Chapter 375: Chapter 375

Namgung So-hye was feeling a strange sensation.

A feeling of energy circulating through her entire body.

At first, she was concentrating solely with the will to heal her internal injuries, but even though she took the pill Nam Ju-ryeon had given her, it was not easily healed.

This was because her mind and body were considerably exhausted in the process of blocking the dolls.

While she somehow firmed her heart and meditated, a strange energy flowed in. It was a gentle energy, as if softly embracing a person’s heart.

Entering suddenly, it naturally wrapped around the energies running wild in the surroundings, flowed, and began to travel throughout her qi channels.

It was a gentle movement, as if trying to reassure her that it would not cause harm.

The flowing energy did not listen to her. Moving naturally as if listening to someone else’s command, it extended to a different place rather than the path she originally had to go.

It felt as if thoroughly searching and exploring her entire body.

She tried to grab onto it hurriedly, but it did not go as she wished, and in the end, with a tremendous impact with a thud, Namgung So-hye’s consciousness was sucked straight into darkness.

“Ummm…”

Opening her eyes since then was at a time when she could not know how much time had passed.

When she forced her heavy eyelids open slowly, the sky, which was definitely night, was now blazing with the sun shining down.

This was something that occurred only when one meditated while entering a state of selflessness, so Namgung So-hye felt surprised anew and pushed her upper body up abruptly.

Slide.

Something slid down.

“Huh?”

Looking quietly at what it was, it was a person’s upper garment that she had seen a lot somewhere. Not knowing why such a thing was covering her, Namgung So-hye tilted her head.

“It would be better not to stand up.”

“Yes?”

Startled, she turned her gaze.

In that place, Dan Woo-hyun was sitting on a rock and quietly looking at Namgung So-hye. Looking at that gaze, she recalled that energy from just earlier for no reason, and her face turned red despite herself.

Also, strangely, even though heat rose throughout her body, she could not erase a cool sensation.

“You suffered. If not for you, the time would have been delayed a little more.”

“What kind of joke is that…?”

Namgung So-hye shook her head and wore a dumbfounded expression.

There was truly no other joke like this.

If Dan Woo-hyun or Cheon Mu-gwang had resolved to break the dolls, it would be no exaggeration to say it would take literally the blink of an eye.

However, if that had been the case, the probability would have been high that the opponent would also notice something and flee.

“Come to think…”

At that moment, Namgung So-hye pushed her upper body forward to ask about what came to her mind. However, she felt a chill from the suddenly blowing wind, and her gaze lowered despite herself.

Her wrists were visible.

Her belly button was visible.

“…?”

At that strangeness, she stealthily lifted Dan Woo-hyun’s upper garment.

Confirming the pure white bare legs visible in front of her eyes, she slowly covered them with the upper garment again, her face blushing bright red.

Although she felt like she might explode right away, perhaps she was embarrassed to the point that she could not even scream, she lay down again and fully covered herself up to the top of her head with the upper garment.

“…!”

“As poison was discharged from your body, your clothes melted away. I was not the one who stripped them off, so do not blame me.”

“Urrr…”

Namgung So-hye could not know what on earth had occurred. Since birth, she had never shown her naked body to a man, yet of all things, to end up in such a state in front of Dan Woo-hyun?

Even more, the clothes melted while poison emerged from the body?

It was unbelievable words.

“D-Do not lie…”

“Does it sound like a joke? Look at your side.”

At Dan Woo-hyun’s words, Namgung So-hye poked her head out and looked to her right. In that place, the ground was blackened and dead, showing what had occurred.

Also, traces looking like clothing remained in various spots, and looking at the shape of the fragments, it was definitely what Namgung So-hye had been wearing.

“Ah! I am ruined…!”

Namgung So-hye wept, covering herself further with the upper garment.

However, she soon realized that her lower body was cool and snapped to her senses. Starting to cover her entire body carefully, she glared at Dan Woo-hyun with a sharp gaze.

“You saw, right?”

“I ended up seeing, but it is not that I wished to see.”

“…….”

In the end, it meant he did see.

Namgung So-hye let out a sigh with a ‘haa’ and let out a sharp shout.

“Turn your head!”

“…….”

Dan Woo-hyun let out an absurd sigh with a ‘haa’.

Simultaneously with confirming that he turned his head, Namgung So-hye stood up and hurriedly put on her clothes.

Fortunately, thanks to Dan Woo-hyun’s clothes being quite large, it was enough to cover her entire body. Even so, her dissatisfaction was that since it was exposed here and there, returning to the town wearing only this looked impossible.

Namgung So-hye looked at Dan Woo-hyun with a sharp gaze.

Confirming that he still turned his head, she frowned.

She had no desire to show him, but it also felt bad that he was casually not looking.

‘Do I have no charm as a woman?’

Since such a thought arose, it was a somewhat complicated feeling.

Namgung So-hye, who tied the belt tightly, looked at Dan Woo-hyun and asked.

“But do you know? That your younger brother tried to strike my neck.”

“So it seems.”

“…Is that all you have to say?”

