Chapter 73. Cho Ryu Hyang is a Cheater (?) (1/2)
Chapter 73. Cho Ryu Hyang is a Cheater (?)
Gongson Chun Gi was thinking about something carefully with his chin resting on his hand. He opened his mouth.
“Do you know about Zhuge Lian?”
“Zhuge……. Liang?”
“Yeah.”
“If you are talking of Zhuge Liang from the three kingdoms era, there would be no way I wouldn’t know of them.”
Jeon Bak restlessly calculated numbers with his abacus, and replied carelessly as he wrote something in the document he was creating. Gongson Chun Gi said something again as he did this.
“Who’d win if we fight?”
It was an idiotic question. But how could Jeon Bak afford to ignore a question from the Pope?
“Of course you’d win. How could a mere scholar ever hope to win against you? A man like that would turn to dust simply from your yawn.”
Jeon Bak’s words carried a tone that implied that Gongson Chun Gi’s question was a foolish one. He had responded to Gongson Chun Gi without even looking up from his document.
Gongson Chun Gi looked at Jeon Bak with a gaze full of complicated feelings, then sighed.
“Right? That’s what people would normally think, right?”
“Yes.”
How would Zhuge Liang ever hope to be Gongson Chun Gi’s match?
The full power of the Pope wasn’t publicized in the martial world as of yet, but Gongson Chun Gi had already reached the realm of God. He had reached something no one in the church had ever gotten before.
“Shit, should I fight him again?”
“What?”
When Jeon Bak turned his head from surprise at Gongson Chun Gi’s mutter, Gongson Chun Gi quickly looked away.
“No, I’m still not that prepared. I’ll have to ready myself even more.”
“Just what may you be talking about……”
Jeon Bak was curious. He thought that the Pope was saying foolish, strange things ever since the Pope came to visit him.
“Don’t worry about me, and just finish up what you’ve been doing. We really have to expand into Sichuan as fast as we can.”
“Yes Sir.”
When Jeon Bak turned his head back to the document, Gongson Chun Gi began to think. A while back, he had gained some things by observing the Moon Edge Blade Technique.
Like he had told Sunwu Jo Duk, what he had gained was tiny, but even that was a great breakthrough for Gongson Chun Gi.
“I won’t go down that easily next time.”
This was one of the few things Gongson Chun Gi enjoyed doing nowadays. For the first time in his life, this old man called Zhuge Liang had shown him what defeat was like.
Gongson Chun Gi wasn’t about to let the old man go that easily. When he thought this much, Gongson Chun Gi’s face filled with a complicated feeling soon had a prideful smile on it.
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Un Hui looked in forward with a dumb face. He blinked a few times, looked around a bit, and became confused.
‘He disappeared?’
A person in front of him just disappeared. There wasn’t even a single thing in the area that suggested someone was here previously.
Even Un Hui, who was an expert on tracking people, couldn’t find a trace of No Jin Nyung in the entire area. Just how was this possible?
‘Magic?’
Un Hui thought a little, then shook his head. To a Harmonious expert, who naturally possessed strong mental fortitude, things like magic just won’t work.
(TL: Looks like magic in King Shura focuses more on the mind… some other martial arts novels focus on things like Asian necromancy. I dunno, it’s just interesting.)
‘Just what is it, then?’
An entire person disappeared in front of his eyes. Just because of a single stone that was thrown on the ground. Un Hui looked at Cho Ryu Hyang with a curious gaze.
Right then, Cho Ryu Hyang, who was busily drawing something on the ground, suddenly puked out fresh blood and fell down on his hands.
‘This is it.’
The feeling he got after the initial pain. This feeling was something instant, but it felt like he was becoming one with the world.
It was a feeling that made his body’s senses extend outside his body.
‘Compared to the giant being we call the world, I am a very tiny being.’
Because of that fact, when Cho Ryu Hyang became one with the world, his pain would fade away extremely fast. This was what powered the Moon Edge Blade Technique itself.
Cho Ryu Hyang turned his hands into tight little fists. His body was still violently trembling.
He had to endure the pain before he became one with the world, but it was extremely hard to do this.
The Jia (鉀) of the Moon Edge Blade Technique.
He used it, but he still couldn’t endure that previous attack from No Jin Nyung. He almost died.
“Are you alright? Eating this should make you feel a little better.”
When Un Hui handed Cho Ryu Hyang a Mystical Energy Pill, Cho Ryu Hyang didn’t refuse him, and ate it.
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The moment the Mystical Energy Pill was consumed, Cho Ryu Hyang made a surprised expression. The pill just turned to liquid form as soon as it touched the tongue, and slid down the throat to stabilize the entire body.
It didn’t stop there, and gave energy to him. His breathing became easy in and instant, and his wounds stopped bleeding as much.
How could the pill be so effective? This wasn’t a normal pill at all, was it?
Did Un Hui read Cho Ryu Hyang’s thoughts? He smiled and opened his mouth.
“This is a pill created with great care by the master of the medicinal house himself. He told me to give it to you if you were to fall in danger.”
Cho Ryu Hyang understood what just happened thanks to Un Hui’s explanation. If it was Sunwu Jo Duk, the master of the medicinal house, making something like this would easily be within his reach.
That was the only thing Cho Ryu Hyang had thought at the time, but this pill was something much more special than he might’ve thought.
It was something that Sunwu Jo Duk spent an entire year’s worth of time to create. Even with that much time, only ten of them were ever produced.
This was something that made even Gongson Chun Gi, who never really relied on medicines, praise by saying ‘This is pretty darn good’.
Precious Undying Heart Pill (不死謢心丹).
This fancy name was something that Gongson Chun Gi declared to be the official name of this pill.
“Would you move away for a second?”