episode_0073

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Heukmyo and Yeo Il-ye, who carried all five bandits to the place that Doki used as a medicine storage, looked at each other with wary eyes.

“Now that you’ve seen everything, let’s go, right?”

“That is none of your concern.”

In the eyes of the black cat, Yeo Il-ye was nothing short of a bomb. Yeo Il-ye, who was about to start a revenge plot against big players, would become the eye of the typhoon, and there was a high possibility that she would get caught up and suffer damage just because she was around.

Just exchanging silver plaques is a significant risk, but to add to it, there is a connection like this.

‘I released the information and sent it to Yunnan… but I never thought it would end up like this.’

He moved Jeon Hudam, a new member of the Wolbok Party, and sent him far away to Yunnan, and as a result, Dokui settled down in Hyeonggui Mountain.

Unlike Black Cat, Yeo Il-ye had no personal feelings for Black Cat.

Although there were no personal feelings, the black cat was just suspicious to Yeo Il-ye, a member of the political faction. He always covered his face with cotton thread, freely used the black spirit technique that an assassin would use, and above all, he did not have the skills to be a ronin.

I don’t have any personal feelings, but I can’t help but be concerned that someone who seems really suspicious is next to my benefactor.

“Don’t forget that your benefactor has my silver plaque.”

“True. Okay, so don’t approach the senior.”

Yeo Il-ye snorted at the black cat’s sharp attitude.

“The directions are over, so it’s time to go, right?”

“I still have some business left to do with my benefactor. Don’t worry about that one.”

Yeo Il-ye still had business to hand over the gold medal to Ho Cheon-an. It wasn’t just that, I wanted to calmly say thank you even more.

Of course, there was no opportunity to talk calmly when they stormed into the guesthouse, and the same was true when we met in front of Hwanggeumga.

‘Is there ever another opportunity to meet my benefactor in a place like this where I don’t have to worry about what others think?’

A grumbling black cat and Yeo Il-ye who completely ignores the black cat. The strange combination of two people arrived in front of Dok-ui’s abode.

What those two people saw was Ho Cheon-an sitting cross-legged on a mat in front of the living room and Dok-ui putting something together.

“Eun-gong..? Elderly..?”

“Hmm. okay. You two, please stand guard. In any case, bandits may cause a commotion, so if bandits come, be quick and suppress them.”

“…Sir, what’s going on?”

“It’s too long to explain, so I’ll tell you when I’m done. First, do as Dok-ui says.”

Although Heukmyo and Yeo Il-ye did not fully understand the situation, they decided to follow Doki’s orders by dividing into left and right sides and look for protection.

“No matter what happens, these two must never interfere.”

Doki threatened the two and focused on Ho Cheon-an, who was sitting cross-legged.

“First, swallow the elixir and suppress its energy as much as possible. Then I will pour the drug I just prepared into your mouth. When this drug and elixir meet, energy will erupt explosively. What you need to do is suppress the weak energy as much as possible until the moment it erupts, and then let it go all at once.”

“Keep in mind. The moment you habitually try to control your energy, you may suffer serious internal injuries. If it ended ideally, it would end with a little pain. Don’t forget that the severity of your injury will vary depending on how much energy you can release.”

The two women flinched at the mention of injuries, but Ho Cheon-an had no time to pay attention to them.

“Okay.”

“Then let’s begin.”

Dok-ui placed the Jade Juryeongdan into Ho Cheon-an’s mouth.

‘after.’

Ho Cheon-an felt the texture of the Jade Juryeongdan passing down his throat. To be precise, I felt the energy of the Okjujaryeongdan starting to be released from the moment it passed into the esophagus. As I felt the sweet scent of alcohol lingering around my nose and mouth, I began to control my energy in earnest.

Three-center trial method.

It was the Naegongsim method that Ho Cheon-an is currently learning. As a mind method that uses natural energy with minimal processing, there was no advantage in the nature of the inner energy itself, but the recovery of the inner energy was as good as any other ascending mind method. Because it is a force close to natural energy, it can be easily replenished.

Since the total amount of internal strength cannot exceed 9, Ho Cheon-an’s choice was to maximize recovery.

Ho Cheon-an used the Three-Way Mind Technique to its fullest extent and suppressed the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan. However, Ho Cheon-an was overcome with a helpless feeling, as if he was blocking water with his hand. I was trying my best, but I didn’t feel like I was suppressing my energy effectively.

“You’re doing well. How can I hold on until the weakness seeps into my body?”

Dok-ui’s words have already not reached Ho Cheon-an. Doki focused his attention and looked at Hocheonan’s condition. Doki, who had been examining Hocheonan’s condition for about half an hour, opened Hocheonan’s mouth without hesitation and poured out the liquid from the bowl.

While Ho Cheon-an was struggling to control the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan, he suddenly felt the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan increasing explosively.

Rumbling!!

A thunderous sound began to be heard in Ho Cheon-an’s mind. Although Ho Cheon-an did not feel the medicine coming in because he was concentrating, he could intuitively feel that Dok-ui had injected the medicine. If the energy that had come out of the Jade Juryeongdan until now was like a slow-flowing river, the shaking just now felt like a dam collapsing.

Just as a dam collapsed and an egg shattered, the frame that contained the energy of the Okjujaryeongdan was broken, and an energy like a roar rushed through the entire body.

The energy that was tied to the phantom group called Okjujaryeongdan erupted without mercy and struck Hocheonan’s entire body.

‘Tsk..!’

Ho Cheon-an instinctively tried to hold on to that energy, but barely let go. Even though I kept repeating the poisonous warning in my head, I unconsciously tried to hold on to my energy. It is literally an unmanned instinct to prevent energy from escaping. And the instinct of life to calm down the energy that is violently stirring in one’s body.

