Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 538

Nangseon’s Adventures – Part 2, Episode 247

How can the relentless march of time be captured in mere words?

The years simply flow like water, and we are beings carried along by that current.

Therefore, we can only cherish each moment and endure life and death, cause and effect, and the imperfections wrought by time.

“How can they crumble so meaninglessly?”

Cheonbeom, gently touching the name on the tombstone and the separate memorial tablet, pondered deeply.

“They were not meaningless.”

The one who answered his solitary murmur was their child.

Bihae.

“…Right. It might have sounded that way to you. I misspoke.”

To Cheonbeom, death seemed like a fragile flower, easily crushed even in a short time.

Life is so fragile that it vanishes if you look away for even a moment.

The fate of all beneath the sky, not just them.

Whether their death was due to the cruelty of time or the whims of fate, one thing was clear: it disregarded the feelings of those left behind.

The only fortunate thing is that they left something behind.

“It was said that your mother was the head of the Sa Clan and your father was Geumcheon [Golden Sky, a powerful figure]. But judging from your reaction, you seem to already know the truth.”

“…Yes. The Sa Clan Head treated me like her own son, adopted me, and raised me with deep affection.”

“…I see.”

Cheonbeom looked down at Bihae with profound eyes.

He hadn’t noticed it before, but now that he looked closely, he saw their features imprinted on him, little by little.

He patted him on the shoulder, and Bihae bowed his head deeply.

Then, he knelt down with a thud.

“Why are you doing this?”

“I was rude before. Aren’t you Geumcheon, the new sky of the Upper Realm? I dared to be so disrespectful to such a person….”

However, he knew there was another meaning hidden in his words.

Rather than a simple apology, it was a plea for something.

“Is there something you want? It would be better to dispense with unnecessary formalities. Your parents were severely scolded for doing so to me.”

Bihae swallowed and prostrated himself, his forehead touching the ground.

“Please save Sangseo!!”

Cheonbeom’s brow furrowed.

“Save it?”

“Sangseo is slowly being eroded by the Four Lords. I am powerless and cannot stop it, even though I know it. In a thousand or ten thousand years, Sangseo will lose its original color.”

“You are misunderstanding something.”

“A misunderstanding? What could I be misunderstanding!”

“The reason Sangseo is not invaded by foreign powers is all thanks to the Four Lords. To be precise, it is thanks to Hwayang, the princess of the Four Realms and the commander who controls the Four Lords, who is stationed here.”

If that weren’t the case, Sangseo would be suffering even more than it is now.

“But….”

“It seems your mother embraced and raised Huhae and Sabi’s son too much. A man should have a broader perspective.”

A frog in a well [an idiom for someone with a limited perspective].

It’s a childish remark from someone who thinks Sangseo is the whole world.

“Isn’t that right, Hwayang?”

As he turned his head slightly to ask, a space in the air blurred, and a woman wearing a beautiful palace dress and an iron mask appeared.

Hwayang was covering her face with a mask, but tears still clung to her eyes, which could not be hidden.

“Why are you still wearing that heavy mask?”

Asked, she replied.

“Thanks to a certain man who enjoys romance and doesn’t even show his face, I have no choice but to hide like this. In case he sees me from afar and disappears.”

To make him miss her.

To make him appear before her.

That was why she had been wearing it until now.

Cheonbeom smiled at her answer and reached out his hand as he approached.

As his hand touched the mask, the cold, hard-looking iron mask turned into a handful of dust and disappeared, revealing her face once again.

“I have been waiting. Only for this day.”

“So it has come to this.”

“Did you know it would come to this?”

“Since you left Aenobeolju to me.”

“You are too late.”

“You have such a man in your heart. You must endure it.”

Hwayang smiled faintly, even as tears welled up in her eyes at his brazen words.

Then, she immediately turned her gaze and said to Bihae.

“There will be nothing to worry about. The only reason I am in Sangseo is to wait for this person.”

