Episode 366.
The way forward (1)
It was the fifth day after receiving treatment when Yeon Ho-jeong came to his senses.
“Keueuung.”
“Are you coming to your senses?”
Yeon Ho-jeong, who stood up with his head up, frowned and asked.
“here is?”
“It’s my room.”
At Ki Woo-hee’s words, Yeon Ho-jeong looked around.
The room was filled with all kinds of medicinal herbs and various documents.
This is a room that is not even an office. It made me wonder how one could sleep in a place like this.
“How long has it been?”
“Five days have passed.”
Yeon Ho-jeong sighed.
“You caused a nuisance.”
“Don’t say that. “It is natural for a doctor to take care of patients.”
“Couldn’t you have just thrown it in my room? “I don’t think I could sleep well.”
Ki Woo-hee smiled.
“We know the details of the patient in detail, but no one can guarantee what will happen to the patient who suddenly collapses. “It would be much better to leave it at my place and check its condition.”
“thank you.”
“you’re welcome.”
Yeon Ho-jeong rubbed his stomach.
“It’s been five days and you still feel light? “Even if I’m a little hungry.”
“Drink water first. “The water was boiled a little while ago, so it’s lukewarm so it won’t put a strain on your body.”
Yeon Ho-jeong gulped down the water in the bowl Ki Woo-hee handed her and exhaled deeply. I definitely felt like my life had become much more comfortable with the water coming in.
Ki Woo-hee said.
“I have been very tired. “You probably didn’t even know that, right?”
“I didn’t know.”
“You look like Commander Yeon.”
“I’m not disciplined yet either. “I’m so embarrassed that I fainted just because I was a little tired.”
Ki Woo-hee sighed.
“Don’t look down on fatigue. Fatigue is the root of all diseases. If you neglect management, you may develop a serious illness in the future. “It doesn’t distinguish between ordinary people and martial people.”
“Heed the advice.”
Yeon Ho-jeong contemplated his inner self.
“Hmm, did you say five days? Internal injuries recover much faster than expected?”
“So, Commander Yeon is Ganggol. Even with the various techniques that the commander has trained, it is virtually impossible to achieve this level of recovery. “This rapid recovery was possible because the density of vitality itself increased through extreme training.”
“Of course, we can’t ignore the gratitude of the congressman who stood by us, right?”
Ki Woo-hee just smiled.
Yeon Ho-jeong also smiled and stood up.
“Is there anything else I need to worry about?”
“I would like to make you some decoction, but Commander Yeon’s personality is such that he won’t take it on time.”
“I enjoyed it. Of course, if you really feel like you’re going to die, you have to eat it.”
“I woke up with all my strength, so as long as I take good care of my body, there won’t be any major problems. “I just hope that from now on, you will work hard to manage your fatigue even if you are busy.”
“okay.”
Yeon Ho-jeong patted Ki Woo-hee on the shoulder and headed toward the door.
Ki Woo-hee, who was quietly watching his back, suddenly asked.
“It’s a Shinhwa religion, right?”
Yeon Ho-jeong paused for a moment.
“that’s right.”
Ki Woo-hee’s eyes wavered.
“Is there anything else you want to ask me?”
“I told you everything, right? “About those guys.”
“Of course, but…”
Yeon Ho-jeong glanced at Ki Woo-hee.
“Rep. Ki.”
“…yes.”
“For your own sake, you broke ties with the Shinhwa Church and joined the Murim Alliance. There were many complicated events, but in the end, you made a clear choice to follow your own path. “Am I right?”
“that’s right.”
“You may have been a bit harsh in the previous few meetings, but at least from what I can see, you don’t have a knack for lying. And one of the many reasons why you settled into the Murim Alliance is probably because of me.”
It was true. Although her temperament was a bit rough, Ki Woo-hee saw innocence in Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes.
Treating himself harshly, brutally killing the master of the Shinhwa religion, and keeping the head of the Moyong family in check were all for the sake of peace. At least Yeon Ho-jeong himself thought so, and Ki Woo-hee also knew it.
