Absolute Sword Sense Chapter 301

<Episode 98: To the Martial Arts Federation (3)>

I think this woman misunderstood something.

I thought I was wanted.

So I tried to snap at Seolbaek to tell him not to make a mistake about this.

-Do you really need to explain it that way? Human. Why don't you just do what you do best?

The voice of the Blood Demon Sword rang in my head.

What I do best?

-Isn't the goal to get you to spit out information anyway?

Yeah, that's true.

-Then, wouldn't it be okay to just let them match the rhythm and spit out the information and process it?

I groaned inwardly at those words from the Blood Demon Sword.

Adjusting the rhythm appropriately means adjusting it to the way the snow white in front of you wants.

'hmm.'

I stared at her intently and made up my mind.

Seolbaek was one of the three confidants of Geumsangje.

If she were to open up about his whereabouts and goals, she might achieve results that are incomparable to anything she's done before.

Because of that guy, we've made countless sacrifices so far.

Now it was time to break that vicious cycle.

'…….I'm sorry, but I'm not in a position to choose between means and methods.'

We have to find out, even if it means using our emotions.

I said with a slight smile to Seolbaek, who was looking at me with an expectant face.

“Why do you think I would want that?”

It's more like giving them some leeway rather than just saying what they want right away.

Seolbaek answered my question seriously.

“None of those who have come into contact with me have been able to withstand the touch of me. Not even Kang Lang.”

Are you talking about that lover, Cheon In-jang?

Seolbaek said it with his own mouth at that time.

It is said that anyone who touched her skin felt pain because she had a body of a thousand voices.

Could it be that you haven't had a proper relationship with anyone until now?

A question arose.

Then she said with a slightly blushing face.

“Even that great man of martial arts couldn’t lay a hand on me, but you were different. I couldn’t forget that sensation I felt for the first time even after three hundred years.”

For a moment, I got goosebumps.

Over three hundred years, emotional changes were bound to occur.

After going through so many things, my emotions would have diluted, but it was creepy that I still hadn't forgotten it.

-…….That's amazing.

Even the Blood Demon Sword was amazed.

But there was one thing I didn't understand about this either.

I guess I'll have to ask him directly.

“Seolbaek, the master you serve must have resented me his entire life?”

-I see.

Even though he was unconscious at the time and did not see the Emperor Geumsang being humiliated, if he had heard about what happened at the time and witnessed the Emperor Geumsang's resentment from the side, he would not have felt this way.

Wasn't it almost three hundred years?

Maybe she's deliberately deceiving me.

To escape this moment.

But when I said this, Seolbaek became serious and said:

“What does his resentment have to do with me?”

'!?'

What the hell is this argument?

Rather, I try not to understand.

“……Doesn’t it matter to you that I am your lord?”

At those words, Seolbaek smiled at me and said nonchalantly.

“Do you know why I stayed by his side as a solitary confidant for three hundred years?”

“I don’t know.”

If I knew that, I would have been a fortune teller.

At my words, Seolbaek glanced at the sword aimed at his neck and said.

“I surrender, so put this sword away.”

I said with a frown.

“That seems difficult. The wounds on your body have already healed. I won’t let you try to escape.”

“Run away? Why me?”

"why?"

“You have no idea how long I have waited for this moment. Why do you think I, a virgin, have spent nearly three hundred years in solitary confinement? It is because I believed that if I stayed by his side, I would definitely be able to meet you, the descendant of the Swordsman.”

For a moment, my spine ached at Seolbaek's words.

According to her words, it seems like she thought that working by Geum Sang-je's side would be an opportunity for her to meet me.

I couldn't understand how they had been doing that for three hundred years.

By then it would have been faster to find someone new.

Moreover, you probably didn't even know my real face, so when you say something like that, it makes me feel like it's less realistic and I can't believe it.

“…….I’m sorry, but I can’t trust you.”

“Trust……”

At those words, she finally spoke as if she had decided on something.

“Okay. Then I’ll stop working for him.”

"what?"

I spoke so readily that it was difficult to even show my feelings.

It is too easy to say that you will stop working for your lord whom you have served for three hundred years.

I said, raising my voice at the tip of my sword.

“Do you think I would believe that?”

“Anyway, the reason I worked by his side was to rebuild the Bukhae Ice Palace.”

