Chapter 77
Translator: T_Fan
“Yes.”
At Lee Hyun’s matter-of-fact reply, the old monk fell silent for a while.
“You are seventy years old… and in all that time, you have never taken a Dao companion, nor even shared a brief relationship with a woman?”
“Yes.”
“Huh….”
The monk looked Lee Hyun up and down.
His limbs were perfectly sound, and his face was ordinary enough.
The old monk rose from his seat.
“I thought highly of your alchemy skills, but if you are a man who lies, I cannot allow you into Baoguang Temple.”
He opened a small shrine niche set into the wall of the Guest Hall.
Inside, a round object wrapped in red cloth had been enshrined.
The monk placed it on the table and removed the cloth, revealing a mirror about the size of two palms placed side by side.
Flames and lotus blossoms were engraved alternately around its golden rim.
“This is the Yang Essence Mirror.”
“A magic tool for examining primordial yang?”
“Indeed. It reveals the fullness and purity of one’s primordial yang. The longer someone has preserved it intact, the stronger the reaction.”
The monk ran a hand along the mirror’s rim.
“Ordinarily, someone who has preserved it well for several decades will produce a red light. Among those who have guarded their primordial yang while cultivating for over a hundred years, some even produce a golden light.”
“Can it tell a person’s age as well?”
“Not exactly. The reaction also varies according to one’s constitution and cultivation art. Some show golden light while still young, while others may spend a hundred years alone and produce only a faint red glow.”
The old monk sat down again and held out the mirror.
“Place your hand on it and channel a little spiritual power into it.”
Lee Hyun placed his hand on the mirror.
Hummm.
The lotus blossoms engraved around its rim lit up. A red glow appeared for a moment, then deep golden light flooded the mirror’s surface.
The monk straightened.
“Oh…!”
At that moment, a white speck appeared in the center of the golden light.
It expanded in the blink of an eye.
Flash!
“…!”
Every shadow inside the Guest Hall vanished.
Beneath the table, behind the chairs, even inside the shrine niche, everything was washed completely white. It was as though a tiny sun had descended onto the mirror.
Lee Hyun immediately removed his hand.
The radiance faded. Silence returned to the Guest Hall, and the scent of incense once again filled the air.
“…….”
The monk stared at the mirror with his mouth slightly open.
Lee Hyun looked down at it as well.
‘I didn’t expect it to react this strongly.’
After a moment, the monk picked up the Yang Essence Mirror.
He examined the formation inscriptions around the rim and on the back in turn. Only after channeling spiritual power into it and checking it for quite some time did he carefully set it back down.
Lee Hyun asked,
“Did I pass?”
“…….”
The monk looked at Lee Hyun’s face again. Somehow, his calm expression seemed suffused with profound meditative absorption!
“When you see a beautiful woman… what goes through your mind?”
“I think she is beautiful.”
The monk slowly nodded.
“And yet you are not captivated by her….”
He exclaimed in admiration.
“To think your innate primordial yang could be this pure. What rare innate cultivation aptitude. Perhaps some affinity remains from a past life in which you practiced pure conduct for many years.”
‘I didn’t do anything particularly special in my past life….’
“A Foundation Establishment cultivator in the prime of his vitality who stays away from women without even considering it an ordeal!”
The monk pressed his palms together.
“What a truly precious affinity.”
“Then, my admission….”
“I permit it. Your name shall be entered among the inner disciples of the Lotus Court.”
The monk immediately picked up his brush.
“This old monk’s Dharma name is Huitan. If you have no objections, enter my lineage. I will personally teach you the Clear Yang Purifying Fire Art.”
Lee Hyun thought for a moment.
There was certainly no harm in taking a Golden Core cultivator who could teach him alchemy as his Master. Besides, had he not come to Baoguang Temple for the sake of alchemy in the first place?
He rose and bowed respectfully.
“Please guide me, Master.”
“Hoho. Good, good.”
The brush moved rapidly across the document.
Lee Hyun waited for a moment before asking,
“Are there no other tests I need to take?”
“What sort of tests?”
“Things like bone age or spiritual roots.”
Huitan looked puzzled instead.
“You are practically a Buddha in the flesh already. What importance could those things possibly have?”
“…….”
***
That afternoon.
Thin trails of smoke rose from an incense burner inside a small Dharma hall deep within the Lotus Court.
