Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 207

The Three Kings’ Disciple (208)

207

“-It’s a way to pass through the prohibition.”

There are prohibitions within the lawless zone.

You might think a place called the lawless zone would have few rules, but these prohibitions weren’t set by anyone in particular.

It was simply that.

“It’s prohibited because no one has ever returned alive.”

Viper said, unable to hide his tension.

He could feel it too.

Whoosh.

The ominous energy unfolded before him.

“Countless people have challenged the prohibition. They were all fools who overestimated their abilities, but some were truly powerful.”

Martial artists risk their lives for rare opportunities.

Things that shouldn’t be done, things that are forbidden.

They seek to elevate their own realm by finding immense luck within those things.

It’s like the psychology of people who risk their lives to buy a lottery ticket.

Such greed is more prevalent among those who are moderately strong.

Those who have reached a realm beyond imagination don’t harbor vain hopes, but those who are moderate expect hope and luck.

Or.

‘A spirit of challenge.’

There are also those who simply want to prove themselves.

But the result was the same for everyone.

“No one has ever returned alive.”

No.

“There hasn’t been anyone who has returned at all.”

Those who stepped into the prohibition have never returned.

Therefore, it’s impossible to even imagine what’s there.

Naturally, that place became a forbidden area, a sanctuary, and even the unrestrained individuals of the lawless zone didn’t step foot there.

It was even more so for the kings of the lawless zone, who didn’t venture out except for their own territories.

“For now, the only way to pass through is this way.”

Viper said, looking at Lee Rowan.

The choice was Lee Rowan’s.

‘But if it’s this person…’

However, Viper felt that Lee Rowan would conquer the prohibition of the lawless zone that no one had ever conquered.

“It doesn’t seem much different from the other side, but…”

Lee Rowan’s eyes scanned through the hazy fog.

“Still, this side seems to be calling me more strongly.”

“What do you mean…”

Viper looked puzzled.

Whoosh.

But Lee Rowan was clearly feeling it.

If the magic barrier that had been erected was full of hostility.

The voice calling him from the prohibition in front of him was.

‘Desperation.’

And it was close to a plea.

Both seemed dangerous, but the decision was quick.

Thud.

Lee Rowan began to walk into the fog.

***

Hazy fog.

Sizzle.

The skin all over his body burned and emitted smoke.

But that was only for a moment.

“………”

The smoke could no longer harm Lee Rowan.

For Lee Rowan, who had reached the pinnacle of the Invulnerable to All Poisons, Blood Demon Divine Art [a martial art focused on blood and demonic energy], no poison could work.

If he was once affected by a poison, the Blood Demon Divine Art and Heavenly Demon Divine Art [a martial art focused on heavenly and demonic energy] would quickly create resistance to counter it.

Of course.

“Ugh, ugh.”

Viper’s situation was different from Lee Rowan’s.

He was in agony in the midst of the terrible poisonous smoke, his face contorted.

“Circulate your Qi [internal energy].”

Lee Rowan advised.

Circulating Qi is what martial artists do to build up their inner energy or to recover.

It requires sitting in a lotus position and concentrating.

However, when that level is elevated.

“Your inner energy will move naturally.”

It becomes possible to circulate Qi even while moving.

That was circulating Qi while moving.

Of course, it wasn’t an easy task, but it was something that Viper could do at his level.

Originally, if one were to circulate Qi in poisonous smoke, the poison could penetrate faster.

“Ugh!”

But Viper had inner energy within him.

Inner energy mixed with Blood Demon Qi and Heavenly Demon Qi.

“Haa. Haa….”

Viper’s complexion gradually began to improve.

His skin was no longer melting, and the skin that had melted was regenerating.

“……!”

Viper seemed surprised as well.

As his level increased, he developed resistance to poison, but not to this extent.

“At this rate, I think I’m close to being immune to all poisons.”

Viper said, satisfied, looking at Lee Rowan.

“This poison is…”

Viper, looking at Lee Rowan who was moving ahead, identified the nature of the poisonous smoke.

“It seems to be radiation.”

Not a poisonous smoke that someone had spread.

“I’ve heard of it. Before the lawless zone was formed, there was a massive nuclear power plant explosion.”

That was why.

“At that time, that area became a barren land where people couldn’t live, and access was prohibited. After that, this land, which had no interference, became the lawless zone.”

The reason why the lawless zone was created.

It was the story that the lawless zone wasn’t created and then the prohibition was created, but that the prohibition was created and then the lawless zone was born.

It seemed like the radiation alone was enough to understand why it was prohibited, but.

“There seems to be something more.”

Radiation wasn’t a great threat to masters who had reached a certain level.

If they surrounded themselves with Qi, they could sufficiently avoid the effects of radiation.

Then, there was something more here.

Just then.

Twitch.

Lee Rowan and Viper both stopped together.

“Ugh.”

Viper’s small groan.

“My feet…”

His body wouldn’t move.

“If you fall, don’t do anything and stay where you are.”

Lee Rowan said.

“Yes?”

“Surround your whole body with Qi, and prepare to survive in that state for a few days.”

“……!”

Lee Rowan’s words had never been wrong.

Viper, realizing the seriousness of the situation, quickly deployed his Qi barrier at that moment.

Whoosh!

Darkness filled his vision as if the world had been extinguished at once.

First was sight, then smell, then hearing.

Beeeep-!

The senses began to be numbed one by one, and eventually even the sense of touch disappeared.

