Chapter 304

Chapter 304

The blood poison generated from Jin Ja-gang’s blood had combined with the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill and remained in his meridians and energy channels.

That was the essence of the turbid energy that had been filling his meridians and energy channels.

Realizing this fact was a very significant discovery for Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang’s mind brightened as if he had achieved great enlightenment.

He came to understand why it had been difficult to predict the effects of the poison despite the turbid energy containing powerful toxins.

It was because of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill.

The Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill had bound with the poison energy to protect his body, but because of this, the poison energy couldn’t produce proper effects.

The blood poison had been hindered by the medicinal effects of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill.

If he could separate the medicinal power of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill from the blood poison that had become turbid energy, Jin Ja-gang would be able to extract pure, original blood poison as it truly was!

Moreover, the method for this also had clues in Piercing Ghost’s actions.

Piercing Ghost had pressed the spine area of the poisoned villager to inject internal energy and then collected blood poison.

The area Piercing Ghost pressed was the Suspended Pivot Point above the Gate of Life Point.

The Suspended Pivot Point has Triple Burner Points on both left and right sides, which together with the Suspended Pivot Point govern the flow of energy.

Jin Ja-gang immediately guided the turbid energy to the Suspended Pivot Point.

Due to its characteristically sticky and heavy nature, the turbid energy slowly arrived at the Suspended Pivot Point and suddenly began dividing into several branches as if bouncing off. Jin Ja-gang sent the internal energy of the Jade Void Nine Lights Five Thunder Toad Art to the Triple Burner Points on both sides of the Suspended Pivot Point. By firmly blocking the Triple Burner Points, he could control the turbid energy raging at the Suspended Pivot Point from escaping elsewhere.

Jin Ja-gang suppressed the turbid energy with powerful force and separated only the energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill at the Suspended Pivot Point.

Only pure poison energies remained in the turbid energy from which the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill had been separated. The poison energies gradually clumped together and differentiated into one mass. They fully revealed the malicious properties that had been suppressed by the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill.

Piercing Ghost had probably also filtered out impurities through this process, leaving only pure blood poison!

However, moving this directly through the meridians would burden the meridians and energy channels. Like when using Mad Blood Heaven Piercing, the meridians would be damaged and destroyed.

Jin Ja-gang wrapped the blood poison again with the energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill and sent it up toward the collarbone.

The poison energy of the blood poison that had risen to the Bone Gap Point of the collarbone slowly seeped into his blood.

Sending that blood to his fingertips… to his fingertips, finally creating one drop of blood poison.

When the blood poison flowed out, it appeared as dark essence, but after emerging from his body, the energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill that had been wrapping the poison energy flew away, leaving only brilliant and transparent red jade-colored liquid.

Pure and complete blood poison.

Jin Ja-gang’s own.

* * *

Sweet and refreshing fragrance.

The energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill made from boiling a thousand types of medicinal herbs spread through the air, diffusing a subtle floral scent.

Piercing Ghost looked at the blood tea placed before him and slowly opened his mouth.

“Is this… the poison that made Indestructible Heavenly Sword kneel?”

“It should be better than that.”

Piercing Ghost picked up the teacup with a hardened face.

Jin Ja-gang spoke. He said he was grateful, that thanks to Piercing Ghost he had learned the essence of poison.

“So it was blood poison.”

Piercing Ghost had learned the source of the poison Jin Ja-gang possessed.

Moreover, this was poison much more refined and advanced than when used against Indestructible Heavenly Sword.

“Will you drink, or will you die?”

Piercing Ghost twisted his lips in a smile and drank the tea in one gulp.

Before long, Piercing Ghost’s body twitched. Piercing Ghost’s eyes changed. He was constantly fighting Jin Ja-gang’s blood poison internally.

Bloody sweat flowed from Piercing Ghost’s forehead. Blood gradually stained his eyes. Heat emanated from Piercing Ghost’s body.

Piercing Ghost threw off his upper robe. Hot steam whooshed up.

Bloody sweat had formed all over his exposed upper body. And suddenly red spots appeared on the inside of his chest.

