Sacheondangga 2
Wow, I only heard that the Central Plains were really big, but when I experienced it firsthand, it was really a big landmass.
Take a boat from Haenam to Heumju Port.
After passing through Nanning again, after a journey of a little less than a month and a half, we finally arrived in Sacheon.
It’s a huge distance even though we came by air.
The master was worried about his daughter, so he hurried like crazy on the way, and by the time I arrived in Sacheon, I was practically a beggar.
This was because I couldn’t even stay at a guest house in the middle and had to sleep out in the open, and because I was constantly carried on the backs of the sergeant or the head of the household, I often ended up vomiting whatever I ate in the morning.
I tried to take a break if I was tired, but how can a newbie show that he’s tired?
Let’s say it’s okay, the people of the party who praise perseverance without any sense.
“It’s okay! A man can’t be shaken by this!”
“As expected, it seems like you have everything we need as a member of our family. What a spirit you have.”
The entrance to the mountain where I arrived, looking so thin and gaunt.
The mountain we arrived at after crossing the bridge over the river.
At the entrance to the mountain, a nine-gate Gujinmun (九進門) and a signboard hanging from it appeared out of nowhere.
Sichuan Tang House.
‘Why did you build a gate and a signboard at the entrance of a mountain?’
When I turned around in bewilderment at the sudden appearance of Gu Jin-mun and the signboard, the deputy head of the unit, Mr. Gu Pae, smiled and explained.
“This is Sacheon Dangga. Sohyeop.”
“This is Sacheondangga? But this is the entrance to the mountain?”
“This mountain is all Sacheon Tangga, Sohyeop. That’s why this mountain is called Tangga Mountain.”
“Huh!”
Now that I think about it, I had been so distracted by the door that I hadn’t noticed it until now, but when I looked up at the mountain ridge, I noticed the pavilions and terraced rice fields rising up here and there on the ridge.
As it turned out, the village nestled between the mountains was Sacheondangga.
I thought Sacheon was just a small family in a remote rural area, but Sacheon Dangga was a much bigger family than I thought.
Coming here, I heard people from the Tang family say that they were the Nine Great Families of the Murim, the Eight Great Families, and that one of them was the Sacheon Tang family, but I couldn’t believe it when they said they were such a great family themselves.
It was because I had seen a lot of crazy people on the Internet in my past life, so I was the type to never believe something I hadn’t seen in person, but this was beyond my understanding.
“This is Sacheondangga···.”
As I was lost in the grandeur of the Tang family, Mr. Gupae next to me extended his hand toward the mountain and spoke.
“Yes, Sohyeop. This is our Sacheondangga. This is Sohyeop’s Sacheondangga.”
‘You and I, what do you mean, Sacheondangga? Sounds good?’
I felt a sense of pride building up in my shoulders at being a part of a place like this.
At this point, I feel like I can go somewhere and put some strength into my shoulders.
And when we arrived, the mountain top became noisy, and people started running and flying towards Gujinmun.
***
When I opened my eyes, what I saw was my mother’s face stained with tears.
“Mother… How can I?”
“You’re alive, Hwa-eun.”
And the grandfather, who looked exhausted and sweating profusely.
“It’s done now.”
“grandfather···.”
The devil who came to me because I was greedy and wanted to go beyond the realm of ten poisons and reach the state of a hundred poisons as soon as possible.
I thought this would be the end as I was clearly unable to overcome the last hurdle and the addiction symptoms came…
His mother and grandfather were looking down at him.
“Sob···.”
The joy of being alive was short-lived, and tears immediately poured from Dang Hwa-eun’s eyes.
Surviving from the possession of a coin means losing all your martial arts skills.
Or, it means that you have become a wreck.
Now, martial arts, no, let alone martial arts, even moving around will be uncomfortable.
This was because I had seen many instances of people who had been possessed by a demonic spirit usually living that way for the rest of their lives.
I have seen many people since I was young who came to try to cure their addiction with the poison and medicine of the Tang Dynasty, but they all ended up like that.
Despair gripped her.
I wanted to show it to the elders of the family, but they didn’t evaluate it as just having outstanding looks.
It means that even if you are not a man, you can achieve more by achieving great feats in your family.
