Chapter 242: What Is A Human (10)
Translator: TranslatingNovice
Editor: Z0Rel
"Ah it's Deputy."
Kim Yeon looks at me with slightly dazed eyes.
Seeing that, I understand how she called me.
'She didn't call me by her own strength.'
She momentarily drew out the power of the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon with her overflowing talent for consciousness methods.
'The level of her talent for consciousness methods is unbelievably high, so it's understandable how she achieved mastery... But she doesn't even realize she has mastered it.'
Well, that's okay.
Whether intentionally or by chance, we can continue to connect in the future as long as she roughly remembers the method for it now that we've 'connected' once.
"Yeon-ah, Kim Yeon!"
I approach her, who still looks dazed. I shake her by grabbing her shoulders.
"Ehehe, Deputy. Because I miss you, you even appear in my dreams..."
Thump
I press my forehead to hers and strongly operate the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon.
"Huh?"
She opens her eyes wide as if feeling a sense of dj vu.
At the same time, the world of dreams shakes intensely.
'I'll guide her into a lucid dream so she doesn't wake up.'
I use the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon to lift her consciousness into a symbol.
Tsstsssst!
Instantly, the world of dreams shakes, and countless dream scenes flash by.
Most of them are somewhat similar dreams.
Scenes of she and I walking down a path inside a botanical garden.
Inside the botanical garden, under a flowering tree, Kim Yeon's own appearance of finally realizing her emotions is fully reflected.
As those scenes disappear, Kim Yeon's eyes finally clear.
"Uh, uh? This dream"
She seems not to believe I'm in front of her and tries to pinch her cheek.
I pull my head away from her forehead and stop her hand.
"Wait, don't give yourself a big shock yet. It'd be okay if you knew how to operate the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon more, but right now, you might wake up from the dream immediately."
"Ah yes."
She looks at me blankly and nods her head.
It seems is still in something of a dream-like state.
"Now, follow what I do and try to operate the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon, Yeon-ah. Got it?"
"Yes"
As she operates the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon, her eyes gradually become clearer.
I guide her consciousness and help her to gain even more control over the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon.
Kim Yeon had mastered the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon on her own over the past 10 years without even realizing it.
So, teaching her a little through guiding consciousness will immediately allow her to achieve mastery in the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon.
After some time.
"Uh? Uh?"
Finally, having fully mastered the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon, Kim Yeon's eyes clear completely. Her eyes are wide as she fully grasps her dream.
Woosh, woosh!
She waves her hand towards me.
If I were just an accessory in her dream, the proper outcome guided by her consciousness which had fully mastered the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon would have been for me to disperse.
However, I too operate the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon and remain in the dream, resisting her consciousness.
"Uh, DeputyEun-hyun?"
"Yes, it's me."
"De, Deputy...!"
Kim Yeon, with tears in her eyes, runs and hugs me.
I hug her small frame tightly.
"Th, the last 10 years... 10 years..."
"Yes, I know. The Mad Lord is a lunatic."
"Hu, hukk... gughk..."
Kim Yeon tearfully talks about everything that has happened over the years.
I combine the operation of the Wonderfully Mysterious Innate Heart Canon and Ultimate Pinnacle to accelerate her dream, changing the time ratio between the dream and reality.
We slowly share the conversations we couldn't have over the years.
"...So this is the kind of world it is."
'Well, moving one's own body is indeed easier than manipulating tens of millions of puppets at once.'
It seems that her experience manipulating tens of millions of puppets in the Wonderfully Mysterious Fortress is quite helpful.
'The problem is me...'
However, unlike the rapidly growing Kim Yeon and Jeon Myeong-hoon, I still failed to break free from the Heart Demon.
If Kim Yeon and Jeon Myeong-hoon are considered humans as Yang Su-jin said,
What about the others?
'What exactly are the connections I've made in this world...?'
I would have just ignored it if Yang Su-jin was just some worthless thug on the street.
But it was the words of Yang Su-jin, claimed to have reached the pinnacle of a True Immortal.
I can't get it out of my mind.
'What exactly is a human...'
It's when I'm teaching Jeon Myeong-hoon with these thoughts.
Whoosh!
"...!"
A familiar dull glow flies in from afar.
The golden light of a Flying Escape Technique.
"Hey, Elder Jin Eun-hyun!"
It's Hon Wei.
She lands beside me with a bold face and says,
"Here's this month's dowry fund."
Woosh!
She throws a storage scroll towards me.
I silently receive the storage scroll.
As expected, it contains the same amount of spirit stones as the last time I received it.
Over the past year, Hon Wei has been visiting me once a month, pouring an enormous amount of spirit stones on me under the guise of a 'dowry fund.'
Although it's definitely problematic for her to enter the territory of the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect so often and so freely, Jin Byuk-ho, after receiving the spirit stones from Hon Wei, seemed uncomfortable but eventually permitted her passage.
'Now she's even openly bringing her own people...'
I see someone following Hon Wei from about 30 miles away.
He seems to be attempting to hide, but the intent he emits is clearly visible, making it impossible for him to escape my notice.
'Is he a bodyguard?'
I concentrate my consciousness on the person following Hon Wei while looking at her.
"Do you still have no intention of marrying me?"
"I am sorry, but I still do not."
"Hmm... It's regrettable. Then, would you at least form a dual cultivation partnership with me? Not as Dao Companions but just exchanging energies as dual cultivation partners would really be appreciated..."
"..."
I ask her while looking at her.
"A hundred billion mid-grade spirit stones... would be enough for Lady Hon to breakthrough to the late Heavenly Being stage through Breakthrough before Understanding. I really don't understand why you'd want to form a dual cultivation partnership with someone like me."
"Didn't I say? It was love at first sight."
"Hmm..."
I cool my head while reading Hon Wei's intent.
At the same time, I discover that she is manipulating the spiritual energy of heaven and earth subtly while conversing with me, attempting to do something behind the scenes.
'She's subtly laying a formation in the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect...'
More specifically, she is slightly moving the surrounding Heaven and Earth spiritual energy according to her mood to distract me, while the guard following her from thirty li away sneakily messes with the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect.
She might've thought I wouldn't notice her moving the Heaven and Earth spiritual energy, but having delved to the extremes in the art of formations under the tutelage of Cheongmun Ryeong, it's obvious to me.
'It's a formation that pressures earth attribute spiritual energy in one go.'
Although I haven't informed anyone, I have secretly laid circuits of the Mad Lord throughout the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect without anyone's knowledge.
It might have been an absurd sense of paranoia, but I installed the circuits just in case Seo Hweol or perhaps a clone of Wi Ryeong-seon is spying on me, so I never let my guard down.
Through those circuits, the formation she is laying is transmitted to my mind.
'The energy of the formation flows in perfect opposition to the energy of the method flowing through Hon Wei's body.'
In case of emergency, activating this formation will allow me to perfectly suppress her.
Why would she come into the Golden Divine Heavenly Thunder Sect and lay a formation that can suppress herself?
I push Jeon Myeong-hoon, who is charging at me, away and approach her with a smile.
"Thank you for your words. However, I have a proper dual cultivation partner, and casually forming a dual cultivation partnership with another would be a betrayal to her."
Tap, tap
I approach Hon Wei amiably, tapping her shoulder. Without her noticing, I plant the Mysterious Bizarre Gu in her, using the Record of Transcending Cultivation and Exhausting Martial Arts to hide its presence.
'I don't know what she's plotting, but I should keep an eye on her for now.'
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