Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 166

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Chapter 166

“Youngest.”

“Yes, Elder Brother.”

“To be honest, it’s all thanks to you.”

“I wonder about that. The one who raised his realm was you, First Elder Brother. I’m grateful for your kind words, but it’s not my achievement, and I can’t deny that fact.”

“…Wow… What is this, an old soul or what? I’ve been feeling this for a while, but hasn’t your way of speaking become too mature?”

I gazed quietly at First Elder Brother.

Noticing my gaze, Elder Brother rummaged through his storage bag and slipped something out, pressing it into my hand.

It was a small box.

“It’s a Great Recovery Pill.”

At First Elder Brother’s quiet voice in my ear, my eyes widened.

“…This still exists?”

“It does.”

About 4 years ago, the Dragon Phoenix Assembly was held by the Martial Alliance.

The person who won that competition was a late-stage prodigy named Woo Hwang-seok, who was a first disciple of the Suncheon Sword Sect, one of the Five Great Sword Sects.

The Great Recovery Pill he received then was the only Great Recovery Pill left in this world.

Since it was lost due to the Thousand Year Chaos and even the manufacturing method was gone, having it didn’t make sense, so why was it coming from First Elder Brother’s hands?

“Long ago, the Dragon Phoenix Assembly was held by the Martial Alliance.”

“…I’ve heard about it.”

“Hm? From whom?”

“From Second Elder Brother.”

“Ah. From Muryun? If you heard it from him, then you’d know. Back then, Yeon-hwa was eliminated in the preliminaries and missed this.”

“I heard that was the case.”

“So I bought it.”

“…Ah…”

“I was looking for a chance to give it to Yeon-hwa, but somehow there was no opportunity. I was going to secretly give it to her later when she reached the Harmony Realm, but there was nothing I could give you. I became broke after buying this.”

“…If it’s Woo Hwang-seok of the Suncheon Sword Sect, he’s a direct disciple of the sect leader. Even if the Great Recovery Pill wasn’t important to him, he wouldn’t have given it up for mere money.”

A strange smile appeared on Seol Ho-ryeong’s lips.

“This guy, befitting the first among the Polar Descendants to create and claim the position of General Commander, has incredible intuition?”

“What did you promise to give him?”

“Nothing much. Just money and… a promise to help him in the future. That’s about it.”

“This is too precious, so I cannot accept…”

“Hey, just take it. And just in case. I’m thinking of entering a secret realm this time.”

My eyes flickered.

“A secret realm, you say?”

“Yeah. Baek-ryeon-gak sent a letter as a gift for reaching the Body Establishment Boundary? It’s about the location of a secret realm that will appear soon, and judging by the discovery timing and the Heavenly Mechanism Compass’s reaction, it seems to be Divine Third Grade. You know too. Usually, secret realms of that level have spirit pills and such appearing.”

Isn’t this too coincidental to be a coincidence?

A martial artist from Baek-ryeon-gag just happened to be wandering around there, and just happened to have a Heavenly Mechanism Compass?

There’s only one thing here that can truly be called a ‘coincidence.’

The timing when Big Brother came out of seclusion.

Only that one thing can be considered coincidence.

Usually, the timing when secret realms appear cannot be specified.

That’s common sense.

As I mentioned in the Demonic Path Secret Realm, knowing what appears in that secret realm and what mechanisms exist there is nearly impossible.

But even though I’ve grasped the principles of heaven and earth, the world is full of things I don’t know.

Just as Yu Cheong specified the Demonic Path Secret Realm, someone might possess such divine objects.

And whether that secret realm is Martial God Grade or Divine Third Grade or whatever, I don’t know what kind of secret realm it is either.

Because it’s a secret realm from which not a single person survived in my previous life.

That’s right.

That’s the secret realm.

The secret realm where the genius among geniuses born from Snow Palace died.

“Big Brother.”

“Yeah?”

“I think this Great Recovery Pill should be given to Elder Sister Yeon-hwa.”

“Hey, youngest. For Yeon-hwa, I’ll separately get something else…”

“This Great Recovery Pill contains Big Brother’s heart.”

“…Huh…?”

“Even though you went so far as to incur debt to Woo Hwang-seok of the Five Great Sword Sects to obtain it, you didn’t take it, and you didn’t take it even when you entered seclusion. This youngest cannot dare to possess Big Brother’s heart contained in this Great Recovery Pill.”

“Wow… Our youngest is being too stubborn? I didn’t know you’d be this stubborn.”

I gazed quietly at First Elder Brother.

“May I ask just one thing?”

“What is it?”

“That secret realm, will you definitely enter it?”

Then Elder Brother grinned.

“Youngest.”

“Yes, Elder Brother.”

“Do you know what I’m most interested in in this world?”

It definitely wouldn’t be the position of Young Palace Lord.

I can roughly guess.

Why would a genius be a genius?

What exactly was he aiming for to continuously strive and never stop?

What creates and originates his freedom?

“Secret realms, I suppose.”

“Oh…?”

“To be precise, it would be the secrets of the Thousand Year Chaos.”

It’s nothing surprising.

The Thousand Year Chaos.

An event that occurred 700 years ago, and due to that event, a whopping 1000 years of history from the previous generation was lost—the greatest and most significant event in Murim.

There’s something that needs to be clarified here.

The reason I pin down that the Thousand Year Chaos was an event that occurred 700 years ago is because secret realms started appearing from then.

All of Murim’s history began to be rewritten, and the lacking parts were filled with stories that circulated orally and testimonies from those who somehow survived.

However.

No one knows why the Thousand Year Chaos occurred, why the Primordial Era ended, and why forces like the Nine Sects and One Gang or the Five Great Families that were famous during the Primordial Era suddenly disappeared.

