Myst, Might, Mayhem

Chapter 164 – Proposition (4)

“To show you how incompetent you are as a successor.”

At Mok Gyeong-un’s insulting words, Wi So-yeon’s expression turned fierce.

To become the Society Leader’s successor, she had shouldered many burdens.

How dare he judge her so presumptuously, as if he knew the weight of the path she bore?

-Clench!

“You…”

Just as Wi So-yeon was about to unleash her anger while biting her lip,

Mok Gyeong-un spoke with a bright smile.

“So, about that body of yours, give it to me.”

‘!?’

In an instant, Wi So-yeon’s expression hardened.

For a moment, she doubted her own ears.

What did this person just say to her?

‘Give her body to him?’

-Flush!

Repeating the words she heard in her mind, her face turned as red as a persimmon in an instant.

It was a humiliating feeling she had never experienced before in her life.

To Wi So-yeon’s ears, this absurd request made by Mok Gyeong-un sounded like he was blatantly toying with her.

Since she had decided to walk the path of a successor, she had given up on a life as a woman.

Yet, was this bastard mocking her?

-Whoosh!

Wi So-yeon couldn’t endure it any longer.

In an instant, a sharp murderous intent rose from her sword fingers, attempting to slash Mok Gyeong-un’s neck.

‘I’ll kill you.’

However,

-Swish!

Mok Gyeong-un lightly evaded her murderous intent with a half-step movement and grasped her wrist.

But unlike before, since she had truly made up her mind to kill Mok Gyeong-un, there was no way she would stop here.

-Swish!

The moment her wrist was grasped, Wi So-yeon aimed a kick at Mok Gyeong-un’s head.

However, it wasn’t an ordinary kick.

The kick was also imbued with a sharp murderous intent.

‘It’s possible with the feet too?’

Faced with the sharp murderous intent unleashed by her kick and the exceptionally sharp strike, Mok Gyeong-un slightly tilted his head back.

Wi So-yeon’s kick narrowly missed.

She didn’t stop there and unleashed a series of attacks.

‘Heavenly Sword Technique. Third Stance, Heavenly Research Sword!’

-Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh!

From Wi So-yeon’s hands, a light like starlight shone, and simultaneously, eight sword fingers attempted to pierce Mok Gyeong-un’s vital acupoints.

The sword intent that rises, then rises further, and surpasses that, is called the Peerless Sword Intent.

Six Heavens.

The sword intent of the Heavenly Sword Technique, the unique technique of the Society Leader, one of the six absolutes known as the pinnacle of the Central Plains martial world, was a truly flawless and peerless sword intent.

However,

-Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh!

Amidst her sword technique, Mok Gyeong-un’s sword fingers cunningly penetrated.

It was a trajectory of sword fingers that even she hadn’t anticipated.

This caused a glint of interest to appear in Wi So-yeon’s eyes.

‘How?’

As if reading her mind, Mok Gyeong-un spoke.

“You put in more force than the Young Master’s sword intent.”

‘Ah!’

Right. Come to think of it, this fellow said he had also confronted First Senior Brother.

But he was truly absurd.

He must have only fought First Senior Brother once, yet she never expected him to respond in such a way to the Heavenly Sword Technique, known for its flawless and near-perfect sword intent.

-Clang clang clang clang clang!

As her murderous intent and Mok Gyeong-un’s murderous intent collided, cracks formed in the air, and a sharp sound like metal clashing spread out.

-Swish!

As Mok Gyeong-un’s single sword penetrated the gap in her technique, she hastily switched her sword intent.

‘Heavenly Sword Technique. Fifth Stance, Chaotic World of the Celestial Origin!’

Like a falling water droplet creating a hole in a rock over a long period, the sword path was directed towards a single point.

The Fifth Stance possessed a power comparable to the secret techniques of the Heavenly Sword Technique.

However,

-Clang clang clang clang!

Mok Gyeong-un created a dense net with his sword fingers and instead pressured her sword intent.

As a result, Wi So-yeon’s expression grew increasingly gloomy.

Who the hell was this person?

How was he penetrating the Heavenly Sword Technique in such a way?

Even if he hadn’t fought First Senior Brother for three days and nights, he seemed too familiar with the sword intent.

It was as if he had some knowledge of the Heavenly Sword Technique.

‘Is this what a true genius is?’

Just half a month ago, she had considered him to be nothing more than a novice, but now he had become an immeasurable, colossal mountain.

He was truly a monstrous being.

How wonderful would it have been if such a person had followed her with sincere loyalty?

However, this person was undoubtedly a vessel that no one could control.

He was a brazen man who would come to her after his martial arts had advanced, cause a commotion, and even bring shame upon her.

She could understand why First Senior Brother had fought with this person.

This person…

-Swish!

It was at that moment.

In an instant, his figure dispersed like smoke, and Mok Gyeong-un had already penetrated the sword trajectory created by Wi So-yeon, arriving right in front of her.

‘Clear and Manifest Water Crossing Steps!’

