Chapter 548: Demonic Territory (3)
Jeong Yeon-shin turned his head toward the source of the laughter, suspicion flickering in his heart.
“Cheongeuk’s master?”
Street stalls lined both sides of the broad market road. Among them, a one-armed man in a straw hat lowered his head discreetly.
His build was ordinary.
Clearly not a Yozoku.
And he didn’t look like the master of Cheongeuk either. His ragged appearance was far removed from the stature of a dominant swordsman.
The hat pulled low like someone imitating a Yozoku, and the northern frontier garb—it all fit in a place where few had intact bodies.
It was only natural for «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» a martial artist to react to the name “Cheongeuk.”
He was simply someone who had, for one reason or another, turned his back on the southern lands.
He wasn’t the so-called Number One Outsider Sword who challenged the world with nothing but a blade.
“......”
Jeong Yeon-shin relaxed the sharpness in his gaze.