Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 566

Tales of the Spirit Blade – Extra Story 5

Cheonseon Mountain.

A high mountain perpetually shrouded in mist, 365 days a year.

A mountain personally crafted by Cheonbeom, the master of the Upper Realm.

Cheonseon Mountain, created for his daughter with Choa, was abundant with all sorts of rare and precious things. Yet, among them, Cheonseon’s favorite was something else entirely: the hot spring.

“Hmm…”

“What’s wrong?”

A woman with flowing black hair and a girl with fair, snow-white hair.

Horri and Cheonseon often soaked in the hot spring they named Cheonseon Spa, enjoying the leisure. Today, Cheonseon, who had come to Cheonseon Spa with Horri as usual, seemed puzzled and troubled.

By rank, Horri was Cheonseon’s aunt.

However, her relationship with Cheonseon was close enough to be considered a friendship.

“Don’t you think your father has been avoiding me lately for some reason?”

“Wasn’t he… always like that?”

At Cheonseon’s tilting head, Horri groaned and sighed softly.

“…Do you have to poke at sore spots so casually, just like your father? It’s like your words aren’t just thorny, but have spears attached!”

She wailed, “That’s too much!”

At times like this, Cheonseon often thought she was just a childish girl, not Grand Master Wonseon [a title for someone who has achieved a high level of enlightenment].

“Anyway, this time it’s a little different! It’s not like I’ve been nagging him to have a child!”

“Aunt, your voice is too loud. What if someone hears you…”

Cheonseon was embarrassed for no reason.

Yet, Horri shouted hysterically.

“That bastard… It would be nice if he gave me what everyone else gets at least once.”

Why was Cheonseon the one feeling ashamed?

A blush spread across Cheonseon’s face.

“That’s… always the case, isn’t it?”

“No, this time it’s different! I didn’t even ask, and he avoided me, saying he was busy!”

“Then he must really be busy. My mother said the same thing. What Father carries is something no one else can understand.”

Grand Master Geumcheon [another title], the master of Geumcheon.

A man with many titles and legendary feats, who eventually became the sky.

Cheonbeom.

“Choa? Hmph, acting like she knows. Even if she does, I knew your father first! I’m the only one who understands him!”

“Then say that in front of Mother. Or should I tell her first?”

Then Horri subtly averted her eyes.

“That’s a bit…”

“Why? Are you scared?”

“S, scared? It’s just annoying! That Choa is secretly narrow-minded, so she keeps freezing the meals and tea I eat and then pretends she doesn’t know!”

Cheonseon nodded at Horri’s hysterical outburst.

“But that’s because you tested a newly created law by blowing away the Ice Wheel Flower that Mother cherished, isn’t it?”

Saok Bingryunhwa [Ice Wheel Flower], an ice flower that Choa had created while organizing her concept of law in Wonseon.

She had poured her enlightenment into it, so she cherished it quite a bit, and she was furious when it was broken.

Because Choa was gentle, she only took petty revenge; otherwise, the whole area would have been turned upside down.

“If it were someone other than Aunt, their head would have been chopped off immediately. I heard she had been raising it since before I was born.”

“S, so I asked your father to make a new one for me!”

“…Well, that’s true.”

Cheonbeom didn’t want to grant Horri’s request, but he couldn’t help but give in after she complained for days that she couldn’t eat any rice or tea.

“Ah, anyway!! That’s not important. It’s just a past issue.”

“What’s important is Father, right?”

“That’s right! I’ve been tailing that guy lately because his behavior is suspicious!”

It didn’t seem like something to be so proudly talking about.

Cheonseon wondered what to do with this immature aunt and decided to listen more.

“So?”

“So, wouldn’t you know it, my dear husband disappeared at some point? So I investigated where he went…”

“Investigated?”

“You know about the infinite space between spaces, right?”

“Are you perhaps talking about the space between existence and non-existence…”

“Yes. It seemed like he kept going in and out of that place.”

The space between existence and non-existence.

A mysterious space that even Grand Masters Wonseon find difficult to enter without suitable divine powers and treasures.

Some say it is where everything is created, while others say it is just a mixed and stagnant chaos.

However, no one is unaware that the Great Calamity Beast Tam and the Divine Beast Phoenix were born there.

The reason why such a space exists even after so much time has passed is that no one has clearly identified it, and they only know that it exists…

“Father is going to that place…”

Several reasons come to mind as to why.

‘He is the master of Geumcheon and the essence of it… He must have a separate purpose.’

The one who governs the sky of the Upper Realm is Cheonbeom.

It was a bit surprising that he frequented the space between existence and non-existence, but it wasn’t something to be scrutinized so closely.

‘Does Aunt know something?’

She sometimes comes and spouts nonsense or does strange things, but she is clearly a Grand Master Wonseon of the Upper Realm.

The end of her enlightenment must be providing an answer that surpasses her own wisdom, which has not even reached the level of Upper Immortal.

She might be guessing at her father’s actions, which she cannot fathom.

“What do you think, Aunt?”

As she cautiously asked, Horri raised one corner of her mouth.

“Isn’t it obvious?”

As expected of Wonseon.

She seemed to have instantly inferred the reason and brought it as an answer.

Cheonseon’s ears perked up.

She leaned her body closer to her.

“What do you think it is?”

At her question, Horri pondered carefully and raised her index finger.

