Reaper of the Drifting Moon

possible to perform skills that others could not even imagine.

Lightning which was out of control was frantically stimulating his nerves.

The nerves were getting thicker to cope up with the lightning.
However, there was a limit to the lightning that humans could handle.

The moment Pyo-wol’s nerves couldn’t stand it any longer and were about to burn out, a strange heat arose from his lower abdomen and gently wrapped around his nerves.

It was an energy that hadn’t been there before.

The miraculous aura contained in the sake he drank last night reacted to the stimulus inside his body.

Tingling! Tingling!

The lightning stimulated his nerves even more severely.
In response, the sake’s energy made his nerves bigger and stronger.

A war was literally taking place in Pyo-wol’s body.
But just by looking at his external appearance, no one would be able to tell what was going on.

At that moment, Il-gum who was beside him turned his head and looked at him.

A satisfied smile appeared on Il-gum’s wrinkled face.

“Some people spend their entire lives trying to learn this but end up not realizing it, but some people open the door just by looking at it once.
Keke! This is why the world is unfair.”

Il-gum sat down on the bench and patted his back.
And he looked at Pyo-wol.

Pyo-wol stood like a stone statue for a long time, looking at the sea of ​​clouds.

It was unclear what exactly had happened to him.

However, it was certain that the realization, or change he gained here would take him to the next level.

It took a while for Pyo-wol to get out of his own world.

“Hoo!”

Pyo-wol sighed softly and blinked his eyes.

After a while, he came to his senses and said to Il-gum,

“Thank you for the grace you bestowed upon me.
How can I ever—”

“Grace is a piece of shit! Why do you talk about grace to me once you receive it? If you’ve come back to your senses, go down.
This old man also needs his rest.”

“Yes!”

“By the way, leave that little devil alone.”

“What?”

Pyo-wol’s eyes widened at the unexpected words.

“He had learned the Demonic Art of Guanyin from the Xiaoleiyin Temple.
It’s amazing that he’s still alive.
But while he may be holding on right now, as time goes by, I’m sure he’ll go mad and destroy himself.
That guy needs to learn how to control himself.
“

“If I leave him, will he become a taoist?”

“Haha! Do you think anyone can be a taoist? They have to be pure.
For now, he will sit down and study how to control his mind.
About being a taoist, it’s up to him to decide for himself after that.”

“Why do you care so much about us?”

“I’m not doing it because of you.”

“Then?”

“You too will understand when you live to be my age.
Even if you don’t want to see it, you see something that others can’t see, and then you get worried.
That’s why I get nosy.”

“………”

“You don’t have to try to understand.
You just have to accept it.
So what will you do?”

Pyo-wol looked straight at the wrinkled face of Il-gum.

Contrary to his wrinkled face, his eyes were as bright as a child’s.

In front of those eyes, Pyo-wol could not be stubborn.

“Alright.”

“Keke! You’ve thought it through.”

“Can’t we go see each other one last time before going down?”

“Why do you have such lingering feelings? You two will meet again when the time comes, so just go down now.”

“Alright.”

Pyo-wol nodded.

He believed the words of the Il-gum.

Pyo-wol never easily trusted others, but he trusted the words of the taoist, Il-gum.

Il-gum turned around. 

His dwarf-like back figure looked bigger than Wudang Mountain in Pyo-wol’s eyes.

Pyo-wol went down the rock peak after saying his farewell to Il-gum.

Even after Pyo-wol disappeared, Il-gum did not move for a while.

He only moved again when someone emerged from the bushes.

With a rustling sound, another old man approached him with Soma in his arms.

The old man, who had a sacred atmosphere like a god, was Chongjin, the sect leader of the Wudang sect. 

Chongjin looked around the rock peak and opened his mouth.

“Is he gone?”

“I’m alone so of course he already left.”

“I asked a useless question.”

“How can you become more sly as you get older?”

“Isn’t that what you learned from you, senior brother?”

“This guy!”

“Oh, I’m disappointed.”

“What do you mean?”

Il-gum glared at Chongjin.
Despite being the target of those ferocious eyes, Chongin only replied calmly,

“That sake.
Why did you give him everything even though I begged for just one sip?”

“Tsk! You won’t feel the effect even if you drink it, so why would I give it to you? I gave it to him because it was worth giving.
A treasure has its own owner.
You weren’t it, while he deserves it.
That’s all.”

“Is he worth that much?”

“He’s more great than I thought.
He’s a guy who knows how to create something out of nothing.”

“Why couldn’t our sect recruit such a person earlier?”

“Hong! What can we expect from Jianghu? Maybe even if he came to the Wudang sect on his own, he wouldn’t be who he was today just for the reason that he didn’t live a hard life.”

“Phew! That’s right.
The Wudang sect had become soft.”

“Hmpft! You talk as if you’re not yourself.”

Despite the sarcastic words of Il-gum, Chongjin did not change his complexion.

“I would have been the same.
Still, as I get older, I have an eye for seeing things, so I don’t make mistakes as I used to.”‘

“That’s fortunate.”

“By the way, is this child going to be my disciple?”

Chongjin looked at Soma in his arms.

Il-gum snorted.

“Hong! What do you mean disciple? If you do that, there’ll be a big fuss because of the unusual recruitment.
Regardless of the Wudang sect, you’re just teaching him a few tricks, so don’t be greedy.”

Chongjin smiled bitterly.

One of the problems of a sect with a long history like the Wudang sect is that it is difficult to expect a big change.

Numerous customs and traditions have solidified and built a resilience in itself.

Because of that, it was difficult even for a sect leader such as Chongjin to make unconventional decisions.

Il-gum looked at Soma and continued,

“That child is a rare monster in the world.
He shouldn’t have even existed in this world.
Still, his existence means that the flow of electricity has been twisted.”

“Then, is he a monster, too?”

“He is something beyond a monster.”

“Pardon?”

SoundlessWind21’s Notes

Wahhh~ It’s amazing having someone help Pyo-wol with no ulterior motives.
<3 And his abilities are really being recognized by these grandpas.
Our Pyo-wol is really a genius *smug* *proud*

Byeokgokdan. a fasting food taken to cleanse and strengthen the body for training, usually composed of grain powder, pine needle powder and pine nut powder which is combined into a ball with honey.