Elixir 3
“That’s the Fengyuan Gate, the Yuanhou Gate, the Heir Dragon Pavilion, and the White Jade Ghost Slayer Sect of Mianyang, all of which are huge sects in Chengdu. That damned bastard really sold information everywhere.”
After examining the faces of the men standing in the empty lot, the deputy commander, Mr. Gupae, gave an explanation.
The current situation was double booking, no, penta booking.
This was because the people who sold us the information had already sold it to the four major Sapa factions in Sacheon.
So, a situation arose where the five forces had no choice but to face each other with bewildered expressions, near a large old tree where the Golden Phoenix’s house was supposed to be.
“How could the Sa, Sacheondangga be here···.”
“Sir, are those crazy guys even in Sacheondangga!?”
“These crazy guys, of all people, are selling information to the party···.”
The corners of my sister’s mouth trembled as she was enraged by the guys’ reactions.
‘Those two guys I saw last time must have been pretty brutal···.’
Judging from the look on my sister’s face, I had a feeling that those two would never have a comfortable retirement.
As I was praying for their souls to rest in peace in my heart, my older sister walked up to Daeju with an angry look on her face and said.
“I don’t know who he is, but he’s really a big shot. He sold the information we sold to Sacheondangga to other places.”
My sister’s words sound like she’s trying to lay the groundwork for us to buy it first.
But more than those words, the other person was terrified by the fact that his older sister had appeared.
“Eek! Poisonous laurel!”
“Are you saying that the direct descendant of the Tang family came in person!?”
“Oh, oh, oh!”
I didn’t know, but I have a feeling you have a bad reputation.
Those who appeared to be the leaders of the four forces looked at each other with expressions that said they were completely ruined.
‘Are you a member of the Central Plains assassination clan? But what did you do?’
I was curious as to why everyone was so freaked out by the appearance of my older sister, but what I was more curious about was how the hell they were going to control the traffic.
This is because I felt like I was a victim of a lease fraud where five people bought one house.
Is this the kind of situation where we all run into each other at the entrance to our studio apartment on the day we move in?
That’s why I quietly asked the deputy commander, Mr. Gupae, what should I do about this situation.
My older sister stepped forward, but the reason she asked for a solution was because she was the leader of this group.
“Little Dragon, this is your first trip abroad as a member of the family, so please be careful and do not forget that you are a member of the family.”
“Yes, Master.”
“And, Hwa-eun will help you, but you will be the one leading them, so use this opportunity to learn how to command people.”
“Huh? Are you saying I should lead them?”
“But Lady Hwaeun···”
“Oh, you! Hwa-eun is your person, and you are Hwa-eun’s spouse, so you are the eldest adult.”
“Spouse? Ahem… I see.”
Yes, since I am your spouse, it was decided that I would be the leader of this group.
Well, I’m just the leader on the surface, so my older sister will take care of everything.
[But what should I do if this is the case? I don’t know how much wheat there will be, but should I divide it?]
I asked if the honey should be shared between the five of them, but Mr. Gupae shook his head as if to say something nonsensical.
And he answered with a slightly annoyed expression.
[The guy who sold it out has created a very annoying situation. Let’s share it. What kind of guy would dare share it with our Sacheondang family?
Fortunately, it’s only the Sapa guys, so they’ll just back down. If the Baekdo sects were involved, we’d have to negotiate tediously. But anyway, the back of my head might feel a little uncomfortable.]
I nodded my head at the words that I would step down obediently, but at the end I heard the back of my head say that it was uncomfortable.
When I made a questioning expression, the old man continued to explain.
[Is the back of your head uncomfortable?]
[They will obviously say that they are withdrawing because they do not want to be at odds with us, but they will not completely retreat. The Sapas gather like rats when a strong person appears. They will gather nearby, hide, and watch to see if we fail.
Because the Sapa people are like maggots that crawl around corpses.]
It was when I was tilting my head at the words of the old man who was expressing disgust at the guys gathered over there.
As Mr. Gupae said, traffic control began quickly from my sister’s side.
“Then, what are you all going to do? Are you going to compete with our party and the King of Geummo for the wheat?”
‘You dare to join us?’ The older sister’s cold voice gave off that kind of vibe.
Then, the leaders of the four groups all exchanged glances, and then answered one by one as if they had made a promise.
