The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 113

In fact, I don't think there's anything good or bad about a person's personality.

Extroverted people, introverted people, passive people, active people, emotional people, rational people, and so on...

People have numerous characteristics, and personality is just one of them.

However, I'm not trying to judge what's right or wrong, but there are definitely personalities that are advantageous or disadvantageous for living as a martial artist.

First of all, it's hard for a merciful martial artist to survive for a long time.

In the martial world, there are countless people who draw their swords as soon as a dispute arises, and most of them do not hesitate to swing their swords.

No matter how good their skills are, I have seen countless people who have been stabbed in the back while showing unnecessary mercy.

And martial artists who have lived their lives being treated like flowers in a greenhouse within a large sect or family are usually merciful and have a gentle disposition.

Because they would have lived in abundance without lacking anything, and the people around them would have treated them with respect, so they would have lived looking at the world beautifully.

Finally, perseverance.

I see perseverance as a part of personality.

There is a personality that does one thing to the end, day and night, and there is a personality that looks for something new when interest wanes, and then looks for something new again when interest wanes.

Of course, it is more helpful and advantageous for a martial artist to have perseverance and tenacity.

But why am I talking about this? Of course, it's because of Zhuge Ling and Zhuge Yun.

"You can't rest yet. It's a long way to go before you can rest. You have to distribute your strength appropriately. Inhale and exhale briefly!"

It's already been a week since we left the Zhuge family.

During that time, we were able to reach the edge of Hubei Province, the border with Anhui Province.

We set out with twenty days in mind, but we had come about halfway in a week.

"Hwook, hwook."

"Ha-ak... ha-ak...!"

Zhuge Ling and Zhuge Yun's breathing is very rough.

Now, my senior brothers are running at this speed as if it's nothing, but in contrast, the Zhuge siblings, who are far from lacking in stamina, must feel like every day is hell.

"Young Master Zhuge, have you memorized all the roads we've come so far?"

Zhuge Yun nodded his head with hollow eyes.

He seems to be so out of breath that he doesn't even have the energy to speak.

"Then where will we be if we run ten more li from here?"

"That... huck, huck, Jeonggang...!"

"That's right. A river will appear. Since we can't use high-level lightness skills like walking on water yet, we'll have to take a boat to cross the river, right? Since we can't run while on the boat, we'll be able to sit and rest. What do you think?"

At my words, not only Zhuge Yun, but also Zhuge Ling, who was listening next to him, sparkled their eyes.

"And, if we cross the Jeonggang, Anhui Province will appear right away, right? Then we'll reach Anhui Province a full four days earlier than we expected. If that's the case, I think it would be okay to get an inn and rest for a whole day."

"Rest...!"

"But there's a problem. As far as I know, there's only one boat that crosses from here to the other side every day at the end of the hour of the monkey (around 5 p.m.). But looking at the sky and the shadows now... it seems there's not much time left until the end of the hour of the monkey, right?"

"......!"

Zhuge Yun, who has a quick mind, seems to have realized something.

He must be thinking that if he slows down here and misses the boat, he can rest all day until the next boat leaves tomorrow.

Of course, since I can see through such thoughts, I have no intention of letting him use any tricks.

"But if I miss the boat, I'm going to go around the river to the bridge. I'm going to run to the mouth of the Jeonggang. There was a bridge on the map that Young Master Zhuge drew, how far do you think it is?"

"Th-Thirty li...!"

"If we miss the boat, I plan to rest after crossing the bridge. Just so you know."

At my words, Zhuge Yun looked at me with a resentful expression, and then.

"U-ah-ah-ah-ah!"

He suddenly let out a scream and started to push forward to the front.

If he squeezes out his remaining strength now, he can rest after going just ten more li, and if he takes it easy here and goes slowly, he has to run ten li to the port and then thirty more li.

Therefore, he chose to run harder.

"Good judgment. Let's all speed up. Run!"

