The Northern Sea Ice Palace’s Martial God Son-in-Law Chapter 115 : Chapter 115

Chapter 115 : Divine Item

Woooong—!

Just as the Great Demon's eye light was crushing my soul, a violent vibration erupted from within my bosom.

It was not a simple tremor.

It was a violent rejection reaction sent by the legacies of the three Venerables I had obtained so far.

Iron Venerable's Divine Item.

Fighting Venerable's Divine Item.

Poison Venerable's Divine Item.

Three rays of light starting from my chest wrapped around my whole body.

The Iron Venerable's hardness strengthened my skeleton, the Fighting Venerable's fighting spirit exploded my suppressed montum, and the Poison Venerable's energy began to rot the Great Demon's demonic energy infiltrating from the outside.

"...Mm?"

The eyes of the monster that had beco the vessel for Ji Myeong, no, the Great Demon, were dyed with doubt.

Humans whose souls were not destroyed after facing his eye light head-on were rare even a thousand years ago.

-Kukuku, the Divine Items are quite sothing.

-Third Young Master, now is the ti! The Divine Items are opening a path!

Along with the Cold Snow Demon Queen's shout, my eyes flashed purple.

A thrilling power filled the place where the suppressing pressure had disappeared.

Great Demon.

Why were the Divine Items reacting to this Great Demon of the Outer Regions?

"If I'm the first thing you see after waking up in a thousand years, your destiny is quite wretched too."

I kicked off the ground and soared.

The purple fla, fusing the energy of the three Venerables, stretched out like a whip and tore apart the Great Demon's mist.

"It'll be too hot to eat. You monster bastard!"

Kwa-aang—!

My fist struck the Great Demon's face head-on.

It wasn't a simple strike.

With a blow mixing the Fighting Venerable's destructive power and the Poison Venerable's corrosive power, the black mist wrapping the Great Demon's head scattered while screaming.

-Da, dare... How dare you do this to this body!

Ji Myeong's voice and the Great Demon's strange scream mixed together, shaking the cavern.

Four shadow arms that sprouted from his back rushed in to snatch , but I twisted my body in mid-air and lightly dodged them.

At that mont!

"Young Master, I will help!"

Seol Ye-rin, who had followed before I knew it, clasped her hands and drew up her Ice Art.

Around her, the cold energy of eternal snow raged like a storm.

Seol Ye-rin covered the earth, corroded by the Great Demon's mist, with a pure white sheet of ice again.

"Miss Seol, tie up his shadow arms! I'll burn the torso!"

"Understood! Glacial Myriad Flowers!"

Huge ice flowers blooming from Seol Ye-rin's fingertips froze the Great Demon's shadow arms tightly and fixed them to the floor.

The bloody radiance of the Spirit Bead struggled to lt them, but my yang energy, which had beco even purer with the protection of the three Venerables, assisted Seol Ye-rin's Ice Art and completed an absolute freezing.

I did not miss that opening.

"Fla Butterfly, Fla Fist, Fla Explosion!"

Fluttering fla butterflies and fire fists spewed out from my hands.

Soon, a huge pillar of fire shot out in a straight line toward the Great Demon's chest, the place where the Spirit Bead was embedded.

***

The scene unfolding before Seol Ye-rin's eyes was unrealistic.

A huge purple pillar of fire tearing through the darkness of the Forbidden Area and shooting out.

It was truly a divine fire demon created by the resonance of the Extre Yang Qi held by Hyeokryeon Yeom and the Divine Items of the three Venerables.

"...Ah."

An exclamation flowed out without Seol Ye-rin realizing it.

The petals of the Glacial Myriad Flowers that Seol Ye-rin unfolded were reacting to Hyeokryeon Yeom's heat and spewing pure white steam.

If it were a normal Fire Art, it would have clashed with Seol Ye-rin's Ice Art and canceled each other out, but mysteriously, Hyeokryeon Yeom's fla did not push away Seol Ye-rin's cold energy.

Rather, it was using Seol Ye-rin's ice as a support to bind the Great Demon's arms more firmly.

Kwa-a-a-ang—!

Finally, the pillar of fire struck the Great Demon's chest, the center where that bizarre Spirit Bead was embedded, head-on.

