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“Huh?”

Yeonjin asked back with a puzzled face.

When you are a master of the highest level, that is, a master of the Hwagyeong realm, there are more than one or two things you can recognize just by looking at them.

Even just looking at the appearance of the unrefined energy waves emitted by the Aesongi Hujijisu, who has not yet reached the realm of Banbakguijin, one can guess the origin of the martial arts learned.

If he is a master and a high priest who has accumulated training to the level of Hyunheo, then the difference is such that you can tell whether he has learned magic or not.

“Your guy is a member of the Shinto religion? What did he learn?”

Seo Cheon-woo responded curtly.

The power of the Half-Night Vision is one of the greatest divine skills in the universe.

Moreover, since it hasn’t been long since you learned it, if you show off your energy like Yeonjin, you can tell that you have learned the martial arts of the Unspoken.

“This time, I had a chance to learn a little bit of the Banya ability.”

Yeonjin answered with a trailing edge.

Although the Demonic Cult is not a group that specifically finds fault with the martial arts of the righteous sect, it is true that the Banya Great Power, which is considered one of the best divine arts in the history of the Demonic Cult and Shaolin, does not go together.

Seo Cheon-woo’s expression also became pale after hearing those words.

“Are you crazy Shaolin thugs? Why did you give me such a dirty martial art?”

“But it’s a martial art that the Shaolin abbot himself gave me, so it’s a bit messy… … .”

“Go!”

Yeonjin tried to protest because she felt wronged, but Seocheonwoo immediately started yelling at her.

“Where is that guy who has no blood on his head, talking about what’s wrong and what’s wrong when an adult is talking to him. Anyway, these days, young people are all ill-mannered. Tsk, the rules of martial arts have fallen to the ground!”

Yeah, you asked first, you crazy old man!

In vulgar terms, the so-called old fart. Yeonjin cried out inwardly at the old fart-like remarks that were so unbearable.

If I open my mouth, of course this crazy old man won’t stay still.

It’s already painful enough with the excessive use of the Great Law, but the thought of adding Seo Cheon-woo to the mix is terrifying.

If there is a hell that has arrived in the human world, people will all point to the Cheonmasingyo Shaanxi Bunta.

After a while of muttering among the young people, Seo Cheon-woo, who had been groaning, made a gesture.

“Extend your arm.”

When Yeonjin held out her arm with a trembling expression, Seocheonwoo quietly felt her pulse.

Even though he looks like a ten-year-old child on the outside, he is actually an extremely eccentric old man, and is actually a warrior who has reached the highest level of demonic power and is the vice-regent of the Cheonma Sect.

Seo Cheon-woo, who had been silently feeling the pulse, muttered.

“The power of the Prajna is something that the Shaolin monks treasure, and it is no different from the treasure of the Unlimited. How dare they give it to you.”

Seo Cheon-woo was secretly impressed even as he muttered.

I heard that he was an orphan who was kidnapped from outside and was completing training before he caught the eye of the cult leader.

Despite that, all of the veins in his body were quite clear, and there wasn’t much turbidity accumulated in the Im-maek, Du-maek, and Yang-maek.

It doesn’t seem like I took any elixir, but my bones and blood vessels are well-suited to learning martial arts.

If I keep working hard like this for a few more years, I will be able to overcome the barrier of life and death.

Seo Cheon-woo let go of my arm and spoke rudely.

“Did you guys get some training and live off of it? Anyway, there must be a training room in the basement of Buntarani. Guide Nobu.”

“What the hell is going on here all of a sudden? Why are you trying to take Jinah away again all of a sudden?”

Then Yu Ye-hyang came forward and blocked Seo Cheon-woo.

Seo Cheon-woo snorted at the sight of Yeon-jin and Seo Cheon-woo standing between them so exquisitely.

“In the first place, would the old man have come all the way from that distant Sipmandaesan Mountain to play because he was bored? Didn’t the leader tell you to go and check if you were his disciple or his concubine, and that’s why you came here?”

“What the heck are you talking about!”

“Or maybe it’s not. It’s disgusting. Anyway, get out of the way. Did the old man say he was going to eat something? I brought the old man all this way, so I should at least see him swing a sword. ”

As Yu Ye-hyang raised her voice, her face reddening, Seo Cheon-woo waved his hand with an indifferent expression.

“Wait a minute, Vice-Chief. That guy promised to teach me how to use a sword. I already taught him the Bokma Yeorae Sword and the Mucham Nanga Sword.”

Cheongyeon, who came to her senses late, indirectly expressed her intention not to bid higher on the property I had bid on.

