He Became the Genius Blacksmith of the Namgung Family - Chapter 58

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Chapter 58

Episode 58

One tea period (: approximately 15 minutes).

The time it took for Namgung Sohye’s level to be readjusted from second-rate to first-rate.

The Heavenly Wind Thunder Step at that level.

Like its martial art name suggests.

Like a bolt from the blue.

In the blink of an eye, she approaches Namgung Cheon-gang.

Her delicate jade hands stretch out.

Just before they touch his body.

Namgung Cheon-gang slides back smoothly.

Just one step.

A faint afterimage was left behind.

The delicate jade hands caught the afterimage.

As if she had been waiting for it.

But would it end there?

The pursuit continues.

‘How frustrating.’

That emotion.

Fills Namgung Sohye’s heart completely.

Second-rate internal energy wouldn’t do.

She catches up with first-rate internal energy.

However, she only ‘catches up.’

She cannot catch him.

Really just a one-step difference.

He escapes with that one step.

That’s why it’s frustrating.

And it was strange.

Was one step originally this far?

To think she cannot catch what she tries to catch.

How can this be?

‘The movement technique Young Master Namgung Cheon-gang uses. It’s clearly the same Namgung Thunder Step as mine.’

Namgung Cheon-gang only used Namgung Thunder Step.

Therefore, Namgung Sohye also only used Namgung Thunder Step.

What is the significance of this training?

To help Namgung Cheon-gang.

Hence, she must follow the martial arts that Namgung Cheon-gang uses.

‘However, the application method and techniques are no different.’

They look exactly the same to the eye.

If so.

‘Shouldn’t first-rate internal energy be able to catch someone with second-rate internal energy?’

The process of catching him is already drawn in her mind.

But how different is the reality?

‘Is this the efficiency that comes from experience that Lord Namgung Cheonggi spoke of?’

The words spoken before training.

She cannot help but remember them.

Those words.

At the time, she only understood them with her head.

Now?

She thinks she knows.

Why he said experience, efficiency, and application methods were superior to hers.

She sees him overwhelming first-rate with second-rate internal energy.

She cannot help but know.

‘Truly, truly!’

How magnificent!

The person she acknowledged.

His magnificent true nature.

She’s delighted to see it again.

She thought she had gotten a little closer.

But she’s grown distant again.

Her heart swells with emotion.

Her competitive spirit rises greatly.

A blacksmith?

What does it matter?

When there’s so much to learn.

Rough breathing that reaches her chin.

Beads of sweat forming drop by drop.

But her eyes that don’t give up.

As if she herself had become an ingot in the blacksmith’s forge.

She heats each muscle of her entire body like iron on the forge.

‘Ah.’

Reading ten thousand books is not as good as traveling once .

Reading ten thousand books is inferior to walking once.

If one hears the Way in the morning, one can die in the evening .

The value of learning and enlightenment is not constrained by time.

The figure of a man fiercely training (tempering) himself.

The image of herself that he wishes to pursue, reflected in those clear eyes.

‘How wonderful.’

A smile spreads across Namgung Sohye’s beautiful face.

* * *

On the way back to Anhui Province.

Midway.

A place where they stopped briefly for rest.

Training in the open field they discovered.

Drawing lines to maintain a certain distance.

Making sure not to step outside of it.

Focusing only on the movement technique Namgung Cheon-gang wanted.

Initially, he thought about half a time period (: 30 minutes).

But it went on longer than expected.

More than Namgung Cheonggi had thought.

Because Namgung Cheon-gang was more remarkable than expected.

‘The skill Samgong Nyeom showed when she raised her level was truly remarkable.’

A one-step difference.

However, that one step.

Is truly a masterstroke.

When she raised her level, she became even more uncatchable.

The problem is what comes next.

Namgung Sohye, Samgong Nyeom.

The heightened smile on her face.

Eyes focused on only one thing.

That appearance of losing awareness of his surroundings.

How could Namgung Cheonggi not recognize that he had fallen into a state of selfless (mua-jigyeong)?

This was the enlightenment of a warrior who would be responsible for Namgung and the Martial Arts World in the future.

How could he interrupt it?

Thus, Namgung Cheon-gang’s movements also became even more elevated.

As if, when one person develops.

They develop together.

‘No, it’s like he’s finally bringing out the abilities he originally possessed, one by one.’

One person showed genius beyond what he had imagined.

And one person realizes.

This training that began by mere chance.

Who would have thought this would advance both youths by one step.

Dongja-dono chalseong-do .

They say a child gains sudden enlightenment in an instant.

The two harmonizing for each other’s development.

He left them as they were.

Thus, more time was allocated.

Even when the sunset came.

They had decided to camp for the night.