-Kkeuaaaaaak!

A strange scream erupted as if the underground cavern would collapse.

The form of darkness that had grown enlarged using Monk Ji Myeong's body as a vessel twisted desperately within the flas.

The bloody radiance spewing from the Spirit Bead was devoured by the purple fla, turning purple, and soon began to crack.

Seol Ye-rin bit her lips tightly and pushed her Ice Art even harder.

'I cannot miss him here.'

Hyeokryeon Yeom opened the path.

Now, while that monster was writhing in pain and scattering demonic energy, was the chance.

Seol Ye-rin twisted her fingers complexly and prepared one of the ultimate techniques of the Ice White Divine Art she had learned.

"Absolute Ice Wall, Closure!"

Giant ice pillars soared up from beneath the Great Demon's feet and embraced Hyeokryeon Yeom's flas.

The Great Demon's demonic energy, which tried to leak outside, was trapped in the barrier of ice and fire and condensed with nowhere to go.

Inside, Monk Ji Myeong's face could be seen.

No, rather than Monk Ji Myeong, it looked like a collection of vengeful spirits full of pain.

"Third Young Master, now is the ti!"

At Seol Ye-rin's shout, the Young Master flashed his body in the air.

Hyeokryeon Yeom's two eyes, holding the light of the three Venerables, were burning purple.

Hyeokryeon Yeom used the recoil of the exploding flas to rush at the Great Demon's chest.

Hyeokryeon Yeom's hand stretched out toward the Spirit Bead.

"...It's over."

The Young Master's low voice grazed Seol Ye-rin's ear.

At that mont, not a purple fla, but a white flash clear enough to be transparent exploded from his hand grasping the Spirit Bead.

It was the mont when the power of the three Venerables combined into one to strike the essence of the Great Demon.

Pa-ji-jik, chaeng—!

Along with the sound of glass breaking, that unpleasant beating sound that vibrated the entire Great Thunder Temple stopped.

The Spirit Bead, which was red like blood, turned into powder and scattered, and the abnormal muscles and shadow arms wrapping Monk Ji Myeong's body began to evaporate like mist.

Seol Ye-rin ran toward Hyeokryeon Yeom, who was landing on the floor.

"Third Young Master!"

Within the collapsing demonic energy, the Young Master staggered and caught his balance.

The light of the three Venerables that wrapped around his whole body was fading, but Hyeokryeon Yeom's gaze alone was still bright.

At Hyeokryeon Yeom's feet, Monk Ji Myeong, who had returned to his original gaunt appearance, was lying down.

***

Ji Myeong's form, which had swollen abnormally, shriveled up like a deflated leather sack.

As the terrible demonic energy that filled the Forbidden Area retreated like the ebbing tide, what remained in the center were the floor turned to ashes and the debris of the broken Spirit Bead.

"Heuk, heuk..."

The pain of my whole body tearing apart ca rushing in.

The price of forcibly resonating the Divine Items of the three Venerables was not light.

My qi center fluctuated and my qi and blood twisted, but I forcibly endured and stood before Ji Myeong.

"Third Young Master! Are you alright?"

Seol Ye-rin hurriedly approached my side and supported .

As Seol Ye-rin's cold chill touched , the heat of my skin, which was hot enough to burn, subsided a little.

I nodded and stared at the strange light flowing out from Ji Myeong's bosom.

Kiiing-

Among the fragnts of the broken Spirit Bead, a single transparent bead, with the bloody demonic energy completely purified, floated into the air.

It looked like an essence planted inside the Spirit Bead by the ancestors of the Great Thunder Temple to seal the Great Demon, and like the Divine Item of another Venerable who protected the Murim in the past.

-Kukuku, I thought the Spirit Bead was the Great Demon's vessel, but it was actually a shell sealing the Great Demon.

-Seeing the Buddhist power lingering, it seems to be the Divine Item of the previous Buddhist Venerable.

Along with the voices of the Demon Queen and the Sword Venerable, the transparent bead was sucked into my chest.

Woooong—!

In a fleeting mont, countless mandalas and Buddhist mantras flashed through my mind.

My twisted qi and blood accepted the Buddhist Venerable's pure energy.

The demonic energy and Buddhist power in my qi center fought, and the demonic energy swallowed the Buddhist power.

