Surviving as a Genius on Borrowed Time

Chapter 450

The long stretch of the wall reflected the bright sunlight.

Beneath the grand plaque of the Great Heaven Gate.

Jeong Yeon-shin did not stop his movements, even as the bothersome voices reached his ears.

The Outer Hall Master of the Great Heaven Gate could interrogate him at any moment, but the only thing that mattered right now was his sword seal imbued with dense Ability of Light’s Wheel.

“Is Baek Mi-ryeo safe?”

[I told you before, she’s being treated exceptionally well, you know? Lavish feasts that you’d never even imagine in Ipwang Fortress, attended to by beautiful attendants, and housed in a palace where she can enjoy all the pleasures of the world. She probably doesn’t even spare a thought for you.]

Demon-Slaying Radiance.

Jeong Yeon-shin struck upward, using his two fingers as a sword, aiming from So Cheonmujuk’s lower dantian in her abdomen up to her middle dantian, just below her sternum.

Swish!

Following the faintly luminous white trajectory, her form wavered like smoke, distorting before returning to its original shape.

“Ugh!”

A sensation of cutting through empty space. As if merely parting a layer of dust.

While the Outer Hall Master of the Great Heaven Gate flinched and stepped back in alarm, the corners of So Cheonmujuk’s lips twisted slightly.

With her hands still behind her back, she floated weightlessly into the air, as light as down.

[It’s useless. This is just an illusion created using the power of a sacred artifact. In other words, nothing more than a ghost without a true form. But more importantly…]

As she looked down at Jeong Yeon-shin, she tilted her head slightly to the side.

[Isn’t your form absurdly crude? Your targeting, your trajectory, even the force contained within the energy waves—you seem to lack understanding.]

She observed Jeong Yeon-shin, who remained silent, before raising one corner of her mouth slightly. As if she had just figured something out.

[Don’t tell me you traveled all the way here using upper dantian-based martial arts? From Ipwang Fortress to this place?]

“……”

[Well, well. I did think it was rather quick for the newly appointed Purple-Rank to arrive. I wonder how many times you performed Great Circulatory Cycle on the way. Wasn’t your swordsmanship designed for short-term decisive battles? Like my Trinity Fiery Annihilation, for example.]

At this moment, her demeanor contradicted the world’s perception of her as a cold, cynical, and unbearably arrogant figure. The length of her speech alone suggested as much.

She was undeniably intrigued by Jeong Yeon-shin’s martial arts.

He did not respond.

He merely inhaled deeply, regulating his internal energy.

Killing her.

From the moment So Cheonmujuk had taken Baek Mi-ryeo, time had frozen for Jeong Yeon-shin. His sharpened senses had measured every single moment from that day onward.

Six days had passed since she was taken. He had spent those days restructuring the Shin Geom Dan unit in Ipwang Fortress, engaging in a war of nerves with the Prince of Gungmyeong, and rescuing both the Sword Saint and Zhuge Cheong-ah from the scum of Taemo Fortress.

The remaining time had been spent traveling with Seonryong.

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