It is said that when you get old, you beco senile. I was now experiencing this indirectly.
Mutter, mutter.
Why does everyone complain about their lives when they fight ?
Could it be that I am receiving the karma of my past life?
If so, I would have nothing to say even if I had ten mouths. Because when I vaguely recalled my past life, I had also muttered and muttered while looking down at a dying enemy, just like the Illusion Demon.
'I was really a son of a bitch.'
If a situation like this cos up later, I should just kill them cleanly.
Above all, what pisses off the most right now is that, contrary to the Illusion Demon's words, I know better than anyone else what it feels like to have my things taken away.
And you haven't even had your stomach pierced!
You don't get your pants wet every ti you urinate... ah! Since won sit down to pee, it probably doesn't matter much.
Also, if your dantian is destroyed, you get tired faster than others even in daily life, and your recovery is also slow.
The feeling that fatigue is always sticking to my shoulders and pressing down!
The stream of urine is not everything!
Just thinking about that ti, tears well up in my eyes.
You're an elder of the Heavenly Demon Cult, your martial arts are at the Demonic Zenith, you have everything!
Anyone can see that you're damn good, but you're pretending not to be and bragging to !
I was also a really bad guy once, but you, Illusion Demon!
Damn it! If only I could speak, I would want to say it out loud, but my body hasn't been moving as I want since a while ago.
"Every ti I see you, I'm surprised, wondering if that Ma-ryong has been reincarnated."
The first elder, perhaps reassured that she could kill at any ti, was still using for her trip down mory lane. Her tone had also changed to informal at so point.
I don't know about Ma-ryong or whatever-ryong!
What on earth did you do to my body!
I moved my right finger. But my left big toe moved.
This ti, I tried to open my mouth. Then my eyes blinked. But if I blink my eyes, does my mouth open? That wasn't it either. My ears moved.
Thud!
I tried to get up by putting my arms on the floor, but my arms bent inwards, and I fell back down.
"Hehehe! Your body won't move as you want."
I looked at the first elder. Fortunately, I didn't have to raise my head. Because the first elder had been grabbing my hair and muttering and muttering since a while ago.
"It's called sensory disturbance. It's my specialty."
The terrible motion sickness at first had co because my senses had been disturbed all at once.
"The more outstanding a person's martial arts are, and the more they have worked harder than anyone else, the more they cannot escape from this sensory disturbance. It's truly paradoxical."
I could imdiately understand what those words ant.
It takes decades to completely make a single technique one's own. During those years, if you swing the technique without resting for a single day, your body moves first before you even think of performing the technique.
If you think of moving your arm, your arm was already moving unconsciously.
That much of a natural sense, that training, had returned to the primordial state of not being trained at all.
As if before a baby takes its first step.
"All the guys who laughed at died while crawling on the floor like you. Ah! Ma-ryong! That kid was the only one who didn't laugh at ."
"Hic! Hiccup, hiccup, hiccup"
The first elder suddenly clutched his stomach and began to laugh.
"Being like this, it's as if I have that Ma-ryong under my feet! Isn't it funny?"
It wasn't funny to at all.
The first elder had said that my current state was a sensory disturbance.
I don't know how she did it, but the point was that my senses were completely ssed up right now.
The solution that ca to mind right away was to rember all the senses felt from each part of the body and to move by adapting to the newly changed senses in an instant.
To move my arm, I had to move my leg, and to move my leg, I had to move my side, and to bend my knee, I had to bend my arm, and to bend my arm, I had to straighten my ankle.
I tried it for a mont and then gave up.
I'm not a genius, so there's no way I can rember all this and apply it right away. Unless it's my junior sister.
"Do you know? I showed that Ma-ryong the sa technique as you. That kid also crawled on the floor like you. And a surprising thing happened. The technique had clearly worked, but that kid stood up, didn't he? And he even grabbed by the collar and threw on the floor. I saw the sky that day."
The first elder suddenly grabbed her head with both hands and began to tremble.
"He threatened . He said that if I crawled up to him one more ti, he would break my neck next ti."
I could see why the first elder had been so obsessed with that kid, Ma-ryong.
As they say, the one who hits forgets, but the one who gets hit rembers for a lifeti.
"Hehehehe. But that guy died. He died! If you also die like that guy, you won't be able to take my things anymore, right?"
I have found out all of the first elder's past stories. So what!
'Damn it! How can I get out of this situation!'
The first elder stood up.
"That's a relief."
Her excited and slurred speech had returned to normal, just like when we first t.
Her original appearance, calm and ticulous.
Is she a dual personality? Scary!
