I stayed at the Tang Clan for about a month, putting Father-in-law and Mother-in-law through Rebirth Transformation and placing all the remaining children inside the mind-space.
I ant Nanghu the Golden-Furred Wasp King’s swarm, the Azure Steel Immortal Ants, and Baekbaek and Sunbaek.
I put in all the children I hadn’t been able to take with until now and had left at the Tang Clan.
I also loaded up Dokmul-hyang with the necessary grain seeds and a heap of Cheonggang Stone from the mountain where I’d found the Azure Steel Immortal Ants.
After supplying Dokmul-hyang with those things, I put so workers inside for a while to build living quarters.
Since I wouldn’t be able to enter for so ti, it would be a place for my wives and children to live.
After that, I went around saying farewell to the clan mbers.
I didn’t know how much ti I had left, but yesterday a branch by the well where Hwa-eun was broke and almost fell on her, so I decided to hurry.
It wasn’t like a re branch could actually hurt Hwa-eun, but it felt like so kind of sign.
“Gu Pae, from now on I’m leaving the Venom Garden in your hands. Ah, and congratulations on your marriage to Young Lady Na-ok.”
Gu Pae had fallen in love with Na-ok while they were working together in the Venom Garden.
When n and won work in one place, that kind of thing is common.
They were getting married this year, and as a wedding gift, I treated Na-ok’s burn scars.
After putting her to sleep by feeding her Paralysis Powder, I scraped away all the damaged skin and had Moji and Soji regenerate her skin cleanly.
Na-ok, fully recovered, was definitely a beauty.
Gu Pae had beco a man who’d scratched off a winning lottery ticket, and at my farewell, he spoke through his tears.
“S-So-ryong... We will never forget this grace. My family will worship you as an Immortal.”
“Ahaha. There’s no need to go that far...”
“No! We will worship you without fail!”
He said they were going to worship as an Immortal.
His resolve was so firm that I just told him to do as he liked, and after that, I finished saying goodbye to the other family mbers and elders of the clan.
The final farewell, after all the others, was with Father-in-law and Mother-in-law.
At the entrance to the Clan Head’s Hall, where they had co out to see us off, I bowed deeply.
“Thank you for granting a worthless man like your precious jewel of a daughter and taking care of all this ti.”
“What nonsense is that? We’re the ones who should be grateful. Do you know how much what you’ve left us will help the clan?”
I’d left the clan with the know-how for raising venomous creatures, and in accordance with Master’s wishes, the Beast-Heart Technique.
I’d asked that it only be passed down to the clan’s direct line.
Father-in-law was thankful for that.
Father-in-law’s and Mother-in-law’s Rebirth Transformation had gone well.
Mother-in-law, now looking like she was in her late twenties, had a face that fairly glowed with vitality, while Father-in-law looked sowhat more gaunt.
It definitely felt like the Mother-in-law Juicer was running at full power.
Thinking of the future, I and Hwa-eun bowed deeply at the entrance to the Clan Head’s Hall, and the two of them embraced us warmly.
“We won’t cry. Our daughter and son-in-law are becoming Immortals and ascending; it’s a joyous occasion. How could we weep?”
“Yes, Son-in-law. Please take good care of Hwa-eun.”
Receiving their send-off, we took to the air and headed next for the Heavenly Demon Cult.
We had to say farewell there too, so we flew there and inford the Great Elder of our plan to ascend.
“A-ascending?”
“Yes.”
“Th-then...”
The Heavenly Demon Cult was a bit flustered when they heard that I and Gun Hye-rin would be ascending, but Gun Hye-rin settled it with a single sentence.
“Everyone go outside right now and fight each other!”
“Excuse ?”
“I’m ascending, so I’ll pick the next Heavenly Demon before I go. From now on, whoever wins is the Heavenly Demon!”
She put into practice exactly what she’d said before.
She would make them fight one another and set the strongest as the next Heavenly Demon.
After a battle where blood flew in all directions, the one who remained standing alone was the Great Elder.
The oldest of them beca the next Heavenly Demon.
In the first place, his realm was second only to Gun Hye-rin’s, so maybe it was the obvious outco.
It seed Gun Hye-rin had been hoping he would take charge, since he was genuinely devoted to the cult.
However, simply handing it over wouldn’t have looked right, and this way, she could secure a sense of fairness, so she’d chosen this thod.
“From now on, you are the Heavenly Demon.”
“Th-thank you.”
Bleeding from his forehead, the new Heavenly Demon spoke, overco with emotion.
Clapping him on the shoulder, I said,
“If I can ask just one thing, I’d like you not to be too hostile toward the Central Plains martial world and instead try to live peacefully with them. The Martial Alliance has also agreed not to clash with the Heavenly Demon Cult any further.”
