The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 293

After that, my master spent a considerable amount of time circulating his qi and dissolving the energy of the Heavenly Transformation Pill.

My master, who had absorbed the elixir for almost five shichen (10 hours), had finally absorbed almost all of the elixir's energy.

From then on, he was able to circulate his qi stably even if I took my hand off, so I finally moved away from my master.

"Aigoo, I'm dying."

The words 'I'm dying' escaped my mouth without me realizing it.

Although it sounds nice to say I'm helping to absorb the elixir, in fact, this is no different from hard labor.

Because it is a very difficult task to constantly emit internal energy and move the stagnant energy in the opponent's body.

Moreover, my master's internal energy is similar to mine, or perhaps a little more.

If the internal energy of the person you are moving is much less than your own, it is easy to move, but if it is similar or more, it is several times harder.

I had somehow managed to do that difficult task.

"Ha. I think this is the hardest training I've done recently."

Until now, quite a few people, including my master, have done this for me, and I feel anew how difficult it was.

I looked around and, for now, lay down on the bed for a little while.

I thought about circulating my qi to replenish my internal energy and at the same time recover my stamina, but for now, I felt like I couldn't endure it unless I lay down.

'I wonder how much stronger my master has become.'

Just before falling asleep, I thought about my master for a moment and then fell asleep.

***

When I opened my eyes the next day, my master was not in the room.

Looking out the window, it seemed to be an early hour when it was not yet that late, so I quickly changed my clothes and went out to find my master.

Fortunately, my master was not that far away.

Because he was training with his shirt off in the open space right behind the inn.

I went to the shade of a nearby tree and sat down to watch my master train.

My master also seemed to have noticed that I had come down and glanced at me, but he did not acknowledge me and continued his training.

Hwook— Hwa-ak— Hwook!

The training my master is doing today is training related to the circulation of internal energy.

While calmly practicing putting internal energy into each and every movement, in between, he continuously performed the basic sword arts of the Wudang Sect that I also know.

But there was a slight difference from the martial arts of my master that I had known until now.

My master is originally the type to use the minimum amount of energy most efficiently when he makes a move, but today, he is pouring out a huge amount of internal energy without reservation.

Watching that, I was able to realize.

'The Heavenly Transformation Pill he ate yesterday has brought my master to a new realm.'

There was a very, very small anxiety in a corner of my heart that I might have helped him incorrectly, but it seemed I didn't have to worry about that.

And so, my master trained for a long time, and I watched until the sun was high in the sky.

Only when it was almost lunchtime did my master stop his training and, wiping away the flowing sweat, said to me, "Did you see well?"

"Yes, master."

"In martial arts, internal energy is not everything. But, there is nothing like enhancing internal energy to break through a blocked realm."

"Congratulations. You have reached a new realm."

"I have had some enlightenment for a long time... but I lacked the absolute internal energy to awaken that enlightenment. But now that even that internal energy has been filled, I must reach a new realm."

My master, as if he were in a good mood, said with a constant smile on his face.

It is rare for my master to be so openly happy, but my master is also an unavoidable martial artist.

Because he is so happy like a child that his martial arts have become stronger.

"After lunch, it will be your turn to eat the Heavenly Transformation Pill. This... has a really good effect."

I, looking at my very happy master, opened my mouth.

"Master. How long has it been since you've had an elixir?"

"It's been at least a few years. I ate the Small Purity Pill until then, and from around that time, since eating the Small Purity Pill didn't have much effect, I stopped eating it."

I, without answering my master's words for a moment, fell into deep thought.

Then, after making a small decision, I said to my master, "Master."

"Why the serious face? You're making me anxious."

"I've been thinking a little just now."

"So. What were you thinking?"

"The one remaining Heavenly Transformation Pill. How about you take this one too, master?"

"Me?"

My master had a very flustered face, as if he had never thought I would say such a thing.

"Yes. To be honest, I don't know if this Heavenly Transformation Pill will have a huge effect on me right now."

"The Heavenly Transformation Pill is a supreme elixir that is on par with the Great Return Pill or the Great Purity Pill. There is no way this elixir will not be helpful."

"Of course, that's right. But what I'm trying to say is that I think it would be more effective if you take it now than if I take it."

"Why?"

"You remember that I took the Great Return Pill, right?"

My master nodded his head.

I had received the Great Return Pill from the Shaolin Temple's abbot for my performance in the Taoist-Buddhist duel, and had taken it on the spot.

"But I still haven't completely dissolved the energy of that Great Return Pill. There is still the energy of the Great Return Pill that I haven't fully absorbed in various parts of my body. If I take the Heavenly Transformation Pill again in that situation..."

I, looking around in case someone might hear, lowered my voice slightly and continued, "What if I can't absorb any of it again and it's expelled from my body?"

"Through a fart?"

"Ah! Master. Don't talk about that."

"Hahahaha!"

My master burst out laughing for a long time.

