episode_0127

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Ilhwi Cheongun Sword 2nd Cheongun Chungpa.

Two swords swirling like waves. This movement, which can be called a spinning up slash and a spinning downward slash, had the advantage of being able to mix techniques.

After using an upward cut to destroy the opponent’s defense, you can exploit the gap with a sharp move, and you can confuse the opponent with an upward cut using the skill of side, and then crush them with a strong downward cut.

“The level of understanding itself is not bad compared to the training time. For now, just be diligent.”

Today’s temporary teacher is Master Jeongmu. Zen Master Jeongmu pointed out the flow of inner energy that was distorted every time I switched techniques, and pointed out how I should change it so that it can be converted naturally.

Of course, the result was a mess due to the low-quality technique, but the master nodded as if he was satisfied with the fact that I understood the trick.

“It is a piece that will fit together over time anyway. Since you only have one month to learn, you should ignore the parts that can be solved with time and fill in other parts.”

“That’s right.”

One month is a short time. There is a limit to how much you can learn in a month at best. It’s such a waste of time to hold on to something that doesn’t work. Just as I think that a month is an extremely short time, so do Zen masters.

“Anyway, what happened to the snack shipment?”

“I sent the disciples away, so they will be back by evening.”

A thought crossed my mind about giving the children candy every day, but even if it was a bit excessive, I thought it was a time of change and there was nothing I could do about it.

No matter how much you think about children, fortune telling is a scam. There were definitely some shortcomings in the children’s lives. You can think of it as compensation and pass it over… but it’s still something that both the children and the teachers need to get used to.

For a month, the kids have a festival every day.

In the afternoon, I learned martial arts from Master Youngyul. Looking at Master Youngyul’s mouth sticking out, I could tell that he had no choice but to come out to teach me martial arts due to the intense pressure from other Zen masters. I guess I’m dissatisfied with the fact that they’re teaching me martial arts at a time when I’m preparing for the evening prayer meeting selection competition.

“Uh-huh, Master, if you ate it raw yesterday, you should give other people a chance.”

“What do you mean by eating it raw? This is something I volunteered for! Ugh… I don’t think I’ll win based on my skills and I’m just a charlatan..! Those so-called Zen masters of fortune telling…”

Of course, he only complained and watched my martial arts training properly.

“Then I guess I’ll just go practice. Spring will come later.”

“Yes.”

After seeing the back of Master Yeongyul, who instantly turned into a dot and disappeared while practicing the magic of Gungsintanyeong, he shook his head and went down to eat.

When I headed to Chaeseondang, the black cat and the white giraffe were already eating, so I joined them. The black cat appears to have advanced to another level today.

“Do you two have some time after eating?”

“Hmm. I’m fine. What about black cat Sojeo?”

“What if a senior calls me?”

“Then, please help me for a moment.”

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“Now, we have brought in external reviewers today.”

“No…”

Hyukkirin looked at me with a puzzled expression.

“Hmm. Asking for help…”

“Yes. Please help me evaluate the shippers’ skills.”

“What is it? Anyway, I saw a lot of my senior’s skills.”

Unlike the black cat that calmly shakes its head, this white-faced giraffe has a pale complexion.

“Evaluating Zen Masters! Such disrespect..!”

“Hehe, it’s okay. It’s a skill you’ll be showing to your kids anyway, so don’t feel pressured.”

“Yes. The teachers say it’s okay, so why are you so worried? You will see it all in an hour anyway.”

After semi-forcibly forcing Hyeok Gi-rin, who was acting like a bully, to sit down, he barely managed to sit down in the judge’s seat. Eleven Zen masters were staring at us with their own determination and enthusiasm.

“Now, before today’s selection, we will announce the future schedule. If it is a day when a prayer meeting is held, we will select a contestant who will demonstrate their skills and host the prayer meeting at this time every day. The selection will be made by three judges who will select the master who presented the most outstanding performance.”

“The next task will be announced immediately after the contestant selection, and the lesson for that task will be early in the morning the next day. We will distribute performance opportunities as evenly as possible to the teachers, but this is limited to the extent possible. If your skills are too poor, you may not have a chance to perform at all.”

“Hmm…reasonable.”

“Yes. The person who would teach you martial arts in the morning or afternoon was a huge blow.”

