2. Motel Phobos (6)
2. Motel Phobos (6) – Outsourcing leads to outsourcing
“It is a deplorable thing.”
Mokjin looked at the Red Wolf members who had lost their will to fight and were barely standing with their eyes sunken in. He did not hide his disappointment and openly gave them a look of reproach.
“Your accumulated martial arts skills may look great at first glance, but they are actually mean. How can you be called martial artists?”
Full of internal energy, sophisticated techniques, and excellent combat sense. If you look at the results alone, their power is strong enough to be called first-class masters. No, considering that they are not the main force of the Heavenly Demon Sect, it could be said that they are better than the time when Mokjin lived.
But the problem was that, to absolute masters like Mokjin who could exploit the weaknesses in their martial arts, they were nothing more than mere trainees.
How could Mokjin have subdued the Cheonmasingyo’s combat unit without using even a little bit of internal energy? Mokjin himself felt a sense of emptiness at this unbelievable reality.
“The method of fighting is organized into a framework called ‘Choi-sik’ and is called ‘Mu’ (武), and the qi and heart skills are combined and called ‘Gong’ (功), so the three together are called ‘Mugong’ (武功).”
Why would those who build up martial arts repeat the same movement ten thousand times, for several hours a day, for several years or even decades? It was to understand the meaning and mystery contained in each movement of the movement, and to engrave it in their body so that they could perform it even in their sleep. It may seem foolish at first, but the right path to understanding the secrets contained in the movement of the movement could not exist without endless training.
The same goes for Qigong (氣功), which builds up internal energy and energy, and Simgong (心功), which contains the principles of martial arts. In order to send internal energy to the right place at the right time, you must become accustomed to handling internal energy through honest Qigong training, and you must discipline your mind and follow the principles of martial arts through endless meditation and contemplation.
Training the mind, heart, and body in a balanced way is the true way to build up martial arts.
“But if you rely on mere organs and neglect your training, and neglect the true enlightenment contained in the first and second stages of martial arts, then you will easily fall apart. If you don’t even have the basics of martial arts, then you are trying to touch the body of the main deity. Your dream is extremely crazy.”
They may be more than capable of fighting since they are not lacking in strength. But can what they are learning really be called martial arts?
Mokjin suddenly had the thought that the martial arts world two thousand years from now might not have developed as much as he had thought.
But his thoughts did not last long.
This was because one of the subdued Red Wolf members really got on his nerves by talking about the Cheonma Singyo.
“It’s the Cheonma Shingyo.”
To begin with, Mokjin had no particular attachment to the new religion. He only had a connection with the master, but he was still an outsider from outside.
But even so, he knew what the warriors of the Cheonmasingyo were carrying in their lives.
Strength.
Those who follow the law of the strong even at the risk of losing their lives, and live believing that only the strong are worthy of reigning.
Never again should we borrow the name of the new religion in such a crude way as we do now.
So his anger was justified.
As a Cheonma, and also as a warrior who has joined the Cheonma Sect.
“Ugh!”
Not only the Red Wing, but everyone present was startled and stepped back by the explosive energy wave that came out. It was a violent energy wave that did not seem to belong to the human world.
Mokjin glared at the Red Wolf member who made the outrageous remark with his blue, naturalized eyes.
“If you are unmanned, show us your martial arts skills instead of that background. Have you forgotten the law of the strong?”
“Oh, no······.”
The Red Wing member, who was terrified by the overwhelming pressure contained in his words, nodded and answered. Even as an ordinary unmanned man, he could tell. The being before him was undoubtedly a being of transcendent power.
Sanjeonmuak, who was barely able to stand while enduring Mokjin’s strong energy, asked.
“······Who is the deceased?”
It was a question that would have been answered by just beating around the bush. But Mokjin didn’t do that. Sometimes, the truth can be the most useful means of deceiving people.
So he told the truth. So lightly that no one would take it seriously.
“What can I say? The original deity is the Heavenly Demon.”
Proxima Centauri constellation, 32nd parish of the Celestial Demon Church.
“Is this report true?”
A middle-aged man with a greedy expression asked with a bewildered expression while watching the video on the panel. There were many emotions on his face. Disbelief, absurdity, irritation, anger, etc…. Not all of them were positive emotions.
If it was natural, it was natural. One of the main forces of the parish that I had worked so hard to raise was subdued by a single person, so I couldn’t have expected a more severe reaction than this.
“Please tell me it’s a joke.”
The first thought that came to Jong Ri-taek, the head of the 32nd Parish of the Cheonmasingyo Church, was that the report in front of him might be someone’s malicious prank.
“Just tell them that the author of Sanjeonmuak overdosed on the concentrated elixir and left him in a state of insanity.”
