The World of Sound - Chapter 2



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Look at the flowers.

Reading this article means that you have achieved the ten stages of Cheon-eum Shingong and have perfected your sound.

It also means that I have nothing more to teach you.

For that alone, there won’t be many people in the Central Plains who can handle you.

However, you also know very well that this is not the whole of the Cheonum Shingong, but only the beginning.

So from now on, try harder to hear and understand the sounds of nature.

So, if you can breathe and play along with nature, nothing will be able to interfere with your playing.

Oh my god.

My only disciple.

With this, you have become the 7th Heavenly Sound Gate Master.

Now that I have fulfilled my duty as the 6th generation lord, I will begin the journey to find the path to enlightenment that I had put off.

Don’t be tied down by your temporary relationship with me, but go out into the world and listen, experience, and perform more.

If we meet in the heavenly world in the future, let’s share music together.

“Master… … .”

A young man who had just finished his work trembled as he looked at the letter lying alone in the shabby house.

It seemed like quite some time had passed since he had left, and as I looked around the house, which was still chilly, I could feel his absence.

“This fucking old man… … !”

But the voice that burst out next was not one of sadness or loneliness.

anger.

It was anger towards the master who ran away with all the small items without leaving behind even a single thing.

“You really took everything and ran away without leaving anything behind!?”

P.S.

As for the furniture and training tools, I think they are no longer needed, so this master has disposed of them all. I will also use the money you have saved to help the old master on his long journey. There is a saying that one can suffer hardships when young, isn’t there? Since you have a talent for making money, you should use it to earn more. By the time you read this, it will have been more than five days since I left, so don’t have any false hopes and go your own way. By the way, this house and land have already passed into someone else’s hands, so you should vacate them soon.

Trembling

I couldn’t help but tremble involuntarily.

Cheonhwa felt the heat rising to the top of her head, so much so that she thought it was fortunate that she was not affected by the magic spell.

“Not yet, not yet.”

But there was still hope.

Cheonhwa tore up the letter in one fell swoop and quickly left the house and ran up the mountain.

The purpose was to find something buried in a secluded place in the mountains.

Slush funds.

It was a place where he would secretly hide the extra income he had earned by going down to the village, selling wine at the market, and working as a handyman in various other places to earn money, all under the orders of his master.

This, this is something even the master must not have known, he told himself, and ran like lightning to get there.

“This can’t be happening… … .”

However, what Cheonhwa encountered was only traces that had already been dug up by something.

This damn master even stole all the slush funds that I believed would never be caught.

It was clear that he knew but pretended not to know until he had saved up some money.

“Aaaa …

After that, strange rumors began to spread around the mountain where Cheonhwa stayed.

It is said that after an unknown scream echoed throughout the mountain, all the animals on the mountain died without a single wound.

Because of this, it was suspected that a plague was spreading or that a strange spirit had appeared, and for a while, the government blocked anyone approaching the mountain.

It was only later that it was discovered that it was a heart attack, not a disease or the appearance of a spirit.

***

“In other sects! When disciples leave the mountain, they give them money! They give them elixirs! They even give them the sect’s treasures! What the heck is this sect… … !”

A day had passed since the master left, but Cheonhwa’s anger did not subside at all.

Because that damn master sold the house and land where he had been staying and left, he couldn’t stay any longer and had to come down the mountain penniless.

“Should I at least sell this?”

No, I wasn’t completely empty-handed.

When he entered the last closed room, a jade flute that he had received from his master was hanging carelessly on his waist.

Although it was said to be one of the treasures of the temple, made using special jade, I honestly didn’t think it was given to me on purpose.

If you were going to give it, you would have given the other four instruments as well.

Cheonhwa couldn’t find comfort in that, because he thought that it was just something they had left behind while closing down for the purpose of running away in the middle of the night and not being able to take it away.

“Ugh. I wish that were possible.”

My heart was boiling and I even thought about selling it, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

It was not because it was a treasure of the monks, but because without it, there would be no instrument that could properly capture his sound.

“I know how to make it, but… … .”

The only good thing is that he already has the recipes for the remaining four instruments in his head.

“In the end, it’s all about money.”

I remembered all the necessary materials, the production method, the precautions, and the special features in detail, but the problem was still money.

Since it was necessary to use special and unique materials to withstand the Cheonumshinkong, the cost of making each and every one of them was bound to be enormous.

No, some of them were mixed with ingredients that you couldn’t get even if you had money.

So the fire inside rises even higher.

Even if I had only the money that the master had saved, I could have tried to make at least one of these imitations.

Thinking about it again brought tears to my eyes, as it was money I had painstakingly saved for ten years.

“Why don’t some bandits show up to rob us? Oh, by the way, I already wiped them all out.”

If a bandit appeared in front of me right now, I would eat them up, even down to the roots of the mountain vegetables, even if they were a green forest.

However, there was no way there would be any bandits.

This is because he has emptied out all the people who have been here for years, as well as the new people who have settled in.

