The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 114

To sum up Mo Yong Baek-jin in one word, he is a 'jerk'.

When I first heard about Zhuge Yun at the Zhuge family, the reason I thought he might be a rude and arrogant person was all because of Mo Yong Baek-jin.

Strictly speaking, the Mo Yong family is not of the Han ethnicity.

They are descendants of the royal family of the ancient Yan Dynasty, and it is said that they were treated as barbarians until the Central Plains were unified by Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

As if to prove that, the direct descendants of the Mo Yong family went around with white powder on their faces like women.

So some people called the martial artists of the Mo Yong family 'white-faced scholars'.

'Why is the real Mo Yong Baek-jin here?'

Although the location of the Mo Yong family's mansion is in Liaoning Province, their influence extends beyond Liaoning Province to Jilin Province and Heilongjiang Province.

As mentioned before, they are originally of royal blood, and since there are no large sects or families around to check them, they have the authority of a king in that region.

"Didn't I ask what's going on?"

"Th-That is. There are people who say they must take the boat today. They won't listen no matter how I explain."

Mo Yong Baek-jin looked down on the captain, who was at least twenty years older than him, with an arrogant gaze and spoke to him informally without hesitation.

He turned his gaze from the flustered captain, looked at us who were gathered, and opened his mouth in an indifferent voice.

"I came here first, and I've already paid more than enough for the boat fare. Is there still a problem?"

No one could argue with his cold tone.

Because the pressure that the name 'Mo Yong family' gave was that great.

However, there are always people who are more desperate than that pressure. The man who had said his wife was sick earlier knelt down before him and said, "Great hero! My wife is very sick in the village across the river. The doctor said her condition is critical and that if she doesn't take this medicine, she won't make it through the night. I'll go quietly in a corner as if I'm not even there, so please give me just one corner of a seat."

He said in a desperate voice.

Even I, who had nothing to do with him, was about to sympathize with his pitiful situation, but Mo Yong Baek-jin didn't even blink an eye.

He said in a cold voice, "Then you should have come earlier than me and reserved a seat, or bought it with more money. I want to cross the river comfortably after a long journey."

"I'll stay quietly in the warehouse, not the cabin!"

"Where is the guarantee that you are not an assassin from an Unorthodox Faction aiming for my life? If I'm with a stranger in a confined space like a boat, I'll be so nervous that I won't even be able to sleep properly."

"Great hero...!"

"But I understand that your situation is pitiful."

He took out a pouch from his bosom and threw it towards us.

The pouch floated in the air and landed precisely in front of the kneeling man.

As it fell, a clinking sound rang out, so it seems there were a few coins in the pouch.

"Great hero, what is this?"

"It's money. I heard earlier that there is a bridge far away. Use that money to rent a horse and cross the bridge. It should be enough money to rent one horse. This is the most mercy I can show you."

He was about to turn around and go back to the cabin, but when other people saw the money pouch, they also started to come forward one by one.

"W-We can't just go back either. Either let us on the boat, or give us money like this person!"

"Let us on, great hero!"

As they shouted, Mo Yong Baek-jin frowned as if he were looking at a dirty bug.

"If you were really in a hurry, you would have come forward from the beginning like that person. I don't like people who act while watching others. And as I said just now, that's the limit of the mercy I can show. Whether you take the money from that man, or divide that money pouch, that's for you to decide."

The moment his words ended, the gazes of the people who were looking at Mo Yong Baek-jin turned towards the man whose wife was sick.

The man hugged the money pouch as if to show that he would never let it be taken away.

The people's gazes gradually became more hostile.

It seems they are thinking of taking that money pouch since they will suffer a loss from not being able to cross the boat today anyway.

It seemed that if someone rushed in first, a real mess would break out, so I opened my mouth to Mo Yong Baek-jin.

"If you're going to act so cool and noble, shouldn't you have thrown at least one gold coin? Trying to settle the situation with just a few copper coins?"

"What did you say...?"

Although Mo Yong Baek-jin frowned and asked me back, I said to the man who was pulling the oxcart next to him, not him.

