Monochrome Sovereign (Novel) - Chapter 159 - Completion of the Four Gods (3)
Chapter 159 – Completion of the Four Gods (3)
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Translated by Heavenly Cat
Edited by Celestial Knight
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‘Um? What do you mean?’
‘Because I thought the balance might not match.’
‘Four Gods Martial Arts?’
‘Yes.’
‘Explain in more detail.’
‘The qi of the Four Gods takes charge of the respective internal organs: liver, lungs, heart, and kidneys. Among the five viscera, it activates the four internal organs excluding the spleen to pull up the physical body’s robustness to the extreme.’
‘That is correct.’
‘I have only obtained two types of energies yet. If so, wouldn’t an anomaly occur in the internal balance of the physical body?’
‘That is nonsense.’
‘Yes?’
‘Depending on their constitution, there are people born with a strong heart, while there are also people born with strong lungs or liver. Then do most of such people die early due to the imbalance of internal organs?’
‘Ah…….’
‘The human body was made extremely complex, but at the same time, it evolved to bear extreme efficiency. Not only humans but all living creatures are like that. Unless an anomaly occurs in the physical body or catches a disease due to external factors, the human body is bound to adapt quickly to the current situation.’
‘You mean if there is an internal organ born uniquely strong, the other internal organs also automatically focus on activating the physical body accordingly.’
‘To speak extremely, unless it’s an internal organ that directly affects life, a person can live even if it is somewhat destroyed or removed.’
‘The human body is truly mysterious.’
‘It is mysterious. If I had to pick the most mysterious internal organ among them, I would unhesitatingly say it is the liver.’
‘The liver?’
‘The liver is not as dangerous as the heart-lungs or kidneys. Yet it does the most work in the human body. Representatively, there is detoxification.’
‘Detoxification…….’
‘That is correct. Besides that, it synthesizes muscles or stores nutrients consumed through food, and increases immunity against various diseases. Even its regeneration ability is outstanding.’
‘It’s an amazing internal organ.’
‘After learning all the Four Gods Martial Arts, you must not neglect a single thing. However, I am certain, if you go out into the Jianghu and engage in bloody fights, you will benefit the most from the Azure Dragon Qi that takes charge of the liver.’
‘…….’
‘Of course, if your body is somewhat completed, that is.’
* * *
Cheucheucheucheu.
The dust settled.
Wuuuuung.
A translucent blue-green radiant light repeatedly flickered, created the shape of a wriggling dragon, and then disappeared.
A strange vitality hovered on Yeon Ho-jeong’s face.
He captured the extremely minute fatigue that he hadn’t even been able to relieve with sufficient sleep, and which even he himself hadn’t recognized.
His skin gradually became clear. The sun-tanned skin color remained the same, but it felt like it was emitting a radiant light for some reason.
‘Finally.’
At last, only now.
‘I have obtained everything.’
The reason he hadn’t touched the Azure Dragon Qi during this time was clear.
Because he wanted to mature the energies of the Three Gods and form an organic relationship to grow the functions of the five viscera and six entrails to the extreme within their limits.
It wasn’t just because it was the Azure Dragon Qi. Whatever it was, he intended to pull out the last single energy at the decisive moment.
‘You mean if there is an internal organ born uniquely strong, the other internal organs also automatically focus on activating the physical body accordingly.’
Due to the Three Divine Qi, the functions of the heart, lungs, and kidneys became extremely active, so even without the Azure Dragon Qi, the liver’s detoxification function also became outstanding along with them.
When the Azure Dragon Qi is added after growing the abilities to the limit like that, the liver ability grows even more explosively. And following the increased liver ability, the concentration of the remaining Three Divine Qi is also amplified terrifyingly.
A method of seeking the completion of the Four Gods Martial Arts by utilizing the profound principle of mutual generation, rather than summoning all Four Gods to build a stable foundation.
‘It was somewhat earlier than I thought. However…….’
It’s not bad.
Because the liver couldn’t keep up with the superiority of the heart, lungs, and kidneys, fatigue had accumulated without him knowing. It meant that the increase in the internal organs’ abilities had also reached a limit.
In other words, it was the appropriate time to summon the Azure Dragon and explosively grow the internal organ abilities.
