"Kid, let ask you. Are you and the guy who was stripping my clothes earlier fair?"
When Cho Myung did not answer, Zuo Zimu asked with a sneer.
"......!"
"Why was that guy doing the nial task of stripping clothes? What were you doing at that ti? You were probably resting sowhere, right? While receiving the admiring gazes of other people."
"That's because big brother Ilpyeong said he would do it..."
"No. If you like fairness so much, you should have at least done it together. Whether the other person likes to do it or not, it should be fair, shouldn't it?"
"......!"
"Think about how you treat people. You should treat everyone fairly, regardless of who they are, but did you treat them that way? Didn't you also ignore them because they ignored you? Didn't you blow them away with your power because they were your enemies? Think carefully. You must have treated them differently depending on the opponent. Unfairly."
"......!"
Zuo Zimu especially emphasized the last word.
It was sophistry.
But for Cho Myung, who was concerned about fairness, it was a statent that left room for deep thought.
"That's enough. Master, if you're not going to kill , untie . I won't touch Yifeng Hall anymore."
Zuo Zimu, who had chuckled at Cho Myung, turned to Yu Bicheon and said.
Yu Bicheon could not answer and just looked at Cho Myung with a heavy face.
Cho Myung just stood there like a person seeking an answer.
When Yu Bicheon could not make a decision, Zuo Zimu looked at Cho Myung again.
"Don't you get it yet! Look now. The master is only looking at your face. Think about it. Does the master look at the faces of other people besides you? Has he ever looked at the faces of other ronin? It's because you're strong! Because you're stronger than the other ronin, he's giving you special treatnt! Then what's the difference between you and ! We're both being treated as much as we're strong!"
Zuo Zimu poured it on scathingly.
At those words, Cho Myung made a face as if he had been hit. Especially the words that they were both being treated specially as much as they were strong made his head spin.
"Hmph! What kind of worthless brat is talking about fairness!"
It was when Zuo Zimu was sneering at Cho Myung with a snort.
Flash!
A flash of sword light flashed. And the sll of blood wafted.
"......!"
When Cho Myung was surprised and looked, Zuo Zimu's head was cut off.
"I'm sorry. They say you get scared when you get old, and it seems to be true."
Yu Bicheon said, sheathing his sword.
"Th-that wasn't it."
"I know. It's not that you were telling to kill this person, but that there was no need to kill the people of the Seven Kill Chamber. And that we should not kill unnecessarily in the future."
"Yes."
"Killing this person was my judgnt, not because of your words."
"But if I hadn't said anything, he would still be alive."
"Don't think like that. The reason this person died is entirely because of the evil deeds he has committed. This person was extrely vicious even when he was killing. He could have just killed them, but he enjoyed killing the target of his killing painfully and cruelly in front of his wife and children. He was a person who deserved to die, and it was rather a mistake to let him breathe until now."
To think that the person who had so confidently asked to be killed was such a cruel person, it was a mont when he realized that you could not judge the past just by looking at the present.
"You just showed the path that I and this hall should take. Rather, it is sothing I should be grateful for. Let's go outside."
Yu Bicheon went outside first.
Cho Myung, who had been watching the scene for a mont, quickly followed.
When he went outside, the stars were twinkling.
"The world is like those stars. If there are bright stars, there are also dim stars, and if there are stars that are gathered like that, there are also stars that are separated and alone."
Yu Bicheon, who had stopped walking and looked up at the night sky, started walking slowly again when there was no response from Cho Myung.
"Don't take the old man's words to heart. It was full of absurd sophistry. But if there is a part to keep in mind, it is that it is not good to be obsessed with being fair."
"Why? Shouldn't it be fair?"
"That's right. It should be fair. But people are fundantally unfair. Think about it. If you treat everyone fairly, how can you et your own partner?"
"......!"
"Isn't that right. If you treat all the won in the world, all the n in the world fairly, how can you et your own special partner? And how can you treat your child, your family, and your acquaintances the sa as other people?"
It was a persuasive statent that stuck in his ear.
Cho Myung could not find any words to refute.
"It's right that the world is unfair. No, it would be more correct to say that it should be moderately fair."
"How? How can it be moderately fair?"
"You have to set your own standards. You have to set your own standards of how you will treat people and treat them according to those standards. And if those standards are sothing that everyone can nod their head to, the world will praise you for being fair and just."
"My own standards..."