Huitan placed a wooden tablet two fingers wide in front of Lee Hyun. Nothing had yet been written on its surface.
“Every disciple who enters our court makes at least one vow. The same goes for those who previously practiced other cultivation arts. One must first learn how to obtain vow power before one can properly cultivate our court’s inheritance.”
Lee Hyun examined the wooden tablet.
Fine formation inscriptions ran between the grain of the wood.
“Can it be any vow?”
“Do not choose carelessly. The nature of the vow power you obtain changes according to what you vow.”
Huitan opened a booklet beside him. It contained examples of various vows and accounts of what had happened to the cultivators who made them.
A vow to shave one’s head at fixed intervals and never grow out one’s hair.
A vow to preserve one’s primordial yang.
A vow never to leave any offering one received uneaten.
There was even a vow to rise before sunrise.
“It is best to choose something proven. Vows that countless practitioners have upheld for many years also have well-established essential formulas for handling the vow power they produce. Refusing to grow one’s hair and preserving one’s primordial yang are examples.”
When Huitan turned the page, it showed examples of people who had ruined their cultivation by making excessively ambitious vows.
Lee Hyun read a few lines, then closed the booklet.
“I will preserve my primordial yang.”
“As expected!”
A satisfied smile spread across Huitan’s face.
“It is also the vow most compatible with the Clear Yang Purifying Fire Art.”
He engraved words onto the wooden tablet and handed it to Lee Hyun.
“A vow is not something made merely with words. You must engrave it into your heart according to the mnemonic formula I am about to teach you. Once a vow you have upheld takes root in your primordial spirit, you will be able to add vow power whenever you wish and create a new kind of strength.”
After hearing the mnemonic formula, Lee Hyun closed his eyes.
The scent of incense grew stronger.
A long while later, his divine sense lightly touched the wooden tablet.
“I vow to preserve my primordial yang intact.”
Hummm.
The characters engraved on the vow tablet glimmered faintly.
Lee Hyun felt an extremely fine thread form along the outside of his primordial spirit.
Whenever he tried to grasp it, it faded, but whenever he recalled the oath he had just made, it became clear again.
Huitan nodded.
“Well done.”
“Will I begin to generate vow power now?”
“Think of it as having planted a seed. As you keep your vow and cultivate according to the mnemonic formula, it will gradually accumulate.”
He pointed to the vow tablet.
“If you break your oath, a crack will appear in the tablet. At that point, you will no longer be able to produce Buddha-Light True Qi. When the heart that broke the vow falls out of harmony with the vow power accumulated from keeping it, your true qi may even reverse its flow and injure you if the clash is severe enough.”
Lee Hyun carefully placed the tablet into his storage pouch.
Huitan took out two jade slips.
“You are already a Foundation Establishment cultivator, so you have no need for another cultivation art for spiritual power. One of these is the 《Buddha-Light Heart Art》, the mnemonic formula for cultivating vow power and adding it to spiritual power. The other is the 《Clear Yang Purifying Fire Art》.”
Lee Hyun accepted the jade slips.
Huitan opened his palm, and a faint golden energy appeared above it.
“True qi created by adding the power of a vow is broadly called Vow-Powered True Qi. Among those forms, the true qi cultivated through our Baoguang Temple’s Buddha-Light Heart Art is called Buddha-Light True Qi.”
The golden energy slowly flowed between his fingers.
“It excels at suppressing heart demons and resentful spirits, as well as subduing violent demon power. It is also useful against vicious ghostly entities controlled by demonic cultivators and other sinister energies.”
Huitan withdrew his hand.
At that moment, the smoke rising from the incense burner gathered behind the Buddha statue.
When Lee Hyun looked over, Huitan explained,
“That is incense-offering qi. Incense offerings gathered from temples throughout the Xu Kingdom are also channeled into Baoguang Temple. They are used to maintain the grand formation and nurture magic tools, and they can aid cultivation as well. However, only monks who walk the Dao of Incense Offerings can control them.”
On the way out of the Dharma hall, Lee Hyun looked beyond the wall.
Rows of tall tiled roofs stretched into the distance, surrounded by restrictions far denser than those elsewhere.
“Is that part of the Lotus Court too?”
“That is where important pills such as Golden Core Condensing Pills are refined.”
“Can disciples enter as well?”