Piercing Ghost looked at the spots that had formed on his chest. They were spots that looked like five layered petals blooming fully.

“This is like…”

Piercing Ghost spoke while exhaling labored breaths.

“The Nirvana Flower.”

The three people who had been groaning and rolling on the ground, Yeong-woon, Pyo Sang-guk, and So-min, opened their eyes wide.

“Nirvana Flower!”

Piercing Ghost said.

“In the world of asuras where fighting never ceases, the only way to end fighting is… to obtain the Nirvana Flower. The moment one obtains the Nirvana Flower, all asuras within eighteen thousand yojanas die in nirvana, and only one asura who obtained the Nirvana Flower survives…”

Piercing Ghost looked at Jin Ja-gang with eyes filled with blood. Then he asked with difficulty in a distorted voice.

“Are you prepared?”

Jin Ja-gang answered without hesitation.

“I am already fighting against the martial world.”

Piercing Ghost made a hollow expression.

“I see… you were already an asura who possessed the Nirvana Flower.”

Jin Ja-gang shook his wrist.

Click.

The Soul Seizing Thread was released from Piercing Ghost’s body and recovered.

Piercing Ghost said with difficulty.

“What I… said…”

“I will keep it. As long as Leper Mound doesn’t touch me first, Leper Mound will be safe.”

“Thank you…”

Piercing Ghost opened his sleeve and placed a pouch on the table. However, his finger with only the middle finger remaining had no strength and he dropped it. The pouch rolled across the table as bottles and pills that appeared to be antidotes spilled from the opening.

“This is my repayment…”

Nirvana Flowers began appearing one by one on Piercing Ghost’s upper body.

Piercing Ghost’s eyes were already stained with blood, looking like red clots, and blood began slowly flowing from the gaping holes of his nose.

In such a state, Piercing Ghost smiled.

“I’ll go first and wait in hell.”

With those as his last words, Piercing Ghost’s body shook greatly then became still. Blood poured out from Piercing Ghost’s seven orifices like bursting.

Thud!

Piercing Ghost slammed his head into the table. The table instantly became soaked with blood.

A Nirvana Flower also bloomed on the nape of Piercing Ghost’s neck where his head had struck.

In the end, he had been defeated by Jin Ja-gang’s blood poison.

Yeong-woon, Pyo Sang-guk, and So-min were horrified.

“A body impervious to ten thousand poisons…!”

An asura’s poison that killed even a body impervious to ten thousand poisons.

And this despite being fully prepared and defending with internal energy.

The three had no choice but to recall again the words Piercing Ghost had left behind.

“The blood of an asura who possesses poison…”

Asura Blood!

That was the poison possessed by Jin Ja-gang, Poison Dragon.

Jin Ja-gang watched the appearance of dead Piercing Ghost for a while, then collected the Infinite Ghost Poison and antidotes Piercing Ghost had left behind and stood up.

Pyo Sang-guk shouted.

“Br, Brother Jin! Quickly the antidote! Kugh, at, at this rate we’ll die!”

Yeong-woon and So-min also looked at Jin Ja-gang with the same feelings as Pyo Sang-guk.

Jin Ja-gang looked at the three for a moment then answered.

“You won’t die.”

“…What?”

The three made faces as if they’d been struck.

“Brother Jin! I’m dying of pain! Ahhhhh, kugh.”

“Endure it. You won’t die. This poison is not lethal.”

“Bu, but!”

“The amount seems insufficient. The villagers come first.”

“…”

The three felt their vision go dark. Of course it wasn’t wrong, but wasn’t this too much!

With pain like their whole bodies being minced with knives, their internal organs felt like being stabbed with awls. Cold sweat poured from their entire bodies and they were dying.

The three felt their pain somehow becoming worse. Even Yeong-woon, who had strong patience, clutched his belly and rolled around on the ground.

“Kughhhh.”

“Oh my!”

“Young Master Jin! Please save us! Ahhhhh!”

Jin Ja-gang went around to the villagers without even looking back once, distributing antidotes.

Only after distributing antidotes to all the people, about fifty in total, did he come before the three.

“Ugh, ughhhh.”

