Chapter 298: The Fixer

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Ximen Yue, who had a flustered expression, expressed his doubt.

“Sect Master Cheol, how could I make a Transcendent Revival Pills…?”

Cheol Ryu-heun, having withdrawn his hand, spoke gruffly.

“You don’t know what it is? I thought you were a clever fellow.”

Ximen Yue rolled his eyes for a moment before finally grasping the meaning.

‘Ah! Could it be…’

Bo Hwoe, seated across from him, was the same.

‘Ah yes, that’s it!’

He immediately spoke about what had come to mind.

“You mean if we borrow that child’s body?”

“Correct.”

At Cheol Ryu-heun’s brief reply, Song San also belatedly realized.

‘Aha, so that’s it! Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian!’

Thus surprised, Cheol Ryu-heun’s voice was heard.

“I briefly explained about Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian earlier.”

“Yes. You said it’s the same as a body with the wondrous function of Two Hearts Divine Art-Core Divine Art latent from birth…”

Following Song San’s words, Bo Hwoe also opened his mouth.

“That is, you said it was a subtlety that harmonizes disparate energies.”

“Correct. To explain more clearly, the possessor of the Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian can unite pure energy and demonic energy, which are opposing in nature.”

At that, not only Song San and Bo Hwoe but even Jeung Ji-rim and Wang Su-ah let out exclamations.

Because they had grasped the ultimate meaning of what Cheol Ryu-heun had just said.

The awakening of Ximen Yue’s potential.

Yes, that was it.

Precisely, it meant that if Ximen Yue absorbed the demonic power and perfectly achieved the Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian, the refinement of the Transcendent Revival Pills would also be possible.

Bo Hwoe, having gleamed his eyes, asked while pinpointing the key point.

“So you mean through the wondrous function of the Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian, a new attribute of internal power will be born? And that will become the key to refinement…?”

“That’s right. Neutralizing the demonic power in advance and refining with that internal power.”

“For, for some reason… it seems possible.”

“It’s definitely possible. The key issue would be the timeline.”

“Ah, the timeline… yes. To handle the demonic power…”

“I’m not talking about the timeline for that.”

“Pardon?”

“It will be finished within today. The absorption of demonic power.”

“…!”

Bo Hwoe, Song San and others were dumbfounded.

Finishing it within a day?

We struggled for such a long time?

While everyone had surprised eyes, Cheol Ryu-heun continued speaking without caring.

“I mean the key issue is the timeline to complete the Transcendent Revival Pills. Nothing else will be a problem.”

At that moment, Song San spoke carefully.

“It’s not as easy as you say.”

Bo Hwoe, sitting beside her, also added in agreement.

“As my elder sister says. The process of refining requires considerable time. That too is not a simple matter. It’s work that involves infinite repetition of experimentation and verification. That’s why until we see a stable finished product…”

“You don’t need to worry about that.”

When Cheol Ryu-heun cut her off with an expressionless face, Bo Hwoe and Song San’s eyes went round.

“Pardon?”

“How…?”

“I’ll teach you today. The method to make a finished product without any flaws.”

Soundless shock blanketed the room.

Bo Hwoe hurriedly asked with a shocked face.

“Wait, even that can be figured out within today?”

“Yes.”

Thus the assembly was swept up in a strange thrill at Cheol Ryu-heun’s concise answer.

Words blocked for an instant.

“…!”

Everyone sensed it intuitively.

That those weren’t words just thrown out carelessly.

Ximen Yue, having seen through that intention, wore a faint smile.

‘Hoot, if Sect Master Cheol says it’s possible, then it’s possible.’

A moment later, an indifferent voice struck everyone’s ears.

“For that, I’ll need all the research materials. Would you show me? Including unfinished Transcendent Revival Pills samples as well, if possible.”

Before Bo Hwoe could answer, Song San urged impatiently.

“Brother, quickly.”

Bo Hwoe leapt to his feet and moved hurriedly.

“Please wait a moment. I’ll bring everything including the samples made so far.”

Eventually, he appeared carrying a small bundle.

“These are the notebooks I personally recorded and a box storing about a dozen samples.”

Cheol Ryu-heun soon untied the bundle placed on the table and first checked the contents of the notebooks.

Fifteen volumes in total.