“What do you want me to do? You little punk, you swing a sword better than Nobu? Then you should be the swordsman.”

“Ugh, if you come off like that, there’s nothing I can say to refute you. Fatally… … !”

I couldn’t find a word to refute him and was simply repulsed.

“What are you doing? You’re not guiding me to the training room.”

“… … Yep.”

After Yoo Ye-hyang and Cheong-yeon were pushed out one by one, Yeon-jin helplessly guided Seo-cheon-woo to the performance hall.

As soon as he entered the training room in the basement of the branch building disguised as the Blue Dragon Tower, which had no eyes to see, Seo Cheon-woo opened his mouth.

“So, tell me in detail.”

“Huh?”

“Do you think those crazy people gave you the Shaolin’s Mujigaebo? Tell me what happened.”

“How did that happen… … .”

Yeonjin had no choice but to start explaining.

The part about Cheonma Shingong was intentionally omitted, starting from when he received the martial arts secrets from Cheongyeon and learned them, all the way to what happened yesterday when he returned from Shaolin.

“What? Infiltrating the Yongbong branch? Why would you do something so useless?”

And while Yeonjin was telling the story, Seocheonwoo’s reactions, who had been listening silently, continued one after another.

“You killed the Green Forest Alliance patrol lion? Huh.”

So that the person who said that wouldn’t feel embarrassed, after responding diligently, he would stroke my fluffy chin.

Seo Cheon-woo, who had been thinking deeply about something for a long time, suddenly remembered something.

“I almost failed to carry out the order given by the leader.”

“Huh?”

“You idiot, do you think your head is there to hang your hat? Don’t you know that it was fate that you came back from there alive?”

Seo Cheon-woo clicked his tongue.

“Hyun-heo, if it’s that guy, even No-bu knows a little. If only Hyun-heo had a kind heart, No-bu would have been able to talk to a headless corpse.”

“Are you saying that it was just a stroke of luck that my skull didn’t get split like a watermelon when I got hit by the Baekboshinkwon in Shaolin?”

“Yeah. Think about it for a bit. If you think about the reason why the Bokma Yeorae Sword was used, wouldn’t the story be easier? It’s just that Hyun-heo, that old man, misunderstood.”

Seo Cheon-woo clicked his tongue and added while staring at the distant mountains.

“I guess they thought you were a new believer who converted and ran away from the main church. They even found out that you learned magic, so they didn’t do anything about it. If you had learned something like the Sub-Majo, your skull would have been smashed without exception.”

Seo Cheon-woo thought he was quite lucky.

The first is that Hyun-Heo thought Yeon-Jin was a runaway cultist, the second is that he acted in a way he believed was right in Jong-Nam and acted in a chivalrous manner, and the third and final is that he did not learn the Saihan magic that could only be reached by harming people.

If two or more of the three conditions were off, the Hundred Steps Sword displayed by the Hyeon-gyeong master on the spot would have split his head. If one of the conditions was off, he would have saved his life, but he would have been kicked out of the spot.

“You’ve become incredibly strong on the topic of being a slut.”

Seo Cheon-woo, who had personally wrestled with Master Hyeonheo for three years, was shocked.

If it’s a martial art that advertises itself as a divine art like the Banya Great Power, then I don’t know. How high of a level must one have reached for someone to know at a glance that they’ve mastered the magical art?

It was easy to see that Yeonjin had mastered the power of the Half-Night Demon, but even Seo Cheon-woo could not have figured out that Yeonjin had mastered the magic arts.

Seo Cheon-woo, who had stuck out his tongue for a moment, opened his mouth again.

“Anyway, your achievements are not shallow, and I know that you have learned good martial arts skills with the symbol of a pig that is full of belly fat.”

“Vice-Chancellor, if possible, rather than something like that, please say that you met by chance… … .”

“Why do you want so many things? That’s all, so just listen quietly when the elders speak.”

“Yep.”

If you upset Seo Cheon-woo, you’ll start hearing long sermons from young people these days.

When Yeonjin immediately shut her mouth so as not to upset him, Seocheonwoo thought for a moment and then said.

“But there’s no point in growing up like a greenhouse flower forever. A warrior becomes stronger the more blood he sheds, and is trained through actual combat. As far as Nobu can see, what you lack most right now is the experience of wielding a sword and fighting, and of killing someone.”

Seo Cheon-woo stared at Yeon-jin with a sharp gaze.

I think you said you killed the Green Forest Alliance patrol lion this time. It was just the right time. It seemed like it would be a good teaching material.

Although I came here semi-forcibly by order of the cult leader, it is true that, looking at his qualities, I am starting to feel a little greedy in my later years.

