Chapter 3
Chapter 3
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 3
Chapter Title: Found My Seed Spreader!
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"Seol-hwa... You must find the Five Yin Chill Prohibitions and carry on the lineage..."
With those final words, the woman's last breath quietly faded away.
Standing silently beside her was a young girl.
Her lips were pressed tightly together, but tears already brimmed in her eyes.
The girl's name was Bing Seol-hwa.
Eleven years old.
She had just succeeded her mother as the new lord of the Ice Palace.
"Now... it's just Seol-hwa alone..."
The supreme art permitted only to the direct lineage of the Ice Palace, the Ice Spirit Heavenly Heart Art.
This absolute martial technique granted its practitioner both immense power and utter isolation.
Anyone who touched her skin would feel an overwhelming chill.
For Seol-hwa, who had cultivated this profound art, the only person she could touch was her mother, who practiced the same technique.
Now that her mother had closed her eyes forever.
Seol-hwa had become a being whom no one in the world could embrace.
"Mom's words... sniff! Seol-hwa will do it. I will!"
Tears streamed silently down the girl's cheeks along with her resolve.
But the true tragedy awaiting her was something else entirely.
It was the fact that she was a genius.
At just over ten years old, she had reached the Super Ultimate realm.
As a result, the chill emanating from her body was no longer merely painful.
It had become a calamity that froze lives.
She could no longer use someone with the Five Yin Chill Prohibitions—who had resistance to the cold like her mother—to continue the lineage.
"...At this rate, the Ice Palace's line will end."
The bloodline of the Ice Palace, which had endured for a thousand years, would be severed in her generation?
Determined to avoid that at all costs, Seol-hwa ventured out into the world.
She sought a man who could withstand her chill and appeared in the martial world.
But what she gained from stepping into the world was.
"Ah, a beauty that could wilt even flowers."
The nickname "Ice Flower" praising her appearance.
And.
"Did you hear? The Ice Flower matched evenly with the Nine Great Experts' Executioner!"
Nothing but the empty title of one of the Nine Great Experts.
She had failed to find a man who could endure her.
"...Not even in this vast Central Plains?"
In frustration, Seol-hwa headed to Shaolin.
The ancient monastery cut off from the world.
She believed answers would be found there.
But the Shaolin monk dashed her hopes with a single phrase.
— Shaolin Monk "Ice Flower, no master can fulfill your wish." "...Even though a woman matched me evenly and wounded me."
— Shaolin Monk "Resistance yields no seed." He had spoken indirectly, but Seol-hwa understood clearly.
"...You mean even seed cannot endure it?"
"Ahem. How embarrassing. But it is the most accurate expression."
At those words, Seol-hwa lifted her head and gazed at the ceiling.
Loneliness and fate swirled in her eyes.
"...Is there truly no way?"
— Shaolin Monk "Why not? Find one who can embrace your chill." "Even the Five Yin Chill Prohibitions, with its cold resistance, couldn't endure."
— Shaolin Monk "Then seek a superior constitution." "Such a thing exists in this world...?"
— Shaolin Monk "Nine Yin Meridians." That single phrase stopped Seol-hwa's breath.
Nine Yin Meridians.
A cursed constitution that accumulated yin-cold energy from birth.
"But those with Nine Yin Meridians rarely live past their thirties, I've heard."
The human body could not endure the endlessly accumulating chill.
Eventually, the nine meridians burst, leading to death.
"If there's no path, one must forge it."
At those harsh words, Seol-hwa gritted her teeth and returned to the Ice Palace.
Upon her return, she issued a command to the world.
"Find the Nine Yin Meridians."
But as time passed, hope dwindled smaller and smaller.
It was only natural.
This constitution hadn't appeared in the world since the supreme Yin Extreme Heavenly Fist several centuries ago.
From that day, Seol-hwa immersed herself in the gallery.
She hoped to find it in that place where diverse races from across the continent gathered.
But seeking treasure amid anonymity was a futile endeavor.
"Will the Ice Palace's line truly end with me like this?"
It was then, as endless anxiety dragged on with time slipping away.
A gallery comment that made her eyes widen appeared.
— Shihanbu Nine Yin Meridians. Someone claiming to have Nine Yin Meridians had appeared.
The moment she saw those words, Seol-hwa's cooled heart began to beat again.
Yet she didn't lose her composure.
"Strange."
The video he posted.
The man in the footage, asking "Where is this?", was in his twenties.
The traits of Nine Yin Meridians were innate martial talent and short life.
No one could survive to their thirties without intervention.
Yet.
"Frost-covered blood..."
The man in the video coughed up blood.
And that blood was ice-cold, rimed with frost.
It was a clear symptom of Nine Yin Meridians.
"...I must confirm it."
She needed to verify if he was truly Nine Yin Meridians.
— Snow Girl For real??? — Snow Girl Real Nine Yin Meridians? — Snow Girl Please reply... The Nine Great Experts of the Central Plains were begging one man in the gallery.
But no matter how many comments she left, no reply came.
As Seol-hwa bit her nails in anxiety over his silence.
A single photo appeared in the comments.
Within it was an unbelievable creature.
"A dinosaur...?"
Seol-hwa's eyes shook violently.
Monsters that once dominated the world.