“Kughhhh.”

“Wahhhhh.”

So-min was even crying. But when Jin Ja-gang approached, only then did she make an expression of being saved and looked at Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang said without changing expression.

“Only two antidote pills remain.”

“…”

The three made tearful faces and looked at each other.

* * *

“Huff huff. Ughhhh.”

Endless groaning sounds.

Listening to Yeong-woon’s groans, whose voice was completely hoarse and now seemed to lack even the energy to make sounds, just whimpering, Pyo Sang-guk and So-min were restless.

Yeong-woon was suffering alone, having yielded the antidote as the eldest brother.

All the two could do was wipe the sweat from Yeong-woon’s forehead. According to Jin Ja-gang, he would have to be like this for about two or three days.

Fortunately, the villagers who had regained some strength provided them with a warm, good house to stay in and even served food, but this didn’t make Pyo Sang-guk and So-min’s uncomfortable feelings disappear.

Pyo Sang-guk looked at Jin Ja-gang standing in one corner of the yard with sharp eyes.

So-min stopped Pyo Sang-guk who was glaring at the back of Jin Ja-gang’s head.

“Don’t do that.”

“Leave me be. I need to confront what needs confronting.”

But in fact, even if he confronted him, there wasn’t much to say. Jin Ja-gang had acted reasonably, and even if it felt slightly intentionally motivated, the result was ultimately right.

Jin Ja-gang turned his head to look at the commotion between the two.

“Do you have something to say to me?”

Despite So-min’s dissuasion, Pyo Sang-guk finally spoke.

“Brother Jin. Isn’t this really too much?”

“What do you mean?”

“Aren’t you deliberately treating us coldly because we didn’t listen to Brother Jin and acted selfishly!”

“You three have no relationship with me. It doesn’t matter how you act.”

Pyo Sang-guk was immediately speechless.

So-min stepped forward.

“That’s why we’re disappointed. That aspect you just mentioned.”

“Me?”

“Yes. Young Master Jin traveled with us, even if briefly. And we think Young Master Jin shared some friendship with us. But treating us like complete strangers makes us feel disappointed.”

Pondering So-min’s words, Jin Ja-gang realized they weren’t wrong.

“I didn’t think that far. You’re right. I seem to have been too cold.”

“So about that!”

So-min requested.

“Isn’t there a way to reduce Brother Yeong-woon’s pain? If it’s Young Master Jin, wouldn’t you know a method?”

Jin Ja-gang shook his head.

Pyo Sang-guk and So-min dejectedly dropped their shoulders and returned to Yeong-woon’s side.

Jin Ja-gang watched them, then took out a small bottle from his bosom.

Inside was the Infinite Ghost Poison that Piercing Ghost had collected over his lifetime.

What Piercing Ghost had given as repayment wasn’t the antidote but actually this Infinite Ghost Poison.

For Jin Ja-gang who used blood poison, Infinite Ghost Poison was like a miraculous medicine. If he absorbed the Infinite Ghost Poison, not only would Jin Ja-gang’s internal energy increase, but the power of his blood poison would also be greatly multiplied.

Thinking about it now, Mad Blood Heaven Cultivation must have also contributed to increasing the blood poison’s power. The terrible pain from Mad Blood Heaven Cultivation would have significantly affected the blood poison’s toxicity.

Jin Ja-gang opened the bottle and drank the Infinite Ghost Poison little by little like drinking tea.

The massive poison energy of Infinite Ghost Poison entered Jin Ja-gang’s body, creating hot heat. Though he was already accustomed and didn’t feel great pain, he could tell from feeling alone how strong the Infinite Ghost Poison’s toxic power was.

Jin Ja-gang waited for the poison energy to be absorbed and settle while looking up at the moon in the sky.

He couldn’t forget what Piercing Ghost had said.

The only way an asura could end fighting was to kill all opponents and survive alone.

Jin Ja-gang recalled the appearance of asuras depicted in Buddhist divine paintings.

Asuras living in the six realms had three faces and six arms, and the six arms each held the sun, moon, sword, hook, vajra, and rope, never ceasing to fight whether night or day…

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The blood poison generated from Jin Ja-gang’s blood had combined with the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill and remained in his meridians and energy channels.

