chapter 18
18. Recycling Waste
Before separating the Mita Holy Water for my senior brother.
First, I took out the book titled “Three Yin True Art” written in an antique script from the secret manuals on the table.
The basic internal energy cultivation of the Gongdong Sect is divided into the Yang-Strengthening Art, Soyang Mind Method, and the Yin-Cold Art, Three Yin True Art.
The fundamental principle of Gongdong Sect’s martial arts is the conversion of Yin and Yang.
Therefore, one must learn both the Yang martial arts and the Yin martial arts to reverse the Yin and Yang energy through the conversion of Yin and Yang, achieving the ultimate state of Gongdong Sect’s martial arts.
However, until now, the only internal energy cultivation left in the Gongdong Sect was the Yang-Strengthening Art, Soyang Mind Method. Today, the Yin-Cold Art, Three Yin True Art, has been discovered.
Anyway, when the Soyang Mind Method and the Three Yin True Art reach their peak, one can finally enter the ascending mind method, Honwon One Art, which contains the essence of Yin-Yang conversion.
‘Honwon One Art is not here.’
Unfortunately, Honwon One Art was not here.
It didn’t matter to me.
Because I know where Honwon One Art is.
In any case, to safely handle the Mita Holy Water for my senior brother, he needs to memorize the mnemonic of the Three Yin True Art.
Originally, when first learning internal energy cultivation, it is standard to teach the mnemonic while guiding the energy flow along the path of the mind method, as Jeonyeong did.
‘Me? Touch a man’s body to guide the energy flow?’
Putting aside the issue of my dignity, guiding the energy flow requires physical contact.
I had to place my hand on the Mingmen point near the waist, but I am not a peerless beauty, and I had to voluntarily make physical contact with a man’s body, especially my damn senior brother’s body?
‘I can’t do that.’
Already, my first hug, first kiss mark, and many other first pure feelings had been tainted by the scent of a dark man.
Even now, when I recall the ‘kiss mark incident’ that happened in the field earlier, my mind gets polluted, and my knees tremble, and my hands and feet shake.
I couldn’t let my senior brother take any more of my pure feelings.
Moreover, sometimes when my senior brother looks at me these days, I suspect he might genuinely be a homos*xual.
I instinctively guard my buttocks.
So, I had to avoid physical contact as much as possible.
My senior brother and I are strictly business partners, and I had no intention of taking it any further.
Among the eunuchs I met in my previous life, there were some crazy perverts who preferred men prettier than women, saying it was better than women, and they had lost their minds due to the shock of becoming eunuchs.
Some even preferred sodomy over heteros*xual relationships, keeping male concubines.
‘Those perverted eunuch b*stards…’
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So, I won’t do something like Jin Gi Do In.
Anyway, since my senior brother is a genius among geniuses in martial arts and possesses the Heavenly Martial Body, he will memorize all the formulas just by looking at this basic internal energy technique once.
“Senior brother, before taking the Mita Holy Water, please first look at this secret manual and familiarize yourself with the formulas. It is the basic Yin Cold Internal Energy Technique of our sect, the Sam Eum Jin Gyeol, which was lost in practice.”
I handed the secret manual to my senior brother.
With a determined look in his eyes, my senior brother nodded and took the Sam Eum Jin Gyeol secret manual.
Although the Sam Eum Jin Gyeol is a basic technique, it is an internal energy technique with the nature of Yin Cold Energy. When taking the Mita Holy Water, one must use the Sam Eum Jin Gyeol instead of the Yang Strong Internal Energy Technique, the So Yang Sim Beop.
Flap, flap.
The secret manual, which had been neglected for over 300 years, was in surprisingly good condition.
About two minutes passed.
After skimming through the secret manual once, my senior brother closed the book with a snap.
“I’ve memorized all the formulas of the Sam Eum Jin Gyeol, junior brother.”
My senior brother said to me.
He memorized it just by skimming through it?
As expected, the Heavenly Martial Body is indeed the Heavenly Martial Body.
“Good. Now, please take it.”
“Okay.”
My senior brother nodded seriously and took the cup containing the shimmering Mita Holy Water.
Gulp.
My senior brother cleanly downed the Mita Holy Water in one shot.
Yes, this is how you recycle waste.
I immediately sat cross-legged and watched my senior brother as he began to regulate his breathing and energy flow, smiling.
*
As soon as Yoo Jin Hwi drank the Mita Holy Water, she felt the energy and blood in her entire body freeze.
The Yin Cold Energy, condensed over a thousand years within the Mita Holy Water, was released and violently tore through her meridians.
It hurt.
It felt like a blizzard was raging inside her body.
‘Ugh!’
