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Wahahahaha!!
The bandits' laughter filled the mountain stronghold. The Green Forest King, Bang Deuk-pae, shook the blood off his fist and roared with laughter.
"Heuhaha! You're nowhere near ready!"
He plopped back into his seat without bothering to wipe the blood off his face. The women on either side of him poured wine with trembling hands, and Bang Deuk-pae knocked it back in one gulp.
"Kkh, the wine tastes amazing! Yah! You think that little display means you're worthy of plowing my daughter?! Nonsense! Isn't that right, Cheol-su?!"
"...My name."
Mountain Lord Phoenix, Bang Cheol-su, slammed her drinking bowl down.
"Change my name."
"Ung?"
"I can't live my whole life as Cheol-su. Yeong-hui gets to be Yeong-hui, so why am I stuck with Cheol-su?"
"Well, that's..."
Bang Deuk-pae stroked his beard and chuckled.
"I think it's a fitting name for the next Green Forest King, don't you?"
BANG! Bang Cheol-su slammed the table and shot to her feet. The bandits flinched for a moment, then howled with laughter at the sight of her crimson face.
"Euhahaha!"
"Princess, you seem embarrassed by the name Cheol-su!"
"It's a pretty name!"
BANG!
Bang Cheol-su threw the door open and stormed out of the banquet hall. Her own room wasn't far, but this stronghold was overflowing with people who were impossible to talk to.
"Damn it, why only me..."
Back in her room, Bang Cheol-su sat before the bronze mirror. It was half shattered, looted from a passing merchant caravan, but the remaining half showed her face clearly enough.
*Crack. Crackle.*
Bang Cheol-su's bones and muscles began to shift. Her frame broadened, her body grew larger, and her appearance gradually turned fiercer.
The reflection in the bronze mirror now resembled Bang Yeong-hui's towering, muscle-thick form.
"...No, not this."
She muttered in a husky voice, then began twisting her body again. Soon she reverted to her original look—the other face of Bang Yeong-hui.
"...This is me. Yeah, it is."
Bang Cheol-su tapped her own face, which now looked like Bang Yeong-hui's, and nodded.
"Born from the same womb, and one gets to look like Father while the other looks like Mother?...That's nonsense. I'm a woman too, after all."
Bang Cheol-su's hopeless lament filled the room.
* * *
"...So my sister and I decided to swap appearances. ...I never had any interest in stuff like the Six Phoenixes...."
"I've never heard anything like this."
I was completely stunned by Bang Yeong-hui's confession under the Soul-Hooking Technique. Sagong Hee's mouth fell open too.
"You sisters swapped your appearances using the Body Transformation Art?"
"Yes... I took my sister's appearance, and my sister took mine. I wanted to enjoy sparring with others, and my sister wanted to be acknowledged as a woman by others, so...."
"Wait, wait. Let me sort this out."
I pulled my member out just a little so Bang Yeong-hui wouldn't come back to her senses. She would stare vacantly at my member while we gathered our thoughts.
"You exchanged bodies with the Body Transformation Art? Do you mean you swapped souls?"
"Is that even possible? From what I heard, they simply took on each other's appearances."
"...R-right? Phew, you scared me there."
For a moment I thought they'd used the Soul Transfer Great Art.
"Hmm... so originally the older sister had the giant build and the younger sister had the feminine appearance? Can we assume that, my lord?"
"I don't quite understand why they swapped. Even if Bang Cheol-su wanted to change her giant appearance, Bang Yeong-hui, why did you change into a build that looks like it could hold Changban Slope all by itself?"
"Even if I look a little frightening, that's just how my body changed while I trained in the martial arts... what matters is the person inside, not the outside...."
Bang Yeong-hui's pure answer made me burst out laughing.
"Aren't you a little too unconcerned about your appearance?"
"When we do banditry too... it was easier to succeed with my sister's appearance...."
"Ah, if that's the reason, I'll grant it."
Which is scarier: a beautiful woman swinging an axe and demanding you hand over everything, or a massive, eight-foot wall of muscle demanding you hand over everything?
There's no need to answer which one is more frightening.
"So, next question. Where did you learn the Body Transformation Art?"
"...My sister taught me."
"Oho, Bang Cheol-su taught you? Then do you know where Bang Cheol-su learned it?"
"......She said she learned it from a mountain spirit."
At that sudden remark, Sagong Hee covered her mouth to hold in a laugh. I also let out a laugh from sheer disbelief.
"A mountain spirit? Then are you saying the real Taeeak Mountain Lord went *rawr* and taught her personally, Gyeon-hui?"
"Gyeon-hui's pretty sharp, huh?"
"...Pardon?"
She probably meant it as a joke, but Sagong Hee was close to the mark.
"Isn't your Ja-bo-geom forged from the body of the spirit creature, the Dark Purple Centipede? Spirit creatures do exist, and it's possible a spirit creature taught them the Body Transformation Art."
