Chapter 193. Grudge (5)

One side of the Danmok Clan’s manor.

A secret shadow was moving between the pavilions.

It was a movement that contrasted truly with the chaotic situation near the main gate of the Danmok Clan.

“What are you doing!! Kill those bastards right now!!”

Danmok Clan Head Danmok Hocheong’s shout was heard, and screams and shouts began to run rampant.

Nevertheless, there was not a shred of hesitation mixed in the secret shadow’s movement.

Choyeon. She believed. That if it was her colleagues, they would be safe.

Therefore, she intended to focus on the mission given to her first.

The previous evening. She and Jin Yuseong chased a drunkard and were able to collect some information.

That man said that although not certain, there was such a rumor.

That besides the martial artists residing in the Danmok Clan, there existed those operating outside.

‘They say those guys seek out people who badmouth the Danmok Clan or try to hinder the Danmok Clan’s events.’

Listening to that explanation, Jin Yuseong recalled Hyeok Ilso for some reason.

The way the future Hyeok Ilso raised the Black Market was similar to this.

He cultivated power by taking care of the dirty work of famous orthodox sects.

Also, the First Killing of Sichuan Jang Ik, who died at Jin Yuseong’s hands, was doing something similar to this.

In the end, this meant it was something anyone in a hypocrite group would do.

What caught Jin Yuseong’s interest was another content.

‘I haven’t heard much about the Great Cloud Merchant Group either……. Ah! I heard the reason why the marriage talk came and went. I heard the Great Cloud Merchant Group is experiencing difficulties in business recently.’

The trade failed a few times as they were attacked by a group expected to be bandits.

Furthermore, perhaps because of that, a few major trading partners cut off the deal.

A situation where the Great Cloud Merchant Group would not collapse right away but had no choice but to be concerned in many ways.

Amidst that, even the story that the Danmok Clan side proposed the marriage first.

‘That Great Cloud Merchant Group is also truly pitiful. If they knew how evil the Danmok Clan bastards are, they wouldn’t have even accepted such a marriage proposal!’

Immediately after hearing all that content. A certain possibility came to Jin Yuseong’s mind.

‘It seems the Danmok Clan side played a trick to absorb the Great Cloud Merchant Group.’

Looking at just the immediate situation, it might be a logical leap, but since Jin Yuseong knew the future, he was certain.

Because in the future, the Great Cloud Merchant Group was completely devoured by the Danmok Clan.

So, after returning to the inn, Jin Yuseong gave this instruction to Choyeon.

‘Junior Sister Choyeon, search the Danmok Clan’s major pavilions tomorrow and find secret letters or ledgers.’

There must be guys disguised as bandits or guys who threatened the trading partners.

If those guys were operating outside, it was clear they secretly exchanged letters or money was exchanged.

The situation flowed according to Jin Yuseong’s plan.

Perhaps because of the wedding, there were few martial artists guarding the pavilions.

Furthermore, as the battle began in earnest, even the remaining martial artists headed to the place where the wedding was taking place.

It was to the point where she wondered if there was a need to go around using concealment arts.

A strange sight entered Choyeon’s eyes, who searched several major pavilions including the Young Master’s Hall.

Even though all martial artists had disappeared, exactly two were continuing to guard the place.

On the pavilion located behind those guys, the words [Leader’s Hall] were written.

A mess occurred in the middle of holding a wedding.

Not only that, they are guarding the place even while the Clan Head is shouting with internal energy loaded.

She felt clearly that there seemed to be something.

Choyeon approached toward that place secretly.

Should she call it fortunate?

The gazes of the two guarding the Leader’s Hall were facing forward.

“Aaaaargh!”

The side where screams and shouts were running rampant.

Aiming for the moment a scream was heard again, Choyeon thrust her sword into the martial artist on the left.

Thwack.

A very subtle noise. That martial artist whose acupoint was stabbed collapsed just like that.

“Mm?”

Only then did the martial artist on the right, who felt something, turn his head.

The figure of a person in black clothes who had dug in at some point was visible in that man’s eyes.

“Intru-!?”

He wanted to utter the words ‘It’s an intruder’, but it was a response one step too late.

The sword that flew in at some point dug into his acupoint.

Thwack.

Choyeon, who suppressed the two quickly, entered the Leader’s Hall.