As she shouted, as if telling him to leave quickly if he understood, Bihae was dumbfounded and didn’t know what to do, then hurriedly left the spot.

It was unknown whether it was due to his ignorance and misunderstanding or because of Hwayang’s beauty after taking off the iron mask.

* * *

Shortly after.

Hwayang, who was spending a pleasant time chatting with Cheonbeom after Bihae left, glared at the intruder who appeared in a hurry.

“But who is this person….”

“This lady is Beom’s one and only friend.”

“Something like that.”

“Something like that! Speak properly!”

Horii was furious, as if Cheonbeom’s extremely light introduction had ruined her mood.

“Well… it’s too long to tell the story properly. It’s a long, long relationship that has continued since the Lower Realm.”

“Th, that’s right.”

Horii nodded triumphantly.

Cheonbeom was dumbfounded at how brazenly she repeated the same answer.

However, something about that simple answer seemed to have touched Hwayang’s nerves.

“…I also have a thread of connection with Geumcheon from the Lower Realm.”

“I didn’t ask.”

“I didn’t ask either.”

“Beom! Look at how this girl is talking!”

“She’s not wrong.”

Horii glared at Hwayang, who was sticking close to Cheonbeom, and huffed for no reason.

For a while, the two didn’t say anything and just glared at each other, but they finally turned their gazes away from each other when a new person appeared.

“Husband!”

It was Saha.

She didn’t seem to realize that the old man who had appeared before was Cheonbeom.

Beom was relieved at that.

“Wife!”

Beom pretended not to know about the previous fight and greeted Saha very happily, hugging her.

Then, over a cup of tea, he briefly told her what had happened so far.

“I see.”

“A great-grandchild… then does that make me a great-grandmother?”

“Does it work that way?”

“I wanted to be a mother before a great-grandmother.”

Saha pouted.

She was surprised at first to hear that Cheonbeom’s great-grandson from the Lower Realm had come up and met Cheonchuk, but soon she turned her head with a sulky expression when she heard that he was building a family with his wife in the place that used to be Yongmagol with Cheonbeom’s help.

She also knew why he had placed his great-grandson near Sangseo and started the Cheon Clan there.

“Now I have to take care of my great-grandchild. But the only one I want to take care of is my husband.”

“Ahem, this is a good place.”

Cheonbeom barely averted his gaze from the scene and created a door, finishing the formation there. Of course, he mixed in various prohibitions and spells.

“If anything happens, head to this place. It wouldn’t be bad to visit from time to time.”

It was a door leading to Cheollakgyeonggon [Heavenly Paradise Realm].

It was a kind of teleportation circle.

Of course, if you dig deeper, it’s a little different, so if an ordinary person heads to this place, their whole body will be crushed by the pressure of space, or they won’t reach their destination and will be seriously injured, or they will head to a place from which they can never return.

In this Upper Realm, there is no place safer than Cheollakgyeonggon right now.

Cheollakgyeonggon was created by Cheonbeom and is a treasure of Daeracheon [Great Rakshasa Heaven].

It is located in a corner of Sawoljehang [Fourth Month Fasting] and is inside the sun of the Upper Realm, which no one can easily touch.

Therefore, Cheonbeom created this special teleportation circle just in case.

The distance was close to tens of thousands of miles, but it was not difficult for Cheonbeom, who had become a Wonseon Grand Master [a high-level martial arts expert], to create a teleportation circle that could move one or two people.

“Can anyone go?”

“I’ve put several prohibitions in place so that only those with a mark can come and go.”

“A mark….”

“If you engrave my mark somewhere on your body, you can cross it.”

Only the couples would know what that mark was and where it was engraved in secret.

“First, the door is connected….”

Creak.

It was then.

Before he could even open the door, it opened on its own, and a snow-white woman appeared from there.

“I heard you haven’t shown your face in a while, but you were enjoying a man’s romance here, husband.”

