Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 10

Thud.

Haa, haa!

San-gun, panting heavily, flipped onto his back.

‘It consumes too much Spirit Power…….’

The Azure Flame is quite a useful divine power. It covers the powerful tiger’s forepaw with azure flames, creating a more formidable power than usual.

Its name is Azure Flame Tiger Claw.

The name San-gun made meant the tiger’s claw wrapped in blue flames.

But the disadvantage was also clear.

‘I can’t use it twice.’

As a powerful hidden card, there was a limit to the number of times he could use it.

It consumed most of the Spirit Power San-gun possessed, requiring him to rest for half a day after using it once a day.

Unless he was a spirit creature and possessed a large amount of Spirit Power, it was a divine power he could not freely use.

A one-hit-kill divine power.

That was the Azure Flame that San-gun possessed.

“San-gun, are you alright?”

[Do I look alright?]

San-gun’s appearance was covered in blood.

Hwa-ran, knowing it was due to the blood letters, replied with a faint smile and knelt beside San-gun.

Tap, tap.

When she touched San-gun’s whiskers with her finger, San-gun flinched as if tickled, protesting with his eyes as if asking what she was doing.

“You’ve been poisoned. Are you okay?”

[I’m not okay. I feel like I’m going to die. If I die, you’ll become a wandering ghost.]

“Oh my, that’s a shame. I wasn’t tired of being with San-gun yet.”

San-gun glared at her for a moment as she smiled faintly.

But soon, realizing that she was not someone he could win against with words, he slyly turned his gaze to the Blood Cat Hermit.

His head was burning to ashes with the Azure Flame.

“I am safely protecting Lady San-bi. You don’t need to worry.”

[I wasn’t worried. When you think about it, that’s what caused this whole mess.]

“Oh my. Is that so? I thought you were very worried about Lady San-bi, as you were scolding and calling out with telepathy.”

[Hmph, nonsense.]

San-gun had nothing to say.

As she said, he seemed to have called out a bit urgently back then.

Ahem.

“First, eat this. The poison doesn’t seem too strong, but if left untreated, it will worsen.”

Hwa-ran took out licorice, a medicinal herb good for detoxification, from the Gongjeong Bag [a magical bag with seemingly infinite space] she was carrying and poured it into San-gun’s mouth.

Chew, chew. He chewed the licorice, which had a sweet taste, and swallowed it roughly, exhaling heavily.

What San-gun ate was Baek-gamcho, which was a hundred years old, and had a better detoxification effect than ordinary licorice.

Its sweet taste was excellent, so he occasionally chewed it like gum when he was bored and spat it out.

He glanced sideways and saw Hwa-ran, holding a sword transformed into a gleaming treasure sword, splitting the Blood Cat Hermit’s body and taking out the inner core.

‘Rotting Dance Sword.’

A worthless iron sword if held by someone unqualified, but a treasure sword that allows the qualified to wield the sword as if dancing, it was one of the four treasures he possessed.

Rotting Dance Sword, Myeongsa [a type of ceremonial robe], Domo Robe [a robe worn by Taoist priests], Gongjeong Bag.

They were the treasures he had obtained relatively easily.

He also knew where the treasures one step higher than these were, but he could not handle them with his power, so these four were all he could obtain.

‘And the elixirs…….’

Most of them had already been eaten, and he also possessed rare medicinal herbs and spiritual plants, but he had planted them in Mount Baek, so he did not have them now.

“San-gun. Two inner cores came out. Will you take them?”

San-gun, having confirmed the two blood-stained inner cores held in Hwa-ran’s hand, stared at them intently.

As expected of the Blood Cat Hermit, who grew up sucking cat blood, they were stained with blood, and the scent of blood was strong, but the true essence and energy they possessed were quite interesting.

In the first place, a spirit beast’s inner core is something that can be called an aggregate of divine power.

Taking it would not allow him to acquire the divine power the opponent possessed, but it would be of great help in increasing his cultivation.

But San-gun shook his head.

