Chapter 72
Chapter 72
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Cheon Su-ho
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Baek Seol-hwa finished her meditation and opened her eyes.
“Hoo….”
She bit her lip.
“It’s not increasing….”
The day after clashing with that man.
Without fail, she felt her internal energy rise.
But on any other day, no matter what she did, she couldn’t sense any growth.
Even using the monster cores had reached its limit.
She could aim for advancement up to a certain realm without issue.
But as the stages of the Celestial Art climbed higher, the effects grew fainter, and once it reached the fifth stage, they vanished entirely.
She wondered if she needed something different.
But seeing how it increased after dueling that man, it didn’t seem so.
“What’s the problem?”
‘Is it the sparring where I don’t go all out?’
Unlike with that man, she couldn’t unleash her full power in spars with Celestial Sect disciples—there was no life-or-death stakes.
‘In the end, do I have to seek him out again?’
The first couple of times, she’d charged in thinking there was a chance.
But she wasn’t a fool.
Now she knew she couldn’t beat him.
At first, she hadn’t realized it, but that man possessed the bizarre ability to summon items from thin air.
Seeing that, she understood she hadn’t even drawn out half his power.
Yet every time she dueled him.
Her internal energy rose, so she couldn’t sever ties with him.
“Kuh….”
She knew it.
This was tantamount to offering her body as payment for her internal energy’s growth.
If it were the pure, unsullied her before that first duel, she wouldn’t have even considered such a thing.
But her body was already tainted.
And after allowing it once or twice, she’d rationalized it as not such a big deal.
Besides, she desperately wanted to surpass that man as soon as possible.
If her Celestial Art could just advance one more stage like this….
“Right. This is just using him to advance my martial arts....... Someday........ I’ll defeat him.”
Baek Seol-hwa rose once more, steeling herself for another duel with him.
Thinking of the duel with him….
The events that would follow naturally came to mind, sending a faint tingle through her lower abdomen.
She ignored the sensation, her face flushed as she grabbed her sword and set out to find him.
Though Baek Seol-hwa herself didn’t realize it.
A faint, inexplicable anticipation lingered on her expression.
Cheon Su-ho held a considerable position in the Celestial Sect.
He had entered the sect at a young age.
His father, a sect disciple, had urged him, but the biggest influence was glimpsing the pretty Baek Seol-hwa from afar in his childhood.
Cheon Su-ho had a good personality.
His talent was recognized as top-tier alongside Baek Seol-hwa’s.
Naturally, he was a leading candidate for next sect leader.
Baek Seol-hwa was a beauty.
Every young man in the Celestial Sect admired and desired her.
He was the one closest to her.
A prime candidate for son-in-law.
Lately, the entire sect was practically acknowledging it.
He couldn’t know Baek Seol-hwa’s true feelings.
But he had plenty of time.
If he approached her slowly, wouldn’t his junior sister open her heart bit by bit?
Cheon Su-ho was waiting for the day he would lead the Celestial Sect alongside Baek Seol-hwa.
But lately, he thought his junior sister’s condition was off.
She wasn’t joining him to hunt monster cores.
She seemed absorbed in something.
He let it slide once or twice.
But when she kept skipping hunts, suspicion grew.
Probably.
The day he saw his junior sister with an extremely poor complexion.
That’s when it started.
After that, she’d become incredibly cold.
She rarely showed expressions even normally, but this was different.
Something had clearly happened then.
After time passed, he’d cautiously asked again.
But upon hearing the question, she stiffened and gave a cold reply: “I was just tired.”
At that moment, Cheon Su-ho couldn’t shake the feeling that Baek Seol-hwa was brushing him off.
Above all, not being with his junior sister lately left him feeling empty.
Cheon Su-ho headed to Baek Seol-hwa’s quarters once more to invite her hunting.
On the way, he spotted her heading somewhere cautiously.
He knew he shouldn’t, but he couldn’t suppress his curiosity.
Cheon Su-ho secretly tailed Baek Seol-hwa.
After traveling for a while, his junior sister stopped at one spot and stood like a statue.
As if waiting for someone.
‘Who’s she waiting for?’
As Cheon Su-ho wondered that, a hulking man appeared.
‘That guy….’
It was Park Un-ho, the man who gathered women he fancied at his place and kept them.
Seeing his junior sister assume a stance, it looked like they were about to spar.
He couldn’t hear well from afar, but they exchanged brief words before starting the duel.
The duel unfolded one-sidedly.
His junior sister attacked the man with all her might.
Her strikes were too vicious for a mere spar.
And upon seeing Baek Seol-hwa’s golden sword aura, Cheon Su-ho was stunned.
‘Fifth stage!!!’
His junior sister’s martial realm had advanced tremendously.
The golden sword aura was proof.
‘Junior sister, when did she….’
At some point, she had surpassed him.
But his shock at her talent was fleeting.
The man dodged his junior sister’s ferocious attacks as if enjoying a playful display, then slammed his massive fist into her abdomen.
-Baam!
Just one punch.
That alone neutralized Baek Seol-hwa.
As if mocking Cheon Su-ho’s shock, she collapsed pathetically.
Even with the Celestial Art at the fifth stage—a realm he couldn’t reach—she was utterly defeated.
The moment his junior sister was struck.
Cheon Su-ho nearly leaped out but held back.
It was a duel.
He couldn’t clumsily interfere.
Baek Seol-hwa had come secretly for this spar.
If he showed himself, she’d be mortified.
