The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 376

After returning to the Wudang Sect, I focused even more on my training.

Although I had resolved to actively seek out the Demonic Cult bastards from now on, to be honest, it was because I also felt my own lack of skill at the moment.

'The Demonic Fire Hall Master... he was a much stronger person than I thought.'

To be honest, I thought that with my current skills, I would be strong enough to go out into the Central Plains.

Because I thought that if I didn't care about seniority or relationships and just used all my strength, I could even defeat the senior grand uncles.

But being able to defeat the senior grand uncles is not enough.

At the very least, I have to be strong enough to face the Sect Leader, to be able to overwhelm someone like the Demonic Fire Hall Master, to be able to be called a strong person wherever I go.

-Unhwi-ya. Come up to my room for a moment.

And so, while I was organizing what I had learned and obtained so far within the Wudang Sect rather than wandering outside, and organizing the enlightenments I had gained before, my master sent me a message.

Although my master had not officially entered closed-door training, he was living in seclusion, training as if he had, so I went to see him with a happy heart.

My master, whom I met like that, seemed thinner and more emaciated than before, but I could see that his eyes were even calmer and deeper.

"Congratulations. You have achieved something."

My master didn't deny it. He just nodded his head lightly.

With my master's personality, he must have achieved a tremendous result.

Because he is not a person who would say he has achieved something in martial arts unless it was a big deal.

"In the end, what I needed was time to immerse myself, contemplate, and research. Not knowing this important thing and thinking that enlightenment was outside, I just kept wandering outside the Wudang Sect, so I must have missed the opportunity to grow."

I think I know what my master wants to say.

This thing called martial arts is really strangely related to a person's state of mind.

In particular, since internal energy is not visible, its achievement varies depending on the mindset with which one trains.

It means that if you completely empty your mind and strive only for internal energy, martial arts, and self-cultivation, you can achieve tremendous results.

Even in our Wudang, there are cases where someone who trains alone without any contact with the outside world suddenly gains enlightenment and becomes a great master, and it's the same in Shaolin.

There are also cases where a monk who only did wall-gazing training every day turned out to have tremendous internal energy.

"I think I'll try training like that once."

"Heh. In my opinion, it's not the right direction for you."

"But I felt that I had improved a little more by training alone calmly recently?"

"It's not about doing it alone or together. From the time you first learned martial arts, you have learned how to gain enlightenment by moving your body. Now that I think about it, that must be the right way for you. When I see you, I thought it might be one of two things."

"What thought?"

"A person who can only gain enlightenment by moving their body... or someone who has already gained enlightenment and has it."

Although I was a little surprised by my master's words because I was living by using the enlightenment I had already gained once in my past life, I barely managed not to show it.

"I'm a little more talented than others, aren't I? My enlightenment is fast, and training while moving my body suits me well, right? Ha, haha!"

Although I laughed awkwardly, my master, as if he didn't think it was strange, had a smile on his lips.

"Ah! But did you call me today for some reason? It doesn't seem like you just called me to see my face and talk."

As I hurriedly changed the subject, my master, with an expression as if he had just remembered, immediately opened his mouth.

"That's right. I called you because I have a favor to ask of you."

"Please say anything."

"Really? Is anything really okay?"

"Of course. What favor of yours could I not grant?"

I said gallantly, and my master smiled again.

I think he looks really good when he smiles.

My master, until he was engrossed in training recently, had felt too sharp.

To the point where he looked like he was full of venom.

But now, my master seems to have lost some of that venom and has become rather gentle.

It seemed it was because his impatience had disappeared a lot as he saw achievement in his martial arts.

"Take this."

My master handed me a carefully tied bundle.

"The job you have to do for me is not a big deal. You just have to deliver this to the Tang family."

"The Tang family? You mean the Sichuan Tang family, right?"

"Yes. You know it well."

I, wondering if my master knew something and was giving me this errand, stealthily glanced at his eyes.

Because I had been thinking that I should go to Sichuan next to find out a little about the Four Evils Alliance anyway.

It was also because I had met Dokgo Ju-gwak a while ago, and because in the future, the Four Evils Alliance, along with Gal Ryeok-hyeok's Four Evils Heaven, is the place that inflicts the greatest damage on the orthodox martial artists during the Evil Faction Alliance conflict.

So I was going to find out about the Four Evils Alliance, and if there was a way for me to weaken them even a little, I was going to do so.

"That item is a very important item. I don't know if you know, but at some point, the relationship between the other orthodox martial world and the Sichuan martial world began to deteriorate. Now, it's to the point where they are almost considered different martial worlds and live while protecting their respective territories."

I nodded my head because I already knew the fact.

To be precise, the Sichuan martial world and the Central Plains martial world are not on very good terms.

