Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 394

Rumors about Mount Hua and Eunha are spreading rapidly.

Upon hearing the report, Lee Yongjin scoffed as if he found it absurd.

“What rumors?”

Rumors were words that circulated among people without being confirmed.

“How can this be a rumor? It’s the truth.”

Eunha attacked Mount Hua.

Eunha attacked Mount Hua’s corpse disposal site, overwhelmed Mount Hua, and neutralized their corpse disposal site.

This was not a rumor but the truth, and there was plenty of evidence to support it.

The operation of Mount Hua’s corpse disposal site had already stopped.

The prisoners who had been doing forced labor were gone, and the facilities were destroyed.

Even if it were to be reactivated, it would take time.

“It just shows how significant Mount Hua’s position still is.”

Hase Min, who had delivered the report, said to Lee Yongjin.

“If it were an easy fortress to crumble with just one attack, we wouldn’t have been fighting all this time.”

Mount Hua, that great name.

“Still, it’s the beginning of a crack in Mount Hua’s reputation, which was as solid as ten thousand years of iron….”

The wall of ten thousand years of iron that he had seen at Mount Hua’s corpse disposal site.

Lee Ro-woon had swung his sword, creating a crack, and that crack had finally broken the wall.

It would be the same.

Crash!

That small crack would bring everything down.

“What about that?” Lee Yongjin asked.

It was then.

Knock knock.

At the sound of knocking, Lee Ro-woon gestured with his eyes.

The door slowly opened.

“…….”

A middle-aged man entered with a heavy atmosphere.

“Welcome.” Lee Ro-woon, who had been listening to the report, said to him in a relaxed manner.

“I apologize for the late greeting.”

A heavy and serious tone.

Thud!

He clasped his fist in greeting and said,

“I am Taecheon.”

He was none other than Taecheon, the Plum Blossom Sword Master, a former candidate for the Plum Blossom Divine Sword [a prestigious title within Mount Hua], another ghost of Mount Hua rescued from Mount Hua’s corpse disposal site.

He had received the Blood Return Pill through Lee Yongjin, but he had never met Lee Ro-woon.

He had only seen him briefly when escaping Mount Hua’s corpse disposal site.

“I will not forget this grace.”

At his words, Lee Ro-woon nodded.

“Your body seems to have recovered quite a bit.”

He had heard about Taecheon from Lee Yongjin.

His appearance was said to have been truly terrible.

Before receiving the Blood Return Pill, the place where he was found was said to be a mountain of corpses in the deepest underground of the Abyss.

It was a different path from where Lee Ro-woon had found the corpse of the Four-Headed Dragon in the past, or where he had aimed to find the ghost of Mount Hua this time.

They had found Taecheon’s traces in that place, which was less toxic but deeper, and discovered him.

“Thanks to you.”

He had been a corpse.

His whole body was emaciated, and all the muscles in his limbs were cut, making it impossible for him to even move properly.

He had been barely clinging to life, as if he would die at any moment.

After years of effort, he had barely managed to move one leg and one arm, but there were clear limitations, and there he was.

‘He survived with the help of the prisoners.’

The reason why the rumor of the ghost of Mount Hua spread was thanks to some prisoners who had survived with the help of the ghost of Mount Hua.

The ghost that Old Man Guigap had seen was the trace of another ghost, but the ghost that those who had almost died in the Abyss had seen was mostly Taecheon.

And those who had survived were secretly helping Taecheon.

Thanks to that, Lee Yongjin was able to find Taecheon.

Of course, that alone was not enough.

Even if the prisoners, who had difficulty taking care of their own lives, gave up their share, it would not have been enough to save Taecheon.

“How did you survive?” Lee Ro-woon asked.

Taecheon replied, “There were helpers.”

“Helpers.”

He was not talking about the prisoners of Mount Hua.

“They were grateful children who occasionally came to me and told me about food and news from the outside.”

“The disciples of Mount Hua.”

“…That’s right.”

Taecheon, who had been an elder of Mount Hua.

It meant that there was a force secretly helping him.

Nod.

Hase Min nodded to Lee Ro-woon.

“This is good news. Not only can we destroy Mount Hua from the outside…”

One of the reasons for saving Taecheon.

“It means we can destroy it from the inside.”

Even the most solid-looking castle has holes.

Taecheon was that hole.

“Let’s talk about the details later.”

Lee Ro-woon said as he got up.

“Let’s get to the main point.”

One of the purposes of saving Taecheon was to destroy Mount Hua from the inside.

And another.

“The ghost of Mount Hua.”

Taecheon, who had been the ghost of Mount Hua, and the ghost before him.

Perhaps the purpose for which the corpse disposal site was built, and the biggest secret that Mount Hua wanted to hide.

About what that secret was.

“What is its identity?”

The identity of the strange man hidden within the wall of ten thousand years of iron.

“He is….”

Taecheon finally opened his mouth.

“It is Jegal Shinjae.”

Jegal Shinjae.

“……!”

At that name, Hase Min’s eyes widened as if they would tear.

* * *

-It is Jegal Shinjae.

Jegal Shinjae.

As soon as he heard the name, Hase Min moved.

-He is….

He seemed to know something about the name already.

Hase Min left for a moment, saying he would find more information.

It wasn’t needed right away anyway.

“His condition is serious.”

The secret of Mount Hua, Jegal Shinjae, whose breath had been cut off.

He had completely cut off his breath at the end, when he had gone mad.

He was needed to find out the secret of Mount Hua, but it was impossible to bring him back alive in that situation, and Jegal Shinjae in that state was virtually useless.

‘His body is already close to a corpse.’

It was a miracle that Jegal Shinjae’s body had moved.

‘Moreover, evil energy and poison have permeated his mind.’

He was in a state where proper thinking and judgment were impossible.

