episode_0135

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Master’s teacher… So should I call you Master? Anyway, I followed the ambassador up the hill.

The two women walked forward as if they were walking along a moving walkway, but it was difficult to keep up with them.

“Please, slowly.”

It was so hard to keep up that I spoke out of breath, so the ambassador said he was sorry and slowed down.

On the other hand, our teacher…

“Hmph, I’m begging for that.”

He stuck out his mouth and grunted.

Are you the real teacher? It’s more likely that it’s just another person with the same face, right?

You’re acting like a complete kid. Of course, it’s a kid.

Currently, Master is barely tall enough to reach below my chin.

Considering that it was originally grown around the nose, it has definitely not grown much.

Hmm… but it’s a bit surprising that you can come back to the past.

Every time I moved to a different dimension, I never thought about time.

Has it come to the past? Or is it a parallel world?

There may be two possible cases, but I think it would be easier to think of the former first.

If it’s the latter, I think it’ll be even more bitter.

It would be a bit sad if the person you had built a bond with was a completely different person with the same face.

“What are you doing if you don’t come quickly?”

Hmm… maybe losing that bond isn’t so bad.

Mr. Barger.

I follow at a quick pace and ask the ambassador.

“But where are we going now?”

“I’m heading to the Murim Alliance.”

The ambassador said, pushing back his slightly reddish hair.

“Murimmaeng?”

Bad memories come to mind.

“Is the Murim Alliance in a rural area like this?”

I don’t know much about the world of martial arts, but this is just a village. As I leave the private house a bit, I can only see farmland.

In my memories, the downtown area was not like this.

“To be exact, it is a temporary station.”

Master adds.

“What Soyou said is correct. The elites of the Murim Alliance are here to subdue a very malicious martial artist.”

It’s a feat for Murim….

When I was possessed, my teacher was a martial artist. Could it be that there was another being like the Heavenly Demon?

“Perhaps the name of that achievement is…”

But no one answered my question.

As we climbed up the steep hill, everyone turned their attention to the scenery below the hill.

There was a vacant lot at the bottom of the hill.

The ground is unnaturally hollow, and there are burning flags and broken weapons all around.

And just like the ones I saw in the village, there were dried out corpses and corpses that had been pierced and crushed by something.

“Wow….”

I started to feel nauseous without permission, and I spilled some saliva on the ground, not sure if it was saliva or gastric juice.

Master saw me and slowly distanced himself from me.

“It must be a shocking scene… I’m sorry. But to explain the current situation, I had no choice but to show it like this.”

The ambassador speaks with bitterness.

“What is this?”

“People who sacrificed themselves to achieve just one martial arts achievement. Do you see over there?”

In the very center of the huge pit, a small person appeared, stretched out in a large shape.

That person’s condition was worse than other people’s, first of all, his entire body was covered in blood.

“That?”

“Murim Achievement. Blood ghost Dowook. It was a great disaster for this land of Sacheon.”

“Blood Demon….”

“The information we have found so far is that in order to become stronger, he consumed elixirs and neidan without restraint, and as a result, he became a monster that thirsts for human blood.”

The Grand Master steps up a steep hill.

I thought it was going to be straight forward because it was a slope, but she was standing in the air as if she had stepped on a step.

“Soyu, come down together.”

With those words left behind, the ambassador slowly descended, stepping through the air.

Master said nothing as he watched the Master’s figure gradually descending.

“……”

She slowly turned her head and looked at me.

“Tch.”

He clicks his tongue and turns his head, as if he doesn’t like something.

“Oh, what.”

At this point, I also get angry.

“Give me your hand. But don’t hold on too tightly. Don’t stutter.”

When she tried to grab his outstretched hand, he withdrew his arm and spoke hastily.

I understand that it is because it is the hand of a stranger, but if I speak politely, it would be of little use.

“Heyu…. Here you go.”

I gently raised my arm above her hand, and she grabbed my hand and jumped up.

“Ugh!”

An ugly scream came out.

I closed my eyes tightly, thinking I was going to free fall like this, but somehow I found myself slowly going down the hill.

…I think it was like this when I went to Heukcheon Bridge.

I feel like I miss something.

“Hmph, what an ugly scream. Become a man.”

Oh, it’s cancelled.

As I went down the slope, my feet landed in a wide open space.