In other words, Yeon Ho-jeong could be seen as a person who had a great influence on Ki Woo-hee’s judgment.
“You made your choice, so you have to take responsibility for it. However, Rep. Ki trusts me. In that case, I also believe in Rep. Ki.”
“…yes.”
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled.
“Goes. Let’s have lunch or something tomorrow. “You must have suffered because of me, but I will buy you something delicious.”
* * *
The place where Yeon Ho-jeong headed after leaving Ki Woo-hee’s residence was unexpectedly an open space in the forest of Murimmaeng.
A place where many people danced in the past. This place, known only to those in the know, was quiet again today.
Yeon Ho-jeong sat cross-legged in the center of the vacant lot.
When I woke up five days later, I was hungry and tired. In times like this, the best thing to do is to take in the nutrients that I haven’t been able to get and take a nap, but I decided to put that on the back burner for a while.
‘Whoa.’
He took a deep breath and focused his mind on the Yeongasindan.
Ugh. Ugh.
The Yeonga Shindan, which was firmly fixed with tremendous density, trembled softly at the call of its owner.
‘It’s gotten smaller.’
It was evidence that the true energy released in the previous battle had not yet fully recovered. At the same time, I was constantly channeling my energy throughout my body to heal my internal injuries, so I felt like I needed to pay attention to my energy for 10 days at the most.
Yeonhojeong operated Byeoknajingyeol.
Whoa!
A dark blue energy surged through me, stabilizing my mind and body.
Byeoknajingyeol was always like that. It keeps the body and true energy stable, and as the spirit and energy become stable, the mind also becomes at ease.
With the beginning of luck, there was no martial arts skill better than Byeok Na Jin-gyeol. Furthermore, Byeokra Jingyeol used the martial arts energy of Byeokla permeated within Yeongasindan, so the movements of Yeongasindan were also activated.
Yeon Ho-jeong, who had been concentrating on stabilizing his mind, energy, and body for a long time, used Yongpo Shingong.
Hahaha!
The change was clear.
The blue essence that seemed to purify one’s mind just by looking at it disappeared, and in its place was a wildly wavering green essence.
A deep green light, which was significantly different from the green color of the blue dragon flag, enveloped Yeonhojeong’s entire body. It was a very deep green color, but in some ways it was reminiscent of a forest.
Although the nature is different, the root is the same. There is no difference between Byeokna Jingyeol and Yongpo Shingong in that they process and use the energy of Mother Nature in an extremely pure manner.
‘thank god. The energy of the two gods was not disturbed.’
Before he collapsed, he constantly recalled his battle with Beonjak.
In fact, there is no need to do that once you reach Yeonhojeong level. To be precise, for Yeon Ho-jeong, the Emperor of Darkness, not Yeon Ho-jeong, the Commander of the Byeoksan Lake, although the martial arts of prosperity are unique, there is nothing significant to learn from them.
However, Yeon Ho-jeong pondered over each and every one of his martial arts feats. Even while fainting, I looked into his martial arts skills while dreaming.
There is one reason.
‘I not only avoided his martial arts attack, I even counterattacked.’
The Four Gods Dance is a world-class martial art.
They are martial arts specializing in attack, defense, evasion, counterattack, and thorough killing, and although they have a specific form, they are so free that they can be applied in any way.
That is the reason why it was able to be used well not only as a weapon technique but also as a boxing technique. And that was also the reason for vertically increasing the difficulty of Sasinmu.
A martial art that has a clear path but can be transformed at any time depending on the situation.
In other words, the prerequisite is to train yourself to the ten levels of other martial arts skills. Other martial arts begin with learning the basics, but Sasinmu begins with perfecting the form.
The completed form is solved according to the situation with creativity.
This was the reason why no genius in the world could bring out the power of Sasinmu to its limit without experience. This is because the more you experience various situations, the more creativity increases and the usability of Sasinmu is maximized.
