Three months have passed since I returned to the Wudang Sect.
For two months, I focused on making what I had gained from the Martial Alliance completely my own.
Thanks to that, I spent busy days, not even knowing how the day passed, just by organizing the enlightennt of the Six Yang Divine Art that I had gained there, along with the energy of the Hwari's inner core and the Heavenly Transformation Pill.
And my master was also busy organizing what he had gained from the Martial Alliance this ti, just like , so I couldn't even see his face a few tis.
And while I was busy with my own training, I also looked after my senior brothers' martial arts a little.
It has already been over three years since my senior brothers have been with .
Now, my senior brothers' martial arts have beco so powerful that they cannot be ignored anywhere.
Since I have seen many other martial artists in the Martial Alliance, I can compare them more objectively.
Perhaps, at the level of my senior brothers, they would now be able to easily defeat the main warriors of most sects.
I even have a feeling that if they were to fight my elders seriously now, they might be able to win.
"Hwi-ya. I've finished all the training I planned for today. I have so ti left, do you want to have a duel?"
"Sure."
"Let's have one with next. You've been doing it with the other senior brothers, but you haven't done it with for a few days."
"Alright. Then next turn."
"Huh? Then too!"
"I'll do it next!"
The fact that I was looking after their martial arts was not that I was guiding them like a master, but that I was having duels with the senior brothers who wanted to fight .
I had at least five duels a day, and sotis more than ten.
As our skills improved, the duels beca more and more like real battles.
The biggest problem for my senior brothers right now is that they have too little real combat experience compared to their current skills, and the duels with were able to fill that gap.
And I, too, was able to continuously gain experience through the duels as my senior brothers beca stronger and stronger.
'At this level of skill, perhaps...'
I was always looking for an opportunity to raid the secret treasury of the teor King, and now that my senior brothers' skills seed to have matured, I was waiting for the ti when I could leave the Wudang Sect with my senior brothers.
Then one day. That opportunity ca.
"Sect Leader. Did you call?"
I ca to the Sangcheong Palace at the Sect Leader's call.
I was alone, without my master or my other senior brothers.
"Yes. Unhwi, you've co."
"Why did you call ?"
"How have your recent achievents been?"
"I was able to organize the enlightennt I gained a while ago. Although I can't say it's enough yet, I think I have made a little progress compared to the past."
"I see."
The Sect Leader smiled, stroking his beard with a pleased face.
"The reason I called you is because there is sothing for you to go out of Wudang and show off your skills."
"A mission?"
"Yes. A ssage ca from the Beggars' Sect. When Maeng Gwang-gae worked with you in Zhejiang Province before, he seems to have taken a liking to you. He asked if you could help him, specifically naming you."
"Elder Maeng Gwang-gae nad ?"
"Yes. It's not very common for a third-generation disciple to be nad like this."
As the Sect Leader said, a third-generation disciple is a generation that is a little ambiguous to say has officially entered the martial world.
That's why they are only called when they perform missions that match their level once in a while, and it's not often that they are nad like this.
"If the Sect Leader allows it, I will go."
"Without even hearing what it is?"
"I received great help from Elder Maeng Gwang-gae when we were together in Zhejiang Province. Since I am also a martial artist, shouldn't I repay that help?"
Although I deliberately chose a formal word, my words were sincere.
Because I was willing to help Maeng Gwang-gae anyti.
"I see. I understand your aning. In fact, I received a ssage from Maeng Gwang-gae a while ago. Did he ask you to give him information if you found out anything about a group called the Evil Faction Alliance?"
"Yes. He did."
"He said he has obtained information about that place called the Evil Faction Alliance. He is thinking of investigating that place in the near future, and he said he would like you to co then."
"I see."
As expected of Maeng Gwang-gae.
If it were as it should be, the orthodox martial world would not know much about the Evil Faction Alliance until about six years from now.
But since he was determined to find out, it seems he has already caught their tail.
"But Unhwi."
"Yes, Sect Leader."
"I think you should also tell about that place called the Evil Faction Alliance. Because I don't know where the Evil Faction Alliance is, or why Maeng Gwang-gae is calling you."
Although the Sect Leader spoke in a soft voice, there was a bone in his words.
It must not be very pleasant for him, the Sect Leader of the Wudang Sect, that Maeng Gwang-gae is calling for sothing he doesn't know about.
Thankfully, the Sect Leader did not get angry and spoke calmly.
"I'm sorry, Sect Leader. I should have told you sooner."
"There must be a reason why you didn't tell . But can I hear it now?"
"Yes. I will tell you everything. It is a story that started at the brothel in Wuhan that I reported to you before, Sect Leader."
"Ah! That brothel. You an the brothel where your room's senior brother, Un-jeong's, she is?"
I barely held back a chuckle.
It seems that the story about Senior Brother Un-jeong is already known to the Sect Leader.
"Yes. The one who was trying to take control of that brothel was a man nad Go Mun-tak, and he was a disciple of the Evil Faction Alliance Leader. I learned of the existence of the Evil Faction Alliance then, and later, when I was facing the Seven Evils of the Yellow Sea in Zhejiang Province, one of them claid to be a disciple of the Evil Faction Alliance Leader. That's how I found out."