Each one was thick, and each page was densely packed with writing and illustrations.

For some reason, Cheol Ryu-heun selected and read only some of them.

As if there was no need to see them all.

When some time had passed from then.

TAK-

Cheol Ryu-heun closed the last notebook and said.

“As expected. It was quite helpful.”

A flicker of interest passed through Bo Hwoe’s eyes.

“That statement means…”

“I organized my thoughts while reading just the key parts. And a solution emerged.”

“Ah…!”

“I believe it can succeed by adapting Sword Immortal’s Heavenly Heart Pill Refining Technique from the old days. No, I’m certain.”

“My! You know about that too?”

“Yes, I didn’t only inherit martial authentic transmissions.”

At Cheol Ryu-heun’s words, everyone admired in unison.

To think they would obtain a solution to complete the Transcendent Revival Pills this quickly.

Also, they each cried out identically in their minds.

That Cheol Ryu-heun was a peerless benefactor and a divine being sent by heaven.

Bo Hwoe’s hand trembled subtly as he stroked his beard.

It was excitement that couldn’t be hidden.

The surging thrill shaking through his body wouldn’t stop.

‘It’s like a divine celestial arrangement. Sect Master Cheol is…’

An unprecedented existence sent by heaven to prepare for troubled times.

It truly felt that way.

The other people’s hearts were similar.

They newly realized.

That Sun Moon Demon Cult’s rampage had actually been merely a kind of practice stage for Cheol Ryu-heun to refine his own power…

It was the same for Ximen Yue.

‘At this rate, is he going to become a god?’

He possessed knowledge that couldn’t be easily approached.

He truly endlessly surprised other people.

Had the talents of the ancient Heavenly Demon, Sword Emperor, Evil Emperor, Sword Immortal, and Blood God also been like that?

But there was a difference.

Those five had achieved their accomplishments by possessing the Divine Martial Sword, the greatest and strongest divine weapon in history.

Cheol Ryu-heun was the opposite.

As a direct disciple from the collapsing White Peak Sword Sect, he had had nothing.

The only thing that had made him special was fortune.

In other words, that meant he had risen solely with his personal talent.

What makes fortune into true fortune is ultimately the quality of the practitioner.

Those with qualifications achieve on their own.

If not, no matter how tremendous the fortune, it’s just a showy but worthless fruit.

Talent was the same.

Even if the power of one’s innately gifted body was exceptional, it was one’s own strength that made it fully bloom.

That was why Cheol Ryu-heun was even more impressive.

Without anyone’s guidance, he had made his talent bloom and even splendidly made his fortune his own.

Ximen Yue thought.

Though there was no Divine Martial Sword, the person called Cheol Ryu-heun was himself the foremost divine weapon of the current era.

TDALKKAK-

Cheol Ryu-heun took out and opened the wooden box from the bundle.

Inside were ten purple pills.

Incomplete Super Human Pills – that is, unfinished samples.

Bo Hwoe, having changed his expression, quickly added an explanation.

“All were made by painstakingly extracting parts of the demonic power. At first, even approaching that power made it hard to breathe. They are shabby contents, but that was the best result. Until now…”

Following that, Song San assisted in a calm voice.

“As you’d know from reading the text earlier, if it weren’t for the Nine-Turn Great Sealing Jade, it would have been difficult to make even one. Even though they’re all just incomplete samples.”

Nine-Turn Great Sealing Jade was a natural bead formed in places where the mysterious energy of heaven and earth had gathered, a relic that displayed the wondrous function of absorbing and sealing a fixed amount of various energies including natural energy.

About twenty-some years ago, Bo Hwoe had luckily obtained it, and through it, he had attempted countless experiments.

Cheol Ryu-heun, having heard the two’s words, asked about one point.

“You must also have lacked precious materials to mix in? That’s why your work was even more delayed.”

Bo Hwoe nodded as if he’d been waiting.

“Yes, that’s right. Since all the materials used for mixing are precious elixirs that can’t be freely used.”

“Looking at it, Master Gongsun procured fixed amounts. Thanks to that, you’ve held out until now.”

“Yes.”

“It’s fine now. All you need to do is obtain large quantities of elixirs so you can use them freely. Well, it’s easy.”

At that, Bo Hwoe, Song San and others were again speechless.

