The Youngest Daughter of the Hebei Peng Clan Is a Truly a Very Famous Little Heavenly Demon - Chapter 73

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73.

-Heavenly Killing Star?

My ears perk up at the unfamiliar term. But there’s no time to delay any further.

Originally, I planned to escape with Cheonwoo, then split into two paths and somehow retrieve Dangsoso and hide.

But thanks to that guy charging in like a moth to flame, the plan crumbled. I immediately changed direction and ran toward Dangsoso, who couldn’t move on her own.

Whether fortunately or unfortunately, the Hyeollu Majon’s interest seemed to have shifted from me to Cheonwoo. I approached Dangsoso and placed my hand on her head.

“Well done.”

In the brief moment I touched her head, I transferred some of my internal energy.

If I had maintained contact longer, I could have completely healed her broken legs, but time was of the essence.

“…Lady Peng!”

Dangsoso, who was the first to understand my intention, raised her upper body with both arms and let out a roar. She tried to get up, but needed a bit more time to recover her completely shattered leg bones.

Bang!

The sound of Dangsoso striking the ground with her fist rang out. I didn’t look back. Instead, I leaped.

“Huu.”

Click, creak.

Calmly sheathing my sword.

Once more.

Cheonma Sinryeo Geombeop Chapter 1.

Drawing the blade.

The first technique whose name I left unchanged when modifying the Cheonma sword technique.

What I pursued was that distant and imposing sword that Dokgo Yeon had shown before.

Wrapped in sword energy, the internal energy of a late-stage Chojejung that formed a very basic defensive barrier against strong energy was infused throughout the entire blade.

The head of the Hyeollu Majon, who had been repelling Cheonwoo, turned toward me. Less than a second felt as slow as slow motion.

“Kugh!”

Then, leaving behind the mangled Cheonwoo, I collided head-on with the Hyeollu Majon and rolled forward. As I rolled, the Hyeollu Majon, whose collar I had grabbed, also rolled across the bloody dirt floor for the first time in this battle.

And below that was a cliff.

We fell endlessly down a vertical cliff hundreds of zhang high, or about 700 meters in modern terms.

Moreover, directly below was a fierce gorge where swirling currents dragged everything down.

Even the Hyeollu Majon, who would normally have easily regained her balance, couldn’t help but panic in this situation. She grabbed my throat with one hand, filled with rage.

“How dare you!”

“Kheuk…”

I can’t breathe, I can’t breathe.

I dropped even the ten-thousand-year cold iron sword I was holding and struggled with all my might to pry off the Hyeollu Majon’s hand.

As I kicked with my feet, the tendons in my right foot tore with a snapping sound. I desperately kicked at her stomach in midair with my remaining left foot and right foot.

Resistance that would normally be hopeless.

However, when I momentarily gathered and released all my remaining internal energy toward the void, I miraculously succeeded in breaking free from the Hyeollu Majon. For the first time since my possession, I felt my completely empty dantian as I fell headfirst.

‘Ah.’

I could see a razor-sharp rock directly below my head. At the last moment, I somehow squeezed out strength to turn my head’s direction.

Thud! Splash!

Along with intense pain in my left calf, I struck the rock and was immediately swept away by the fierce current. Normally I would have released internal energy to swim, but I truly had no internal energy left.

Using innate true energy—

—No, that won’t do.

Releasing the minimal innate true energy needed to sustain human life would be tantamount to declaring “I’m going to die after doing this.”

Using life’s final gambit to survive was contradictory. I coughed roughly and stuck my head out of the swirling current.

“Puu!”

As soon as I spat out water, I immediately dove underwater.

Opening my eyes in fresh water without any internal energy protection was extremely painful. In the murky vision covered with bubbles, I flailed my arms and grabbed onto a rock. With desperate effort, I barely managed to pull my soaked body onto a narrow rock that stuck out like a buoy.

“Cough, cough, kheuk!”

