The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 162

Time flowed by incredibly fast.

As if to mock my determination to work hard and become strong, I couldn't do anything for the first two months after returning to the Wudang Sect.

Because everyone, from the sect leader, senior uncles, and master, to my own master, would stop me whenever I tried to do anything, telling me to think about my body.

At that time, I even asked my master to please help me start training, but my master.

'Who told you to get hurt like that? It will take at least two more months of rest for the torn flesh to heal completely and for the muscles not to tear again when you use them. So stop talking nonsense and follow the words of your elders.'

He said so firmly that I had no choice but to follow his words.

Thanks to that, I had no choice but to focus on resting quietly for two months, but in fact, that time was not all bad.

Because after I opened my eyes again as Unhwi of the Wudang Sect, I had pushed my body to the point of near exhaustion.

Thanks to that, I was able to grow at an absurd speed, but I had a feeling that my growth was slow because I had used all the nutrients needed for my body to grow to build up my strength. But in just two months of resting, I grew so tall that I could feel growing pains.

Originally, I was only about as tall as Senior Brother Unjeong's nose, but in that time, I had become almost as tall as Senior Brother Unjeong, so everyone even suspected that I was not a human, but a bamboo shoot.

And on top of that, the effect of the rest was not just that.

To be honest, until now, I had only thought that the enlightenment I had gained in my previous life was enough, and that the growth of my body to catch up with that enlightenment was the priority. But, it seems that was not the case.

As I thought about martial arts more slowly and with more leisure, and as I contemplated the martial arts of the Wudang Sect, I was able to feel again the various enlightenments that I had missed until now, and even though I had done nothing for two months, I was able to make a step forward in my martial arts and even internally, much more than before.

In the first place, the martial arts of the Wudang Sect have an incredibly deep and profound history.

It was arrogant of me to think that I, who had only known third-rate martial arts in my previous life, could have understood all of it.

That time became an opportunity for me to let go of my arrogance.

And only after two months had passed was I finally able to do physical training.

From then on, to be honest, it was the beginning of hell.

My master, after confirming that my body had completely healed, pushed me relentlessly.

He didn't just make me do physical training, but he also taught me various things and made me learn them so that I could use the martial arts of the Wudang Sect more naturally.

"Although you usually seem to have mastered the martial arts of our Wudang Sect, you don't use the martial arts of the Wudang Sect in a life-or-death situation. When you're really in a hurry, it's rather... what should I say. It feels like you're facing them with a basic skill similar to the Three Talents Sword Art. So you can't use great power when it's important. Of course, I admit that your attacks become faster and sharper, but that also means that the attack path becomes simpler."

My master said this with a very serious face.

To be honest, I was surprised to hear that, because I also unconsciously let out the Un-ga Sword Art, which was familiar to my hands, when I was really in a hurry.

Since my master had no way of knowing about the Un-ga Sword Art, he just said it was a basic skill similar to the Three Talents Sword Art.

Well, I had been fighting with only the Un-ga Sword Art for my entire life, so it was difficult to use the martial arts of the Wudang Sect unconsciously after just a few years of training.

"Although I have emphasized the basics so much, that doesn't mean that basic skills are the answer to everything. It is true that you need a strong foundation to be able to use good martial arts, but you should not ignore what the ancestors of the sect and the various seniors of the martial world have paved the way for in the name of techniques."

I can't even make the excuse that I didn't use it, but that I couldn't.

In the end, it's just that I haven't trained enough to get it into my hands.

So the only thing I can do is train, train, and train.

Sometimes, when I was tired from training and wanted to rest for a while, I would recall the unlucky smiling face of Dokgo Jugwak.

I would once again strengthen my will, thinking that I would one day make that annoying face into a pulp.

And so, half a year passed by in a flash.

***

During that time, many things happened.

First of all, I had made a lot of progress not only in the other martial arts of the Wudang Sect, but also in the Six Yang Divine Art.

