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Chapter 74
The Baengri Clan’s Unwanted Granddaughter
Chapter 74
It was odd that someone as well-trained as the Cheonsan Flame Lord would be unable to hide his nerves in front of me. Is he acting? Or maybe... Peering at him, I found something strange. Why is his inner qi still the same?
It hadn’t increased at all, meaning that he hadn’t taken the Azure Elixir he stole from me. I’d actually been wondering about that from the moment I first met him here, since I hadn’t expected to see him again for a long time, figuring he’d go into sequestered training for months or even years to absorb the Azure Elixir fully.
Why did he snatch it from me if he wasn’t even going to drink it? Was there some reason he couldn’t? But the Azure Elixir isn’t picky about the type of qi you have. The Hwasan sect’s Amethyst Revival Pill was comparable in power to the Azure Elixir, but if someone who hadn’t learned the Hwasan sect’s Amethyst Fog Elevated Technique were to consume the Amethyst Revival Pill, its ability to enhance your inner qi would drop below half its full potential.
E n̂ u̇ mӓ
That meant the amount of inner qi you could gain would be reduced from one gapja, or the amount you could accumulate through sixty years of dedicated training, to under thirty years’ worth. And most spiritual medicines were like the Amethyst Revival Pill that way. If the spiritual medicine didn’t match the nature of your inner qi, it was hard to absorb all the energy in it.
For example, the Ten-Thousand Year Flame Carp contained fire qi, while the Thousand Snows Ginseng contained cold qi, and a tuber fleeceflower matured over a hundred years—the most common ingredient needed for creating any spiritual medicine—contained earth and wood qi, the energies that harmonized most stably with other types of inner qi. However, for someone with the Extreme Yang Physique whose body was bursting with yang and fire qi, consuming a spiritual core containing wood qi would be no different from throwing tinder on a burning building. And if they consumed the Thousand Snows Ginseng bursting with cold qi instead, the fire and cold qi would clash inside them until it tore them apart. But the Azure Elixir was different, compatible with any sort of inner qi. This was the reason it was considered the greatest of spiritual medicines.
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At that moment, I came up with a hypothesis. The Cheonsan Flame Lord was almost seventy years old. It was natural for him to feel nervous over not having a single disciple at that age. Even if he were to find a disciple with the Extreme Yang Physique, he’d have to train them up quickly to pass down as much as possible, and what better method was there to increase a disciple’s level than spiritual medicine?
What if the Cheonsan Flame Lord always wanted the Azure Elixir not for himself, but for his disciple? Of course, this was just based on a hunch without any evidence to support it. But since he was standing right before me, I could always just ask him.
“Do you intend to give the Azure Elixir to Yayul?”
His white eyebrows angled downward, and I knew I’d hit the nail on the head again. How interesting that things would’ve turned out this way. I’d joked to Yayul that his life had been exchanged for an Azure Elixir, but now it was his.
W̄ė b n̂ о̇ v ӗ l E n ù m̈а
In any case, it was a good thing. The Cheonsan Flame Lord’s martial arts would be preserved, Yayul would be saved, his demonic arts would be eliminated, and he would become a powerful ally. He will be on our side... Right?
He’d have to be away for a couple of years if he left with the Cheonsan Flame Lord, and a few years was long enough for a kid to forget all about someone he’d only spent a few months with. If I could only pop in every so often to check up on him, we could keep up our friendship. I was a little worried.
The Cheonsan Flame Lord let out an exasperated sigh. “To think I’d be played by a mere child like this.”
In just one breath, he crossed the span of ten paces to stand right in front of me. Seeing his hand stretching out toward me, I reflexively dodged. Mm... I regretted it immediately at the sight of his face turning dark.
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“You dodged that?”
I laughed nervously. “Well, you see...”
Еňúm̀.а.і̇d
A hand grabbed my chin at an inescapable speed. “So it wasn’t a coincidence.”
“Eh? Wha’ ah you doin’? Lemme go.”
“I noticed it before, but... You have good eyes.” He placed his hand on my qi center. A hot swell of energy surged into me—his inner qi. “Definitely a qi-waste, but seems to be able to use inner qi by some strange trick.”
My eyes went wide.
He laughed. “Surprised that I figured you out? You didn’t really have any intention of hiding it anyway, no? If you’d caught Namgoong Ryuchung’s sword qi-charged training blade without using any inner qi, it wouldn’t have ended at just ripping your palm open.”
“Ah geddit... Now lemme go.”
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“You might not be able to learn the Nine Crimson Flames Technique, but… Well, you should be enough. Maybe he’ll change his mind once he sees you learning from me. Hmm. Yes. It’ll pass the time at least.”
What was he doing mumbling to himself all of a sudden? He finally let go of my chin. I pouted and rubbed at it, repeatedly opening and closing my mouth. I thought my chin was going to crack.
