Episode 350 It was nice to have a drinking party at the Steel Mountain Lodge
, but it felt like one more person was involved in the drinking party.
It is not a drinking party for the four major evildoers and students.
It seems like Jinhyang Samae in the picture also joined our drinking party.
The alcohol was strong.
Maybe that’s why Baekwi Seosaeng, who had been unable to come to his senses after being beaten by Cheonak, was the first to lose control while drinking while looking at Master Jinhyang several times.
It’s not like he was drugged by alcohol…
The white-robed student who drank alcohol and drank it as if he had swallowed memories several times ended up getting drunk first. The white-robed student, who often looked at the picture, was carried by Habok and left to pass out. The next time, unexpectedly, the Sword Demon stood up quietly and went out, saying he wanted to get some fresh air.
Cheonak just drank in silence.
I didn’t expect it to be like this.
It felt like the atmosphere was suppressed by the evil of heaven.
The Demon Demon must have been targeting chickens in the first place, but after filling his stomach enough, he waved his hand a few times and went outside.
I am the only one left at the drinking party.
Even if Cheonak didn’t say anything, whenever the drink ran out, Habok brought a large liquor jar and placed it next to the table.
The Saekma shook his head and asked Cheonak.
“Sir, what kind of alcohol is this? “This is my first time being this harsh.”
Cheonak slightly turned his head and asked Habok, who was waiting inside.
“Habok, what kind of drink are you drinking?”
“This is a study plant that I bought from Gokbu.”
“That’s right. “But you two drink well.”
Actually, Cheonak drank better.
Perhaps because he possessed profound internal energy, things like intoxication seemed to have less of an effect on his body. So, the body can detoxify most poisons on its own.
When I opened the newly brought bottle of Gonggonggaju and drank about half of it, I fell under the table and crawled somewhere on all fours, probably because I was drunk as well. Because he drank so much, he seemed to understand the evil of heaven.
In the end, when it was just the two of us, Cheonak asked me.
“Moonju, why aren’t you drunk?”
After drinking another glass of Gonggonggaju, I completely absorbed the intoxication from my body. It is a trick of the Heavenly Ok Absorbing Great Law. Of course, I couldn’t completely get rid of this strong drink.
“I pulled a trick.”
Despite my trick, when I looked at my lower abdomen, I saw that my stomach was sticking out. To sober up, I looked at Jinhyang in the picture.
Then Cheonak asked.
“Why are you looking at me like that?”
I looked at the heavenly evil.
“By any chance… am I making a mistake if I say you’re beautiful?”
“Not really.”
“I’m glad.”
I said while looking at Sister Jinhyang.
“Both Baekui and Seonbae were once slaves… I heard in the last conversation that Emperor Wu killed Master Heukseon along with his brother-in-law.”
“There’s no way that guy would even bring up something like that?”
“It just happened to be like that.”
“however?”
“Baekui may have said it off-handedly because he thought I wouldn’t remember, but he did remember that one of the disciples who played the black line was Samae Jinhyang. When I looked at the picture, I thought it was this sister. Maybe not. But when I saw her beauty.”
“….”
“For those who were treated as slaves by the Black Ship, just having Jinhyang Samae is enough. I think it became a reason to live and hold on. A pore? You are such a beautiful sister. “Is that picture of Jinhyang?”
For a moment, I thought I was going to get hit by Cheonak. However, Cheonak calmed his excitement in a couple of breaths and nodded.
“right.”
“Did you by any chance draw Untitled?”
Cheonak nodded.
“I didn’t even know I drew it, but one day I brought it home.”
Because I was drunk, I didn’t know what to say and just blurted it out.
“Somehow I think I painted that picture right before the black line hit. “I don’t think Emperor Wu said he would draw it, but I think Jinhyang asked him to draw it.”
“That’s also true.”
I looked at the heavenly evil.
“Then it looks like you were already prepared to die before the fight.”
Cheonak drank without answering.
I also drank a glass of alcohol, but I got so drunk that I felt dizzy. Cheonak asked me.
“Why do you think he was prepared to die before even fighting?”
I also wanted to ask Jinhyang about that. I looked at the picture and answered.
“I’m sorry, but… didn’t you know that even Heukseon and the Great Brother couldn’t kill Jinhyang? I think she knew very well that she was the type of person that men envied. He may have predicted that if he didn’t step forward, there was a possibility that everyone would be killed by their master. “He may have had an extreme nature by nature.”
I looked at Cheonak, feeling the back of my head tingle.
“senior.”
“Say it.”
“If Sister Jinxiang had the same intention as the older brother who wanted to kill Emperor Shi Huangdi… what do you think? Would it be going too far to infer that it was a charlatan’s intention to save the death penalty even at the cost of sacrificing himself? Is it far-fetched? “Because I’ve never met him.”
Cheonak looked at me.
“Samae will save us?”