Jii-i-i-i-i-ing!
A bizarre sound rang from Yeon Ho-jeong’s physical body.
He inhaled deeply.
“Heu-eup.”
Saaa-ak!
The White Tiger Qi violently fluctuated at the inhaled breath. Highly concentrated natural qi entered the lungs and affected blood circulation.
Thump thump!
The heartbeat gradually became faster, and the Vermilion Bird Qi became active. The blood pumped by the powerful heart muscle endowed the four limbs with explosive strength.
“Huuuuu.”
Wiii-i-ing!
The liver, the largest biochemical warehouse of the human body, begins its full-scale operation. The liver, which achieved explosive growth with the blue-green Azure Dragon Qi, supplied nutrients to the injured muscles, reserved residual strength, and changed the minute fatigue into ingredients easy to discharge.
Tu-wu-ung!
The kidneys, running without rest for twelve shijin, drove the fatigue ingredients created in the liver toward the excretory organs. The Black Tortoise Qi immediately activated and completely vaporized those ingredients through the eighty-four thousand pores.
And lastly.
The Jade Gauze True Qi, grabbing the center so that not a single one among the Four Divine Qi would pop out, brought Yeon Ho-jeong’s body to completeness.
Kwajijik!
The training ground floor, which was already all cracked and smashed, cracked once again. The Four Divine Qi that had finally gathered perfectly was condensed with the power of mutual generation and generated an exorbitant pressure.
The ground within a five-zhang radius of where Yeon Ho-jeong stood shook violently as if an earthquake had occurred.
Puseuseuseu.
Yeon Wi, who put down the crumbled sword, looked at Yeon Ho-jeong.
‘It’s changing.’
His son’s body, his qi, everything is changing.
Translucent four-color energies flickered like lightning from the body of Yeon Ho-jeong, who was trembling while curling his upper body and clenching his fists like a crouching lion.
And those energies were each wriggling and forming bizarre shapes.
‘It’s dazzling.’
Yeon Wi looked to the left, the East.
There, a giant dragon with two huge horns and white whiskers was wriggling. It was a magnificent and mysterious atmosphere.
‘Azure Dragon.’
This time he turned his head to the right, the West.
A beast standing supporting the earth with four giant legs as thick as pillars was bursting out a terrifying roar. Overflowing majesty and fierceness could be glimpsed.
‘White Tiger.’
Yeon Wi raised his head and looked up at the southern sky.
Wings of red flames burning like fireworks emitted an intense heat as if it would overturn heaven and earth. In its beautiful figure, an unendurable ferocity was naturally felt.
‘Vermilion Bird.’
And lastly, his eyes headed to the northern sky.
Unlike the three Divine Beasts that increased their presence with dynamic movements, there was a hexagonal monster looking down on the world in silence. It was an avatar of the profound heaven, with a sense of weight adding to its principle by not moving.
‘Black Tortoise.’
Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, Black Tortoise.
Reaching now, Yeon Ho-jeong who had obtained all the martial arts of the Four Gods.
Surprisingly, the changes didn’t end there.
Wuuuuuuung!!
Yeon Wi’s eyes widened.
‘Jade Gauze True Formula?’
Water generates Wood, Wood generates Fire.
The Black Tortoise Qi of Water grows the Azure Dragon Qi of Wood, and the Azure Dragon Qi grows the Vermilion Bird Qi, which is Fire.
Metal generates Water, the Black Tortoise Qi which grew with the White Tiger Qi of Metal adds momentum to the growth of qi. All qi excluding the White Tiger was polished to supreme quality.
If so, what about the White Tiger?
Where is the energy that becomes the foundation of Earth generating Metal, the Earth that will revive Metal?
Paaa-ak!
It is the Jade Gauze True Qi.
The Jade Gauze True Qi amplified the White Tiger Qi so it could match the status of the three true qi polished to supreme quality. The Jade Gauze True Qi was filling the empty piece of the principle of the Five Elements mutual generation.
Flash!
The light of the firmament wrapping around the four-color Four Divine Qi.
“Incredible.”
Wonder hovered on Yeon Wi’s face.
“You have greatly completed the Jade Gauze True Formula!”
Wuuuuuung!
