Episode 376
Pyowol left the Hwayeong Guest Cup.
Hong Yu-sin left first, saying that he was uneasy about how the situation in the world was going, and said that he would come running whenever Sogyeoksan was called.
Now everyone has left and only one man remains by his side.
It was Yoo Soo-hwan, a man with impressive deep and clear eyes.
The reason Yoo Soo-hwan hadn’t left Pyo-wol’s side was simple. Because I wasn’t feeling well.
Even before he was imprisoned in the prison of fire, his body was thoroughly ruined.
Dokgohwang ruined it.
It was so badly damaged that even after a month of recuperation, it was not easily recovered.
In order to return Yoo Soo-hwan’s body to normal, he had to find a doctor who reached the level of God and receive treatment.
Fortunately, Yoo Soo-hwan said he knew such a member. However, it was quite far away, so I had to move after recovering enough stamina.
Until then, I decided to stay with Pyowol.
Yoo Soo-hwan narrowed his eyes and looked up at the sky.
Strong sunlight was beating down on the clear sky.
I was deeply moved to see the sky again, which I thought I would never see. So, Yoo Soo-hwan looked at the sky for a long time.
Pyo-wol understood Yoo Soo-hwan’s feelings. Because he was like that at first. However, I couldn’t wait forever for Yoo Soo-hwan.
“Go now.”
“ah! yes I guess I took too long. sorry.”
Yoo Soo-hwan smiled slightly and moved along the Pyowol.
Although his body was so damaged that he could not perform martial arts, his actions had dignity and composure.
He asked while walking side by side with the moon.
“But where are we going now?”
“Poyang Lake!”
“Why are you there?”
“My horse is there.”
“ah! Is that so? words are important haha!”
Whether it was because he was such a chatty person or because he couldn’t have a proper conversation while he was imprisoned in the prison of fire, he was talkative. However, the conversation continued so naturally that I didn’t feel bad.
The tone of voice has also changed. Unlike when we first met, he treated Pyowol with respect and implicitly treated him as a superior.
After leaving the inn, the two arrived at the dock of Eungdam around the afternoon. However, the atmosphere at the marina was somehow unusual. There were traces of broken houses and equipment everywhere.
Yoo Soo-hwan asked a passer-by.
“Has something happened here? It is broken everywhere.”
“Looking at you asking that, it must be someone from around here.”
“yes! It’s my first time coming here.”
“A month ago? No, there was a big fight here before that.”
“A fight?”
“okay! Some young warriors fought with bloodied warriors. Their fight was so fierce that this place was completely broken.”
The old man who answered shook his head as if he was terrified even thinking about it again.
Pyowol asked the old man.
“So what are the results?”
“In the end, the young warriors won. But the woman screamed as if she had suffered a minor injury.”
“What happened after that?”
“What’s going on? He returned by boat. How the hell is the world going to be like that in broad daylight?”
The old man clicked his tongue and walked away.
Pyo-wol realized that the woman the old man spoke of was Yeom Hee-soo. It was because Yeom Hee-soo was the only woman in Namgung-wol’s party.
If Yeom Hee-soo had been injured, Namgung-wol and Yong Ha-sang would not have been able to stay here any longer.
The person who used them as bait was Pyowol.
I heard that Yeom Hee-soo was injured, but I didn’t feel any guilt. It was because they secretly followed.
Yoo Soo-hwan asked Pyo-wol.
“Are these people you know?”
“These are the people who followed me.”
Pyowol spoke honestly about them.
Yoo Soo-hwan, who heard all the stories, burst out laughing.
“Puhaha! You are amazing. To use Kang Ho’s equipment as mere bait.”
On the subject that he himself was called a gija in Gangho, Yoo Soo-hwan laughed at those who were used by Pyo-wol.
In that respect, Yoo Soo-hwan was very unique.
He didn’t have any sense of the chosen people that the existing strong players had. It’s just that they aren’t chosen just because they’re talented.
“I was just lucky. I was lucky enough to be born into a good shaman family or accepted as a disciple of a good munpa. Of course, a movie like this wouldn’t have been possible without their talent, but luck is obviously the most important factor anyway. I don’t think they are the chosen ones just because they are a little luckier than others.”
Even when he was at Mugeomryeon, Yu Su-hwan did not think of himself as a great person.
