novelraw Chapter 74 : Chapter 74
Chapter 74 : Chapter 74
Chapter 74 - You're Laughing?
“Eueo-eo-eo-eo-eo……”
A living corpse.
Or a Jiangshi.
A lump that gave off such a feeling staggered along.
In all things in the world, with repetition, one gradually gets used to it.
But for some reason, no matter how many times he repeated the special training Biyoung had ordered, he couldn't get used to it.
After completing the dawn special training, the daytime training, and the late-night special training, he wouldn't even have the strength left to pluck a single blade of grass.
“I have to sleep…… I have to sleep quickly……”
The Jiangshi, muttering to himself like a person under a spell, was just opening the door to his quarters.
“Senior Brother Uma!”
“……!”
Uma's body shivered as if he had malaria.
At this very moment.
It was the voice of the person he wanted to meet the least.
“Biyoung……?”
“Senior Brother. Where have you been! I've been looking for you.”
“Where…… have I been, you ask?”
Uma's cheeks trembled.
Anger surged from the depths of his chest, and at the same time, he was so dumbfounded that his mouth wouldn't open.
The training you ordered.
Special training!
I'm just now coming in to sleep because I was doing that! You bastard!
“I have something to ask you, Senior Brother.”
“I don't know what it is, but…… can't we do it tomorrow?”
Was it a trick of the moonlight?
For a moment, an emotion that could never appear on Uma's face surfaced.
Pity.
It was hard to believe, but if anyone were to see Uma now, they might think he was pitiful.
“I don't have the strength to lift a single spoon right now.”
“You're speaking just fine. You just have to answer my question.”
“You conscienceless bastard…… I said let's do it tomorrow!!!”
Uma couldn't hold it in and shouted.
But Biyoung nodded his head greatly, as if satisfied.
“Oh. Good. You're still full of energy, aren't you? Shall we go in then?”
“………….”
Please.
Just let me live.
My sleep time is already getting shorter, I feel like I'm going crazy, why are you doing this?
On the other hand, a question arose.
“Why me of all people?”
In terms of seniority, there's Senior Brother Eung, and when it comes to worldly knowledge, Danseol is sharp.
We were just together a while ago for the Syndicate of Ten Thousand Eyes' matter, so why me again?
“This is something only you know best, Senior Brother, so I have no choice. If you're tired, you can lie down and answer. We have to go down the mountain tomorrow.”
Go down the mountain?
Why?
Uma was curious for a very brief moment, but the fatigue of his body mercilessly crushed that curiosity.
“Just ask what you want quickly and get lost.”
“Alright then……”
As Biyoung had said, the content of the question could be called Uma's area of expertise.
“……Did you understand?”
“Mm! For the most part. There are a few things that are a bit confusing, but I can just interpret those as I see fit.”
“Drrrreong.”
“…………?”
For a moment, Biyoung doubted his own ears.
Drrrreong.
Sleeping?
Just like that?
Uma had skipped even saying ‘Then get out quickly’ and had fallen into a deep sleep.
It really seemed like he had squeezed out the very last of his mental strength to give an answer.
“……You're going through a lot.”
Biyoung looked down at Uma and smiled like an adult.
Biyoung also knew well how harsh the current training was.
It was the method he himself had used as a child to lay the foundation for the World's Fastest Sword.
“But the reward will be just as certain. I guarantee it.”
Biyoung quietly spoke his true feelings and then stood up.
Of course, Uma, who was dead asleep, could not hear those words.
***
“What a shame.”
The one who reacted most strongly to the parting with Sedong was not a swordsman of the Diancang Sect, but the Great Mother.
She kept putting snacks into Sedong's pockets and stroking his chestnut-like hair.
“I'll come again later, Great Mother. You'll make me scorched rice then too, right?”
“Of course I will. I'll make it for you even if it means bringing in a whole sack of rice.”
The Diancang Sect members living with her were all kind-hearted by nature.
But for the Great Mother, they had personalities that were not easy to approach.
Biyoung was a wild child and was often away, Eung Gajin was too dependable to joke with, and it was hard to guess what Danseol was thinking.
