How to Set Your Family Straight 3
Since I started the Five Poisons-Repelling Origin Exercise yesterday, I thought the class would continue for a while.
However, Grandfather Mandokshin-gun told me to sit down and practice the internal energy method by myself whenever I had time, and that from today onwards I would begin the real martial arts of the Tang sect.
“From today, I will begin learning the martial arts of the Tang family.”
Since the basis of all body movements is physical strength, I thought that training like ‘I’m going to run a hundred laps around the training ground from now on!’ was waiting for me, but I was wrong.
“As expected, you do exercises that involve moving your body?”
“As you learn martial arts, your body will naturally change to suit the martial arts. The Tang clan values practicality above all else, so you will learn things that will be useful in actual combat.”
For that reason, what was spread out before me when I was called to the training ground were countless hidden weapons.
As expected from the best assassination clan in the Central Plains, the weapon used for the first martial arts was, of course, a secret weapon.
And among them, the memorization skills that can be thrown.
The original assassination was a one-hit kill from a distance.
It seemed like that was the rule here too.
“The types of weapons that can be thrown can be broadly divided into five categories.
“Needles, coins, coins, sand, and swords or daggers that can be thrown by hand. Things like daggers, flying swords, and flying knives. Of course, there are other types of hidden weapons, but broadly speaking, they are these five.”
“Sleep, money, table, saw, sword, and sword.”
“Okay. So, do you know which of these is the easiest to memorize?”
Mandokshin-gun thought deeply about his grandfather’s question and then answered.
“Hmm… I guess it would be something like a dagger or a sword?”
“Right. So, what’s the most difficult thing?”
“Um… Isn’t it a saga? I mean, I have to sprinkle powder on it.”
I think the easiest thing to handle would be a dagger, and since Sa (沙) means sand, I thought sprinkling powder would be difficult.
Then the grandfather shook his head.
“No. The hardest thing is the saliva.”
“Is that a needle? Oh. Is it because it’s small and thin and hard to throw?”
Surely, it wouldn’t be easy to fly something like a needle.
When I thought about it carefully, I nodded my head, thinking that the powder could be put in a container and sprinkled on, but my grandfather shook his head again.
“No. The reason the needle is the hardest is not because it is hard to throw, but because you have to remember where you threw the needle.”
‘You remember the location of the needle? Are you asking me to check if the needle I threw hit the target?’
He tilted his head and asked, puzzled by the idea that he had to remember the location of the needle.
Anyway, you have to check whether the throw hits or misses.
“Isn’t it the same for other memorization tools, throwing them and checking if they hit?”
Then comes the absurd answer.
“No. It’s not about checking if you hit or not. You have to remember where every needle you threw went, where it bounced off the opponent’s weapon and landed, and which tree it landed on.”
“Even the ones that bounced off? Even the ones that fell to the floor?”
“Well, I guess it would be better to explain this by showing you.”
-Stop.
When I seemed not to understand, my grandfather took out a new brush from his bosom and broke it in one fell swoop.
Grandfather Mandokshin-gun grabbed the hairs of the brush and suddenly levitated, scattering them throughout the training ground.
-Whoaaah!
Then, the pieces of fur scattered into pieces and spread out inside the smoke chamber.
“What is this!?”
What was surprising about the scattered hairs was that the hairs that my grandfather scattered stood up straight.
Hair that is not just laid down, but is laid out at regular intervals as if sprouting from the ground.
Then my grandfather picked something out of the scattered pieces of paper and handed it to me.
“Now, look at this. This is the flying needle used in Tang Dynasty.”
What my grandfather held out was a needle the length of a toothpick, but what was unusual was that it was thinner and sharp on both ends.
“This is the secret of the Tang Dynasty···.”
“Yes, that is a secret technique that any Tang clan member can use. Think about it while looking at it. Tang clan has a secret technique called Mancheonhwawoo (滿天花雨). It is Tang clan’s secret technique that covers the surrounding area with thousands or hundreds of needles. Just like the dust I scattered over there.