He’d have to explain tailing her too, and he didn’t want her to hate him.
‘He’s strong.’
Cheon Su-ho thought, watching Park Un-ho.
He understood why his master had warned about him.
Then the man scooped up the fallen junior sister.
“.........?”
Cheon Su-ho couldn’t understand why Park Un-ho was picking up his defeated opponent.
Maybe kindly escorting her back to the Celestial Sect….
But he carried her in the opposite direction of the sect….
While continuously groping her buttocks and breasts.
Seeing Park Un-ho sexually assault Baek Seol-hwa, rage surged to Cheon Su-ho’s head.
Sparks flew from his eyes.
“You bastard!!!”
Cheon Su-ho lost his reason, drew his sword, and charged.
In an instant, he closed in and thrust at Park Un-ho’s throat.
The brilliant sword aura was a bonus.
And then.
His vision flashed, and his mind blanked out in that instant.
When he came to, asphalt filled his view somehow.
‘Wha....t?’
Cheon Su-ho couldn’t fathom why asphalt was suddenly before his eyes.
‘Huh? What happened?’
‘How did this...?’
His thoughts wouldn’t process properly.
A little time passed before he realized his face was planted on the ground.
‘Without even perceiving it... I got hit........and fell?’
“What the hell? This crazy bastard…. popping out of nowhere.”
The man’s incredulous, gruff voice.
It was him.
‘This bastard with my junior sister!!’
-Grind!
He tried to rise by pushing with his arms.
-Wobble.
No strength entered his arms.
His head spun.
-Drip. Drip.
Red blood droplets fell to the ground.
Unconsciously, he wiped his nose with his hand.
“Nose....bleed?”
His head still reeled; he couldn’t stand.
He arduously lifted his head.
Indifferent eyes looked down at him.
The man held a massive greatsword—its origin unknown—raised high.
He seemed intent on cleaving down to kill him.
‘A-am I... dying like this?’
That was when.
Baek Seol-hwa blocked the man’s path.
“Pl-please stop.”
“What?”
“Pl-please. Spare my senior brother’s life at least….”
“J-Junior sister, get out of the way!”
Cheon Su-ho couldn’t show weakness before Baek Seol-hwa.
He bluffed, straining to rise.
“Hmm... That punk suddenly tried to kill me.”
“Please….”
“.......”
The man’s silence.
It felt like refusal.
And at his junior sister’s swift action next, Cheon Su-ho was aghast.
Baek Seol-hwa quickly knelt before the man and reached for his pant leg.
What she intended was clear.
And what would follow.
“No!! Junior sister... mff!!”
He tried to shout to stop her.
But simultaneously, dark energy from the man surged toward him, binding his mouth and limbs tight with something inexplicable.
Likely the bastard’s ability.
-Thud.
The greatsword he held stabbed into the ground beside his head.
“Stupid bastard. Consider yourself lucky.”
“Mff!! Mff!!!”
(Junior sister, don’t!!! Kill me instead!!!)
But Cheon Su-ho’s desperate cries didn’t reach her.
“Mff!!! Mff!!!”
(No!!!)
His limbs wouldn’t budge, bound by whatever it was; he could only writhe helplessly on the ground.
“Guhp. Sniff. Sniff.”
(No! Don’t!!! Junior sister!!)
He tried using his internal energy to break free, but it didn’t move an inch.
Baek Seol-hwa’s hand pulled down the man’s pants, and an absurdly massive member sprang out.
Cheon Su-ho’s eyes bulged.
‘Th-that big?!’
Her jade-like hands gripped the giant man’s manhood without hesitation.
‘N-no!!!’
Then her lovely lips parted and engulfed the filthy thing.
-Slurp. Suck. Slurp.
Viscous sounds echoed down the street.
His junior sister buried her face in the man’s crotch, diligently bobbing her head.
Was this reality?
Cheon Su-ho could only stare blankly at the events unfolding before him for a while.
“Drink it all.”
‘Wha.....t... did he... say...?’
The man’s thunderous words rang in Cheon Su-ho’s ears.
The bastard was going to make his junior sister drink his filthy semen.
“Kmmph! Mff! Mmmph!!”
(No! Junior sister!!!)
Cheon Su-ho writhed desperately.
The man’s massive member twitched.
Cheon Su-ho knew what that meant.
The bastard was ejaculating.
Into his junior sister’s mouth!!
-Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.
The sound of Baek Seol-hwa swallowing the man’s semen boomed like thunder in Cheon Su-ho’s ears.
He saw her gripping the man’s thighs, face contorted as she drank it down.
Meanwhile, the man patted her head with a satisfied expression.
“Hoo...... Good girl.”
Seeing them like that made his mind go white.
Tears of rage flowed.
“What? Why’s that punk crying? What’s so good about it?”
“Krrgh!!! Kraaah!! Ack!!!”
He exploded his internal energy, unleashing all his strength to shatter the bindings.
Extreme rage granted superhuman power, it seemed.
Blood filled his mouth.
Overuse of internal energy had caused internal injuries.
Didn’t matter.
Cheon Su-ho channeled all his internal energy into the fastest punch of his life, aiming at the man’s face.
‘Go-t it!!’
He was certain the man couldn’t dodge.
That instant.
-Bam!
Impact hit his jaw, brain rattling.
“N-no….”
The sky spun wildly.
“Using it remotely must consume more mana than expected. Or is it because this punk resisted?”
As consciousness faded, he faintly heard the man muttering something incomprehensible.