Chronicles of the Mad Demon - Chapter 9

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Chapter 9. Unreasonable (4)

“Get up.”

“Gasp!”

Startled, Jang Gu jumped to his feet.

Seeing Moyong Cheon’s eyes glowing in the darkness, he immediately prostrated himself on the spot.

“I’m sorry!”

“For what?”

“…Pardon?”

“Stop talking nonsense and carry that pig.”

“Yes!”

There wasn’t even a trace of hesitation.

Despite limping on one foot, Jang Gu immediately hoisted Ga Hang onto his back and waited with a determined expression. His face was even more battered than when he’d been beaten in the alley, but his spirit was completely broken in.

‘Ugh!’

Ga Hang, carried on his subordinate’s back, couldn’t even let out a groan.

Moyong Cheon slapped the back of his head repeatedly and asked.

“It’s not far, is it?”

“…That’s correct.”

“I figured as much. Cowards like you wouldn’t bury your wealth somewhere far away.”

There was no greater humiliation than this.

But since it wasn’t wrong either, he couldn’t argue back. Of course, even if it were wrong, this wasn’t a situation where he could argue.

“Let’s go, dog shit.”

“Yes!”

And so the three of them passed through the dog hole behind the residence and reached a small forest.

It was a place where not even animals, let alone people, would pass by. Since it led directly to the back mountain behind the residence, it was less than half an hour’s walk for an adult.

“Did you bury it in the ground?”

“…Yes.”

“What poverty of imagination. So where is it?”

Ga Hang trembled as he pointed to a spot near a small tree.

“I buried it over there.”

“Under the rock?”

“That’s right.”

Truly the insight of a pauper.

Moyong Cheon gestured to Jang Gu with his chin.

“Dig.”

“Yes!”

After setting Ga Hang down to one side, Jang Gu vigorously pushed the rock.

No matter how well-built he was, it wasn’t a size that an ordinary person without internal energy training could push aside, but Jang Gu pushed with all his might as if his life depended on it.

Rumble.

Whether it was heaven’s blessing, the rock rolled to the side.

Then beneath it, soil where no weeds had grown was visible.

“Should I dig here?”

Ridiculously, Jang Gu asked this while looking at Ga Hang. He was too scared to ask Moyong Cheon directly.

Ga Hang glared at Jang Gu with murderous intent and shouted.

“Yes, you bastard! There, right there!”

“Yes sir!”

In the face of greater fear, a superior’s authority becomes utterly useless. Jang Gu vigorously dug into the ground with his bare hands.

Moyong Cheon, who had been watching the scene with his arms crossed, suddenly frowned.

‘It’s starting to come.’

Zing.

A needle-like pain rose from one corner of his head.

Having suffered from severe headaches for decades, this level of pain was something he could simply ignore. But this pain didn’t end with simple suffering.

‘Is it beginning?’

Brain Gate Heart Technique.

Originally, he had planned to complete the initiation in one go at his residence, but worried something might happen in the meantime, he had come here while reciting the incantations.

Fortunately, the initiation was easy. When he was young, he knew nothing and had to struggle through it physically for a year, but his enlightenment as one of the top ten strongest in the world didn’t require even half a hour for initiation.

‘I was planning to start after they finished digging, but it’s mastering itself.’

This process was originally supposed to happen before discovering these guys’ residence. However, since he had found this place faster than expected, he had neutralized Ga Hang while only halfway through initiation.

‘What a willful martial art. Its cat-like temperament is still the same.’

Whooom!

The Yintang acupoint between his brows gradually, gradually began to expand.

Moyong Cheon slowly leaned his back against the tree.

And then.

Flinch!

It felt as if the needle in his head was piercing through his brow and coming out.

Dizziness surged momentarily, but Moyong Cheon gritted his teeth and put strength into his legs.

It wasn’t because there were watching eyes. The thought that if his body couldn’t endure even the initiation process of a heart technique, he wouldn’t be able to endure anything else sustained him.

Whoosh.

The external qi that entered through the Yintang acupoint began stirring inside his brain in an unrefined state.

Moyong Cheon’s body trembled. Though invisible, it felt like a substantial ghost was roughly kneading his brain with its hands.

