Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 533

Nangseon Gi Hwan Dam – Part 2, Chapter 242

Dragon Vein Bone.

The place now named Cheonjeong and Sangseo were days apart.

Despite the distance, they were taking their time, enjoying a leisurely walk as if there was no urgent matter.

It had been a while since they had been alone, walking together, as they had been with the Cheonchuk couple for some time.

“Since ancient times, it has been said that a trusted messenger can return.”

“What does that mean?”

“Trust is an immutable truth, so promises to others must be kept.”

Horii looked at Cheonbeom with a ‘suddenly?’ expression.

Beom cleared his throat and subtly probed her.

“I kept my promise to you, so I want to ask you one thing truthfully.”

“Why are you hesitating so much as if you’re going to ask something grand? Ask me quickly if you want to know.”

“What are you going to do when you meet her?”

“What do you mean, ‘do’?”

“Didn’t you say you wanted to meet my wife?”

He was unnecessarily nervous.

Cheonbeom was also looking forward to meeting Saha, but he was a little bothered that Horii was involved.

“Didn’t I tell you? Since she is the partner you chose, as a friend, I wanted to greet her and meet her at least once.”

She answered bluntly, as if asking something obvious.

But was it Cheonbeom’s imagination that it sounded sharp?

“Ahem….”

He was curious about her true feelings, but he couldn’t ask further if she came out like that.

Cheonbeom inwardly pretended not to care, turned his head, and climbed the mountain path.

Thud, thud.

The staff in his right hand stabbed the ground.

-In my opinion, aren’t they going to grab each other by the hair and fight?

-Shut up, Seongseong.

The staff Beom was holding was the transformed Seondeung Eumseok.

The guy trembled at the mere mention of a single character from hell and decided to serve Cheonbeom as his master.

It was partly due to various restrictions, but he had traveled through the Water Realm and realized that Cheonbeom was not such an evil being. Lately, he had been talking more often.

-In my opinion, I suspect that Horii is trying to beat down all of Grand Master Geumcheon’s women and become the main wife.

Thud.

Cheonbeom’s steps stopped.

“Why are you doing that?”

“Nothing.”

He narrowed his eyes and glared at Seondeung Eumseok, who became quiet again.

He didn’t know if he was trying to create discord or tease him, but he didn’t like it at all.

‘I should break him later.’

His actions were very annoying.

In his own way, he seemed to be trying to be clever, counting the days until he could escape from Beom and be free.

It was questionable whether that would work, but one thing seemed to work.

-You seem very upset. I’ve already planned the first hell out of the Eight Great Hells [Buddhist concept of realms of suffering]. Would you like to go in and experience it?

Then, a slight tremor flowed from the staff through his palm.

Only then did Cheonbeom smile with satisfaction and quicken his pace.

“Why are you grinning to yourself like a madman?”

“…Um, I guess we’re almost there.”

“We’re not there yet.”

“We’re almost there.”

At Cheonbeom’s words, she glanced up, but she couldn’t see anything that resembled a city. All she could see were layers of mountains.

They were still far from reaching Sangseo.

Frowning at the feeling of being deceived, she stared at Beom, who turned his head away to avoid her gaze. He was even whistling, as if he was in a good mood.

“But why are you in that state?”

“What state?”

“I’m asking why you disguised yourself as an old man.”

“Ah, it’s nothing much.”

Cheonbeom was quite famous in Sangseo.

The Lesser Immortals were short-lived and might have forgotten his face, but there were several Upper Immortals there, so wouldn’t it cause a commotion if someone recognized his face?

“It’s the consideration of someone who sits above the heavens. If the little ones are surprised and cause a commotion, it wouldn’t be good.”

“You’re such a pain.”

“And it’s been a long time since I left Sangseo, so I want to calmly observe with my own eyes how much development it has achieved in the meantime.”

Horii stuck out her lips as if to say, ‘As if that’s the reason,’ and went up to the top of the mountain first.

“Why is she so grumpy….”

Just as he was about to click his tongue.

“Hey~! Beom! There’s something here!”

She called Beom from the top of the mountain, gesturing for him to come quickly, so he approached.

“What are you doing?”

“Can’t you see? This guy suddenly pointed a spear at me.”

He looked and saw.

There was a soldier pointing a spear at Horii’s neck.

“Who are you people!”

The soldier pointing the spear blinked rapidly, as if he was rather embarrassed.

This was because the woman didn’t even flinch even though a spear was pointed at her neck, and the old man who came running at her call showed no tension at all.

Because of this, only the soldier pointing the spear was confused.

“Who are you to be here? Judging by your appearance, you don’t seem to be a Water Realm immortal?”

The style of the military uniform and the patterns on the magical artifact he was holding were not from Sangseo.

“Beom, this guy is injured.”

“That’s right.”

The style of the helmet and armor he was wearing was that of a common soldier. He must have been injured in a battle somewhere.

The fact that he was at the top of the mountain meant that he was wandering around looking for a place to heal his wounds, and he was likely hiding here, having escaped from someone in a desperate situation.

The Immortal Slaughter Battle was still ongoing, so he wondered if he was an enemy of the Water Realm, but it ambiguously didn’t seem to be the case.

“It’s amazing. The armor is from the Four Realms, but the guy wearing it isn’t a Four Realms immortal.”

He was a Water Realm immortal.

He seemed to have an unspeakable story.

Or he was a traitor.

“It is said that the greatest pain in the mortal world is regret. You better not do anything you’ll regret.”

“That’s what I should be saying! Who are you people! I was born and raised in Sangseo, and you’re the first people I’ve ever seen, so you must be outsiders! What is your purpose in approaching Sangseo at this time!”

At this time?

“Beom, do you mind?”

