The Wizard Who Endured the World of Murim - Chapter 102

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Surviving in the Martial Realm as a Mage: Episode 102
“Huh? Why is it like this?”
The Nine-tailed Fox.
Cheonho sat in his chair with a grinning face, gazing down at the pond on the ground, when he suddenly tilted his head and looked puzzled.
“Why can’t I see inside the water surface all of a sudden? What’s going on? Did that brat do something again?”
“Ha! How could that be? A mere 5th Realm cultivator interfering with a Mysterious Heaven-grade Primordial Chaos Mirror? Impossible.”
“No, seriously. Look at this.”
“What nonsense are you—”
Greedy Heavenly Beast Gyumokrang.
The blue-haired man glanced at the pond on the ground with a sullen expression, then furrowed his brow.
“…What is this? Why did the water surface suddenly become murky? Strange. Is it broken?”
“See? I told you that brat is different?”
“Hmm, that human kid. Isn’t he only 5th Realm at best?”
“Yeah, but he’s using some strange technique. Oddly enough, the way it operates is different from normal cultivation methods.”
“I don’t understand. A Mysterious Heaven-grade artifact is a 7th Realm treasure. There’s no way a mere 5th Realm human could interfere with it.”
“And yet it’s actually happening right now, isn’t it?”
It was true.
The surface of the Primordial Chaos Mirror, which they had been monitoring in real-time, had become murky as if shrouded in thick fog.
“Now I’m starting to wonder what that brat is up to.”
“See? I told you that you’d become curious about him too, didn’t I?”
As Cheonho chuckled and replied, Greedy Heavenly Beast Gyumokrang answered with a frown.
“Sigh… That monkey bastard has been threatening me so much that I was already planning to visit that human kid soon anyway.”
“Good. But you’re not thrilled about it, right? Then after I finish this business trip, I’ll open a passage for you to reach the Immortal Celestial Realm.”
“Excellent. A far more reasonable condition than that monkey. You’re truly a wise old fox!”
“…Don’t you remember me saying I’d tear you to shreds if you called me that one more time?”
“Did I say something like that?”
The blue-haired man.
King of all wolves.
Greedy Heavenly Beast Gyumokrang smiled brightly, his fangs just barely visible.
Cheonho’s eyes narrowed and he clenched his fists, speaking in a low voice.
“I’ll make you remember.”
Feeling the sincerity in those words, Gyumokrang quickly raised his hand and apologized.
“It was a joke. My apologies.”
“Sigh… If you make jokes like that again, you’d better be prepared to be beaten to death.”
“Phew, I guess people do get more sensitive with age.”
“I’m serious about killing you.”
The two great demons exchanged light punches with each other for a moment, deepening their bond.
Greedy Heavenly Beast stood up first, conceding defeat.
“Fine. I’ll go see that kid. I have business in the area anyway.”
“How long do you think it’ll take?”
“Well, I’m not going to interfere with the heavens like some mindless monkey. If I ride the Thunder Spirit Wood, it shouldn’t take more than a month or so.”
The Demon Cultivation Realm was vast.
Eight enormous continents existed within it.
And the distances between continents were considerable.
Even the Twelve Demon Sovereigns, who had reached the Hapdogi stage, would need more than a month of flight using conventional methods to traverse between continents.
Using shortcuts would be faster, certainly.
But the human called Ilhyang happened to be in Dongseung Divine State.
Dongseung Divine State was essentially a breeding ground continent, inhabited primarily by weak and young demons—mostly those of the 5th Realm and below.
Using shortcuts to tear through space would inevitably inflict severe damage on the creatures living there.
“A month is far too long!”
“Then what? Should I just rip open space like that monkey and fly through immediately?”
“Hmm, no. It’s better to avoid doing such things if possible. What should I do?”
“I’ll just ride the Thunder Spirit Wood and fly there. Overthinking it will only exhaust me.”
“Ugh….”
In the end, Cheonho could offer no advice.
Greedy Heavenly Beast Gyumokrang mounted his flying treasure, the Thunder Spirit Wood, and began his journey toward Dongseung Divine State.
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Ilhyang gazed contentedly at the corpses of demon cultivators piled before me.
“Not a scrap wasted. They brought so many companions with them. I won’t have to worry about meals for quite some time.”
[Indeed, Master.]
“I hope more come.”
My spirit vein fishing had a high success rate.
The 4th Realm demon cultivators, believing this land to be truly empty, had attacked Gwireol Valley on their own, drawn by the presence of the 4th Realm Spirit Vein.
“To have already captured two 4th Realm demon cultivators. My luck is extraordinary.”
One was the spider demon, Hyeol-an Majoo.
The other was this time’s attacker—a yellow wild boar creature called Hwangto Hwandon.
This beast had possessed a 4th Realm Spirit Vein in the neighboring territory.
Desiring to claim two spirit veins, it had led its subordinates in an assault on Gwireol Valley.
“I wonder what creature will be caught next~”
Hearing Ilhyang’s humming, Jigang Apryong swallowed hard and wagged his tail.
[It seems rumors have spread throughout the surrounding area, Master.]
“Rumors? What rumors?”
[Well… that Gwireol Valley has a new master. And that this master counterattacks and kills those who assault it….]
Ilhyang clicked my tongue softly.
