Return of the Heavenly Sword Chapter 68 : Chapter 68

Chapter 68. Opening the Eyes (2)

I stared blankly at that milky-white liquid.

I had never even imagined that there would be Gongcheong Seokyu here.

In my past life, I had never heard a story about Gongcheong Seokyu, nor had I ever seen it myself.

Had soone already eaten it?

Or had the Gongcheong Seokyu been contaminated as people flocked in and blood and corpses were scattered about?

Since I had turned back without coming this far, it was sothing I couldn't know.

And it was sothing I didn't particularly need to know.

Thump.

The sound of my footsteps echoed in the cave.

At so point, I had moved to right in front of the Gongcheong Seokyu.

I bowed my head and looked at the minuscule amount of milky-white liquid collected on the ground.

Perhaps because I had co right up to it.

The fine hairs on my body stood on end from the thick wave of energy emanating from the Gongcheong Seokyu.

I knew intuitively.

That the energy of nature contained in that tiny liquid was greater than the internal energy residing in my dantian.

There was a saying that dicine and poison were one.

The sa was true for spirit dicine. A spirit dicine that could not be digested was no different from poison.

Could I really absorb that trendous energy?

A sneer at myself escaped .

“To think I’m afraid of dying now.”

What was the reason I ca to the secret grotto of the Sun Moon Divine Sword elder?

Wasn't it to risk my life to chase geniuses like Hyeok Ilso?

I promptly dropped to my knees on the ground.

I pushed my face towards the Gongcheong Seokyu as if sticking my nose in a plate of water.

I couldn't scoop it with my hands.

Because it was a spirit dicine where the earth's qi had condensed over thousands of years.

The mont a human hand touched it, it would surely scatter and its energy would dissipate.

I brought my mouth to the Gongcheong Seokyu and sucked it in, like drinking the last few drops of soup left in a bowl.

A refreshing scent fills my mouth.

Without delay, I swallowed the Gongcheong Seokyu that had entered my mouth.

Gulp.

With the sound of my throat gulping, I felt the Gongcheong Seokyu going down my esophagus.

The Gongcheong Seokyu, which had been disturbed by contact with a human body, was emitting a trendous amount of energy.

I imdiately sat cross-legged and operated the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art.

But I was not trying to absorb the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu right away.

It was too vast an energy to absorb imdiately.

If that was the case, I just had to use it for another purpose before absorbing it.

Instead of enveloping the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu with the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art, I pushed that vast energy to one side.

Instead of enveloping the water of a huge river, I was trying to control only the direction of the water's flow by pushing it in a specific direction.

After guiding the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu for a mont, the place where the vast energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu arrived was the Receiving Fluids Acupoint.

And the Receiving Fluids Acupoint could be said to be the starting point of the Ren ridian.

It was an absurdly large amount of energy to absorb all of it anyway. I intended to use this to open the Ren and Du ridians.

Starting from the Receiving Fluids, the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu raced along the ridians of the Ren ridian.

Every ti the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu passed a specific ridian of the Ren ridian, I cautiously exhaled and inhaled.

I felt a foul scent in my exhaled breath.

The minute turbid energies remaining in each ridian of the Ren ridian. After collecting those that had been washed away by the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu, I was exhaling them with my breath.

After the tedious and painful process continued for who knows how long.

The energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu finally arrived at the eting of Yin Acupoint, which could be said to be the end of the Ren ridian.

After washing away the remaining turbid energy in the eting of Yin Acupoint, located between the genitals and the anus, the mont the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu was about to head to the Self-Strengthening Acupoint, the starting point of the Du ridian.

So kind of gate appeared and blocked the path.

Opening the Ren and Du ridians.

In fact, this did not just an the process of washing away the turbid energies lodged in the Ren and Du ridians.

Both the ridians of the Ren ridian and the Du ridian were ridians that were constantly passed through during the process of practicing energy circulation.

Above all, thanks to returning to the past, my age had beco younger, and I had even absorbed the Azure Spirit Pill, so there wasn't much turbid energy left in the Ren and Du ridians of my current body.

Breaking through each ridian was only the beginning of opening the Ren and Du ridians.

The Ren ridian and the Du ridian. The core was to break through a certain gate that separated and blocked the two great paths and connect them as one.

In the world, this gate was called the Gate of Life and Death.

The vast energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu, which had just passed the eting of Yin Acupoint, rushed towards that Gate of Life and Death.

Thump!!

Every ti the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu struck the wall of the Gate of Life and Death, a tingling pain was felt.

