< Episode 104: The title of the best in the world (1) >
The two priests were astonished by the overwhelming and surprising inaction.
It is no exaggeration to say that Sogeomseon So Unhwi’s inaction was beyond imagination.
It was not unusual for dozens of trees to split and the ground to cave in every time he swung his sword.
It was Baek Hyang-mook who dealt with the fake Lee Jeong-gyeom, whose entire body was stained black, and thought he was a monster.
but,
‘That’s the real monster.’
With this level of inaction, I think I could handle 1,000 or even 10,000 people on my own.
And they were not ordinary men, but warriors.
Although he was struggling to escape from So Woon-hwi’s hands, seeing the fake Lee Jeong-gyeom with his whole body crushed and cut off made me feel sorry for him.
‘…….It’s a ridiculous growth rate.’
It wasn’t like this when I first saw him.
Although he was better than other late exponents, he lacked experience and understanding, so he didn’t even give them lessons.
Now it was a situation in which he had to learn.
‘Is Geomseon’s shadow this big?’
He is not Geom Seon himself, he is just his disciple, but he is very strong.
It occurred to him that if the disciple of Geomseon’s descendant was this good, the Geomseon’s descendant who faced him might not have tried his best.
[Master.]
Lee Jeong-gyeom sent him a message.
[Why are you doing that?]
[Hyung So, no, So Geom-seon’s ridiculous inaction aside, his hair is definitely as red as blood…]
[It’s as you guessed. That’s because I learned the art of Hyeolcheon Daeragong.]
Lee Jeong-gyeom’s eyes widened at those words.
I knew well that my teacher, Baek Hyang-muk, had learned the Hyeolcheon Daeragong because it had already spread throughout the entire martial arts world.
However, the fact that Sounhwi, a swordsman, learned it…
[no way?]
[Just listen.]
Baek Hyang-muk knows that Sogeomseon and Hyeolma are the same person because of Geumsangje’s conciliation.
However, there was no way his disciple Lee Jeong-gyeom knew that fact.
In response, Baek Hyang-muk briefly explained what he had experienced so far.
Lee Jeong-gyeom, who learned all the facts, could not help but be surprised.
[under! Brother So is both a descendant of Geomseon and a blood demon…]
[Only you know this fact.]
It was Baek Hyang-muk, who didn’t want to reveal anything because he had promised something if he didn’t see that in front of his eyes.
However, I had to say it in advance because I thought my student Lee Jeong-gyeom would keep it secret, so I told him about it.
‘You must have been very surprised.’
I, too, was very surprised when I found out about this.
Sogeomseon is becoming a new hero and symbol of the political faction.
Besides, isn’t he now a candidate for the leader of the Murim?
I couldn’t help but be shocked when I found out that the other hidden identity of such a person was a blood demon.
Seeing Lee Jeong-gyeom looking very surprised, Baek Hyang-mook sent a message.
[Are you very surprised?]
In response to his question, Lee Jeong-gyeom hesitated for a moment and spoke cautiously.
[……Actually, there is something I did not tell Master.]
Baek Hyang-muk asked a question.
[Is there something I didn’t say?]
[Actually, I liked him, so I tried to keep it quiet unless there was a problem with Musou.]
[Unpaired star? What does that mean?]
Baek Hyang-muk was puzzled by the word ‘matchless’ that suddenly appeared.
Lee Jeong-gyeom said to him.
[……Do you remember sending me to take the exam for the Fungyeong Balyu Sect?]
[I sent it to you directly, so how could you not remember it?]
In order to smoothen the relationship with Mussangseong again, Lee Jeong-gyeom was sent to the test.
But I didn’t know why this story was being brought up.
Baek Hyang-muk asked this.
[Why are you telling this story?]
[Didn’t I tell you that a man named Haun became the lord of the cattle sect at that time?]
[okay. It did.]
I remembered it clearly.
I remember that suddenly the biological son of Jin Seong-baek, the Heartless Wind God, appeared and took over the place.
But something completely unexpected came out of Lee Jeong-gyeom’s mouth.
[I didn’t tell you at the time, but Haun is So Unhwi, Sogeomseon.]
‘!!!’
Baek Hyang-muk was so surprised by those words that he could not help but be astonished.
No, it was hard to understand what the student was saying.
[What are you talking about? So Unhwi is Haun?]
[…….Master, as you know, even before I learned martial arts, I was sensitive to energy and was able to distinguish other people’s energy through my senses.]
I knew that.
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That’s why you didn’t accept him as a disciple.
