Habuk Pengga Swordsman Genius - Chapter 636



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636. A close call (1)

Choa gestured at the sound of falling leaves.

It was a signal to suppress any sounds as much as possible.

In that moment, the presence of Choa and her subordinates faded away.

Not only their presence, but their appearance was indistinguishable from the frost-covered bushes.

At that moment, a man in red uniform passed in front of Choa and her group.

stroke.

The man in the red uniform was, of course, Hanbin.

Hanbin and his party entered Baeknyeongjeong without any problems.

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Hanbin stood in the pond next to Baeknyeongjeong and looked inside.

At that time, Seolhwa looked at Hanbin carefully.

“Master, I felt something strange.”

“Why is it weird?”

“No matter how much I think about it, I can’t figure out who it is. I don’t know if it’s one person, two people, or more.”

“So what’s the conclusion?”

“He seems like Grandpa Hyeonmun.”

“You’re the elder at the front gate?”

As Hanbin tilted his head, Seolhwa quickly continued speaking.

“I think it seems that Confucius has asked me for a favor since I haven’t seen Grandfather Hyunmun in a while. That favor is to keep watch over this place.”

“Hmm, you’re halfway right.”

“Then is it true that it’s Grandfather Hyunmun?”

Hanbin shook his head as Seolhwa’s eyes lit up.

“It is true that I asked Elder Hyunmun to do surveillance. However, the important thing is that I did not ask him to do surveillance here.”

“I guess it’s a secret what kind of surveillance you requested?”

“Where is the observation post on Mt. Mudang that we should go to?”

“Oh, what if you suddenly say that?”

“Why are you so surprised?”

“I thought it would be a secret… … .”

Seolhwa looked around, trailing off. Then she lowered her voice.

“Then who is watching us here?”

“trillion!”

“Master, your voice is too loud.”

“Hey, you won’t even hear that much. There’s no way your hearing would be fine when performing that level of ear-splitting.”

Hanbin smiled brightly.

The basic principle of the Guishikdae method is to block the flow of energy.

Thanks to this, I can last for days without eating or sleeping.

But it also has a fatal weakness.

The point is that the five senses of the person who has practiced the Great Law of Eating become weak.

For that reason, when the assassins deploy their magic, they position themselves in a space close to their target.

However, Choa and her subordinates are not moving at all at the entrance to Baeknyeongjeong.

Hanbin quietly looked at the entrance to Baekryeongjeong.

Judging from the fact that he was still motionless and not making any noise, he seemed quite nervous.

Perhaps it was the influence of the black ink that Hanbin had put on.

At that moment, Seolhwa narrowed her eyes.

“All the people in Baek Kyung, including Hyeol-hu, have left.”

“There are still people left.”

“Who is it?”

“The friends you buried… … .”

Seolhwa opened her eyes wide as Hanbin smiled meaningfully.

Seolhwa couldn’t help but think of the Baekgyeong warriors she had buried.

Seolhwa couldn’t forget that moment when he looked at her with eyes filled with resentment.

At that time, Seolhwa had tortured them without actually torturing them, and had found out all their personal information, including Choa’s.

In his haste to bury them, he accidentally poured dirt into the mouths of the warriors Cho-ah and Jacheong.

I didn’t think about it then, but looking back now, it was a mistake.

What Hanbin always emphasized was to create more allies than enemies.

If you can turn even your enemies into your allies, you can kill two birds with one stone.

The important thing was that their martial arts were not below the level of legend.

Seolhwa asked with a worried expression.

“Oh, so you came here to seek revenge on me?”

“No, I think there’s another reason. Maybe he came to see me.”

“For what reason?”

“I’ll ask you about that later.”

As Hanbin spoke nonchalantly, Seolhwa took a step closer in a hurry.

“How do you ask?”

“I guess it will come when the time is right.”

“How does Confucius know that?”

Seol-hwa’s eyes sparkled with curiosity.

Hanbin responded nonchalantly to that appearance.

“The child hiding at the entrance seemed very uneasy. I think it might have something to do with me.”

“Is it a problem with Confucius? Did you poison him?”

“Well, it’s similar.”

Hanbin chuckled.

Can the herbivore diet of the black ink-and-grained grass be considered truly poisonous?

The first step of the Yongrin Sword Techniques was something that even Hanbin could not define arbitrarily.

Although he was using it instinctively, there were many things he didn’t know.

Then Cheonghwa intervened.

“It’s not poison, Sister.”

“How do you know?”

“If it’s poison, I can feel it.”

“Wow, our Cheonghwa has grown a lot.”

“I grew up? I don’t think I grew up that much… … .”

Cheonghwa put her palm on her head with a sad face.

Hanbin said at that sight.

“Now let’s start preparing slowly.”

“Me, Cheonghwa, and even Sogun, we’re all ready.”

Seolhwa raised her hand with a confident expression.

Hanbin said at that sight.

“Then let’s go in.”

“Where to?”

“First, you have to open the door.”

“So, how do you open it?”

Seolhwa seemed impatient as if she couldn’t overcome her curiosity.

Hanbin smiled at that sight.

“Haha, Seolhwa is in a hurry. From now on, I will slowly look for the keyhole.”

He pointed to the pond as if he didn’t understand the story.

“Master, no matter how much I think about it, it’s strange. There’s a door there. But if I throw the key inside, I don’t think I’ll ever find it.”

“Why do you think so?”

“Look at that. The water is clear, but you can’t see the bottom. No matter how much you look, you can’t gauge the depth.”

