Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 113



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113. Two Etiquettes (1)

The trip back and forth between Hubei and Jiangsu was quite tiring. In fact, it was said that the death sentences, including Myeongyeop, were almost bedridden.

If I had to be specific, it was mental fatigue. Riding a carriage for the first time for several months was so tiresome that it made me want to throw up.

Of course, I was in good spirits. Maybe it was because it had been a long time since I had been on a trip, but I was full of energy.

“But how long has it been since you left? What are you preparing now?”

“Huh? Oh, didn’t I tell you?”

I laughed, scratching my head.

“I’m thinking of going to Gansu for a bit.”

“Gansu? Where is Lanzhou?”

“Yes. Where else in the Central Plains is there a Gansu?”

Cheonghwa rushed at me at a fast pace. I could see a fist clenched to strike my head. It was a huge improvement considering I hadn’t seen it before. It seemed that my internal energy had increased and my vision had improved.

bang!

Of course, I didn’t say I could avoid it. I held my head. It seemed like tears were welling up in my eyes as I watched the ripples in front of my eyes.

“Oh, what is it?”

“Don’t you plan on visiting your master at the main temple? Why do you keep wandering around outside?”

“Hey, I’m a top tier player by name. I’m a person standing on the battlefield where if I don’t advance, I’ll fall behind.”

“Don’t you think that’s not the case in the martial arts world?”

“I am also honing my martial arts skills.”

“Really. I must have polished myself a lot while working my way up.”

“Shall I show you?”

“Okay. Come out. Let’s have a sparring match after a long time.”

I can’t say it’s a fight. It’s because it’s clear that Cheonghwa will look after me. It would be right to see this as a map sparring match.

When I came to the yard behind the palace after a long time, I felt at ease, as if I had come back to my hometown.

“It’s good. I’m with you like this, Master.”

“Don’t just talk about it. Sit down and talk seriously.”

“If dandelion seeds cannot fly, where can they bloom?”

“How can you say such a thing so clearly?”

Cheonghwa took out her sword. There was no reason for her to draw her real sword against me. On the other hand, I pulled out my sword.

“The prayer is right there. Yes. That’s what it should be like when you’re unmanned.”

Cheonghwa said something as if she was proud.

“I’m going.”

“Come.”

I ran straight over and unleashed the Cloudless Colorless Sword Technique. Originally, it was just a fog that allowed me to see my opponent, albeit dimly, but now it was so thick that I couldn’t see even an inch ahead of me.

It was because the two elixirs had completely dissolved in my body while I was on my way up.

“Huh!”

Cheonghwa also took a step back as if she was surprised, and swung her scabbard. Cheonghwa’s scabbard and my Songmungo sword collided. The shockwave from the swords colliding pushed the fog outward.

Of course, that was the last of my attacks. Cheonghwa swung her sword with her back to the side, but I was busy blocking it.

“It’s your habit to shorten your strokes, but you need to be more relaxed. This is especially true in the martial arts of a shaman.”

Cheonghwa has been cut horizontally with the first step of the Hengsocheon Army. It is an incredibly easy first step from my perspective. There are no changes, and it is just a matter of drawing.

But why? I couldn’t stop it as it was going forward, so all I could do was stretch my body backwards and let it flow. I didn’t even have to divide the amount, but I was sweating profusely.

“That’s why you get pushed around like that because you try to move forward without thinking about what’s behind you. It’s not me pushing you, it’s you pushing yourself. Know that well.”

Cheonghwa slowly swung her sword and gave advice. There were many other pieces of advice worth listening to. Things like when I am in a good mood, my waist is empty.

After finishing a round of map sparring, I immediately stretched out on the yard. Cheonghwa persistently poked at only the places I thought I should really not attack, and as a result, I naturally became tired.

“It’s amazing how much progress has been made.”

“Right?”

I shrugged. The last time Qinghua saw me was before I absorbed the two elixirs. Now, the elixirs have been absorbed well, and my sword skills have become much stronger.

“Okay. Go, go.”

“thank you.”

“Take Myeongil with you instead.”

What poured cold water on that sense of pride was a word from my teacher whom I hadn’t seen in a long time.

“yes?”

“Myeongil came out of Chamhoedong.”

“Oh, it’s already like that. But what does that have to do with me?”

“What I want to ask you is, what on earth did you do to Myeongil when you were in Chamhoe-dong?”

I thought about it for a moment.

“I only had a brief discussion.”

“I don’t know for sure, but Myeongil seems quite impressed with you. Everyone he meets asks when you’ll be coming back.”

“Is that so?”

I opened my eyes wide. That blunt kid came looking for me. I couldn’t quite imagine it.

“And when we thought about it, it seemed like Myeongil was too confined. If he had had experience in martial arts, Jegal Se wouldn’t have been so easily swayed by Ai’s tactics.”

“But why do I have to be a nanny?”

“There is no one who roams the world of martial arts as much as you, and besides Jang Moon-sa, there is no one who follows Myeong-il like this.”

What does that have to do with my will? When I was about to ask that, Cheonghwa spoke in a serious voice.

“Myungil, you are a child with many wounds. You are a child who has grown thorns before flowers. That is something we are always worried about. I wish you could solve that. You are better than us at dealing with people.”

“If you put it that way, it’ll be hard to refuse.”

I clicked my tongue. I know roughly what’s going on tomorrow. He said it as if nothing happened, but that couldn’t be true. He just covered up the grudge that he couldn’t get rid of with his indifference. It’s called covering your eyes and pretending not to know.

“There is one condition.”

“What is it?”

“I can’t take you as a non-partisan Taoist priest.”

“why?”

“There are such circumstances.”

