My Younger Siblings Are the Greatest Masters in the World - Chapter 53

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53.

 

Oryongbang, the ruling power of Black Island in Shandong Province, practically controls all the minor black faction groups in Shandong Province.

 

The reason they receive substantial tribute money from them every month is precisely this.

 

If Oryongbang pretended not to know about Suryangbang’s destruction, the minor black faction groups would have no reason to pay tribute to them.

 

Why would they bother giving money to Oryongbang that doesn’t even protect them?

 

Especially now, during this critical time, the loyalty of other black faction groups is desperately needed.

 

Wang Doseok cautiously spoke up.

 

“How about asking the young master for help?”

 

“The young master?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“For such a personal matter?”

 

“How could this be a personal matter? If Oryongbang’s authority falls, won’t it interfere with our great cause?”

 

“You have a point. Contact the young master.”

 

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“Huh?”

 

Seol Ryeoseon asked Seol Mujin again.

 

“Wasn’t Namgung Hyemin pretty?”

 

After thinking for a moment, Seol Mujin answered.

 

“I think she was pretty? I didn’t look closely though.”

 

Seol Mantong burst out shouting.

 

“She was incredibly pretty! What’s wrong with your eye for women, hyung?”

 

Seol Ryeoseon scolded Seol Mantong, saying ‘Hey! Why are you getting so worked up?’

 

“I think Miss Hwa is much prettier though?”

 

“Well, that Illusion Enchantress is… well, she is pretty. But Namgung Hyemin is young.”

 

“Whether Miss Namgung is pretty or not, what does that have to do with me?”

 

“When a man sees a pretty woman, his eyes naturally go to her and he gets ulterior motives – that’s all human nature!”

 

Seol Ryeoseon lightly smacked the back of Seol Mantong’s head.

 

“Human nature! And oppa isn’t just any ordinary man, is he? Namgung Hyemin is obviously a fox. A nine-tailed fox at that. Oppa recognized that at first glance.”

 

“Tch! Even a nine-tailed fox is fine if she’s pretty.”

 

Seol Changho asked Seol Mujin with a serious expression.

 

“Hyung, did you really feel nothing when you saw Namgung Hyemin?”

 

“Just that she was pretty?”

 

“Didn’t you feel your heart flutter or think about how you might try to talk to her?”

 

“If I wanted to talk to her, I would have. But what would Miss Namgung and I have to talk about?”

 

Seol Changho stared at Seol Mujin and muttered.

 

“This is definitely a side effect. A very serious side effect.”

 

Seol Ryeoseon asked.

 

“A side effect? A side effect of what?”

 

“The Mutual Life Heaven Technique.”

 

“What? Oppa hasn’t even learned it yet.”

 

“But he’s memorized the incantation formula and grasped the principles.”

 

Seol Mantong asked in shock.

 

“You mean that’s making hyung see women like stones? That would be a real disaster!”

 

Hwangbo Hyeonguk, who had been quietly listening to the four’s conversation, asked.

 

“What is the Mutual Life Heaven Technique?”

 

The triplets shouted simultaneously.

 

“You don’t need to know!”

 

“Geez! Why are you getting angry… How hurtful.”

 

Seol Mantong sighed with an expression like the world was ending.

 

“Sigh! To think hyung has become a stone man. This is a disaster, a disaster.”

 

Seol Ryeoseon said.

 

“Does it make sense that a martial art that enhances each other’s martial arts through intimate pleasure would turn the practitioner into a stone man?”

 

Seol Changho said.

 

“It’s probably not that. For instance, there are people who are easily bewitched by the opposite sex.”

 

“Like Mantong-i?”

 

“Right. Conversely, hyung won’t easily fall for a woman’s beauty.”

 

Seol Mantong shouted angrily.

 

“If a man isn’t attracted to a woman’s beauty, that makes him a stone man!”

 

“A woman’s beauty isn’t everything.”

 

Seol Changho pointed at Seol Ryeoseon.

 

“Look at her.”

 

Before her rejuvenation, Seol Ryeoseon was called the greatest beauty of Mingjiao even when she turned forty.

 

Seol Mantong also agreed with that statement and nodded.

 

“That’s true.”

 

“What do you mean that’s true! These guys, really!”

 

Watching the bickering triplets, Hwangbo Ryeoseon asked Sang Chiyeon in a low voice.

 

“Am I pretty?”

 

“You’re beautiful enough for a young lady. What about me?”

 

“Well.”