Cho Myung muttered.
Because those words had a great impact on him.
But he did not know what his own standards were.
Yu Bicheon, who had noticed such a concern, smiled and said.
"Setting your own standards is not a simple matter. It is especially difficult to set the right standards. That's why prestigious families value the teachings of their ancestors. If you were not born in such a prestigious family, what can you do, you have to learn and build them yourself as you live in the world."
Cho Myung's mind beca complicated at the words that he had to learn on his own in the end.
Yu Bicheon left such a Cho Myung alone for a mont.
"Wait a minute."
When Cho Myung lifted his head, he was in front of a warehouse.
The one where they had locked up the assassins they had captured before.
Yu Bicheon told the person guarding the warehouse to open the door and then went inside.
The sound of a sword being drawn and the sound of a life being cut were heard.
Cho Myung's heart beca troubled when he heard the sound that cut life and death in an instant.
Is it okay for a person to kill a person so simply?
Why do people tornt other people like that?
Although he was determined to fight to protect the Hua Family Clinic and the family mbers there, if there were no people who tornted the Hua Family Clinic in the first place, there would be no need to fight, right?
'Why? Why is that?'
While he was feeling lost as if he were drifting in the vast sea, a voice flashed in his mind.
- Didn't I tell you. It's difficult because you're trying to know. Just let it be. All the streams of the world are different, but they eventually flow into the river and then gather in the sea. So if you understand, you understand, and if you don't, you don't, just let it go. Because even if you walk with your own steps, you will eventually reach the sea.
It was what the master of the Taoist master Yolyo had said.
- Don't find it difficult. If you see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and act with your body, you will eventually reach the principle.
It was what the Taoist master Yolyo had left for Cho Myung.
"If you see with your eyes, hear with your ears, and act with your body, you will eventually reach the principle."
Muttering the words that the great Taoist Yolyo had left him, he opened his chest.
When he took a deep breath, the cold night air entered deep into his lungs and refreshed him.
At this ti, Yu Bicheon ca out of the warehouse.
Yu Bicheon, who had told the people guarding the warehouse to go and rest, approached Cho Myung.
Cho Myung, who saw Yu Bicheon approaching, quickly bowed his head.
"I'm sorry. I dared to interfere."
"Do you think you were presumptuous?"
"Yes. I was presumptuous."
"Hmm, I don't think so, but if you think so, then it must be so."
"I'm sorry."
"It's not sothing to be sorry about. It's not a bad thing to express your thoughts. And aren't young hero Ban and Yifeng Hall in a relationship where they have to exchange opinions on how to fight against a great enemy?"
"Yes."
"And don't worry about the people I just killed. They are assassins and have hard countless lives until now."
"I don't mind. That's why I feel even worse."
"......?"
"If a person dies, if they died because of , I should be concerned and my heart should ache. That's what's right."
Cho Myung, who was lowering his head.
Yu Bicheon stared at such a Cho Myung.
In a way, it was a right thing to say. And in another way, it could be said that it was wrong.
Yu Bicheon opened his mouth, hoping that Cho Myung's heart would be a little more at ease.
"I don't like to teach anyone, but I want to say this to young hero Ban."
"......?"
"The world is turbid. And the world now is especially turbid. Just as anyone's hands get dirty if they put them in muddy water, no one living in a turbid world can be clean alone."
"Yes."
Cho Myung, who answered right away as if he did not even have to think.
Yu Bicheon made a surprised face at such a Cho Myung.
'It seems he has already sorted out his feelings.'
Although it was absurd to talk about fairness when dealing with an enemy, it was also surprising that he had composed himself so quickly. And it was great.
'Is everything a quick battle?'
Yu Bicheon smiled at the corner of his mouth.
"Let's go and rest. Now that we have crossed a river of no return with the Heaven of Killing Emperors, it seems we will have to be more tense from tomorrow."
"Yes."
The two returned side by side.
Through the darkness under the twinkling stars.
***
Two days later, at the Zhao Family.
Mu Yanchou, who was sitting in the upper seat of the main hall.
His two eyes were hollow.
His eyelids were as heavy as a thousand pounds, and his whole body was limp like a water-soaked cotton, and he kept wanting to lie down.
It was because he had not slept for four days.
Was a famous martial artist in this state just because he had not slept for four days?
Mu Yanchou himself could not understand.
Because he had been confident that he could easily go for about ten days.
