Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 278

Her face, after nearly seven hundred years, hadn’t changed a bit.

Even the burdensome gaze and the subtly relaxed demeanor as she looked at him were the same.

Despite the long years, she vividly brought back the memories of that day as if it were just yesterday.

“Has it been that long?”

She tilted her head, looking at him with a crooked posture.

Seeing that detestable face made the suppressed anger boil up.

He had almost lost himself and his current wife to her hands.

And wasn’t there also a woman who had tragically lost her life in his place?

‘Geummyeongjisu.’

He tried to maintain his composure, but he couldn’t help but clench his fist tightly.

“It has been a long time…

About seven hundred years have passed since you were sealed away.”

“I see… Perhaps it’s because seven hundred years have passed, but your complexion doesn’t look so good. Are you perhaps ill?”

Even the way she looked at him as if genuinely concerned was disgusting.

But because of that, he realized once again.

‘She was always like this.’

This woman was always like this.

She was like this before, and she wouldn’t change in the future.

“Ha… I don’t even know what I was expecting from you.”

Was he vaguely hoping that she would regret and repent for her actions that day?

Or perhaps that she would kneel and beg for forgiveness?

‘I should wish for something realistic.’

She is Guieumnachal Yehuda.

She was the Vice Leader of the Guigang Gate, and the daughter created by that Yewoon.

The concept of regretting and repenting for her mistakes couldn’t possibly exist in her mind.

“Did you miss me?”

“Shut your trap.”

He couldn’t understand what was going on in this woman’s head.

He couldn’t comprehend what he had to show for her to think he had missed her.

“Your words are harsh, aren’t they?”

“I can say even worse things, so you better shut your mouth quietly.

The only reason I’m not killing you right now is because I have a few things to ask you before I do.”

Guieumnachal Yehuda smiled faintly, as if intrigued by Cheonbeom’s murderous aura.

“It seems you’ve become curious about me. Time is good, isn’t it? The person who didn’t have even an ounce of interest in me has personally taken me out of the seal.”

Cheonbeom frowned.

He had a lot to say, but he knew that arguing further would only waste his energy.

“The reason I summoned you is not because of anything else, but because there’s a problem with the Ganggsi [corpse puppet] you created before.”

He walked towards one side of the stone chamber, with his hands behind his back.

He intended to show her Guigyul.

But that was when it happened.

Suddenly, her figure disappeared and reappeared behind Cheonbeom, reaching out with her demonic hand. Her hand was enveloped in the energy of Bungmagi [a dark energy art], and black Mukroe [dark threads] was wrapped around her entire body, spreading a terrifying aura.

Kwa-ji-ji-jik!!

It was a body fused with Bungmasu [dark energy water].

In the past, he had felt powerless against that strength and couldn’t do anything.

He had absurdly allowed a life to be taken in his place.

But now, it was different.

Koo-oong!!

“Kkyaaaak!!”

As Cheonbeom slightly released the energy of Yeongwon [a powerful spiritual energy], Guieumnachal’s Bungmagi and Mukroe disappeared like dust.

At the same time, her knees buckled.

She couldn’t even support her body due to the powerful spiritual pressure.

“Kkeu, kkeueueueuk!”

No matter how much she had achieved Sikmahapil [a state of demonic fusion] and become a demonic immortal, it was only that much power to Beom, who had achieved Yeongwon.

It had no value beyond that.

“Didn’t I say?”

Cheonbeom looked down at her, who was barely holding on.

“I’m just not killing you yet.”

In other words.

He could kill her at any time.

Realizing the meaning of those words, Guieumnachal laughed even as she groaned in pain.

“What’s so funny?”

“It’s not… it’s nothing.”

“Then why are you laughing?”

“Because I’m happy!”

“Happy?”

“My husband has gained such great power. As someone who shared hearts with him, how could I not be happy?”

She had never shared hearts with him, not even a tiny bit.

But Beom decided to ignore it.

She was someone he couldn’t reason with anyway.

‘I’ll kill her after Guigyul’s matter is resolved.’

He had no intention of keeping her alive anyway.

Someone like her would be as detrimental to him as Yujeong, and her very existence would cause harm to all sorts of things.

Killing her was beneficial.

“Husband, are you doing this because of the Samcheokgwidongma [Three-Eyed Ghost Child Demon] you took away before?”

“That’s right.”

“Will you show me?”

“…Alright.”

It was suspicious that she was suddenly acting like this, but there was no reason to refuse.

Cheonbeom released the Geumji [seal] of the stone chamber.

Then, a flood of ominous energy and strange aura poured out.

In the center, there was a woman whose body was tightly bound by chains.

Unlike her peaceful face as if she were sleeping, the energy emanating from her body was extremely sharp.

“Do you remember the Samcheokgwidongma you created?”

“Of course. I gave it to you because my husband liked it.”

She was a woman who distorted the truth as easily as breathing.

It was so absurd that he was speechless.

The Samcheokgwidongma was just a creature he had captured when he first met her.

It was truly brazen of her to say that she had given it to him as a gift as if it were natural.

