episode_0011

When I entered Changdeokseong Fortress, I was amazed by the cityscape. Unlike the environment of medieval China, there were hundreds of high-rise buildings with four or more floors, giving me the distinct impression that it was a big city.

I heard that Changdeokseong was a place where many warriors gathered due to trade with the country of Yeon, which produces a lot of elixirs, but unexpectedly, less than 10% of the people passing by were warriors, and the rest were merchants, workers, and just citizens.

“No, but why are there so many two-story houses? Are there separate heating tools?”

Even during the Joseon Dynasty, there was no solution to heating the second floor.

“Ah. From what I heard, there is a Jinbeop installed in the building of the Chang clan family in the center of Changdeokseong Fortress, so the entire city is warm even in winter. That’s why everyone tries to live in this city.”

I was impressed by the archer’s words.

“Oh… it’s such a fascinating world.”

I left my admiration here and went to visit the owner of the house to find a house.

Gaekju was a merchant who acted as a real estate agent in this world.

“Oh my. Get well! Is there something you are looking for? Please come inside.”

When the hostess saw me, she hurriedly took me inside.

Since I was leading three men with swords, anyone could see that I looked like a guy with something.

I sat down on a chair inside the building and immediately told the guest my requests.

“Is it possible to get at least the second floor or higher on the road that the martial arts people most often pass by?”

“Yes, yes. There is only one property for sale that satisfies the conditions, but the price is high.”

The owner of the guest house looked at me and said that it seemed like the price was quite expensive.

But the value of my wealth in this world was not normal.

Before coming to the city, I returned to Earth briefly and took out three 1kg silver bars that I had stored in my luggage and placed them on the table.

“Huh… Is it this much refined silver?”

Gaekju looked surprised as he patted the silver ingot.

Was it 99.9% pure? Moreover, it is processed into a nice-looking shape, so it would be surprising.

Soon, the servant of the guest house brought a scale and measured the specific weight, and the total weight was set at 95 nyang.

The silver I bought at Hyundai for 800,000 won was an amount that an ordinary person could live on for 47 years here.

“Is this price enough?”

“It is more than enough. Rather, even after deducting the brokerage fee, you will end up with 10 nyang in change.”

All that was left was to meet with the landlord and report the transaction to the government office, which I entrusted to my bald subordinate.

The subordinate was created to entrust this kind of troublesome work to him.

I, Geohan, and the archer subordinate left the building after being seen off by the guest and headed to the pharmacy.

It was time to get really strong.

I came to the largest pharmacy in Changdeokseong and purchased all the medicinal herbs that the martial arts people call spirit medicine.

Jayangsam, purple ginseng, 300-year Hasuo, Cheongjin Seokgyun, small ginseng, small ginseng, purifying leaf, blood root…

The price was extremely high, but I could only buy it after paying 10 silver bars.

And after looking at the elixir, I was able to realize one important fact.

“You don’t make elixirs into decoctions or pills for nothing.”

Jayangsam was as big as my right arm, and Hausoo was as big as my upper body.

As it lived for a long time, its size grew enormously, which was natural for a plant.

If I ate this raw, it would take dozens of days to finish it, and it would leak out through the cut section of the airway that the herb contained.

‘The martial arts knowledge of chewing a thousand-year-old ginseng alive was ultimately an illusion…’

In the end, I gave a silver ingot to the pharmacy and had them process the elixir.

Processing into decoctions or pills also involved specialized manpower and expensive medicinal ingredients, so it was inevitable.

The next place I stopped by after leaving the pharmacy was a bookstore that specialized in martial arts and was found only in large castles like Changdeokseong.

In other small cities, martial arts are usually taught at a place belonging to a subordinate branch of the clan, called a martial arts school.

The difference between a sect and a military officer is the mind method, and its status varies depending on whether or not it can be taught.

I looked around the bookstore and spoke to the clerk.

“Is there no law?”

“Haha! At least in the Yong Dynasty, mental law has never been handled in a bookstore like this. Teacher.”

“Then where do warriors learn mental law?”

“You have no choice but to create it yourself or find a sect. In the first place, the mind law is a treasure and the foundation of a sect, so there is no need to dig it up.”

I had no choice but to buy all the martial arts books that contained qigong, herbalism, and martial arts concepts.

Unlike the elixir, the price was cheap, so even though I bought over a hundred books, I was able to pay for it all with two silver bars.

Of course, the price was cheap in my situation, but from an ordinary person’s perspective, it was 33 years’ worth of living expenses.