“I had been noticing things about him. I just did not expect him to touch you.”

“You let yourself be deceived despite knowing?”

Thorns were pricked in Namgung So-hye’s tone of voice.

She could have died. But things like that did not matter. It was important that Dan Woo-hyun trusted her, and that she survived like this.

However, the reason her mind was not so good was that he tolerated Cheon Mu-gwang’s betrayal while knowing it, and in the end, he was utilized beautifully.

The Dan Woo-hyun under heaven.

The legendary Martial God.

To be utilized by someone?

As if the legend passed down was shattered, Namgung So-hye could not hide her astonishment.

“Do not worry. Since it did not go as that fellow intended.”

“Yes?”

“There is such a thing. More than that, is your body alright?”

At those words, Namgung So-hye knitted her brows even more. It was a situation where she should be furious, but since he brushed it off as nothing, she found herself at a loss for words.

She did not like that at all.

“My body is fine, but…?”

Namgung So-hye replied as she checked her body here and there. Since she had suffered serious injuries, it was normal for it to hurt a bit more.

Yet, she did not look wounded at all.

It was also exactly then that she felt something strange.

‘Light…?’

Her entire body was light.

It was a sensation she had not felt in the past.

She detected that the internal force accumulated inside her body was circulating sufficiently. The Five Senses were clearer than usual, as if each sensation was sharp.

Namgung So-hye slowly inspected her body.

Come to think of it, the wounds cut and stabbed by swords had vanished before she knew it. As if born as a new person, her skin also turned even more like white jade, and she did not look at all like a person who had fought a fierce battle.

“…What is this?”

“Congratulations. You have grown another step.”

“Yes?”

Namgung So-hye tilted her head at the words whose meaning she did not know.

Did growing another step mean ascending even higher?

But why?

It was not that there was some enlightenment either. Namgung So-hye had merely done her utmost to block those dolls, and there was nothing she could obtain inside that fight.

Then, was what Nam Ju-ryeon gave a rare elixir?

No.

Although it seemed to have some effect of raising internal force, those had spent most of their strength in healing the poison and internal injuries inside her body, so raising gongfu was something that could never exist.

Even so, what is it? This feeling?

At the sensation of having become a new person, Namgung So-hye stared blankly at Dan Woo-hyun.

“You underwent marrow cleansing.”

“Me?”

“Yes.”

“I did?”

“Yes.”

“Really?”

“…….”

At the continuous questions, Dan Woo-hyun frowned. Wondering how much more she had to ask to be satisfied, Namgung So-hye still wore an expression of disbelief.

“Is it true!?”

Soon, her clear, sharp voice rang out.

Marrow cleansing?

Even if they cross the wall, there are barely any people who achieve it. Not to mention those called the Five Emperors, Seven Stars, and Ten Revereds, even up to the hundred great experts fairly renowned in this martial world.

If there was an expert who experienced marrow cleansing among them, it would be at most the Five Emperors.

It was that rare of an experience.

There must be no blocked qi and blood throughout the entire body, and the flowing gongfu must be managed delicately. Even so, numerous martial artists fail to undergo marrow cleansing and end up frustrated.

It meant it was that tremendous of a task.

Namgung So-hye slumped to the ground.

Because she could not believe it, she pinched her cheek tightly. Detecting a slight pain, she swallowed.

“It makes no sense…”

“You were lucky. It seemed you took a fairly good elixir. If not for that, your qi and blood could not have been pierced.”

Dan Woo-hyun answered with a smile.

In truth, the role of the Heavenly Unity Creation Art Dan Woo-hyun had injected was larger than the pill Nam Ju-ryeon gave.

It cleanly polished the blocked qi channels, and due to that, those many energies became in a situation where they could pierce the upper dantian in a single breath.

Of course, opening the upper dantian did not mean one could undergo marrow cleansing.

Therefore, she was very lucky.

Also, that she opened her upper dantian.

Was also a meaning that she had already surpassed the peak realm.

“Now even that fellow Ma Jang-gang will have to yield a step.”

“Haa…”

Even while hearing those words, Namgung So-hye’s expression did not change.

The events that occurred to her were still like a dream, and even if it was a dream, she never wanted to wake up.

She took a deep breath.

It even looked as if she was trying hard to manage her heart.

Did each of those actions look amusing?

Dan Woo-hyun was also watching quite with interest.

“It is thanks to Young Master… Dan, right? My… marrow cleansing…?”

“It is your strength, and your luck. It is not due to me.”

“…….”

Even if he spoke so dismissively, Namgung So-hye knew.

It was definitely thanks to Dan Woo-hyun.

That soft energy that flowed in when she was meditating to heal her internal injuries.

That, which was still not forgotten, was surely Dan Woo-hyun’s energy.

The eyes and expression of Dan Woo-hyun standing in front of her eyes now.

The emotion contained in it resembled that energy.

Namgung So-hye let out a bright smile.

That smile was as bright as the sun, as pure as blank paper, and as beautiful as if it would grasp and shake the heart of any man.

“Thank you.”

At the heard voice, Dan Woo-hyun’s eyes shook slightly.

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