Chapter 191. Grudge (3)

Immediately after Nam Geon’s shout ended. Silence descended for a brief moment.

However, that was merely the calm before the storm.

“Where did these bastards come from!!”

“How dare you try to ruin the Great Danmok Clan’s wedding!!”

“You must be crazy to die!”

Shouts burst out from all over at once.

But Nam Geon did not shrink back.

“My, my name is Nam Geon!!”

Though his tone might have been clumsy, his attitude was honorable and confident.

While being with Jin Yuseong, and even when Jin Yuseong was not present, he had been through several chaotic battlefields.

“F, for my mother’s revenge, I challenge Da, Danmok Hwan to a life and death duel!”

Nam Geon was not one to be cowed by this level of scrutiny.

In addition to Nam Geon revealing his name himself, his physique and weapon were particularly conspicuous.

Someone among the gathered crowd recognized Nam Geon and shouted.

“If it is Nam Geon, does that mean you are the Adamant Sword?”

Then, someone else pointed at Baek Hyang and said.

“Then that woman must be the Sword Phoenix.”

These were two people who had traveled the Jianghu over the past few years and gained their own reputation.

Among them, the one who had gained the highest reputation, or perhaps notoriety, was someone else.

“Ghost Sword! That person over there is the Ghost Sword Great Hero! I have seen his portrait!”

Rumors about the Ghost Sword Jin Yuseong were widespread throughout the entire Jianghu.

There were rumors that he had been kidnapped and killed by the Fighting Venerable, but before that, there were more than one or two villains who had died at the hands of the Ghost Sword.

There were even rumors that he had reappeared in the Jianghu recently and killed the Unwol Sect Leader.

This was also due to the Beggar’s Gang and the Twin Heroes Alliance.

The prodigies of the Twin Heroes Alliance went around spreading rumors about the Ghost Sword Jin Yuseong wherever they went.

The Beggar’s Gang did not actively spread rumors, but when someone asked them, they would confirm that the rumors were true.

Even though he was still at an age to be called a prodigy, it had reached a point where people all over the Jianghu did not hesitate to call him ‘Great Hero’.

While Dang Sopyeong, the only one people did not recognize, was crumpling his face. A middle-aged man stepped forward.

“I am the Young Master of the Danmok Clan, Danmok Hwan. I am truly grateful that people with such high reputations in the Jianghu recently have come to this clan’s wedding. However, why are those who were not even invited acting so rudely?”

Like a hypocrite, Danmok Hwan scolded them with proper etiquette.

“It seems you are taking those who have strived for the justice of the Jianghu since ancient times lightly just because you have gained great fame recently.”

Danmok Hwan scolded their rudeness with an elegant tone, but it did not work on Nam Geon.

“I, I don’t know difficult words! St, still, I have to take revenge for my mom! You, you tormented my mom!”

“Ha. To come out of nowhere and talk about a mother’s revenge. Are you trying to frame this Danmok Hwan right now? To use such a rude tone upon our first meeting. I can see how much you are looking down on our Danmok Clan!”

“M, my mom’s name is Cha Hui! She, she was a maid of the Danmok Clan! Da, Danmok Hwan played with her and threw her away!”

Perhaps because it was an unexpected name, Danmok Hwan’s eyes widened momentarily.

Those watching the situation from the surroundings also began to buzz.

“Cha, if it is Cha Hui, surely that person from back then?”

Those belonging to the Danmok Clan buzzed as they recalled the past events, and those from the Great Cloud Merchant Group and the villagers who came to watch had no choice but to be surprised by the unexpected news.

Danmok Hwan, who had paused for a moment, flushed his face and shouted.

“You bastard!! Now that I see, you were not a Chivalrous Hero but the son of a thieving bitch!!”

He rolled his eyes to glance at the reactions of those around him and continued speaking.

“Cha Hui, that thieving bitch, is the bitch who stole the martial arts manuals of our Great Danmok Clan and ran away! She was a wench who entered as a maid aiming for the clan’s martial arts in the first place! To link me with such a dirty woman. This is preposterous!”

Then, the people of the Danmok Clan added strength to his words.

“Th, that is right. Young Master!”

“The clan was in an uproar back then!”

At the words framing his mother, Nam Geon flushed his face and shouted.

“That, that is a lie! Da, Danmok Hwan tried to play with her and throw her away first! S, so mom took the martial arts to take revenge! A, and mom died! So I will take re, revenge instead!”

At this, Danmok Hwan laughed fishily and said.

“Hahaha. To think you are the son of that thieving bitch! Now that I see, it seems that bitch deceived you saying you are my son! Why? Do you want to enter our clan now or something?”

He was treating him as a bastard son trying to play the role to aim for the prestige and wealth of the Danmok Clan.

Those belonging to the Danmok Clan also burst into laughter as if agreeing with that shout.

Just as Nam Geon, whose face turned red as if it would explode, was about to shout something. Someone took a step forward.