 

“Can’t you at least say I’m pretty, even if it’s just empty words?”

 

“Leader Seol doesn’t seem to like pretty women much?”

 

“Why is Leader Seol the standard?”

 

“You’re right. If you want, then you’re pretty.”

 

Seol Mujin, who was stopping the triplets’ argument, pointed to a restaurant he just spotted.

 

“Let’s go eat there!”

 

The triplets, as if they had never been fighting, ran to the restaurant in one breath.

 

They sat at the largest table, ordered enough to fill the entire dining table, and ate voraciously.

 

“The food here is much better than the Namgung Family’s food!”

 

“Don’t talk with food in your mouth!”

 

Seol Changho said to the arguing Seol Ryeoseon and Seol Mantong.

 

“I think we have a tail.”

 

Seol Changho’s gaze rested on two men sitting by the restaurant window.

 

They were ordinary-looking men in their mid-thirties wearing navy blue clothes.

 

Seol Ryeoseon scolded him.

 

“You just noticed that now? It was strange from the moment we entered the restaurant.”

 

Hwangbo Hyeonguk and the other two were shocked.

 

They hadn’t noticed at all that someone was watching them.

 

Hwangbo Hyeonguk asked in a heavily suppressed voice.

 

“Those people are tailing us?”

 

The answer to that question came from Seol Mujin.

 

“Don’t worry about it. They’re probably from the Namgung Family.”

 

“You knew too, hyung-nim?”

 

“A leader’s intuition.”

 

Hwangbo Ryeoseon asked.

 

“Why is the Namgung Family tailing us?”

 

“More precisely, they’re tailing me.”

 

“But why?”

 

“There are circumstances, but I can’t tell you about them.”

 

Sang Chiyeon said.

 

“So there was a reason Master Seol was at the Namgung Family Estate. Are you perhaps becoming enemies with the Namgung Family?”

 

The fact that the Namgung Family was even conducting surveillance meant there was plenty of possibility it could flow in that direction.

 

“They’ll give up eventually, so you don’t need to worry.”

 

Seol Ryeoseon grumbled, ‘That’s why I said we should just throw it away and leave.’

 

Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s group only grew more curious about what had happened between Seol Mujin and the Namgung Family.

 

“Elder brother, if you ever need the power of our Hwangbo Family, please say so anytime.”

 

“Right. I will.”

 

Though he answered that way, there probably wouldn’t be any occasion to ask the Hwangbo Family for help with this matter.

 

Seol Ryeoseon asked Seol Mujin.

 

“Brother, are you going to let those guys keep following us?”

 

“They’ll give up eventually.”

 

If he harmed them, his relationship with the Namgung Family would worsen by that much.

 

It wasn’t scary, but it would definitely become troublesome.

 

During the journey to Jinan, the surveillance team didn’t fall back.

 

Even though he deployed quite fast light body techniques, they continued their pursuit, confirming that their martial arts weren’t low-level.

 

The fact that they used such masters as surveillance agents showed how seriously the Namgung Family regarded this matter.

 

During the journey to Jinan, Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s group’s thoughts about Seol Mujin and the triplets completely changed.

 

They had thought Seol Mujin was a government official with fairly strong martial arts for someone in the profession of head constable.

 

The triplets were just ‘those kids are pretty good.’

 

But they keenly felt how wrong those thoughts had been.

 

At minimum, Seol Mujin was no inferior to them.

 

Even Hwangbo Ryeoseon, the most skilled among the three, probably wouldn’t be a match for Seol Mujin.

 

Just looking at his light body technique skills, they could tell that much.

 

They had traveled the same distance at the same speed, but while Hwangbo Ryeoseon was breathing heavily, Seol Mujin’s breathing was as stable as if he had taken a stroll.

 

The same was true for the triplets.

 

Perhaps even the triplets might be more skilled than them.

 

‘Is this possible? Seven-year-olds being more skilled than us?’

 

The triplets were more concerned about Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s group than the persistent surveillance team following them.

 

Because of those three people, their plan to practice internal energy cultivation whenever they had time was ruined.

 

In any case, they arrived in Jinan like that.

 

The first place they visited was naturally Yeonji-ru.

 

They had said one month, but they had been away for almost two months, so Hwa Seonhwa’s worry would be considerable.

 

‘I’m going to get quite a scolding.’

 

Seol Mujin knocked on Hwa Seonhwa’s door and said.

 

“Master Ruju. I’ve returned.”

 

The door burst open and Yeon Seobi’s face appeared.

 

“Mujin-i!”

