Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 38

Nangseon’s Romantic Adventure – Episode 37

Meanwhile.

While San-gun was plotting his escape from Yoo-jung, the Taoists of the Sun and Moon Sect were in an uproar.

How could they not be, when the entrance to Sun and Moon Mountain was completely devastated, and eerie blue flames were consuming the mountain?

The *Doseons* [Taoist priests] and *Biseons* [Taoist nuns] of the Sun and Moon Sect had to fly in and perform a frantic exorcism, and then were mobilized to put out the fire.

“The, the fire won’t go out! What should we do?!”

“This is no ordinary fire. It won’t go out easily!”

The *Doseons* and *Biseons* who came to put out the fire stared at it with dismay, then shuddered.

It was because they felt the oppressive aura of a powerful energy approaching from afar.

A streak of pure white light.

It flew in in the blink of an eye and landed in front of the Taoists. The figure that appeared as the light faded was a middle-aged man.

“This disciple greets Senior Uncle Man!”

One of the *Biseons* paid his respects with a bow, and the surrounding disciples also bowed.

The Taoist called Senior Uncle Man ignored them and watched the blue flames erasing the mountain with his hands behind his back.

“Hmm… what a violent divine power.”

He was a *Gye*-level Taoist in the realm of *Hwanseon* [a high-ranking celestial being]. Unlike the other *Hwanseons* who had entered closed-door training, he had come out because of the incident while he was on duty.

“This is no ordinary divine power, so it cannot be extinguished by simple means.”

“Then what should we do?”

“Hmm… I’ll have to use a sealing technique. Only *Biseons* remain, and the others retreat! If you get too close recklessly, you will not escape disaster!”

Senior Uncle Man shouted, and the others bowed and quickly turned back. Only about ten *Biseons* remained.

Senior Uncle Man immediately took out a scroll from his sleeve, unfolded it in the air, and made a hand seal.

Then the other *Biseons* also sat cross-legged in a circle and chanted spells together.

After a while, the blue flames that had been burning like a volcano flickered with the wave of spiritual energy.

The *Biseons’* faces brightened at the sight, and they accelerated the sealing technique.

About an hour passed.

The *Biseons*, who had been sweating profusely, suddenly took a deep breath, and the scroll folded back up and was tied up on its own.

“You’ve worked hard.”

Senior Uncle Man frowned as he looked at the landscape painting on the scroll, which had been enhanced with fierce flames. The change in the landscape painting in the scroll, which was one of the sealing treasures, and the scroll itself were so hot that it felt like his hand would burn.

‘I can’t use this anymore.’

He took a wooden box from *Gongjeonggang* [a spatial storage artifact, like a pocket dimension], put it in it, and attached a sealing tag.

“Hmm.”

Only then, satisfied, Senior Uncle Man put the wooden box away and soared into the air with a flash of white light.

* * *

At the same time.

A commotion was taking place in an unknown forest near Wolcheonseong.

Crackle! Crash!

It was because Yoo-jung’s *Chiljangpaseon* [Seven-Section Spirit Staff] was causing a whirlwind that was turning the area into a mess. The power of a famous artifact was no different from a natural disaster.

“That guy is really hiding well.”

However, the guy’s stealth technique was so amazing that he couldn’t be found, and even though he was destroying all the places he was hiding in, he didn’t seem to want to come out at all.

At this point, Yoo-jung had no other choice but to groan.

As he muttered, “What should I do?” and stroked the *Chiljang Paseon*.

He felt someone’s spiritual sense catching him from afar.

A streak of white light was approaching quickly with a powerful spiritual pressure. Seeing it, Yoo-jung slowly increased his altitude to meet him.

“Yoo-jung, a mere *Nangseon* [a low-ranking celestial being], greets the *Seonsa-nim* [a respectful title for a Taoist immortal].”

Yoo-jung, lowering himself with a bow, bowed his head to the man in front of him.

“Hmm, *Nangseon*? *Nangseon*, huh… I see.”

He found it strange that a *Biseon* was calling himself a *Nangseon*. He looked at Yoo-jung with suspicious eyes, crossed his arms, and asked.

“It’s nothing else, I came here because I have something to ask you.”

“Yes. I will answer anything with all my heart.”

The middle-aged man was Man Sajuk of the Sun and Moon Sect. He had sealed the blue flames that had spread to Sun and Moon Mountain and was flying here to search for the culprit, but he found Yoo-jung’s *Hoefung* [a technique to ride the wind] and chased after him.

