Chapter 240: Half Time (2)

... he went inside the room that I was staying in?

My heart dropped like a rock.

That's right. I thought it was odd for him to suddenly appear here. He must have come here at Sima Young's request. But if he stopped at my room, then...

Ah, I thought I would no longer be under his radar, but I was too careless.

'This is insane.'

A hundred thoughts passed through my mind. The first thing that came to mind was that I should kneel down.

However, it seemed that doing that would likely anger him more. It was also quite embarrassing to apologize for doing the deed before the wedding.

-Kuakaka, why don't you say you are giving him a granddaughter?

Blood Demon Sword said that, but what could I even say when he looked at me like that? His eyes were too cold!

It was as if my heart was being tightly gripped.

'... nothing else to be done.'

Let's just fall to my knees.

Let me apologize and then talk.

"Father..."

But before I could say anything, Sima Chak, who was looking at me coldly, said,

"As a son-in-law, even with your talents, you often disappoint me..."

Startle!

Before he could finish, the two of us turned to the Revolting Mother's corpse that had been cut in half. Her corpse was emanating a tremendous amount of resentment.

I couldn't see it with my eyes, but all of my senses were on edge.

"This... what..."

She had obviously died, but I didn't understand why her body was releasing such energy.

I kept wondering, but at that moment, the chilling aura that flowed from her body disappeared as if it had evaporated.

I could not comprehend this strangeness. At that moment, Sima Chak mumbled.

"Ahhh... the child!"

'Child?'

As soon as he said this, he moved somewhere with haste. I wondered why for a moment but then realized that the woman had thrown the body of a child before she died.

Did he want to check it out?

Pat!

I followed him and, before long, caught up to him as he stood still with a frown.

He was looking towards where some tree branches were broken and a hollow on the ground.

"Disappeared."

"Are you talking about the child's corpse she was carrying?"

"Yes."

It was difficult to understand the situation. She had thrown the body of a child.

When they fought, she had carried that thing on her body, but I couldn't sense any life from it. It was a true corpse.

'Did a corpse really move?'

A dead corpse moved on its own... that was when a thought passed through my mind.

'Gangshi?'

In the past, sorcerers and people of Mount Mo used sorcery to return bodies to their hometowns. These dead were called Gangshi or Jiangshi in some cases.

A dead body that moved on its own.

"... was it a Gangshi?"

"I don't know. But there was an energy that moved."

"Uh?"

The energy seemed to have disappeared like it was never there. I was puzzled, as Sima Chak said.

"Sixth sense."

Sixth sense?

Was he talking about intuition above the five senses? A sense that was more innate to the body?

Did it make sense to sense the qi of something with just intuition?

"Those who have crossed the wall reach a level of superhumans, and their bodily senses, which number five, are enhanced. However, this isn't the end. There is another wall there."

'Ah!'

Was he telling me about a higher realm?

To do me such a favor.

I looked at him in surprise as Sima Chak spoke to me while touching soil that was dug out of the ground.

"The Sixth Sense is a realm of higher cognition and super sensory. If one reaches it, they will have the ability to fully understand the space around them. I thought you were stepping on the realm of the sixth sense because you could control the sword freely, but I guess not."

"..."

I was doing it through the sixth star on my hand, but I could not reveal that. Sima Chak shook his head and spoke in an unusual tone.

"If it is the child, then it should be her..."

"I did think it was strange."

"What do you mean?"

"That old woman who had opened her sixth sense was influenced by such a roar?"

Uh?

That's right.

As Sima Chak said, if she had opened up her senses, then she could have used another sense to replace it. That meant that she would not be hurt.

'An aging body... a dead child who vanished...'

A subtle connection.

I thought it was strange to keep fighting with a child on her back, but the fact that the qi escaped from her body and reached here.....

"No!"

"That qi has to be a spirit or soul."

"She must have moved into the dead child."

"That's right."

Sima Chak dropped the soil back to the ground and shook his head as he stood up.

