Chapter 7. Cho Ryu Hyang’s Formation Creation (1/2)

Chapter 7. Cho Ryu Hyang’s Formation Creation

If you thought about it, the changes the elders went through were clearly big. As the Dark Moon guild’s size increased, enormous profits began to be made.

Even though the guild couldn’t show themselves off in public to gain money, they still earned money by engaging in various jobs like becoming escorts. Thanks to the various methods they used to scrape in money, they were raking in quite a lot of cash. But while Neng Mu Gi, the Night Emperor, presided over the guild, no one dared to use the money for anything foolish. For his words were the law, and every one of his actions were a subject of awe.

But Neng Mu Gi’s son, Neng Pa Chun, didn’t have any of the power that Neng Mu Gi had.

When Neng Pa Chun became the president, the Dark Moon Guild, which seemed so formidable at first, began to crumble a little.

“How can those old guys change just like that? They couldn’t even look at me in the eye when father was here. The world’s a scary place.”

The girl sighed at her father’s statement.

“The person’s different, dad.”

Neng Pa Chun put on a hurt face when he heard her truthful words.

“…….I know father’s amazing, but hearing my daughter say it like that, I feel hurt.”

“I’m just telling the truth.”

Neng Pa Chun’s father, and the girl’s grandfather.

There was a difference of heaven and earth between Neng Mu Gi, one of the Sovereigns, and Neng Pa Chun.

Personality or strength, Neng Mu Gi outstripped his son by far in both.

They were different beings from the ground up.

“I suppose the elders just wanted to start exerting power now that Grandpa retired. Just give up. You should retire from your position, and live comfortably.”

The girl.

She was the granddaughter of Neng Mu Gi, Neng Ha Young (冷夏榮).

The girl, who was known for her intelligence from a young age, so much so that she was even rumored to become an Unmatched Woman(才女) Under The Heavens, became confused. Even though her father wouldn’t be able to know, her grandfather most definitely predicted that this sort of a thing would happen. But seeing that he did not move an inch even though this happened, the girl figured that her grandfather had some sort of plan in his mind.

‘I can’t figure that out.’

Her father clearly was too lacking to become the manager of the greatest guild in the underground world, the Dark Moon Guild. In fact, he was really lacking. He became pretty strong in the martial world thanks to his blood, so some of the elements that he lacked could easily be ignored.

But his personality or his ability as a leader definitely couldn’t be ignored like that, especially when he was the manager of the Dark Moon Guild.

He had neither the right personality or the leadership to become a capable head.

Because of that, Neng Ha Young was looking at the situation skeptically.

She thought her father held a position he did not deserve.

Neng Ha Young, after thinking a while, sighed. When it came to measuring up a person, there was none that could match up to Neng Mu Gi. But then, why did her grandfather put up his son as the manager?

‘Does he have something in mind?’

Neng Ha Young began to think carefully.

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Grandpa disappeared after announcing his retirement.

At first, everyone accepted Neng Pa Chun even after Neng Mu Gi retired. This wasn’t because of Neng Pa Chun’s actual ability. This was because Neng Mu Gi’s giant shadow still lingered behind Neng Pa Chun.

As the Dark Moon Guild was starting to grow, many of the stronger experts in the underground world, were invited to become the elders of the guild. Even they didn’t have any problems in letting Neng Pa Chun become the leader of the guild. While he was being recognized as such, Neng Pa Chun should’ve displayed his abilities to secure his power, but his talents were far too lacking for that. As time passed, and Neng Pa Chun’s insufficient abilities began to be shown to the public, the Elders began to fully let out their greed.

The Dark Moon Guild was an extremely large organization. They were strong enough to be counted as one of the 3 Great Martial Groups. If they were this large, couldn’t they indulge themselves a bit?

Even though they feared Neng Mu Gi, seeing that he hasn’t even taken action even till now, they figured that the man didn’t have any more attachments to this place. Even though they confirmed it, the elders were still being careful. Neng Mu Gi scared them that much.

But it wasn’t like Neng Mu Gi actually didn’t have any attachments, either.

He too, was annoying Neng Pa Chun by starting to be a little greedy.

‘But this is probably it.’

Neng Ha Young figured this was probably the final point. The elder’s patience probably hit the limit. If her father wasn’t even able to accomplish something like this, Neng Pa Chun wouldn’t be just scolded. Neng Ha Young feared that.

“I think I’ll have to go see grandpa.”

“Father?”

Neng Pa Chun widened his eyes.

No one knew where Neng Mu Gi was, since the man hid himself from public eye after retiring.

That was why even Neng Pa Chun couldn’t meet his father, even though he wanted to see him greatly.

“Dear, do you know where father is?”

“Nope.”

“Then how are you going to meet him?”

“I think I know where he might be.”

Neng Ha Young stood up from where she was.

Probably, no one under the heavens would be able to find her grandfather, who was determined to hide himself.

All except her, that was.

“Remember what grandpa said to you before he left?”

“Did he say anything about going anywhere?”

He couldn’t remember his father telling him anything about going anywhere.

Neng Pa Chun tried thinking again more carefully. Still nothing.

“Did father tell you anything in secret or something?”

“No, he didn’t say anything about going anywhere.”

Neng Ha Young grinned from ear to ear.

She had a very confident look in her face.

“But I can find him.”

Neng Mu Gi told his son this when he retired.

[I could not reflect upon myself till now because of all the other petty problems that came my way. I feel that I did enough for the organization already, so now I will reorganize my thoughts by resetting my mindset. So don’t try to bother me if you can. But it’s not like you can find me, anyways.]

When Neng Mu Gi said that, he gave Neng Ha Young a mysterious look.

And Neng Ha Young was able to figure out the hidden meaning within Neng Mu Gi’s words.

“I’ll be at the Qilian mountains (祁連山) for a while.”

Qilian mountains.

This was where Neng Mu Gi first met his master, the Qilian Sword Demon, and learnt martial arts. That was why Neng Ha Young was certain.

Her grandfather was there.

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After resting for the whole day, Cho Ryu Hyang was at the back yard with a wooden stick. He was contemplating upon something with a very serious look on his face. If he wanted to solve the problem given to him, he should change his way of approaching the problem.

So he started thinking.

The answer he got after thinking a while, actually had quite a lot of restrictions. That’s why he was hesitating so much over testing it. Then, his father’s favorite phrase passed by in his mind.

‘A person doesn’t even have the right to regret over something he hasn’t even done.’

It was a very meaningful sentence.

Cho Ryu Hyang set his mind in place after thinking about it.

With a determined face, he started to draw a line on the ground.

A concentrated face.

Right now, everything else disappeared in the world, and Cho Ryu Hyang could only see the line that he was currently drawing on the ground.

‘This is the most important part, now.’

What he was trying to do now was something extremely hard.

But that’s what brought him enjoyment in the first place.

Right now, Cho Ryu Hyang was carefully controlling his strength with utmost concentration, to draw a single line on the ground. Cho Ryu Hyang paid attention to even the thickness of the line as much as possible. The line he drew was as big as a small child’s height.

“Phew…….”

But the real problem started here.

Cho Ryu Hyang breathed in deeply, and went to draw another line, parallel to the line he drew just a moment before. He checked multiple times to see that the two lines were perfectly parallel. Starting with that, he drew a total of 8 lines.

The work took about 1 hour till now.

But Cho Ryu Hyang, without stopping, kept drawing more lines.

When Cho Ryu Hyang finished drawing the last line, his whole body was drenched in sweat. He was that focused in his work.He fixed his glasses in place, wiped his forehead, and stared at his work.

“Fufu…….”