Chapter 195: A Century-Long Vow
Baek Moo-jin stood with eyes closed before Jin Cheon-yeong, whose breath had long since ceased. He had no thought of leaving. He simply pondered the words “Snow Mud and Goose Tracks,” lost in endless thought. He intended to rise only when he sensed Jin Cheon-yeong had shed all earthly attachments and departed. Whether it took three days or a week, he cared not.
As the sun set and the wind grew colder, a sudden cracking sound echoed.
Baek Moo-jin couldn’t help but open his eyes.
Jin Cheon-yeong’s body was being scattered by the wind.
“Hmm…”
It was something he couldn’t easily believe.
Before Baek Moo-jin’s eyes, Jin Cheon-yeong’s body instantly scattered like a sandstorm, then spread out across the vast expanse. It was the words of one who had unleashed the ‘Heavenly Dance,’ yet it was not something Baek Moo-jin could clearly comprehend.
The death of the man called Bicheonju was, as he had said to Baek Moo-jin, Seolni Hongjo itself. Before long, dust carried by the wind mingled with the spot where Bicheonju had sat, and shortly after, even that dust scattered.
Just as Jin Cheon-yeong had returned to dust, he vanished in an equally inexplicable manner…
Baek Moo-jin was left alone here.
It felt utterly hollow.
Only then did Baek Moo-jin realize that a martial world with rivals was preferable to this excruciating solitude. It was an emotion identical to the loneliness felt by those who had reached the pinnacle as the world’s greatest. Only then did Baek Moo-jin rise from his seat and survey the vast Bicheon Palace.