“…Not really.”

“Oh my, is that so? But there are beauties here that would surprise me too.”

She was smiling brightly, but he couldn’t help but be more nervous than ever.

Of course, he was trying to get them all together in one place, but there was bound to be a difference between giving them a heads-up in advance or not.

He was a little embarrassed that Choa had suddenly appeared like this.

“This person is….”

Hwayang and Saha also looked quite surprised. A snow-white woman came out when he made a door, and Cheonbeom was very embarrassed.

“Oh, it’s her….”

Only Horii tilted her head, looking like she had seen her somewhere before.

“Oh, I was going to introduce you anyway, so it’s a good thing. Since we’re all here, shall we have a cup of tea together first?”

“How about some wine instead of tea?”

“Wine is good.”

It would definitely be more helpful in resolving the situation than tea.

“Husband, please step aside for a moment.”

“…Me?”

“Yes. You’re not the type to thoughtlessly interfere in a conversation between women, are you?”

“Oh, oh… that’s right.”

He didn’t know what was right, but it was an atmosphere where he had to say that it was.

He couldn’t get the thought that this wasn’t right out of his head, but he also thought that it might not be so bad since the women’s eyes weren’t normal.

They were the ones who would be visiting each other and spending time together once he left anyway.

‘Well, I doubt they’ll fight.’

He was a little curious about who would win if they fought, but wasn’t it a man’s job to step aside when asked?

“Then….”

“Ahem, then I….”

Horii also seemed to have sensed something and stood up from her seat with Cheonbeom.

“Isn’t it better for you to stay?”

“M, me? Why me?”

“Don’t you remember me? I saw you briefly in Geumhwanseonhyang [Golden Ring Celestial Fragrance].”

“R, really? I don’t….”

“Please stay. I have something to say, and it won’t be good for you if you get involved in a conversation between women?”

Horii looked at Cheonbeom with her eyes, asking what to do, but Cheonbeom shrugged.

Thump!

Horii grabbed his hand, but Cheonbeom shook off her hand with a smiling face.

“You coward!!”

“It’s not a man’s job to interfere in a conversation between women either.”

“You’ll regret it!”

“I wouldn’t go that far.”

Creak… Thud.

As the door closed, prohibitions were placed in an orderly manner.

It seemed to be to prevent the story from leaking out.

Cheonbeom pondered for a moment outside the door and flicked his finger.

Then, Seonchukmun [Divine Ear Rune] was drawn from his finger and seeped through the crack in the door.

Wait a moment.

[……order…let’s decide…….]

The women’s voices were heard.

It was simply made, and it was seeping into the layers of prohibitions to eavesdrop, so it couldn’t be heard properly, but he could still hear it to some extent.

[Order… order? What…… order…?!]

[Of course…….]

[…………Heup!!]

[That person…… so… order….]

It didn’t seem like a story to worry about.

“I thought they were having a great conversation.”

It was nothing.

Cheonbeom strode out of the building and climbed to the top of Hwamaebong Peak.

Then, as he sat in meditation, facing the desolate wind, he spread out his fist, and a snow-white cloud flowed out.

It was Seondeungeumseok [Divine Ascension Cloud Stone].

Seondeungeumseok soon became a map of the Upper Realm made of clouds.

Soon, Cheonbeom’s gaze turned somewhere in the Middle Realm.

“I’ve finished most of the work….”

Now it was time to go to the Chung Realm [Central Realm].

Wonseons [Perfected Immortals] were still stationed in Geonwonhaemok [ 건원해목, possibly a location], accumulating power.

“Ubaekja, this guy has moved too.”

He had heard that he had secluded himself and cut off ties with the world.

His location had changed.

The one called the King of the Chung Realm as well.

They were starting to move slowly.

“And….”

The one with the shape of a sword.

Geomnoiltaek [Sword Old Man’s Pond] was also moving.