[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith":3,"chapter-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-95":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Childhood Friend of the Zenith",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1240071,1667,"Chapter 94: Preparation (3)","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-95",95,"\u003Cp>༺ Preparation (3) ༻\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I returned to the lodge after having finished my afternoon training.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, I had planned to return to the clan around this time…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘But things got a bit twisted.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to delay my return plans since Gu Ryunghwa told me that she would be returning to the clan with me as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially since the Sword Master also spoke of her desire to go to the Gu Clan with us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So she’s going with her?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Sword Master is going to the Gu Clan, I, therefore, assumed that she will be going with Gu Ryunghwa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, I can just hear it directly from her since she told me that she would be visiting me later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also heard that the Immortal Healer was coming as well…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it seemed like I had to start wrapping up things here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I should first go and visit the Celestial Plum Blossom.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I didn’t go to him right now, it was very likely for him to eventually come to me. However, I believed that it would be more respectful of me, as a younger person, to visit the elderly first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I also had to make a request to him anyways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘For that to happen, I have to see the Sword Master first then…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was planning to get help from the Plum Blossom Sword herself during my visit to the Celestial Plum Blossom to make a request.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So before the visit, I had to inform the Sword Master of some things beforehand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After organizing my thoughts, I arrived at my room and immediately saw Wi Seol-Ah coming towards me, as she had seen me coming while doing the laundry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s up? I barely got to see you in the past few days.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I only saw her during mealtimes recently, so it felt kind of new to see her right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Does she have a lot of work to do? She looks pretty tired.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I noticed the slight signs of exhaustion on Wi Seol-Ah’s face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I don’t think Wi Seol-Ah would get tired of doing work since she had a ton of energy when compared to the other workers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did something happen?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You look really tired.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I just asked her right away to be sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something serious must have happened if Wi Seol-Ah, out of everyone, became tired over something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah just smiled, a wide grin that stretched all the way to her eyes, as she heard my question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m fine! Nothing happened!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she stood up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked to me that she was trying to show that she was, in fact, healthy and in good shape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her do that, I just smirked and messed up her hair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was now able to do things like this to her when in the past I would often wonder if I could even dare to touch her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now that I look at myself, I have changed quite a bit too from my past self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After playing with her hair for a while, I spoke to Wi Seol-Ah again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You wanna go down to the city today?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh!?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah responded with a stupefied expression after hearing my question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it really that shocking?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I guess I didn’t usually go to places with her unless I had some business to do…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah’s soon turned into saucers, a testament to the magnitude of shock she was feeling right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“W-When… now?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You busy? If you have work left—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! I have none! I did it all, I don’t have any left!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“R-Right, glad to hear that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She responded back with a distinct desperation in her voice when I was about to cancel the plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Forcefully stopping my mouth from smiling like a fool after seeing Wi Seol-Ah acting like that, I spoke to her again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll be back quickly after showering a bit, so wake her up and bring her.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Kay… Huh? Bring her?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wi Seol-Ah looked at me as though she was not able to understand what I was saying right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she realized that I was talking about Namgung Bi-ah and started glaring at me quite intensely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…It’d be rude to just leave her here, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tried to make up an excuse, but it obviously didn’t work on her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Wi Seol-Ah only glared at me for a bit and didn’t say anything afterwards due to how nice she was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It’s just that she let out what seemed like a sigh and went on her way to wake up Namgung Bi-ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt somewhat sorry, but I didn’t really have any other choice here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I can’t believe I would come across such problems.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was quite surprised by that realization,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Considering the fact that it was difficult for me to think about someone else in the not-so-distant past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After I washed away the sweat I had accumulated from training, I changed into clean clothes and went out of my room. Immediately, I saw the scene of Namgung Bi-ah hanging on top of Wi Seol-Ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Ugghh… You are heavy sis…!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mmmph…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you guys doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Namgung Bi-ah was hanging on top of Wi Seol-Ah while looking like she was still half asleep, hovering in her dreams.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And due to the physical difference between them, it looked like Wi Seol-Ah was getting covered up by Namgung Bi-ah right now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Namgung Bi-ah has been sleeping more recently, so did something happen to her?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Do you want to go back and sleep? Us two can just go by ourselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No sooner had I said those words, Namgung Bi-ah immeditely stood up on her feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She still looked a bit tired, but it looked like she was trying to show me that she can go with us without any problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, I could see that she was searching for something in her pocket and immediately after, she took something out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A mask…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, it was a mask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Does she just always have that with her now since I told her to cover herself up?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well, some people still looked at her because she was attractive even with the mask on, but wearing it still reduced most of the attention she would normally receive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed like she felt uncomfortable with that many people looking at her, especially when she wasn’t used to crowded streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I guess that mask is satisfactory for Namgung Bi-ah.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You are prepared.