I said it bluntly. This is something that is connected to the King. If I were to use this as an excuse to bury the dirty politicians in the shaman world, I would be ashamed to face the people. No matter how dirty the world of business is, it is not as dirty as the world of politics.

Cheonghwa thought for a moment and then nodded.

“I guess so. You wouldn’t be doing that for no reason.”

“Okay. And I’ll take one more person with me.”

“who?”

“I am a lay disciple.”

Cheonghwa was puzzled. He seemed puzzled because a lay disciple suddenly appeared. Of course, this was something that had not been discussed with the lay disciple.

* * *

Yeo Hong-yang pointed at herself with her finger with a bewildered expression.

“I’m going? To Gansu?”

“huh.”

“why?”

“Aren’t you curious about your enemy’s background?”

Yeo Hongyang smacked her lips. Muk Hwiyeong frowned as he looked at Yeo Hongyang.

“You don’t want to receive the Cheonsu Sangdan?”

“No, I don’t want to receive it.”

“But why do you act like that?”

“… … What did I do.”

“Why are you acting so shameless as if you’ve already handed over the reins?”

Yeo Hongyang kept her mouth shut. She must have felt it too. It was the sense of defeat that had been buried deep in her bones over the years.

“Honestly, I don’t have confidence that I can win. I’ve never beaten my brothers since I was a kid. I’ve always come in last.”

“In life, you only need to win once when it matters.”

Muk Hwi-yeong looked back and nodded. A small child came out slowly with a blank expression. It was Myeong-il.

Yeo Hongyang looked back at Muk Hwi-yeong as if she was embarrassed.

“Why is the dojo coming tomorrow?”

“A colleague who will go to Gansu together.”

“Ahem. What a strange composition.”

It was a strange composition. The disciple of the king, the son of the king, the disciple who is currently at the center of the transformation of the shamans and the head of the upper class, and the disciple of the main temple who stands out the most in the same distribution. Perhaps they were the two extremes and the center of the shamans.

“so?”

“You two should become closer. It’s going to be a long journey if you go to Gansu.”

“what?”

Muk Hwi-yeong left the place, leaving behind Yeo Hong-yang who was embarrassed. Myeong-il also looked at Muk Hwi-yeong with expressionless eyes, but his pupils were shaking greatly.

Like that, Mukhwiyoung quickly disappeared. Yeohongyang and Myeongil looked at each other.

Now that I think about it, this was a quiet place even for shamans, so other people didn’t come here often. Mukhwiyeong must have called the two of them here on purpose.

“……hello?”

“… … .”

Yeo Hong-yang sensed from the beginning that it would not be easy as she watched Myeong-il not even turning his head, let alone answering.

* * *

While they were getting to know each other, I had to prepare myself. Anyway, I am stronger now than I was yesterday, and Yeo Hongyang goes without saying.

So I had to protect Myeongil and Yeohongyang. It was definitely a burden. Since Myeongyeop was the best, I didn’t think much about the salt sales, but when I heard that I had to take responsibility for them all, it hit me. Maybe Myeongyeop also felt this burden.

“So you want to become stronger?”

“Yes.”

“Hoo hoo hoo.”

Cheonghwa lowered her head and laughed. I looked at my teacher with worried eyes, thinking that he was crazy. Cheonghwa eventually lowered her head and laughed loudly.

“Hahahaha!”

“Why are you like that? It’s scary.”

“You finally said you wanted to become stronger.”

Cheonghwa raised her head and her face was filled with smiles. I felt embarrassed and tried to say something else.

“What’s the big deal?”

“Don’t worry. The guy who always brags about being a merchant is talking about wanting to become stronger. How can you say that’s not a big deal?”

Cheonghwa got up and started searching through the bookshelf next to her.

“Now that I think about it, I think you did a good job of being a disciple.”

“Huh? Suddenly?”

“Yes. If you are a disciple of the main temple, you must receive permission from the main temple to learn other martial arts. However, there is no such rule for lay disciples.”

“Oh, I see.”

That may be true. If you learn martial arts that don’t match the shaman’s martial arts, it would be like the tower you worked so hard for collapsing.

But there was one thing that could be inferred from those words.

“So you’re saying that you’re teaching a martial art other than the shaman’s?”

“Yeah. Didn’t you say you wanted to get stronger at a faster rate?”

“Yes.”

“It’s a martial art that a shaman’s disciple would never be able to teach, but I think you can use it well. You have a certain aura of a thug.”

I felt a little stung. I didn’t think I could sense the remnants of magic. But judging by the way, that didn’t seem to be the case.

“You talk like you’re disposing of leftover food.”

“Oh, don’t misunderstand my love for my disciples.”

Cheonghwa took out an old book from the corner and dusted it off. There was so much dust on it that she coughed.

“Oh, it looks like the martial arts inside are damaged too.”

“Stop talking nonsense and get this.”

Cheonghwa threw a book at me. I took it absentmindedly. There was no title on the cover of the book.

Looking closely, it seemed like it was there originally, but it looked like someone had scraped it off with a knife.

“I guess someone didn’t want to show the title.”

“Yeah. I scratched it and erased it.”

The culprit was right in front of us.

“why?”

“It’s not a martial art that a non-partisan Taoist should have. It’s a punishment to even know that I have it.”

“Huh. Is that all?”

I clicked my tongue and opened the book. And as soon as I saw the herb and the nine-legged sword, I immediately felt the evil that was lingering throughout the martial arts.

“… … What is the name of this martial art?”

“It is called the Nine Secret Asura Sword.”

Just hearing the name made me smell like Sapa.

Cheonghwa just smiled broadly, wondering what was going on.