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Yoo Yu-yeon and I went out.

Yu Yu-yeon also wore a black lip and military uniform like a ronin. Since I was going to meet someone from the party, I wanted to do so as quietly as possible. Since the cat was disguised as a black cat to the public, the black cat was left in the guesthouse.

As I entered the promised alley, I noticed a strange dagger stuck in it.

Base method.

There seems to be a light maze spreading out in this alley. Yoo Yu-yeon and I nodded and slightly raised our internal energy to protect our heads.

The criteria for classifying martial artists starts from the third class. In fact, in martial arts, third-rate people are not considered martial people, but third-rate people and those below third-rate are different in their own way.

The third type refers to those whose goal is to feel cold (感氣), or energy. In fact, this is why the boundary between third-rate and non-third-rate people is treated ambiguously. Since you cannot actually handle energy but only feel it, you cannot prove whether you have the sense to feel energy or not.

Therefore, there is no way to tell the difference between those who are not third-rate and those who are third-rate unless an expert personally tests the third-rate through qigong.

A second-rate person refers to a person whose goal is to achieve jeonggi (制氣). When it comes to colds, you can feel your energy at the lowest level. They can be said to be those who can witness the forest called martial arts with the eyes of energy.

What does it mean for a second flow to move energy? If you leave out the random Zen questions about moving energy, it means building up your inner strength. While third-rate work involves opening the eyes to see energy, second-rate work involves moving energy with open eyes. Breathing alone can build up internal energy, but is it possible to intentionally build up internal energy?

Having the ability to move energy according to will. That is the goal that second-ryu pursues and the ability that the level of second-ryu implies.

Then first class.

Starting from the first class, everyone recognizes them as martial people. It refers to those who have mastered cold and achieved Qi and are aiming for the next level of Chunggi (充氣). While third-rate people have raised their senses and second-class people have accumulated power, first-class people are at the point where they can use that power.

Choonggi. Filling the body with that power. Just as in order to hit an opponent, you need to strengthen your fist and strengthen your arms and legs, it can also be called courage because it contains the meaning of energy. If a person has a will and begins to realize that will, that is the way. No matter how insignificant and unsightly it may be, it can be called a way.

Whether they should be viewed as first-class warriors or second-class warriors is an undying and undying existence among the martial arts people.

A first-class person who carries out his will is a true warrior. No, the second-rate is not as good as the first-class, but since it can move energy, it is no different from the first-class in its essence of acting with intention. They should also be considered unmanned. Well, this is a debate on the level of whether the chicken or the egg came first, and who is the true monarch of the Three Kingdoms, Liu Bei or Cao Cao?

Still, although there are individual differences in the general opinion these days, second-class people are considered unmanned.

In fact, although he has been trained to a level that is no different from first-class, his level is second-class. Since my level is not top-notch, I cannot use the technique called Chunggi.

Let’s call it 1st level strengthening, which involves putting energy into your forearms and making them stronger. This can be done once you reach the second level and learn the technique of jegi. However, in order to make your arms stronger, your skin hard, or your joints able to endure beyond their limits, you need a minimum amount of energy.

The limit of power that can be strengthened is low, and no matter how much energy is injected into it, it cannot accomplish tasks outside its natural scope.

Once you reach the top level and learn prowess, you will be able to do things like strengthen your skin so it does not tear easily, or exert a force that is several times greater than your physical strength in an instant.

Of course, reaching the top does not mean that the limits of your capabilities suddenly disappear, so rather than suddenly becoming a superhuman, it only opens up possibilities.

To put it bluntly, a second-rate person may not be skilled in martial arts, but if he were to fight someone with a blessed physical condition, there was a high possibility that he would lose. why? Anyway, even if you manipulate energy, you cannot go beyond the line of naturally strengthening your body, so if you meet someone who has a stronger body than your strengthened body, you will be at a disadvantage.

However, a mature first-class player cannot lose to someone who does not know martial arts. Because the very basis of combat methods is different. At a second-rate level, even three swords with one step are difficult, but at a first-rate level, you can pull out four swords and five swords with just one step, as long as you risk wasting internal energy and overloading your body.

I just don’t do that because it’s not an effective way to fight.

