Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 11



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11. Gokjeongak (4)

I opened my eyes half-asleep. My eyes opened naturally, but I was inevitably tired after staying up for two nights.

“Are you that tired after doing that? Tsk.”

I raised my head at the voice. There, Cheongsu was clicking his tongue.

I tried to sit up straight, but then I realized something was weighing me down. Upon closer inspection, I saw that it was thick fur. Could it be that damned Gokjeonjoo covering me up?

“If you woke up, you would have just gotten up. What are you doing!”

“Ah. Yes.”

I got up and grabbed my fur.

“Is this fur something that you covered?”

“Huh. If a verb comes out of the Gokjeongak for no reason, won’t I be the only one getting cursed at?”

“……thank you.”

I knew he’d be like this. He wasn’t as bad of a guy as I thought.

When I tried to hand over the fur, Cheongsu’s face turned red.

“Are you going to give me that thing that covers your dusty body?”

“Then what should we do?”

“You can sell it or throw it away, it’s up to you.”

This old man had this side to him. I wondered, folding the fur and putting it in my bag.

I instinctively looked toward the Samcheonggwan Jeonseo. As I had expected, it was already filled with the same amount as yesterday. However, I wasn’t particularly scared. I had climbed the cliff three times at night, so it would be easier during the day.

“I will go and deliver the message.”

“That’s right. If I hear that I’m late again because of you, I’ll be furious.”

“Oh, yes.”

The tone of voice was the same as yesterday, but he didn’t sound that annoyed because he knew I had covered him with fur. While I was putting the letters into my bag, Cheongsu also grabbed a few letters from the side.

When I looked at him, not knowing what he was doing, Cheongsu suddenly screamed.

“I also have to go to Samcheong-gwan, so I’m packing some.”

This is surprising. Why are you yelling like this when you could have just said you’d go with me?

In the end, I left Gokjeongak with Cheongsu. We didn’t talk much along the way.

I didn’t really want to hear anyone yelling at me for asking questions for no reason.

The mouth of Cheongsu opened only after reaching the cliff.

“How many times have you come up here at dawn?”

It was a sudden question. I rolled my eyes and answered.

“Three times.”

“Three times. I thought so.”

I thought they would yell at me for only going there three times, but it was quieter than I thought.

“Have you ever learned any type of Wall Tiger technique?”

“no.”

“That must be true. There’s no trace of having learned martial arts.”

Cheongsu, who had been quietly thinking about something, suddenly took off his blue hero hat and handed it to me.

When he handed it to me, I accepted it absentmindedly, but I had no idea what was going on. Could he really be giving it to me? I tried to tie the Youngwoonggun to my forehead, but Cheongsu shouted again.

“Who told you to tie it on your forehead?”

Then where should I put the hero’s badge on my forehead? I looked at Cheongsu with a look of resentment. Cheongsu pointed to his eyes with his finger.

no way.

“You want to put something in my eyes?”

“okay.”

“why?”

“Wear a blindfold and try climbing up.”

I looked at Cheongsu like he was crazy. No matter how dark the night was, it was different from walking with your eyes covered with a blindfold. Even in the dark, you could see some of the curves.

“why?”

“just.”

Cheongsu’s words made me furious. Suddenly, I remembered the time I threw a punch in front of Cheonghwa when I was running away. Was the word ‘just’ something that could make me this angry?

“I don’t like it.”

“Shall I abolish the Danjeon?”

I was speechless. Those so-called Taoists made such blatant threats. No wonder they called me a fool.

I took a deep breath and put the hero gun in my eyes. Cheongsu kindly tightened the loose knot on the back of my head. Now I could really see nothing.

“Come up and see.”

I suddenly wondered if my nimble movements would work well even in this extreme situation.

I grabbed the rock. I felt like my body was remembering the path, just like this morning.

Even though it was pitch dark, the cliff was clearly visible before my eyes. The path seemed to shine like a constellation in the night sky.

I had a gut feeling that I could climb this cliff.

I immediately started climbing up the cliff. I climbed faster because I wanted to show Cheongsu something.

I was going up quickly. Suddenly, the area where my lower abdomen was became hot and the feeling of heat spread throughout my body.

I knew this feeling. I had learned martial arts in my past life, so I knew it. It was the flow of internal energy.

In my previous life, my internal energy, which I had tried to move but couldn’t, was naturally circling around my body. The internal energy circled the meridians of my entire body once and gathered at the soles of my feet.

My heated soles knew the path ahead. I climbed the cliff with even greater selflessness. As I climbed, I realized. This was not just a cliff. It was a path built for a specific purpose.

I thought I was going the right way until now. But that wasn’t the case. The moment you start, it can’t help but be right. It’s a path that forces you to take one step. This was the law.

Only after I realized that did I climb up the cliff. When I took off the blindfold, I saw the clear water already rising before my eyes.

And there was a book in front of my feet. On the book was written Cheongunbo (靑雲步).

“You just achieved the feat of martial arts.”

I blankly picked up the book. It was something I had learned from a shaman’s martial arts.

“I got used to it first with my body, but it’s still just a beginning. If I read a book and understand the group and expand it, it will be different.”

It was definitely different from the martial arts I had learned in my previous life. In my previous life, the forms were too artificial and I couldn’t even move my internal energy properly, but this time, even though I just climbed the cliff, the flow of my danjeon heating up was natural.