 

Yeon Seobi embraced Seol Mujin tightly.

 

“Why are you only coming now!”

 

It didn’t seem like a simple reproach for being late.

 

“Is something wrong?”

 

“Come in.”

 

At Hwa Seonhwa’s voice, Yeon Seobi stepped back and pushed his back.

 

“There’s been a real mess. A real mess.”

 

“What happened?”

 

Hwa Seonhwa’s desk, where she usually tended orchids out of habit, was completely empty.

 

“Master Ruju.”

 

“Magistrate Go Bongsu has been imprisoned.”

 

“What? What do you mean… the Magistrate has been imprisoned? Who in Jinan could imprison the Magistrate?”

 

“It was done by an inspector dispatched from Shandong Province’s Jehyeonganch’alsa-sa.”

 

The Jehyeonganch’alsa-sa was a judicial institution in charge of criminal law and prisons for a province, and inspectors served as surveillance officers.

 

So to local officials, they were like grim reapers.

 

However, their blade didn’t fall on officials so easily.

 

Bound by various connections, most cases ended with taking bribes and letting things slide, or at best ending with a warning.

 

“What are the charges?”

 

“Accepting bribes.”

 

“It’s because of me.”

 

“No. They say the problem is bribes that Clerk Bang received. The issue with you and the criminal organization didn’t come up. Thanks to Magistrate Go and everyone else keeping quiet.”

 

“Even so, magistrates who don’t take bribes in the Central Plains can be counted on one hand, so why suddenly target the Magistrate?”

 

“Everyone’s curious about the reason. Though Magistrate Go does take bribes, he has deep trust from the people. He’s praised as the most excellent magistrate to come to Jinan so far.”

 

That was a fact Seol Mujin was well aware of too.

 

“But who are those people…?”

 

Hwa Seonhwa belatedly noticed Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s group standing behind Seol Mujin.

 

When he introduced them, Hwa Seonhwa stood up and bowed her head.

 

“Distinguished guests from the Hwangbo Family have come. I am Hwa Seonhwa, the proprietress of Yeonji-ru.”

 

They had heard about Hwa Seonhwa from Seol Mujin until their ears were sore.

 

He had said she was like the most respected mother in the world, so Hwangbo Hyeonguk’s group couldn’t dare be rude.

 

So the three people bowed deeply at the waist.

 

“We’ve heard much about you from Master Seol. We’re sorry for visiting so suddenly like this.”

 

“What are you saying? If you’re friends of our Mujin, you’re the most honored guests. But I’m sorry that such an unpleasant incident occurred when you’ve come to visit.”

 

“Not at all. You don’t need to worry about us. If you ever need the Hwangbo Family’s help, please say so anytime. Elder brother’s affairs are practically the Hwangbo Family’s affairs.”

 

“Thank you for saying that.”

 

The Hwangbo Family, being one of the Five Great Families of Murim, would be helpful in some way.

 

Of course, Seol Mujin had no intention of borrowing the Hwangbo Family’s power.

 

“I should go to the government office.”

 

Yeon Seobi asked.

 

“Are you really going? From what I heard, the inspector from Jehyeonganch’alsa-sa is looking for you.”

 

“For me?”

 

“Yes. He persistently questioned about you.”

 

Hwa Seonhwa said.

 

“It’s not just the inspector. Before that, someone from Jangcheon County Office came and made an issue of the Suryangbang member you killed. They said to hand you over to Jangcheon County Office. Though it was glossed over because Magistrate Go was so adamant.”

 

“When was this?”

 

“About ten days after you left.”

 

At that time, Seol Mujin had already annihilated Suryangbang.

 

So there was no way Suryangbang could have pulled strings.

 

‘Who else besides Suryangbang could there be?’

 

Suddenly, the last cry of Suryangbang leader Bok Juryang came to mind.

 

—If you kill us, Oryongbang won’t leave you alone! Oryongbang is behind us!

 

Seol Mujin, whose knowledge of Murim forces was limited, had never heard the name Oryongbang.

 

So he asked Hwangbo Hyeonguk.

 

“Hyeonguk, do you happen to know about Oryongbang?”

 

“Of course I know. It’s a criminal organization that’s been established in Shandong Province for three hundred years. In terms of power alone, it probably doesn’t fall behind the Five Great Families.”

 

“Could Oryongbang and Suryangbang be related?”

 

“I’ve never heard the name Suryangbang…”

 

Suryangbang was too small a sect for the Hwangbo Family to pay attention to.

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