Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 203

Having devoured all the remaining food, Mountain Lord immediately sat in a lotus position.

‘Indeed….’

Isn’t it said that what is bitter and astringent is good for the body?

I would have understood if everything else tasted bad, but the skewers and meat were particularly bitter and unappetizing, so I noticed it right away.

The energy being broken down from the food traveled down the esophagus to the stomach and then disappeared.

From the stomach, it scattered in all directions, spreading out as if to envelop the body in an instant.

“Hmm? The energy of the Six Ghosts is fluctuating.”

The Ten Ghosts were puzzled to see Mountain Lord’s energy fluctuating.

The Nine Ghosts felt the same.

“Did you eat something good? It’s as if you swallowed a divine pill….”

The energy spread out more and more widely.

Blue energy surged so visibly, and a subtle wave permeated the Immortal Realm’s space as if to soak it.

“Hoo….”

Mountain Lord, who had released the lotus position, checked his condition as if he had struck it rich.

‘The fatigue has disappeared.’

And his training has increased slightly.

He didn’t go from the Middle Realm of Eternal Calamity to the Later Realm, but he got a little closer.

The enlightenment gained from beating up the devils and the ingredients melted in the food seemed to have created this harmony.

“A destined one is destined no matter what he does….”

The Ten Ghosts looked at Mountain Lord with envious eyes and clicked their tongues.

The Nine Ghosts felt the same.

“You unlucky bastard. If I only regained my memories, I would be more amazing than you, so you just wait!”

“So you should be kind at heart.

Good fortune is originally a destiny and luck that only comes to those who are prepared, so I hope this has been a lesson. Do you understand?”

“I don’t understand, you son of a bitch!”

Whack! The Nine Ghosts turned around and went into an unknown thatched house.

“Hmm, you were a bit harsh. There’s no need to tease her like that. Women are like easily flawed swords, so if you handle them carelessly, they will quickly get damaged.”

To compare a woman to a sword, what a strange guy.

“But isn’t it right to hold and swing a sword? Why would you only handle it carefully?”

“You don’t know anything. The best thing for a sword is not to draw it, and just looking at it is enough. You just need to maintain it enough so that it doesn’t rust.”

Mountain Lord’s brow furrowed.

It sounded plausible at first glance, but it wasn’t a very good analogy.

“Anyway, you’ve worked hard. Not recognizing good fortune even when it’s right in front of you is our fault, so who else can we blame?

It’s like handing a delicate woman a fine sword and telling her to go to the battlefield and take the enemy general’s head.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Isn’t that right? Anyway, I’m going into the pavilion to see if there’s anything to take.”

Whirr.

As he flew away, Mountain Lord pressed his temples with his thumbs.

“There’s no one sane.”

Mountain Lord shook his head and calmed his mind with a deep breath.

Although he was a little out of it, this space was a space of good fortune.

There was no time to dawdle.

He had to take everything he could.

“First….”

Looking around, he headed to the place with the pavilion and the pond.

A peach blossom tree, a pond reflecting the sky, and a quaint pavilion.

It was truly a picture.

“The peach blossoms are fine.”

Mountain Lord carefully examined the pond, scooped up some water with his hand, and dropped it.

“Will you take a look?”

He flicked the earring hanging on his ear, and a small light spread out.

The crocodile that appeared with the light jumped into the pond as if it had been waiting.

It was suspected to be a hybrid of the Holy Clan and a divine beast.

He hadn’t named it yet, but it seemed like he should name it soon.

“Your eyes are yellow like amber and beautiful like jade, so Yeowi (麗瑋) [beautiful jade] would be good.”

He had already placed a Geumje (禁制) [a type of magical seal] on it and performed the ritual of ownership long ago. Yeowi seemed to like its name, splashing water and spraying Mountain Lord.

Its cackling laughter was just like that of a young child.

“Is there something inside?”

Yeowi immediately went to the bottom of the pond and searched every nook and cranny.

However, nothing came out, and it was just making a muddy mess.

