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After so many winters had passed that she could no longer remember how cold that winter had been, Soh Baekhyang caught her first glimpses of the Mind Sword. As she slowly grasped it, she was no longer called the scent of snow[1] but the Demonic Heaven[2]. The woman who used to be Soh Baekhyang was now the Heavenly Demon.
“… I see it…” she muttered. “This is the realm that no martial artist has ever set foot in. It’s right in front of me… It seems as far away as Nirvana… But if I can see it, there is no reason I can’t go…”
The Heavenly Demon’s heart pounded. Mind Sword was a level that only existed in legend. When a martial artist of a certain lofty level harbored the will to kill, their target died immediately. There was no need for a sword or words. That very level was right before her.
“Lady Heavenly Demon…”
“Our supreme heaven…”
If only… if only she had time, perhaps sixty years, to focus solely on her cultivation... If only she could do that…
“Please relieve me from this resentment…”
People kneeled before her.
“The government wants us to pay our taxes in marten skins, so my father went out to hunt them. But he never returned…”
“My taxes are based on the number of people in my family, but I can’t pay the taxes…”
“My grandmother said that since she doesn’t have much time left in her life anyway, she’ll leave the house so the taxes will be reduced…”
“Lady Heavenly Demon…”
Many people kneeled in front of her.
“There was a drought last year, and this year too. There’s nothing to eat, so I’ve been starving. But the government gave an order to build a reservoir and a dam. They say it’s to prevent a drought next year, but how am I supposed to pile...
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