"Mister. How much will you lose if you can't deliver this today?"

"That... it will be about half a silver coin."

"And the mister next to you?"

"I will lose about ten copper coins."

"And the young lady over there?"

"I won't suffer a financial loss, but since there will be no one to prepare my father and mother's meals, they will have to skip a meal."

"You're a filial daughter. Originally, filial piety is said to not be exchangeable even for a hundred taels of gold, but it would be about ten silver taels."

I looked back at Mo Yong Baek-jin and continued, "Did you hear that? I don't know how much money you have, but if you're going to throw money around, you should have thrown at least one gold tael. Trying to solve it with loose change while standing so stiffly, how small is your generosity?"

"You bastard...! How dare you make such an unreasonable demand. Who are you? Can't you see the crest of this family?"

"I can see it well. Do I look like a blind man?"

"And yet you say such reckless things. You must not value your life."

"My life? Is this a matter to even mention life?"

"You have just insulted me, and the Mo Yong family. It is only natural to punish with death those who have tarnished the family's honor. Seeing that you have a sword at your waist, you must also be a martial artist. Are you afraid of death?"

I'm so dumbfounded that I can't even answer properly.

Yes. Come to think of it, Mo Yong Baek-jin was that kind of guy.

He was raised in the Mo Yong family with a silver spoon in his mouth, so he literally lived like a prince, and he lived his life doing whatever he wanted.

And he ate so many elixirs that, compared to his enlightenment, his amount of internal energy is also enormously abundant.

These factors, one by one, gathered to create that incorrigible prince.

'He was like that even after the final of the martial arts competition.'

At that time, after losing to me, who was completely unknown, he couldn't control his anger and almost destroyed the sparring stage.

He even insisted on a rematch, saying that I must have used some kind of evil art and in the end, I defeated him in the subsequent spar as well.

I even knocked him out with a bit of force in the final blow so that he couldn't say anything else.

Although that martial arts competition was about six or seven years from now, his personality must have been like that already.

"Excuse me, is there a problem?"

At that time, a clear voice was heard from nearby, it was Zhuge Ling.

Since I, who had said I would go and check, didn't come back, it seems Zhuge Ling came to see if there was a problem.

"Ah, Miss Zhuge. There was a small matter."

"A matter?"

The moment she appeared, the people suddenly parted to both sides like a receding tide and made way for her.

Although she had run like crazy and her makeup was all gone, and her hair was soaked with sweat, it seems that her beauty was not hidden at all.

"Miss Zhuge...? Are you from the Zhuge family?"

"Huh! That's right. I've seen her before. This person is Miss Zhuge Ling, the daughter of the head of the Zhuge family!"

"Heot! A direct descendant of the Zhuge family!"

And our senior brothers and Zhuge Yun, who were following her.

I pointed at Zhuge Yun and said, "Young Master Zhuge. Please listen to me. Although we've run all the way here, it seems we have to run to the bridge we talked about earlier."

His eyes went wide.

"Wh-Why is that? How did we run all the way here? Didn't you say we could take the boat if we came here with all our might?"

"I want to do that too, but the person up there has monopolized the boat."

"Monopolized?"

Zhuge Yun and I looked up at the boat at the same time.

But Mo Yong Baek-jin was just staring at us.

To be precise, he was not looking at us, but at one person, Zhuge Ling, blankly.

"He said he's a martial artist from the Mo Yong family. But isn't this still Hubei Province? I think we need to teach that person a little about what the Zhuge family means in Hubei Province..."

"What is a martial artist from the Mo Yong family doing here?"

"I don't know that either. Shall we ask once?"

"I will ask."

Zhuge Yun said to me with eyes full of determination.

Even if I don't tell Zhuge Yun, he already knows well that if he doesn't solve this situation, he has to keep running.

And unlike Zhuge Ling, since I never helped him once, his stamina and internal energy must be depleted.

Nevertheless, Zhuge Yun walked towards the boat with a confident gait.

