< Episode 23: Sihyeolgokju (4) >
Cheongryeong who sensed Mo Kyung-un’s intentions clicked his tongue inwardly.
Why are there all these guys?
This is the Lee family that has remained loyal to him across generations for over 100 years.
But watching that loyalty being snatched away like this made me angry.
I felt like I wanted to immediately break the sealed wooden doll jump out and hit the sentient being’s head with a stick.
But the anger didn’t last long.
‘What are you trying to do? ‘Rebirth.’
Rather I became curious about Mok Gyeong-un’s intentions.
He could have borrowed the power of the Lee family through himself but was there a need to snatch it away in this way?
At that time Mok Kyung-un opened his mouth.
“I knew I was him and he was me so why did you stay quiet?”
“that…”
At these words Sihyeolgokju Lee Ji-yeom paused for a moment.
I knew very well what the word possession meant.
Isn’t it literally like being possessed by a ghost?
‘His possessed body?’
So should we consider this guy Mo Kyung-un to be the owner of Wolmaek?
Although there were consulting magicians at the Cheonjihoe he was hesitant because he did not have much trust in such strange things.
Also I feel strangely uncomfortable.
Then Mok Gyeong-un said.
“Even though he saw the spirit himself he still doesn’t believe it?”
-The atmosphere is all different. Would you believe me if I suddenly lied and said I was possessed?
Cheongryeong clicked his tongue and intervened.
Mok Kyung-un smiled and said.
“I was sure that he would have continued his loyalty across generations so I am disappointed that he revealed this secret.”
“It’s not me it belongs to me…..”
“If I keep my promise will I be able to trust you?”
“What if you say that time?”
“Red flame sword method.”
“no way?”
Lee Ji-yeom’s eyes trembled.
That was because he remembered what his grandfather had said when he was learning the red-flame sword technique.
[Daeyeomgong (待炎功) originally created the fortune-telling system together with himself and Lee Hae-bi. He was trying to create a deep attack that best suited the red flame sword technique. However such a tragedy occurred before it could be completed.]
Likewise Mok Gyeong-un also remembered what Cheongryeong had said.
[At one time I made a pact with a person named Lee Hwa-moon who was the heir of the Lee family. We will complete the unfinished Daeyeomgong together.]
However that promise was not fulfilled while he was still alive.
It was done after death.
As her status as a vengeful spirit grew over many years she found her reason and began to realize one by one the parts of her that she had not realized during her lifetime.
One of them was the Daeyeomgong of the Jeokyeom Sword Technique.
Mok Gyeong-un said extending her hand to Lee Ji-yeom with a smile.
“I came back as a vengeful spirit with so much resentment but if the Lee family follows me once again I will tell you about Dae Yeom-gong’s completed fortune-telling which I only realized after death.”
‘Damn sentient beings!’
Cheongryeong grew irritated at Mo Kyung-un’s words.
She had already told him what was wrong with Gu-gyeol and what she needed to change.
An average person would forget this after hearing it once but
‘This kid must have memorized it right?’
Mok Gyeong-un’s memory exceeded common sense.
He was angry and wanted to see how they would persuade him without his help.
But it really came to pass that her loyalty was stolen.
‘Completed cloud structure….’
Lee Ji-yeom’s eyes trembled even more at Mok Gyeong-un’s words.
Three generations from her grandfather to herself tried to somehow complete Gugyeol but failed.
In fact this was difficult to complete in the first place.
This was because she could have lost her life because she had to bear the great risk of having to directly check the heat energy in her body by sending it to the acupuncture point.
[If it had been with him he might have completed it.]
‘Grandfather…’
[But you can do it.]
When she remembered her grandfather again her heart sank.
In response she got down on one knee pounding her chest feeling dizzy as she looked at Kyung-un’s face.
“I am not kneeling because of the completion of the precepts I belong to.”
“If you do it what is it for?”
“Because you have not forgotten the pact you made with my grandfather or with our family I would like to swear my oath of loyalty once again.”
“A promise…”
“How can anyone carelessly doubt you when you come back as a vengeful soul and try to fulfill the long-awaited wish of my grandfather and our family?”
-Park!
Then Lee Ji-yeom completely fell to the floor.
“Lee Ji-yeom the head of the Lee family and the owner of Sihyeolgok once again pledges allegiance to the master of Wolmaek. Please accept my bow!”
He showed his loyalty by hitting his forehead on the floor three times.
Mo Kyung-un looking down at this raised the corner of his mouth as if satisfied.
Then the voice of Cheongryeong rang in my ears.
-You crazy sentient being. If it’s not stealing loyalty what are you doing?
“…..”
-In the face of death it wasn’t like I was going to be dragging him around forever and since I was a previous disciple I was forced to take away the loyalty that I was supposed to inherit if I stayed still. Did you feel relieved?
He must have been quite angry.
This is my first time seeing a young spirit talk so much.
In fact regardless of resentment it would be strange to say that he is not angry because he stole the loyalty of a loyal subject who had waited for him for 100 years.
You probably think of yourself as trash.
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‘Well I understand your feelings but my goal is not to be swayed by the Blue Spirit.’
There is only one reason why Mok Kyung-un came here.
It is revenge on the person who killed his grandfather.
I came to find a person called Ghost Sword who might be related to him.
However when her young spirit comes to the forefront and moves her own old subordinates and wields that power it only flows in the direction she wants.
Mo Gyeong-un did not want the situation to be created that way.
‘It’s just incidental to me.’
Resolving Cheongryeong’s grudge was never a priority for him.