It was to the point where the pain I had felt while washing away the turbid energy and expanding the ridians until now was not even comparable.

Grit.

I pushed the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu with the energy of the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art while gritting my teeth so hard they could break.

Each ti, a terrible pain was felt near the eting of Yin Acupoint.

For so reason.

It felt like the corners of my tightly clenched mouth from the sharp pain were about to rise.

Repeating painful and perilous things.

Because that was what I was best at.

I pushed the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu with a smile.

Thump!

Thump!

Thump!!

A refreshing feeling surged from near the eting of Yin Acupoint. The imnse energy that had finally broken open the Gate of Life and Death advanced towards the Self-Strengthening Acupoint.

Soon, the energy that had washed away the turbid energy of the Self-Strengthening Acupoint continued to rise along the ridians of the Du ridian.

If the Ren ridian was a ridian that followed the centerline of the front of the body, the Du ridian was a ridian that started from near the tailbone and went up the spine on the back of the body.

The energy that continued to race arrived at the Hundred Convergences Acupoint located near the crown of the head.

Right after driving out even the turbid energy accumulated in the Hundred Convergences Acupoint, the second Gate of Life and Death, which could be called the final gate, finally appeared.

It was the most difficult and most dangerous gate.

The Gate of Life and Death at the eting of Yin Acupoint was also dangerous, but the Gate of Life and Death at the Hundred Convergences Acupoint side was located in the head.

The mont you strike it wrong, you would at least beco an idiot or a madman, and if it was severe, it was instant death.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Every ti the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu struck the Gate of Life and Death, a terrible pain as if my head would break was felt.

But it didn't matter.

Compared to the pain I had experienced in my past life, this was nothing.

I continued to strike the Gate of Life and Death, gritting my teeth so hard they could break.

Thump!!

After pushing my internal energy in the midst of the pain as if my brain would burst for who knows how long.

Crash!!!

A huge explosion rang in my head, and a hole was pierced in the Gate of Life and Death, as if a dam that couldn't withstand the water pressure had a hole in it.

Because of that trendous pain that echoed in my head, I felt like I was about to faint.

I held onto my consciousness by biting my tongue.

I had succeeded in opening the Ren and Du ridians. Even if I fainted now, I wouldn't beco an idiot or a madman.

But if I fainted here, the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu would return to nature.

To lose the energy of a spirit dicine obtained through heavenly luck just because my head hurt a little.

I would rather die than see that happen.

The coppery scent of blood rising in my mouth awakened my mind.

Soon, the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu passed through the hole created in the Gate of Life and Death and advanced to the Receiving Fluids Acupoint, the starting point of the Ren ridian.

The path from the Du ridian to the Ren ridian was opened.

The energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu and the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art flowed without rest.

Because both the turbid energy and the Gate of Life and Death were gone, there was no blockage in its flow.

The Ren ridian and the Du ridian were completely connected, and the Lesser Heavenly Circulation beca possible.

Holding onto my consciousness, I recalled the principles of the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art.

I calmly guided the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu, which was flowing aimlessly like a river, in the direction I wanted.

That huge milky-white river was gradually dyed with the deep blue color characteristic of the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art.

Even though the circulation of energy had beco much easier with the Ren and Du ridians connected, because the amount was so large, it was bound to take a long ti.

An endlessly tedious process.

It wasn't particularly a problem. Repeating a tedious process was also sothing I was used to.

Pfft.

I almost fell into qi deviation from laughing without realizing it.

Tedious.

It wasn't tedious at all.

Wielding a sword thousands, tens of thousands of tis in the air while searching for an uncertain path with a pathetic talent was a tedious act.

But what about now?

A huge energy is gradually being dyed with my color.

I could clearly see my internal energy increasing at a glance.

I could feel myself getting stronger every mont, so where was the room to be bored?

I couldn't die from falling into qi deviation while laughing like an idiot, so I forcibly lowered the corners of my lips and continued to circulate my energy.

After operating the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art for a long ti in a state of self-forgetfulness.

I belatedly realized a certain fact.

The milky-white energy was no longer flowing in my ridians.

All the energy was dyed with the color of the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art.

I loftily guided the internal energy flowing in all the ridians of my body towards my dantian.

When all the energy filled my dantian, I felt like my lower abdon would bulge out.

It seed to have increased by at least double compared to the energy that had resided in my dantian before.

Despite the energy that had returned to nature during the process of washing away the turbid energy and opening the Gate of Life and Death.

When I quietly estimated the amount contained in my dantian, it looked to be about one and a half Gapja.

“Sseup. Hoo.”

