Dokmaeuiseon - Chapter 97

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Chapter 97

 

 

“This humble one has come at Elder’s summons.”

 

This was Man-am-gun, whose mischievous nature had been beyond ordinary in his youth.

Did he think there was nothing to fear?

He openly bowed to Jung Myeong and played around with him.

An old man bowing his head to Jung Myeong – what a sight.

Anyone who saw it would find it unseemly.

Usually in such cases, the person on the receiving end would feel uncomfortable.

Man-am-gun must have been aiming for this.

 

“Well done. You certainly listen well. This makes me look forward to the future.”

“Oh my.”

 

Jung Myeong readily accepted it.

Man-am-gun dodged the hand that tried to pat his shoulder encouragingly.

 

“Hmm? Wasn’t this what you wanted?”

“Want it twice and I’d become a slave.”

“If that’s what you want, I’ll do that too. Do you have such hobbies?”

“Enough!”

“Hahaha.”

 

A small battle of nerves. Jung Myeong became the victor.

After all, regardless of how it ended, Jung Myeong was the winner of the sparring match. There was no one to stop him from exercising the victor’s rights.

If it hadn’t been for that final word, he might have cut off Man-am-gun’s head.

 

“So why did you come looking for me?”

“I came after hearing rumors.”

“Rumors?”

“Yes. Rumors.”

 

There couldn’t be rumors about the Anhui Province trip right now. Then what could it be?

 

“I heard you immediately accept sparring requests, so I came from far away.”

“How far is that far?”

“Hmm. How cunning. You think you can hear that easily?”

“If you don’t want to say it, don’t. You can beat around the bush all day. I can go in circles with you all day long.”

“Good heavens…! What a stubborn temperament!”

“I must be learning from you, Elder.”

“Tsk…”

“So you won’t tell me?”

“Would it be fine if I did?”

 

Man-am-gun slyly rolled his eyes.

It was a look surveying the surroundings.

 

‘He’s anxious.’

 

How could Jung Myeong not recognize that signal?

 

“Do listening ears bother you?”

“Don’t they bother you? No matter how trustworthy people may be, night words tend to leak out. There are too many ears here.”

“Fortunately, that won’t be the case here.”

“Tsk. You’re still young, so you trust too much.”

“It’s not because I trust others.”

“Then?”

“Didn’t you sense it when you came in? You should be able to feel it now if you concentrate.”

“!!!!”

 

What was this about?

Man-am-gun quickly circulated his Ki Sensing.

Swoosh-

And he realized the identity of what Jung Myeong was talking about.

 

“You set up a formation!? When!?”

 

There was a formation.

When on earth had he set up a formation?

 

“That’s right. With the formation here, nothing will leak out.”

“Who on earth…!?”

“It’s one of the small talents I possess.”

“Good heavens…”

 

Jung Myeong?

Man-am-gun couldn’t close his mouth.

 

‘Poison, sword, hidden weapons, and now formation…? Does this even make sense?’

 

There are those who learn Poison Art and handle hidden weapons.

There are also rarely those who handle swords in addition to this.

However, they weren’t skilled.

But this Jung Myeong before his eyes was different.

He handled all three excellently.

That’s why Man-am-gun was defeated.

But now, besides those three, he even handled formations?

 

‘Does this even make sense?’

 

To Man-am-gun, it was an incomprehensible matter.

When you see something difficult, you naturally want to understand it somehow.

Man-am-gun was no exception.

 

“I heard you possess Divine Power, was that true?”

“That’s correct.”

“You admit it so readily.”

“You already knew when you came, so what’s the point of denying it?”

“Huh… To think such Divine Power exists. What kind of Divine Power is it exactly?”

“I’m afraid I can’t tell you that much.”

“Tsk… Right. That can’t be helped.”

 

He dismissed Jung Myeong’s incomprehensible abilities as Divine Power.

It was difficult to understand it any other way.

Thus, even while acknowledging it, the way he swallowed several times was clearly admiration for Jung Myeong’s talents.

Jung Myeong let this moment of admiration be.

It wasn’t because he enjoyed it.

 

‘Hmm… From what I can sense, there’s nothing like the energy I know?’

 

It was to examine Man-am-gun.

He wondered if there might be a connection to places he knew, so he examined his energy.

For this, he used Analysis and Ki Sensing to their fullest.

Normally, he would have been detected.

The power he called Divine Power.

Someone of Man-am-gun’s level should have sensed it being used on him.

But not now.

 

‘Inside the Formation, it doesn’t matter.’

 

The Formation he had created.

Sound-Hiding Qi-Concealing Formation.

As the name suggested, it was a Formation that killed sound and made the flow of energy itself undetectable.

Inside this, neither sound nor presence could easily leak out or be sensed.

Since energy was also included in this.

Even the great Man-am-gun couldn’t sense that Jung Myeong was reading his energy.

Swoosh-

All movements were that secretive.

This was the situation created.

For this situation, he had even turned the banner and personally set up a Formation in the small barracks.

Jung Myeong was thoroughly reaping the rewards.

 

[Analysis has succeeded.]

 

Thus the result was success.

However, there was nothing particularly hidden in Man-am-gun’s energy that he sensed.

It meant it was no different from the energy he showed outwardly.

 

‘What is this?’

