Translator: Nox
Chapter: 32
Chapter Title: Storm on the Horizon
#1
While Peng Sect was undergoing internal change, news spread across the Murim world.
The Blue Lightning had returned.
And the orthodox clans were in turmoil.
A secret meeting convened in a remote hall within the Southern Alliance.
Participants included mid-tier sect elders, merchant lords, and scholars.
One name was on their tongues—
“Peng Hyeon-do.”
“He recovered the Blue Lightning Divine Art.”
“They say he’s opened the Three Blossoms.”
“He’s only in his twenties.”
They all looked at one another.
Then one man—dressed in plain scholar’s robes—stood.
“Then what should we do?”
A moment of silence.
Then someone answered:
“We can’t stop him.”
“But we can... direct him.”
Eyes narrowed.
“Send word to the Tang Clan.”
#2
Elsewhere, far north—
Within a snowy stronghold, a monk-like man knelt before a massive furnace.
He dipped his hands into molten iron—unburned.
He opened his eyes.
“They say lightning has returned to the south.”
A voice echoed behind him.
“Will you intervene?”
“Not yet.”
“Then why prepare the forge?”
The monk smiled.
“To temper my blade.”
#3
Back at the Peng Sect, Hyeon-do practiced alone in the thunder courtyard.
It was raining—but he welcomed it.
Lightning crackled above.
Qi surged below.
He moved through twelve forms of the Blue Lightning Divine Art.
[Pulse Break Fang.]
[Cyclone Coil.]
[Heaven-Splitting Descent.]
Each strike more refined than before.
He exhaled steam.
Behind him, someone approached.
Peng Jin-hyeok.
“I want to learn it too.”
Hyeon-do nodded.
“It’s yours.”
“No conditions?”
“You’re my brother. It’s always been yours.”
Silence.
Then Jin-hyeok bowed.
And the storm rumbled louder.
【To be continued in Chapter 33】
