Chapter 31 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
“It is a soft martial art, and it is a martial art on a different level from the martial arts of this world, which are only focused on efficiently accumulating natural skills. “It is a high-dimensional pupil that can train both energy and body at the same time.”
Even though by training the pupil in this way, you can quickly train your body with just your body without any tools, as the level of the pupil increases, even the internal energy begins to accumulate, which was a pupil named Cheonjeongyukhwa.
It does not stop here, but regardless of what kind of martial art you are learning, it is a pupil-type Naegongsimbeop that combines with the acquired Naegongsimbeop to naturally practice the Naegongsimbeop.
In that sense, it was not strange for Yeonhwa to be proud of that pupil. If you just learn the inner gongsim method right away, you will be able to achieve the Diamond Buddha in the outer gong like Yeonhwa.
… The problem was that, as it was such a high-level ‘martial arts’, practicing and consuming ‘internal energy’ was an essential element, unlike soft martial arts that strengthen the body by manipulating pure essence.
“… “You were teasing me because you knew I couldn’t learn it in the first place?”
“No? “I was not even aware that the special ability you would acquire would conflict with my martial arts skills.”
It may be said that way, but from the beginning, it was common sense that magic, martial arts, and power’s respective supernatural energy, mana, internal energy, and aura repulsed and clashed with each other.
That is why it was said that it was impossible to reach a high level by learning magic, martial arts, and power at the same time.
If the level was low, martial arts would use the lower range, magic would use the lower range, and power skills would use the upper range, and the amount of magical energy it could handle was small, so even if it caused a backlash, it could be resolved somehow.
However, once a high level is reached, martial arts gradually develops middle and upper ranges of combat, and magic also develops upper ranges, which ultimately leads to conflicts with other abilities, explosively increasing the risk of falling into essence runaway.
Of course, among martial arts, magic, and powers, there are types of abilities that allow one to learn multiple abilities at the same time, such as Yang’s Magic, but such types were extremely rare.
Even if you can learn it, it is very difficult to raise one ability to the highest level, so how can it be easy to raise all abilities to the highest level?
Arguably, it is common sense, both on Earth and here in the Orbital World, that those who have mastered one ability cannot learn other abilities.
It is said that martial arts and circle magic can be safely reached by learning them at the same time, but that was only possible because both abilities deal with the essence itself, not the essence processing form, so they were exceptions among exceptions.
‘In short, at the point when I declared that I would learn an unknown ability without learning martial arts, it was an established fact that I would not be able to learn the pupil named Cheonjeongyukhwa, which requires internal practice.’
And even though Yeonhwa knows this very well, she was condescending like that by using something she could not master even if she taught him with the intention of picking on Eugene.
In fact, since it is unknown what kind of special ability Eugene will acquire, the possibility of learning Heavenly Incarnation cannot be completely denied.
“Ha…”
Eugene, who realized that fact, let out a deep sigh, expressing that he had only hoped for nothing and was only disappointed.
This time too, when the trainer of a certain game was winning some kind of victory, Eugene noticed the pure white breath created with his sigh and his body trembled slightly.
“Hmm…”
The current date is the end of December. I don’t know if Orbital World’s seasons were because it was an original Korean game, or if it was for some other reason, but it had four seasons just like in Korea.
… In other words, the weather is about to get cold, and in fact, the temperature in the front yard of the log mansion where Eugene and Yeonhwa live is close to freezing.
Therefore, it was natural for Eugene, who was wearing nothing on his upper body, to feel cold.
“It seems cold?”
And when Yeon-hwa, who saw that appearance and was wearing a negligee that looked colder than Eugene no matter how she thought about it, asked, Eugene gave her an answer.
“Well, I can endure it. “When I was on Earth, there was a time when I ran around crazy snowy mountains where the temperature dropped to -50 degrees Celsius, hunting down the dog-like snow maiden.”
Of course, even for Eugene, it would have been difficult for him to endure the current temperature with his upper body removed if he had nothing.
However, in order to train Eugene’s body right now, the vessel called body is filled with essence to the limit.
As the essence strengthens physical abilities just by being contained in the body, it also increases resistance to cold.
There is no denying that it is cold, as the heat from the training has not cooled down yet, but if you try to endure it, you can endure it.
“… But just looking at your clothes, the Heavenly Demon looks colder than me. Is that okay?”
“If you had reached the level of an absolute being and experienced a complete transformation, wouldn’t you know that? The main seat is Hanseo Bulchim. “There is no problem with walking around naked even in weather worse than this.”
“It depends on the temperature… , So it doesn’t consume your inner energy?”
When Eugene also attained the status of an absolute being, he also achieved imperviousness to Chinese calligraphy, as Yeonhwa said, but it was more of a way to completely block cold and heat through the form of essence processing he handled, that is, the energy of special abilities.
Therefore, I had no choice but to continuously consume my psychic energy depending on the temperature.
“The main seat is the Geumgang Buddha statue. In other words, the standard for cold to penetrate the body is much higher.”
And that meant that cold and heat could be blocked more efficiently with less internal energy. In other words, the body could withstand this level of cold on its own without consuming any internal energy.
“Under… “I’m so jealous of that Diamond Buddha.”
In Eugene’s case, he trained his body to the limit through training.
However, even that is bound to be inadequate compared to the pupil who trains the body beyond its physical limits with supernatural powers like the Incarnation of Heavenly Truth.
No matter how much physical load you put on your body, it will not be as good as the load given by your special abilities, and that also means that the peak point at which your body recovers and strengthens is low.