Sanjeonmuak is a serious man who is far from being a jokester, but sometimes if he eats something wrong, doesn’t that mean that he can completely change? Rather than saying that the entire Jeokrangdae was subdued by a natural, not to mention Jeokrangdaeju, who is not even a master of the highest level, it would be a more believable hypothesis that Jeokrangdaeju took medicine.
But the elder of the parish bowed his head as if he felt ashamed of his words.
“I’m sorry, Your Majesty. Judging from the black box transmitted by Jeokrangdaeju and the circumstances at the time, I don’t think there was any lie······.”
“So is that true? That the entire Red Wing was defeated by one Natural?”
“There’s no guarantee that the opponent is a natural. The Red Wolf Lord and his crew said that the opponent was definitely a natural, but if you look at the latter half of the black box footage, they were clearly using internal energy. Although the possibility is slim, there’s also the possibility that they’re a master equipped with a specially-made internal energy drive that makes them impossible to detect with a scout······.”
“This is driving me crazy.”
Jong-ri-taek touched his forehead at the elder’s words. It was commonplace in this world for an unknown hermit to suddenly appear and ruin something that was going well, but in this case, there was a reason why it had to be done no matter what.
“The vice-president is also interested in this matter. And for our parish, which is not very large and is in a remote area, to gain a voice in the main church, we have to achieve something. Do you understand what I’m saying?”
“What do you mean? Even so, he’s only a fifteen-year-old kid. This time, just think of it as an unfortunate accident.”
Jong-ri-taek sighed and sank into his chair.
That’s right. This was an accident. Accidents that often occur in the world of martial arts. The main character and Yeomhwanacha in the video had nothing to do with the Heavenly Spirits they were chasing. Especially Yeomhwanacha, a bounty hunter who traveled the universe hunting for bounties, was someone who often got involved in incidents like this. I don’t know the details, but as is often the case in martial arts, it was probably a hermit who got involved in an incident and ended up overturning it.
“But isn’t controlling such thoughts the very essence of ability······. Do you know who that person is?”
“Yes. However, there is no information on the network. He may really be a hermit, or he may be hiding his identity. Circumstances suggest that he is moving together with the Yeomhwachal Spirit, but that also seems to be very recent.”
“You don’t even know my name?”
“That······.”
The elder touched the panel with an apologetic face and showed the end of the video. There was a man who had the Red Wolves kneel down. The man in the video said.
– The main deity is Cheonmai.
“Are you crazy?”
Huh. Jong-ri-taek laughed in vain. He didn’t know what it meant to talk about Cheonma in front of Cheonma Shingyo. It was an attitude that showed that he didn’t know even a little bit. They say ignorance is bliss, and it was exactly like that.
“Shall I report to my superiors?”
“······That’s it. The task at hand comes first. Such trivial provocations are not important.”
According to the rules, he should be punished for daring to insult the supreme being of the Cheonmasin Sect, but right now, catching the runaway leader of the Cheonryong Sangdan is ten thousand times more urgent. In a situation where the vice-leader is paying attention to the 32 parishes, he had no intention of dispersing his power by dealing with trivial matters.
“I shouldn’t have sent that foolish bear away.”
Sanjeonmuak is a straightforward and honest man who does what he is told to do, but he is weak in dealing with unexpected situations like this. In reality, Sanjeonmuak himself was the one who created the unexpected situation due to personal greed, but Jong-ri-taek, who had not been briefed on the situation, had no way of knowing the details.
It was not something that Jong-ri-taek could simply criticize. After all, he was the one who sent him on this mission. Could he have ever imagined that such an accident would occur during the simple task of capturing a fifteen-year-old child?
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“Damn, I had a bad feeling since that clever thing abandoned my father and ran away. You abandoned your parents to live for yourself? Are all the merchants at the top like that?”
“They are no ordinary merchants. They have hidden their existence for over a thousand years, so how can their blood ties be so great? Don’t worry, parish priest. I have planted a Thousand-Li Tracking Wave capsule near their heart, so if you just follow the traces of the tracking wave, you will be able to catch them in no time.”
It’s an expensive item, but this time, it’ll be worth the money. Jong-ri-taek nodded.
“It’s all thanks to you. If I hadn’t listened to your story about planting a cult of followers back then, I would have been in big trouble. When this goes well, I’ll definitely give you a proper reward.”
“I am just assisting the parish priest.”
The elder nodded quietly. Although Jong-ri-taek had a greedy personality like his appearance, he was a good superior who strictly observed the punishment of the new employee. The elder raised his head again and asked him.
“Then would you like to send a slaughter party?”
“No. You shouldn’t force yourself to use the Demon Slayer. The latest update to the Internal Energy Drive hasn’t even been completed yet.”
