Martial Arts Ain't Anything Special-Chapter 58: Henan (1)

The group traveled non-stop for three days and nights before settling on a suitable mountain.

If someone was still chasing them after all this, there was nothing they could do about it.

Mount Hua’s Sect Leader was at the Unrestrained Realm from what he had heard. If he wanted to chase them, he would have caught up long ago so Jongin had likely acted alone.

Seojun first put Chunbong to bed since her condition was poor from nearly falling into qi deviation, then sat down casually in front of the campfire.

“Go to sleep first. I’ll keep watch tonight.”

“Young Expert, you haven’t slept for three days already.”

“Same goes for you, big sis. Go to sleep already.”

While running, there was nothing to do but chat.

From Seojun’s perspective, he was grateful to Namgung Suah for fighting alongside them at the cost of her life, so they had become quite close after talking about various things.

Probably. At least that’s what Seojun thought.

“By the way, how long are you gonna talk so politely? You’re older than me...”

“Shh. Let’s not talk about age.”

“Okay.”

Namgung Suah smiled faintly and lay down wrapped in a blanket.

“In that case, allow me to take over in a little while.”

“You don’t have to...”

Who am I? The TRANSCENDENT master, Lee Seojun.

Staying up for three nights is nothing.

“It’s fine, please bear that in mind.”

“Well, alright then.”

Crackle, crackle.

The sound of embers flying seemed particularly loud.

Glancing back, he saw Namgung Suah with her eyes closed.

Chunbong? She had fallen asleep long ago.

“Hmm...”

Seojun stared blankly at the campfire, his mind bringing up the topic that had been troubling him.

Was it really that woman who sent me to this martial arts world?

He wasn’t sure about anything else, but considering she had called him the Cult Leader of All Demons’ Successor, it seemed likely.

Cult Leader of All Demons. It probably referred to the ruler or lord standing above all demons, roughing guessing the meaning.

Isn’t that basically the Heavenly Demon?

Was I actually the Heavenly Demon?

Crackle.

The campfire blazed as if telling him to stop talking nonsense.

Seojun chuckled and poked at the fire with a stick.

One thing was certain.

Upon reaching the Transcendent Realm, his essence, qi, and mind had balanced, however crudely, and because of that, memories he had experienced but forgotten began to resurface one by one.

Even memories from when he was very young were vaguely coming back.

Memories of being in his mother’s womb, the cold and warmth he felt after coming out, the sight of his mother smiling brightly when his vision cleared.

Maybe even mom...

Was she also manipulated by that bitch?

That bitch had laughed even with her head smashed in.

Without a doubt, she wasn’t an ordinary human.

This all happened in modern society and not murim after all.

If that woman had sent him to the martial world, perhaps she was a god-like being?

But if she was a god-like being, why would she need to go to such lengths to find him? Was it just for amusement?

Another thing.

If he was the Cult Leader of All Demons’ Successor, why didn’t she directly take him?

If she was so eager to find him in person, she should have been able to do that.

Was she unable to?

Another world, or another dimension. Whatever you call it, there might be some restrictions on crossing over to another place.

If not, they would have been able to see martial artists in modern society from the start.

Probably a Profound Realm martial artist could win against the entire modern world, right?

He wasn’t sure. He hadn’t even seen an Unrestrained Realm martial artist, let alone a Profound Realm one.

Anyway, as he was now, it was impossible for him to do things like tearing dimensions to return to the modern world.

So that woman was at least at the Profound Realm, or beyond.

Or she had accomplices of that level.

Well, whoever it was, they probably weren’t at the Unrestrained Realm. Even though he hadn’t experienced that realm yet, he had a strong intuition that such feats were impossible with just the Unrestrained Realm.

That fucking bitch.

Unnecessarily tight-lipped, she only said a single short sentence.

Either way, the conclusion was simple.

Since it seemed to be that bitch’s doing, he would just smash her head again. If she didn’t die, he would keep smashing it until she did.

“Fuck...”

Slap! He hit his trembling leg once to calm it down.

Still, having reached the Transcendent Realm, his emotions didn’t go wild like before.

He calmed his anger and slowly took a deep breath.

“One Chunbong... Two Chunbongs...”

Counting the Chunbongs inside him quickly brought inner peace.

Seojun closed his eyes and absorbed the qi of heaven and earth.

The qi of heaven entered through the Hundred Convergence point at the crown of his head, and the qi of earth through the Yin Convergence point at his perineum.

His inner qi raced through his now unobstructed Conception and Governing Vessels, gaining speed until his body slightly lifted off the ground.

Having just reached the Transcendent Realm, he had to pioneer a completely new path alone.

Something he only realized after reaching the Transcendent Realm was that the stars dwelling in reinforced qi weren’t simply power-ups or enhancement weapons.

The stars reflected the state of his mind.

Seojun exhaled and slowly spread his inner qi around him, at the same time he plucked a river from his mental landscape and floated it like a star above his inner qi.

Rumble!

Inner qi flowed around Seojun like a turbulent river.

Sensing this with his qi perception, he smiled faintly.

This time, he withdrew the river and condensed a single plum tree into a star, letting it flow over his inner qi.

Whoosh!

The reinforced qi scattered profusely, swirling around him.

All checks complete.

Seojun half-opened his eyes and this time used heaven and earth as stars.

