Chapter 163: Heavenly Enchanting Flower Body
Namgung Sang-rin had been marveling at the fateful meetings between people, and soon his thoughts shifted to his younger brother Namgung Heon-rin.
‘Ha, that kid. I never imagined even you would become connected with Sect Leader Cheol…’
Recalling what he had heard earlier about Namgung Heon-rin’s situation, he felt longing for his blood relative along with anticipation for the day they would eventually reunite.
There was only one thing he wished for.
He couldn’t know what mission Namgung Heon-rin was carrying, but he hoped he would safely complete it and return.
Shiwan Mountains, connecting the two regions of Guangdong and Guangxi, was a very vast area befitting its name.
Also.
Being that vast, it was a place where dangerous elements were scattered about.
Moreover, since it was famous from antiquity as a location where Snake Sect and other heretical factions resided, he couldn’t help but worry first and foremost about his younger brother’s safety.
‘By the way… What was that?’
According to Cheol Ryu-heun, before parting ways with Namgung Heon-rin at that time, he had written something on paper and handed it to him.
-Read this on your way.
-Ah, what is this?
-Useful information.
-Pardon?
-You’ll understand when you read it later.
Namgung Sang-rin recalled that story he had heard earlier and made his eyes gleam slightly.
‘Given that he said it was useful information for my brother at that time… It’s probably content that would be of great help once they reached Shiwan Mountains.’
Although he couldn’t know exactly what it was without entering Cheol Ryu-heun’s mind, he had a premonition that his guess was roughly correct.
Meanwhile.
Cheol Ryu-heun began infusing new energy through the center of his palms that were touching the soles of her feet.
True energy as warm as hot water.
Simultaneously.
‘Ah!’
Hae Su-yeon’s long eyelashes trembled slightly.
Because a shiver had risen from the flow of gentle true energy smoothly tracing through her body.
Cheol Ryu-heun maintained his expressionless face while inwardly praising her.
‘Quite an excellent body.’
Currently, the internal meridians and acupoints in Hae Su-yeon’s body were far better developed than he had expected.
Moreover, her internal energy level was tremendous – not only surpassing the average level of first-rate martial artists, but comparable to the renowned late-stage prodigies of lofty-prestigious sects like the Nine Great Sects.
‘She wasn’t raised carelessly.’
When they had arranged a conversation earlier, Hae Su-yeon had revealed that her master Kang Hee-san had passed on all of her internal energy through the technique of Body-Separating Energy Transmission and departed this world.
That was why she possessed such a high level of internal energy.
Kang Hee-san was originally a prodigy too.
After all, she had been the head disciple of Jeong-sim, the Sect Leader of Putuo Temple, one of the Nine Great Sects.
Since such an outstanding person of aptitude and talent had transmitted all her internal energy, the level was bound to be extraordinary…
If Hae Su-yeon had studied the complete essence from childhood rather than the incomplete cultivation method, by now she would have reached a level rivaling Flower Spirit Empress Heon Sae-ah in her youth.
Finally removing both hands, Cheol Ryu-heun tossed out an indifferent voice.
“What I’m infusing now is Pure Yang Energy.”
Having also withdrawn her feet, Hae Su-yeon immediately grasped the intent and asked.
“You mean you’ve balanced the yin and yang that were unbalanced in my body?”
“Yeah.”
At that, Hae Su-yeon nodded and spoke her conjecture again.
“The enchanting energy of the Enchanting Flower Sword has yin attributes, and to wield it well, balanced yang is necessary… Is that right?”
“Yes. That’s the case when the body you’re born with is a Heavenly Demon Incarnation. Just balance those two and you can advance to the martial path of ascension.”
“Ah… Then my former master…”
“Different situation.”
“You mean even if she had properly balanced yin and yang, she couldn’t have controlled the Enchanting Flower Sword’s enchanting energy?”
“Are you feeling lustful thoughts stir right now? Wanting to embrace a man or something.”
“No.”
“That is the true power of the Heavenly Demon Incarnation. But your master wasn’t a Heavenly Demon Incarnation – she only emitted lustful desire.”
