Chapter 5: King of Geumjeokgeum)
Chapter 5: King of Geumjeokgeum)
Jeokrim 18 Houses do not usually stray from Chongqing..
However, something changed six years ago..
As the repository of the Three Eyes was discovered, people from all over Wulin came to visit..
the problem is… … The point was that there were too many..
Even though the Jeokrim 18 Houses were in front of Jungkyung, they were not at a level that could deal with that many martial people..
In the end, I had no choice but to stop stealing for a while and confine myself to a mountain plant or water plant..
The good news among the misfortunes was that there was nothing left to worry about during the theft..
The eighteen landlords were dissatisfied with having to open a warehouse and steal their personal assets, but they had no choice because otherwise there would be no way to feed and control their subordinates..
“Just wait for half a year or a year.……”
But then I realized how complacent that was..
The Vigo expedition continued for two years..
A considerable amount of wealth and food was consumed..
It wasn't enough that I had to starve..
What I was dissatisfied with was my diminished wealth..
As soon as the Murim League and Sadocheon withdrew, the Jeokrim 18-chae returned to banditry..
Perhaps it was because they had been quietly confined to living quarters or water sheds for two years, but as a result, theft became more active..
“Kyahahahaha!”
“Guys, sweep it all away.!”
Kill the man and commit the woman!
I went on a rampage to relieve the grievances, violence, and sadism that had built up..
Sometimes, even if I pay the toll, they just kill me..
“Do you know how much the food has cost you all this time??”
“It doesn't matter if you push yourself a little harder, so come loot more wealth as soon as possible.!”
“I lost my mood because of you, so take responsibility.!”
Eighteen creditors whipped their minions to make up for the noticeably reduced amount of gold and silver treasures..
Grumbling.
The wheels of the carriage are rolling.
A series of groups were seen coming from beyond the horizon, bringing clouds of dust with them..
This is the transport procession of the gold attire..
“Hahaam.”
Joo Seocheon lay down on the roof of the carriage and yawned..
Even though the carriage was shaking violently, he looked comfortable as if he was on a bed..
I even took a short nap..
The guard warriors glanced at each other curiously as they rode on horseback..
“You said you were an expert, but you really meant it..”
Even among criminals, if they have good motor skills, they can lie down on the carriage without falling..
However, it was impossible to lie down comfortably and not move for one or two hours like that..
“No matter what he looks like, aren't he a disciple of the Huashan Sect?.”
Even disciples of the Huashan Sect are looked down upon when they are young..
But when you become a young man and come out to Gangho Murim, you see things a little differently..
This was because it was common sense in most major sects to send their disciples to the Gangho when they reached a certain level of inaction..
At that level, he is an expert among small and medium-sized clans and third- or second-rate warriors..
“What did you say your name was??”
“You stupid bastard. Joo Seocheon is a great person..”
“Where have I heard this before?……”
He was once the protagonist of something that enraged the Huashan Sect and the Zhuge Dynasty, but six years have passed since then..
Because the story of the Three Eyes Battle that took place right after became such a hot topic, not many people remember Joo Seo-cheon's name..
At best, there were only those directly connected..
“I know that the disciple of Gupa Ilbang is great, but I don't understand why the master of the top class tells us to treat him with the utmost respect..”
The guard warrior following from the last rank muttered..
I kept tilting my head as if it was strange..
“Wasn't the Hwasan faction originally a place where the Lord of the Sangsang had been interacting with each other since the beginning of the Sangangcho? I think he's probably a guardian or a disciple of someone he has a personal relationship with..”
The merchant sitting in the coach seat right next to me answered my question..
“Still, regardless of the reason, I follow any order... … Isn't it a little strange??”
“Originally, the Lord of the Sangdan flattered the person he could get something from... … Hehehe. Don't you treat me with extreme respect? That's it..”
The merchant suddenly changed his words in the middle of the conversation..
I rolled my eyes nervously, wondering if someone had heard me..
“Anyway, I'll be moving to Sacheon soon.……”
“stop!”
The merchant stopped mid-sentence..
Hee hee hee hee.
The leading horse stops with Touregil..
The three carriages that followed at regular intervals also stopped..
“I'll find out what's going on..”
The guard warrior tried to turn the reins..
“The gold guards must keep their eyes on the cargo and stay in place.!”
It was not a voice familiar to the group..
However, he was the person with real power who should be heard first here..
Joo Seocheon, who had already come down from the carriage roof, narrowed his eyes and looked around..
