Heavenly Inquisition Sword Chapter 1440

1440 times. There is no room for anything else in life, which is as short as lightning.

Yeonjeokha who left Yeonam’s house before dawn did not go to the Gucheonhyeonnyeo shrine.

He went out into the rather desolate winter fields.

Because his vision was dark he quickly lost his bearings but he didn’t care.

This is because for him who had nowhere to go this world was the same as anywhere.

He walked until the sun rose above his head and stopped in front of an old shrine.

The interior was visible through a half-off wooden door as if it had not been maintained at all.

An old beggar was poking a dying campfire with a stick.

At that moment the beggar feeling loved turned his head and made eye contact with his student.

But the old beggar turned his head with an indifferent expression.

Yeonjeokha who was happy to see someone he hadn’t seen in half a day carefully opened the door and went inside.

An old beggar asked as he passed by.

“Are you from around here?”

“no.”

“When you come in don’t just stand around and sit down. “When I say this it seems like my house but actually I was just passing by.”

I squatted down opposite the old beggar who was crying.

“Tsk tsk! So that the head of the company can’t be bold…. Sit comfortably. “Because they don’t eat it.”

“Let’s not worry about whether someone squats or lies down in a situation where we don’t know each other. “But is it a beggar chicken that is rolling in the fire?”

“It’s quite nice to see that you recognize it right away. That’s right. Have you ever had it before?”

“I think it’s happened a couple of times.”

“Well two times is two times but what is two times? The problem with scholars is that they are always vague. “It doesn’t taste as crispy.”

“It’s been so long that my memory is vague. “I guess the old man studied writing when he was young?”

“I just had a taste.”

Yeon Jeok-ha’s eyes naturally turned to the old beggar’s waist.

A three-grained knot was visible.

If it is Samgyeol it is located around Buntaju.

Considering the age of the gray-haired old man his position was quite low.

“I guess you are an open person?”

“He looks like a scholar but I don’t think he knows the rules of martial arts and this one….”

Banghyeon (房县) Buntaju Gu Ji Geolsik Guan Sanyue looked at Xu Sheng with ambiguous eyes.

The way he walks around is clearly that of an old school student but he gives off an atmosphere that makes it difficult to treat him carelessly.

In this case he is likely to be from a noble family or a disciple of a retired person.

Before I could find out the situation the student spoke first.

“As I was wandering around I did some ear searching. “But you look a little too old to be doing the trifecta don’t you?”

“It happened because I stood in line wrong.”

“Do beggars also stand in line?”

“Uh-huh! I don’t know. Do you think beggars are not people? Even if it’s just the two of us there’s someone who wants to teach us.”

“It’s amazing. “Why don’t you stand in line?”

“What is it with Buntaju that you say such things? “Then why are you wandering around in such a good time?”

“I happened to be like that too. When are you going to eat that?”

Yeon Jeok-ha slowly changed his stance.

Gwansan Wol one of the presbyteries had a story he couldn’t tell the student so he just guessed it and didn’t ask any more questions.

“If you take it out now it will fit perfectly.”

Eventually Guan Sanyue used a tree branch to pull out a lump of mud from the pile of charcoal.

The two waited in silence for the heated mud to cool.

A strange silence filled the Tojishinmyo.

Still no one spoke first.

Guan Sanyue who was tapping a lump of mud with a branch spoke as she passed by.

“I feel like there’s nothing special about life. “If you eat well sleep well and eat well wouldn’t that be a successful life?”

“It was said that there was someone willing to teach even if it was just the two of us so it was the old man’s story.”

Guan Sanwol shook her head as if defeated by the student’s quick rebuttal.

Even though he knows that he is a fan of openness he treats him like nothing!

This man is definitely not ordinary.

“This is also fate so let’s just say it out loud. “I am Gwansanwol Gujigeolsik (九指乞食) the head of Banghyeon.”

When Xu Sheng looked up Guan Sanyue showed one palm – without a thumb – wide open.

“It’s a nickname given to me because I’m fucking with nine fingers. This was cut while gambling. “It was because of that damn gambling that I a member of the Tattoo family became committed to openness.”

When Guan Sanyue first met Xu Sheng he found it difficult and he did not understand him.

He also spoke informally to middle-aged and old people but strangely this did not go down well with the students.

“It’s called Yeonnam Stream.”

“Namcheon… It’s a name that truly makes your heart feel majestic.”

Yeonjeokha chuckled.

When the mud cooled Guan Sanyue peeled off the hardened mud with his fingers.

Yeonjeokha tilted his head when he saw the feather coming out of the mud.

“Are you a beggar chicken?”

“To be exact it’s a beggar pheasant. Where are the chickens here? “Pheasant instead of chicken.”

Guan Sanyue tore a piece of meat and handed it to Xu Sheng.

Without hesitation I ate the flounder.

“It’s dull. “I guess there was nothing to season?”

“omg! Would you live as a beggar if you carried salt with you? “I guess he must have come from a noble family seeing that he showed great appetite even while eating from a beggar.”

“I am not from a noble family but I am somewhat precious.”

At the strange answer Guan Sanyue stopped eating pheasant meat and glanced at Xu Sheng.

But he didn’t bother with that.

In fact it was because of that that he couldn’t readily talk to him.

“How could your precious body end up in a place like this?”

“A place like this? “What’s it like here?”