At my shout, my senior brothers also began to speed up.

Then, little by little, Zhuge Ling began to fall behind.

Well, that's understandable, because even comparing Zhuge Ling and Zhuge Yun, Zhuge Ling's current martial arts level is much lower.

Even if Zhuge Yun hadn't trained at all for three years, he has the experience of learning martial arts for several years before that and has a fairly profound internal energy.

Although Zhuge Ling has a brilliant talent, she still hasn't had enough time to accumulate sufficient stamina and internal energy.

I quietly went behind Zhuge Ling and lightly touched her back.

The moment my hand touched her, she flinched, but she didn't push my arm away.

So I slowly began to share my internal energy with her.

As expected, her internal energy has been dry for a long time. She absorbed my internal energy as if a dry rice paddy was absorbing water.

As her internal energy began to circulate through her meridians again and assist her muscles and internal organs, she, who had become much more comfortable running, began to speed up.

- Young lady. Slowly, run at the very back.

I said to Zhuge Ling through telepathy, and only then did she slightly slow down.

Even if I help her, no one will say anything to me, but for some reason, I feel a little guilty.

- When your martial arts improve a little more... I won't help you then.

So I even said something I didn't have to.

For a moment, I thought I shouldn't have said it... but what can I do since I've already said it?

And so, a little while later, we were able to reach the vicinity of Jeonggang Port.

"Fortunately... the boat... huck... huck..."

The boat has not yet left the port.

Not long after seeing the boat in the distance, Zhuge Yun, as if he could no longer run, stopped and looked at me and the boat alternately and barely opened his mouth.

"There's a boat? Stop talking and take a deep breath. I'll go and pay the fare."

Zhuge Yun, forgetting his dignity, fell to the floor with a thud, and Zhuge Ling also leaned on a nearby tree to catch her breath.

Although she came a little more comfortably thanks to me, it must still be very hard.

My senior brothers also naturally took their places to rest, and I approached the boat.

But the atmosphere is a little strange.

As far as I know, the boat that stops at Jeonggang Port is anchored for about an hour, and the passengers who want to get on the boat don't wait around, but pay the fare in the order they came and wait for departure inside the boat.

But the port is full of people.

It seems they came to take the boat, but for some reason, they couldn't seem to get on the boat.

As I looked around to see what was going on, I saw several people surrounding a boat captain, so I approached them.

Then I heard someone shouting at the captain.

"Hey! Why can't we get on the boat? There are so many seats."

"Didn't I say all the seats are sold? There's nothing I can do even if you say that to me. Go back."

"Don't you see the goods I've brought? I have to move these across the river to Yuexi by tomorrow."

"I feel sorry for your situation, but there's nothing I can do. You'll have to find another boat. Or if you go down thirty li, there's a bridge, so you'll have to cross that bridge."

"When am I supposed to go thirty li with an oxcart? Then it will be later than taking the boat tomorrow."

"So I'm telling you to take the boat tomorrow?"

"I told you I have to move the goods by tomorrow?"

When I glanced up at the boat, a man in what looked like very luxurious clothes was looking at us from the deck, and then he quickly went into the cabin.

I can roughly guess what happened.

'Who on earth is so great that they're chartering a boat all by themselves?'

I don't know who that person is yet, but it seems he has monopolized the boat with a lot of money and is not letting anyone else on.

When I looked around, there were not just one or two people who had to cross the river today for various reasons but couldn't and were just stamping their feet.

Even one person went so far as to grab the captain's pants leg.

"My wife is very sick, so I have to bring her medicine right away... Didn't I ask you if there was a boat today when I crossed over yesterday? You definitely said there would be a boat tomorrow."

"It's not that there's no boat, is it? It's just that there are no seats."

"Where is such a law? Let us on too! We'll go quietly in a corner as if we're not even there!"