It isn't impossible. I didn't know how the Body Transformation Art had appeared in this era, but I knew its origin well.
"Humanization."
It was written in the Divine Physician's Green Pouch Book.
"Originally, the Body Transformation Art was a kind of immortal art that spirit creatures used to take human form."
"...Really?"
"Yes. It's a technique from back when tigers used to smoke pipeweed, and it's been lost now. That's why I've been curious about how it's appearing again in the present day...."
I had no choice but to find Mountain Lord Phoenix Bang Cheol-su, not Bang Yeong-hui, and ask her. I realized there was no use in tormenting Bang Yeong-hui any further.
"Bang Yeong-hui, you told me nothing about the Body Transformation Art. Even under the Soul-Hooking Technique, even while being violated by my member, you pulled your will together and resisted to the very end. Do you understand?"
"Yes...."
Bang Yeong-hui was completely under the Soul-Hooking Technique. I had Sagong Hee count down time with her fingers, and the moment enough time had passed, I released the technique.
"Ngh, aah...?"
"What incredible willpower. You resisted answering to the point of passing out."
Squelch, squelch, squelch.
Before Bang Yeong-hui could fully regain her senses, I stirred my hips and pushed her along.
"Still not going to answer?"
"Hngh, haah...! I won't answer! Even if you come inside me... I will never speak!"
Bang Yeong-hui's will was unshakable. I had no choice but to pull my member out.
"Oh, my lord? Are you seriously thinking of stopping now—?"
WHAM—.
"Aaaahng!!"
Hoisted up and dropped down, Bang Yeong-hui landed with her bottom planted squarely on my member again. Her head snapped back, her body shuddered violently, and a thin stream of liquid squirted forward as she climaxed right there.
"W-wasn't that the Th-Thousand Catty Hammer? I didn't know you could use it like that...."
"Something similar."
Dropping her with her buttocks as a cushion reduces the impact, but it's a different story when the member stabs deep inside before her bottom even lands.
"No reason I can't do it from behind, either. Or from the side. Though in this case, it's not her will, but mine."
Urrrrk. I pressed down firmly on Bang Yeong-hui's hips. I focused my entire consciousness on my member and drew yin energy from her dantian through the heat my member radiated in every direction.
"It's over now."
"Ah-uck, haauk, wh-what is this...?!"
"You're coming."
As Bang Yeong-hui gasped roughly from the Absorption of Yin to Nourish Yang, Sagong Hee kept whispering teasingly right beside her.
"Feels like you're losing your mind, right? Your body suddenly feels weightless, right? That's what everyone says. They don't want to go, but their body feels like it's getting lighter and lighter. And then...."
Flick. Sagong Hee flicked Bang Yeong-hui's breast upward with her finger.
"You'll feel an electric jolt fill your whole body."
"Euh-hu-eong!!"
Like a true daughter of Bang Deuk-pae, Bang Yeong-hui let out a Lion's Roar of a moan. The sensation of her own yin energy being drained away was buried beneath an all-consuming pleasure, and Bang Yeong-hui could resist no longer.
"Haaah, haaah, haaah...."
Bang Yeong-hui passed out as if entrusting her body to me. If I were to lean back, she'd have slumped right along with me.
Unconscious.
Bang Yeong-hui had fainted.
Despite a fairly leisurely bout of Dual Cultivation in the rear sitting position, a virgin like her was nowhere near strong enough to withstand the might of the world's greatest force.
"Aaah... so good."
I kept Bang Yeong-hui impaled on me and replaced the urge to ejaculate by absorbing the yin energy through the Absorption of Yin to Nourish Yang. Thanks to that, my testicles were hot enough to burst, but I had no reason to ejaculate inside Bang Yeong-hui.
"My lord, did you finish your snack?"
Bang Yeong-hui was the snack, and the main meal was a different matter. I pointed a finger at Bang Yeong-hui.
"Put her away."
"Yes. Hup."
Sagong Hee immediately lifted Bang Yeong-hui as if supporting her. More accurately, she pulled my member out of Bang Yeong-hui.
"My lord. You're still very hungry, aren't you?"
"Of course. Wait a moment."
I grabbed the waterskin beside me. It felt unpleasant to shove something that had been in and out of Bang Yeong-hui straight into Sagong Hee.
"I don't mind...."
"If I don't do this, I feel like I'll come the moment I enter you."
If I didn't cool the heat with water, I was sure I'd ejaculate the instant I went inside Sagong Hee. She smiled brightly and sat with her back against my thighs, straddling me.
"My lord, do the same to me."
"......."
As expected of Sagong Hee. Even from behind, the glimpse of her breast from the side, visible beneath her armpit, made my hands move on their own.
Soft grip.
"Aahh...."