“Since it is the will of you two, I will see that it is upheld for the next hundred years without fail.”
“Very well.”
The Heavenly Demon promised to honor our will and keep that promise for the next hundred years.
After finishing our farewells with him, we headed for the imperial palace.
“Heh...”
The Emperor was delighted to see appear, but when I told him we had to ascend, he lanted deeply.
He’d apparently thought I’d been persuaded and co to tell him I would accept the kingship.
“I am overwheld by your imperial grace.”
Feeling guilty for upsetting his expectations, I bowed my head, and the Emperor’s expression turned dissatisfied for a mont before he shook his head.
“You stole my daughter away, and now you’re leaving for a place where I’ll never be able to see you—of course I am overwheld. But who could stop you from becoming an Immortal? Ji-ryeon, I hope you will be happy.”
“Your Majesty...”
“No, how can you call Emperor on our last farewell? You should call Father.”
“F-Father...”
As Ji-ryeon collapsed in tears, the Emperor ca over and embraced her.
“My daughter. Born as the Emperor’s daughter, you’ve been trapped in this stifling palace and never got to spread your wings, did you? Now, just as you wished, # Nоvеlight # soar toward the sky with all your strength.”
“Huhuuk. Father...”
“How can you cry on such a fine day? An Immortal has arisen from the imperial palace; is that not a joyous occasion?”
From what I’d felt until now, the Emperor wasn’t exactly a sage-king.
But he did seem to have been a good father.
As he told Ji-ryeon to call him Father one last ti and hugged her, everyone watching was in tears.
We stayed at the imperial palace a few days for his sake and asked the palace to help us further supply Dokmul-hyang with various things.
Then, lastly, we headed again for the Beast Palace.
I had to say goodbye to Sister Seol one last ti.
***
“Sister. Sister Seol.”
“Please wait. I’ll go in and see.”
Sister Seol’s quarters in the Beast Palace.
It was the day we were setting out, but no matter how much I called, there was no answer.
A few days ago, when we arrived at the Beast Palace and told them we had to ascend, Sister Seol had burst into tears and shut herself in her room, refusing to co out.
“What!? I’m going too!”
“No, Sister, you have to guard the clan.”
“I don’t care, I’m going too! Gungbong is going, and even your exclusive maid is going! Why can’t I go!”
The fact that we were all going away together was one thing, but the fact that Gungbong and my exclusive maid Mi-rang were going too while she couldn’t made her throw a fit and burst into tears.
Mi-rang, having nowhere to go because she’d originally been a palace maid, had decided to follow us.
We also needed soone to help with and teach things like cooking and laundry, and Mi-rang had said she wanted to co with us.
“So-ryong! Can’t I go with you too?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to just spend the rest of your life at the Tang Clan?”
“I’m your and Hwa-eun’s exclusive maid! How could I leave the two of you? So please take with you. Neither of you knows how to cook or do laundry. What are you going to do? I went in there and ca back out, and the three of you were just holding roasted at in your hands.”
Indeed, Hwa-eun, Gun Hye-rin, and the princess’ weakness was that while they were beautiful and strong, they didn’t know a single one of the skills won of this era were “supposed” to have.
Things like cooking, laundry, and sewing.
So we needed soone who could teach or help with those things.
“S-So-ryong, let’s take Mi-rang.”
“That would be best. She used to be a palace maid, so we get along well.”
“I’ve been learning various things from her.”
So Mi-rang joined Dokmul-hyang.
“Fine. Then co with us.”
“Kyaa! Ascension! If I’m at So-ryong’s side, that makes at least a fairy, right?”
“W-well...”
As for Gungbong’s joining us, that had been sothing I hadn’t expected; it got decided in a rather strange way.
So people from Gungbong’s family had co here, and I’d released him so he could go and be with them, but after going to say goodbye and coming back, he returned to us.
“Why did you co back?”
The day after I’d released him, Gungbong ca looking for our quarters again.
I’d thought Gungbong’s family was leaving today and that he’d just go back with them, but he showed up again.
“You told to go say goodbye, didn’t you?”
“No, I just said I was letting you go.”
When I told him I’d just released him, he made a very flustered face and said,
“I already said my goodbyes.”
“Goodbyes?”
“I told them I was going to beco an Immortal too. That I’d been following So-ryong around and... was going to beco sothing like his right arm...”
“Your right arm?”
Who said you could be my right arm?
As I stared at him in disbelief, Gungbong watched my expression and said,
“Right leg? Um... right toe? T-toenail? T-toenail g... gri...”
As he kept shrinking the scope until he was about to say toe-jam, I sighed and said,
“No, just stop and go back.”
He hadn’t been like this when Soto was there, but as soon as I separated Soto, he beca completely unable to read the room.
He’d clearly failed to realize I’d actually set him free.