“Are you the Taoist who disturbed the main mountain?”

The *Hwanseon’s* eyes changed coldly in an instant. Yoo-jung’s Adam’s apple bobbed nervously at his intense energy.

“Yes! That’s right. It was unintentional, but there were circumstances. A monster was disguised as a Taoist in *Guimun’s* [a demonic sect] sacred mountain, so I couldn’t just pass by! I couldn’t just stand by and watch, so I tried to deal with it, and this happened!”

Man *Seonsa’s* eyes deepened at the word monster.

A monster that used such divine powers was disguised as a Taoist! He almost suffered a great disaster!

“Is that true? If it’s a lie, I won’t let you off the hook! Are you confident you can handle it?”

Even in Man *Seonsa’s* cold voice, Yoo-jung nodded without the slightest hesitation.

“How can I lie to *Seonsa-nim*? Even now, that monster has escaped into the forest and I’m trying to catch it!”

“Hmm.”

Man *Seonsa* narrowed his eyes and scanned the forest he was stirring up with his spiritual sense.

However, unlike what the *Biseon* in front of him said, he couldn’t feel any monster energy at all.

“That’s strange. Are you saying there’s a monster that even my spiritual sense can’t find? How could you be dealing with such a high-level monster!”

If it was a monster that even the *Hwanseon’s* spiritual sense couldn’t find, it must be a monster that had achieved the Four Caves!

There was no way a single *Biseon* could deal with such a monster alone.

Man *Seonsa’s* suspicion deepened even more. The spiritual pressure that spread out due to anger bore down on Yoo-jung.

“I’m also very curious about that! It’s just a *Yitong* [a type of shapeshifting] monster, but it uses disguise freely, and it has powerful blue flames! Even its stealth technique is so excellent that I can’t read even a bit of its energy.”

Yoo-jung clenched his fist and shouted, enduring the *Hwanseon’s* spiritual pressure.

Not only that, but he took out a crystal treasure from his chest, put his hand on his temple, and began to chant a spell.

Then white smoke came out of his head and went into the crystal.

“That is…….”

“Yes! Please look at this and understand the injustice of your junior!”

At that, Man *Seonsa’s* expression became subtle. He hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly accepted the crystal from Yoo-jung and infused it with spiritual power.

The jade-colored crystal floated up and created light in the air. It contained the memories from arriving at Sun and Moon Mountain until now.

Man *Seonsa* was amazed as he watched it, then sighed and nodded.

“I understand your injustice. It was a really mysterious monster.”

Only then did Yoo-jung let out a sigh of relief when he believed his words.

“The monster’s divine powers are so great that I can’t catch it. I wonder if I can borrow *Seonsa-nim’s* brilliant idea.”

Man *Seonsa* took out a scroll from his chest and unfolded it in the air. The scroll was a landscape painting with six peaks and clouds.

If it were just that, it could be seen as an ordinary scroll, but with the subtle spiritual energy emanating from it and all six peaks on fire, it seemed like an extraordinary object.

“This is the Azure Flame that was burning the Sun and Moon Sect’s sacred mountain. I sealed it in advance… According to my junior, this is the only way to find him.”

Immediately after, as the *Seonsa* waved his hand, the scroll folded, spun around, and transformed into a small ball of light, beginning to move.

“This is a tracking technique based on his divine powers. This will allow us to find him.”

Man *Seonsa* spoke confidently.

However, after some more time passed, his face turned red and blue, and he trembled.

It was because he still couldn’t find the monster. Strangely, it only circled around the forest, and even after a day, he couldn’t find the monster or even a trace of it.

Man *Seonsa* became furious and rummaged around the area, then sighed and returned to his sect.

Yoo-jung, also without any other options, looked at the forest with lingering eyes before disappearing.

* * *

Ten days later.

More than 100 *li* [approximately 31 miles] away from Moon Heaven Castle.

In an unnamed forest, the ground suddenly rose, and a black beast popped out.

[Phew!]

It was a mole about the size of a stray dog. After coming out of the ground and looking around for a while, the mole shook off the dirt and stretched.

[Ugh, ugh, ugh! My whole body aches.]

After that.

A small light spread from the mole, and it suddenly transformed into a tiger the size of a house, collapsing onto the ground.