Beautiful trees with straight branches formed a dense forest, and the small animals that were always annoying were nowhere to be seen..
Now the Geumui warriors sensed something unusual and changed their posture..
Hahaha!
Laughter echoed in the bushes..
The voice itself wasn't bad, it was refreshing and powerful..
“He was about to attack me, but he had good sense to notice before I did.!”
Black shadows appeared between the bushes..
“omg!”
The merchant in the lead let out a surprised voice..
The merchants behind him were so shocked that they held their breath..
Rough-looking men emerged from the bushes and began to surround the wagon train stopped on the side of the road..
Each person held weapons such as swords, knives, and axes..
The next thing that caught my eye was a green robe and the word ‘Green Forest’ engraved in one corner..
“Green Forest Island!”
Grumble!
The gold warriors made a promise and drew their swords at the same time..
“I'll give you a chance to name it!”
“Joo Seocheon.”
“Even though he is young, he has such an arrogant attitude. From what I can see, he is one of the old and five generations! Where do you belong?!”
“volcano.”
Joo Seocheon raised his arm and showed the plum blossoms inside his sleeve..
“Is this the sword of a volcano? Wow, you are not lacking as an opponent. And who else is there to name it??”
Nokrimdo looked around at the group..
no one answered.
“Are you the only one who can name it??”
Nokrimdo asked as if it were absurd..
“I alone am enough to deal with you..”
Joo Seo-cheon spoke like an arrogant brat from Gu File Bang..
“Hahaha!”
“ha ha ha!”
The Green Forest Islanders surrounding the group began to laugh..
It was an obvious laugh.
“If you were Huashan's disciple, you would definitely be top-notch, but what do you think you can do with this many people on your own??”
Nokrimdo smiled and raised his left hand..
Then, a group of green trees came out, wading through the bushes..
Even if we roughly counted the number of people, it seemed like there were thirty to forty people..
Just twice as much.
“Well, there are so many?”
The golden warriors hesitated as if embarrassed..
“Don't panic. You can tell the numbers just by looking at them..
Most of them are probably third-rate, and there are only a few who are above that..”
Joo Seocheon tried to calm down those around him with a calm voice..
“crazy guy!”
Nokrimdo laughed as if it was absurd..
“Do you think you can beat us while protecting all those fat pigs??”
The finger pointed towards the merchants sitting in the carriage seats..
Hehehe!
The merchants' complexions turned pale..
They looked very frightened at the thought that they were going to die..
“You talk a bit too much. In my experience, you must be a bandit who is necessary to the flow of the story, but not very strong..”
Joo Seocheon turned his neck..
‘Just listening to the ‘ddu-ddu-duk’ made a cool sound..
“What kind of absurd nonsense was this from earlier?……”
“Goes.”
I gathered my strength by slightly bending my legs..
Internal energy wells up from below the navel and envelops the entire leg..
“Everyone, stay in your seats.……”
Pajjik!
My feet sink in as if they are being sucked in..
The ground I was stepping on cracked and an unusual energy was released..
He crouched down, but soon opened his body wide and jumped out in an instant..
“omg!”
Nokrimdo Island, which had been chatting a while ago, was shocked..
When I opened my eyes, Joo Seocheon disappeared and appeared right in front of me..
“What is this……”
“What is it, Go Soo-ji?!”
Joo Seocheon swings his sword while making a meaningless joke..
Flashing in the air, a horizon line was drawn..
“Wow!”
Nokrimdo grabbed his neck and opened his eyes..
I tried to spit out a swear word, but it didn't work out the way I wanted..
The moment he was about to make a hand gesture to give an order to his subordinates, he fell backwards with blood spurting from his neck like a fountain..
“……”
The surroundings were silent.
It happened so quickly that no one could properly accept it..
“stay in your place.”
Joo Seocheon spoke again to his companions..
“From what I can see, most of them are third-rate, with a few second-rate ones..”
Rotate the sword with your wrist and hold it again..
“About thirty and fifty……”
Infuse energy into the sword.
The amount was so large that it was barely visible to the eye..
There is a bluish haze..
It's sword energy..
“high, high?”
Nokrimdo looked at the sword and made a sad expression..
To be called an expert, one must at least reach the peak level..
And sword fighting is a skill that can be used from the peak..
“One corner).”
Joo Seocheon’s body became blurred..
“Ouch!”
When he reappeared, a Green Forester screamed as he clutched the hole in his chest..
“Oh shit!”
Only then did the distraught Green Foresters finally come to their senses..
“No matter how expert you are, you are alone.!”
