Chapter 149 : Chapter 149
Chapter 149 Wind and Cloud Sword Demon (2)
Sometime, a conversation I shared with Brother Chun-baek while enjoying Geomnamchun at the Dancheon Clan came to mind.
“Brother Chun-baek.”
“Why do you call me?”
“Are you not interested in fame, Brother Chun-baek?”
“Hm? Suddenly?”
“Not suddenly, but a thought I have had continuously meanwhile.”
My doubt was truly reasonable.
The reason being, Brother Chun-baek’s current alias is ‘Wanderer Sword.’
Of course, acquiring an alias in the Jianghu Murim itself is an honorable thing, and taking the character Sword in one’s alias was something to be evaluated as truly great, but it was because I couldn't help but think it was lacking compared to Brother Chun-baek’s ability.
Not to mince words, with Brother Chun-baek’s martial power, he wouldn't be lacking to call himself King of Wanderers even now.
“Haha. Is there any martial artist not interested in fame among martial artists?”
Brother Chun-baek’s words are right.
Aren't martial artists those who originally die for fame and live for fame?
So Brother Chun-baek’s conduct was even more incomprehensible.
“Hm.”
As I swallowed my words as if I couldn't agree, Brother Chun-baek laughed heartily.
“Hahaha. Didn't I explain my circumstances regarding the Dragon and Phoenix Assembly matter?”
As he said, Brother Chun-baek had previously voluntarily given up the Dragon alias. He said it was because he is a successor of a Mysterious Sect.
But I right now didn't intend to bother talking about the past, but wanted to talk about the present.
“I think Brother Chun-baek can acquire much greater fame.”
“Thank you for saying so.”
Saying so, Brother Chun-baek poured Geomnamchun into his mouth and asked.
“Myeong-ie.”
“Speak.”
“What is the best way to gain fame that you think of?”
“Hm.”
I couldn't answer easily.
Simply answering, it would be possessing powerful martial might, but detailing it, the ways were endless.
“I think it is an event.”
“Event?”
“For example, a great event like the Limitless Martial Arts Travel.”
“I cannot deny those words.”
Brother Chun-baek’s words were truly correct.
As an event most suitable to make one’s martial name known, one could cite the Limitless Martial Arts Travel as representative.
Limitless Martial Arts Travel.
Just like the name, it means finding masters of the Jianghu Murim without rest and conducting duels.
Didn't Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha win in the Limitless Martial Arts Travel against the Nine Sects early on, making his name widely known, and eventually become the Murim Alliance Leader?
It can be said to be an event where the romance of the Jianghu Murim is concentrated.
But there is a fact that must be known.
The fact that Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha, who succeeded in the Limitless Martial Arts Travel, became the Murim Alliance Leader is exactly that.
That gaining all sorts of honor just by succeeding means it is a task almost impossible to succeed.
As I know, if ten thousand martial artists challenge the Limitless Martial Arts Travel, five thousand of them are bound to die away from home, and the remaining four thousand nine hundred ninety-nine are bound to become cripples.
Although called Limitless Duel, in reality, it is because it is not different from Limitless Life-and-Death Duel.
I know the fact that the romance of the Jianghu is originally bound to grow using blood as nourishment.
“Therefore, it is not the time yet.”
“Um?”
At the time, I didn't fully understand Brother Chun-baek’s words.
Just, it means I passed over it thinking Brother Chun-baek is a man with bigger aspirations than thought.
But now I know fully.
In the current Murim, there are two martial artists who succeeded in the Limitless Martial Arts Travel breaking through atrocious probabilities.
One is Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha mentioned earlier, and the other one was said to be exactly the mysterious master Wind and Cloud Sword Demon.
Right.
It is Brother Chun-baek’s master.
It would be correct to see that Brother Chun-baek’s standard was inherited from his master.
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Although there would be various forms if one delves into Mysterious Sects, if specifying bothering to, it refers to those who continue the Martial Lineage with one-person transmission as the essence.
Mysterious Sects walk a path quite different from other large sects, and they would be places that insist on the one-person transmission of Martial Lineage under the firm principle of no transmission to non-humans.
Since they cannot gather people with the principle of one-person transmission, they couldn't possess vast influence like the Nine Sects, but it should be correct to evaluate Mysterious Sects as places that have fully continued the Grandmaster’s martial arts and spirit.
Since they continued the Grandmaster’s martial arts and spirit uninterruptedly even giving up influence, there would be no need to explain their strength bothering to.
“Introduction is late. I am Lee Ja-seong.”
Brother Chun-baek’s master revealed his name.