He gave orders to the foremen, conveyed their respective tasks, and returned.

Yet still, they remained the same.

Even though they were exhausting their internal energy.

Their footsteps did not stop.

This was beyond blacksmith and warrior.

It was the resonance of two people seeking to develop.

But soon.

As if waiting for Namgung Cheonggi to come.

One youth’s legs gave out.

And collapsed with a thud.

The other youth hurriedly supported him.

An urgent face.

Clear eyes checking if his complexion was alright.

‘He’ breathed a sigh of relief.

It seemed to be fine.

Namgung Cheonggi had already approached their side.

“You’ve worked hard, Lord Namgung Cheon-gang, and Lady Samgung. Let’s end today’s training here.”

“Haa. I thought I was going to die.”

Namgung Cheon-gang holding the unconscious Namgung Sohye.

When Namgung Cheonggi carefully took Namgung Sohye in his arms.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

And sprawled out on the ground in a spread-eagle position.

* * *

At first, it was manageable to dodge.

Even rising from second-rate to first-rate wasn’t particularly?

Difficult.

Of course, it was dangerous here and there.

But didn’t Lord Namgung Cheonggi say so?

That experience, application, and efficiency were different.

‘Since I have experience from my previous life, I can’t say that’s wrong.’

Therefore, I know well how to distribute my premature internal energy.

My second life in the Martial Arts World.

I refined it even better through blacksmith work.

‘I don’t know about martial arts manuals, but after learning martial arts through resonance, all the techniques of those martial arts are embedded in my head.’

Thus, if it’s the same footwork, I can gauge how it will come in.

If I see it, I can predict it too.

So, predicting and distributing internal energy to dodge isn’t difficult.

‘The problem was what came after.’

Namgung Sohye’s suddenly changing movements.

Of course, even knowing the techniques, I could predict.

But she broke through that ‘prediction’ with force.

‘What is this, it’s not like colorless haki breaking through observation haki from One P*ece.’

The person had gotten that much stronger in real time.

I could have let myself be caught.

But I saw the competitive gleam in her eyes.

Strangely, I didn’t want to lose?

So what could I do.

I had no choice but to dodge desperately.

Thanks to that, my premature internal energy was completely drained.

‘If Lady Namgung Sohye hadn’t suddenly collapsed, I would have collapsed first.’

The open field where we decided to camp.

My tent that was already set up.

Recovering through breathing exercises inside it.

Only after about half a watch had passed could I finally catch my breath and organize my thoughts.

“Still, it’s not like there was no gain at all.”

Right.

There was something gained.

A whole 1-level increase in the footwork I learned!

“Keu.”

The effect of training like real combat was truly amazing!

“No, honestly speaking, it was a collaboration between resonance and Insight.”

What this means is.

During the real combat training with the enlightened Namgung Sohye.

At the critical moment when I thought I’d be caught.

Namgung Cheon-gang happened to see how Namgung Sohye was using her martial arts.

The movements she showed when I felt something had changed.

Same yet different, I focused on that.

Then, with a hopeful heart, I used Insight.

‘It was different.’

The way she used her legs.

After that, without any impure thoughts.

I thoroughly scanned her entire body with Insight to truly understand.

When I saw that the usage of her entire body had changed.

‘This System Message appeared, and soon it said Namgung Naepo had risen by 1 star.’

In a way, Namgung Cheon-gang had also received enlightenment.

“Hmm. I didn’t know resonance and Insight had this kind of relationship.”

Ah.

Just how far does the versatility of resonance extend?

The more I peel it, the more this onion-like thing proves to be even more overpowered.

“Thanks to that, I learned that I can quickly achieve what I want through training. That’s really great.”

The realm of intermediate-advanced martial arts and above wasn’t rising immediately through resonance.

This incident has provided a solution.

Now I’ll actively apply this to properly escape when I encounter enemies!

“But still, I don’t understand the relationship between learning footwork through resonance.”

No matter how much I think about it, this is strange.

‘This incident has made that strangeness even more certain.’

The advancement in footwork mastery was thanks to collaborating with the Insight Man.

It wasn’t solely the effect of resonance.

If resonance alone had been effective, it would have advanced long ago.

“How exactly did I learn this Namgung Naepo?”

The question resurfaces again.

It keeps nagging at me, and I want to know the answer.

‘Really, did someone tie a tool they made to their feet and use it?’

I think again about that ridiculous scenario I considered before.

But it still doesn’t make sense.

“I don’t know.”

Should I just let it go again?

No.

I can’t do that.

This question that came up.

I don’t know when it might resurface again and give me a headache.

What can I do?

Since I thought of it, I need to solve it.

Then, how?

“I should ask someone who might know.”

When did I learn Namgung Naepo?

