Episode 209

It was around the time when bloodshed had begun in the Central Murim Alliance’s sphere of influence due to Zhuge Hyeop-jin’s plan.

At the Golden Dragon Gorge of Mount Hua, another event that would leave a mark in the history of martial arts was beginning.

Wudang’s Dual Internal Qi Arts, which no one has been able to learn since Chung Mu.

It was being prepared to be released back into the world by Jinmu.

Jinmu was sitting on the flat rock he used as a dining table, and with his eyes closed he stepped into the border between reality and selflessness.

How much time has passed?

It was around this time when he lost track of how much time had passed and was lost in this trap of cultivation.

Jinmu’s eyes began to tremble like they were waking up from sleep.

What?

It seems like he was clearly doing the Dual Internal Qi Arts. Even with his eyes open, he couldn’t see things clearly. He blinked several times but the result was the same.

And just in case, he opened one eye.

One side was dark and the other looked bright.

Why does it look odd?

Jinmu began to question everything he saw.

If someone else had seen what he was experiencing now, they would have been shocked.

His eyes had changed to different colors.

One side was white with only the whites and the other side was black like obsidian.

A dream?

Jinmu closed his eyes.

Will it get better over time?

As Jinmu took a deep breath and reflected on the Dual Internal Qi’s arts, a change began to form in his body.

His entire body turned red like flames and then blue with the cold.

“Kuak!”

Every time there was a color change, the burning sensation and stinging pain repeated.

Unwanted processes proceeded on their own out of control.

Jinmu’s body, which was repeatedly turning hot and cold. Divided to red and blue.

How long did that happen?

At some point, it got to the point where he didn’t feel any pain.

As his breathing calmed, Jinmu was able to handle his body and think.

What is happening?

If this is a dream, it is a strange one.

I just did what the book told me.

By dividing the Six Yang Extreme qi, the Yang qi and the Yin qi flowed in different directions into a web of poison and moved to the veins.

And at some point, the Hundred Meetings Point, closed.

It didn’t make sense at all, but it was shocking that two different qi could move.

The odd thing is that the Six Yang Extreme Qi that filled the dantian was divided into Yin and Yang, but in the end, everything was united with the impulse flowing from the dantian, and the top meridian point was empty.

“Euk…”

Jinmu took a deep inhale and opened his eyes.

A halo of white light appeared in the eyes and it gradually faded and returned to their original appearance.

Kwakwakwak!

The sound of a waterfall that I had never heard before.

And next to it, was the fire which burned down, leaving only grey ash, and something so black that he couldn’t call it a wild boar.

“All done?”

Jinmu looked at his extended hands.

So odd.

It doesn’t seem like anything has changed.

When he obtained the Great Clear Divine Pill, it seemed as if his dantian had grown in size, and when he obtained the Three Yang Life Saving Pill, he experienced the feeling of a snake slithering in his body.

Is it because it’s not a spiritual pill, but a martial arts skill?

It doesn’t have the slightest feeling that anything has changed…

Dual Internal Qi Arts.

It was so ordinary for him.

Jinmu thought that his dantian would be divided into two.

Is this fakery?

Immediately, he began to suspect it.

Jinmu frowned and glared at the Dual Internal Qi Arts book.

Ah, it cannot be, right?

Even if it cannot be, it is hard to keep resisting confirmation.

Right, in this case, it is also for confirmation.

Jinmu closed his eyes again and used the basic arts of the Shadow Dragon Elemental Assimilation Arts.

The stage before the technique was done full-fledged.

Originally, the formation isn’t something which can be used to blindly gather qi.

We have to lay the basic foundation on which it builds.

If not, the qi gathered would blow away and get absorbed.

Jinmu began to concentrate again and let the qi flow into his body through breathing.

However, when he used the cultivation technique the qi was accumulated and it surged out.

Six Yang Extreme Qi, which had filled the dantian, moved to the blood point on top of the head and the empty dantian began to fill up with qi as if like falling snow.

Th-this cannot…! Enough. It works then!

Although it wasn’t much… it wasn’t going away.

And at the same time as it was accumulating, the good qi which had run away from the dantian flowed while staying in the vein.

“Haa! Look at this? It was supposed to be like this?”

The more accumulated in the dantian flowed through the meridian and returned to the dantian without being affected in the slightest by the qi.