Yoo Jin Hwi bit her lips, which were turning blue from the cold, until they bled, swallowing her scream.
‘This is the elixir that my junior brother yielded to me… I must… I must break through the Ren and Du meridians and achieve the Great Circulation, converting all of it into internal energy…!’
Amidst the pain of her entire body freezing, Yoo Jin Hwi maintained her consciousness with superhuman willpower.
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It was not just anyone, but the master himself who had yielded the elixir.
Therefore, failure to consume the elixir was not an option.
In Yujin Hwi’s mind, the face of the master appeared.
With a solemn resolve, the master’s voice echoed in Yujin Hwi’s ears, saying that the sect needed a single great master who would make the sect’s name resound throughout the world, rather than several mediocre masters.
Mita Holy Water.
A miraculous substance that, just by consuming it, greatly increases one’s power and can achieve the ultimate state.
It was an elixir that any martial artist would covet.
In reality, it was not uncommon for brothers or disciples to draw swords against each other to monopolize the elixir that only one person could consume.
Even the figures of prestigious sects, not just the demonic sects, often lost their composure in front of the elixir.
Anyone would have their eyes clouded with desire when faced with an elixir like Mita Holy Water.
But the master willingly yielded such a coveted elixir to her.
‘Since I brought the master’s opportunity… I must fully absorb the essence of Mita Holy Water.’
Yujin Hwi still remembered.
The tears of joy the master shed upon discovering Mita Holy Water.
And the trembling hand of the master, who, despite yielding the elixir to her, was shaking with regret.
She remembered the master’s words, who, even after yielding several times, shook his head and said that it would be more beneficial for the sect’s reconstruction if he, the senior, took the elixir.
She remembered the master’s words that his own safety was unnecessary for the reconstruction of the sect and the well-being of her, the senior.
Yujin Hwi knew very well that the master, who pretended to be mature, was actually a person with a tender heart.
Until he handed over Mita Holy Water to her, the master must have been tormented and troubled.
But the master restrained his own desires with superhuman patience and handed the elixir to her.
Yujin Hwi remembered the master’s figure, who, even after yielding, repeatedly handed the elixir to her, saying they should share it.
It is harder to restrain desire than to transcend it.
But the master restrained his desire.
Solely for her.
‘I said I would only accept your heart instead of the elixir…’
Only accept your heart.
Those words sank heavily into Yujin Hwi’s heart.
At this moment, Yujin Hwi felt more than just gratitude towards the master.
Thump.
In the frozen body, Yujin Hwi’s heart beat.
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Eugene Hui, thinking of her master’s kind heart and his words, operated her internal energy according to the formula of the Three Yin True Art to counter the freezing blood vessels caused by the Extreme Yin Energy.
Wooong.
The internal energy that rose with a faint vibration from her dantian met the essence of the Mitaseongsoo, which was freezing her meridians as it surged.
Eugene Hui tried to operate the Extreme Yin Energy of the Mitaseongsoo according to the subtlety of the Three Yin True Art.
But.
‘Ugh?!’
No matter how talented she was, being a prodigy and possessing the Heavenly Martial Body, Eugene Hui’s absolute amount of internal energy was insufficient compared to the essence of the Mitaseongsoo.
When the control of the Extreme Yin Energy failed, the unbridled Yin Cold Energy rampaged within Eugene Hui’s meridians.
At that moment, when Eugene Hui was flustered by the extreme cold that was freezing her entire body.
“Senior Sister.”
She heard her master’s voice in her ear.
“Recite the Three Yin True Art and guide the Yin Cold Energy through the acupoints I will now mention.”
She heard the acupoints her master called out in her ear.
In the life-or-death moment where she might become crippled due to the side effects of the elixir.
Despite the sudden advice, Eugene Hui trusted her master.
“Injung Point, Jeonjung Point, Eumgyo Point, Hoeeum Point…”
She trusted the master’s goodwill, who restrained his desires and yielded the elixir to her even in front of the peerless elixir.
She trusted the master’s sincerity, who wished for the reconstruction of the sect and her well-being.
But there was one thing she was dissatisfied with.
‘I wish the master would wish for his own happiness a little.’
The master was always selfless.
He devoted himself generously for the sake of the master and her, the senior sister, and even gave up the peerless elixir without hesitation.
Despite being less talented and having less potential than her, the master neither envied nor resented her, nor did he harbor any inferiority complex or antagonize her.
What he took was only snake soup and elixirs, but they were a step below the Mitaseongsoo, only the Hongyangtai.
Because the master, who hid his weak heart with a facade of maturity, was even more pitiful to Eugene Hui.