“This might give me enough money to live on right now, but… … .”

Cheonhwa almost went berserk, but fortunately, he didn’t go so far as to roll his eyes.

It was because of the tiger skin he carried on his back.

It is also the skin of a tiger called Sangun.

To be exact, he was the son of a mountain man.

While supporting his master by digging for herbs and cutting down trees to sell, he occasionally caught and sold bears, wolves, and tigers that he encountered. During this process, he encountered a mountain lord and engaged in a bloody fight.

At that time, I realized a new realm while fighting that guy, and thanks to eating the internal energy I got from that guy, I was able to raise the level of Cheon-eum Shingong faster than expected, so I couldn’t help but be thankful to that guy in many ways.

But the best part is that his skin was sold for a huge sum of money.

In the end, the old man ran off with all the slush funds, including a large sum of money earned from selling the bastard’s skin.

At that time, the bastard had a child, and it was this bastard.

I thought about catching it and selling it, but I thought that I would get a much higher price if I raised it and caught it, so I just let it go. When I looked for it to save some money before coming down the mountain, it was already dead, probably because it had been hit by the evil spell I had unconsciously unleashed.

If it weren’t for this, I would have seriously considered selling the jade flute or using it as collateral on the battlefield.

“I’ve met a noble person.”

“… … ?”

It was after walking for a long time that I was walking down the mountain.

As I was walking down the mountain, unable to muster the energy to even perform lightness exercises due to my uneasy mind, a middle-aged man looked at Cheonhwa and beamed with delight.

“I was already worried about accepting the invitation empty-handed, but this wonderful hopi is a wonderful gift. Is your father a hunter?”

“What? All of a sudden.”

To be exact, it was not a heavenly flower, but a tiger skin that he was carrying. It was completely peeled off without a single scratch, and it seemed to be alive, as if it had not died of old age or illness.

It was the same expression as being surprised by something, but if you look at it differently, it was like crying loudly, so that was also great.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a top-class hopi, as it was hard to find even in its size.

However, Cheonhwa’s mood was not very good as he watched the words and expression of the admirable middle-aged man.

Because talking about other people’s things made me feel like a conman.

In particular, that damn goatee really bothered me.

Unlike his master’s white hair, which was as thin as a brush’s tail and had a twisted body, he had thick, lush black hair that did not match his large and sturdy body, as if he had trained deeply in external energy. However, just looking at him was enough to make him irritated.

“Will you sell me that hopi? I will pay you a good price.”

“Oh my. If that’s the case, you should have said something earlier! This guy is the king of the mountains. I worked very hard to catch him for a long time. That’s why he’s a bit more expensive than a regular hopi. How much do you think he’s worth…?”

However, Cheonhwa quickly changed his stance at the words that he would pay a generous price. Even the goatee that had been annoying him looked pretty. He looked so manly and spirited that he couldn’t help but bow his head and rub his palms together.

He looked up at the middle-aged man with the goatee, his face painted with a businesslike smile.

“Would 10 nyang be enough?”

“Of course. It’s just shy of the amount I was thinking of, but since it was fate that we met like this, I’ll give it to you!”

Since 1 nyang of gold is worth 20 nyang of silver, it was a whopping 200 nyang of silver.

In fact, even for this amount of hopi, unless it was something that was really urgent, he would have been willing to pay 50 nyang at the most, or even 100 nyang at the most, but Cheonhwa used his honed sales skills and agreed to the price with a hint of regret.

“However, I have urgent business and am in a hurry, so I don’t have that much money, so I will pay you later.”

However, that’s when the problem arose.

The point is that he has no money in his hands right now.

Even if you’ve been doing business with someone for a long time, you wouldn’t be able to give them that much money on credit, so how could someone you’ve just met take this precious thing, your only source of income, with just a few words?

Does this make any sense?

Thanks to that, Cheonhwa’s expression, which had been similar to that of a merchant, became distorted into a fierce one.

“Wow, whoa. I’m so unlucky that I’ve even gotten caught up in some crooked scam.”

“Be careful what you say. Given the circumstances, I’ll let it slide once, but not twice.”

Immediately, a bad sound came out.

If you can’t pay, you’re not a customer.

However, he did not make it an issue, as he thought that it was a situation that the other person could understand.

Instead, he revealed himself subtly.

“You can pay the price whenever you come to the Iron Man Gate. Even though you’re not in the martial arts world, you’ve probably heard of the Iron Man Gate, right?”

“Iron Man Gate… … !”

With the name Iron Man, a head of hair as thick as a lion’s mane, and a stylishly grown black beard.

He was confident that even people who were not part of the martial arts world would know who he was.

“What is that, you swindler?”

However, there was no way that Cheonhwa would know the name of the Iron Man Gate.

In reality, the Iron Man School was a well-known school in the martial arts world, and anyone with even a little interest in the martial arts world would be able to think of someone with similar characteristics, but he didn’t know anyone and it didn’t really matter to Cheonhwa.

