Myst, Might, Mayhem

Chapter 67

Chapter 67Mok Gyeong-un, revealing himself from the chains.

Gooooooo!

His appearance was not ordinary.

Could it be that he was devoured by the completed gu poison?

Cheong-ryeong spoke with a voice tinged with anger, aiming her long pipe.

– Foolish thing. Were you finally devoured?

At that question, Mok Gyeong-un’s lips twitched, then he opened his mouth while looking at Cheong-ryeong.

“I wasn’t devoured, I devoured it.”

– !?

At those words, Cheong-ryeong’s expression momentarily went blank.

Just by hearing his distinct way of speaking, she could clearly tell that his body hadn’t been taken over and it was Mok Gyeong-un himself.

“Why are you like that?”

– … Did you really devour that thing?

At her question, Mok Gyeong-un shrugged and replied:

“As you can see.”

– Ha!

Truly astounding.

Even if he had multiple lives, the probability of failure was higher.

But this ignorant kid finally managed to do it.

“It’s just that I feel like my stomach will burst from overeating.”

– Your stomach will burst?

“Yes. I think I ate a bit too much.”

Somehow, after pushing and pulling with the creature, he succeeded in absorbing its qi.

But a problem arose here.

He clearly absorbed the qi, but the resentment and death qi the creature possessed was incomparable to the amount he had received until now.

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, she frowned.

‘Come to think of it, this guy is human.’

Cheong-ryeong realized her mistake.

Having been a vengeful spirit for over 100 years, her thinking from when she was human must have become rigid.

The human body could be considered a type of vessel.

Vessels have a limit to what they can handle.

‘More important than accepting internal energy is expanding the size of that vessel through enlightenment.’

However, Mok Gyeong-un lacked enlightenment.

He hadn’t grasped the method of utilizing qi as a top expert, and even though he had learned the secret of the Moon Sword Technique, which could be called the secret of the peerless swordless technique, his understanding of the sword was low.

If he had gained enlightenment step by step through the normal path, the limit of internal energy he could accept would have naturally increased as well.

But now, Mok Gyeong-un was not like that at all.

Cheong-ryeong spoke with a somewhat serious voice:

– Expel the qi you can’t handle right now.

“Pardon?”

– Too much is as bad as too little. If you accept qi to a level your body can’t handle, it will instead become poison to you, kid.

“Ah. Is that so?”

– Yes.

“Then it would be better to pass on the excess qi.”

– What?

As she was puzzled, Mok Gyeong-un bent his waist and

“What’s your name?”

The girl, who was about to get fiercely angry, suddenly softened her expression at Mok Gyeong-un’s repeated question.

Then, her lips twitched, and she soon spoke to Mok Gyeong-un with a much gentler face:

– It’s Gyu Soha. Master.

‘This one?’

Cheong-ryeong was inwardly surprised.

Even if they become a supreme-ruler of gluttony, vengeful spirits don’t readily reveal their own names.

The reason was because of the power that names hold.

When one becomes a spirit body, they approach the realm of supreme-rulers, and then they become bound by their true name.

So vengeful spirits don’t reveal their names.

But as if completely submitting, even her expression changed and she revealed her true name.

Mok Gyeong-un looked at the girl and said:

“It’s a good name.”

– Thank you. Master.

“Soha. Can you become my loyal dog?”

– Ah! That is my utmost desire.

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, the girl showed an intense expression as if moved, and Cheong-ryeong clicked her tongue as if it was unbelievable.

This was even more than a demonic beast.

In the end, even though she didn’t reach it, a green spirit who almost became a blue spirit grade was submitting to this extent.

It was a sight of submission almost down to the roots of her mind.

‘… Is it the influence of the strengthened death qi?’

Gooooooo!

It was clearly visible to her ghostly eyes.

Mok Gyeong-un’s death qi had become incomparably stronger than before.

But even after infusing enough qi to restore this Gyu Soha to this extent, it was still overflowing like this?

Moreover, she had been feeling strange from earlier, and the qi seemed to be subtly overlapping.

So she asked:

– You… Your qi is a bit strange. Why does it seem to be overlapping?

“Ah. Can Cheong-ryeong see it?”

– See what?

“A new mnemonic came to my mind anyway.”

– A new mnemonic?

“The Eight Forms of Thought Destruction.”

– What?

She couldn’t hide her surprise.

In the midst of that, he came up with a new mnemonic for the Eight Forms of Thought Destruction?

So Cheong-ryeong asked:

– What mnemonic did you come up with?

At her question, Mok Gyeong-un gestured to Soha and said:

“The myriad phenomena are like an illusion, the acupoints have no extremes, the two forms are like a dream, the five aggregates are all empty, the myriad phenomena are an illusion, the five aggregates are all empty.”

‘!?’

Hearing this, Cheong-ryeong’s pupils shook.

‘This guy… He realized a mnemonic I didn’t know.’

The reason Cheong-ryeong was surprised was exactly that.

What Mok Gyeong-un said was a mnemonic she had never known before.

Even she, who possessed a natural talent, had only grasped four forms in the Eight Forms of Thought Destruction.

But this mnemonic was something she didn’t know.

She asked, hiding her inwardly excited heart:

– Ahem… This is a form I haven’t mastered. What profound principle does it hold?

“I became able to disperse the danjeon into two places.”

– What?

“I could disperse the qi near the Baihui acupoint in the head and near the center close to the heart.”

‘!!!!!!’

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, she showed an expression of disbelief.

Right now, Mok Gyeong-un wouldn’t know what he was talking about.

‘Ha.’

Until they surpass the wall, all martial artists cannot escape the shackles of the lower danjeon.

But the moment they gain enlightenment and surpass the wall, they open the middle danjeon.

Those who have opened the middle danjeon like this could be said to be extremely few even in the martial world.

But this kid, without enlightenment, says that his middle danjeon has opened due to the profound principle of the Eight Forms of Thought Destruction.