The Youngest Daughter of the Hebei Peng Clan Is a Truly a Very Famous Little Heavenly Demon - Chapter 11

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11.

“You… don’t know how to read?”

At her daughter’s declaration of illiteracy, Ju Sohui seemed quite flustered, but soon patted my shoulder with a somehow sorrowful expression.

“…I see. Since you grew up in hardship, it must have been difficult to learn letters.”

“Yes…”

The atmosphere grew heavy.

But it didn’t last long. Thanks to Ju Sohui offering comfort to lift my spirits.

“Since being illiterate will cause difficulties when studying martial arts, let’s have you study reading and writing for a month as well. Your father will teach you this.”

“Father will?”

“Do you dislike that?”

I pondered for a moment then shook my head.

Though he was an awkward uncle, I couldn’t ignore the patriarch when I was registered with the Peng Family.

At least maintaining a decent relationship would be advantageous.

“For now, since you can’t read the secret manual, this mother will directly recite the oral instructions. I’ll recite them until you memorize them, so study morning and evening.”

“Yes.”

Ju Sohui, sitting in front of me, began reciting the oral instructions in a clear voice.

“This mysterious martial art passed down as an imperial secret manual is a secret technique inspired by the icy palace of the North Sea that the Crown Prince experienced when he attained enlightenment during the reign of Emperor Gao—”

My mind, which had been listening quietly, gradually began traveling to outer space.

“The first step to accepting the North Brightness is ‘abandon self, discard thoughts, return to nature,’ which means first opening all the body’s energy channels to harmonize one’s true energy with nature.”

“…”

Anyone who has attended classes for subjects they disliked in school would know well.

The situation where your body is clearly in the classroom looking at the blackboard, but your focus blurs and you fall into a dazed state of mindlessness.

That was exactly what was happening now. I desperately missed the moments when I could acquire martial arts with a finger click through the screen. (Though there were countless probability-based gachas.)

At that moment.

“—this was named the North Brightness Martial Arts.”

My eyes snapped open at the words “North Brightness Martial Arts” that I caught.

‘North Brightness Martial Arts? Everything she’s been reciting was the North Brightness Martial Arts?’

What is the North Brightness Martial Arts?

A practically final legendary martial art that you could only obtain by spinning endless gachas, combining the resources earned through grinding, and then breaking through another terrifying 0.1% probability!

In the community, it was famous as a meme for being an 18 million won skill.

So much so that even I, who had completed the Heavenly Horse Trusted Skill, didn’t dare attempt it.

…But 18 million won for free?

Really?

‘Mom power is amazing.’

With renewed motivation, I opened my ears wide and focused as much as possible on Ju Sohui’s words.

The oral instructions in Chinese characters were difficult and not a single one entered my head, but since she added such easy explanations, understanding the overall content was easier than expected.

After reciting the oral instructions for about two hours, Ju Sohui said.

“That completes one recitation. Now, I’ll keep telling it to you until you memorize it, so listen well.”

“Yes!”

Even if I don’t know Chinese characters, simple memorization is my specialty.

“Atropine, binds with muscarinic receptors to inhibit parasympathetic nerves, cholinergic antagonist. Racemic compound. …Damn! My head feels like it’s going to explode! Just how many drug names are there!”

…I shuddered as memories of my school days studying without sleep came back. Anyway, thanks to that, I could memorize it relatively easily.

“That makes two times. Let’s listen three more times and then take a break.”

“I’ve memorized it all.”

“Huh?”

When I confidently declared after just the second time, Ju Sohui asked back with a flustered expression.

“Simply memorizing the content isn’t enough. Demonic arts might be different, but martial arts that start with mental cultivation like this fundamentally require solid basics to learn properly.”

“I really memorized it all.”

The original oral instructions themselves weren’t that long, though the commentary was lengthy. At my continued confidence, Ju Sohui spoke with a dubious expression.

“Then I’ll check if there are any mistakes, so try reciting it once.”

“Yes.”

And so I, having created a cheat sheet in my head, began reciting.

“Our baby is a genius!”

About an hour later, the moved Ju Sohui burst into tears.

* * *

Ju Sohui’s amazement didn’t end with the quick memorization.

[Practicing martial arts.]

[A master who has reached Hyeongyeong is guiding your internal energy. Speed is increased.]

With massive assistance from the status window, Dori mastered the North Brightness Martial Arts in just two days.

From Dori’s perspective, this was natural.

After all, this was fundamentally a game world. Who would play a game where it takes a year to master one martial art?

Naturally, it was designed so you could learn everything in a day or two of game time. This was a privilege given only to users.

The problem was actually elsewhere.

Fundamentally, martial arts clash with each other.

Of course, if they’re from the same Taoist lineage, there are types that can be learned together.

However, it’s physically impossible to simultaneously learn a mental cultivation method that operates demonic energy of destruction and lightning to accumulate energy, and the North Brightness mental cultivation that makes the martial artist become a vast sea to draw in all surrounding true energy.

Abandon self, discard thoughts, return to nature.

As the oral instruction states about cutting off oneself and returning to nature, those learning the North Brightness Martial Arts must scatter all the internal power they’ve accumulated so far.

Only then can they finally embody nature’s pure true energy.

This was also Ju Sohui’s scheme.

‘Even if she manages to get by in front of others, demonic arts gnaw at martial artists until they reach the realm of transcending demons. Even if growth slows, it’s right to abandon existing power.’

