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    1. Betara Indera Gunung Timur
      Mar 18, '25 at 5:21 am

      wait, he’s also an uncle? i thought he was her dad.

      also
      ‘He fell to inner demons.’
      wasn’t it Sword Dragon that “fell to inner demons”? i mean, rather than Sword Immortal or jys

      1. @Betara Indera Gunung TimurMar 18, '25 at 5:37 am

        It referred to sword immortal here but you’re right it should be sword dragon. I’ll have to recheck. Jeong Hye is the daughter of the first son Nam-san who died during Jeong Family Massacre and Jung-san is the second son and Yeon-shin is the third son.

        1. myth
          @Heavenly CatMar 18, '25 at 10:43 pm

          I went back to 215 to check and it said this about Zhongnan Sword Immortal Jong Yeo-il:

          Zhongnan Sword Immortal hadn’t ascended through Taoist enlightenment.

          A celestial force struck him down, too potent for his upper dantian to withstand.

          What had such a deeply cultivated man coveted to meet that fate?

          I assumed that’s what Wei Ji Myo-hwa was referring to regarding inner demons.

          1. Betara Indera Gunung Timur
            @mythMar 19, '25 at 2:38 am

            wasn’t that (SI’s) inner demon or rather, regret, practically relieved when SI saw jys solving the sword marks, thus recover the lost art? and iinm, it was sword dragon that later got inner demon for a while due to seeing how talented jys and how easy it was for him to solved the puzzle. hence why we got these two paragraphs after that line

            [i]Seeing the boy effortlessly draw Radiant Sword Style, she sank into despair. Moments after realizing her once-proud talent paled in comparison.

            But it was fine. Her master Sword Immortal’s words, piercing Jeong Yeon-shin’s lifespan, pulled her from the abyss. Not petty relief—compassion took root[/i]

            i think the event happens somewhere around c28-30

            also, @heavenly cat i went and read c1 of the manhwa, and sure enough, his oldest brother (hye-ah) dad is noticeably older-looking (compared to the 2nd). and it seems he also treated jys ‘better’ than the 2nd child did.

            1. myth
              @Betara Indera Gunung TimurMar 19, '25 at 4:58 am

              I went back and re-read JYS first visit to Zhongnan and you are right, that passage is definitely referring to Sword Dragon’s heart demon. Which really makes me wonder what was up with that bit about Sword Immortal.

            2. Arthur Leywin
              @Betara Indera Gunung TimurMar 30, '25 at 1:21 pm

              The oldest brother treated Jeong Yeon-shin only better in the manhwa. In the novel the oldest brother Jeong Nam-san also treats Jeong Yeon-shin like shit.

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