novelraw Chapter 182 : A Clue
Chapter 182 : A Clue
"This is delicious. Yoo, do you want some too?"
As soon as the rain stopped, Namgung Cheon, who had said he was hungry, disappeared somewhere for a while and came back chewing on something strange.
"Can I ask what you're holding in your hand right now?"
A suspicious mushroom boasting a colorful appearance at a glance.
"Yoo, it's strange. Why is the world spinning?"
Murong Yoo first went to Namgung Cheon, took the mushroom, and laid him down.
Fortunately, Namgung Cheon had a high tolerance for poison, so the poison of the poisonous mushroom didn't seem to have a great effect.
"I think what you just ate was a poisonous mushroom."
"I see. I thought it had a bitter taste."
Don't you usually not eat it then?
Are the geniuses' taste buds dull?
"Can you detoxify it?"
"It's a simple poison. I think I can detoxify it in about half a shichen."
"Alright. Rest for now. Don't just pick up and eat anything."
"I'm hungry."
"I'll go find something to eat."
"Thank you. My friend."
Although Murong Yoo had no intention of becoming friends with Namgung Cheon yet, he just let it go.
Just then, Paeng Yoo-ran, who had also gone somewhere, came back. She was also chewing on something familiar.
"Look at this! I brought something delicious!"
A colorful poisonous mushroom.
Murong Yoo realized a new fact.
That the geniuses were careless.
How on earth have they lived until now?
"Hehe. The world is suddenly spinning! It's fun!"
Murong Yoo laid Paeng Yoo-ran next to Namgung Cheon and then moved his feet to find food and things necessary for life here.
The professor had left, and the students had scattered due to the sudden rain.
Only a crow was flying back and forth in the sky, and the surroundings were full of things he had never seen before.
"In a situation like this, why do I feel like I've become a nanny taking care of children?"
Murong Yoo first gathered the large leaves scattered around and laid them on the floor to make a place to lie down.
And he picked up branches and made a small hut that could block the sun. He put the rest in a place where the sun was shining brightly to dry.
Murong Yoo, who had moved the two people into the hut, now left to find food.
Fortunately, it seemed he didn't have to worry about water. Seeing the humid climate, it seemed to rain frequently.
And because it had just rained, there was water everywhere.
By the time Murong Yoo had found food, Namgung Cheon and Paeng Yoo-ran had also woken up.
"I feel refreshed."
"I feel like I've woken up after a good sleep."
Murong Yoo, looking at the two calm people, sighed and said.
"Come here and eat."
Murong Yoo was grilling fruits, and he avoided eating them raw just in case they were poisonous.
The two people, at the savory smell, quickly got up and sat on either side of Murong Yoo, each holding the fruits that were being grilled on the bonfire, blowing on them, and began to eat greedily.
While he was worried about how to survive here, looking at those two people made his worries seem futile.
Murong Yoo asked the two people just in case.
"Do you have any thoughts on what to do from now on?"
Namgung Cheon answered brightly.
"I will master the method of not sweating. And I will go out."
Then Paeng Yoo-ran speaks. Murong Yoo wiped what was on Paeng Yoo-ran's mouth.
"I heard from my dad. That a boundary follows a certain law. Perhaps as the professor said, if we can live without sweating, the entrance to the Central Plains will appear."
In other words, these two people just had no thoughts.
* * *
A week had already passed since they were abandoned in the rainforest.
In the process, Murong Yoo was able to find out a few facts.
First, it rained at least once every two days.
So Murong Yoo had no choice but to make a new home by raising it a certain height from the ground. Of course, Murong Yoo did all this alone. Because those two people were of no help.
Second, at night, insects the size of a finger would attack without warning.
Although making a fire helped a little, they had no choice but to take turns on watch and block the insects' attacks.
Third, Namgung Cheon and Paeng Yoo-ran were useless people in daily life.
Namgung Cheon, whom he had observed for the past week, was just a fool who knew nothing but the sword.
Even now, he was swinging his sword in a corner over there.
What was strange was that he was smiling while swinging his sword all day like that.
Paeng Yoo-ran was not much different from Namgung Cheon. No! She was worse.
The daily schedule that Paeng Yoo-ran followed to train her body was so intense that Murong Yoo was amazed.
"It's delicious!"
Paeng Yoo-ran, who was sitting and standing up repeatedly with a rock three times her size on her back.
"Oh! It's delicious!"
Why on earth does she add that interjection?
Murong Yoo pulled himself together.
If he also lost his mind here, he might have to live here forever.
'Give up any hope of getting help from those two!'
There was one clue in what the professor had told them.
That internal energy is the source that makes up that world.
Murong Yoo first sat in a cross-legged position and circulated the internal energy in his body.
Then he felt the internal energy that was spread here. And Murong Yoo was surprised. Because the amount of internal energy spread in the empty space was much thicker than in the Central Plains.
If it took a year to accumulate a year's worth of internal energy in the Central Plains, it seemed he could accumulate it in six months here.
However, the quality of the internal energy was rougher than in the Central Plains.
Murong Yoo first tried to accept the internal energy here. But unlike in the Central Plains, the internal energy here did not follow Murong Yoo's will well.
It seemed to be caught, but it wasn't, and it was just circling around Murong Yoo.
