Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 222

I was dumbfounded.

I felt like I was suddenly caught up in something, and then I was instantly outside of Bidong with a huge explosion.

Many wandering Taoists stared at me and Tamhwa all at once, and I couldn’t help but feel bewildered.

“Wh-what happened to the barrier?”

“It broke.”

“Wasn’t it a barrier that even immortals couldn’t break? Unless it was someone who inherited the blood of the Sea Dragon….”

“I think you know that better than I do.”

“Huh? What do I know… Ah, could it be….”

Back when we were in the East Sea.

Tamhwa had devoured most of the ancient dragons there.

And,

‘Elder Jichung of the Sea Dragon Clan!’

He also devoured Jichung’s body.

Naturally, the blood of the Sea Dragon became mixed into Tamhwa’s body.

“You were lucky. It seems you absorbed the Source River relatively well.

Now that you’ve reached the ranks of a celestial, what you do is up to you.”

San-gun looked at Tamhwa, who had transformed into a celestial, and felt indescribable emotions.

Tamhwa, the Bokchung [a type of familiar spirit] who became a god before him.

[Your past will save you.]

I thought it was nonsense, but he was talking about Tamhwa.

Now, he has become an existence that I cannot treat carelessly.

Originally, Tamhwa was a spirit worm that was taken from what the Three Evils possessed, and raised with the blood of the owner to establish ownership.

But now that he has become a god, the Geumje [a magical restraint] I placed on him has been broken.

Tamhwa is no longer my Bokchung.

He has become a completely independent entity.

I felt a mix of relief and disappointment, and at the same time, I was nervous.

I didn’t mistreat him, but I don’t have good memories of treating him well either.

Now that he is free from the influence of Geumje and has become an existence of the Upper World, no one knew how Tamhwa would treat San-gun.

‘Should I get off?’

I’m no longer Tamhwa’s owner.

It’s not polite to keep riding on the head of a celestial, so I hesitated about what to do.

What an unseemly sight.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz!

Suddenly, the sound of insect wings began to be heard from all directions.

“They’re already here.”

A red cloud, large enough to rival Tamhwa’s enormous size of over 300 spans [a traditional Korean unit of measurement, roughly equivalent to an arm span], was slowly rising.

As he said, even though we left Bidong, there are still Chungseon [a type of celestial being] and Hwaseon [another type of celestial being] here.

‘Dangchun must be somewhere too.’

However, my mind was full of worries. Hori, of course, and the faces of Cho-ah and Chongman loomed.

Anyone else would take care of themselves, but I couldn’t easily leave because of that one.

‘Where did that black bastard go….’

I was most worried about him.

* * *

At the same time.

In the first level of Chanjeodong [a fictional or mythological location], countless meteorites were hung on the ceiling like stars adorning the night sky.

Beneath the Milky Way-like ceiling, women were facing each other: an old woman in white, a woman with white hair, and a nine-tailed fox.

“Why are you blocking my way?”

Choeum said with a faint smile.

The opponent’s level was the same as hers, Jiseon [an earth immortal].

Judging from the appearance of a Talhyeong [a type of magical construct] with traces of a beast, she seemed to be one of the Six Immortals of Yeongwon.

However, the nine-tailed fox stared at Cho-ah with eyes that seemed to make her heart ache, and kept her mouth shut.

Her moist eyes trembled aimlessly. Eyes so sad that just looking at them would make one’s heart ache.

But contrary to that, Choeum’s face gradually distorted.

She was barely escaping from the immortals, but suddenly the nine-tailed fox appeared and blocked her way, so it was natural.

Even when asked why, she didn’t say a word and ignored her, so why wouldn’t she be?

She is a Jiseon, called a god on earth.

Choeum was not one to wait quietly after being treated like this.

“If you have no business, I’ll be on my way. Wouldn’t it be better for each other to avoid wasting time?”

Just as she was about to ignore the nine-tailed fox and move on.

Swish.

Something touched Choeum’s cheek.

Choeum, startled, stopped and her eyes turned fierce in an instant.

“What are you doing?”

The temperature around her instantly turned icy and a deep chill rose. That’s because thin threads, invisible to the eye, were already set up around Choeum.

It was black silk that could kill her if she moved even slightly wrong, leaving her whole body in tatters.

“If you apologize now, I’ll just let you go. There are also immortals from the Upper World here, so it’s not good for people like us to make a fuss.”