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… is comfortable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master! Should I call brother Muyeon?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought that he was ready to depart with us by now since I already told the escorts that I would be going out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘A rare moment for Muyeon to not be prepared.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Realistically speaking, I could opt to just leave him behind, but Muyeon would definitely scold me later if I didn’t go with him tagging along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I already got scolded once because of the injury I had received from that ominous incident before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They kept asking me why I keep going alone without any escorts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I had no other choice because of how urgent it was back then.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s how worried Muyeon usually was, so did something happen to him?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surprisingly, Namgung Bi-ah was the one to answer the questions I had.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He went to attend a duel.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Duel?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Against a disciple of the Mount Hua Sect.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A disciple? Who?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Namgung Bi-ah could only know so many students of the Mount Hua Sect… and I doubted that it would be Gu Ryunghwa, there was only one person left who fit the bill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Are you talking about Master Yung Pung?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Muyeon went to duel against Yung Pung?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this random occurrence?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always rejected challenges from Namgung Bi-ah and others because of his job as an escort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He did it with me too.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had no choice but to ask that question after hearing Namgung Bi-ah’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did he duel with Namgung Bi-ah too? This is the first time I heard such a thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t know how Namgung Bi-ah felt about my reaction, but she quietly leaked out some words afterward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Then lost.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t ask who lost.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I felt like I could tell who lost the duel just by looking at her gloomy expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If someone wants to give Muyeon a challenge…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after absorbing all the energies I did in this life, Muyeon was still at a higher martial rank than I was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still remember the time when a bunch of swordsmen were asking Muyeon to return to their group back when I was in the clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Muyeon is certainly not your average martial artist.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His talent probably couldn’t hold a candle against someone like Yung Pung, but that certainly didn’t mean that Muyeon lacked talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t common at all for a man who was barely over the age of twenty to be at that level of martial attainment unless they were a young prodigy that came from a noble clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A duel huh… I wonder if something triggered him.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Namgung Bi-ah stared at me for some time when I said those words. I asked wondering why she directed that gaze at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s up?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can… understand him a little.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She went back to her usual indifferent expression after mumbling those words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hugging Namgung Bi-ah’s waist Wi Seol-Ah was also seemingly asking me when we were going to leave with her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I doubt that Muyeon heard about us going out since I informed the escorts so suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So I guess I can just go without him then, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since there were other escorts around after all…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While I was finishing my preparations to leave, Namgung Bi-ah suddenly spoke to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When we return… let’s duel…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I stopped on my tracks after hearing Namgung Bi-ah’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, right…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I totally forgot that I had promised to duel with her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It should be fine since I already dueled with Yung Pung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Though it’s a bit bothersome how I keep getting reminded of the past.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t like I could reject her forever, so I should just accept her invitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“After we return, let’s do it if I’m free.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A rare expression of shock bloomed on Namgung Bi-ah’s face due to what I said to her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, that smile…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I smirked after seeing her mouth slowly curving into a small smile and started to walk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is this really something that should be enough to make her happy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would be more or less nighttime by the time we arrive back at the lodge,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it should be fine to spare some time for her as long as I didn’t have anything to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I should be fine as I didn’t have any problem with dueling Yung Pung last time.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless I use up a ton of Qi, as I did against Ya Hyeoljeok, I thought that it’d be fine to duel with anyone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After we looked around the city streets and filled up our stomachs with various delicacies, we returned to the lodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But we were unable to do the duel that Namgung Bi-ah had been so excitedly waiting for.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some work came up for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You finally came.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I returned to the lodge I could see the Immortal Healer seated inside my room, waiting for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>* * * *\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt like I’ve been having a lot of guests recently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which of course included Yung Pung, Gu Ryunghwa, the Sword Master, and now even the Immortal Healer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘I did hear that he would come to visit me…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I remember the Sword Master telling me that sometime ago. It’s just that he came by himself when I heard that he would be coming with the Sword Master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What brings you here…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I came to check your body. Why are you so surprised?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m not sir. I was just a bit puzzled.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could feel Namgung Bi-ah glaring at me with a sharp intensity, unlike anything she had done before, but there was nothing I could do about it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He came to check up on my body after all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I gazed at Namgung Bi-ah, signaling to her that we would duel some other time, and disappeared with a slightly sulky expression on her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm… Maybe I came at the wrong time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer leaked out a fake cough, noticing the little gestures we made to communicate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not a problem sir. You came here after freeing your schedule.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I appreciate you saying that, now come sit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The checkup didn’t take too long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no problem with my body besides the fact that it was overwhelmed with Demonic Qi at the moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm… You indeed have a fascinating body. I wonder what happened for all these energies to calm down like this…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer may have told me that this was a checkup, but to me, it looked more like he was doing research on my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could just see it in those eyes of his.