Chapter 21 Aftermath
“Hwaat…!”
With a strange cry, Peng Ha-ryeong abruptly sat up.
“Eh? Ah? Huh?”
She frantically patted and fumbled over her body with both hands.
Her head, chest, belly, legs, arms… Without even the mental state to observe her internal condition, Peng Ha-ryeong spread her palms wide. Her callused palms, bearing the traces of training.
Like a baby playing pat-a-cake, Peng Ha-ryeong clenched and unclenched her hands.
She stared at her hands as if it were a miracle that they moved perfectly.
No, Peng Ha-ryeong truly found it miraculous that her body was moving without a hitch.
‘Why am I perfectly fine?’
She was certain she had failed when she tried to block the Form-Stealing Fiend’s Aura of Evil with the Primordial Heaven-Opening Palm.
“You’re awake.”
“Hwyaak!”
Peng Ha-ryeong shrieked in surprise, quickly hiding her hands behind her back.
“U-u-uncle? S-since when…?”
“I’ve been here since you cried out ‘Hwaat’.”
So, he’d been there from the very beginning!
But why was Peng Mu-ho so calm when she had just miraculously returned from the brink of death?
Normally, as a direct bloodline member of the Hebei Peng Clan, she would have maintained her composure and managed her expression, but now she was utterly incapable of it. If one could remain composed after barely escaping death, they would be an immortal or an Immortal Maiden, wouldn’t they?
Peng Mu-ho, seeing Peng Ha-ryeong’s thoughts clearly written on her face, readily provided the answer.
