## Chapter 198 – 198. The Ascent To Light Diagram
198. The Ascent to Light Diagram
The poison-repelling bead that Seong Do-chun possessed had absorbed the poison.
However, the poison I used was so potent that the bead couldn’t absorb it all.
While the bead was absorbing the poison, Seong Do-chun had reportedly used the Turtle Breath Technique to endure as long as possible and then fainted.
The Turtle Breath Technique is a method of stopping breathing and the heart for a certain period.
Since the heart stops, the blood flow in the body is practically halted, so it can be used to buy a few more hours when poisoned. Of course, if there’s no one to help, it will eventually lead to death.
‘Damn it. I was tricked!’
Because of the Turtle Breath Technique, there was no breathing, and the heart had stopped, so at that time, I thought Seong Do-chun was dead.
‘No pulse, so I could only think he was dead. Shit.’
A curse lingered in my mouth.
The only saving grace was that Seong Do-chun was unconscious and didn’t see me. If Seong Do-chun had seen me, I would probably be dragged before Seong Go-dan with my limbs severed by now.
‘It’s unexpected that Seong Do-chun is alive, but… he can’t identify me.’
I’m not even on the list of suspects.
I’m not even past the age of twenty, and it’s not easy to obtain a deadly poison strong enough to kill Seong Do-chun. They’d think it’s impossible for me to get my hands on poison.
‘Besides, Seong Go-dan’s direct subordinates have searched the sect several times.’
They’d barge into my room without warning, rummage through it, and then leave. What they’re looking for are elixirs and herbs.
‘Heh heh. Come to think of it, there’s no reason for me to be anxious. How could they find something that’s in my inventory?’
This world doesn’t have modern forensic science. They can’t even imagine finding a culprit with fingerprints. Moreover, given the sect’s circumstances, they’re reluctant to seek outside help. This is a shameful incident that will go down in the history of the Meteor Sword Sect.
‘It’s unexpected that Seong Do-chun is alive… but they can’t catch me. Hehehe. You dumbasses.’
I sneered inwardly at those who were desperately searching for the culprit.
***
“Hoo…”
I sat cross-legged and took a deep breath, circulating my energy. I was using the Meteor Heart Method I had learned recently. I only learned the surface of the Meteor Heart Method. Unlike the basic heart method, mastering the Meteor Heart Method would restrict learning other heart methods.
‘It’s enough to just learn the surface of this low-grade heart method.’
The protagonist of the original story learned the Meteor Heart Method and then switched to something else. That process wasn’t smooth at all.
‘Now I’m at the 6th stage of Entry.’
After consuming two enhanced Lower Dan pills and fully absorbing the energy of the elixir, I reached the 6th stage of Entry.
What’s frustrating is that the more you consume elixirs, the more tolerance you build, which reduces their effectiveness.
‘If it weren’t for this restriction, I would have consumed all the elixirs I have and aimed for the stage of Ambition.’
I quickly shook off my lingering regrets. There was other news that made me happy.
『You have successfully completed a special mission.』
『As a reward for success, you will receive 3 Body Strengthening Pills.』
『Body Strengthening Pill
Makes the body stronger. Increases physical abilities upon consumption.』
The Body Strengthening Pills appeared before me. They looked like red pills.
I put the Body Strengthening Pills into the Ascent to Light Diagram. When consuming elixirs, I always put them in the Ascent to Light Diagram to enhance them before eating them. That was my rule… no, my belief.
‘Elixirs are overflowing! Good, good!’
I felt like dancing.
So I did a little dance.
***
“Yujin, did you hear? Tomorrow, the Elixir Garden Master is bringing a spirit hound from outside.”
During breakfast, Seong Ji-gon said to me.
“A spirit hound? What’s that?”
I’ve never heard of a spirit hound before. It didn’t appear in the original story either.
“A dog that tracks by smelling elixirs. The Elixir Garden Master is going to use the spirit hound to find the culprit.”
“……Oh, really?”
From what I heard, the spirit hound can only track the scent of herbs or elixirs it has smelled once.
The range is about 10 li at most. It’s not an ordinary dog but a spirit creature. For reference, 10 li is about 4 kilometers.
‘Damn it. I need to go back and take a bath quickly.’