Still with a half-fazed expression on his face, he held up the weapon in his hand and let out a scream that was close to a scream..
“Hit it!”
“kill it!”
“Let's cut off his head!”
It wasn't something someone ordered.
The chain of command was a mess..
Everyone charged without even adjusting their battle lines..
Five people attack the green forest that was nearby..
I could tell that the level was low just by looking at the steps..
“Dead!”
Nokrimdo, with his messy beard, brandished a Park sword..
‘Draw a diagonal line while making a heavy booming sound..
There was quite a bit of force, but that was all it was..
Joo Seocheon swung his sword as he passed by Nokrimdo, who was holding a bakdo sword..
“Wow!”
I can feel the sensation of cutting a person from the tip of the sword in my hand..
Cutting the flesh in two and even cutting off the hard bones made me think of the battlefield before the return.
“Yes this guy!”
The remaining four people flew in from the front..
They were a ragtag bunch without even a single basic tactic..
Joo Seocheon moved as smoothly as gliding on the ice..
I passed by the green forest rushing from the front..
pababat!
It didn't just pass by.
I swung my sword quickly..
However, it was so fast that I couldn't follow it with my eyes..
“Ugh!”
“Ouch!”
Pushushoo shoot!
A scar was left where the sword passed..
The wound opened wide and blood spurted out, creating fog..
All four of them fell down in vain without even being able to attack much..
“Be careful, big man.!”
Someone among the golden warriors warned me.
“late!”
Whirling!
The ax left Nokrimdo’s hand..
The double-edged ax spun splendidly in the air and aimed at the back of Joo Seo-cheon's head..
“Hmm!”
turn your body backwards.
At the same time, he raised his left hand and easily caught the flying ax..
“remnants of talent!”
lean your shoulders back.
My muscles became tense and stiff..
The muscles in my left arm became red and red..
wedge!
Joo Seocheon extended his left hand forward..
The speed with which the ax in my hand left was like light..
Whirling!
The ax rotated violently, tearing the air apart..
The ax flew with such force that it returned to its original owner and aimed for his head..
Powok!
The internal power of the ax was unusual..
As soon as it touched my head, it exploded like a watermelon and blood and brain fluid splattered out..
Joo Seo-cheon took off again..
I jumped into the crowd of panicked Green Foresters..
“This bastard!”
The large Nokrimdo extends its spear forward and stabs it straight ahead..
It was a fierce attack in its own way..
However, in Joo Seo-cheon's eyes, the attack seemed slow enough to make him yawn..
It felt like time had stopped.
Take a step to the left and avoid.
The spear passed by my waist..
“Holy zen……”
Suddenly!
Before he could continue speaking, Ju Seocheon's sword cut off Nokrimdo's head..
The head separates from the body and rolls on the floor..
“one two three four… … ninety.”
I count the number of green forests that come into view..
Then he moved as if folding space and performed a sword dance..
“Hee hee hee hee!”
Nokrimdo’s morale has fallen to rock bottom..
Everyone was astonished by the overwhelming force seen before their eyes..
A storm rages between Joo Seocheon's target, Green Forest Island..
“One (一)).”
I swung my sword and drew a vertical line..
Nokrimdo Island, which was trying to take a defensive stance from the front, was split like firewood..
The next action follows immediately..
The connection between the swords was clearly shown like water..
Second, third... … sixth
In the blink of an eye, Nokrimdo collapsed with blood spraying out..
It was like falling leaves in an autumn wind..
“That's really the peak?”
someone shouted in disbelief.
“Hmm, you have a good sense of vision..”
Joo Seocheon twisted the corner of his mouth..
Nokrimdo was right..
He was not in the peak state, but in the transcendent state..
“But the reason I feel strong is because you are weak.”
In fact, the influence of Nokrimdo, and by extension, Jeokrimdo, is limited to Junggyeong. The force again
It's not that strong.
Due to their large numbers and balance of power, they could not be defeated openly..
It's not that there are no experts, but that's only for Chae-ju and some of his close associates, and the rest are poor..
The number is a bit high..
“seven, eight, nine, ten!”
My body was shot like an arrow.
Paang!
The air burst out from where I was standing just moments ago..
An air wave remained in a round shape..
“Oh, don't come!”
Nokrimdo Seven turned around..
It's foolish..
The waist was cut from the back to separate the upper and lower body..
Eight closed his eyes and raised his sword to block..
I cut off his head with a sword..
Nine and Ten drooped their shoulders with faces filled with despair, as if they had given up..