I looked at Sister Jinhyang with Cheonak without answering. Naturally, Master Jinhyang in the picture did not give me an answer to my words.
“Because Heukseon would have been no different from the emperor of the Heukdo Western forces. “Whether it’s martial arts or power…”
Suddenly, Cheonak laughed for the first time at a drinking party.
“And yet you buy others. “You are right.”
I poured the liquor into Cheonak’s cup and poured it into my own cup. I held a glass of wine and looked at Cheonak.
“For my sister.”
“….”
“For the Women’s Association that saved the ugly executioners.”
After drinking in silence, Cheonak dragged an empty bowl in front of him. He rolled up his sleeves, held out his index and middle fingers, and downed his drink while breathing. It seemed like it absorbed the moisture and condensed the alcohol and threw it away. Even though I’ve been drinking well, I don’t know why it’s like that.
I also took an empty bowl, collected the alcohol in my body, collected it on my fingertips, and then pointed to the empty bowl. Nothing happened. It was not a trick that could be seen and imitated.
Cheonak said.
“Let’s drink.”
“Why did you throw away the alcohol?”
“I think I’ll hit you if I get any more drunk.”
“You could hit me. Let’s drink.”
We shared a drink again. Cheonak said, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
“It’s been a long time since I became narrow-minded after hearing about the world through Baekga. Still, I didn’t respond unless it was Samjae news, so I thought it would be okay. “But after joining the open ark the other day, I felt uncomfortable.”
“Why were you displeased?”
“Singae must have been displeased because he was a different person from Heukseon. “I came back and thought about it a bit, but I won’t be joining forces again in the future.”
It was good news for Shin-gae, but I thought the intention of the words was different, so I asked back.
“no way?”
Cheonak nodded.
“The same goes for the religious leader. If the cult leader brings a bunch of troops and attacks the monks, I plan to help, but if at some point the Baekdo and the scholars unite to deal with the cult leader, I won’t be there. I’ve experienced that unpleasantness twice, so that’s enough. I should have torn Master to death by myself, but I wasn’t good enough. “It is a courtesy to those who are few rivals.”
So, Cheonak seems to have thought that I was the one who came to request support.
“Senior, I am not the one who came to ask you for help.”
“Is that so?”
“It looks like you want to defeat the senior one-on-one, whether it’s the leader of the school or the Shingae senior.”
“of course.”
“I hope so too. Before that, if the religious leader brings in his forces and harasses you, ask for help at any time.”
Cheonak laughed.
“Ask for your help? “Do you mean me?”
I also answered with a smile.
“why? Is there anything you can’t do? “Beggars should fight amongst themselves.”
Cheonak said.
“I will always die fighting alone. Since I let my master die like that, it is right for me to die like that too. My martial arts skills were given to me by my master, so I have no choice but to return them in the same way. “Whether the cult leader brings his followers, Lim So-baek leads the Murim Alliance and finds me, or the Baek family betrays and brings his disciples, I plan to fight and die alone.”
What kind of neutral person is this person who is alone in the world?
He was also a man who lived with the entire world as his enemy because he believed that all the members of the Demonic Murim League had the potential to kill him.
“There is no reason for Master Lim to hit his senior.”
“How can you be sure that I am ranked first on the martial arts list?”
“Didn’t you say it yourself? Because of Baekga, my view of the world has become narrow-minded. The person who knows Im Maeng-ju’s thoughts well is me, not Baek-ui Seo-saeng. “It’s me.”
I patted my chest with my hand and looked at Cheonak.
“Senior, it’s me. “Hao Wen-ju, Li Zhaha knows Lin Xiaobai’s feelings better.”
“What are Lim Sobaek’s thoughts?”
I looked at Cheonak.
“If even one of my subordinates dies during a mission, I will become a man who cannot sleep for several days. If you want to kill a senior, it’s no wonder that most of the Murim League’s swordsmen die. Lim Maengju doesn’t have the courage to do that. Let’s not overestimate it too much. He was the one who charged at the front of the vanguard when we were just catching bandits together. A man like a leader shouldn’t fight like that. He said that when I was having a hard time in Dongho, he was the one who came to fight in person, as if he was not at ease even after sending in the special forces. I’m very scared. “It’s a different type from the black line.”
“Is that so?”
“How could Baekyi know Lin Xiaobai? And there’s no need to worry about Emperor Wu’s betrayal.”
“Why is that?”
I answered while pouring myself a drink.
“The power has become too weak. Some of my disciples also died by my hands. Even his real name led a bunch of henchmen and tried to kill me, but he was killed. Chu Myung was captured once, but Master Lim let him go. He is also a man with shame. It must be a time of self-respect. Moreover, I have become friends with the Moh family and the farmers, but they are not the kind of men who would do something like this. Those sneaky guys I saw the other day… The Yin-Yang family leader? Those guys will join. But it’s probably true that Emperor Wu doesn’t just want to kill his senior.”