I haven’t taken out any elixirs recently, but the scent of elixirs might still linger on my body, and that spirit hound might find me.
‘I need to disinfect my room.’
Just in case.
Then I got angry. Why is Seong Do-chun bothering me so much!
‘Seong Do-chun, you bastard. If you got robbed once, just forget about it and cultivate your herb garden!’
If I let this go, I felt like I would die of anger.
I was thinking about how to mess with Seong Do-chun when I came up with a good idea.
‘Let’s throw away an herb. I’ll use a drone to secretly put it in Seong Go-dan’s room.’
The fact that the sect can’t make elixirs is like having no future, so the sect leader, Seong Go-dan, was moving busily. There were plenty of openings to pull off a trick.
‘Hehe. Now fight each other.’
My plan was a success.
The next day, Seong Go-dan and Seong Do-chun were arguing loudly.
Rumors spread throughout the sect that a stolen herb had been found in Seong Go-dan’s residence.
The upper echelons were in a terrible mood.
The elders and Seong Do-chun knew that Seong Go-dan was a greedy person, so they suspected that Seong Go-dan, who only had 40 years left to live, had taken the herbs and elixirs out of desperation.
Seong Go-dan is a fairly intelligent person. After all, he was the one who founded the Meteor Sword Sect. Seong Go-dan must have noticed that the elders were suspecting him.
A few days later, Seong Go-dan and the elders were arguing loudly in the conference room. Seong Go-dan’s furious voice echoed throughout the sect. Everyone went into their rooms and hid.
The atmosphere of the Meteor Sword Sect became more and more grim.
***
A month later.
The atmosphere of the Meteor Sword Sect had relaxed.
Seong Go-dan concluded that the thief who stole the elixirs from the Elixir Garden was not in the sect and lowered the alert level by several stages.
The elders opposed it, but Seong Go-dan pushed it through. They needed money to buy herbs, and to get money, the sect had to be active.
Also, if they remained in seclusion for too long, their influence on the outside world would diminish.
Seong Ji-gon and I went down to Hunan City for the first time in a while. However, we couldn’t enjoy ourselves. The Meteor Sword Sect had just started to become active again, and suddenly a rape case happens? It was a perfect situation to be suspected. It was best to lay low at this time.
“Can’t we just do it? I want to see Hu Ja-min.”
Seong Ji-gon said to me. Hu Ja-min. The wife of the chief manager.
“No way.”
I shook my head firmly. I also wanted to see the chief manager’s daughter. That bitch was surprisingly delicious. Moreover, unlike at first, she’s been welcoming me lately. She’s experienced the pleasure of sex.
“Haa… haa… It feels so good… I want to see your face… can’t I?”
That’s what she said, panting on top of me, when we met last time. Of course, I refused.
At night, I would secretly leave the Meteor Sword Sect. I didn’t go to Hunan City but to a cave in the mountains far from the sect.
‘This is where the event I’ve been waiting for will take place.’
I even installed a camera and was monitoring it every day.
‘It’s perfect for taking elixirs while avoiding the spirit hound.’
There’s no problem with taking elixirs and returning. I had previously confirmed that if I scrubbed my body thoroughly with modern items, the spirit hound wouldn’t be able to smell me.
‘Originally, this was the secret training place of the protagonist of the original story.’
It’s a perfect place to train. Originally, a bear lived in this cave, but it went to the afterlife after being hit by my lightning fist.
I consumed enhanced elixirs and trained in the cave before returning to the Meteor Sword Sect.
‘When will the event happen?’
Three months later. The event I had been waiting for finally happened.
***
Lying in bed, before falling asleep, I was watching the live camera feed from the cave on my laptop when I suddenly jumped up.
A beautiful woman in red clothes had stumbled into the cave and collapsed on the floor.
‘She’s here!’
I left the Meteor Sword Sect and started running towards the cave at lightning speed, even using mana.
Entering the cave, I swallowed hard as I looked at her lying face down on the cave floor.
I could only see her side profile, but she was so beautiful that she made Seong So-jeong, who was called the most beautiful woman of the Meteor Sword Sect, look like nothing.
‘Shit. I got an erection just from seeing her side profile.’
I slowly approached her and said.
“Oh! What happened?! Miss! Are you alright?!”
