Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 151

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Chapter 151

“Yes. That’s correct. His skills are very outstanding, so you don’t need to worry.”

“I’m not worried. Since he’s someone with such excellent abilities, he’ll surely bring proper people. I’ll tell the General Leader right away when he wakes up soon.”

“Thank you.”

Woon-hwi doesn’t recruit many people. This hadn’t changed much even after the branch became the main headquarters.

From the beginning, Woon-hwi had no intention of recruiting many people, and from his perspective, there was no particular reason to recruit people either.

There were those who had sworn loyalty, and their forces weren’t small either.

Woon-hwi had no intention of intervening in detail when governing a region. He thought it was enough to leave most matters to his subordinates and stand firm from above, and those who knew Woon-hwi’s weight actually handled things well on their own.

But the Medicine Hall was different.

The number of medicinal materials coming in was enormous.

It wasn’t a joke – Lee Myeong-hwa hadn’t slept properly since coming here. He was being overworked to that extent.

He wanted to finish his mission quickly and escape.

Though Seol Woon-hwi was being praised everywhere now, from Lee Myeong-hwa’s perspective, there was no exploitation like this.

He even gave a pittance for salary. That damn bastard.

Lee Myeong-hwa, shaking off his thoughts, quietly pushed the teacup forward.

“This tea is called Blue Cloud Jade Dew Tea, and it has quite a nice fragrance, doesn’t it? It’s a rare tea made from leaves that only grow on the peak of Blue Cloud Mountain in a corner of southern Yunnan. They say you can only harvest tea leaves that have absorbed morning dew for just ten days a year. This tea is a famous tea treasured even by the imperial family, and drinking it is said to purify the blood vessels, clear one’s energy, and stabilize the mind and body.”

Woon-hwi, who had played Go with Kang Cheon-u, still couldn’t get up.

Now was just the right opportunity.

Ju So-ah took the tea without much suspicion and took a sip.

“Mmm…? It’s delicious? The fragrance is good too.”

“You should be able to smell the Spirit Lotus fragrance.”

“Ah… that’s right. Spirit Lotus fragrance, I suppose you added Spirit Lotus flowers when brewing this?”

“Yes. That’s correct. The existing effects of Blue Cloud Jade Dew Tea are enhanced with the effect of clearing the mind, and the fragrance becomes better too, so it should be pleasant to drink. You can finish it all.”

There was no need to say anything more.

Ju So-ah sipped the tea and quickly drank more than half of it.

“Ahh… This is nice…”

Slowly.

Really slowly, Ju So-ah’s eyes became unfocused. The effect of the Soul Confusion Pill that Lee Myeong-hwa had added was immediate.

First, upon consumption, for one hour the person would appear fine on the outside but would actually be in a state almost like losing consciousness.

In this state, no matter what questions were asked or what actions were taken, they would accept everything without suspicion, and after one hour, the user wouldn’t remember anything that had happened during that time.

As a side effect, it purified the meridians and even promoted blood circulation, so they probably wouldn’t suspect anything.

After all, it was an elixir pill made by Lee Myeong-hwa, one of the disciples of Poison Snake Valley’s Cheon Sa-eum.

Lee Myeong-hwa’s eyes grew cold.

“Ju So-ah.”

“…Yes…?”

“You must have entered the secret realm that appeared in Yang-ryeong about a month ago. What did you see then?”

“…Ah… back then…? Uh… I saw people.”

“What people?”

“There were many… Drunken Swordsmen… Demon-faced Assassins…”

“Not them, who was the man who stole the secret realm’s treasure?”

“Ah… that person… His eyes were long and narrow… Just an overall ordinary man…”

“What was that person’s name?”

“…Mu Myeong… I think? But why are you asking about this…?”

“Do you know what treasure that Mu Myeong stole?”

“…That… they said it was… Cheon Ma’s… martial arts…”

“The contents?”

“…I don’t know… He knocked me unconscious right away…”

“Were there any special characteristics?”

“…Ah… He was handsome.”

His brow furrowed deeply.

What is this crazy woman saying now.

No, wait.

“…Didn’t you say he was ordinary?”

“I did…”

“Ordinary but… handsome?”

“Yes… I like ordinary men.”

Tsk, he clicked his tongue.

“Mu Myeong is probably a false name. Do you know his real name?”

“…I don’t know…”

“You don’t know…? Alright, next question. You’re the leader of Salgeom-mun. Did you see the Ghost-eyed Boy?”

“…Ah… I saw him…”

“What happened to him?”

“…I don’t know.”

“You don’t know… How can you not know?”

“…If I don’t know something, I say I don’t know. How else would I say I know when I don’t?”

“He must have had a mission to steal the treasure, but you just watched?”

“…I had no choice but to watch…”

“Why?”

“Because he betrayed me.”

“…”

“Salgeom-mun’s… protector… betrayed me… that crazy bastard…”

He let out a sigh.

He had obtained all the information he could get.

Ju So-ah didn’t know about the person called Mu Myeong.

The Ghost-eyed Boy Jeong Mu-heun was dead.

Cheon Ma’s secret manual was with Mu Myeong.

Mu Myeong.

After asking a few more questions about him, he stood up from his seat.

He had to send this to Poison Snake Valley immediately.

Lee Myeong-hwa immediately wrote a letter and took out the messenger bird he had hidden in the Medicine Hall.

It wasn’t just any messenger bird. It was a top-grade messenger bird.

He had completely knocked it unconscious with medicinal materials and hidden it, and finally the time had come to use it.

After tying the letter to its leg, he sent it flying.

“Phew…”

Now it was finished.

A reply would come soon. Telling him to withdraw.

Then he could withdraw at that time.

He could finally escape from this detestable place.

Just as he turned his head, he flinched.

