The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 299

"Puhahahaha!"

Laughter erupted from somewhere.

The other people who hadn't understood the situation now realized what had happened.

It was Unhwi's turn to receive an attack after he had attacked five times.

But in that situation, he had forfeited, so Seo Mun-wang-ryang couldn't even try to attack once, and the duel had ended just like that.

Moreover, his current appearance is not like that of a winner, and his appearance is a mess.

It is a situation where one could believe that he had been beaten one-sidedly.

Literally, he had won a victory with only wounds.

Seo Mun-wang-ryang, with eyes overflowing with anger, turned his head towards the place where the burst of laughter had come from a little while ago.

But for some reason, there was no one there.

If there had been other people around, he could have thought that they had moved, but there was not a single person in the vicinity.

There is no way that a master of Seo Mun-wang-ryang's level would not have noticed a person's movement.

Unless he had mistaken the location of the sound due to his anger, or it was a master who far surpassed him.

"Ugh...!"

He soon forgot about the laughter and turned his head again, this time looking at Unhwi.

But Unhwi is not paying any attention to him and is preparing to go back.

Seo Mun-wang-ryang, in his temper, wanted to rush at Unhwi right away, but he couldn't.

Because there were too many eyes watching.

He, barely calming his boiling insides, also turned around to tidy up the duel.

"Ha...!"

But this time, too, he couldn't help but let out a hollow breath because he was so dumbfounded.

Because there was no one in the seat where he had originally been sitting.

Seo Mun-jong-tak, Jin Seol-woo, and Ak Sang-cheol were nowhere to be seen.

The moment Unhwi declared his defeat, they had gotten up and left this place.

"This... damn...!"

He, holding back the anger that was about to erupt, had no choice but to come down from the duel stage quietly.

No one could approach him, who was almost naked, but at that time, a man came up to him hesitantly.

He was the carpenter who had installed the duel stage.

"G-Great Hero..."

"What is it?"

"Can we dismantle the duel stage right away?"

He, after glaring at the man who had come up without any tact, answered in a deliberately calm voice, "Yes. Dismantle it."

"Th-Then... we haven't received the payment yet..."

"Bill it to the Seo Mun family! Do you think I'm going to run off with the money!"

"Ah, aigoo. No, sir. I will do so."

The carpenter quickly moved away from him.

Seo Mun-wang-ryang, after checking his clothes, ground his teeth as he watched Unhwi, who was disappearing somewhere with Hyeon Yang.

Although he had won, Unhwi was the first opponent to give him such a humiliation.

He thought that he would return this humiliation to Unhwi, no matter what it took.

***

"Hwi-ya. Will you be alright?"

On the way back to the inn. The first thing my master said to me was whether I would be alright.

"What about?"

"To be honest, I also found it refreshing. Originally, Seo Mun-wang-ryang's intention seemed to be to crush you miserably and restore his lost pride, but you made it so that he couldn't even try. But Seo Mun-wang-ryang has a persistent personality. What if he attacks you because of this..."

"I don't think he'll be able to do that."

"Why?"

"The reason Seo Mun-wang-ryang deliberately tried to kill me on the duel stage was because he needed a pretext. 'The opponent was too strong during the duel, so I failed to control my strength'... isn't that a very good reason? But now that the duel is over, if he attacks me, isn't that just an assassination?"

"That's true."

"If he kills me cleanly and disappears, I don't know... but I'm going to be with you, master, from now on. No matter how much it's Seo Mun-wang-ryang, if you and I attack him together, won't we be able to win somehow?"

"You seem to trust me too much."

"Of course, I have to trust you. Whose master are you?"

My master chuckled.

He didn't seem to dislike my words.

And so, as we were chatting and arrived at the inn, there was a person waiting for us at the inn.

It was the martial artist who had delivered the message that the Alliance Leader was calling a few days ago.

He greeted us with a polite fist and palm salute.

"You two. Have you been well?"

"Yes. Fortunately, we have been well."