Choyeon scanned the inside of the Leader’s Hall quickly.

A scroll with a neat painting drawn was hanging, and colorful tea sets were placed on the table.

There were a few letters on the table, but Junior Sister Choyeon scanned them and withdrew her interest.

It was not the item she was looking for.

‘It must be there.’

After going back and forth inside the Leader’s Hall quickly and searching the walls or tables for a while. Choyeon’s eyes shone momentarily.

‘Found it.’

Behind the scroll hanging on the wall. There was a small hidden space.

Removing the scroll, a small iron door appeared.

It looked like a kind of storage space.

However, even if she pulled, that door did not open.

It seemed there was a separate way to open it, but she could not stay there looking for even that leisurely.

“Suuup. Huuu.”

Choyeon focused her mind while calming her breathing.

The energy spewed out from the qi center all at once rushes through her acupoints.

Internal energy close to one cycle (60 years) swirls for a moment. At the moment her concentration reached the extreme, Choyeon swung her sword toward that door.

The iron door was cut off with a cheerful noise.

Slash!

There, along with a manual named [Clear Sky Flying Swallow Sword], a few letters were placed.

***

Danmok Hocheong swung his sword repeatedly with a furious face.

“Die!!!”

The trajectory embroidered in the air. And stepping with footwork while observing the energy flowing through Danmok Hocheong’s body.

Dodging the guy’s sword a few times with concise movements.

The trajectory of the sword Danmok Hocheong swung twists sharply.

Since the Flying Swallow Sword Art I learned was originally the Danmok Clan’s, it was nothing particularly surprising.

I already knew the counter to the Flying Swallow Sword Art from long ago.

I swung the scabbard toward the visible trajectory.

Aiming for the weakest moment right before the trajectory bends sharply.

CLANG!

Immediately after the sword and scabbard collided, a strange sight entered my eyes.

The sword silk shimmering on the guy’s sword.

One strand among them spewed out and flew in aiming for my heart, drawing a bizarre trajectory.

While twisting my upper body to dodge concisely. Danmok Hocheong, who retrieved the sword hurriedly, swung the sword repeatedly.

Following that, sword qi spewed out from the sword silk swirling on the guy’s sword.

“Hmm.”

The dark blue energy of the Great Swallow Nest Building Divine Art is embroidered in the air in the form of sword qi.

Some flew in quickly and straight, and others bent sharply here and there and flew in aiming for my vital points.

How should I put it.

It was a sight like seeing a flock of dozens of swallows gliding in the air.

“Now that I see, the Flying Swallow Sword Art wasn’t everything.”

In the Flying Swallow Sword Art I learned, such a technique did not even exist.

It seemed a martial art that only the Clan Head could learn existed separately.

“Hmph. Just because you found the counter to the Flying Swallow Sword Art, are you looking down on our Great Danmok Clan!”

Danmok Hocheong, who shouted violently, swung his sword, and following that, dozens of swallow flocks began to glide in the air again.

A hollow laugh was about to flow out.

Pulling out the Master’s Blade from the scabbard willingly, I said.

“Are you talking about this?”

At some point, sword silk was swirling on the Master’s Blade, and as I slashed down the Master’s Blade, bundles of sword qi spewed out in all directions.

The sword qi bundles I shot out also advanced drawing different trajectories from each other.

The bundles of sword qi of each other collided in the air, and noises burst out repeatedly.

Pabababak!

“Ho, how do you know the Clear Sky Flying Swallow Sword!?”

The reaction of the startled Danmok Hocheong was truly funny.

In the first place, I had never even heard the name Clear Sky Flying Swallow Sword.

When it comes to the Danmok Clan, only the Flying Swallow Sword Art was known.

I wondered if that martial art was a hidden trump card.

However, copying it was not that difficult.

It was enough to mix the Sun Moon Infinite Sword Second Form, Azure Heaven’s Hidden Smile, and Fifth Form, Illusionary Sun Myriad Changes, into the Flying Swallow Sword Art and unfold it.

There were differences in detailed parts, but looking at the big frame, it was roughly similar.

“Do you know the saying, ‘A Frog in a Well’?”

Danmok Hocheong’s appearance was exactly that.

“Since you lived stuck only in Anhui while ignoring the underworld bastards disturbing the world, your perspective has no choice but to be narrow.”