“I see. Come to think of it, I wasn’t swayed by the enchanting energy from the first time I held the Enchanting Flower Sword… Meanwhile, my master always struggled to suppress the lustful thoughts caused by the enchanting energy.”
“That’s the terror of enchanting energy. As you know, sexual desire is one of the greatest obstacles interfering with a seeker’s cultivation, and especially when in contact with enchanting energy, it becomes maximized.”
“Yes… And on top of that, the internal energy cultivation method was only half complete…”
“Still, being the head disciple of a prestigious Buddhist sect, her martial arts cultivation was deep enough that suppressing such impulsive lustful thoughts was possible.”
Sleep desire, appetite, and sexual desire.
For practitioners of Buddhism or Taoism, those three are the greatest obstacles interfering with mind-body training.
Unless one reaches the state of essence-energy-spirit unity, there are no martial artists who can be free from them.
That’s why cultivation is commonly described as arduous.
Generally speaking, upon reaching the level of a Nine Great Sects’ Sect Leader, one gains the ability to perfectly control such instincts – but Kang Hee-san hadn’t reached that level, had she?
That’s why it was already remarkable that she had endured to that degree while alive.
Otherwise, she would have been swayed by the Enchanting Flower Sword’s enchanting energy and walked a dishonorable path like some enchantress who bewitched any man she encountered.
Hae Su-yeon nodded and spoke quietly.
“My master said she learned the Maitreya Heavenly Coming Cultivation Method, one of the five supreme techniques of Demon-Subduing Divine Nun, after joining Putuo Temple. Its influence must have been great.”
Demon-Subduing Divine Nun was the founder of Putuo Temple, transmitted as having displayed such tremendous Buddhist martial arts that even demons at the peak of demonic heart would bow down before her.
“Right, well, with the Maitreya Heavenly Coming Cultivation Method, that would make sense.”
Cheol Ryu-heun pictured a nun’s face in his mind along with those words.
Demon-Subduing Divine Nun.
The peerless supreme female monk who had owned him when he was the Divine Martial Sword, four hundred forty years ago.
Soon erasing the face in his mind, he gave a chin gesture and spoke briefly.
“Lotus position.”
At that, Hae Su-yeon pushed the chair back, sat down on the floor, and asked.
“Time for Energy Circulation?”
“What I did earlier was simply injecting Pure Yang Energy, so now you need to harmonize it with your original yin energy through your own power to finally finish.”
“Ah, I see.”
“If a certain phenomenon appears through Energy Circulation, it’s a success. After that, I’ll teach you the other half essence of that internal energy cultivation method.”
Hae Su-yeon was quite curious.
Flower Spirit Empress Heon Sae-ah had clearly left behind only half the cultivation method formulas before drawing her last breath – so how had that come to be included in Cheol Ryu-heun’s mysterious fortuitous encounters?
But she didn’t pry.
There was no point in asking since she wouldn’t get an answer anyway.
He would obviously ignore her with a nonchalant gaze.
At that moment, Cheol Ryu-heun, having read her inner thoughts, spoke.
“Blood God’s true transmission.”
“Pardon?”
“In the past, Flower Spirit Empress completed an internal energy cultivation method that maximized and allowed perfect control of the Enchanting Flower Sword’s power with the help of her lover Blood God. Through fortuitous encounters, I obtained records and related knowledge that Blood God left behind. That’s why I know it well.”
“Ah…!”
Hae Su-yeon and Namgung Sang-rin both let out exclamations.
What kind of fortuitous encounter had it been?
Of course, even if she asked about that question, he clearly wouldn’t answer.
Hae Su-yeon soon wore a smirk and spoke.
“Ha. Imagining that terrifying Blood God touching his beloved woman’s soles while injecting Pure Yang Energy… It’s kind of funny. It doesn’t suit him at all.”
“It was a bit different.”
“Pardon?”
“Since they were lovers, they completed it through Yin-Yang Intercourse.”
Yin-Yang Intercourse – meaning the two had shared the pleasures of the bed.
“Oh my, was that so? But why didn’t Sect Leader Cheol share the bed with me and only touched my feet… I’m disappointed.”
“……”
The light of a sigh settled in Cheol Ryu-heun’s eyes.