“Hmm… , Is the special ability you will acquire one in which physical ability is important?”
So, is there a need for Yeonhwa to be so envious of Yujin’s remark, which shows deep envy for Yeonhwa’s Cheonjeongyuk? Asking with an attitude of asking.
“No matter what ability you have, the balance of your mind and body is important.”
In that sense, Cheonjeongyukhwa, which can train both energy and body at the same time, and especially the body to the limit, can be said to be a truly great external energy type of spiritual art.
“Definitely the balance of the body and mind is important.”
“Even the male body in this world’s physical capabilities are closer to the physical capabilities of the female body in the world I lived in, so training is not as efficient as my original body.”
“Hoo? Isn’t that interesting? “They say the standards for men and women have been reversed, so it seems like in that world men generally had superior physical abilities?”
Yeonhwa responded that it was fun to hear Eugene’s explanation, but soon after seeing Eugene shaking from the heat of training, she spoke.
“If it’s really cold, why don’t you at least wear some clothes?”
“Clothes… “Now that I think about it, what did you do with the top I was wearing?”
After coming to his senses after hearing Yeonhwa’s words, he naturally moved to practice and remembered what he had forgotten. When he asked, Yeonhwa answered.
“I threw it away because it was in tatters.”
“… It was definitely tattered to the point where I had to throw it away. “Then, do you have any men’s clothing that I can wear?”
When Yeonhwa answered calmly, Yujin remembered that the top she was wearing was close to rags, and asked with a sigh.
“There’s no way a woman could have men’s clothes, right? “This position is not that hungry for men.”
To put it in Earth terms, it was no different from asking a man if he had women’s clothes, so I could understand Yeonhwa’s reaction. Only…
“… “So what kind of clothes do you want me to wear from now on?”
“Get it and wear it yourself. “Does this office have to resolve that as well?”
Yeonhwa’s attitude is that since she provides food, clothing, and shelter, it is natural for her to take care of the rest.
Eugene was being as generous as possible and talking normally, but I realized once again that the elf who was tilting her head with an innocent expression as if asking why she was asking such an obvious question was also the Heavenly Demon in her previous life.
“… Please tell me where I can find the top I threw away. “I should at least wear that. Shouldn’t I go back to the system later and get some clothes?”
In a worldview where men and women are reversed, a man walking around without his top was no different from a woman walking around in her underwear.
And no matter how many different fantasy worlds there are, even women walking around in bikini armor, and even if the genders are reversed and barbarians with their upper bodies removed openly also exist, you still have to dress properly.
Just as on Earth people who wear bikini armor are called exhibitionists, in this world too men who take off their upper bodies are called exhibitionists, so if you don’t want to hear that.
Therefore, in order to return to the system even briefly to get new clothes, it was necessary to secure and wear the original clothes, even if they were in a tattered state.
“I roughly threw it over there, so you can find it yourself.”
When Yeon-hwa points out the direction of where Yu-jin threw away his clothes, as Yu-jin wanted, Yu-jin thinks that she should go look for the clothes after the training is over.
… In other words, it meant that for now I had to continue training with my upper body removed in this cold.
So in the end, even though he was shivering from the cold, he started his final workout before his body temperature dropped any further.
“Hmm… “It’s a fairly systematic training method, but if you’re going to train ignorantly like that, wouldn’t it be better to learn a good soft martial art?”
And when Yeonhwa, who was watching Eugene start his finishing exercise, couldn’t stand it and gave him advice again, Eugene took a breath and spoke.
“Whoa… , Phew… My essence… So, I don’t know if the nature manager’s control ability is poor… , Phew… ! Hmm… ! Considering my control now, this is more efficient… !”
“Now that I think about it, I guess that’s true too. Among the soft martial arts, there is also a soft martial art of the outer-gong type that accumulates natural energy and simultaneously consumes the accumulated natural energy to train the body, such as Cheon Jeong Inkhwa, but all of them depend on the ‘unconsciousness.'”
It is a soft martial art that allows those who do not know how to control energy through thought to accumulate and use essence unconsciously by fixing the image with body movement.
In that sense, the story would have been different in the current situation where Eugene could exquisitely control an amount of essence that a criminal could not even dream of, although his ability to control essence would have been reduced due to his lack of experience in reaching the level of an absolute being.
This is because the amount of essence that Eugene can control and absorb with his will is much greater than with most soft martial arts, and he will be able to control the essence more efficiently.
Therefore, Yeonhwa also accepted Eugene’s training and decided to just watch.
From Yeonhwa’s point of view, who can train her body through Heavenly Incarnation, it seems an inefficient and ignorant method, but from Eugene’s point of view, it was the most efficient training method.
“Fuuuuu…”
And while Yeonhwa is watching, Eugene, who has finished stretching to moderately load his entire body as a finishing exercise, sits down on the floor with his butt down while breathing.
“Is it over?”
Yeonhwa, who judged that Yujin had finished training his body by looking at it, asked with some anticipation that Yujin was finally showing his ability to train, and Yujin nodded his head.
“Yes. Any more than this will put a strain on the body, which is still tired.”
“Obviously, your right arm is still pretty messed up, even if it’s other parts. “Even if your recovery speed exceeds the criminal’s limits, it is still relatively true.”
Therefore, for the sake of recovery, it was right to avoid excessive physical training.
And Eugene, who understands that fact well and puts it into practice, clearly shows the aspect of a veteran when it comes to execution.