"Congratulations on successfully finishing the public duel. Especially Taoist Unhwi. I was impressed by your martial arts and resourcefulness."

"Did you see the duel?"

"Yes. I saw it from a distance."

His attitude was much more favorable than a few days ago.

My master, as if he were pleased with his attitude, smiled broadly and said, "So what brings you here today?"

"Today, too, the Alliance Leader wishes to see you."

"The Alliance Leader?"

My master, after looking back at me once, said as if there was no need to consult with me, "If the Alliance Leader calls, of course, we have to go and see him. Should we go to the Martial Alliance?"

"No. The Alliance Leader is out today, so you don't have to go to the Martial Alliance."

"Then where?"

At that time, in a corner of the inn. A voice came out from a place where I had not felt any presence of a person.

"Here."

I was surprised, and my master was also surprised, as if he didn't know there was a person there.

"Alliance Leader? How did you come here?"

"I came out of the Martial Alliance for the first time in a while and stopped by. I heard you were staying here as I was passing by."

"You've come well. You've come to a place like this because of me. It's a humble place for you to come, Alliance Leader."

"No. To be honest, I've been cooped up in the Martial Alliance for quite a while, so coming out like this is a good change of pace."

The atmosphere of the Martial Alliance Leader is a little different from the Martial Alliance Leader I saw in the Martial Alliance.

There, he seemed to be one with nature, so he seemed like an immortal, and sometimes he seemed to show the aspect of an absolute ruler who governs the Martial Alliance, but here, he looked no different from an ordinary old man.

Come to think of it, I had never met the Martial Alliance Leader outside the Martial Alliance even once in my past life.

"What brings you all the way out here?"

My master asked in a serious voice.

Perhaps my master also, seeing the Martial Alliance Leader come out in person for the first time, thought that there must be something serious.

But the Alliance Leader laughed heartily.

"I guess I haven't been out for too long. Really, I just came today for no particular reason. I did see an interesting sight on my way here."

"An interesting sight...?"

"The sight of your disciple running wild?"

"Ah... did you come to see the public duel?"

"It was fun to see after a long time. A young martial artist giving his all."

The Martial Alliance Leader glanced at me and continued, "To be honest, I was also startled when you, Unhwi, were internally injured during the duel. But I never thought you would use the Heavenly Transformation Pill I gave you then. It's been a long time since I've been impressed while watching someone else's fight."

He continued to speak as if he were genuinely excited.

Perhaps for a long time, sitting in the position of the Martial Alliance Leader, which carries a huge responsibility, he had to do things he didn't want to do, and he couldn't quit even the boring things.

Thinking that I could give even a little bit of vitality to such a Martial Alliance Leader, I felt good.

"So today, I really came here with the thought of seeing you two's faces before going back to the Alliance. I have no other intention."

"Then, since you've come, would you like to have a meal before you go? This inn may look shabby, but the food is quite good."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. Wouldn't it be a good change of pace to eat outside the Alliance for once?"

"Yes. That's good. Shall we eat out for the first time in a while today?"

My master and I sat opposite the Alliance Leader, but the person who seemed to be the Alliance Leader's subordinate did not sit in a chair, but stood stiffly behind the Alliance Leader.

"Excuse me... aren't you going to eat, warrior?"

"I'm fine."

"I'm not fine..."

The Martial Alliance Leader glanced back and, with a chuckle, said, "Hui-eun. You sit down too."

"Alliance Leader. But, I..."

"Sit."

"Yes. I understand."

Hui-eun? It's a name I've never heard before. Could he be the Alliance Leader's secret escort?

In my past life, I had never sat face to face with the Alliance Leader and had a meal like this, and I had almost no personal acquaintance with him, so I didn't even know of the existence of a warrior named Hui-eun.

"Waiter, please take our order."

The Alliance Leader, surprisingly skillfully, called the waiter and ordered several dishes.