The place called Sichuan itself has an incredibly large land, and it is also a very huge basin, so to enter it, one has to cross a rugged mountain path.

As a result, it also has its own unique culture.

In the first place, the reason the Eungnam Merchant Guild was able to make money by trading with Sichuan, bringing goods from the Central Plains to Sichuan and selling them, and bringing goods from Sichuan to the Central Plains and selling them, was for that very reason.

"That item might be able to make the Sichuan martial world and the rest of the orthodox martial world get along well again."

"What is this, that it can play such an important role?"

"They are just symbols."

"Symbols...?"

"Although the people of the Central Plains don't know it well, it is said that the Central Plains martial world and the Sichuan martial world began to fall out about fifty years ago from now."

"Fifty years ago... it hasn't been that long, has it?"

"Yes. At that time, the Sichuan martial world and the orthodox martial world often held exchange matches, and at that time, after the orthodox martial world won, they took away one of the things they cherished to shame the Sichuan martial world."

"Cherished things...?"

"From what I heard, it was half a joke at first. We took away what you cherish, so next time, train and work harder and be sure to get it back."

"Ah... but it seems the side that was taken from didn't feel that way."

I felt like I knew what had happened at once, and my master nodded his head and continued, "That's right. After that, they completely cut off exchanges with our orthodox martial world and never held exchange matches again. As the relationship became estranged, time continued to pass, and it has come to this point."

"But why didn't you return these things sooner?"

"We tried to return them. We had been saying to return them for decades. If this is their pride, isn't it right to return it quickly? But it seems the orthodox martial world didn't like that very much. These tokens were not managed in one place, but were divided among several sects, so it was not an easy task to gather them in one place."

"So... it was."

"So our Wudang and the Huashan Sect took the lead and began to gather these tokens one by one, and now we have finally gathered them all. Of course, I don't know if the Sichuan martial artists will take them back now... but we should still extend our hand first."

I remembered that a Huashan Sect martial artist had come to see the Sect Leader before.

Perhaps they were talking about this matter at that time.

"The way to Sichuan, you can go with the Eungnam Merchant Guild on their way."

"Ah! Since the Eungnam Merchant Guild often goes to Sichuan anyway?"

"Yes. The Sect Leader has probably already contacted the manager of the Eungnam Merchant Guild. They have no reason to oppose it either. It's no different from a strong Wudang Sect martial artist acting as an escort."

"Yes. I understand what you mean."

"Will you go with your room's senior brothers this time too?"

"Yes. I'm thinking of doing so."

"Not with the Five Swords of Wudang?"

"The Five Swords of Wudang senior brothers are busy organizing and digesting what they gained from their trip to the martial world, so I haven't even seen their faces much. Especially Un Gwang, my great senior brother, is even skipping meals to research martial arts, to the point where I have to bring him his meals."

My master chuckled.

Un Gwang's love for martial arts has now become something that no one in the Wudang Sect doesn't know.

In my past life, Un Gwang, whether he was ashamed of being such a martial arts fanatic, or because he thought he shouldn't let it be known, seemed to have done it while stealthily glancing around, but in this life, perhaps thanks to my encouragement, he has become a person who can't get enough of martial arts.

I personally don't think it's bad that he has come to do what he wants to his heart's content.

Aside from the fact that I am the one who benefits practically by learning the martial arts that Un Gwang has researched.

"Yes. Then I will also tell the Sect Leader that. How about leaving the day after tomorrow? Is that okay?"

"Yes. I can go right now."

"Your spirit is good."

My master looked at me with a satisfied expression.

I could even feel an overwhelming aura from his eyes.

At times like this, I even wonder if the real genius is my master.

To be honest, until my master focused on martial arts, I had thought that I could somehow win if I had to defeat him.

And I had even thought that I had already surpassed the level of my master.

But now it's a little different. The growth of my master, who has started training in earnest, was admirable even for me to see.

Such a martial artist of tremendous aptitude had withered away in his past life without even being able to show his talent properly.

If there had been just ten more martial artists like my master in the entire Central Plains, they would not have been swept away so futilely by the Demonic Cult bastards.

"Then I have said everything I have to say, so I will go back to training. It was a very important moment, but I came out to talk for a moment at the Sect Leader's request."

"Yes. I will leave right away the day after tomorrow without saying goodbye separately."

"Do so."

I bowed to my master and came out.

'Sichuan...'

To be honest, I don't have very good memories of Sichuan.

However, just as the me of my past life and the me of now are different, various situations will be different from then.

I, reminding myself that I am playing an important role in making the Sichuan martial world and the Central Plains martial world get along well again, returned to my room to say that I would be leaving for Sichuan the day after tomorrow.

(End of Chapter)