“It’s desolate cold and there’s nothing to eat… It’s a place no wanderer would visit.”

“But Lord Bunta why are you in such a difficult place? Even so since I am just passing by.”

“Oh I said it was a passing road….”

Guan Sanyue who was blaming himself for speaking nonsense continued his words.

“I was exhausted both mentally and physically and had some alone time here.”

“Oh you’re in the wrong line.”

“That’s right. “I spent 30 years in Banghyeon and then they suddenly tell me to go to Sibeonsi.”

“But isn’t it better if you say 10 words?”

“If you go to Sibun City without any position at this age… won’t you have to beg until you die?”

“ah….”

After listening to it I felt like I could understand why Guan Sanyue was so sad.

It seems painful for a person who lived with a snake’s head to live with a dragon’s tail.

“But a little while ago I thought ‘There’s nothing special about life. Didn’t you say ‘If you eat well sleep well and eat well isn’t that a successful life?’”

“That’s what I said because that person had a dull face. What is the difference between humans and dogs and pigs as long as they eat sleep and swaddle? “Isn’t that right?”

Yeonjeokha asked back with a puzzled look on his face.

“So you said that to others but the old man can’t live like that?”

“Don’t misunderstand. “I just said that to comfort you.”

“Did my face look like it needed comforting?”

“The look in his eyes was like that of a person who had lived all over the world. “It seemed like he had no regrets in this world.”

I looked at Guan Sanwol with new eyes.

I thought he was just a worldly beggar but he had quite a keen eye for seeing.

Is that what life is like?

“Do you think there is anything permanent in this world?”

“of course.”

“Isn’t that too easy to answer?”

“If you live as long as I did you will naturally find out.”

At the words of Guan Sanwol who was about the same age as his grandson Yeonjeokha snorted inwardly.

“Is love between a man and a woman everlasting?”

“Of course. “There is a saying ‘100 years of age.’”

“What if a hundred years pass?”

“When that time comes only white bones will remain… We must acknowledge that it is eternal.”

“What if you live for 1000000 years without growing old or dying? “Can we still say that love lasts forever?”

“That’s just talking nonsense. “Is there anyone who lives for 1000000 years?”

“Don’t immortals live forever?”

“Shin Seon is not a person. Anything written down is precious. Others envy Shinseon but I don’t think so. For example just because a person’s lifespan is short doesn’t mean they only suffer losses. “I am a person who only lives for a short time (60 years) so I can enjoy eternity.”

“….”

For a moment I was speechless.

This old beggar truly understood the essence of his suffering.

“You asked about love between a man and a woman. “If you look at the fact that it can be said to last forever…”

“Because human lifespan is short.”

“That’s right. Since we die while loving passionately we can only say that it will last forever right? “There is no room for anything else in a life as short as lightning.”

“okay. I completely understand.”

Yeon Jeok-ha was now able to understand that her daughter had given up on the capital.

She refused to become a immortal so that her daughter could embrace her eternity.

There is something special about humans’ short lifespan that cannot be achieved through eternal life.

Eternal love is one of them.

After seeing so many births old age illness and death I can’t believe I’m finally realizing it!

“But that doesn’t mean that a immortal’s love isn’t eternal. How would I know if I am not a hermit? You never know. “There might be a hermit somewhere who loves with utmost purity.”

“Will there be?”

“In Buddhism doesn’t it say ‘There is eternity in a moment and there is a moment in eternity [刹那生滅]?’ It is not impossible if you consider eons of time as just a moment. Of course you have to love someone that much.”

“But what if we live in different worlds and can never meet again?”

“You sound like a person from the Qi Dynasty who was worried that the sky would fall. Don’t get too caught up in your own imagination. “I like everything in moderation.”

After finishing speaking Guan Sanyue left the room and stood up.

It’s okay to say something nice once or twice but if you keep saying the same thing over and over again you’ll get sick of it.

“A store?”

“I’m going back to Bunta when the sun is up. “Because when the sun goes down I just get tired.”

“It doesn’t go far.”

“Hehe. He’s a nice guy. When you come to Sibeon City in the future come see me. “At that time I will treat you like a proper beggar chicken.”

Guan Sanyue left without looking back.

At the spot where she was left alone she recited the Taesang Jeongil Kanglim Sinju (太上正一降臨神呪) until the sun set.

The sunset dyed the fields and Toji Shrine red.

I walked outside drawn by the spectacle created by Mother Nature.

As the sunset reached its peak I heard the sound of a fire burning behind me.

Yeon Jeok-ha slowly turned around.

It was as if the fire of the sunset had reached the Tojishinmyo.

It was a phenomenon I had been looking forward to but I looked at the flames with a vague expression.

Is it because Namgung-yeon took the top spot?

Just thinking about the wise woman of nine heavens made my heart beat.

She thought it would be okay now but now that she thinks about reuniting with the Nine Heavenly Wise Woman she suddenly feels like a fog has formed in her head.

He muttered to himself ‘Nangungyeon is just one of the past lives of the wise woman of Nine Heavens’ and she tried to calm down her excitement.

After a while Yeon Jeok-ha succeeded in controlling his shaking heart and slowly entered the Tojishinmyo.

The inside of Tojishinmyo was covered with white fog as if it were the top of a mountain.

Amidst the swirling fog the Nine Heavenly Wise Woman spoke with an indifferent face.

“Your wind has reached me. “Is there something you want?”