I Became the Hidden Chapter 69

Wu Hou's Eight Gates Formation Diagram.

The moment he heard that name, Baek Yoonjun thought.

'What's that?'

Although it was a name he had heard for the first time, since it seemed to have some substance, he just kept his mouth shut.

-It seems you don't need an explanation.

The man in front of him passed over it as if Baek Yoonjun had understood his words.

'No, why are you passing over it without explaining?'

Although Baek Yoonjun had a lot to say, he couldn't bring it out.

While he was at a loss for words and couldn't say anything, the man in front of him continued to speak on his own.

-You are quite a strange one. Although I am not a martial artist and cannot say for sure, I know that the mind, technique, and body are important.

Baek Yoonjun nodded at the martial artist's words.

This was also in the Three Talents Heavenly Record, the only proper martial arts book that Baek Yoonjun had looked into.

-But your technique is extremely high, your body is about average, and your mind is at the bottom.

This time, Baek Yoonjun was very offended, but he had nothing to say.

Because he had no choice but to agree that his mind was at the bottom, even if he didn't know about other things.

-Although it is a part of the Wu Hou's Eight Gates Formation Diagram, since you are the one who activated it, I can't just send you away.

At the man's subsequent words, Baek Yoonjun became tense.

Perhaps because of that, although he would usually not be able to say a word, a question popped out of his mouth right away.

"Sending me away isn't a bad thing, is it?"

-No, so don't worry. To put it bluntly, it would be similar to a gift.

At the man's words, Baek Yoonjun was relieved.

The man looked at such a Baek Yoonjun with a benevolent smile and continued to speak.

-Your technique is already overflowing, so it's not necessary, and your body is influenced by your technique and follows it, so this is also not necessary...

The man pondered.

Even his pondering appearance was an intellectual one that seemed trustworthy.

-I'll have to supplement your mind. But since I can't interfere much, it would be in my calculations to give you something more supplementary here...

The man's pondering seemed quite deep.

Baek Yoonjun watched the man, thinking that since it didn't seem like a bad story, he should listen.

-The martial arts I know... since you are already in the realm of opening a sect, it's not necessary... other skills have also stepped into the realm of opening a sect, so it's not necessary...

As the man's thoughts seemed to be getting longer, Baek Yoonjun sat down at a nearby table, picked up the tea on the table, and brought it to his mouth.

But he couldn't drink it.

Although he could move the teacup, since the contents inside were moving so slowly, he couldn't drink it.

'This is strange.'

While Baek Yoonjun was looking at the tea in the teacup, the man pondered, and a moment's time passed.

'Alright. Let's do it this way.'

The man lightly tapped his fan.

At the faint 'thud' sound, Baek Yoonjun was startled, but it did not show on the outside.

'First, I will let you put three bolts on your heart.'

"Bolts... you say?"

Since the word 'bolt' didn't particularly resonate with him, Baek Yoonjun immediately asked back.

"The word 'bolt' doesn't resonate with me."

-It will surely be helpful to your unstable mind. Try to use it when you find it difficult to do something.

"I understand."

Although Baek Yoonjun still didn't feel that it resonated with him, since he was giving it, he decided to receive it.

As Baek Yoonjun obediently accepted, the man smiled with satisfaction and continued to speak.

-Next, I will give you wisdom.

"Wisdom? Are you going to put something like a memory into my head?"

-That is the realm of knowledge. The wisdom I give is 'the mental ability to quickly realize the principles of things and to handle situations accurately'.

Although Baek Yoonjun still didn't feel that it resonated with him, since he was giving it, he obediently nodded his head.

The man smiled with satisfaction as he looked at Baek Yoonjun.

-Let me give you a piece of advice. It's as if you have died once, so you have stepped deeply into death, but the depth of life is shallow.

Baek Yoonjun was startled inwardly at the man's words.

It was because it was a story about a part that Baek Yoonjun was also quite concerned about.

The second-rate.

The realm that Baek Yoonjun was desperately trying to rise to.

From what he had realized so far, it was that to step into that realm, life and death itself were important.

-Try to live life more actively. It will surely be helpful to you.

"Thank you... uh... what should I call you?"

Although Baek Yoonjun wanted to thank the man who was giving him advice on a part he was concerned about, since he did not know the man's name, his words trailed off.

The man just smiled benevolently as he looked at Baek Yoonjun.

