[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-myst-might-mayhem":3,"chapter-myst-might-mayhem-myst-might-mayhem-chapter-104":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Myst, Might, Mayhem",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},555569,804,"Chapter 104","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-104",104,"\u003Cp>Chapter 104 – Lord of the Western Sea (1)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Human. Open the wooden box. If you do so, I, the ruler of the seas, shall grant your wish.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the voice coming from the wooden box, Mok Gyeong-un scoffed and muttered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re really blatantly peddling the bait.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was an enticement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was no different from openly asking him to open the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheong-ryeong spoke in an astonished tone,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-How can someone who can’t even take care of their own body grant wishes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I agree with those words. But what could it be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It seems they sealed away an evil creature. However, to think its voice can be heard even while sealed. This is the first time I’ve seen such a case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had lived as a vengeful spirit for a hundred years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And she had also been sealed away like the wicked thing in this wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this was the first time she encountered such a case.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, once sealed, all energy and everything else is blocked, so the inside and outside are meant to be isolated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the fact that this thing’s voice could be heard meant…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah. There’s a crack.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-A crack?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a partial crack on the upper part of the wooden box that Mok Gyeong-un pointed to.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-I see. But this wooden box…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s strange that there’s no talisman or anything.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-You noticed it too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a peculiar situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Cheong-ryeong said, there was no talisman or anything to seal the demonic energy on the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then by what means was this ominous being trapped in this wooden box?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was incomprehensible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was perplexed, a voice was heard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it. I thought it was some luck that you could hear my voice, but judging from your mention of talismans, you must be a Taoist who has mastered sorcery.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A Taoist? What do you mean by that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t pretend otherwise. Do you think you can deceive me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but you can think of me as a diviner who is learning sorcery.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A diviner? Ah. You must be the same kind as that human wearing diviner’s robes who came last time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘The same kind?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on the way it spoke, it seemed someone had come before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, there was no way a diviner who had mastered sorcery would fail to detect such ominous demonic energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the first place, the red line was a technique that only a diviner could create.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who came before?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Someone did come. It was an ominous fellow with three eyes. It was the first time I saw someone with those eyes that were said to have disappeared after the ancient times.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Three eyes? What is that? Cheong-ryeong, do you know?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Do you think I know all the principles of the world?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Cheong-ryeong’s words, Mok Gyeong-un tilted his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If you literally interpret “three eyes,” it means having three eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a deformed being had come here before?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was puzzled, a voice came from the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How would the likes of you evil spirits and lowly humans know about matters from the ancient times?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-..You’ve been calling us evil spirits, you evil creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wait a moment.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-What?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un stopped her anger and said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what exactly are these ‘three eyes’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It’s literally a three-eyed being. It is a deformed creature born from a human womb. There is a saying that misfortune arrives when it is born.=\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Misfortune?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-But it’s quite interesting. Even in ancient times, a three-eyed being would barely survive a day after birth before being killed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was difficult to understand what it was talking about.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un summarized,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I don’t quite understand what you mean, but are you saying that diviner wearing robes who had three eyes put you here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right. I don’t know what that person did, but after he came, no one could perceive me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not being able to perceive means…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From the beginning, they treat it as if it doesn’t exist.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As if it doesn’t exist?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the words that flowed from the wooden box, Cheong-ryeong strongly denied,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-That can’t be. No matter how much human sorcery has advanced over time, erasing perception goes against the principles of the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh-ho. For an evil spirit, you seem to know quite a bit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Evil spirit? You damned evil creature!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cracks appeared on the wooden puppet that sealed Cheong-ryeong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She seemed ready to break out and smash the wooden box at any moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un dissuaded her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cheong-ryeong. Endure it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-If I were you…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rather than continuing like this, wouldn’t everything work out if we make it mine first?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Yours? Hmm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Mok Gyeong-un’s whisper, Cheong-ryeong muttered as if tempted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The expression of making it his own ultimately meant turning it into a servant spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un had the ability to turn even high-ranking vengeful spirits into servant spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it was a weakened malevolent spirit trapped in a wooden box, he might be able to turn it into a servant spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already confirmed this being’s potential through absorbing resentment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Still, be careful. It’s best to reduce the demonic energy without disturbing the seal as much as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s what I was thinking.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un had the same thought as her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the case of demonic energy, it was condensed evil energy, so absorbing it would be helpful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While doing so, a voice came from the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hey. Human.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Being trapped here, do I seem insignificant in your eyes? I am the lord who rules over the Western Sea.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you just free me from here, I will grant any wish you desire. Did you mention a grandfather earlier?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you miss that grandfather?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this voice, Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes sharpened, unlike before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He disliked pranks in general, but he really disliked anyone bringing up his grandfather.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un approached the wooden box without answering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he picked it up and placed it on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right. Break the wooden box.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s what I intend to do. Ah. Of course, before that…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un placed his palm on the cracked part of the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And he inwardly recited the Ritual of Binding incantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the ominous demonic energy that had been flowing out from the crack began to flow into Mok Gyeong-un’s palm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shuuu!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing this, the voice didn’t hide its bewilderment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Human… What are you doing…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Despite being trapped for a long time, your energy is quite substantial. Share some with me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Stop!