The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 56

After resting soundly that night, we set out on the road again.

I'm the type of person who makes sure to rest properly when it's time to rest.

Muscles need time to recover after being torn, and people also need to recover their stamina to be pushed again.

The only thing I'm a little disappointed about is that my senior brothers refused to even touch the meat dishes at the inn until the end, so I lost my justification for making them do the duck walk again.

But that disappointment won't last long.

'Let's see how long they can hold out.'

Originally, if you've never tried it, you wouldn't know, but meat and alcohol are things you can't just have once.

Even if you resolve not to eat it, you keep thinking about it, and when you think about it a lot, you start to crave it.

That being said, I'm not trying to feed my senior brothers meat just to torment them.

I'm trying to feed them because eating meat makes their bodies grow faster.

To think that they don't know this deep meaning and are trying not to eat meat because they're afraid of the training. My senior brothers still have a long way to go.

"Hwi-ya. How much further do you plan to go today?"

"How many days do we have left to arrive at the Eungnam Merchant Guild as the Sect Leader instructed?"

"He said to arrive within ten days, and since we slept for two nights, we have eight days left."

Banghyeon, where the Eungnam Merchant Guild is located, is not that far from the south of Mount Wudang.

If you use footwork and run without resting, or ride a well-running horse, it's a distance that can be reached in two days.

For an ordinary person who hasn't learned martial arts, it would take about eight days if they travel diligently.

'Did he underestimate our skills? Or is he telling us to take our time and enjoy the leisure?'

But the time the Sect Leader gave us is too long.

Mixing jokes and seriousness exactly half and half, it's enough time to arrive even with a duck walk.

'Well... it must be his deep meaning to tell us to train slowly while we go.'

I just decided to think this way and let it go.

Anyway, my senior brothers are now fledglings who can't be put into real battle right away.

So, it's my duty as a junior brother to help them be reborn as strong warriors by the time I go to the merchant guild.

"Eight days. There's more time left than I thought."

"That's right. The Sect Leader said that since it's our first time out of Wudang, we should look around and slowly adapt as we go."

"I don't think so."

"Huh...?"

"It's not that, but it probably means that we should train slowly as we go so that we can be put into real battle as soon as we arrive at the Eungnam Merchant Guild."

"Ah, no... the Sect Leader told me that directly..."

"I don't think so. I think there's a deep meaning to train as we go."

"......"

Senior Brother Uncheol was about to answer me, but when he realized I was looking at him with narrowed eyes, he let out a small sigh and answered.

"You're right... I think he told us to train..."

He looked like he was about to cry at any moment, but he didn't shed a tear in the end.

"Did you all hear that? We have eight days. We have to travel diligently, but that also means we have enough time to become strong. Isn't that so much fun?"

"......"

"......"

"Aha? It seems you all are not having much fun. Only I am having fun. Then well. It can't be helped. I have no choice but to do something fun by myself. Hmm... what would be fun. It's no fun to beat up an opponent who doesn't resist..."

As I said while fiddling with my fist, my senior brothers' eyes finally began to shine.

"Wow! Wow! It's going to be fun. I love training so much."

"I know. I don't know how much I've been waiting for this time. Unhwi-ya. Let's train quickly."

"I told you, training is the most fun for me."

"Me... me too."

Such an enthusiastic passion for learning makes me smile on its own.

"Right? You all think so too, right?"

"Of course."

"Then!"

Now they answer cheerfully in unison.

I extended my hand towards Senior Brother Unmi, who had been in charge of our satchels until now.

"Senior Brother. Now, please give me the satchel you're carrying."

"Huh?"

"Come to think of it, you were carrying that satchel when we came down the cliff the day before yesterday, right? It must have been heavier than the other senior brothers, but I didn't pay attention."

At my words, a touch of emotion appeared in Senior Brother Unmi's eyes.

We are each carrying a satchel with different things in it.

Money needed for the journey, essential items, and so on.

Among them, the satchel Senior Brother Unmi is carrying is full of Biyokdan.

Since we can't have all our meals at inns, it's a kind of lunch box.

So naturally, that satchel is the heaviest.

It's the original principle for the youngest to carry the heavy satchel, but since they couldn't ask me to carry it, it must have naturally gone to the next in line, Senior Brother Unmi.

"Is it really okay to give it to me?"

"Of course. I told you to give it to me."

I was of the opinion that for the sake of training, I could do all sorts of chores.

I had even cleaned the room and served meals to let my senior brothers focus on their training.

That's why Senior Brother Unmi, thinking that I was asking for the satchel for the same reason this time, obediently handed it over to me.

"Oh. It's heavier than I thought. You've been carrying this all this time without a single complaint?"

"Ah, no. If we don't have this, everyone will starve, right? So I carried it like my life."

"That's a good sense of responsibility. Is there anything else in here?"

"Yes. Senior Brother Unsik, saying he would help me, moved everything else besides the Biyokdan and took it."

"Keu-eu. That's cool. Your brotherly love is making me tear up."

I gave Senior Brother Unsik a thumbs-up and then.

Whoosh—! Splash!

I threw the satchel full of Biyokdan with all my might and dropped it into the flowing valley far away.

My senior brothers, who had never thought I would do such a thing, could only stare blankly at what I was doing.

"N-No... what on earth are you...?"

"Uh... uh...?! Catch the Biyokdan! Hurry!"

At Senior Brother Uncheol's shout, who had come to his senses quickly, Senior Brother Unjeong unfolded his footwork and ran to the valley, but.

"Heo..."

Perhaps because it was at the beginning of Mount Wudang, the current was quite fast, and perhaps because it was deeper than he thought, the satchel was already gone and could not be found.

