Chapter 240 : Jaseung, Buys
Chapter 240: Jaseung, Buys
A tense atmosphere filled the room.
“Why do you think I am related to the Demonic Cult?”
As Yim Sayeon asked back, Lee Jaseung questioned her again.
“Are you not?”
It was a somewhat rude approach.
However, the harvest was great. He had seen the deep eyes of Yim Sayeon, whose inner thoughts could normally never be read, waver slightly.
It was the moment Lee Jaseung's instinct heard the answer.
There was a connection.
Lee Jaseung stepped back with a soft tone.
“There was a major conflict with the Asura Demon Sect recently. A mysterious organization and your son were deeply involved in that process. That is why I asked.”
Yim Sayeon nodded. If that was the case, she felt he had enough reason to ask her.
“What do you intend to do? Do you truly plan to clash with the Demonic Cult?”
“Since the opponent is who they are, I won't be able to avoid it even if I wanted to.”
Yim Sayeon's expression stiffened slightly.
She was contemplating whether she should tell Lee Jaseung everything honestly.
In fact, it was not a story that couldn't be told.
That the person she loved long ago was the younger brother of Ho Yeonbaek, who was the Cult Leader of the Heavenly Demon Sect, and that the child born between them was Cheon Myeongin. That since it was such a long time ago, she could speak of it comfortably now.
However, Cheon Myeongin had asked her recently if the Demonic Cult had placed a Great Law on him.
So she had told Cheon Myeongin the entire history of the past.
She could not easily make a decision due to the anxiety that revealing everything to Lee Jaseung might somehow harm her son.
It felt like only yesterday when she had called Lee Jaseung and asked him to kill her son. Now, she was withholding the truth from Lee Jaseung for fear that her son might be harmed.
In any case, her hesitation gave more weight to Lee Jaseung's speculation that the Heavenly Demon Soul might be related to Cheon Myeongin.
Lee Jaseung spoke with an expression that feigned ignorance.
“I am letting you know in advance that there may be a great battle with the Demonic Cult in the future, so please forgive today's rudeness.”
“Rudeness? You said it for my sake.”
“Then I will visit you again next time.”
He bid her farewell.
Baek Seolyoung wanted to stay a little longer. However, Yim Sayeon had a face full of thoughts.
“Grandmother, I will come to see you again.”
“Yes, I will see you next time.”
Baek Seolyoung followed Lee Jaseung out.
Only after the two left did Yim Sayeon let out a long sigh. She felt wretchedly sorry for being unable to control her own heart.
“Even after living for a hundred years, I am still like this.”
* * *
Inside the running carriage, Lee Jaseung and Baek Seolyoung were silent for a long time.
Both were lost in their respective thoughts.
Baek Seolyoung's mind was full of thoughts about Yim Sayeon. The guilt of having forgotten her grew even larger after meeting her.
Yim Sayeon looked much older.
Baek Seolyoung broke the silence first.
“I felt so sorry toward grandmother.”
At Baek Seolyoung's words, Lee Jaseung turned his head toward her. He could guess what she was feeling.
“She will understand.”
“I'm sure she will. That's why I'm more sorry.”
That must have been why. The reason this question arose.
“Can I ask you one thing?”
“Anything.”
“Why didn't you say you came to meet her son?”
Baek Seolyoung could tell that Lee Jaseung was keeping a distance from her. From the position of knowing both of them well, it was a distance that was somewhat hard to understand.
Lee Jaseung replied.
“Because the name tag she is wearing is 'Mother'.”
“What?”
At the moment she heard it, she couldn't understand what he meant.
However, she soon realized.
He couldn't speak honestly because it was a matter related to Cheon Myeongin. He was keeping in mind the possibility that she might relay his intentions to her son.
“It is the part of her I understand, and at the same time, the reason I am wary.”
“I see what you mean.”
Baek Seolyoung, who was nodding, asked abruptly.
“Under what name are you living?”
After a short pause, Lee Jaseung replied.
“Person of Jianghu.”
Perhaps at the moment of asking the question, she had expected a specific answer.
The name 'Husband'.
However, she realized that was too great a greed.
The vessel of the man named Lee Jaseung was too large to wear such a name tag. He was a person too outstanding to be limited by such a label.
Yes, it was nothing to be disappointed about.
It could have been words that opened a path to live in this Jianghu with a larger heart, rather than being bound by the words 'husband' and 'wife'.
Baek Seolyoung said with a smile.
“Yes, we live under the name, the Person of Jianghu.”
Whether Orthodox, Unorthodox, or Demonic, everyone is a person of Jianghu.
Lee Jaseung picked up her words again.
“And as long as we live under the name 'Person of Jianghu', we only have two choices left.”
“What are they?”
Lee Jaseung looked at her and spoke.
“To survive, or to disappear.”
Because they were meaningful words, Baek Seolyoung said nothing for a while. They sounded like cold-blooded words, but she felt Lee Jaseung was speaking the core truth.
Survive or disappear.
She wanted to live. Even though it’s a cold-blooded Jianghu where flesh is torn and blood splatters, she wanted to survive until the end with him.
As she made that resolution, strength entered her two fists and a certain heat surged within her heart.