And I spoke with an expression unable to hide my disappointment.
“So such rumors are already spreading.”
[Yes. In truth, Hyeol-an Majoo was so reclusive that this didn’t happen sooner. But Hwangto Hwandon had many acquaintances in the surrounding area.]
“Oh? Then won’t they come seeking revenge?”
[…They’ve likely noticed by now that a 5th Realm or higher monster is lurking in Gwireol Valley. Unless they’re fools, they’ll hide rather than show themselves.]
“That’s truly unfortunate.”
So now I had to abandon the idea of quietly accumulating resources.
Ilhyang, who had been dwelling on the momentary regret, suddenly looked at Jigang Apryong with a flash of realization.
“Then the neighboring territory that Hwangto Hwandon was occupying should be vacant now, shouldn’t it?”
[…Yes, that is correct.]
The land that Hwangto Hwandon had occupied was Jinsan Yeomto, a 4th Realm Spirit Vein territory.
The only drawback was that volcanoes erupted there occasionally.
For Demon Cultivators of the 3rd Realm and above, it was hardly an inhospitable environment.
In fact, hot springs flowed like rivers through the heart of Jinsan Yeomto.
It was similar to the Yeollyeom Jade River territory that Jigang Apryong had previously controlled.
But the air was far cleaner, and with the hot springs flowing through, it was quite suitable for creatures to inhabit.
“Taking control of that place should be fine as well.”
[…As you wish, Venerable One.]
In truth, controlling two Spirit Veins was something powerful Demon Cultivators often did.
Some capable and cunning Demon Cultivators even monopolized three or four Spirit Veins.
‘The only problem, though….’
was that I was human.
Since the Demon Immortal Realm had not yet learned that the master of Gwireol Valley here was human, there had been no particular reaction.
‘But what if it became known that I was human?’
Those exceeding the 5th Realm.
Perhaps the great Demon Sovereigns of the 6th Realm—those who rarely ventured far from their own territories—might launch an attack.
A 6th Realm great demon might move just to eliminate the master of a mere 4th Realm Spirit Vein.
The relations between humans and Demon Cultivators were that poor.
A human with no bloodline or backing had only one legitimate position in the Demon Immortal Realm: the very bottom—slavery.
Just as Jigang Apryong was carefully considering how to voice his concerns about this.
“…We have a visitor.”
From below the cliff of Gwireol Valley.
I murmured softly, gazing up at some point in the night sky.
Immediately after, thunder and lightning suddenly erupted across the clear sky.
Rumble—rumble—!
And descending from the heavens alongside the thunder and lightning was a massive disc-shaped flying artifact the size of a fortress.
Jigang Apryong’s face, as he looked up at it from below, gradually turned deathly pale.
[C-could that be the Thunder Spirit Vessel? Then the Tamcheonsu Sovereign is visiting this humble place!]
As Jigang Apryong cried out in a voice as though he might collapse on the spot, I, still gazing at the sky, twisted my lips and spoke.
“Even so, calling it humble is a bit much, don’t you think?”
[B-but….]
Before Jigang Apryong could even finish speaking, a voice emanated from the Thunder Spirit Vessel.
“Humble it is. For a precious being like myself to appear, such a remote backwater is far too inadequate.”
The low, deep voice was brimming with unmistakable confidence and self-love.
Soon after, the Thunder Spirit Vessel hovering in the void vanished, and in its place descended a young man with flowing blue hair.
“Greetings. You must be the human called Ilhyang? I am the Wolf of the Heavens—Tamcheonsu.”
Ilhyang stared at the confident man before him, then tilted his head to the side.
“That’s fascinating. How does a spirit possess two different powers at once? One is the lightning force known as the most powerful between heaven and earth, and… the other is water force?”
Upon hearing Ilhyang’s murmur, a faint crack appeared for the first time on Tamcheonsu’s arrogant face.
“How did you know that?”
Greedy Heavenly Beast Gyumokrang.
He couldn’t hide his astonishment at this human who had grasped his true nature in an instant.
And the words that followed left him even more bewildered.
“Since your energy is split into two, its purity is diluted. You’re probably the weakest among demons of the same rank, aren’t you?”
“You… you bastard…”
Tamcheonsu’s eyes trembled narrowly.
To think he would say such things right to his face.
Yet regardless of his displeasure, that assessment was remarkably accurate.
The lowest rank among the Twelve Demon Sovereigns.
That was precisely who Greedy Heavenly Beast Gyumokrang was.
He wore an expression of anger for a moment.
But it soon shifted to one of bewilderment.
“But how were you able to possess both types of energy? I’m genuinely curious about that.”
“…”
The emotion reflected in Ilhyang’s gaze now was pure curiosity.
Nothing more than that.
There was not a trace of mockery in it.
‘Moreover.’
Just as that monkey had warned beforehand.
Strangely, this fellow felt oddly familiar to him.
‘Indeed, was that monkey bastard right after all?’
Normally, the instant someone dared utter such disrespectful nonsense before him.
Whether demon or human, he would have struck them down with lightning and reduced them to ash.
Yet he found himself unable to harbor ill will toward this creature.
An inexplicably favorable feeling was taking root.
In Tamcheonsu’s eyes as he gazed down at Ilhyang, a mysterious confusion gradually began to surface.

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