Myst, Might, Mayhem (Novel) - Chapter 165 - Proposal (4)
Chapter 165 – Proposal (4)
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Translated by Jinmu
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“How unfit miss is as a successor.”
At Mok Gyeong-un’s words insulting her, Wi So-yeon’s expression turned fierce.
In order to become the Society Leader’s successor, she was bearing many burdens.
How much could this wretch possibly know of the weight of the path she was carrying, to dare judge it so carelessly?
-Clench!
“You…”
Just as Wi So-yeon, biting her lip hard, was about to vent her anger,
Mok Gyeong-un smiled faintly and said,
“So with that said, please give that body to me.”
‘!?’
In an instant, Wi So-yeon’s expression froze stiff.
For a moment she doubted her own ears.
What exactly had this man just said to her?
‘Please give that body to me?’
-Flush!
As she repeated the words she had heard in her heart, her face turned red like a ripe persimmon in a single instant.
It was the first time in her life she had experienced such a humiliating emotion.
To Wi So-yeon’s ears, that absurd demand from Mok Gyeong-un sounded far too openly like he was toying with her.
Ever since she had resolved to walk the path of the successor, she had given up her life as a woman.
And yet this bastard was mocking her?
-Wooooong!
Wi So-yeon could no longer endure it.
In an instant sharp sword energy rose from her sword-finger sign and sought to cut off Mok Gyeong-un’s neck.
‘I’ll kill him.’
However,
-Swoosh!
Mok Gyeong-un lightly evaded her sword energy with no more than a half-step of movement, then seized her wrist.
But unlike before, she truly had resolved to kill Mok Gyeong-un this time, so there was no way she would stop here.
-Papak!
The instant her wrist was seized, Wi So-yeon aimed a kick at Mok Gyeong-un’s head.
But this was no ordinary kick.
Sharp sword energy was carried even on the kick.
‘So she can do it with her feet too?’
At the very keen strike, accompanied by sharp sword energy launched with her foot, Mok Gyeong-un tilted his head slightly back.
Wi So-yeon’s kick barely missed him.
She did not stop there and at once unleashed another ultimate move.
‘Heaven Sword Forms. Third move, Star Sword of Devoted Study!’
-Chwachwachwachwachwacha!
Light like starlight burst from Wi So-yeon’s hand, and at the same time eight sword-finger strikes tried to pierce Mok Gyeong-un’s vital acupoints.
A superior form, and then a top superior form, and beyond even that lies a peerless sword form.
The Six Heavens.
The sword forms of Heaven Sword Forms, the unique ultimate art of the Society Leader, who was one of the six absolute beings called the summit of the Central Plains martial world, were truly peerless sword forms without a flaw to be seized.
However,
-Chwachwachwachwachwacha!
Through the gaps in that sword form, Mok Gyeong-un’s own sword-finger sign slipped in with uncanny subtlety.
It followed a trajectory of sword-fingers that she herself had never imagined.
Because of that, a strange light rose in Wi So-yeon’s eyes.
‘How?’
As if he had read her thoughts, Mok Gyeong-un said,
“There’s more force in it than in Great Young Master’s sword forms.”
‘Ah!’
That was right. Thinking about it, this fellow had said he had fought eldest senior brother as well.
But he truly was ridiculous.
He had only fought eldest senior brother once at most, and yet she had never imagined he would know how to respond to Heaven Sword Forms, famous for having no flaws and being close to perfect, in such a way.
-Chachachachachang!
As her sword energy and Mok Gyeong-un’s sword energy collided, ripples formed in midair and a sharp metallic sound spread as if metal itself were clashing.
-Shuk!
At Mok Gyeong-un’s single sword-finger strike entering the gap in her form, she hurriedly changed her sword form.
‘Heaven Sword Forms. Fifth move, Chaotic World of Murky Plains!’
As falling droplets over long years bore a hole through rock, the path of the sword converged toward a single point.
The fifth move held might that did not fall short even when compared with the secret techniques of Heaven Sword Forms.
Yet,
-Pachachachachang!
Mok Gyeong-un densely wove a net with his sword-fingers and instead began to press down on her sword form.
Because of that, Wi So-yeon’s expression grew darker and darker.
What in the world was this man?
How was he breaking into Heaven Sword Forms in this way?
He could not have fought eldest senior brother for three full days and nights, yet he looked far too familiar with its sword forms.
It even felt as though he already knew Heaven Sword Forms to some degree.
‘Is this what true genius is?’
Only half a month ago she had thought of him as no more than an immature brat, and yet now he had become like a vast mountain beyond measure.
He truly was a monstrous man.
If only such a person had followed her with sincere loyalty, how wonderful that would have been.
But this man was clearly a vessel no one could control.
His martial arts had advanced, and he had come seeking her out to run wild and even humiliate her.
She could now understand why eldest senior brother had fought him.
This man…
-Swoosh!
Right at that moment.
In an instant his figure scattered like smoke, and before she knew it Mok Gyeong-un had already broken through the trajectory of sword intent she had created and slipped right in front of her.
‘Bright Manifest Water-Crossing Step!’
