<h4><strong>Chapter 432: The Five Spirit Beasts (1)</strong></h4>
It has been more than a month since the Lord of the Demonic Cult, Chun Yeowun, took the North Sea Ice Pce.
The Ice Pce, which lost its structure, ended up in ruin and in water.
The pce had been passed down from generation to generation for hundreds of years, but rebuilding something which copsed wasn’t an easy task.
Everyone moved to the east from the old site and started to rebuild the pce.
Of course, even if they were nning to build a new pce, making a pce from nothing is still difficult.
Since more than half of the site was submerged in water, working on the site would be difficult. So how could they do it?
“This is great.”
People were looking down from a hill towards the ce where many people in white clothes worked.
They were the elders of the North Sea Ice Pce and Baekhyun.
Baekhyun couldn’t help but be in awe at the ruins of the pce.
‘Is it possible to achieve that level of greatness if I constantly practiced martial arts?’
It was natural for him to think that way.
The huge hole in the ruined Ice Pce where water began to emerge from was nowpletely frozen with no trace of water.
Chun Yeowun made it possible.
‘He really is not human.’
He still remembered how Chun Yeowun froze it.
Chun Yeowun, who created ice swords that were as strong as cold steel, froze the water-filled hole by exuding cold qi along with the Sky sh.
Thanks to that, they were able to start construction without any problem.
“Even if he isn’t rted to the North, there is no one else other than him who can do that, right?”
At Baekhyun’s words, Sol Am-baek, who was next to him, nodded and answered.
“He isn’t in a stage where normal people can even bepared to him. Still, it’s only because of him that things went smoothly. King.”
Shockingly, Sol Am-baek called him king.
How did this man turn into the king?
“Right. I ended up misunderstanding the master until I realized his true wisdom.”
Baekhyun thought that everything had been stolen away from him.
He hated how a situation urred where the throne was being taken away by someone other than a blood rtive.
However, in front of the council, Chun Yeowun made an unexpected announcement.
[I will take Prince Dan Baekhyun as my disciple and pass on the Ice Cold of Heaven to him.]
Baekhyun and all the others were puzzled.
But that wasn’t the end.
Chun Yeowun, who had promised to take Baekhyun as his disciple, announced that he would step back from being king and pass on the post to his disciple.
Although they acknowledged the Divine Object choosing its owner, the pce people rejoiced when they heard that outsiders weren’t going to control them.
‘Maybe he was aiming for that since the beginning.’
It didn’t matter since one way or another, they knew that they would end up as subordinates of the Demonic Cult.
Just because he entered the academy as Chun Yeowun’s disciple, it didn’t mean the person in charge would change.
However, Baekhyun, who became the pce king, wasn’t countered by any pce officials.
“King. Are there no lessons today?”
One of the elders asked him.
After bing his disciple, he was taught the Ice Cold of Heaven from Chun Yeowun.
And it was about time for his ss.
“They said that they would be interrogating him today.”
Everyone knew who that was.
“... why don’t you ask the Lord to execute Dan Jucheon? It’s better to get rid of him, even if the elders object to it.”
“That’s how the elders think.”
The majority of the elders wanted Dan Jucheon to be executed.
However, along with, elder Seol Young-gwi, one of the instigators, he was currently being confined with his blood points sealed.
“If he is executed, the bacsh from him and those who support him will increase.”
“Hmm...”
Baekhyun didn’t know if the elders thought of that.
However, the problem was that there were still many followers of Dan Jucheon.
Baekhyun’s supporter, Chun Yeowun, disyed the martial arts of the North Sea Ice pce and eroded some dissatisfaction, but the words of Dan Jucheon, in the end, caused a big stir.
[Kill me! I will never follow you!]
From his stand, he said that he would never work under the Lord of the Demonic Cult and asked to be executed.
Judging that he had lost everything, he was ready to ept death and even gained the support of a few officials.
Moyong Kang and Jegal Sohi of the Yulin thought that Chun Yeowun would get rid of the ones who rebelled, but shockingly, he did no such thing.
[I’m not a resident of this ce, if I execute him here, will you and your men be able to handle the consequences?]
Baekhyun was unable to respond to Chun Yeowun’s question.
Right now, the Ice Pce was oppressed under the power of Chun Yeowun, but one day, when he leaves, the bacsh will resurface.
At that time, Baekhyun epted Chun Yeowun’s decision.