‘Damn it!’

An alien sensation more terrible than pain.

When he first learned this, he had fainted for two days. It wasn’t a process that could be endured at such a young age.

But now it was different.

Whooooom.

As abundant external qi settled in his brain, the Baihui acupoint opened elongated in an instant, drawing out the accumulated turbid qi.

Gaining qi through Yintang, refining it internally, and extracting turbid qi through Baihui.

Nowhere else in the world existed such a cultivation method. The reason why most people either went mad or died just from initiation lay precisely here.

However, having miraculously mastered the Brain Gate Heart Technique, he had completed the incomplete incantations and techniques, and knew how to perfectly control qi.

‘Don’t provoke its temperament and pass through quickly!’

Woong! Woong!

His ears were ringing.

External energy that had been flowing in like an unbroken thread filled his brain completely. When qi filled to capacity, Moyong Cheon hurriedly closed his Yindang acupoint.

Opening and closing acupoints at will. This meant Moyong Cheon’s will was beginning to become one with the Brain Gate Heart Technique.

Hwaaaaaaak!

All the turbid energy escaped through the slightly widened Baihui acupoint.

At the same time, cold sweat poured from Moyong Cheon’s body. He even had a nosebleed. Sticky, stagnant blood was flowing out through his nose.

And finally.

Flash!

Moyong Cheon’s eyes became much more intense.

‘It’s done!’

The completion of Soul Burning First Method, the first stage of the Brain Gate Heart Technique.

Soul Burning First Method aims to accept pure natural qi to burn away turbid energy, expand blood vessels, and extremely activate the brain.

Brain activation means stronger Mental Intent and concentration. Naturally, one can perfectly control qi at will.

Even a genius of the ages must first learn to sense qi before mastering Internal Energy. That process takes at least two weeks to a month, and it takes years to control, accumulate, circulate, and emit it outside the body.

However, those who master the Brain Gate Heart Technique can freely control qi from that moment, shortening years of time.

That wasn’t all.

Swoosh!

Moyong Cheon’s hand caught a leaf that happened to be falling.

Though his shoulder muscles ached, his speed had clearly increased. He could now control his body beyond its limits with the Brain Gate Heart Technique.

“Whew.”

Moyong Cheon lightly exhaled and wiped his nosebleed, then suddenly looked at Jang Gu.

Jang Gu was staring at him blankly.

“What are you doing?”

“Y-you suddenly started moaning… and even had a nosebleed.”

“Is your concentration so weak that you’re useless? Why aren’t you moving quickly?”

“Yes!”

“Oh my, I can see your technique. It’s less tiring now, isn’t it?”

“No, it’s not!”

Jang Gu enthusiastically dug the ground. He was really fast, like a dog digging earth with its front paws.

Moyong Cheon watched the scene with an indifferent face, then looked down at Ga Hang.

Ga Hang’s face was filled with resignation and fear, anger and worry.

Moyong Cheon chuckled.

“Why? Do you feel wronged?”

“…No.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter anyway. I’m not the one feeling wronged, am I?”

Ga Hang bit his lips. The reality that he couldn’t even curse drove him mad.

But he had something he’d been wanting to ask.

“One thing… may I ask you something, my lord?”

“I said I won’t kill you, didn’t I? Keep that up and I really will kill you.”

“Th-that’s not it!”

“Then what?”

Ga Hang asked hesitantly.

“What kind of renowned technique did you use… to make my body like this…?”

“Why? Planning to learn it and use it on my body later?”

What kind of words can’t you say!

“H-how could that be?”

Moyong Cheon turned his gaze back to Jang Gu and said.

“It’s called Pressure Point Technique.”

“Pressure Point Technique?”

“That’s right.”

Ga Hang’s mouth fell wide open.

He didn’t ask again because he didn’t know. Pressure Point Technique was famous enough that even people who hadn’t properly learned martial arts had heard of it at least once.

What shocked him was the very fact that Moyong Cheon had used Pressure Point Technique.

‘Isn’t he crazy?’

Though it was called Pressure Point Technique, it was a method that not many people had learned even among the famous families of the martial world.

