Chapter 3. The Pajeo River (5)

After using the Tortoise-Breathing Art (龜息大法), the world began to look slower to Dokgo Ryeong.

At the same time, she felt a kind of comfort she hadn’t experienced in a long time.

It was a strange sensation, as if she were floating in the sky, much like sleeping in a cozy bed.

Savoring that sense of ease, Dokgo Ryeong sank inward.

‘…’

After sensing the cold, pure yin energy curled up near her lower dantian, around the Huiyin acupoint, Dokgo Ryeong surveyed her insides as if circulating her energy through the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.

When she reached the Tianhui acupoint near the crown of her head, she noticed the trace of yang energy she’d stored there back when she was the Mad Demon, Dokgo Jin.

‘…It was still there.’

It was the remnant of the moment she’d sent all her yang energy to the Tianhui acupoint, determined to save her mind even if it meant becoming impotent, while undergoing a complete transformation of bone and marrow.

The yin energy of the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Jade had swept through her once, so the remaining yang energy felt like less than a handful. Still, she thought she might be able to draw on it in a truly desperate situation...