And Uma…… further explanation is omitted.
At least Jeong-i and Solbo had somewhat affable personalities, but for the Great Mother, there was no one she could easily strike up a conversation with.
Then, Sedong appeared, and for her, he was like rain in a drought.
A friendly, bright, cheerful, and witty boy.
It was perhaps natural for the Great Mother to be sad about her farewell with Sedong.
“Thank you for everything.”
After Sedong finished saying goodbye to everyone, Biyoung stood next to him.
“I'm going down Kongtong Mountain with Sedong for a bit too.”
“Suddenly?”
“Something came up that I need to do. I was originally going to do it later, but I think it's better to get it over with now.”
Eung Gajin's expression darkened rapidly.
Last time, it was kidnapping and confinement.
What kind of trouble was he planning to cause now?
He made a request with a worried face.
“I don't know what it is, but don't cause any trouble when you go down.”
“You too, Senior Brother Eung Ga, don't trip and fall while doing the Rotating Retreat.”
“Puheup.”
When Solbo couldn't hold back his laughter, Eung Gajin glared at him.
“You're laughing?”
“Sorry…… puhehe.”
For some reason, even Biyoung, who usually teased along, glared with axe-like eyes this time.
“Senior Brother Solbo. You're laughing?”
“You, why are you doing this too?”
Biyoung's gaze moved past Solbo to the other swordsmen.
“The other Senior Brothers, listen up too. Don't think about slacking off just because I'm not here. I can tell with just one look whether you've trained or not. It's me, Biyoung. You know?”
Yeah, yeah.
You're so great.
Gazes full of dissatisfaction were directed at Biyoung, but no one easily opened their mouth.
That devilish guy would really be able to tell if they had trained hard.
“For this trip, I'll be going with Senior Sister Jeong. The rest of you, train using the method I gave to Senior Brother Eung Ga.”
It didn't matter if he left the Senior Brothers who had absorbed the Six-Flower Pill to train on their own.
But in the case of Jeong-i, it was better to release the energy of the spirit pill daily if possible.
That was the reason why Jeong-i was accompanying him on this trip.
“Junior Sister. I'm counting on you.”
Eung Gajin sent a desperate gaze towards Jeong-i.
It was a slightly strange thing to say.
To a junior sister going down Kongtong Mountain, not ‘have a safe trip’ but ‘I'm counting on you’?
But Jeong-i seemed to already know the true meaning and smiled bashfully as she nodded.
The one Eung Gajin was counting on was none other than Biyoung.
He was asking her to take special care to manage that wild child so he wouldn't cause any trouble.
“Hoooooooooo?”
There was only one problem, and that was that the person in question, Biyoung, had also realized the true meaning of those words.
“Is this the time to be worrying about others? When you Senior Brothers use the Eagle Talon Twelve Swords so poorly?”
“Ah. No. What I mean is……”
“I'll be watching. How smoothly you Senior Brothers use the Eagle Talon Twelve Swords. I'll be looking after Senior Sister Jeong's Eagle Talon Twelve Swords while we're away, so let's see who's better when I get back.”
“!”
The Senior Brothers' gazes all turned towards Eung Gajin at once.
In those gazes, a feeling of resentment was universally contained.
When it came to swordsmanship, there was no one who could match Jeong-i's precision anyway.
If Biyoung were to give her one-on-one private lessons on top of that, the gap would only widen, not narrow.
They couldn't even guess what kind of punishment that devilish guy would inflict on them after he returned to the main mountain.
‘Why did he have to say something so unnecessary…….’
‘In a few days, we'll be thrashed mercilessly again.’
‘Senior Brother Eung. Please, just shut your mouth……!’
Eung Gajin's back of the head felt hot, but he couldn't bring himself to turn his head.
“I'll see you when I get back.”
Biyoung turned his back with a sweet smile that seemed to smell of fruit.
However.
Instead of being intoxicated by that fragrance, the disciples of the younger generation of the Diancang Sect had to shiver as if they had caught a chill.
***
Seuseuseuseu……!
Biyoung's two palms touched her straightened back.