Of course, the higher the master’s level, the more knowledgeable they were about the body, so basic Pressure Point Technique was called essential knowledge among them.

But Pressure Point Technique wasn’t such an easy method that someone who hadn’t properly learned martial forms, let alone internal energy, could learn. Wasn’t it said that if you were stupid, you couldn’t use Pressure Point Technique as intended even if you had the skill?

Naturally, there was no way the eldest son of ‘something like’ the Moyong Family could use such a renowned technique.

‘To be defeated by such a crazy bastard.’

It was probably some kind of poison.

Tears welled up from the injustice. If only he hadn’t been drinking, he wouldn’t have suffered like this.

That’s when it happened.

“Huk! M-my lord!”

“What? Did it come out?”

“Yes, it did!”

Jang Gu made grunting sounds as he pulled out a large bundle.

In that moment, Ga Hang felt the sky turning yellow. Though he had already given up, seeing the wealth he had carefully buried being pulled out entirely made his heart collapse.

Thud!

The weight was considerable too. It was easily over ten gwan in weight.

“Open it up.”

“Yes!”

Jang Gu’s eyes widened as he obediently opened the bundle.

“Uh… huh?!”

Moyong Cheon quietly came behind Jang Gu and examined the opened bundle, then immediately grinned broadly.

“Was it Ga Hang, you said?”

“…Yes.”

“Quite impressive. I couldn’t be more satisfied!”

Inside the bundle were various silver ingots and gold pieces, as well as quite a few bank notes bundled in sets of fifty, each worth a hundred nyang.

‘No!’

The wealth he had accumulated together with his older brother and second-in-command of the Black Tiger Gang, Ga Suk, was about to disappear entirely. He couldn’t tell if the liquid flowing from his eyes was just tears or tears of blood.

Moyong Cheon pushed Jang Gu aside and personally examined the bank notes and silver ingots.

“It’s genuine. The bank notes are also well-bundled in small denominations. Except for a few gold ingots and ornaments, it’s all clean money.”

Moyong Cheon straightened his back and spoke to Jang Gu.

“Drag your superior over here.”

“Yes!”

Jang Gu lifted Ga Hang and brought him to the front of the pit.

Ga Hang’s face turned pale.

“D-didn’t you say you would spare me?!”

“I will spare you.”

Thwack!

Struck on the back of his head, Ga Hang immediately fainted.

Moyong Cheon spoke to Jang Gu.

“I decided to spare this guy, but what should I do about you?”

Jang Gu prostrated himself on the spot.

“Please spare me, sir!”

“You saw everything that happened today?”

“I will absolutely never speak of it! No, I’ll leave this neighborhood entirely!”

“Is that so?”

Moyong Cheon pressed three silver ingots into Jang Gu’s hand.

“You’ll need travel money if you’re leaving.”

Jang Gu looked at Moyong Cheon with a moved expression. He had beaten him up every time they met, but he still had the magnanimity to provide travel money.

“Well, you have no choice but to leave anyway.”

“Pardon?”

“I decided to spare this guy. When he comes to his senses? Won’t he come after you before me?”

“…!”

“Even if Ga Hang dies, it’s still a problem. Later, when the Black Tiger Gang sends people to investigate this incident? Do you think you’ll really be safe?”

Jang Gu’s face turned white. Only now did he realize his situation.

“If you want to live, run away right now. Don’t even come near this neighborhood, no, anywhere near Hubei Province.”

“Thank you!”

Jang Gu ran as if his life depended on it.

Moyong Cheon chuckled and rummaged through the bundle again.

“Let’s see.”

He dropped several gold ornaments and some jeweled valuables into the pit.

“I came to extort a few thousand nyang, but what an unexpected windfall!”

Moyong Cheon tied up the bundle without hesitation and struck Ga Hang’s jaw with a sharp stone.

Crack!

Even while unconscious, Ga Hang flinched as if in pain.

It would have been better if he had stayed unconscious. With his jawbone broken and his mute acupoint torn, he would be reduced to a state where he couldn’t even speak.

“Farewell.”

Moyong Cheon, carrying the bundle on his back, waddled away from the spot.

A cold wind brushed past the collar of the unconscious Ga Hang’s clothes.

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