It was a strange thing.

Amidst the noise of ridicule, everyone’s gaze was focused on that single small step.

That was a warning of instinct that they themselves did not recognize.

The man who took a step. The pressure that they might lose their lives the moment they took their eyes off Jin Yuseong.

Jin Yuseong, who approached Nam Geon’s side, tapped his shoulder once and said.

“Calm down.”

And then he took another step and stepped forward.

He first took a clasped hands greeting to those around him.

“I am Jin Yuseong, who is being called the Ghost Sword in the Jianghu recently. I stepped forward because there seems to be a few misunderstandings.”

Danmok Hwan momentarily met eyes with Jin Yuseong, who was expressing courtesy.

He wanted to retort something, but Danmok Hwan could not dare to open his mouth.

It felt like his body froze the moment their eyes met.

He could know instinctively. That he was a master of a different level from himself.

It was absurd. That the realm of a guy who looked to be the same age as his son, Danmok Cheong, could not even be compared to his own.

While Danmok Hwan swallowed dry saliva, Jin Yuseong opened his mouth again.

“Firstly, Nam Geon is not Cha Hui’s biological son. She raised Nam Geon, who was an orphan left on the streets.”

At this, Nam Geon nodded his head heavily.

“Secondly, as you have heard, this is an extremely personal grudge. What we want is one thing. A life and death duel between Nam Geon and Danmok Hwan. If you engage in the life and death duel, we will also not intervene in that fight.”

Having said that, Jin Yuseong took a clasped hands greeting towards the Great Cloud Merchant Group side again.

“I apologize for committing a discourtesy. However, since this is a personal grudge between the two, I ask that the Great Cloud Merchant Group side also step back.”

Jin Yuseong, who organized the surrounding atmosphere in an instant, turned his head again to look at Danmok Hwan.

“If you are truly honorable, how about engaging in a life and death duel to prove yourself?”

Just as Danmok Hwan was about to open his mouth to say something. Someone’s laughter shattered the frozen air.

“Heoheoheo.”

People’s gazes turned towards the direction where the laughter came from at once.

An old man was standing there.

He clearly had the face of an old man, but his waist was standing upright and his physique visible beyond his clothes was also muscular.

The current Clan Head of the Danmok Clan. It was Danmok Hocheong.

Naturally, the gazes of Jin Yuseong and Danmok Hocheong clashed.

Jin Yuseong looked at the old man with indifferent eyes, and Danmok Hocheong revealed a relaxed attitude.

“To come out of nowhere and frame the clan’s Young Master is not enough, but to request a life and death duel as if it is natural. Do you know how rude of an act this is?”

“Wouldn’t you know better whether it is a frame or not?”

“Heoheo. You are truly arrogant.”

Having said that, Danmok Hocheong rolled his eyes to glance at the Great Cloud Merchant Group side and said.

“Fine. Good. I will accept your rudeness. However, if you intervene in the life and death duel, you will also have to pay the price.”

“That is what I wished for.”

Immediately after finishing the conversation with Jin Yuseong. Danmok Hocheong turned his head and gave instructions to the clan martial artists.

“We will hold a life and death duel!”

Following his shout, the Danmok Clan martial artists spread out widely to create a space for the life and death duel.

While the Danmok Clan martial artists were moving. Danmok Hocheong sent a sound transmission to Danmok Hwan.

– Make sure to kill that guy called Nam Geon.

– I will do so. Father.

Nodding his head at his son’s answer, Danmok Hocheong gave one piece of advice.

– As I observed, that guy seemed to have not even reached the Peak Realm yet. That such a guy challenged you must mean he has something to rely on. Judging by the rumors circulating in the Jianghu, that guy must have achieved the Diamond Indestructible Body by completing the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art.

Thinking that he was indeed his father, Danmok Hwan nodded his head slightly.

– Then I will break the guy’s balance and pierce his seven orifices to kill him.

– Do so.

While Danmok Hocheong and Danmok Hwan were discussing the method to kill Nam Geon. The preparations for the life and death duel were all completed.

An empty lot created as people spread out widely.

Nam Geon stood there confidently, and Danmok Hwan also walked out there with a confident gait.

Immediately after pulling out their swords while confronting each other. Danmok Hwan opened his mouth.

“Try coming at me once.”

Outwardly, he spoke with courtesy, but the sound transmission sent immediately after was completely different.

– Perhaps because you are the son of a dirty bitch who rolled her body around recklessly on top of stealing, it is very obvious that you are uneducated.

At Danmok Hwan’s provocation, Nam Geon rushed in willingly.

BOOM!

Perhaps due to Nam Geon’s weight and power, the ground exploded as Nam Geon’s body shot forward like an arrow.

“Haaat!”

The Mother’s Affection Sword thrust out with a rough shout tears apart the air.

Vrooooom.

The greatsword flying in with a terrifying sound of piercing wind. However, Danmok Hwan dodged it lightly by taking a single step.

