Chapter 199

**Season 2, Chapter 113:** As Song Yerin and Hong Ye-Mong both fall down the hole in the Sky Gorge Mountain, the latter uses the wind to help them descend safely and in the process, she catches a brief glimpse of Ilgak, and Jin Garyeong with her two unconscious comrades. On the ground, Yerin informs Hong Ye-Mong that she found Gang Ryong and then greets the young man, mentioning that the guardian spirit she put on him kept giving her bad news. Unable to reply, Gang struggles to deal with a headache and Yerin becomes aware of Hwan Sa's presence. Yerin uses her **Dragon Sight** (용안 (龍眼) , *Yong-an*) to expel Hwan Sa from Gang and as the Spirit Lord is being ripped away, he commands the River Dragon Armour to prevent Gang from connecting with the Dragon Sight. The armour encapsulates the young man and tries to escape but Hong Ye-Mong forcibly halts it before mentioning that she didn't expect to see the armour again in that place. She then says that it doesn't look like it is here to fight and wonders if it is trying to run away. The armour tries to escape once more but the Ice Jade Empress of the Fan slices it in half without harming the wearer and before it can encapsulate the young man again, unravels the armour from him using her fan before smashing it against a wall nearby. Facing the armour down, Hong Ye-Mong notes that she need to give Yerin and Gang some time together so she will play with it for a bit.

As Gang Ryong struggle in pain, he enters a dream-like state where he experience his past memories. Song Yerin questions the young man if he remembers that the spot they are in was where the met for the second time and after no reply, notes that his memories are more damaged than she thought. Yerin proceeds to explain that there was a soul of someone alive in his body and that sorcerer tried to get inside him by breaking through the guardian spirit she put in his headband. She further mentions that the memories she erased weren't restored but there are other parts that were subtly altered, and that she looked at Gang's memories when he left the shop, revealing that the conflicts Gang felt here are the same ones he felt before. Yerin then reprimands Gang, noting that he can't solve his problems like that and if something similar happens again, he will get more conflicted and hurt, resulting in the same thing happening again and again (this imply that Gang Ryong asked Song Yerin to erase his hurtful memories to escape from them). Yerin further drives in that it is even worse this time since his memories are being altered to control him and reveals that once someone's memories are touched, they become susceptible to illusory techniques so she put a guardian spirit on him. Then Yerin tells Gang she will restore the memories he lost but by doing so, he will have to make decisions for himself and overcome them, and that if he want to escape the pain, rather than forgetting entirely, it's better to become dull to it overtime.

Showing Gang Ryong the scene of the incident known as the Disaster of the Haidong Sword Clan, resulting in the death of his father, Song Yerin declares that the members of the Sage Forest have nothing to do with his master and that it was fabricated. She also says the memories were subtly mixed in with real memories someone experienced, along with entirely fabricated memories. Using the Haidong Sword Clan incident as an example, Yerin reveals that the ones responsible for it wasn't Dokgo Ryong or the Sage Forest but the Four Heavenly Kings who went against the orders of their master. Yerin further reveals that she doesn't know if that incident was the cause but her mother told her that was when the feud between the Heavenly Destroyer and the Four Heavenly Kings started to surface.

## Appearing Characters

* Doh Gyeom
* Dokgo Ryong (flashback)
* Gang Ryong
* Gang Yoon (flashback)
* Goo Hwi (flashback)
* Gwi Yeong (flashback)
* Hong Ye-Mong
* Hwan Sa
* Hyeol Bi (flashback)
* Ilgak
* Jin Garyeong
* Mak Sapyeong (flashback)
* Soh Jinhong
* Song Yerin
* Yongbi (flashback)