The danger of this movement technique lay in its high-speed movement at close range.

The stepping method was so marvelous that it was difficult to catch its movements with the naked eye even within a mere ten steps.

‘How the hell did he learn this?’

No matter how much she thought about it, she couldn’t understand.

But that wasn’t the important thing right now.

Wi So-yeon hurriedly raised her murderous intent with her left hand, trying to block Mok Gyeong-un.

However,

-Pak!

Mok Gyeong-un’s movement was much faster than hers.

In an instant, he lightly grasped her left wrist, pressed the acupoint on her shoulder, and pushed her back.

“Ugh!”

-Swoosh!

Wi So-yeon’s body was pushed back about six steps in an instant.

“Haa…”

A sigh escaped Wi So-yeon’s lips.

‘Strong.’

Undeniably, Mok Gyeong-un was currently a step above her.

The difference between having crossed the threshold and not having crossed it was evident.

However,

‘He grasped the acupoint on my shoulder, not my neck.’

It seemed as if he was trying to subdue her without injury.

Because of this, she felt even more unpleasant.

‘Is he going easy on me?’

In the first place, it didn’t feel like he was treating her as a martial artist.

[Give that body to me.]

-Clench!

Wi So-yeon bit her lip tightly.

Was it because he saw her as a woman after all?

Because of that, along with the shame as a martial artist, a strange feeling blossomed within her emotions.

‘This should be enough, right?’

Of course, contrary to her resentful state of mind, Mok Gyeong-un was merely following Cheong-ryeong’s request and adjusting his strength appropriately to subdue Wi So-yeon without any flaws.

If it weren’t for her unique physique, where her true energy overflowed to an extraordinary degree compared to her martial prowess, he would have already subdued her.

-Hohoho. Well done, Mortal.

Cheong-ryeong spoke as if satisfied.

Until now, she had postponed her plans for the future, not knowing when Mok Gyeong-un would become stronger, but she had been eyeing Wi So-yeon’s body, which resembled her own.

Possession was no different from seizing a body.

However, since Wi So-yeon’s appearance was so similar to her own, obtaining her body felt like being reborn, making her excited.

-Strike her brain and make her lose consciousness. From then on, I will take care of the rest.

-As you wish.

With that, Mok Gyeong-un pushed Wi So-yeon further, eventually making her fall to the ground.

-Thud!

‘Ah.’

Unable to maintain her posture, Wi So-yeon fell to the ground and was seized by a sense of shame at the sight of Mok Gyeong-un looking down at her from above while pressing her down.

Was this bastard really after her body?

As a disciple of the Heaven and Earth Society Leader, no one had been able to directly express their feelings towards her as a member of the opposite sex.

Yet, to think he would blatantly toy with her like this.

“Let go!”

“I can’t do that.”

“Do you think you can handle the consequences of doing something like this?”

“Consequences? If I thought I couldn’t handle it, I wouldn’t have done it in the first place. And once you give me your body, you’ll always be with me anyway. What’s the big deal?”

With those words, Mok Gyeong-un smiled brightly.

It was truly strange.

When she first saw him, she did consider him to be a man of exceptional beauty and handsomeness.

However, since she intended to walk the path of a leader, that was the end of it.

But strangely, once she became aware that Mok Gyeong-un was trying to have her, Wi So-yeon’s face flushed red in an instant.

-Thump! Thump! Thump!

Her heart was beating wildly like crazy.

Why was this happening?

It was difficult to control her frantically beating heart.

[You’ll always be with me anyway. What’s the big deal?]

Mok Gyeong-un’s words kept echoing in her mind, leaving her in a state of confusion.

Did this bastard desire her as a woman to the extent that he was willing to bear all the repercussions?

‘…’

Wi So-yeon gazed into Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes.

His unwavering gaze, which seemed upright, was directly fixed on her face.

Excluding her master and senior brothers, he was the first man to look her straight in the eye like this.

‘…’

As he did so, Mok Gyeong-un brought his hand to her face.

To be precise, he was trying to strike her forehead with his palm, causing damage to her brain.

At that moment, she spoke.

“Wait.”

Of course, there was no way Mok Gyeong-un would stop at those words.

But Wi So-yeon spoke in a slightly trembling voice.

“You… Do you truly desire me as a woman?”

‘!?’

At her words, Mok Gyeong-un furrowed his brows.

Desire her as a woman?

It seemed this woman had misunderstood something.

Although he had no interest in romantic relationships or emotional attachments between men and women, Mok Gyeong-un could immediately discern how she had interpreted his words.

‘Ah. Was there room for misunderstanding?’

Since she was unaware of his true intentions, she naturally had no choice but to misinterpret his words about wanting her body.

However, there was no need for further explanation now.

So, ignoring it, he tried to bring his palm to her forehead, but,

-Woosh!

At that moment, Wi So-yeon’s energy surged intensely.

Her internal energy, which had soared tremendously in an instant, surpassing the level of simply drawing upon it, exceeded even Mok Gyeong-un, who had reached the early stage of the Transformation Realm.

