"Father, Mother. Have you been well in the anti?"
Danmok Ryeon greeted Baili Jian and Lee Ok-yeon with the utmost courtesy.
As she was not yet married, her behavior towards her future parents-in-law had to be cautious.
'As expected of our young lady. There's not a trace of the prickly attitude she had before arriving.'
Watching Danmok Ryeon, Yanghwa smiled with satisfaction.
It was rewarding to have taught her that smiling even at soone you dislike is a virtue of a superior.
"Yes, you've had a long journey. If you have any inconveniences while staying here, feel free to tell anyti."
"Thank you for your consideration, Father."
Danmok Ryeon smiled and bowed her head.
Baili Jian stroked his beard and said.
"Hoho. To part with such a beautiful daughter already. The Danmok family head's heart must be in turmoil. Is the family head well?"
"He is healthy. He was lonely because he has no son, but you don't know how happy he is that he will soon have a son."
"Hahaha. Yes, yes. I have gained a daughter, and he has gained a son. It is a good thing that the families that parted long ago have beco family again."
"My father feels the sa way."
Danmok Ryeon smiled and replied.
Just then, a person entered.
It was Lee Cheon-eok in the form of Baili Huang.
"Miss Danmok, it's been a while."
THUMP.
As soon as she saw him, Danmok Ryeon felt a stone drop in her chest.
She was overwheld by the energy flowing from him.
'Wha... what... Are you really saying he has reached the peak realm? No way...'
It was shocking.
She had never imagined that she would feel his martial prowess on her skin as soon as they t.
"Huang."
At Baili Jian's warning, Lee Cheon-eok chattered on.
"Ah! My apologies. I was training until just a mont ago, so I lost myself."
Lee Cheon-eok gathered his montum and controlled his internal energy.
Of course, he had done it on purpose to seize the initial initiative.
"I gained enlightennt so suddenly that I can't control my strength yet, so please understand, Miss Danmok."
"...Yes, yes. It's alright."
Lee Cheon-eok, reading Danmok Ryeon's flustered expression, grinned inwardly.
'Hehehe. No matter how much a young wench flies and crawls, it's just a puppy's talent show.'
Seizing the initiative was a success.
With this, it was as good as having half the battle won.
"Huang, how about you personally show Ryeon around the main family and discuss the future wedding preparations?"
Lee Ok-yeon brought up the main topic.
"Instead of you, Mother, you an ?"
"Since Ryeon is in charge, if this mother steps in, she might feel uncomfortable and not be able to do as she pleases. Ryeon, don't you also think it's good for Huang to take charge?"
At Lee Ok-yeon's question, Danmok Ryeon finally ca to her senses.
"I am fine with you too, Mother. Either way, I will follow your words."
"Hohoho, is that so? Then it will be fine if only Huang agrees."
Lee Ok-yeon looked at Lee Cheon-eok and gave him a look.
"I understand. I will take charge of the wedding preparations with Miss Danmok. I look forward to working with you, Miss Danmok."
"I look forward to working with you too, Young Master Baili."
"They say you should strike while the iron is hot. Shall we look around the main family right away?"
"I would be grateful if you would."
"Let's go."
Under Lee Cheon-eok's lead, Danmok Ryeon followed him outside.
Baili Jian watched the scene with a pleased face and opened his mouth.
"Hahaha. Seeing what Huang is doing, it seems he won't be living under her thumb. The boy, it seems not only his martial arts have improved, but his mind has also grown."
"Don't they say that martial arts are a part of life? His ntal aspect has grown in proportion to his martial arts."
"But how many people in the martial world are not like that? It's because he's our son, hahaha."
"Oh my, do you know you're becoming more and more of a doting father?"
"Do I look like it? Hahaha."
Just as Baili Jian was laughing heartily, a person entered.
It was Baili Yeong, who was in charge of the Baili family's outer hall.
"Family Head."
"Yes, Yeong. What is it?"
"An important guest has visited the main family, so I have co to report directly."
"An important guest? Weren't there no guests we were notified of in advance?"
