Chapter 40 : Chapter 40

Chapter 40. Tsk, Can't You Understand When I Say It Like This? (2)

Jang Hyun’s arrowhead accurately stabbed Han Cheong-un’s body.

His arrow, which succeeded in piercing the skin and digging deep into the muscle, was…….

“Regrettable.”

Regrettably, it failed to reach the bone.

Han Cheong-un blocked that decisive move by lifting his arm.

Seeing the hidden move fail, Jang Hyun sighed and said.

“To block this?”

He asked out of regret.

“Did you anticipate it?”

“The moment you popped the smoke screen, I thought something would come.”

“…….”

“Rather, without the smoke screen, my guard would have been less, and the probability of success might have risen.”

Actually, he would have dodged using the ability of the domain anyway. But Jang Hyun, who had no way of knowing that, nodded his head as if regretful.

Han Cheong-un said to him.

“So? Will you continue?”

Jang Hyun lowered his arm powerlessly.

What meaning would there be in struggling further here?

He had no choice but to admit defeat.

“I lo…….”

“Kyaaaak! Master!”

It was then.

Along with a piercing scream, a white-haired woman approached as if flying and examined the wound on Han Cheong-un’s arm.

“Wh... What do we do? You are hurt? You are bleeding?”

“This much is nothi…….”

“What do you mean nothing? Oh my god, what do we do about this?”

A peerless beauty with white hair making a fuss seeing Han Cheong-un’s arm stabbed by an arrow.

‘Is she his lover?’

Seeing her call him Master, probably yes.

But even understanding the feeling, isn't this too much?

For Jang Hyun, Dang Seoyeon’s behavior was rudeness interfering before the match even ended.

“Child. Move aside. Not yet formally…….”

Creeaak.

It was then.

Dang Seoyeon’s head turned slowly and looked at Jang Hyun at a crooked angle, but the focus of those eyes was empty.

And in that state, she spoke.

“You did this, right?”

“…….”

“You. Dare. To our. Master…….”

“W... Wait…….”

“Make him hurt?!”

Next moment.

Dark green poison qi soared explosively from Dang Seoyeon’s whole body.

* * *

The examiners watching from afar.

They were waiting outside the building until the time was up.

The sound of weapons clashing and screams heard from inside the building were other people's stories to them. But then…….

Kaboooom!

“What is it?”

“What……. happened?”

Suddenly I heard an explosion.

And instantly felt the feeling as if the whole building floated slightly. And green smoke flowing out from between the buildings is seen. And…….

Creak.

The sound of the building's wood crushing is heard.

Although it is a hastily built building for this test, it is still a sturdy building.

Crack. Boom! Bang!

“Uaaaa!”

“Save me!”

“Run outsi……. Kuaaack!”

Eventually, the building collapsing completely.

The sturdy wooden building built not long ago collapsed completely.

“Uh……. That…… It shouldn't be like that?”

He heard that building would be used as a warehouse after this test ended.

If it collapses like that, it is troubling. But then…….

Crunch!

“Kuk……. Al…… almost died.”

A man gets up pushing away the debris of the collapsed building with a spear shaft. And in that man’s embrace was the white-haired peerless beauty he protected.

She looks at him with sparkling eyes and says.

“Master, you saved me.”

“Uh, that is…….”

“I am happy.”

The peerless beauty hugging him.

Right. The picture is very good. Good, but…….

“You…… crazy bitch!”

It seems there is a person who does not agree here.

It was a peerless beauty as beautiful as the white-haired woman.

As soon as she came, she rushed as if to eat the white-haired woman, and the white-haired woman…….

“Kyaak. Master, I'm scared. Big Sister Baek Sua is trying to bully me.”

“Won't you come here?”

“Hey, calm down first…….”

“Do I look like I can calm down? When that crazy bitch blew up the entire building?”

Dang Seoyeon who spewed out poison qi enough to corrode an entire building. If there is a fortune amidst misfortune…….

“Still, it doesn’t seem to be a lethal poison qi—at least not enough to kill someone.”

“Yes. Now I can control that much.”

“Something to be proud of. You crazy woman!”

Baek Sua jumped up and down and shouted.

Then Dang Seoyeon also retorted sharply.

“It’s fine if no one died, isn't it?”

“Let’s see, let’s see, this is really…….”

“In the first place, it’s that person’s fault for making our Master go ouch ouch.”

Are you a mom?

“This girl really…….”

Baek Sua knows Dang Seoyeon’s original fate.

The unfortunate woman of tragedy who becomes a great killer of Jianghu and meets her end at the hands of her own brother.

Thinking of that original fate, it was difficult to treat her harshly. It was difficult, but…….

“Can't take it. You come here.”

Human patience has a limit.

“Eek! Master, help me.”

“Won't you come here?!”

“No. I don't want to. Don't do it.”

“Acting coy now?!”

It is chaos.

Han Cheong-un was stuck between the two women, unable to do anything, sweating profusely. And…….

‘Help me a bit too.’

Dang Jin, crushed under the building debris, felt sorrowful.

* * *

The Ultimate Path Gate passed the test.

Although they blew away an entire building in the process of the test, they proved that much power.

The problem is that was…….

“It was the first round test?”

“Yes. Correct.”

“…….”

“The test was being taken in several places divided, and you just passed in one of them.”

This is a bit irritating.

“Then when can we pass finally? Do the first round passers gather and fight again?”

“No. The second round test is a test including a kind of practical skill.”

“Practical skill?”

“It is to actually entrust guarding and decide the final passers depending on how well they perform that guarding.”

Hearing those words, Han Cheong-un thought.

So if it is according to these words…….

“You mean do the guarding first.”

“Correct.”

“Not final pass but do the work first.”