“This has already gone wrong once. To make it even more certain, there is no one better than the Demon Slayer. Above all, there is no one better at interstellar tracking than the Demon Slayer.”
“Still, it’s difficult. The Gui-sal-dae has a mission that will be deployed as soon as the update adjustments are finished. Doesn’t the elder know about it?”
“However······.”
Jong-ri-taek groaned and groaned at the elder’s still hesitant words. But he didn’t understand why the elder was hesitating. He knew very well that since he had planted the Cheonri-chul-jong-pa, it was inevitable to dispatch a demon slayer unit that had mastered interstellar tracking techniques.
At that moment, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
“Elder, there is a way.”
“What would you call a method?”
“Let’s outsource it.”
“If it’s outsourcing… then no way?”
The elder’s eyes widened at Jong-ri-taek’s words. The elder, who easily figured out what he was trying to say, asked back.
“Is that okay? They are basically a group of thieves, so they wouldn’t dare betray our church, but they will demand a lot of money.”
“That’s okay. If you want to expand the footprint of our parish, that kind of money is cheap. It’s better to let those guys work comfortably than to force them to do something and lose them and the little ones. Isn’t that right?”
“The parish priest is right,” the elder replied, bowing his head slightly.
Once the decision was made, Jong-ri-taek didn’t hesitate. He put his hand on the panel and started a video call, and after a while, someone appeared on the panel.
– Long time no see, Bishop Jong Ri-taek.
A sharp-looking young man with a neat suit and neatly arranged hair. The young man, who gave the impression of being a professional in the financial industry, appeared relaxed even in front of the head of the Cheonmasin Church.
The man’s sharp eyes looked straight at Jong-ri-taek through his stylish square glasses.
– Is there anything you would like to ask of us, Nokrim?
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Let me add a little explanation about the new and old martial arts from the last episode. The current new martial arts require significantly less effort to reach a certain level (roughly the level of a peak master?) compared to the old martial arts. On the other hand, it is much harder to reach a transcendental level because the limits are clear. Most martial artists choose the new martial arts that can be achieved quickly rather than reaching a level that is not even known to be true or not, and the old martial arts are almost extinct.
To borrow the expression of the previous commenter, Chummiming, solving problems using mathematical formulas is the new martial arts, while solving them by deriving the formulas one by one is the old martial arts. It’s a much better metaphor than the clumsy expression that tried to use the metaphor of assembly and production tools. XD To explain it in a web novel-like way, you can think of it as the difference between a PC fighting game where you input commands and techniques are automatically used and a virtual reality fighting game where you fight by moving your body yourself.
Originally, I was planning to explain this separately later because it was ambiguous to include it in the previous episode, but since many people are curious, I will explain it briefly first 🙂
Strictly speaking, the reason Mokjin defeated Jeokrangdae without using his internal energy was because of the compatibility.
The martial arts of this worldview are the trinity of the mind (simgong), energy (qigong), and body (chosik) according to the spirit and energy of Eastern philosophy.
The martial artists of this world, unless they are students of a school, do not spend most of their time practicing martial arts like they did in the past. They have to study, earn money to live, and enjoy leisure activities. Nevertheless, if you have talent, it is possible to reach a level (in terms of martial arts) that was unimaginable in the martial arts world of the past at a young age.
In this world, the most important martial arts talent is combat sense, and sensitivity, wit, and reflexes that allow for delicate control of internal energy are also important.
Mokjin’s words, “The main deity is Cheonma,” are closer to a strong provocation that is heard by the followers of the Demonic Cult with a nuance of “I am your father” or “I am your mother” rather than the original meaning. Naturally, if you say this in front of the Demonic Cult, you will be arrested and have a spicy stew with your nose.
The Red Wing is a second-tier main force of the 32 parishes, and can easily defeat even the smallest sects.
The elixir concentrate is a type of elixir extract that is made by carefully squeezing elixirs grown in carefully selected environments. It doesn’t have much use because of the internal energy drive, but if you eat it often, your mind becomes clearer, your blood flow becomes cleaner, and it’s good for your stamina, so most martial artists keep it in their mouths.
The Thousand-Li-Chu-Jong-Hyang capsule leaves a periodic trace in the form of waves, so those who have mastered interstellar tracking can track it even to the constellation level. However, that is why it is incredibly expensive.
The Thousand-Li-Choo-Jong-Hyang capsule can be destroyed by a strong impact. However, since those who pursue it are not fools, they are usually planted near vital organs that are difficult to remove without professional surgery.
It is important to keep the martial arts directly managed by some sects up to date, as patches are periodically released for devices such as internal energy drives, QIOS, and ADI. Naturally, since authentication is required every time, it is nearly impossible for outsiders to receive patches for higher seasons.
The man who appeared last is Chae Joo from Nokrim.