It was not easy to suppress those two things and allow the energy of the Jade Spirits to run rampant in the body.

Ho Cheon-an felt a bitter taste rising in his mouth. This was because every time the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan violently pounded his body, he unconsciously tried to hold on to it, even though he knew he had to let it all out.

‘You must be a reed in the storm! I am a reed!’

If you stand upright in a storm, you will end up like a tree being uprooted and blown away. Only reeds that bend flexibly can lie down and survive in a storm.

The moment I put in too much force to hold on, a collision occurred, and each time a collision occurred, my energy system was damaged.

Ho Cheon-an realized Doki’s words in this extreme situation.

‘The blood is full of lumps…’

Until now, Ho Cheon-an had never felt uncomfortable while using fortune telling or accumulating internal energy. It’s like the energy isn’t flowing properly. Or maybe it’s blocked somewhere. Since I’ve never felt that way, there were parts of Dok-ui’s argument that didn’t feel real.

It was only when the energy of the Okjujaryeongdan raged like a storm that Ho Cheon-an was able to feel that reality. The stream of Silgaecheon flows smoothly no matter how many rocks are piled up there.

However, the great energy of the Okjujaryeongdan that burst out at once seemed to be blocked by something and was not able to spread out smoothly.

Although it was slowly escaping, it was enough to make me realize that the energy that I thought was unobstructed was full of obstacles.

As soon as he began to feel reality in his body, Ho Cheon-an was able to completely let go of his energy control.

Quaaa!!

Perhaps because the poisonous drug was fully effective, the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan raged more and more fiercely in Ho Cheon-an’s body. A pressure that would make even Ho Cheon-an, who had completely lost control of his energy and become a flexible reed, feel dizzy.

A storm-like energy that could even break the waist of a reed rushes through Hocheonan’s entire body.

Tuk.

Tootuk.

Tududududuuk!

At some point, the flow began to accelerate. Ho Cheon-an felt that the energy of the Jade Spirit Corps suddenly became faster and that the pressure of the energy that was too large was gradually becoming more comfortable.

Ssss.

I began to be able to breathe thanks to the flow of energy that had seemed so blocked.

‘The good energy really melts and disappears.’

And at the same time, I felt that the energy that had made me feel refreshed was rapidly disappearing. As Dok-ui said, did the good energy that collided with the demonic energy cause a neutralization effect?

In general, the flow was gradually getting faster, but there was no feeling of the energy of the Okjujaryeongdan being drained away.

Although the speed was much faster than before, it still felt like a bottleneck.

Ho Cheon-an realized why Dok-ui described it as a temporary measure. Eventually, the waterway opened, but it wasn’t really refreshing.

“Can you hear me? Now, it seems like all of the great energy of Danyak has been slowly drained away, so tighten the reins of your energy and try to use it at a fast pace. I feel like I’m scraping up all my remaining energy.”

Ho Cheon-an quickly understood Dok-ui’s words and entered into a fortune-telling ceremony. The message was to gather up the remaining energy of the Jade Juryeongdan in the body and collide with the magical energy in the bloodstream as much as possible.

Feeling that the use of energy had become easier than before, Hocheonan began to gather the energy of the Okjujaryeongdan as much as possible. The energy of the Jade Juryeongdan was already reduced to nothing but remnants, but when I carefully collected it one by one, it became a fairly significant flow.

‘If there are lumps everywhere anyway and they are moving around in the blood, there is no need to turn it around to lower the pressure. ‘Let’s spin it quickly and strongly with Sojucheon.’

Hocheonan chose Sojucheon, which only circulated a part of the body, and rotated the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan as quickly as possible. Was that the right choice? I focused on Sojucheon, feeling the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan decreasing slightly.

Once, twice. Three times…five times.

Ho Cheon-an felt that the energy of the Jade Juryeongdan was no longer diminishing and stored that energy in the Danjeon.

Because I couldn’t stay focused any longer.

Ho Cheon-an opened his eyes.

I could see Doki sighing in relief.

“Yes. How do you think it was resolved well?”

“I feel like something is broken…”

As Ho Cheon-an opened his mouth, he felt his whole body tingling. Just by simply moving my jaw to speak, my whole body tingled.

“Let’s see…”

Doki stole the blood that was flowing down Hocheonan’s chin and brought it into his mouth. Only then was Ho Cheon-an able to properly understand his condition.

It’s literally a complete mess!

He had already vomited out a large amount of blood due to internal injuries, and his entire body and limbs were not responding!

After tasting Ho Cheon-an’s blood, Do-yi smiled happily.

“Hehe! The taste has definitely changed. Congratulations!”

‘Oh my, this is crazy… I’m old…’

Ho Cheon-an felt his body fall backwards as he looked at the bright, venomous smile.

‘Dokuido…it was the Tang clan…’

Poison’s ‘party’ wife! Ho Cheon-an judged that the warning about the dangers of poison was really a courtesy warning and a warning in preparation for the worst-case scenario, but it was an unreasonable statement.

The doctor’s wife’s warning was very literal! As a result of Ho Cheon-an’s several mistakes, his body has already become a super corpse.

However, there was no problem with Dok-ui. Ho Cheon-an’s condition was a serious patient with severe internal injuries, but to Doki, this was nothing more than a cure!

In the midst of his fading consciousness, Ho Cheon-an recalled the promise he made when he saw Dang Gwang-ryeol looking at him after finishing his confrontation with Dang Do-gyeong.

Did you say that if you trust someone from the Tang clan again, you will go to the castle?

‘Should I introduce myself to Nyangcheonan now…’

Ho Cheon-an’s consciousness was cut off as he thought nonsense.