“As the ancient sages said.”

“What did you say?”

“It is said that even if you know ten feet of water, you cannot know one foot of a person’s heart.”

“What does that mean? It’s not a proverb that fits this situation, Confucius.”

“No. That’s a perfect proverb.”

“How is that true?”

“That means it’s easy to know how deep the water is.”

“Oh, I don’t think that’s it.”

Seolhwa tilted her head.

No matter how much I thought about it, it seemed like the interpretation was wrong.

But Hanbin didn’t answer any further and took out a hexagonal magnetite.

Hanbin looked back and forth between the hexagonal magnetite and the pond.

After finishing speaking, Hanbin squinted his eyes while touching the hexagonal magnetite.

At that moment, the magnetite on my palm moved slightly.

Swish.

Seolhwa opened her mouth, unable to finish her words.

This is because the hexagonal key made of magnetite was sucked into the pond even though Hanbin did nothing.

The magnetite trembled lightly in Hanbin’s hand, as if a dragonfly were flapping its wings.

The trembling magnetite suddenly rose into the air and flew into the pond.

The movements were strange, as if someone was manipulating the magnetite using the techniques of a vacuum.

Thanks to that, Seolhwa was able to focus on the hexagonal magnetite without even blinking.

However, contrary to Seol-hwa’s expectations, the magnetite was sucked into the pond.

with a splash.

Seolhwa asked in surprise.

“Confucius, what should I do?”

“There’s no need to be nervous. The key will find its way to the hole.”

Hanbin crossed his arms and squinted his eyes again.

Magnetite is a mineral that is often used in machinery because it has the property of attracting different directions.

But this is the first time I’ve seen Hanbin made something like this with a key.

Wait a minute, the axis shook.

Knock knock.

Cheonghwa, who had been a little far away, also ran to the pond in a hurry because of the vibration.

Cheonghwa, who had come running, also crossed her arms and waited for the door to open, just like Hanbin.

How much time has passed?

Seolhwa shed tears.

Because after the magnetite fell into the pond, I watched it without even blinking.

Seolhwa wiped her tears with her sleeve and looked down again.

In fact, Seolhwa was learning various formations from Hanbin these days.

The reason I started studying the system was because I felt a sense of crisis.

To survive in the world of martial arts, you need to have at least one hidden secret technique.

When he was active as a special assassin in Heukcheon, he thought that his special skills were the swordsmanship that combined stealth and agility.

But things changed after I was next to Hanbin.

The things that Sulwha had boasted about before were nothing short of ordinary.

It wasn’t just Hanbin. Cheonghwa, who was like a real younger brother, became the best in the world in terms of poisoning while forming a public poison system.

No matter how much I think about it, my current self is too ordinary.

Because of this, Seolhwa was gloomy for a while.

I wanted to have at least one special talent that I could show off.

So, what I asked Hanbin to do was to study the organs and formations.

I don’t know about anything else, but I was confident when it came to using my head.

I thought that it would be helpful for Hanbin to study formations and organs separately from swordsmanship.

For Seol-hwa, who studies institutions and formations, this unfamiliar entrance and exit was like a treasure.

Seolhwa, who had been watching for a while, tilted her head.

Because there was no change in the pond.

An hour or so passed since the key was sucked into the water.

It would have been normal if the pond water had drained and the gate had opened.

Seolhwa, who couldn’t stand it any longer, looked at Hanbin.

“Confucius, what’s going on? No matter how I look at it, there’s no change.”

“Hmm, well… … .”

Hanbin continued to look at the pond as if nothing had happened.

Seolhwa held her breath at the sight.

Because it was the first time I saw Hanbin with such a serious expression.

For a moment, Hanbin smiled.

“I see. It’s clear that Baek Mun-ju was teasing me.”

“What do you mean, Confucius?”

“It’s like saying that even opening a door requires solving a puzzle.”

“Where is the mystery? No matter how much I look, I can’t find it.”

“Look over there.”

Hanbin pointed somewhere. The place he pointed to was a rock next to the pond.

The rock was short but spread out widely.

It looked like a checkerboard.

Seolhwa must have noticed it too, as she opened her eyes wide at the rock.

“That’s a riddle?”

“Let’s take a look first.”

Hanbin walked towards the rock.

As Hanbin had expected, the lines of a Go board were drawn there.

Some of the snow covering the rock’s surface had melted.

Looking closely, the remaining round snow looked like white stones.

Then Seolhwa pointed to the side.

“Master, look over there. There is a black stone over there. So if you place the black stone on top of the white stone, the door will open?”

“maybe…….”

As Hanbin nodded nonchalantly, Seolhwa looked back and forth between the black stone and the rock that resembled a Go board.

“Then what should we do from now on, Confucius?”

“… … .”

Hanbin didn’t answer and just quietly stared at the rocks that had become a Go board.

Hanbin remained silent for a while, as if lost in thought.

What happened?

In fact, it was the first time Hanbin had seen this record.

A game record is a document that records a game.

Hanbin studied most of the records in his previous life.

Because famous records sometimes become the basis for destroying formations or organ formations.

But the record in front of me now was something I was seeing for the first time.

No matter how good Hanbin was at organ training, he was not a genius at baduk.

Hanbin quietly looked at the corner of the deepening section.

It was to use the wisdom of Ji.

When I focused on the knot, my head became clearer.

As if the upper abdomen had opened, Yongrin’s energy rushed into the Baihui point.

Hanbin closed his eyes in that state.

Then, he started searching through his memories from both his past and present lives to find similar records.