As the people's complaints grew louder, the captain, who had been firmly saying no, looked around at the people and said, "No, do you think I'm doing this because I want to? I'd love to take everyone with me. But the person up there doesn't want that, so what am I supposed to do? The person up there is a martial artist. If things go wrong, people like us, who are just boatmen, can have our lives taken away like flies."

By this point, the captain also said with a tearful face.

Come to think of it, why wouldn't that captain want to take these people?

Every person he takes is money, and most of them are neighbors who often cross the river and live together.

In the end, the problem is that martial artist who has chartered the boat now.

"But who on earth is that person that you're so scared of? Is he from the Nine Sects, One Gang, or the Five Great Families?"

At that time, someone asked the captain. If he hadn't asked, I would have, so I was able to just stay quiet.

"He's from the Five Great Families! That's why I'm like this. If it were an ordinary sect, I wouldn't be trembling like this."

I was listening without much thought, but I was so surprised that my eyes went wide.

And I glanced at Zhuge Ling and Zhuge Yun, who were looking at us from a distance.

'From this direction, the only one of the Five Great Families that would enter Anhui Province is... the Zhuge family? No. If they came from Sichuan Province through this road, the Sichuan Tang family is also possible.'

"The Five Great Families? Is that true?"

"That's right. No matter how ignorant I am of the affairs of the martial world, I at least know the crests of the Five Great Families for sure."

At his words, the people who had been complaining until now couldn't argue anymore and just mumbled among themselves. That's how great the power of the name 'Five Great Families' is.

Since it seemed that no one was going to ask any more questions, I stepped forward and asked, "Which of the Five Great Families is it?"

The captain glanced up at the boat and then lowered his voice and said, "He's from the Mo Yong family. He said he wants to travel quietly by himself, so everyone, please stop making a fuss and go back."

"The Mo Yong family?"

I asked back in a puzzled voice. The Mo Yong family is a family in Shenyang, Liaoning Province.

And Liaoning Province is at the northeastern end of the Central Plains.

Perhaps the invitation to the retirement ceremony of the great-grandfather of the Nangong family also went to the Mo Yong family, so it's not strange for them to go to Anhui Province, but I couldn't easily understand why they were crossing this river in the southeast of Anhui Province.

"Are you sure that person is from the Mo Yong family? Why would the Mo Yong family take a boat here? It would make sense if they took a boat from the north."

"Little kid, how would I know that? Maybe they came here for a trip and are on their way back."

"I'm not a little kid. I'm Unhwi of the Wudang Sect."

"Heup! The Wudang Sect...!"

As expected, the story flows smoothly only after I reveal my identity.

Not only the captain, but also the surrounding people were so surprised to hear my and my party's origins.

Well, ordinary people live their whole lives in the Central Plains and see a martial artist from the Nine Sects, One Gang, or the Five Great Families once or twice, but today they saw two at once, so it's understandable that they're surprised.

If they knew that there were also people from the Zhuge family, they might faint.

"I'll have to talk to him once. That man whose wife is sick seems to be in a real hurry, and no matter how much money he paid, where is the rule that he can occupy everything like this?"

"T-Taoist master. No, but just a moment..."

He stopped me. It seems he was afraid that if a fight broke out between martial artists on his boat, he would be the one to suffer the loss.

I don't really want to fight either.

I just want to confirm if he's really from the Mo Yong family.

"Don't worry. I'm not going to fight or anything. I'm just..."

"Hey. Is there a problem?"

As I was about to say something to the captain, a young man came down from the boat and said.

When I looked back, it was a familiar face. A man, but with a pale face from wearing makeup.

He is a real martial artist from the Mo Yong family that I remember.

'Mo Yong Baek-jin! Why is he here?'

Although he is much younger than I remember, he is undoubtedly Mo Yong Baek-jin.

He is a person I can never forget.

Because in my past life, the martial arts competition hosted by the Mo Yong family, which I won for the first time.

The final opponent of that martial arts competition, where I began to gain fame in earnest, was that very Mo Yong Baek-jin.