Just as Nam Geon retrieved the Mother’s Affection Sword and tried to swing it. Danmok Hwan, who took a step again, thrust a sword imbued with sword qi towards Nam Geon’s flank.

CLANG!

As expected, a metallic sound rang out.

Nodding his head as if he expected it, Danmok Hwan turned his body.

Vroooooom!

Then the giant Mother’s Affection Sword passed by him as if grazing him.

Danmok Hwan, who took a step again, struck Nam Geon’s opening with his sword, but only the clothes were cut off.

“It seems you did not gain the alias Adamant Sword for nothing.”

It could have sounded like a compliment, but it was not at all.

“That too must be what you stole our Danmok Clan’s Iron Blood Golden Skin Art to learn. For a thief to try to harm the owner. It is ridiculous!”

Danmok Hwan dodged Nam Geon’s offensive by stepping with movement techniques here and there and thrust his sword whenever an opening was visible.

Metallic sounds rang out repeatedly riding on Nam Geon’s body.

Whether that happened or not, Nam Geon continued to swing his sword.

At that moment, the trajectory of the sword that was flying in aiming for Nam Geon’s thigh twisted sharply.

Danmok Hwan’s sword strike flies in aiming for Nam Geon’s face, which is full of openings.

However, Nam Geon was also a man who was already sick and tired of techniques aiming for the seven orifices.

CLANG!!

Nam Geon turned his head only minimally, and Danmok Hwan’s sword, which aimed for the eyes, struck next to Nam Geon’s eye.

Aiming for that gap, Nam Geon swung the Mother’s Affection Sword again, but Danmok Hwan dodged it simply without any sign of shaking.

Danmok Hwan, he too was a child of a prestigious family in his own way and had trained swordsmanship for decades.

He was a master who had already surpassed the Peak Realm and reached the Sword Unification, and his footwork had also reached a high stage.

He had already perfectly mastered the Sliding Swallow Steps, a footwork passed down only to the direct lineage in the Danmok Clan.

It was also a footwork several levels above the Eight Trigrams Flying Stream Steps that Cha Hui had stolen.

That was why Danmok Hwan was confident.

Even if it was the Ghost Sword Jin Yuseong, the Adamant Sword was not his match.

In the first place, the martial arts Cha Hui stole were all the Danmok Clan’s.

Even if he trained with those, he could not dare to reach him, the direct lineage of the Danmok Clan.

Perhaps the reason his father, Danmok Hocheong, accepted the life and death duel was also because of this.

A few times of playing with Nam Geon with light movements and aiming for the seven orifices vigilantly.

Danmok Hwan felt a strange sense of incongruity.

‘Clearly, the martial arts that bitch Cha Hui stole were four kinds.’

Nam Geon did not use the Danmok Clan’s martial arts.

Except for just one external art, the Iron Blood Golden Skin Art.

‘Retard. Did you come to find me believing in just the Diamond Indestructible Body?’

Recalling such thoughts, Danmok Hwan thrust his sword aiming for Nam Geon’s ear canal.

CLANG!

Meanwhile, while Nam Geon and Danmok Hwan were engaging in the life and death duel in the center.

Danmok Hocheong was secretly sending sound transmissions to the Danmok Clan martial artists.

– Those guys might intervene immediately after the Young Master kills that guy, so prepare to kill them all.

Danmok Hocheong did not think that Danmok Hwan would lose.

It was so just by looking at the fight right now.

He was enduring with the power of the Diamond Indestructible Body, but it was a one-sided flow.

– If those guys just leave as promised, what do you plan to do?

When an elder asked via sound transmission, Danmok Hocheong hid his murderous smile with effort and answered.

– They dared to disturb our Danmok Clan’s event. Naturally, I will kill them all.

– Understood. I will tell them to attack those guys immediately after the fight ends.

Following Danmok Hocheong’s instructions, the Danmok Clan martial artists moved their positions slightly and secretly.

While observing the movements of the martial artists. Danmok Hocheong felt a strange sense of incongruity.

‘Mm?’

The reaction of the scoundrels who came with the Adamant Sword was strange.

Clearly, it was a situation where the Adamant Sword was driven into a crisis.

But whether they really had no intention of joining the fight, they had relaxed expressions.

The woman called Sword Phoenix had an expression as if appreciating the life and death duel, and the guy called Ghost Sword had an indifferent expression with his arms crossed altogether.

Those two were better.

The unnamed guy holding a fan in his left hand was digging his ear with his right index finger and blowing on it with a nonchalant face.

“Fuu.”

Just what were they believing in to be so relaxed.

“Heo. Heoheoheo.”

Just as Danmok Hocheong let out a hollow laugh unknowingly. Jin Yuseong’s gaze, who had his arms crossed, turned towards him.

At the same time, an expression appeared on Jin Yuseong’s face, which had been expressionless.

Smirk.

It was a blatant sneer.

As if he knew exactly what you were plotting.

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