“Can’t it understand me yet?”

Just as he was tilting his head.

He shuddered as if he had sensed Yeowi connected to his heart.

Bubble.

Bubbles rose from the pond.

Mountain Lord’s eyes narrowed.

Splash!

With a sound, Yeowi soared above the pond and landed in Mountain Lord’s arms.

It looked frightened.

It was then.

Bubble bubble bubble bubble!

Whoosh!!

Water splashed up, and something huge jumped out of the pond.

Yeowi trembled in fear and turned into an earring, hanging on Mountain Lord’s ear.

“Hoo….”

Mountain Lord, with a raised corner of his mouth, looked at the huge object that had jumped out of the pond.

“It’s a bizarre lotus.”

It was a huge lotus.

The only difference was that everything from the stem to the petals was black.

He was just wondering how such a huge black lotus could be living in a small pond.

“Black Lotus… I’ve only heard of it, but this is the first time I’ve seen it. But it doesn’t seem like the usual black lotus I’ve heard of.”

Unlike its imposing appearance, the black lotus was cowering.

It ran at Yeowi, but it seemed to have been slowly sizing up the situation, not knowing that Mountain Lord was behind it, and was trying to sink back into the pond.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

But would Mountain Lord let it go?

He didn’t know what it was, but it was in the Immortal Realm.

He wasn’t so easygoing or kind-hearted as to just let it go.

He didn’t know what it was, but since it was a plant that could move its body, it wasn’t ordinary, so if he caught it, he would have a use for it later.

Mountain Lord immediately shot a Beopgyeol (法訣) [a magical hand gesture or incantation] to tie up its limbs and slowly lifted it up without hurting it. With a huge splashing sound, the stream of water that the black lotus had been holding was scattered in all directions.

“Did it even develop spirituality? The way it’s struggling is like….”

It didn’t seem like a plant.

After a moment of contemplation, Mountain Lord took out a nameless bead that he had used to move the Hangbosim tree (항보신목) [a mythical tree] before.

After chanting the related Beopgyeol (法訣) [a magical hand gesture or incantation] and putting the black lotus in the bead, he could finally rest assured.

‘I’ll have to find out what this is later.’

After that.

Mountain Lord looked around and approached the pavilion, tapping the wood and shooting Beopgyeol (法訣) [a magical hand gesture or incantation] to check it, and then took the pavilion itself and put it in Gongjeonggang (공정강) [a magical storage space].

“There’s a lot to take. I have to take the divine herbs, and those roof tiles from before weren’t ordinary either, so I have to take them all.”

Afterward, Mountain Lord went around and put all the suspicious things in Gongjeonggang (공정강) [a magical storage space], filling his belly. Of course, the pine tree he had seen earlier, as well as the roof tiles covering the roof.

He took everything he could from the outside and slammed the door open.

The thatched house wasn’t very big.

It was a house with two rooms, one seemed to be a Sarangchae (사랑채) [a traditional Korean reception room], and the other seemed to be a Seocheokbang (서책방) [a study or library] with only piles of books.

The Nine Ghosts were struggling with something inside, and when he looked at what it was, he was arguing with an old book, spewing out curses.

“Come out, you bastard! How long do you think you can hold out, you son of a bitch!!”

His shouting so loudly that the roof was about to fly away was quite unsightly.

“What is that?”

“Huh? Ack!”

Thud!

The Nine Ghosts rubbed his buttocks after falling on his butt, then ran back and grabbed the old book, starting to give it all his strength.

It was a battle between the old book that wanted to go into the bookshelf and the blackie who wanted to have it. Mountain Lord looked at the blackie with a pathetic look for a while and then flicked his finger.

Thung.

The blue energy quickly shot out and hit the old book, causing it to tremble and fall to the floor.

The Nine Ghosts looked at Mountain Lord with a look as if the sky had fallen and said.

“You killed him….”

“What nonsense. I helped you because you were wasting your strength.”

