Rebirth of the Thunder God

Ice Soul Poison.

As its name suggested, a cold that could even freeze the soul was felt.

It wasn't a delusion, as Namgung Hui's skin was soon freezing white.

On top of that, the cold floor was pushing Namgung Hui's body to its limit.

"Ha! You were so confident, but you're nothing special. If you freeze to death like that, you won't be suspected of being poisoned."

In fact, the majority of criminals who disappeared as the dew of the prison froze to death like this.

In fact, it was only right to say that everyone except those who starved to death or committed suicide froze to death.

It was absurd that Namgung Hui, who had even completed the bone transformation, would freeze to death like this.

‘Was there a poison that the Pure Thunder Essence couldn't work on? How strange.’

Poison ki was extremely vulnerable to fire ki.

This was not a principle of martial arts, but a truth that was as good as the foundation of this world.

That's why Namgung Hui's head couldn't understand the current situation.

How could poison ki invade Namgung Hui's body?

And that was even when he was covered in Pure Thunder Essence.

Then, he suddenly recalled what the Divine Physician Sect leader had said in his past life.

‘Thunder God. Don't you know that even medicine can become poison if you take too much? Please stop eating medicinal herbs! It won't do the Thunder God any good!’

What if what had invaded Namgung Hui's body now was not poison ki, but medicinal energy?

But even thinking that was strange.

If the medicine became poison because it was too much, the Pure Thunder Essence would burn it away on its own.

Namgung Hui, needing to drive out the cold first, quickly sat down on the floor in a cross-legged position.

Ouyang Yeonhui, who was watching Namgung Hui from the prison across, was lost in thought with a look of victory on her face.

"Hoho! In the end, you are also destined to die like your mother. Freeze to death like your mother. You son of a bitch, worse than a dog."

Namgung Hui didn't hear what she was babbling about.

He was only observing his inside and looking at what was happening.

‘What the. It's really medicinal energy? And it's even yang ki that warms the body.’

He really didn't understand.

How could yang ki freeze the body?

Even now, he felt a cold that pierced his body.

He could also clearly feel his body slowly stiffening.

Namgung Hui first chased the source of the cold.

If he could find out where this phenomenon was happening, he might be able to solve it.

‘The feeling from my buttocks must be coming from the floor……. Let's see. The heart? This part is definitely not touching the floor.’

Namgung Hui observed his heart in detail.

He carefully examined each and every fine meridian near his heart.

Since it was the place where the Pure Thunder Essence had been dormant until recently, it was much easier to observe.

Was it because of that? Namgung Hui soon noticed a strange sign.

And it was a very strange phenomenon.

Wasn't Namgung Hui's middle dantian creating cold on its own!

How could Namgung Hui, who had not even learned ice arts, create cold?

And even to the point of freezing his own body.

Namgung Hui, observing it, had a sudden enlightenment.

‘Ah! It was tricking my body with a huge amount of yang ki. The name made it even more confusing.’

Ice Soul Poison. As its name suggested, it meant to freeze the soul.

It was a name far from yang ki.

That's why Namgung Hui had been thinking, excluding the property of yang ki.

But the Ice Soul Poison had the property of extreme yang and was also equipped with stealth, so it was tricking Namgung Hui's body.

To be precise, it was making the body mistakenly think that it was very hot, causing it to form yin and cold ki in the body.

How cunning and strange.

He was so curious about who had created the Ice Soul Poison.

Now that he knew the cause, all he had to do was solve it.

Namgung Hui first decided to express the extreme yang energy, the component of the Ice Soul Poison.

He gathered the medicinal energy at his fingertips.

Since its properties were very similar to the Pure Thunder Essence, there was no difficulty in moving it.

On the contrary, it obediently followed Namgung Hui's control as if it were one energy.

The rest of the process proceeded smoothly.

The extreme yang ki gathered at his fingertips and began to form a bright light.

As the tangible energy began to appear at the tips of his fingers, Ouyang Yeonhui, who was across from him, shouted.

"You bastard! How did you undo the point-pressing! My guard……."

Ouyang Yeonhui was about to call the guard, but if she did, it was obvious that the fact that she had poisoned Namgung Hui would be revealed.

Ouyang Yeonhui herself had taken the antidote in advance, so nothing had happened, but if the guard came down, he would also be poisoned.

‘I'll just have to watch that bastard's struggle. I don't know how he undid the point-pressing.’

Well, the result would be the same.

It was a poison she had obtained by mobilizing all the power of her family.

Even if the Divine Physician Sect leader came down, he wouldn't be able to detoxify Namgung Hui.

Because the place that had given her the poison had been confident about it.

But for some reason, Namgung Hui's face, which had been frozen to the eyebrows, was gradually regaining its color.

On top of that, his body, which had been frozen white, was also returning to its original state.

"It doesn't make sense! How can the Ice Soul Poison of the North Sea……!"

Namgung Hui gathered all the Ice Soul Poison at his fingertips and released it.

To be precise, he shot it at Ouyang Yeonhui.

-Thwack!

The energy of the Ice Soul Poison pierced Ouyang Yeonhui's throat.

"Keoheok! You bastard! What have you done!"

"The Ice Soul Poison you released. I just returned it."

"Hmph! Do you think that poison will work on this body? I've already taken the antidote……."

"You must have taken a fake one. It doesn't matter what it is. The fact that you're poisoned is real."

Was it because Namgung Hui had put the Ice Soul Poison into her throat?

Or was the antidote she had taken wrong?

It didn't matter to Namgung Hui what the truth was.

What was important was that her body was freezing, so her life would soon be cut off.

"S-save me!"

"How can I save you?"

"Didn't you just detoxify it? Help me with that method. I'm begging you!"