“If Sacheondangga is involved, we at Pungwonmun will step down.”
“Ahem. What a disaster. We can’t fight with the Tang family, so we, the Yuanhu Gate, will also step down.”
“Dokhwa, our Paeryongak will also retreat. There is no reason to fight with Sacheondangga over the lower-level elixir.”
“Damn it! That damn bastard! I will catch that bastard who sold my information and definitely flay him. Our Baekokgwisalpa will also retreat.”
People who disappear with a defeated face and a timid look.
They disappeared in a stampede in the direction we came from.
So all the Sapa guys disappeared, and our group settled down in the empty space they had retreated to.
First, I had to inspect the house of the Golden Phoenix King and think about how to attack it.
“First, prepare dinner for two people, and then two people stand guard. Those Sapa guys won’t just back down, you know. And you, Gupae, go check where they’ve set up shop.”
“Okay, sir.”
While the old man, who had been a traitor, performed light martial arts on the orders of the Great Lord and flew to where the men had disappeared, and the warriors prepared to camp, I approached my older sister, who was resting on a rock, and asked her what I had been curious about.
“Excuse me, Miss Hwa-eun. Can I ask you something?”
“Yes, Little Dragon. Of course. What are you curious about?”
My sister had an uncomfortable expression on her face as she stared in the direction where the guys had disappeared, but then smiled when she heard my voice.
“But what about Heukdo? Sapha? From what the deputy commander said earlier, they seem like some bad guys.”
“Ah… Grandpa said that practice is important, but it seems like you forgot the most important part. Please sit over here. I will explain it to you. It is important, so don’t forget.”
How could I forget what my older sister explained?
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I sat down next to my sister, vowing to give it my all.
“If we are to explain Sapa, we must first understand chivalry, righteousness, and benevolence.”
“Cooperation, righteousness, humanity?”
“Ui refers to the right way to act as a human being, and in refers to a virtuous heart. And hyeop is a character made up of in (人), meaning person, and hyeop (夾), meaning armpit, and it refers to protecting the weak···.”
My older sister’s long explanation continued, but to summarize, if you don’t take people’s lives recklessly and uphold chivalry, righteousness, and benevolence, then it’s white path, otherwise it’s black path.
And although Sacheondangga is a sect, it emphasized that it values practicality.
It feels like we need to keep the principles of cooperation, justice, and humanity, but we shouldn’t get caught up in them.
After thinking about it carefully, I think I know what you’re talking about.
‘Oh, this feels like a moral orientation? So, Baekdo is good, Heukdo is evil, and Sacheondang is a middle ground?’
And to wear it under your armpit for protection, um… that wasn’t so bad.
For now, my older sister is stronger than me, so she will protect me for the time being.
Getting stuck in my sister’s armpit…
I swore in my heart that I would become a man of integrity and righteousness from now on, with a human being and a companion.
***
[That’s the Golden Bee King!]
A point about twenty meters away from a huge old tree in front of a cliff with a beehive.
Daeju, my older sister, and I were hiding on a small rock.
After setting up the campsite, I went out to scout with Daeju and my older sister.
There is a method in the Tang dynasty to extract honey from the Golden Phoenix King, but I insisted that I should inspect the hive so that I could make a definite plan on how to extract the honey.
A tall tree where giant bees hover.
I was expecting it to be either a stone or a wooden spoon, but this time it seemed to be a wooden spoon.
[This is my first time seeing it, but it’s really big.]
My sister’s voice was full of admiration.
As my older sister had explained before, the Golden Beetle was a huge bee the size of a small dog, and it had a rather unique appearance.
It definitely looked like a traditional honeybee, but its fur was fluffy like that of a pumpkin bee.
And I could see why they were called the Golden Phoenix Kings.
Because the golden fur was so fluffy.
[So cute.]
[Is it cute?]
[Isn’t it cute and round?]
[That’s what they say···.]
My sister didn’t seem to approve, but honestly, is there any insect as cute as a bee?
It’s because it has a stinger, but it’s a really cute insect even without the stinger.
[By the way, the colony isn’t that big. Maybe a few hundred? Well, that’s understandable considering their size.]
[stock?]
[Oh, I’m talking about the size of the bee colony. Usually, small bees number between five and seven thousand.]
[Can you tell that without going in?]
Although my sister looked surprised, the reason why I could roughly estimate the size of the beehive colony was because bees form a very sophisticated organizational society.
