I Prayed for a Murim Reincarnation, But I Was Born as the Youngest Imperial Prince - Chapter 115

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Chapter 115
To Zhuge Jun, whether he could claim a greater share of the credit for subjugating Mandok Mazon or gain more fame didn’t actually matter.
He simply didn’t want to enter a relationship where he and Seonwu were awkwardly separated by rank, forced to observe the utmost etiquette.
If Seonwu were to draw a line in the future and command him to recognize his altered status, he would have no choice but to bow then, but for now, he intended to hold out.
Seonwu continued speaking.
“But since I want the entire Jianghu to know the glad tidings that Mandok Mazon has been defeated, let’s alter the details of the battle slightly before announcing it.”
“Hmm. If we’re going to hide the treasures of your Eunhak Sect while making the defeat of Mandok Mazon believable, the formation I prepared needs to sound far more magnificent.”
“They won’t believe we had time for the Divine Wind Eight Trigrams Grand Formation, but what if we say it was the full Divine Wind Four Symbols Formation, not an abbreviated version?”
“Even so, claiming that Yaxian and the three of us won… Mazon’s reputation is too great. If we said he suffered losses and retreated, that might pass, but it’s hard to convince people we fully subjugated him.”
Seonwu nodded.
If Jun reasoned it that way, public opinion in the Wulin would move in the same direction.
And people would assume the secret lay with the two from the Eunhak Sect rather than the Zhuge Clan, who already knew everything they needed to know.
‘Hmm, that’s not exactly desirable.’
For now, he wanted to keep hiding his true strength a bit longer.
At the same time, he wanted to earn a chivalrous reputation, which was a contradiction.
He wanted to reveal less of his martial arts but still build his fame.
He couldn’t have it both ways.
[Should I just reveal that I’m in the Transcendence Realm?]
[I won’t stop you, but the difference in perception between the Peak Realm and the Transcendence Realm at your age is completely night and day. People will suspect you’re a secret weapon for some massive power, not the Eunhak Sect, and names from the Imperial Court will start pouring out of everyone’s mouths. Can you handle that?]
At Jun’s sharp retort, Seonwu immediately abandoned the idea he had briefly considered.
“Since things have turned out this way, Yaxian, you will have to take a bit more of the credit.”
[Your Highness, what can this humble servant possibly do?]
Remembering Seonwu’s request that he didn’t want his identity exposed to the Earth Dragon, Yaxian asked back through Sound Transmission.
While he took pride in having a deep understanding of medicine, he was by no means a skilled combatant.
He could craft excellent spiritual elixirs and had passed the wall of the Peak Realm by establishing his intent through medicine, but that was the absolute limit.
Though he was technically in the Transcendence Realm, his intent lay in medicine rather than martial cultivation, so the worldly assessment of him being at the very bottom of the Top One Hundred Masters was entirely accurate.
He wasn’t completely weak, of course, but he lacked the proper weight to stand before Mandok Mazon.
“It would indeed be impossible to overturn the public perception that your own martial cultivation is weak among those in the Transcendence Realm. However, couldn’t we say you possessed a special spiritual elixir and a secret method that temporarily boosted your martial arts?”
“Indeed!”
In reality, Seonwu had accomplished it using the Golden Needles of Life and Death and a Tianlong Pill, but it was highly believable to the Wulin that Yaxian had done it.
As for the secret method, Yaxian had already learned it by watching Seonwu perform it right beside him.
The spiritual elixir to back it up didn’t necessarily have to be a Tianlong Pill.
‘While it wouldn’t manifest the full ten tenths without something on the level of a Tianlong Pill or a Great Rejuvenating Pill, the basic composition could be achieved with the Medical Pavilion’s Nine-Revolution Life-Saving Pill.’
Furthermore, the Golden Needles of Life and Death could be substituted with Yaxian’s own skills.
When it came to acupuncture, his hands were hailed as the Number One Under Heaven in this era, making them fully comparable to the efficacy of the Golden Needles of Life and Death.
As for the spiritual elixir… well, if he claimed it was something he had been saving, how would the Jianghu ever know otherwise?
“But if we do that, the Medical Pavilion will end up acquiring that secret method.”
“You’ve already watched and figured it out anyway, so why hesitate?”
“Since it’s a hidden transmission of your sect, I intended to forget it all if you so wished.”
“There’s no need for that. It’s good for the Yige to have a trump card as well. Please accept it as my gift.”
