Beastly and Fearlessly - Chapter 47
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Episode 47
My father is the undisputed best in Namcheon Damdong.
Even if the scope is expanded to include the Beast Palace, he is a warrior who stands at the top along with his wife, Dammu-gun.
Of course, you wouldn’t use all your might against your only son… … .
“You could die.”
The voices of Nosa and Sa heard at that moment.
“Huh? What did you just say?”
“It means that you should approach the battle with the mindset that you might die. Your father will definitely do his best. Just think about why Dongju would personally participate in a battle that only gives him the title of warrior.”
Namman’s weather varies from region to region.
The lower part of the South Manchuria, where forests and swamps are everywhere, has only rainy and dry seasons.
The north, where Namcheon Damdong is located, has four distinct seasons.
The days were getting cooler.
When the seasons change again, I go to Jungwon.
And when we return, there is a gathering scheduled for all the Sodongjus in Paldong.
That’s what you want to show me.
The true power of Namman, the Beast Palace, and Namcheon Damdong.
And don’t forget, that’s what it means.
That you must be confident no matter where in the world you are or who you face.
There is still a month left, but your martial arts skills are not something that can be raised in an instant.
Unless an elixir suddenly falls from the sky.
He is such an incredible master that even if he were my past life, I wouldn’t be able to guarantee a win.
I just need to polish what I have and fight without regrets.
It will definitely be an incredible experience.
Maybe it will be the chance that will lead me beyond the wall.
Suddenly his face came to mind.
Now that I think about it, it’s about time for him to come find me.
* * *
It was a night like any other.
There are now five days left until the reunion with my father.
After practicing all day, I lay down on the bed, my body exhausted.
Now it’s time to sleep soundly until the morning sun rises.
Wheezing.
I opened my eyes quietly to a secretive atmosphere.
Tofu, who had been sleeping soundly in my arms, opened his eyes at the same time as me.
A person who looks at me quietly in the darkness.
He spoke while slowly stroking the head, which was straightened and had its claws exposed.
“Calm down. You are a guest.”
I approached him, leaving behind the grumbling tofu that was still unable to let down its guard.
And then I spoke to him as he hid in the darkness.
“Have a nice trip? Mongyeongshintu Dumunrang.”
“… … He wasn’t just a talker.”
He is a man who, if he sets his mind to it, can enter even the emperor’s bedroom as if it were his own home.
I couldn’t help but be surprised when I woke up after reading his aura like that.
“The information you gave me… … .”
I told him to look for a man named Gao Xueying in Zhangping County, Fujian Province.
The person who took in Du Yeo-ok, the only daughter of Du Mun-rang.
Another father who raised her like his own daughter.
If the information I gave you is not true, he will draw his sword instead of the elixir.
“It is true. Thanks to you, I have fulfilled my lifelong wish. To see that child’s face once before I die. Take it. It is yours now.”
Something he threw flew through the darkness and landed in my hand.
Millennium doll story.
There will still be chaos in the Central Plains looking for this item.
The price I asked of him was twofold.
Millennium doll and thousand-year-old doll.
But this is enough.
Because Cheon Seom-bi’s martial arts are a matter of life and death.
“Thank you for keeping your promise. Have you seen your daughter?”
The problem was one of the secret weapons he had stolen in his youth.
He abandoned his beloved wife and only daughter and ran away to a corner of the world.
When I got back home, there was no one there.
One is already dead, and the other is gone.
I searched the whole of Jungwon looking for my daughter, but I couldn’t find her.
“She grew up beautifully. She had changed a lot from how I remember her as a child, but I could recognize her at a glance. But she never stood in front of that child.”
“……why?”
“… … .”
Moonlight streaming through the window illuminated him.
At this moment, he seemed like the loneliest man in the world.
“Go Yeon-bi! That’s my daughter’s new name. The person named Go Hak-young who took her in and raised her like his own daughter was such a great person. He’s incomparable to someone like me. When I looked at my daughter’s face from afar, she looked so happy. The moment I saw her face, I immediately turned around.”
You must have been happy.
I was able to confirm that my daughter, who I couldn’t even guess was alive or dead, was living so happily.
And that would have been enough.
It’s all his choice.