So if she could achieve the Mitaseongsoo through the master’s advice.
Then she would repay the master.
Not because she owed him.
The master did not take care of himself.
Because she was the only one in this world who could care for him, who even ignored himself.
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Yujin-hwi guided the Yin energy according to the order of the blood points called out by the master, following the formula of the Three Yin True Art.
The Yin energy began to circulate from the philtrum to the central chest point, the point between the chest and the pubic area, and the point just above the buttocks, in that order from top to bottom.
Amazingly, the rampaging Yin energy gradually began to come under the control of the Three Yin True Art.
‘Follow my words!’
Failure was not an option.
Yujin-hwi controlled the Yin energy with superhuman endurance, enduring pain comparable to freezing to death.
The Yin energy, as fierce as a blizzard from the distant North Sea, clawed at the blood points, but Yujin-hwi endured the pain.
Little by little, as the pain and cold subsided, he took hold of the reins of the Yin energy.
Yujin-hwi smiled inwardly.
The master was indeed not wrong.
Thanks to the master, he had escaped the crisis of becoming a cripple.
This grace is something he could never repay in a lifetime.
Just as Yujin-hwi thought this.
Boom!
A fierce torrent collided with a tightly blocked wall.
It was the Ren Meridian, blocked by the turbid energy accumulated over the years.
“Break through the Ren Meridian as it is.”
Following the master’s advice once again, Yujin-hwi continued to strike the turbid energy blocking the Ren Meridian with the Yin energy.
Boom! Boom!
The pain from the cracks in the wall of turbid energy overwhelmed Yujin-hwi. But she endured the pain once again. As she persistently struck the Ren Meridian with the Yin energy.
Boom!
With a sound of something bursting inside her body, her cross-legged body jolted.
Along with that, the wall of turbid energy that had cracked completely shattered, and the Yin energy flowed vigorously through the now unblocked Ren Meridian.
Finally, the Ren Meridian was penetrated.
“Send the Yin energy that has penetrated the Ren Meridian to the Baihui point. Now it’s time to penetrate the Du Meridian.”
Yujin-hwi followed the master’s words once again.
Now, completely under the control of the Three Yin True Art, she drove the Yin energy to strike the wall of turbid energy blocking the Du Meridian.
Boom! Boom!
The resistance of the Du Meridian was even stronger.
Drip.
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A stream of blood flowed from Yu Jin-hwi’s lips.
She silently endured the pain of the Yin energy freezing her body and the agony of her meridians being torn apart, persistently knocking on the door of the Governing Vessel.
And finally.
Boom!
As the turbid energy blocking the Governing Vessel collapsed, her body jolted once more.
Her consciousness turned white, and she felt her body floating. Was it her body that jolted at the end, or was it the world?
Feeling her consciousness fading, Yu Jin-hwi closed her eyes.
Even in the meantime, the Yin energy that shattered everything in its path continued to circulate through her body without rest.
A body with the Life and Death Gate opened.
It was the moment when the foundation of Yu Jin-hwi, the future Sword Saint, was completed.
*
The breathing of my senior brother, who had jolted twice, gradually became even.
I could tell without even checking his pulse.
He had opened the Ren and Du meridians.
In my view, I saw frost forming around my senior brother’s body due to the cold air emanating from him.
Just a moment ago, his face was contorted in pain, but now it had turned peaceful.
He was in a state of selflessness, performing Qi circulation.
Along with that, black, sticky tar-like substances began to ooze from his body.
As he opened the Ren and Du meridians, the turbid energy accumulated in his body started to be expelled.
It could be said that this was the beginning of the Bone Marrow Cleansing.
Once this Qi circulation is over, he will absorb more vital energy than in his previous life.
Perhaps he had gained internal energy equivalent to a whole cycle even after opening the Ren and Du meridians.
This was all thanks to me, an expert in Yin energy cultivation who had reached the realm of the Profound, guiding my senior brother’s Qi circulation path with words.
Damn it.
Anyway, it’s a hassle because he’s a man.
‘Ugh, the smell.’
My sensitive nose reacted to the disgusting smell coming from the turbid energy expelled from my senior brother’s body.
Bone Marrow Cleansing is all good, but that damn stench is the problem.
It smells like a septic tank.
Now my job is done.
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I frowned at the stench, closed my eyes, pinched my nose, and passed by my senior brother, who was in a trance practicing his energy cultivation, heading towards the cave wall.
There, I found the crimson moss, the elixir known as Hongyangtai, which possessed the properties of yang.
With trembling hands, I carefully picked the warm, yang-infused Hongyangtai and placed it directly into my mouth, sitting down cross-legged on the spot.
It was now time to enhance my vitality.