until we get there.

“…”

Soya recalled Seolyeo’s appearance, which had seemed a bit strange before he was completely swallowed by Evil.

[I want to return to White Tiger Palace…]

Seolyeo’s voice, so sad it seemed like he would cry, saying he left White Tiger Palace for fear of harming her.

[Yes, Seolyeo. Let’s return to White Tiger Palace together.]

She didn’t know the circumstances then, but still, Soya had promised Seolyeo. To return to White Tiger Palace together.

She would keep that promise.

After this war with Evil ended, she would save Seolyeo and return to White Tiger Palace together.

‘Seolyeo’s soul needs to endure as Heuksa said.’

It was when Soya was thinking this while clenching both fists tightly.

Suddenly, she felt a gaze from somewhere.

Soya quickly raised her head and made direct eye contact with a man covered in black cloth.

‘That person is…!’

* * *

After sending Jeok Ayun away, Evil headed toward the Sacred Tree.

The end of the Northern Lands. The great tree connecting the Heavenly Realm and the Earthly Realm, the Sacred Tree.

A resting place for lost souls, and a place that she had once protected together with the divine beasts in the past.

And at the same time, it was also the place where his soul had been sealed.

When he thought of the divine beasts, Evil’s mood soured.

Especially what he hated most was that man. The Northern Divine Beast, Hyeonto Yeomwang.

Though he had the same appearance as himself, unlike him who was hated by her, that one received her affection.

After she died, Hyeonto Yeomwang, the divine beast of the Northern Lands, protected this place until the very end.

However, as time passed, he too entered eternal sleep like the other divine beasts, and with this, travel between the Heavenly Realm and Earthly Realm was completely cut off, making this place a forgotten location as well.

Evil looked up at the great white tree.

He hated everything that had received her love.

This Sacred Tree was the same.

If it was something that received her love, he intended to leave nothing behind.

“Since everything started here, the end should also be here.”

He muttered while reaching his hand toward the Sacred Tree.

Soon, black energy poured out from his fingertips, and the Sacred Tree began to be corrupted pitch black.

Black roots gradually covered the earth.

“Now this place will become our new paradise. You’ll receive my love here and be with me forever.”

A desolate smile bloomed at Evil’s lips.

* * *

A man covered in black cloth was looking at Soya.

He was someone she had seen before.

‘It’s that man who helped us when I went to fetch water with Su Ri.’

That man from back then, who couldn’t seem to take his eyes off me.

‘But the atmosphere is a bit different from back then…’

The atmosphere she felt from the man was a bit strange.

Unlike when she had encountered him before, she felt a gloomy and sinister aura.

“…Sacred Tree.”

The man opened his mouth with a roughly cracked and hoarse voice.

“Come to the Sacred Tree. My lord awaits you.”

“My lord…?”

Suddenly she remembered how the evil sorcerers had called Evil their lord.

Soya reflexively drew her bow and aimed it while asking the man.

“Are you Evil’s subordinate?”

“…”

The man didn’t answer.

That was answer enough.

“If you’re Evil’s subordinate, I can’t just let you go.”

Soya immediately shot an arrow at the man, imbued with threatening special ability.

However, the man lightly dodged the arrow flying toward him.

At this, slight bewilderment crossed Soya’s face.

Since learning how to shoot a bow from Gaya, this was the first time she had missed her target.

“Your stance is good, but you can’t fill the gaps with such orthodox methods. Shooting a bow is the same as a bird’s wing flapping. It’s not just shooting a bow, but reading the flow of the vast world.”

The man looked intently at Soya as if giving her a lesson and explained.

“Feel where the air gathers, grasp its density, and sense the grain of the wind. Like the sensation when you first flap your wings. That is the archery of the Southern Lands. It seems whoever taught you how to shoot a bow couldn’t tell you such things.”

“Sorry, but I’ve never learned wing flapping from my parents, so I don’t understand any of those theoretical words.”

He froze.

In an instant, the man’s expression hardened stiffly.

“I don’t want to hear advice from a subordinate of Evil either.”

Soya immediately drew her sword and rushed toward the man.

It was an extremely swift movement.

At the distance that closed in an instant, the man momentarily hesitated.

The man hastily dodged his body, but it was after the cold blade had grazed his shoulder.

Drip. Drip drop.

Black blood dripped from the torn wound, then the skin split open and demon beast tentacles wriggled out.

“…!”

A look of shock flashed across Soya’s face.

He wasn’t an ordinary person.

Soya had encountered those who wore human shells like that man before.

“You were a Northern Calamity.”

“….”

The man bit his lower lip tightly and covered his cut shoulder with one hand.

As if showing such a wretched appearance of himself was terrible.

“…My Lord ordered me to bring you to that place.”

A rough voice leaked through his tightly closed lips.

“But if you go to that place, my Lord will… try to confine you there.”

“…?”

“Will you still go to that place?”

Soya’s eyes narrowed at his question whose intention was unclear.

“What’s your reason for asking me that?”

“There’s also a way to flee without responding to Evil’s invitation. To the south, far away from Evil.”

“What…?”

“If you wish for that, I will help you.”

It was such an earnest voice, as if desperately hoping she would answer that she would do so.

“I don’t need help like yours.”

However, Soya shot back at him with a sharp voice, glaring at him without a moment’s hesitation.

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