-I am just a ghost of the Wu Hou's Eight Gates Formation Diagram. If we are fated, let's see each other again.

At the same time as the words, the man's body became faint like a mist and then disappeared.

At that moment, the flow of time that had been flowing slowly returned to normal.

Baek Yoonjun also, feeling that, quickly moved his body without even having time to feel the afterglow of just now.

'By the way, there was a person here!'

Stepping on a desperate movement technique, Baek Yoonjun avoided the gaze of the man who resembled Zhang Sanfeng, who had been moving slowly until just now.

Going behind the man, Baek Yoonjun struck the back of his neck.

A situation that had happened in an instant, without even time to blink.

The Baek Yoonjun who had created that situation blinked his eyes belatedly.

"Huh?"

Baek Yoonjun became very puzzled.

It was because, usually, he was not quick to judge except when he was swinging his sword.

If it were the past, in a case like this, he would have hesitated at the suddenly changed environment and would have surely been caught.

'Is this the power of wisdom?'

Although it was far from the 'wisdom' that Baek Yoonjun was thinking of.

'The change is only felt to this extent, so it must be right.'

Having decided to accept it, Baek Yoonjun performed his lightness skill to its fullest and left the building through the window.

Without stopping his feet, Baek Yoonjun, who had arrived near the tavern where he had been staying, came down to a secluded place nearby and smoothly entered the tavern.

"Sir! Have you returned!"

Leaving behind the greeting of the waiter who welcomed him, he returned to his room.

Then he quickly stretched out on the bed.

All his actions were about 1.2 times faster than the usual Baek Yoonjun.

'Although I'm still hesitant, my judgment seems to have gotten a little faster.'

It wasn't an unnatural or such feeling.

Just.

'So my head is spinning a little faster.'

Baek Yoonjun quickly recognized his change.

'It's not that great.'

Then he was slightly disappointed.

Although his homebody introvert tendency was severe, he had not been particularly slow to judge.

If it weren't for a case like just now where there was a person in front of him, he wouldn't have felt such a great need for it.

'Hmm, I got something for a change... but if this is the case, I'm not particularly looking forward to that 'putting a bolt on my heart' thing...'

Feeling a slight disappointment, Baek Yoonjun closed his eyes.

Although he didn't particularly need sleep, since he was mentally and physically exhausted from repeated outings, he was able to fall asleep.

The office of the Martial Alliance leader at the time Baek Yoonjun fell asleep.

"Alliance Leader, it is Sima Yun. Are you there?"

A man politely knocked on the door in front of the office.

Knock, knock.

Although he knocked on the door, there was no presence felt from inside.

"He should be here at this time..."

The man who had knocked on the door felt puzzled.

It was a strange time for the alliance leader to be away unless a big incident had occurred.

"Excuse me for a moment."

The man opened the door and went inside.

And after a short while.

"The alliance leader has been attacked!!"

The Martial Alliance was turned upside down.

The Martial Alliance was turned upside down, but Baek Yoonjun slept soundly and woke up at dawn.

"Why is it so noisy?"

Waking up from his sleep, Baek Yoonjun frowned at the noisy presence he felt from dawn.

Since he was a homebody introvert who was far from curious in the first place, he had no thought of finding out what was going on.

'I shouldn't go out today.'

Having made up his mind, Baek Yoonjun lay down on the bed again.

Since he didn't need sleep in the first place, although he didn't feel sleepy, just lying down was good.

To be able to enjoy lying down without any thoughts was the ultimate form of the extreme homebody introvert, itself.

And so, he spent time lying down without any thoughts, even though he wasn't asleep.

Time continued to flow, and as dawn passed, the sun began to rise.

Although quite a lot of time had passed, Baek Yoonjun had no thought of getting up at all.

Kung! Kung! Kung!

"Doctor Baek, are you there?!"

If it weren't for someone noisily knocking on the door.

Letting out a deep sigh, Baek Yoonjun got up from the bed.

Although he didn't want to move like crazy, since it seemed he would knock on the door all day if he left him alone, he had no choice but to open the door.

"When were you released? Great Hero Cheon."

"I came out this morning. No, that's not the problem right now!"

"What do you mean?"

Although Baek Yoonjun was not curious at all about the reason for Cheon Suhye's fuss, since it seemed she would continue to be noisy if he left her alone, he had no choice but to ask.

But Cheon Suhye's fuss was still there without any rewarding questions.