"Ten years? No! If I had co five years later, I would have almost recalled the nightmare of the past."
The first elder picked up a sword that had fallen nearby.
"Do you know? Sensory disturbance can be cast not only on the opponent, but also on myself. And if you use this well, you can even strengthen your body."
Crack.
The first elder's emaciated body was filled with muscles.
"I'll send you off with one blow to the neck, so don't tremble so much."
I tried my best to move my body to get out of this situation.
"Now, goodbye."
Slice!
"Huff, huff!"
I was barely able to get up. I looked at the sword that had fallen in front of with surprised eyes, panting heavily.
"Oh-ho!"
The first elder looked at with interest.
"As expected, you were also able to do it! With this, you are the second. The one who is able to move even after being hit by my technique!"
To be honest, I hadn't moved. I had just struggled and had been able to dodge it by chance.
The first elder raised her sword again. The mont that sword fell, my neck would also be cut off.
Slice!
At the sa ti as the sword fell, I moved my body randomly. My body rolled on the floor again. In return, I dodged the sword again.
The first elder taunted as I was floundering on the floor.
"Heeheehee! As expected, you weren't Ma-ryong! Yes! There's no way that monster would co back to life!"
Crash!
The first elder stomped on my waist.
As my body and the floor completely t, a strong pressure that pressed down on my chest was transmitted. I couldn't breathe well.
'My mind...'
* * *
"Jae-ha! Look carefully!"
"Wow!"
It wasn't a dream. This was a forgotten mory.
My father was a gambler, and my mother was a courtesan.
This mory now was related to my father.
My father was a gambler, but a gambler with a philosophy. You might think that a gambler having such a thing is all the sa... to be honest, I also see it as the sa.
Though it seems that I didn't think so when I was young.
"Dad! You're amazing!"
"Right? Now! Look at this! There was one coin, but now there are three."
"Dad! You're so cool!"
"Hahaha! This is what you call a switch! Isn't it cool? Jae-ha, don't you want to be like your father when you grow up?"
"Yeah! I'll be a gambler with a philosophy like my father when I grow up!"
"As expected of my son!"
I have recalled a mory I didn't want to recall. There are so many cool, wholeso, and honey-sucking jobs, but to think that my dream was to be a gambler.
I don't know why this mory is coming up all of a sudden, but my father, whom I recalled after a long ti, was also not normal. Or, co to think of it, can this also be called a family business?
A family of gamblers for generations... just hearing it, I felt like I was going crazy.
* * *
I took a deep breath for a mont.
"Die."
The first elder's voice was heard. It seed that I had lost consciousness for a mont. My chest was still being pressed down, and I couldn't breathe. If this continued, I would lose consciousness again soon. And at that ti, it wouldn't be strange if I really died.
My mind was about to go again.
At this very mont, the words my father had said ca to mind.
'A switch.'
-Jae-ha, just rember this. When a mont of crisis cos later that you can't do anything about, have a flexible mind. That will save you once.
The Reversal of Heaven is a technique that uses the exchange of the positions of yin and yang.
The yang energy, which ans the sky, is lowered, and the yin energy, which ans the earth, is raised.
And so, the Tai Chi draws a reverse Tai Chi.
Flexibility of thought.
If you look at the interpretation of the Tai Chi by the scholar, the left is called yang, and the right is defined as yin.
Just as water falls from top to bottom.
This world was basically designed to go from left to right.
The numbers that start from one were like that, the letters were like that, and the techniques were like that.
The flow of energy was also the sa.
It flowed from yang to yin.
It wasn't that everyone had promised to do it this way, but they always started by filling the energy from the first great ridian located on the left to the ninth last great ridian located on the right.
I collected all the internal energy in the great ridians. And I started to fill it again from the beginning.
Not the first.
I started by filling the tenth great ridian first and ended at the first great ridian.
The senses that had been dominating my body until now are shattered. A new sense takes its place.
A severe motion sickness, similar to when I had first used the Reversal of Heaven, ca over . But motion sickness was sothing I was used to.
I knew all too well how to tune this.
Flick.
My finger moved.
Wiggle.
My toe moved.
Swoosh!
The first elder's sword fell vertically.
I got up and dodged the sword.
The first elder was looking at , who had stood up completely, with surprised eyes.
I grinned at such a first elder.
I twisted the order and created my own new rules.
This was my own Reversal of Heaven.
"The third form of the Reversal of Heaven. Left-right reversal. You bastard!"
From today, my dream is to be a gambler with a philosophy.
I say this for the first ti in a long ti.
-How about it?
'Dad! You're amazing!'
(End of Chapter)
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