But a past hero had driven them to a continent adrift alone in the ocean.
Not content with that, a barrier sealed their escape.
A photo of those monsters had been posted.
That could mean only one thing.
"Why is that man on the Abandoned Continent?!"
Seol-hwa shouted in panic and frantically refreshed the gallery.
Waiting for Shihanbu to comment again.
But no matter how long she waited, no new comments appeared.
"N-No way, he's dead...? No! The Ice Palace's line will end!"
It was just as her anxiety peaked.
A new post caught her eye.
📰 Post [It's a Dinosaur!!!] Author: Anonymous - One gallery user started a broadcast from the Abandoned Continent lol - Currently being chased by a dinosaur (Live Broadcast Link) Seol-hwa clicked the link without hesitation.
At that moment.
💥 CRACK! 💥 A gruesome sound like a tree snapping rang out.
The dinosaur was bulldozing through dense trees with its body, chasing Shihanbu.
And Shihanbu, being pursued by the dinosaur, was.
🔴 LIVE CHAT — Shihanbu [Waaaaaah! Hurry! Knowledgeable Person, hurry!!!] — Knowledgeable Person Trees won't stop it! Go left! There's a rocky area there! Following the directions from the user named Knowledgeable Person, he moved.
At that instant, Seol-hwa had a gut feeling.
'Too late! He'll be eaten before reaching those rocks!'
The distance between the dinosaur and the man shrank in real time.
The trees slowed the dinosaur, but its stride was far longer.
"No!"
The seed spreader she had barely found as a candidate.
She couldn't lose him like this.
Seol-hwa typed into the chat immediately.
— Snow Girl Young master! Stop! — Anonymous ? — Anonymous ? Gore fetish? Her comment was buried under a flood of question marks.
Seeing it vanish instantly, Seol-hwa took drastic measures.
To announce her presence, she made a donation.
⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Snow Girl has donated 10 Gallery Points.] [Young master! You'll die going that way anyway! Stop and refine your breath!] In response to her donation came a scream.
— Shihanbu [Nooooo! It'll chew me if I stop, why stop?!?!] Shihanbu kicked his legs even harder, screaming.
Seol-hwa grew angry at the sight.
"Argh! He won't listen!"
Clicking her tongue, she typed rapidly.
— Snow Girl Then do it while running! Feel the chill accumulated inside you! Circulate that chill through your meridians, merge it with heaven and earth's energy in your palm, and shoot it out! The chat exploded at the sudden martial arts transmission.
— Anonymous ? — Anonymous He's clearly a normie. — Anonymous You think he can do that when he can't even understand it?! — Anonymous Snow Girl, a life is at stake, read the room;; But Seol-hwa ignored them all.
She was certain.
"If he's truly Nine Yin Meridians, he can do it."
Nine Yin Meridians: a constitution that accumulated chill and possessed innate martial aptitude.
Combined with the Ice Palace's profound secrets, it was surely possible.
With that judgment, Seol-hwa began spamming.
— Snow Girl Feel the chill inside you... — Snow Girl Feel the chill... — Snow Girl Your inner... She flooded the chat to force him to focus solely on her, shoving aside all other messages.
At her actions, Shihanbu's pupils trembled on screen.
After agonizing conflict, he stopped.
— Shihanbu [If I die for real, I'll haunt you forever, Snow Girl.] Muttering that, he faced the dinosaur, closed his eyes, and regulated his breath.
The chat went wild.
— Anonymous Crazy bastard! What are you doing! Run! — Anonymous Aaah! Snow Girl! You killed him! You killed a man! — Anonymous Ah, wanted to see more dinos but he goes out like this. But such comments didn't register in Seol-hwa's eyes.
She, having reached the Super Ultimate realm, could see it.
"Qi... Nature is responding to him."
This man was defying millennia of martial tradition.
The dantian, the means to gather and control nature's qi.
He was controlling nature's qi without a dantian.
As Seol-hwa was entranced by the impossible sight.
⚡ INHALE! ⚡ The man on screen thrust out his palm.
In that instant, an invisible force shot forth.
From the hand of an ordinary man without a dantian, a first-rate technique: palm wind.
And that was the moment.
💥 CRACKLE- 💥 The dinosaur's right knee, struck by the palm wind.
"Fro... zen."
Palm wind infused with chill.
It was Ice Wind.
And only two in the world could perform such a feat.
Seol-hwa herself, who accumulated chill in her dantian via the Ice Spirit Heavenly Heart Art.
And the Nine Yin Meridians, which accumulated chill innately. Only those two.
"Foun... Found him! Mother! I've finally found the seed spreader!"
Grinning ear-to-ear in a way unbecoming the Ice Palace Lord, Seol-hwa jumped for joy.
After bouncing around like a child for a while, as she moved to type quickly.
A 1:1 chat window popped up.
And in that chat window was the nickname [Magic Girl].
— Magic Girl Spamming is bad! 3-day ban! But such a chat window didn't even register in Seol-hwa's eyes.
Shihanbu's broadcast screen.
Precisely, the broadcast chat.
There.
— Heavenly Demon Think you'll get away with firing palm wind on raw talent? A familiar nickname appeared.
"Why is that woman here?"
The moment that question arose.
⚠️ BAN ⚠️ The gallery window closed.
She had truly been banned.