Chapter 94: Chapter 94
The next morning.
Bubble bubble…
Jeok-geom and Seol Ran, who had stayed up all night, tilted their heads as they looked at the unidentified liquid boiling in the pot.
“Is this an elixir……?”
“Martial Uncle, is it really an elixir?”
The two harbored doubts.
It was understandable because the water that had been full had already evaporated and was almost gone.
Instead, what remained in the pot was a yellow-green liquid.
“It’s strange?”
Cheon-hwi stared intently at the liquid.
‘I did it exactly the same way as when making the Mad Demon Heaven-shaking Pill…….’
Lost in thought, Cheon-hwi touched his chin.
‘Is it because I changed demonic qi to poison qi?’
The Mad Demon Heaven-shaking Pill showed great efficacy in enhancing internal energy the moment it was taken, but it was a double-edged sword where demonic qi penetrated into the bone marrow.
It was an elixir and poison that could cause one to suffer qi deviation and become a madman if they made a slight mistake.
However, Cheon-hwi twisted it.
Poison qi instead of demonic qi.
And he formulated it to neutralize before the poison qi could penetrate into the bone marrow.
‘I don’t know. Let’s just try eating it.’
Puzzled, Cheon-hwi immediately dipped his finger in the liquid and put it in his mouth.
‘Hmm. It turned out properly.’
As soon as he put it in his mouth, his nose cleared up and a small amount of qi entered his body.
However.
“But it’s more disappointing than I thought.”
He wasn’t very satisfied.
“Well, it might be different once completed.”
Cheon-hwi gathered internal energy into his hands.
And with those two hands, he quickly kneaded the thick liquid.
After a while, the yellow-green liquid was gradually compressed and became a small pill about the size of a child’s fist.
Cheon-hwi looked over the pill.
The perfectly circular pill was no longer yellow-green but a complete green.
“That became like this…….”
“It does look like an elixir, but…….”
Jeok-geom and Seol Ran looked around at the created elixir with surprised eyes.
Meanwhile, Cheon-hwi stared at the pill.
‘I did it as I thought, but I don’t know if it’s properly made. Even if I eat it, it won’t have much effect…….’
A few days ago, he had absorbed enough of Danmok Rin’s yin qi, so his internal energy was in a sufficient state.
He turned his head and looked at Jeok-geom and Seol Ran.
‘I’ll know if I feed it to them.’
Cheon-hwi looked at the two and asked.
“Do you want to try eating it?”
“Do you mean the elixir?”
“Is it okay?”
Jeok-geom and Seol Ran felt uneasy.
The time they had spent with Cheon-hwi so far was sending them a warning.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you eating? It’s a chance to enhance your internal energy, are you going to miss it?”
The two were slightly swayed by Cheon-hwi’s relentless temptation.
“I will eat it.”
Eventually, Seol Ran gave in.
“Here.”
Cheon-hwi immediately gave half of the pill.
Seol Ran hesitated as she received it, then tightly closed her eyes and swallowed it whole.
“Junior Martial Sister, are you okay?”
Seol Ran slowly opened her eyes.
“Uh? I’m fine.”
“Really?”
“Then you eat it too.”
Taking advantage of Jeok-geom’s moment of carelessness, Cheon-hwi crumpled the remaining pill into his mouth.
“Ack! M-Martial Uncle!”
Jeok-geom shouted in panic.
However, despite his resistance, the elixir melted softly as soon as it was put in.
Jeok-geom tightly closed his eyes.
But when there was no reaction even as time passed, he let out a sigh of relief.
“Phew, fortunately it’s an okay elixir…….”
“Ughhhh!”
Suddenly, Seol Ran let out a groan.
Seol Ran, whose complexion had turned pale blue at some point, fell to her knees and grabbed her stomach.
“J-Junior Martial Sister. Are you o…… Ugh!”
Suddenly, his head rang sharply.
At the same time, pain tormented his head.
His vision suddenly became blurry, and he fell to his knees without realizing it.
M-my head hurts!
I knew it! Taking an elixir for nothing……!
He grabbed his head and looked up.
There were two figures in front of him.
No, the afterimage that was originally one had split into two due to dizziness.
“Was there a little poison qi left?”
Jeok-geom choked up at the voice that he could hear clearly even while his head hurt.
‘Why is there poison qi in an elixir!’
Resentment welled up.
Who would ever imagine that there was poison qi in an elixir?
It was then.