"She didn't die and managed to escape. A dangerous enemy has eluded us."

Ahh...

Such was true. This incident meant that she was now an enemy instead of an ally.

Moreover, she even misunderstood my connection to the golden-eyed man, which worsened the situation. Sima Chak moved his hands back and clicked his tongue.

"Your talent to make enemies is amazing."

"..."

That was too much, but I couldn't say anything to refute it.

Sima Chak sighed.

"I came to ask for a favor, but I got a burden attached to me instead. I am going to look for that dead child. You should get out with that thing."

"Father-in-law..."

"Hurry up now. If that old monster gets a grudge..."

Before he could finish, I held out a hand to stop him. This made him frown because I looked like I wasn't listening.

I felt bad, but there was something more important now.

Short Sword's voice echoed to me.

-You see it too? What is that?

Short Sword's vision appeared in my head. It was a small object that was crossing the river at a shocking speed.

It wasn't too far away, and Short Sword, who was still flying around, had coincidentally found it.

I focused my senses, and Short Sword's field of vision expanded. A small child was running above the river.

'Ah!'

I could only see it from the back, but it clearly looked like the corpse of that child. Indeed, the dead child was moving as we predicted.

'The old one.'

There was no doubt that this was the Revolting Mother. She was truly beyond superhuman to be able to do something like this.

Crossing a river by feet was no small feat.

I shouldn't be surprised like this.

"Father-in-law! The child's body is crossing the river."

"What?"

As I said this, he looked at me without being able to understand. I couldn't tell him I could share my vision with my sword.

Even if he didn't understand it, we couldn't let go of this woman

"We are in an urgent situation, so please trust me for now."

"...."

Sima Chak looked at me before nodding his head and immediately rushing to the river.

'Blood Demon Sword!'

-Huh! Get on.

Blood Demon Sword moved from his sheath and let me on his blade. I soared into the air and moved ahead.

Swwwish!

I saw Sima Chak's form utilize his footwork. His speed was amazing.

That light footwork was so excellent that anyone except my father would have difficulty catching up. Sima Chak looked up and frowned.

'...!?'

He seemed quite surprised by my appearance atop my sword. This was certainly a difficult technique for even someone on his level, but I then saw something shocking.

Sima Chak, who was running on the ground, began to take steps into the air?

'Void Steps?'

Void Steps was a legendary footwork technique.

I never knew that it was something possible at this level.

My mouth was open in shock.

But it didn't seem like it was something that could be used continuously.

He occasionally jumped onto a tree or branch before he then jumped into the air.

'...!?'

Sima Chak, who caught up with me, grabbed the hem of my robe and put one foot on my sword.

-This!

Blood Demon Sword staggered slightly at the sudden increase in weight.

Imagine suddenly jumping on without warning.

Despite our shock, Sima Chak was more focused on the small thing that was crossing the river. As he saw what it was, his eyes widened as my words were proven true.

Sima Chak asked me.

"Can you catch up?"

Did he want to move like this?

I wasn't sure it was possible anymore. Since Sima Chak climbed up, our speed had decreased by a lot.

"Just how are you doing this?"

"That..."

-Damnations. This is heavy!

I wanted to answer, but Blood Demon Sword was struggling because his balance was no longer perfect.

I could not ask him to get down, but he then said.

"This won't work. Cross your arms."

What was he trying to do?

I did as he asked, and then he jumped over my crossed arms, kicking me to coil himself up.

Pak!

"Huh!"

At that moment, his form flew as swiftly as an arrow. It was a type of cannon movement.

Swish!

In a single moment, he cut past a third of the river in the air.

After a few more dashes, he was soon close to the small thing that was reaching the end of the river.

-That damned human!

The Blood Demon Sword was cursing out Sima Chak because we had been used as a stepping stone.

Anyway, that man was a real giant.

Due to the difference in distance, it had seemed impossible to catch up to that old crone, but Sima Chak managed to do it.

"Go up!"

