Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 159



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159. My Own Image (2)

I’ve seen many people like that. Born into noble families, they’ve never achieved anything on their own. Because they’ve never done anything on their own, they find it too easy to have something.

The Peng Jin-yeong in front of me also looked exactly like that type. He was wearing expensive silk clothes and ornaments, and his expression showed that he had no intention of refusing. Add to that his bandit-like face and the surname Peng, and it was clear who he was. He was a conqueror from Habuk. He was from the Habuk Peng family.

“Bring me my way!”

Paeng Jin-yeong shouted. Without anyone saying anything, Jin Su-gwan, who had been on standby, quickly entered the cabin and brought a large sword. The sword he brought was about five feet long, almost as tall as Gwan Seo-ye.

The faces of the people watching changed with excitement. They were probably the group that hung out with Pang Jin-young, so they had seen quite a few scenes like this.

Peng Jin-yeong seemed to enjoy the gaze, then lifted a large sword with one hand and aimed it at me.

“I am Peng Jin-yeong of Habuk Pengga. Reveal your identity.”

As expected, Peng Jin-yeong was a person from Habuk Pengga.

Peng Jin-young, who spoke in a loud voice, didn’t even give me time to answer the question he asked first.

“Ah. There’s no way a bodyguard would have an identity or name. I’m sorry for being rude.”

There was laughter behind him. Originally, green was said to be the same color.

I don’t know if the people behind them are from the Habuk Peng family, but looking at the dressed-up people, they just seem like a bunch of middle-aged people who want to show off to the Habuk Peng family’s power.

“Miss Guan, what should I do? I should hold Lee Ja responsible for insulting Habukpangga, and at least get a wrist injury.”

“I would appreciate it if you could be lenient on my guard’s mistake, which was intended to protect me.”

Kwan Seo-ye lowered her head. She spoke with the utmost courtesy and even politeness. She also seemed to think that it was time to come to her senses. However, the milk had already been spilled, and Kwan Seo-ye could not clean it up.

“Ah. Lady Guan is so kind. To bow down to such a bodyguard. Isn’t that right? Brother Jin.”

Peng Jin-yeong looked at Jin Soo-gwan and smiled. Jin Soo-gwan smiled back, slightly embarrassed. It would not have been comfortable for a merchant from the same Shanxi 4th district to be persecuted.

“Then I will make my offer. If Lady Guan will spend the night with me tonight, I will relieve you of your responsibility as the bodyguard.”

Peng Jinyoung spoke while staring at Guan Seoye’s body openly. Guan Seoye’s face turned red. From the beginning, Peng Jinyoung’s purpose was to covet Guan Seoye’s body.

It was Jinsugwan who stepped forward in place of Gwanseoye, who was speechless from the insult.

“Brother Peng. You are mistaken. I am not a guard of the government. I am a member of another department.”

“huh?”

Peng Jinyoung was puzzled. Jinsugwan smiled brightly. He seemed to think that there was no better way than saving someone from the same Shanxi 4th family and using me as a shield.

“Is that true?”

Peng Jin-yeong looked at Guan Shuye. I thought it was time for me to step forward.

Up until now, I had been keeping myself safe for fear of causing damage to the upper echelon, but since Jinsoo-kwan had already revealed that I was from another upper echelon, it was meaningless.

“No. Right now, Iza is my escort.”

But Guan Shuye was one step ahead. I looked at Guan Shuye in surprise. Guan Shuye didn’t even look at me and was looking up at Peng Jinying, who was two feet taller than him.

“No, Miss Guan. Now is not the time to be acting so harshly. You are none other than the Pang family.”

Jinsugwan spoke urgently. But Gwanseoye shook her head.

“It is true that you are currently my bodyguard. And how can you call yourself a descendant of the government if you ignore the person who tried to protect me?”

Guan Shuye turned her eyes away from Jinsugwan and looked up at Peng Jinyeong again.

“My escort may have been a little too much in protecting me, but you were the one who was rude first. I can’t accept that you’ll punish me. I’m sorry for ruining the mood. I’ll get off the ship, so enjoy yourself. Why don’t you grab one of those girls who are squirming in the back and spend the night with them? I think they’re probably waiting for you instead.”

I couldn’t help but be surprised. This was something the official I knew would never do or say.

