Chapter 6 (Abandoned Disciple of Heavenly Demon)

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Episode 6: The First Encounter (3)

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‘Is this the correct method for internal energy?’

Jin Myeong, who had been continuously reciting the internal energy cultivation mantra as per manual. Soon, he could feel the energy moving in his dantian.

‘This is similar to what it felt like when I fought that tiger guy?’

The feeling of something stirring. Thanks to that energy, his body felt energized and stronger as well.

‘I cand vaguely control it’, he just couldn’t figure out how to move internal energy.

‘This is the first time I’ve felt this certain.’

Unlike before, when he had only vaguely felt it, Jin Myeong could now clearly feel the internal energy that was dormant in his own dantian.

‘Is this internal energy?’

Jin Myeong felt that the energy moving around his body was turbid. What should he say?

‘Should it be called ‘an impure energy’?’

It seemed a little different from the clean and pure stuff.

‘A turbid fluid.’

It felt like several energies were mixed together in a turbid manner, not like oil and water that were not properly mixed.

‘Is it okay if I just keep chanting the mantra like this?’

There are very few cases in which the internal energy techniques are described in detail, in novels.

Usually, in novel, they would just memorize the manual of the internal energy cultivation or roughly skip over to the scenes of training.

‘Huh? What the heck is this….’

He continued to recite the mantra and breathe as written in the internal energy cultivation manual.

Then, immediately, he felt something entering his nose.

‘Is this Energy?’

Jin Myeong tried to slowly send that energy to his dantian.

‘It moves.’

Unlike the internal forces that were trying to move within the dantian, the current internal forces were moving as Jin Myeong wanted.

‘Straight to the dantian…’

He tried to send those energies to his dantian, but strangely, the energies began to linger outside it. And then, all the energy left his mouth again.

‘Why is that?’

He couldn’t understand why it didn’t go straight to the dantian.

‘Oh, so inhalation isn’t just about gathering energy?’

Jin Myeong realized that the energy he had absorbed through his nose was different from the energy in his dantian.

It is true that inhalation is the absorption of the natural energy.

‘But it’s not like it’s just accumulating the natural energy.’

The energy of nature changes according to the internal energy cultivation method. The process of accumulating that changed energy in the dantian is called absorption.

‘Luck comes next.’

Jin Myeong forgot about the next step and started to focus on the inhalation again.

‘How to change the natural energy?’

Jin Myeong continued to recite the mantra while trying to think of a way to change the natural energy.

Hurrruk!

But before he could even think of a way to do that, the energy he had absorbed was burned up by pure white flames.

‘What?’

The amount of Natural Energy burned by the pure white flames was very small.

‘At most, one drop?’

He never thought that only this much would remain.

‘So, I need to put this into my dantian first.’

Is it because there is too little?

Jin Myeong felt that the energy of this one drop was extremely precious.

‘Huh?’

Jin Myeong couldn’t help but be flustered as he carefully placed a drop of energy into his dantian.

He thought that a single drop of energy would naturally be consumed by the original, turbid energy.

‘It swallowed it?’

But contrary to his thoughts, a single drop of internal energy began to devour all the internal energy sleeping within his dantian.

‘It’s like this?’

The guy who swallowed up all the other energies in an instant once again created a pure white flame.

Hurrruk!

The energy burned in pure white flames felt very clean.

‘Purification? Is this purification?’

The flame of purification that Heavenly Demon spoke of. It felt like he knew what it was.

‘But the energy doesn’t disappear or anything.’

He thought that all the turbid energy would disappear because of purification, but it seems that wasn’t the case.

‘It did decrease a little, but… … .’

Still, there was still about enough power left to dispose.

‘It’s just beginning.’

All energy has been purified. The important thing now is to compress this energy.

‘Suddenly, it’s the purified version.’

It is to create something like an internal organ inside the body, which is usually found in spirits.

‘I thought you were going to call the dantian the inner dan….’

Heavenly Demon created this internal energy method with the goal of compressing the internal energy within this dantian to create a spirit dan.

‘Never-ending, infinite energy.’