"I normally don't care much for holding a transformed body, but this has its own appeal."
I rested my chin on Sagong Hee's shoulder and embraced her from behind. Since I had deliberately enlarged my frame, Sagong Hee fit snugly into my arms.
"The Body Transformation Art really is a wonderful skill."
It was a shame we hadn't uncovered its source, but thanks to it, I could enjoy Sagong Hee slowly from behind, holding her like this.
"My lord, how is the lunchbox I prepared?"
"It's the best, Gyeon-hui."
On the sunlit mountain path,
I ate the lunchbox I had brought with Sagong Hee and enjoyed a leisurely rest.
* * *
One shichen later.
After freshening up at a nearby spring and even feeding spirit-medicine-mixed feed to the horses who'd been waiting patiently, Sagong Hee and I fell into the problem of what to do with Bang Yeong-hui.
"If we just leave her here, she'll definitely get raped, won't she?"
"Yes. Even if she's the daughter of the Green Forest King, the appearance known publicly isn't this one."
At the moment, the unconscious Bang Yeong-hui had let the Body Transformation Art drop. If we left her like this, someone would definitely lay a hand on her.
Even if a highly righteous hero found her, a beautiful woman lying face-down—only a eunuch could look and walk away.
"Tch... should I have just finished inside her after all?"
Like a beast marking its territory, if I'd left some sign that I'd been here, maybe whoever found her would realize she had been violated and handle her more carefully.
"My lord, wouldn't bandits not care about that?"
"You're right. She's a woman who's been defiled once, so they'd probably just take her and violate her again."
There was only one solution.
"Let's hide for a bit."
I deployed the Bewildering Mark Nine Palace Formation around us, the wagon, the horses, and Sagong Hee. While Bang Yeong-hui regained consciousness, we ate a real lunchbox and filled our stomachs. Not long after, Bang Yeong-hui began to come to.
"Nnng... Hah?!"
Bang Yeong-hui shot upright, her face bright red, and glared around her. Her eyes were so murderous that the horses snorted in alarm, but even from only five jang away, Bang Yeong-hui couldn't find us.
"Uaaaaah, aaaargh!!"
Bang Yeong-hui punched and kicked the stump where the traces of her own release were soaked. Contrary to her wiry build, muscles compressed to the absolute limit smashed the stump to pieces.
"My lord, isn't she already dangerous enough just like that?"
"Good point. If she bent an iron rod with pure grip strength right in front of someone, they'd probably wet themselves too, beauty or not."
"I won't forgive you—!!"
*Crack. Crackle.*
Bang Yeong-hui's body shifted back into her giant form. Unlike before, the yin absorption had reduced her muscles a little, but judging from her fury, losing that muscle only made her angrier.
"To... to dare violate me and discard me like trash...!!"
We hadn't discarded her. After all, weren't we watching from right beside her?
"I will never, ever forgive you, Husband-and-Wife Lust Demon——!!"
"Well, looks like we've made a grudge."
"It's fine. If she comes for revenge, I'll discipline her myself."
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
Bang Yeong-hui pulled on her clothes and left the clearing. She ran madly ahead, following the path we had come up.
"I won't let you get away, Husband-and-Wife Lust Demon——!!!"
"I should have given a different name. Now she's going to keep calling me the Husband-and-Wife Lust Demon forever."
"I like it, actually."
"...You do? Then nothing to be done."
No matter how much she'd been violated, Bang Yeong-hui's eyes were blinded by rage, and she couldn't make a cool judgement.
"If there are no wheel tracks or hoofprints, shouldn't that raise suspicion?"
"I think someone who checks for things like that right after being violated is scarier."
There is one such person. She's exactly where we're heading right now.
"While I'm at Mount Hua, I should make that girl mine too."
"Oh my, another one?"
"Yeah."
Mount Hua Sect, the Plum Blossom Swordwoman.
The wife of the man who would one day become the Flower Dragon, and also one of the Five Great Masters of Mount Hua. There is a woman like a rakshasa—violated countless times by the Blood Jiangshi and yet challenging him again and again, tracking and hunting the Blood Jiangshi instead.
"I hope she's not married yet."
"My lord, is this person large-chested too?"
"Don't you already know? Seon Ju-hee. The Plum Blossom Swordwoman."
"Ah."
Sagong Hee clapped her hands and nodded.
"I remember. The woman whose body smells like flowers!"
"Right. I'll need your help to get close to her."
*Crack. Crackle.*
I used the Body Transformation Art to change my body. Sagong Hee's gaze on me fell lower and lower, and her breathing grew rougher.
"M-my lord. This is...!!"
"I got the idea watching Bang Yeong-hui. They'd never imagine I could shrink this small. Haha, call me A-bung (兒鵬)."
Seon Ju-hee.
She was a woman who was defenseless when it came to children.
"Haaah, haaah, suup, haah...."
"......."