[Pull yourself together.]
Jeok-geom’s face, who was complaining of dizziness, contorted at the telepathic message directly transmitted to his head amidst the throbbing headache.
[Hurry and circulate your qi.]
Jeok-geom gritted his teeth and struggled to sit in a lotus position.
Then he suddenly came to his senses.
‘Uh? Could this be the energy of the elixir?’
There was an unknown energy inside his body.
It wasn’t a large amount, but it was so pure and clean that it made him gulp.
‘Is this the energy of the elixir? Ugh, if I don’t do qi circulation breathing right now, it will scatter!’
Jeok-geom was still dizzy from the pain, but he mustered his strength to circulate the Plum Blossom Qi Art.
Meanwhile, Cheon-hwi looked at the two who were engrossed in qi circulation breathing with pale blue complexions.
“Was the mixture wrong?”
He wasn’t pleased at all.
Fortunately, he had expelled a significant portion of the poison qi, so even if they were poisoned, it wasn’t enough to kill them.
But the problem was something else.
“The accumulated internal energy is too little.”
No matter how poor the ingredients were, the energy was too small to call it an elixir.
“Then I should try a different method.”
Around the time Cheon-hwi recalled another method written in the elixir manufacturing method.
“Pant, pant.”
Jeok-geom, who finished the qi circulation breathing, panted and struggled to open his eyes.
“S-Senior Martial Brother.”
When he turned his head to the side, there was Seol Ran, who was similarly deadly pale.
The two didn’t say anything.
However, feeling sympathy for each other with just that, the two quietly nodded.
At that time, a shadow was cast in front of them.
When the two raised their heads at the same time, Cheon-hwi was looking down at them.
“How is it?”
“It is effective.”
As Seol Ran spoke with an exhausted look, Jeok-geom urgently added.
“But the poison is too strong.”
“So?”
Cheon-hwi spoke with an expression that asked what they wanted him to do.
“It’s not enough to die, right.”
“…….”
“…….”
At a loss for words, Jeok-geom and Seol Ran tightly closed their eyes.
They had forgotten, but the opponent was Cheon-hwi.
The one who had thrown them among beasts in the middle of the night and made them undergo ridiculous training.
How many times had they almost died.
Around the time the two gave up and accepted it.
“Then Jeok-geom, light the fire again, and Seol Ran, go fetch water for the pot.”
Appalling words were heard.
“What are you doing? We have to make it again.”
At Cheon-hwi’s words, the two turned deadly pale with astonishment.
Are we doing that again right now?
“Are you making that poison a-, no. That elixir?”
“Are you making it again?”
“Why ask something so obvious.”
Cheon-hwi spoke as if asking what they were questioning.
“Shouldn’t we make a better elixir than this?”
Jeok-geom and Seol Ran’s mouths itched.
To say what kind of nonsense that was.
However, they kept their mouths tightly shut.
It was because it was obvious what would happen to them if they said that.
Ultimately, what the two chose was.
“B-but the poisoning is still…….”
“The stomachache and headache are still…….”
It was an appeal close to a plea.
However, Cheon-hwi was not easygoing.
“That much is bearable, right.”
As he said, it was bearable.
However, it was only bearable, the pain was still pain.
“I think I’m going to die.”
“Just a little rest…….”
“Do you want me to make you move somehow?”
Jeok-geom and Seol Ran jumped up in fright.
If it was Cheon-hwi, it seemed like he would really do that.
“What are you doing. Without bringing it quickly.”
At the continuing urging, Jeok-geom and Seol Ran moved while enduring the pain.
Like that, around the time Cheon-hwi moved to make the elixir again.
Step… Step…
There were people slowly approaching.
It was the Divine Physician and Princess Sohui’s party.
The Divine Physician, who was walking ahead, glared at Princess Sohui’s party following timidly behind.
“Why are you bastards coming?”
The Divine Physician spoke with a frown.
“We came to see Young Hero Cheon-hwi.”
Princess Sohui answered calmly.
At those words, the Divine Physician glared at Princess Sohui and then swiftly turned his head away.
“I’ll have to take my time to get close.”
Princess Sohui muttered softly.
“Will it be okay?”
Sim Wi Jin asked as if worried.
“It can’t be helped.”
“If you say the Imperial Family called, no matter how much he is the Divine Physician…….”
“Are you saying that seriously?”
Princess Sohui glared at Sim Wi Jin.