True qi of all sorts of colors hovered around the entire training ground and then gradually subsided.
“Huuuuuu.”
Yeon Ho-jeong, who let out a deeper breath than ever before, opened his eyes.
They are clear.
They were clear in the past too, but it was a gaze completely different from until now. A powerful martial force that finished preparations for explosive advancement was dormant inside the pupils where black and white were clearly divided.
Yeon Wi smiled and asked.
“You rascal.”
Yeon Ho-jeong also smiled back.
“It’s a martial art built up going through such hardships to become a great wall for your son, yet what do you want this father to do if you come up there already.”
Even while saying that, he couldn’t hide his pride. Yeon Wi’s gaze, the corners of his mouth that had gone up fully, were clearly revealing his feeling of joy.
“I must advance further. You too, Father.”
“Are you saying I must reduce my sleep even more from now on?”
“That is your circumstance, Father.”
“What? Hahaha!”
Despite the arrogant tone, Yeon Wi did not find fault with it. Rather, he burst into a loud laugh he had never shown before.
It was truly understandable. This monster-like son, right at this moment, had transcended human limits and taken the first step of the grand journey advancing toward the ultimate.
Supreme peak.
He smashed the limit referred to as the Wall of Martial Arts’ End and finally came up to the stage where the heads of the Nine Sects One Gang and the Six Great Clans stood.
He is still young. Since he has just taken his first step, it’s hard to compare him to masters who have polished themselves for a long period on the path of supreme peak.
However, just the fact that he stepped onto that path at the age of twenty itself was an astonishing matter. Even searching through thousands of years of Murim history, how many people would there be who established such a stage at that age.
“Ho-jeong-ah.”
“Yes, Father.”
“Congratulations.”
“It is thanks to you, Father. Thank you.”
“And Ho-jeong-ah.”
“Yes.”
“I am proud of you.”
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled.
“Are you going to have a drink with me today?”
Words Yeon Ho-jeong, who usually showed a mischievous demeanor often, had never said to his father even once.
Yeon Wi accepted his son’s bold proposal with a huge laugh.
“Good. When would I drink with you if not on a day like this? Let’s have a grand drink today.”
Like that, in front of countless watching martial artists, the reputation of the Green Mountain Yeon Clan shook the world once again.
* * *
The spar of the Yeon father and son that occurred at the Murim Alliance inner castle training ground spread in an instant. Naturally, that was also conveyed to the Murong Clan’s side.
“Army Commander Yeon?”
“That is right.”
Murong Yu clicked his tongue.
“Just how already?”
He was sincerely surprised. The surprise was so great that not even admiration came out.
Supreme peak.
Martial arts constantly deepens, so there is no need to purposely divide it into first-rate or peak.
However, there existed an absolute limit that everyone experiences. And people called that limit the Wall of Martial Arts’ End and found it difficult.
Those who pierce the Wall of Martial Arts’ End and advance to the New World are extremely rare.
Among the uncountably many Murim warriors under heaven, would there even be a fraction of a percent. The Wall of Martial Arts’ End was something that difficult to overcome.
It was said a youth who reached twenty had broken through it.
It was a matter for the world to become boisterous. It was a different kind of surprise from when he overturned the prestigious families while being called the Tiger General of Green Mountain.
“It is amazing.”
“Yes, it is amazing.”
Murong Jun’s gaze was so cold it even looked fierce.
It was a fierce gaze, but surprisingly, honest admiration was also contained within it.
‘Monster-like bastard.’
Just when he thought this was the limit, he had run far away before he knew it, and just when he felt relieved thinking he had caught him, now he even shows a stunt of flying in the sky.
There is no other guy like this.
Murong Jun felt a crisis momentarily. He originally intended to pull him out from the roots, but seeing Yeon Ho-jeong’s growth speed, he felt he shouldn’t delay any longer.
‘Among poisonous weeds, there is a guy that dies absurdly easily, but there is also a monster-like guy that grows up rapidly in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.’
Killing intent hovered in Murong Jun’s eyes.
“U-ya.”
“Yes, Brother.”
“After the expedition, we must bury the Evil-Annihilating Army.”
“……!”
“We must not do it sloppily. We must put an end to them.”