Ggulleong-

Following the Iron Venerable, Fighting Venerable, and Poison Venerable, I was able to grasp the fourth Divine Item.

'If Grandmaster Hye-gwang finds out about this, it will be an uproar.'

The Buddhist Venerable's Divine Item was a bead, no, prayer beads.

"...Young Master?"

Seol Ye-rin looked at with doubtful eyes.

It was because the murderous purple energy spewing from my body had been settled into a much deeper and quieter light.

"The Spirit Bead wasn't broken. It just went to find its real owner."

I looked down at Ji Myeong, who had collapsed on the floor.

The guy was exhaling thinly while looking at the ceiling with unfocused eyes.

As the price for becoming the Great Demon's vessel, Ji Myeong's qi center was completely torn, and his qi and blood were already damaged beyond recovery.

"...Abbot, Monk..."

Ji Myeong's lips trembled as he spat out a word.

It seed his sanity had returned only after reaching the threshold of death.

"The Abbot is safe. Atone for the sins you committed yourself outside."

I snatched up Ji Myeong's nape.

Perhaps thanks to obtaining the Buddhist Venerable's dharma power, my body was much lighter than before.

"Let's go, Miss Seol. It looks like this place will collapse soon."

Huge rocks began to fall from the ceiling of the Forbidden Area.

The underground of the Great Thunder Temple, where the Great Demon's barrier had disappeared, was collapsing, unable to withstand its original weight.

I held Seol Ye-rin's hand and flew toward the exit where light could be seen.

***

Kugugung—!

As soon as Seol Ye-rin and I stepped onto the ground, the yard of the Scripture Pavilion behind our backs caused a huge dust cloud and caved in.

The underground Forbidden Area of the Great Thunder Temple, which had endured for a thousand years, was completely buried.

"They ca out! Captain!"

"Young Master!"

Wi Ji-yeong, the Small Snow Squad mbers, and Eun Bin, who was supporting the Abbot, cheered in unison.

I dusted myself off and tossed the tattered Ji Myeong onto the floor.

"...Ji Myeong."

Abbot Beop Jeong called his disciple's na with a trembling voice.

Ji Myeong, who had beco a cripple with his qi center destroyed, turned his unfocused eyes at his master's voice, then soon shed tears of blood and pounded his head on the ground.

"I... I am sorry... This small monk was possessed by a devil..."

"Amitabha. Everything is this old man's negligence."

Beop Jeong closed his eyes with a bitter expression.

I watched that scene indifferently, then touched the Divine Item of the Buddhist Venerable, one of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens, newly wrapped around my wrist.

The Great Thunder Temple after the battle was quiet.

The blood monks who had colluded with Ji Myeong were imprisoned in Seol Ye-rin's Ice Art and taken away, and Beop Jeong began to wash away the blood poison and recover his energy thanks to the Buddhist Venerable's energy I delivered.

"Third Young Master, I truly thank you. If it were not for you, the holy ground of the West would have beco an altar for the Blood Cult."

Sitting in the Great Dharma Hall, Beop Jeong clasped his hands politely.

I fiddled with the teacup and answered casually.

"No, I am just glad I could be of help. More than that."

I held out the Buddhist Venerable's Divine Item obtained from the Forbidden Area to Beop Jeong.

"I would like to ask about the origin of this."

Abbot Beop Jeong of the Great Thunder Temple, who confird the Buddhist Venerable's Divine Item, widened his eyes.

"This is..."

"Do you recognize what it is?"

"One of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens, the Buddhist Venerable's Divine Item..."

Beop Jeong recognized the Divine Item at once.

Woooong-

The Divine Item spewed out a cry as if it wanted to return to again.

"Hoho, it seems the Divine Item has chosen you."

Beop Jeong said so and looked back at Seol Ye-rin.

"To say that the Buddhist Venerable's Divine Item revealed itself to the world again as soon as the Ice Palace's Young Palace Head visited the Great Thunder Temple."

From a drawer in the Great Dharma Hall, Beop Jeong brought sothing and placed it in front of the two.

"Take it. He always said it would reach the Successor soday, but I didn't know it would be conveyed like this."

Beop Jeong held out a Dharma Treasure.