Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 569

Nangseon’s Romantic Adventure – Extra Story 8

“So, you admit you fought, right?”

“No, I didn’t.”

It was obvious they had fought, but she resolutely denied it.

Ignoring Hori’s incredulous gaze, Yeon-ah focused on the shimmering in the air.

Soon, three figures appeared.

“Oh! You’ve arrived?”

Hori examined each of the children and then smiled contentedly at Cheonseon, who was holding the Azure Compass.

“That’s it, isn’t it?”

“Yes.”

As she handed the Azure Compass to Hori, a subtle wave swept over them.

“Oh ho. It’s indeed a magical artifact containing the essence of spatial laws. With this, we can safely pierce the void between existence and non-existence.”

“!”

However, Yeon-ah was startled by her murmur.

“Did you say the void between existence and non-existence? You’re going to such a dangerous place?”

And with the children?

“A fragrant celestial [a complimentary term for a beautiful woman] doesn’t need to know such things. If you want to cause trouble, go break through paper walls or something.”

“…Is that how it is?”

“What about me?”

“I may only be a fragrant celestial, but I know one thing.”

A sly smile spread across Hori’s lips.

“Heh, what is it? Have you come to realize my greatness once again?”

“I sense the energy of Grandmaster Wonseon approaching this place. And it’s coming very quickly.”

“…….”

Now that she mentioned it, it was true.

And quite a bit.

“Isn’t it a familiar energy? Even if it were someone else, I wouldn’t be able to mistake it, since I’ve known him since I guarded Mount Baek. You know what I mean, don’t you?”

“I don’t know…?”

She rolled her eyes and tried to avoid her gaze, but the approaching energy of Wonseon only grew stronger.

“The fact that the mistress is coming so urgently must mean she has a specific purpose.”

And what could that purpose be other than to stop Gwangmyeol Hosa from heading to the void between existence and non-existence with the children?

“Are you not just ‘light-crazed’ but completely insane?”

“Hey! How dare you speak so rashly!”

Yeon-ah then looked at the children and asked.

“The Great Master Cheonjeong knows everything and gave you the Azure Compass, right?”

“Yes, Mother. Father told me to go with him too…”

Yeon-ah’s energy suddenly turned fierce.

Subtle killing intent arose.

It was only for a moment, but the children who felt the killing intent all trembled.

“This man…”

It was then.

Poofaaaaaa!

A moment she didn’t miss.

Black smoke exploded in all directions.

“Ugh!”

“Kyahahaha! I’ll take your son!”

Her energy ensnared the children and soared into the sky.

“What are you doing! Cheongyeon-ah!!”

“M-Mother!!”

In the midst of the unexpected chaos, Sacheon and Cheonseon frowned with ambiguous expressions.

They looked pathetic, as if they didn’t understand what was happening.

“Gwangmyeol Hosa! Can you take responsibility for your actions right now!!”

“I’ve always taken responsibility for my actions!”

“I will beg the master for ten thousand years of seclusion!! Come back!!”

“If I were afraid of something like that, I wouldn’t have risen to this position!”

She was actually scared, but Yeon-ah probably wouldn’t go that far.

Cheonbeom couldn’t be that cruel either.

“And the fact that Cheongmyeong gave the Azure Compass means he’s following my will! You too, follow your husband’s will!!”

Kyahahahahaha!

It was a ‘whatever will be, will be’ attitude.

The water had already been spilled.

Spilling more wouldn’t make much of a difference.

“Mother!!”

“Cheongyeon-ah!!”

Swoosh.

Yeon-ah stared blankly at the sky as the children disappeared as if being sucked into the void.

Yeon-ah, who had been looking like a mother who had lost her son, was soon able to regain her senses.

It was because a streak of white light fell in front of her.

Rustle.

Snow-white hair.

The subtle scent of peach blossoms.

But a chilling cold that resonated through her bones.

It was Cho-ah.

“M-Mistress…”

“…I was a step late.”

“I have no excuse.”

Crunch.

As she stepped on the ground covered with thin ice, a silent wind spread like ripples.

Yeon-ah guessed that it was probably her divine sense spreading.

“You’ve lost your son too. You wouldn’t have allowed it, so the Great Master Cheonjeong must have told you to do so.”

“I am sorry to say that is the case….”

Cho-ah sighed.

“…If the Great Master Cheonjeong allowed it, there must be a reason. But I don’t like it. You probably don’t either.”

“Yes.”

“Great Master Cheonjeong! Come out here. How can you not even show your face when I’ve come to visit.”

It was then.

Whoosh.

A strange wind blew, and a man’s figure flickered like a mirage.

The absolute ruler of the Heavenly Palace.

“How could that be? Sister-in-law.”

It was the Great Master Cheonjeong, Cheongmyeong.

No matter how great he was, he couldn’t ignore Cho-ah’s visit, as she was the Heavenly Lord’s wife.

“Great Master Cheonjeong.”

“Speak.”

“Why did you send them? You know better than anyone else that the place she’s going is extremely dangerous.”

“That’s right.”

“But why did you send them?”

Cho-ah was extremely calm.

But the lack of emotional fluctuation made her even more terrifying.

Yeon-ah swallowed hard and looked back and forth between her husband and Cho-ah.

“Nothing will happen.”

“…You have confidence.”

The reason for that confidence wasn’t her.

Only then did Cho-ah calm her sharp energy.

“It is what that person wished for.”

At his answer, Cho-ah sighed deeply once more.

* * *

Somewhere in a deep valley.

“…Mother… *sniffle.*”

The child’s whimpering echoed softly.

“Ugh, so noisy! Stop sniveling before I kill you.”