He frowned as if he was getting annoyed.

He nodded in agreement, and Hori’s gaze turned to the soldier.

“D-Don’t move!”

“Shut up, you!”

Snap, whoosh!

In an instant, he grabbed the aimed spear, snapped it in two, and pointed the spearhead at the soldier.

It was quite a powerful magical artifact, but to Hori, who possessed Wonseon Taesa’s body [a powerful immortal being], it was no different from a child’s toy.

As the tables turned, the soldier was startled and shrank his neck like a turtle.

“S-Spare me!”

“You’re quite the busy one. Doesn’t your attitude changing so quickly make you dizzy?”

“Spare me! If you spare me, I will surely repay you handsomely!”

He was an amusing fellow.

Beom looked at the soldier, who raised both hands and begged for his life, with a strange expression.

“Shall I just kill you?”

At the threat, the soldier’s face turned pale, and he knelt down, rubbing his palms together.

“Please, just this once! There’s a reason why I can’t die! I have a fox-like wife and rabbit-like children under me…!!”

“Looking at your face, you seem to have just come of age, but you have a wife and children?”

“Yes!!”

He looked too young for that.

“Beom, don’t believe him! Judging by his long tongue, he’s definitely lying!”

“It’s not a lie!!”

“You! You still smell like a newbie! Judging by the lack of a woman’s scent, you haven’t tasted a woman yet, have you!”

“What… you can even tell that?”

Cheonbeom was startled and looked at Hori, who blushed strangely.

“You smell all sorts of things with those little nostrils.”

“Shut up! Anyway, this guy is a liar! He dared to try to manipulate me and you with his silver tongue, so we should tie him upside down, cover him in honey, and throw him into a pit of venomous insects!”

What a cruel method of torture.

Hori couldn’t hide her excitement, clearly furious.

“Calm down for now. We have some things to ask him, so it doesn’t matter if we tie him up or throw him later.”

“Spare me, elders!!”

He crawled on all fours, grabbed Cheonbeom’s leg, and begged.

“In fact, I have a great cause for Sangseo that I cannot die for! If you spare me, Sangseo will surely reward you!”

“Who are you that Sangseo would pay for your life? You’re wearing the Four Realms’ military uniform but claim to be from Sangseo, who would believe you?”

“But it’s true! There are those who want to reclaim Sangseo, which has fallen into misery, from them!!”

Sangseo, fallen into misery.

Cheonbeom’s eyes narrowed.

His tone was full of earnestness.

There was some sincerity, but Beom wasn’t foolish enough to overlook the lies hidden within the truth.

“That’s strange. Even if what you say is true, can you really reclaim the lost Sangseo with the help of a minor immortal who hasn’t even become a Celestial Immortal?”

If Sangseo could be taken away by someone of that level, it would be better to just give it away.

It didn’t make sense from the start.

How dare a mere minor immortal talk about a great cause.

“It is said that nothing is more empty than the courage of the powerless. But at least they don’t discuss the great cause for their own personal gain, unlike you.”

“Damn it!”

Poof!

The newly transformed soldier created smoke and fled into the sky.

[I will definitely repay this humiliation!]

Hori was about to run after him to break the impudent guy’s neck, but Beom grabbed her shoulder.

“Why! I won’t be able to sleep tonight if I don’t catch that guy and twist his neck!”

“If you want to do that, there’s no need to go.”

Tuk tuk. He tapped the ground with his staff, and a strange scream was heard as the ground heaved.

Kuwahaha!

“Uwaaaaaa!”

The ground surged like a tornado, revealing the guy who had been hiding inside.

“It’s a simple trick.”

He created smoke and sent a puppet to pretend to escape, while hiding underground.

It was a simple but effective trick.

Of course, it would only work on someone of the Celestial Immortal level.

“L-Let go of me!!”

“Judging by your cunning actions, I wonder what you learned from your parents. So, is that all you’ve got?”

As Beom raised his staff, the staff, which was divided into three branches, instantly bound the guy’s body tightly.

“Ugh!”

Unable to move a finger, the guy, with a reddened face, tried to escape, but it was useless.

“D-Die!”

Hori was about to smash the guy’s head.

Clang!

Crack!

The area echoed with the force of Hori’s kick that struck the ground. But she couldn’t break the guy’s skull because Cheonbeom intervened.

“Ah, why!”

She was clearly furious, with veins popping out on her forehead.

Cheonbeom found the sight amusing and chuckled before answering.

“That’s a fake.”

“What?!”

The puppet that Cheonbeom had bound also flinched and opened its eyes wide.

It couldn’t hide its expression, as if wondering how he had noticed.

“It’s quite an elaborate puppet. You’re a clever one. I’ll let you go today, but there won’t be a next time, so be prepared.”

He spoke to the puppet.

“Wait!”

Just as it was about to speak urgently.

Crack!

The staff, transformed from Cheonbeom’s Seondeung Eumseok [a magical artifact], crushed the puppet in an instant.

A moment of silence followed, and then Hori, covered in questions, asked Cheonbeom with a dissatisfied look.

“There’s no way you truly let him go. I was blinded by anger, but you would know where he is! What strange thoughts are you having again?”

“It’s nothing much. Isn’t this also a kind of fate? I’m just trying to follow that fate. Sangseo doesn’t seem to be the same as before, so wouldn’t it be good to have a guide?”

As Hori said, Cheonbeom pretended to let him go to lower his guard.

No matter how good his skills were, could they work on Wonseon? Not a chance.

“Let’s go, we’ll naturally meet him if we go to Sangseo.”

Hori had a dissatisfied expression, but soon followed Cheonbeom.

And a little later.

What greeted them was not Sangseo, but the Four Realms’ army.