“Where…”

Jinmu became curious and this time he used the Six Yang Extreme Qi.

When the blood point was activated, contrary to the escape of Yin, it stayed there filling the dantian.

It’s as if the chase continued forever.

And like this.

There are so many theories for the Dual Internal Qi Arts.

It’s possible to have different personalities. It was said that one could hold a sword in one hand and perform an entirely different martial arts in the other, but since no one successfully did that, it could not be confirmed.

But Jinmu finally discovered it.

It isn’t a technique of holding two different internal qi, but a technique to contain two different internal qi within the same body.

And the current physicial condition.

It is as if the two internal qi are now able to be stored in the body, and the Yin meridian is blocked.

As a warrior, one can achieve proper build-up and internal qi by allowing the qi to flow through the Yin meridian.

By blocking it again, one can use two internal qi attacks.

It must have been a truly incredible change of thinking for whoever created it.

Jinmu recalled the Taiji arts he procured from Qingcheng and Kunlun.

“Murim is Taiji and Taiji is Murim. The Yang moves to be the body and the body becomes Yin. The five elements complement each other, hurt each other, lift one another and suffer. The place of Hundred Meetings Point is hot and the bottom is cold. High and low are just divisions and when Yin and Yang touch the heart, they return to their original form, which is Taiji.”

He didn’t quite understand it yet, but he vaguely thought that he could achieve it if the Yin and yang meridians got connected.

Should he break the blocked meridian now? Since there is also the Purple Cloud Pill from Mount Hua?

Well, it is a pity.

By absorbing the qi condensed in the pill, one should be able to secure the internal qi in an instant.

But why waste precious qi already when there are people everywhere who will suck the internal qi as soon as it leaves?

Save it.

Save it and use it well.

Didn’t he save it and cherish it in his past life and fill that treasure?

Also, I don’t understand the context of Taiji teachings.

So there is no need to take risks in the unknown.

The most important thing is balance.

Wasn’t it said that even Chung Mu, who learned the Dual Internal Qi Arts to achieve Taiji, fell into deviation because he couldn’t control the two qi and turned into a demon?

To achieve Taiji, one needs to possess balance and strong good qi.

It is something to be done only after understanding what Taiji is and how to achieve the perfect balance.

Hasn’t there ever been a time when they were forced to play the game with double-centered balls but gave up without getting anything right?

For now, learning the cultivation of the Shadow Dragon Elemental Assimilation Arts will do.

After taking another breath, Jinmu stood up and looked around.

He didn’t know how long it had been.

Why does it matter how long it has been! This is Murim!

I am the reincarnation of Hyeok Ryun Mugang.

The one who came a long way returns to Murim again.

“Kuahahaha!”

At the bottom of the Gorge, where no one was around, Jinmu exploded with a lightning sound.

Grrrr…

He laughed and felt hungry.

How hungry was he?

First, he needs to eat something and build up his morale.

Jinmu jumped up the cliff and moved out of the gorge, and the wild boar family which had lost its youngest one and father… lost their mother that day.

A few days later, the sound of rocks scraping echoed through the sound of the waterfall in the foam-filled waterfall gorge.

Shhh!

Jinmu’s sword, One Slash, danced along with the sword in hand, the words of a warrior are engraved on the cliff face.

Shadow Dragon Cave.

The canyon where the Shadow Dragon resided.

Although the name was too obvious, Jinmu looked at the letters with satisfaction.

Isn’t it a simple yet wonderful name that someone will be impressed with when they discover it later?

Enough.

After learning the Dual Internal Qi arts, he created a basic foundation for casting the technique using the basic arts of the Shadow Dragon Elemental Assimilation Arts.

Since I have been training for almost ten years, it isn’t difficult to use Sword qi, but it doesn’t matter.

From now on, the picking-up technique will move swiftly. If one uses it, they can build up their skills in an instant.

Unlike the Taoist training methods, the Shadow Dragon Elemental Assimilation Arts and more are paths Jinmu had already traveled.

As long as he has the right to prey, you can quickly reach the highest level.

And what if Taiji is achieved?

“Hehehe.”

He couldn’t help but smile at the imagination which felt nice.

Bokri Do-cheon.

Pak!

Now, I will beat the entire Central Plains evenly.

Because I am the Sword of Wudang and at the same time the Emperor of the Evil Sect’s Heaven!