Lee Rowan’s languid eyes became drowsy and slightly distorted.

‘It’s not a very good feeling.’

Lee Rowan, who didn’t feel much agitation in anything, was different now.

It was the time of training that Lee Rowan hated the most.

And.

Whoooom.

It was a similar feeling to the place where he had spent countless hours.

A feeling of floating, submerged in an immeasurably deep sea.

In that distant and terrible feeling.

Fwoooosh!

Lee Rowan began to release his energy.

At first, all his senses disappeared, and he felt nothing.

But soon after.

Swish.

Everything began to return in reverse order.

Touch, hearing, smell.

And.

Fwoooosh-!

Sight.

Lee Rowan’s released energy pushed everything away without restraint.

Swoosh.

Lee Rowan slowly gathered the energy he had drawn out.

Before his eyes was a snowfield that could not be described as large.

He reached out his hand, made a fist, and checked the flow of the air.

‘It’s different.’

It was different from the lawless zone, different from the energy of the prohibition.

No, it wasn’t the flow of this world.

“I see how it happened.”

Just as Lee Rowan was muttering that.

-Not yet.

A voice flowed directly into Lee Rowan’s mind.

-I hope you can endure it.

* * *

Even though he had regained his senses, Lee Rowan’s body was still standing there as if nailed to the spot.

Viper was nowhere to be seen, and all he could see was a snowfield.

Whoooosh!

The wind that cut through the skin blew.

Even though Lee Rowan was immune to heat and cold, and neither cold nor heat could affect him.

Shiver.

Lee Rowan’s body was trembling from the cold.

It was a cold as if he had thrown himself naked into the north wind.

As mentioned, Lee Rowan was immune to heat and cold.

If there was a cold that could affect such a Lee Rowan.

‘Mental.’

It was clear that it was a cold that went beyond the limits and affected the mind.

His whole body was frozen.

Not from the outside, but from the inside.

‘I see why it’s called a prohibition.’

This wasn’t a level that humans could endure.

If you break through the radiation, an area of numbness arrives, and if you arrive there, there’s an unavoidable cold.

‘There’s no way to return alive.’

This was the worst condition that could break even a martial artist of the Life and Death Realm [a high level of martial arts mastery].

Finally, Lee Rowan, who had begun to freeze from the inside.

Swoosh.

He turned completely white and couldn’t even blink.

Crunch, crunch.

The sound of stepping on the pure white snow echoed from somewhere.

A single dot visible in the distance in the pure white snowfield.

Crunch, crunch.

It was gradually approaching Lee Rowan and growing in size.

Crunch.

The shadow that finally stood before Lee Rowan wasn’t as large as he had thought.

A small height that came up to about half of Lee Rowan’s.

“In the end…”

A girl with pure white silver hair flowing down to her heels.

“You couldn’t endure it either.”

She was a mysterious girl with her face half-covered by her long hair.

“You were the only one who had disrupted his plans so far, but in the end…”

Tear.

A drop of water flowed down her cheek.

Thud.

It turned into an icicle and plunged into the ground.

“In the end, you can’t save me, us either.”

She lifted her heels with a voice of regret and stroked Lee Rowan’s face.

There are three things that must be observed in the lawless zone.

-Don’t go into the prohibition.

What Baek Cheong had said.

No one who has entered the prohibition of the lawless zone has ever returned alive.

-Don’t touch the silver hair.

Also, be careful when you see someone with rare silver hair.

They are.

-Don’t touch the children.

One of the most famous and established rulers in this lawless zone.

“Ice Monarch.”

Because she was of the Ice Monarch’s bloodline.

The girl shuddered at the voice that came from Lee Rowan’s mouth.

Crack!

The sound coming from Lee Rowan’s body.

“Are you of the Ice Monarch’s bloodline?”

Lee Rowan’s frozen mouth.

“Or.”

Lee Rowan’s eyes moved.

Lee Rowan’s body, which had been looking at the girl while standing still, began to regain its color.

This cold was unavoidable.

A cold that froze the mind itself, a cold that could never be dealt with by the strength of the body.

Also, it was a cold that couldn’t be endured no matter how strong one’s mental strength was.

“Are you the Ice Monarch?”

Lee Rowan was already standing straight and looking down at the girl.

‘This kind of cold.’

No matter how special the cold was, it couldn’t be compared to the time he had spent in chaos.

Because he knew then that there was something that hadn’t become dull.

“How…”

The girl was trembling.

“Aren’t you standing here perfectly fine?”

“…….”

“Why do you think I can’t do it?”

At Lee Rowan’s words, the girl slowly stopped trembling.

“Did you call me?”

Viper wasn’t around.

Probably.

‘He couldn’t have come this far.’

It was clear that the girl in front of him had been considerate.

So, the girl had only called him.

“What are you?”

She asked.

“Why are you asking me that? You’re the one who found me.”

Since it wasn’t wrong, the girl paused for a moment.

And.

“You are…”

The girl said.

“Can you save us?”

The energy felt from the girl in front of him was extraordinary.

‘Namgung Cheon [a powerful martial artist].’

No, even more than that.

It was this girl who had power beyond that of a martial artist of the Life and Death Realm.

It was clear that this girl was the Ice Monarch, one of the true rulers of the lawless zone.

And yet, she was.

“Save us?”

She was begging him to save her life.

“Satya. Can you save us from her?”

Satya.

It was the moment when things finally started to make sense.

“So that’s the demon you contracted with.”

The Ice Monarch, she was a contractor of a demon.