Rebirth of the Thunder God

"Seolhwa. Let's finish what we were going to do last time."

Perhaps because Namgung Hui suddenly took off his clothes.

Beak Seolhwa's face instantly turned red.

She, quite flustered, stepped back in a hurry and said.

"W-what are you talking about? Don't tell me..."

"Yes. That's right. I've made up my mind this time."

"I'm not ready yet..."

Beak Seolhwa, who was stepping back hesitantly, tripped on the bed and ended up sitting on it.

Gulp.

Beak Seolhwa, who swallowed dryly as if she were very nervous.

Namgung Hui approached such a Beak Seolhwa, put something in her hand, and said.

"Seolhwa. This is a spirit fruit I received from the Blood Qilin. It's called the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit. You eat this first and circulate your ki."

"Huh? What did you say?"

"As expected, you've never heard of it either, Seolhwa. The Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit. It's a spirit fruit that grows on a Yin-Yang tree, with the left side being white and the right side being black. It looks really extraordinary, doesn't it? I got it all for you. Hurry up and eat it. I'll stand guard for you. I'll intervene if anything happens, so don't worry."

"U-uh. Yeah... Thanks."

"You don't seem very happy. Then shall I eat it?"

As Namgung Hui tried to take back the spirit fruit, Beak Seolhwa, who had come to her senses, turned her body and said.

"No. I'll eat it. I was just short on internal energy anyway. This is great."

"It's really great, right? You're happy, right?"

In fact, Beak Seolhwa's feelings were mixed.

That something other than what she had expected had come out.

Of course, she had been secretly looking forward to that other something.

It was something she desperately needed at the moment, and it was even an item she had promised to receive.

On top of that, it looked like a rare and top-grade spirit medicine she had never seen before.

But why did she feel so empty and futile?

What had she expected from Namgung Hui?

'Look at my mind. This is not the time for this. As Hui said, let's just eat the spirit medicine and circulate our ki.'

There was a new internal art she was creating.

An ice-type internal art made by mixing the Sosu Demonic Art of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult and the insights of the North Sea Ice Palace.

The Sosu Demonic Art had the advantage of being able to gather internal energy at an incredible speed, but it also had a fatal weakness as much as that fraudulent ability.

Just like the Boy Art, she couldn't have a relationship with a man.

If by any chance she had a relationship with a man, all the internal energy she had gathered would scatter, and she would return to the state before she had learned the martial art.

Since she had resolved to build a happy family in this life, the Sosu Demonic Art had become a martial art that had to be thoroughly excluded.

Of course, she could use the Sosu Demonic Art as a hand technique.

It was just that she couldn't operate the Sosu Demonic Art, which was the internal art part.

But to just throw away the insights of this Sosu Demonic Art, it was a very high-level internal art.

If so, she just had to create a new internal art using these insights.

And Beak Seolhwa still had the insights of the North Sea Ice Palace that she had learned as a child in her mind.

Beak Seolhwa touched the necklace hanging from her neck.

She didn't know how this had become a symbol of the Vice Cult Leader, but in fact, like its name, the Mark of the North Sea, it was a symbol of the North Sea Ice Palace.

For Beak Seolhwa, it was a memento of her mother, imbued with faint memories.

"Seolhwa. We're short on time, so won't you take it right now?"

"Yeah. Do I just chew and eat this?"

"Probably? I didn't hear any specific instructions on how to take it, but you can probably just chew and swallow it. Most spirit fruits are eaten that way."

"Alright. I'll eat it right now."

Beak Seolhwa looked at the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit that Namgung Hui had given her.

It boasted an extraordinary appearance at a glance.

The energy it contained was even greater than the Small Reversion Pill that Namgung Hui had eaten before.

She was just grateful to Namgung Hui for readily giving her such a precious spirit fruit.

'I also spent a lot of money to buy him a mirror. That mirror also didn't feel like an ordinary object. It felt like I was looking at an ancient artifact. Since Feifei chose it, it must be certain.'

The hand mirror she had given to Namgung Hui.

In fact, it was not an item that Eun Seolrin or Tang Soso had chosen.

Just as Chichi always found something for Namgung Hui.

The spirit beast, Feifei, had also guided Beak Seolhwa to that hand mirror.

Anyway. Beak Seolhwa, having prepared her mind, brought the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit to her mouth.

Agjak. Gulp.

The sweet juice flowed down her esophagus.

The juice was soon absorbed by her digestive organs in an instant.

And at the same time, a cold and hot energy arose at once.

Yin ki and yang ki.

She was familiar with yin ki, but she couldn't get used to yang ki.