“You’re too harsh! Shouldn’t a girl be more gentle and kind? Like that Cheonseon over there…”

He glanced timidly at Cheonseon, who was quietly meditating.

Sacheon, with a knowing smirk, aimed the Twin Annihilation [likely a weapon or technique] at him.

“I was born to serve the family. Gender means nothing to me. Mention women to me again, and I’ll kill you.”

“So brutal, I can’t say a word…”

But the crying stopped.

Cheongyeon grumbled and subtly moved closer to Cheonseon.

“Cheongyeon, understand. Sacheon is just like that.”

Cheongyeon cleared his throat at Cheonseon’s glare, warning him not to come any closer.

“By the way, how long do we have to stay like this?”

“I have no idea.”

The three gazes converged on one spot.

“Ugh…”

The one groaning was Gwangmyeol Hosa, Hori.

She had been wrestling with the Cheongnaban [a Dharma treasure, likely a compass or key] for quite some time, and the reason was none other than the unique nature of the Dharma treasure.

“Little Aunt, when are we leaving?”

“Gi, give me a minute! Cheongmyeong, that grimy bastard, why did he give me such a difficult Dharma treasure…?”

The Cheongnaban is both a compass pointing the way and a door.

However, to tear through space and open the door to the correct heavenly realm, the caster’s consciousness must be extremely strong.

“If the power of consciousness is weak…”

“Isn’t it just that Little Aunt can’t do it?”

Whack.

Hori threw the Cheongnaban at Sacheon.

“Try it yourself.”

Clank! Clank!

As he infused his consciousness, the Cheongnaban emitted mechanical sounds, and gears grew in the air, forming a door.

“What, it’s easy?”

He flung it open.

But what was visible through the opened door was a kaleidoscope of twists and turns.

A distortion of space where stepping in even one foot would cause everything to be twisted and torn apart in all directions.

Startled, Sacheon stepped back, and the Cheongnaban’s door slammed shut.

Gulp.

“That’s how it is.”

Tapping her head with her fingers, Hori picked up the Cheongnaban again.

“If the precision of consciousness is terrible, this is the kind of path that appears. Maybe, though I don’t know for sure, the only ones who can use this properly are Cheongmyeong, who is well-versed in the laws of space, and one other guy.”

“…You’re talking about Father, right?”

“Daeho doesn’t need this thing to open the passage between existence and non-existence, so there’s no need for it.”

“Then maybe Jeolmyeong…”

It was then.

“Uh oh!”

“Huh?”

Clank, clank!

The Cheongnaban, grown to a size incomparable to when Sacheon touched it, solidified into the shape of a door.

Cheongyeon stood before the Cheongnaban, which had become as massive as a door for a giant.

“Uh…”

“Get out of the way!”

Hori rushed over, panting, and examined the heavenly realm pierced by the Cheongnaban, her eyes widening like saucers.

“What! How did you do it!”

“I, I don’t really know either…?”

“Hmm… I see. So that’s why Cheongmyeong told you to bring him along. He gave you the key.”

Anyway, it’s good.

Creak.

The gate opens.

And what is visible is a strange mist and an eerily vast primordial energy.

They were strangely shaped insects that one would never see again in this world.

It was then.

Buzz.

“Ugh!”

“Gasp!”

“Whoa.”

Along with a strange spatial distortion, a force appeared, pulling them in.

Hori immediately protected the children with her energy.

Whoosh!

* * *

A pitch-black space.

The beings residing in this place, where only voices could be heard, revealed themselves.

Thud.

A heavy weight dispelled the darkness.

Multiple eyes and heads, glimpsed momentarily, looked down as if piercing through everything.

A being bowed its head to the monster with the eyes of a predator.

“Greetings, Gu Yeong-nim [likely a title or name of a powerful being].”

Thud!

[To summon me to such a cramped place, do you truly wish to die?]

Gu Yeong, flapping its wings as if revealing its displeasure, clearly showed what a Great Calamity [a being of immense power and destruction] was.

Even the most renowned powerhouses in the Upper Realm [a higher plane of existence] would not be able to withstand a few exchanges before him, withering like a lamp before the wind.

“Please, quell your anger. If we are not to be discovered by Him, hiding within chaos is the only way.”

[Hmph, the Heavenly Lords [powerful rulers or deities] of the Upper Realm are reduced to hiding like rats. How amusing.]

The Heavenly Lords residing in the chaos had their moods soured by Gu Yeong’s mockery.

There were only about ten of them gathered here.

All of them were Heavenly Lords who had ruled over one or multiple heavens.

“But is that not the same for Gu Yeong-nim as well?”

[What did you say?]

“I heard that you rejected His proposal. Since then, rumors have been circulating that Gu Yeong-nim has also been avoiding Him.”

[Do you believe such… nonsense?]

“It is understandable. He is a tyrant who has already conquered dozens of heavens. The magnitude of his power rivals Gu Yeong-nim among the Great Calamities existing in the realm between existence and non-existence…”

Kwaaaang!!

[Nonsense!!]

“If that is not the case, you should accept our proposal.”

“He is a rebel against the heavens. A Great Calamity who seeks to devour the Upper Realm without ascending to the Great Liberation Heaven [the highest plane of existence] himself!”

“His goal is probably…”

The Great Liberation Heaven.

[To become the master of the Great Liberation Heaven.]

It cannot but be an arrogant intention.

However.

The act of doing something to realize the impossible has come to this.

“Whatever His end may be, it is we who are suffering now…”

“We must devise a plan.”

The Heavenly Lords’ gazes are fixed on Gu Yeong.

“If we can make this work…”

“We will submit a memorial to the Great Liberation Heaven to reduce Gu Yeong-nim’s sins!”

Gu Yeong’s sin of being trapped in the realm between existence and non-existence.