The first worker bees that are born stay inside the house for about two weeks and help with housework, such as cleaning, caring for the queen, and after two weeks, when the glands that can produce wax are fully developed, they are put into work repairing or building the house. After that, the bees’ life is to gather honey or pollen outside the house.
I couldn’t get close to them because they were extremely cautious, but when I looked at the number of them returning home against the backdrop of the sunset, I could roughly guess the situation inside.
[Yeah, whatever.]
[Who is coming, Miss.]
[While I was looking at the beehive for a while, I heard Daeju’s voice saying that someone was coming this way.]
As everyone looked to one side with a nervous expression, the old man Gupae, the unit leader who had gone out to scout earlier, appeared from the direction of the campsite in the distance.
[Come on, tell me! If you just come here, you’ll be in trouble!]
At my whisper, Daejoo transmitted the message to the old man who had lost his father.
Then, the old man who was trying to approach us stopped just before entering the empty space, then quickly performed a light technique and landed on the rock.
[You guys are here?]
With the arrival of the old man, Daejoo checked how the situation was going.
[So, what happened?]
[The damn guys took their places on the other side as well. We made sure they circled around to avoid being seen by us and took their places on the other side.]
[Those damn bastards!]
-Bam.
The angry movement of the giant caused small pieces of stone on top of the rock to roll down the rock.
Immediately afterwards, the eerie sound I had feared was heard.
-Woooosh!
The distance between us and the hive is about ten to thirty meters.
However, as the Great Lord dropped a stone in anger, the sound of bees, like the sound of a propeller engine, could be heard from the old tree.
And then, bees started poking their heads out of the hive entrance, and I started seeing a few bees flying towards me.
[Avoid it!]
The campsite that we quickly retreated to and returned to.
I sat on a rock and caught my breath.
“Whew, that was a close call. I checked it the first time, but I feel like these guys are sensitive to ground shaking.”
“Are you talking about the ground shaking?”
They say that Bongwang (蜂王) is the king of bees, and the Golden Bongwang really felt like it had all the characteristics of all bees.
Because ground bees, such as pumpkin bees and ground bees that build their nests in the ground, are very sensitive to vibrations, but these bees, who are not ground bees, were very sensitive to vibrations even though they were almost thirty meters away.
The fact that we were on the rock was also because we took refuge on the rock due to the guys’ sensitive reaction.
“Yes, I think it feels like it reacts to you when you enter that empty space.”
Daeju nodded at my words.
“It certainly seems like it was the case before. Well, let’s just deal with it quickly tonight using the Tang method.”
Daeju was an experienced person, and the Tangmun method he was talking about was to dig up a lot of mugwort and send smoke toward the beehive to drive away the bees.
This is because mugwort contains ingredients that repel or calm insects.
When beekeeping, mugwort is used to calm the bees, so this is a very good method.
“Okay, let’s do that.”
Since the black bastards were also worried and the general opinion was to strike quickly and then run away, the conclusion was narrowed down to the opinion that they should go for the honey tonight.
The old man spoke with a troubled expression.
“Daeju, the wind···.”
“wind?”
Dae-ju tilted his head at the old man’s words, but soon his expression turned into one of defeat.
“Oh no. Why of all people···”
Suddenly, I wondered what the word wind meant.
However, when I heard the explanation, in order to burn mugwort and send smoke, the wind had to blow from our side towards the bees, but now the wind is blowing from the beehive towards us.
“Then, can’t I smoke on the other side?”
“Then you’ll be stuck between the Sapa guys and the King of Geummo. They won’t do anything, but won’t you feel an itch in the back of your head?”
The Sapa guys won’t attack us unless they go crazy, but it’s not a good situation to get between the King of Geummo and them and do something.
However, it was not something that the Baekdo sect, Dangga, could openly attack.
There was an opinion that it would be a good idea to go and tell them to get out, but if you get caught, they will show their characteristically sly and snake-like responses.
‘Haha, we just wanted to get together and go hunting while we’re here. You can take a look.’
‘That’s right. I just came here to do some hunting.’
My older sister said in an angry voice that if we go back and scatter in different directions, it will be more difficult.
“I really wish I could sweep it all away!”
My sister’s angry voice made me think of that.
‘It looks like my older sister will be married and good at cleaning···.’
I’m talking about human cleaning.