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Too late.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With those words, Mok Gyeong-un absorbed the flowing demonic energy as it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes flickered with interest at the considerably vast amount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘So much.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was far more energy than he expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t anticipate the energy flowing out through the cracks to be this much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By absorbing just a little, he had already absorbed the equivalent of twenty people’s worth of evil energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just what level of malevolent spirit was it to possess such strong demonic energy even while trapped?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“S… Stop it. You lowly human dares to absorb my energy…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s almost done, so wait just a bit longer.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The energy flowing out through the cracks was almost completely absorbed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was demonic energy amounting to nearly fifty people’s worth of evil energy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was already a certain amount of evil energy consumed and needed from creating undead using the Six Yin Strengthening Technique, so it seemed his luck was good.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The demonic energy stopped flowing out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on this, it seemed he had absorbed most of the energy of the being trapped inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You… bast… ard…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing the being’s voice, its strength had significantly diminished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed to lack the energy to even get angry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems weakened. Now, make it your servant spirit.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un brought his blade finger toward the cracked part of the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The air around his blade finger trembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had invoked aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As it didn’t seem like an ordinary wooden box, he intended to cut it with aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un placed his blade finger, imbued with aura, against the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right at that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Paang!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ugh!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with a strong repulsive force, Mok Gyeong-un’s body was pushed back nearly five steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What is this?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-What happened?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheong-ryeong also asked in surprise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un looked at his blade finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, his finger was unharmed, but the moment he tried to pierce the wooden box with aura, he was pushed back by an unknown force.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘What?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was certain that he had absorbed all the demonic energy flowing out from the crack in the wooden box.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what was going on?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While he was puzzled, a voice was heard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you think the wood made from sacred spirit trees would break so easily?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Sacred spirit trees?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Seeing that you don’t even know that, it seems the Immortals no longer remain in the afterlife.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Immortals? What are you talking about?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you don’t know, forget it. Rather, the method to break the sacred spirit wood…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that very moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The area around the crack in the wooden box split apart before the voice could finish speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, starting from the split area, the wooden box began to rot and crumble like ashes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a strange occurrence, as it had been perfectly fine until just a moment ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un looked at his blade finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Is it because of the evil energy?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His aura wasn’t formed from ordinary inner energy but from the evil energy of death itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Evil energy was the opposite of the energy of life, so it caused it to scatter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was difficult to accurately predict whether it was due to that or if the crack had already existed and the force added to it caused it to break.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, regardless of the reason, the wooden box was shattered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Isn’t that a scroll?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-It seems so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something buried in the ashes of the shattered wooden box caught his eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a rolled-up scroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un approached and picked it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a considerably old scroll, and based on its length, it seemed to have poems or paintings drawn inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The scroll… Open the scroll.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voice was heard then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this, Mok Gyeong-un smirked and tried to put the scroll into his mouth while reciting the Ritual of Binding incantation with the hand holding the scroll.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…What are you trying to do now?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m going to eat it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-What?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had no intention of playing along with the evil creature’s tune.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this scroll was the main body related to the malevolent spirit, he intended to eat it and make it his servant spirit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as he was about to put the end of the scroll into his mouth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You fool!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blue flames erupted from the scroll like lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along with that, the scroll bounced out of Mok Gyeong-un’s hand, rolled on the floor, and began to unfold on its own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Catch it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un reached out with his burned hand toward the scroll and unleashed the Ritual of Binding incantation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought it would be pulled over, but it resisted in midair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the fully unfolded scroll floated in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Ah!’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes flickered with interest as he looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was because a landscape painting was drawn on the scroll, and it was so beautiful that it seemed like looking at a paradise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mist shrouded the majestic mountain peaks, and flower-bearing trees were scattered there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Beautiful.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, there was one uniquely disturbing part.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was because a white-haired middle-aged man was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on top of the peak in the center of the landscape painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Why did they have to draw a person here…’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The white-haired middle-aged man in the painting opened his closed eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped on the mist and walked out from within the painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘!?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment it came out, Mok Gyeong-un felt a chill down his spine for the first time in his life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the white-haired middle-aged man passed through the painting, an immense demonic energy emanated, which seemed like countless death energies gathered into one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-Impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cheong-ryeong muttered in a perplexed tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had never shown any fear or unease no matter what kind of malevolent spirit or vengeful ghost appeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why was she reacting like this? While he was puzzled, she spoke with difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>-…How can there be a malevolent spirit at the level of a Spirit Beast?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Spirit Beast?’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Classic of Mountains and Seas describes it like this:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the world, there are countless malevolent spirits that humans cannot see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among such malevolent spirits, there are those that reside in a higher realm that not only humans but even those spirits cannot dare to approach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They are the Spirit Beasts that have lived for an incredibly long time.\u003C\u002Fp>",2171,"2026-05-30T14:58:18.409Z","2026-06-01T04:31:31.827Z",1,"novelbin.me","a145ece1e557c73877ea03685d1d5dd8120f94051934636be40ce89061a8b942","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-105","myst-might-mayhem-chapter-103",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmyst-might-mayhem-cover.jpg"]