Chapter 493: Chapter 493

“By the way, you have improved a lot in a short time.”

“A sh… short time? It has already been several months.”

At Jang Sam-tae’s words, Dan Woo-hyun swallowed a groan.

This time, unlike the last, he had no consciousness itself. Because of that, he could not even estimate how much time had passed. However, listening to the story, it seemed that not such a long time had passed.

“Several months…”

Dan Woo-hyun nodded his head.

Considering a period of a thousand years, it was not much time.

Relieved at the thought that he did not have to experience that disgusting sensation of being left alone while everyone he knew died and vanished, he looked at Jang Sam-tae.

“You have aged a lot in the meantime.”

“No! I said it was several months, several months! It wasn’t several years! Aged what, you man?!”

Jang Sam-tae raised his voice.

This time, it was a word filled with resentment.

Although he expressed all sorts of gladness to him who woke up suddenly, he said he had aged.

Even though it was merely nothing more than several months that had passed. Of course, due to the hardships he experienced in the meantime, he might look old, but he had not completely withered.

Jang Sam-tae glared at Dan Woo-hyun with a reluctant expression.

He was seen smirking.

Was it because of that smile?

Jang Sam-tae suppressed his anger and collected his breath.

“That is so, but what became of the three who were inside?”

“Three people?”

“Yes, they went inside saying they would get the Manor Lord out.”

Dan Woo-hyun frowned.

Because he had no memory of seeing such people.

He turned his body and approached the pavilion. The steps he took were even impossible to see with the eyes, as if moving instantaneously.

From behind, Jang Sam-tae was seen chasing while panting.

In an instant, whether he, who was running, discovered something, he stood abruptly as he was and could not continue his words.

The pavilion where Dan Woo-hyun was trapped could not be found even for its trace. The fragments were completely turned to powder and scattered, and the surroundings looked as if they had been hit by hundreds of shells with a giant pit dug out.

If someone had been in that place, even their trace could not be found.

Even the pavilion that was suppressing the power of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal Cheon Mu-je had made vanished into powder, and it would not have been a power a human body could endure.

“Who came…?”

Dan Woo-hyun’s voice sank low.

Hearing that sound made goosebumps rise all over his body instantly. Jang Sam-tae rolled his brain without realizing it, then quickly opened his mouth.

“That… what’s-his-name… it was a young fellow named Yoo Baek, Cheon Mu-gwang, and Nam Ju-ryeon.”

“…….”

Only then could Dan Woo-hyun understand the situation.

In the midst of having no consciousness, he heard the voice of someone calling him desperately. Sometimes softly, sometimes shouting, or in a tone that seemed to provoke.

Because of that, he could regain consciousness and come out.

It seemed those three people had poured in all of their immortal power.

Using up all immortal power in the place where the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal was was equivalent to becoming a block of ice in an instant, and that meant death.

In such a situation, Dan Woo-hyun’s power that erupted blew away the forms of the three people without a trace.

“Did you… blow away all of them? The saviors of your life?”

“…….”

“Are… Are you crazy? Are you really crazy?!”

Jang Sam-tae shouted while finding it absurd.

Did it make sense to blow away the people who saved him without a trace?

When they were in a situation where they had to recover their corpses, did he make them into powder? A bewildered gaze was obvious, and he even felt disappointment toward Dan Woo-hyun.

Dan Woo-hyun lightly grabbed his glabella and swallowed a groan of ‘Mmmgh’.

Before long, whether he recalled something, his eyes shone brightly.

“It… It is fine. Because they are existences whose real bodies are originally in a different place.”

“…Are you just passing it over with that kind of excuse?”

“Shut up. Just know it as such.”

Jang Sam-tae considered Dan Woo-hyun’s appearance strange. Feeling unperturbed even after blowing away the people who saved him without a trace. An anxiety that by chance, he might do so to him as well, crept in.

Was there no human emotion?

That instant when he frowned without realizing it.

Around Dan Woo-hyun, a gentle wind gathered.

“Rest for a while. We will probably be able to meet again someday.”

He said out-of-the-blue words.

It was not a word likely to be spat out toward those who had perfectly vanished. But for what reason was it? As if they were answering, a new wind blew and wrapped around the surroundings.

Those strange phenomena were truly a wonderful thing to Jang Sam-tae.

“Yes, what happened in the meantime?”

“I do not know.”

“Huh?”

“No, I must be able to go out of here to know something. Since I could not even leave, how would I know?”

Dan Woo-hyun frowned.

Then, looking around, he grasped the situation one by one. Corpses that became ice due to the influence of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal were seen here and there.

There would also be those he killed last time, but there were also corpses that were not so.

This meant, namely, that Jang Sam-tae had suppressed all of those who were left alive, so he could estimate to some extent the reason why his skill had risen.

Also, although they said the sea grew calm, it was an impossible thing for Jang Sam-tae, who could not even pilot a ship, to drag it out.

Consequently, the words that he could not escape from here was not a lie.

Dan Woo-hyun grabbed his throbbing head.

“In the end, you did nothing.”

“Did what not? Do you know how hard it was to protect the Manor Lord who became a snowman here?!”

Jang Sam-tae shouted in a burst.

Since he was already resentful, because he kept speaking like that, he felt a bit hurt. But soon he shook his head side to side.

Then suddenly he realized.