The danger of this body-lightening art lay in its high-speed movement over short distances.
Even within a mere ten paces, its stepping was so wondrous that the naked eye could barely catch its movement.
‘How in the world did he learn this?’
No matter how she thought about it, she could not understand.
But that was not what mattered now.
Wi So-yeon hurriedly raised sword energy with her left hand to block Mok Gyeong-un.
However,
-Pak!
Mok Gyeong-un’s movement was far faster than hers.
In an instant he lightly caught her left wrist, then pressed the acupoint at her shoulder and shoved her backward.
“Hk!”
-Chwarrrrr!
Wi So-yeon’s body was driven back about six paces in an instant.
“Ha…”
A sigh slipped from Wi So-yeon’s lips.
‘He’s strong.’
There was no denying it. Right now Mok Gyeong-un was a level above her.
The difference between crossing the wall and not crossing it was stark.
Still,
‘He took my shoulder acupoint, not my neck.’
It looked as if he was trying to subdue her without injuring her.
Because of that, she felt even more disgusted.
‘Is he going easy on me?’
From the start, it did not even feel as though he were treating her as a martial artist.
[Please give that body to me.]
-Clench!
Wi So-yeon bit down hard on her lip.
Was it because he viewed her as a woman after all?
Perhaps because of that, together with the humiliation she felt as a martial artist, a strange emotion began to bloom amid her feelings.
‘This should be enough, right?’
Of course, unlike her resentful state of mind, Mok Gyeong-un was merely controlling his strength appropriately in order to subdue Wi So-yeon without the slightest blemish, after receiving Blue Spirit’s request.
If not for the unusual constitution in which true qi overflowed to a bizarre degree even beyond the owner’s actual martial prowess, he would already have subdued her.
-Heh heh heh. Well done, sentient being.
Blue Spirit spoke in a satisfied tone.
Until now she had always put it off for later because one never knew when Mok Gyeong-un might grow stronger, but she had long coveted Wi So-yeon’s body, which looked exactly like her own.
Possession was little different from seizing someone else’s body.
And because Wi So-yeon looked so strikingly like her, Blue Spirit felt excited as though gaining Wi So-yeon’s body would be the same as coming back to life.
-Strike her brain and knock her unconscious. After that, this seat will handle the rest.
-Very well.
And so Mok Gyeong-un pressed Wi So-yeon even harder until he finally forced her down onto the ground.
-Thud!
‘Ah.’
Unable to keep her footing, Wi So-yeon toppled to the ground, and at the sight of Mok Gyeong-un above her, pinning her down and looking down at her, she was seized by humiliation.
Was this man truly after her body?
Because she was the disciple of the Society Leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, no one had ever openly shown romantic feelings toward her as a member of the opposite sex.
Yet he was trying to toy with her this brazenly.
“Let go!”
“I can’t do that.”
“After causing this kind of trouble, do you think you’ll be able to handle the aftermath?”
“Handle it? If it were something I couldn’t handle, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. Besides, once you give me that body, you’ll always be with me. So what?”
With those words, Mok Gyeong-un smiled faintly.
It was a truly strange thing.
When she had first seen him, she had certainly thought he was an extraordinarily beautiful man because of his outstanding looks.
But because she meant to walk the path of a leader, that had been the end of it.
Yet strangely enough, once she became conscious of the fact that Mok Gyeong-un was trying to take her, Wi So-yeon’s face suddenly flushed red.
-Thump! Thump! Thump!
Her heart beat violently as if mad.
Why in the world was this happening?
It was hard to control her wildly pounding heart.
[Once you give me that body, you’ll always be with me. So what?]
Mok Gyeong-un’s words kept shaking her mind over and over until it became confusing.
Did this man truly want to possess her as a woman badly enough to bear every consequence afterward?
‘…’
Wi So-yeon looked into Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes.
Those eyes, which appeared straight and steady without the slightest wavering, were fixed directly on her face.
Aside from master and her senior brothers, this was the first time a man had looked straight at her face like this.
‘…’
Then Mok Gyeong-un brought his hand toward her face.
More precisely, he meant to strike power into her forehead and damage her brain.
At that moment she said,
“Wait.”
Of course, those words gave Mok Gyeong-un no reason to stop.
But then Wi So-yeon said in a somewhat trembling voice,
“You… do you truly want me as a woman?”
‘!?’
At those words, Mok Gyeong-un frowned.
Want her as a woman?
It seemed this woman had misunderstood something.
Though he had no interest in matters such as romantic relations or attachments between men and women, Mok Gyeong-un immediately realized how she had interpreted his words.
‘Ah. So there was room for misunderstanding?’
Since she did not know his true purpose, naturally she had no choice but to distort his words about wanting her body.
However, there was no longer any need to explain.
So he ignored it and tried to bring his palm to her forehead, when
-Gooooooo!
At that instant Wi So-yeon’s aura surged sharply upward.
This was no mere case of her drawing up her power. The power that soared in a single moment was so enormous that it would have surpassed even Mok Gyeong-un, who had reached the entrance to the realm of transformation.
‘What in the world is this?’