That was the internal energy method that Heavenly Demon had planned.

‘Is it okay if I gather like this?’

Jin Myeong applied force by gathering the internal forces as if they were clumping together dirt.

The internal energy that had been gradually gathering together soon unravelled, but Jin Myeong did not give up and continued to gather the internal strife.

‘Is this right?’

And looking at the results, Jin Myeong couldn’t help but have doubts. Because the result was smaller than he thought.

‘Isn’t this smaller than a finger?’

Finger?

Rather, it is slightly larger than a thumbnail.

‘I thought it was quite a large amount.’

Jin Myeong thought that something was wrong, since he could only make it this size with the energy of his already full dantian.

‘No. This is correct.’

So, this must be reason why First Heavenly Demon gave up on this martial art.

‘I need to make this unit the size of Dantian.’

Since First Heavenly Demon didn’t have time to wait that long, his simply gave up on this martial art and created Heavenly Demon Divine Finger Art.

‘It can’t be compressed any further, right?’

He thought maybe it could be compressed further to make it smaller. But the lump of internal energy that had settled inside his body was extremely hard and did not change shape.

“Phew.”

Only then did Jin Myeong uncross his legs and lie down on the floor.

‘I don’t even know if this is the right answer.’

To Jin Myeong, it seems like it’s just a simple compression of energy.

Of course, as the energy continues to be compressed, it is true that it possesses more energy than other unmanned beings.

But Jin Myeong wondered if it was really right to express this with a special word similar to Divine Elixir.

‘It may have just been done for convenience.’

It didn’t matter whether what was created in this dantian was a real spirit dan or just a spirit dan in name.

Anyway, it was true that it is much denser, compared to cultivated internal energy from different methods.

Because of that, this Cultivation Method, was absolute necessity for Jin Myeong, who had to learn the Heavenly Demon Sword Control Art, which required a lot of energy.

‘Moreover, it cannot be said that it is the internal energy method created by Heavenly Demon wouldn’t deplete easily.’

This internal energy technique created by Heavenly Demon had no name.

Heavenly Demon thought it was a failure and abandoned it without even giving it a name.

‘But it seems he still had some regrets.’

Even if he had created the legendary martial art called Heavenly Demon Divine Art, he would have thought that this martial art could be more perfect.

Otherwise, there would be no reason to leave it here, this hidden.

‘If you purify, you get the purification skill?’

What a dull name.

‘They say Internal Energy Cultivation Method started in Plum Blossom Sect, is ‘Plum Blossom Divine Art’?’

“Isn’t this, similar to Plum Blossom Divine Art?”

“White Fire Divine Art?”

Jin Myeong thought it wasn’t bad since it was a martial art characterized by pure white flames.

‘Or maybe Heavenly Demon Divine Art (天火神功)? Myeong Divine Art (明火神功) seems okay too.’

Ultimately, only two names remained.

‘Because of the character ‘明’ engraved on the wall, it seems like the Heavenly Demon Divine Art is okay too….’

‘I think I like Heavenly Demon Divine Art a bit more.’

‘Okay. Let’s call it the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.’

After much thought, Jin Myeong decided to name his internal energy method Heavenly Demon Divine Art.

‘I’m starting to get hungry.’

Jin Myeong got up from his seat.

‘That must be an elixir.’

Jin Myeong looked at the wooden boxes and bottles placed a little distance away from where he was. Heavenly Demon said he would leave the elixir behind for whoever finds this book.

He told me to try and finish it.

‘Things that Heavenly Demon didn’t need.’

But it is something that Jin Myeong needs very much now.

‘But I won’t eat it now.’

After he became a little more familiar with martial arts and was able to better handle his internal energy, he planned to absorb the elixir.

‘Then shall I swing my sword?’

Jin Myeong stared at the sword on his waist that had saved his life several times before quickly throwing it away.

‘There is a sword left behind by Heavenly Demon, so there is no need to use that sword.’

Jin Myeong immediately picked up a sword and drew it out.

Srrrrung!

As it is a sword left behind by the first Heavenly Demon, it must be an old sword. But that black sword was cleaner than the one Jin Myeong was holding.