"Can you tell in more detail?"
I explained to the Sect Leader in detail, selecting the parts I could tell him.
Only then did the Sect Leader seem to understand why Maeng Gwang-gae was looking for .
"Why didn't you tell this until now?"
"That's..."
"Was it perhaps because you thought that the incident with them was not a matter of the Wudang Sect, but your personal matter?"
"... That's right. I didn't want to cause trouble for Wudang with my personal matter."
The Sect Leader, looking at with serious eyes, said, "Unhwi."
"Yes, Sect Leader."
"If your senior brother were in a difficult situation, would you not help him?"
"Of course... I would go to help."
"Right? It's probably the sa for your other senior brothers, and the sa for the elders and us. How can we consider what happened to you as only your own matter? I hope you will think of us a little more comfortably."
"Sect Leader..."
"So don't say such things again. Aren't we one family? From now on, don't hide your matters for such reasons."
He smiled kindly.
Of course, even if the Sect Leader says that, there will be many things I can't say, but from now on, I will try to share as much as I can.
"Yes. I roughly understand the situation... to be honest, I can't tell you to go or not to go now, can I? You already have an entry pass, and now you are also one of the Five Swords of Wudang. So if you feel you have to go, feel free to go."
"Thank you, Sect Leader. Was there any ntion of when and where I should go?"
"There was. This ti, it's Gansu Province. You can go to a place called Hezuo in Gansu Province by a month from now. If you want, take the senior brothers you get along with from your senior brothers. You don't know what will happen when you go."
I, after thinking for a mont, said to the Sect Leader, "Although I still have to hear my senior brothers' opinions, I would like to move with my room's senior brothers this ti."
"Yes. Do so."
"Thank you, Sect Leader."
The Sect Leader, after telling to stop by before leaving, sent out.
I, while going back to my room, thought.
'A month from now?'
If I move diligently from here, I can get to Gansu Province in ten days.
The tomb of the teor King is near Xinya, Shaanxi Province.
Although it's not completely on the way, the path is sowhat correct. Even if it takes five more days considering the return ti, it ans that if I leave right now, I will have about fifteen days to spare.
And fifteen days... I think I can sufficiently raid the tomb of the teor King.
In my mory, although 1,500 martial artists had rushed there, it only took about five days to raid the tomb of the teor King.
And things like traps and chanisms are not sothing that can be disard better just because there are many people.
Because in any case, until a trap is triggered and a few experts disarm it, the rest of the people have to wait like dumb mutes.
"Senior brothers. Let's gather for a mont."
I gathered my senior brothers, who were not in the room but were training at their respective training grounds, to our room.
A little while later, the five of us were gathered in one place for the first ti in a long ti.
"I have two things to ask you, senior brothers."
"Go ahead and say it."
"Elder Maeng Gwang-gae needs my help. It seems he has caught information about the Evil Faction Alliance."
"The Evil Faction Alliance!"
Since my room's senior brothers knew about the Evil Faction Alliance to so extent, they all easily understood what was going on.
"Of course, if you follow , there will probably be many dangerous things, and it might be uncomfortable to eat and sleep. But I want to go together this ti. What do you think, senior brothers?"
"I'll go."
"I want to go too."
"The fact that it's dangerous ans that we can experience real combat properly, right? Of course, we have to go."
"You didn't think we wouldn't go when you said that, did you?"
In fact, the last ti the five of us went out and did sothing together was at the Shiyue Pavilion.
That was already quite a long ti ago. A lot of things had happened in between.
"Alright. I'm glad you're all going together. Let's go together."
"But you said you had two things to say. What's the other one?"
I, knowing that there was no one but us in our room, looked around, closed the open window, and ca back and said, "What I'm about to say now, you must absolutely, absolutely not tell anyone else."
"What is it?"
"About two hundred years ago, there was a martial artist with the nickna teor King."
"teor King?"
"You've never heard of him, right? The teor King was not a martial artist with amazing martial arts or power. He was better at making money. His sense for making money was so innate that he was a person who was told that he might have been more successful if he had been a rchant rather than a martial artist."
I, taking out the treasure map of the teor King from my bosom, spread it on the floor and, looking around at my senior brothers with a aningful eye, said, "This is the treasure map with the location of the place where that teor King left all his inheritance."
"N-No! You an a treasure map?"
"Yes. A treasure map, a treasure map, well. It's the sa thing."
"Where did you get this?"
"I just got it while wandering around the martial world."
"Do you know what's in there?"
"To be precise, I'll have to open it to know. But well... wouldn't there be at least a few hundred taels of gold?"
"Heok...!"
As if it were an amount they couldn't have imagined, my senior brothers' mouths dropped open.
I, with a chuckle, opened my mouth again.
"Of course, the place where the teor King left his inheritance will not be a safe place. There might be a lot of traps, and there might be formations set up. We might even get seriously injured. But... there is also a high possibility that sothing amazing is hidden there. What do you think? Will you go with ?"
My senior brothers nodded their heads as if they were possessed by sothing.
Although I said it was dangerous, it seed their hearts were more drawn to the words 'amazing reward'.
(End of Chapter)
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