“Of course. But first, you must accumulate sufficient merit and prove yourself someone who can be entrusted with the work.”
Huitan lightly patted Lee Hyun’s shoulder.
“Do not rush. If you have the affinity, your chance will come.”
…
Lee Hyun’s residence stood on a low peak to the east of the Lotus Court.
Beyond a small courtyard stood three halls side by side, with a garden of bamboo and stone behind them.
Inside were a cultivation chamber, a study, and even a guest room for receiving visitors.
“Am I really allowed to use such a nice place by myself?”
The monk guiding him laughed at Lee Hyun’s question.
“Our Baoguang Temple is hardly poor. You are a Foundation Establishment cultivator, a Tier 2 alchemist, and a talent Monk Huitan has praised to no end. We can hardly make you share a room with the young disciples, can we?”
It was the same guest-receiving monk who had guided him at the Mountain Gate when he first arrived. His Dharma name was Mingxiu, and Lee Hyun had already decided to address him as Senior Brother.
“Do I not need to receive a separate Dharma name?”
“You may take one if you wish, but there is no problem with continuing to use your current name. There are many disciples like that in our temple.”
Mingxiu pointed to the restriction beside the door.
“Use your spirit tablet to open and close it. When leaving the sect, just inform the Guest Hall roughly where you are going and when you expect to return. As long as you do not disappear and leave your assigned duties unattended, there will be no issue.”
Lee Hyun nodded.
It seemed comfortable enough.
Just then, footsteps sounded behind them.
A round-faced monk entered the courtyard. When Mingxiu waved, he immediately walked over.
“Is this the new Junior Brother Li?”
“That’s right.”
“Oh….”
The round-faced monk studied Lee Hyun closely.
“To think a jewel of a talent like you had been living as a rogue cultivator. How fortunate that fate brought you to our temple.”
“You flatter me.”
When Lee Hyun gave a fist-and-palm salute, the monk shook his head gravely.
“Junior Brother must be even more careful with his conduct from now on.”
“Yes?”
“I mean that you must guard your primordial yang well.”
Mingxiu nodded too.
“Indeed. You cannot let your guard down just because you have entered our court.”
He took a thin picture album from inside his robe. Lee Hyun’s gaze shifted toward it.
When Mingxiu opened the album, there was a painting of a female cultivator standing beneath a willow tree.
The woman in the painting slowly blinked. Even the hem of her clothes seemed to sway in the wind.
The workmanship was quite impressive.
“This is Senior Sister Xu from the Life-Release Court.”
“I see.”
“Do not linger beside her too long when she is feeding the spirit beasts. If she smiles and starts talking to you, your heart may easily waver.”
“Senior Sister Xu is beautiful even when she isn’t smiling.”
When the round-faced monk added that, Mingxiu nodded.
“That is true.”
He turned to the next page.
This time, a female cultivator with her hair tied in a red ribbon held a spear.
“This is Junior Sister Lu from the Demon-Subduing Court. Be even more careful around her.”
“Is there some problem?”
“She has the dangerous habit of looking people straight in the eyes when she speaks.”
Lee Hyun looked at the painting.
The female cultivator in the picture was staring straight back at him as well.
Mingxiu lowered his voice.
“Especially if she asks you to spar, do not agree too readily.”
“Because I might get injured during the spar?”
“You might end up seeing her brush back her hair as she wipes away sweat, from up close.”
The round-faced monk sighed deeply.
“That would indeed be dangerous.”
‘…….’
Lee Hyun pointed at the picture album.
“Why are you carrying something like this around?”
Mingxiu’s expression did not change in the slightest.
“It is a cultivation aid.”
“I see.”
“I look through it often to temper my heart.”
Mingxiu closed the album.
At that moment, the round-faced monk grabbed his wrist.
“Wait. It looks like a new page was added at the back.”
“Ah, this is….”
The two leaned over the picture album together.
Lee Hyun waited for a moment, then went inside his residence first.
***
Three months later.
The cultivation chamber on the eastern peak of the Lotus Court.
Lying down, Lee Hyun raised a finger and gathered clear energy at its tip.
It was Primordial True Qi.
Then an extremely faint golden hue seeped into it.
Hummm.
The energy above his finger became slightly heavier and denser.
Lee Hyun brought his hand closer to his face and examined it.