That was the essence of the turbid energy that had been filling his meridians and energy channels.

Realizing this fact was a very significant discovery for Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang’s mind brightened as if he had achieved great enlightenment.

He came to understand why it had been difficult to predict the effects of the poison despite the turbid energy containing powerful toxins.

It was because of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill.

The Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill had bound with the poison energy to protect his body, but because of this, the poison energy couldn’t produce proper effects.

The blood poison had been hindered by the medicinal effects of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill.

If he could separate the medicinal power of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill from the blood poison that had become turbid energy, Jin Ja-gang would be able to extract pure, original blood poison as it truly was!

Moreover, the method for this also had clues in Piercing Ghost’s actions.

Piercing Ghost had pressed the spine area of the poisoned villager to inject internal energy and then collected blood poison.

The area Piercing Ghost pressed was the Suspended Pivot Point above the Gate of Life Point.

The Suspended Pivot Point has Triple Burner Points on both left and right sides, which together with the Suspended Pivot Point govern the flow of energy.

Jin Ja-gang immediately guided the turbid energy to the Suspended Pivot Point.

Due to its characteristically sticky and heavy nature, the turbid energy slowly arrived at the Suspended Pivot Point and suddenly began dividing into several branches as if bouncing off. Jin Ja-gang sent the internal energy of the Jade Void Nine Lights Five Thunder Toad Art to the Triple Burner Points on both sides of the Suspended Pivot Point. By firmly blocking the Triple Burner Points, he could control the turbid energy raging at the Suspended Pivot Point from escaping elsewhere.

Jin Ja-gang suppressed the turbid energy with powerful force and separated only the energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill at the Suspended Pivot Point.

Only pure poison energies remained in the turbid energy from which the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill had been separated. The poison energies gradually clumped together and differentiated into one mass. They fully revealed the malicious properties that had been suppressed by the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill.

Piercing Ghost had probably also filtered out impurities through this process, leaving only pure blood poison!

However, moving this directly through the meridians would burden the meridians and energy channels. Like when using Mad Blood Heaven Piercing, the meridians would be damaged and destroyed.

Jin Ja-gang wrapped the blood poison again with the energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill and sent it up toward the collarbone.

The poison energy of the blood poison that had risen to the Bone Gap Point of the collarbone slowly seeped into his blood.

Sending that blood to his fingertips… to his fingertips, finally creating one drop of blood poison.

When the blood poison flowed out, it appeared as dark essence, but after emerging from his body, the energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill that had been wrapping the poison energy flew away, leaving only brilliant and transparent red jade-colored liquid.

Pure and complete blood poison.

Jin Ja-gang’s own.

* * *

Sweet and refreshing fragrance.

The energy of the Flower Essence Pure Heart Pill made from boiling a thousand types of medicinal herbs spread through the air, diffusing a subtle floral scent.

Piercing Ghost looked at the blood tea placed before him and slowly opened his mouth.

“Is this… the poison that made Indestructible Heavenly Sword kneel?”

“It should be better than that.”

Piercing Ghost picked up the teacup with a hardened face.

Jin Ja-gang spoke. He said he was grateful, that thanks to Piercing Ghost he had learned the essence of poison.

“So it was blood poison.”

Piercing Ghost had learned the source of the poison Jin Ja-gang possessed.

Moreover, this was poison much more refined and advanced than when used against Indestructible Heavenly Sword.

“Will you drink, or will you die?”

Piercing Ghost twisted his lips in a smile and drank the tea in one gulp.

Before long, Piercing Ghost’s body twitched. Piercing Ghost’s eyes changed. He was constantly fighting Jin Ja-gang’s blood poison internally.

Bloody sweat flowed from Piercing Ghost’s forehead. Blood gradually stained his eyes. Heat emanated from Piercing Ghost’s body.

Piercing Ghost threw off his upper robe. Hot steam whooshed up.

Bloody sweat had formed all over his exposed upper body. And suddenly red spots appeared on the inside of his chest.