However, the nine-tailed fox bent her finger with a blank face and flicked the installed thread.

Clang.

With a sound, hundreds of threads simultaneously caused violent vibrations and began to spread different noises.

A strange noise that was sharp yet soft, making people’s hearts flutter.

“Block your ears! It’s an sonic attack!”

Cho-ah, who was far away, blocked her ears, but the nine-tailed fox smiled faintly.

Woo woo woo!

The vibration of the thread became more and more intense, and even afterimages began to appear.

Choeum tried to escape with Chukji [a magical teleportation technique] in an instant, but she couldn’t.

“What!”

She couldn’t cross space.

She was unable to use Chukji due to the strange vibrations and sonic attacks.

Choeum’s brow furrowed.

“Such a pathetic trick!”

Choeum bit her tongue and spat out Jeonghyeol [vital essence blood].

Bang!

With a sound, pure white cold air spread in all directions and gathered in the air.

Choeum reappeared, but her complexion was not very good, perhaps because she had consumed Jeonghyeol.

“Since you attacked first, don’t blame me even if you die!”

Choeum was so angry that she took out a folding fan from her sleeve and waved it.

Then, at the same time as the folding fan was waved, a gale blew.

Whoo-oong!!

At the same time, the scenery changed and she was suddenly in the middle of a snow mountain with a blizzard.

The nine-tailed fox stared at the scenery with emotionless eyes.

“You have a face that I can’t understand at all.”

Choeum clicked her tongue and unfolded her folding fan again and waved it.

Then, this time, ice pillars sprang up from the ground where the nine-tailed fox was and began to rush towards her in an instant.

The ends of the pillars were sharp like icicles, no different from stakes.

The nine-tailed fox jumped as if flying, avoiding the pillars, and fluttered her sleeves.

Then, hundreds of thin wires popped out of her sleeves, and it was amazing to see how so many wires could pop out of her sleeves.

Shoo-shoo-shook!

However, Choeum snorted and dodged lightly, and then put her hands together and chanted a Dharma spell. It was as quiet as the sound of chanting Buddhist scriptures, but it spread heavily and widely.

Koo-ooo-oong!!

A huge lump of ice began to float behind Choeum.

At first, I thought it was just ice, but I could see a figure crouching inside.

Crack.

Crack crack kwaang!!

The ice broke at once, and the woman crouching inside raised her head.

It was Choeum’s Dharma Avatar [a manifestation of a deity or powerful being].

Her Dharma Avatar was a female figure with six arms, one head, and three faces.

The Dharma Avatar put her six hands together and slowly opened her mouth.

Then, a dazzling light appeared behind her and a round light source was created, shining as if illuminating all things!

The light source behind her shone even more brilliantly because it was a Dharma Avatar made of ice.

“I don’t know who or what you are, but you dared to provoke the wrath of me, Fairy Choeum, so you will have to pay with your body!!”

Choeum, who shouted bravely, changed her hand gestures and clenched her fist.

Then, the hands of the Dharma Avatar also changed their hand gestures.

Pure white energy gathered in front of the six hands, and soon a milky white mirror appeared and began to absorb light.

“Die!”

Kwaaaaaaa!!

The light that burst out of the mirror covered the nine-tailed fox.

The nine-tailed fox couldn’t help but frown at the powerful light that even collapsed the snow mountain.

The corners of Choeum’s mouth turned up as much as possible.

‘What can she do even if she struggles!’

The nine-tailed fox was a Geumshintong Yuksa [a master of metal-based divine abilities], so she used black iron sand to create a shield. But it was not enough to block it.

The light created by Choeum shattered the nine-tailed fox’s shield in an instant, and the nine-tailed fox, who was directly hit by the light, screamed loudly and disappeared in an instant.

“What kind of bland woman have I ever seen.”

It was a very futile end for someone who started the fight first.

It was even more so because it was nothing special that she picked a fight and died.

“I don’t know what it is, but she must have been an immature kid who hadn’t been promoted to Yeongwon for long, so she died like that because she was acting up. Did she *jinsumyeonghwa* [misinterpret her destiny] and *chakgak* [delude herself] that she had become a god? Foolish thing.”

Choeum clicked her tongue and gathered her energy.

Whoosh….

The scenery of the snow mountain disappeared and the original joint appeared and the meteorites sparkled.

