Nanshao Inn, Luyang, Henan Province.
Hua Yunhui couldn't eat and lay down in the guest room.
"Mister, we might not be able to leave tomorrow. Even if we do, it will probably be in the afternoon, so please have a drink and go to sleep today."
"Is that really okay?"
"Yes. We're going to sleep in tomorrow too, so I think you can drink without worrying about running out."
"Thank you, young lady."
The coachman disappeared with a delighted face.
And so, Cho Myung and Tang Xiulian ended up eating alone. The two filled their stomachs with simple dishes. Since Hua Yunhui was sick in bed, they couldn't eat various delicious things.
"Would you like a drink?"
"Can I drink it?"
"You've never had it before?"
"No."
"Then try it."
Tang Xiulian imdiately ordered a bottle of alcohol.
Considering that it was Cho Myung's first ti, she ordered sothing that was expensive but had a sweet taste.
"I have one older brother and one younger brother. I also have three male cousins. So I was introduced to alcohol early on because of my brothers' pranks. You'll know when you drink it, but it's not incredibly delicious or anything. But it's good. If you keep drinking, you'll find that it's better than tea, young master."
Cho Myung brought the alcohol that Tang Xiulian poured to his mouth.
As Tang Xiulian had said, it wasn't delicious.
The sweetness that lingered in his mouth wasn't bad, but it wasn't to the point where he would go out of his way to buy and drink it.
When Cho Myung put down the empty glass, Tang Xiulian poured him another.
Cho Myung did not pick up the glass again and watched Tang Xiulian.
When she drank, he followed. When her glass was empty, Tang Xiulian filled it. He filled her glass when he noticed it was empty. After drinking like that, it seed he had drunk about seven glasses.
His stomach felt a little upset. But it didn't last long. As soon as his body detected the abnormality, the Immortal Demonic Aura reacted, and he beca perfectly fine as if nothing had happened. He was about to get slightly drunk, but then he beca sober.
"You can't drink if you circulate your internal energy."
"I didn't do it on purpose."
"Pardon?"
"The kid inside my body reacted on its own."
"...!"
Tang Xiulian made a bewildered face for a mont.
But she soon recalled that outstanding divine arts, upon reaching a certain level, could react on their own to protect the body as if they had a spirit, and her expression changed to one of surprise.
"What did you learn? No, how strong are you? No, no, can't you tell both?"
"...!"
"I know. I know you're not supposed to ask about soone else's martial arts carelessly. But we're going to be family in the future. And after we get married, it's just you and who will protect the Hua Family Clinic. I think it would be good in many ways to know your skills properly."
Tang Xiulian had a face that said she absolutely had to know, and Cho Myung was worried about what to explain.
It was when a short ti was passing like that.
Thump-! Thump-! Thump-! Thump-!
The sound of a wooden fish being struck was heard from sowhere.
The mont he heard that sound, Cho Myung's head turned to the window.
"What is it?"
"That sound..."
"It's the sound of a wooden fish, isn't it?"
Cho Myung looked back at Tang Xiulian.
It seed she couldn't feel it.
The energy carried in that sound.
Cho Myung got up from his seat.
"Sister-in-law, please go up to the room where brother Yunhui is. If any problem arises, call . It's a close place, so I can co back in one breath."
"What's going on? What's with the sound of the wooden fish?"
"It seems to be calling . I have to go and check."
***
Three people gathered in a dilapidated shrine subrged in darkness.
A monk wearing a robe that looked like rags, a one-ard man, and an old man with a pale appearance like a zombie.
They were Liu Sheng, Du Bi, and Pan Guan.
"Looks like you couldn't find him?"
"He's not there."
Liu Sheng and Pan Guan asked and answered, finding a dry spot where the rain didn't leak and sitting down.
Du Bi stood blankly against a pillar, silent.
"Isn't it that there's no helper or anything like that?"
"The kids said that one person was sent flying every ti a gust of wind blew."
"But why isn't he here?"
"We must have not found him."
"Then it's a problem even if we find him."
"Why?"
