Chapter 88: A Slanting Scale Balance (1/2)

Chapter 88: A Slanting Scale Balance

The holy water was transparent and couldn’t be seen with the naked eye However, those who drank at least one drop of the holy water could hear its sound Thus, Hawa could hear it clearly, as the spring pool underwent a draed Chi-Woo into it

‘…Huh?’ Chi-Woo reacted si pool from head to toe, and he could actually feel the pool’s transforht it eird To see how the purification process worked, he had tried to stay aithout falling asleep, but every time he tried, he would be hit with a a wave of drowsiness soon after entering the spring pool As if someone shot him with a dose of anesthesia, he was always knocked out cold until he woke up the next day But for some reason, he was able to keep his eyes open today and maintain some consciousness And soon, he realized it was because of the pain

“Huh, ugh Ughhhhhhh!” Bubble erupted out of the edges of his screa sensation all over his body to notice the but shake his head like crazy

‘I can’t—’ It was a pain that he couldn’t endure Even though he had become used to pain, there was a lied in a cauldron of boiling oil, which not only cooked his flesh, but also penetrated deep inside his body and ans and bones There was no way he could withstand it Any hero would have screa pain

Time crawled Not only did his body still feel like it was burning, he felt as if a part of it would pop open Chi-Woo turned to his left shoulder because of the sudden burst of irotesque way, like it had absorbed a great ae lu into the earth, the ballooned area began to radually doards Slowly, very slowly, it headed towards his elbow, then stopped around his wrist beforehis left ar inside hi hollow It was al forcefully opened

When the water luers swelled up, and he felt a pleasant tingling feeling, as if hisforced open Simultaneously, yellowish substances poured out the ends of his fingers, but Chi-Woo couldn’t see the up

The water luers climbed back to his shoulders and headed doards into the tips of his fingers again This time, it was able to travel se As if it was excited that there was no longer anything in its way, it oscillated across Chi-Woo’s arm a couple of times But only the left arm was cleared at the moment, and the holy water s

In the beginning, it hada needle on each part of Chi-Woo’s body; but once it created a path, it seemed to lose all restraint The holy water rushed up and down throughout his body like every part was now interconnected, leaving only one part untouched

In theto lose consciousness, or at least beco all over his body was fading He was pretty certain of one thing: the holy water had gotten weaker after forcing its way through his left arotten dian to eain Soon, the holy water whirling inside his body regained its vigor and becaer If it had felt like a ind before, it now felt like a hurricane And the powerful current circulated inside Chi-Woo’s body before stopping near his back

It was then Chi-Woo felt an indescribable fear He knehere the holy water was going now Instinctively, he knew that it shouldn’t

‘N-No This is enough now, so please stop’ Chi-Woo begged The holy water had granted most of Chi-Woo’s requests at once, but it acted differently this ti today, it moved with even more force It slid down to the bottom of his feet, and Chi-Woo’s eyes widened He tried to twist his body around, but failed; it felt like he was tied down by a sturdy chain, which prevented hi As Chi-Woo resisted with all he had, the holy water had finished its preparations, and like a trigger had been pulled, the swirl of water shot up and sideways from the bottom of his feet

“Kuh!” Then, it stopped Confronted by the considerable resistance, the water failed to penetrate his throat As a result, water dripped out of Chi-Woo’s nose and mouth, and blood burst out of his eyes and ears Peculiarly, the blackish water looked viscous, like it was seater However, the holy water didn’t stop It whirled even stronger, intent on penetrating the last part it hadn’t reached, and the volume of blackish blood increased until it poured out like a fountain

“Uh…er in a state to assess the pain he felt now It was beyond anything he had experienced before His eyes rolled into the back of his skull, and he felt suffocated as white foams came out of his mouth Even so, he could clearly feel the hard substance blocking the holy’s water advance was beginning to crack So on suddenly popped, and holy water rushed through like a dam had been broken

“Kuahhhhhhhhh!’ If only he could, he would’ve screamed, but his throat seemed too dry to make a sound Afterward, the water did what it had done before and took over his neck, and finally ness amid an immeasurable pain When the divine water finally filled up his entire head, Chi-Woo regained peace

The pain hadn’t disappeared, no, but his very existence seemed to have been shattered into pieces He didn’t even know if he had lost hisas a spirit, and he was si to turn into a pile of ashes like this Perhaps he was already dead

But unlike Chi-Woo, Haas able to witness this scene fro down!’ When Chi-Woo’s body swelled up in parts, it was still able to h Chi-Woo’s neck to rush into his head, though, his body started breaking While pouring out liquid waste mixed with yellowish substances all over, Chi-Woo’s skin was torn apart to the point that his bones and organs were beco exposed It seemed his body would soon disappear if left alone like this But then—

A brilliant light shot out as the pearl inside the spring pool floated into the air Then it gently landed on Chi-Woo’s heart, which was exposed between his ripped flesh, andabsorbed Froet reconstructed His heart pulsed, pure to fill his cracking skin; like a caterpillar breaking out of its hard cocoon as a beautiful butterfly, Chi-Woo was reborn again The vitality flowing through hihout the sanctuary For a good while, Hawa simply watched, her mind blank

Chi-Woo drea all over space When he regained his senses, he felt a chilly sensation like he had just stepped out of a dry ice storage and let out a sheepish groan After his body had burned up like a boiling furnace, the cool felt indescribably co Then, when he opened his eyes, his vision was blurry At first, he thought he wasn’t fully awake yet, but the blurriness didn’t disappear even after a lot of ti the world underwater

‘Wait, water?’

Chi-Woo blinked He was used to the touch of water and realized that he was inside the spring pool But hoas he able to breathe even when he was coed? Chi-Woo blinked for a while and hurriedly sat up

Splash!+ He saater trickle down his body, and hisopen Just yesterday, he hadn’t been able to see the holy water, but now he could He clearly saw the waves scintillating softly in the pool What in the world happened?

“You’re finally awake”

He heard a familiar voice and turned to Hawa He almost couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw her

‘What?’ After concentrating a bit, he saw so froed, but perhaps it was the color of her soul After relaxing his concentration, Chi-Woo no longer saw the gray light How bizarre