[To take it, I have to refine it to suit me……. I don’t know how to do that. Even if I just force myself to eat it, it will help with cultivation, but the effect will be insignificant, and it will clash with my divine power, which wouldn’t be good.]

San-gun handles fire attribute divine power.

If he, who handles the Azure Flame, were to ingest an inner core that handles blood, the purity of the Azure Flame could become turbid.

He could end up with internal injuries.

[Is there anything else?]

“Yes, these two inner cores and……. there was this, but I don’t know what it is.”

She put the inner cores into the Gongjeong Bag and took out two others.

They appeared to be animal eyes, with the outer surface made of crystal. Perhaps they had dug out the animal’s eyes and put them in the crystal.

[This is…….]

San-gun examined the two eyeballs carefully and widened his eyes as if he had remembered something.

[Eye-Showing Stone!]

San-gun looked at it with a joyful face and grabbed the Eye-Showing Stone with his tail.

And just as he was about to infuse Spirit Power into the Eye-Showing Stone.

[Ah.]

He has no Spirit Power.

After thinking for a moment, San-gun ordered Hwa-ran, and Hwa-ran threw a crimson bead from the Gongjeong Bag.

It was the egg that Tae-yang Hwa-ri had given him before.

Crunch.

Chewing the egg, a warm yang energy spread in his mouth and entered his body.

It was a strong yang energy that made fire come out of his nostrils. But San-gun also wielded fire attribute divine power, so he quickly suppressed and digested the fire energy. San-gun trembled, and soon Spirit Power was injected into the Eye-Showing Stone.

Zziiing.

The Eye-Showing Stone, making a sound, slowly began to shine and emitted a pure white light. The light emitted from the pupil of the Eye-Showing Stone illuminated the cave, and soon it sprinkled light on the walls, forming strange letters and pictures.

“What is this?”

[Eye-Showing Stone. Should I say it’s a recording storage device used by spirit beasts?]

It was also San-gun’s first time seeing it.

In the first place, it was his first time meeting a spirit beast of a higher level than himself, and he hadn’t really interacted with them, so he couldn’t have seen it.

After calmly looking at the letters and pictures shown by the Eye-Showing Stone for a while, San-gun nodded.

[I can’t read it. What kind of letters are those?]

Even though he had lived as a spirit beast for a long time, he couldn’t learn all the letters here. In the first place, he didn’t have much reason to read.

Moreover, the Eye-Showing Stone was written in ancient language by a spirit beast, so it was natural that San-gun couldn’t read it.

Hwa-ran, looking at San-gun with a pathetic gaze, cleared her throat and read it to him.

San-gun, putting the contents into his head with Hwa-ran’s sweet voice, nodded with a satisfied face.

The content was quite interesting.

It was a record listing the ritual he was trying to perform, the method to increase his cultivation using it, and the necessary sacrifices.

[Interesting.]

And the interesting fact was that this was not a spell formation to go from Second Union to Third Completion in the movie, but a spell formation to go from spirit creature to movie [a higher level of existence].

He had achieved the Second Union realm from spirit creature to movie with this, and he was trying to forcibly move on to Spiritual Completion by gathering more sacrifices.

“Can San-gun also be reborn as a movie spirit beast with this?”

That was right.

If the spell formation was properly performed, San-gun could also be reborn as a movie spirit beast, breaking away from being a spirit creature.

But there was one problem.

[Like the inner core, it doesn’t suit me.]

The sacrifices offered to this spell formation are mostly dead things full of resentment. Tiger heads, human heads……, even the organs of various spirit beasts.

And when you just looked at it, you thought it was a magic circle drawn with ordinary animal blood, but this blood also had to be drawn with the blood of a Wolf (悖狼) [a mythical wolf known for its cruelty] who had been starved for a hundred days and died resentfully.

It was a spell full of resentment.

If he raised his cultivation with this, the attributes of the divine power he would gain from the Second Union were highly likely to be distorted.

The attribute gained from the First Union is fixed as the spirit beast’s unique attribute.

Therefore, it is generally accepted that the divine power gained from the Second Union is also obtained as a more advanced version of the same attribute as the First Union.

