The Farmer Who Ended Up Teaching the World’s Greatest Martial Artist - Chapter 21

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| Chapter 21

“Well, there is. Places like Uiseonsu-ga, your maternal grandparents’ house.”

“…Uiseonsu-ga?”

Yoo Eun-hyun, who knew nothing about martial arts clans, tilted his head at hearing the unfamiliar name.

“Is it a famous place?”

While Yoo Eun-hyun had guessed that his maternal grandparents’ house might have some connection to the martial arts world, he thought it probably wasn’t a particularly renowned clan.

When Yoo Eun-hyun asked with curious eyes, Yeo U-hui chuckled and held up her palm, raising five fingers as she spoke.

“With a bit of exaggeration, you could say it’s among the top seven martial arts clans.”

At those unexpected words, Yoo Eun-hyun was left speechless. Though Yeo U-hui had limited it to martial arts clans, being in the top seven meant it was a major clan.

Watching his reaction, Yeo U-hui continued speaking.

“Martial artists like those from Uiseonsu-ga are called Jungdo Seryeok. They’re not tightly united like Cheonmu-maeng or Ma-gyo, but they’re strong enough that those two can’t ignore them. In this kind of two-power system, which side the third force joins is always crucial.”

“I see. Uiseonsu-ga…”

Finally accepting the situation, Yoo Eun-hyun nodded as if understanding. It seemed the disposition of not wanting to belong to either side probably came from his maternal lineage.

After a moment, a question suddenly arose in Yoo Eun-hyun’s mind.

“But putting mother aside… Father was really just an ordinary farmer, so how did he marry mother?”

He knew that Soo Hwa-seon had come to Yoo Eun-hyun’s house to recuperate from a chronic illness because of its good energy. But how did she fall for Yoo Dong-gi, who was just an ordinary farmer?

Of course, calling him an ordinary farmer was unfair since he was a genius who perfected the Yoo Family Lineage’s farming methods, but that was limited to agriculture only.

“Well… I don’t know the details either. What’s needed for a man and woman to marry? There might have been other reasons, but I think the biggest reason was probably that their hearts matched.”

In fact, that’s what Yoo Eun-hyun thought too. The two had been so harmonious that they didn’t care about each other’s status or occupation.

“Well, the two of them certainly didn’t seem to have a bad relationship. Though father was quite dominated by mother. Oh, are you married by any chance?”

“Of course. You think I’d talk like this without having tried it myself? I even have a daughter about your age. She’s been so disobedient lately that I’m getting headaches. Are you like that too?”

“No? I listen to mother very well.”

“…Somehow you’re saying exactly the same thing as my daughter.”

When Yoo Eun-hyun spoke shamelessly as if he really thought so, Yeo U-hui replied as if dumbfounded.

After a moment, Yeo U-hui stood up.

“Anyway, that should be enough for a simple explanation, right? Ask Hwa-seon directly for the details. Shall we depart now?”

“Ah. Wait a moment. I need to take care of something.”

“Hmm. Just handle it here. There’s no good in going far away.”

“No. How can you say that? I have some dignity too.”

Now that Yeo U-hui seemed somewhat more comfortable, Yoo Eun-hyun spoke cheekily and headed toward the nearby forest.

Though his talk about dignity was just an excuse, there are certain boundaries between men and women, aren’t there?

Perhaps that’s why Yeo U-hui didn’t say anything more, only telling him once again not to go far.

“Still, this kind of forest is like my own room.”

Muttering, Yoo Eun-hyun skillfully made his way through the forest and stopped at a suitably large tree to finish his business.

Just as he was about to turn around, he suddenly felt a chilling sensation behind him.

“…!”

A presence like a beast stalking its prey.

There was no way Yoo Eun-hyun, with his sensitive perception, would miss this. He quietly drew the small sword hidden at his waist and turned around. It was a small sword Yeo U-hui had bought for Yoo Eun-hyun as a precaution.

“You bastard?! How?”

