The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 277

We followed Jeong Ha-rin past the last gate and arrived in front of the Martial Alliance Leader's quarters.

"If you want to see my grandfather, you can go in here."

"Thank you. Thanks to you, we came comfortably."

"If you're grateful, buy me a meal sometime. Do you know how many delicious restaurants have opened up around the Martial Alliance?"

"I wouldn't know."

"Right? So let's go together next time."

"Yes. If I have the chance."

Jeong Ha-rin, after smiling brightly at my master, came right up to me, brought her face close, and said, "Let's meet again sometime, our young Taoist. I'll show you around this area."

"No. It's alright. You must be short on time to meet other people."

"No! There are so few martial artists my age around here, so I'm so lonely!"

She said, her eyes wide.

Her speaking eyes are just like looking at a deer. It was like that before, but her appearance is really not an exaggeration to say that it's the best in Henan Province.

Of course, I'm not going to fall for that appearance now.

"Let's definitely go together next time if we have the chance."

"I don't think that will be possible. I don't think I'll be in Kaifeng for long."

She, without caring about my dry reply, answered with a smiling eye, "Really? For some reason, I feel like there will be a next time."

"Really? I don't think there will be."

"We'll have to see about that later, won't we? Taoist Hyeon Yang. Then I'll see you next time. Have a good meeting with your grandfather."

"Thank you for taking us this far."

"Then, I'll be going."

Jeong Ha-rin, after bowing her head slightly, disappeared somewhere.

Before entering the Martial Alliance Leader's quarters, my master stopped his steps and, looking at me, said, "Why did you do that?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean your attitude towards Ha-rin. It was not like you at all."

"That's..."

What kind of expression would my master make if I told him that she was my girlfriend in my past life and I was brutally dumped, so I didn't want to get close to her?

Of course, I couldn't say that, so I mumbled, "We're on our way to meet the Martial Alliance Leader, aren't we? I'm also a person, so I'm incredibly nervous. But she keeps asking me to have a cup of tea or a meal, so I'm all over the place."

"Really? You're nervous?"

Fortunately, that answer seemed to have worked, and my master smiled broadly.

"I keep forgetting that you can have that side to you. For some reason, I thought you wouldn't know what nervousness is, and that you could even come and go in the Martial Alliance as if it were your own home if I let you loose alone."

"Ha... haha... it looks comfortable because I'm following you, master. How could I go around alone?"

"That's true."

Of course, I am familiar with the Martial Alliance and Kaifeng to the point where I can walk around with my eyes closed.

My master started walking again, taking me with him.

Now, it's really time to go and meet the Martial Alliance Leader.

***

Meanwhile. Jeong Ha-rin, who had returned to her room after parting with Hyeon Yang and Unhwi, was thinking about the young Taoist she had just met.

No, to be precise, she was cursing him.

"What on earth is wrong with that man? How can he show such an attitude towards me?"

She was not used to being treated like that by a man.

Most men would grin from ear to ear at her suggestion to have a cup of tea or a meal, and even if it was a man who didn't fall for that, he would melt at her smiling eyes.

"Is it like master, like disciple? Anyway, I don't like him at all."

Young people her age are at a very vigorous age.

An age where they can't control themselves yet and can't control their emotions.

Even if it was a Taoist, or even a monk from Shaolin, no one had ever shown such an appearance to her, so she was even more bothered by the young Taoist named Unhwi.

"Well, let him do as he pleases!"

She spat out her words as if she were throwing a tantrum and plopped down on a nearby chair.

As she sat down and closed her eyes for a moment to calm her anger...

Suddenly, the cold expression of the young Taoist she had seen a little while ago came to her mind in the darkness.

The more she tries not to think about it, the more she thinks about it.

"His face might be a little my type..."

But to be honest, there are plenty of men as handsome as that Taoist in Kaifeng.

Because in Kaifeng, where the Martial Alliance is, there are many young next-generation talents sent from each family and sect, and apart from that, the downtown area is well-developed, so even young masters who don't know martial arts often come to play.

She, after thinking about why she was like that, came to one conclusion.

"That expression... I want to see that expression crumble."

She, with a faint frown, once again recalled Unhwi's face.

"I'll make sure you can never make that expression at me again..."

She, as if making a promise, stood up and left the room again.

For some reason, it was to ask her friends for help.

***

The Martial Alliance Leader's quarters are huge.

In fact, it's just a nice way of saying it's a residence; it's safe to say that there is another manor within the Martial Alliance.

Inside the residence, there is a small pond, and a small bridge that crosses over the pond.

In the pond, several carp that the Martial Alliance Leader personally feeds are swimming, and around it, graceful willow trees are planted.

And in between, as if it were a natural thing to be there, a person who blends in with the scenery.

A person who exists so naturally that it reminds one of a landscape painting along with the scenery.

'Martial Alliance Leader...'

Sometimes I feel this sensation.

The feeling I get when I already know him, but he doesn't know me at all.

The feeling of being very happy to see him, but not being able to pretend to know him...

"Alliance Leader, it is Hyeon Yang."

At my master's words, the scenery moves.

The Martial Alliance Leader raised his head and looked our way.

To be precise, he is not looking at us, but at me.

Perhaps since he had already heard from my master that I was coming to be introduced this time, he is looking at me first.

For a very short moment.

As if a person had popped out of a landscape painting, the presence of the Martial Alliance Leader begins to be felt.

He, who had become a materialized person rather than a painting, walked this way and, looking at my master, said, "Hyeon Yang. I was waiting."

