Chapter four
‘There are monsters in volcanoes.’
not a genius.
It was a monster beyond common sense..
I can't forget what happened when I saw the plum blossom sword of the twenty-four plum blossom sword method..
The scent of plum blossoms remains at the tip of my nose..
He almost got drunk from the strong scent of plum, but a feeling of alertness that sent shivers down his spine woke Honggo up..
“If we leave it like this... … Shaolin is eliminated.”
The thousand-year history of Shaolin, Taishan Beidu, is also coming to an end..
That anxiety reached its peak with the decisive battle between Joo Seo-cheon and the Blood Demon..
Hong Gao was one of the few people in the central plains who knew the truth about Ju Seocheon's inaction..
But I couldn't be happy.
I admired it but did not welcome it..
On the contrary, I became nervous and trembled with anxiety..
“……”
Although Joo Seo-cheon did not talk to Hong Go face to face, he was able to confirm his sincerity through his mouth..
And I was shocked..
‘It's because of me?’
I knew that history would be different from the future, but I had no idea it would be so distorted..
Even in the known future, Shinseung and Shinkwon often argued due to differences in methods, but it was at the level of discussion..
I've never been this emotional before.
Perhaps because of this, he may not be able to become a chieftain, or he may have mental problems and not be able to rise to the prefecture..
The worst possibility has become reality.
‘need to fix it!’
I made a mistake, so I had to fix it somehow..
Shocking, but not discouraged.
It would have been better to think of at least one other number during that time..
“If you really come out like that, I can't help it..”
Hye-man raised only his right hand and bowed..
“Are you trying to subdue me by force??”
“no.”
Hye-man closed his eyes instead..
With my right hand, I held the prayer beads wrapped around my wrist and recited a small prayer..
“If you really want to achieve your will, kill Noseung Lee and go..
Bang Dong-ju, please don't get behind me..”
“There's nowhere to retreat anyway.”
Behind was a cliff stretching out..
Even if I pretended, it was dangerous..
Far below, a strong stream of water was carving the rock and howling like a ferocious animal..
Because of the cliff with no end in sight, the area below was covered in black darkness like an abyss even though it was midday..
“Master……”
Hongo bit his lip tightly..
I clenched my fist so hard that my nails dug in and blood flowed out..
“Everyone please calm down. You were so excited..”
Joo Seocheon tried to persuade him somehow to stop him..
“Lord don't worry!”
“How can you not care in a situation like this?!”
Joo Seocheon screamed..
“Don't you know that many people are dying on the battlefield even at this hour?!”
Honggo turned and looked at Joo Seocheon..
“Is revenge important? Is it so important that it's causing dozens of monks to die?!”
Joo Seocheon did not avoid Honggo’s gaze..
“You figure out how to roast and boil your enemies.!
However, save the person who is dying at this very moment first! It's the death penalty! It's family!”
“……”
Hye-man and Hong-go both trembled..
a moment of silence.
And Honggo opened his mouth..
“……Yes, it is as you said. Hero of the volcano.”
Honggo’s eyes changed..
Baekbo Gwonseung, who was too radical and overly passionate for a monk, returned his body to its original position and headed forward..
The teacher did not stop the disciple from coming and just stood still..
“For Shaolin's sake, I think we need to come to an end..”
wedge!
As soon as Honggo finished speaking, he shook his fist..
On the road to Bangbultong, in front of it was Hyeman..
Shin Seung didn’t even blink..
Even though the wind blew, it stayed there like a stone statue..
Tuk.
The fist that would later be called the Divine Power stopped right in front of my nose..
“Why didn't you stop it??”
Honggo asked.
“This is because there was no hostility involved..”
Hye-man gently opened his closed eyes and answered..
The corners of his mouth were rising little by little..
“Don't be so sad. Honggoya.”
What was reflected in the eyes that seemed to be looking into the future were tears flowing from the side of the tightly closed mouth..
“I always love you.”
“I know.”
“Remember I don't hate you.”
“know… … there is.”
“Out of concern... … That's it……”
“Sleep well, Master..”
Powok.
“no!”
