Chapter 490 – War (5)
“Xiao?”
“Know.”
At Ariad’s voice, Xiao stopped swinging the sword and stood up.
Of course, the body itself had become a vessel containing energy, and there was no reason or need for the Qi God, who was in itself a gigantic dantian, to do something like a small dantian that channeled internal energy into the dantian.
But.
“I guess it was right for this body to choose that guy.”
As he became a Qi God, Xiao moved to fulfill the two wishes given to him.
It had to be that way.
One is their own resentment.
The resentment I longed for, even to the point of sacrificing myself as a burnt offering.
It was to repay with blood the grudge they had against all the ‘unmanned’ who existed in their world, and the other thing was… Their other wish.
They hated warriors, but on the other hand, because they were warriors too, their wish was to complete nothingness, the pinnacle of nothingness.
And, his ‘body’, born with such a karma, wanted a child.
The child that will be born between him and himself.
In order to pursue the ‘completion of nothingness’, I became a kishin and stopped growing and aging… My ‘body’, which was less than ten years old, grew again and became a body capable of having ‘children’.
For the first time in hundreds of years, it was truly a unique experience to see blood shed from one’s own body for reasons other than fighting.
Anyway.
From then on, many things happened and eventually, she fell in love with him.
Based on what she heard from her student, Maehwa, she decorated her body and tried on her underwear.
The effort somehow paid off…She became his wife, and she had his child.
“Hmm.”
“Why are you doing this? Xiao?”
“No, it’s nothing.”
I shook my head.
Hundreds of years of life.
Out of all of that life, why are the most recent months particularly memorable?
The reason… I knew.
So, on the one hand, I was afraid.
Is it okay for me to be like this?
He looked at his hands.
Delicate, thin fingers.
It was difficult to say that the hand, which had no calluses, belonged to a martial artist who had learned ‘radish’.
It was just the finger of a girl… Appropriate for her age.
But, but from this body’s hands… There was a strong bloody smell.
‘Sister… Please die.’
Even my own blood relatives are killed.
‘Hey, this monster…!’
‘He is the devil…’
‘Why are you living this life?’
Killing countless warriors.
In the end, when he killed all the warriors and regained Izzy, he found himself waking up on a ground full of blood.
That’s me.
That kind of confidence.
This body like that.
The question of whether it is okay to be happy keeps popping up in my head and sinking into my mind.
And, every time…
He was there.
“Under…”
It was funny.
He always thought that his hands smelled bloody.
When did I stop smelling that bloody smell?
What stopped her from having nightmares about the moment she broke her sister’s neck… With her own hands, with her own flesh and blood?
Even if it’s the best… Since when did even martial people who have reached the level of being called superhumans in this world stop smoking drugs that are like poison and ruin the body by taking a breath?
Entire…
It all started after meeting him and being held by him.
After meeting him.
The past, which always predicted the present, remained only the past.
I was able to move forward.
“…I never thought the day would come when I would be thankful to this body.”
Whatever the reason, in the end, it was Xiao who had his child.
The first thing… That chose him, Hanzo, was the choice of his ‘body’.
And, it didn’t take long for me to realize that the choice was right…
In order to achieve the pinnacle of the work and nothing left to do, and also… In work for oneself.
As for the latter, I still feel it, so there was no need to say anything.
And, e…
Achieving the pinnacle of nothingness was the same.
“…”
The boat was swept away.
Although it hasn’t formed yet… I can clearly feel something residing within it… I felt someone else, not my own body.
It happened shortly after I became pregnant with his child.
The child in the womb began to gather energy on its own.
A child starting to breathe on his own, based on his mother’s own body, was something that even he, who had become a spirit of energy and had become a body of all things, could not have done.
Even though he was known to have world-class talent, when he was in his mother’s womb, he was just a child in the womb.
No matter how talented they may be, they are just ignorant.
Even Cheonmujiche, which is said to build strength and become stronger like breathing, is like that.
This child had reached an even greater level than that.
Like a newborn animal standing up and walking on its own.
Like a newborn baby vigorously sucking its mother’s milk.
This child, as if it were natural… Gathered his inner energy from the womb and achieved Sodanjeon on his own.
“It would be better to call it a non-polar body.”
Delay reaching the limit of nothingness.