“Let’s enter.”

It’s a labyrinth that can make people wander if they don’t raise their energy. I guess we should see it as a jinn set up by a Tang family member who doesn’t want others to see what the Sichuan ronin meets.

As I walked for a while, I saw a man wearing Tang family clothes standing there.

“I see you came. It is said that the person who leads the Sichuan Nangin is Yeo-geol. Is that person Yu Sa-yeon?”

“The guest drinker, Yu Sa-yeon.”

“I call myself Tang Dokgi.”

Tang Dok-gi suddenly sighed.

“First of all, I’m very sorry that things ended up like this.”

These were very stiff words to be called an apology, but considering they came from the mouth of Tang Ga, the absolute ruler of the Sichuan martial arts world, it meant that he was very sorry.

“First of all, yes… I guess it makes sense to explain everything from before and after.”

As anyone who has ever worked in a position of a superior-subcontractor relationship knows, it is rare for Party A to tell Party B about the situation. Just trying to get them to do it. The difference is whether you order something while swearing or just do it more politely.

Telling everything about the party’s internal situation like this meant expressing regret, but it also meant that resolving this issue was that difficult.

“First of all, I have to tell you about the incident in which that idiot Dang Do-gyeong left the house. Ever since Tang Do-gyeong knocked out the messenger who was to deliver the letter to Golden Street, snatched the document, and went to Golden Street, the head of the family has been extremely angry.”

Did you come to Sichuan Province after attacking the messenger and robbing the letter?

It wasn’t a big deal, it was a crazy person.

“Gaekju inferred that Tang Tao-gyeong’s purpose when he went to Sichuan Province in such a fuss was to do Yeo-il-ye. That crazy guy lately, ugh. The only news that could stimulate Tang Tao-gyeong was the Yeo-il-ye of the 10th century poet who was said to have reached the peak these days.”

It was a reasonable inference up to this point.

But why?

“The head of the Tang family was so angry that he immediately summoned the Tang family’s masters who could overpower Tang Daojing, but wouldn’t it be easy to gather several supreme leaders? At best, it is impossible to send out an elder-level person just to catch one goby, the reviewer…”

Even elders have respect. No matter how high the reputation of Tang Tao-gyeong is in the later index, it would be absurd for an elder to take part in arresting someone from his own family.

“More than anything, the biggest problem was that Tang Do-gyeong headed to Golden Street. First of all, what I need to say is that the situation at that time was such that all the family head had to do was get angry and capture Dan Do-kyung. Hanging out with Sichuan ronin had nothing to do with it back then.”

“That’s right.”

“No matter how enraged the head of the Tang family was, it made no sense to go into the Golden Street and pull out Tang Dao-jing, and it also made no sense for several Tang family masters to enter and cause an uproar in Sichuan Province to bring out Tang Dao-jing. Because Tang Do-gyeong knew this well, he came to Sichuan Province instead of going straight to Jeomchang to meet Yeo Il-ye. Meeting Yeo Il-ye in Sichuan Province would be the best way for things to turn out well for Tang Dao-gyeong.”

If this happens, you’re screwed, right?

Listening to what I said gave me a headache. I already knew that the Tang family was a noble family, and I also knew that due to their position as a noble family, they did not create a force within Sichuan Province. But is it so bad that it shouldn’t even cause a disturbance within Sichuan Province?

No, this is not a reasonable inference. If the leaders of the Tang family fight against each other in Sichuan Province to capture the Tang Daojing, rumors will spread everywhere that there was a conflict between the Tang Daojing and the Tang clan masters over something. There are even rumors spreading about the friction with the governor.

If that happens, it might be better to let Tang Dao-gyeong and Yeo Il-ye fight to the death inside Sichuan Province.

If the former is a disgrace to the Tang family, the latter is a disgrace to the Tang Daojing.

“So, Dang Ga-ju published two books. One was to send me to Sichuan Province to persuade Tang Dao-gyeong. And when I met Yeo Il-ye first, I had the role of explaining the situation and persuading her to lure Dang Do-gyeong to the Jeomchang faction.”