Also, that was the reason why Sasinmu was said to be a battlefield martial art. This is because only by experiencing blood and death can one hone the use of true energy and herbivory.
Yeon Ho-jeong was a master of Sasinmu.
After summoning all the Four Gods and mastering the Four Gods perfectly, he jumped into the Black Sword Murim and endured countless battles. And all those fights made him grow explosively.
However, unexpectedly, in the fight against Beonjak, Yeonhojeong did not benefit greatly from Sasinmu.
Nevertheless, he was able to not only avoid all of Bunjak’s attacks, but even launch a counterattack.
how?
“Look at your weaknesses…”
Yeon Ho-jeong recalled Ok Cheong’s words.
‘It’s a talent. ‘You instinctively see through weaknesses, don’t you?’
‘I know that the commander’s martial skills are still lacking compared to the two of you. Nevertheless, he attacked the weak points of the formation and broke it down step by step.’
Eyes that detect weaknesses.
In fact, it wasn’t something that could be called talent. Yeon Ho-jeong trained Sasinmu, which is considered the best in martial arts in terms of form, and walked the battlefield with that Sasinmu for decades.
If you have enough experience in combat to be considered a master, you will be able to dig into your opponent’s weaknesses in any situation. If you don’t have a weakness, you can create it and dig into it persistently to take down your opponent.
In other words, identifying the enemy’s weaknesses is not an area of innate talent, but an area of acquired effort and experience.
Yeon Ho-jeong thought so and was sure of it.
But what was it like when fighting the Bunjak?
‘I just saw Beonjak’s martial arts skills, figured out his weakness, and counterattacked. Sasinmu didn’t even use a single herb food.’
That can happen to the weak. The weaknesses of the weak will be visible countless times in the eyes of the relatively strong.
However, it is difficult to do so with someone stronger than you. No, it can’t be done. It is nonsense to find weaknesses in a situation where it is difficult to receive the opponent’s martial arts attack.
And Yeonhojeong did it.
‘Is it simply because you have higher enlightenment than him?’
no. That was absolutely not the case.
It was instinct, not reason. Yeon Ho-jeong was able to see that the combination of destroying Beon-jak’s martial arts and hitting his martial arts skills was not possible because of enlightenment.
“…This is it.”
Yeon Ho-jeong looked down at his fist as if it was something new.
“It wasn’t my place to give advice to Jipyeong. “If I really have that talent, I haven’t known it for decades.”
In the first place, seeing weaknesses is relative. So I thought that such talent made no sense.
But he had this incredible talent.
Like when he destroyed the Death and Death Samsal Jin, when he dodged all the martial arts attacks that were difficult to deal with and counterattacked.
‘You have talent? To me too?’
Yeon Ho-jeong felt his heart pounding for no reason.
He suddenly remembered his conversation with his teacher.
‘Yes, you lack martial skills. There is no talent that matches the genius that people talk about. However, even with your considerable talent, you were able to master the Four Gods Dance, which would have been difficult to achieve even after ten years of effort, in less than five years.’
‘…Thanks to the teacher for leading me well.’
‘Sasinmu is learned alone. I just showed you many paths, but what you have learned by following them is entirely up to you.’
‘….’
‘Tsk, how can a person who is chopping meat without even knowing that the sword he holds is the world’s most famous sword discuss the world? ‘You too have a long way to go.’
‘yes?’
‘It is done. All I can say is, take a good look at yourself. If you can accurately gauge your abilities, at least you won’t end up dying on the side of the road.’
Could it be that this is what the conversation at that time meant?
‘It’s a weakness…’
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes deepened.
“I need to find out more. “Is this real or fake?”
The matter of missing a fortune has already disappeared from his mind. It’s a shame, but we no longer care about things that have already passed.
That aspect of him resembled Kang Ryang more than Yeon Ji-pyeong. Of course, Kang-ryang learned it from him.
Perhaps such aspects are evidence that he is still closer to blackness than whiteness.
“Well, I don’t have the courage to look at the horizon. From now on, I’ll have to show off in moderation.”
