Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 74



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Episode 74 – Reward (2)

The training grounds of the Murim Alliance were bustling with people out of season.

Not only the martial artists belonging to the Murim Alliance and other Sega and Sects, but even the martial artists belonging to Sega and Sects that were not so powerful were gathered together.

They gathered to watch the secret battle between Cheongun and Gupa Ilbang’s later incumbents, but in fact, such a secret battle was not easily permitted to be witnessed.

However, Cheongun allowed everyone to see it, and as a result, the training grounds of the Murim Alliance were bustling with people at an unusual time.

So, he is the first one to fight with Cheongun.

“Three, my goodness···!”

“Even if you go up against all of the old file room review index, you won’t be pushed back···.”

Surprisingly, it was all of the Six Dragons and Three Phoenixes.

The head of the old-fashioned shaman cult, Yang Jong-cheon, was nowhere to be seen. However, even if Yang Jong-cheon were present, the appearance of the shaman would not change much.

Knock, knock!

Among the Six Dragons Three Peaks, Gwachoa, Jonarin, and Akryuhyang rushed to Cheongun at the same time.

The remaining later indices did not rush in rashly. They surrounded Cheongun in a circle, blocking his retreat, and were prepared to attack at any moment when they saw an opening.

It was definitely like the review index of the old file room.

When nine people gather together, they usually become a rabble, but the Six Dragons and Three Bongs have been putting pressure on each other by forming a passing team.

No matter how lucky you are, it won’t be easy to escape from that.

Soon, Cheongun took a step forward. Then, Cheongun’s body seemed to shake, and then suddenly disappeared like smoke.

The figure of Cheongun disappeared with a whoosh. Each and every movement of Cheongun was mysterious and strange.

It was dazzling not only the Yukryongsambonghoe who were fighting, but also the eyes of those watching the fighting.

He suddenly appeared in front of Shaolin’s later index, Tak Bo-hui.

Cheongun’s sword suddenly fell upon Tak Bo-hwi. Tak Bo-hwi panicked and swung his spear, barely managing to swipe Cheongun’s sword away.

With a loud noise of “Ppeu-euk!” Tak Bo-hwi’s spear shot up. The other post-war indices who had grasped the situation quickly rushed in.

With that, a barrage of blows poured down on Cheongun. However, Cheongun did not show any sign of panic and simply countered the blows that poured down.

Chaeng! Chaeng! Kakang!

Invisible blows rained down on Cheongun. Cheongun responded to each and every one of them and fought back.

It is perceiving and reacting to each and every one of those blows. Even if it is not a murderous creature, it is impossible for it to react like that.

······A blue cloud that cannot be seen as a review index at all.

So, can we really call that a ‘non-action’?

well.

Kwaaaaang!

It would be correct to see that as a one-sided ‘trampling’.

* * *

······was trampled mercilessly.

It was an expression that hurt his pride, but it was an undeniable fact. Even though all of the Six Dragons and Three Peaks came running, they couldn’t do anything to Cheongwoon.

Even though it was a martial arts contest rather than a life-or-death matter, the result was unbelievable.

Just one vertex.

If I had confirmed that fact with my ‘eyes’ at Yongbongjihoe, I could now confirm that fact with my ‘body’.

The Six Dragons and Three Phoenixes were lying on the floor, gasping for breath.

But Cheongwoon wasn’t even shedding a single drop of sweat. He looked as if he was lost in thought for a moment, as if he was recalling something he had just done, whether it was Bimu or Yurin.

Soon, the cloud-covered Yukryongsambonghoe slowly approached.

The first place the approaching Cheongun stopped was in front of Shaolin’s later index, Tak Bo-Hui.

“Lannachal is truly wonderful, Master Tak.”

Rannachal (亂羅?).

If there are six basic techniques for the sword, there are three basic techniques for the spear.

Up to this point, it was common sense that even a warrior who didn’t necessarily use a spear would know. Even Cheongun, who used a sword, would have known it, but what he heard after that was definitely not common sense.

“However, if I may say what I feel, Master Tak is only good at the ‘basics.’ He lacks the experience to support the basics.”

“What you call experience······.”

“To be exact, I lack some practical experience with ‘strong players.’ The basics are important, but they are only the ‘foundation.’ Just laying the foundation does not lead to advancement.”

“······.”

“This is especially true since the basics of spear technique are compressed into three. The true meaning of the rising spear technique is somewhat difficult to unfold with just the basics.”

“ah······.”

“But as I said, the basics are at the level of a master. If you just gain practical experience here, you will never find a Changsu who can surpass Monk Tak among the same age.”

How did it come to be that Cheongun was so well-versed in spearmanship and spear techniques? Tak Bo-hwi felt deep respect and gratitude and respectfully accepted the prize.

“I am truly grateful for your teachings. It is like a light shining on a path that was dark.”

“I am the one who appreciates that you do not take offense to my words.”

Cheongun responded by taking the lottery ticket.