"It's gone... Senior Brother."

"Unhwi-ya. Why did you do that? There are almost no private houses on the way to Banghyeon, so we can't even buy food. Haven't all our provisions disappeared?"

Senior Brother Uncheol questioned me for the first time in a long time.

As I said before, he has quite a bit of spirit.

It seems I can train Senior Brother Uncheol a little less from now on.

"The provisions have disappeared? You have to speak correctly."

"You just threw it away..."

"I threw away the Biyokdan, not the provisions."

"What do you mean by that?"

I spread my arms wide and said, "How much food is hidden in this wide place."

"What...? What does that..."

"From now on, we will be self-sufficient for all our food. But, you can't pick things like tree nuts or mushrooms. From now on, what you senior brothers have to do is only hunting. You can only eat what you've caught and prepared yourself by roaming the mountains and catching animals."

Everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't answer my words, but I frowned a little and said, letting out a very slight killing intent, "Even if you go to the Eungnam Merchant Guild now, you won't be able to do anything. Have you ever fought an enemy? Or have you ever killed? Even if you meet an enemy who wants to harm you, can you stab them without hesitation? With that sword you're all carrying on your waists?"

At my words, everyone was silent as if they had eaten honey.

That was my intention.

That's why I even let out a killing intent.

"The training we'll do from now on is for that. The martial world is a place where you can't survive unless you kill your opponent. It will be easier if you train with animals first, not people. And it's not a meaningless killing, but hunting for us to eat, so you don't have to feel sorry for the animals. It would be great if you could catch a large animal like a wild boar or a deer, but since it's the first time, I'll also accept a small rabbit or a squirrel, or a mountain bird. I hope you all feel the weight of the act of taking a life."

"......"

No one said anything at my long speech.

And, I let out a little more energy and said, "Let's start right now! I'll be preparing for tonight's camp right here. It doesn't matter if you use footwork or a sword, so right now!"

"U-Uh!"

"I understand!"

The moment my roar erupted, the four senior brothers threw down their satchels and scattered in different directions.

I stood there for a little longer, then picked up the fallen satchels one by one.

"Did I say I was doing something unnecessarily troublesome?"

I gathered dry branches and made a fire, and dug a hole in the ground so that everyone could avoid the wind and sleep.

Because if you dig a hole in the ground and cover it with branches and sleep, it becomes a pretty good bed.

"Heh heh, it won't be as easy as you think."

But in the middle of digging the ground, I let out a small giggle to myself.

To be honest, I had set a trap for my senior brothers.

I told them to catch small animals first because large animals are hard to catch, but in fact, small animals are harder to catch.

As you chase after the nimble and quick animals...

"Your footwork will improve a bit."

I quickly made a bed and then, with god-like hand movements, took out a Biyokdan I had hidden in my bosom and bit into it.

"I don't know when they'll catch something, and I hate being hungry."

After quickly finishing one Biyokdan, I sat in a cross-legged position and began to fall into qi circulation.

What's most urgent for me right now is studying internal techniques.

In my past life, I had never learned an advanced martial art, so I had never experienced enlightenment.

Originally, I had gathered it drop by drop like collecting rainwater every day for twenty years, and had barely managed to function as a martial artist.

Although I can say that I had almost reached the peak in terms of swordsmanship, this is the first time I'm learning such an advanced internal technique, so to be honest, I'm also feeling a little difficulty.

That's probably why my body's training is not being followed by my internal energy and dantian.

If I slowly gather my internal energy like in my past life, it will be a problem that will be solved someday, but since I don't have that time now, the conclusion is that enlightenment has to come.

'I hope my senior brothers come slowly.'

Hoping to have enough time to train my internal technique while circulating my qi, I entered qi circulation, and just like that, I quickly fell into a state of selflessness.

***

My eyes slowly opened. It's hard to express in detail, but perhaps because I had enough time to think calmly, a smile naturally spread on my face at the feeling that something inside me had advanced.

The surroundings are already dark.

Seeing that the bonfire I had made had almost consumed a whole log, it seems that a considerable amount of time has passed as I had expected.

"What. They're still not here?"

The sun had already set, but even when I looked around, I couldn't see a trace of my senior brothers.

With my senior brothers' skills, they should have definitely caught something by this time.

"Surely... they didn't catch something and couldn't kill it, so they've been dragging their feet until now, right?"

If it's my soft-hearted senior brothers, that's a definite possibility.

"If not... did something happen?"

At the anxious thought that naturally came to mind, I got up from my seat, picked up my sword, and moved my steps.

Although it's been a long time since we left Mount Wudang, it's still the territory of the Wudang Sect.

Of course, there won't be any mountain bandits, and there's no way that Unorthodox Faction masters who could harm my senior brothers would be here.

"Senior Brother Uncheol! Senior Brother Unjeong!"

I was wandering around for a long time, looking for my senior brothers.

Chaeng!

At that moment, I heard a faint metallic sound from far away.

A dull and heavy sound.

It's definitely the sound of weapons clashing.

Whoosh!!

I unfolded my footwork as fast as I could in that direction and ran like I was flying.

Because I was running so fast, I could feel my clothes getting torn by branches and my skin getting scratched, but I couldn't slow down.

"Senior Brother!!"

And the place I arrived at.

I could find my senior brothers.

They were standing with their swords drawn, back to back, and several martial artists in black martial arts uniforms were pressing down on my senior brothers.

Everyone turned their heads and looked at me.

"You bastards. What is this!"

I shouted at them in a fit of anger that had welled up without me realizing it and rushed at them.

(End of Chapter)