Why would demonic arts be called demonic arts?

Not only are the cultivation methods vicious, but those who acquire demonic arts easily fall into the temptation called ‘entering demonhood.’

When one enters demonhood, explosive growth occurs in a short period. However, this method hits a wall before long.

Power built easily crumbles easily.

It’s easy for peak martial artists to enter demonhood, but advancing through extreme demonhood to transcending demons is nearly impossible.

The reason was simple.

Entering demonhood equivalent to super-peak level, and extreme demonhood equivalent to transformation realm.

Demon practitioners who reached these two realms, unlike martial artists who advanced realms normally, craved blood and displayed violent temperaments.

When that happens, at minimum they’re killed as martial world criminals, and usually they die unable to withstand bodily collapse from demonic energy. Cases of surviving and reaching the realm of transcending demons could be counted on one hand in martial world history.

‘But if she learns the North Brightness Martial Arts, the demonic energy she previously learned will naturally scatter.’

Goals like becoming super-peak within a month were absurd from the start.

Originally, Ju Sohui expected Dori to only regain peak realm with the North Brightness Martial Arts within a year, or six months at the fastest.

Delayed growth?

Honestly, it was rather good. She planned to keep her confined at home using the excuse of being weaker than before.

However, there was another exceptional aspect of Dori that Ju Sohui didn’t know.

[Warning!]

[Currently operating ‘Heavenly Horse Trusted Skill’ as main martial art.]

[Only one main martial art can be equipped per character. (Change cooldown: once per day)]

[Would you like to switch main martial art to ‘North Brightness Martial Arts’?]

“Huh? …Ah, slots. I need to switch right now.”

Dori could swap martial arts instead of abandoning them.

Moreover, since the nature of internal power also converted according to the martial art, the destructive lightning internal energy accumulated through ‘Heavenly Horse Trusted Skill’ was completely transformed into the dark, cold true energy of ‘North Brightness Martial Arts.’

In the end, the original scheme of ‘abandoning demonic arts’ was meaningless from the start, but all things in the world are like two sides of a coin. There was good news too.

One week after training.

The blue smoke that had been wrapping around Dori’s sword naturally extended outward at some point, forming a faint barrier.

The initial barrier was thin and not very solid either.

Moreover, even though it was guidance sparring, it shattered in the blink of an eye against the wooden sword of Ju Sohui, a Hyeongyeong master.

Still, a barrier was a barrier.

The realm of being able to extract and emit sword energy outside the sword.

This was what they called entering the realm of supreme mastery.

“I expected it, but for our daughter to be this much of a genius!”

“My goodness. It seems all of Madam’s blood went to Doa! No wonder Iya was a bit slow in learning!”

The Peng Family of Hebei was turned upside down.

Not just Ju Sohui and Peng, but even among the maids and servants who had been awkward around the long-lost young lady, the rumor made a full round.

“Did you hear? The returned young lady is supposedly more of a genius than Madam.”

“They say she mastered the martial arts Madam taught her in just one week?”

“Even the young master wasn’t quite at that level, but blood doesn’t lie…”

All those who had previously worked at the Peng Family had died in the Blood Sect incident ten years ago. So now there were only people seeing Dori for the first time.

Of course, no one disliked the returned young lady. But truly serving her wholeheartedly was another matter entirely.

Especially in a situation where there wasn’t really anyone assigned to attend to Dori by the Patriarch’s orders. At a time when there was only curiosity about the young lady, that rumor became a wind carrying positive influence.

‘This worked out well.’

Naturally, Patriarch Peng knew all of this.

He spent awkward study time with his daughter with a very pleased heart.

Since martial arts naturally came before literary studies, only half a hour after dinner was allocated as his teaching time.

“So this is ‘eol bing,’ right?”

“It’s ‘yeong’ meaning to swim. It looks similar but the stroke count is a bit different.”

“…Aha! Now I’ve memorized it.”

…Although his daughter’s ability to learn characters was inferior compared to martial arts.

But such things weren’t important matters to Peng. Ju Sohui probably suggested the lessons not so much to have her learn to read in a month, but to create father-daughter time.

Meanwhile, from Dori’s perspective.

“Still, you’ve improved quite a bit. Once you finish the Thousand Character Classic, let’s move on to the Elementary Learning and the Primer for Children.”

“…Haha. I’m still lacking though.”

She was pretending not to know the Thousand Character Classic that she had already mastered completely.

‘You want me to study more here?’

No, honestly, she had a lot to say about this.

Dori was a Korean from the post-Chinese character generation who could barely read the days of the week.

She had learned the Thousand Character Classic because she didn’t want to live as completely illiterate, but she absolutely didn’t want to learn Confucian classics and the Analects and such things again.

Common knowledge? Culture?

No way! I don’t want to learn!

What do I need to know about Confucius!

‘Sorry, mister. I need some time to rest too…’

Therefore, poor Peng was destined to give lectures on the Thousand Character Classic that had been mastered long ago for several months, unable to notice his daughter’s slacking.

On the other hand, in Ju Sohui’s case.

“Since our daughter mastered the North Brightness Martial Arts so quickly, I can now teach you proper swordsmanship.”

“Ooh.”

She had entered the second stage for the top student.

She smiled brightly at her daughter who was looking at her with shining eyes.

“It’s called the Sea-Crossing Sword Technique. It means a sword that crosses over the sea.”

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