Survival Guide for the Reincarnated - Chapter 54

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Chapter 54

 

There was one thing I wanted to make clear.

 

If my people said they wanted to take a different path, I would truly let them go without any lingering attachment.

 

Whether their hearts had already left or not was secondary – they weren’t children.

 

When a person has made up their mind, it’s only right to respect that decision.

 

Especially if you ignore your own people’s resolve, you’re not qualified to be their superior.

 

When Won Yang said he wanted to leave, I held him back because there was a very high chance he would waste his life before making a firm decision.

 

Even in my previous life, I had never heard the name Namgung Won Yang.

 

Jin So-hyeop and Baek Myeong-gaek were firm about the path they wanted to take.

 

Their hometown, and the government office.

 

I didn’t stop them and even gave them famous swords so they could protect themselves.

 

That’s right. Famous swords.

 

Those swords were definitely famous swords.

 

The sword that the master of Ju-ryeong Sword Gate had been using was a famous sword, and the three swords he had kept in his quarters were also famous swords.

 

They were weapons belonging to the highest tier among Refined Grade weapons, swords that were not inferior even when compared to the Snow White Sword.

 

I gave one of them to Won Yang, and two to Jin So-hyeop and Baek Myeong-gaek.

 

That sword.

 

There was no way I wouldn’t recognize it.

 

Before ascending the platform, I had seen that sword at the waist of a soldier standing in the corner.

 

And now before my eyes, Cho Se-hwi had drawn his sword, and that sword was definitely the one I had given to Jin So-hyeop.

 

What more words were needed beyond this?

 

“Please, calm down a bit…”

 

I ignored him and swung my sword.

 

Cho Se-hwi, befitting a martial artist of Five Energy Harmonizing Origin, furrowed his brow and leisurely twisted his body to the side to dodge my sword.

 

My sword that had been cutting through the air suddenly stopped mid-swing.

 

At the same time as Cho Se-hwi’s eyes twitched.

 

Slash-!

 

My sword immediately swung and cut his front lapel.

 

“…Not bad.”

 

His legs disturbed the ground and he instantly created distance.

 

I asked him as he retreated far back.

 

“Where is Jin So-hyeop?”

 

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

 

“That sword – it’s the one I gave to Jin So-hyeop, so how can you deny it?”

 

I shifted my gaze to the side.

 

Han Mu-rin had already subdued the guy I had designated. That guy’s realm was clearly just the second stage of the Divine Three Realm, the Energy Intake stage, even at a glance.

 

It would have been more ridiculous if Han Mu-rin, who was at Jucheon Gyeong, couldn’t subdue him.

 

Confirming this, Cho Se-hwi frowned.

 

“…I’m telling you this to avoid misunderstanding, but I purchased this sword at the marketplace.”

 

“What ridiculous nonsense. It’s been four days since those two were attacked. In four days, the culprit who obtained that sword sold it and you bought it? Do you think that’s possible in just four days?”

 

“Well… In any case, I don’t know anything about it.”

 

Making excuses was his personal freedom.

 

And I just needed to expose the truth.

 

I silently kicked off the ground and swung my sword.

 

It stretched out like a wolf howling at the moon.

 

Heaven Killing Wolf Star Formula.

 

Howling at Heaven Under Moon.

 

Cho Se-hwi tried to dodge by slightly twisting his body backward, but then stomped his foot hard as if he had ‘seen this somewhere before.’

 

His body stretched straight back, and the internal energy contained in my sword exploded all at once in the air.

 

Kwarrrrrrrung-!!

 

Cho Se-hwi’s brow was deeply furrowed, and I.

 

No longer smiled.

 

I kicked off the ground once more and swung my sword. This time Cho Se-hwi also raised his sword.

 

Clang.

 

The swords collided in the air, and while Cho Se-hwi didn’t budge, I was pushed slightly to the side. Nothing surprising about that.

 

No matter that I had reached Five Dragon Peak Realm, my opponent was at Five Energy Harmonizing Origin.