It was hard to distinguish up, down, left, and right. As I pressed against the stone floor and vomited the water from my lungs, chills ran down my back.

No time to look back.

I’m going to die. I’m going to die. I’m going to die. I’m going to—

“Well now.”

Rustle.

…Crack!

I turned around in sharp terror.

When I adjusted my blurry vision, what immediately came into view was the shattered skull of the terrifying Hyeollu Majon who had just been trying to kill me.

It was so crushed that it took considerable time to recognize its original form. I lifted my head, stuttering like an old computer.

“The area was noisy, so I came to take a look, and here are some vermin making a racket and dirtying my front yard.”

Jet-black hair. Red eyes. Sharply defined three-dimensional features.

It was a familiar face.

Facing Cheonma, I was so happy regardless of the situation that I cried out with tears in my eyes.

“Mom! You came to save me!”

I believed in you!

…Actually, I had forgotten, but!

‘Anyway, I’m alive!’

Honestly, I thought I was going to die!

“…Hm?”

Dokgo Yeon, hearing my cry, furrowed her brow and tilted her head slightly.

But before I could say more, sudden relief caused all my muscles to relax. I felt the emptiness of my drained dantian and the pain throughout my body as I slowly fell to the ground.

“What the—”

Then blackout.

What I remembered was the rough hand that reflexively grabbed the back of my neck at the last moment.

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“…?”

Cheonma Dokgo Yeon.

No, Jeonryunshinma, the ‘true identity’ of the Jeonryunshinmageup, was bewildered.

‘What on earth is this supposed to be?’

The situation was as follows.

When Cheonma had previously gone to the Hyeolhon Chong with Dori and unleashed the Jeonryunshinmageup’s secret technique, Dokgo Yeon’s soul had sunk deep into her consciousness.

The moment that generation’s Jeonryunshinma died, the Jeonryunmageup would transfer to a secret manual somewhere in this world, and upon being touched by a fated person, would steal their body to be reborn as a new Jeonryunshinma.

This was the true nature of the Jeonryunshinmageup, said to possess one with demonic power.

Since Jeonryunshinma basically possessed tremendously powerful talent, it could turn even the dullest person into a supreme master in an instant.

However, if a mere supreme warrior went on a killing spree drunk on slaughter, they would quickly be subjugated. Therefore, the Jeonryunshinma recorded in Gangho history were mostly people with above-average capabilities.

The previous generation’s Jeonryunshinma, the Cheonryun Sinmago, also belonged to this category. Her body was originally talented enough to barely reach the early stages of Extreme Demon by the time she died of old age.

But under Jeonryunshinma’s control, she grew into a Transcendent Demon monster.

Then what about Dokgo Yeon, who had reached the Transcendent Demon realm through her own power?

Would Jeonryunshinma, who could make dullards into supreme masters and talents into Transcendent Demons, leap beyond realms again to reach Life-Death or Heaven-Entering?

No.

If it were that simple, a Jeonryunshinma would have unified the world long ago.

‘Controlling this body is already difficult enough.’

If Jeonryunshinma had taken the body of young Dokgo Yeon—that is, when she only had Transcendent Demon potential—it would have reached Life-Death within a hundred years.

However, the body of Dokgo Yeon that Jeonryunshinma had taken was already a Cheonma and Transcendent Demon supreme master.

Naturally, she wouldn’t meekly surrender her body like those mediocre talents. Thanks to this, Jeonryunshinma was experiencing difficulty controlling a host’s body for the first time in thousands of years of history.

So seriously that actual martial prowess had somewhat declined compared to before the possession.

“Tsk.”

Jeonryunshinma unconsciously lifted Dori, whom she had grabbed to prevent from falling.

She gripped his throat.

She wanted to finish off this brat who had dirtied her front yard right now. Having obtained another good body, she would taste the sweetness of slaughter and reign over the world.

But.

But why?

“Why can’t I kill him!”

Jeonryunshinma ground his teeth and cried out in frustration.

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