Just then, he suddenly picked me up and tucked me under his arm like he was carrying a chicken, then proceeded to stomp toward my chambers.
“Where are we going?” I asked.
He didn’t say. Without a word, the Cheonsan Flame Lord approached the room where Father and Yayul were having a conversation and kicked open the door. Father was already aware of us, having sensed us approaching, but Yayul looked at me in shock.
“Your daughter says she wants to learn my Crushing Palm Technique.”
Èn um̈å.і̃ d
“Pardon?”
“Eh?”
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* * *
After a long nap, I eagerly presented my father with the Azure Elixir, having forgotten all about it the night before due to everything that happened.
But his reaction was lukewarm, neither hugely shocked nor delighted. He simply asked curiously, “How on earth do you have this? Didn’t the Cheonsan Flame Lord take it from you?”
“Why aren’t you surprised?” I asked with a bit of disappointment.
Ėn̂ um̂ а
“I already heard about it from Namgoong Wan. He told me you gave him the Azure Elixir you found in the Divine Physician’s laboratory.”
No! My glorious plan to surprise Father...! Come to think of it, since Father had waited for me for a week in front of Changgoong Hall, there was plenty of time for Mister Wan to have told him about the Azure Elixir.
“Tsk.”
“Hmm?”
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“I wanted to surprise you...”
Father smiled lightly and said, “I was surprised enough. But how is it that you still have one left? I heard you only had two.”
Е̃ n úḿ а̃ .і̇d̆
I puffed out my chest and boasted, “It’s all because I’m really smart.”
Father cocked his head to the side and asked in disbelief, “You can’t be saying you were lying about having only two to begin with?”
I nodded.
Father looked down at me grimly, then said, “I’ll take this for safekeeping for now. I can’t drink it right now, but I appreciate the gesture.” It was a smooth answer, like something he’d prepared beforehand. Something about it bothered me, but that feeling disappeared when he said, “We’ll be moving quarters.”
“How come?”
“It would be difficult for me to stay here as well, and... I told Wan about your special ability.”
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“Ah...” I asked a bit nervously, “What did he say?”
“He said good for you.”
I gathered my hands in front of my chest and let out a sigh of relief. We immediately moved to a wing that was located deeper within the Namgoong clan compound where hardly anyone ever set foot, and I knew that it was so that we could train without any worries.
Accommodations like this reminded me how much more consideration the Namgoong clan showed me than the Baengri clan, which felt... not great. To think that someone else’s house could feel more comfortable than my own.
I thought I could understand why Father had chosen to wander the martial world instead of returning to the clan.
* * *
We b n̄ оv el̀ Ē ṅ ú m а̃
There wasn’t much for me to prepare. We didn’t have that much luggage to begin with, and the young madam assigned a lot of servants to help us as well. After we moved to a new location where we could train freely, the Cheonsan Flame Lord taught me the Crushing Palm Technique for about half a gak (roughly fifteen minutes) each day.
The Crushing Palm Technique was a barehanded technique that involved grappling the opponent or breaking their joints. At the moment, I’d barely dodged the hand trying to snatch at my elbow when another hand shot straight toward my face.
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“Argh!”
My forehead throbbed, and I was seeing stars. So what if I could see the trajectory of his attack? A blow from the Cheonsan Flame Lord wasn’t something that I could avoid just because I could see where it was headed.
In the beginning, I’d end up seeing stars as soon as I heard the word “Start,” but now I could dodge fairly well. Of course, the Cheonsan Flame Lord was also going easy on me.
“We’ll stop here for today,” he said.
Ӗ n̊ ümа̀. іd̈
“Thank... you.”
“Hmph.”
My forehead was aching. He’d hit me so many times that I began to wonder if he’d only offered to teach me this technique so he could have a legitimate reason to beat me up.
The Cheonsan Flame Lord usually fought barehanded, because most weapons simply couldn’t withstand the heat of his Nine Crimson Flames Technique. Many had been left maimed or dead under his bare hands, and he used to go around smashing his way through everything and everyone in sight, until one day he just simmered down. If he hadn’t become sworn brothers with the Namgoong clan head, he would’ve ended up in the unrighteous faction.
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As great a master of hand-to-hand combat as he was, the Crushing Palm Technique was also a cut above most other techniques. It was no wonder that Father had been so strongly in support of my learning the Cheonsan Flame Lord’s Crushing Palm Technique as well.
“You’ve improved quite a bit.” Father must have been watching for a while. Seeing him greet the Cheonsan Flame Lord with a fist and palm salute, I followed suit.
W̊е bn о̌ v̆ е̃ l Еṅ u m̆ ӓ
Father watched as the Cheonsan Flame Lord disappeared into the distance, then approached me and rubbed my forehead, his hand cool on my hot skin. “Let’s go inside.”
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