[I got caught by some crazy bastard and went through all this trouble.]

-That’s what I’m saying. But you looked quite good as a mole, Mountain Lord.

The house-sized tiger was, of course, Mountain Lord.

Having escaped from Yoo-jung, Mountain Lord immediately transformed into a mole, hid underground, and desperately used the Concealment Art to survive.

-By the way, will you tell me now?

-Tell you what?

-Who are these ladies?

Mountain Lord looked with a nonchalant expression at the two women standing in front of him. One was constantly scratching her head, saying it was itchy, and shaking off dirt, while the other was looking at her with a pathetic expression.

“Master, please maintain your dignity.”

“Huh? No, but… dirt got in, and it’s itchy! Human bodies are so uncomfortable!”

The woman who was constantly grumbling and messing up her hair was someone Mountain Lord was seeing for the first time. But the woman with the pretty face next to her was someone he knew well.

[It’s been a while, Hong-yeon.]

“Yes, have you been well?”

[Well, I almost died.]

-That’s something to be proud of.

Ahem!

Mountain Lord snorted and slightly lowered his head to Hong-yeon.

[I want to start by saying thank you. If it weren’t for you, I would have been caught by Hwan *Seon* [a powerful immortal] and died. I feel like I’m always just owing you.]

That’s right.

When Mountain Lord escaped to the nameless forest, he happened to meet Hong-yeon.

Of course, their meeting wasn’t a coincidence.

In any case, thanks to her help, he was able to survive and even properly heal his internal injuries underground.

No matter how top-notch the Concealment Art that Mountain Lord learned from Hong-yeon was, Hwan *Seon* would have been able to detect it if Mountain Lord performed it himself.

He really thought he was going to die this time, but Hong-yeon concealed everyone with her Concealment Art.

“No, from the beginning, Master and I were looking for you, Mountain Lord, so it’s only natural that we help you.”

[Looking for me? Why?]

“What!! Mountain Lord, you bastard! Have you forgotten again? Didn’t you agree to compete with this Black Fury! But why do you look so weak every time I see you!”

[Ah…….]

Come to think of it, he seemed to have made such a promise.

‘She came all the way here because of that? It must be at least 1000 *li* [approximately 310 miles] from Mangsu Peak to here.’

He knew she was strange, but he didn’t know she was so fixated on fighting him. Mountain Lord glanced at Black Fury and nodded.

‘Early stage of Supreme Realm.’

It was strangely fast for Mountain Lord to reach the middle stage in just over 3 years.

Even that was due to the serendipitous encounter with Bongak Cheonghwa, not his own talent, so normally, Black Fury’s training would have been normal.

“Mountain Lord has already reached the middle stage. Congratulations. It’s normal for your training to be slower than others because you’ve mastered the Divided Spirit Water Technique… What kind of divine power did you use?”

“What!? Mountain Lord is already in the middle stage?! Only 3 years have passed, and he’s already reached the middle stage? Ah! It’s true!!”

Black Fury made a fuss, asking Mountain Lord how he did it.

-Black Fury? Are you perhaps the black leopard who always picked fights with Mountain Lord? I didn’t know she was a female… no, a woman!

-I didn’t know either.

‘No, did she just transform into a female form?’

I don’t know.

[Black Fury. You were a woman?]

“Um? You’re asking the obvious! Th, that’s not important, tell me how you reached the middle stage! You cowardly bastard!”

It seems she was originally a woman.

This was another new fact, and Mountain Lord was a little surprised inside.

‘Come to think of it, Hong-yeon took a Muscle Relief Pill from me. Was it because of Black Fury?’

As he was thinking that, Hwa-ran spoke in a tone that couldn’t hide her dismay.

-I thought you only cared about wealth, but I didn’t know you were also interested in women. Poor Mountain Consort doesn’t even know her husband is running around like this….

-More nonsense.

I only just found out she was a woman.

Mountain Lord’s head started to ache.

Inside, Hwa-ran was noisily chattering, saying he shouldn’t be doing this, and outside, Black Fury was urging him to reveal the secret to reaching the middle stage.

[Ugh! It’s noisy! How can I tell you that my talent is outstanding!]

“Y, you jerk!”

“Master. Mountain Lord isn’t a jerk.”

“Then am I a jerk?”

“To put it bluntly, yes.”

“Eek!!”

For a while, Mountain Lord’s ears were ringing because of the women chattering inside and out.

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