Then he slowly turned his gaze and looked at the next index.

“Your Majesty the Prince Seongunyeop······.”

Common review index, nebula leaf.

“The basics are excellent, and the practical experience is sufficient. However, I felt that there was a discrepancy in the fact that Seongunyeop Gongja did not follow it. The body was already ready to reach the realm, but should I say that Gongja did not follow it? Usually in such cases······.”

Cheongun thought about it for a moment and then quickly opened his mouth.

“This phenomenon mainly occurs when the ‘mind-energy-body’ balance is off, such as when the level of the mind is low, the blood and energy channels are blocked, or when one is suffering from a mental demon. Do any of the three above apply to you?”

“Well, actually······.”

Seong Woon-yeop, who was hit hard, hesitated for a while before finally opening his mouth.

“I feel like I’ve hit a wall recently… I’ve been slacking off on my training.”

Seong Woon-yeop, who had confessed the whole truth, lowered his gaze.

And I closed my eyes tightly at the sound of Cheongun’s shout that was about to come.

That’s understandable, because every time he opened his heart like this, the elders and the head of the sect would scold him harshly, telling him not to make excuses for not wanting to practice.

That’s why Seongwoon-yeop was prepared to give Cheongwoon a severe scolding. However, Cheongwoon showed no sign of wanting to scold him.

He was quiet for a while, as if lost in thought, and then he quickly spoke to Seongwoonyeop.

“You don’t have to be so discouraged. As you practice, you will inevitably come across a ‘wall.’”

It was as if Cheongun was looking back on his own experiences. It was like a great senior in the martial arts world giving advice to a junior.

“How to overcome that wall and how quickly to overcome it are different for each person, but this is commonly called ‘talent.’ And the talents in martial arts that I am talking about are three.”

The analytical ability to understand the true meaning of martial arts.

The ability to understand the true meaning of martial arts.

The ability to acquire the true meaning of martial arts.

“But you don’t have to try to include all of these. Just as if you put in too many colors indiscriminately, it will eventually turn black, knowing how to subtract is also a form of practice.”

Then Cheongun said.

Sometimes I lie down under the grass, listen to the whisper of the water, and look at the clouds floating across the sky.

It’s never a waste of time.

“When you face a wall, don’t blame yourself by asking yourself, ‘Why can’t I do it?’ Self-blame is just one of many motivations for growth. It is by no means the only way to grow.”

“······.”

“Nothing will fall apart if you are kind to yourself, if you take a break. So, I hope you will develop the habit of taking your time and looking at things in the long term.”

“······.”

“The result is never just the destination. We become narrow-minded when we think that the arrival is more important than the process, and efficiency is more important than the experience.”

“ah······.”

Suddenly, Sungwoon Yeop’s mind became blank as if he had been hit hard with a hammer. It was as if he had suddenly come to a realization.

As if he knew it, Cheongun quietly left the place.

“Miss Gwachoa······”

And Cheongun, who teaches other later indices.

There was really no obstruction.

He explained in detail the walls and stagnation that the reviewers of Gupaebang faced, as if he had experienced them all himself.

Moreover, he was teaching at eye level.

The mysteries and enlightenment that were extremely difficult to understand, headache-inducing, and frankly felt like catching clouds, were being interpreted and explained at each person’s level.

Even the elders and chief priests of the old sect would never teach this way. No, they could not teach this way.

The more I experienced Cheongun, the more I felt that he was not the same person as me.

“Sir Jonathan.”

Soon, it was the turn of the late Kunlun’s chieftain, Jonalin.

Jonarin waited for Cheongwoon to speak with eyes full of anticipation and excitement.

“Sir Jonathan, can I teach you privately a little later?”

And then I heard Cheongun’s words.

Jonalin’s face immediately turned hot and flushed.

It was none other than Cheongwoon’s word, ‘separately’. Cheongwoon’s words that he would teach them when they were ‘alone’ and left alone.

Anyone who looks at this… doesn’t this look like a ‘signal’?

It was a sign that Cheongun was ‘interested’ in Jonarin. And when a young man and woman are alone together, all sorts of things are bound to happen.

“Joe, okay······.”

Jonarin’s heart, which had been pounding wildly, was on the verge of exploding.

* * *

Unlike other reviewers, Jonarin’s reason for wanting to teach separately was simple.

‘There are too many.’

There was so much to teach.

It wasn’t something that could be easily taught through questions and answers like the previous review indices.

There were two main reasons for this. The first was that Jonathan’s level was the lowest.

And the second most important reason was that Jonarin was the second-generation index of Kunlun and her responsible immortal was none other than the ‘Nine Heavenly Women’.

Gucheonhyeonnyeo was more enthusiastic than anyone else about the fact that she could gain the justification for giving me merit. In other words, the person who could gain the most merit was Jonarin.

So, Jonarin needed to be taught more carefully, so naturally he had no choice but to spend more time on it.

This does not mean that other later indices should be taught roughly. It is not right to teach the merits that have already been received roughly.