“…I refined and raised it, and it became like this. But due to some incident, it absorbed many souls and fell asleep.”

“It seems so. Many souls are mixed together. Among them are strange ones that I’ve never seen before….”

Guieumnachal stopped speaking, but it was easy to guess what she was talking about.

‘It must be because of Wonyuk [divine flesh].’

Who in the Ingye [human realm] would know about a god’s Wonyuk?

“I couldn’t wake this child with my power alone. So I woke you up.”

Guieumnachal nodded.

And then she pondered for a moment.

She brought her finger to her index finger and looked closely at Guigyul, contemplating.

Looking at that appearance alone, she looked no different from any other woman.

“I need to run a few tests to know the exact reason.”

“Do you have a rough idea of the reason?”

“Samcheokgwidongma is originally a Ganggsi made by grinding in three thousand souls of infants. It is a Ganggsi whose soul cohesion is not strong from the beginning, but it is a Ganggsi that grows like Bonseonbeoppae [a type of spiritual growth], so the completeness of the soul becomes more prominent as time passes.”

But Guigyul is not like that.

“I heard that it’s because it suddenly contained many souls. Is that correct?”

“That’s right. It absorbed all the evil spirits in Guhwan Island to exert strong power, but it couldn’t release it and became like that.”

“Then it’s a simple matter.”

“Is there a way?”

“The reason why Samcheokgwidongma was originally divided into three was because of the uniqueness of the soul.”

A soul is not something that mixes well.

Even the Taoists are always cautious and worried about handling souls.

“Are you saying that we should divide Guigyul into three again like Samcheokgwidongma?”

“It can’t wake up because numerous souls gather and fail to become one. Then wouldn’t it be natural to divide that power?”

It was a clear explanation.

But it wasn’t that he hadn’t thought about it.

From the beginning, Cheonbeom’s main Gongbeop [cultivation method] was Bunhap Su Gyeol [Divide and Merge].

It is a Gongbeop that divides Hwaryeong [spiritual energy].

Could it be that Cheonbeom, who had not thought of that one thing after seeing Guigyul’s condition?

“But that won’t be possible.”

“That’s right. It’s impossible.”

It is already defined as one soul and is trying to merge.

In addition, Wonyuk is also mixed in, so who knows what will happen if you try to divide it carelessly.

“Are you kidding me?”

“It would have been possible enough if it weren’t for that strange thing put inside. But since that’s not the case, we’ll have to think of another way. In the first place, the reason why Samcheokgwidongma became like this is largely my husband’s fault. It’s because you put strange things into the pure infant’s soul and didn’t become a complete Samcheokgwidongma.”

“Strange things?”

“If it had grown only with the souls of complete infants, it would have absorbed thousands or tens of thousands of evil spirits. But in my opinion, this Ganggsi is not a complete Samcheokgwidongma. Perhaps another soul was mixed in the middle… isn’t it?”

He thought she was talking about Wonyuk, but after listening to her, it wasn’t.

Infant refers to a young soul.

When Samcheokgwidongma became one existence again, Cheonbeom named it Guigyul and has been handling it until now.

But her words meant that another soul had already intervened before that.

“At least the soul of a spirit beast that has been around for hundreds of years has intervened and has not grown in the right direction. The simple way is to take this soul out, but in the current situation, we can’t do that either. It’s a soul that can’t be mixed in the first place….”

She tilted her head as if it was strange and created several Beopjin [magic circles] in front of Guigyul to see inside it in detail.

And then she frowned, and then she exclaimed as if she finally understood.

“Hyeolbungsu [Blood Fusion Art]… that’s why.”

“….”

Cheonbeom was speechless for a moment.

If her words were true.

If it was really true.

There was one thing he could guess.

‘The soul of a spirit beast that has been around for hundreds of years….’

Originally, it would not be able to mix, but the soul mixed due to Hyeolbungsu.

The power of the source that created the soul was Hyeolbungsu, so it was possible enough.

And the soul of a spirit beast that has been around for hundreds of years.

Cheonbeom was not so foolish that he did not know what it meant.

‘For that long time….’

Has she been keeping her mouth shut all along?

Blaming himself.

Thinking about it now, that’s right.

No matter how much he fed her Yongnoe [dragon blood], could a Ganggsi handle the fierce power of Bulgu Daechunma [a powerful demonic technique] and refine Guhwan Island without the owner’s knowledge and suck up all the souls?

It was an impossible task from the beginning.

The reason why such a thing was possible was because, among those many souls, the soul of a woman who had a strong connection with him and had a strong pride was dwelling….

“It would have been possible.”

Why did he only know now?

Cheonbeom stroked Guigyul’s cheek, who was bound by chains.

Even though her appearance and the aura she exuded had changed so much, she was still her.

If he thought about it, there were plenty of opportunities to rebel.

But Guigyul didn’t.

He thought that it was simply because he had grown fond of her now.

But it wasn’t.

Of course.

She wasn’t Guigyul.

“Geummyeongjisu… is that you?”