“Secondly, even though Yeo Il-ye frequented Sacheon Province these days, he ultimately had no choice but to move around the Jeomchang faction, which was his main faction, so he placed the Tang sect’s masters in the Jeomchang faction. If he could not meet Yeo Il-ye in Sichuan Province, Tang Dao-gyeong would eventually have no choice but to turn to the Jianchang faction.”

Tang Dok-gi sighed as the ground fell.

“So I came to Sacheon and what was this? There were a lot of rumors everywhere that Tang Tao-gyeong lost a bet and had the blood jade monument stolen by a Sichuan ronin. I looked around and inquired, and it seemed like that was true. Ah, there is no need to answer because I have already received confirmation from you that it is true.”

Tang Dok-gi pounded his chest.

“It was so crazy and jumping around! It wasn’t enough that a crazy child stole a letter that was meant to be delivered to a real golden house, and he went to apply for a secret service to a writer in the old file room, and the blood and jade monument that can be called a secret treasure? Taken away? That too…! After…”

Tang Dok-gi, who was about to say, ‘And at best to a Sichuan ronin?’, realized that the Sichuan ronin was right in front of him and expressed his frustration.

“I hope you all understand how frustrating I feel. I was at a loss for words for a moment, but when I heard the news anyway, I was furious and inquired about Dang Do-gyeong’s whereabouts… and found out that he was going in and out of the guest house of a Sichuan ronin.”

Tang Dokgi looked at the sky. It seemed like I couldn’t control the anger that was rising again.

“As soon as I heard the news, I literally felt like the sky turned yellow. I was able to meet Dang Do-gyeong, who appeared in the morning after ambushing him near Ronin Guesthouse right away that day. I dragged him away and got very angry. Then that son of a bitch rolled his eyes at me and got angry!”

You can tell just by looking at Tang Dok-gi’s comical expression.

It seems that he couldn’t say anything because it was in front of us, but he probably said, ‘Do you know how much the reputation of the Dang family will fall if rumors spread that you hang out with the ronins while hanging out in the ronins’ guesthouse?’ I would have responded by saying, ‘How passionate and great he is.’

However, it was none of Tang Dok-gi’s business other than whether the Sichuan people actually cultivated the correct warrior attitude. What is important to him is the reputation that Dang Do-gyeong loses by visiting the royal guest house. Dang Do-gyeong, who is thinking loudly and repeatedly, doesn’t understand what I’m saying and starts talking back and forth?

How frustrating it must have been for the party leader.

“So, I delivered the matriarch’s threat. I know I shouldn’t say this, but I do. Do you know how many accidents this guy called Dang Do-kyung has caused? Huh, if I really tell you everything, two nights wouldn’t be enough! By that time, the patience of the family head and senior leaders had run out. If you don’t come back this time, I’ll have you taken out of the family register.”

A party is a blood kinship group.

The party family, which has even actively adopted the system of son-in-law, boasts a huge number of people who should be called the party clan rather than the party family. After all, there is a village called Dangata where Danga people live together.

That is why the Tang family attaches great importance to blood ties.

Isolation is a de facto death sentence that can be handed down to blood relatives by the party. Well…I guess you’re not really trying to insulate it. It is difficult for a crime worthy of being removed from the family register to go to the level of isolation unless it commits murder of a relative or inflicts such a blow that the pillars of the party family are shattered.

Therefore, the meaning of the isolation just mentioned was not to pass it off as a late index, but to give a punishment equivalent to the real capital punishment. There is absolutely no need to look after him or anything anymore, so he threatens to come back no matter what.

“Then he started talking about how he had made a promise to a winner that he couldn’t back down from, and then he went into the guesthouse without even looking at me, didn’t he?!”

“Ah…”

Anyone can see that Dang Do-gyeong was an intuitive and cooperative person. But I was wondering why the crush heard the sound of a fighting dog… Yes, the Ronin Grinder Yeo Il-ye is also a Hongjuk Gungeom, but I thought that I had to do this to tear the wrapping paper and hear the sound of a mad dog.

Tang Do-gyeong, who throws away everything surrounding him and pursues his own agreement, is clearly a hero and a cooperative figure, but the way he throws away everything, including his family’s position, and devotes himself to work…

I wonder if this is too open.