Rebirth of the Thunder God

The item Namgung Hui took out from his bosom was an old, worn-out manual.

Still, perhaps because it was made by binding sturdy parchment, although it showed the traces of time, it was not greatly contaminated.

So it was not difficult to recognize the title of the manual.

The title of the manual was.

"Heavenly Demon Divine Art?!"

Beak Seolhwa was so surprised that she couldn't even finish her words.

In fact, what was more surprising than the ice crystal was the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.

And for good reason, because she had known that the Heavenly Demon Divine Art was lost, and on top of that, it was in the hands of an outsider, Namgung Hui.

Moreover, it was a legendary divine art that was no different from the symbol of the cult leader.

Although her birthplace was the North Sea Ice Palace, the years she had lived in the Divine Cult were much longer than in the North Sea.

"You...! Where did you get this?"

"Now, now. Calm down. The Mad Dragon was a spy of the Hoicheon Association, right? At that time, the last mission he was given was to track the whereabouts of a certain manual. That manual coincidentally was the Heavenly Demon Divine Art. The Hoicheon Association doesn't know that it's the Heavenly Demon Divine Art. Because the Mad Dragon deliberately leaked the information."

"Ah... But how did the Mad Dragon know the whereabouts of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, which even our Divine Cult didn't know? No matter how great the Hoicheon Association is, it's a little hard to understand."

That's right. The Blood Cult... no. In the days of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, there were many more outstanding figures than the current Blood Cult.

If one were to track the whereabouts of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, the cult members would have been the most advantageous.

Not only would they be physically closer, but since they were the people who knew the Heavenly Demon better than anyone, it would be easy to find the manual even if it were hidden.

But coincidentally, they were unlucky.

Because the manual that the Heavenly Demon possessed was seized by the Azure Sky Sword Emperor, who was no different from their enemy.

Well, if they had moved faster than the Sword Emperor, they might have even gotten their hands on the True Emperor Sword Form.

"So, Seolhwa. I was going to talk about this all night. It's a little long, so listen well. If you get sleepy, tell me. Because I'll give you the sharp blessing of the Thunder God every time."

Beak Seolhwa momentarily thought about pretending to be sleepy, but then realized that the blessing Namgung Hui was talking about was.

-Pajijik!

A baptism of Thunder Ki, and she shook her head.

Namgung Hui began to explain what he had experienced in the Kunlun Mountains step by step.

The story of how he had taken in Mungchi, who was once a monkey, and had taught him martial arts.

The story of how he had met that Mungchi again and had met the fox monster.

And the story of how he had met the descendant of the Sun God Palace and had climbed the Kunlun Mountains together.

And more than anything, he did not forget the story of Cheongsu, who had been imitating the Heavenly Dao Immortal, which was the most central part.

As Namgung Hui's long-winded speech ended, Beak Seolhwa asked with eyes that were even more wide-awake than before.

"Wow. You're so lucky. So in the end, the Sword Emperor obtained the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and passed it on to you, his descendant?"

"Simply put, that's what happened. Whatever the process in between, it was passed on to me."

"But you. Why were you so nice to that direct descendant of the Sun God Palace? And in the end, you came back without even getting the martial arts of the Sun God Palace."

What Namgung Hui had demanded from them from the beginning was the martial arts of the Sun God Palace.

Although he was supposed to receive the rest of the payment when he arrived at the Kunlun Sect, Namgung Hui had not received the rest of the incantation from them.

"It was below my expectations. So I'm going to demand the price in a different way. With the body, that is."

"Body?"

As Beak Seolhwa squinted her eyes, Namgung Hui quickly continued.

"Uh. I'm going to make her run around on her feet. If she's a descendant of the Sun God Palace, I think she can shake the Hoicheon Association enough. Especially if you infiltrate the Northern Heaven, I'm thinking of using her as bait."

"Bait? Hmm. Well, alright."

Since the martial arts of the North Sea Ice Palace and the Sun God Palace were polar opposites, their relationship was not good.

Perhaps because of that, Beak Seolhwa's complexion crumpled when the story of Jeok Hwarin came up.

Although she had shown a slightly displeased expression when the story of the monster fox, Nahi, came up, it was not as much as with Jeok Hwarin.

