Episode 233. A step towards a new world (5)
“Master. The minor teacher is asking for an audience.”
“Stop by.”
coogu palace.
The door opened and Seo Liang entered the palace.
Lee Cheon-sang was still there. The sight of him sitting by the window and pouring himself a drink, not Taesa’s, was full of unique drowsiness.
“Are you here?”
“yes. uh? Isn’t it the Six Heaven Heart Lord?”
“It’s bamboo leaf sake.”
“It smells good.”
“Would you like a drink?”
“Good.”
Xu Liang, who was sitting across from Li Chun-sang, politely accepted the cup.
Seo Liang, who emptied his glass coolly, opened his mouth.
“I’m not here to say anything at this hour, but when are you going to sleep?”
“Only when necessary.”
“okay.”
Li Cheon-sang refilled the cup of Xiliang.
“Good job.”
“yes?”
“Coronation. Of course, it wasn’t even a coronation ceremony.”
“People did the hard work. I didn’t do anything.”
Lee Cheon-sang nodded.
He didn’t bother to ask why he came. I don’t know if he thinks that the person who came to him will talk on his own or if he’s just not interested.
Seo Liang said.
“It’s on the way back from the military department.”
“Right.”
“I went to the operation room and came back.”
“It’s not a fun place.”
Lee Cheon-sang was not surprised to hear that Xu Liang had entered the military department’s operation room. It was because it was a place that a small school head could enter at any time.
“The General Commander said he had obtained interesting information and showed it to me.”
Xiliang took the letter from his bosom and set it down in front of Li Chun-sang’s cup.
Lee Cheon-sang, who was holding a glass, glanced at the letter and then emptied his glass.
“Volcanoes are trouble too.”
“Iknow, right.”
“It always has been.”
“yes? A volcano?”
“I am not talking about volcanoes.”
Lee Chun-sang, who set the glass down, raised the corner of his mouth.
“The Uicheon Lord.”
In an instant, Xu Liang’s eyes grew even more intense.
Lee Cheon-sang spoke calmly.
“Did you say that your dream is to eliminate the Iron Blood and the Iron Blood Castle?”
“That’s right.”
“Since you have become a minor teacher, I will tell you now. What I think of them, how they live in the world.”
“I will refrain from listening.”
This time, Xi Liang filled Li Chun-sang’s cup.
“Thirty years ago, when I passively changed my foreign policy, the Gupafang and the Five Dynasties were quite pious factions.”
He said it was quite right, but the person who brought it up was Lee Cheon-sang. The words themselves were no different from acknowledging them.
“But as time passed, they gradually changed from what they used to be. Active martial arts exchanges have strengthened the power of the Munpa, but the strong bonds and composure of the past have disappeared.
Do you know why?”
“… … Is that because of the Uicheon Lord?”
“Yes.”
Lee Cheon-sang raised his glass and said.
“The Uicheon Lord is a snake. A poisonous snake among thousand-year-old poisonous snakes. He’s as cunning as a serpent, and as cunning as a nine-tailed fox.”
It was a sympathy. At least, Lee Cheon-sang compared the Uicheon Lord to a poisonous snake, but in the eyes of Xu Liang, he was just a trash stained with evil.
The problem is that the trash’s political power is so great that it can be counted in the midfield.
“He corrupts the leaders of the clans, those who are symbols of agreement.”
“… … ?”
“You look curious. How you corrupted them.”
“yes. Even if it’s rotten, it’s Junchi, and to become the head of the old family and the five generations, it’s a tolerable feat… … .”
“The way the Uicheon lord corrupted them wasn’t witchcraft.”
“yes?”
Lee Cheon-sang smiled.
“I corrupted them with a weapon that is ten times more vicious than magic arts and a hundred times more effective than enchantment.”
“Is there such a thing?”
“craving.”
“… … !”
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“The Uicheon Lord let them experience what desire is and what power is. Poisoning a clean well.”
Xi Liang’s eyes deepened.
“how… … ?”
“Didn’t you tell me? The Uicheon Lord is a poisonous snake.
He knew that in order to take control of the Gupaibang and the five generations, to make them lick the soles of their feet, they had to destroy their minds first.”
“No, what I wanted to ask was not why, but how. How is that possible?”
“There is one very easy way.”
“yes?”
“It is a competition.”
“… … ah!”
Lee Cheon-sang looked straight at Seo Liang.
“Competition in established organizations creates a virtuous cycle. But competition in organizations that don’t do that creates a vicious cycle.”
“… … .”
“He’s torn between the old school and the five generations.”
Simply put, the old school is a religion, and the five major generations are a secular family.
In order to follow the teachings of Taoism and Buddhism, each sect that needed to make the practitioner’s mind and body healthy came to invent a method of healing.
It could be said that the curing technique was the starting point that made the current Gupa to be called Gupa.
After several generations, Gupa created the culmination of martial arts based on Yangsaengsul, and was able to stand tall as a pillar of the midfield martial arts.
The five generations were different. They were not practitioners. As they are secular forces different from the old faction, they hoped that each of them would stand at the top.
Fighters full of fighting spirit who fought and fought again to win their present position. They were the five generations.
“The Gupa and the Five Greats are the same, but they are different. They are called the pillars of the political faction Murim, but they are organizations that can be divided if divided.”
“okay.”
“The Uicheon leader took control of the political faction Murim like that. It threw the buds of desire through competition and made them divide on their own.
After that, he overheated the madness of the two divided groups and acted as an orchestrator in the middle.”
“… … .”
