Chapter 256 (2/2)

He didn’t need to verify Nezha’s death any further than that. So, he instead shifted his gaze over to Su-hyeun who was struggling to stand back up. “This guy, just what is he exactly?”

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A day had passed by after the gods of the Heavenly World retreated.

Su-hyeun had been sleeping right through it. His aching body needed a lot of time to properly heal—all because of the Yogoe Capturing Rope.

The confining rope capable of restricting gods and Yogoes alike would exert enough pressure to crush one’s bones as soon as it tightened around the target’s body.

Chirp—

His ears caught a bird’s pleasant chirping.

Su-hyeun’s tightly closed eyelids slowly opened. He pushed aside the sheets and raised his torso.

“How long did I sleep for?”

Ever since he arrived, he somehow developed a habit of falling into a deep sleep.

Su-hyeun scratched his head. His sleep had been so deep that he just couldn’t wake up at all, so he loudly slapped his cheeks with his hands.

After waking up a bit more, he got up from the bed and left the house.

When he did…

“What the?”

The surrounding view he grew familiar with entered his vision.

Thick verdant trees spread out as far as his eyes could see, and the refreshingly cool early morning air and the comforting scent of earth tickled his nose.

But that view should have been wrecked beyond recognition from the previous battle.

“You’re awake.”

“You’re awake.”

“You’re…”

Sun Wukong’s voice echoed around.

Su-hyeun dazedly looked at him.

Sun Wukong lightly leaped off from the bamboo spear and left his clones to continue with the training. “How’s your body feeling now? You’re not in pain anywhere, right?”

“Ah, that. Yes, quite amazingly, I’m perfectly fine.”

Only after listening to Sun Wukong’s question did Su-hyeun belatedly check up on his body’s status.

He didn’t even have to take a closer look. It was with amazement that he found his condition to be at its absolute peak.

“But it felt like all of my bones were crushed, didn’t it?” he thought.

He felt it right after he had used up his “Immortality” skill, so he didn’t have much magical energy left in him, and physically speaking, he was quite exhausted as well. But even then, to think that he would recover so perfectly after only in a single day.

“Well, big bro’s pretty handy with his healing ability, you know. You might have not noticed it yet, but your body’s probably been improved a bit now, too.”

“It seems that way.”

For sure, his body did feel lighter than usual. It previously felt fatigued and heavy for some reason, yet now, the featherlight sensation that dominated his body felt like he had gained a new pair of wings.

“Just what did he do exactly?” he wondered.

Seeing that it was already morning, Su-hyeun figured that he had rested for a full day.

Upon realizing that he slept for a long time again, he ended up sighing in disappointment and regret, fully knowing that every second was too precious to him.

However, it was at that moment that…

“Ah. The breathing technique,” he realized.

Su-hyeun had forgotten to maintain his breathing technique, but an expression of astonishment quickly formed on his face.

“Hey, man, why do you sigh so much anyway? You haven’t even lived for that long, you know.”

Sun Wukong tutted in disapproval at the sight of Su-hyeun sighing.

However, the latter didn’t really pay attention to what the Yogoe said just then. “Big bro, am I…?”

“What about you?”

“My breathing pattern…”

“What’s wrong? You’re breathing properly, aren’t you? Yeah, that’s the correct pattern.”

Sun Wukong replied as if he couldn’t see a problem.

But that was precisely what Su-hyeun found odd.

The breathing technique he barely managed to maintain consciously had now become so natural that he could no longer remember the previous breathing pattern anymore.

“No way…” he thought.

[Basic Breathing Technique]

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Grade: –

Category: Active (activation type)

The Sage Arts’ basic breathing method. Maintaining the breathing pattern reduces magical energy consumption by 32%.

Proficiency: 48.25%

Your magical energy concentration will increase depending on your proficiency.

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Su-hyeun was stunned once more after confirming his proficiency.

Over 48%.

His magical energy consumption was now reduced by 32%.

The proficiency that hovered around the 10% mark for the last few days had shot up greatly after a good night’s sleep.

“If the consumption reduction is now 32%, then…” his thoughts trailed off.

Whenever a need to use skills or magical power arose in the future, he would get the same result as he did in the past while only unleashing 68% of output.

To flip that around, consuming the same amount of magical energy as before would result in even greater firepower now.

Since the breathing technique was basically a cheat skill, he feared that its proficiency wouldn’t rise that quickly, but as it turned out, he was wrong.

“What’s wrong? Are you surprised by how natural it is?”

Sun Wukong didn’t know about the existence of the “system,” so he merely thought that Su-hyeun’s shock was caused by how natural his breathing technique had gotten.

The truth wasn’t too far off, though.

The meaning of the proficiency increasing was the same as him becoming that much familiar with the technique, after all.

Pang—!

Sun Wukong powerfully smacked Su-hyeun’s back.

The impact force was strong enough to crush the spine of a regular person. However, to Sun Wukong, such a smack was nothing more than a friendly pat.

“Kids are supposed to grow up by fighting a lot. Remember that.”

“Ah, I see. Sure…”

“Oh, and big bro said you should go and see him in his room when you wake up. I came here to tell you that. I was wondering if you were feeling alright, too,” Sun Wukong said, pointing to the Bull Demon King’s room.

Su-hyeun lightly shook his head as he watched Sun Wukong quickly leap back up on top of the wooden spike.

“The Bull Demon King is waiting for me?” he thought.

He still couldn’t sense anything from that room.

But that was obvious. He couldn’t sense him in the past, and most likely, he would not be able to in the future as well. To him, the current Bull Demon King was an existence similar to Mother Nature itself, someone he couldn’t even dare to get close to.

Step, step—

“Huh?”

However, with that thought running in his mind, Su-hyeun had to briefly stop walking as he headed toward the Bull Demon King’s room.

Something strange had happened.

The Bull Demon King’s presence, something he thought he would never pick up, he could feel it now.