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘…What do I do if he really tries to cut my belly open?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just joking when he said to me previously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had to be…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I answered every question that he asked me with coherence and precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer seemed very interested in the Gu Clan’s ability to get rid of the turbid energy inside one’s body, but I told him that it was very hard to explain it to him… as he wasn’t a martial artist himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the excuse I made up to tackle this situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, I had no way to explain it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying things like ‘I guess our clan just has that ability! But I don’t know much!’ should be enough for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it would be problematic if the Immortal Healer came to our clan to ask about the ability though.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘But I doubt that he would visit our clan just because of this.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer was a doctor that was requested to visit in numerous places all over the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it wouldn’t be a no-brainer for him to visit the Gu Clan when they had not even invited him to come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I think.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer leaked out a sigh full of disappointment after not being able to find anything else about my abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well… It seems like you are healthy.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Why are you saying that in such a disappointed tone?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is it just me or does he just not seem satisfied that I’m healthy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You really think I’m disappointed?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It must be my mistake then, right?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer didn’t answer my question. He just quietly took out a wooden pass from his pocket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Take this.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can you not tell by just looking? It’s a wooden pass.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I can see that at least, but I was asking what this is used for.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since I’m just a wandering doctor, I don’t have much to give you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer was trying to give me something. I was already satisfied with just the free treatment he gave me, so why was he trying to give me more now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t have anything big to give to you, but you should be able to get good treatment from the Beggar’s Sect when you bring this pass to them.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How come you are giving me something like this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I could see that this was a valuable item even at first glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furthermore, if this had relations to the the Beggar’s Sect then…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was suddenly reminded of the black wooden pass that Peng Woojin gave to me last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I originally wanted to give this to someone I was looking for, but I couldn’t find him which is why I’m giving it to you. Just take it as a payment for a commission.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A payment for… a commission?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, I have something to ask of you after all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I knew it, something like this was too big to just give to me for free…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a different intention behind giving me this pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘He isn’t going to ask me if he could really open up my stomach, right?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that was the case, I would have to run away immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard that the Sword Master is going too by the time you leave.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Oh, I heard that as well, but I’m not certain yet.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was the leader of our crew, so if the Sword Master wanted to go with us, then she would need my approval to tag along.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I wasn’t sure if I could allow her to leave the Mount Hua Sect when she just recovered from her sickness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The problem though, was what the Immortal Healer told me afterwards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m also going to the Gu Clan as I have some business there as well.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I already told Dohwa, and it should be fine since there are no places in the world where I’m unwelcomed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer informed me that he had already mentioned about his departure to the Celestial Plum Blossom. It was as though he had assumed that I would definitely approve of his intentions of tagging along with us.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Why?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I couldn’t help but say that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just too absurd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why is everyone trying to go to my house when there are other better towns around…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Is our house covered in honey or something?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I even had nonsensical thought like these at this point.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>* * * *\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– I understand what you want, but do you really think I could achieve something like that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– I also saw something in that girl, but I didn’t thoroughly check her as Dohwa told me not to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– I can’t heal everyone just because of my name being the Immortal Healer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing the Immortal Healer’s cold words, the Sword Emperor spoke after standing there in silence for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Then, this is impossible even for you…?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– …\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer never lied when it came to healing someone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Emperor, of course, knew of that fact.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the reason why he was able to guess the answer just by reading the Immortal Healer’s expression and silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer only heaved a sigh of relief in response as he knew that the Sword Emperor had noticed already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– It’s a very hard task for me to just rashly go through one’s energy when that person isn’t actually human, nor a martial artist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Not only do I need an immense amount of time, but the ingredients needed for that may require destroying the root of a clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– …I can take—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Alliance leader.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Healer cut off the Sword Emperor’s words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Before you bring that to me, please fulfill my request first. I believe that takes priority.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– …\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>– Until then, I won’t give my answer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a short and strict response.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It would all end if the Sword Emperor didn’t want to go through with what was asked of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he wasn’t in a position where he could let go of such an opportunity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a thread of light that came down into a hole of never-ending darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sword Emperor determined himself once he was reminded of his granddaughter, smiling at him brightly and happily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then swiftly wrote a letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Carefully, he wrote down on the blank white surface, filling it all up with words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Murim’ was written on the front cover of the letter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This letter was for none other than the current leader of the Murim Alliance— the Harmonic Sword, Jang Cheon.\u003C\u002Fp>",3273,"2026-06-05T15:09:38.751Z",1,"novelbin.me","af345442472c31e0d7f8bc33c8713a9153038ff3a3792f42b9cf54c3d871c481","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-96","childhood-friend-of-the-zenith-chapter-94",974,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fchildhood-friend-of-the-zenith-cover.jpg"]