The man holding a large sword as thick as a person’s torso cried out in surprise the moment his eyes met Yoo Eun-hyun’s. He seemed to think it was a perfect ambush since he had approached while concealing his presence as Yoo Eun-hyun was relieving himself.

Whoosh!

But it was already a case of riding the tiger.

The man immediately swung the large sword he was holding. A collision between a large sword as big as a person’s torso and a small sword barely half the length of an arm. The result seemed obvious.

Soon the sound of metal clashing against metal rang through the quiet forest.

Clang!

“Th-this can’t be?! What kind of trick is this!”

The moment the blades met, the man’s face filled with shock. He had expected to knock away the small sword in one blow, but instead found himself in a contest of strength, unable to hide his bewilderment.

“As expected, you’re no ordinary guy!”

After his initial surprise, the man shouted loudly at Yoo Eun-hyun again, as if not wanting to lose momentum.

Just as the large sword was about to slip from his hands, his opponent gritted his teeth and gripped it with both hands.

Yoo Eun-hyun also immediately added force to his small sword, glaring fiercely at his opponent.

‘Huh?’

Observing his opponent’s sword technique, Yoo Eun-hyun couldn’t help but be puzzled by his opponent’s movements.

Sword strikes slow enough to follow with his eyes. At this speed, even the current Yoo Eun-hyun could handle it sufficiently.

Clang!

Thinking this, Yoo Eun-hyun simply deflected his opponent’s attack. Because he dodged the attack too easily, his opponent showed surprise for a moment, but immediately unleashed a series of attacks.

“You bastard! Are you just going to keep running away like a rat!”

Finally unable to bear it, his opponent shouted loudly in provocation. Yoo Eun-hyun’s teeth clenched tightly.

‘This won’t do. The things I trained… training?’

As he recalled his training process, Sa Un-sik’s face suddenly flashed through Yoo Eun-hyun’s mind.

At the same time, words Sa Un-sik had said came flashing back to him.

─Martial arts, simply put, is about taking the power of nature into your body and using it. Since you’re a farmer, you know better than anyone about the strength of nature, don’t you?

Until now, Yoo Eun-hyun had been obsessed with the idea that he had to use martial arts when fighting.

But if martial arts and farming were ultimately the same, then wasn’t this just farming too?

At that moment, Yoo Eun-hyun felt as if his mind was clearing, and his vision expanded instantly.

‘In farming, it’s important to examine each crop individually, but ultimately you must grasp the overall flow.’

Only then did Yoo Eun-hyun realize that he had been focusing solely on his opponent’s large sword. And with that realization, every movement of the man became much clearer.

Yoo Eun-hyun swung his small sword toward what seemed like a weak opening.

“Gah! You, you bastard!?”

There was no thought of hesitation and no time for it. Timing in farming cannot be recovered once missed.

Yoo Eun-hyun, being a farmer, knew all too well that to survive, sometimes you had to kill something.

As his opponent grabbed his wound and pulled back, Yoo Eun-hyun rushed at him again without waiting.

Lowering his body and diving toward his opponent, Yoo Eun-hyun swung his small sword in a cross pattern, following the now-familiar technique of Pokjong-hoeng.

“Gah!”

Once again, the man’s scream rang out as red blood splattered in a cross pattern.

At the same time, Yoo Eun-hyun could feel the sensation of cutting flesh at the tip of his small sword.

It felt similar to when he skinned various animals, but subtly different—a chilling sensation transmitted through the tip of Yoo Eun-hyun’s small sword.

“You little bastard!”

The man’s side was split in a cross pattern, with considerable blood spurting out. It was clearly a fatal blow that would cause his organs to spill out and kill him quickly if not treated immediately.

Therefore, Yoo Eun-hyun thought the man would tend to his body and retreat, but that was Yoo Eun-hyun’s mistake.

Whoosh!

Gritting his teeth, the man struck down at Yoo Eun-hyun with his sword, not caring about his wound.

The man knew well that he had suffered a wound with no way back. Thinking he couldn’t go alone, he attacked Yoo Eun-hyun without regard for himself.

