The Owner Of The Thousand Gold Coins Is A Military Official - Chapter 40
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Chapter 40
“I want to go too.”
“You cannot.”
“…Why!”
Sure enough, Geou also revealed himself.
Somehow knowing we had left Dangjia, he appeared before us like a ghost.
“G-Geou, sir…?”
“Oh, you know me?”
“I wouldn’t not know Gaebang’s Former Patriarch.”
“Hehe, indeed. Dangjia’s Poison Phoenix is quite clever. Unlike someone else.”
Someone didn’t know at first.
Perhaps that’s why I feel oddly spiteful.
“If you wish to follow, you must pay an appropriate price.”
“…Just where are you going? Well then, what do you want? The heir of Cheongeumjang wouldn’t desire gold.”
“Please locate the position of the master blacksmith Gongdo.”
“That sword-crazed bastard?”
“Yes.”
“Hmm…normally this would be quite expensive….”
To give such precious information on credit.
It’s unreasonable, but truthfully, the information about the individual named Cheongun that I’ve received so far wasn’t cheap information either.
“Fine. Just take this and go. I’ll follow on my own.”
“Understood.”
The bottle containing the rice wine we drank together when I first met Geou.
He probably buried tracking incense in it.
It seems he intends to go give orders to Gaebang in the meantime.
“We’ll depart now.”
When one thinks of Sinui, medicine comes to mind first, but he also possesses martial prowess capable of overwhelming most masters.
Moreover, he’s so elusive that unless one has heavenly fortune, it’s impossible to meet him through ordinary methods.
In the end, he’s someone who only reveals himself when Sinui personally seeks you out, or when you show enough desperation to find such an elusive person yourself.
Previously, he wandered the world treating the injured, but at some point, he often holed up in his dwelling like this.
It was simple.
His medical skills were meant to save people, but continuously seeing those he saved easily take other people’s lives trapped him in his own inner demons.
“H-how much further do we have to go?”
“We haven’t been traveling long.”
“That’s true, but….”
Danliso prided herself on not being the type to complain easily.
But right now, the speed was far too fast.
At this rate, she might collapse from exhaustion just from using lightness skills.
Actually, it was closer to admiration than complaint.
“Being carried by your guard is also an option.”
“…Alright. It would be too much trouble to slow everyone down because of me. Soso, would that be okay?”
“It’s fine, Miss.”
As Soso carried Danliso on her back, Cheongun looked at Soso and said.
“Then, I’ll increase the speed further.”
“Yes.”
“Increase it…more?”
Cheongun disappeared ahead first, and Soso followed after him.
She follows quite well.
Yes, the more she does, the more she matches the person in my memory.
It’s not a location we can find in just one day.
Sinui’s current dwelling is located near Myogang, so we need to go further south.
Still, just in case, we had to check the villages visible on the mountainsides and peaks along the way.
After about four days, Geou joined us, and then we all traveled together for five more days.
Perhaps because this is where the Five Great Sects and Gudaemunpa are located, not even a shadow of Nokrim can be seen.
If we increased speed any more, it would be impossible for those following to keep up, so I was moderating appropriately.
‘Found it.’
Finally, on what was nearly the tenth day, we discovered a shabby cottage that gave off an atmosphere remarkably similar to an immortal’s dwelling.
The mist was quite thick too, which strongly enhanced that feeling.
“We found it.”
“Finally….”
“Phew, I wondered what you were so desperately searching for….”
Geou seems to know.
Having lived long, he probably encountered Sinui several times.
“How did you know? Even Gaebang didn’t know this.”
“What will you give me?”
“Tsk…never mind. That would probably be too expensive for me to handle.”
As Cheongun approached the cottage first, a rock was visible at the entrance.
One Path.
One road.
It doesn’t seem to mean “go back.”
“A formation is spread here, so if you don’t want to spend your life wandering this area until you die, watch carefully where I step and follow.”
“Don’t worry, at my age I don’t want to die lost wandering around.”
I stepped into the formation, but the scenery didn’t change.
Since I don’t feel any sense of wrongness, it’s probably not an ordinary formation.
One Path.
Literally one road, but it’s also a word with hidden meaning.
It could be “one” or “sun” .
If you walk endlessly toward the east where the sun rises, a cliff appears.
And then, stepping onto that cliff.
This was the method to escape this formation.
A foot stepping into empty air as if using the technique of walking on air.
At that moment, the cliff disappeared and Sinui’s dwelling came into view.
“….”
And just then, Sinui, who was out in the yard, came into view.
Seeing that he hadn’t even unpacked his luggage yet, he seemed to have just arrived.
“How did you….”
Since they broke through the formation, it’s certain they came looking for him.
But hadn’t he just created the formation?
He had just arrived to the point where he hadn’t even unpacked, yet unexpected guests had appeared.
Sinui.
This was the first time seeing him directly.
Contrary to expectations, he was an old man boasting quite a robust build.
‘Did he train external martial arts?’
His physique was strong enough to remind me of the foolish eldest son of the Peng Family I briefly met before.
“Who are you?”
“I am the Patriarch of Cheongeumjang.”
“There seem to be others as well…there’s one familiar presence.”
“You would know them.”
Before long, the rest of the group also revealed themselves.
“So it was Lord Geou.”
“Sinui, it’s been a long time.”
Their relationship doesn’t seem particularly good, but it doesn’t seem particularly bad either.
“Since I came here uninvited, you probably don’t consider me a guest.”
