As if to show his cautious nature, the Lacquer-Faced Yama once again examined Cheon Mubaeck properly.

“Hmm. I’ve only heard about it in literature, so I’m not sure, but this must be a Heavenly Divine Body.”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama was calm. The excited appearance from before was nowhere to be seen. After carefully examining Cheon Mubaeck, he put him down with a satisfied face and turned his gaze to Zhuge Seola.

Zhuge Seola’s body stiffened as she watched the Lacquer-Faced Yama approach her.

Until now, he had only fed her pills and had not laid a single hand on her.

If she hadn’t been abducted and hadn’t been given the infamous name of Inhuman Lust Fiend, he would have been considered just a cranky old man.

A master with quite high martial arts skills at that?

But Zhuge Seola had a hunch.

“What are you trying to do?”

However, her voice did not tremble with fear.

As if to prove she was a daughter of the Zhuge Clan, she was calmer than ever in a moment of crisis. However, she couldn’t hide her pale face.

“I thought I needed to see a little more, but it doesn’t matter now. Because I have that Heavenly Divine Body in my hands.”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you know I’m a daughter of the Zhuge Clan, right?”

“Hahahaha! You dare to bring up the name of the Zhuge clan in front of me!”

Thud!

The Lacquer-Faced Yama stomped his foot. A formidable amount of martial power was transmitted through the floor to her entire body.

A realm so high that it was beyond powerful.

Zhuge Seola’s pupils trembled greatly.

‘Is this just a lust fiend? Absolutely not!’

She had been suspicious from the beginning.

No matter how she looked at it, he was not a person who deserved to be treated as a mere lust fiend. A daughter of the Zhuge Clan being captured by a mere lust fiend without being able to do anything? Did that even make sense? Zhuge Seola’s martial arts alone had achieved results by faithfully following the orthodox path. Was it just her? Hadn’t he instantly neutralized the guards surrounding her?

Zhuge Seola bit her lip hard.

Moreover, to ignore the Zhuge Clan. It might be different elsewhere. In this Hubei Province, there was no such madman. Either completely mad. Or a master who could afford to be.

Unfortunately, it was the latter.

“In my youth, the likes of the Zhuge clan and the orthodox faction should have disappeared long ago! If it weren’t for that damn Azure Sky Sword God, this Central Plains would have already been unified by the demonic path! You guys who survived thanks to the Azure Sky Sword God are so arrogant!”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama reached out his hand towards Zhuge Seola. The terrifying hand grew in her retina in an instant.

Her limbs were already sealed by the pressing of her acupoints, so she couldn’t resist.

Tap, tap, tap!

But the Lacquer-Faced Yama’s next action was unexpected. He reached out his hand and tapped Zhuge Seola’s body several times, as if tapping her acupoints.

“…?”

There was no change.

The moment Zhuge Seola felt that and had a question.

“Kuuuuk!”

A groan of pain erupted from deep within.

Her eyes rolled back white. Her cheeks trembled, and soon her whole body trembled. The blood completely drained from her already pale face.

Frost settled around where she was sitting, as if ice was about to form.

“It may not be the ice crystal I was aiming for, but it will be quite useful. It will be a pretty good meal before I devour that guy.”

It was as if he was deliberately muttering.

As if to make her listen and cry out in fear.

Even in the situation where an extreme cold that seemed to make her lose her mind was raging, Zhuge Seola could hear that voice clearly.

Fear filled her rolled-back eyes. But before she could even recognize that fear, an extreme pain beyond cold was inflicted on her body.

The extreme cold turned into pain. The pain gradually paralyzed her senses. As time passed, it seemed to go beyond paralysis and disappear altogether.

As if she was becoming an ice crystal, not a person.

“Now, shall we have the main course.”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama said so and immediately headed towards Cheon Mubaeck.

‘Hmm.’

Cheon Mubaeck was actually in a moment of contemplation at this moment.

‘At what point should I step in?’

Even the great Cheon Mubaeck had to be cautious now.

‘Lacquer-Faced Yama, Ma Jo-eung.’

Cheon Mubaeck also knew him well. It was rather surprising. He should have been in his coffin by now, but he still looked healthy.

‘He has reached a higher realm than back then.’

