The Eunuch Regains His Manhood in the Second Round

17. Return and Dominate

Thud.

My legs gave out, and I collapsed to the ground.

This can’t be happening.

After all the hardships I endured to reach Guangcheng Danxue.

I invested all my meager internal energy to climb mountains, cross valleys, and scale cliffs to find the elixir in Guangcheng Danxue, only to discover that it was Amitabha Holy Water, which is harmful to men?

“Ahhh!”

I screamed, tearing at my hair.

My vision blurred.

According to the records of my past life, Yujinhui obtained an unparalleled elixir from Guangcheng Danxue.

Indeed, Amitabha Holy Water is an unparalleled elixir.

In my past life, during the process of practicing the eunuch martial arts, I sought out and consumed it with the help of my comrades because it was beneficial for yin-based martial arts.

The power I gained from consuming Amitabha Holy Water and practicing Guihua Baozhen in my past life amounted to a full cycle of sixty years.

Even if it wasn’t for yin-based martial arts, consuming it would open the Ren and Du meridians, achieving the unparalleled elixir.

But the problem was that this damned elixir was a mass of extreme yin energy, condensed over a thousand years.

What does it mean to be the essence of yin energy?

‘It’s useless for vitality!’

Even if I consumed this wretched thing, which I didn’t even want to name, it would be of no help to me.

Increase in internal energy?

That doesn’t matter at all.

Purification of the marrow?

Of course, purification of the marrow is important. It’s one of the few powerful cheats in medieval martial arts that surpasses modern times.

Even if you spent over a hundred million won at a dermatology clinic, it wouldn’t compare to a single purification of the marrow.

But the problem is, if I consume this waste, the yang energy I’ve painstakingly cultivated will weaken.

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The weakening of yang energy means the weakening of vitality.

The side effects are not limited to that.

‘If such a strong yin energy accumulates in the body, even the physique will change to that of a woman!’

If excessive yin energy accumulates in the body, even a man’s muscles and bones will change to those of a woman.

As an expert in Yin Cold Qi Gong (陰寒氣功), I knew this fact very well.

If I were to take the Mita Holy Water, perhaps the gynecomastia I had in my previous life might recur as a side effect.

In that case, like that senior brother, I might have to wrap my chest with bandages again to prevent the nipples from protruding.

No, the results of the external training I had undergone to achieve the ultimate physique, the alpha male beast, might become futile in an instant.

That cannot happen.

How could I let the physique of an alpha male beast, which I had painstakingly built, collapse in an instant just for the sake of some trivial beauty water?

‘Why is there no Ok Yang Water!’

Ok Yang Water (玉陽水).

Unlike the Mita Holy Water, it was a pink liquid with the extreme yang property, created by condensing the yang energy of heaven and earth for a thousand years.

If only there was Ok Yang Water!

Then I could have used it for skin beauty with the beauty water, enhanced my internal energy, boosted my vitality, and absorbed the yang energy to become an even more manly alpha male beast!

Just as accumulating yin energy changes the physique to that of a woman, accumulating yang energy changes the physique to that of a man, that is, an alpha male.

But unfortunately, the liquid in front of my eyes was not the supreme elixir Ok Yang Water, but the trash named Mita Holy Water.

Why on earth!

Why did heaven create the Guangxing Danxue and also the Mita Holy Water!

“Junior brother? What’s wrong? Are you in pain?”

The senior brother approached with a worried expression and asked.

Seeing the innocent face of the senior brother, anger surged within me.

Why didn’t he tell me what kind of elixir he took in his previous life?

He made me come all the way here for nothing.

If I had known that there was trash like the Mita Holy Water here, I would never have come in person.

I would have just informed the senior brother of the location and had him retrieve the secret manual.

But why!

Was it because in his previous life, Yujinhui avoided women due to the side effects of taking the Mita Holy Water, which weakened his vitality and made him lose his masculinity, turning him into a neutral body?

Well, if one could endure the side effects, the Mita Holy Water was indeed a supreme elixir that offered a 1+1 deal of beauty water and sixty years of internal energy. It would be stranger not to take it. Even if it wasn’t the senior brother, any other male martial artist would have taken the Mita Holy Water.