As my master and I looked at him with puzzled eyes, the Alliance Leader laughed heartily and said, "I also roamed the martial world when I was young. This is not the first time I've been to a place like this. And before I became the Alliance Leader, I had been to all the inns and restaurants in Kaifeng at least once. It's a story from decades ago, so the shops that were there then are probably almost gone now."

He looked at the empty air as if he were reminiscing about the past.

A little while later, until the food came out, we, without a word, let the Martial Alliance Leader chew on his memories.

And finally, the food came out.

Although there were four people, since we had ordered more food than that, I thought there would be too much food left over, but fortunately, the Alliance Leader and Hui-eun were bigger eaters than I thought.

It was when most of the food that had been piled up high had disappeared.

The Martial Alliance Leader, who had been eating, suddenly put down his chopsticks.

My master, in a slightly puzzled voice, asked him, "Is the food perhaps not to your liking?"

"If it wasn't to my liking, I wouldn't have eaten it until now. As you said, this is a very good place."

"Then are you perhaps uncomfortable somewhere?"

"No, that's not it either."

"Then why all of a sudden... ah! Are you full?"

"That's also wrong. I was even contemplating ordering more food."

"If not that, then why on earth..."

"Well, a guest is coming, so I can't just greet them with my mouth full of food, can I?"

"A guest?"

The moment my master asked back with a dumbfounded eye.

The inn door was roughly opened.

And a man who appeared through the open door.

"Unhwi... call Unhwi!"

He was Seo Mun-wang-ryang, who had been having a fuss with me on the duel stage until a little while ago.

He had suddenly appeared here, having tidied up his hair and changed into new clothes.

I, with a slightly surprised eye, looked at the Alliance Leader.

It's not that I was surprised that Seo Mun-wang-ryang had suddenly appeared, but that the Alliance Leader had put down his chopsticks a long time ago, which means he had grasped Seo Mun-wang-ryang's presence from then.

'I'm still far from it.'

Just as a little bit of conceit was about to arise, he sets me straight again like this.

Although the great river of time lies between me and the Alliance Leader, the Demonic Cult Leader had even defeated the Martial Alliance Leader.

I have to surpass this great person in front of me in the near future.

"You bastard! You were there. To think you're leisurely eating after causing such a scene!"

Seo Mun-wang-ryang quickly found me.

Since the Alliance Leader was sitting with his back to the entrance, it seems he hasn't seen the Alliance Leader's face yet.

He is walking straight towards me, and my master, getting up from his chair, said to him, "Great Hero Seo Mun. What brings you here?"

"I came to finish the duel that we couldn't finish earlier."

"The duel ended earlier, so what duel are you talking about finishing?"

"That was because that bastard got off the duel stage as he pleased, wasn't it? I never agreed to end it like that."

"Then shouldn't you have set a condition that he couldn't get off the duel stage unless he collapsed?"

"Th-That's...!"

"If you attack my disciple here, I will also resist with all my might. And I will also report it to the Martial Alliance later and hold the Seo Mun family responsible."

At my master's firm voice, Seo Mun-wang-ryang snorted.

"Hmph! Responsibility? Yes. Go ahead and try! I'll kill you both and grind you into powder and sprinkle you on the mountain. Will the Martial Alliance still be able to hold us responsible? Your very existence will disappear."

He said triumphantly.

He probably thinks that if he uses all his might, he can kill me and my master.

But there is one thing he could not have thought of.

Who the old man sitting with his back to him is.

"If you kneel down and beg for forgiveness right now, I will at least spare your life."

"Did it have to come to this?"

"Of course. After the humiliation I suffered, how can I just... "

He, answering without thinking, finally looked down at him after realizing that the question a moment ago had not come from me or my master, but from the old man.

"Wasn't that humiliation something you brought upon yourself?"

The Alliance Leader said that and turned around.

At the same time, he released his presence and qi, which he had been hiding until now.

In an instant, a storm of qi seemed to be raging inside the inn, and even the windows began to tremble.

Only then could Seo Mun-wang-ryang recognize who that old man was.

"M-Martial Alliance Leader!"

Of course, it was now too late to turn back.

(End of Chapter)