According to my master, the Six Yang Divine Art, which originally had a fiery hot energy, would be able to hide its heat when it surpassed the sixth level, and since I don't have to struggle with the heat as much as before even when I perform the Six Yang Divine Art these days, I think it's safe to say that I already have a power close to the sixth level.

And the mystery of the Taiji that I had realized while fighting with Mo Yong Baekjin had matured even more, so now, if I were to be woken up from sleep and asked to perform a sword art, it would not be the Un-ga Sword Art that would come out as before, but I would be able to perform the Taiji Sword Art or the Seven Star Sword Art first, to the point where it was familiar to my hands.

And in the meantime, there was a room-by-room competition, and our room was able to proudly take first place in that competition.

As our room became stronger, the overall level of our third-generation disciples had improved a lot, and the senior brothers of the first room, who were originally strong, and the other senior brothers had also become stronger together, but not as much as our room's senior brothers.

And besides the daily training, I always met with that guy Un Gwang separately in the evening.

I generously shared all the martial arts and enlightenment I had obtained from the martial world with Un Gwang.

Un Gwang was a greater genius than I had thought.

To be honest, it's not that he has an incredibly strong martial power.

Even in his previous life, the modifier that was most often attached to him was that he was 'surprisingly' strong, and that means that he looks weak.

In fact, it is true that Un Gwang is close to being a weakling by the general standards of a martial artist's strength, such as strength and speed.

But, in terms of his understanding of martial arts and the mystery of the Taiji that receives the opponent's strength, he was worthy of being called a genius.

When I had finished my two months of rest and started training again, Un Gwang called me and said this, "Hwi-ya. I've created a new sword art by combining the Heaven and Earth One Sword and the Taiji Sword Art that you taught me before. Do you want to try learning it?"

Of course, I said I would, and Un Gwang taught me the sword art that he had contemplated and created on his own for the several months I had been wandering outside the Wudang Sect.

I can't forget the moment I first saw that sword art, which had no special name because it hadn't been properly named yet.

Of course, that sword art is not as effective and elaborate in its techniques as the original sword arts of the Wudang Sect.

Because those martial arts have been improved and improved little by little over hundreds of years, the elaborateness of the techniques can never be matched.

But, the principle of the sword art was such that it was not inferior to any of the martial arts of the Wudang Sect.

'He has properly combined the mystery of the Taiji and the advantages of the Heaven and Earth One Sword.'

Originally, the mystery of the Taiji is the power to overcome strength with softness, as the saying 'softness can control hardness' goes.

The original principle of the Taiji Sword Art is to appropriately break down and scatter the opponent's strength and internal energy, create an opening, and attack that opening.

But the sword art that incorporated the Heaven and Earth One Sword of the Hebei Peng family has a completely different principle.

First of all, it does not scatter and eliminate the opponent's strength, but tries to use that strength as much as possible.

My body just becomes a passage.

The strength that the opponent has released is shot back at the opponent through my body, and my strength is added to it to counterattack with a stronger force than what came.

And when counterattacking, that strength has to be gathered at one point, and that's where the principle of the Heaven and Earth One Sword shone.

It must not have been easy to combine the two sword arts into one, but Un Gwang had somehow managed to do it.

Although it sounds like some kind of all-purpose sword art if you just hear it like this, unfortunately, it was still a sword art that was difficult to use in a real battle.

First of all, my body has to be able to handle the opponent's strength to be able to return that strength as it is, and for an opponent who uses an energy that I can handle, I can sufficiently subdue them with other martial arts without having to use such a difficult move.

But, Un Gwang's sword art has just been created.

Since it will surely become a powerful sword art if it develops further in the future, we gathered every night to practice the sword art and sought ways to develop it further.

And so, our Wudang Sect became stronger and stronger with each passing day.

***

And so time passed, the year changed, and it was now late winter, when the ice was slowly beginning to melt.