Perhaps a message had been sent to the Alliance Leader when we passed the first gate, and from then on, the Alliance Leader had come out and waited for us.

The fact that he is standing here now was not a coincidence.

He looked at me again and said, "This child... is Unhwi."

"That's right, Alliance Leader."

I met his eyes.

The Martial Alliance Leader, Jeong Baek-cheon.

Although the Alliance Leader was not a person who had learned Taoist martial arts, he was more of a Taoist than anyone I knew.

He likes to be in harmony with nature, and he is not a person who looks like he would fight well.

And even when he is this close, his qi is so natural and comfortable that it's hard to tell if he has learned martial arts or not.

Literally, he is a person who is just as he is, natural.

'But, the most frightening thing in the world is also nature. Just as there is the word 'natural disaster'.'

Because if he uses his strength once, a power that can literally shake the heavens and the earth will be generated.

If one were to discuss who is the strongest in the current orthodox martial world, the Martial Alliance Leader, Jeong Baek-cheon, is naturally among the top five.

"You have a good... qi. I am Jin Baek-cheon. Although I am lacking, I am in charge of the Martial Alliance."

"I am Unhwi. It is an honor to meet you, Alliance Leader!"

"But you... have we met somewhere before?"

"N-No. This is my first time in Kaifeng."

"Really? I haven't left Kaifeng for the past few years either, so it would be right that we haven't met... but I have a strange feeling that I've seen you somewhere."

He said, tilting his head.

Since a person who seems to be closer to an immortal than a Taoist is saying that, I wonder if he is saying it knowing something.

However, he soon muttered to himself that he often forgets things like this as he gets older, and then looked at me again.

"By the way... amazing. It's an amazing achievement that doesn't match your age at all. Did your master teach you well?"

Then my master, with a broad smile, answered for me, "To be honest, I have done almost nothing. He was born with the qualities of a once-in-a-millennium talent, and he was also born with a diligent nature, so the result is that he has achieved such a surprising achievement."

"Haha! Hyeon Yang. Did you know how to make that expression? Anyone who saw it would think you were looking at your own child."

"Although he is not my biological son, shouldn't a disciple also be thought of as one's own child?"

"What? I never thought such words would come out of your mouth!"

The Martial Alliance Leader, who had been speaking softly until a little while ago, raised his voice as if he were a little excited by the unexpected side my master was showing.

And at this moment, the one who was surprised was not just the Martial Alliance Leader.

I was also incredibly surprised.

First of all, I didn't know that my master thought of me that way, and the fact that he said it in front of someone else... and in front of the Martial Alliance Leader at that, surprised me.

Because saying such a thing in front of the Martial Alliance Leader means he is speaking his true feelings without a single lie.

"Well. I can see what this child means to you. And also your intention in saying that."

"I had no intention at all..."

"Tsk. Who are you trying to fool? Hyeon Yang, you. Aren't you trying to subtly tell me this? That Unhwi is like my own child, so don't give him too difficult and dangerous missions."

"Hmm, hmm... no. Alliance Leader. Don't we grow through difficult and hard missions?"

Although my master made an excuse, the Martial Alliance Leader let out a laugh as if he knew that wasn't it, and my master, embarrassed, scratched the back of his head.

To be honest... I was moved. A lot.

I think I did well to come to the Martial Alliance with my master.

More than anything, because I was able to feel directly how my master, who usually rarely expresses such things, thinks of me.

But apart from that, if difficult and dangerous missions don't come, that's also quite a problem.

From now on, I was planning to travel the martial world in earnest and grow by finding the fortuitous encounters that have no owner yet.

To do that, I need more missions, and missions that require me to go further.

Within a year.

Because I have to somehow become stronger than the Demonic Flower Hall Master before I meet him again.

At that moment, the Martial Alliance Leader looked back at me.

Although he is smiling, his eyes are emitting a light that seems to suck you in.

He suddenly laughed heartily and then opened his mouth.

"But Hyeon Yang. Your disciple doesn't seem to think so. Look at that gaze now. Isn't it an expression as if he's asking for a mission as soon as possible?"

"As you know, Alliance Leader, children and disciples don't always go as one wishes, do they?"

The Martial Alliance Leader looked back and forth between me and my master and smiled with satisfaction.

In his view, the relationship between my master and me seemed very close and good.

"Yes. I can see what kind of relationship you two have, and also what kind of child Unhwi is. To be honest, I've heard a lot about this child from here and there in the martial world. Recently, something happened in Chang'an, right?"

As expected, the Martial Alliance Leader is the Martial Alliance Leader.

In fact, although Minister Jeong's matter was not greatly related to the martial world, he seemed to know everything I had done.

He turned his eyes and looked at me again.

But that gaze is not the comfortable gaze it has been until now.

It seems as if a fire is burning, and at the same time, it is so cold that it is like ice, and on the other hand, he looked at me with a gaze full of youthful passion, and he said, "I have something to ask you."

"Yes. Please ask."

"Do you know anything about a monk named Il-won... no, a former monk?"

Monk Il-won.

The very person who had infiltrated the Shaolin Temple to spy on me, and had even gone to the Taoist-Buddhist Great War and Zhejiang Province with me.

Right now, the Martial Alliance Leader has surely figured out that there is some relationship between him and me.

'This might be a kind of test.'

I, calmly receiving his gaze, softly opened my mouth.

"That person... was a spy of the Demonic Cult."

"......!"

"......!"

The Martial Alliance Leader made a very surprised expression, and my master also looked back at me with a surprised expression.

(End of Chapter)