He deserved to have the ambition to become a martial arts master, but he wanted to live freely without such ambition. Therefore, if possible, I tried to stay away from the struggle between the death penalty. So I closed my ears and deliberately kept my distance.
Because of that, he was stabbed in the back of the head by Dokgo Hwang because he couldn’t grasp the situation properly, but even now, that thought has not changed.
Pyowol asked him.
“What are you going to do when you get your martial arts back?”
“Shouldn’t we have a decision with Hwangi?”
“Dokgo Hwang?”
“yes! I don’t have much greed for martial arts practice, but I still can’t stand still after being sentenced to death and being treated so harshly by the priest.”
Pyowol nodded.
Whatever the reason, it was Kang-ho’s physiology to pay back as much as he suffered.
It was the world’s mind to look at you as a funny person, rather than being a good person if you stayed still after being hurt.
To live as a soldier in Gangho, he had to never look funny.
No matter what life Yoo Su-hwan chooses from now on, the fact that he was victimized by the priest will follow him like a stigma.
It was Yoo Soo-hwan’s natural right to erase the bad stigma.
No one could intervene.
“In that case, I need to recover martial arts first, but until then, I will cling to Pyo Daehyeop. I believe that you will not ruthlessly cast me out for losing martial arts. Whooping!”
Yoo Soo-hwan grinned with an expression that didn’t hate him.
Pyo-wol only glanced at Yoo Soo-hwan, but did not say anything.
Fortunately, a large ship came into the dock in the afternoon.
It was a merchant ship that came down from the upper reaches of the river. Merchant ships stopped at the docks in the middle to pick up people. The wages of the guests who rode like that were the captain and crew’s share.
The two sat down on a large load on the deck.
A strong wind blew and gently brushed their hair.
The ship’s guests were not just two people. The guests who were picked up in the middle were sitting and chatting with each other between the luggage.
“Wouldn’t it be too dangerous to go to Poyang Lake now?”
“I like that too, can’t I help it? I can’t come and notify you that I can’t do the deal.”
“Phew! I will be thrilled.”
“The situation is really dire. After the deal at Poyang Lake this time, I will stop my activities for the time being and keep an eye on the world situation.”
“Me too. How will you go up in such an uneasy atmosphere? If you get caught up in the fight of the warriors by mistake, you will be ruined.”
“Please, I just hope that this trip to the top can be completed safely.”
The conversations of merchants overheard were unusual.
Pyowol frowned slightly.
Poyang Lake was his destination now.
It was the place where the top of the jewon was located, and there were also equipments such as Namgungwol.
There, they formed the Anti-Geumcheonhoe and united as one.
There was no group or person that could pose a threat to them.
That was the situation at Lake Poyang that Pyo-wol knew.
‘Did the circumstances change?’
It was clear that something had changed in the month that he had been away.
At that time, Yoo Soo-hwan naturally intervened in the merchants’ conversation.
“Has there been a flood in Lake Poyang? Why are you so dead? Just by looking at their faces, they look like people who have lived all over the world. Hehe!”
“Who are you?”
“It’s the first time I’ve been to Poyang Lake, but the conversation between the two seems unusual, so I came here to get some information.”
“Mmm!”
“Ouch! I am not a suspicious person. This is also meant to be, so let’s have a drink together.”
Yoo Soo-hwan took out a bottle from his luggage and shook it.
It was prepared in advance from Hwayeong Gaekjan.
It was Yoo Soo-hwan, who had a sad impression and deep, clear eyes. He was even smiling brightly, unlike someone who had suffered for months.
The vigilance of the merchants disappeared with laughter that made even the viewer feel good.
One merchant shuddered.
“Drinking in broad daylight?”
“How are you? You don’t have anything to do on the ship anyway, do you?”
“That’s right.”
“Then what are you worried about? Have a drink.”
Yoo Soo-hwan generously filled the merchant with a full glass of wine and held it out. The merchant, who was looking at a wooden goblet full of alcohol, closed his eyes and said.
“Ah! I don’t know.”
He drank at once.
That was the beginning.
The merchants drank and drank, and Yoo Soo-hwan naturally continued the conversation.
Pyo-wol saw Yoo Soo-hwan talking freely with merchants and thought he was a natural born person.
He was the second disciple of Yeonju, a super-giant force called Mugeomryeon.