“… … Sometimes, watch from afar.”
“I don’t know. I don’t plan on going near her now, but I’ll probably have to go and look for her eventually. Just being able to see her face from afar is more than enough. It’s all thanks to you.”
“It was meant to be that way. I was just temporarily entangled in that fate. If we ever meet again, let’s have a drink.”
“Haha. You look so smart, but your memory is not so good. What you asked for was clearly two things. The Thousand-Year-Old Doll and the Thousand-Eyed Bee.”
“I already told you to pretend you didn’t hear the second one.”
“But I never forget what I hear. Follow me. I’ve seen a place on the way here.”
* * *
He guided me to the unarmed staff.
It must have caught his eye because it was a quiet place with no traces of people.
He opened his mouth after staring at the moon for a long time with his backpack on his back.
“I promised them that I would not tell this new law to anyone.”
“I know. So you don’t have to force me to tell you… … .”
“But what if someone spies on my practice and learns from it?”
They tell me to steal their martial arts skills so that I won’t be called the best martial artist in the world.
After a while, he muttered to himself without even looking at me.
“Every distance in the world has a beginning and an end. If you connect those two points, it is ultimately just a line. No matter how far the distance is.”
His words to the empty space continued.
As if reciting a verse toward an empty space where there is no one.
“After all, that line exists before my eyes, so I have to keep that distance that exists in space within me. Then, I can reduce that line.”
Reduce the line between the beginning and the end.
What is commonly referred to as shrinkage.
It is a magic technique that could only exist in Taoism and is impossible in reality.
But what Dumunrang is talking about now is not such an absurd sorcery.
It clearly exists as a martial art.
The evidence is the two gates right in front of me.
Of course, it’s not a magic that allows you to travel hundreds of miles in one step.
He took a deep breath and his feet moved in a strange way.
A series of movements in which the left foot remains in the air while the right foot steps forward.
The Thousand Islands slowly unfolded in front of me, as if telling me to watch closely.
This is a thousand-year-old’s dream that he showed me by risking his life.
I have the ability to copy any martial arts technique I have seen once.
Since he was a survivor in his previous life, he has a sufficient understanding of lightness and new techniques.
I followed in the footsteps he showed me.
Very slowly.
The wind caresses my toes.
The feeling of folding the ground and piercing through space.
But it still seems like it can’t be caught.
Suddenly, I looked back and saw that Dumunrang’s expression was frozen.
As if I saw something I shouldn’t have seen.
“Ah, what is your identity? How… … .”
“I told you that he was the head of Namcheon Damdong.”
Didn’t we just come from there together?
“No, that’s not it. Look at your feet now.”
The energy that surrounds my feet.
A snow-white fog flowed up to the knees.
It’s not a history.
It’s like… … .
Isn’t it like the red fog that appears every time you draw out the power of the Red Dragon?
The only difference is the color.
“Haha. How can the power of the West be against a guy I met at the southernmost tip… .”
“What is the power of the West?”
Dumunrang sat down on a rock and slowly began to tell a story.
The Thousand-Shot Sword is the secret technique of the island king Ma Mun-ryang.
The ruler of the great desert of Xinjiang and one of the new outside kings.
While the Southern Manchu Palace and the Northern Sea Ice Palace are known to some extent, the identity of the Prologue has not been revealed.
It’s just that the martial arts of the last lord, Ma Mun-ryang, are as fast as light.
Of course, it would be better than Dongnyeong (東嶺) at the eastern end, whose true identity is unknown.
“You must know that the Beast King is inheriting the Red Dragon’s energy, right? He is the Sodongju of the Eight Legions.”
“I know very well.”
That power is now taking hold in the corner of my heart.
“Similarly, in the prologue, there exists the power of the White Dragon. A pure white dragon that is said to fly the fastest among all the dragons in the world! Of course, few people in the Central Plains know this fact.”
The power of the white dragon… … .
According to him, the power is passed down only to the lord of the West, who rules the Western Desert.
This is also the reason why the martial arts of the prologue are excellent in speed and agility.
“All the warriors of the Prologue can use the Thousand-Sword Blade, but the only one who can draw out the power of the White Dragon is the King of the Islands. Whenever he uses his martial arts, a white energy like the sands of the desert would float around. Just like you did earlier.”