‘... I don’t know. But keeping him alive is dangerous. Wouldn’t it be better to deal with the opposition?’
Whenever the elders were concerned, such thoughts would enter their minds.
But, the final decision would be made today.
‘Because this is going to be thest interrogation...’
It wasn’t known why Chun Yeowun was interrogating Dan Jucheon for thest time today.
At the same time, the temporary detention room in the reconstruction site of the Ice Pce.
In the middle of the site, which was full of barracks, there was only one building made of ice, an ice prison built by Chun Yeowun with the newly found Ice Cold of Heaven technique.
An ice prison that was cold enough to make even Dan Jucheon’s body go numb and unable to move.
‘This is really the Ice Cold of Heaven technique.’
Cold qi couldn’t be produced to such an extent.
It was lucky that the technique was found, but learning it would be impossible.
‘Did he have no problems learning it because he is past human limitations?’
In the past, one of the five strongest warriors of Wulin used cold qi. Despite being above Dan Jucheon in strength, he wasn’t exemry in cold qi.
There was no other way to say it, but Chun Yeowun is a true monster.
‘I thought I would die from the cold.’
Regret.
Being imprisoned like that, it was hard waiting for death.
It was then.
Keek!
The entrance to the ice prison was opened, and someone entered.
It was hard to see the man because of the light behind him, but he could guess who he was by looking at his long hair.
‘Lord Chun.’
Chun Yeowun, the Lord of the Demonic Cult who visited him just three days ago.
However, the atmosphere was different from when he first saw him.
Gooooo!
‘Kuk!’
He wasn’t sure since he had been inside the ice prison for a long time, but being close to Yeowun made him run out of breath.
‘... hepletely absorbed the core!’
Dan Jucheon bit his tongue.
He never knew that the core, which held humongous energy, could be absorbed in such a short time.
He was a monster before absorbing the core. Dan Jucheon couldn’t even imagine what Chun Yeowun was now.
At that time, Chun Yeowun approached,
Step!
He unsealed Dan Jucheon’s blood points.
Chun Yeowun, who unsealed the blood points, spoke first.
“We found the body of Wong Sangho, the elder of the Ice Pce who disappeared.”
“...”
“Based on your words, one charge on them for the missing dragon head has been dropped.”
At Chun Yeowun’s words, he bit his lip.
“... No.”
He said one charge.
It was said that one of the heads of the Dragon Turtle, which should have been on the western side of the ruins near the Demonic Cult’s barracks, had disappeared.
At that time, the whereabouts of Won Sangho, an elder who followed Dan Jucheon, were unknown, and then his body was found.
Dan Jucheon imed that it wasn’t him, but his innocence wasn’t proven. Fortunately, the pce officials who were working on the reconstruction found Won Sangho’s frozen body.
“It could be the Yulin.”
Dan Jucheon argued that it must be Yulin who stole the head.
And it made sense.
The de God Six Martial n could have stolen it too, but theyter found that a few people of the Yulin had gone missing.
Lieutenant Mak Wijong, the temporary captain of the ck Shadow troops, had disappeared along with some other men.
Moyong Kang and Jegal Sohi imed that they disappeared to find the core, but since they couldn’t find Mak Wijong in the underground despiteing across the de God Six Martial n, Yulin was at the top of the suspect list.
However, Chun Yeowun didn’t think like that.
“No. It isn’t the Yulin.”
“... what do you mean by that? Weren’t there people of that faction who disappeared?”
“Some of their bodies have been found.”
“What?”
Shockingly, the bodies of some of the men of the ck Shadow troops were found two days ago.
A hundred miles to the southeast, people found their corpses which were left behind after animals ate them.
The corpses were extremely damaged, but there was one thing that couldn’t be hidden.
“There were traces of the de God Six Martial ns’ martial arts on their bodies.”
“No? ... So they stole it?”
Dan Jucheon’s eyes trembled at the results.
The Red Mountains of Lhasa.
The Pot Pce which was located on an alpine mountain at an altitude of 12,139 feet.
The Pot Pce was known to be the sacred ce of the Bodhisattva.
It was a mystery how the pce was built in such a high ce.
The building, made of a mixture of granite and wood, had a white exterior wall and a dark red roof.
The majestic pce towering over the mountain left viewers in awe.
Normally, everyone would look at it in awe.
However, there was a problem with the pce.
The Pot Pce was divided into two parts; the White Pce and the Red Pce. The ruler, the Di Lama, was in charge of the affairs and held religious ceremonies in the Red Pce.