Of course, even if she had been a government official in her previous life, she would not have been the type of person to run away after leaving her bodyguard behind. However, if it were the woman I knew, she would have used money or connections to overcome the situation more cleverly.

Thinking back to her previous life, where she avoided fights as much as possible, provoking and getting on her nerves like that was definitely not the personality I knew her to have.

Now I had to slowly admit it. The Kwan Seo-ye I know now and the Kwan Seo-ye I know are completely different people.

Naturally, Peng Jin-young’s face turned red. It was truly humiliating to see him insulting not only himself but also his group.

“Ha, those merchants are really arrogant just because they got their hands on some money.”

Peng Jin-yeong sighed and blocked Gwan Seo-ye’s departure by holding out his sword.

“No way. I’ll cut off the escort’s head and you’ll have to come with me. This body wants you tonight.”

Peng Jin-yeong tried to grab the front of the book with his other hand. Judging from the bet he was holding in his hand, it seemed like he was trying to do something shameless like tear off the front.

Of course, Peng Jin-young’s goal was not achieved. I approached him and grabbed his wrist with the reverse gold-tipped technique.

“I want that too today, what about me?”

I said. The corners of Peng Jin-young’s mouth trembled in anger.

“You two really don’t know the subject.”

“Did you ask who I am?”

“what?”

“I am Muk Hwi-yeong, the head of the Hwiyoung clan. If you want to suppress them with the power of your family, then go ahead and do it. I don’t think the likes of Habuk Pengga will be able to suppress us, though.”

People’s eyes were filled with shock at my words. This was much stronger than Guan Shuye’s words.

The letter of invitation was an insult to Peng Jin-yeong personally, and it was not a proper return compared to what he had received.

But I disparaged not Peng Jin-yeong as an individual, but the entire Habuk Pengga. And that too in Habuk.

“That guy was crazy. Who the hell was he just saying that to?”

A ferocious aura burst out from Peng Jinying’s body. It was an aura that spread in all directions without any consideration for those who had not learned martial arts. The faces of those behind him turned pale. Of course, I stepped forward to block the aura, so it did not reach Guan Shuye.

“Say it again. Something like Habukpengga?”

“It feels like you’ve had a stake driven into your ear, so let me say it again. There’s no way a guy like you, Sega, can eliminate the Whiyoungsangdan.”

“You really can’t be left alone!”

Peng Jin-yeong ran towards me, stepping on the stern. Fragments of the hull flew everywhere. The figure running towards me was fast and huge, like a nimble bear.

“Die!”

Peng Jinyoung jumped high up and slammed the sword down on me.

It was the first time in a long while that my Songmungo sword had seen the light of day. I had no intention of drawing my sword and confronting it.

The Habuk Pengga swordsmanship was so brutal and heavy that even non-martial arts people knew it. This meant that it was the polar opposite of the Wudang faction’s swordsmanship, which was known for its elegance and softness.

I used the last technique of the Five Element Sword, the Water Dragon Sword, to deflect Peng Jin-yeong’s sword. Deflecting it wasn’t enough. I used the magic of the Ihwa grafting technique to return Peng Jin-yeong’s energy as it was.

When his own energy turned its head and faced him, Peng Jin-yeong was startled and fell back.

“… …Five Element Sword?”

Peng Jin-young frowned.

“The Shaman’s Five Element Sword. Are you a lay disciple?”

“That’s right. I am a lay disciple.”

“Could it be because of my humble status as a lay disciple… ?”

Peng Jin-young stopped talking. It was because he saw the water bottle hanging from the end of my sword. Peng Jin-young’s eyes widened and he soon let out a hollow laugh.

“This guy is really crazy. How dare a merchant disciple of the common people pretend to be a Taegeuk swordsman? I’ll have to talk to the shamans.”

Peng Jin-young assumed, as if it were a given, that I was impersonating the Taegeuk Sword Master.

It was quite possible. The fact that I was a disciple of the shamanist faction and that I was close to the shamanist faction was a rumor that spread in the upper world. What would the people of the martial arts world know about a disciple of the shamanist faction?

Besides, the fact that a shaman went to Sanggye was something that would only be discussed in Sanggye, and it wasn’t something that was of much concern in the martial arts world.