When coming to the medicinal materials warehouse, he had left the door to the room where Ju So-ah was open.

It was a position visible from here… but why couldn’t he see Ju So-ah?

Just as he was about to move his feet.

Scrape, scrape.

There was a sound like a sword sheath being dragged along the ground.

Instantly, goosebumps rose all over his body.

He turned his head. A man was walking toward the Medicine Hall. At his waist, an incredibly long sword was being dragged along.

He gulped.

“How unfortunate. I wanted to use you a little longer.”

As soon as he heard those words, he felt something was wrong.

“You should have come just a little later. Do you know what that guy said to me?”

He gulped at Ju So-ah’s voice coming from the corner of the medicinal materials warehouse.

“He said I was pretty. If there had been just a little more time, that bastard would have completely taken my body, huh? The bastard at least knew I was pretty.”

It was incomprehensible.

“…It wasn’t even an ordinary Dream Soul Pill… It was a Dream Soul Pill I made myself… How?”

“Ah, that’s what our leader told us. He said if he was absent, you would make a move. Especially that if it were you, you’d make Dream Soul Pills to feed someone… I didn’t think you’d actually feed them.”

When Woon-hwi headed to Sa Ryang with Han Mu-rin, Woon-hwi had changed Ju So-ah’s appearance using Disguise Arts.

Even though it would have been better to entrust it to Won Yang who had already done it several times, the reason he did it that way was because of Lee Myeong-hwa.

Woon-hwi was confident he wouldn’t let Lee Myeong-hwa or anyone around him notice his absence, but the visit from Cha Seol-rin and Bing Seol-ryeong was something even he hadn’t anticipated.

That’s when he made up his mind.

To get rid of Lee Myeong-hwa first.

He had to wait for an opportunity, and Kang Cheon-u gave him that opportunity. Few people can make maximum use of unexpected situations when they arise.

Woon-hwi was one of those rare people.

But Lee Myeong-hwa didn’t know these background circumstances.

He truly hadn’t noticed Woon-hwi’s Disguise Arts or such things.

What puzzled him was one thing.

The Dream Soul Pill.

This was also a matter of his skills and was more sensitive than anything else.

“…I’m asking why you’re perfectly fine.”

“Well, this bastard. I didn’t know, but there’s that typical arrogance of Blood Cult bastards in your way of speaking? I pressed some pressure points in advance. Couldn’t figure that out? And do you have the nerve to ask me that?”

He turned his head.

Woon-hwi was holding the Jinhua Heavenly Command Sword at his waist along with its sheath, then drawing the sword out.

“…I am… useful.”

“So?”

“…I sent a letter, and a reply will come… That reply will be written in a cipher that only insiders of the Blood Cult use… It will be difficult for you to interpret. I’ll interpret it for you…”

“Not necessary.”

“Ah…”

“Still, thanks to you doing the work, I was able to escape Yu Cheong’s surveillance… I’ll send you off without pain.”

“Please…”

He tried to plead, but Woon-hwi had already made up his mind.

Kwarrrrrung-!

His sword swung and thunder echoed.

Like that.

Seogek-!

Lee Myeong-hwa’s head shot up into the sky.

* * *

Ju So-ah, who had been staring blankly at Lee Myeong-hwa’s head rolling on the floor, raised her head.

She could see Woon-hwi sheathing the Jinhua Heavenly Command Sword and fastening it to his waist.

“What do we do now?”

Lee Myeong-hwa’s words weren’t wrong.

The message he sent was written in cipher, and a reply would come soon.

That reply would also be written in cipher, and to decode it, one would need to be someone from inside the Origin Blood Sect. Someone very high-ranking at that.

“You, you acted with some plan in mind, right?”

At Ju So-ah’s words, filled with worry, Woon-hwi asked casually.

“Are you okay physically?”

“…What’s with the uncharacteristic concern? I’m Ju So-ah. Of course I’m fine.”

“Then that’s settled.”

Ju So-ah, who had hurriedly shaken her head, slowly opened her mouth.

“…It’s not settled, now that Lee Myeong-hwa is dead, things are going to get bigger. Just disguise me like before. I know a bit about medicinal materials, so I can act for a few days. In the meantime, if we secretly inquire about people who can decode the Origin Blood Sect’s cipher, somehow we’ll find an answer…”

“Are you worried?”

“Don’t I look like I should be?”

Woon-hwi chuckled.

“I have it all figured out. There’s no need to act, so don’t worry unnecessarily and go call Han Seok-hyeon.”

“You mean that guy from Cheonha Trading Company? Should I bring him right now?”

“Right now.”

“Got it.”

Ju So-ah turned around without complaint and headed to Cheonha Trading Company, while Woon-hwi slowly moved his steps and then sat down heavily at the edge of the eaves.

As if he had been waiting, Manager Seong approached and handed him water while saying.

“…Don’t overdo it, I keep telling you… You really don’t listen. Our Young Master.”

“It was just something that had to be done.”

Manager Seong scratched his head.

“Well, I heard what you said to Ju So-ah, but Young Master, this seems like it’s going to become a big problem… What will you do?”

Woon-hwi smiled.

“What do you think I’ll do, Manager Seong?”

“…Who knows?”

“Then just watch.”

Hasn’t he been showing it all along?

Woon-hwi absolutely never lets anything slide.

If he’s been wronged once, he retaliates in some way.

Retaliation.

This is the most important thing.

He has no intention of ending it with just Lee Myeong-hwa.

Fighting the Origin Blood Sect now would be insane, but dealing with one or two branch sects instead of the Origin Blood Sect is no problem at all.

Whether it’s the Thunder Lightning Demon Sect or Poison Snake Valley.

Even Ghost Soul Gate.

Woon-hwi’s retaliation isn’t over yet.

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