‘It worked.’
It was Buddha-Light True Qi.
Primordial True Qi could originally be transformed into various kinds of true qi as long as he understood the appropriate Dharma teaching and mnemonic formula.
That was how he had produced Profound Yin White Bone True Qi and used it to refine Bonefuzz.
At first, however, he had been unable to produce Buddha-Light True Qi properly.
He could reproduce its color and the flow of spiritual power. Yet the energy he produced lacked the distinctive quality he had sensed in Baoguang Temple’s true qi.
The reason was simple.
He had possessed no vow power.
‘If I had to classify it, Buddha-Light True Qi isn’t a power derived purely from qi. Are qi and spirit acting together….?’
Over the past three months, Lee Hyun had cultivated the Buddha-Light Heart Art while accumulating vow power.
Although only a short time had passed since he made his vow and began cultivating it, the speed at which his vow power accumulated was far greater than expected.
According to Huitan, the vow power gained from preserving one’s primordial yang was also affected by the fullness and purity of one’s innate primordial yang. Even cultivators practicing the same mnemonic formula could obtain different amounts of vow power.
With primordial yang that had remained completely intact for over two thousand years, there could hardly have been a more suitable vow for him.
Once he had accumulated enough vow power, the rest was not difficult.
He adjusted the flow of his Primordial True Qi according to the mnemonic formula and added vow power to it. Only then did proper Buddha-Light True Qi form. There was no need to change the cultivation art he already practiced.
He sat up and this time activated the Clear Yang Purifying Fire Art.
Fwoosh.
A tiny pale-golden flame formed at his fingertip. Looking closely, its center was almost white.
When Lee Hyun lowered the fire control, the flame shrank to the size of a fingernail.
He brought over a jade dish containing a little demon blood left over from Refining practice. As he brought the flame close, dark crimson energy rose from its surface.
Sizzle.
Thin smoke drifted upward.
Lee Hyun extinguished the flame and examined the demon blood.
The turbid energy had been greatly reduced, while the medicinal potency that needed to remain had been preserved surprisingly well.
The Clear Yang Purifying Fire Art was a fire technique that used the purity of primordial yang to kindle Buddha-Light True Qi into yang fire.
It could also burn away sinister energy, but its greatest use was undoubtedly Refining.
‘Is it normally this effective?’
Lee Hyun stared at the dish for a moment.
‘Who would have thought staying away from women would help with something like this?’
He lowered his spiritual power even further and repeated the experiment. He was deliberately practicing how to suppress the effects of the Clear Yang Purifying Fire. He was worried that if it worked too well, he might be dragged into some unexpected trouble.
…
Five days later.
The Lotus Court’s communal alchemy chamber.
A bowl containing a demon beast’s marrow fluid sat in front of Lee Hyun.
Huitan examined the bowl and flicked his finger, sending a thread of flame into it.
Murky, threadlike strands rose within the dark crimson marrow fluid.
As the flames passed between them, the strands broke apart and turned to smoke.
“Try it yourself.”
Lee Hyun summoned the Clear Yang Purifying Fire and sent a small flame beneath the marrow fluid.
Sssss.
The turbid energy slowly rose and vanished.
Lee Hyun lowered the fire control, but even when touched by only the faintest flame, the malevolent energy within the marrow fluid quickly dispersed.
‘I need to reduce it a little more.’
As soon as he withdrew his hand, Huitan lifted the bowl.
“That’s it!”
“Is it satisfactory?”
“Your primordial yang is one thing, but your skill at handling fire is excellent. You make teaching worthwhile.”
Huitan opened the jade casket beside him. Inside lay a demon core with a crack across its surface.
“With demon cores, what you preserve is especially important. You must remove the violent energy while preserving the cohesive structure required for a Golden Core Condensing Pill.”
“Does that structure remain even after Core Formation?”
“Indeed. Those are what we commonly call demon markings. If you remove those as well, the Golden Core Condensing Pill itself loses its effectiveness.”
…
Life at Baoguang Temple was comfortable.
The Lotus Court contained many cultivators skilled in all manner of arts.
The cultivation arts they practiced and the vows they had made were all different.
One monk had apparently vowed to praise someone at least once every day.
On days when he had nothing in particular to praise, he would visit the medicinal-ingredient storeroom and compliment the disciples there for drying the medicinal herbs well or arranging the medicine bottles neatly.