Blood Demon Sword followed my words and flew higher.

I caught his sheath, aimed for the child's head, and said,

"Father-in-law will arrive there soon. The odds for that body are...."

At that moment...

Before I could finish, the child's body faded from view. She was using the Shape Shifting Illusion technique.

Was she trying to avoid fighting against us?

We could not let her go.

I used the Wind Shadow Steps because it was difficult to keep up with her speed using normal footwork.

The moment I did so, I could see her movement.

Shh! Shh! Shh!

However, the direction of her movement was odd. Since she was avoiding Sima Chak, I thought fighting in that corpse's body must be difficult. Despite this, she was now running toward me.

Kwang!

I forcefully stopped in the air and spun my sword toward her.

I then used the Chasing Till the End Sword technique.

The sharp force which came from the tip of my sword struck her like a whirlwind as she rushed to me.

Chachachaca!

'Uh?'

Normally, the enemy would have been swept away, but this managed to move to the middle of the storm as if she was a moth flying to a flame.

With her small body, she reached out to me by moving through the eye of the storm. With her invisible eye, she had accurately grasped my technique's flow.

She was truly a monster.

This was the first time anyone had reacted like this to my technique. The essence of the technique was through two changes.

The path would slowly twist through the whirlwind to push it up. At that moment, she didn't surrender to that flow and continued to clash with the qi using her bare body.

Chachachak!

A strong level of qi coursed through her body. Was she planning to die like this?

I didn't know what she planned to do, so I could not let down my guard. If she knew how to use that bizarre body, it might be better to kill her in any way possible.

'Cut the throat.'

I changed the path of my sword to her neck.

Thanks to this, her neck was cut.

If there was no longer a body to move, there was no way she could survive, no matter how good her sorcery...

Pak!

At that moment, Cheol Su-ryun grabbed my sword. I tried to pull out and twist the blade, but I could not hide the shock at the enormous strength she wielded.

I could not understand where such power was coming from that body.

At that moment, she laughed and said,

"I wouldn't be sure if it was the Wicked Moon Sword, but did you think you could do something against me?"

Goosebumps spread all over my body.

I kicked her in the head as she held onto the blade.

At that moment, she used quick movements and clung to my foot.

"Get away!"

I urgently tried to stab her with my sword, but she was nimble enough to climb up my body in an instant.

Too fast.

"Damn it!"

I tried to force her off me, but she shit my head with both hands at that moment.

Pak!

"Kuak!"

It felt like my ears would burst.

I could feel blood pouring out of my nose and mouth. My ears burst as the shock made my head feel dizzy.

I then heard her voice.

"Let me take your body."

'...!?'

Goosebumps ran through my body once more.

'Where is this? The soul?'

Cheol Su-ryun, who had managed to ambush Jin Wonwhi, found his soul.

It was the first time she had managed to enter such a strong body, but it would not be difficult as long as she pushed his soul out. It was a pity that this wasn't a female body, but this body's quality was like no other.

Besides, didn't he have that recovery ability? Perhaps this was the most ideal body for her.

'Oh. Where is this?'

She descended into the depths, confident in finding wherever his soul was hiding.

After all, she was the best sorceress who had lived for over 200 years.

Woong!

She sensed the soul deep inside the body and quickly went deeper.

'Found it. Kakakaka. Do you think you can escape? Let me free you from this body...'

As she tried to push the soul out, something caught her.

She could not hide her shock as she felt something tightly hold onto her ankle.

'I cannot fight back...'

Crack!

She became engulfed, shocking her for a moment.

It was impossible for a living person to control their soul. Yet this thing was eroding her?

'You... what are you?'

A voice resonated inside.

-If you are new here, just stay quiet, noisy wench.

'What?'

She could not understand what was happening.

Crack!

Then, something pierced through her soul with strength. It felt different from all the evils that she had experienced until then.

There was anger, murder, and destruction inside him.

'T-this boy... just how? How can such an absurd existence even stay in his body....'