During that time, not only I, but all of our Wudang Sect's disciples had achieved a dazzling growth, because everyone had a clear short-term motivation.

"The Taoist-Buddhist Great War is just a few months away. For the past several decades, we have never once won against the Shaolin Temple. This is our chance to repay that humiliation!"

"Yes, senior uncle!"

The Taoist-Buddhist Great War, which had been so talked about and had so many problems, was really just around the corner.

I had never asked how the Taoist-Buddhist Great War was conducted because I had no interest in it, but it is said to be a format where each sect forms a representative of about thirty people and has a spar.

And the fact that they have to pick a representative also means that there will be a selection match to pick that representative soon.

The sect leader said that the selection match would be held in three months.

Since my senior brothers and I had no intention of participating in the sword examination, we would be in the position of competitors in the selection match, even if we were senior and junior brothers of the same room.

***

One day, while I was engrossed in training as usual.

Senior Brother Un Chi came up to me, who was sweating profusely in the training ground.

During that time, my relationship with Senior Brother Un Chi had also improved considerably, because my senior brother had at some point abandoned his greed and poison and treated me.

Although we have an uncomfortable past, Senior Brother Un Chi seemed to be sincerely trying to get along with me, and I am not so harsh as to push away such a person.

"Hwi-ya. Our senior uncle is looking for you. You should go quickly."

"Senior uncle?"

"Your master. I mean Senior Uncle Hyeon Yang."

"Really? But why did our senior uncle send you, senior brother?"

"I was in charge of cleaning the Supreme Azure Palace today. I met our senior uncle there, and he asked me. Oh, and you have to go to the Supreme Azure Palace, not our senior uncle's room. He said he has something to discuss with the sect leader."

"Really? Thank you for telling me."

Senior Brother Un Chi, who would have picked a fight with me in the past, just nodded his head slightly and went to do his own thing, and I felt a little disappointed at that sight.

Right now, the Wudang Sect is so peaceful, and the atmosphere is so good that it's boring.

It's not that I don't like the fact that we're all training hard together and getting stronger together, but what should I say... should I say it's not fun?

I smacked my lips, finished my training, changed into new clothes, and headed to the Supreme Azure Palace.

When I arrived at the Supreme Azure Palace, the senior brothers who were guarding it, as if they had been told in advance, naturally made way for me, and when I entered the sect leader's office, my master and the sect leader were talking there.

I bowed my head deeply to the sect leader and said, "I heard you were looking for me."

"Yes. It's been a long time. Unhwi-ya. I heard you've been training hard recently. Have you made any achievements?"

"Although it's embarrassing to call it an achievement, I have worked hard. If I go back to six months ago, I won't get hurt as badly as I did then."

"You've made a great achievement."

He smiled with satisfaction at me.

Although we are in the same Wudang Sect, in fact, it is not common to face the sect leader directly.

But the face of the sect leader, whom I saw after a long time, was rather dark.

"But what did you call me for?"

"That... your master will tell you. Hyeon Yang-ah. Tell him."

Then my master turned to me and said, "Hyeon-ah. When I went to Wuhan to support you six months ago. Do you remember that because of that, I had to hand over the work I was originally supposed to do to someone else?"

"Yes. I heard that Senior Uncle Hyeon Cheong was going to do that work instead... is that right?"

"Yes. You remember well."

As I was waiting for my master's next words, not knowing why he was suddenly talking about that, sure enough, my master looked at me and opened his mouth.

"Until a while ago, I was in constant contact with Hyeon Cheong. But recently, the contact has been cut off."

"You mean the contact has been cut off...?"

"I don't know the reason for that either, but one thing is for sure. Something has happened to Hyeon Cheong."

My master looked at my expression with a serious face and then continued.

"The reason something happened to Hyeon Cheong is all because Hyeon Cheong did the work I was supposed to do instead. So I'm thinking of going to find out what happened, and if possible, to find Hyeon Cheong. Will you go with me?”

(End of Chapter)