That was the last time.
I opened my eyes and fell to the floor with blood spraying out..
“Some… … Is it less?.”
Ju Seo-cheon muttered while shaking the blood off his sword..
“Ugh, ugh.!”
“run away!”
The Green Foresters, who are still a little over twenty, have lost their will to fight..
Everyone was in a panic and ran away without looking back..
“her.”
The gold warriors were mesmerized..
The same was true for the merchants who were very frightened..
“Let's see……”
As the Green Foresters quickly fled, some even threw away their weapons..
Among them were bows and quivers of arrows..
Ju Seocheon held a bow and a quiver of arrows..
“Follow the road towards Sacheon first. I will do my best to prevent Nokrimdo from following me again..”
“Dear, what do you mean by that?……”
“If you want to explain, please follow me without saying a word..”
Joo Seocheon ran in the direction where Nokrimdo fled..
* * *
There is a mountain near the corner of the road just now..
It was obvious where Nokrimdo was..
Originally, there were no wild vegetables in this area..
It's not that they never existed, but every time they appeared, they were subdued by the volcano faction..
However, this time, as the area was expanded, a new building was built..
It was too far to travel this route from Chongqing to round trip..
I thought there would be a camp for storing wealth..
So I deliberately let Nokrimdo run away..
It was definitely as expected.
Following the trail, I saw a mountain plant..
“It's more popular than you think.……?”
All I could see right now was around forty..
I saw people gathered in the center of the mountain hut and chatting..
Half of them are green forests that were released just now..
It was obvious what they were talking about..
“ah.”
While thinking about the other half, something came to mind..
Returned the positive energy injected into the arrow used in protest..
Ilwol Shrine is a four-story castle.
You can use it to a small extent by injecting positive and negative energy from Samsung and Sasung respectively..
So I was planning to kill them easily by setting them on fire with Samsung's energy, but I couldn't do that..
“is it.”
Joo Seocheon held a protest.
nettle!
The arrow left a long trail like a shooting star..
It stretched forward, drawing a clean straight line..
One mile away.
A man standing on a watchtower died while holding on to an arrow stuck in his neck..
Joo Seo-cheon raises an arrow to protests again.
The Green Foresters still didn't notice..
Swish! Swish!
“Ugh!”
The Green Foresters standing on the watchtower fell down helplessly..
All arrows were lodged in the neck or heart..
His archery skills were second to none..
I searched through my quiver and found six..
Now I decided to move slowly..
The days of holding your breath and sniping outside of Il-ri are over..
It jumped out between the bushes and ran alive..
Thanks to the spread of the dark map, the speed was as fast as lightning..
‘First of all, he looks like a leader’
In the thirty-six precepts, the war-fighting precepts, and the eighteen precepts, there is a plan called the Golden King..
This means that when attacking an enemy, kill the leader first..
In terms of military strategy, if you capture the enemy general, you will lose your commander and you will usually end up in confusion..
Just about half an hour ago, when fighting while protecting the Golden Sangdan, the person who appeared to be the leader was dealt with first..
The effect was clear.
As the command system became a mess, I couldn't do this or that..
In fact, considering his skills and the enemy, there was no need to go this far..
Even if you just attack, you win..
‘There must be people trapped inside..’
It is common to kidnap women and rape them, or keep children or the elderly captive for the purpose of human trafficking..
So, I gave up the fire attack, took care of the guards so they couldn't think about the hostages, and then targeted the leader..
wedge!
the first arrow left.
It was shot out while still drawing beautifully clean lines..
“Ugh!”
Nokrimdo's eyes widened as it received reports from the fleeing Nokrimdo members..
An arrow was struck where the heart is..
“It's an attack!”
Only then did the Green Forest Islands react..
“First, find the guy who shoots the archery.……”
“Quack!”
The neck of the person giving the command was bent backwards.
An arrow was stuck in the exact center of my forehead..
“No, where on earth……!”
The other Green Foresters quickly looked around..
puck!
“evil!”
If you speak up, you will die..
No, to be exact, if you say something sane with a rational mindset, you are dead..
Even the third arrow has done its job..
“There it is!”
One of the Green Forest Islanders pointed to the watchtower..
Ju Seo-cheon was standing there, shooting arrows at the demonstration..
“Me, that guy!”
About half of the faces of Nokrimdo were twisted in fear..
They were people who ran away from themselves..
“It would be a good experience for archery..”
I have never hit a moving target other than an animal..
He was a good practice partner.
