CLS-Chapter 621

Chapter 621:

“Is that even possible?”

“……What wouldn’t be possible about it?”

“No, but still…….”

“Haven’t I already mentioned this several times? Wei Yan-ho can absorb others’ internal energy, I tell you.”

“Of course, but…….”

The Historian could only nod his head. This wasn’t the first time such a thing had happened. It had already been mentioned when saving the Forest King and when treating the Dang Family members at the Dang residence.

But…….

“You’re saying it’s possible on such a large scale?”

“If one is possible, there’s no reason many wouldn’t be.”

“No, it’s easy to say but…….”

The Historian’s face went blank.

Right now, Divine Beggar was saying something that made no sense.

‘The human body isn’t like that.’

How was this different from saying that because a person can drink one cup of wine, they can pour all the wine from a large jar into their stomach?

Humans can’t do that.

Seeing the Historian’s blank expression, Divine Beggar chuckled.

“Don’t you understand?”

“Yes. Not really.”

“Don’t think about it so difficultly. Certainly your thinking isn’t entirely wrong. No matter how strong someone is, accepting that much energy would never be an easy task.”

“That seems obvious.”

The Historian’s thinking was quite reasonable.

Accepting internal energy into the body wasn’t such an easy matter.

Even spiritual medicines that would make martial artists faint with desire couldn’t be easily absorbed. Accepting internal energy into the body that couldn’t be controlled was, in some ways, more dangerous than drinking poison.

That’s why each sect put effort into creating internal cultivation methods that could safely and efficiently make external energy their own, and why spiritual medicines weren’t consumed as-is but were refined into pill form.

But to directly absorb others’ internal energy that had completely different properties?

By common sense, it was impossible.

Even if he could somehow endure the few from the Dang Family incident, wasn’t the scale completely different this time?

“Right. But Wei Yan-ho was capable of it.”

“Why?”

“Originally, that fellow already had energy greater than what he needed to absorb in that place within his body. He doesn’t feel any particular difficulty in harboring massive energy different from his own internally.”

“…….”

Baek Mu-han’s core.

The Historian’s eyes widened as that thought occurred to him.

‘No, this is…….’

Does it work that way?

“B-but Baek Mu-han’s core doesn’t harm Wei Yan-ho’s body…….”

“Even so, it’s still a burden. Do you know what it means to live with energy you can’t digest in your stomach?”

“……Certainly.”

“Moreover, that energy is larger and purer than the combined internal energy of a thousand martial artists. Even a dragon’s wish-fulfilling jewel wouldn’t contain that much energy. Wei Yan-ho is already accustomed to accepting powerful external forces internally.”

“So that’s why he succeeded?”

“Hmm…….”

Divine Beggar hesitated slightly.

“Success, success……. Well, I’m not sure what to call it.”

“Pardon?”

“……It’s quite a peculiar matter.”

Divine Beggar chuckled repeatedly. It seemed like he found it absurd just thinking about it.

“What on earth happened?”

“Well, it’s nothing that impressive, but anyway.”

Divine Beggar shrugged his shoulders.

“You’ll understand when you hear it.”

***

Wei Yan-ho is accustomed to accepting external energy.

Well, that’s not wrong.

But being accustomed to something and being able to do it perfectly aren’t the same thing.

Hm?

No, well, it’s not that he failed.

Anyway, you know how it is. He succeeded, but whether you should really call it success is the question.

Hm? What?

Success?

You seem to be misunderstanding something…….

From the beginning, this matter was about how to treat them, whether they could be saved, not whether Wei Yan-ho could properly absorb that internal energy.

No, so…….

Ahem, anyway, as long as it was resolved, that’s what matters.

Even though the sight was rather strange, if the result is good, everything is good.

……What happened, you ask?

That’s the thing…….

That’s…….

***

“…….”

Wei Jeong-han was staring at Wei Yan-ho with dead fish eyes.

Perhaps at this very moment, Wei Jeong-han should be deeply moved.

Great sacrifice.

And great chivalry.

His son Wei Yan-ho had accomplished that great feat that even he couldn’t dare imitate.

How much had he longed and longed for this moment.

If someone asked him what his one regret in life was, Wei Jeong-han would unhesitatingly say it was failing to raise Wei Yan-ho as a chivalrous hero.

Of course, there were countless other regrettable things. But all the others were things he could somehow set right.

But Wei Yan-ho was different.

Wei Jeong-han could no longer control this lazy bum. Making sure he didn’t cause trouble was the best he could do.

If only Wei Jeong-han had guided Wei Yan-ho to the right path a little earlier, perhaps the current situation might have been a little different. How many times had he regretted this?

But that Wei Yan-ho had changed.

He had even stepped forward to save those people himself, despite Wei Jeong-han’s attempts to stop him. Wasn’t this something unimaginable for the Wei Yan-ho of the past?

Of course! Of course!

Wei Yan-ho hadn’t saved people with completely pure intentions. Wei Jeong-han acknowledged that too.

But where in the world was there perfect purity?

Even Wei Jeong-han, who was called by the excessive title of Righteous Hero Sword, couldn’t say he had moved solely with chivalry purely for others until death. The moment you discuss perfect purity in that way, everyone in the world would be unable to dare speak of chivalry.