Well, the dragon imprint engraved on me is that of a female dragon, not a black dragon.
A female dragon covered in scales of four colors: black, white, red, and blue.
It’s not that I didn’t expect it, but it’s still surprising.
Suddenly, it feels like the whole world is at my feet.
Wherever I go, it feels like it will become my land.
“Get up.”
“yes?”
“I don’t know what happened, but why wouldn’t I be able to tell the one who can draw out the power of the White Dragon the Thousand-Shot Secret? If even the King of the Islands finds out about this, he won’t be able to tell me that I broke my promise.”
* * *
I taught him how to fly a thousand times until dawn.
Even so, it was only for one night, so I only got used to the shape and structure.
No matter how brilliant my mind is, I cannot make the best new method of my time my own overnight.
It will require a very long period of training.
“The Thousand Islands I showed you are just an imitation. The real one is in the western desert.”
According to his words, it means that a divine method that was nothing more than an imitation has earned the name of the best divine method in the Central Plains.
“Of course, my own improved method isn’t bad, so it should be usable. As long as you don’t leave the central plains.”
“It’s too much for me.”
He looked at me for a long time without saying a word.
Was that the look in his eyes when he saw the face of his lost daughter?
“If you have the chance, head west. Crossing the great desert of Xinjiang, you will come across a valley of white sand like snow. The locals call it Baisha Valley. There is a prelude there. If you tell them about your relationship with me, they won’t kill you on sight.”
It looks like they’re going to kill you at first sight.
There was a reason why no one knew the exact location of the prologue.
Because no one will come back alive.
But how could the interest of the two men come back?
“Okay, I understand. I’ll definitely stop by and not forget.”
It is a place where many people seek but no one finds it.
Since I have a connection with Dumunrang, I should stop by.
I also need to find out what power the White Dragon that sleeps within me has.
It remains to be seen whether that power can be awakened.
“Don’t forget our promise to have a drink later.”
A note of loneliness creeps into his voice.
The only person in the world who can understand my loneliness is me.
I hope one day I get to see him getting drunk and showing off his beautiful daughter.
“Let’s do that.”
I didn’t ask how to find it.
There will be a connection.
He disappeared like the wind.
Now I am left alone on Mujangbong Peak.
A lot has happened overnight.
I met him and learned about the Thousand Islands, and I also learned that the power of the White Dragon was dormant within me.
I also found out the location of the prologue that no one knew about.
Oh! I got this one too.
The scent of the three flowers in my arms is fragrant.
The world’s greatest elixir that will instantly raise the level of my meager stats.
I slowly took it out and peeled off the several layers of cloth that had been wrapped around it.
Whoa whoa.
A clear and refreshing energy instantly fills the entire Mujangbong Peak.
Sam is a medicinal herb that is originally full of yang energy.
That guy was buried in the snow of Seolsan Mountain and survived for a thousand years.
It means that yin and yang are in harmony.
What do I do with this guy?
It is Mujangbong Peak, which is filled with the energy of nature.
When you take an elixir, you must receive its power through exercise.
Of course, since Namcheon Damdong is right in front of you, there is no way that anything dangerous could happen during the flight.
There is no reason to delay.
Gyarrur.
Looking to the side, I saw Tofu licking his nose, intoxicated by the smell of the three.
As expected of a spirit, it seems to know the elixir.
I promised Bang Yak-ran that I would take good care of this guy.
You have to raise him to be healthy, strong, and courageous.
Even if you meet other spirits, you won’t be discouraged.
He plucked off one of the thinnest roots and offered it to Tofu.
Sniff sniff.
The guy who sniffed it for a moment quickly swallowed it.
Chew it thoroughly and eat it.
Now, no matter what spirit you meet, Tofu will never be pushed aside by your inner strength.
Oh. Don’t they have any background?
Or maybe I’ll get healthier or something.
Now it’s my turn to take it.
I sat cross-legged and put the thousand-year-old doll in my mouth.
Rain, rain.
As expected, it is a precious elixir that is counted among the best.
It’s warm yet cold.
I quietly closed my eyes, feeling the clear energy spreading throughout my body in an instant.