The Owner Of The Thousand Gold Coins Is A Military Official - Chapter 31

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Chapter 31

“Our Soso. I’ve found her a marriage partner.”

“Pardon…?”

Cheongun had been left outside for a moment, and he wondered what they were going to discuss, but this was completely unexpected.

Danliso.

Called the Poison Peak, she was one of the late-stage prodigies of this generation and also the future of the Dang family.

Though she hadn’t yet reached adulthood, her understanding of poisons and medicinal herbs was exceptional, and her martial arts learning was equally remarkable.

Naturally, she was a child desired by other places as well.

As a daughter of the Dang family, one of the Three Peaks yet with a reclusive nature, forming a blood relationship would create the strongest possible bond.

However, she wasn’t such an easy child to deal with.

She wouldn’t even glance at those with less talent than herself, regardless of which family’s child they were.

The Dang Patriarch, who hadn’t yet seen Cheongun directly, was showing suspicious eyes.

“I understand Father’s intentions, but… don’t you know how she is?”

“That’s exactly why I’m saying this. But first, shouldn’t we have them meet directly?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

He couldn’t understand what had made his father act like such a child.

His excited expression and reactions were quite different from the father he knew well.

“Ah, prepare very strong tea.”

“Strong tea, you say?”

“Yes. Very strong.”

Not often, but when sharing tea with his father, they would enjoy very potent poisons as tea.

For someone at the level of the Dang Patriarch and Patriarch, most poisons were merely tea that they could enjoy for their unique taste and aroma.

“He’s someone who consumed the Formless Poison.”

“The Formless Poison…!”

Only then did the Dang Patriarch show an expression of understanding.

If he had consumed the Formless Poison like that, it meant he had already reached the level of immunity to all poisons.

Regardless of anything else, even the Dang Patriarch would have to lie in bed groaning for about a day from the Formless Poison.

“The very fact that he came to where I live unharmed is already remarkable, isn’t it?”

“That’s right. I was quite surprised to hear you came out together.”

“Yes, let’s have him come in. Making such an honored guest wait longer wouldn’t be proper etiquette.”

“Yes.”

Cheongun was directly observing the majesty of the Dang family with his own eyes from outside.

Standing right in front of the Patriarch’s Hall, it was impossible not to see.

“That person is…”

And there was someone who spotted Cheongun.

Wasn’t this the person who had dared to set foot on Dang family land and had someone follow him because his urgent searching seemed suspicious?

She had stopped the surveillance when he entered where her grandfather was.

After all, she thought he would have died.

But here he was, so perfectly fine, standing confidently with his hands behind his back in front of the Dang family’s Patriarch’s Hall.

“Who is he…?”

She couldn’t help but be curious.

He seemed to be around the same age.

Then, not long after, he disappeared into the Patriarch’s Hall.

The lady immediately went to the guard who always attended the Head of the Family and asked about the man who had just disappeared.

“Soso!”

“I greet the Young Miss.”

“Yes. But who was that person just now?”

“Someone called Cheongun. I don’t know anything else yet.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t know.

It was that he couldn’t say.

“Hmm… I see.”

“Yes, then.”

This was a place that rarely had guests, and she was worried because children from the Five Great Sects had recently visited regarding her marriage prospects.

Perhaps that’s why Danliso couldn’t easily leave the front of the Patriarch’s Hall.

Cheongun, who had entered the Patriarch’s Hall, first paid his respects to the Dang Patriarch.

The Head of the Family of the Sichuan Dang Family, one of the Five Great Sects.

His dignity was different.

The Five Great Sects weren’t called that for nothing.

These were people it had been impossible to even encounter before, yet here he was meeting them so easily.

“So you’re that child called Cheongun.”

“Yes, I greet the Head of the Dang Family.”

He felt no hostility at all.

He wasn’t sure if there was goodwill yet, but there was no intention whatsoever to overwhelm Cheongun.

Even so, the sense of pressure he felt showed that the head of a great family was indeed different.

People like Gomujin and Geou whom he had met so far were certainly not ordinary either.

But they were people who had stepped down.

These current people were those who were reigning.

“The Patriarch said you were an honored guest, so I prepared the tea myself.”

“The aroma is very good.”

To leisurely enjoy tea brewed with extreme poison – what a sight.

If someone saw this, he would look exactly like a successor to the Dang family.

“I heard the story, but… immunity to all poisons. It’s hard to believe.”

If the Patriarch hadn’t said it, it would have been impossible to believe.

Wasn’t he someone far superior to himself when it came to handling poisons?

“It’s not a story one can easily believe.”

“What’s the point of further verifying something that’s already been confirmed? So, what do you want?”

He had worried about this being a reclusive place, but the reaction was more straightforward than expected.

“I need the Dang family’s help.”

“Help, you say.”

He quite liked that the young man expressed it as help first.

Wasn’t he someone who knew proper etiquette?

“What can you give? If you were born this way, then ultimately you can’t give us what we want, can you?”

“Surely I didn’t become this way without any effort. Being born this way means I already knew the path to take.”

“That means…!”

It was tantamount to confessing it had been word play, but it didn’t matter.

If an immunity-to-all-poisons body could actually be created, that would be a different story.

“It’s not made, but finally completed.”

“Completed… does that mean the same as already being predetermined?”

“The Dang family’s bloodline could be closer to it.”