Cheonak looked at me blankly.
“why.”
“Why? The only person that Emperor Wu considers a friend is his senior, so that’s right. But there is definitely a justification for the religious leader to eliminate Samjae. Because it will become an obstacle. “What kind of person is the senior leader?”
Cheonak tilted his head, lost in thought, and then answered.
“He seems like a person trying to be perfect. Even if it means overdoing it.”
“Martial arts?”
“yes.”
“So it’s not perfect yet?”
“If it were perfect, I would already be dead. “You will die, and Lin Xiaobai will also die.”
After imagining various things, I raised my hand to express a certain state.
“This much… Is there just one step left for Samjae? “To the point of perfection in martial arts.”
Cheonak said with a slight smile.
“Munju, there is no perfection in martial arts. The three of us are already stronger than when we competed in the past. Let me express it exactly this way. If I were to deal with the cult leader of the past, I would be in a state where I could easily tear him to death. But he must have improved too. The same goes for Shingae. My skills have improved. The three of us are running for a long time, thinking about each other. “It’s absurd to say it’s perfect.”
I nodded.
Perhaps the reason the cult leader gave up on humans was to overcome this wall.
“Because it is a magic path, there will be no limitations on how to approach perfection.”
“It will be so.”
“What are all the metal pieces outside? “I was a little surprised when I saw it.”
Cheonak woke up after drinking.
“I drank too much. wake up “I’ll show you.”
I was just about to lose my mind, so I put down my drink and got up. When I went outside with Cheonak, I saw the eldest brother sitting cross-legged on the floor with his eyes closed.
I wondered if they were deliberately standing guard outside.
Cheonak walked across the training ground and stopped in front of the largest piece of metal. There were round pieces of iron stuck to both sides of the steel long spear.
“Oh my…is there such a thing as a weapon?”
Cheonak said to me as he pulled up a low bed to lie down on.
“Lie down and lift it up.”
“what?”
“A piece of metal.”
I glared at Cheonak for a moment. Am I being assassinated like this?
“A little scary?”
“If you have to do it, do it. “Before I get hit.”
Even when he wasn’t drunk, he was a man who couldn’t handle it, but now he couldn’t help it because the drunken Cheonak was glaring at him.
I lay down on the bedding.
Then Cheonak lifted up a huge double iron pole and brought it to my chest.
“Hold on.”
I grabbed the twin iron bars while drunk. While I was under the influence of alcohol, I felt like I was going to pass out while holding something so heavy. I couldn’t do that because I felt like I would die if I passed out.
When Cheonak withdrew his hands, the weight of the twin iron bars pressed down on both arms.
Cheonak said.
“Lower it to your chest and then raise it slowly.”
What on earth are you doing after a good drink?
I lowered and raised the twin iron bars to my chest using an external technique. Cheonak said with a smile.
“You’ve trained quite a bit. again.”
When I repeated it again, Cheonak said.
“What is your posture now?”
“The posture when competing in a doubles match.”
“If experts with the same skill level compete in a double battle, which one will win out?”
“Of course, he lacks external skills.”
Cheonak nodded.
“Lift it up. okay. get off. Raise it again slowly. “Down, up, down.”
“Let’s stop.”
Sweat was oozing out of my whole body, and the sweat smelled like alcohol. However, from above, Cheonak was looking down and smelling of alcohol.
“…Do you want to die?”
“Not really.”
“Get down and raise it slowly this time. When competing for strength, if you dominate the external attack, you have an advantage even if a variable occurs. Because you can decide whether to put your palms together or take them apart. Why do you practice external exercises? This is to handle the internal energy more freely. Raise it up slowly. “Get back down.”
I apologized to Cheonak while raising and lowering the twin iron poles.
“Sir, I apologize for my presumptuous words earlier.”
“Get down…get up.” Down… up. “Raise it more slowly.”
“I’m sorry. “Can’t you hear me?”
“get off.”
“My arms are shaking a little?”
“It’s a natural phenomenon. “I’ll upload it slowly this time and I’ll look at it.”
“I understand.”
I struggled to raise the twin iron bars with my trembling arms. Cheonak nodded.
“Still, it looks like you didn’t use any of your skills, so I’ll take a look. “Let’s just add one more.”
“….”
“Do you want to die?”
I lowered the twin iron bars. Cheonak brought his face closer and whispered.
“Raise it slowly before it smashes your head.”
A burst of energy spontaneously came out of my mouth. While I was screaming, I was sweating so much that I felt like I was sobering up.
Am I really alive?
Only then did Cheonak take away the Ssangcheol Jungbong. I took a deep breath and looked around, then turned my head and made eye contact with my eldest brother.
For the first time, my eldest brother gave me a pitiful look and spoke in a calm tone.
“…you’ve worked hard.”
I couldn’t speak so I just nodded.