“Oh! Then you’ve heard of the name Iron Lion, right? I’m Iron Lion Margin.”

Because of this, Margin was greatly embarrassed.

He couldn’t believe that I wouldn’t know the name of the Iron Man, so he proved that he wasn’t a fraud by even revealing his own nickname.

Wire mesh margin.

He was a strong man among the strong, and was considered one of the top 100 masters of Sapa.

Although it was a ranking limited to the Sapa, considering that the Sapa gained so much power after the Battle of Jeongma and the Demonic Cults lost much of their power and the Sapa world opened up, he is a master who can easily be ranked in the top 100 or 150 in the entire martial arts world.

“Whether it’s an iron lion or an iron tomb, if you don’t have money, just go. Don’t make me angry.”

Of course, to Cheonhwa, it was not only an unknown name, but also a meaningless name.

If someone tries to take your stuff without paying for it and just says a few words, he’s a scammer, nothing more, nothing less.

“This guy… …! He’s not trained in martial arts, so I tried to show him mercy, but he just kept provoking me to the end! If you’re going to act like that, I’ll make you realize it with your own body. I’ll tell you who you’re facing!”

Such a reaction from Cheonhwa provoked Margin’s anger.

He may not know it, but that arrogant attitude is what fuels his dirty nature.

In the first place, if I had wanted to, I could have committed robbery, but since I was going to celebrate a good event, I just wanted to avoid causing any bloodshed.

But this kind of mockery and arrogance?

If I left this kind of person alone, my reputation and pride would be at stake.

Margin immediately raised his aerodynamics, and his signature hair and beard stood on end.

Iron lion.

As he took a step forward, the ground burst apart with the tremendous force of the blow.

The weak ones were suffocated by the breath and the killing energy alone, and the surroundings were consumed by the energy that could make them faint.

“I’ll pay you the full price. However, you’ll have to pay for the medical expenses!”

“That conman is now committing robbery? Haa. I knew this would happen. There’s no way a guy with a goatee could be a decent human being!”

“Hey, goatee?!”

But even after receiving the full force of the wave, Cheonhwa spat out words in an irritated tone.

Rather, he only revealed his secret anger by pointing out the guy’s beard, which reminded him of someone.

“Inom!!!”

That has once again stimulated the margins.

Because his goatee was something of a taboo.

He calls himself a beard expert and has cherished and nurtured it as a symbol and a source of pride, but on the other hand, when someone points it out, it is like a sore spot on his back.

That’s why Margin’s eyes turned red.

He changed his mind about breaking one or two limbs and rushed towards Cheonhwa with the intention of crushing all of its bones.

“A stick is the best medicine for this kind of guy!”

Flutter!

At that moment, Cheonhwa also moved.

He threw the robe he was carrying high into the sky and grabbed the jade flute that was dangling from his waist.

Cheon Eum Shin Gong.

The sound of a crash.

One-point strike.

“!!”

Did you hide your martial arts skills?

The jade flute of the Heavenly Flower flew towards Majin’s forehead.

Margin was greatly surprised by the attack that had already come before his eyes without him even realizing it, but he did not try to evade it.

Iron Man, Iron Fist.

As the saying goes, he trained his entire body to the limit.

He believed that even if he had a lot of internal energy, that bastard’s attacks would not be able to harm him.

I thought I would counterattack and strike fear into his soul.

“Ugh… … Ugh… … ?”

Bam!!!

But there was no next time.

Because my vision went dark with a flash of light and a refreshing crashing sound.

fainting.

Margin was shaken to the core and lost consciousness at that one blow.

“What the heck, you weakling? This is the end of the world, the end of the world. Even these guys are threatening to commit robbery. Tsk tsk!”

Cheonhwa, who had actually done this, simply clicked his tongue and poked Majin with the end of his jade flute, who had instantly fainted.

“You think I’m just being kind and letting things end like this? I’m also the type of person who only gets hurt!”

Speaking while spitting out words that cannot be spoken.

“But I guess I should still receive compensation for mental damages, right?”

Cheonhwa, who was trying to get up while leaving him behind with no sign of waking up, suddenly remembered something and searched his arms.

He thought that since he had hurt her delicate heart, he deserved to receive the price.

“Oh my. I really can’t stand this.”

Cheonhwa grabbed the not-so-heavy Marjin’s sac and tried to get up again, but then crouched down again toward his face.

There seems to be something that really bothers me.

Splash!

I grabbed the goatee that had been bothering me from the beginning with both hands and pulled it all out.

Only then did Cheonhwa stand up with a relieved expression on her face.

“Ah! I feel so refreshed.”

He was the master’s substitute.

I wanted to rip out all of that old man’s beard, but I couldn’t meet him, and above all, it was still too much for me to do.

Cheonhwa, who had somehow managed to vent some of the anger inside her, picked up the Hopi she had thrown away and went down the mountain, leaving the unconscious Majin behind.

He kept talking nonsense about how he was treated by his master because he was too kind.