“Whether one actually does the work well or not is something we know only by making them do it after all.”

“…….”

It is familiar.

What is familiar is…….

‘This is that feeling of being treated as a pushover during the days of the Murim Alliance lower-rank warrior.’

That time when he was a lower-rank warrior of the Murim Alliance without having made a name yet.

[Do it first, just do it.]

[Originally, everything works like this. Do you think custom exists for nothing?]

[Why argue about such things? Trivially. Tsk, just do as told. Then later you will understand all the meaning.]

They made him do all sorts of things like this.

They dumped personal matters completely unrelated to the Murim Alliance's official events on the Murim Alliance's lower-rank warriors.

‘Ah, thinking about it again makes me angry.’

That was embezzlement too.

It was strictly embezzlement since they personally utilized the Murim Alliance's human resources to exploit them and took unfair profits and convenience from there.

So he reported to the upper level and was confined alone.

‘Thinking makes me angrier.’

Han Cheong-un sighed deeply.

Actually, he didn't particularly regret the money of ten thousand taels of gold.

Since Han Cheong-un’s purpose lies elsewhere, it doesn't matter. But…….

“Will other people accept these conditions meekly?”

“That is your freedom.”

“…….”

“But I will state clearly, the reason we promised exceptional pay at Jinju Tower is because we expect that much return.”

Ah, if you covet money, do it?

“There is no free lunch in this world.”

Hearing the words of the smiling examiner, Han Cheong-un smiled back.

And nodded his head as if actively agreeing and said.

“That saying is correct. There is no free lunch in this world.”

“You know well.”

“Yes. Please keep that saying in mind without fail.”

“…….”

“There is no free lunch in this world.”

What is it?

The examiner somehow started to receive a strange feeling from Han Cheong-un’s words and smile.

* * *

“I will divide the people first.”

Han Cheong-un gathered the disciples and spoke.

“Sua, Seoyeon.”

“Yes. Sect Leader.”

“Yes. Master.”

“I have things to instruct separately for you two, so solve that side first.”

“What kind of work?”

“That is…….”

Han Cheong-un explained. Then…….

“Understood. I will do as ordered.”

Baek Sua answered obediently. And Dang Seoyeon…….

“Master, do Big Sister Baek and I necessarily have to do it together?”

“Why? You don't like it?”

“Older Brother and Big Sister Baek can do it, right? And I can act together with Master.”

At her petty rebellion, Han Cheong-un sighed and said.

“From now on, Dang Jin and I will enter the guard duty of Jinju Tower.”

“I know. But?”

“What do you think will happen if you two enter a brothel?”

“What happens?”

Does she ask because she doesn't know?

Dang Seoyeon and Baek Sua.

Both are beautiful women to the extent that it is not an exaggeration to say they have reserved the title of Shaanxi’s First Beauty and Sichuan’s First Beauty.

Dang Seoyeon with white hair shining as if pure snow has fallen and smiling brightly.

Baek Sua with clean features, transparent skin without a single blemish, and a mysterious charm that bewitches the viewer.

These two doing ‘guard duty’ at a ‘brothel’?

“It is business obstruction.”

First of all, courtesans will lose all confidence.

Han Cheong-un sighed and said.

“You two do the work I ordered. That is also important work. I cannot trust and entrust it if it's not you two.”

Dang Seoyeon bowed her head sullenly and answered “Yes” quietly.

Having sent the two like that, Han Cheong-un entered the guard duty of Jinju Tower together with Dang Jin.

To be precise, the free guarding under the pretext of practice.

* * *

The Tower Lord of Jinju Tower read the report and spoke.

“Four hundred and eighty dropouts in the first round test, among them eighty-nine deaths. Is this correct?”

“Yes. Correct.”

Then the Tower Lord put down the report and smiled satisfactorily, saying.

“First, the first plan is a success.”

“Yes. That is correct.”

The person reporting smiled brightly and said.

“With this, the warriors who want to claim they have some power in Yueyang are all injured or hired by our Jinju Tower. Even if competitors try to hire ronin warriors to harm us, there is no one to hire.”

It is so.

Everything was according to plan from the start.

If a huge amount is put up as a reward, all warriors who use swords in Yueyang will rush in.

What happens if they make them compete against each other?

It is obvious. It is the natural order that blood flows when warriors compete.

In the end, just by the test to select the guard office of Jinju Tower, they could organize heavily the warriors who had the possibility of being hostile to Jinju Tower in this land of Yueyang.

Everything happened on the palm of one person who made this plan.

“Are there useful ones among the passers?”

“Judging only by skill, there are quite a few. There are people stronger than me too.”

“That is…….”

“But the problem is that the majority are from the Unorthodox sects after all.”

“…….”

“Honestly, they are not guys to keep for long. While giving food, they will wag their tails, but they are guys like jackals who don't know when they will bare their teeth.”

“Even so, isn't it not the right way to take action before they even bare their teeth?”

“Tower Lord. The right way is something kept when dealing with humans as humans.”

“…….”

“There is no need to do so against beast-like Unorthodox bastards. So…….”

“Understood.”

“…….”

“You mean we have to organize them all in the end.”

“Yes. However, we must keep them before the agreement with them is concluded.”

“Then let’s proceed as planned. Please buy time appropriately until they come.”

“Understood.”

When the person who finished the report withdrew like that, the Tower Lord of Jinju Tower rose from the seat.

And standing by the window looking down at the misty Dongting Lake, he spoke.

It is a beautiful spectacle enough to be called the magnificent view of the world indeed. However…….

The spectacle the Tower Lord of Jinju Tower wants to capture in his eyes is not this scene.

“I must go back. I will be able to go back.”

At least in the earnestness dwelling in that voice, sincerity was felt.

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