She pulled back the curtain of the carriage window.
Whirr.
The wind fluttered her hair.
After looking outside for a moment, she surveyed the surroundings and asked.
“Huh? But where are we going now?”
The place the carriage was heading for was not the Murim Alliance. The carriage was running on a completely different road.
Lee Jaseung replied with a smile.
“There is a place I need to stop by for a moment.”
* * *
The carriage carrying Lee Jaseung arrived at a manor.
A middle-aged man greeted the two.
“I greet the Alliance Leader.”
“It is a pleasure to meet you.”
Judging by the greeting, it was a pre-arranged meeting and a meeting where he did not hide his identity.
Baek Seolyoung examined the man. He had a somewhat dull-looking physique and did not wear any weapons. Her intuition told her he was not a person of Jianghu.
However, this place was clearly crawling with people of Jianghu. She felt the Qi of experts hidden in all directions. Experts who had reached the Peak Realm. She felt there would be several other even more outstanding experts who were not detected by her.
Where on earth could this be?
It would be nice if he told her in advance, but Lee Jaseung was not that kind of person.
There were good points to such a personality. Whatever he did could be exciting.
The middle-aged man guided the two inside the building. The interior was ordinary. It was truly a manor like any other that could be seen anywhere. Except for a secret room that was in an unexpected small room.
Entering a narrow hallway along a secret door, a large warehouse appeared. The pungent scent was the scent of medicinal herbs.
“Will you show me the goods?”
The man then went to a corner and brought a prepared box.
The box was quite large.
“The stock we have is two in total.”
The man opened the box. A fragrant scent wafted out as the box opened.
“It is Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng.”
Baek Seolyoung was startled by the man's explanation. Truly, this was her first time seeing a Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng directly like this.
“There are two roots of Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng, and twelve roots of Thousand Year Snow Ginseng in total.”
He was a merchant. Not an ordinary merchant, but a merchant who specialized only in selling spirit medicines.
He was the most famous person in Jianghu regarding the sale of spirit medicines.
“I brought them because the Alliance Leader said he wanted them, but the price is a bit high. As you know, spirit medicines don't have fixed prices. They are formed according to supply and demand at the time.”
“How much is it?”
“Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng is eight million silver coins. Thousand Year Snow Ginseng is one hundred and fifty thousand silver coins per root.”
It was truly an enormous price. Even so, it was acceptable because, basically, Ten Thousand Year Snow Ginseng was an item that couldn't be obtained even with money.
After staring at him for a moment, Lee Jaseung nodded.
“Sounds good, I will buy them all.”
The man was startled by Lee Jaseung's words. Paying such an enormous price was surprising, but buying them without haggling a single penny was also surprising. Usually, when trading spirit medicines, one had to negotiate for days on end to bargain for the price.
The man asked curiously.
“Where on earth do you intend to use so many spirit medicines?”
“A war with the Demonic Cult will break out soon.”
The man was startled by those words.
“The price of spirit medicines will skyrocket then.”
“It probably will.”
Originally, when a big war broke out, the price of spirit medicines was bound to rise naturally.
“But why are you telling me? I might change my mind and decide not to sell the goods.”
“I don't mind if you do.”
“Are you serious?”
“Of course. You are doing your job, and I am doing mine.”
The man was not someone who believed such words. He would have thought there was another ulterior motive or that it was a bluff.
However, looking at Lee Jaseung's clear eyes, it somehow felt like the truth. So he became ashamed of even having said such things.
He felt so ashamed of himself for playing petty games because of money in front of the Murim Alliance Leader who was spending money unsparingly for the war with the Demonic Cult.
If it was intended, it was a truly great performance, and even if it was sincere, he thought it was great.
The man saw Lee Jaseung for the first time today. He had only heard numerous rumors about Lee Jaseung. He had thought they were mostly exaggerated rumors, but he felt that might not be the case.
'Perhaps...'
The man's instinct told him. That the young Alliance Leader before his eyes might win the war against the Demonic Cult.
‘And if that happens?'
The Murim Alliance would gain immense profits truly beyond imagination.
What if he played a part in that victory for the Murim Alliance?
His instinct spoke again.
That it was not the time to roll the abacus, but the moment to make a winning move.
“Do you happen to need more stock?”
“Do you have more?”
“I have stock that I am keeping for emergency use.”
“Give me all of it.”
“I will give you that stock at cost.”
“You don't have to do that.”
“No. Even if I earn billions, if the Demonic Cult rules the Jianghu, everything will be taken away. Please use it well and stop them.”
“I am truly grateful that you think that way.”
Baek Seolyoung, who was only listening to the transaction of the two, was sincerely impressed.
Did Lee Jaseung truly expect such a result?
He might have, or he might not have. It was an unknown thing.
Lee Jaseung and the man entered the secret room and finalized the transaction. So Baek Seolyoung couldn't know how much he had bought.
The carriage was filled with spirit medicine boxes.
Except for the space where the two could barely sit, it was filled with boxes.
Just how much was it?
Just where on earth did he intend to use this?
She had many questions, but she did not ask. Just as she had done when she came here, Lee Jaseung would show her with exciting results.
Thus, the carriage headed toward the Murim Alliance again.