[When I saw Ha-un at the time, his energy was slightly different compared to when he was working on the late Ji-soo, but I was confident that it was him during the test.]
[How come you didn’t mention that?]
In response to Baek Hyang-muk’s urging, Lee Jeong-gyeom scratched his head and said.
[……I liked him.]
[You hide it from your teacher because you like it?]
At that moment, Baek Hyang-muk felt pain in his bones.
Actually, it is ridiculous to even say anything about this.
Even though Lee Jeong-gyeom remembered being captivated by the power of the sword of death, didn’t he hide the murder he had committed before because he was sad about it?
[This was not something to hide.]
[I apologize. It was because I liked him, but I thought there must have been a reason why he, who was from Ikyang Soga, sought out the Heartless Wind God while hiding this fact.]
In the end, it was said that he hid it because he really liked it.
I was concerned about his lack of emotional exchange with others, but Sounhwi was the only one who built friendships and maintained loyalty.
[I had no intention of hiding it until the end. If there was a situation where I ran into a warrior, I tried to ask my brother So for help.]
[I can’t believe we’re finally talking about such an important story.]
Baek Hyang-muk clicked his tongue.
This fact revealed by Lee Jeong-gyeom was a truth that could shake Moorim.
‘How could this happen….ha!’
Baek Hyang-muk was shocked.
It is no exaggeration to say that the current Moorim is divided into three major powers.
The martial arts federation, blood religion, and Mussangseong forces were in balance, but absurdly, the center of these three forces was occupied by only one person.
If Sogeomseon Sounhwi became the leader of the Murim Alliance, it would be virtually the same as becoming the leader of all three major powers.
‘Isn’t the golden prize system the problem?’
All of the martial arts central power is about to fall into the hands of just one person.
So Unhwi was on the verge of achieving what even the Geumsangje could not do while hiding behind the scenes.
Lee Jeong-gyeom said to Baek Hyang-mook, who looked serious.
[And I have one more thing to tell you.]
[……What else?]
[I just found out about this, but the energy of the small brother over there is similar to the descendant of Geomseon who played the golden-eyed being that the teacher mentioned earlier.]
[What?]
Baek Hyang-muk’s eyes widened at his words.
* * *
-Kwasik!
“Kwaaaaaak!”
It’s such a tough vitality.
Although not as strong as Seobok, his body continued to regenerate even after being cut and crushed.
Of course, if you make it like this and it regenerates, it’s going to be like death.
-You are quite foolish too.
What are you doing?
I know how painful it was when needles got stuck in blood all over your body.
All you have to do is return the pain in its entirety.
Now that you clearly know the gap between yourself and me, should I end it like this?
While the head and the upper part of the body were left behind, I plunged the Namcheon Iron Sword into the guy’s heart and spoke.
-Poof!
“Off.”
“What is your identity?”
He spoke to me in pain at my question.
“Lord…Kill me.”
“I’m going to kill you. But after hearing the truth come out of your mouth.”
He looked at me as if he was tired of hearing this.
You guys are not easy to keep your mouth shut even after being like this.
However, I guessed something when Baek Hyang-mook provoked him earlier.
“How did you plant Baek (魄) in the sword of death?”
The guy’s face hardened at my question.
As expected, this was an important key.
At first, I didn’t even know if it was a fake Lee Jeong-gyeom, and I thought that my body was taken away by the sword of the Coercive Sword, so I tried to absorb it with my heavenly fist.
However, there was no bag that should have been inside the bastard.
“In the human body, the soul and the white are in balance. But it wasn’t in your body.”
“……”
“That would mean that you put your evil spirit into the sword.”
The guy’s eyes twitched slightly.
It seems that my prediction was somewhat correct.
I continued to tell this guy what I guessed.
“I said it was about 300 years ago… What does it have to do with you vigilante?”
“…….”
“If Geum Sang-je knew about Dohwaseon, he would have found out my identity a long time ago. But it’s not like that. “That clearly means that you are related to Vigilante.”
“……What are you talking about?”
“Don’t act like a fool.”
-Poof!
“Off!”
When I used the sword as if to dig in, the guy was in pain.
“Anyone who knows Dohwaseon must be a Taoist related to it. “Who are you?”
His face trembled at my question.
He’s a really loud-mouthed guy.
Clearly, this person is related to vigilantism.
However, at that time, the eight masters personally abolished martial arts, erased their memories, and sent them out of the Dohwaseon for those who followed Jagyeongjeong.
-Aren’t you one of them?
That can’t be possible.
They are further along in time than they are now.
There was no way the eight masters’ techniques could be solved, but even if I regained my memories, I would never encounter them in the current timeline.
