Chapter 25. The Hidden Truth (2/2)
“You must have a lot to talk about with your granddaughter. I will take my leave here.”
Neng Mu Gi didn’t respond. Sang Dong Ha knew that was Neng Mu Gi’s own way of giving permission to people. He quickly walked out the door.
Neng Ha Young, who was staying quiet all this time, opened her mouth.
“What does that mean, grandpa?”
Neng Mu Gi loosened his stiff face, and smiled a little.
“What does what mean?”
“The thing you said about being careful of the church.”
“It means exactly what it sounds like.”
Neng Mu Gi spoke while pouring some tea to his cup.
“That guy’s on the mountain.”
“That guy?”
“Gongson Chun Gi.”
The Pope of the Heavenly Demon Church.
He was here?
Neng Ha Young’s eyes sparkled when he got ahold of this information.
“The Pope? But the Dao Emperor from the Alliance is coming, right?”
“That’s right.”
“Hm? This is the first time the three sovereigns actually got this close, right?”
Neng Mu Gi smiled.
“That is true, huh.”
“Right. Huh? Could it be, did grandpa meet the other sovereigns before?”
According to the official records, the three sovereigns never met each other face-to-face. All the ‘official’ records said that. This fact always managed to get on Neng Ha Young’s nerves.
‘They never met once for forty years?’
Forty years. That is not a short amount of time. Therefor, it was understandable for a person to become suspicious about it. Unless the three sovereigns all tried to steer clear away from each other, this feat was almost impossible.
Neng Ha Young researched this subject out of curiosity. She soon reached a conclusion. Surprisingly enough, it seemed that the three sovereigns didn’t avoid each other. It’s just that since each of their territory was so different, they never really encountered each other.
There was never a case where, in the history of the martial world, great martial artists with different alliances didn’t clash with each other. That alone made this case unprecedented.
Neng Ha Young found this relationship of the three sovereigns quite amazing. That’s what made this so suspicious.
The three sovereigns. Did none of them ever wonder about the strength of the other sovereigns? They were, in the end, human. Did they really never get curious about others?
‘But…….’
If any one of them moved in to meet the sovereign from a different party, the balance between the three powers would’ve been broken. That was because a meeting between two sovereigns had to develop into a conflict. That was where Neng Ha Young got stuck.
Then, her grandfather, Neng Mu Gi, spoke.
“What do you think? Do you really think we never met each other?”
If they met each other before, one out of the original three would surely die. But that didn’t happen. That’s why Neng Ha Young couldn’t answer.
“I don’t know, grandpa. Did you meet any of them before?”
Neng Mu Gi didn’t answer, and just smiled. He was admitting something. Neng Ha Young narrowed her eyes. She was getting curious.
“How was it, grandpa?”
“What do you want to know?”
“I want to hear about how you felt.”
“You always want to know the most difficult things.”
“This has to do with why I visited you, grandpa.”
“The reason you visited me?”
“Yeah. I actually managed to get myself an annoying job.”
Neng Ha Young told her grandfather about the Martial World Sequence Records. Neng Mu Gi’s face turned serious when he heard about it.
“The Martial World Sequence Records……. It is a dangerous idea.”
“Really?”
Just what about it was dangerous?
While Neng Ha Young was trying to think of an answer, Neng Mu Gi sipped on his tea. And after thinking about something for a while, he began talking with a tone of hesitation, which was unusual for him.
“Right now, there are only two people who clearly know the rankings of the martial world.”
“Who’s that?”
“Me, and Gongson Chun Gi.”
Neng Ha Young paused a bit. She had felt that she missed something huge from her grandfather’s response.
‘What would that be?’
What did she miss? When she carefully went over her grandfather’s words again, a thought struck her mind. At the same time, Neng Ha Young trembled.
“G, grandpa, could it be?”
The Night Emperor, Neng Mu Gi.
He looked at his granddaughter and smiled.
The girl’s only flaw from the past was her own intelligence. She always managed to learn things better off not knowing. Because of that trait, Neng Mu Gi had no choice but to speak the truth.
“Right. I met all three of the sovereigns in the past.”
It was an unofficial meeting. And that meeting was the reason why Neng Mu Gi decided to go into hiding.
After observing the man’s face, Neng Ha young carefully opened her mouth.
“Could you perhaps tell me about it?”
Neng Mu Gi hesitated for a moment. He then spoke.
“Are you sure that you can take it?”
Neng Ha Young nodded with a serious face. Surely, this ‘secret’ of grandpa’s was a ‘truth’ no one else in the martial world knew about.
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But that was why she wanted to know about it so badly. She knew that she could only survive in the martial world by relying on information.
And that hidden truth actually had a very clear, distinct form, unlike what Neng Ha Young had suspected.