Lee Hyun would sometimes receive praise from him merely for sitting quietly nearby.
Once he finished the regular practical training and the Refining work assigned to him, the rest of his time was largely his own.
Lee Hyun cultivated at his residence, read popular novels, and practiced the Clear Yang Purifying Fire Art.
Occasionally, he went out to purchase necessary supplies or run the Two Heavens Society.
Then one day, Huitan handed him a small jade token.
“Go to the Scripture Pavilion.”
“Am I allowed to examine the inheritances?”
“You have grown accustomed to handling vow power. It is time to see what sort of Dharma teaching suits you.”
Lee Hyun accepted the jade token.
“How do I earn the contribution points needed to examine them?”
Huitan shook his head.
“Baoguang Temple has no such thing as contribution points.”
“Then how….”
“You learn whatever you have affinity with.”
…
The monk overseeing the Scripture Pavilion looked at the jade token and nodded.
“So you are Senior Brother Huitan’s disciple. Come this way.”
On the second floor where he led him, books and jade slips were arranged across long shelves.
“You may examine the inheritances on this floor.”
“What about the other floors?”
“You do not have affinity with those yet.”
A strange thought suddenly occurred to Lee Hyun.
‘Could someone secretly be keeping track of some kind of affinity score?’
…
《Palm of Compassion》
Lee Hyun examined the first jade slip.
It was a palm technique that concentrated Buddha-Light True Qi in the palm before releasing it.
When the monk in the illustration thrust out his palm, the rock opposite him collapsed from within.
Lee Hyun picked up the next jade slip.
《Fist of Deliverance》
A note written at the very beginning caught his eye.
「Send demonic creatures onward with one’s fists and guide them onto the path of reincarnation.」
For some reason, the explanation sounded frightening.
Beside it was another technique called 《Demon-Subduing Seal》.
It involved forming a hand seal to concentrate Buddha-Light True Qi, then bringing down a golden seal. It was said to be useful for suppressing resentful spirits and ghostly entities.
Lee Hyun read the descriptions of several more techniques before picking up a jade slip placed a short distance away.
《Sumeru Visualization Scripture》
It contained far more material than the ones he had examined earlier.
It was an inheritance that used one’s vow as its foundation and shaped Buddha-Light True Qi into the form of a Dharma guardian. An explanation stated that only if one’s vow remained as unshakable as Mount Sumeru would the form built upon it remain intact.
‘There’s too much here. I’ll have to look at this again later.’
One side of the shelves contained body-refining arts.
《Mighty Vajra Body》
It strengthened the sinews and bones through spirit medicines and formations. It was not a cultivation art that raised one’s realm, but even within the same realm, it allowed the practitioner to exert far greater strength and withstand attacks from magic tools.
However, the deeper one cultivated it, the more precious the required spirit medicines became.
Lee Hyun looked at the enormous list of necessary materials, shook his head, and reached for the next inheritance.
《Arhat Golden Body》
It was a cultivation art that infused Buddha-Light True Qi deep into the flesh, tempering the skin, muscles, and skeleton in sequence.
Once completed, the golden radiance surrounding the body would not easily fade, and the cultivator could withstand attacks from magic tools with their bare body.
Lee Hyun looked at the diagram toward the back.
Thin lines originating inside the body overlapped in layer after layer beneath the skin.
Strangely enough, something about it felt familiar.
He flipped back and forth through the diagram.
‘I’ve seen this somewhere….’
After studying it for a long time, he stopped upon seeing a note beside the diagram.
「Some of the golden-body mnemonic formulas in the main text were taken from the ancient methods contained in the Golden Core section of the 《Primordial One-Qi Art》.」
‘Huh?’
Lee Hyun began examining the contents again from the beginning.
At the front of the inheritance was a lengthy passage explaining the origins of the Arhat Golden Body.
When he first looked through it, he had skimmed past that section because it mostly listed ancestral masters from long ago and traced the lineage of the inheritance.
Lee Hyun slowly reread one passage.
「The Arhat Golden Body transmitted today is a Dharma teaching modeled after the Leakless Golden Body of antiquity.」
Leakless Golden Body.
An unexpected explanation followed beneath it.
The golden-body arts of antiquity differed from those of the present day in the very foundation of their cultivation.