After taking one last deep breath in and out, I calmly lifted my eyelids.

At so point, the torch had gone out.

The cave was filled with darkness, but for so reason, everything looked clear.

I got up and drew the Restoring Na Sword.

When I drew up the huge energy residing in my dantian, a huge stream of water like the waves of the Yangtze River raced through all the ridians of my body.

The huge energy that raced through the ridians without blockage and without taking a detour pierced through my palm towards the Restoring Na Sword.

Vwiiiiing.

Soon, a sword cry rang out, and a hazy, deep blue energy rippled along the Restoring Na Sword.

After staring blankly at that Sword Qi for a mont.

A laugh escaped .

“Peak after Sword Unification. The order is strange.”

Had I fallen into an inner demon without realizing it?

It felt like my laughter hadn't stopped since I entered the secret grotto.

***

After sheathing the Restoring Na Sword, I took the secret manual of the Sun Moon Divine Sword elder and started walking.

I couldn't just stay here and practice the elder’s secret manual forever in this place with no grain pills or luminous pearls left.

I followed the path from the end of the secret grotto back to the entrance.

As I got closer to the entrance of the secret grotto, bright sunlight greeted .

It had been around afternoon when I entered the cave, yet the sunlight was still shining.

It seed that a whole day had passed while I was opening the Ren and Du ridians and absorbing the energy of the Gongcheong Seokyu.

Even though I had stayed up all night, I didn't feel particularly tired.

After arriving at the entrance of the secret grotto, I raised my head and looked up.

A sheer cliff.

I bent my knees as they were and pushed off the ground with all my might with both feet.

Thump!

With an intense noise, my body soared several zhang high.

It was one of the movent techniques I couldn't even dream of in the past, Controlling Qi to Soar.

After soaring for a mont, defying the laws of nature.

As my body was about to fall again, I extended my feet as they were and kicked off the cliff.

After that, I used my movent technique to climb the cliff several more tis.

Thump!

Thanks to pushing off too strongly, my body was thrown to the other side of the cliff.

Using that montum, I twisted my body in the air and thrust my left palm towards the direction opposite the cliff.

The imnse energy that raced through all the ridians of my body gathered in my palm, and the energy of the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art was strongly emitted.

After pushing my body with a palm wind and flying towards the cliff, I once again used my movent technique to run up the cliff.

Pa-bak!

Thanks to fully utilizing the energy that filled my dantian, climbing the cliff did not take that long.

After getting to the top of the cliff, I lightly clicked my tongue.

“Tsk.”

My internal energy had doubled. My ridians flowed without blockage. The control of my qi had beco free, but I was not able to properly control that freedom.

But my regret was brief.

Slap!

I slapped my own cheek.

“I’m being ungrateful.”

It's not that I lack internal energy, but I'm complaining because it's overflowing.

It was nonsense that was more than just being ungrateful; it was bursting.

“It’s sothing I can overco with training anyway.”

With the mindset of training my movent arts to get used to the suddenly increased internal energy, I moved my feet again.

After descending the mountain for a mont.

The sight of five n climbing the mountain from the opposite direction ca into view.

There was no need to stop my training just because people were passing by, so I continued to move my feet.

The distance between and them, who were dressed as herb gatherers, closed in an instant.

And the mont I was about to pass them as if crossing paths.

Suddenly, five trajectories were embroidered in the air.

Trajectories all aiming for my vitals.

But there was nothing to be surprised about.

Because I had also already drawn the Restoring Na Sword and was swinging it at the assassin bastards.

The Restoring Na Sword wrapped in Sword Qi.

The assassin bastard closest to hastily threw his body.

Slice.

With a cutting sound, a faint spray of blood flew out, but I couldn't cut a vital point.

Soon, a dagger flew towards my head.

Right after dodging it narrowly by turning my head, the dagger thrust by the herb gatherer on the right flew towards my heart.

Even that dagger had blade qi on it.

I brought down the Restoring Na Sword I had thrust out towards that dagger.

The Restoring Na Sword wrapped in Sword Qi and the dagger thrust by the assassin bastard clashed, and a clear sound erupted.

Clang!!

But it was not a situation to leisurely cross weapons and have a contest of strength.

There were still hidden weapons flying towards my vitals.

Paat!

At the sa ti as pushing away the assassin bastard’s dagger, I used the Eight Trigrams Flying Stream Steps to hastily retreat three steps.

Pa-ba-bak.

Hidden weapons flew and embedded themselves where I had been standing.

After receiving the coordinated attack of the five bastards once, I asked them.

“Are you bastards from the Black Market?”