But that was not the end of it.
-Crack crack crack!
At the same time, a tremendous chill began to pour out from Wi So-yeon.
The cold force was so strong that frost formed all around in an instant, and white breath even began to spill from Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth.
-Sssssss!
Wi So-yeon’s hair was gradually whitening.
The sight of it was mysteriously beautiful.
At this transformation in her, Blue Spirit let out an exclamation as though dumbfounded.
-Ha! Sentient being, this wench has Celestial Yin Severed Meridian.
-Celestial Yin Severed Meridian?
-A strange constitution that may appear only once in several hundred years. Because of the yin true qi that rises ceaselessly from all her blood vessels, her vessels are blocked and she is destined to die young before reaching even early youth.
-…But she looks perfectly fine.
-It seems she learned a method to suppress the force inside her body.
If not, there was no way she could have survived this long without the yin force rampaging.
This was also Blue Spirit’s first time seeing someone with Celestial Yin Severed Meridian.
Celestial Yin Severed Meridian, called a cursed constitution marked for early death, offered the tremendous advantage of inexhaustible true qi regardless of qi circulation if one could overcome it, but that was no easy feat.
Until now, she had never heard of anyone who had overcome Celestial Yin Severed Meridian.
‘This wench…’
Could it be that she had actually overcome Celestial Yin Severed Meridian?
-Creak! Creak!
But blue veins were standing out around both of Wi So-yeon’s eyes.
‘No.’
As expected, she had not overcome Celestial Yin Severed Meridian.
Blue Spirit’s guess was correct.
At that moment Wi So-yeon had undone the True Harmony Forbidden Gate Secret Manual she had learned from master and opened the true yin qi of the severed meridians throughout her body, which she had only barely been suppressing.
[At most, half a gak. You must not exceed that.]
That was the time master had warned her about.
If she maintained this state for longer than half a gak, all the meridians in her body would freeze and she would die.
But for that half-gak, she could exert limitless extreme yin energy great enough that even a realm-of-transformation master could not deal with it carelessly.
The only ones who knew this fact were master, the Society Leader, and herself.
‘I meant to keep it hidden as the secret move for facing eldest senior brother, but…’
To think she would use it on this man.
If even this cursed power that could take her life were overcome, then she would accept it as fate.
Releasing true yin qi, she said,
“You want to have me? Then break even this cursed power.”
-Swaaaaaaa! Crack crack crack!
Under the tremendous true yin qi, the clothes of both Wi So-yeon and Mok Gyeong-un froze over completely.
For more than ten jang around them, the place overflowed with cold so fierce it called to mind the frigid winds of the Northern Sea.
Wi So-yeon drew up her true qi even further, intending to blast away Mok Gyeong-un, who was pressing down on her shoulders from above.
-Swaaaaaaa!
Right at that moment.
-Pasusususususu!
At that instant a dark red aura surged from Mok Gyeong-un’s whole body.
Because of that, the dark red aura clashed with the cold of the true yin qi she was releasing, and the surroundings were instantly covered in steam.
‘This is?’
Wi So-yeon instinctively recognized what this aura was.
This was poisonous energy.
‘…Impossible.’
To emit poisonous energy from one’s entire body was the very realm of a Poison Person.
What in the world was going on here?
Mok Gyeong-un had indeed been taken in as a disciple by the Annihilation Poison King, but that had happened only two sicheon ago.
Yet in that short time he had already learned the Wave Demon Poison Scripture, the Annihilation Poison King’s unique supreme art, and reached the realm of Poison Person, which could be called its utmost peak?
How could something this absurd exist?
She simply could not believe it.
And then Mok Gyeong-un’s voice reached her ears.
“You’re curious how I dealt with Great Young Master, aren’t you?”
“What?”
The instant the words ended, Mok Gyeong-un pulled the prone Wi So-yeon straight into his arms.
“W-wait…”
-Pasususususu!
At that moment, the chill and poisonous energy clashed and an even denser burst of steam poured out.
But because of this, something bewildering happened to Wi So-yeon.
The vicious poison aura carried heat, and because of that, the clothes of both of them, which had frozen stiff under the cold of the true yin qi, crumbled away.
-Press!
“You… you!”
As their clothes broke apart and bare skin touched, both of Wi So-yeon’s cheeks turned so red they looked ready to burst.
In that instant, Mok Gyeong-un sensed that her aura wavered momentarily.
And he realized where the force of her rampaging Celestial Yin Severed Meridian originated.
‘Found it.’
It was the Zhongwan acupoint of the conception vessel.
Mok Gyeong-un pulled away the flustered Wi So-yeon and placed his palm against the Zhongwan acupoint below her chest.
With her embarrassment at its peak, Wi So-yeon hurriedly tried to strike Mok Gyeong-un away.
“Take your hand off me at once!”
But then,
-Shuuuuuuuu!
“Haak.”
At that moment her slender waist arched backward.
‘!!!!!’
With her head thrown back, Wi So-yeon’s eyes shook.
That was because the force of the rampaging Celestial Yin Severed Meridian was being sucked in through Mok Gyeong-un’s palm.