“Haha, I feel far too apologetic accepting this for free.”
Seonwu beamed.
“In that case, may I request the Medical Pavilion’s assistance the next time I need it?”
“Of course.”
In truth, if King Wuryong received an imperial decree and demanded something, the Medical Pavilion would have to comply unconditionally.
Having guessed Seonwu’s true identity, it was a demand he would have to obey regardless.
However, this promise meant he would respond to a request from the ‘Chivalrous Dragon’ as well, not just an ‘imperial order.’
It was a promise that could mean everything or nothing.
Next, Seonwu looked at Jun.
“In addition to that, let’s say the formation you deployed was far more powerful than it actually was.”
“Right. To make that work, we should claim we spent much longer setting up the formation for the battle here. The enemies are all dead anyway, and no one knows the exact sequence of events, right?”
“Hmm, we’ll need to coordinate our stories perfectly beforehand.”
They would reduce Seonwu’s role and elevate the roles of the Medical Pavilion and Jun.
“Should we also throw in factors like being lucky or the opponent letting his guard down significantly?”
“It’s better than not including it.”
There were no witnesses anyway.
As long as Yaxian and they agreed on the story, no one who came to inspect later would be able to know for certain.
Of course, a fair number of traces remained at the scene.
“Can we clear away these traces too?”
“There’s a separate formation just for cleaning up. Restoring it to its original state is out of the question, but it’ll make it difficult to accurately reverse-engineer what kind of techniques were used in the fight.”
In short, they weren’t cleaning it spotlessly; they were blurring it out.
“For Yaxian’s secret method, um… shall we say the spiritual elixir was a single pill created precisely for such an emergency, and since it was used this time, there are no more left?”
“Ahem, let’s align our words that way. I shall call it the Heavenly Spirit Genesis Divine Elixir.”
A non-existent hidden divine elixir suddenly sprang into being as a secret formula of Yaxian’s lineage.
Fabricating the imaginary battle at length, Seonwu minimized his own exploits as much as possible.
“But isn’t this still a bit clumsy?”
“It’s fine. People inherently believe what they want to believe, and honestly, almost no one thinks a person would shrink their own achievements rather than inflating them.”
Jun’s response to Seonwu’s concern brought peace of mind.
“True… Rather than seeing the Chivalrous Dragon of the Eunhak Sect as intentionally humble, it’s a reasonable achievement to think he did exceptionally well for someone in the Peak Realm.”
That was correct.
It wasn’t just anyone; it was Mandok Mazon.
A seat among the Eight Hidden Demons.
Faced with that legendary, malevolent reputation, weren’t the Chivalrous Dragon and the Sword Dragon still considered to be in the Peak Realm?
Of course, they were ranked at the top of the Peak Realm, but they shouldn’t be in the Transcendence Realm yet.
In reality, assuming this fellow possessed a horde of divine artifacts and combined them with his own martial arts to narrowly defeat Mandok Mazon would be stretching the imagination too far.
‘The outcome of our victory is fixed anyway, so it will be hard for anyone to suspect that we’re downplaying our credit as much as possible and acting humble.’
It would be even more effective if he, as the Chivalrous Dragon of the Eunhak Sect, spoke up as if boasting that they had managed to achieve this much.
If a person acted completely humble, people would actually suspect they had accomplished far more.
But if he confidently declared that he had done exactly this much, they would assume that was the absolute extent of it.
‘Perfect. Let’s push forward with this.’
All that remained now was the cleanup.
“Let’s clean the area quickly and depart. We should secure the medicinal herbs in the meantime. Staying here too long won’t bring any good.”
“Very well. I shall harvest the herbs and perform some processing. Will you two handle the cleanup?”
“Please go ahead.”
Dividing their roles, Seonwu and Yaxian moved separately.
Finally left alone while digging up the herbs, Yaxian exhaled a sigh of relief.
“Whew, I feel like I’ve aged ten years.”
In truth, he was still dazed.
‘To think Mandok Mazon would target me.’
If His Highness King Wuryong hadn’t taken pity on him and accompanied him, he would be dead by now.
He had received threatening letters once or twice before, but he had never truly believed them, yet it had become a reality this time.
‘Hah, did they really hate the idea of me increasing my disciples that much?’
Then they should have done a decent job themselves first.
And they could have raised more disciples on their own as well.
He wasn’t trying to dominate the entire medical community of the Empire through the Medical Pavilion.