I'm proud to see how much he has changed in just a few days of being with me.

In Zhuge Yun's case, it seems that he wasn't born with a passive and introverted personality, but because he had suffered such a great mental shock, he had become like that for a while, and he is quickly regaining his original personality.

Of course, the main reason is that I made him run until he was about to collapse, so he didn't have time to think about other things.

"I am Zhuge Yun of the Zhuge family. Who are you to have monopolized the boat?"

"The Zhuge family...?"

"Come down and let's talk for a moment."

Zhuge Yun said in a polite, but not servile, manner.

If Mo Yong Baek-jin acts rudely like he did to me earlier after hearing such words, it's no different from proving that he himself has not been properly educated at home.

Fortunately, Mo Yong Baek-jin did a somersault in the air and landed in front of Zhuge Yun, and then he cupped his fists in a polite manner and said, "I am Mo Yong Baek-jin of the Mo Yong family."

"If you're from the Mo Yong family, I know you're in Liaoning Province, so what brings you to Hubei Province?"

"I was invited to the retirement ceremony of the great-grandfather of the Nangong family. The other family members went straight to the Nangong family, and I stopped by my maternal grandmother's house in Ezhou on the way."

"Your maternal grandmother's house was in Hubei Province? I didn't know that at all."

"In fact, it's the first time I've heard that there is a young master in the Zhuge family."

Zhuge Yun and Mo Yong Baek-jin exchanged glances.

It was not a friendly gaze from either side.

Mo Yong Baek-jin's gaze was as if he were trying to gauge who was stronger and who had more power, but Zhuge Yun's gaze was a little more primitive.

For him, Mo Yong Baek-jin was not a successor of the same Five Great Families, but just an obstacle preventing him from getting on the boat.

"By the way, why are you blocking the boat? Can't you see the people waiting here?"

"I rented the whole boat for a comfortable journey. Is there a problem?"

"Of course there's a problem. Even if everyone here gets on the boat, you will be able to go comfortably enough. But you're trying to cause trouble for everyone just to be comfortable by yourself, so as a successor of the Zhuge family, which represents Hubei Province, I can't just pass by."

At Zhuge Yun's words, Mo Yong Baek-jin narrowed his eyes and looked at him.

'What. He's better than I thought?'

My view of Zhuge Yun seems to be changing a little.

Zhuge Yun's voice had a fair amount of strength, and his logic was also sufficient.

If Mo Yong Baek-jin is a sensible person, it seems it will be fine even if I don't step in.

If he's a sensible person.

"If you can't just pass by, what are you going to do? Are you going to force your way through?"

As expected, Mo Yong Baek-jin said in a growling voice, as if his angular personality hadn't gone anywhere, and Zhuge Yun didn't lose to him either.

"If you act like this here, I'm worried about what will happen to the reputation of the successor of the Mo Yong family among the common people in the future. I'm worried that a rumor will spread that you oppress innocent common people to seek your own convenience."

"If I were worried about that, I wouldn't have done this in the first place. Seeing that you've learned martial arts, how about we talk with our swords like martial artists?"

I was watching to see how Zhuge Yun would react to the situation, which had become more interesting than I thought, and Zhuge Yun nodded his head greatly.

"With swords? Very well. As a martial arts family representing Hubei Province, I have a duty to consider the convenience of our Hubei Province common people. It means I have sufficient reason to have a spar with you."

"Haha! The reason is sufficient. Instead, if I win, I'll have to go around telling everyone that I beat the young master of the Zhuge family."

Mo Yong Baek-jin said with a cruel smile.

Zhuge Yun immediately nodded his head.

"Do as you please. If you win, that is."

"You... think you can beat me?"

"Of course. I'm sure I'll win. Not me... but my younger brother."

"Younger brother?"

At that moment, Zhuge Yun pointed at me and said, "My close younger brother will fight on my behalf. He's a kind of representative."

I was really flustered for a moment.

'Huh? Since when was I his younger brother? And what's this about a representative?’

(End of Chapter)