Return of the Mount Hua Sect Novel Translation

Chapter 1957. If There Is Something to Be Gained, There Must Also Be Something to Be Lost. (2) [ !! This chapter has quite a LOT of TL notes because it gets pretty heavy with taoist/m, philosophical, and martial arts terminology. I’ve added them along the way to help clarify the original Korean, Hanja, and the concepts behind them, ehe! ] There had been no plan to stake his life. He hadn’t intended to, nor should he have. The task given to him now was to buy time. Not to cut off Heavenly Executioner’s head. But at this moment, Cheong Myeong changed his mind. ‘I have to kill him!’ If not now, he might never get another chance. To be precise, what Heavenly Executioner lacked wasn’t practical combat experience. More precisely, it was the gap between mind and body. He hadn’t overcome that disparity. But that gap was narrowing with every passing moment as he fought in actual combat. There was no telling whether that weakness would still remain the next time Cheong Myeong m...

Chapter 1956.  If There Is Something to Be Gained, There Must Also Be Something to Be Lost.  (1) It couldn’t be fully expressed by simply calling it absurd. “More……” Heavenly Executioner opened his mouth for a moment, but couldn’t bring himself to finish the word. Only after identifying once more what this violent emotion surging within him was could he open his mouth again. “You want me to show you more?” Heavenly Executioner realized it. Of all the curses he’d heard, all the most horrific words imaginable, even the sharp words that perhaps denied his very existence itself. Even taken all together…… nothing had ever made him angrier than what Cheong Myeong had just said. Blood rushed to his head. It felt as though his consciousness might fade away, pushed onward by rage. And yet there was only one reason Heavenly Executioner wasn’t raging and running wild. Because he still didn’t understand. “What did you do?” Heavenly Executioner felt the wound on his...

Chapter 1955. It’s Damn Fucking Good to See You Again. (5) Heavenly Executioner, who had been staring blankly at the fallen Cheong Myeong, looked down at his own hand. After staring at it silently for some time, he suddenly lifted his gaze toward the lofty sky. “I don’t expect any understanding.” It was closer to a soliloquy than something he was saying to Cheong Myeong. “At some point, I came to realize it. That power had accumulated within this body, enough to tear the Central Plains apart in a single stroke.” The emotion contained in his voice was difficult to define clearly as any one thing. “But I couldn’t do anything. The binding that He placed upon me kept me from reaching this place. So I could only watch. For a suffocatingly long time.” Heavenly Executioner looked at Cheong Myeong again. “You couldn’t possibly even begin to imagine what that agony of having one’s guts torn apart was like. So I don’t expect you to understand. Just lament it. That my feet can fin...