 

This deepened Jung Myeong’s confusion.

He had tried to find out first.

But there was nothing to find out.

 

Man-am-gun’s energy was surprisingly clear without blemish. Despite using Hidden Weapons, he possessed clear energy comparable to that of the Orthodox Sect.

That was the problem.

 

‘It’s not the energy that Black Point’s Martial Artists possess. It’s definitely not Hao Gate either. It’s too clear to be considered Evil Sect energy?’

 

It wasn’t the energy of things connected to him.

 

‘Then did the Orthodox Sect send him? Already? That doesn’t make sense.’

 

The rumors would spread, sure.

But they wouldn’t deploy someone this quickly, would they.

The timing didn’t match.

None of it was easily predictable.

Just as question marks were about to form in Jung Myeong’s head.

Man-am-gun struck in.

 

“I’ll tell you what you’re most curious about then.”

“Pardon?”

“I came from the Jusan Archipelago!”

“!!!”

 

It was the appearance of a place Jung Myeong had never expected at all.

 

 

* * *

 

 

‘Heh, now you’re surprised.’

 

Only after seeing Jung Myeong’s surprised expression was Man-am-gun satisfied.

Hadn’t he always been the one getting surprised by him. He had even been teased at the end.

In the midst of it all, making him surprised was a small revenge for Man-am-gun.

 

“Who from the Jusan Archipelago sent you? There must be many factions there.”

“Ho. You know that much?”

“I’ve been there, so wouldn’t it be strange not to know its characteristics?”

“There’s nothing to hide about this. Ju Tae-gong sent me.”

“Huh…!”

 

“For reference, I didn’t come because I wanted to. I don’t have the hobby of moving far with this old decrepit body.”

“I thought as much.”

“Why aren’t you surprised here?”

“What’s there to be surprised about. Seeing how you suddenly appeared when you have no connection with me, it would be like that.”

“Tsk. That’s true too. I was caught by the ankle of a youthful connection. He told me to repay the favor.”

“So that’s why you came all the way here?”

“Right. He said he’d forget the debt with this, so what could I do. I had to follow. I came to help.”

“Huh… You mean help?”

“Right. Help.”

 

He couldn’t have come willingly.

That wasn’t surprising.

What was surprising was something else.

Despite being sent by Ju Tae-gong, he had engaged in such Sparring.

 

‘Ju Tae-gong must have sent him to help me. But what he did when he came was provocation and sparring. This is strange?’

 

If he hadn’t provoked while using stealth, the sparring wouldn’t have happened.

No, before that. If he had used sound transmission first, it wouldn’t have even gone to sparring.

But he provoked him.

He thought it might be coincidence, but that wasn’t it either.

The secretive presence revealed in that stealth technique.

And the hidden weapons that followed.

That was clearly setting up a stage to openly target him.

 

‘He definitely intentionally started the sparring.’

 

This was Jung Myeong’s question.

There was a contradiction in coming to help but starting a sparring match.

He asked to break through this contradiction.

 

“But how does helping become starting a sparring match?”

“Hm? Isn’t that obvious?”

“Pardon?”

 

The answer that came back was quite something.

 

“He said to help, but I decided on the method myself.”

“You’re saying that method happened to be sparring?”

“Right. Do you know what I heard as soon as I came to this foreign land?”

“What?”

“It was your shout about going to Anhui.”

“!!!!”

 

Coincidentally, he had come at a bad time.

If only he had come before that.

 

‘Then he wouldn’t have started sparring in this way.’

 

Certainly. Man-am-gun would definitely have come in a different way.

The problem was that things had already happened.

 

“Well, I thought you were making quite a big scene. It was interesting.”

“And so?”

 

Interesting, he said. That impression was quite strange.

 

“So I thought I should lend a hand. No matter how I looked at it, what you wanted was a big stage. A stage with big rumors!”

“So what you started was sparring?”

“Right! What better spectacle could there be than sparring with me, a master of the previous generation, as your signal flare for departure?”

“Hah… You made yourself into a spectacle?”

 

To volunteer himself as a spectacle.

He made a choice as unique as that impression.

 

“In my view, this was much better than just joining.”

“Did Ju Tae-gong tell you to do this?”

“He did leave the judgment to me! Hehe. In the same situation, he would have done this too, right?”

“Birds of a feather, as they say.”

“Oh my. What nonsense are you talking? Compared to Ju Tae-gong, I’m quite gentle, you know?”

“…Let’s say that’s true for now.”

“Tsk. You don’t believe me. You don’t believe me.”

 

No one told him to do it; he did it by his own judgment.

 

‘This man, does he have no pride or anything? No, before that, what would he have done if I had cut off his head during the sparring? How could he start such a thing without consultation?’

 

He was too reckless.

Like a child.

They say when people get old, they become like children.

The mischievous smile he wore somehow resembled Ju Tae-gong’s smile.

There was only one thing to ask such a person.

 

“Don’t you often hear that you’re crazy?”

 

At Jung Myeong’s question, Man-am-gun only laughed.

 

 

* * *

 

 

A crazy man’s choice.

The martial duel that resulted from it.

There were more people who witnessed this than expected.

That meant the impact would inevitably be great.

Since the world’s attention was already focused on Jung Myeong, the speed was very fast.

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