Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 272

Nangseon’s Romantic Tale – Episode 271

“Do you all see the cup I offered as poison?”

Gulp.

His limbs trembled.

He wasn’t even releasing spirit energy, merely exuding killing intent.

Yet, that alone overwhelmed all the TaeSeons [Great Immortals]; it was unbelievable.

It wasn’t even spiritual pressure.

Just simple killing intent.

To overwhelm everyone present with mere killing intent was astonishing.

Not only the disciples of the Mount Shu Sect but also those of the White Mountain Sect and his own children were the same.

The twins, who had been secretly watching him from a distance, trembled and stared at the ground as soon as the Mountain Lord appeared, overwhelmed by a fear they had never felt before. They couldn’t even dare to look up.

It wasn’t even killing intent directed at them, but merely the aftermath of the killing intent directed at the TaeSeons.

‘I feel like I’m going to die….’

Intellectually, they understood.

Their father would never kill them.

But his killing intent stirred a deep-seated fear of death, making them feel as if they could be killed at any moment.

They were afraid, tears welled up, and they leaked urine.

Their father was neither fake nor weak.

How could he be called weak when he could immobilize TaeSeons with just his killing intent?

The girl silently begged for forgiveness in her heart, praying for this situation to end quickly.

Then, suddenly, his killing intent vanished. When she cautiously raised her head, a woman was standing behind the twins.

“Watch carefully.”

“M-Mother….”

“You two inherited the blood of that man.

He will hold the heavens in his grasp, so you, who inherited his blood, must not tarnish his name.”

Yoho helped the children up.

“The situation is not favorable, so it seems I must convey your names.”

“We, we’re listening.”

“Yes!”

“Your names are Cheon-yu and Cheon-woo.”

“Cheon-yu (天柳)….”

“Cheon-woo (天祐).”

“Yu, Woo. From now on, you will have the surname Cheon.”

“Cheon?”

“Yes. Because your father’s surname is Cheon.”

“Th-Then, Father’s name is….”

“Beom, Cheon Beom (天梵).”

* * *

‘Damn it…. How did it come to this….’

If they called it poison, their eyes would be gouged out, and if they drank it, everything would go dark.

It was a deadly poison; drinking it would send them straight to the River of Three Crossings [the river one must cross to reach the afterlife]. How could they drink it!

The Mount Shu Taoists were in a dilemma, unable to advance or retreat.

“The Taoists of Mount Shu must be very dissatisfied with my hospitality, that they refuse to drink even when I personally offer the wine… belittling me at best, and attempting to insult White Mountain at worst.”

“N-No such thing exists!!”

Thud. The Great Elder knelt down, slamming his forehead against the ground.

Then, the other elders and the disciples behind them also knelt and bowed their heads.

Yet, the Mountain Lord did not withdraw his killing intent.

Rather, an even more intense killing intent emanated from his body in all directions.

“What isn’t? You come here, claiming to be the great Mount Shu Sect, and yet you refuse the cup I offer, insulting me.

Furthermore, you scorn and insult my White Mountain Sect and my disciples, and in the end, you even dare to humiliate my wife! What part of that isn’t true!!”

The Mountain Lord’s roar, like thunder, shook the forest, and mountain birds fluttered away in fright.

“S-Save… me!”

“Why don’t you drink the wine? Is it because I, not my wife, am serving it?”

Thump!

Grasping Elder Pung’s neck, the Mountain Lord spoke with a chilling gaze.

“N-No! I’m sorry… I’m sorry… Cough!!”

“Who do you think you are, causing trouble in White Mountain where I reside? Who do you think you are, uttering such nonsense to my wife! How dare you!!”

Koo-oong!! Crackle!!

As intense spiritual pressure spread and descended, the ground cracked, and the Taoists’ bodies were pressed down as if becoming one with the earth.

Crunch.

However, only one person was held in his hand: Elder Pung, who had harassed the mistress of the White Mountain Sect.

“Even if you reincarnate and are reborn as a new life, I will find you, kill you, and kill you again and again. Remember my face clearly.

Whenever and wherever you encounter me in any world, you will meet a miserable death. Just like now.”

Twisting his neck, the man’s complexion turned purple, and a chilling sound echoed with a miserable scream.

Elder Pung, his neck severed by the force of his grip alone, fell powerlessly like an autumn leaf.

The Mountain Lord quickly seized and crushed the fleeing Hwaryeong, instantly ending his life.

Even with a Mount Shu elder dying before their eyes, they could not protest and only trembled.

Extreme fear.