Since even in the Beggar’s Gang they didn't know the true name of the Wind and Cloud Sword Demon, perhaps I have approached the mystery of the Jianghu Murim one step closer than others now.
Brother Chun-baek’s master is exactly the living legend of the Jianghu Murim, Wind and Cloud Sword Demon.
Although it is a truly surprising thing, at the same time, it was also not that surprising a thing.
It wasn't that I knew Brother Chun-baek’s master’s identity long ago.
Since Myeong-gae was merely a Three-Knot Beggar, the way to obtain detailed information about Mysterious Sects with high security clearance was nonexistent, and in the first place, it is because I didn't collect much information about King of Wanderers Lee Chun-baek.
Not knowing even King of Wanderers Lee Chun-baek in detail, how would I have known his master hidden in mystery?
Nevertheless, the reason I am not surprised can be cited as about two things.
One is the thought that if it is a Mysterious Sect that raised an unparalleled martial artist called King of Wanderers Lee Chun-baek, it should naturally be about the level of Wind and Cloud Sword Demon, and the second should be said to be because I have already met several absolute masters not lacking to be talked about as legends.
“I greet you again. Brother Chun-baek’s friend, Dancheon Myeong.”
Although I was not on the side bright in etiquette, I know at least the fact that if an elder introduces himself, I must also introduce myself.
“I also know you well. To think the Divine Dragon of Dancheon is a friend, that guy Chun-baek seems to have good skills.”
This place is Jilin Province on the outskirts of the Central Plains, and among them, a remote mountain valley located on the outskirts of Ji'an City.
Nevertheless, I know the fact that the Wind and Cloud Sword Demon is not dark about the political situation of the Central Plains.
Anyway…….
The majesty of the absolute master who pacified the Central Plains Murim before Yeom Gi-ha seemed to have dodged time.
It means his bearing is not lacking compared to any master I have seen early on.
It is not declined in the vainly flowing years, but perhaps became stronger.
I realize anew the fact that the Jianghu Murim is vast.
“Hm.”
The mysterious master gauged my bearing and opened his mouth.
“You resemble that bastard Gi-ha’s temperament exactly.”
Although the title ‘bastard Gi-ha’ is quite unfamiliar, I couldn't not know the fact that it refers to Murim Alliance Leader Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha.
“Do you know Emperor Breaker?”
At my question, Lee Ja-seong grinned. Since his laughter resembled Brother Chun-baek, it was a smile that naturally evoked affection.
“I have fixed him up a few times when that bastard was like a naked baby.”
Fixing him up wouldn't mean he taught martial arts.
As said, since the martial arts of a Mysterious Sect is continued under the firm tradition of one-person transmission, he wouldn't have taught martial arts to a person other than Brother Chun-baek.
Therefore, it would be correct to interpret ‘fixed him up’ said by Lee Ja-seong as beat him up soundly.
“Um.”
Although I cannot imagine at all the appearance of that Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha getting beaten up, it was difficult to think it false.
It was not because Wind and Cloud Sword Demon Lee Ja-seong is a living legend of the Jianghu Murim, nor because he is Brother Chun-baek’s master.
It would be correct to say it is because my high discernment did not capture absolutely any sign of falsehood from him.
To express it more in detail, it is because he seems rather sheepish than proud of the fact that he beat up Yeom Gi-ha of the world right now.
“Even if born a tiger, one can be beaten up by a dhole in the cub days.”
“Ah…….”
I know how highly Lee Ja-seong evaluates Yeom Gi-ha.
At the same time, from the temperament expressing himself who achieved supreme martial arts as a dhole, I also know his broad-mindedness.
“Did you learn martial arts from that bastard Gi-ha?”
The relationship between me and Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha is not well known even in the Central Plains Murim.
Although I know that some busybodies go around spreading rumors that I am Emperor Breaker’s successor, I know the fact that it is considered a groundless rumor not accepted as an established theory.
Because neither I nor Emperor Breaker, no one stepped forward to certify that rumor.
In other words, it would be correct to consider that reading Emperor Breaker’s traces from me originated not from information but from Lee Ja-seong’s high discernment.
“By chance, connection reached a little.”
Actually, since Brother Chun-baek also knows the relationship between me and Emperor Breaker, I answered honestly because it is not an issue bothering to be a secret.
“That was the problem.”
“Pardon?”
“I mean learning martial arts from that bastard Gi-ha is the problem.”
“Um.”
Speaking honestly, I couldn't accept Lee Ja-seong’s words immediately.