Swoosh!

“Huh?”

But the man’s sword couldn’t complete its downward strike. A sharp energy flew in with a wind-cutting sound and swept across both of the man’s wrists.

“Aaaaah! My, my hands!”

Blood spurted in an amount incomparable to Yoo Eun-hyun’s earlier attack, and the man’s hands also flew into the air.

The sharp energy that flew in had severed both of the man’s hands. Having lost both hands, the man screamed and staggered backward, stopping his attack on Yoo Eun-hyun.

“Are you alright?”

At the same time, Yeo U-hui’s voice came from behind. When Yoo Eun-hyun didn’t return, Yeo U-hui had come looking for him.

Turning his head in that direction, Yoo Eun-hyun saw heat waves rising from the sword Yeo U-hui was holding and lowered his small sword.

“I, I’m fine.”

Due to the aftermath of the fight, his blood was boiling, his body was heating up, and he was breathing roughly, but he wasn’t particularly injured anywhere.

In fact, though he had been startled by the earlier attack, he had sufficient capacity to respond.

“Tsk, this kind of thing had to happen after all.”

Yeo U-hui lightly swung her sword once through the air. Then she quickly approached Yoo Eun-hyun’s side.

“Thank you for helping.”

“No. You could have handled it sufficiently on your own, so I think I interfered.”

“Were you watching?”

“There’s no way I wouldn’t notice these guys coming.”

When Yeo U-hui shrugged her shoulders as she spoke, Yoo Eun-hyun nodded as if he understood.

“It’s because I carelessly took out the Tiger’s Eye Stone….”

“Hehe. You should be grateful just for knowing that. Remember that things like this happen in the Martial Arts World. That alone is enough.”

Normally, if it were a disciple or subordinate, she would have sharply criticized their actions, but she couldn’t bring herself to scold Yoo Eun-hyun, who until yesterday had been stuck in the mountains farming.

And since she had personally called him her nephew, she had no choice but to be somewhat indulgent.

“Who are these people?”

“Well. They don’t seem like mere bandits…. But they’re too clumsy to be called martial artists.”

“I see….”

“But even so, they seem like guys with considerable strength, yet they were no match for you. You don’t seem to properly control the power you have yet, but your strength alone is quite impressive, isn’t it?”

Yoo Eun-hyun was momentarily flustered by Yeo U-hui’s question, but given how things had turned out, there was no point in hiding it.

“Ah. Yes. I learned some martial arts.”

“Hmm… Is that so? I’ve never heard from Hwaseon that you learned martial arts.”

“That’s true. Perhaps she didn’t think it was necessary to mention it?”

No matter what, Yoo Eun-hyun couldn’t say he had learned martial arts from the Thousand-Year Demon and the Twin Sages of Sword and Blade, so he glossed over that part appropriately.

“Hmm. Right. Since you have the blood of our Uiseonsu-ga flowing through you, it wouldn’t be strange for you to have talent in martial arts.”

Yeo U-hui was sending him a somewhat suspicious look, but she seemed to understand and let it pass.

“Th-these bastards. If you think this is the end… Urgh.”

The fallen stranger muttered while looking toward Yoo Eun-hyun, then collapsed unconscious.

“Is, is he dead?”

“He just fainted from excessive blood loss. With both hands severed and his abdomen split open, he’ll die if left like that.”

Yeo U-hui said this while lightly scanning the surroundings. Yoo Eun-hyun followed her gaze and spoke.

“Are they his companions?”

“Oh ho. Our nephew has quite sharp senses. Isn’t it obvious?”

Yeo U-hui paused for a moment, then spoke forcefully in a stern voice.

“Come out, all of you. Well, it doesn’t matter if you don’t come out, but are you going to leave this guy to die? Even for bandits, how can you have so little camaraderie? Tsk.”

When Yeo U-hui clicked her tongue as she spoke, the surroundings became somewhat noisy, and then a dozen or so people emerged from the forest. They were all carrying weapons and emanating a murderous aura.

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