“Reconstruction of the North Sea Ice Palace?”

Come to think of it, the Bukhae Ice Palace does not exist in the current martial arts world.

Why are you talking about reconstruction when she, who came from the North Sea Ice Palace, is right here in front of you?

She said this as if to clear up my doubts.

“I am the last survivor of the Northern Ice Palace. If I don’t rebuild it, the Northern Ice Palace will disappear into the back of history.”

“…….I don’t understand. Then why haven’t you rebuilt it yet? If the Golden Emperor had the resources, rebuilding a sect wouldn’t have been difficult.”

“If the blood of the Seol family is not continued, it cannot be called a proper reconstruction.”

The Pyrrha of the Snow House.

Is it centered around blood ties, like a blood relationship?

Actually, most sects and families other than Taoist ones have been passed down that way.

“If reconstruction was that important, why don’t you just give up the negative energy and have children?”

I think it's possible if you just give up that enormous amount of negative energy in your body.

But she didn't give up on it.

Seolbaek said with a laugh.

“The Bingbaek Shingong of this palace has been passed down for a long time, and from my great-grandfather’s generation, all of his descendants were born with innate Cheon-eum-ji-che.”

“Then why don’t we just connect with the Heavenly Sound Body?”

“……That is what led to the destruction of this palace.”

"meter?"

“No matter how much you learn the Ice Baek Shin Gong, men have a strong yang constitution, and since they are born with innate yin energy, there is no way they can withstand it.”

“Does that mean they all died because they couldn’t endure the negative energy?”

“Yes. All the men born in the Ice Palace could not survive for five years. They were all eaten by the Heavenly Sound and died. As a result, the lineage of descendants naturally ended, and in the end, only I remained.”

According to her words, it could be said that the Bukhae Ice Palace had met with a tragedy.

The body of perfected yin energy, including the martial arts, cut off their pulse.

She continued speaking to me, who was sticking out her tongue.

“It was thanks to Kangrang’s natural constitution that he was able to endure me for a little while, but at best, it was only for a short while.”

“There must have been a lot of experts around you?”

For example, masters who have overcome walls would have stronger yang energy than ordinary people.

She snorted at my question and said:

“What do you want me to do when everything will die if I just touch it with my fingertips?”

“Coolook.”

If I had water in my mouth at that moment, I would have spit it out.

Just that one word made me feel how pessimistic she was about her situation.

In the end, she tried to build relationships with many men in her own way, but nothing worked.

-What a pitiful human woman. Just take her in.

……What do you want me to harvest?

You don't take someone in with that kind of pity.

And if they've lived for over three hundred years, aren't they almost like our ancestors?

-That face and that body look like my ancestors.

After undergoing the Golden Resurrection treatment, she stopped aging.

So, if you just look at his appearance, he looks like he's in his mid-twenties at most.

Moreover, just looking at the flesh exposed by the sword cut, you can see that it is full of elasticity.

She was beautiful, but if that was all it took to attract someone, she would have attracted countless women in the past.

-You've probably gotten that gold medal procedure or something, so even if it doesn't give you immortality, it's obvious you'll live a long life. Does age matter?

'………'

This guy suddenly got more insightful.

To think of something like that.

-Well, anyway, the decision is yours, human. So what are you going to do?

I'll do it as originally planned.

Although she had her own circumstances, finding out the whereabouts of Geum Sang-je was a greater priority.

The good thing is that she has a strong obsession with me.

Looking at the fact that he said he would leave Geumsangje's side right away, it seems like he could open his mouth if he was just coaxed well.

“If you are really going to leave the Golden Emperor, you need to trust his words.”

"faith?"

“Okay. Tell me about the material related to the gold medal.”

At my words, Seolbaek raised one eyebrow and made a sullen expression.

She told me.

“Don’t you think I’m such an idiot?”

“……..”

“How many men do you think I’ve seen in my time?”

How would I know that?

When I didn't answer, she said,

“Men are a species that easily throws away anything once they have satisfied their desire for something they want.”

I felt a pang inside for a moment.

I was just trying to get information, but I think he noticed it.

At first, I answered without showing it.

“You’re generalizing too much.”

“Even if it’s not a generalization, I need assurance too.”

I think I took this woman too lightly.