Then who is it?
At that time, Ja Kyung-jeong not only cut off his head, but also completely burned his body.
There’s no way he survived.
“Haa…haa…kill me. “There’s nothing you can know…”
“Do you think there will be nothing?”
With those words, I turned my gaze away from him and nodded.
About twenty feet away, there was the real Lee Jeong-gyeom along with Baek Hyang-muk.
The guy’s eyes widened when he saw this.
“If you don’t open your mouth, I’ll have to look at the bag left inside Lee Jeong-gyeom.”
You probably didn’t think of this.
Even if it wasn’t you, there was a way to find out.
Seeing me laughing at him, he shouted in anger.
“As expected, you have to take everything from others to satisfy your true nature. “Why is it that my whole body gives everything of itself to a guy like you…”
The excited guy was trying to say something.
It was that moment.
-Ugh!
The space in front of me shook and someone suddenly appeared and decapitated the fake Lee Jeong-gyeom.
-Wow!
“Oops!”
It appeared so suddenly that there was no time to stop it.
‘this!’
I swung the Namcheon Iron Sword at that person.
Then the guy threw a new weapon behind him.
He was wearing a bamboo hat and a mask, but he dodged my sword.
You say you have solved the adaptation of blood demon and brain energy, but you can’t believe you can dodge my sword so easily.
-Pachichichichik!
I immediately brought blood demonization and brain energy into compliance again.
And as I was about to extend my sword towards the guy, the space shook and the guy who was throwing the new weapon behind me disappeared as if he was being sucked in.
When I saw this, I could not hide my embarrassment.
‘Chukjibeop?’
Chukji method (縮地法).
This was definitely a trick.
It is a technique that can only be developed once one reaches the level of being able to move through space by folding it.
It was one of the things I could not learn as I had not registered as a Taoist and had not refined the Tao.
This is a high-level path that can only be achieved by refining the path of eight masters.
The surprise was short-lived and my thoughts turned elsewhere.
‘I killed him to keep his mouth shut. The next thing to aim for is….’
There was no time to think any more.
I immediately lashed out at those priests.
-Pot!
It feels as if the surroundings have stopped due to a tremendous amount of light.
If you open the light ball with the brain energy in compliance, the speed is beyond imagination.
As time passed slowly, the space behind the real Jeong-gyeom Lee, one of the two priests, seemed to tremble and a masked person wearing a traditional bamboo hat appeared.
Lee Jeong-gyeom and Baek Hyang-mook’s heads were slowly turning.
However, the masked man’s sword was faster than that.
Before I knew it, I was about to reach Lee Jeong-gyeom’s neck.
‘Feng Yeonggwang Shinbo (風影光神步)!’
-Pachik!
In an instant, it accelerated even further and my new model arrived in front of them before they knew it.
‘!!!’
The eyes of the unknown person visible through the gap in the mask were growing bigger.
“Where are you aiming?”
As I waved my hand, the slowly moving bodies of Baek Hyang-muk and Lee Jeong-gyeom were thrown left and right by the deep energy.
-Paang!
“Ughhhhh!”
“What the hell….”
When they bounced off and space was created, I extended my sword at the guy without hesitation.
The panicked guy quickly threw himself backwards and tried to perform the Chukjibeop.
The space shook and the guy’s body was sucked in.
However, the red thunderbolt that was loaded on the sword I held out was also sucked in there at the same time.
-Pachichichichik! Ugh!
The guy disappeared as if nothing had happened.
Time, which had been passing slowly, passed quickly again.
-Papak!
Baek Hyang-muk, who had been thrown away, corrected his posture by falling and shouted at me.
“Bah, what was that just now?”
I do not know either.
However, it is a being that can perform the Chukji method.
-What if I missed it?
I looked at the tip of the Namcheon Iron Sword, which was trembling in the aftermath of the red thunderbolt.
My sword strike definitely reached him.
* * *
A deep valley about 200 miles away.
As the space trembles,
-Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!
A part of the valley was completely blown away by a sword strike loaded with red thunderbolts.
As if a natural disaster had occurred, the valley was destroyed and the water that flowed like a torrent splashed in all directions and flooded.
-Quarrrrrrr!
From there, a black figure urgently pulled something out.
It was none other than a masked person wearing a bamboo hat.
Except for the upper body above his chest, his entire body was blown away by the sword strike.
“Are you okay? Brain-headed adult.”
In response to Inyoung’s question, the masked person coughed and said.
“Cough…cough…no…his strength far exceeded my expectations.”
At his words, Inyoung looked at the destroyed valley and stuck out his tongue.
