Living with a body that can not be healthy in a Murim Clan, was similar to breathing with guilt-planted blood instead of the heart inside the body. Danmok Ryeon’s not-so-long life was like that.
The adults’ backs were always only far away, and her younger brother, who stood behind her, left her and went ahead as time flowed by.
However, not even a single person could prevent Murim from shaking and the family from falling apart at the hands of the rampantly spreading Hyeolla Gok.
But then, when death approached, she was rather glad with it.
It’s all the end of this painful pain as if it’s making holes with an awl everywhere in her body, also the fact that she couldn’t do anything for her family members and can only watch their hardships.
Finally, it’s over….
It was the end, but.
***
“I don’t understand….”
The young girl was sitting on the bed with a serious look.
She was a girl who looked slight and pale with an obvious sick complexion, but her eyes sparkled depending on the angle as if stars were inside them.
‘How? Just how did I come back to life? And at that, it’s not just coming back to life but I went back in time and…?’
The girl, Danmok Ryeon wrapped her head as she looked down at her limbs which shortened.
She was dead. The memory of being dead was clear.
The moment the pain that had plagued her for her entire life slowly drifts away as she falls into a long sleep that will last forever. And then she was buried in the soil, and just like that, she had drifted the world for a long time.
After that, she suddenly got sucked somewhere, and after watching too many things, she came back to her senses, and it was right now.
She saw all things in nature, she looked here and there, she looked at the past and the future, looked at the place which did not exist and the place which she had known.
‘And in the meantime, I….’
As Ryeon had been pondering repeatedly as if she was looking back on her blurry memory, a sigh burst out of her mouth like a thunderbolt.
“Ah!”
However, people came in, not even giving any time for Ryeon to consider what she has recalled just now.
“Young Miss, are you awake?”
The one who opened the door and came in was Jang, the nanny who looked after Ryeon since she was born.
Jang has soft wrinkles around her eyes, perhaps because she would smile just by looking at Ryeon.
“Na… nny.”
“Young Miss, today, there is yakgwa too. If you finish taking the medicine, you can eat it as an award.”
(t/n: 약과 [yak-gwa] is a Korean traditional dessert, a cookie made with flour, sesame oil, honey, rice wine, cinnamon, and ginger juice.)
Next to a white porcelain bowl, containing a medicinal herbs decoction that looked almost black, a yakgwa with thin-layered sugar coating was placed. However, Ryeon, who was well aware of the taste of medicinal herbs decoction, wore a tearful face.
“…Can’t I just not eat the yakgwa, and also not take the medicine?”
“Please do not say such words.”
Nanny Jang said sternly. At the remark, Ryeon had no choice but to receive the bowl of medicinal herbs decoction.
Nanny Jang was the person who had always affectionately taken good care of her. And she was also the person who had never left her side even for a moment for the seven years when she was bedridden.
Ryeon knows for certain how anxious and worried Nanny has been, so she can’t insist on saying that she won’t take the medicine.
When she barely opened her eyes, which was frowned upon with all her might, as she swallowingly drank all of the medicinal herb decoction, Nanny Jang was looking at her with a touched expression. She also seemed to be half-filled with tears.
After she opened her eyes again, all the family members whom Ryeon saw showed the same response as Nanny.
Whenever Ryeon’s lips moved slightly to say something, she wrinkled her forehead after eating the bitter medicinal herb decoction, and her expression melted away after eating sweet dried persimmons, everyone seemed to have their hearts full and tears welling up.
That’s inevitable!
‘Since I’ve been in a coma for seven years. So turns out I came back to this time.’
Although the reason was unknown, as soon as Ryeon was born, her soul bounced off.
Therefore for seven years, her body in which only the shell remained was lying down endlessly unless someone raised her body up, and she did not eat anything if she wasn’t forcibly being fed. She didn’t cry, didn’t laugh, and didn’t even talk.
Then, in order to awaken her by any means, the Clan decided to try a grand method called ‘The Cleansing of Impurities’.
(t/n: 벌모세수 (伐毛洗髓) [beol-mo-se-su] is basically artificially changing the body structure from the root; refresh one’s body; reborn again. But I translated it to ‘the cleansing of impurities’ since it still fit in.)
‘Mother is also so… since she doesn’t even know whether ‘the cleaning of impurities’ may or may not be able to work, but she thoughtlessly said wanting to try that expensive grand method.’
‘The Cleaning of Impurities’ is usually a method that’s demonstrated for newborn children. It quickly sets the site of the elixir field, burns the bad force as it repairs the physique, and makes it into a well-built body for learning martial arts.
It enforced the fact that it isn’t a treatment method to cure illness with the feeling of grasping at straws, but surprisingly, that method worked!
After the grand method was successful, Ryeon recovered from the illness like a miracle.
Since now the small child has finally made various facial expressions and started talking, how would the adults, who are watching that, feel?
Mother cried over Ryeon, who came to her senses, then was halfway to passing out, so Nanny took care of her instead like this.
