Chapter 82
The seething surge of fury sparked through every major meridian in Kwak Yeon’s body. As if in response, his blood channels opened on their own, and the inner energy coiled deep in his dantian exploded outward.
Kwarrrumm!
The Art of the Everchanging Origin was no ordinary internal technique—it responded to the Five Desires and Seven Emotions.
To reach the Realm of Boundless Emptiness, one had to transcend those desires and emotions. But the only path to transcendence... was through deep confrontation with them.
The pure rage Kwak Yeon now felt—this, too, was part of that journey.
He gathered the violent storm of inner energy that had erupted through his entire body and guided it once around his meridians with the circulation method of Taiji Internal Energy, sealing it down once more.
Then, he unlatched the door to the laborers’ quarters.
He opened the door just wide enough to slip inside.
A stench assaulted him the moment he entered.
In the dark, he saw layered mounds strewn across the floor.
They began to stir. Only then did he realize—the laborers were stacked atop each other, sleeping in piles.
As the door opened, they sluggishly rose and began filing toward it in a daze.