“Is this really human power?”
The masked person is also quite shocked.
I had no idea that a blow of this kind of power could pass through Chukjibeop.
Thanks to this, my body became like this and I couldn’t move for almost a few hours.
‘I should have killed him.’
It’s already late.
By the time the body has recovered and the Chukji technique can be performed, the descendants of Geomseon will have already absorbed the baek (魄).
The masked person spoke to Inyoung who was holding him.
“We need to hurry up with our plans.”
* * *
After adjusting her posture, Baek Hyang-muk asked me in an embarrassed voice.
“What on earth was that just now? Suddenly, the space became distorted…”
“I don’t know either.”
There was no reason to tell him about Chukjibeop.
Rather than that, I need to hurry up and absorb the evil from the real Lee Jeong-gyeom.
“This brother.”
Lee Jeong-gyeom responded to my call in a somewhat unnatural way.
“small type.”
what?
I felt a subtle discomfort.
Are they afraid of my inaction?
I know you don’t have that kind of personality.
First, I need to put out the fire first.
“This brother. On behalf of my teacher, I will immediately remove the sword’s essence. “Come here.”
At that time, Baek Hyang-muk approached me and spoke seriously.
“You don’t have to act too hard. “Aren’t you a descendant of Geomseon?”
‘!?’
As I was walking towards Lee Jeong-gyeom, I stopped for a moment.
How did you figure that out?
For now, I gave up the joke and spoke.
“What do you mean by that?”
Baek Hyang-muk shook his head and said at my words.
“I was surprised that even though Sogeomseon was there, ‘that person’ played you in the martial arts league, and that you were here when I went to look for Jeonggyeom.”
“……..”
Are you sure about that?
Unlike before, the gap was too short.
“I think there is a misunderstanding.”
At that time, Lee Jeong-gyeom said to me.
“For now, let’s call him So-hyung. “My sense of energy is several times more sensitive than that of others, so I can accurately distinguish the energy of others.”
“Can you distinguish energy?”
It was similar to looking at others through golden eyes.
Are you saying you’re that sensitive to vibes?
Wait, if that’s the case…..
While I was thinking about it, Lee Jeong-gyeom continued.
“I know that my older brother So is not only a descendant of Geomseon, but he is also Haun, the owner of the So clan in the peerless city.”
‘under…….’
For a moment, I was speechless.
So you knew my identity back then?
But why didn’t you say anything then?
Lee Jeong-gyeom said to me who was puzzled.
“……At that time, I knew that Brother So was just a disciple of the Namcheon Swordsman and the youngest member of the Ikyang So family. So he thought he had a story and kept it secret even from his teacher.”
Are you telling your teacher?
This means that he did not even reveal it to Baek Hyang-muk.
“But now things are completely different.”
“The situation is different?”
“Isn’t Brother So not only a swordsman, but also a blood demon and the successor of the peerless star?”
I kept my mouth shut at his words.
I never thought my whole identity would be discovered by someone like this.
I didn’t know this situation would come.
Baek Hyang-mook spoke to me with a serious face.
“What is your purpose, descendant of Geomseon? “You said you set out to stop the ambition of a man named Geum Sang-je, but if that’s the case, then Nobu can’t tell what the difference is between him and you.”
“Chai…..”
“Isn’t that so? If you become the leader of the martial arts league, the three major powers that lead the current martial arts world will be in your hands alone.”
He looked at me as if he was concerned about it.
It seems as if this cannot be tolerated.
“Even after all this, can you truly say that you, as a descendant of Geomseon, are working for the justice of the martial arts?”
he asked, as if testing my honor.
At this, I took a long breath.
“Whoa.”
And he said to Baek Hyang-muk.
“When did I say I would punish Geum Sang-je for justice?”
“what?”
“When he was sitting on the throne, his goal was to annihilate the martial arts forest. “The reason he’s been hiding behind the scenes and not coming forward is because he’s afraid I’ll show up again.”
He already knew that.
Baek Hyang-muk frowned and refuted.
“But even so, the entire Murim is in the hands of one person….”
“Is there anything I shouldn’t go in?”
Baek Hyang-muk and Lee Jeong-gyeom’s eyes trembled at my words.
Baek Hyang-mook spoke to me with a tense look on her face and cheered up.
“Even though I have stepped down from the position of leader, I once sacrificed myself for the political faction. “How can we just watch as all that power is placed in the hands of one person?”
To him, I chuckled and spoke in a meaningful voice.
“Isn’t it better than just getting rid of political factions and unifying?”
‘!!!’
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