The Zen masters analyzed my intentions with sharp eyes. They seem to be paying close attention to selection trends. This is a desirable tension.

The black cat poked his side.

“Senior, what did you do again?”

Ignoring the black cat’s question, he continued.

“From now on, we will select a contestant to lead today’s prayer meeting.”

Zen masters swallowing dry saliva in tense tension.

“Today’s topic, as announced last night, is [Removing sugar from the bowl].”

Yabawi’s psychological tricks and manual techniques are quite difficult. This is also because, unlike the golpae, the contents inside are visible every time the cup is passed around. Because the action is so intense and because it takes place in a place where people have a clear view, the exposure itself is also different.

Nevertheless, the reason why Yabawi can deceive people is because there are many opportunities to do so. The deception failed? Then just turn it a little more and that’s it. Then, if you succeed in deceiving, you just have to stop.

In that sense, removing sugar from a bowl is a truly advanced technique. This is because, unlike Yabawi, which can create countless opportunities, it must appear as if a single glass of sweets disappears in just one opportunity.

The level of difficulty of the hand technique itself is extremely high, but if you really want to do this, it is impossible to simply use the hand technique alone. A loophole in psychology. Rectangular calculations, etc… It can be said that implementation itself is impossible just by following the movements.

however.

Unlike me, whose martial arts skills are poor and my body has to suffer, all Zen masters are enlightened.

That means…

“Have you prepared that desk?”

“Hmm. Of course.”

They say it’s okay to solve the problem with martial arts.

“Now then…let’s start with Master Youngyul.”

“Okay then.”

“You can start with yesterday’s joint exercises and show the linked movements.”

“I understand.”

Hyeok Kirin whispered as he watched Master Yeongheo taking deep breaths and controlling his mind and body.

“Well…but…what should I do for review?”

“How wonderful it is. Think of it as pointing out flaws. If you were easily fooled, please evaluate how well it was directed… that is, how wonderfully the technique was displayed. Well, wouldn’t it be okay to mentally give points to the Zen masters?”

“….”

Hyeok Kirin sighed as if the ground was falling. The black cat will take care of something.

“Then let’s begin!”

Master Yeongul put his hands together and made Danggwa appear. Then I put it in a bowl and turned it over.

“Hmm!”

Tsutsuzuzuzu!

This is where I was different.

“Oh.”

The black cat let out a light exclamation.

special effects!

As I applied strong energy to the bowl, the mystery of the magic increased. The grains bursting with a haze is the appearance of the boundary between strong energy and black energy. At the level of Zen masters, they could neatly apply energy to that bowl, but as a visual effect, wouldn’t it be cool to see energy fluttering and splashing like this?

When the Zen master put the bowl away, the sweetmeat was gone.

“Hmm…what is it.”

“Oh..!”

Hyukkirin let out a sigh of admiration and clapped her hands, while Black Cat tilted its head. The black cat that had seen my techniques the most seemed to have sensed something strange right away.

“What should I say…there was no hand movement at all.”

“That means the teacher uses his skills in a different way than I do. All you have to do is evaluate how cool it was.”

What can you do when you become a hwagyeong? You can unfold [Available Thing]. The absurd thing of moving an object without even touching it is possible.

What if we apply this to magic?

What if, while covering the bowl, you lift the plank with the nails removed from the top, put the sweets in the drawer below, and close it tightly?

That’s extinction magic or something. The reason for using strong energy to create special effects was not only to add style, but also to neutralize the flow of energy that spreads empty space objects with strong energy.

So, this could be said to be a battle of mastery of objects in the air rather than hand skills. How discreetly can the planks be covered? Can’t you hear the sound of sugar or boards hitting each other inside the glass? Things like this.

“Ahang.”

I explained the trick to the black cat and the white cat, and the black cat nodded his head, but the white cat looked like a child whose innocence had been broken.

“…I was really surprised because I thought the Zen masters completed the technique in one day…”

“Keohum. Hmm…”

Master Youngyul cleared his throat in embarrassment and I chuckled. Come to think of it, Hyuk Kirin was also a spectator of the performance along with the children, so maybe they were not considerate of that part? Hyeok Kirin, who retains a pure side, may also be partly a baby.