The cold of the Ice Soul Poison was so severe that Ouyang Yeonhui begged and pleaded with Namgung Hui.

Namgung Hui, seeing this as an opportunity, readily nodded and answered.

"Then, the content you didn't mention earlier. I'll think about it if you tell me that."

"My disgrace?"

"Yes. I need to know why my mother had to die."

Ouyang Yeonhui couldn't answer right away.

It wasn't an ordinary disgrace, so she couldn't open her mouth rashly.

At that sight, Namgung Hui clicked his tongue and said.

"You seem to be still alive. Madam Ouyang. Do you know that your eyebrows are all frozen now? You might lose all your eyebrows if you keep this up. Or you might become bald like the third brother."

"T-that can't happen! I'll talk. Actually…… in the past, when I was a virgin, I fed your father an aphrodisiac. And I was forcibly embraced by him and ended up getting married. Are you satisfied now?"

At her answer, most of the questions that Namgung Hui had had were resolved.

Why his father didn't give his affection to Madam Ouyang.

Why he had married such an ugly person like Madam Ouyang.

This must all be a sense of responsibility.

The family's reputation must have also played a part.

"So that's it. So that's it. Then since you've answered, I'll send you on your way comfortably. The other world will be warmer and better than being so cold. Ah. Will hell be hot?"

"You're going back on your word! You said you would save me earlier……."

"When did I? I only said I would think about it. I didn't say I would save you. So I thought about it, and it's a bit much to save you."

She was the person who had killed his mother.

And she was a person who had forcibly married his father by feeding him an aphrodisiac.

She was even aiming for his own life, how could he see such a person favorably?

He should be grateful that he hadn't beaten her to death right away.

‘Of course, I'm not killing her so that she can die painfully.’

Having experienced the Ice Soul Poison once, it was a poison worthy of its name.

An extreme cold that truly froze the soul.

It was not a level that even Namgung Hui, who had the mental strength of the Thunder God, could take lightly.

‘This came from the North Sea? Then it must be from the North Sea Ice Palace.’

The North Sea Ice Palace.

It was a place with a rather long-standing bad relationship even in his past life.

As long as they used ice arts, they were bound to have a bad relationship with the Thunder God, who handled Thunder Ki, due to their compatibility.

The former Sosu Mahu was also a bad relationship in that context.

‘To think that the evil woman in front of me is more evil than that Sosu Mahu. It's a long life to see such a thing.’

Even in the Thunder God's memory, he had never seen a person as vicious as Ouyang Yeonhui.

At best, there was the Grand Duke of the Demonic Cult who used the Star-Sucking Great Art.

Well, since that person had also been killed by the Sword God, Ouyang Yeonhui would be the best in the current generation.

Anyway, such an evil woman was dying.

Her hair had also turned white like frost, reminiscent of a white-haired witch.

His anger also gradually subsided like melting snow.

Namgung Hui broke the iron bars and escaped from the prison.

Even pure black iron couldn't withstand the Thunder Ki, so the iron bars mixed with iron couldn't stop Namgung Hui.

"Madam Ouyang. Shall I tell you an interesting story before you die?"

"Keoheok……. Just relieve this and then talk."

"I have no intention of doing that, well, I'll just talk about myself. When should I start? Yes. It would be good to start when I followed my master."

Namgung Hui, searching his past life's memory, gradually began to bring it out of his mouth.

Ouyang Yeonhui looked at Namgung Hui with a strange expression, as if he was talking nonsense, but when the story of the Great War between Justice and Evil began, she noticed something strange.

"You're talking as if you were the Thunder God of the past life. He is not someone you can dare to mention."

"Wow. You're a person with more sense than I thought. To call him 'he,' I'm touched."

"Hmph! Who in the martial world would disrespect the Thunder God? Along with the Martial God, he was as good as a guardian deity of the martial world. Anyway. Please relieve this! I'm begging you like this."

Namgung Hui walked over and stuck his arm through the bars.

"Well, showing you would be ten times faster. Watch carefully."

Namgung Hui created a flash by making the Pure Thunder Essence bloom from his hand.

As the blue flash lit up the inside of the prison, Ouyang Yeonhui's eyes widened.

"No! That's……!"

"Whether I'm the Thunder God or not, it's a clear fact that I've inherited his true legacy. It means I don't just handle Thunder Ki because I was struck by lightning. If that were the case, Seolhwa would also have handled Thunder Ki, right?"

"R-really……."

Ouyang Yeonhui was about to continue, but she couldn't.

She ended her life with her eyes wide open.

She had frozen like an ice statue.

Now, as the Ice Soul Poison gradually disappeared, her body would melt and collapse.

‘It's really hard to notice because there's no poison ki left in the body.’

But unless it was an underground prison like this or a frigid region, it would be obvious.

And now that he had found out how to relieve it, it wouldn't be a difficult task to make an antidote if he consulted with the Divine Physician Sect leader.

As Ouyang Yeonhui took her last breath, his mother's voice faintly brushed past his ears.

Of course, Namgung Hui's mother would not have wanted revenge.

‘Mother. Still, it's revenge for me, so please don't be angry.’

Since his mother had passed away when he was young, he couldn't even remember his mother's smile now, but for some reason, he felt that she would be smiling now.

‘Then shall I go up slowly? The guard seems to have fallen asleep.’

In the first place, not even an ant had been seen in the underground prison since the Great War between Justice and Evil.

That's why the guard was not a guard, but a Namgung family martial artist who was just standing guard.

Namgung Hui's senses could clearly feel him dozing off, sitting in front of the ground-level iron gate.

But as soon as Namgung Hui stepped on the stairs, the guard suddenly stood up.

And he was about to shout in a hurry, but he collapsed again.

And that was at the hands of an intruder.

(End of Chapter)