Joo Seocheon shouted with all kinds of emotions mixed in..
“Cough!”
Hye-man coughed up blood and staggered back..
A hole appears in the abdomen near the solar plexus..
The light in my eyes gradually went out..
After that, there was a firewall that stuck like a cicada..
Shaolin leader Hye-man.
The monk, who was called a living Buddha and respected by countless warriors, fell backwards slowly and lazily..
The prayer beads held on my wrist broke as if too much force was applied, and the beads scattered..
Hye-man looked worried even before he disappeared over the cliff..
with a plop.
The faint sound of water.
Unlike below the cliff, the top was full of silence..
Shinkwon, or rather Honggo, remained silent with his back turned..
“this… … crazy… … You bastard!”
Joo Seo-cheon spit out an expletive filled with anger..
“Crazy guy! Crazy guy! This crazy guy!”
I didn't know what to say.
Only cursing came out..
The disciple killed the teacher.
He is also a monk studying Buddhism..
A monk killed his teacher with his own hands.
Shinseung, a great man who was respected by many martial arts people even after his death, died by his disciple without being able to use his powers properly..
“Great sword dragon! What on earth is going on?!”
Someone came from behind after hearing the commotion..
Presbyopia that was not appropriate for his age, he was a poisonous dragon..
“Baekbo Kwon Seung, Hong Go is no longer a monk.!”
Buzz buzz.
The sword Joo Seo-cheon was holding cried out as if trembling with anger..
“This is an apostate monk who, blinded by revenge, went crazy and murdered Master Ji! I'll be dealing with the author, so please ask for support!”
“……”
“hurry……?”
Joo Seocheon stopped talking..
“That's strange.”
The party leader frowned..
“Even though I took into account the fact that I am retarded, the intangible poison poisoning is delayed. Yes, I can't believe it's Mandojiji??”
Peek, pluck, pluck..
Joo Seocheon opened and closed his mouth..
I tried to lower my voice but stopped to heal the problems inside my body..
“Nice to meet you.”
The party leader spoke calmly.
“It’s called Cheonchu (天樞)..”
My hair turned completely white, then came back again..
All kinds of questions came to mind and I bit my tail..
‘why?’
I thought it would never happen.
The name of the party is Heukyeongbu..
There are only a few people who know about the Black Spirit, but for those who do, it is suspected of being a top priority..
There's no way he would have chosen someone so conspicuous as his ancestor..
Even the slightest suspicion limits your actions..
And who, who is not a fool, would make a plan to get caught like this?.
So I thought it was a trick to divert attention..
It was a certainty, not a guess..
Nangong Weiwu and Zhuge Shang also thought so..
“It's a transmission of heavenly energy.”
The party leader neither smiled nor got angry..
From the first time I saw him, he had a slightly tired face and an emotionless voice..
“When it comes to stratagem, nothing is easier than when you think the enemy can't do it. That's why it was like that.”
“……!”
I was caught off guard..
The number was read by Cheongi..
I thought I would use common sense and not do something that would get caught anytime soon..
But I was defeated because of that confidence..
“What a scary person..”
The person in question approached with leisurely steps..
I wanted to move my body, but I couldn't..
I don't know what kind of poison I was poisoned with, but detoxification wasn't easy..
I was in awe, remembering the salvation of the Green Eye Mandokong, but the detoxification could not keep up with the poisoning..
“How many people play chess with the world in their palms?.”
lost.
“The level of thoroughness that cannot be understood is also scary..”
I lost even though I was always on guard..
“If it were me, I would have kept watch for twelve hours and asked them to tell me how they knew about the meeting and the source of the information..”
It was the first defeat, but it was so great..
“But they opposed it, saying it was too dangerous..”
Tang Myung-in gently placed his finger on the stomach of his heart, which was beating violently like an angry cow..
“Honestly, it's not that I'm not greedy..”
Because the body of a celestial body is not common..
“Above all, if you think about it, it is better to capture you alive than to kill you..”
I know a lot about Amcheonhoe..
I don't know exactly where and how far I know..
But I knew what to know and what not to know.