The reason I'm trying to give my Heavenly Transformation Pill to my master is that in the end, it's not a form of me taking responsibility for the Wudang Sect alone in the future, but to create at least one more master of a similar realm to me.

Because if my master becomes a great master and firmly protects the Wudang Sect, I can trust my master and leave the Wudang Sect to roam around the Central Plains.

"Master. Here you go."

I, after waiting for my master to stop, took out the wooden box from my bosom and handed it to my master.

My master's expression is complicated.

It seems his heart was stirred by my words that I would just give him something so valuable.

"Hmm..."

My master, who had been contemplating while looking at this wooden box for a long time... snatched the wooden box.

"Yes. I'll take it."

"You've thought well. Then will you go up and take it right now? I'll help you again."

Although it is a very difficult task, if my master can become stronger right away, there is no need to consider whether it is difficult or not.

I was about to go up to our room right away, but my master shook his head very firmly.

"No. I won't eat it."

"Then? Are you going to keep it and take it later when you get stuck again?"

My master shook his head once more.

"This is yours. So the one who eats this should be you."

"So I'm saying that even if I eat it now, the efficiency is not good..."

"If you don't eat it now and keep it well, and then eat it when you have dissolved all the energy of the Great Return Pill, wouldn't that be fine?"

"That's true, but... then why did you take it?"

"Because I'm thinking of keeping it."

"Then give it back. I'll keep it and eat it when I need it."

"No. I'll keep it."

As my master suddenly became strangely stubborn, I looked at him with a puzzled eye, and my master, as if he were indifferent, continued, "Because I thought that if you have it, there is a high possibility that it will go into someone else's mouth, not yours. Aren't you a person with a wide sense of nosiness? I think you might just give this to your senior brothers, or to others you have a connection with."

"Me? I thought you knew well how greedy I am, master."

"Greedy? You are. But I also know well that just because you are greedy, you are not a person who cannot share what you have when needed. Let's just think that you take that and go back to the Wudang Sect right away. There, can you promise that you will absolutely not give it to Un Gwang, who is unable to cross a realm due to a lack of internal energy, or to Un Cheol or Un-jeong, who are on the verge of a great enlightenment, or, at the very least, to Hong Sa-ik, who is unable to even properly follow the basic training of the Yuyeop-dang due to a lack of basic skills and internal energy?"

"......"

I couldn't answer.

To be honest, until now, I had often thought that my master was busier with his own training than with me and was not looking at me properly, but in fact, it seems he had been looking at me properly all along.

"Well. I think my explanation is over."

"Yes. It's quite convincing."

"If you want to give them elixirs, find something of a suitable level and give it to them. Don't give them things that are even hard for you to eat first."

"Hmm, hmm... I'll do that."

My master, at my immediate reply, told me to wait in the restaurant for lunch, and then went up to the room, changed his clothes, and came down.

"And since there are six days left until the public duel, from today, it's special training again. Until a little while ago, I thought there was no need for special training, but that goal has been set."

"What goal?"

"I never thought that the energy of the Great Return Pill would still be remaining in your body. In order to absorb all the energy of the elixir remaining in the body, you have to move your body that much more and train."

"It's not that I don't know that..."

"To not do it even though you know is as good as admitting that you have been lazy."

"N-No! Are you saying I'm being lazy even though you've been watching how much I train every day?"

"Until now, I thought you were working hard. But the standard of laziness is different for everyone. Not just working hard, but you have to train as if you are seeing your limits every day... I think I told you that when I first met you. Don't you remember?"

I, trying to make an excuse, eventually gave up everything and, with a deep sigh, answered, "Haa... I remember. That's right. I have been lazy, master."

"So eat a hearty lunch today. From today until the day before the public duel, you will be doing special training with me."

In the end, I had no choice but to nod my head.

In any case, the one who gets stronger by training is me.

Although I have already made a plan on how to deal with Seo Mun-wang-ryang, the stronger my martial arts become, the higher the possibility that I can carry out that plan more perfectly.

And thinking about the fight with the Demonic Flower Hall Master in about a year, it is more right to pull the reins even tighter than now.

"Excuse me! Please take my order!"

As I sat in the restaurant and shouted, the waiter came running.

"Yes. What kind of food would you like?"

"Then, first, one bowl of somen, one tangchulicheok, and one gwaduyukdo, and is the dongpayuk available now?"

"Uh, uh... just a moment."

The waiter, as if it were difficult to remember everything I said, brought something to write on and began to write.

"And one each of ahyangyuksa and gyeongjangyuksa. Give me all of them."

"Are more people coming?"

"No? I'm going to eat it all."

"Ah, I see."

As the waiter disappeared into the kitchen with busy steps, my master looked at me as if I were a strange person.

But, what can I do? To exert strength, you have to eat that much.

And it was also a resolution to turn everything I ate into internal energy.

I have to get stronger continuously.

(End of Chapter)