After purchasing the books, I heard through Babel the news that the house deal was over and headed home.

The house I purchased was an ordinary two-story house with stone walls and wooden pillars, located between three intersections.

“There are definitely a lot of unmanned people passing by on the roadside.”

One road leads to the Chang family, the other road is where I was earlier, a market of unmanned people who specialize in bookstores, elixirs, and weapons, and the remaining road is where one of the clans lives, and is the entrance way out of the city.

As I told the guest, it was the road where most warriors passed by in this city.

I went into the house, ate the food prepared by my subordinates, went up to the second floor, and admired the roadside through the window.

‘I couldn’t find the law, but there is an alternative.’

I took out a glass bead, a relic obtained from exploring a medium-sized gate, from my pocket and exercised Clairvoyance – the supernatural power of clairvoyance.

Then, I began to see through the circulation and flow of energy and blood possessed by the warriors passing by on the street.

‘It’s difficult to control. ‘It’ll take some getting used to.’

It was difficult to control it, perhaps because it was the first artifact and superpower used, such as seeing through the drone itself or showing only the skin through clothing, but there was a lot of vision.

Moreover, by deliberately buying a two-story house, we did not meet people’s gaze and attract people’s attention.

Because people don’t look above their heads.

At the end of the day, I succeeded in seeing only the flow of energy and blood.

‘Kkeukkeuk… Your martial arts skills are now mine.’

I couldn’t help but smile at the joy of eating it raw.

I sat on a chair, looked out the window, and began to record the flow of energy and blood of the warriors with my hand using a ballpoint pen and paper brought from the Earth.

In this way, I succeeded in copying 55 types of qigong skills in one day.

When I checked later, most of them overlapped with the qigongs I bought at the bookstore, but about 10 of them were new qigongs that were not even available in the bookstore.

The next morning, the decoction and pills were finally delivered to me from the pharmacy.

The big man, the bald man, and the archer had envious looks in their eyes, but they had no intention of sharing them.

Because it would have been a waste to hand out the elixir that cost 3 million won of Earth’s money to these dream bandits.

‘It’s cheaper than you think? No, even if it looks cheap for money, there is nothing for sale.’

For a moment, I was tempted to strengthen my power by giving it to my subordinates, but I quickly shook it off.

I chewed and swallowed a pill and drank the decoction.

The flow of energy flowing through the stomach was clear, which meant that a lot of energy was compressed in the pills and decoctions.

I began to absorb the energy in my body by doing a luck energy breakfast according to the contents of Hogan Qigong.

“Phew…”

When I exhaled and came to my senses, four hours had passed and the flow of energy and blood in my body had become several times thicker.

“The medicine is good.”

There are even four pills left and a pot of decoction left.

As the size of the elixir was large, the amount of pills and decoctions was also large, making it difficult to digest them all.

After eating, drinking, and eating breakfast for a day, I was able to consume all the elixir and complete digestion.

“Keuuuu.”

Perhaps because I ate too much, my stomach was still full and burps were leaking out.

Still, the flow of energy and blood in the body now flowed like a waterfall and filled the body to the point where it was close to the limit of Hogan Qigong.

Finally, I succeeded in overcoming the decades of practice of Tonapbeop and Qigong that the Martial people had to stand on the same starting line.

To check my physical condition, I briefly moved around the room and confirmed that I had acquired a physical ability that surpassed the physical strength D rank.

“It’s still not enough for C rank. Still, if you accumulate energy and blood to the limit, it will be similar to C rank.”

I also realized that the psychic energy flowing through my body had disappeared due to the waterfall of energy and blood.

A situation in which the other side is pushed out because they do not mix like water and oil.

If psychic energy had strengthened the body like energy and blood, it would have been a full C-level physical ability…

The fusion of martial arts and superpowers was also one of the things I had to do in the future.

After checking my physical condition, I tested the career change in the room.

It was on a completely different level from the time when his energy and blood were poor, and compared to the speed of Gonghyeokdo or Geohan, it was clearly faster.

I realized the difference between then and now.

“There is a relationship between the amount of energy and blood and career change!”

I skipped this process through my experience as a Gonghyeokdo, but I realized that the more energy and blood you have, the more likely you are to become second-rate.

And I thought about the inference that the more energy and blood there is, the more advantageous it may be to reach the level of a first-class fighter, which sublimates one’s experience into martial arts.

I was excited and felt the need to learn more martial arts theory, so I started reading martial arts books I bought at a bookstore.

One month has passed in the martial world.