“The Divine Physician is a free individual. No matter how much I say Royal Father called, I can’t tell him to come and go.”
The one who ignored the Emperor’s offer to be a royal physician and left was the Divine Physician.
He would follow the imperial command?
She shook her head.
“And we can’t take Elder Divine Physician right now either.”
Princess Sohui’s eyes, staring at the Divine Physician’s back, emitted a cold light.
“Because the assassins will be waiting for us to come out of the Mount Hua Sect. Until we find the culprit, we have to stay here.”
Princess Sohui bit her lip.
Her slipping out of Qinghai Province was a top-secret matter even in Qinghai Province.
But to be discovered in just a few days.
‘……The culprit is someone close.’
After a moment, Princess Sohui stopped what she was thinking.
It was dangerous to suspect any further.
Every single one of them was a close aide of the Imperial Family.
If she guessed wrong by any chance, she wouldn’t be able to handle the consequences.
‘Don’t suspect.’
She shook her head.
It was dangerous to dig deep.
‘I just need to do what I have to do.’
Princess Sohui’s goal was simple.
To get close to the Divine Physician so that they could leave at any time once the culprit was revealed.
‘If I entice that Daoist named Cheon-hwi whom the Divine Physician shows interest in, the possibility is high.’
Right now, the only way to draw in the Divine Physician was the existence named Cheon-hwi.
‘But how do I get close?’
Princess Sohui’s sword-like eyebrows twitched.
She had gone to see Cheon-hwi several times.
But all she got was an indifferent reaction and disinterest that was close to turning her away at the door.
“Is there a way to get close?”
Around the time she lowered her head and whispered.
Stop.
Suddenly, the Divine Physician stopped his feet.
“Elder, what’s wrong?”
Princess Sohui, who saw the Divine Physician blocking the way, was about to speak but belatedly looked ahead and flinched.
“What is this…….”
It was a scene of chaos.
Terrible smoke settled densely around the pot, and beside it were a man and a woman looking haggard.
“E-enough now…….”
“I-I feel like I’m going to die.”
Seol Ran, who was stirring the pot, and Jeok-geom, who kept fanning to light the fire.
They looked up at Cheon-hwi sitting on the rock and desperately pleaded to save them.
“You won’t die from that much.”
Cheon-hwi answered coldly.
“You’re here.”
Then he slightly turned his head.
His two eyes, which had no brilliance whatsoever, captured the Divine Physician and Princess Sohui’s party.
The same gaze as usual.
However, perhaps because of the sight seen right now, goosebumps rose on Princess Sohui’s back.
The Divine Physician frowned and ran over.
Following that, he approached Jeok-geom and Seol Ran and examined their bodies.
“Are you okay?”
Jeok-geom and Seol Ran, who belatedly confirmed that the Divine Physician had come, teared up.
“Elder…….”
“Elder Divine Physician.”
At their hoarse-sounding voices, the Divine Physician frowned and looked at Cheon-hwi.
“What are you doing?”
“I’m making an elixir.”
“An elixir……?”
The angry Divine Physician’s eyebrows shot up.
“You mean with these kids?”
“Yes.”
“These kids are currently in a poisoned state.”
The Divine Physician’s voice became agitated.
“That’s right.”
In contrast, Cheon-hwi was indifferent.
Following that, he nimbly jumped down from the rock and slightly tasted the orange liquid melted in the pot.
“It’s better than earlier.”
Then he kneaded the liquid.
Cheon-hwi, who was drawing a Taiji with hand movements bordering on divine skill, soon created a single small pill and split it exactly in half.
“Here.”
When Jeok-geom and Seol Ran received the thrown pill and were about to swallow it with resigned expressions.
“Stop.”
The Divine Physician stopped Jeok-geom and Seol Ran.
And he snatched the pill and spoke.
“Are you trying to feed this to them right now?”
Cheon-hwi narrowed his brow.
What’s this, I already don’t have enough time.
He was trying to make the elixir as soon as possible, but he was entirely displeased with the Divine Physician who was interfering with it.
“Yes.”
“Why are you trying to feed them a poison pill.”
“It’s an elixir.”
“How is this an elixir…… Huh?”
The Divine Physician, who was glaring at the pill, was flustered.
From the elixir full of poison qi, spiritual qi was flowing out for some unknown reason.
“Why is there spiritual qi in a poison pill?”
“What do you mean poison pill.”
Cheon-hwi squinted his eyes.
“I’m telling you it’s an elixir.”
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