"The leader of the Martial Alliance has been attacked! It's a mess everywhere, didn't you know, Doctor Baek?!"

"Is that so?"

Although Baek Yoonjun was a little surprised inwardly, since it was a matter that had nothing to do with him, he was not particularly interested.

Cheon Suhye seemed to be dissatisfied with that.

"Doctor Baek doesn't seem very interested?"

"Do I have to be interested?"

"Of course!"

Cheon Suhye looked at him with eyes as if she were looking at a person outside of common sense.

Baek Yoonjun did not understand that gaze at all.

"Does it affect me?"

"Huh?"

"It doesn't affect me at all, does it?"

"That's... right."

Cheon Suhye was instantly discouraged.

Baek Yoonjun felt a little better for some reason.

"Since it's a matter of a person who has nothing to do with us and has no effect on us, let's not mind it."

"What's with that expression 'not mind it'?"

"It means let's not pay attention."

"What a novel expression."

Cheon Suhye briefly admired Baek Yoonjun's expression, which was hard to hear in the Central Plains, and then her eyes widened.

"No! Even if it has nothing to do with Doctor Baek, it has to do with me!"

"What is it?"

"The entrance exam for the alliance has been canceled!"

"Ah."

Only then did Baek Yoonjun recall that Cheon Suhye had come to Luoyang to take the entrance exam for the Martial Alliance.

'That kind of person caused trouble in the front yard of the Martial Alliance?'

It was a fact he had briefly forgotten because her first impression and the fact that she had been dragged away after causing trouble were so impressive.

"So the entrance exam has been completely canceled?"

"That's right."

"Is there no word on when it will be resumed?"

"That's... right."

Cheon Suhye became sullen in an instant.

'What a... she's like a herbivore who wants to look strong.'

Baek Yoonjun revised his impression of Cheon Suhye in his mind.

She was a troublesome human in many ways.

"Since it will be resumed someday, can't you just wait?"

"I don't know when it will resume."

"Still, it will be held someday, won't it?"

At Baek Yoonjun's natural point, Cheon Suhye hesitated.

She hesitated and her gaze went to the ground.

She looked as if she would dig into the ground right away if she were given a shovel.

"That... I don't have any money."

"Ah."

Only then did Baek Yoonjun recall that Cheon Suhye couldn't even pay for the tavern's lodging.

'This human didn't have any money, right? But I can't keep paying for her.'

After thinking and thinking, Baek Yoonjun quietly brought up a solution.

"If you don't have money, you can just go back home, can't you?"

"That's..."

This time too, Cheon Suhye twisted her fingers and avoided Baek Yoonjun's gaze.

Although she didn't say anything in particular, it was obvious that she had a situation where she couldn't go back home right away.

"Although I don't know what your situation is, are you saying you can't go back?"

Baek Yoonjun, although he knew she had some situation, had no desire to get involved, so he cut her off before she could bring up the situation.

Cheon Suhye nodded her head slightly, avoiding Baek Yoonjun's gaze.

She looked very troubled.

Looking at that, Baek Yoonjun quietly brought up his thoughts.

"This won't do. That won't do."

"I'm sorry..."

Although Baek Yoonjun had not expressed any particular dissatisfaction, but had just been organizing his thoughts, Cheon Suhye took it differently and bowed her head with a very sorry face.

In any case, for Baek Yoonjun, it was a very incomprehensible worry.

"If those things don't work, can't you just stay in a nearby mountain and train?"

Since Baek Yoonjun was someone who was cooped up in the mountains and didn't go out in the first place, it was a solution he could come up with.

Of course, it was not a method that would normally be thought of, but Baek Yoonjun, who lacked empathy, had no intention of understanding the other person.

"Huh?"

At that answer, Cheon Suhye looked at Baek Yoonjun with a dazed face.

That appearance was very foolish, but without minding it, Baek Yoonjun continued to speak.

"You have to have money to be in the city. Money. If you're not going back home, can't you just go to a nearby mountain and wait?"

"W-will that be okay?"

"It will."

Baek Yoonjun confirmed.

Since he had been living like that all along.

"Uh... that's..."

Of course, Cheon Suhye, who had never lived cooped up in the mountains, hesitated greatly and looked at Baek Yoonjun's face, then struggled to open her mouth.

"I'm anxious to go alone, so can't you go in with me?"

"What?"

At that brazen statement, this time Baek Yoonjun was flustered.

(End of Chapter)