Chapter 62 – The Shadowless One (3)

“He has an unsettling look about him.”

The young man with dazzlingly white skin was incredibly handsome. The courtesans beside Yu-jin were busy stealing glances, greatly admiring his features. However, his beauty was not the masculine sort possessed by Kang Yong-hoon or Namgung Hwi, but rather a feminine one.

Behind the young man, a courtesan trembled. He gently embraced her, his harsh words a stark contrast to his appearance.

“A brutish lout like you dared to raise a hand to a beautiful flower, so of course, I had to step in.”

“Are you begging to die! I paid for this courtesan to do with as I please, and you dare interfere! How dare a mere pretty boy like you provoke me, Sang-yeong of the Shattering Saber! You will pay for your crime with your life!”

The giant, who introduced himself as Sang-yeong, shot up from his seat and swung his saber.

“Kyaaah!”

The courtesans screamed involuntarily, and the ordinary people closed their eyes, imagining the young man’s head about to fly off.

However, contrary to everyone’s expectations, the handsome young man casually reached out and caught Sang-yeong’s massive saber. The startled Sang-yeong infused more internal energy into his blade, but it remained fixed, as if glued to the young man’s hand.

“To think a brute with such lacking martial skill would dare to use violence against a woman. You are truly unforgivable.”

Crack!

Cracks began to slowly spiderweb across Sang-yeong’s saber before it shattered completely. But it didn’t just break. Every single fragment of the saber pierced Sang-yeong’s body.

“Kuaaargh!”

Sang-yeong was sent flying with a horrific scream. By the time people rushed to his side, his life had already been extinguished. The handsome young man smiled faintly and caressed the face of the courtesan who had been threatened.

“You have nothing to worry about anymore.”

At his gentle voice and touch, the courtesan, seemingly completely smitten, blushed and stared at him with a dazed expression. The young man then entered a room with her. As he did, he turned his head, and his eyes met Yu-jin’s.

A faint smile.

After flashing a bright smile, the handsome young man disappeared into the room.

“It’s guys like that who really get on my nerves.”

Those who could perform the art of Bare-Handed Blade Catching were all called masters. And if one could use the weapon-shattering variation, they were already a grandmaster.

The handsome young man, despite appearing to be around Yu-jin’s age, had demonstrated an incredible skill.

But it wasn’t the young man’s technique that concerned Yu-jin. It was the aura emanating from him that unsettled him.

“How can someone be so disharmonious?”

The energy emanating from the young man’s body was composed of yin. It wasn’t the yin energy one would gain from practicing ice arts, but a more fundamental, intrinsic yin.

In other words, it was the yin that only women could possess. At that moment, something dawned on Yu-jin.

‘Wait a minute. What if that’s a disguise? If that person is actually a woman, then such a disharmonious appearance would actually make sense, wouldn’t it?’

There was only one person in the martial world capable of a disguise so exquisite it could deceive Yu-jin’s eyes.

‘The Shadowless One. To think I’d find her in a place like this. My luck hasn’t completely run out yet.’

Yu-jin grinned broadly and returned to his room.

“What happened, Master?”

Eun Seol-rin asked with a puzzled look, but Yu-jin just smiled, shook his head, and reached out to pull her into an embrace.

He had her bend over and thrust his manhood into her from behind. The other women then approached, some caressing Yu-jin’s chest, others comforting each other.

“Haaah! Haaaah!”

The private suite was once again filled with the moans of women.

* * *

Upon entering the room with the courtesan, the handsome young man immediately untied the top of her dress. Her fair, smooth breasts were revealed.

Although her nipples were darkened, likely from the hands of many men, this only served to stimulate the young man’s desire.

“What a truly captivating body! Shall I have a taste?”

The handsome young man extended his long, slender fingers, pulled down the courtesan’s skirt, and caressed the gentle swell of her undergarments.

As his fingertips felt the crispness of her fragrant down and the softness of her flower beneath, the young man swallowed hard.

When he pulled down her undergarments, her smooth, egg-shaped buttocks shone white as they were revealed, along with the lush, glistening thatch of hair on her inner thighs.

*Hooo.*

As the handsome young man blew a light breath, the swaying thatch parted, fully revealing the slightly dark-red, intricately shaped petals.

The young man’s fingers slid around her thighs before caressing her petals, and the courtesan’s body twitched in response.

With his other hand, the young man lightly pinched the violet nipple that stood out on her firm breast. The courtesan’s body twitched again, and the fissure of her flower parted a little more.

“Sir… please don’t tease me… quickly…”

The courtesan, her face flushed, pulled down the handsome young man’s pants. And then, she couldn’t help but be flustered. The manhood that should have been proudly revealed was not there.

“Hohoho. To think you’d notice so soon. The truth is, I am a woman, just like you.”

The handsome young man—no, the woman—took off her top, removed the armor that was compressing her chest, and revealed a pair of modest breasts.