Jinmu, who was looking happily at the place he lived at for a while, finally turned to leave, but suddenly stopped.

“Hmm…”

It feels a bit underwhelming to just leave. There has to be something surprising to be left here for whomever discovers the place later.

The martial arts of Wudang are poor, I don’t want to give those martial arts to anyone and the Purple Cloud Pill… it’s a pity.

He was worried.

Right, I engraved the name Shadow Dragon Cave, but I have to give it something to match.

Shadow Dragon Elemental Assimilation Arts.

It is to leave behind the strongest martial arts of the Evil Sect’s Heaven at the base of Mount Hua.

It is a martial art which cannot be learnt anyway, if they don’t possess the right constitution for it.

Cheon Woo-myung and Baek Pyo were rare among many people and had the constitution to learn the basic technique of the Arts.

If someone who isn’t good at it learns it and uses it, they will meet certain death.

So even if it was left behind, the person who discovered it was lucky, and even if they learned it, it was a problem which could result in death while using the technique. Indeed, Heavenly Luck should be followed.

Right, at that point, it should be whatever it was meant to be.

Jinmu chuckled, grabbing his sword and swung the sword to a wall.

To the ones…

Woah, old people use this for flavor. This…

After creating a spark (?) which someone might discover in the distant future, Jinmu departed from the Gorge of Mount Hua and arrived in Xi’an.

A canyon like that?

Although it might not be known to others, it was a funny thing to Jinmu who could walk in the air.

Well, it was Xi’an now.

From now on, there is permission from Master to wander around Murim as I please, so I don’t have to worry about Wudang anymore.

Should I buy a horse and travel leisurely to the Heavenly Strong Clan?

On the way, I used the Qi Absorbing Technique to find some bandits and gain some qi.

I plan to learn the Shadow Dragon Elemental Assimilation Arts and devour the Evil Sect’s Heaven’s subordinates one by one.

And when returning to the true nature of being an evil being, being a lord doesn’t cut it.

One has to be strong enough to trample them all.

That way, one won’t be able to open their mouth.

Once he can summon the Shadow Dragon martial arts in its complete form, he will inherit the progress of Hyeok Ryun Mugang.

This body is both the teacher and the disciple.

The Evil Emperor, Hyuk Ryeon Mugang, returns to the Evil Sect’s Heaven and becomes a warrior of Central Plains. What a perfect story!

“Hehehe!”

Perhaps because he was thinking of nice things, Jinmu couldn’t stop smiling.

The same thing happened when people on the street openly put their fingers to their ears and twirled them and shook their heads.

“Mom. I think this mister is insane. He keeps smiling.”

A little boy with a snack in mouth whispered to his mom as he passed by someone.

Jinmu turned his head.

Cute guy, you say something like that out loud in front of people… I will suck your qi out of you!

“Huhuhuh.”

When Jinmu approached the child and stroked his head while smiling darkly, the child was startled and hid behind his mother’s back.

“Huhuhuh.”

Jinmu, who was enjoying the sight to his heart’s content, turned and walked down the street again.

First, I need to change my clothes and have some food for the first time in a while. Have a drink too.

My mouth feels stuffy since all I had to eat was wild boar every day.

Now that I think about it, I wonder why there were so many wild boars around.

Jinmu stopped at the fabric store, bought a black robe, put it on and headed straight for the stables, making plans for the future in his head.

“Uh?”

Jinmu, who was concentrating on a plan, suddenly perked up.

This was because the officials were camped in all directions of Gwando.

Why?

Ah! Because of that fraud?

It appears that a Provincial Commander called Bang Man-Pyung had begun the investigation.

From the first time I saw him, he seemed innocent and naive.

Has that bastard Tae Yang-myung disappeared by turning into dew at the execution ground?

Perhaps, the moment the corruption investigation came in, he may have sincerely scolded me.

Just thinking about it makes him feel refreshed.

Normally, the Evil Sect, unlike the Justice Faction, had close relationships with the officials. It’s only natural since most of them are wanted.

But what was strange was that there were warriors mixed in among the officials.

How come?

Why do we seem to be helping each other when our relationship is so good and there is obviously no conflict between the officials?

And the clothes worn by the warriors seemed familiar. The plum blossom pattern on the sleeves of the purple robes…

Of Mount Hua?