“In the end, you can’t provide help. Isn’t that right?”

“I will give you poisons that don’t exist in the Dang family.”

“Poisons that don’t exist?”

It was an arrogant statement, but knowing what kind of body his opponent possessed, he couldn’t just laugh it off.

“And I’ll eliminate the side effects of the elixir made with the hundred-poison-immunity body that the Patriarch created.”

“Side effects? Are you saying there are such things? No, more than that, how do you know that’s what it is?”

Even the Patriarch, who hadn’t said a word, looked at Cheongun in surprise.

“Weren’t all the things inside like that? For the Dang family.”

“Yes… you called them side effects with your own mouth. If you’re wrong, you’ll have to take responsibility for that too.”

“I will do so.”

Originally there were more things to request, but for now he decided to keep his mouth shut for a moment.

Because it’s not too late to request after showing the results first.

The reason Cheongun chose Dangjia as his second destination was also to move forward to what comes next.

Because the next journey would truly not be easy.

When Cheongun’s grandfather traveled the world gathering all kinds of spiritual medicines.

Only Dangjia’s was the one thing he couldn’t properly obtain.

So, today he plans to take that as well.

Wouldn’t this also be included in Dangjia’s help that Cheongun mentioned earlier?

“The guide is…”

The Dang Patriarch, who had been pondering whom to entrust with this, soon extended his hand toward the entrance.

Then, all the doors opened in unison all the way to the outermost part of the Patriarch’s Hall.

“Yes, our So would be good.”

“Ah, Father…?”

Even from a distance, he could see Danliso in front of the Patriarch’s Hall showing a flustered look in her eyes.

“Please guide our guest. Since he’s an honored guest, there probably aren’t many places he can’t go.”

“…Yes. I understand.”

To think the words “honored guest” came from Father, who is the Head of the Family.

Moreover, she could see Grandfather in the distance as well.

“So. I’m counting on you.”

“Yes, Grandfather.”

She didn’t particularly like Cheongun, but since both Father and Grandfather said so, there was nothing she could do about it.

“I’m called Danliso.”

“I’m called Cheongun.”

Still, she liked his expression.

Other people would blush slightly or couldn’t even make proper eye contact, but Cheongun showed no such signs at all.

It made her feel somewhat hurt in her pride.

“Let’s go to the storehouse.”

“Right away?”

“Yes. There’s no reason to delay further.”

For Cheongun, only one thing was important.

Obtaining Dangjia’s spiritual elixir and gaining their help.

Preparations for the next destination had to be made continuously.

Rather, everything up until now had gone too smoothly.

Because he was in a situation where he could immediately fulfill what the other party wanted.

If not for that, would it even be possible to drag hermit masters back into Gangho?

Since Dangjia was a place he had no memory of entering, while he was taking in his surroundings, Danliso’s voice announcing their arrival could be heard.

“Here it is.”

“Thank you.”

“But who are you?”

“You’ll find out soon enough.”

“I don’t particularly like waiting for answers.”

“Couldn’t you just find out directly?”

“…”

As expected, she didn’t look very pleased.

“That’s what I’m doing. Right now.”

“Your efforts seem insufficient.”

“Ha…! Did you show the same attitude in front of Father and Grandfather?”

His tone of response was one thing, but what really frustrated her was that Cheongun wasn’t even making eye contact.

And what hurt Danliso’s pride even more was that this somehow felt more natural.

“Why would there be reason for that? If you need to know, Miss, they would tell you, and if not, they wouldn’t. Isn’t it simple?”

Just from watching his way of walking, it was obvious he wasn’t from an ordinary household.

It wasn’t simply martial arts that had been honed, but steps that had naturally learned the dignity and etiquette befitting such a position.

Someone who had been in a position where it was natural to lead others, just like herself, from birth.

“…Fine. Coming straight to this place means you know how to handle poisons quite well, so I can look forward to it, right?”

Cheongun didn’t answer those words.

For the first time during their conversation, he made eye contact with Danliso and showed a slight smile instead of an answer.

The place they arrived at was a storehouse that only direct descendants could use among Dangjia’s storehouses.

It could be said that all the precious poisonous herbs and medicinal herbs were gathered here.

While other places had treasuries with weapons and martial arts manuals, for Dangjia, this place with poisonous and medicinal herbs was their treasury.

“Jongri Poison. Have you heard of it?”

“Jongri… Poison?”

It was a poison she had never heard of before.

What Cheongun had uprooted when he went to the Kunlun Sect, and at the same time, when the Kunlun Sect went into seclusion, nothing was revealed to the outside world.

Thanks to that, he could use it here as well.

Besides that, there were countless other poisons.

Cheongun had lived through time, so how could he not know the poisons that newly appeared according to that time?

Also, in his previous life, when his dantian was broken, Cheongun had invested much in poisons and medicinal herbs.

“It’s made like this.”

“Uh…”

Danliso couldn’t understand the scene unfolding before her eyes.

More precisely, she couldn’t accept it.

‘Extracting poison… like this…?’

When Father and Grandfather extracted poison, they extracted it this way, and the method was exactly the same.

Right now, even Danliso had to directly consume it, then refine it with internal energy and extract the poison through her fingertips, but Cheongun was extracting poison just by holding it in his hand.

So he handles poison well.

This doesn’t seem to be just an ordinary level of handling it well.

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