‘Sigh, I really do worry about who in the world is supposed to take care of this guy.’
I was genuinely worried about Gungbong’s future, but then he grabbed hold of my pant leg and pleaded.
“P-please take with you! I can’t go back like this! If I go back again, everyone will think, ‘There he goes again, of course he did.’ I can’t stand being treated like a half-wit anymore. I’m good at hunting too! Pleeease!”
“No, we’re not going on a tour of the Central Plains here. Once we go, we can’t co back.”
“I know. We have to find a new body for Soto too, and there’s no body as good as mine. Please, I’m begging you. Okay? Pleeease.”
Gungbong was utterly desperate.
From what he said, Gungbong’s family was quite famous for being smart.
He was the odd one out in that family.
Because of that, he hadn’t been treated very well by people around him or by his family since he was little, but once Soto attached to him, he’d been happy at last.
When Soto spoke smartly with his voice, everyone listened to what was said, and he got to puff his chest out—that’s what he said.
Well, since there would be all sorts of arts and spells in the Immortal Realm, I decided I’d just take him and think of it as turning one kid into a proper person.
“All right. Let’s go. I’ve been using you like a subordinate all this ti, so I guess I’m responsible for you. Let’s think of it as my karmic debt in the lower world.”
“Kyaruk! Thank you, So-ryong!”
As I called for Sister Seol and thought about Gungbong, one of the maids who couldn’t stand watching anymore went inside, but she soon ca back out and shook her head.
“She’s under the blankets and won’t co out.”
“I guess there’s nothing we can do.”
It was ti for us to leave.
Looking toward the room, I spoke.
“Sister Seol, this So-ryong... Though we are not bound by blood, I have sincerely respected and followed you. It seems our bond ends here, but I, So-ryong, will never forget the mories I share with you for the rest of my life.”
As I finished my farewell and turned to go, I heard a voice from behind .
–Scrrr. 『Dad, take with you!』
Hyang ca scurrying out from Sister Seol’s quarters.
“What? Hyang, when did you go to Auntie’s room?”
–Scrt. 『Um. To s-say goodbye.』
Because she was a linked venom, Hyang could co out of Dokmul-hyang without my noticing at any ti; she must have co out at night.
She’d been the one who followed Sister Seol the most, so it seed she’d gone to say her last goodbye.
“I see. Good job. Then go back in now.”
–Tch! 『Okay!』
After putting Hyang back in, Cho and I rose into the air in front of the gathered heroes outside the Beast Palace, and all the people watching us brought their fists together and saluted.
“May fortune smile on the hero of the martial world as he goes forth!”
“May fortune smile on him!”
At the Alliance Leader’s shout, a thunderous shout echoed in response.
***
–Ahh.
At the entrance of an old, crumbling, abandoned Taoist temple, where a fine drizzle was falling.
Into that abandoned mountain temple, half-covered by wild tropical trees, a man stepped.
A head taller than most, long-limbed.
Under the white moonlight that would soon seep in, his well-shaped face would stand out even more clearly.
And on his lips, a smile with sothing mischievous about it.
That man was .
I lifted my face to the sky, where the sun had completely set, leaving only storm clouds behind, and murmured softly,
“This really brings back that day.”
The sky reminded of the day I first t Father-in-law.
The day Father-in-law appeared here to find the inner core of the Azure Half-Ring Millipede, which he needed as dicine for Hwa-eun.
The day my adventure began, when rain had been pouring down just like this.
Because of the rain, the sky was filled with dark clouds, but tonight was the full moon.
I waited until midnight for the rain to stop, but since it didn’t, I finally just headed toward the central clearing of the main hall.
“He said to pour energy into it.”
Standing on the stone engraved with the Taiji diagram in the exact center of the clearing in front of the main hall, I slowly, very slowly drew up my inner energy and poured it down into the ground.
–Wuuung
The Taiji Stone at the center began to glow blue, and in an instant, the whole clearing was dyed with a jade-like radiance.
At the sa ti, the black clouds above began swirling, opening a hole at the center.
In that instant, a huge full moon appeared, as if soone had drawn back a curtain.
The moon rippled, and as if the very space was lting, a faint wave spread out.
At the sa ti, the damnable lightning began rumbling in the sky.
–Rumble.
–KWA-ruuum!
Taking one bolt of lightning as the signal, the energy I’d poured into the ground turned into blue light and wrapped around .
At the sa ti, my body began to rise slowly.
My body slowly floated upward.
The thunderous energy flowing through my whole body was so hot it felt like it would lt my bones and tear my flesh, but I only laughed.
So this was the very scene of a dragon’s ascension from the legends.
The ancients had probably seen a master at this level ascending from a distance, then distorted the story and spread it.
–Rumble! KWA-ruuum!