It was just that good doctors were currently too scarce when looking at the Empire as a whole.
If they had simply entered fair competition and raised competent doctors themselves to secure the surrounding cities first, new disciples wouldn’t naturally come flocking under him anyway.
‘Even if they learn from me, if they don’t see a suitable place to open a new clinic, they will naturally drift away into martial arts, scholarship, or commerce. In fact, that would be better.’
That way, the number of doctors in this country would increase faster than if he did it alone, which would benefit the common people.
He had secretly hoped for that.
‘Yet what they sent instead was Mandok Mazon. Whew.’
No.
Surely not every doctor in the world had commissioned Mandok Mazon; it must have been just a few of them.
The world was vast and people were many, and among them, someone was bound to go astray.
‘Since Mandok Mazon met his end like this, there likely won’t be a second attempt.’
And the Chivalrous Dragon who brought about such an outcome…
In truth, His Highness King Wuryong…
‘Sigh, to think I would get to know a True Dragon.’
There were many who used the alias of a dragon, but the only real dragons were the one on the dragon throne and his five sons.
While Mandok Mazon’s martial cultivation was terrifying, His Highness, who ultimately subjugated him at the capping age, was truly magnificent.
Since he was already at this level, what would he be like in the future?
‘Still, it is a relief that he doesn’t view me and the Medical Pavilion unfavorably.’
Meanwhile, Seonwu took Jun and Absolute Shadow to blur the traces here and there.
Since Jun was an expert in these general matters, he took charge of the direction.
Absolute Shadow watched the scene with burning eyes.
‘How dare that insolent scoundrel order His Highness around.’
Originally, this was a task for the two of them to perform while His Highness merely gave instructions.
Although His Highness had volunteered to do it himself, claiming this was the only way to ensure a thorough disguise, how could a loyal subject ruin this mood…
‘Ugh, stopping him is disloyal, and leaving him be is also disloyal.’
It was frustrating.
Whether Absolute Shadow grieved or not, once the trace-blurring formation was activated, the scene was indeed overwritten.
It wasn’t left clean, but it became difficult to reverse-engineer which technique had been used and how.
‘Cleaning up a stain is difficult, but if you just pour all sorts of other things over it, no one will recognize the original shape.’
“With this much, no one will know even if they come to look, right?”
At Seonwu’s question, Jun nodded.
“They’ll know a fierce battle took place, but that’s a given the moment the name Mandok Mazon is attached, and they won’t discover any deeper details.”
“As for why we deliberately erased it, is it our natural right to hide our secret techniques?”
“Of course. Why else would the Main House possess such a formation? Any sect can do this if they have the time to clean up the scene.”
It was a satisfactory result.
Seonwu nodded.
Just then, Yaxian returned after finishing the processing of the medicinal herbs.
However, Yaxian didn’t dare speak first to suggest they return because patients would be waiting.
No matter how much Seonwu insisted they put on an act, how could he presume to tell him what to do first?
‘I must maintain the invisible line. Absolutely.’
Seonwu spoke first to Yaxian, who was merely testing the waters.
“Shall we head back soon? The poisoned victims must feel like a quarter of an hour feels like three autumns while waiting.”
“Yes, let us savor the lingering excitement of subjugating Mandok Mazon on our way back.”
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Though they hurried on the return journey, Seonwu’s steps were far lighter compared to when they arrived.
‘I actually subjugated Mandok Mazon.’
He hadn’t done it alone, but he had eliminated one of the Eight Great Demon Sovereigns of the Shadows.
This was truly a magnificent feat.
Of course, he had mobilized many resources, but being able to mobilize them was a testament to his own power as well.
‘Ahem, what does it matter if I’m an imperial silver-spoon prince chivalrous xia disguised as a pure, ruined-sect chivalrous xia?’
Isn’t the chivalry and righteousness brought by the outcome more important than minor details?
‘Wuxia originally has so many subgenres within it anyway; even in my past life, there was such a thing as silver-spoon wuxia.’
What worried him more was that strange black core that had entered his body.
There was no way it was just a lump of coal.
‘As soon as I reach the Medical Pavilion, I must send a letter to Father to explain the situation, and if necessary, I should stop by the Imperial Palace to show it to him directly.’
He had intended to avoid returning to the Imperial Palace if possible before completing his journey through the Jianghu, but given the current situation, now was not the time to be picky.

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