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This is why Murim people are a problem. They seem like the kind who would eat dung if it helped their martial arts.

Suppressing my rising emotions, I spoke to my senior brother with superhuman acting skills.

“No, it’s tears of joy. Senior brother, look here. A milky white liquid that contains spiritual energy and coldness that you can feel on your skin. This must be the legendary Mita Holy Water.”

At the mention of Mita Holy Water, my senior brother’s eyes widened.

As a Murim person who has one foot in the martial world, he must have heard of famous elixirs.

“Junior brother? Really? Is that water really Mita Holy Water?”

“Yes, it is.”

Wiping my tears, I nodded and stood up as I spoke to my senior brother.

“Senior brother, you should take the Mita Holy Water.”

“Me, me?!”

My words startled my senior brother.

“What about you? Mita Holy Water is an unparalleled elixir. Are you sure you don’t need it?”

He asked me with a surprised expression.

I shook my head at his words.

An unparalleled elixir, my foot.

To me, it’s just useless trash, a deadly poison that surpasses the legendary invisible poison.

It’s a useless item anyway, so it’s better to recycle it by having my senior brother take it.

Even if it’s a sinister elixir, as my senior brother mentioned, it is indeed a rare elixir.

So, it is right for my senior brother to take it, to quickly establish the foundation to become a future sword saint by opening the Ren and Du meridians here.

Because the faster my senior brother becomes stronger, the faster the reconstruction of our sect will be.

And the faster the reconstruction of our sect, the better.

That way, as the sword saint’s disciple, I can push all the troublesome and responsible tasks to my senior brother while I control the orthodox Murim as the hidden power of our sect, and as the sword saint’s disciple, I can make a name for myself and appeal to the beauties of the martial world.

For the future of having three wives and four concubines and enjoying responsibility-free pleasure, my senior brother had to take the Mita Holy Water here.

“I’m fine. Judging by the amount of Mita Holy Water here, if one person takes it completely, they can open the Ren and Du meridians, but if two people share it, it will only slightly increase the power of both. I’m a dullard, but you’re a genius, aren’t you? It’s better for the genius senior brother, the head disciple, to take the Mita Holy Water and open the Ren and Du meridians for the reconstruction of our sect.”

I explained with irrefutable logic why my senior brother had to take the Mita Holy Water. Then, wrapping my hand with the snake skin I had peeled earlier, I carefully collected all the Mita Holy Water pooled on the ground into the cup, not leaving a single drop.

The milky Mita Holy Water filled the cup, emitting white smoke like dry ice.

The sinister energy emanating from the Mita Holy Water in the cup was considerable. Even though I was protecting my body with the skin and inner strength of the monster viper, my hand felt like it was freezing.

“Here, take it.”

When I offered the cup with the Mita Holy Water, my senior brother shook his head.

“No, junior brother. It’s better for you to take the Mita Holy Water. As you said, I’m a genius, so I can reach the peak through training without the help of elixirs and contribute to the reconstruction of our sect. So… this Mita Holy Water is more needed by you, who lack talent. If you take it now, you can stand by my side. You’ve always wanted to stand by my side…”

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My senior brother carefully looked at me and smiled gently.

“So, I will yield to my junior brother.”

He made a dreadful conclusion.

What?

Yield to me?

This trash?

The hand holding the Mita Holy Water trembled.

That can’t be.

How much Yang energy I’ve accumulated, how I’ve built this body.

I can’t let this trash ruin my grand plan of having three wives and four concubines overnight.

“No, senior brother. I appreciate your intention to yield the Mita Holy Water, such a peerless elixir, to your foolish junior, but I cannot accept it. Our sect does not need several mediocre masters right now. To rebuild our fallen sect, we need one great master who can make our sect’s name resound throughout the world. And the only person in our sect with the qualities to become such a great master is you, senior brother. So, you must take it and become a great swordsman, making our sect’s name renowned in the martial world. For me, the reconstruction of our sect and your well-being are far more important than my own martial prowess. Therefore, I will accept your heart, not the elixir.”

I looked at my senior brother with earnest eyes, wrapping my words in a polite package, essentially telling him to take it and leave me alone.

My senior brother, receiving my gaze, bit his beautiful lips.

His eyes slightly wavered.

He looked seriously troubled.