Dozens, hundreds of bolts of lightning crashed down toward .
Receiving all that thunder with my whole body, I was sucked into the rippling gate of moonlight.
Spicy Fabre’s martial-world adventure cos to an end here,
and a new story in the Immortal Realm is about to begin.
Wrapped in blue current, I shouted at the top of my lungs one last ti.
“Gyaaaah! Let’s gooo!”
Blue flas burst from my whole body, and I finally vanished into the pillar of light.
The End.
To all the readers who have loved Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang until now, thank you.
Hello, this is Erhut.
First, I’d like to express my thanks to all the readers who stayed with to the end.
–Bow.
I started writing Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang on September 15, 2023, and brought it to a close on November 20, 2025, so it’s a work I spent 797 days on.
That’s two years and another two months.
When I was in the army, my service was two years and two months, so I guess I wrote this for about the sa length of ti.
Once again, I want to thank all the readers who stayed with for over two years.
Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang is a work where I took a structure I thought would be fun even before I started writing and actually tried putting it into words, and it received more love than I expected, which honestly surprised a bit.
Are there more people with unusual tastes than I thought?
I’m joking. Turns out there are more people who like reptiles and venomous creatures than I imagined.
While writing this work, I ended up raising two crested geckos with my son, and beca the owner of two lizards; lizards seem to be pets with a very peculiar charm.
You don’t feel warm body heat from them, and you can’t really “communicate” with them, but if you just feed them properly, they suddenly grow so much that you’re startled every ti you look at them—they’re fascinating little guys.
If you get the chance, I recomnd you give it a “churai” and try it yourselves, dear readers.
Anyway, I’ve gone on rambling, but the reason I started babbling like this is—
To explain what’s going to happen with my future serialization.
First of all, the short prologue of Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang has finally co to an end.
Now the story in the martial world is over, and the main story in the Immortal Realm will continue.
Its na: Fabre in Immortal Heroes.
At this point, so of you might be going, “Just how greedy for money is this Erhut guy, if he’s going to keep serializing like this?!”
Right?
What I just said was sothing I threw out there for fun; Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang is complete as of today.
So readers have said they’re sad and have asked to serialize the later story as a Part 2, but to briefly explain why I can’t do that—
Back then, when the webtoon ca out all of a sudden, I ended up having no choice but to slap a “Part 2 Serialization” label on it, and so readers got incredibly angry.
I think they’d assud the ending was close, but once they saw the “Part 2” label, they thought I was going to serialize it as long as Part 1.
Back then it was around chapter 800, so they must have thought, “So that’s 1,600 chapters?”
What I found a bit unfair was that it wasn’t like that; because of the webtoon production there were, well... let’s just call them adult circumstances.
I’d only attached the na like that.
So at that ti, I resolved never again to do a so-called Part 2 serialization, and that’s why Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang ends cleanly here.
Of course, I imagine there are readers who are curious—what happens to Cho, Hyang, and Bini, whether Ranghu ever finds love, whether So-ryong’s wives have children, and so on.
So instead of a Part 2, I have prepared a small plan in the form of side stories for readers who feel it’s too sad to say goodbye.
In other words—
If you feel, “Fabre will live on forever in my heart,”
then this is a beautiful ending.
If you feel, “I want to know more of what happens afterward,”
then there’s another option: the side stories.
Their na: the side stories,
Fabre’s Immortal-Cultivation Tales.
For readers who are curious about what happens after the main story, I plan to spin out the tale a little further.
I did think about sending him off to Europe or Africa, but then I’d have to consider the culture and such of those regions at the ti, and if he goes to Europe it’ll probably turn into a fantasy.
I thought it would be better to aim for the Immortal Heroes side, where I can maintain the wuxia atmosphere, so I chose that direction.
Co to think of it, Fabre in Sacheon’s Tang has always been closer to Immortal Heroes than to pure wuxia anyway.
Things like his mother’s soul appearing, or Blood Demons using so kind of abilities rather than pure martial arts.
You might say, “How is that any different from a Part 2!”
And I suppose that’s understandable, but it is strictly a side story.
Absolutely.
However, before we move on to the side stories, there is one thing I’d like to ask of you.
From here on is the Immortal Cultivation World.
A world that is an Asura field.
A world where people refine others into spirit pills and do not hesitate to do anything in order to beco stronger.
They even undergo “double-eyelid surgery” to beco stronger, apparently?
I have no idea what that even is, though.
They call them Immortal Heroes newbies.
So I ask that only those readers who are prepared pull down their underwear (I an this in the sense of getting into a comfortable position to read. I absolutely don’t an anything else. I personally find it uncomfortable when I can feel the waistband of my underwear on my waist) and step in.
Then I’ll see you again on Monday with the side stories.
With respect,
Erhut.
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