“No matter how crazy he was in the competition, his strength, which he had dedicated to the political faction Moorim for hundreds of years, was not ruined. They know the current situation is not right.”
“I guess so. Unless you’re an idiot… … .”
“Wrong. They were fools, and they went astray in that moment.”
“yes?”
“If you really thought the situation was not right, you should have gathered your strength and driven out the Uicheon Lord. But they made the worst choice.”
Lee Cheon-sang refilled his glass. Today, the speed of drinking toxic alcohol was fast.
“They started putting pressure on the evil tuner to be on their side.”
Seo Liang exclaimed.
Although he acted as Dam Sa-young’s puppet, he did not know in detail how he managed the situation. But after hearing this, I get it.
Dam Sa-yeong made the 15 munpa, which were overflowing with discussions, the same as herself.
“The cunning of the Uicheon Lord shone there. It moved as they wished. If you bow your head, you bow, if you kneel, you kneel.
As the puppet leader, I gave them everything they wanted.”
Lee Cheon-sang smiled.
“It can’t be said to be the best, but it was a strategy that deserves to be evaluated as excellent.
In the end, the Gupa and the Five Greats were only tied together under the presumptuous name of Uicheonmaeng, and they completely separated.”
“And right then, the Uicheon Lord must have revealed his intellect.”
“Accurate. I raised my presence between the two wrong groups and focused my attention on myself.
It boasted a level of presence that did not go against the nerves of the two groups, but was strong enough to use with them.”
“… … .”
“There the two groups made their second mistake. It was a mistake of a different class from the first mistake that had room for awakening, and it was a plunge into a swamp from which there was no escape.”
“What mistake was it?”
“It was to send an order containing the will of each faction to the Uicheon leader, who was supported by the small and medium clans.”
“… … !”
“In the order, there were a lot of official seals stamped as sacred objects of the writers of each faction.”
Seo Liang’s eyes flashed.
“It’s like knowing the lifelines of them and handing them over.”
“Yes. It was probably intended to put pressure on the leader, but… … Well, I don’t know why they didn’t think that it would be the worst move to strangle them.
The competition must have been because of the scent of desire that sprouted in the field, but even taking that into account, it was too stupid.”
Li Cheon-sang pointed at the cup of Xiliang with his chin. Seo-ryang hurriedly emptied his glass.
Then he refilled the cup of Xiliang.
“The Uicheon Lord received many of those orders. After so many years, the orders he received were enough to fill a room.”
“This is the start of the attack.”
“Looked good. The Uicheon Lord brought it out in front of the representatives of the small and medium-sized factions and admitted his mistake. And he begged me to give him another chance.”
“It’s amazing.”
“It was a bold strategy. The small and medium munpa learned the shame of the leader they believed in, but they could not impeach him. I didn’t even have the strength to do that.
Rather, I had to comfort the lord. Because the only person who would listen to them was the leader.”
“hmm… … .”
“But some guys even thought of wielding the leader with that shame.”
Seo Liang shook his head.
“When they try to wield the leader, the leader must have already taken control of the old and five generations.”
“Yes. In the precarious tightrope between the strong and the weak, the Uicheon Lord was finally able to get everything he wanted.”
Hearing this gives me goosebumps all over again.
I was more afraid of resourcefulness than martial arts, of a mind that was insidious than resourcefulness, and of the crazy drive that actually put it into practice than mind.
Dam Sa-young, the leader of Uicheon.
Also called Uicheonmuje, his true identity was a vicious devil himself to the extent that the Cheonma Shinkyo felt cute.
“It was also a time when his martial arts increased exponentially. The guy who got stronger and had both financial and information power in one hand started taking all kinds of elixirs in the world.”
“I don’t think martial arts become stronger by drinking a lot of elixirs.”
“Of course it is. However, you can lower the difficulty of the iron wall to that of a stone wall. I can assure you that the current martial arts of the Uicheon Lord will compete for the top rank among the top 10 masters.”
Lee Cheon-sang gazed at Seo-liang.
“Moreover, it will definitely be stronger than you and the demons now.”
Seo Liang grinned.
There was no jealousy or benevolence in that smile that was tinged with murder. She had only the pure will to kill.
“I look forward to it.”
Lee Cheon-sang laughed.
‘Even though I’m completely tainted with demons, I can’t throw away the habit.’
Does not matter. If you have already entered the arms of the devil, you will be able to maintain your dignity even in the worst situation.
No one knows if it is the dignity before victory or the dignity before death.
“Compared to him, the Iron Blood Castle Lord is a nobleman. He won the position of lord of the castle based on political strife, but at least he has a friendly side.
Of course, it will be easier to attack than the Uicheon Lord.”
“I don’t save food because it’s delicious.”
Lee Cheon-sang nodded.
“So, the reason you came to me is because of that seomseo thing?”
“That’s right.”
Lee Cheon-sang did not ask what he was going to do there.
“I’m here to get permission.”
“Yes.”
“I’m sorry, but I can’t allow it.”
Xi Liang stared at the two heavenly statues without answering.
Lee Cheon-sang smiled.
“That’s a cheeky look.”
“Isn’t it the little schoolmaster?”
“Your teacher is a religious leader.”
“Yes, I know.”
Lee Cheon-sang shook his head.
“You resemble me only in useless parts.”
he got up from his seat
“Follow me.”
“yes. But where are you going?”
Lee Cheon-sang glanced at Seo-ryang.
“Whether it’s installed in the midfield or out of the shadows, shouldn’t you at least bring something to prove that you’re my disciple?”