“Also, if you think about who is responsible for the failure of the great plan that has been established so far, you are truly an amazing person..
He probably hates me more than anyone else, but he says we have to distinguish between public and private life, and it's dangerous, so shoot him dead..”
Tang Myung-in pushed away the hand that was on his chest..
profit.
It seemed like a poisonous energy was flowing from the tips of my fingers..
There was no color or smell, but it was clearly poisonous..
The fabric that my fingers touched rippled like waves and then scattered like burnt ashes..
That's not all.
The skin under the cloth also turned gray and began to rot..
The ribs that protect the chest soon appeared, and the bones also fell apart, eventually revealing the heart..
“Sorry for the long talk. and……”
Puuk.
The party leader stretched out his right arm..
The fingertips protruded from the back, crushing the heart..
“Goodbye.”
“nice… … Hehehe……!”
Joo Seocheon let out a deep breath and fell backwards..
‘Cheongi……’
In the back of Cheonqiu, I saw the faceless wisdom of Dark Heaven..
In my fading consciousness, I remembered him smiling..
“Okay, then cut your neck……”
Even though the heart is broken into pieces, they try to check it by cutting the neck..
The thoroughness was terrifying..
Tang Myeong-in picked up the sword held by Joo Seo-cheon instead..
In the meantime, I didn't forget to hold it with my sleeve to avoid leaving fingerprints..
The moment when everything is about to end.
pababat!
A shadow came from behind.
Tang Myeong-in was surprised and swung the fetus toward the rear, but it only split the air..
“this!”
Oops, I returned my back to its original position..
Sure enough, Ju Seocheon was not lying on the ground..
When I turned my eyes, I saw a woman with a bag around her shoulder..
“ ……Who is it?”
At first glance, she was an unusual woman..
She was an emotionless yet beautiful woman who attracted men's attention..
However, perhaps because she was a woman of a political faction, her attire was very strict..
He wore a black robe, but the area of the cloth was very narrow..
A tattoo was visible on the skin, emitting a faint ominous light..
It felt very foreign as there were strange shapes and torture symbols mixed in..
“demonic religion……?”
From the outside, it seemed like he was using magic spells..
In fact, the appearance was similar.
“……”
fault!
But the question did not last long..
Before I could figure out who she was, she threw herself down the cliff..
I quickly followed him and saw him fall below the surface and disappear..
“Why didn't you stop it... … done.”
Tang Myung-in was about to say something to Hong Go, but he closed his mouth..
The back that looked like it would hold Mount Tai seemed small..
‘Are you crazy because you are obsessed with agony, Honggo?.
Or did you fall into the magic of coinage and develop a mental state?.’
I didn't know when Shaolin's promising star, Baekbo Kwonseung, became so crazy..
Maybe he was jealous of the Hwasan faction or Ju Seo-cheon, or maybe he was going crazy as the feud with his teacher continued..
‘Even so, he brought down Master Ji, the only pillar of Shaolin, by himself..’
Who will fill the empty seats in the eight seats of heaven?.
Above all, Shinseung is old..
Even if you didn't have to kill him, wasn't he supposed to get the position of head of the room for free?.
Even if I tried to understand, I couldn't..
‘What was so precious that you killed your teacher?.
Were the honor and power of Shaolin important, or were you afraid of decline and elimination? He couldn't hold back his anger at the moment.……
It is truly an apostate monk..’
The party leader shook his head politely..
‘It's hard to watch anymore.
Isn’t the author called Mara in Buddhism?.’
He looked at Honggo with pure disgust, then looked at the cliff where Joo Seocheon fell..
‘cut the heart into pieces.
I was concerned that the position of the heart might be different, so I opened the chest and made a hole to check for myself..
Moreover, he has been poisoned with an intangible poison, so even if Hwata comes back alive, he will not be able to save him..’
Even though someone took me, I fell down that distant cliff..
The current around here is strong and fast, and the terrain is not good, so even if you fall, it is difficult to survive..
It is a place where even the enemies of Jeokrim eighteen houses do not come near..
“Let's go slowly.”
The party leader called Honggo..
“Shaolin Bangjang.”
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