One day, I exhaled as I felt my daughter, who had inherited all the radish from me… And had the talent to achieve the ‘completion of radish’ that even I could not achieve, to accumulate the accumulated strength with the soju cloth that I had returned on her behalf.
What kind of martial arts should I teach this child first?
What can I learn that will help this child grow?
She felt the joy of thinking about the future, not the past.
And then, she felt signs approaching.
Many people were approaching.
“Hmm.”
I’m not afraid.
No matter how much she said her body was carrying a child, she was a Heavenly Demon.
Moreover, no matter how strong the approaching signs were, they could barely be considered first-class at best.
Most of them were people who could not even be a threat to Ariad, whom he had come to protect, let alone himself.
Of course, given Ariad’s personality, there would have been nothing he could do when he saw them.
So, it was the right choice for him to come here to protect Ariad.
But, that was the problem.
“The numbers are nasty.”
I could tell from the moment they were caught by their own senses.
Most of them were just civilians who knew nothing.
They were just people who flocked here, guided by false anger and false hatred.
Most of them don’t even know where they are heading or what they are doing.
They were just wandering people.
I couldn’t do too much to those people.
For Ariad, a spirit born that way who loves all things… Even if she had power, she wouldn’t have been able to resist those innocent people.
But… Even if it were him, the situation wasn’t completely different.
It would have been better if they were people I could beat to death to my heart’s content.
I couldn’t help it that things happened like this.
“Ariad, help this body. “I might make a mistake in controlling my strength.”
“Yes.”
I took a stance.
With clenched fists.
He stretched forward and took a stance to take a step.
The most common and most ordinary movement.
Position for extending the fist forward.
After having a child, I noticed that my body became heavier.
I noticed that my body had become sluggish.
I realized that I was no longer able to do things that I could normally do as if it were natural.
The female body was like that.
When you have a child, many things change.
The skeleton is misaligned, and even the position of the blood vessels is distorted.
This is done to create space within the body to accommodate new life.
Therefore, his body could no longer be called the body of heaven and earth.
Because it was a complete and perfectly balanced body, it could not have been achieved with a body that was carrying a child, or with a body like this where the skeleton was distorted and the positions of the acupoints were twisted.
Perhaps, after giving birth to a child… The body will change again as well.
In the future, it was clear to her that she could no longer be a fool.
She could see that she could no longer exert as much strength as before.
So I made it.
A new martial art to suit the new body.
Although.
Although he will no longer be the best ‘military person’.
He was only temporarily taking that position from his daughter, who would be born one day… And would soon overtake even him.
I was still a Heavenly Demon.
To achieve the limit of nothingness, a new Kishin was born for him in the first place.
A being that pursues all nothingness, creates all nothingness, and can learn all nothingness.
Even if he couldn’t help it in the future, he was an absolute master of ‘nothing’ now.
“…Xiao, no more.”
“Ask them to come as much as they want.”
“I’m sorry, baby, and… Thank you.”
I didn’t bother to reply to Ariad’s words.
Kwazizig!
The barriers Ariad had set up in the botanical garden were broken, and people consumed by anger that was not theirs rushed in.
Already, after seeing those who tried to break the barrier by hitting their own bodies… And hurting themselves.
Those who poured in beyond the barrier that Ariad finally ‘gave up’ were already covered in wounds.
I hit the ground running.
One step.
The energy expanded at each step and took over all directions.
Center yourself.
A tremendous amount of energy was scattered and took over the bodies of those who were crowding around.
“…!”
For most, that was the end.
The overwhelming energy expanded in an instant.
Even if it were an ordinary criminal who couldn’t feel energy, it had enough ‘pressure’ to crush him and make him lose consciousness.
“Kaaaaak!”
The rest that did not do so are reclassified.
Innate race.
Seeing those who resisted the innate divine power and scattered energy and rushed at me without losing consciousness.
I stretched out my fist.
Tukwaaaaa!
Radiating energy and dispersing consciousness with it… A newly created martial art suited to a new body.
That guy, that name is a bit… The martial arts skills I was talking about were revealed.
Martial arts that can be used to subdue someone without shedding any more blood or hurting anyone.
Heavenly Demon Divine Gong [天魔神功].
“Giving birth [出散].”
Slurp, flutter…
Xiao muttered, looking at those who were forced to fall unconscious as the energy itself dispersed, and those who were still flocking in from beyond.
“Now, come.”
He had promised to protect him, so he prepared himself again to do so.