As it penetrated deep into their bones, their minds turned blank.

“Ugh, ugh… Aaaargh! I don’t want to die!!”

Perhaps that was why.

One of the elders, seemingly losing his mind, screamed in fear and shook his sleeve.

Then, a powerful Bi-sword [a type of magical sword] shining with a blue light covered him from within his sleeve.

It was the TaeSeon’s original Seonbeop weapon [a weapon imbued with spiritual power].

The energy surrounding the Bi-sword and the purity of the Gongbeop [a method of cultivating spiritual energy] seemed quite extraordinary.

The remaining Taoists of Mount Shu were dumbfounded but held onto a glimmer of hope.

Whoo-oong!!

However, that glimmer of hope was shattered in vain.

The White Mountain Sect Leader easily grabbed and broke the elder’s Bi-sword, which was akin to a surprise attack.

“Keuh!!”

The elder, clutching his chest and vomiting blood as his original Seonbeop weapon broke, heard footsteps approaching him.

Thud, thud.

The sound of footsteps, neither slow nor fast, made his heart race.

He tried to get up, but his legs gave way, and he repeatedly collapsed like a newborn fawn.

The Mountain Lord lifted him up by the collar with a calm gaze.

Just as he was about to tear the man’s limbs in half with ruthless eyes.

“Stop!!”

A shrill woman’s voice was heard.

A woman appeared from the sky, scattering a dull green light.

Her face was pale at the miserable sight, and she was a woman he knew well.

‘Great Master Chukman.’

Chukman looked at her disciples with a heavy heart before turning to the Mountain Lord.

“Don’t do anything unnecessary. Their behavior has crossed the line. They have insulted me, White Mountain, and even my wife, so they will pay the price for their sins.”

It was a warning, but Chukman quietly closed her eyes and knelt.

“Don’t do anything unnecessary.”

When told not to do anything unnecessary, Chukman even bowed her head.

“I don’t know exactly why this happened, but seeing a Great Seonsa [a highly respected immortal] who has reached Eternity so angry, it must be that the disciples of this sect have committed a sin. If so, I, who can be said to be the master of these disciples, will gladly pay the price for their sins, so please, Great Seonsa of the White Mountain Sect, kill me to atone for their sins.”

Then, the Mountain Lord scoffed as if he was dumbfounded.

“You think I can’t do that if you say that?”

“You would. If you’re going to kill anyway, wouldn’t it be better to kill me, not these young ones?”

“Well said. It’s only natural for elders to take responsibility for the mistakes of their juniors. I’ll do as you say.”
The Mountain Lord laughed as if it was a good thing and grabbed Chukman’s neck.

“G-Great Master! No! Great Seonsa! Kill us! Kill us instead! She is the pillar of the Mount Shu Sect!! Please!!”

“Great Master!!”

“P-Please kill us!!”

The elders and disciples of Mount Shu all gathered and began to beg the Mountain Lord, banging their heads on the ground.

The Mountain Lord’s ears were ringing from their bleeding foreheads and their shouting at the top of their lungs.

The Mountain Lord stared silently at Chukman, whose neck was being strangled in his hand.

Her neck was tightening, and her complexion was turning blue.

Yet, Chukman didn’t even frown once.

He didn’t like that.

He could see clearly why she was doing that.

“Tsk.”

He threw Chukman away.

Thud.

“Cough, cough!”

The disciples of Mount Shu rushed to support Chukman and shed tears.

And the Mountain Lord looked at Chukman and sharply scolded.

“You’re doing something unnecessary. Are you showing such trivial consideration even as you die?”

She was showing consideration by not showing a painful face so that they wouldn’t be distressed by her being killed.

“Why don’t you kill me?”

He hated seeing her looking at him with a bruised neck.

“I thought it would be better to save you than to kill you. Chukman, you are said to be the Great Master, the pillar of Mount Shu, so if I break that pillar, Mount Shu will bother White Mountain to the death later.

So, I have decided to place a Geumje [a magical restriction] on your body and make you a hostage of White Mountain.”

“Hostage!!”

“Of course, you won’t refuse, will you?

If you don’t, the disciples here will die, and I will personally prepare to leave for Mount Shu to eliminate any future troubles.”

She had no choice.

“I understand.”

The Mountain Lord frowned at Chukman’s bowed figure and placed a Geumje on her body after glaring at the disciples of Mount Shu.

“For the next thousand years, Great Master Chukman of Mount Shu will not be able to travel more than a thousand miles away as a hostage of White Mountain.”