But it was true. His whole body was lethargic, and it was even annoying to get up from the chair.
The badger hunt of the assassins of the Heaven of Killing Emperors had taken effect.
They had launched a surprise attack whenever he tried to rest, without even giving him a chance to circulate his qi.
As a result, he had to be on edge like a sharp sword for four days. The accumulated fatigue had made his whole body rapidly heavy after three days, and on the fourth day, his mind was also shaken.
"Shall I just attack them!"
Mu Yanchou clenched his fist.
But he soon released his fist and sighed.
Since he had received an order, he had to refrain from extre battles like a life-and-death struggle.
"It would have been enough to just fight moderately and let the mbers of the Divine Martial Stage gain experience..."
It had started to go wrong when Yifeng Hall had annihilated the Seven Kill Chamber.
The problem was not the half-destroyed strength of Yifeng Hall, but the reaction of the Heaven of Killing Emperors.
He had thought that if they were to attack in anger over the matter of the Seven Kill Chamber, it would be a big problem, so he had thrown Yifeng Hall as bait and had gone to attack the Evil Family Fortress.
Of course, he had no intention of seeing it to the end.
He had intended to just show off his strength moderately and then retreat.
He had thought that the master of the Heaven of Killing Emperors who had co to the Evil Family Fortress, whoever he was, would be satisfied with just finishing off Yifeng Hall if he was a person with so sense.
But it had gone wrong again there.
The preparations at the Evil Family Fortress were too solid.
Far from showing off his strength, he had only been thoroughly beaten. That was not all. Yifeng Hall had swept away the assassins who had attacked them and had even struck the Wolf Union.
At that, the master of the Heaven of Killing Emperors must have been very angry.
So he must be clinging to them so tenaciously.
"Ha! What a ss because of that human."
When he thought of Yifeng Hall, he was so angry that his back was throbbing. But he could not just be angry, he had to find a way to break through.
"No way! First, I'll gather everyone here in one place and then have the mbers of the Divine Martial Stage take turns circulating their qi."
If he gathered everyone in one building, he would be able to protect them with a small number of people, so if he divided the Divine Martial Stage into two groups and had them take turns circulating their qi, the situation would improve a little.
He would have to think again about whether to attack the Evil Family Fortress after that.
It was when Mu Yanchou had made up his mind like that.
The Zhao Family Master and the Qingfeng Sect Master ca to the main hall together. Seeing their urgent steps and expressions, it seed sothing was wrong.
'What is it now?'
Mu Yanchou pressed his throbbing head and straightened his posture.
"Great hero Mu, please look at this."
"What is that?"
The Zhao Family Master held out a white cloth.
When Mu Yanchou received it, it was a kind of poster.
It seed soone had written sothing on a white cloth and had posted it on a wall sowhere.
"What is this...!"
Mu Yanchou's face was distorted at once as he read the writing on the white cloth.
Because the content was as follows.
- Yifeng Hall announces.
Four days ago, this hall swept away the Seven Kill Chamber, which had been disturbing the land of Guiyang, and broke up the Wolf Union, which had been rummaging through the market. Not only that, but we also beheaded all the assassins who had attacked this hall, and among them were the leader of the Hundred Kill Group of the Heaven of Killing Emperors and Zuo Zimu, who was said to be one of the five great guardians.
Now this hall is preparing for a battle with the Heaven of Killing Emperors. Since the Heaven of Killing Emperors is a powerful sect that cannot be compared to the Seven Kill Chamber or the Wolf Union, to stand against them would be like a mantis trying to stop a chariot. Our lives may disappear silently like the morning dew. Nevertheless, the reason we are standing against them and leaving this writing is because even if our lives are lost, our righteous spirit, which fought for the justice and peace of Guiyang and the land of Guizhou, will continue to remain in this land.
We hope that Guizhou, that Guiyang, will not forget us. We hope that you will rember that we were here. That Yifeng Hall was always by your side...
It was a writing full of solemnity.
In addition, it contained the surprising content that they had beheaded the leader of the Hundred Kill Group and the five great guardians, Zuo Zimu. But Mu Yanchou, far from being surprised, could not feel even a trace of solemnity.
"What the hell is this trick!"
Mu Yanchou, who had torn the cloth he was holding.
He soon shouted with a triumphant face.
"We must go to Yifeng Hall!"
(End of Chapter)
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