 

Whether he had just reached Five Energy Harmonizing Origin or not, what mattered was that he was at Five Energy Harmonizing Origin.

 

The difference in power couldn’t be ignored.

 

I immediately spun my body and swung my leg.

 

Cho Se-hwi tilted his head back. Then his sword thrust toward me.

 

He wasn’t aiming for a fatal wound, clearly just swinging to subdue me.

 

So I simply pushed my body forward.

 

Slash-!

 

His sword cut past my shoulder. My blood splattered in the air, and through those droplets of blood, I strongly swung my sword gripped in reverse.

 

Heaven Killing Wolf Star Formula.

 

Cold Star Breaking Sky.

 

My internal energy, which had become somewhat more solid upon reaching Five Dragon Peak Realm, gathered into a single point.

 

And Cho Se-hwi, watching this, once again frowned and retreated backward.

 

My sword cut through the air and plunged into the ground.

 

Kwaaaaang-!!

 

The internal energy gathered in the sword burst the earth.

 

Cold Star Breaking Sky.

 

This was the final technique of Heaven Killing Wolf Star Formula, and its core.

 

I let my sword hang downward.

 

“Jin So-hyeop and Baek Myeong-gaek did manage to do something after all.”

 

“…”

 

“How was their Cold Star Breaking Sky? Was it threatening?”

 

Cho Se-hwi no longer said anything.

 

That was right.

 

In a fight between martial artists to determine who was stronger, the biggest factor in gaining the upper hand was realm.

 

The high and low of realms could never be ignored.

 

And the next thing that couldn’t be ignored was the level of martial arts.

 

Even if someone with supreme martial arts was at a realm where they couldn’t properly display it, there was a reason the word ‘supreme’ was attached.

 

Martial arts could exploit gaps.

 

High-grade martial arts and low-grade martial arts had different martial principles contained within them.

 

“You made an effort not to leave traces.”

 

“…”

 

“You didn’t leave a single hair, no footprints, and no traces of martial arts, but seeing your reaction now, I think I understand.”

 

“…”

 

“Did you almost leave traces when facing the techniques those two displayed?”

 

Cho Se-hwi’s expression hardened.

 

“Did you desperately respond to martial arts displayed by just two Jucheon Gyeong martial artists?”

 

Cho Se-hwi still didn’t open his mouth.

 

In fact, if he had any shame, and if he knew what mistake he had just made, keeping his mouth shut was the right answer.

 

“There were two places where footprints were deeply carved. It wasn’t a movement technique, but traces left when a martial artist of Five Energy Harmonizing Origin instantly drew up internal energy and moved their body.”

 

“….”

 

“You must have avoided those two’s Cold Star Breaking Sky. No matter how much they were two martial artists of the Jucheon Gyeong level, their martial arts were heaven-grade martial arts, and if you blocked what they unleashed with killing intent, traces would remain in some way.”

 

Cho Se-hwi gulps down his saliva.

 

“After that, you must have pierced Baek Myeong-gaek’s dantian with a sword and then kicked his solar plexus with your foot. That’s how Baek Myeong-gaek fell down the cliff, and you threw the relatively intact Jin So-hyeop as he was.”

 

Though I didn’t directly see the situation at that time, I could roughly picture what had happened.

 

“Originally, if one is a martial artist of the Jucheon Gyeong level, there wouldn’t be much problem jumping down from that level of cliff. Especially if it’s Baek Myeong-gaek who practiced the heart method I taught him day and night, he could minimize damage and land by driving his hands into the cliff or striking it away.”

 

Jin So-hyeop was definitely thrown.

 

Because he landed breaking tree branches.

 

Baek Myeong-gaek couldn’t do anything and was stuck straight into the ground. That’s why his corpse was in such a mess.

 

“Do you have more to say?”

 

“…I… don’t know about this matter.”

 

“Yes, I understand.”

 

Any further ‘conversation’ is meaningless.

 

I gathered all the internal energy I had drawn up into my body.

 

And converted it into Heo Hyeon Energy.

