Chapter 73. Cho Ryu Hyang is a Cheater (?) (2/2)
When Cho Ryu Hyang said this as he wiped away the blood on his mouth, Un Hui moved away from his master in an instant. Everything this young master of his did was every strange.
Just what would his master do this time? He was curious as to how Cho Ryu Hyang made that Harmonious expert disappear, too.
Un Hui was now simply excited about Cho Ryu Hyang’s next move.
‘I don’t have much time.’
There was something Cho Ryu Hyang and Jo Gi Chun created a while back.
The biggest problem a formation had was the process of its creation. It simply took too much time for it to be activated normally.
Jo Gi Chun and Cho Ryu Hyang felt a need to be able to create formations faster, in order to be able to go head-to-head against these martial artists.
They needed something they could protect themselves with. In the world of martial arts, they were powerless as formation masters.
Because of this, the old man and the child crazed about mathematics worked day and night in order to come up with something to protect themselves.
The result was a formation that would activate only on a certain spot that fit certain requirements.
The requirements were usually very particular, and the duration the formation was kept active was very short, but the formation itself could be formed extremely fast.
‘Conditional Formation (規陳法).’
Cho Ryu Hyang made a sorrowful face as he fixed his glasses.
The Conditional formation was the first thing he had ever made with his teacher, Jo Gi Chun. None of them at the time knew that the formation would come to use as soon as this, though.
‘I need to hurry.’
Conditional formations lasted only for a short amount of time. It’s power was pretty weak, too. The formation basically sacrificed power for time.
The formation that No Jin Nyung was currently in was the Five Star (五星: North, South, East, West, Center) Defending formation, which had 5 stones as its core.
‘How long would it take to break this?’
His opponent was a Harmonious expert. Cho Ryu Hyang wasn’t exactly sure of what the limits of the body of an Harmonious expert was.
To be honest, when the formation first activated, Cho Ryu Hyang became very relaxed. Even though Conditional Formations were relatively weak, Cho Ryu Hyang had the vision that he got from Zhuge Liang.
The Faultless view of the World let him see through the true form of the world itself. Thanks to this, Cho Ryu Hyang was able to create a formation many times stronger than the ones created by normal formation masters.
‘But that’s it.’
Right. That was it. Come to think of it, he wasn’t sure just how well the formation would work against a harmonious expert.
He could only be able to see how well something would work if he substituted someone else in place of No Jin Nyung. Who should he choose, then? Cho Ryu Hyang scrolled through every one of the experts he had met in the past fervently.
‘Yu Sul Bin.’
Cho Ryu Hyang decided to replace No Jin Nyung with Yu Sul Bin and decided to create the formation based on Yu Sul Bin’s strength.
When Cho Ryu Hyang began to create a formation with Yu Sul Bin in his mind, something violently stirred inside his mind.
Krr–!
Cho Ryu Hyang looked forward with a hateful gaze without realizing it. He had calculated countless formations in order to kill No Jin Nyung in an instant.
Tens and hundreds of formations filled his mind. Pure rage was boiling inside him. Just thinking of Yu Sul Bin made him feel like his blood flow was reversing.
‘Calm down.’
No Jin Nyung was not Yu Sul Bin. He couldn’t kill No Jin Nyung. He just had to create a formation, assuming that No Jin Nyung’s power was equal to Yu Sul Bin’s.
Cho Ryu Hyang calmed himself with great care, and moved. He was already familiar with the environment around him.
The only thing he had left to do was to find an object that would serve as a ‘barrier’. Cho Ryu Hyang carefully observed the square border of the Five Star Defending formation, and ran forward.
‘Eight for now.’
Cho Ryu Hyang, using the formation No Jin Nyung was trapped in as the center, put seven pebbles around the Five Star Defending formation.
The eight pebble that would complete the octagonal formation was in Cho RYu Hyang’s hand.
Cho Ryu Hyang smiled bitterly as he fondled the pebble in his hand. This was a formation he had personally experienced a long time ago.
‘Eight Gates Restraining Formation (八門禁鎖陳).’
The first formation his teacher ever showed him. He was using that formation. Cho Ryu Hyang looked at the sky for a moment, and measured the time.
‘If my prediction is correct…….’
The Five Star Defending formation would last about seven minutes. By that time, No Jin Nyung should have destroyed the formation and escaped.
Then, just how much time did he have left? Cho Ryu Hyang first used the pebbles as reference to draw out the border of the formation.
He was finished. Everything was prepared. Cho Ryu Hyang, exhausted, sat down on the ground.
Un Hui was observing all this carefully from the back. He had realized something as he observed his young master work.
‘So it was a formation.’
He had finally understood what his master was doing. Everything his master did so far so confusing so far, and he finally understood why.
His master was a master of formations. But there was still something Un Hui was confused about. According to his knowledge, formations couldn’t be made that easily.
It needed to fit countless requirements, and needed much preparation. But his master managed to create a formation without any of that.
‘Would something like that actually activate?’
Could a formation be made that easily? He was looking at the whole thing with a curious gaze, then felt something strange.
‘Something’s happening?’
Un Hui was about to make out what was going on.
Crack–!
With a sound of a shell breaking, the empty space above Cho Ryu Hyang’s formation shattered like glass, and No Jin Nyung climbed out from that space.
“Uhahaha! I win!”
The moment No Jin Nyung shouted out tiredly with his entire body sweating profusely, Cho Ryu Hyang threw out a stone with a bitter face. No Jin Nyung stared Cho Ryu Hyang do this at this with wide eyes.
Tok–
The stone fell on the ground.
“You won’t be disappointed this time.”
“Hey, this is chea…….”
Paa–!
Before No Jin Nyung could even finish his sentence, he disappeared.