plumnovel Chapter 107
Chapter 107
Chapter 107. The Second DesireSo-hwa wanted to kill the Blood Demon.
She had even brought along the deadly poison she took in the final moment of her past life, ready to end her own life if she failed.
And if the situation allowed, she wanted to stay in the Blood Demon's fortress, understand the sect, and uncover its weaknesses.his place was filled with grass and flowers, and various trees formed a fence around the garden.
As So-hwa followed the Blood Demon down the stairs, she asked.
“I’d heard rumors you were obsessed with dark arts, but it seems those rumors greatly understated the truth.”
"Is that so?"
The Blood Demon murmured as if speaking to himself.
"Hearing you say you heard it secondhand, I guess you never met me in your past life."
He gave a small laugh and turned his head.
"But why do you act like you know everything about me? Haerak is a snake — he wouldn't have told you anything about me unless it was to his benefit."
"You don't seem to know your own subordinates very well."
"Child of Jin Su."
He added in a low voice,
"I'll let it go once, but if you lie to me again, you'll go straight to the dungeon."
So-hwa silently stared at the Blood Demon's back.
Step.
Arriving on the first floor, the Blood Demon walked straight to the main door. When he opened it, the garden seen from the bridge was revealed.
It was filled with all kinds of grasses and flowers. At the edge of the garden stood enormous old trees and low shrubs.
The plants in view were familiar. Medicinal herbs and rare elixirs were mixed together like weeds.
Some might call it beautiful, but to So-hwa's eyes, it looked disorderly.
Flowers that grow in extreme yin (places filled with cold, dark, or deathly qi) and grasses that grow in intense yang (represents heat, life, vitality, or pure energy) were placed barely three jang (10 meters) apart.
It was an illogical sight.
Then the Blood Demon's voice pierced her eardrums.
"Now, make your proposal. That name, I mean."
"Namgung Hyun."
The Blood Demon's lips curved.
"Unexpected. I thought you'd lie or stall for time."
As expected, the name didn't seem to be what mattered — the Blood Demon wasn't particularly shaken.
Instead, he doubted So-hwa for giving it up so easily.
"Still, you seem to be scheming something. To blurt out an answer even before I ask for the price..."
A wrinkle formed between the Blood Demon's brows.
"Now that I've gotten what I wanted, I could kill you right here — and yet you answered so fearlessly. So what is this bizarre talk of yours?"
So-hwa stared at the Blood Demon and slowly opened her mouth.
"You still want more from me, don't you?"
The wrinkle between his brows smoothed out.
As if telling her to go on.
So-hwa calmly met that gaze.
Living two lifetimes, she had read the Tang Clan's secret texts many times. She could copy the records stored in the Nine Turns Pavilion and the Medical Hall without even needing to look.
She had gained much from them, but when she created the deadly poison to develop the "Body Impervious to All Poisons," the book that had helped her wasn't one of those.
It was a folk medical text occasionally delivered to her by Namgung Hyun, who came by while collecting news of the Central Plains at the Four Seasons Hall.
Thinking back now, it wasn't a folk text passed down among the people, but rather a record handed over to her by this very Blood Demon hiding behind Namgung Hyun.
A medical technique that could alter a person's constitution.
'Probably the reason you sought me in my past life.'
If so, this would be the proof he needed to confirm she had returned from the future.
Proof that Tang So-hwa, who possessed a body like the Blood Demon’s, was the one who killed the sorcerer.
So-hwa chewed over the contents of that book and then spoke.
"Tell me what medicine you need."
"What?"
The Blood Demon furrowed his brow.
"That's my 'bizarre talk.' The thing I want from you."
Her calm voice went straight to the point.
"The secret of the body you want to change."