‘What is this?’

But that wasn’t the end.

-Rumble!

Along with it, an immense cold energy seeped out from Wi So-yeon.

The cold energy was so strong that frost formed on their surroundings in an instant, and white breath flowed from Mok Gyeong-un’s mouth.

-Sizzle!

Wi So-yeon’s hair gradually turned white.

Her appearance was truly mystical.

At her transformation, Cheong-ryeong exclaimed in disbelief.

-Ha! Mortal, this wench possesses the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians.

-Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians?

-It’s a rare physique that appears once every few hundred years. Due to the incessant rise of yin true energy from all meridians, the blood in her body is blocked, and she is destined to die young before even reaching adulthood.

-…But she seems fine.

-It seems she has learned how to suppress the energy within her body.

Otherwise, there was no way she could have survived without the yin energy running rampant like this.

It was Cheong-ryeong’s first time seeing the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians.

The Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians, known as a cursed physique with a predestined short lifespan, could yield the tremendous advantage of inexhaustible true energy regardless of cultivation if overcome, but it was no easy feat.

Until now, she had never heard of anyone overcoming the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians.

‘This wench…’

Could it be that she had overcome the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians?

-Crack! Crack!

But blue veins had appeared around Wi So-yeon’s eyes.

‘No, that’s not it.’

As expected, she hadn’t overcome the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians.

Her prediction was accurate.

Currently, Wi So-yeon had released the True Harmony Forbidden Gate Secrets she had learned from her master and opened up the True Divine Yin Energy of the Absolute Meridians throughout her body, which she had been suppressing with great difficulty.

[Half a moment at most. You must not exceed that.]

It was the time her master had warned her about.

If she maintained this state for more than half a moment, her entire body’s meridians would freeze, and she would die.

However, during that brief moment, she could unleash the extreme yin energy that even a master of the Transformation Realm couldn’t easily deal with.

The only ones aware of this fact were her master, the Society Leader, and herself.

‘I intended to keep it hidden as a trump card against First Senior Brother, but…’

To think she would end up using it against this man.

If he managed to overcome even this cursed power that could take her life, she would accept it as fate.

Pouring out her True Divine Yin Energy, she spoke.

“You want to have me? Then try to break this cursed power as well.”

-Whoosh! Rumble!

The immense True Divine Yin Energy caused the clothes of Wi So-yeon and Mok Gyeong-un to freeze entirely.

The surroundings within a radius of a dozen zhang were filled with cold energy, reminiscent of the frigid cold of the Northern Sea.

Wi So-yeon drew upon even more true energy, trying to fling Mok Gyeong-un away from on top of her, where he was pressing down on her shoulders.

-Whoosh!

It was at that very moment.

-Sizzle!

Instantly, a dark red energy surged from Mok Gyeong-un’s entire body.

As a result, the dark red energy and the cold energy she was emitting collided, and the surroundings were engulfed in steam.

‘This is?’

Wi So-yeon could instinctively recognize what this energy was.

It was poison energy.

‘…Impossible.’

Emitting poison energy from one’s entire body was the realm of a Poison Man.

What the hell was going on?

Although Mok Gyeong-un had been accepted as Poison King’s disciple, it had only been two hours ago.

Yet, in that short time, he had mastered Poison King’s unique technique, the Perishing Poison Scripture, and reached the realm of a Poison Man, which could be considered the pinnacle of that technique?

How could such an absurd thing happen?

It was utterly unbelievable.

But then, Mok Gyeong-un’s voice reached her ears.

“You’re curious about how I dealt with the Eldest Young Master, right

“What?”

Before his words could even end, Mok Gyeong-un embraced the lying Wi So-yeon.

“Now, sleep…”

-Sizzle!

At that moment, as the cold energy and poison energy collided, even stronger steam billowed out.

However, this led to a perplexing situation for Wi So-yeon.

The vicious poison energy also carried heat, causing the frozen clothes of the two, who had been emitting True Divine Yin Energy and cold energy, to crumble.

-Crumble!

“You… You!”

As their clothes shattered and bare skin touched, Wi So-yeon’s cheeks turned bright red as if they would burst.

In that instant, Mok Gyeong-un detected a momentary fluctuation in her energy.

And he could identify the source of her rampaging Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians’ energy.

‘Found it.’

It was the Central Floodgate acupoint of the Conception Vessel meridian.

Mok Gyeong-un pushed the perplexed Wi So-yeon away and placed his palm on the Central Floodgate acupoint below her chest.

Overwhelmed with embarrassment, Wi So-yeon hurriedly tried to push Mok Gyeong-un away.

“Get your hands off me right now!”

However,

-Whoosh!

“Aah.”

At that moment, her slender waist arched backward.

‘!!!!!’

Wi So-yeon’s eyes trembled as her head tilted back.

That was because the rampaging energy of the Heavenly Yin Absolute Meridians was being absorbed through Mok Gyeong-un’s palm.