It is not because of pride that I learned martial arts from Emperor Breaker, but because I know the fact that Emperor Breaker’s teaching actually became important nourishment for my growth.
“What is the problem?”
First, it would be right to listen more to Lee Ja-seong’s story.
It was because even as I felt myself, Lee Ja-seong is a martial artist residing in a much higher line than me currently.
“Um. It is difficult to say in words.”
Saying so, Lee Ja-seong strode and flew his body to the vacant lot in front of the thatched cottage.
Since that profundity was truly high, he traversed five Zhang more comfortably than breathing and was located in the center of the vacant lot.
“I think learning with the body would be faster, would you try challenging me once?”
“That would be good.”
Originally, I know the fact that martial artists speak with swords.
If we collide directly, perhaps there might be a point of realization.
Well, I thought if I can win, that would also be a result not bad.
* * *
People say the Murim Alliance is the headquarters of Martial Arts.
Although they say martial arts under heaven came from Shaolin, it is because the place where Orthodox Martial Arts of the most branches gather is the Murim Alliance.
It was because all influential families of the Orthodox Murim led by the Nine Sects One Gang and the Five Great Families have a foot in the Murim Alliance.
Since originally development lies within comparison and competition, the Murim Alliance where martial artists of diverse origins gathered becoming the headquarters of martial arts was a thing to be called inevitability.
However, when someone asked Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha if the Murim Alliance is truly the headquarters of martial arts, Yeom Gi-ha answered like this.
-Go eat shit.
Of course, it was a story of his younger days.
The reason being, the Murim Alliance Yeom Gi-ha looks at was not the headquarters of martial arts but the headquarters of documents.
Even though he is Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha who would rush in laughing heartily even towards a martial arts army of ten thousand, it means he was merely an ordinary man whose complexion turned pale in front of ten thousand approval documents.
“Gija-ya.”
“Why do you call.”
At Murim Alliance Leader Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha’s call, Chief Strategist Singija answered sullenly.
Since it was conduct a strategist should not show to the Alliance Leader in the Murim Alliance where hierarchy is strict, it was not lacking to express as disloyalty.
“Do you dislike me calling you?”
“Since you cause accidents every day, it is so.”
Right.
When Alliance Leader Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha called the Chief Strategist ‘Gija-ya’ wheedlingly, there was no history of good things happening.
Since Singija’s sullenness was solidified by learning, this also should be seen as poetic justice and karmic retribution.
Therefore, it is correct to see Murim Alliance Chief Strategist Singija’s conduct as innocent.
Since Yeom Gi-ha was also a person with minimum shame, he knew his sin.
Therefore, he also couldn't ask the sin of Strategist Singija.
“Kuhm.”
Emperor Breaker Yeom Gi-ha, who knows well that there is no gain in having an in-depth discussion about the hierarchy of Alliance Leader and Strategist, quickly turned the topic.
“More than that, isn't it truly insolent?”
“What is?”
“Why does that guy Dancheon Myeong-ie not visit the Murim Alliance even once?”
At the Alliance Leader’s grumbling, Singija’s head nodded weakly.
If it were a person who knows the aspect of conversation of the two usually, it was a rare event enough to think the sun rose in the west.
“Although I tend to think the Alliance Leader whines unnecessarily always, this time the Alliance Leader’s words would be right.”
“When did I always whine?”
“No?”
“Kuhm.”
Confirming the killing intent dwelling in the eyes of Singija asking back, Yeom Gi-ha decided to just pass over this topic as well.
If someone saw such conduct of Yeom Gi-ha, they would have indeed evaluated it as the survival skill of the Number One Under Heaven.
“Generally, the guy named Myeong of the Dancheon Clan would not be lacking to be made an example of ingratitude.”
“Indeed it is so.”
Since it was a truly rare case for Singija to agree entirely with Yeom Gi-ha’s words, Yeom Gi-ha was excited.
Especially, having heard the news recently that Dancheon Myeong became close with the old man Sword Emperor Wuji, perhaps Yeom Gi-ha felt the current situation even more welcome because he holds a slight anxiety.
“It won't do. I must go to scold the guy soundly.”
Although saying this, eventually if he meets Dancheon Myeong, it was clear he would come back after giving lavishly.
Although he doesn't know what the old man Sword Emperor gave to Dancheon Myeong, Yeom Gi-ha had confidence to give more than that.
But it was correct to evaluate that also as merely a vain dream.
“Shut up and just finish processing documents.”
“Um.”
It was because he didn't receive the Strategist’s permission.
Postponing ten thousand approval documents and going out seemed to be an unreasonable move after all.