Jeong-i began to circulate her energy according to the chant she had been told beforehand.
But because the internal energy cultivation method was so difficult, even she, who was brilliant, would sometimes take the wrong path.
‘Ah……!’
But every time that happened, Biyoung's energy guided her to the correct path.
A journey of internal energy taken together by a man and a woman.
That was none other than the Profound Heaven's True Energy Unification Art.
She should be used to it by now.
At the cool, clean energy from Biyoung transmitted from behind her back, Jeong-i's body trembled.
Every time this phenomenon repeated, Jeong-i had to feel apologetic.
It was because every time she took the wrong path, she could feel Biyoung's internal energy increasing significantly.
Because the energy of the spirit pill accumulated in her body was no ordinary thing, it required that much immense energy and skill in energy circulation to forcibly change the flow.
‘Amazing.’
On the other hand, she also felt a sense of awe.
How could he have acquired such internal energy at such a young age?
The energy was one thing, but the internal energy cultivation method that could control another's internal energy was even more surprising.
As a martial artist, Jeong-i's experience was not extensive, but she had heard various stories while working at the Blue Pavilion.
Taking care of another's internal energy in this way was something even first-rate masters of the orthodox sects found difficult.
An immense amount of internal energy and a profound understanding.
And even swordsmanship.
Biyoung held in his hands all the things he shouldn't have at his age.
‘Amazing.’
However, Jeong-i did not know.
That Biyoung himself was also surprised by her.
‘At this level, she could be said to have been born with the qualities of a swordsman.’
If one were to look at her beautiful face, more beautiful than a spring flower, they might ask what that meant.
But Biyoung was witnessing the innate talent of a swordsman in Jeong-i.
Basically, the Dantian she possessed was clean and wide.
Originally, if a spirit pill is not absorbed, it is quickly discharged outside, but the reason it remained in her body was because of that.
She couldn't absorb it, but it was possible because her innate energy could hold onto it.
‘Her swordsmanship too…….’
After coming down from Kongtong Mountain, Biyoung had corrected her Eagle Talon Twelve Swords in the rear garden of the Yi Family Clan.
Correcting a swordsmanship that had been practiced for nearly ten years is more difficult than learning swordsmanship for the first time.
This is because wrong habits and quirks become ingrained in the body without one's knowledge.
But she digested Biyoung's swordsmanship without difficulty, as if she had already identified the problems with the Eagle Talon Twelve Swords beforehand.
Even, in the case of some techniques, she had already made corrections(!).
“If you could do this, why were you using the wrong techniques all this time?”
“I thought the elders of the sect would not approve if they knew……”
“So. You're saying that even though you knew this way was more efficient, you only used what you learned in Simao?”
“Because I might have been misunderstanding it.”
“Heh……”
Far from misunderstanding, she understood the essence of the Eagle Talon Twelve Swords all too well.
To fix the wrong parts of a swordsmanship with one's own enlightenment?
‘It's impossible unless one is a considerable genius.’
Recalling the conversation they had earlier, Biyoung smirked.
A foundation of clear and wide internal energy and an extraordinary understanding of martial arts.
Jeong-i was a person who possessed both conditions to become a top-tier swordsman.
He had decided to perform the Profound Heaven's True Energy Unification Art for her every day, but in truth, it wasn't as if the sky would split in two if he rested for a few days.
But Jeong-i's qualities were so outstanding that Biyoung also became greedy.
If she absorbed all the spirit pill's energy accumulated in her body and became able to use the Profound Heaven's True Energy Unification Art on her own…….
‘The Diancang Sect will produce another new master.’
With that thought, Biyoung began to withdraw his internal energy.
Since she had absorbed a considerable amount of the spirit pill, it seemed best to conclude today's Profound Heaven's True Energy Unification Art here.
Kwaaaaaa…….
At that moment,
Buuuuuung!
A strange phenomenon, different from usual, began to appear.
It was something that neither Jeong-i, nor even Biyoung, had expected.
“Huh?”
The energy of the spirit pill that had not yet been absorbed began to surge towards Biyoung's hands!
Kwaaaaaaaaaa!
“Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh!?”