He may have had a sense of superiority and arrogance that he was different from others, but Yoo Soo-hwan did not feel that kind of atmosphere at all.
Even the witty merchants thought Yoo Soo-hwan was just a curious person, and they couldn’t even guess that he was an unmanned man.
Such affinity is not something that can be learned. Only a naturally gifted person could look like that.
Pyowol was dead, and it was something he could not do even after waking up.
Pyo-wol waited for Yoo Soo-hwan to return with the result rather than interrupting and hitting the candle.
It was a while after Yoo Soo-hwan returned.
His face was stained red with drunkenness. The smell of alcohol wafted from his mouth, as if he had been drinking quite a bit.
Yoo Soo-hwan sat down beside Pyo-wol and asked.
“Do you know Jang Ho-yeon?”
“Jang Ho-yeon? Woogeom Lodge?”
“yes! After Pyo Dae-hyeop left, he seems to have led the elite into Poyang Lake.”
“so?”
“It looks like he was asking about Pyo Daehyeop’s whereabouts.”
Pyowol closed her eyes.
The situation was eye-opening.
Jamsan, Anhui Province, where the cattle ranch is located, is not far from Poyang Lake.
It wouldn’t have been difficult to find out that Pyowol was staying at Poyang Lake.
Pyo-wol is the enemy who killed Jang Ho-yeon’s younger brother.
Although they had different stomachs and no affection, they were younger brothers who shared the same bloodline. There was enough reason to take revenge.
Above all, they haven’t given up on fear yet.
It was worth tracking Pyowol and entering Lake Poyang.
Yoo Soo-hwan’s words continued.
“Then, it seems that there was a conflict with Namgungwol Sohyeop and the others. They don’t even know why they fought. The problem is that their clashes go beyond the normal conflict between the characters.”
“Looks like there are a lot of victims.”
“That’s right. The subordinates that Jang Ho-yeon brought were also seriously damaged, and it seems that many were also injured on the side of Namgung Sohyeop.”
If it was a simple collision, it would have ended there.
If Jang Ho-yeon is the owner of the Woogeom Lodge, Namgung-wol has thousands of times on his back.
They knew very well that the clash of giant powers would only lead to mutual destruction. That’s why I tried to end it with an individual problem.
But this time it was different.
For some reason, Jang Ho-yeon went wild and expanded the problem.
Among the literary factions of Gangseoseong, he invited the literary faction of Ugeom Lodge to Poyangho Lake.
It wasn’t Namgung-wol who would be left alone.
Namgungwol also asked for help from the munpa related to the thousands of times, and they clashed at Lake Poyang.
There were many casualties on both sides, and the merchants said that Poyang Lake became a battlefield.
“The question is, why did they clash so much? Even the merchants didn’t seem to know why.”
“I think I know.”
“yes? What do you mean?”
“This is not a fight between Jang Ho-yeon and Namgung-wol. It’s not even thousands of battles with the cattle ranch.”
“then?”
“It’s a fight between the Golden Age and the Anti-Golden Millennium.”
“Half a thousand times?”
Yoo Soo-hwan made a puzzled expression.
I knew about Geumcheonhoe, but it was the first time I had heard about BanGeumcheonhoe.
“It’s a group formed by Namgungwol, Yonghasang, and Yeom Heesu after meeting at Lake Poyang. It was made with the intention of checking the Jincheonhoe, which was dominated by Zhang Wu-geuk.”
“If so, Jang Ho-yeon must have noticed the existence of Ban Geum-cheon in the process of asking about Pyo Dae-hyeop’s whereabouts.”
“I guess so.”
“From Jang Ho-yeon’s point of view, anti-golden events would never have been tolerated. After all, a collision must have been inevitable.”
The Geumcheonhoe was not just a friendly gathering.
All of the warriors in the Jincheonhoe were equipment to lead the next generation. Zhang Mu-geuk’s insistence on taking control of the Jincheonhoe must have been a preparatory step to becoming the absolute leader of the next generation.
In such a situation, the appearance of the Anti-Geumcheonhoe would not have been a pleasant thing.
From the perspective of the Geumcheonhoe, it was necessary to dismantle the Anti-Geumcheonhoe at any cost.
It wasn’t just a dispute between the materials.
The battle for supremacy of the next generation is taking place in Poyang Lake.