But if you think about it, what will happen if you cover the surroundings with this kind of rain?”
‘He threw all this spit around? And it got stuck like that? Oh my…’
“If there’s this much rain all around, there won’t be any room to even step. If you fall or something, you’ll get stabbed right away.”
“Yes. That’s why you have to remember it. You can drive or lure the enemy to the place where the needle is laid.
Even if the one who threw the needle has an antidote or is immune to poison, it would be difficult to fight properly if you get pricked by the needle, right? That’s why you must remember this.
“So that you don’t get hurt by your own numbers.”
‘As expected, thinking is different···.’
As expected, it’s a Sacheon-dang-like thought.
You spray spit all over the place and then fight to the death with your opponent on top of it.
It was when I nodded my head with a surprised expression.
One question that arises.
No matter how much I thought about it, there was one thing I couldn’t understand.
“But if you throw thousands of them and the opponent bounces them off, can you remember the locations of all the fallen or bounced needles? I don’t think you can remember them.”
After thinking about it for a while, it didn’t make sense to have to remember the locations of thousands of needles that I couldn’t even see clearly and then fight the opponent.
However, to my question, Grandfather Mandokshin nodded his head as if it was obvious.
“Of course. When Hwa-eun reached the level of Ten Poisons, she was able to do about a thousand of them skillfully, so don’t worry, you’ll be able to do the same.”
‘Is that possible?’
“Oh, then how many are there in the realm of Odok?”
“The more the better, but at least a hundred should be enough, right?”
He shouted at his older sister that he would fill her with the poison of the ten poisons, but to do that, he had to reach the level of the ten poisons first.
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But I had a feeling that reaching the level of Ten Poisons would not be an easy task.
This is called memorizing a hundred moves, but in a situation where swords and fists are fighting, you have to remember the surrounding terrain features that you have thrown, and on the other hand, you have to pay attention to where the memorized moves you are throwing are landing, and then fight your opponent.
They say that when dolphins sleep, one side of their brain stays awake and breathes while the other sleeps, so I wonder if that’s how it should be.
Ha… It didn’t seem like it would be easy to become part of an assassination clan.
‘This is truly a memorization-style education···.’
Because I thought I would have to do a lot of intensive rote memorization education.
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After finishing the morning training, which is said to be the easiest to learn.
After lunch, my older sister came to see me.
I had the afternoon off because I had decided to go get some medicine in the afternoon, and a pumpkin bee date with my older sister was waiting for me.
“Little Dragon, let’s go.”
“Huh? That?”
“I prepared this just in case. Will it help?”
Even though the Tang family’s poison breeding facilities were shabby, they had the basics down, and my older sister brought various pieces of equipment.
He said he was going to catch bees, so he brought a thick cloth handkerchief, a bamboo net with a net covering it, a collecting container, tongs, and something similar to a collecting net.
It was said that the Tang Dynasty also regularly catches poisonous animals and collects their venom, and it seemed that they had experience collecting bee venom as well.
Otherwise there would be no need to have such equipment.
“Of course. I was going to wait, but if there’s something like this, I think I can catch it myself.”
“Wait?”
My older sister tilted her head at my words to wait, but smiled and responded.
“Oh, you’ll know when you go. Oh, do you happen to know where the beehive of the bear bee is?”
“I found one, and it’s over there.”
The place I followed my older sister to was near a stone wall not far away.
Pumpkin bees were moving busily in and out of the ground.
It looks like there are quite a lot of bumblebees flying around, making it a fairly large colony.
I immediately turned around and spoke to my older sister.
“Well, this doesn’t seem to be the place.”
“No? Weren’t you supposed to catch that?”
“I need a house for the bear, but I’m not trying to catch the bear. Is there a flower garden a little far from here?”
