Chapter 60 : Eureka
Snow Wind Sword Venerable, Baek Un-han, feigned ignorance.
-Master, I didn't see you that way....... You had slush funds you didn't tell about!
Cold Snow Demon Queen, Jang So-ryeong, began to pour out nagging words like rapid fire.
"Didn't he say he doesn't know if it's still remaining?"
-Y, Yeah. It's been such a regret that I couldn't sell that off and use it!
-Then you should have at least given a hint!
"Ahem, who are you talking to?"
"You don't need to know."
Currently, I, Hyeokryeon Yeom, was walking westward from the Ice Palace together with the Holy Hand Divine Physician, Seong I-han.
"Groan, if it was a spiritual elixir that could be found just by blindly searching like this, it would have been found long ago!"
"I suppose so."
I can't tell the Divine Physician, but I didn't co out thinking of finding a needle in a haystack.
Sword Venerable's Secret Cave.
It was uncertain whether the secret cave created three hundred years ago would still exist.
But, if only I could find it.
'It's definitely there, right?'
-Yes. I didn't know it would beco a legendary spiritual elixir, but it was a dicinal ingredient I used to eat often in my pri.
To think sothing he often ate three hundred years ago has beco a legendary dicinal ingredient now.
Ti was heartless.
"Know that you are alive thanks to , Elder Divine Physician."
My father-in-law looked ready to kill him for real.
Just how much did he rip off for father-in-law to show such a reaction?
"Ahem. I thought I could return after so ti had passed."
"Why did you return to the North Sea despite receiving such treatnt, Elder?"
"The Southern Barbarians were too hot. Now I'm sick of the heat."
"Did you treat people and receive money there too?"
"I don't just receive money. Others think of as so saint or hermit, but I have never treated anyone for free."
If he is a physician of the Divine Physician's level, he must have treated countless people and gained a lot.
"Why did you, Elder, who likes money so much, step up to even check Miss Seol's pulse for free?"
"Because the Young Palace Head is the first patient I couldn't cure in my life. But rumors reached even the Southern Barbarians. Stories that the North Sea Ice Palace's Young Palace Head showed improvent."
Ah.
Only then could I realize why the Divine Physician returned to the North Sea.
It must have been due to pure curiosity as a physician that a patient he couldn't cure had been cured.
"Also, I wanted to feel the cool breeze of the North Sea while I was at it."
"Thanks to that, I bought ti."
This is true.
If not for the Divine Physician, I wouldn't have even been able to co out to find the dicinal ingredients like this.
"There's no need to be too grateful. I intend to demand sothing from you too."
"I haven't received treatnt from you, Elder."
"Didn't I treat the person who will beco your wife?"
"For a quack who can't even treat people without dicinal ingredients."
"What?!"
By the way.
'Is it still far?'
-Well. Since it's been so long, the surrounding scenery all looks the sa.
It seed finding the secret cave just by eye asurent would be difficult after all.
-Wasn't there anything morable nearby?
-There was.......
'What was it?'
-Looking at the state, it seems everything has disappeared.
'Tell what it was.'
-It was next to a hot spring water. I used to enjoy the hot spring and rest in the secret cave.
At those words, I stopped walking.
Because it felt like I heard sothing strange just now.
***
At the ti Hyeokryeon Yeom's party was looking for hot spring water.
"I apologize with my head bowed like this."
The Hell Poison Demon bowed his head to the Ice Palace Lord, Seol Baek-ho.
Seol Baek-ho shook his head.
"I know it wasn't the Poison Demon's child's fault."
"However, I think I have no choice but to admit that my child was bewitched due to his weak martial prowess."
Furthermore.
If Yayul Jin hadn't packed the Seven Steps Soul Severing Poison, this wouldn't have happened.
Although it was natural for a demonic practitioner who learned poison arts to carry poison around.
It was clearly wrong to bring such a hideous poison on a good day.
"It is done. I believe the Third Young Master will save the Young Palace Head again."
"You seem to trust the Third Young Master very much."
"I do. To the point I'm grateful to the Heavenly Demon."
Yayul Cheon-ung couldn't help but find Seol Baek-ho's reaction fascinating.
Perhaps because even though he saw Hyeokryeon Yeom's changed appearance, he showed an appearance that was worlds apart from when he was in the Demonic Cult.
It still didn't feel real at all.
"Rather than that."
Seol Baek-ho's eyes began to twinkle.
"Is there anyone who cos to mind regarding who committed such an act?"
Seol Ye-rin thought that since Hyeokryeon Yeom would co up with a thod together with the Divine Physician, Seol Baek-ho should do what only Seol Baek-ho could do.
And that thing he had to do was.
'Catching the culprit.'
Poisoning his daughter whom he wouldn't find painful even if he put her in his eye, and making it look like the Demonic Cult's doing.
A group or organization trying to alienate the two forces.
"I judged the masked n to be martial artists of the Murim Alliance and Saphaeryeon."
"I also received a report on that."
"If it's not the Murim Alliance and Saphaeryeon, there is a need to find out where on earth the guys appeared from."
What controlled Yayul Jin was clearly an evil art.
Or a type of illusion art.
Sects that could use such things were limited.
"A sect that wants to kill the Young Palace Head while being reluctant about us joining forces."
"According to Hyeokryeon Yeom, when Yayul Jin unfolded the poison art towards the Young Palace Head. Yayul Jin's pupils turned red."
At the story that the eye color turned red, the Hell Poison Demon, Yayul Cheon-ung stroked his chin.
"It couldn't be that they are becoming active again, right?"
"By 'they', you an......."
"The Blood Cult."
At Yayul Cheon-ung's words, Seol Baek-ho shook his head.
"It has already been over a hundred years since the Blood Cult disappeared."