That Dan Woo-hyun’s expression was softer than usual.

Also, the one who normally did not even speak properly had grown subtly talkative.

This meant Dan Woo-hyun’s mood was highly good.

Jang Sam-tae glanced at that face and smirked broadly.

“If you are glad to meet this Sam-tae, say so. Why do you hold back like that?”

“You say useless things.”

“Haha! Well, it does not matter either way. More than that, do you intend to go to Hunan?”

Dan Woo-hyun hesitated for a moment.

He did wish to check how the Hunan Dan Family turned out.

However, to return leaving Cheon Mu-je behind as-is, there were too many anxious factors.

He did not know when he would attack again.

Or he did not know what kind of people would come to be sacrificed.

In the end, seeing the conclusion of this matter would be correct.

‘Where would he be…’

Dan Woo-hyun half-closed his eyes.

Cheon Mu-je is skilled at hiding his body more than anyone.

Because of that, even after a long time had passed, they could not find the place where he stayed. However, there was a place where he had a hunch.

There is something he realized upon coming to this place.

The air filling the surroundings, and the energy.

Was there not exactly one place where he felt something similar to this?

Of course, there was only a feeling and he did not think of looking for something, but if it was that place, it was unmistakably not far from this Zhoushan, and was more suitable than any other place to hide his body.

Dan Woo-hyun stroked his chin and smiled secretly.

“There is a place I must go. You return to Hunan first.”

“Yes?”

“Did you not hear?”

Jang Sam-tae pressed his glabella, groaning ‘Mmmgh’.

It seemed he had heard this kind of word several times.

However, as if Jang Sam-tae had no thoughts of backing down, he straightened his back rigidly and stared quietly at Dan Woo-hyun.

“I…”

“This time, you really die.”

“…….”

Instantly, Jang Sam-tae became a mute who ate honey.

A look and gaze second to none in seriousness.

No matter what kind of words he said, Dan Woo-hyun did not seem to have thoughts of listening. The indifferent expression was filled with weight, and the pressure manifested by the expression heavily pressed down on his shoulders.

* * *

Shaaaaaa-

The air changed.

Around Cheon Mu-je who was lying quietly, the atmosphere began to change as if air that had not flowed until now flowed.

What would be good to call that?

The wind hovering inside the room was different from usual.

From the mouth of Cheon Mu-je who was lying, white breath leaked out.

Ryu Tae-seo, who was watching that, sent a gaze filled with tension.

He sweated in his hands like a person who anticipated something.

Soon, the eyes of Cheon Mu-je, who lay like a corpse, opened with a flash.

Simultaneously, the energies that raged in all directions wrapped around the surroundings like a whirlpool, and soon swarmed into Cheon Mu-je’s nose and mouth.

That appearance of the energy of heaven and earth being sucked in instantly was truly a grand spectacle.

Soon, his body slowly floated up, then immediately sat cross-legged, and gradually settled down in his place.

“Hahaha.”

A voice flowed out.

Cheon Mu-je’s voice had power.

It was not an exaggeration to say it was a voice filled with vitality, like a perfectly revived person, not the voice of one who was dying after receiving Dan Woo-hyun’s blade.

“Are you awake, Brother?”

“Hahaha, yes… opening eyes after a long time, the feeling is unusual.”

Although his realm had not risen another level, just being able to open his eyes and move his vital body fell into the illusion as if he had grown another level.

Ryu Tae-seo bowed his head, whether he knew Cheon Mu-je’s mind like that.

“I congratulate you on your complete recovery.”

“Thank you, thank you. By the way, why is it only you guys?”

Cheon Mu-je glanced at Ryu Tae-seo and the one standing behind him. It was merely one person. The appearances of other immortals who originally followed Cheon Mu-je were not seen.

Ryu Tae-seo wore a perplexed expression for a moment.

“I see. I think I know.”

Cheon Mu-je nodded his head.

Even without deliberately talking he could know, and because that was highly lamentable, a sigh leaked out.

No one could protect them and no one could embrace them. Although he only thought of them as pieces on a chessboard, just that they were completely gone made him feel a sense of loss.

But he did not particularly dwell on it.

Because such chess pieces could be made again anytime.

“Seeing you recovered like this, I feel relieved.”

“Yes, yes, I know all of your mind.”

Cheon Mu-je readily nodded his head and looked at the man standing behind Ryu Tae-seo. Soon, the moment he extended his hand, the man’s body was sucked in straight.

The moment that head touched Cheon Mu-je’s hand.

“Kkaaaaaaargh!”

The man struggled crazily along with a bizarre scream.

As if the source true qi flowing in the man’s body was completely drained, his body began to shrink gradually, and before long, without even possessing a proper form, he became a mummy.

“Bro… Brother…”

Ryu Tae-seo looked at Cheon Mu-je while embarrassed.

Because he did not know he would kill even the last remaining single person. While doing so, feeling anxiety, cold sweat dripped down.

“Do not worry. Because immortal power was somewhat lacking… Can we not remake fellows like this as much as we want anyway?”

“T-That is true, but…”

Rising from his seat, Cheon Mu-je brushed off the dirt on his clothes. Looking at the appearance of him lightly dusting off his clothes, an air of pressure overflowed somehow.

“Yes, while I was asleep, what kind of works broke out? Let us hear it.”

Ryu Tae-seo swallowed a groan while trembling his body.

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