The Baili family had no external events for the ti being due to the wedding preparations.
Moreover, most of the guests who could be called important were scheduled to visit on the wedding day.
"That is... they visited without a prior appointnt."
"But it's an important guest? Who is he?"
Baili Yeong's eyes shone as he spoke.
"It is Grand Master Drunken Buddha, Muheo."
* * *
"Hahahaha. I am just grateful that you have welcod so warmly."
Cheok Sagyeol, with Muheo's face, chattered on to his heart's content.
"Not at all. You are a person who supports the righteous martial world, so it is a natural course of action. Welco. Hahaha."
Baili Jian perford a cupped fist salute and showed his happy heart.
It was only natural, as the other party was a pillar representing the Buddhist school.
Within the Eui-cheon Alliance, in opposition to the giant faction of the Five Great Families, the Buddhist and Daoist schools from the past Nine Sects and One Gang, and the martial families that had not been incorporated into the Five Great Families, had ford a faction.
As the head of the Baili family, which could be said to be one of the representatives of the martial families, he could not help but welco Grand Master Muheo.
It was because he, the number one in the righteous path, was there that they could check the Five Great Families.
"But what brings you to our main family?"
At Baili Jian's question, Cheok Sagyeol perford a half-salute and said.
"It seems this old monk will not be able to attend the wedding, so I have co in advance."
"Everyone in the martial world knows that you are busy, Grand Master, so I am just grateful that you have not forgotten and have co like this. You have co a long way."
'He must be busy playing pranks.'
Baili Jian kept in mind that Muheo was one of the Four Eccentrics.
He could not let his guard down, as he did not know what kind of strange things he might do before the wedding.
"I heard that the son of the Baili family, Young Master Baili, is a great talent of Gangdong. Isn't he a child who will beco the next pillar of the martial world? I wanted to et him once. Hohaha."
Cheok Sagyeol casually threw out a bait. And Lee Ok-yeon took it hook, line, and sinker.
"Oh my, are you really saying you ca to et our Huang?"
"It's embarrassing, but this old monk has not yet nurtured a successor. So I am looking around at the talents in various places."
At Cheok Sagyeol's words, Baili Jian flinched.
"Grand Master. But our son is the legitimate heir of our main family. Even if it is you, Grand Master, I cannot send him as a secular disciple of Shaolin."
If his son had been like before, he would have sent him with joy.
Although he was a secular disciple, if he inherited the true teachings of the number one in the righteous path, the benefits it would bring would be imasurable.
But now his son was the number one divine dragon of Gangdong.
There was no reason to attach the Shaolin tag.
"Hohaha, it seems you have misunderstood, Family Head Baili. This old monk is not hoping for a disciple, but just wants to give a little help. Nurturing a successor does not necessarily an a disciple, does it? And I am too old to take a disciple."
"Then... don't tell , Grand Master, you..."
As Baili Jian trailed off, Cheok Sagyeol smiled with satisfaction and said.
"This old monk just wants to give the children a few teachings and hope they grow up well. Since I am too old and have not left a successor, shouldn't I at least help the peace of the martial world in that way?"
"Hah... so that's why you ca in person before the wedding."
The mindset before and after marriage is different.
Especially, a man, with the thought of being the pillar of a family, falls into the illusion that he is an adult, that is, a complete person.
The attitude of accepting teachings is different.
Moreover, if his son, who had a talent that far surpassed his peers, that heart might turn from arrogant to conceited.
'Co to think of it... recently, Huang has been training alone without receiving teachings from the elders of the family. Grand Master Muheo might be able to correct that.'
Baili Jian was attaching an interpretation mixed with misunderstanding and illusion to the situation Cheok Sagyeol had created.
"Grand Master. Please take good care of my son."
Baili Jian, who bowed his head with a cupped fist salute.
It was sothing that would be impossible for the head of a family, but it was a courtesy paid to his son's teacher as a father.
"Grand Master, I will trust you."
Lee Ok-yeon also bowed her head to Cheok Sagyeol, following her husband.