She then undid her neatly tied hair, and standing before the courtesan was no longer a handsome young man, but a beautiful woman.

“You don’t have to tremble so. I know a woman’s body better than any man.”

The woman, the Shadowless One, spoke as she spread the courtesan’s legs and inserted her fingers into her flower.

As if it had been waiting for the unfamiliar intrusion, the courtesan’s flower wrapped tightly around the fingers, clenching and writhing on its own.

Another of the Shadowless One’s fingers entered, gently stimulating the inside of the flower.

“Haaaah!”

As the Shadowless One swirled her fingers inside while licking the petals with her tongue, the area around the courtesan’s flower quickly became slick with her own fluids and the Shadowless One’s saliva.

The courtesan was soon overcome with excitement, panting for breath. But the eyes of the Shadowless One, who had brought her to this state, held no emotion.

‘This wasn’t what I originally came here for.’

Her original purpose for coming here was to find Yu-jin. But finding him while he was holed up in a private suite, running wild with women, was a bothersome task.

Of course, it wasn’t that she couldn’t find him if she tried, but she disliked exerting herself for such trivial matters. Just then, a martial artist had conveniently tried to assault a courtesan, allowing her to cause a commotion by intervening.

‘The Ink Dragon Sword is wasted on a man like that.’

The Shadowless One had made her judgment upon seeing Yu-jin emerge, feigning confusion. She had intended to take the Ink Dragon Sword from the start, but even setting that aside, she believed the sword was too good for him.

‘I’ll take it in a little while.’

He was undoubtedly in the midst of his revelry with the women, so she needed to wait. Well, she planned to pass the time by playing with the woman currently gasping at her fingertips.

The Shadowless One’s tongue traced a path past the courtesan’s navel, lingered for a long while on a dark-red nipple, then ascended along the white column of her neck to cover the courtesan’s moist lips. Her tongue then slipped past the white teeth to explore the courtesan’s own.

“This is… I’ve never… felt anything like…”

The sensation spreading from her flower was an incredible pleasure and ecstasy she had never imagined. Just then, the Shadowless One removed her fingers, took off her own pants and undergarments, and spread her legs wide.

“Now, you try.”

At the Shadowless One’s words, the courtesan felt an unknown tension as she slowly moved her fingers and inserted them into the Shadowless One’s flower. The courtesan’s fingers brushed against the Shadowless One’s coarse thatch.

The courtesan pushed her hand deeper and soon felt the Shadowless One’s flower growing moist.

Then, the Shadowless One removed the courtesan’s hand, turned her body over, and once again inserted her fingers into the courtesan’s flower. Unable to bear the pleasure, the courtesan finally fainted.

“By now, that lout should be finished. Shall I make my move?”

The Shadowless One dressed again and put on a mask. She slowly moved out the window and headed toward Yu-jin’s room, which she had located earlier.

Slowly opening the window to Yu-jin’s room, the Shadowless One saw his entire party sleeping soundly.

‘This is going easier than I thought.’

The Shadowless One, satisfied, searched for Yu-jin and soon spotted the swords beside him.

‘Found it.’

Smiling brightly under her mask, the Shadowless One approached the Ink Dragon Sword. She reached out her hand toward it.

It was then.

*Grab.*

Something seized her hand.

Startled, the Shadowless One looked at the one who had caught her.

The Shadowless One frantically tried to pull her arm back, but the hand holding it refused to let go.

Even the great Shadowless One couldn’t help but be flustered. The fact that she couldn’t break free even after mustering all her internal energy meant that her opponent’s internal energy was greater than hers.

‘Impossible!’

Though not widely known, her martial arts had nearly reached the Transformation Realm. With just a little more enlightenment, she could become a master of that realm.

It was only natural; she had trained systematically since childhood and had consumed an enormous amount of spiritual elixirs after joining the Shadowless Sect, so her growth was inevitable.

For someone to exist with greater internal energy than her was unthinkable.

“Got. You.”

A young man’s voice reached her ears. It was, without a doubt, Yu-jin. He smiled as he rose from his spot and looked at the Shadowless One. Inwardly, however, Yu-jin was breathing a sigh of relief.

‘I kept my eyes open just in case, but to think she’d actually come.’

Yu-jin knew well that one of the Shadowless Sect’s long-cherished ambitions was to collect all of the Twelve Treasures, excluding the Heavenly Demon’s personal item.

His party currently possessed two of the Twelve Treasures: the Ink Dragon Sword and the Ice-White Water Dragon Sword. Yu-jin had determined she would surely target one of them, and he had reasoned that the probability of her going after his Ink Dragon Sword was higher.

‘This one is too conspicuous.’

The Ink Dragon Sword, adorned with an ink dragon, was so ornate that it was bound to catch the Shadowless One’s eye.

‘Still, what a relief. I almost missed her.’

Eun Seol-rin, known as the King of Assassins, boasted outstanding stealth befitting her title. But the Shadowless One transcended mere stealth; her presence was utterly imperceptible.