Isn’t it a peerless elixir?

Why is he trying to yield it?

No matter how naive he is, shouldn’t he pretend to accept it if I yield?

Of course, I wouldn’t eat such a monstrosity even if given.

Even with his androgynous physique and gynecomastia, if my senior brother takes the extremely Yin Mita Holy Water, his bones and muscles might change like a woman’s, growing into a beautiful man prettier than a woman.

But I don’t need to worry about that. I don’t have such tastes. No matter how pretty a man is, he is still a man. I dislike male beauty.

Anyway, my senior brother in my previous life must have taken the Mita Holy Water.

While I was silently having a mental battle with my senior brother over the Mita Holy Water.

‘What’s that?’

I saw a dark red moss growing on the wall.

Usually, dark red means dead moss, but surprisingly, the dark red moss on the wall was full of life, brimming with vitality.

The moment I saw it, the name of an elixir flashed through my mind.

‘That moss, could it be…’

I immediately channeled a handful of internal energy through the path of the Soyang Mind Technique and extended my senses towards the dark red moss.

The radar of my senses, delicately extending towards the air, detected the hot energy, the Yang energy of a man, emanating from the dark red moss.

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A moss imbued with yang energy!

No doubt about it.

That moss is none other than the elixir in the form of moss that has absorbed yang energy for a hundred years, Hongyangtai (紅陽苔)!

‘Eureka!’

Like Archimedes discovering the principle of buoyancy, I shouted eureka inside upon discovering Hongyangtai.

Yes.

Unless it is a special environment dominated by extreme yin or extreme yang energy, like a superheated volcano or the extremely cold North Sea, most elixirs contain both yin and yang energy in varying proportions, or both yin and yang elixirs grow in the same place.

Although it is a tier lower than Mitaseongsoo and has less quantity, so I won’t achieve the ultimate state by taking Hongyangtai now, it didn’t matter.

An elixir imbued with yang energy!

Even if you gave me a truckload of vipers like the one I chopped up and boiled into snake soup earlier, it wouldn’t be worth a pinch of that Hongyangtai.

That means, if I take that Hongyangtai and convert it all into energy through meditation, my energy will be greatly enhanced in an instant.

The reason I didn’t discover Hongyangtai earlier was partly because I was shocked to learn that the trashy Mitaseongsoo was the elixir my senior brother took in his past life, but fundamentally, it was because the extreme yin energy emitted by Mitaseongsoo overshadowed the yang energy of Hongyangtai, making it undetectable.

Understanding the situation, I looked at my senior brother and said,

“Senior brother, please take Mitaseongsoo. I will take the Hongyangtai (紅陽苔) attached to that wall.”

In his past life, my senior brother probably took both Mitaseongsoo and Hongyangtai to balance the yin and yang.

Extreme yin elixirs are dangerous. If an ordinary martial artist who hasn’t mastered yin energy techniques takes Mitaseongsoo alone, they are likely to freeze to death or become crippled unless a master of yin energy techniques is by their side.

Therefore, taking the extreme yin elixir Mitaseongsoo along with the yang elixir Hongyangtai is the proper way to consume elixirs and common sense in the martial world.

But I had no intention of giving Hongyangtai to my senior brother.

Nor did I intend to cripple my senior brother, who would have to work for the reconstruction of our sect in my place and create my bright future.

At first glance, it seemed like a contradictory situation of trying to catch two rabbits at once.

But coincidentally, in my past life, I had mastered the supreme yin energy technique, Gyuhwabojun, and reached the pinnacle of yin energy techniques.

If I guided my senior brother on the meditation path using the insights from the supreme yin energy technique I gained in my past life and the formulas of the Samumjinkyeol here, he could safely absorb the essence of Mitaseongsoo without the yang elixir Hongyangtai.

‘Finally, it’s time to use the knowledge of that trashy martial art.’

Even dog poop can be used as medicine if needed.

Who would have thought I would use the trashy eunuch martial art in this way?

I said this while looking at my senior brother.

After a moment of contemplation, my senior brother nodded heavily and said in a serious voice,

“Yes, I understand, junior brother.”

Finally obtaining my senior brother’s consent, I smiled.

Yes, this is how I monopolize after returning.

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