Choeum straightened her clothes and looked at Cho-ah with a calm face as if nothing had happened.

“I’m busy. Let’s go quickly.”

But even at her words, Cho-ah just stared at her with a face as if she was seeing a ghost.

“I told you to go quickly, what are you doing?”

Cho-ah stared at Choeum for a long time before spitting out a word.

“You… you’re going to die.”

It was a nonsensical sound.

Choeum said angrily.

“You! This is not the time to joke around!

Do you think it’s time to play such tricks when you don’t know when the immortals will appear!”

But even at her scolding, Cho-ah raised the corners of her mouth with a gloating face.

“Look at your own situation and talk. Have you lived too long and become senile?”

“What kind of nonsense is that….”

It was then.

Clang… With the sound, Choeum’s eyes widened.

“Heh!! I, how can this be!!”

It was an unbelievable sight.

The nine-tailed fox, who had died and disappeared, was standing there unharmed in front of her.

And she was tied up by her wire and couldn’t move, so she wanted to pinch her cheek.

“Since when!!”

Even to the question spit out as if spitting out blood, the nine-tailed fox answered calmly.

“Since the moment our eyes met.”

The nine-tailed fox’s eyes were shining red.

“Charm technique!!”

Such a charm technique that can deceive a Jiseon!

It was nonsense.

She, a Jiseon, would be deceived by a charm technique that only low-level Taoists would be deceived by!!

Choeum was quite embarrassed, but she soon maintained her composure.

How much experience had she accumulated and experienced to reach Jiseon?

It’s not for nothing that she has lived for thousands of years.

Choeum looked at Cho-ah with a look of regret and clicked her tongue inwardly.

‘I have no choice if I want to live….’

Choeum immediately bit her tongue and spat out Jeonghyeol. The Jeonghyeol spat out from her tongue instantly created a blood mist.

“Where are you going.”

But there was no way she would let that happen.

The nine-tailed fox immediately flicked a thread with her finger.

Clang- With the sound, a mysterious vibration intertwined and violently shook the joint.

But the nine-tailed fox clicked her tongue and waved her hand to blow away the blood mist.

“She ran away.”

She ran away in an instant.

The Dunsul [an escape technique] using Jeonghyeol was so mysterious that it was extremely difficult to kill someone who had mastered the Blood Dunsul.

To think that she would spit out the Jeonghyeol she had accumulated through long training at that moment and think of running away.

As expected, an old monster who has lived for over a thousand years.

Her judgment was as quick as a crab’s eyes.

“But how far can she run away?”

She smiled and glanced at Cho-ah, who was left alone.

* * *

Choeum, who had turned into a blood mist and ran away, escaped Bidong in an instant.

“It’s strange, I don’t remember having a bad relationship with the Hojok [fox spirit clan], but why….”

Her complexion had lost some of her spiritual power thanks to consuming Jeonghyeol, and her complexion had turned pale.

She rummaged through her bosom, took out a medicine bottle, and swallowed a pill, and only then did her complexion improve a little, but it was just an emergency measure.

‘If I don’t find a suitable place to *jeongyang* [recuperate and nourish her vital energy], the loss will be enormous.’

She also left Cho-ah behind.

It would be nice if she survived, but there’s no way the nine-tailed fox would have left her alone.

Kwaaaang!!

“Ugh!”

An earth-shattering explosion and a strong gust of wind swept through the area.

It was such a strong gale that even Choeum, a Jiseon, was swept away.

She barely regained her balance in the air and widened her eyes in surprise.

“Oh, isn’t that Oryong [a five-headed dragon]!”

And next to it, a red cloud is *hamkke eopchirakdwichirak* [intertwined and battling].

It must be Chungseon.

She was about to run away right away, but she narrowed her eyes when she saw the figure on top of Oryong’s head.

“Hmm….”

He’s a very mysterious guy.

How can he have so many connections with the immortals?

‘Come to think of it, there seemed to be something between Cho-ah and that guy.’

He didn’t seem like a nice guy who would save a woman he had never seen before.

There must be something.

Hmmph.

Choeum quickly turned around.

“You’re persistent….”

The black streak of light is the nine-tailed fox.

Choeum raised the corners of her mouth as she looked at the approaching nine-tailed fox with Yukgwi [a sinister aura].

“If the nine-tailed fox kills Cho-ah, he’ll do something about it.”