"Because it ans he's a master who can deceive our eyes."
"Co to think of it, that's true. What should we do?"
"What do you an, what should we do? Let's just eat so at."
Liu Sheng really took out a duck leg from his sleeve and began to tear it apart and eat it.
"Han Gaya, give so alcohol."
When Liu Sheng shouted, Du Bi threw him the gourd bottle hanging from his waist.
Liu Sheng ate the alcohol in the gourd bottle and the duck at alternately and deliciously.
Pan Guan, who was watching him, said.
"Shall we go and catch the Tang family's girl?"
"You go."
"Why?"
"I don't want to do such a thing at this age."
"The sect leader ordered it, didn't he?"
"Are you going to do everything he says?"
"That's not it, but."
From the beginning, Liu Sheng had no intention of catching Tang Xiulian.
Since he was in a position to receive help from the Haowu Sect, he was acting as an elder, so he had only intended to chase away the person called the helper.
But the three of them, he, Du Bi, and Pan Guan, had searched the area around the inn, but they could not see a helper, not even a ghost's shadow.
"It's raining."
Du Bi suddenly threw a word.
"It's been raining since a while ago."
"I don't want to get wet."
"We don't want to get wet either...!"
Pan Guan, who was answering, widened his eyes and then imdiately shouted.
"He must be inside the inn!"
Du Bi did not open his mouth any more. He had conveyed his thoughts, so that was enough.
"Let's go."
Pan Guan got up.
"Where?"
"To the inn."
"Are you going to boast to the whole world that you kidnapped the Tang family's girl?"
"Then what should we do?"
"We can call him."
"Call him? How?"
"Wait and see."
Liu Sheng deliciously tore apart and ate the duck leg, then gulped down the alcohol in the gourd bottle and threw it to Du Bi. And then he took out a wooden fish from his bosom.
Thump-! Thump-! Thump-! Thump-!
When he struck the wooden fish with the duck leg bone, a heavy echo burst out.
Liu Sheng operated the soul-calling law power that calls the soul together.
An ordinary person would not be able to feel it, but a master who had reached a considerable level would have no choice but to follow the energy that touched the soul.
The darkness where the rain was drizzling.
While the sound of the wooden fish was echoing in the darkness, a person appeared with a rustling sound.
At his appearance, Liu Sheng stopped striking the wooden fish.
"It's a kid?"
The one who appeared through the darkness was none other than Cho Myung.
"Did you co to avoid the rain?"
"No."
Pan Guan asked, and Cho Myung answered.
"Then why did you co?"
"I ca because you called."
At Cho Myung's answer, Liu Sheng got up from his seat, and Du Bi moved away from the pillar he was leaning on.
"Is this kid the helper?"
Pan Guan asked with a dumbfounded face.
"Are you the master who is protecting the Tang family's girl?"
Liu Sheng asked again.
"So you ca to kidnap my sister-in-law."
"Sister-in-law?"
"Brother Yunhui and sister Tang Xiulian are getting married."
"Who is Yunhui?"
"He's a doctor at the Hua Family Clinic. But do you grandfathers just kidnap people without even knowing who they are? Then that's even worse."
"It's bad. Kidnapping is originally bad. But Han Gaya. Is this perhaps a love affair? He said it's a girl he's going to marry."
Liu Sheng, who had answered Cho Myung's words, asked Du Bi.
Du Bi did not answer.
It ant he did not know.
"The sect leader is over forty."
Pan Guan said.
"Then that's even worse..."
"No! It's probably not a love affair!"
"Then what is it?"
"I don't know. He just said to get rid of the helper and to definitely catch the Tang family's kid."
Liu Sheng and Pan Guan asked and answered, just staring at each other blankly.
It was at this ti.
Du Bi drew a sword from his waist.
Screech-!
It was a cold sound.
The mont Cho Myung turned to Du Bi at that sound.
Swoosh-!
A sword strike that stretched out like a thunderbolt.
It ca to pierce Cho Myung's heart in a straight line.
