Chapter 45 - 44: Arrival at Mount Hua (19)

Up until now, how many misfortunes had Wolryung witnessed?

His whole life was nothing but a misfortune. The life he lived as Kang Junho or The life he was living now as Ma Wolryung... In neither of them could he say that he had experienced any good fortune. Forget about his past life for a second and let’s talk about his second life as Ma Wolryung.

The first thing after coming to this world, what did he witness? Getting kidnapped by some third class thug. On top of that he was about to die at their hands. If it wasn’t for Ma Jin Ho arriving in time, Wolryung was surely done for. Then what? He went to the Murim Alliance Western Sichuan branch thinking he would get the bounty of catching those third class thugs and return to his clan. But instead what he got? Getting caught up into a brutal war with the underworld faction. As if that wasn’t enough, he himself had to step forward betting his life to win the war.

“Sigh...”

Well, if he counted the money he got by scheming them, 350 gold nyang, then it was also a fortunate encounter, right?

‘To hell with that fortunate encounter. If I die, what good will that shitty fortunate encounter bring?!’

Ahem...

Anyway, that was that. After that incident, he was traveling so peacefully only to encounter those fake green mountain bandits who didn’t even have a penny with themselves.

‘Argh... It still pisses me off.’

Those bastards were showing off too much when they clashed with Wolryung first. But after getting defeated one-sidedly their personality shifted in an instant. And then what? He thought he would get some compensation only to find out they had no money or treasures. Well, at least he got some free laborers.

‘Hmph. What free laborers? They are just some useless thugs. I bet they don’t even know any household chores.’

And now lastly, when he thought he would steal the treasure of the Mount Hua Sect, he got some lame stone which had only one good thing going for it. And that was the pleasant plum blossom scent it gave off.

‘What do I use it for? Should I use it like a perfume or something?’

This was really bothersome.

Wolryung started inspecting the stone even more thoroughly as if trying to find any single clue he could. The Mount Hua Sect people didn’t call it a treasure just for nothing, right? There must be something valuable about it. Otherwise, why would they call some useless pretty stone a treasure of theirs? After all, there were plenty of cheap items available on the streets that looked pretty and gave off a pleasant scent. So, if the stone had the only good thing about it, looking pretty and giving off a pleasant scent, then what was the difference between this and those items found on streets? Surely, that wouldn’t be the case, right?

“...”

However, no matter how Wolryung looked, there was nothing special about it that he could see. Now, it was getting irritating to inspect it over and over. Thus, Wolryung stopped inspecting the crystal stone and glared at it with a dark face.

“Should I just... toss it into this mountain?”

If he wasn’t able to find anything good about it even after inspecting it for that long, then there was no way there was anything good about it. And there was also this thing. Having read the novel ‘Sword of The Dark Heaven’ several times, he never found a treasure of Mount Hua that gave the description similar to this stone. So in other words, this damn thing was nothing but a garbage item. Why didn’t he think of that earlier? Regretting the fact that he wasted his time and energy on something this useless made Wolryung angry. Thus, Wolryung gripped the stone in his right hand, and was about to toss it with all his might.

It was then...

“!!!”

Wolryung’s eyes went wide in shock as he saw an astonishing phenomenon happening right in front of him.

Shhhhhhh...

The crystal stone shone in crimson red, forming the illusion of a red plum blossom flower. A large amount of red qi began circling around it.

Shhhhhhh...

“...”

Chachachachacha...

Not long after, the qi circling around the stone began to move around Wolryung’s arm.

“...What the...!”

Wolryung immediately tried to toss away the crystal stone. However, he couldn’t even move his hand. The red qi moved even further, entering inside his body.

Chachachachacha...

“...This is dangerous.”

His face started going pale in fear. Wolryung then immediately moved his left arm and grabbed the crystal stone with it.

“Arghhhhhh...”

Wolryung tried to pull the stone with all his might. But, that was it. He couldn’t make the stone move even the slightest nor could he move his right arm from its place.

Chachachachacha...

The red qi surged onward, rushing directly toward his dantian.

On the other hand, Wolryung felt utterly exhausted only after trying to move the crystal for a moment.

“That branch leader bastard...”

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....

His ears started ringing, his head feeling dizzy.

“What the hell... did he... give me...?”

His vision started getting covered in crimson red and soon he could see nothing but red.

“I swear... I... will...”

And then darkness.

Thud!

Wolryung collapsed on the ground.