‘This is the rising martial art.’

In the past, no matter how much money I spent, I could only learn the martial arts of a second-rate school that had failed. It was then that I first learned the ascending martial arts of the Gupa Ilbang.

For some reason, a sense of grandeur welled up in my chest. At this moment, I forgot about money or greatness and was intoxicated by the sense of accomplishment from martial arts.

“The shaman is learning the secret techniques that a five-year-old child can master and is so happy about it. He’s like a dullard.”

“Hehehe.”

Although Cheongsu was verbally abusive as usual, it sounded good at this moment.

“Thank you. You have given me such great teachings.”

“This is only a small part. If you become a formal disciple of the main temple, you will be able to learn much more profound things. Do you still want to run away from the shaman?”

I paused. For a moment, I felt like I caught a glimpse of why the drones were so intent on polishing themselves.

He is a disciple of the shaman’s headquarters. He might be better than I thought. I thought that if I trained with Mujae Store, I might be able to become a first-class person.

If only that were the case, I would have no desire to do so. The thing that annoyed me the most while I was going up was not the top-level masters, but the third-rate ruffians. Those who were ambiguous and even inferior would always meddle in the game, saying that they were unmanned.

“Can a shaman’s disciple from the main temple work in the secular world?”

“If you work at Gokjeongak, you have no choice but to work in the secular world. Of course, there are no disciples from the main mountain who want to work at Gokjeongak.”

“Can you decorate things like the top or the flag?”

“That won’t work. However, with the permission of the elders, you can enter the secular world as a guardian of the law.”

That’s a bit of a shame. But when I think about it, I already had no choice. I’ve learned the martial arts of a shaman, and if I want to escape from here to the secular world, I have no choice but to close my danjeon.

‘Now that I think about it, do I have a pierced nose?’

I learned martial arts without even wanting to. Thinking about it that way made me feel a little uneasy.

“But is it okay for you to teach martial arts to me, a temporary disciple?”

“I didn’t tell you. You learned it yourself. It wasn’t me who climbed the cliff, but you.”

After all, this cliff was a sacred place where you could learn martial arts just by climbing it. I also knew why Samcheonggwan was on top of this cliff. It was because if you weren’t a shaman’s main disciple, you shouldn’t even think about climbing it. You could only climb it properly using the shaman’s martial arts.

“Okay, I understand.”

“For now? That’s an outrageous, even mad, answer for a temporary disciple.”

“sorry.”

Cheongsu clicked his tongue, turned around, and headed toward Samcheonggwan. I hurriedly grabbed the Cheongunbo emergency kit and followed him.

Cheongsu and I handed over a letter to the person in charge of administration at Samcheong-gwan.

“It’s over now.”

I said. Although Cheongsu helped a little, I sent all the messengers of Samcheonggwan anyway. Now, I thought it was time to go to the palace pavilion where Cheonghwa Jinin was waiting.

But that was my big mistake.

“What is the end?”

“Isn’t the work done? Didn’t you send all the letters to Samcheonggwan today?”

“I guess you didn’t hear. Starting today, you’re in charge of all the books in Gokjeongak.”

I was speechless for a moment. Could he be joking? Looking at Cheongsu’s eyes, it seemed like he wasn’t joking at all.

“What the hell are you talking about?”

I immediately straightened up. In an instant, Cheongsu’s sword struck my crown. I grabbed my head and rolled around in pain that sent shivers down my spine.

“Eww! This crazy bastard!”

“Are you crazy? I guess you don’t want to live in exile.”

Cheongsu immediately rolled up his sleeves. A dusty fight broke out in front of Samcheong-gwan. I shouted at the people passing by.

“Help me! This guy is trying to kill me!”

But among the people coming and going from Samcheong-gwan, no one listened to what I said.

Yes. This was not a society of merchants who were quick to show off. It was a barbaric martial arts world where people were treated like cows and chickens, even when they were killed.

“Die, die!”

“I feel like I’m going to die!”

“They’re beating me to death!”

Cheongsu ignored my cries and only hit my weak spots.

I felt myself gradually losing consciousness as the pain shook my entire body.

The next day at Gokjeongak passed like that.

***

For some reason, when I opened my eyes, there was no pain at all. Rather than pain, my body felt more energetic.

I remember being beaten until I lost consciousness, but it was surprising that I didn’t suffer any aftereffects after being hit like that. The mysterious and unfathomable powers of the martial arts people are truly unfathomable.

When I opened my eyes again, I was in the messenger room of Gokjeongak.

The messenger room was filled with countless letters again. Looking outside, the morning sun was rising. It seemed like he had lost consciousness and slept for a long time.

“I really want to run away.”

Now, climbing the cliff is not really a problem. This means that you can descend Mt. Mudeungsan without using the road.

Even if they are a shamanist faction, they do not keep watch to the extent of surrounding the entire shamanist mountain.

But now, I have already mastered Cheongunbo. I was told that if I tried to leave Mt. Mudang without permission, my dantian could actually be destroyed.

Considering that Cheongsu was dying because of the crazy noise, it wasn’t such an absurd threat.

As I was sighing at the suffocating prospect, translucent letters suddenly appeared before my eyes.

[ The store level increases when the conditions are met. ]

[ More talents available for purchase! ]

… … What is this all of a sudden?