It was when I learned Changgong Muae Swordplay and Changgong Muae Fist Technique.

‘While Changgong Muae Swordplay and Changgong Muae Fist Technique can only be learned by direct descendants, Namgung Naepo is permitted even for branch family members, so I didn’t think much about it.’

Because of whom did I learn this?

Who else would it be.

It was Master Namgung Cheonggi.

“Huh? Wait a minute?”

Thinking about when I learned Namgung Naepo, I called up the status window from that time again.

Huh?

But something looks strange?

“Famous Shoes? Not Famous Sword?”

What kind of luxury footwear?

Did I ever make shoes back then?

I thought carefully.

Never happened.

Not then, not now.

I’ve never made shoes, let alone anything similar.

“But why famous shoes? Ah!”

Something about the versatility of resonance.

‘I don’t necessarily have to make the tools myself, do I?’

Someone else can make tools using ingots I’ve refined.

In other words?

“Someone made something like shoes using ingots I created?”

They wore them and performed footwork.

Because of this, I was able to learn Namgung Naepo.

Huh.

Now this makes sense.

“Right. Considering the mechanism of resonance, this is correct! But wait, why am I only seeing this now?”

If I had seen it back then, I wouldn’t have had these thoughts.

No, is that all?

I could have made things like shoes and spread them around to learn more lightness skills and footwork.

That’s exactly the martial arts I need right now!

Were there too many messages?

Or maybe?

Ah, I see.

Back then I was learning direct lineage martial arts and was out of my mind.

“It was a time when I was desperately struggling to survive, so it makes sense I couldn’t think deeply about it…”

Besides, look at the martial arts I learned after that.

I learned Cheonloe Jaewang Singong.

Changgong Muae Swordplay and Changgong Muae Fist Technique, and Namgung Naepo.

It’s understandable I wouldn’t remember.

“…I’m proud of myself for surviving and breathing until now.”

Really, I desperately struggled to live.

I feel both moved and sad.

Namgung Cheon-gang’s eyes grow moist.

‘…Enough. What’s the point of thinking about the past. It only hurts.’

Let me just think about current matters now.

Moreover, as they say, after hardship comes happiness.

Thanks to this, I’ve found a way to learn lightness skills and footwork through resonance.

‘Hehehe. When I return to Anhui Province, I’ll make shoes and distribute them to all the Namgung Clan Warriors.’

Something I couldn’t even think of when I was branch family.

But now?

I’m direct lineage.

Even learning direct lineage martial arts, my limbs and meridians can remain intact.

So even if I learn various things through resonance, it’s fine.

‘Except for the Master’s exclusive direct lineage martial arts.’

Being direct lineage doesn’t make you safe.

‘If you learn martial arts at the level of Cheonloe Jaewang Singong without permission, even direct descendants will have their limbs and meridians severed.’

I’m already being threatened constantly because of Cheonloe Jaewang Singong—

Then suddenly a question arises.

‘Come to think of it, how did I learn Cheonloe Jaewang Singong?’

Namgung Naepo makes sense.

There were shoes as tools, right?

But divine arts?

Is this something you learn by wearing something and practicing?

What are divine methods and divine arts?

Aren’t they martial arts that work from inside the body?

‘If it were my previous life, items I made could be embedded inside the body.’

Like medical supplies, things like that.

So when practicing divine methods and divine arts, resonance could work and I could learn.

Because that’s how resonance functions.

But in the martial arts world?

Would such a thing happen?

I’ve never even made medical supplies.

‘It’s not like Lady Namgung Sohye stuck needles I made all over her body and practiced divine arts.’

Such a thing shouldn’t happen and couldn’t happen.

‘Hmm.’

Solving one problem only brings another challenge along with it.

Ah.

Truly one mountain after another.

‘…Let’s just think that she learned it by wielding her sword technique while operating her divine art to the extreme. That would be best.’

For now, he decided to think that way.

After that, he resolved to ask about his concerns directly.

Perhaps something had happened when she received the famous sword he had made.

Wouldn’t it be best to ask the person involved directly?

After that, a day passed.

He asked after Namgung Sohye’s well-being as she got up from her spot.

He received her thanks for helping her gain enlightenment.

After that.

“By any chance, have you ever wielded sword techniques while operating your divine art to the extreme with the sword I made previously? Hahaha. Of course, I’m just joking.”

A subtle probe to find out the reason behind her learning the divine art.

However.

“Yes, I have.”

“…Excuse me?”

“After receiving the famous sword that Young Master Namgung Cheon-gang made as a gift from Father, I was so excited that I practiced sword techniques while deploying the divine art I had learned to its extreme.”

It was real.

“….”

Namgung Cheon-gang was left speechless by Resonance’s absurd versatility.

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