But with a dull sound of 'thwack!', Du Bi was sent flying back and was embedded in the wall.
At that sight, Pan Guan shouted and rushed in.
"You're a real master!"
Clang-!
An abacus made of iron let out a sound and ca to split Cho Myung's head.
At that mont, Cho Myung, who had ducked his upper body, moved one step and swung his fist.
Thwack!
Pan Guan, who was hit in the head, also collapsed.
It was at this ti that Liu Sheng's wooden fish cut through the wind.
Swoosh-!
Liu Sheng's eyes were watching Cho Myung's movents.
A fist that stretched out like a thunderbolt at the sa ti as he crouched his upper body and moved one step.
Thwack!
Even the considerable build of Liu Sheng was sent flying and then collapsed.
One blow for each person.
It ended like that.
It was a one-sided fight that even the head of the Tang family, who believed in Cho Myung's strength, had not expected.
Cho Myung, who had corrected his posture, looked around the inside of the shrine.
Even if he listened quietly, there was no one other than the three.
Cho Myung looked around at the three groaning people and then turned around and returned to the inn.
He had thought that they would have understood by this much.
After Cho Myung had left like that, the three got up one by one.
Du Bi, with his trembling legs, managed to get up and was about to lean on a pillar, but then he collapsed on the spot.
"Did you see?"
Liu Sheng, who had only raised his upper body from where he had fallen, asked.
"I saw."
Pan Guan, who had been lying on the ground, answered.
"It's right, isn't it?"
"I've been hit."
"Yes. It was exactly that fist!"
The image of the sa person was floating in the minds of the three who were lying scattered.
It was a martial artist who was called the Fighting Demon.
***
When Cho Myung returned, Tang Xiulian, who had been restless in the guest room where Hua Yunhui was sleeping, greeted him happily.
"You're not hurt, are you?"
"No."
"It seems you didn't et anyone?"
It seed she thought so because he had returned so quickly.
Cho Myung shook his head.
"I t them."
"You t them? Who were they?"
"They were three old n, and they ca to kidnap my sister-in-law."
"Really?"
"Yes."
Cho Myung told her the conversation he had heard from the old n.
Along with their appearances.
"It's Liu Sheng, Pan Guan, and Du Bi. But did they just let you go?"
"No."
"Then...!"
In Tang Xiulian's judgnt, it did not seem that a fight had broken out, considering the ti. Then what was the reason Cho Myung had returned unhard?
'Did they perhaps send him to tell to co out obediently if I don't want my young master and older brother to get hurt?'
If they had t him and just let him go, it seed that would be the reason.
While Tang Xiulian was waiting with a worried face, Cho Myung, who had glanced at Hua Yunhui on the bed, answered.
"I scolded them enough for them to understand."
"Pardon?"
"They won't bother again."
What does that an?
Blink, blink!
Tang Xiulian, who was just blinking her eyes and looking at Cho Myung.
"You said it was Liu Sheng, Pan Guan, and Du Bi?"
"I don't know their nicknas."
"According to their appearances, it's them. But did you chase them away, young master?"
"No."
"You just said you scolded them?"
"Yes. I didn't chase them away, I just scolded them. They all fainted, so I just left them."
"Fainted?"
"Yes. I'm pretty good at making people faint."
Cho Myung, who was smiling brightly and confidently.
Tang Xiulian stared blankly for a while and then asked.
"How did you make those three faint?"
"I hit them in the face."
"In the face?"
"Yes. When I hit them in the face as sister Sochen had told to, they all fainted."
Co to think of it, it was like that last ti too.
Except for those who had run away, all of the Haowu Sect's gang who had attacked at night had fainted.
Tang Xiulian, who had recalled the mory of that day, blinked her eyes and organized her thoughts.
'So, the young master is strong enough to make the three, including Liu Sheng, faint in an instant! Does that... make sense?'
If you looked down on the people of the Haowu Sect, you would get a big nose, that was them.
The elders of the Haowu Sect were worn-out and cunning people, so you could be defeated in a mont of carelessness. They were one of the types to be careful of.