If it were his previous life, he would have beaten him up without a second thought, but unfortunately, he was now Cheon Mubaeck, not the Azure Sky Sword God.

Of course, Cheon Mubaeck had also made a lot of progress in the meantime. He was growing rapidly, treading the path of his previous life’s realm again. There were definitely aspects where he had improved more than in his previous life by accepting new enlightenments.

The problem was that his opponent was the Lacquer-Faced Yama, Ma Jo-eung.

‘The demon who burned Kunlun alone.’

Cheon Mubaeck had found traces of the Lacquer-Faced Yama on the victims’ bodies.

To be honest, he didn’t think it would be the Lacquer-Faced Yama himself.

He thought it was probably his disciple or successor, or someone who had inherited his legacy.

‘I’m not confident.’

In facing him.

‘I’m not confident I’ll lose, though.’

But Cheon Mubaeck also had to do his best. The Lacquer-Faced Yama was evaluated to have stepped into the realm of entering the divine, beyond the peak, even during the Righteous-Demonic War.

It was only a difference of one stage, but it was a huge gap.

Only a few among the people of the martial world could reach the peak realm.

The number of people who went beyond the peak and simply set foot in the realm of entering the divine was not large in the entire martial world.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama had already received such an evaluation 40 years ago.

‘But the aging of his body is clear.’

No matter how great one was, one could not escape the laws of nature.

A powerful internal energy could slow down the law of aging a little, but there was a limit to that.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama was at his limit right now.

‘That’s why he’s doing this shit.’

Zhuge Seola’s condition, with her whole body turning blue and freezing, was serious even at a glance.

‘There’s still time, though.’

There was still time. The process of becoming an ice crystal was painful, but it was impossible for a person to become a mere ice crystal in an instant.

Cheon Mubaeck also knew how to reverse it. But to do that, he had to defeat the Lacquer-Faced Yama first.

‘Defeating him is not difficult. I just have to grit my teeth and fight.’

The enlightenments he had gained so far, the internal energy he had accumulated, the experience engraved through countless past lives.

He could win.

‘I have to capture him without killing him.’

That was the reason Cheon Mubaeck was contemplating.

He had to keep him alive.

He had to capture him as a prisoner without killing him.

‘There’s no choice. I just have to keep him breathing.’

It was a shocking thing to think that about the great Lacquer-Faced Yama.

But for Cheon Mubaeck, that was the best he could do.

He was confident he could kill him. But capturing him as a prisoner without killing him required Cheon Mubaeck to give his all.

He might even get seriously injured in the process. It might be different if it were his previous life.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama was an opponent who required that much determination.

‘I have to fight him here.’

If he delayed any longer, Zhuge Seola would also be in a dangerous state. Cheon Mubaeck made a decision. He would fight right away.

But then, at the Lacquer-Faced Yama’s next action, Cheon Mubaeck immediately canceled his plan to fight.

“Child, if you had met a good teacher, you could have become a genius of the ages, but it can’t be helped. It would be a great life to be sacrificed for my supreme yang body.”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama squeezed Cheon Mubaeck’s cheeks tightly. His mouth opened automatically under the pressure.

“It will only take a moment. You are a Heavenly Divine Body, so with this alone, you will become a perfect ice crystal that does not exist in the world.”

At the same time as he spoke, he put something in his mouth.

Countless thoughts went through Cheon Mubaeck’s mind.

‘It’s a supreme yin pill that turns a person into an ice crystal.’

Cheon Mubaeck’s eyes flashed.

Zhuge Seola’s state over there was the process of turning into an ice crystal.

The pills she had eaten so far were filled with the energy of supreme yin. The one he had just put in Cheon Mubaeck’s mouth was also of that kind.

The moment he ate this, the energy of supreme yin would rage throughout his body.

Supreme yang energy, supreme yin energy.

Unless it was a martial art biased to one side, people of the martial world generally had to achieve a balance of yin and yang.

Only then would there be no problems in the operation of internal energy.

Cheon Mubaeck’s body was also in a state where the balance of yin and yang was almost perfectly achieved.

It was due to the power of the Heaven-Shaking Soul Art, which accepted nature itself.

Cheon Mubaeck had deliberately guided it in that direction.

‘Now my body’s balance is set.’