“You’re not catching the peak? Hmm… If it’s a little further… It’s the ridge over there.”
First, I followed my older sister to a flower garden a little far away that the other group members wouldn’t use.
I had to find a bee nest, and the best way to do that was to follow the bees as they came out to collect honey.
“It’s here.”
“Wow. It’s beautiful.”
Where I arrived following my older sister, there were trees as tall as a person growing, and what were in full bloom there were beautiful, deep pink and white flowers.
As I admired its beauty, my sister raised her finger and warned me.
“You shouldn’t pick a flower or cut a branch and put it in your mouth because it’s beautiful. Even though it’s beautiful, it’s still a bamboo peach. If it gets in your mouth, it could be life-threatening.”
“Tongue, bamboo shoots!”
“Yes, it is a flower grown in the family.”
I thought it was blooming in a row, but it turned out to be a flower grown in Sacheondangga.
Sacheondangga, where there is nothing normal.
Not all of the flowers blooming beautifully on the mountain ridge were at the peak.
I don’t know much about the bamboo shoots, but I knew that they were ingredients for poison, so I couldn’t help but be terrified.
‘Did you say it stops the heart?’
First, I calmed down and walked around with my sister to look for pumpkin bees.
And we followed the movement of the bumblebees, found two hives, and observed the holes through which the bees came and went.
But, the pumpkin bee house I want doesn’t appear.
After failing three times, my older sister asked me as if she was frustrated.
“Could you please tell me exactly what you are looking for? This will take a lot of time, so I think it would be better to mobilize the family’s warriors.”
It would definitely be faster if we mobilized people.
I wanted to do that from the beginning, but I kept my mouth shut about the fact that I was trying to create a dating mood.
“Well, is that so?”
-Beep!
Along with my answer, a rain made of tree branches blew down the mountain from my sister’s hand.
A long, sharp sound came from the rain and spread throughout the surrounding area.
Then, clouds of dust gathered between the Danggasan Mountains and the place where the family’s halls were gathered.
“““Did you call? Miss!”””
Before long, the warriors who had flown in with light skills immediately knelt down before my older sister.
These are the warriors of the Tang family who have castanea leaves embroidered on their chests.
‘What···.’
“Yes, I have something to find out about family business, so over here…. Go…. No, listen to what Little Dragon says and find what Little Dragon wants.”
“““Okay, Miss.”””
‘Whew… This is amazing?’
As soon as my sister finished speaking, the warriors awaited my command.
I was worried because they were a clan of assassins, but seeing people being so loyal made me feel strong.
“You can find the hawk collecting nectar and pollen from the flowering tree, and follow the hawk to find the hawk’s home.
Oh, and when you find Woongbong’s house, wait for about an hour and then count the number of bees coming in and out of Woongbong’s house and let me know.”
“Understood, Little Dragon! Let’s go!”
The warriors dispersed soon after, and about an hour or so later?
The warriors who had gone out to search returned one by one and began reporting to me about the pumpkin bee nests they had discovered.
“The mighty warrior of Sacheondangga. Where I found it, there were twenty of them in one go!”
“The ten poisonous warrior Kwon Ho-chung of Sacheondangga. The place I found, there were thirty-two of them in one day!”
“The Sacheondangga······.”
“The Sacheondangga···.”
It was a time when reports from warriors continued to come in.
“······There was one.”
A report from a warrior named Hanmari.
‘Over there!’
“Can you guide me there?”
A pumpkin bee’s home appears when you dig under a rock in a valley you reached following Musa.
At the pumpkin bee nest, which looked like a cluster of round beads, the few remaining pumpkin bees rushed in, but were quickly subdued by the warriors.
A pumpkin bee that becomes a model for the thrown weapon.
A beehive where even the few bees left have disappeared.
I caught a black bug with forceps inside a pumpkin wasp’s house, which was almost ruined by something.
“Gotcha! You guys!”