If it weren’t for her food spirit relationship she was also her vengeful spirit who tried to eat her.
It is said that because of her absolute relationship with Yeon she even formed a relationship with a priest but basically Mok Gyeong-un never trusted anyone.
Therefore there was no intention of giving the initiative to the young man.
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“Is this… the structure that your lord completed?”
Sihyeolgokju Lee Ji-yeom received the advice written by Mok Gyeong-un with trembling hands.
He was trying to complete the ritual for three generations and since it was one of his family’s long-held wishes he could not contain his excitement.
An exclamation flowed from Lee Ji-yeom’s mouth as he read the phrase.
“ah!”
How was he able to approach the technique of fortune telling in this way?
Lee Ji-yeom said as if he was surprised.
“You are truly amazing. I had never thought of turning the Yeolyangjigi straight from Gyeyou to Yangjiang. However if this is done I think I will be able to control the energy entering the 9th star. “I can’t believe you came up with this so easily.”
-Easy to devise. I realized it only after I died and my ghost eyes opened.
The spirit grunted in an angry voice as if it had not yet resolved itself.
In the first place deep-gong like Dae-yeom-gong which can directly handle the heat energy was so risky that it could only be completed through numerous trials and errors and sacrifices.
In a way from Lee Ji-yeom’s perspective it was like meeting Giyeon.
Lee Ji-yeom who was reading the sentence like that frowned.
Then I spoke carefully to Mok Gyeong-un.
“Master Haonde. “It looks like you didn’t write down all the details.”
“that’s right.”
“yes?”
“I only wrote half of it down.”
Eiji Yeom was about to ask why he did that but then he shut his mouth.
As he looked at Mok Gyeong-un’s smiling face he could guess what his intention was.
“…Did you do that on purpose?”
“that’s right.”
“Why are you like that…..”
“Even though we have completed the structure we need to be careful. “I think the Lord of the Gok might get angry again if he is in too much of a hurry.”
“ah…”
Lee Ji-yeom let out a small exclamation at Mok Gyeong-un’s words.
Was it because he was concerned that trying to learn the completed gugyeol too hard would lead to a situation where he would be eaten by the yeolyangjigi?
I guess I misunderstood.
He thought that maybe it was because he didn’t fully trust himself yet.
Cheongnyeong snorted at her.
-Even though they took the oath of loyalty I still can’t quite believe it.
She knew Mokgyun well.
She was sure that the reason she didn’t tell him everything was because she was worried about Yeom.
‘yes. Correct answer.’
Of course that was correct.
Mok Gyeong-un did not completely trust Lee Ji-yeom even though he had sworn loyalty.
Therefore only moderate amounts of food were provided.
-Be moderately suspicious. I can assure you. You can trust Iga.
Mok Kyung-un smiled faintly at her words.
Her trust in her former loyalists was her freedom.
But she wasn’t herself.
She intended to keep her guard up to some extent until she was sure.
It was then that Yeom put a piece of paper with the phrase written on it in her arms and opened her mouth.
“Haonde. My lord. “If it’s not rude would you mind if I dare to ask what happened in Hoeryeongdaejeon that day a hundred years ago?”
‘Hoeryeong Daejeon?’
What is that?
Mo Gyeong-un’s eyes narrowed at his question.
He didn’t know that Joo Ji-yeom would suddenly ask about things about Cheongryeong that he didn’t know about.
At this the young man spoke in a mocking voice.
-Try well. I don’t know anything else but I will never help you or teach you anything related to Iga.
Since she had stolen Lee Ga’s loyalty she had no intention of giving away information.
She was telling me to make it through this difficult time properly.
‘Hoeryeong Daejeon.’
It was for her a memory she would never forget.
Her memory became her foot and became her vengeful spirit.
In the first place she didn’t plan on telling this guy right away but she thought it was good.
That was when she was doing that.
Mok Gyeong-un casually opened her mouth.
“Do you want to know that?”
Cheongnyeong was shocked by this.
What do you want to know when you don’t know anything?
But Lee Ji-yeom answered.
“Yes. “No my grandfather trusted his lord to the end but due to the incident of that day he was demoted from king to Gokju and his family was expelled from the castle and he has been imprisoned here in Sihyeolgok for three generations.”
‘Ahhhh.’
Cheongnyeong felt bitter at Lee Ji-yeom’s words.
The Li family is the family that founded the Cheonjihoe but they humiliate us like this.
How far did he intend to humiliate himself and ruin the Heaven and Earth Association?
As expected I could never forgive that guy.
At that time Mok Kyung-un spoke.
“How does this Gokju know what happened in Hoeryeong Daejeon that day? “I wonder how you or the Society knows.”
‘ha!?’
Cheongryeong clicked his tongue in response to Mok Gyeong-un’s question.
Anyway this guy finds a breakthrough in some way.
He actually didn’t expect that he would ask the question this way.
No he doesn’t find it difficult to lie at all in the first place so is he doing this because he can somehow make things up?
‘You really are a sentient being…’
It seemed absurd but Gokju Lee Ji-yeom spoke carefully.
“…I’m sorry but can I just tell you this?”
“are you okay. “You have to tell it the truth so I can tell you what happened in Hoeryeong Daejeon that day.”
Mok Kyung-un said he didn’t care.
At the same time he glanced at the wooden doll in his arms and twitched his lips.
‘Why don’t you just give me advice?’
Then there would not have been anything to be induced like this.
However does this allow us to find out what Cheongryeong is related to the Heaven and Earth Association and what secrets it holds?
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