“Hehehe… I’m sorry, Mother.”
His mother, the legitimate wife, was unable to have any children, including Dang Hwa-eun.
However, my father did not take a second wife despite pressure from his family, and my grandfather also acknowledged it.
However, the elders of other collateral branches or families were displeased with it.
So, Dang Hwa-eun wanted to show it.
Even if he wasn’t that guy, he would be of much help to the family.
That’s why I wanted to reach it.
It is the realm of Baekdok, where one can be recognized as a top expert beyond first-class.
But now that she had become a wreck, a truly useless being, tears flowed endlessly from her eyes.
That was when.
The grandfather’s hand holding Hwa-eun’s hand tightly.
My grandfather spoke in his usual warm voice.
“You. Are you saying this because you feel sorry for making your father and grandfather suffer so much? But since you have reached the state of Baekdok that you so desperately wanted, you can stop crying and rejoicing.”
“Sob sob… Huh?”
Grandfather’s words that Hwa-eun had reached the level of Baek-dok that she had longed for.
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At first I wondered what this meant.
So I looked back and forth between my grandfather and my mother, but both of them were smiling.
Dang Hwa-eun blinked and checked her body’s condition with a blank expression.
When I looked back, all of my body’s sensations were normal, and I could move my fingers and toes.
If you are possessed by a demon, you should have difficulty moving, and even your body’s senses should not be normal.
Unsurprisingly, Hwa-eun quickly closed her eyes and turned the energy inside her body.
True energy that flows without obstruction.
And the great power felt in the danjeon.
When Hwa-eun, who had finished the Small Heavenly Cycle in a daze and was still not satisfied with it, opened her eyes wide, her grandfather patted her head and said:
“Are you satisfied now? Your internal energy has accumulated enough to reach the level of a thousand poisons that you have longed for. If you can only attain enlightenment, you will reach the level of a thousand poisons at any time.”
“Uh, how?”
It was clear that he had collapsed due to a coin intoxication···.
Nevertheless, the enormous amount of internal energy accumulated.
When I opened my eyes wide at the words that my internal energy had accumulated enough to reach the level of a thousand poisons, my grandfather spoke coquettishly.
“Of course, since I ate the precious Qingbanwu Gong’s inner tablet.”
“Hey, are you Qingbanwugong?”
“Yes, Hwa-eun, your father and I almost died trying to catch that guy. This guy. Oh, I’m getting older now, so long journeys aren’t easy for me.”
If it’s Qingbanwu Gong, it’s the gigantic marten that appears in the Tang Dynasty’s secretary Cheonha Dokmul Birok.
It was definitely what was in the book I had read for fun since it wasn’t a martial arts book.
“If it’s the Blue and White Gong, it’s a civet as big as a house. You caught it?”
“Yeah, you little guy.”
Yes, according to Hwa-eun’s memory, the Qingban Ohgong that appears in the Cheonha Dokmul Bi-rok is a spirit that lives for hundreds of years.
If it is something like that, you will be able to raise your level by one level even while in a state of possession by money.
Only then did Hwa-eun realize how she had managed to come to her senses and acquire such enormous internal energy.
“Go, thank you, Grandpa!”
My grandfather jumped up from his bed and hugged me.
My grandfather smelled of sweat and an unwashed musty odor, but I didn’t care.
“Heh heh. Is this guy that good?”
“Yes. But what about your father?”
And only then did he realize that he had no father around him.
I clearly heard that you went to catch Cheongban-O-Gong with your grandfather.
“Have you just now realized that your father is no longer with you?”
Hwa-eun blushed in embarrassment at her grandfather’s words.
Grandfather took Hwa-eun’s pulse and checked her body again, then started telling her the story of how he went to capture Cheongban-oh-gong.
“Your father will be a little late.”
“You’re late? Why don’t you come with me?”
“Oh, then, let’s take a breather. Should we talk about that? The place I went to catch Cheongban Ohgong is Haenam Island.”
“You went all the way to Haenam Island?”
“Yes, a few years ago, we got information that the Blue Panther was seen, and rushed there. However, when we arrived at Haenam Island, we confirmed the location with the herbalist who said he had seen the Blue Panther, but we were unable to find the Blue Panther. We searched for several days. And then we met a mysterious thief······.”