The Red Pce, where one would normally hear the recitation of sutras, waspletely gone.
Half of the pce was in ruins as there had been a war, and in the middle of it, more than a thousand bodies were burning.
Fire!
“Ugh.”
A man shook his head at the smell of the burning flesh.
Among the ck soot, a bunch of sparkling white marbles could be seen.
They were called Sarira or relics and they gave off a mysterious light.
“They came out inrge numbers because there were a lot of monks.”
The Pot Pce was full of the monks’ disciples.
When the dead Di Lama was burned in the perpetrator’s hands, the relics that came out of him were equal to what came out of ten disciples.
That was proof of how strong he was.
However, even the Di Lama wasn’t able to withstand more than three sword techniques and died.
“How long will it take for the de Lord topletely absorb it?”
Two days ago, he locked himself in the Di Lama’s room in the White Pce.
He informed his men to never disturb him unless it was something urgent, as he dealt with something difficult.
At that time.
p! p!
“Uh!”
A hawk flew across the blue sky towards a man.
It wasn’t a wild hawk, he naturally lowered his ws and settled down on the arm of the bandaged man.
This hawk was trained to deliver letters.
There was a small cylinder tied to its toenail, and when untied and opened, a rolled-up paper came out.
Swoosh!
When the paper was opened, there was nothing written on it.
It was empty, but the bandaged man, who was ustomed to it, took out a reagent from his pocket and dripped a drop of it on the paper and strangely the paper began to turn dark at ces.
“Let’s see.”
The eyes of the bandaged man who was examining the content were unusual.
Soaked in embarrassment, he gave the hawk over to a subordinate and entered the White Pce.
Entering the White Pce, he rushed towards the Di Lama’s room, which was towards the basement.
After going downstairs, there was a thick andrge door.
Gulp!
The bandaged man, who gulped, carefully knocked on the iron door.
Knock!
After knocking a couple times, instead of hearing any answer from inside, the tightly shut door began to open.
Kiiik!
Swoosh!
As the door opened, cold air escaped out.
The bandaged man entered the room with trembling footsteps, looking at everything which had frozen as if they were in the North Sea.
In the middle of the room, a giant bird with its head cut off and an enormous body came into view.
It was one of the five Spirit Beasts, the carcass of the Great Bird, which is known to transform into arge fish in the Arctic.
‘Where is he... ah!’
As he looked around, he saw a middle-aged man meditating on the corpse of the Great Bird.
He was the de Lord.
An intense cold qi emanated from his body, and it seemed like he had absorbed the beast’s core in two days.
‘Kuk, how do I exin this?’
Scary.
There were supposed to be no more problems.
However, never in his wildest of dreams would the man have thought that their ns would go awry.
As he was hesitating, the de Lord, who was seated with his eyes closed, opened his mouth.
“I told you to not disturb me unless it’s something important.”
“Bl-de Lord!”
Thud!
The man fell t on the ground and apologized.
“What happened?”
“Th-that...”
“Do you want me to aim for your heart?”
Swoosh!
With a voice full of displeasure, intense energy surrounded him.
In the end, the man decided to tell him what he read.
“Bl-de Lord! The men of the ughter de Master and the Spirit squad were all killed.”
Woong!
“Uhk!”
As soon as his words finished, the body of the bandaged man floated into the air and was dragged towards de Lord, who was sitting on the dead bird.
“What are you talking about now? Did they all die unable to take down the Ice Pce warriors and the Dragon Turtle?”
“N-not that. Two masters and a couple more are alive...”
Wheeing!
“Kuk!”
de Lord grabbed the neck of the man and asked.
“Doesn’t that mean they failed?”
“Kuk... Kuk... Demon... Demon God... in... North Sea... Ice Pce...”
‘!?’
The grip on the man weakened with those words.
The man decided to let him exin.
“Demon... God?”
“Ye-yes! If he hadn’t intervened, they would have safely brought the dragon to our ce... a- a young prince of the pce seems to have requested the Demonic Cult to send reinforcements! Even then, our people ended up colliding with him and one of the dragon’s heads...”
Phut!
With strong force, the man’s body was thrown to the side.
The power was so strong that after the impact the man began to cough up blood.
“Kuak! Kuah!”
Not caring, de Lord jumped up from his seat and mumbled in a voice filled with anger.
“... it can’t be. Is he also aiming for the five Spirit Beasts!”