“No! I was having a fair fight with him! I was competing for supremacy! You ruined it!”

He was saying nonsense, saying that he was his lifelong rival… Mountain Lord was relieved.

‘Even without memories, it’s no different.’

Even without memories, even if he didn’t remember himself, Hori was Hori.

“Don’t you want to compete for supremacy with me too?”

“Hmph, if I find my original realm, I will crush you Six Ghosts with one finger, so you just wait.”

“Haha! I won’t forget those words.”

“Hmph!”

The Nine Ghosts snorted and jumped up, passing Mountain Lord.

“Aren’t you going to take that book?”

“I didn’t defeat him. You defeated him, so it’s yours.”

He had unnecessary style.

“I did it for you, so you can take it.”

“I don’t need it!”

He got angry and disappeared.

Mountain Lord grumbled that he was a truly incomprehensible guy and picked up the old book.

At first glance, it was just an ordinary book.

It seemed like an old book that looked a little old, but that was it.

When he flipped through a few pages of the old book, he became serious and nodded.

“I can’t read it.”

It was ambiguous what kind of character it was, something mysterious like Gapgol (갑골) characters [ancient Chinese oracle bone script].

Perhaps it was a character from the Immortal Realm.

Since these were books that might have a lot of information, Mountain Lord swept them all up.

Even if he didn’t know now, he might be able to read the characters of the Immortal Realm by combining and studying the letters.

“Hmm?”

As he was roughly skimming through the old book, it was a character that he seemed to have seen a lot somewhere.

Moreover, parts of the book were torn, and seeing this made his chest feel heavy and stuffy as if a weight had been added.

“Where did I see this….”

He tapped his forehead and then clapped his hands.

“Humidongcheonro (후미동천로) [a scripture name]!”

The characters of the scriptures divided into seven that he had obtained in Dongguk (동국) [ancient Korean kingdom] were exactly the same.

He immediately took out the seven scriptures from Gongjeonggang (공정강) [a magical storage space]. After thinking about it for a while, he also took out the scripture he had obtained from Yacheongwimun (야천귀문) [a place name], and it was as expected.

“It’s the same.”

Then the old book trembled and seemed to want to move.

Mountain Lord, who had been agonizing, broke the Geumje (禁制) [a type of magical seal] he had planted by making a hand seal.

Flutter!

The old book was fully opened, and the pages quickly turned.

Soon, the scriptures that Mountain Lord was holding flew up by an intangible force and seeped into the old book.

Twooong.

A ripple occurred in the old book as if it had fallen into the water, and a dazzling light arose.

The characters that seemed to be piled up in layers floated in the air and flowed to the walls, and light radiated in all directions.

Jiiiiing!

The intensity of the light gradually increased, and it was so blinding that he was about to go blind.

When he gathered spiritual power in his eyes and gathered his eyesight, he finally began to see a little.

The old book had now been transformed into something other than a book, and it looked like a tombstone made of long stone.

The tombstone had a very rough appearance, but it had an unknown dignity.

Mountain Lord, who had been unknowingly possessed, reached out to the tombstone.

Then, as if it had been waiting, it emitted an even stronger light, and Mountain Lord, who had been frowning, staggered.

This was because his hand had entered the tombstone as if it had passed through it. The tombstone was only causing calm ripples as if it was originally like that, and anxiety and anticipation stirred in his heart at the same time.

What could be in this tombstone?

Could it be a trap?

Tens of thousands of worries arose, representing the anxiety that a terrible thing might happen like in Geomnyeongdo (검령도) [a place name].

But the answer is already set.

The answer to Humidongcheonro (후미동천로) [a scripture name], which he had been curious about all along, was in front of him.

Even so, Mountain Lord was not a person without greed enough to stand still.

Woo woong.

The ripples of the tombstone intensified.

The dazzling light was as intense as the sunlight shining down in all directions, but it slowly faded like the sun hiding beyond the mountains.

When the light completely disappeared.

Only a huge tombstone was placed alone in the room.