The qi of heaven and earth pouring in through his crown and perineum each found their place, and Seojun positioned himself in the center, forming man.

Heaven, Earth, Man.

All his attainments up to now began to stack one by one based on the Three Principles Cultivation Technique he had first learned.

Crack!

Changes began to occur in his body as the process continued.

The incomplete body rebirth he had achieved during his battle with Jongin was now happening again, reconstructing his body to match his mastered martial arts.

Seojun understood.

This could be stopped at any time and resumed at any time.

As he extended his qi detection outward to guard the surroundings, his body was slowly changing.

*When the moon that had been rising from the east reached the center of the sky, Seojun’s body, which had been floating in the air, slowly descended to the ground.

His entire body was overflowing with strength.

Slowly getting up, he suddenly covered his nose at the pungent odor assaulting it.

“Ugh...! What’s that smell!”

It was coming from his body.

The impurities accumulated in his body were being expelled through his pores.

Seojun released reinforced qi throughout his body to burn away the impurities, then examined himself.

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Gone was the body that showed traces of youth, replaced by one filled with combat-compressed muscles.

“Oh...”

All of his clothes had burst apart from his turbulent inner qi during his body rebirth, allowing him to inspect his entire body very thoroughly.

Satisfied, Seojun nodded and turned to get new clothes.

“Oh my...”

Behind him, Namgung Suah was red in the face, her hands covering her eyes.

Her eyes slipped through the gaps between her fingers, clearly staring.

“Fufu... Please don’t mind me and continue what you were doing.”

“Kyaaaah...!”

*Seojun quickly put on clothes and glared at her from a distance.

His height had increased quite a bit so his clothes were a bit tight, but that wasn’t the issue at hand.

The invincible Chunbong shield was deep in sleep, snoring away without knowing what was happening. It was truly a crisis.

“You pervert...!”

“My, you’re the one who showed me.”

“It wasn’t me...!”

Seojun held his forehead.

Namgung Suah laughed with a flushed face and put her hand on her cheek.

“That was amazing...”

“I’m really gonna sue you. I’ll tell my Chunbong everything!”

“Yes, yes.”

She chuckled and got up, then suddenly stiffened and clutched her chest.

“Ugh...”

“...Are you hurt?”

“A little. But considering I fought a Transcendent Realm martial artist, this is quite alright.”

Seojun cautiously approached her.

If it weren’t for her, something might have happened to Chunbong during the fight with Jongin.

Her presence had eased his mind during the fight, so seeing her in pain now was quite concerning.

“Well... if it’s an inner qi problem, I might be able to help.”

Hearing this, Namgung Suah blinked and slowly laid back down.

“Mm... It hurts.”

“So where exactly does it hurt?.”

“My chest.”

Mount Tai. No, not that. Seojun glanced at her chest and scratched his head.

“Muscle pain?”

“Something like that, I think.”

“I see.”

Carrying around something that size would certainly be painful. As Seojun was nodding in understanding, Namgung Suah smiled slyly and gave him a strange look.

“I think it would feel better right away if Young Expert massaged it.”

“Wow... Are you crazy?”

“How disappointing.”

Seojun casually brushed off Namgung Suah’s flirtation and wiggled his hand.

“Are you fully awake now?”

“Yes.”

“Then shall we talk for a bit?”

“Always welcome.”

Namgung Suah got up and sat next to Seojun.

He poked at the campfire and glanced at the sleeping Chunbong.

“How does Chunbong seem to you?”

“What do you mean?”

“Just... I thought you might see something as a fellow woman. She’s lived a rough life, so I wonder if she has any emotional scars... if there’s anything I’m missing because I’m slow, you know... things like that.”

“From what I can see, she’s doing very well. Sister Geum relies on you a great deal, Young Expert.”

“I see...”

Namgung Suah smiled softly and covered her mouth with her sleeve.

“By the way, I apologize. I somehow ended up discovering that Sister Geum is a survivor of the Divine Sword Geum Clan.”

“No need to apologize. That bastard Jongin’s the problem.”

“Fufu, that’s true. I knew he was dark-hearted for a Daoist, but I never imagined he would be scum of the earth.”

Namgung Suah opened her eyes a bit wider than usual.

Her clear blue eyes reflected Seojun.

“Young Expert, do you know about the Supreme Law of the Black Serpent?”

“No.”

He was more concerned about why someone who could open her eyes wide always kept them narrowed.

“The Black Serpent has several Supreme Laws, but the one Elder Jongin was trying to receive was likely the kind that extends one’s natural lifespan.”

“It did seem that way.”

“Yes. And that kind of Supreme Law is all based on human sacrifice. Extending one’s own lifespan at the cost of others’ lives.”

“That does sound like it would be certainly difficult to do in Mount Hua Sect.”

“Difficult... To say that would be underplaying the severity of it. It would immediately become a crime against all of murim.”

That’s true.

Seojun nodded.

And then silence lingered for a while.

He wasn’t particularly good at talking, so he just poked at the campfire while discreetly glancing around to read the atmosphere. Seeing this, Namgung Suah suddenly thrust her face forward.

“What the...! You startled me...”

“Young Expert.”

“Yes?”

“How about stopping by Hubei, and then heading to the Namgung Clan as your next destination?”