Of course, when she fought with Namgung Hui in her past life, she had felt it quite familiarly, but taking it in internally was another matter.

-Huuuung...!

The fiercely rampaging yang ki could not be easily controlled.

At this rate, it felt as if her blood vessels would be damaged and her ki and blood would be twisted.

But then.

A warm energy wrapped around Beak Seolhwa from her back, and began to control the fiercely rampaging energy.

She realized it was Namgung Hui without even looking.

He suppressed the rampaging energy as if he were patting a child and guided that energy straight to Beak Seolhwa's dantian.

It felt as if a hint of kindness was felt, as if she were looking at a child's father.

And Beak Seolhwa also did not just watch, but controlled the yin ki and stored it in her dantian.

And she operated the Moon Soul Divine Art, the internal art she had created this time.

In fact, she had created something called the Nine Yin Divine Art to use separately a while ago, but since she had excluded the Sosu Demonic Art too much, its power was somewhat disappointing.

But the Moon Soul Divine Art was born as a proper ice art by combining the essence of her insights, as if it contained the soul of the moon.

-Sasasak.

If the sun was the father, the moon symbolized the mother.

The sun exuded a fierce energy as if it would burn everything, but the moon offered a warm energy as if it would embrace everything.

Although the internal art that Beak Seolhwa had created was of the ice type.

It wasn't that it couldn't embrace yang ki.

Because Namgung Hui was also helping.

She converted the yang ki into yin ki with the Moon Soul Divine Art and built up her internal energy in her dantian.

No, the expression 'simply building up' was not enough, as a huge amount of internal energy poured in.

'I can't just gather this in my dantian. I have to perform the Great Heavenly Circulation.'

In this situation, the Great Heavenly Circulation was rather dangerous.

Not even the Small Heavenly Circulation, the Great Heavenly Circulation required a vast amount of time and had to be performed in an extremely stable situation.

But Beak Seolhwa trusted Namgung Hui.

And if she didn't perform the Great Heavenly Circulation now, it felt as if she would never be able to digest these huge energies.

The magnificent internal energy flowed through the perineum acupoint and headed to the Yongcheon acupoint.

Every time it passed through a blood vessel, a tingling energy struck her whole body.

And so, the huge internal energy passed through the Du meridian and headed to the Ren meridian.

And then, the energy that had passed through the Ren meridian and headed to the Baihui acupoint finished its communication with the universe and returned to the dantian.

Although this series of processes was explained simply, the Great Heavenly Circulation was a difficult and arduous task, as it was to communicate the energy throughout the whole body.

Since she had also consumed a considerable amount of mental energy, sweat flowed down her whole body.

And so, after finishing the Great Heavenly Circulation once, the roughly playing energy subsided a little.

Once, twice, three times... ten times.

After finishing the Great Heavenly Circulation a total of ten times, she was now able to fully digest the energy of the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit.

And that huge internal energy, saying the dantian was too small, twisted Beak Seolhwa's body without mercy.

Udeudeuk. Udeudeuk.

The bones twisted at various angles and changed.

While taking on a shape optimized for martial arts.

Namgung Hui took his hand off Beak Seolhwa's back and watched from a distance.

The moment of bone and marrow transformation.

Udeudeuk. Udeudeuk. Ususu...

After finishing the bone transformation, the marrow transformation began.

Although Namgung Hui had gone through the bone transformation, he had not been able to go through the marrow transformation like that.

Of course, since there was no need for it, he had stopped before that, but he was secretly disappointed that he had gone through an incomplete bone and marrow transformation.

Beak Seolhwa's old skin peeled off, and new flesh grew.

In that process, her outer clothes also crumbled and fell off.

At least the treasure clothes that Namgung Hui had given her had a shape, so she did not become completely naked.

But the curves of her body seen through those treasure clothes were rather stimulating and even fatal.

Namgung Hui tried to turn his gaze away from Beak Seolhwa, who was no different from being naked, but he just watched, not knowing how the energy of the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit would act.

He even rationalized that it didn't matter since her important parts were covered by the treasure clothes.

Gulp.

And so, while Namgung Hui was observing, a white energy flowed out of Beak Seolhwa's nose and headed above her head.

And then, that energy took the shape of a flower, and the number increased to three.

The so-called Three Flowers Gathering at the Summit.

Since it was a realm that Namgung Hui had also reached, it was not new, but the shape of the flower resembled an ice flower, so it was mysterious.

For some reason, the flower also seemed to be bigger.

Those three flowers combined into one and were sucked into Beak Seolhwa's nose.

Sseuseuk.

Beak Seolhwa's body, which was slowly sinking.