"Hoho, I know well what you two are worried about. But... Namo Amitabha..."
Cheok Sagyeol trailed off, dragging it out.
"Grand Master, please speak frankly. This person will follow your words, whatever they may be."
'A very good attitude.'
Cheok Sagyeol smiled inwardly and said sternly on the outside.
"There is only one thing you two must protect."
'Two pairs of eyes asking what on earth that is.'
Baili Jian and Lee Ok-yeon swallowed and stared at Cheok Sagyeol's mouth.
"You must trust , completely."
'I'm going to beat him like hell, you fucker.'
* * *
Wind Forest.
It was a forest located in the northernmost, remote part of the Baili family.
When viewed from a high place, the Baili family's estate looked as if it were wearing a conical hat.
The Baili family's central estate, the Baihua Estate, and the northern Wind Forest were scenic spots.
"Oh my. So this is the Wind Forest I've only heard about."
Danmok Ryeon exclaid in admiration, looking at the Wind Forest made up of only willow trees.
The willow leaves, waving in the wind, boasted a vitality as if the Wind Forest itself were alive.
"You must have co and gone to the main family a few tis, but you haven't seen it?"
At Lee Cheon-eok's question, Danmok Ryeon smiled brightly.
"They say that external business is handled at the Baihua Estate, and internal family events are held at the Wind Forest, right? I was an outsider until now. Hohaha."
"Still, if you had wanted to, you could have co and seen it."
"I wanted to co when I beca a person of the Baili family. Don't you think I have the right to co now?"
At Danmok Ryeon's smiling eyes, Lee Cheon-eok let out a laugh.
It was because he felt that she was flirting.
'A young bitch trying to use her pretty face? Hehehe.'
He was a man who had experienced all sorts of pleasures during his ti as a great rchant and had held beauties who could sway a province in his arms.
Although Danmok Ryeon was a beauty, she was just an unopened flower bud.
"Hahaha. Miss Danmok is more than qualified! Let's go."
Lee Cheon-eok said, putting his arm around Danmok Ryeon's shoulder.
'It doesn't matter if she's flirting or trying to look cool.'
'She was his marriage partner from the beginning anyway.'
'What's with this person? Why is he so natural?'
They said that a man and a woman should not sit together after the age of seven.
She was fifteen years old.
Danmok Ryeon, who had never been touched by a man, was startled.
'Hehe, what a cute thing.'
Lee Cheon-eok, savoring that freshness, walked into the Wind Forest.
The thought that this child, no, this woman would soon beco his wife, only made Lee Cheon-eok feel pleased.
STEP. STEP.
Lee Cheon-eok and Danmok Ryeon disappeared into the Wind Forest, and a short while later, a figure appeared.
He was Cheok Sagyeol, who had co looking for Lee Cheon-eok after greeting the family head and his wife.
He had followed Lee Cheon-eok's scent with his enhanced sense of sll and had co to the front of the Wind Forest.
"Sniff. Sniff. It seems right that he ca here. To think they created a forest within the estate... Geez..."
Cheok Sagyeol clicked his tongue, looking at the entrance of the Wind Forest.
He could guess how much money had gone into creating the artificial forest.
"By the way, it doesn't seem to be an ordinary forest..."
Cheok Sagyeol could see it.
The Wind Forest looked like a scenic forest on the outside, but the inside was not.
Wind and Sand Soul-Returning Formation.
A type of illusion formation that excluded unauthorized people.
It was a high-level formation whose changes were as endless as the wind, so there was no separate way to break it.
The fact that there was no set way to break it ant that one had to distinguish between the gate of death and the gate of life on the spot.
If one did not have knowledge and experience of formations, it was impossible to enter.
"Such a high-level formation within the Baili family... shall I take a look?"
If there was a formation he had never heard of in a family that was one of the pillars of the righteous faction, it would be good to experience it on this occasion.
And Cheok Sagyeol, although he was not deeply knowledgeable in formations, was second to none when it ca to breaking them.
(End of Chapter)
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