The story of the mysterious thief that appeared in Grandfather’s story was a story that truly surprised everyone who heard it.
As I think about the day I return, the time I have to leave Haenam Island keeps getting closer and closer, and my grandfather and father’s hearts are burning, but when I stop by an abandoned duct in the mountains to take refuge from the rain, I meet a mysterious thief living alone.
When Sohyeop heard of Dangga’s difficult situation, he told him where the Blue Panther Wukong might be, and when he searched that place, the Blue Panther Wukong mysteriously popped out from under a rock.
“So that guy is my benefactor?”
Although Naedan was saved by the sacrifice of his grandfather, father, and the warriors, he would never have been able to catch him if he had not known where Cheongban Ohgong was.
Sohyeop was clearly the benefactor of the Tang family and Hwaeun herself.
“Yes, Hwa-eun. That’s why we’re going to welcome that little rascal as a guest in our family. Your father has stayed in Haenam.”
“Won-gak-hyeol (怨刻血) carves blood, Eun-gak-seok (恩刻石) carves stone. The Tang family never forgets kindness. If So-hyeop comes to the Tang family as a guest, I will treat him with respect as a benefactor.”
“Yes, that’s right. That’s how our family’s daughter should be.”
Dang Hwa-eun decided that if So-hyeop came to Dangga as a guest, she would treat him well, like a real younger brother.
Not only did it help him achieve his dream, it was practically like it saved his life.
***
“ha···.”
I was briefly delighted at the fact that I had achieved the state of Baek-poison and had built up the internal energy to reach Cheon-poison.
Dang Hwa-eun was submerged in the water with a worried face.
There were cinnamon petals floating in the water, and various kinds of incense were submerged in the water, emitting their fragrance.
The reason she was soaking in scented water like this from the morning, not in the evening.
For some reason, from the day after I got out of the possession of the coin, if I didn’t wash my body several times a day, a strange, foul smell would start to come out of my body.
A strange smell that is more toxic than sweat, but it comes even when I am not sweating.
A smell that made people feel uncomfortable and frown began to emanate from her body.
Even when I showed it to my grandfather and the doctors, they only said that there was nothing particularly wrong with my body, and the cause was unknown.
Moreover, as the stench seemed to be getting worse, the sugar content could not help but become more serious.
Now that I have reached the state of a hundred poisons, I should quickly build up the state of poison that I was not able to master before and work towards a thousand poisons, but instead of doing that, I have to curse several times a day.
All I did was rub and clean my skin.
And it was while I was continuing to take a bath in sighs like that.
I could hear the thugs making a fuss outside.
“Miss! The master has arrived! Come out quickly!”
“Did your father say that!?”
It’s been almost a month since my grandfather arrived at the Tang Gate.
When she heard that her father had finally arrived, Dang Hwa-eun quickly dried herself and put on some clothes.
Then, he spread his lightness and ran out to the Tang family’s Gujinmun.
The Tang family’s Gu Jin-mun ran away like that.
My father’s face, which clearly showed his hardships, came into view.
“father!”
“Hwa-eun! You’re alive!”
“Father! I’m sorry!”
“No. It’s okay since I’m alive. That’s fortunate.”
As I ran into my father’s arms, tears of gratitude and regret welled up in my eyes.
That was when we finished our farewell in tears.
My father smiled, took a step back and said,
“Hwa-eun, I have someone I can introduce you to.”
Hwa-eun thought that the person her father would probably introduce her to was the mysterious so-called “swindler” she had heard about from her grandfather.
Hwa-eun quickly wiped away her tears and straightened her body.
Even if he is a young thief, a benefactor is a benefactor.
It was because I had decided to greet them with courtesy.
As I quickly got ready, a shabby boy appeared from behind the captain.
A skinny, pitiful-looking boy walked out, timidly.
And then I hear my father’s introduction.
“Ah, So-ryong. This is my daughter, Dang-hwa-eun. What did you say? The smell of grass? The scent of grass? Oh! That’s right. A piece of grass! Yes, this child is a piece of grass.”
“yes!?”
“yes!?”
My father, who had said something incomprehensible, smiled strangely.
Sohyeop and Danghwaeun looked at each other with bewildered expressions.