When he first awakened, Cheon Mubaeck’s body was extremely unbalanced. The muscle meridians connecting the muscles were disastrous, and his body was on the verge of collapsing if he moved even a little.

The Heaven-Shaking Soul Art played a big role in properly recovering and making a physique suitable for learning martial arts. In that process, it was self-evident that the balance of yin and yang was more important.

What if he accepted the energy of supreme yin here?

His life was not in immediate danger.

But it was clear that it would go against the balance that Cheon Mubaeck had set so far.

The reason he was contemplating without roughly pushing it away was obvious.

‘Supreme yin energy is not something that can be easily obtained anywhere.’

Moreover, the supreme yin energy felt from the pill that the Lacquer-Faced Yama had brought was truly formidable.

It felt as if he had brought a whole block of ice from the North Sea Ice Palace.

‘It’s probably their secret method.’

Cheon Mubaeck knew the Lacquer-Faced Yama’s identity perfectly.

So he had an idea of what this pill was. If his reasoning was correct, it could be a fortunate encounter.

After a moment of contemplation, Cheon Mubaeck.

‘Should I fear an opportunity!’

He swallowed it without hesitation. The Lacquer-Faced Yama, who confirmed that he had swallowed it, smiled faintly and put Cheon Mubaeck down on the floor.

An extreme cold raged in Cheon Mubaeck’s stomach.

Even the great Cheon Mubaeck’s body trembled as the supreme yin energy spread from his abdomen to the eight extraordinary meridians of his entire body.

On one side, Zhuge Seola, who was naturally endowed with yin energy, and on the other side, Cheon Mubaeck of the Heavenly Divine Body, were simultaneously turning into ice crystals.

The Lacquer-Faced Yama burst into a mad laugh.

“Hahahaha. Finally, I will break through another wall!”

Cheon Mubaeck’s body was now trembling, but Zhuge Seola’s whole body had already turned cold. Frost had settled on her entire body, and her eyebrows and hair had turned white as if snow had piled up on them.

“It’s almost complete.”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama reached out his hand.

In an instant, a supreme yang energy like lava erupted from his dantian.

An intense energy that seemed to burn everything down right away.

Zhuge Seola did not lose consciousness. The senses of her whole body disappeared due to the extreme cold that raged through her body, but her mind was clear.

It felt as if the cold did not penetrate her brain.

Unfortunately, that was an unfortunate thing for Zhuge Seola.

Because she could clearly see what the Lacquer-Faced Yama was doing.

‘…!’

The corner of Zhuge Seola’s eye twitched. The Lacquer-Faced Yama’s face, as if engulfed in flames, was contorted like a ferocious god of evil. A rapid aging was in progress, to the point where it felt as if his skin would melt and flow down at any moment.

It would be a lie to say that her heart didn’t sink at that strange sight.

“Don’t worry. I will personally deliver your belongings to the Zhuge Clan!”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama laughed strangely and swung his hand.

No, he was about to swing it.

Kaaang!

A finger flicking art emitted from Cheon Mubaeck’s fingers aimed at the Lacquer-Faced Yama’s back.

A surprise attack out of nowhere.

Although he was attacked from behind at a completely unexpected moment, the Lacquer-Faced Yama’s reaction was also dramatic.

He instantly spun his body around and sprayed flames to nullify the finger flicking art.

However, while the flames faltered for a moment due to the supreme yin energy contained in the finger flicking art, Cheon Mubaeck approached like a ghost and punched him in the abdomen.

“Keoheok!”

The Lacquer-Faced Yama instinctively twisted his body and jumped back.

Even so, the corner of his eye twitched as if the shock had been fully transmitted.

But he was not surprised by the shock transmitted to him. The shock transmitted to his abdomen was nothing surprising compared to the situation that had just occurred.

He looked at Cheon Mubaeck, who was standing proudly, with a look of disbelief.

A cold wind swirled around him, but he was standing fine.

“How… How? How are you enduring the supreme yin energy?”

The pill that Cheon Mubaeck ate was not just any pill.

It was filled with the essence that had been researched and created for a long time. It was a pill that would make even the people of the North Sea Ice Palace click their tongues.

It was impossible to stand like that after eating it.

As a gaze full of disbelief reached him, Cheon Mubae-ck laughed nonchalantly.

“I’m just a bit of a hot guy.”

(End of Chapter)

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