'It's not easy.'
Is it because the nature of the internal energy is different?
Murong Yoo released his cross-legged position and looked at Namgung Cheon and Paeng Yoo-ran. And as if he were possessed by something, he got up and approached Namgung Cheon.
"Can you teach me how to swing a sword?"
"Oh! Is it a request as a friend?"
"Y-Yeah."
After that, Murong Yoo also approached Paeng Yoo-ran and asked her to teach him how to use his body.
"Alright!"
And so, Murong Yoo learned about the sword from Namgung Cheon in the morning and learned how to use his body from Paeng Yoo-ran in the afternoon. And in the evening, he delved into internal energy.
And another week passed.
"As expected, my prediction was right."
The internal energies in the empty space, which had seemed to have no movement until before, were now moving to some extent according to his will.
-Internal energy is the basis that makes up that world.
The meaning of the professor's words was probably to first understand that world.
Murong Yoo physically understood the Great Forest during the day and did his best to mentally adapt to the Great Forest at night. As a result, he now felt that he had taken a step closer to the professor's words.
Another week passed, and Murong Yoo was finally able to accept internal energy for the first time in a new world.
And he was able to fully understand the meaning of the professor's words.
'The energy of the Great Forest is completely different from the Central Plains.'
Then, to adapt to this Great Forest, I just have to follow this energy.
Murong Yoo, who had caught a clue, opened his eyes. It was to tell Namgung Cheon and Paeng Yoo-ran the facts he had found out.
"Huh?"
The empty space in front of Namgung Cheon was open.
"It opened while I was swinging my sword."
The empty space in front of Paeng Yoo-ran was also wide open.
"It opened while I was doing push-ups."
The two people looked at Murong Yoo and made a determined expression.
"I'm not going. Because we're friends."
"The same goes for me!"
Murong Yoo could not help but nod at one fact.
That the beings in front of him were geniuses.
The fact that he had realized after staying up for several days and nights, those two people had found out just by doing what they wanted to do.
Perhaps those two people had already realized the essence of the professor's words and had found the answer in their own way.
Murong Yoo said to the two people.
"You don't have to be considerate."
Murong Yoo accepted the internal energy.
And he combined his own internal energy with the internal energy of the Great Forest.
Then the empty space in front of Murong Yoo also began to split.
If you go to that world, you have to follow the laws of that world.
This was the answer that Murong Yoo had found to the professor's question to understand the basis of the world.
Murong Yoo, looking at the crack that had opened in front of him, continued.
"Let's all go together."
When they passed through the crack, the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult appeared.
The professor was waiting in the field, the first class location.
"Oh! You're the first. Seeing your appearance, you must have had a hard time. Come here and rest."
Murong Yoo and his party looked around with a bewildered expression.
The time they had spent in the crack was about three weeks.
But the scene they saw after coming out of the crack was clearly not much different from before they had entered.
"Professor, how much time has passed now?"
Murong Yoo expressed his question, and the professor answered.
"Ah! Did I not tell you? The flow of time is different for each timeline. The Great Forest is slower than our martial world. A day in the Great Forest is about one hour in our martial world. In the time of the martial world, you have returned in about two shichen."
"You didn't tell us that time was different."
"Really?"
"Yes."
"I just told you."
Soon, other children also appeared through the crack one after another. And there were children who could not come out even after a day had passed, and the professor brought them himself.
And to them who had come out first, he gave points.
"To Murong Yoo, Namgung Cheon, and Paeng Yoo-ran, I will give 100 points each."
The first day's class ended like that.
* * *
Murong Yoo, who had returned to his room, stretched out on the bed.
Although it was just one day in the time of the martial world, after living in the wild for 3 weeks in the Great Forest, lying on a fresh blanket felt like he had come to a divine world.
"Ugh... it's tough."
Living with the two geniuses, he had experienced their life for a while.
The degree of their training was not comparable to what he had done so far.
He had thought that geniuses were just different from birth, but seeing the two of them, Murong Yoo realized that he had been thinking wrong.
Perhaps even at this time, the two of them were training.
He was a little proud of himself for having completed the task on an equal footing with those two for a while.
"Hehe."
A gentle laugh spread.
Murong Yoo immediately got up from the bed and sat in a cross-legged position.
"I can't fall behind either."
He didn't think he could catch up with the two geniuses. But unlike before when he was just treading water no matter how hard he tried, he was now definitely moving forward. Murong Yoo liked this tingling, exciting feeling in his chest.
Murong Yoo trained in the method of assimilating the internal energy he had learned in the Great Forest with the world.
If he had simply accumulated internal energy until before, he was now feeling and accumulating internal energy.
Then he was able to find out that there were various properties in internal energy.
And also what kind of properties his own internal energy had.
'Calm and rough.'
This is my internal energy.
Just then, he felt an internal energy with a similar property to his own.
"Huh?"
It's night now.
The warning not to wander around at night came to mind. But Murong Yoo opened the door and went outside.
A hope, just in case.
Although Murong Yoo was afraid of the warning, he still ran towards the place where he felt the same property of internal energy as his own.
The place where the internal energy was pointing.
At the end of it, there was a man.
The man turned around and his eyes widened.
(End of Chapter)