Piercing Ghost looked at the spots that had formed on his chest. They were spots that looked like five layered petals blooming fully.

“This is like…”

Piercing Ghost spoke while exhaling labored breaths.

“The Nirvana Flower.”

The three people who had been groaning and rolling on the ground, Yeong-woon, Pyo Sang-guk, and So-min, opened their eyes wide.

“Nirvana Flower!”

Piercing Ghost said.

“In the world of asuras where fighting never ceases, the only way to end fighting is… to obtain the Nirvana Flower. The moment one obtains the Nirvana Flower, all asuras within eighteen thousand yojanas die in nirvana, and only one asura who obtained the Nirvana Flower survives…”

Piercing Ghost looked at Jin Ja-gang with eyes filled with blood. Then he asked with difficulty in a distorted voice.

“Are you prepared?”

Jin Ja-gang answered without hesitation.

“I am already fighting against the martial world.”

Piercing Ghost made a hollow expression.

“I see… you were already an asura who possessed the Nirvana Flower.”

Jin Ja-gang shook his wrist.

Click.

The Soul Seizing Thread was released from Piercing Ghost’s body and recovered.

Piercing Ghost said with difficulty.

“What I… said…”

“I will keep it. As long as Leper Mound doesn’t touch me first, Leper Mound will be safe.”

“Thank you…”

Piercing Ghost opened his sleeve and placed a pouch on the table. However, his finger with only the middle finger remaining had no strength and he dropped it. The pouch rolled across the table as bottles and pills that appeared to be antidotes spilled from the opening.

“This is my repayment…”

Nirvana Flowers began appearing one by one on Piercing Ghost’s upper body.

Piercing Ghost’s eyes were already stained with blood, looking like red clots, and blood began slowly flowing from the gaping holes of his nose.

In such a state, Piercing Ghost smiled.

“I’ll go first and wait in hell.”

With those as his last words, Piercing Ghost’s body shook greatly then became still. Blood poured out from Piercing Ghost’s seven orifices like bursting.

Thud!

Piercing Ghost slammed his head into the table. The table instantly became soaked with blood.

A Nirvana Flower also bloomed on the nape of Piercing Ghost’s neck where his head had struck.

In the end, he had been defeated by Jin Ja-gang’s blood poison.

Yeong-woon, Pyo Sang-guk, and So-min were horrified.

“A body impervious to ten thousand poisons…!”

An asura’s poison that killed even a body impervious to ten thousand poisons.

And this despite being fully prepared and defending with internal energy.

The three had no choice but to recall again the words Piercing Ghost had left behind.

“The blood of an asura who possesses poison…”

Asura Blood!

That was the poison possessed by Jin Ja-gang, Poison Dragon.

Jin Ja-gang watched the appearance of dead Piercing Ghost for a while, then collected the Infinite Ghost Poison and antidotes Piercing Ghost had left behind and stood up.

Pyo Sang-guk shouted.

“Br, Brother Jin! Quickly the antidote! Kugh, at, at this rate we’ll die!”

Yeong-woon and So-min also looked at Jin Ja-gang with the same feelings as Pyo Sang-guk.

Jin Ja-gang looked at the three for a moment then answered.

“You won’t die.”

“…What?”

The three made faces as if they’d been struck.

“Brother Jin! I’m dying of pain! Ahhhhh, kugh.”

“Endure it. You won’t die. This poison is not lethal.”

“Bu, but!”

“The amount seems insufficient. The villagers come first.”

“…”

The three felt their vision go dark. Of course it wasn’t wrong, but wasn’t this too much!

With pain like their whole bodies being minced with knives, their internal organs felt like being stabbed with awls. Cold sweat poured from their entire bodies and they were dying.

The three felt their pain somehow becoming worse. Even Yeong-woon, who had strong patience, clutched his belly and rolled around on the ground.

“Kughhhh.”

“Oh my!”

“Young Master Jin! Please save us! Ahhhhh!”

Jin Ja-gang went around to the villagers without even looking back once, distributing antidotes.

Only after distributing antidotes to all the people, about fifty in total, did he come before the three.

“Ugh, ughhhh.”