She was someone who had just passed over the atrocities of Cheongsu Jin-in as nothing.

"So what's the reason you're showing me the Heavenly Demon Divine Art? You wouldn't have taken it out just to show off."

"What else could it be? I was just asking you, who was the vice cult leader, to confirm if this is genuine. In this era, there's probably no one else but you who can tell if this is the real Heavenly Demon Divine Art."

Even the Sword Emperor, who had obtained this manual, was not sure if it was genuine.

Because it was possible that the Heavenly Demon had deliberately carried a fake.

Or he might have encrypted it so that no one could learn it.

He might have taken measures so that only his successor could learn it.

But if it were the Sosu Mahu, who was the vice cult leader, wouldn't she be able to tell if it was genuine or not?

Beak Seolhwa, who was receiving Namgung Hui's expectant gaze, slowly nodded her head and said.

"This is genuine."

"You're sure without even reading it properly. Is there some kind of mark to recognize it?"

"It's not exactly a mark, but this parchment. I've roughly heard who made it. And this sheepskin is a breed that only grows in the Tianshan Mountains. More than anything, that Heavenly Demon person didn't keep fakes. Encryption? He even laughed at such things. Because he boasted that who would dare to take the Heavenly Demon Divine Art of the world from his bosom. Well, since he was robbed by the Sword Emperor, he might be wailing in the afterlife."

The Heavenly Demon's great confidence.

Although it could be seen as arrogant, he was a man who had the right to be so.

It was Namgung Hui's prediction that if the Azure Sky Martial God had not aimed for mutual destruction, the loser would have been the Martial God.

"And the Heavenly Demon Divine Art is a martial art that is so difficult that it doesn't need encryption. The cult leader might have even said that if there was someone who could understand the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, they should just learn it. Perhaps a person with such a talent would have become the successor. Unfortunately, the young cult leader did not have such a quality, so he did not receive it properly."

"And you, Seolhwa?"

"Me, I was overwhelmed just learning the Sosu Divine Art. Since this was a martial art that my parents had passed down before they died, I was even more reluctant to learn other martial arts."

"Uh... Then the Sosu Mahu Demon... no, is the Divine Art a martial art of the North Sea?"

"Well, it's a martial art that my mother made, so could it be seen that way? But since there's no one in the current North Sea Ice Palace who knows it, it's safe to see it as a unique martial art. Still, since its roots are based on the ice art, if you insist, there's no reason you can't."

So when she claimed to be a descendant of the North Sea, it could become a martial art of the North Sea Ice Palace.

But if Beak Seolhwa decided to make an excuse, it meant it was not of the North Sea.

Well, since her claim was not particularly wrong, it seemed the logic of power would apply here.

"Anyway. The Heavenly Demon Divine Art is definitely genuine. You haven't even read this? If you had, you would have known that this is not a fake."

"I didn't examine it closely in case there was some kind of device in the manual. And didn't the Daoists of the Kunlun Sect who saw this have a bit of a bad condition?"

It wasn't just Cheongheo Jin-in, Jeok Hwarin's maternal grandfather, that he was talking about.

Cheongsu, who had discovered this manual first.

Was the reason his character was twisted simply because of the stuffiness of the Kunlun Sect?

Namgung Hui thought that the demonic nature of this Heavenly Demon Divine Art might have corrupted him.

That's why he was careful in reading the manual.

Because the person who would verify this was right in front of him.

"Well, there's nothing wrong with being careful. Yes. You did well. Hui."

Beak Seolhwa, who patted Namgung Hui's butt.

Although Namgung Hui felt a little strange, still, since there was nothing wrong with the manual, he was just endlessly happy.

Namgung Hui, who had received the Heavenly Demon Divine Art back, carefully asked Beak Seolhwa.

"Seolhwa. Do you want to learn this together?"

"No."

Beak Seolhwa answered without a moment's hesitation.

"If I learn that, I might have to fight with you. That's related to the rules of our Divine Cult. ‘Only the cult leader can learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, and only the one who has learned the Heavenly Demon Divine Art can become the cult leader.’ If multiple people learn it, they have to fight until one survives. Don't tell me you want to fight with me until death again?"

"No! Absolutely not."