“Surely, there must be another woman in the space between existence and non-existence!”

“…….”

“Otherwise, there’s no explanation for why he would go there!”

Cheonseon’s leaning body returned to its original position.

She expected to hear a great answer from the Grand Master Wonseon, but all she found was a stream of personal emotions.

‘I should have known.’

She was a fool to expect anything.

“Seon, aren’t you worried?”

“What do I have to worry about? Even if someone like Father takes a new concubine, it wouldn’t be a flaw. He is the sky that embraces everyone.”

In the first place, he already had five wives.

Cheonseon wouldn’t be fazed even if more were added.

“Besides, I heard that even Grand Masters Wonseon have a hard time staying there, so how could Father hide a lover there?”

If he had a lover, there would be no reason to hide her, given his position.

Even if his wives complained, would there really be a woman who could live there?

“Well… he might have seduced one of the Calamity Beasts in the space between existence and non-existence.”

“…That could be possible.”

She even came to think that her father was capable of that.

“Anyway, that’s all I’ve found out. My intuition tells me that he’s hiding something.”

“Yes… but why are you telling me this?”

“…If you’ve heard this far, you should know. Let’s go together.”

“I wouldn’t be able to withstand even a moment, no, not even an ilda-gyeong [an extremely short unit of time], if I went there.”

“I can take care of that. You just have to come with me, Cheonseon.”

“…Are you perhaps planning to use me as a shield against Father if something goes wrong?”

Twitch.

“What kind of relationship do we have for you to say such hurtful things! A, a shield!”

Not a shield, but about the level of armor.

Cheonseon, looking at Horri saying that with cold eyes, walked out of the bath.

“Ah! No, think about it a little more!”

“…Mother told me not to hang out with Aunt too often.”

“What!? That Choa is being petty!”

“At first, I wondered why, but as expected… so I don’t think I can accompany you as a dutiful child.”

Cheonseon, who came out of the bath and put on her palace dress, chuckled at her anxious appearance.

“S, Seon! It’s a good thing for you too! It might break down your walls!”

Stop.

At the same time as her footsteps stopped, a new voice echoed from Cheonseon Spa.

“Walls? What does that mean?”

Woooong.

A unique, dull-sounding form wearing clothes like a boy’s.

“Sacheon? What brings you here?”

It was Sacheon, a child born between Saha and Cheonbeom.

She was the same age as Cheonseon and used to hang out often in the past, but it was unexpected for her to suddenly appear since they hadn’t seen each other lately.

“I heard rumors that you failed to ascend to Upper Immortal and were in secluded training, but you’re already out?”

Short bobbed hair.

Clothing with red fire kirin embroidery that fully exposed her shoulders.

A girl with a pair of twin blades, the Ssangmyeol [Twin Extinction], on her shoulder, with a dull weapon like a wheel spewing flames beneath her feet.

It was Sacheon of the Sa Clan.

“That’s none of your business. Aunt, what does that mean? Walls?”

“It’s none of your business either. I was talking to Aunt. Don’t interfere recklessly?”

“That’s my decision.”

Sacheon and Cheonseon.

There was no one in Sangseo who didn’t know that the two were not on good terms.

They had the same father, but one followed the Sa Clan’s surname and the other followed the Cheon Clan’s surname.

Moreover, they were the same age and both had outstanding skills, so they often competed, and perhaps that was why they grew apart at some point.

Half-sisters.

But they were also the girls representing the Sa and Cheon Clans.

Therefore, it was natural for them to be so focused on ascension at a young age.

“Hoo…”

Horri gave a sly, fox-like smile as she looked at Cheonseon and Sacheon.

‘I can take responsibility for about two Lower Immortals with my power.’

If it was her misunderstanding, she could say she came out to broaden their horizons.

The entrance to the space between existence and non-existence wasn’t that dangerous.

Horri, having made up her mind, jumped up from the bath and shouted.

Splash!

“Let’s all go!”

Horri’s eyes sparkled like a beast that had found something exciting.

“If you go there and broaden your horizons, your blocked walls will be broken through!”

Swish.

Cheonseon and Sacheon, glaring at each other, nodded at the same time.

“Something about this doesn’t seem right…”

Sacheon scoffed as if she knew Cheonseon would hesitate.

“Hah, I knew it. You’re always so timid. Aunt, I like it, take me! I’ll definitely become an Upper Immortal before that one!”

“Th, that one!? Have you said everything you wanted to say?”

“You, who inherited Father’s surname and even received a Seon Mountain with your name on it, and still don’t think it’s a disgrace that you haven’t reached Upper Immortal! What else should I call you but that one? If it were me, I would have ascended to Upper Immortal long ago.”

Cheonseon’s eyes sharpened.

“Have you said everything you wanted to say?”

“Not yet?”

The atmosphere between the two fluctuated at Sacheon’s brazen attitude.

But only for a moment.

“It’s not something you should say, you who took Father’s Twin Blades and can’t even use them properly, is it?”

“Want to try it out? It’ll hurt quite a bit.”

The two, who had been glaring at each other silently for a long time, soon turned their gaze to Horri, who was putting on her palace dress.

“Wh, why?”

“I’ve changed my mind. I’ll go.”

“I wanted to go from the start. Unlike that one.”

Horri, rolling her eyes at the chilling atmosphere, soon raised the corners of her mouth and shrugged her shoulders.