As expected, Nanny Jang also wiped away her tears in the meantime as if she felt overwhelmed and put the yakgwa in front of Ryeon.
“Oh my. How can you be so mature like this.”
Ryeon kept chewing the yakgwa with the thought that it was better than the bitter medicine as she secretly studied Nanny Jang’s face.
“You know, Nanny. I want to go outside. Only to the garden in front of here.”
“Then, I will inquire the Elders and come back after I get their permission, Young Miss.”
Nanny said like that and hugged her as if cradling her then patted her on the back. The young child who had spent seven years like a doll was too small to be seven years old.
***
As soon as Nanny, who thought she had put her to sleep, quietly went outside, Ryeon jumped up, grabbed the mirror, and injected the bluish energy that rose from her fingertips.
At the same time, letters began to appear on top of the mirror. If anyone had seen that scene, they would have fainted in surprise by this extremely strange sorcery.
[Checking the user: Danmok Ryeon]
[The viewing method will be changed, adjusting it to convenience… ■■□□□]
Below that, a sentence passed slowly, from right to left.
[Outputing the information that the user can contemplate.]
[It has been outputted to the fastest method to understand the viewing.]
The boxes that were written saying that the viewing method had been changed were painted one by one, and eventually, the five boxes were all filled up.
[■■■□□]
[■■■■□]
[■■■■■]
[Change complete!]
[The Celestial Insight will begin to appear!]
‘The fastest method for the user to understand….’
It meant that the Celestial Insight made a change so that she could understand the situation all quickly.
‘Da-Damn it. Does that mean my ability is only that much?’
That… I can’t bear to deny it.
“So it’s also worth dying and coming back….”
When I died and wandered around the heavens by soul, I saw many things and learned more than that.
To know means to understand, and to understand means being able to demonstrate it again.
Although she forgot most of the things that her body couldn’t handle as she returned to the past, just as one can’t go back to the time when one never knew what one had once learned, Ryeon was also able to contemplate through the knowledge which was engraved on her soul.
However, it’s just as much as she can, and in a way she can understand.
That was the way it is now.
Ryeon suppressed her embarrassment and firmly stared at the mirror. Soon a writing which seemed to be written in ink appeared on top of the mirror.
Just like this.
Danmok Ryeon
Characteristic: Spring of Infinite Energy / Knows Halfway / Received the Remembrance of the Evil / A Sickly Plant Inside a Greenhouse
Balance: 7 stars
Spiritual Vision: 2 stars
Purification: 1 star
Strength: 3/100
Internal Energy: Unable to acquire
External Energy: Not yet acquired
Talent: Measurement error
Wisdom: Measurement error
Energy: 76/100
Caution: Please maintain your energy below 50. If this condition lasts for at least two months or more, it will result in death.
‘A mirror that shows only as much as I can, and in a way I can understand….’
But knowing how to see and having the ability are two different matters. Most of the skills were truly simple. Her strength is 3 out of 100, and her external energy is in the state of not yet acquired.
‘To think that I completely can’t acquire the internal energy.’
Ryeon wrapped her head. In the meantime, only the ‘Energy’ items are soaring to the point where they can bore the sky alone.
This was the biggest hurdle in her life.
That she can’t build up internal energy in this Murim, where one can’t reach the state of supremacy by any means only by external energy.
As a human being, no matter how she avoids the fact that the vessel of her body was broken and was dead due to the energy that emits strangely too much, is it really possible to survive as a martial artist in this way?
She couldn’t even know about this kind of stuff since in her previous life she couldn’t learn martial arts.
It couldn’t be known since the talent and the wisdom are said to be measurement errors, and in the meantime, the energy blinked with a very red color. Underneath it, there is even a ‘caution’.
Caution: Please maintain your energy below 50. If this condition lasts for at least two months or more, it will result in death.
Sure, the most important thing now was her life which only had two months left.
‘Maintain the energy below 50, you say?’
Even so, she felt a little comfortable even in the midst of being at a loss because the numerical values were clearly visible.
Since it means that she just has to lower it to 50 by all means. But the thing is she doesn’t know how to lower it.
“What’s up with this characteristic….”
Although she doesn’t know what ‘Received the Remembrance of the Evil’ or ‘Knows Halfway’ means, ‘Spring of Infinite Energy’ and ‘A Sickly Plant Inside a Greenhouse’ are easy enough to understand.
The reason she finally died before regressing! That is because the body, which could not control the overflowing energy, squeaked endlessly.
But now, it wasn’t anymore.
Ryeon clenched her fist hard. She doesn’t know why, but she somehow returned to the past.
She also knew why she was sick all those times. Now she also knows what to do so that she can be healthy.
“I must try to live a good health and long life, without accidents, and no disasters in the future…!”
I will keep on translating this series even if there's another group who's doing this. But, I won't be posting the updates to NU. The updates will only show in Readhive, so you have to check it once in a while if you want to read my translation. Thank you!^^
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