Even in Wei Jeong-han’s view, who had stricter standards regarding chivalry than anyone else, what Wei Yan-ho had done was chivalry itself.

He had saved people without calculating his own sacrifice and loss, so how could he not be praised?

But…….

He should praise him…….

“Geez, really…….”

Jang-il’s irritated voice could be heard.

“Amitabha……Buddha. Amitabha Buddha, Ami!”

It was quite remarkable how the Buddha’s name sounded like a curse.

“He really does all sorts of things.”

Even Peng Dao-ji, who should have been moved by Wei Yan-ho’s chivalry more than anyone except Wei Jeong-han, was frowning.

And…….

“N-no…… Well, isn’t this something that can be called the price of chivalry?”

At least the Zhuge Family’s scholar was desperately defending Wei Yan-ho. But his voice lacked any real strength.

Everyone knew.

Wei Yan-ho hadn’t really done anything wrong. Wei Yan-ho had done his best in his own way. The achievement he had accomplished here today was very heroic and very sacrificial.

No one could deny that fact.

But looking at Wei Yan-ho’s current state, no one could praise Wei Yan-ho as a hero.

“Ah…… Ahh.”

Wei Yan-ho let out a groan.

And with that groan, the faces of those watching also contorted.

“He’s going to roll around.”

“No, I think he’ll burst before that?”

“Either way, it won’t end well.”

Jang-il extended his finger.

Squish, squish.

The places his finger touched sank in deeply.

“D-don’t! I’ll burst!”

“……Bursting might be better.”

Jang-il sighed deeply while looking at Wei Yan-ho in front of him.

What was before his eyes was definitely Wei Yan-ho. But it was somewhat different from the Wei Yan-ho that Jang-il had known until now.

This hugely swollen round something was already losing even its human form.

“No, damn it!”

Jang-il finally couldn’t hold back and shouted.

“How does a person suddenly become a pig just from eating internal energy!”

“Amitabha Buddha! Benefactor, watch your words. That’s an insult to pigs. This isn’t a state that can be called a pig.”

“Ugh!”

Jang-il, defeated in logic, clutched his heart.

Even so, his eyes couldn’t leave Wei Yan-ho.

Wei Yan-ho’s body was swollen as if it would burst at any moment. It was so swollen that his limbs were buried and his entire body looked round. If you kicked him like this, he wouldn’t be able to stop by himself. He’d probably roll all the way outside Hefei.

Wei Yan-ho hadn’t been like this from the beginning.

When he first started absorbing internal energy, he was just slightly swollen. But as he absorbed more and more internal energy, he gradually began to swell up.

“He should have eaten in moderation!”

“……Then what about the remaining people, just leave them?”

“Digest it first, then absorb more, damn it!”

Wei Jeong-han sighed deeply watching the two bickering even in this situation.

‘Better to die than suffer like this.’

How had things ended up this way?

“Internal energy isn’t water! I’ve never heard in my life of a person swelling up from absorbing internal energy! Hey, damn it! You should live like a human being! Like a human! Last time you turned black, and this time you’re swelling up?”

Wei Yan-ho felt very wronged.

“It’s not like I wanted to be like this…….”

“Grrrr.”

Jang-il held his head.

“Nothing gets resolved normally!”

It was certain that Wei Yan-ho had done something remarkable.

‘He wasn’t even human.’

After absorbing internal energy to treat people, he would rush back to knock down those having seizures and repeatedly absorb their internal energy. It was easy to say, but how many people in this martial world could actually do that?

“But to be honest…….”

The Zhuge scholar spoke up.

“Wasn’t it too simple?”

“Hm?”

Everyone’s gaze turned to the Zhuge scholar. Wei Yan-ho also turned his body around to look at the Zhuge scholar. Jang-il found that sight quite irritating, but this time he didn’t bother to point out Wei Yan-ho’s behavior.

“What was?”

“Knocking them down.”

The Zhuge scholar gestured with his chin toward those collapsed in one spot. Although Wei Yan-ho had absorbed the internal energy from their bodies, since their weakened energy hadn’t returned, none of them had regained consciousness yet.

“I think you accomplished something remarkable. I truly thought of you as our lord. But thinking coldly about it, was this really something that could be done so easily?”

Wei Jeong-han’s eyes narrowed.

“Are you saying there’s some problem?”

“No. That’s not what I’m saying.”

The Zhuge scholar shook his head.

“What I want to say is…… no matter how much of a lord you are, you subdued them too easily.”

At those words, Jang-il and Mu-san also nodded.

“That’s certainly true.”

“It was a bit strange.”

The scene was vivid in Jang-il’s mind.

‘It was absurdly easy.’

Every time Wei Yan-ho emitted radiance, everyone collapsed one by one. At first he thought it was impressive, but looking back, it was strangely inexplicable.

“No, wait.”

Wei Jeong-han frowned.

“The conversation seems to be taking a strange turn. Are you perhaps saying our Yan-ho pulled some trick?”

The Zhuge scholar pointed at Wei Yan-ho with his finger.

Roll.

Looking at Wei Yan-ho rolling around on the ground, the Zhuge scholar quietly spoke.

“……Who would?”

“…….”

Such a thing could never happen!

It was a moment when everyone was convinced.