I Became a Supporting Character in a Martial Arts Novel (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 149

Of course, but it wasn’t because I was brimming with confidence in my own abilities.

I still hadn’t properly adjusted to harming others.

Moreover, the fact that I needed to get used to it remained just as unappealing as ever.

Though I’d managed to redirect my magic into internal energy through sheer improvisation—driven only by my unwillingness to die—and even achieved a miraculous transformation thanks to sheer luck, it wasn’t as if my cultivation level had risen dramatically.

To transcend one’s current realm, one typically needed fundamental harmony among several elements: profound insight into martial arts, a perfected physical body, sufficient internal energy, and all other requisite conditions.

Up until now, things had somehow worked out—but reaching the Hwagyeong realm was simply impossible through “somehow managing.”

Even if, by some remote chance, I did reach that realm, honestly speaking, I still wouldn’t measure up to the Sect Leader.

Among everyone in the Central Plains, I might very well understand better than anyone else just how powerful the Sect Leader truly was.

Frankly, he was less an old man and more a monstrous being…

‘But.’

If we take the declaration of war as the starting point, it had already been two months.

Had the Sect Leader wished, he could have reached either Beijing or Shaanxi long ago.

Yet not a single report had surfaced claiming anyone had seen him anywhere.

Why this unsettled me so deeply—even I myself was growing confused.

Perhaps it was because of those eyes I’d last seen.

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