Tsk, something troublesome has entered.
Should he just take the sword and kick her out again?
But it would be hard to find another Guest Retainer like her.
Since she possessed the Heavenly Demon Incarnation, a rare constitution that had appeared only a few times throughout all of martial history…
“Hoho, I’m joking. I’m not that loose of a person, you know.”
Hae Su-yeon stuck out her tongue, then promptly assumed the lotus position and entered the meditation of Energy Circulation.
After a bit of time passed.
Twitch.
Her body in lotus position moved slightly, responding to something.
It was a sensation of heat.
Currently, hot energy was arising from Hae Su-yeon’s lower dantian and rapidly spreading along her major meridians.
Before long, large beads of sweat had formed on her forehead and nose.
Hae Su-yeon, with eyes closed and immersed in deep concentration, at some moment felt light piercing through darkness.
It moved slowly, then suddenly wrapped around her lower dantian, after which it rose and rose along her central channel until it approached just below her eyes.
In an instant, Hae Su-yeon felt as if her field of vision had turned bright.
She was clearly closing her eyes, yet it felt as if she had stepped into another world full only of light…
Immediately after.
FLASH!
Aura light was emitted from between Hae Su-yeon’s brows.
The yintang point.
The flashing aura light was what was called Yang Light.
Namgung Sang-rin watched the sight and exclaimed in admiration.
‘Is that the certain phenomenon that Sect Leader Cheol mentioned earlier…?’
At that moment, Cheol Ryu-heun beside him casually informed him through Secret Sound Transmission.
<It’s the first stage of Three Manifestations of Yang Light.>
The phenomenon of pure yang light emerging from the body while pure yin shade flows within, seeking the path of harmony.
Hae Su-yeon, having displayed One Manifestation of Yang Light, soon displayed Two Manifestations of Yang Light as well before long.
FLASH!
The aura light at the yintang point between her brows vanished, and her entire body began emitting a golden-like light.
Hae Su-yeon’s expression as she swam through selflessness was supremely peaceful.
Before she knew it, the beads of sweat had disappeared.
At that moment.
The light that had filled meditating Hae Su-yeon’s field of vision vanished and shade appeared, then that change repeated countless times.
Amid the rapidly alternating brightness and darkness, her body gradually floated upward.
It felt just like that.
A sensation as if she had sprouted wings like a bird and was flying through the void.
Suddenly.
The light wrapping around Hae Su-yeon’s lotus-positioned body vanished in the blink of an eye, and bright haze rose thickly from her crown.
The final Three Manifestation stage.
Hae Su-yeon forgot where she was and headed toward the realm of selflessness.
Everything was pure white.
Time passed like that.
Hae Su-yeon, situated alone in an infinite white space where light and shade had vanished, heard a sound resembling a thundering voice.
-Awaken.
Simultaneously, Hae Su-yeon felt her crown open wide, and then sensed the yang energy and yin energy dwelling in her body merging into one before soon scattering to her three dantians.
Before long.
TAK, TATAK, TAK…
Sounds came from all over her body.
Faint sounds.
They were the sounds of dormant and subtle meridians being opened.
At that moment, Hae Su-yeon felt it.
That all the meridians and acupoints in her body were resonating with an external force.
And.
‘Ah!’
She realized.
That the sound resembling a thundering voice she had briefly heard earlier was a sound created by the Enchanting Flower Sword’s enchanting energy.
Immediately after.
When the bright haze gathered at Hae Su-yeon’s crown turned red, the Enchanting Flower Sword placed on the table emitted a HUM as it trembled.
SSSSSSS, SSSSSSS…
Thus the red haze transformed into a large flower shape, and soon a thin stem-like energy current extended from it and connected to the Enchanting Flower Sword.
Seeing that, Cheol Ryu-heun laughed inwardly.
‘Ha. What, she even opened her dormant and subtle meridians on top of that? At this rate, maybe…’
Right, maybe the strongest female martial artist in history could be born.
Surpassing Sword Empress Mong Ye, who had reigned over the martial world following the absolute being Sword Emperor Buk Ga-sin of eight hundred years ago…
Fine, I’ll teach her, what the hell.
Mong Ye’s sword technique too.