But if he reaches the movie and achieves the Second Union with this ritual, it will be distorted and disharmony will occur, so it was a pity, but he couldn’t help it.

“In the end, you won’t get anything.”

[Isn’t there one more left?]

Come to think of it, there are two Eye-Showing Stones.

An Eye-Showing Stone with a blue light and an Eye-Showing Stone with a light red light.

San-gun wrapped the other Eye-Showing Stone with his tail, injected Spirit Power, and shone it on the rock wall.

This time again, the stone was filled with letters that San-gun didn’t know, and occasionally there were pictures similar to medicinal herbs.

When Hwa-ran summarized the contents and explained it to him, San-gun’s face was filled with joy.

It was about alchemy, and it was about the transformation technique that San-gun had been expecting.

He didn’t know why the Blood Cat Hermit had this, but it was a great opportunity for San-gun.

Although he was used to his current body, the desire to become a human was always in his heart.

Now that he could do so, there was no reason not to be happy.

“But……. aren’t the ingredients lacking?”

[Hmm…….]

Most of them were ingredients that San-gun also had, but the key ingredient was a rare medicinal herb that San-gun did not have.

That’s because it was a medicinal herb that could not be used as a medicine or elixir, so people and Taoists did not look for it well.

Therefore, San-gun also lacked information and knowledge about this medicinal herb.

[I know what it looks like, so I’ll have to look for it.]

He knew what it looked like, and he also knew its name, so he would be able to find it if he looked for it.

It would take some time, but it was important that he could turn into a human.

Until he became a Spiritual Completion spirit beast, San-gun had virtually given up on becoming a human. But now that a clue had come out like this, he had to find it.

“Then, are you going now?”

He had obtained what he needed, and there was no reason to stay here any longer.

Even if he took the Blood Cat Hermit’s corpse, there was nothing he could use it for, and the unknown spell formation was something San-gun could not use.

But San-gun shook his head again this time.

[It’s a shame to just leave when the table is set.]

San-gun threw the Eye-Showing Stone to Hwa-ran and strode over, lifting the great sword thrown on the floor with his tail.

It was the Nine-Ringed Broadsword that the Blood Cat Hermit used.

It was an ordinary sword with nine rings on the sword, but San-gun’s eyes shone.

‘I don’t know well, but it must be right.’

The Nine-Ringed Broadsword that the protagonist of Mountain Sea Explosive God obtained after killing the Blood Cat Hermit was not a very great item, but the iron that made it up was quite valuable.

Changing Iron (換鐵) [a rare and valuable metal].

There is a scene where the protagonist just leaves the Nine-Ringed Broadsword and only realizes later that the Nine-Ringed Broadsword is made of Changing Iron.

Changing Iron is a metal that is both hard and flexible, and is mainly used by Illusion Immortals (幻仙) [powerful beings specializing in illusions].

Illusion Immortals use this to create their own Original Immortal Magic Treasure (本仙法貝) [a unique and powerful artifact], but to explain it would be endless, so to put it simply, it was a rare mineral.

Of course, even if San-gun made something with this, it would not become a treasure beyond a treasure, but if he had a weapon with lower abilities, there would surely be a day to use it.

San-gun immediately stuck the Nine-Ringed Broadsword in the middle of the spell formation and neatly placed the two inner cores of the Blood Cat Hermit on top.

The spell formation was drawn perfectly without any flaws, so if he just injected Spirit Power as it is, a treasure that would be difficult to obtain at his level would be born.

It was also written in the Eye-Showing Stone, but this ritual spell formation was not only applicable to living things.

It is a spell formation that can be used sufficiently even if the target is a weapon.

Even if it goes wrong, the iron can be melted down and used again, and San-gun knows how to make a treasure-level treasure into a treasure-sphere level later, so he didn’t care.

‘If I keep it, I can use it later too.’

He ate one more of Tae-yang Hwa-ri’s eggs, sat in the corner of the magic circle, and injected Spirit Power.

Woo-oong!