Chapter 42. The Legendary Moon Edge Blade Technique (2/2)
“…….You’re perceptive. It is that technique.”
“Is that technique really that amazing?”
“Aah……. it is pretty interesting.”
Gongson Chun Gi grinned. It was a confident grin. Sunwu Jo Duk looked at that face of the Pope, and nodded.
“I’m not really against your decision. I trust your decision.”
“I knew you’d understand. And don’t worry. I didn’t say I wouldn’t pass on Shura Environment. When it comes to destructive power, there is literally nothing under the heavens that can rival it.”
Gongson Chun Gi thought of his disciple while talking, then made a depressed expression.
“But you know, my disciple actually has some resentment against the Alliance.”
“The Alliance?”
The Alliance was what held all the clans together, and its power rivaled that of the Shaolin temple. The Alliance’s power was so great, in fact, that many people commonly believed that the Alliance was more influential than the Shaolin temple.
In other words, they were hard to fight. Gongson Chun Gi, thinking that, scratched his cheeks and spoke.
“I already promised to help the child take revenge. I somewhat managed to understand what the boy was feeling, so that happened. I can’t help him directly, since he wants to take revenge with his own hands, but I want to do everything else in my power to help. I guess I’m still a bit immature when it comes to things like this.”
Gongson Chun Gi said this, and at the same time commanded Lim Hak Gyum to bring Cho Ryu Hyang. He once again opened his mouth.
“So when you see the boy, don’t ask him anything about the Alliance. It’ll just make him remember some bad stuff.”
“Alright.”
A little while later, Cho Ryu Hyang stepped into the room. It seemed that he calmed down a bit after a few days had passed. But he still seemed a little unstable.
“You’re here? Good. This is Sunwu Jo Duk, the man in charge of the church’s medicine department. Say hello. You’ll be relying on him a lot in the future.”
Cho Ryu Hyang bowed politely to Sunwu Jo Duk, and opened his mouth.
“My name is Cho Ryu Hyang. I’ll be in your care from now on.”
Sunwu Jo Duk observed Cho Ryu Hyang’s body with a face filled with joy and satisfaction. His instincts as a doctor had kicked in. After a moment, Sunwu Jo Duk tilted his head in wonder.
“Huh? Did the young lord already go through Fa Mao Xi Sui (伐毛洗髓)?”
“Nah, he was already like that from the start. I was surprised, too.”
“No way.”
“I’m not lying.”
Fa Mao Xi Sui was a technique that experts used for their disciples in order to make a disciple’s body be suited for training. It was extremely complicated, and used a lot of power, so it wasn’t easy to use.
But the effects of the technique was truly amazing. It would essentially raise a person’s training speed exponentially.
“May I take his pulse?”
“Of course.”
Once Sunwu Jo Duk got permission from the Pope, he obtained permission from the young lord, and grabbed the young lord’s wrist. When he tried putting in his energy into the young lord, he flinched.
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“This is?”
Sunwu Jo Duk looked at Cho Ryu Hyang strangely. He then looked at Gongson Chun Gi, and spoke.
“…….Did you know?”
“Of course, my eyes aren’t just for show.”
Gongson Chun Gi grinned joyfully. Only Cho Ryu Hyang, the subject of this conversation, didn’t know what was going on.
“……..Is it the Bone-Changing Growth?”
“It’s similar. But I don’t think it’s the same thing. You know it, too, don’t you? Something like that definitely can’t happen.”
The Bone-Changing Growth was something that only happened in the harmonious stage. That was why it was impossible for a young child like this to go through that growth.
After all, a harmonious stage only happened once a person attained knowledge that would change their entire life.
“Then this…….”
Just what was this? The young lord’s body was already in the best possible condition in order to learn martial arts. The joints in the body were extremely flexible, and the energy veins in the body weren’t clogged at all.
‘And…….’
The strangest thing lay with the dantian. There was something strange residing in it. Something small and round, and at the same time, hard. Something like that was just laying in the young lord’s dantian.
That small sphere seemed to contain an immeasurable amount of energy.
“That boy studies something different from martial arts. I think his body changed like that because of whatever he was studying. Am I right?”
“……..”
Cho Ryu Hyang scratched his cheeks. What should he say? Should he reveal the existence of Zhuge Liang? Was that alright?
“I’m not angry at you or anything. I’m actually happy.”
Gongson Chun Gi realized a long time ago that this boy was hiding something other than mathematics. That was because Gongson Chun Gi’s eyes could easily perceive things of that sort.
But he still pretended to not know about it. After all, everyone has a secret they want to keep.
Gongson Chun Gi wasn’t selfish enough to try to force the secret out of his disciple. He simply believed that the boy would naturally come to tell him about it in the future.
“I finished checking the Moon Edge Blade Technique. That’s why I called you. To introduce this old man, and to tell you about the book.”
Cho Ryu Hyang’s eyes turned bright when he heard this. He could finally learn martial arts. He had to take revenge for his teacher as soon as he could.
That was the only way he could calm his tormented heart.
“Take it.”
Gongson Chun Gi took something out of his sleeve, and threw it at Cho Ryu Hyang. That thing landed directly on Cho Ryu Hyang’s open palms.
『The Moon Edge Blade Technique (月刃刀法)』
Gongson Chun Gi opened his mouth towards his dazed disciple.
“This is what you will be learning in the future.”
Cho Ryu Hyang stared at the book in his hands. This was the first meeting between Cho Ryu Hyang and Ak Jung Pae. A meeting that transcended a hundred years.