‘It’s sparkling like new.’

The sword looked extremely sharp, enough to cut through the light.

‘It’s so bright that even your face is reflected.’

Jin Myeong, who was thinking like that, remembered that he didn’t know his own appearance.

‘So, can I see my face with my sword too?’

That thought crossed his mind for a moment. Since there was no such thing as a sword in his previous life, he never thought of looking at a face with a sword.

‘Hmm. What!… you were a foreigner.’

Jin Myeong’s appearance was too vague to be considered Asian.

‘He looks like an Asian, but…….’

His skin colour was almost white, and his hair was brown.

‘But the eyes aren’t blue.’

It seemed that he was a mixed-race person, with only different hair and skin colours.

‘Come to think of it, the first Heavenly Demon was from the Kingdom of Persia?’

When you think about the origin of the first Heavenly Demon, it is easy to understand that he was of mixed blood.

There must have been those who followed the first heavenly Demon. Their blood would have continued to flow, so it would not have been strange for Jin Myeong to be of mixed blood.

“Hmm.”

Jin Myeong’s mouth was curled into a smile as he placed his hand on his chin and looked around his face.

‘Is it because the blood of the Persian Empire flows through my body that the door opened in the end?’

Jin Myeong thought of the magical device that Heavenly Demon had left behind, but he quickly shook his head.

‘The door opened anyway, so what does it matter?’

It doesn’t matter why the door opened, or whether it had anything to do with one’s origins or anything like that.

Jin Myeong only needs to train his martial arts here.

‘I’m hungry, so let’s eat that.’

Jin Myeong moved to the pupil where he first arrived. Then he picked off a bit of the moss that the protagonist had eaten and put it in his mouth.

‘It doesn’t taste good.’

Although it felt refreshing, it had a strong bitter taste.

‘Can I fill my stomach with this?’

Jin Myeong, while worried, picked off some moss to eat and drank some water. Still, it was definitely not ordinary moss, and I no longer felt hungry.

‘You won’t feel the effects right away.’

Eating moss won’t immediately increase your internal energy.

However, since it was said that if you continue to eat it, the amount of energy you absorb will increase, you had no choice but to wait for the effect to appear.

‘First of all, I’ve taken care of my internal energy, so the next thing to do is… ‘

Martial arts that Jin Myeong can learn.

The Heavenly Demon Divine Finger Art and Heavenly Demon Sword Art. And the many martial arts that Heavenly Demon left behind as failures.

‘Should I learn swordsmanship first?’

Among the martial arts left behind by First Heavenly Demon, the first one whose true name came to mind was the Thunder Light Sword Technique.

‘How fast must you be to name it Thunder?’

Jin Myeong grabbed the sword and assumed the posture of the Thunder Light sword technique that came to mind.

‘A quick sword is fast, but it has to be simple.’

Because moving along the shortest path and killing the opponent was the quick sword.

‘But just as swordsmanship is simple, the martial arts are not.’

Because the sword was simple, it had to be moved in a complex manner and quickly approached the opponent.

‘Then shall I try?’

Jin Myeong immediately put the Thunder Light Sword technique into action, imagining it in his head.

Bang!

“Uh?”

But Jin Myeong had no choice but to roll around on the floor with his feet tangled.

‘What?’

Jin Myeong, who had a puzzled expression, moved to use his swordsmanship again.

And it didn’t take long for Jin Myeong to realize why his pursuers had called him ‘the body abandoned by heaven’.

T.N.

The List of things MC learnt here:

Heavenly Demon Divine Finger Art: A martial art that allows practitioner to shoot internal energy in compressed form, from there fingers. Similar to bullet from gun.

Heavenly Demon Sword Control Art: A martial art that allows practitioner to control sword with telekinesis. Practitioner could control the sword as he wishes. If reached mastery, and conditions are met, practitioner could control thousands of swords.

Heavenly Demon Divine Art: Is the Internal Energy Cultivation method, left behind by First Heavenly Demon. It creates a white flame, that burns and purified the internal energies, as well as natural energies.

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