“It’s not impersonation.”

“Don’t talk nonsense. It’s the first time I’ve heard of a shaman giving Taegeuk swordsmanship to a lay disciple.”

“The world you know isn’t everything.”

“I wish I could maintain that confidence when I speak directly to the shamans. If I were caught pretending to be a Taegeuk swordsman, not only would my Danjeon be destroyed, but I would also be stripped of my discipleship.”

“Sure. I should tell your father to throw you away.”

“bloke!”

Jinyoung Paeng rushed at me again. Jinyoung Paeng seemed to be brain-numbed with excitement and seemed to not know my level.

It was because I had not thought about returning energy, let alone cleanly dispelling it with the defensive technique of the Five Element Sword, one of the most basic swordsmanship techniques in shamanism. I just realized it with one stroke. The gap between Peng Jin-young and me was huge.

As Peng Jinyoung’s sword pierced my psyche, I turned my body and went forward. It was a delicate movement that made it seem like I was sliding down the blade.

“What!”

Paeng Jin-yeong’s eyes widened as he watched me lightly dodge the blow and charge at him. I struck Paeng Jin-yeong’s dantian hard with the sword with the hanging water pipe.

“100 million!”

The danjeon is a weak point for unarmed people. Perhaps because I had filled my internal energy with it and struck hard, Peng Jinyeong’s internal energy must have dissipated in an instant.

When the internal energy is scattered to the unmanned, it means that the strength in the entire body is gone. Peng Jinyoung, whose legs were weak, tried to kneel, but I did not allow him to do so.

I immediately grabbed the back of Pang Jin-young’s head by his hair and dropped his sword. There was only one reason I dropped the sword. It was because it was getting in the way of his punches.

Peng Jin-young’s head was forcibly raised. I immediately started hitting Peng Jin-young’s face with my clenched fist. This wasn’t a lesson, so I naturally used my internal energy to hit him.

I could feel the full force of the punch, as one punch sunk my eye socket, and another shattered my nose.

“Ugh, ugh, ugh! Eww!”

Every time a fist struck Pang Jin-young’s face, the skin would tear and blood would soak the deck. The sound of broken teeth rolling down was a bonus.

When I hit him with all my energy, Peng Jin-yeong screamed after not being able to withstand even a few hits.

“Stop it, stop it!”

I stopped my fist for a moment. Peng Jinyoung’s face was already swollen to the point where it was unrecognizable.

“Apologize.”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I didn’t recognize you and attacked you without any courage!”

As expected, Peng Jin-young also felt the insurmountable gap between him and me.

His teeth were out and his pronunciation was slurred, but more importantly, Peng Jin-young’s speech had become relatively more polite.

“That’s not it.”

“Then what is it?”

“You should apologize to the lady you insulted. Is she a flower on a wall?”

I spoke with my anger suppressed. Jinyoung Paeng, who sensed the anger in my tone, immediately began to apologize.

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry to Lady Guan! I won’t do it again!”

“Yeah. Good job.”

At my words, Peng Jin-young sighed in relief. I laughed because I found that ridiculous.

“Who finished?”

“……yes?”

“Of course I apologize, and of course I deserve to get hit. It’s not over yet.”

“What is that… … !”

Peng Jin-young’s words were cut off midway. It was because I threw my punch again.

“Ugh, stop, stop!”

Of course I didn’t stop. I was going to make Peng Jin-young’s face into a mess that was unrecognizable.

After almost cutting off half of his face and making a bowl out of it, Jinyoung Paeng dropped the sword he was holding and trembled before falling down. Only then did I let go of Jinyoung Paeng. When I heard a snapping sound and looked down, I saw Jinyoung Paeng lying there in the exact same spot where he had peed.

“Take this kid away. He’ll ruin the taste of the alcohol.”

I kicked the unconscious Peng Jin-yeong’s body with my foot and looked at Jin Soo-gwan.

But none of the people watching, including Jinsugwan, could move easily. Perhaps they were overwhelmed by my momentum. I screamed.

“Quick!”

Only then did Jinsugwan and the people behind him begin to carry the unconscious Peng Jinyeong.

The people who came with Peng Jin-yeong ran off the ship without looking back. They looked like defeated soldiers.