"And I've heard that the Heavenly Demon Divine Art is a little incompatible for a woman's body to learn. Should I say that the incantation was made to fit a man's body? The young cult leader, who was a woman, also couldn't receive it properly for that reason."

Nod, nod.

He understood why the young cult leader had not shown her face so much in his past life.

"Then it means there's no problem if I learn it."

"Are you really going to learn that? No matter how outstanding your talent is, to start at that age... Huh? Wait a minute."

"Why?"

"Come to think of it, there seems to be a way to learn it more easily than I thought."

"Oh. If there's such a way, you should have told me sooner. What is it? That way."

Beak Seolhwa, with a meaningful expression, continued.

"You need the cult leader's sacred artifact. Because the former Heavenly Demons leave their insights in there. If you're a qualified person, you'll be able to be directly injected with about half of it through the ideation they've planted."

Was it the same context as when Namgung Hui had learned the Dividing Thunder Flashing Shadow from the third sect leader?

He had heard that among the fortuitous encounters left in the martial world, there were similar principles.

Usually, such people were close to immortals who had accumulated immortal training, but to think that the former Heavenly Demons also had such a talent, it was just amazing.

It was originally said that all things return to one.

Since everything revolved like the Taiji, if it were a Heavenly Demon who had reached the extreme, there would be nothing he couldn't leave behind.

But Namgung Hui had no choice but to tilt his head.

"But didn't you say the cult leader's sacred artifact, the Asura statue, was destroyed during the Righteous-Demonic War?"

"Do you remember what the Saintess's sacred artifact is?"

"The blue flame called the Holy Fire. Do you think I wouldn't remember that?"

"Then if that flame goes out, can you say that the sacred artifact has disappeared?"

"That's true, but isn't the case different for the Asura statue, which has a clear form, and the Holy Fire, which doesn't have a clear form?"

"That's also true. But the Asura statue also doesn't have a clear form like the Holy Fire. That is. It's originally close to a symbolic object that the Heavenly Demon of the time left behind by shaping his own mental image. So the fact that the Asura statue was destroyed actually means that the Heavenly Demon died and that mental image embodiment disappeared."

Namgung Hui, recalling the remains of the third sect leader he had met a while ago, nodded his head.

"So that means the insights and ideation contained in it have also disappeared? I got my hopes up for nothing."

"But it's not impossible if you have the young cult leader's sacred artifact, the Holy Fire Mirror. They say the Holy Fire Mirror is a mirror that reflects all things in the universe. They said it can contain the Saintess's Holy Fire, and also the cult leader's insights. That's why it became the sacred object of the young cult leader, the next cult leader. As a last resort of the Divine Cult, that is."

"So in the end, to learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, I have to find something called the Holy Fire Mirror?"

"It's not that you can't learn it if you learn from the beginning, but you're learning it to use it right away, right? It seems the Holy Fire Mirror is absolutely necessary. To use it in a real battle, that is."

Namgung Hui also fully agreed with Beak Seolhwa's words.

Because no matter how much of a genius he was, it was honestly absurd to learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art in a short period and master it.

"Coincidentally, the next destination is the Shaolin Temple. There's a tip that a sacred object of the Divine Cult is being kept there. I just have to hope that it's the young cult leader's Holy Fire Mirror."

"Yeah. Since I remember all the forms, you don't have to worry about recognizing it if you go with me."

Namgung Hui couldn't help but find Beak Seolhwa so pretty.

Not only was she originally pretty, but since even what she did was pretty, he couldn't help but praise her.

He rubbed the back of his hand on her lovely cheek.

A face that was turning pink like a ripe peach.

Even though she was cooling her face with cold energy, it was just luscious.

Namgung Hui, at such an enchanting figure, couldn't hold back and kissed her on the lips.

Jjook.

The moment Namgung Hui was about to gently move away from her lips.

Warak.

Beak Seolhwa's two arms bound Namgung Hui.

And so, the two of them naturally fell onto the bed.

They turned their heads and looked at each other, and both of their faces were full of a blush.

"Hui..."

"Seolhwa..."

After that, Namgung Hui, as if he were possessed by something, threw off the clothes that were blocking him and Beak Seolhwa.

And before their body heat cooled, they pressed their skin together and longed for each other with hot breaths.

It was a moment when a new history, which he had not known in his past life, was being sacredly made.

(End of Chapter)