“S-Sinui…”
Danliso still seems unable to recover from the shock.
Well, seeing the legendary Sinui in person would certainly be surprising.
“I don’t wish for that.”
“Even though you don’t wish to be a guest, you came here directly – should I interpret this with a different meaning?”
“Not being a guest doesn’t make everyone an enemy.”
“…That’s right. You speak truly. Has someone been injured?”
There’s only one reason Cheongun came to find Sinui.
It was because of his grandfather, Cheongin.
Cheongin’s influence was so significant that his stepping down as Patriarch could be seen as the signal for Cheongeumjang’s decline.
Since Cheongeumjang’s power came from wealth, it had connections with the government, and Cheongin held all those governmental connections.
Though there was mutual non-interference between government and martial arts, money inherently belongs to no one.
Therefore, the government had to react sensitively, but after Cheongin’s death, their reaction became somewhat more moderate, and they received no help from the government at all.
Cheongun could sense that Cheongin’s body wasn’t well after he returned from personally seeking things to give to Cheongun.
Since he had learned of it relatively recently, it was certainly an illness difficult to diagnose at ordinary levels.
But Sinui would be different.
Cheongun himself was knowledgeable in medical arts.
Since he had to handle everything alone in his previous life, he had learned medicine, but could his medical skills surpass Sinui’s?
“I would like you to make Cheongeumjang your residence.”
“Haha. What nonsense. Even if there were a debt of life-saving grace, I would hesitate to do such a thing, yet someone I’m meeting for the first time comes asking me not to move my residence anymore.”
“I know it’s a difficult request.”
“Is it merely difficult? I cannot do that.”
At his firm attitude, Cheongun channeled internal energy into his hands.
Thinking he might try to take him by force, Sinui also set down his luggage to one side and kept his gaze fixed on Cheongun with determined eyes.
Soon, as Cheongun waved his hand through the air, a massive barrier of internal energy formed.
This meant no conversation would leak outside.
“…You don’t even look twenty yet, but your martial prowess is considerable.”
“Don’t you need to save your master?”
“How…!”
Sinui’s master.
The person who was called the previous Sinui, but people don’t know.
They only think the previous Sinui and current Sinui are the same person.
Perhaps only the Martial Arts Alliance Leader and the patriarchs and heads of the Gudaemunpa and Five Great Sects who met Sinui directly would know they’re different.
And no one knew the fact that Sinui had been kidnapped.
It was a fact only Sinui knew, and others simply thought Sinui’s master had died or gone into hiding.
Cheongun had learned this fact at the end of his previous life.
After the Jeongma Great War broke out, the great demon heads who had clearly suffered near-fatal injuries appeared again perfectly fine.
Investigation revealed that Sinui’s master had been kidnapped by the Demonic Sect, and at that time was living in the Demonic Sect under the name Maui.
Though it was unwilling, the Demonic Sect Leader had taken Sinui on the condition of keeping Sinui’s disciple alive, so he had no choice but to do as ordered.
There were movements to rescue him, but by then it was already too late.
Sinui, or rather Maui, who had fallen to the Demonic Sect’s brainwashing, was no longer the person they once knew.
I don’t know what happened after that, but probably Maui remained as Maui.
“…I don’t know how you learned that fact, but…it’s impossible.”
“Why do you think it’s impossible?”
“Don’t you know where he went?”
“I know. It’s the Demonic Sect, isn’t it?”
“Enter the Demonic Sect to rescue my master? That’s insane talk. Even if you succeeded in meeting him, how could you get out? From the Demonic Sect’s land.”
As barren as that land is, the entire area is under the Demonic Sect’s control.
The term Sipmandaesan doesn’t exist for nothing.
“Even entering is impossible. With your pure internal energy, you’d become a target for elimination the moment you approach.”
“This is how it’s done.”
When Cheongun channeled his internal energy through the poison ring with killing intent, an intensely thick demonic energy flowed out.
It was fortunate he had put up a barrier, otherwise it was demonic energy so strong that Geou behind him attacking wouldn’t be strange.
“A-are you a person of the Demonic Sect?”
“Didn’t I tell you? I’m the Patriarch of Cheongeumjang.”
“But how do you have such vicious demonic energy…”
“It would take long to explain. Now, there’s no problem entering the Demonic Sect.”
“Still, what comes after is the problem. How could you bring my master out?”
“It will take time. There are many things that must be done.”
“Huh…”
Sinui had also been making many efforts to save his master.
But of all things, he was kidnapped by the Demonic Sect.
If someone of master’s level had considerable martial prowess, being kidnapped meant someone even stronger had personally taken him.
It’s safe to say they targeted master from the beginning.
“Can you… tell me in detail?”
“Of course.”
“Come inside.”
With Sinui’s gesture, the sound barrier disappeared.
“Just you.”
“Yes.”
So Sinui headed inside first, and Cheongun followed.
“…I’ve suddenly become a spectator.”
“I’m satisfied just having seen Sinui.”
“Right, how is the Patriarch doing?”
“Of course. He’s always someone who lives for the Danggga.”
“Hehe, right. But what on earth did that fellow do?”
“That’s…”
Geou soon showed a bitter smile and cut off his words.
“You know who I am, don’t you. If you’re curious about anything, ask me anything. It certainly seems like a story worth that much.”
“…”
An opportunity to ask the Former Patriarch anything.
It was certainly not an opportunity that came easily.
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