It is a talent that is understandable why Yu Ye-hyang took on a disciple who was not suitable for her age, despite the risk of being the subject of gossip.

It seems like he cares for Yeonjin with rational emotions, so if you help him out a bit, he will like it, but he won’t be upset.

“So for the time being, let’s go around the Central Plains and wipe out the bandits.”

“Yes? Bandits? Is there a reason to suddenly beat up bandits?”

When Yeonjin asked back with a puzzled look, Seocheonwoo snickered.

“Didn’t you blow up a mountain vegetable that was in a good place? From what I’ve heard, it seems like you’re in collusion with that woman called Jangju of that battlefield and are paying quite a lot of tribute.”

“In addition, since I’ve killed the patrol lion, I’ve already built up a grudge with Nokrim. So what’s the point of adding a little more to the grudge that’s already been built up? … Is that roughly what you mean?”

“Didn’t you send them all away alive without even thinking about destroying the witnesses? Where would that broken danjeon have gone? In Nobu’s opinion, I think he would have gone to the Nokrim Alliance first.”

Seo Cheon-woo pointed out Yeon-jin’s rookie mistake.

It was a rookie mistake made because I had no experience in martial arts. Once I started something, I should have rooted it out, but I ended up apologizing because I had unnecessary mercy in my hands.

Seo Cheon-woo added with a mischievous smile.

“Well, he’s just a bandit. But if Nobu was the King of the Green Forest, he’d probably get angry and tell you to take his balls off.”

* * *

Mangtangsan Mountain.

This mountain is said to be the land where Emperor Gaozu of the ancient Han Dynasty rose up in arms, and where the Demon King of Honse from Water Margin, Fan Xu, and Hang Zhong built a mountain fortress. It is home to the headquarters of the Green Forest Seventy-Two Clans and the Green Forest Alliance, which command the world.

Another nickname is ‘Sanjungjeilchae’.

The owner of the best house in the mountains is, of course, the leader of the Green Forest Alliance and the owner of the 72 houses, General Towang Jang-gwan-ak.

Among the green forests, a peerless master who had reached a rare peak of mastery was running wild.

“A single stray dog was robbed of a living thing, and the patrol lion I sent came back as a headless bitch? Do you think that makes sense!”

The general’s angry voice resonated loudly throughout the surroundings.

In fact, bandits are the easiest victims of collaborating.

They steal the property of passing civilians and sometimes even take their lives, so they are definitely bad guys.

On that subject, martial arts were not that difficult, so even the later ranks of famous schools would all have had the experience of beating up bandits at least once or twice.

In such cases, the Green Forest Alliance does not show much of a reaction because it is considered a natural disaster or the dead are unlucky, but this time, the situation was a little different.

“They are weak, but the annual tribute is more than five crowns of gold! Can you dig up five crowns of gold and find them? Can you find them by digging up the best swordsmen in the field? Kaaaah!”

When Jang Gun-ak, unable to contain his anger, shouted, the surrounding green forests cowered in thought.

The loss of one mountain herb and one master who had been paying more than five kwan in tribute every year.

It may not seem like a huge loss considering the huge force, but the biggest problem was that a whole mountain was blown away.

Even before the actual damage, it was a serious challenge to the authority of the great power called the Green Forest Alliance.

“These guys who got beat up by a guy who doesn’t even have a nickname and is like a reviewer are called subordinates!”

Jang Gun-ak, who had been running wild with anger for a long time, shouted.

“That bastard’s name is Yeonjin? Kill him! I mean kill him no matter what! If he wants to continue to hang up a signboard and do business!”

Yeonjin’s fame had already begun to spread throughout the Jongnam area.

The tyrannical Geumjeokjeonjang fell overnight, and the fallen Geumjeokjeonjang owner was killed by a blind sword shortly after Jongnam took away his protection.

There were more than a few people who held grudges, so it was a predictable course of events, but I heard that the reason this incident happened was because a young boy named Yeonjin, who was a prostitute, swept away the Chopyeongchae and revealed the whole story.

His fame began to spread naturally because his actions were completely consistent with the actions of a knight as defined by Sima Qian in the preface to the Records of the Grand Historian.

Thanks to that, I was able to grasp the whole story without much difficulty as a greenhorn.

“Listen carefully. If you don’t catch that bastard, you won’t be able to do business because of those guys who come at you without warning and call themselves knights. So kill him at all costs! And warn him, this is what happens if you come at Nokrim! Do you understand?”

“Yes! Total debt holder!”

When Jang Gun-ak shouted with bloodshot eyes, the Nokrimdo all responded.