Next time, let’s judge together so that Hyuk Kirin can enjoy the performance as well.

“Anyway, if the production is going to show off magical powers, I don’t think it would be a bad idea to add some coordination and bury the sound.”

“Oh, that’s okay too.”

Unlike Hyuk Kirin, who was shocked because his innocence was broken, Black Cat pointed out sharply. In the first place, the person who knows my magic best is Black Cat, so he has no choice but to be special.

“Difference sum!”

“Haaaap!”

In this way, the demonstrations of the 11 Zen masters passed one by one. There were some Zen masters who failed to cover the plank completely, and there were also Zen masters whose inner strength was too obvious. Or maybe you are a Zen master who is too absorbed in internal energy management and is slow to check external reactions.

Me, Black Cat, and Hyuk Kirin entered the meeting from a distance.

“Black cat, you are amazing.”

“ng.”

As soon as the surprise was revealed, I saw Zen masters bursting out in anger… but didn’t the Zen masters do the same when they evaluated me?

Anonymity was important in this selection. There’s no need to have feelings for both of us because we’re both tired.

“Now, first of all, you have to take into account that you will have to use that technique a few times today.”

Last time, I made sure that only the child who lied didn’t show up… but I’m not sure if that child will show up this time as well. Children have already learned enough that speaking honestly and reflecting is not such a bad thing.

So today, a prayer meeting will be held on the topic of whether the children who have said they will reflect so far have actually corrected their behavior… Since the children may not have completely corrected their bad behavior in a day or two, there are quite a few techniques to get rid of the negative behavior. You may need to open the stool.

“Certainly, Ganggi is a sophisticated way of handling empty objects…even Zen masters cannot unfold it indefinitely.”

“Hyeok Kirin Daehyup should focus on that point. Isn’t there a difference in the amount of power the masters have?”

“Okay.”

We completed the evaluation by summing up Qigong proficiency, gaze control, and internal energy.

When the three of us returned to the judges’ table, the Zen masters stared at us with tense eyes.

I set the mood by curtsying in front of my eyes.

“It was a very difficult decision for the judges as well. This is because most of the masters’ technical perfection has reached the passing level. First of all, thank you for your efforts.”

“…So who?”

In response to the teacher’s impatient nature, I immediately announced the results.

“The performer who will lead the stage of today’s prayer meeting is…”

‘We’ll be revealing in 60 seconds!’ was an unpleasant thought that passed through my head for a moment, but if I said something like that in front of a group of tension-filled Zen masters, I could have really lost my mind as a Zen master and all.

“This is Master Ungyeong!”

“Yayyyy!”

Master Unkyung enjoys the joy of passing the exam while performing an uppercut ceremony. Seeing him so happy with his beard fluttering makes me happy too.

On the contrary, the atmosphere of the remaining 10 Zen masters suddenly became filled with dark clouds.

“It’s okay. Masters!”

As I shouted, the worried gazes of the Zen masters gathered together. Even though I had no intention of living, my body stiffened when the 10 fireworks experts looked at me with negative eyes, but I managed to shake it off by raising my energy and continued speaking.

“Masters. How was your technology today?”

“Hmm…well, it looked much more glamorous than yesterday.”

“Hehe. It’s closer to martial arts than a skill.”

“Well, how can everything in the world be so clearly divided? If there is something that can be replaced, it is efficient to replace it. Let’s leave that topic aside… If you show off that skill today, the kids will like it more, right?”

Master Ungyeong joined in excitedly.

“Hahaha! From today onwards, the kids might all be looking for me! Wahahaha!”

“Why do you, a Zen master, laugh so frivolously!”

“You have to be an example for children..ugh!”

Master Woon-gyeong smiles even when he is criticized, and other masters who shoot back when they have a goal.

“The next task is a bit more fancy.”

Only then did the Zen masters’ eyes turn to me.

“Don’t be too disappointed if your turn is delayed. In the end, what Zen masters want is children’s popularity! In that case, just make up for it with more fancy technology.”

This is a precautionary measure to prevent latecomer shipping companies from losing too much motivation.

“Hmm! okay. A technology more flashy than what we have today could leave an impression on children’s minds!”

Only then, under the gaze of the Zen masters who regained their motivation, did I announce the next technique.