I turned her body into a proper position. She was sweating profusely and breathing heavily. She was wearing red clothes, so it wasn’t easy to see, but if you looked closely, her side was stained with blood.
“Oh my! A serious wound! And with all that sweat… Miss, you must be poisoned!”
Having read the original story, I knew. She was really poisoned. The protagonist, who collected herbs whenever he had the chance, happened to have herbs that helped with detoxification, but I had prepared the herbs in advance on purpose.
‘The poison is so strong that it can’t be completely detoxified with herbs… but this woman detoxified herself in the original story.’
The herbs are just meant to help.
“Miss, I will help you. But… I need to see the wound with my own eyes. I think I need to take off your clothes, is that alright…?”
“……”
There was no answer. She was unconscious, so it was natural.
“Silence means consent. I’ll take it as permission.”
I reached out my hand but stopped.
It was because she was so beautiful that it was truly breathtaking.
Her slightly reddish black hair contrasted with her snow-white skin. Her sexy red lips were slightly parted, exhaling hot breaths, and her eyebrows looked like they were drawn by an unparalleled artist.
I was mesmerized by her face and then reached for her top. When I opened her top, there was a voluptuous chest tightly wrapped in underwear.
‘At least an E cup! If she took off her clothes, it would be an F cup! Is it tightly wrapped to prevent it from shaking during battle?’
My hand reached for her chest.
“Miss, this is to check if your heart is beating properly.”
My hand touched her chest. It was more firm than soft, probably because it was tightly wrapped. I wedged my fingers into the cleavage above her underwear. The extreme sensation of being squeezed from all sides made my dick hurt.
“Hmm. After examining you, it’s certain that you’re poisoned with an aphrodisiac.”
I massaged her chest a few times and then took my hand off.
“Miss, you don’t need to worry. I happen to be a man. I will gladly shake my hips for you.”
I wanted to bang her right away, but I couldn’t. I straightened her top, made her lie face down as I had first seen her, and stood up.
She was Ryu Yang-mi, the daughter of the Blood Emperor, the lord of the Blood Hegemony City.
‘Soon, the guys who chased after Yang-mi will come to the cave.’
I hid in one corner of the cave. When the guys came, I would activate the Illusionist to hide my body.
‘I’m confident in hiding, if nothing else.’
The Hidden Forest of the Spirit Stream.
I hid for 20 minutes.
Two men entered the cave.
They were men wearing black bamboo hats and black clothes, and both of them were not in normal condition.
One had no arm, and the other had a large sword wound on his back. They were holding sharp swords in their hands.
“Blood Flower! Is this all you could run to?!”
The man with the sword wound raised his sword, and the one-armed man stepped forward.
“Captain! Wait a moment! Isn’t it a waste to just kill Blood Flower?”
“……What do you mean, Palho?”
“Twelve of our comrades were defeated by that bitch! We can’t appease their spirits by just killing her! We have to defile her before killing her!”
“Blood Flower has inherited everything from the Blood Goddess and is a dangerous monster who has reached the Three Peaks. We have to kill her before she wakes up.”
“This bitch is completely poisoned with the Thousand Evils Poison. She’s unconscious and defenseless right now! If you’re not going to do it, I’ll defile her!”
“……It’s to honor the spirits of our dead comrades. I have no choice.”
The men walked towards Ryu Yang-mi. I snorted inwardly as I watched them.
‘Dead comrades? Bullshit. You got a hard-on as soon as you saw Yang-mi.’
The guys who weren’t in their right minds didn’t know about me. I was planning to jump out and kill them in one go the moment they took off their pants and tried to attack Ryu Yang-mi. Just like the protagonist of the original story killed the defenseless guys.
‘Yang-mi is mine. You bastards.’
That’s when it happened.
Woof woof!
Along with the sound of a dog barking, someone entered the cave.
“To think there’s a cave in a place like this…”
The Elixir Garden Master, Seong Do-chun, had entered with a white dog.
Seong Do-chun’s face contorted into a demonic expression as he looked at the men wearing bamboo hats, and he fiercely drew his sword from his waist.
“So, it was you guys! You’re the ones who poisoned the well and stole the herbs and elixirs!”
It was an unexpected variable.