“Kughhhh.”

“Wahhhhh.”

So-min was even crying. But when Jin Ja-gang approached, only then did she make an expression of being saved and looked at Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang said without changing expression.

“Only two antidote pills remain.”

“…”

The three made tearful faces and looked at each other.

* * *

“Huff huff. Ughhhh.”

Endless groaning sounds.

Listening to Yeong-woon’s groans, whose voice was completely hoarse and now seemed to lack even the energy to make sounds, just whimpering, Pyo Sang-guk and So-min were restless.

Yeong-woon was suffering alone, having yielded the antidote as the eldest brother.

All the two could do was wipe the sweat from Yeong-woon’s forehead. According to Jin Ja-gang, he would have to be like this for about two or three days.

Fortunately, the villagers who had regained some strength provided them with a warm, good house to stay in and even served food, but this didn’t make Pyo Sang-guk and So-min’s uncomfortable feelings disappear.

Pyo Sang-guk looked at Jin Ja-gang standing in one corner of the yard with sharp eyes.

So-min stopped Pyo Sang-guk who was glaring at the back of Jin Ja-gang’s head.

“Don’t do that.”

“Leave me be. I need to confront what needs confronting.”

But in fact, even if he confronted him, there wasn’t much to say. Jin Ja-gang had acted reasonably, and even if it felt slightly intentionally motivated, the result was ultimately right.

Jin Ja-gang turned his head to look at the commotion between the two.

“Do you have something to say to me?”

Despite So-min’s dissuasion, Pyo Sang-guk finally spoke.

“Brother Jin. Isn’t this really too much?”

“What do you mean?”

“Aren’t you deliberately treating us coldly because we didn’t listen to Brother Jin and acted selfishly!”

“You three have no relationship with me. It doesn’t matter how you act.”

Pyo Sang-guk was immediately speechless.

So-min stepped forward.

“That’s why we’re disappointed. That aspect you just mentioned.”

“Me?”

“Yes. Young Master Jin traveled with us, even if briefly. And we think Young Master Jin shared some friendship with us. But treating us like complete strangers makes us feel disappointed.”

Pondering So-min’s words, Jin Ja-gang realized they weren’t wrong.

“I didn’t think that far. You’re right. I seem to have been too cold.”

“So about that!”

So-min requested.

“Isn’t there a way to reduce Brother Yeong-woon’s pain? If it’s Young Master Jin, wouldn’t you know a method?”

Jin Ja-gang shook his head.

Pyo Sang-guk and So-min dejectedly dropped their shoulders and returned to Yeong-woon’s side.

Jin Ja-gang watched them, then took out a small bottle from his bosom.

Inside was the Infinite Ghost Poison that Piercing Ghost had collected over his lifetime.

What Piercing Ghost had given as repayment wasn’t the antidote but actually this Infinite Ghost Poison.

For Jin Ja-gang who used blood poison, Infinite Ghost Poison was like a miraculous medicine. If he absorbed the Infinite Ghost Poison, not only would Jin Ja-gang’s internal energy increase, but the power of his blood poison would also be greatly multiplied.

Thinking about it now, Mad Blood Heaven Cultivation must have also contributed to increasing the blood poison’s power. The terrible pain from Mad Blood Heaven Cultivation would have significantly affected the blood poison’s toxicity.

Jin Ja-gang opened the bottle and drank the Infinite Ghost Poison little by little like drinking tea.

The massive poison energy of Infinite Ghost Poison entered Jin Ja-gang’s body, creating hot heat. Though he was already accustomed and didn’t feel great pain, he could tell from feeling alone how strong the Infinite Ghost Poison’s toxic power was.

Jin Ja-gang waited for the poison energy to be absorbed and settle while looking up at the moon in the sky.

He couldn’t forget what Piercing Ghost had said.

The only way an asura could end fighting was to kill all opponents and survive alone.

Jin Ja-gang recalled the appearance of asuras depicted in Buddhist divine paintings.

Asuras living in the six realms had three faces and six arms, and the six arms each held the sun, moon, sword, hook, vajra, and rope, never ceasing to fight whether night or day…

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