Since they were cunning people, they were also people with sensitive suspicion and wariness.
To have made those three faint at once ant a martial arts that could overwhelm them.
Tang Xiulian's face, who was staring at Cho Myung, changed from surprise to astonishnt, and then to joy and doubt.
'What on earth is the young master's identity?'
***
Haowu Sect, Sichuan Branch.
Huayue Tower.
At noon, when the sun was high in the sky.
The head of the Tang family, Tang Huazong, visited Huayue Tower.
Before he even reached the entrance of Huayue Tower, the main gate opened wide, and a large number of beautiful courtesans ca out and greeted him with utmost courtesy.
Tang Huazong entered, pretending not to see such flowers.
Tang Huazong, who was guided by the general manager of Huayue Tower and went straight to Yuexiang's residence.
He had a cool face and a calm expression.
"Welco."
When Tang Huazong entered, Yuexiang bowed her head.
Tang Huazong looked at her and asked in an emotionless voice.
"You must have heard the news that those children are safe?"
"That's right."
"Then you won't have anything to say even if I wipe out the Sichuan branch?"
"I have sothing to say before that."
"I'll listen."
When Tang Huazong took a seat, the general manager closed the door and disappeared outside. Then Yuexiang, who had gotten up from her seat, changed her expression to a seductive one and turned slightly and took off her top.
'The head of the Tang family is a lion. If I can just hold him in my arms, he will be a greater force than a thousand troops and ten thousand horses!'
That was Yuexiang's expectation.
Thud!
Tang Huazong suddenly slamd the table.
It was the mont Yuexiang's expectation was brutally shattered along with the table.
"How dare you see as a vile person who covets carnal desires!"
At Tang Huazong's stern roar, Yuexiang was startled and put her top back on.
"This foolish woman made a mistake."
"How dare you!"
"I'm sorry!"
Yuexiang prostrated herself.
"Did you even convey my warning to the sect leader!"
"I'm sorry. I couldn't convey even that."
It ant that she had not reported even the part about wiping out the Sichuan branch. Because if she had conveyed even that, it would have been a war regardless of the result.
"Why is that! I clearly said that I would wipe out the Sichuan branch as a price. Did you ignore those words!"
At Tang Huazong's roar, Yuexiang prostrated herself again.
"That's not true. The Haowu Sect is my ho, and Chengdu is my hotown. It's because I don't want a war to break out in my ho and hotown."
"A war... does not break out so easily."
"......!"
Yuexiang lifted her head.
Surprisingly, Tang Huazong was smiling.
"Tell the sect leader. That the reason for the collapse of Yatian was that their behavior had crossed the line. Even if it wasn't the Tang family, Qingcheng would have stepped forward again soday, and at that ti, it would have been a matter that would have spilled blood not only on Yatian but also on the Haowu Sect."
Yuexiang could not understand the words of the head of the Tang family at all.
Regardless, Tang Huazong, who had already gained a lot, got up from his seat with a smiling face.
"I also do not wish for a war to break out in Sichuan. If that will is the sa, I believe that we can coexist with you in the future."
From the beginning, a war between the Tang family and the Haowu Sect could not have happened.
To start a war against the Tang family was sothing that could not help but attract the attention of the Orthodox Faction, so it could have bought the great anger of the people of the Orthodox Faction.
The head of the Haowu Sect would also know that much, so even if a war broke out, it would have been a dark battle like an assassination of a key figure.
But if it was a dark battle, he was confident that he could make them realize the terror of the Tang family's poison and assassination techniques. The reason he had killed the head of Yatian was because of such a calculation.
With this, he had wiped out the people who would be a great threat to Tang Xiulian and the Hua Family Clinic in advance, and he had properly shown the dignity of the Tang family in the land of Chengdu, Sichuan.
Although he would have to wait and see, it seed that he had also ford a pretty good relationship with the head of the Haowu Sect's Sichuan branch, Yuexiang.
That was why Tang Huazong's steps, who was leaving Yuexiang and going outside, could not help but be light.
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