 

My dantian writhed, and my blood vessels tensed up as if preparing for the shock to come.

 

My eyes flashed.

 

Without mercy.

 

I swung my sword.

 

Heaven-Defying Vast Sword.

 

One Vast Sword.

 

Cho Se-hwi’s eyes widened greatly. He belatedly drew up internal energy and raised the sword he gripped tightly with both hands, but.

 

Slash-!

 

His two arms that were holding the sword fell to the ground.

 

Thud.

 

That sound broke the silence of Han Bing Gate Manor.

 

“Ah… Ahhh…!”

 

As if he couldn’t believe it, I threw the sword I was holding toward the guy whose eyes were wide open.

 

Thunk-!

 

As it cleanly pierced through his dantian, this time he let out a scream.

 

I silently approached and placed my foot on his neck.

 

“Is Jin So-hyeop alive?”

 

“…Cough… He’s dead… He’s dead….”

 

“Where is his corpse?”

 

“….”

 

“I didn’t think you’d speak easily, but I didn’t know it would be to this extent.”

 

I drew the hidden dagger from my waist and drove it into his right eye.

 

Thunk.

 

“Kyaaahhhhh-!!”

 

“I ask again. Where is Jin So-hyeop’s corpse?”

 

* * *

 

As if he couldn’t say that much, Cho Se-hwi kept his mouth tightly shut.

 

That’s fine.

 

It was really fine.

 

I didn’t think I’d hear it easily anyway.

 

And I had met and dealt with countless guys like this.

 

“Han Mu-rin, bring that guy here.”

 

The answer came from elsewhere.

 

“You bastard!! Can’t you stop!!”

 

It was Jin Yang-je who had been observing the situation.

 

When I turned my head, I saw Jin Yang-je distorted with anger.

 

The energy of him who had reached the Body Establishment Boundary began spreading with tremendous force, and looking at that, I spoke very briefly.

 

“Are you involved?”

 

“…What?”

 

“I believe I mentioned it earlier. That if you’re involved, I’ll destroy Han Bing Gate.”

 

“…You bastard… keep spouting such nonsense….”

 

“Do you know anything about Han Cheol’s Heaven Killing Wolf Snow Art and Heavenly Phenomenon Heart Method?”

 

“…Han Cheol…? And Heavenly… Heart Method?”

 

Looking at his expression, he clearly doesn’t know.

 

However, I didn’t bother to say it out loud. There’s much to receive from Han Bing Gate.

 

So I just said briefly.

 

“This is a place where I, as a Polar Descendant, am interrogating someone who assassinated a person of the Polar Descendants. How about distinguishing between where you should and shouldn’t interfere.”

 

Even though I spoke quite politely, Jin Yang-je showed no sign of backing down.

 

It doesn’t matter.

 

“Manager Seong.”

 

“Yes, Young Master.”

 

“From now on, whoever interferes with what I’m about to do, whoever it may be, cut their head off on the spot.”

 

At those words, Manager Seong quietly looked at me, and rather the people around who heard my words began making expressions as if it was absurd.

 

They had no choice.

 

From their perspective, Manager Seong was just an ordinary person.

 

Manager Seong said to me.

 

“…Are you serious.”

 

“I’m serious.”

 

Manager Seong, who had been scratching his head vigorously, let out a deep sigh.

 

“…That thing we talked about before, you know.”

 

“That thing?”

 

“You know, that. That… Commander….”

 

At Manager Seong’s words, I couldn’t help but chuckle.

 

Manager Seong was afraid of the reprimand he would receive from the Commander. I think he had said back then that he might be beaten to death.

 

“I’ll give you the same answer I gave then. If there’s someone who tries to harm Manager Seong, they’ll have to deal with me first. And if Manager Seong dies, I will hunt down that murderer to the ends of the Central Plains and kill them, and I will also kill all blood-related beings. Whether it’s the Commander or whatever.”

 

“…This is driving me crazy. Understood. Really… I don’t know anything, okay?”

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