Even why their martial arts and artifacts appear in secret realms.

No one knows that.

I personally thought someone was intentionally erasing it, but who knows.

There might really be no information.

Even though I was the Blood Heaven Middle Emperor and collecting martial arts was my hobby, I couldn’t know everything.

And I personally had no interest in things like the Thousand Year Chaos.

But First Elder Brother was different.

“…Wow… Really… Your insight is amazing. I’ve never told this to anyone, so how did you know?”

“I made an educated guess.”

“Well… let’s say that’s the case. If you know that I have great interest in something called the Thousand Year Chaos, then you naturally know my answer too?”

“Yes. I know. Elder Brother will enter the secret realm no matter who tries to stop you.”

“You got it right. Secret realms sometimes have information about the history of the Thousand Year Chaos, right? About half of the Primordial Era’s history in this world spread that way.”

“That’s correct.”

“…But why are you asking about this?”

“I have something I want.”

“Just now?”

I nodded and said.

“That secret realm, let’s enter it together.”

At those words, Ju So-ah and Manager Seong, who had been watching this situation from afar, shot up from their seats.

Seol Ho-ryeong burst into hearty laughter.

“Uh… Uhahahaha. Yes, let’s do that.”

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For a moment, my elder brother stepped aside.

First of all, the timing of when the secret realm would open was really awkward.

It would open about five days from today, and it takes about four days to get from here in Yang-ryeong to Cheon Seol-ju where my brother is staying.

It’s definitely not a close distance, and since the location of the secret realm that will appear is about half a day’s distance from Cheon Seol-ju, if we’re going to depart, we should leave right now.

“…Young Master… Is this… what you mentioned back then?”

I nodded.

Manager Seong knows that I’ve regressed. But the reason he’s making such a serious expression right now was one thing.

“…This is different from that secret realm that appeared in Yang-ryeong last time, isn’t it.”

“It’s different.”

“At this rate, I won’t live to see my natural lifespan. Can’t you just not enter it?”

“Are you worried?”

“Do I look like I wouldn’t be? Really, why are you doing this…”

I smiled and patted Manager Seong’s shoulder.

“A man is saying he wants to walk that path, isn’t he.”

“…”

“When I was playing go with Kang Cheon-u, Manager Seong blocked Won Yang and Han Mu-rin who were trying to intervene. Why did you block them then?”

“…Because I respected you.”

“It’s the same thing. I also respect my eldest brother.”

It’s a path that a man has resolved to walk.

What created the current Seol Ho-ryeong is enormous curiosity, and that naturally guides the path that such a genius walks.

Even if I told him not to enter this secret realm, he’s someone who would enter anyway.

And honestly speaking, I was also a little curious.

Why couldn’t my brother return from that secret realm?

It definitely wasn’t a demonic path secret realm.

Moreover, one Heaven-Human Realm martial artist, one Divine Transformation Realm martial artist, and even one Body Establishment Boundary martial artist – a total of ‘three martial artists’ entered together, so how could not even one of them come out?

I was too curious.

“Don’t worry.”

“…Sigh… I understand. And before you go, please select some ‘unit members’ before leaving.”

Yang-ryeong was growing larger than I had thought.

Existing things like public security were being maintained by people from the Shin Family Clan and Cheonha Trading Company, but this had become somewhat ambiguous.

That was understandable.

First, the black market had grown, news spread that we even controlled Divine Ginseng Valley, the largest cultivation site for Divine Ginseng Flower, and on top of that, No Cheon-myeong, a master of Heaven-Human Unity, had even established a school.

You can simply look at it this way.

It’s a city constantly guarded by a master of Heaven-Human Unity, a city somewhat distant from the frontline where the massive force called Ten Thousand Year Snow Palace faces the Central Plains, and where goods circulate smoothly with plenty of jobs.

If people hadn’t flocked to this place, that would have made even less sense.

So we created a unit.

The name was Yang Woon Dae.

I wasn’t the one who named it. It was a name Manager Seong came up with, taking the ‘Yang’ character from Yang-ryeong and the ‘Woon’ character from my name Woon-hwi to set it as Yang Woon Dae, and we made Ju So-ah the commander of that place, then created two divisions under her command, designating them as the First Division and Second Division.

The First Division leader was Won Yang, the Second Division leader was Han Mu-rin.

We had recruited people for these two to command, and about two hundred people had gathered.

“Manager Seong.”

“Yes?”

“While I’m away, you’ll have to act as deputy commander in place of the commander. Can you do it?”

“…If you tell me to do it, I’ll have to.”

“Then from this very moment, act as deputy commander.”

“…From now?”

“From now. And Won Yang, Han Mu-rin.”

At my call, the two people approached.

“Select the unit members yourselves. They’re people who will follow your commands, so if I pick them according to my taste, wouldn’t that be inappropriate?”

The two people nodded, and I shifted my gaze to look at Ju So-ah.

“Are you worried?”

“…This isn’t related to that demonic realm from back then, right?”

“If you look at the big picture, it’s related, but if you look at it small, you could say it’s not.”

“…You’re not going to die a tragic death or anything, right?”

At those words, I burst into a hollow laugh, Won Yang and Han Mu-rin glared at Ju So-ah, and Manager Seong furrowed his brow deeply.

“Why… why are you all looking at me like that? It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to say, isn’t it?”

Manager Seong quietly approached and pressed down on Ju So-ah’s shoulder while whispering.

“Listen here, Commander Ju. Why are you saying such inauspicious things?”

“…I’m worried, that’s why. Because I’m worried.”

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