Master and I, swatting away the acrid smoke with our hands, chased after the master who had gone ahead.

The ambassador was talking to some high-ranking people.

Among the group of high-ranking people was a man I had seen before.

“…I think I’ve seen it somewhere before.”

“You saw Dokgonam, the Great Blue Dragon? Just a country person?”

Master Nangong Soyou looked at me with his hands cupped over his mouth.

…It’s time for a sweet night.

For some reason, I ignored her reaction of liking me, and when I arrived behind the ambassador, my attention was focused.

“I can’t believe there is someone who survived this. Amitabha Buddha.”

An old monk put his hands together.

“Hmm, since there is a guarantee from Yeomjin, it is certain that he is not a person related to the Ganja sent from Sapa or the blood demon.”

A middle-aged man with chiseled eyebrows, holding his godfather at an angle, bulged his muscles and said.

The Ambassador responded to the man’s words with a deep smile.

“Don’t worry about that. He has good spirit, but he’s an ordinary person with not a single bet.”

“That’s amazing. The blood demon must have sucked all the life out of the residents of the nearby village, but they survived like that.”

“The original body may have a lot of energy, or it may be hiding somewhere due to heavenly luck.”

It seemed like they were playing drums and drums on their own, so they didn’t say anything.

Well, if you ask me, “How did you live?”, I have nothing to say either.

I also have to build up by starting a story about memory loss, but I don’t know if it will work for them.

Wouldn’t he have been beaten for being more suspicious?

In times like these, I think the right answer is to stay quiet.

So the story continued for a while.

As soon as the story was over, the ambassador prepared to leave.

“Then, since the blood demon has been subdued, we will leave now.”

As the master took the gun, the teacher next to him also took the gun.

The ambassador said hello and trudged down the street.

I instinctively followed after the great master and teacher.

Did he chase after me for about 10 minutes? The ambassador looked back.

“Oh, by the way, what is your name?”

She asked me with soft eyes.

“My name is Kang In-ho.”

I was able to introduce myself about an hour into meeting them.

“The place where you originally lived is in ruins. Is there anywhere else to go? If I have relatives nearby, I will take them there.”

“No relatives.”

“Hmm… I’m in trouble. Even if you return to the village, the already ruined village may be infested with thieves…”

The ambassador’s gaze scans me from bottom to top.

Something about the way he scanned me sent a shiver down my spine.

“Perhaps….”

The ambassador trailed off.

“If you have nowhere to go… would you come with us?”

“Oh, you mean as a porter?”

“Haha, when it comes to luggage, we can carry more than you.”

“Then?”

“Aren’t you interested in joining Yan Lun-gong as his disciple?”

“Yes???”

I raised my voice at the unexpected words,

“Master!!”

Namgung Soyu, who had been quietly listening next to him, screamed loudly.

“Why are you doing that? Soyou.”

“No! Master! How do you plan on letting an unproven peddler like that into the Great Yan Lun Gong?”

“First of all, it is because the development of the body is very good. It’s the body of a person who has done little more than farming at most, but it’s a body that’s perfectly optimized to accept martial arts.”

“But I have no strength.”

“Negong issues can be resolved to some extent with practice and elixirs. And since I’m not going to appear in martial arts right away, I can build up my skills by looking further ahead.”

“But… But…”

Looking at my teacher’s bright red face, I could guess how angry she was.

She swallowed the words as if she didn’t want to say them out loud, and the ambassador waited silently until she spoke.

“But! Yeomryun-gong is a one-man legend…! My, how poor am I that I have to be pushed around by a man like this? Am I that lacking?”

She screamed with tears in her eyes, or almost on the verge of tears.

As if screaming wasn’t enough, he grinned and took a breath, and the ambassador burst into laughter when he saw that.

“Phahahaha! Right. Yeomryun-gong is a one-man legend.”

The ambassador laughed for a while and continued speaking while rubbing his eyes with his fingers.

Even as she spoke, her words were filled with laughter.

“And possession. You are my student. Then isn’t there something definitely decided?”

“…???”

Namgung Soyu tilted his head, saying he did not know what his teacher meant.

Ah, I think I know roughly what it is.

“From now on, that man will no longer be ‘my disciple’ but ‘your disciple’.”

“……”

Okay, silence.

one.

two.

three.

“Yesss?????”

My teacher could not accept this situation easily.