I tried to use my emotions, but I still retained some level of reason and insight.

Or should I try to stimulate her affection once again with the determination of the chief of the Hyanghwa Yeolrak Palace?

That's when she said.

“I’m abandoning someone who has served me for three hundred years, so wouldn’t it be fair for me to at least get what I want?”

………shit.

What you want is so obvious.

It's so embarrassing to see her flushed face and tongue licking out.

-It's strange that only these types of women linger around you, human.

That's what I want to say.

Did I commit some sin in my past life?

I couldn't give her what she wanted first – information about the gold medal.

I said coolly.

“Information comes first.”

“There is plenty of information that you, the descendant of the Sword Master, might be interested in. For example, the location of the Mansashinui that the Blood Cult is so desperately seeking.”

“Mansasin!”

At those words, I found myself showing interest without realizing it.

But then I regained my senses.

My head was spinning.

How do you know where Mansasin's whereabouts are?

If the Golden Emperor knew of his whereabouts, he would be able to detoxify the magic poison and there was no way he would just leave the Mansashinui who was interfering with it alone.

“It would be better to tell me how to detoxify the magic poison than to tell me the location of the god of all things.”

“There is no antidote to the poison of the devil.”

"what?"

“In the first place, he had asked the Blood Lord for an indecipherable poison, and it was a poison that was perfected after twenty years.”

A poison with no antidote.

That can't be true.

I know the principles of yin and yang, having learned them from Master Cho.

In everything in the world, there is both opposition and balance.

Seolbaek said with a smile.

“If the Blood Lord were alive, he could have made an antidote. But now that he is no longer in this world, the only one who can make an antidote is Mansasin.”

They come in by poking at our weak points.

But it is not without its flaws.

“If you say you know the location of Mansasinui, it means that Geumsangje also knows the location, but he has not been able to obtain it.”

Seolbaek nodded his head and did not deny my words.

"that's right."

“Then it would be one of two things. Either the information regarding the material is uncertain, or the Mansashin is in a place that even the Geumsangje or the organization has difficulty touching.”

Seolbaek stuck out his tongue at these words.

“Your mind is as sharp as your sword. I want to have your seed even more as a descendant of the Sword Master.”

“……..”

It's scary. It's scary.

“I could be a woman, and you would say something like that?”

Seolbaek's eyes widened at my words.

The expression on her face was like, "Is that really a woman?"

But soon he denied it himself.

“That can’t be. At that time, with these hands, I personally…..”

“Ahem.”

This woman, like Baek Hye-hyang, really speaks without hesitation.

Anyway, this woman knows not only the material for the gold medal but also the material for the Mansashinui.

There was so much information to be found out that it was a shame to just not answer.

Seolbaek glanced at me and said, coughing in vain.

“Liar. You’re leaving me alone.”

Even so, he looks quite relieved.

Then Seolbaek said to me.

“You really don’t trust me.”

“I understand the circumstances, but I don’t think three hundred years of loyalty would be broken so easily.”

Seolbaek licked his lips at my words.

Then, soon, he pulled his lips away again.

“You really are the type of person who doesn’t suffer losses.”

I know that well.

He figured me out pretty quickly.

“Okay. Then I’d better gain your trust.”

“How do you gain trust?”

At my question, she took a deep breath and opened her mouth.

“Mansasinui is currently somewhere in the palace of Gaebong, and Noejang is moving Yeongwang to find its location. And with the death of the blood lord, the poison for the Great Plan is running low, so they are targeting Dang Woojung, the secondary lord of the Sacheondang family, to find a replacement to make it.”

Suddenly she started spouting out some amazing information.

And that wasn't the end of it.

“The commander-in-chief of the Martial Arts Federation, Bang Deok-hyeon, is his right-hand man and his brain. In addition to him, there are many of his people within the Martial Arts Federation. If you want, I can give you a list of them.”

"under……"

“He is currently trying to bring back the former leader of the Muhan Jeilgeom, Baek Mok-hyang, as the next leader of the Martial Arts Federation.”

I didn't expect it to be this bad.

But you taught me all this important information.

Seol Baek, who had revealed these secrets, licked the sword pointed at his neck with his tongue as if trying to seduce him and spoke.

“Isn’t this enough to be trusted?”

ⓒ Hanjungwolya