In an age when heaven-and-earth spiritual qi was abundant, cultivators who made their entire bodies into a dantian bound all the spiritual power accumulated throughout their bodies into a single flow and underwent Core Formation.
The ancient Daoist tradition called this method Embracing Unity and Returning to the Elixir.
It meant embracing the energy of the entire body as one and condensing it into an elixir without allowing it to scatter.
A cultivator who underwent Core Formation in this manner did not form a separate, small golden core within the body.
The entire body itself became a single golden core.
The interior of that golden core extended throughout the entire physical body, while its outer boundary, the core shell, overlapped the layer of the skin.
The Buddhist practitioners of antiquity developed their golden-body arts upon this foundation.
A body in which the energy inside and outside the flesh flowed as one, and in which the core shell at the body’s surface and the flesh and blood received magical power together.
That was the foundation of the Leakless Golden Body.
Things changed in later generations.
The years and resources required to raise the entire body to Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and form a golden core from there became excessive.
Cultivators therefore began focusing their cultivation on the narrow region of the lower dantian.
It was far faster to use the spiritual power that would otherwise have been required to fill the entire body to first raise the realm of the lower dantian, and breaking through a major realm also extended one’s lifespan.
Sects of the Buddhist tradition chose the same path.
Even after the method of forming a small golden core in the lower dantian became widespread, records describing the might of the golden bodies of antiquity remained.
Monks of later generations repeatedly infused magical power and vow power into their flesh and engraved linked golden inscriptions across the surface of their bodies in an attempt to recreate those ancient golden bodies.
Over the long years, numerous cultivation arts were created, and the Arhat Golden Body was one of them. The text also described the limitations that arose during that process, along with the mnemonic formulas added by ancestral masters to compensate for them.
Lee Hyun touched one of the lines in the diagram with his finger.
‘So that’s why it looked familiar.’
He recalled the Golden Core section of the 《Primordial One-Qi Art》 that he had obtained long ago from the Danxiao Sect.
The latter half, which dealt with the Primordial Body, contained an unusual number of passages that were difficult to understand.
At the time, he had assumed they were simply complex essential formulas for breaking through into the Golden Core realm.
But now that he compared them with this diagram, he realized those passages described how to form a core shell across the entire body.
They were essential formulas for creating a body capable of cultivating the ancient Leakless Golden Body!
If one formed a golden core in the lower dantian, its boundary would arise within the lower dantian.
But what if the entire body was bound together and underwent Core Formation as one?
Then that boundary would have to form at the surface of the body.
Lee Hyun read the next annotation.
「Forming cores in several places and linking them afterward is not the embracing unity meant by this method. From the moment condensation begins, the entire body must be embraced as one.」
His eyes narrowed.
This was important.
When Lee Hyun achieved Whole-Body Foundation Establishment, he had absorbed the medicinal strength of the Foundation Establishment Pills one body part at a time.
He had done something similar when breaking through to Foundation Establishment Stage 4.
But it seemed he could not use the same method for Core Formation.
If one part of his body condensed first into an independent golden core, a core shell would form around that region.
He might still be able to raise the rest of his body into the Golden Core realm afterward, but it would no longer become the single unified body required by the ancient golden-body arts.
Lee Hyun read the annotation several times.
It did not mean that he had to swallow all the pills at once.
He could absorb their medicinal strength in sequence. However, during that process, he had to prevent any single part from condensing ahead of the others while preparing sufficient true essence throughout his entire body.
The final condensation absolutely had to occur as one throughout the whole body.
‘Then I can’t form a golden core in my lower dantian first this time…. I’ve gone to all the trouble of following a cultivation method from antiquity. It’d bother me if I missed the chance to create a Leakless Golden Body, wouldn’t it?’
However, to create the Leakless Golden Body, he first had to reach Whole-Body Foundation Establishment Great Perfection and then secure a sufficient quantity of Golden Core Condensing Pills.
‘The question is whether taking more Golden Core Condensing Pills will increase the time needed for refining the demon markings by the same amount….’
Lee Hyun thought for a moment, then looked at the Arhat Golden Body diagram again.
In the end, the Arhat Golden Body was merely a crude imitation of the Leakless Golden Body.
But the path to achieving the original still remained open to him.
‘A true golden body….’
****
TL Note: Then can we assume there won’t be any romance in this novel?
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