The disciples of Mount Shu wept again at the word “thousand years,” but Chukman silently accepted the Mountain Lord’s Geumje.

After that, the Mountain Lord ordered the disciples of Mount Shu to leave, and they left White Mountain with heavy steps.

“Myeonghwa.”

“Yes, Sect Leader!”

“Clean up the situation and decide on a residence for Great Master Chukman, who has been taken hostage.”

“I understand.”

“Mansam and Manho.”

“Yes, Sect Leader!”

“Yes!”

“Today’s events….”

“I will issue a Geumguryeong (ban on speaking of this) [a strict order of silence]!”

“No. Rather, it should be spread.”

“Yes? If it spreads….”

“The disciples of Mount Shu insulted White Mountain, unaware that I had reached Eternity. But the situation is not the same as it was before. If this story spreads, the prestige of White Mountain will increase even more, and no sect will dare to target us in the future.

Do you understand what I mean?”

“I will do as you wish.”

It was already quite late.

Now that he had reached Eternity, he was thinking of inviting various sects to hold a feast, but there was no need to do so.

Since it was an incident involving Mount Shu, the rumors would spread like wildfire, and the fame of White Mountain would also be greatly enhanced.

The sects that had severed ties would also try to confirm the truth of the rumors, and if that happened, the situation of White Mountain would improve at once.

“Wife, follow me, as I have something to say to you.”

“I understand.”

A little later.

As he led the way, he entered Cheonhogak on Baekunbong.

“Husband!”

She staggered and lost her balance.

Startled, Choa supported him and was even more surprised.

His body was as cold as ice, and he was drenched in cold sweat.

She had heard that his condition was not good, but she didn’t know it was this bad.

The Mountain Lord hugged Choa and said in a weak voice.

“I’m sorry.”

The Mountain Lord apologized repeatedly, not knowing what he was so sorry for.

“If you’re so sorry, please come to your senses! How can you overexert yourself in this condition!!”

Tears welled up, and she somehow became angry.

“I’m sorry….”

“There’s no need to be sorry, just get better!”

Choa laid the Mountain Lord down in the bedroom, chewed on a spiritual medicine good for internal injuries, and fed it to him.

Soon, she took off his clothes, wiped away the cold sweat, massaged his whole body, and lay down in the bedroom, hugging him warmly.

After a while, the Mountain Lord, who had regained some consciousness, looked at her and said.

“Aren’t you upset?”

“I was upset.”

“Didn’t it hurt?”

“It hurt….”

“Don’t you hate me?”

“I do hate you. I don’t know why you only do things that make me hate you.”

“But why are you looking at me with those eyes?”

Her eyes were no different from before.

They were still the same affectionate eyes she had when looking at him.

“Do you know what those children call me?”

“What do they call you?”

“They call me… Stepmother.”

She couldn’t have children, so she seemed to like the children calling her mother.

Her face, with tears welling up and a smile on her face, was both pitiful and lovely.

“They are not my own children, but your children are my children. As long as those children call me Stepmother, I have decided to think of them as my sons and daughters.”

After she finished speaking, the Mountain Lord was lost in thought for a moment.

He didn’t know what to say.

Even Yeong-won [Eternity], who stood at the pinnacle of the human realm, didn’t know what to say to his wife at times like this.

“Because of my body, I would have had no face to show even in the afterlife if your lineage had been cut off.

In a way, I think it’s a good thing.”

“Do you really think so?”

“You will ascend and become the master of the heavens in the future. The person I love is such a person, and I am the woman of such a man, so I must endure this much.”

He was grateful for her heart and sorry, so he couldn’t think of anything better than to just hug her tightly.

He fell asleep with his woman like that.

After that.

The story of White Mountain and Mount Shu spread by word of mouth and flowed into the Taoist world.

Most Taoists dismissed it as nonsense, but rumors spread that someone had seen Chukman, the Great Master of Mount Shu, at White Mountain.

After that, the situation changed completely when those among the leaders of several sects who had ties to Jiseon [a powerful immortal] said that the White Mountain Sect Leader had indeed ascended to Yeong-won [Eternity].

The war clouds that could have erupted at any time disappeared like melting snow, and the sects that had been engaged in life-and-death battles rushed to visit White Mountain and send all sorts of precious gifts.

Numerous people flocked to White Mountain, and thanks to that, the villages and borders near White Mountain were crowded.

Most of the Taoists gathered there were eager to have a single meeting with the White Mountain Sect Leader, but the White Mountain Sect Leader remained secluded and did not meet anyone.

And.

100 years have passed since the White Mountain Sect Leader showed himself.