"It seems a hundred years have passed since the North Sea Martial God hasn't appeared either though."
At the Poison Demon's words ntioning the Martial God, Seol Baek-ho's expression hardened.
"Since ancient tis, it was said that heroes appear in turbulent tis."
History proves it.
A hundred years ago, two hundred years ago, even three hundred years ago.
Whenever a Martial God appeared in the North Sea.
A Heavenly Demon existed in the Demonic Cult, and,
'The Blood Cult also beca active.'
Both Yayul Cheon-ung and Seol Baek-ho knew that fact.
"Such a thing... must not happen."
Yayul Cheon-ung knew the reason Seol Baek-ho spoke like this.
"Do not turn away. Doesn't the Palace Lord know best that both of them might have been seen as favorite prey of the Blood Cult?"
Whenever the Blood Cult beca active in the Jianghu, there were people they targeted.
Martial artists with special constitutions.
Heavenly Martial Body, Heavenly Killing Body, Extre Yang Body, Extre Yin Body, etc.
The fact is that the Blood Cult has always targeted martial artists with special constitutions.
"There is only one way. If the Third Young Master or the Young Palace Head don't want to beco targets, there is no choice but to cure those special constitutions."
The furrows between Yayul Cheon-ung and Seol Baek-ho's brows began to deepen gradually.
***
Hot springs?
Hot spring.
A spring where groundwater heated by geothermal heat cos out to the surface.
It usually ans water with a higher temperature than the average temperature of groundwater.
Such hot spring water exists in the North Sea?
-There were many in the past. If you soaked your body in the faintly rising hot spring water, it was truly paradise.
It seems plausible if it was three hundred years ago.
'Then.......'
Instead of searching around like this, digging the ground to see if groundwater pops out might be faster.
Wait.
'You said water soared up?'
If the Sword Venerable's words are true, it ans there is a possibility that geysers, etc., existed in this area among hot springs.
Then it ans there must be a vein where hot spring water flows leading to a geyser below the ground of the freezing North Sea, and that ans.......
'If I find the hot spring vein flowing as groundwater, it could lead to where the secret cave is.'
I quickly began to put my face on the ground.
"......."
Nothing can be felt.
"Is there anything we can help with?"
"Hm?"
While I was demonstrating trendous concentration and sticking my head in the ground.
"When did you co?"
"Protecting the Young Palace Head's safety is our job. If there is anything we can do, please order us!"
Before I knew it, the Small Snow Squad had chased after us, who had departed first.
"I ca too."
The Potala Palace's Young Palace Head, Cheon Deung-jin, was also visible.
"Miss Cheon was also together."
"What are you looking for that you have your face against the ground?"
I debated whether I should tell them this or not, and after consideration, I brought up the story.
"I am looking for a hot spring."
"Suddenly a hot spring?"
"You were looking for sothing preposterous."
The Divine Physician listened to my story, then sighed deeply.
"Did you turn your direction to a hot spring because you don't think you can find the dicinal ingredients?"
"I didn't turn. I cannot tell you the details, but the whereabouts of the dicinal ingredients are related to the hot spring."
Although I can't explain the whole story, at the words that finding the hot spring would lead to finding the dicinal ingredients, the personnel of the Small Snow Squad also began to stick their heads in the ground.
A bizarre situation where the entire Small Snow Squad stuck their heads in the ground looking for a hot spring began to unfold.
"Everyone... is crazy."
The most flustered one was the Divine Physician, Seong I-han.
Even in the Southern Barbarians, they didn't look for sothing in such an ignorant way.
In the first place, the saying itself that finding a hot spring would lead to finding dicinal ingredients was nonsense.
The problem is,
'Those guys who believe that straight away are also strange guys.'
Even if North Sea people are ignorant, there is a limit.
'Is it because he's a Demonic Cult guy?'
Conversation didn't work at all.
Since they were the action faction who acted first, their propensity didn't match with the Divine Physician.
'Hm?'
But the amazing thing was that for so reason, he harbored expectations.
It was clearly visible in the eyes of the Divine Physician, Seong I-han.
'Extre Yang Qi is perating into the ground.'
To find the hot groundwater underground, he is probing below the ground through Extre Yang Qi.
'Maybe.......'
He harbors the expectation that they might really discover a hot spring.
'Ay, there's no way.'
This is the North Sea.
The Divine Physician had never heard a story that a hot spring burst out in the North Sea in his entire life.
Pause.
At that ti, Cheon Deung-jin raised her body and spoke.
"Captain!"
"Uh, I think I got a feeling too."
Simultaneously as Cheon Deung-jin raised her body, I also raised my body.
Vroom-
Soon, Extre Yang Qi began to boil up throughout my entire body.
'Gasp.'
It's hot.
Heat hotter than the sunlight felt in the Southern Barbarians was spewing out from Hyeokryeon Yeom.
The Divine Physician took a few steps backward.
'What is he planning to do?'
Soon, Extre Yang Qi gathers in my fist.
"Surely......."
Boom!
As soon as he said sure, my fist struck the ground.
Thud-
The ground was dug out just like that.
The power of the fist wrapped in trendous heat was enormous.
"A little more!"
Boom!
"Your fist will be ruined first!"
The Divine Physician tried to dissuade urgently, but.
"It's okay!"
Vroom-
Inner Qi wrapping the fist, and Yang Hard Qi surrounding that Inner Qi.
"Ha."
It was the first ti in his life seeing soone handling Extre Yang Qi that well.
The speed at which the ground was being dug was truly marvelous.
"Once more!"
Boom!
As I pounded and pounded again like that,
Splosh!
"Crazy."
Hot hot-spring water began to soar.
"Eureka (I found it)!"
The Divine Physician, Seong I-han, gained a realization watching the cheering Hyeokryeon Yeom.
That the one defining human limits was himself.
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