“What are you doing! Strike the bowman first... … Keck!”
The fourth arrow pierced the solar plexus..
Swish!
Joo Seocheon jumped from the watchtower..
At the same time, protests took place.
This time, two arrows were fired at the same time..
““Ugh” “Ugh!”
This time it was random.
The mere sight of greenery took the lives of two people..
“The damn arrow is out! kill it!”
The Green Forest Islanders, who had been embarrassed just a moment ago, laughed secretly..
“Stop it.!”
Nokrimdo, who knew about Ju Seo-cheon's power, belatedly warned..
But by the time I said it, it was already too late.
Taat!
Another arrow was fired.
It wasn't really an arrow, it was Joo Seocheon's body..
Nokrimdo attacked with a single-edged axe, but the axe was used to cut open his chest..
“uh?”
That was the beginning.
From Nokrimdo’s perspective, hell unfolded..
Ju Seo-cheon practiced footwork and moved freely between Green Forest Islands, performing the Twenty-Four Plum Sword Techniques..
There was no need to even open the 10-second meal..
By the time the eight-herb eating plum blossom blood cow came out, twenty people had died..
Blood splattered, flesh split, and screams were rampant..
Every time the sword containing the plum blossom flashes, someone dies..
It was truly overwhelming.
“Please save me, Daehyeop.!”
In the end, the survivors raised the white flag..
I dropped the weapon I was holding and hit my forehead on the ground..
After seeing Ju Seo-cheon's inaction, they lost their will to fight and did not attack..
The number is fifteen..
“Please save me?”
“I will do anything!”
I thought about it for a while..
“no!”
I haven't seen many cases where it's good to keep an enemy alive in a strong battle..
Especially green forests and bandits..
“I will reform and make a new decision.!”
Farmers who have no choice but to become bandits due to lack of food don't know what else to do..
Although they steal, they rarely try to kill people..
When I was able to afford it, I started working again on farming..
However, Green Forest Island, and even Jeok Forest Island, are different from that case..
Most of them became bandits or bandits because they wanted to..
I enjoyed having no problem with forcibly violating someone, robbing them, or murdering them..
It's obvious what I'll do if I let go.
It wasn't that there were no cases where that wasn't the case, but at least the guys in front of me didn't seem like that would happen..
“Are you really going to change your mind??”
“Yes that's right! I swear on the name of heaven and earth!”
“Okay, I'll check in my next life.!”
“Wow!”
* * *
Killed all but five of the Green Forest Islanders..
They captured four people, broke one person's arms and gave him directions..
I asked if they were confining people, and it was as expected..
Nokrimdo was crying and led us to the prison..
“Hee hee hee hee!”
When I got to the prison, there were about 50 people there..
Most of them were women, children, or the elderly..
Everyone was so scared that they locked themselves in a corner and trembled..
“it's okay. come out.”
Joo Seocheon opened the prison door and reassured me..
“I'm here to save you. I am a disciple of the Hwasan Sect..”
“Ugh!”
As soon as I told them that I was a disciple of the Huashan Sect, people started crying..
I felt the fear and sadness that had been building up..
When we took everyone outside, we saw the devastation..
Mothers covered their children's eyes instead..
But no one frowned or looked away..
They all had eyes full of hatred..
“Thank you so much for saving me, Daehyeop..”
An old man who seemed to be a representative of the incarcerated people came out and greeted me..
Tears dripped down through the wrinkles..
“It's no big deal. Let those guys take care of themselves. I broke all my limbs, so it shouldn't be that difficult..”
I can only roughly imagine the humiliation and harassment these people must have suffered while incarcerated..
So, to relieve that hatred and anger, I prepared a small gift..
“Hee hee hee hee!”
The complexions of the surviving Green Forest Islanders turned pale..
They struggled to get out of their seats, heedless of the pain they felt in their limbs..
“I saw earlier that there was a warehouse near the prison. There will be some money there, so use it to get back to town..”
“No, Daehyeop. How could you do such a shameless thing to your benefactor? … We already owe too much……”
Usually, when bandits are subdued, the martial people take all the wealth from them..
no one says anything.
Not only would I not be able to find the owner anyway, but if the martial people hadn't helped me, I wouldn't have been able to save my life..
“it's okay. Since you are a Taoist monk, you will be punished if you indulge in lust..”
Actually, I have so much money that I don't need to worry..
“Ugh, thank you so much. Could you at least tell me your name??”
“Seocheon Joo. I am Joo Seo-cheon, a disciple of the Hwasan Sect..”
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