A hidden trump card unknown to the world.

The words sounded plausible, but looking at it conversely, it also meant he hadn’t experienced the winds and waves of the world that much.

In the end, martial studies were bound to develop through fighting.

If a martial art was countered, one must seek a way to overcome that countered method again.

Martial studies were originally developed in such a way.

If one tries to hide it without showing it to others, it is bound to run in place forever.

Right. It was thanks to that that I could grow this fast.

In the past life, I couldn’t even counter the Flying Swallow Sword Art and became a cripple with a broken arm.

However, thanks to that experience, I could counter the Flying Swallow Sword Art simply in this life.

Furthermore, thanks to experiencing countless actual battles, I could counter even the Danmok Clan’s secret technique as if it was nothing now.

“It seems there is nothing more to see now.”

“How dare!! How dare a greenhorn bastard despise our Great Danmok Clan!!”

Perhaps thinking the martial art handed down directly to the Clan Head he believed in was ignored, the guy screamed and unfolded the Clear Sky Flying Swallow Sword again.

“Did your brain harden because you got old?”

If one’s method does not work, one should seek some change.

The sight of insisting persistently that he was not wrong was no different from a child.

A method I had already seen a few times.

I dug toward the guy willingly while swinging the Master’s Blade.

Dodging some and striking some away with the Master’s Blade, the distance narrows gradually.

As the Clear Sky Flying Swallow Sword was countered, the guy unfolded only the Clear Sky Flying Swallow Sword more excessively.

“Tsk.”

The face of the old man lumped with obstinacy became closer.

I swung the Master’s Blade toward the guy willingly.

Slash!

The old man’s right arm, which was swinging madly, was cut off.

“Aaaaaargh!!”

I suppressed the acupoint of the old man screaming with my left hand.

Perhaps because of the old man’s loud scream.

“T, this cannot be!?”

“Clan Head!!!”

The Danmok Clan martial artists who were still standing looked at my side with pale faces.

Scanning around, dozens were already sprawling on the floor.

Some looked like they had their arms or legs broken as if they messed with Nam Geon wrongly, and some were suppressed quite neatly as if they were defeated by Junior Sister Baek Hyang.

Also, some had needles stuck all over their bodies as if they had undergone flower arrangement.

The ones standing fine were around twenty. The ones fallen on the floor looked to be double that.

Holding the Master’s Blade to the Clan Head’s neck, I spoke toward the guys still standing fine.

“The fight is already over. Drop your weapons.”

A few glared at me with faces filled with spite, but most could do neither this nor that and looked at each other’s eyes.

At that moment, a secret presence was felt from behind the pavilion.

“What happened to the thing I asked for?”

At my question, Junior Sister Choyeon, who approached quietly, held out a bundle of papers.

The eyes of Danmok Hocheong, who had eyes filled with pain, widened.

It seemed he wanted to shout something, but since I suppressed his mute acupoint, it was meaningless.

While aiming the sword at the guy’s neck with my right hand, I scanned the bundle of papers Junior Sister Choyeon handed over.

Then, after nodding my head, I examined the rear.

A group gathered together there was visible.

They were the ones who came from the Great Cloud Merchant Group.

“Is the Great Cloud Merchant Group Leader also there?”

At my question, those who seemed to be escorts looked at me with eyes full of wariness.

Only after a brief silence lingered did a middle-aged man step forward.

“Ahem. I am Gung Pyo, the Great Cloud Merchant Group Leader, but do you have some business with me?”

Although he was trying hard to hide it, the sign of nervousness was evident.

It seemed he was misunderstanding something greatly.

Well, it seemed it wouldn’t take that long to clear up that misunderstanding.

I threw the bundle of papers held in my hand toward that side.

The bundle of papers loaded with internal energy flew hitting the air, but by the time it reached near the Great Cloud Merchant Group Leader, the speed decreased and landed in his hands softly.

“Read it.”

With a nervous face, the Great Cloud Merchant Group Leader begins to read down the contents of the letters.

However, the nervous expression was momentary.

From a certain moment, the Great Cloud Merchant Group Leader’s arm holding the letters trembled.

And the Great Cloud Merchant Group Leader, who checked all the letters, shouted with fire in his eyes.

“Danmok Hocheong, you bastard!! How could you plot such a shameless act!!”

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