Namgung Hui put the robe he had taken off on her body, which had finished the bone and marrow transformation.

Beonjjeok.

Beak Seolhwa opened her eyes, exuding a light.

Namgung Hui quickly turned his body and stood there blankly, as if he hadn't seen anything.

And towards Namgung Hui's back, Beak Seolhwa's words flew.

"Thanks."

"I didn't mean to... Huh? Thanks?"

"Thanks to you, I finished the bone and marrow transformation and gained a huge amount of internal energy. You'll be surprised when you find out how much my internal energy has increased."

"How much did it increase?"

"My current internal energy is a whopping four Jiazi. Just with the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit, it increased by two Jiazi."

Beak Seolhwa had not been able to eat many spirit medicines like Namgung Hui.

That was why she had always felt that her internal energy of only two Jiazi was lacking.

That lack of internal energy was completely resolved thanks to the Yin-Yang Immortal Fruit that Namgung Hui had given her.

If she hadn't said thank you, it would have been ungrateful.

"If it's four Jiazi, you won't be short on internal energy for a while. Then is it my turn now?"

"Yeah. It's my turn now."

"Your turn, what do you mean? You just finished the bone and marrow transformation and you're asking for another spirit medicine?"

"No. It's my turn to watch... no, to watch."

"..."

Namgung Hui, seeing Beak Seolhwa's reddened face, was at a loss for words.

Wasn't it his turn to show his naked body to Beak Seolhwa now?

Seeing her blushing like that, he didn't feel very confident.

And most of all, he had tried to think of it as a simple medical act.

But because of that appearance, he couldn't help but be conscious of it.

'Still, I have to receive the great art somehow. The demonic heads who have received the title of Demonic Human, including the Demonic Phantom, are hard to guarantee in their current state.'

To face the Young Cult Leader, whom he had not even seen yet, he had to be fully prepared.

Having no choice, Namgung Hui turned his back and took off his clothes, saying.

"If you don't have anything to wear, you can wear my clothes for now. I have a change of clothes."

Since he had been in various disguises recently.

He had quite a few spare clothes.

The clothes that Namgung Hui had originally worn.

The clothes he had worn when he had disguised himself as the Sword Demon.

He had even disguised himself as a courtesan when he had met the Black Tortoise Troupe Leader.

Even if it wasn't those clothes, didn't Namgung Hui have the very special cloth of the White Snake and the White Wolf's skin?

'I should make a new set of clothes for Seolhwa too. Since the leather is plentiful, it doesn't matter if I make as many as I want.'

A strong leather comparable to being sword-proof.

On top of that, since it was also waterproof, there was no worry of his clothes getting wet even if it rained.

Not to mention being impervious to heat and cold, and even setting aside such functions, the subtle luster and elegant color would surely look great if made into clothes.

"What are you doing? Not taking them off. Should I take them off for you?"

"No. I have to take them off now. Since you said it's okay to lie on my stomach, get off the bed first."

Beak Seolhwa nodded and put on Namgung Hui's outer garment and vacated the bed.

Perhaps because she had finished the bone and marrow transformation, she was taller than before, and her skin was glowing.

Her already white skin was even more dazzling.

"What are you staring at so intently?"

"Ahem!"

Namgung Hui, startled, cleared his throat and immediately got on the bed and took off his clothes.

Unlike Beak Seolhwa, Namgung Hui had no treasure clothes to protect him.

Although there was something like a shield on his arm, unfortunately, it did not protect his lower body.

Namgung Hui, who had quickly lain on his stomach, covered his face with his palms and said.

"Hurry up and melt the Hwaryeong Divine Pill. We probably don't have much time left."

A lot of time had passed while he was standing guard for Beak Seolhwa.

It was a time when it wouldn't be strange if someone came looking for Beak Seolhwa or Namgung Hui.

He needed to melt the Hwaryeong Divine Pill through the great art as soon as possible.

Beak Seolhwa, also aware of that, nodded with a determined expression.

"Alright. I'll go in right away."

Beak Seolhwa also got on the bed and placed her hand on Namgung Hui's back.

A cold energy flowed through her hand and even awakened Namgung Hui's mind.

-Sseuseuseu...

A cold qi as sharp as frost flowed through the Du meridian, passed the Ren meridian, and headed to the dantian.

And so, as Beak Seolhwa's energy passed the lower dantian and headed to the middle dantian, a strange energy stirred.

It was not the energy of the Hwaryeong Divine Pill, but a third thing.

At the unexpected situation, Namgung Hui and Beak Seolhwa were flustered.

(End of Chapter)