“…!”

Easy, that?

Cheol Ryu-heun had an unconcerned expression.

“Golden Yang Small Fruit, Myriad Antidote Blue Pill, Three-Yin Black Herb as well as Plum Spirit Pill, Hundred-Year Fleece Flower Root, Yellow Dyed Crystal and so on – about ten-plus types totaling around two hundred pieces should be sufficient as materials.”

At those words, everyone had dazed eyes as if their souls had left them.

Insane.

Ten-plus types and around two hundred pieces…!

Ximen Yue couldn’t help but let out a laugh despite himself.

‘Hoot. Truly no obstacles, no obstacles…’

At that moment, even more surprising words reached everyone’s ears.

“The locations of fortune where various elixirs are stored aren’t far anyway. I’ll personally bring them later.”

Bo Hwoe, surprised again, asked with a bewildered look.

“A l-location of fortune…! Was that also arranged by a warrior from the previous-era martial world?”

“Yes.”

“Who…?”

“Arranged by One Sweep Sword Hegemon, Mysterious Wind Sword Star, and Evil Emperor. That means three locations.”

Bo Hwoe’s face turned pale white upon hearing the three epithets.

Because Sword Emperor Yul-Cheon, of the highest tier in history, went without saying, and One Sweep Sword Hegemon Hwang-seo and Mysterious Wind Sword Star In-jo were also martial world hegemons who had possessed the Divine Martial Sword in that distant past.

Suddenly.

TAK-

Cheol Ryu-heun, having put the lid on the wooden box, pushed his chair back and stood.

“Well then, shall we go?”

His gaze rested on Ximen Yue’s face.

“Ah… yes. Understood.”

Having spoken thus, Ximen Yue hurriedly stood up.

THUMP THUMP.

What Cheol Ryu-heun had just said meant they would head to where the demonic energy of Heavenly Demon lurked.

‘Huuu, the time has finally come. The infusion of demon essence…’

Tension swelling in his chest.

Suddenly, a previous conversation flashed through his mind.

-Sect Master Cheol… but what is the method to fully awaken the potential of the Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian…?

-What did I say that power was?

-Ah, yes. Binding light and darkness as one… in other words, you said the ability to unite pure energy and demonic energy. That through it, one could possess internal power of a new attribute…

-Then you know well what’s needed?

-Demonic energy… is it?

-Correct. That must first be made to dwell in your body. Not the wondrous function of mish-mash cultivation like Two Hearts Divine Art-Core Divine Art, but infusing pure demonic energy.

-Ah, then where is that demonic energy obtained?

-Heavenly Demon’s secret location. There lies Heavenly Demon’s demon essence from his lifetime.

Cheol Ryu-heun’s words that he planned to infuse the essence of demonic energy – the so-called demonic power – into his flesh…

THUMP THUMP.

His heart began to race.

But it was racing with anticipation, not foreboding.

Cheol Ryu-heun, having gathered up the wooden box, spoke again.

“Prepare yourself. The demonic energy of Sun Moon Demon Arrive Art that you cultivated gradually dominated the mind and body, but Heavenly Demon’s demon essence will surge like a storm rapidly the moment it’s infused into the body.”

“Hmm… if I’m not careful, I could be consumed by that power.”

“Correct.”

“If such a situation occurs…”

“A demonic madman will be born. The Light-Dark Harmony Secret Meridian losing balance and violently running wild.”

“Then you mean it can’t be reversed?”

“Well, it would be possible. But it would take a lot of effort and be troublesome. Better to just kill you.”

Ximen Yue’s complexion sank heavily upon hearing those words.

At that moment.

He thought of the moment he had parted with his precious family.

And also the warm words of his mother Gye Su-bin and another mother Je Bong-yeong.

-Return after growing more. In martial arts and in character…

-My precious son, come back healthy.

KKWAK!

Ximen Yue’s eyes blazed fiercely as he clenched his fist tight.

“Sect Master Cheol, I already promised my family. That I would return a changed person… so I will stake my life and succeed without fail.”

Cheol Ryu-heun, seeing that appearance, smiled inwardly and muttered.

‘Hoot, I like those eyes. If you overcome today’s hardship, you will be reborn as the greatest swordsman in Ximen Family history.’