Above all.

‘His soul is shattered.’

Jegal Shinjae’s soul was shattered.

Even if he were alive, it was not something that could be easily treated.

Even the Soul Spirit Master had not erased one of his personalities because of his shattered soul.

That’s why he had cut off his breath.

“Is it possible?” Lee Yongjin asked.

“It is possible,” Lee Ro-woon replied.

Lee Ro-woon’s original purpose for using Jegal Shinjae.

To revive him as an undead and learn the truth through his mouth.

Since it was impossible to read his memories due to his shattered soul, the first priority was to reassemble his soul.

And there was a reason why it was possible.

“Possible? Why are you deciding that…!”

Lee San-hoo.

The Soul Spirit Master was here.

Swoosh.

Lee Ro-woon looked at Lee San-hoo, who was looking down at Jegal Shinjae’s corpse.

“It has to be possible. How much time have I given you?”

“That’s…!”

In the meantime, Lee San-hoo had been struggling to realize the memories and power of the Soul Spirit Master.

Eunha and the Blood Cult had spared no support for him.

“Hoo, but I’ve managed to grasp a clue, you could say.”

Lee San-hoo had finally succeeded in grasping some clues.

Whirr.

Lee San-hoo’s eyes changed.

A murky gray-white, but the inside was swirling with something, making it look deep.

The atmosphere changed.

The aura changed.

At this moment.

“Let’s examine it.”

Lee San-hoo had succeeded in drawing out a part of what he had been as the Soul Spirit Master.

Lee San-hoo’s hand, which was touching Jegal Shinjae’s corpse.

A gray-white energy rippled in his palm and seeped into Jegal Shinjae.

And the moment that followed.

“Cough!”

Lee San-hoo spat out a mouthful of blood and stepped back.

“Are you alright?” Lee Yongjin quickly supported him.

“Haa. Haa.”

With rough breaths, Lee San-hoo’s eyes returned to normal.

“Cra….”

A quiet voice echoed.

“You crazy bastard! How am I supposed to do this!” Lee San-hoo shouted at Lee Ro-woon.

“What did you see?” Lee Ro-woon asked him.

“A soul that’s been hacked to pieces, it’s horrific.”

“…….”

“Someone already hacked his soul once. Probably a seal.”

Lee San-hoo said as he barely straightened his body.

“More than that, he split his own soul.”

“His soul?”

Dealing with the soul was never an easy task.

Either someone with a special ability like the Soul Spirit Master, or someone who had mastered necromancy to the extreme.

Or.

‘Someone who has reached the realm of transcendence.’

Even if one had transcended, dealing with the soul was only possible with another special realization.

“Jegal Shinjae.”

He had already felt it when he clashed with him as a monster, but he was definitely an unusual person.

“So, is it possible?”

“It seems possible… but not now.”

It was still a positive answer.

“It’s impossible right now.”

It was a story that it was impossible with the power of the Soul Spirit Master that he had awakened so far.

“Make it possible.”

But Lee Ro-woon was firm.

“There’s no reason or intention to delay any longer.”

Eunha had already attacked Mount Hua.

War.

It was a situation where the beacon signaling its start had been raised.

Because of the power Lee Ro-woon possessed, Mount Hua would not move easily, but there was no reason for them to wait forever.

What Lee Ro-woon wanted was the complete downfall of Mount Hua, and for that, there was a reason to hurry.

“But….”

The Soul Spirit Master was about to say that there was no way.

“There was a reason why you awakened even a part of the Soul Spirit Master’s power.”

The decisive reason why Lee San-hoo had awakened the power of the Soul Spirit Master.

It was said that it had started when someone he was close to in Eunha had suffered a fatal injury during a gate raid and was on the verge of death, and he had started with the desire to heal him.

“Stimulation, and a limit.”

Lee Ro-woon was someone who had seen and stepped on the end.

“That will be the key.”

He had given him time until now.

Swoosh.

He wouldn’t give him any more.

“You said you’ve grasped a clue about resurrection, right?”

“……!”

* * *

What Lee Ro-woon had been waiting for was the resurrection ability that the Soul Spirit Master possessed.

To revive the dead.

If one were to think of reviving them as undead, there would be quite a few people who could do it.

However, the resurrection that the Soul Spirit Master possessed was different from that, it was closer to restoration.

Such an ability was close to the power possessed by a few people in this rapidly changing world.

Even Lee Ro-woon could not perfectly imitate it.

And Lee San-hoo had grasped the clue while awakening the power of the Soul Spirit Master.

If so.

“It will be possible.”

Lee Ro-woon said.

“Above all, there’s no time.”

Mount Hua.

And the Assembly [likely a governing body or alliance].

Their response would begin.

It wasn’t that he was afraid of it, but the damage that would occur in the meantime would be great.

But there was a reason why Lee Ro-woon was in such a hurry.

“Is it because of the soul of the man named Jegal Shinjae?”

Jegal Shinjae, who knew the secret of Mount Hua.

His shattered soul was constantly scattering.

As long as the pieces remained, Lee San-hoo could piece them together even after a long time.

But a shattered soul gradually loses its power and disappears.

And one of those shattered pieces.

‘It could be the secret of Mount Hua.’

Not being able to find out the secret of Mount Hua, which he had worked so hard to obtain, even after time had passed.

That was something that could not happen.

So.

“That’s right. And you can do it.”

He had to hurry.

“How can you be so sure?” Lee San-hoo asked.

“I can see it,” Lee Ro-woon replied.

At Lee Ro-woon’s answer, Lee San-hoo turned his head.

In front of him.

“…….”

He could see countless corpses.

Frozen and well-preserved corpses.

The Tang Family.

And.

“Kang Eunha.”

It was Kang Eunha’s corpse.