‘If you get a refund for your merits here, you will die immediately.’

Just as I could ‘refund’ the emperor’s rewards, the merits I received from my senior immortals could also be ‘refunded’ at any time.

‘Come to think of it, I wonder if the former general distributed it well to the knights.’

It was obvious that it would take time since there was a lot of work to be done, but it seemed like it would be almost finished by now.

I guess that’s when the thought occurred to me.

I took the folding screen out of my bosom and checked to see if the merit had been properly refunded.

and.

“huh?”

······I could realize that something was wrong.

* * *

Just as learning only the best martial arts doesn’t make you a master, accumulating the best internal energy doesn’t make you a master either.

If internal energy is an inherent power, then martial arts can be said to be a method of using that power.

No matter how strong your inherent power is, if you can’t handle it properly, it’s useless.

On the other hand, no matter how well you handle your strength, if the strength itself is lacking, there are clear limitations.

Internal skills and martial arts.

Only by achieving the right balance of these two can one become a true master.

In that sense, the Jang River Swordsman Corps was able to learn what could be called ‘peerless martial arts’ from the King of the Jang River.

However, there was nothing I could do about my internal energy, but with this reward from the Great King, that problem was solved in an instant.

Thus, Gu Cheol-san and the thirty-six executives had all reached the highest level and were knocking on the door of the summit.

The 4,000 unmanned people surpassed the third-rate realm in an instant, and there were quite a few who reached the first-rate realm, and the absurd thing of the lowest realm being the second-rate middle realm occurred.

There, all 4,000 swordsmen were equipped with weapons that rivaled the ‘divine weapons’.

Now there was no one on the Yangtze River who could stand against the Yangtze River Swordsmen.

Maybe that’s why.

[The Yangtze River Merchant Corps will transport you anywhere along the Yangtze River in no time. Transportation is free. We only accept Merchant Corps members.]

“What is this?”

“Well, well······?”

People were simply bewildered by the ‘signposts’ placed along each waterway of the Yangtze River.

“It looks like it says ‘transportation······’”

The question is, what kind of transportation are you talking about all of a sudden?

“Oh, what’s the matter with these days? There aren’t any bandits appearing on the Yangtze River.”

The voice heard at that moment.

There stood a senior member of the Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan.

But isn’t that because you’ve wiped out the seeds of thieves?

Originally, thieves were like ‘weeds’ that would continue to grow no matter how much you stepped on them. That was the reason why thieves continued to exist despite the continuous activities of the Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan.

But recently, the Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan has gone completely crazy and started wiping out thieves like they were catching rats.

Now, the bandits operating in the Yangtze River have completely dried up.

“What happened that you can’t even withstand one blow? These days, thieves are just too weak.”

Have you ever thought that you are too strong?

It was no joke, but the recent military power of the Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan was so great that even the most powerful sects couldn’t even hand out business cards. To be honest, it didn’t seem like they would be inferior at all to the government troops.

“So, since I had no way of carrying out the chivalry that the King had spoken of, after much thought, I decided to start a new business.”

business······?

Nowadays, do you call doing something for free a business? Charity work is also a business, after all······.

“So what about transportation······?”

“Aren’t there a lot of sailing ships on the Yangtze River these days?”

That was understandable, as the whole world was currently abuzz with rumors about the Hwa-ryong Daehyeop.

Recently, the world was going crazy with rumors that even the emperor himself was visiting.

As a result, the sales of inns, taverns, and bars were breaking records day by day, but because the inns and bars needed a lot of goods to sell, the logistics of the Yangtze River were bursting.

In any case, the upper classes were also enjoying unprecedented prosperity, and at present, the Yangtze River was filled with sailing ships from the upper classes floating up and down without warning.

However, there were times when the wind was not blowing or the water flow of the Yangtze River was weak, and the sailboat could not reach its full speed.

This caused disruption in the transportation of goods, but transporting goods on time is a virtue that a merchant must value more than his life.

And today the wind is blowing a bit lightly again.

“Would you like to try it out?”

“Huh? Oh, no. It’s okay, but···.”

“What do you mean it’s okay! The wind isn’t blowing well, so the boat is obviously slow.”

“Well, that’s true, but···.”

“Hey guys! Come here and row the boat!!”

Then, dozens of sturdy Jang Gang-hyeop-dan warriors began to climb onto the sailboat. There was no other robber who didn’t even ask for advice.

It seemed as if the pirates had taken control of the sailing ship, but contrary to their appearance, they were actually just rowers.

However, even if dozens of people were mobilized to operate this large sailing ship, there was a limit to how much speed could be increased with just ‘manpower’.

If each and every one of them were a warrior with noble internal energy, then it would be different.

Choaaaaaaah-!!

A sailing ship suddenly shot forward. As soon as the knights of the knight troupe took up the oars, the sailing ship cut through the waters of the Yangtze River at incredible speed.

“Ooh, wooooow!”

“You’re too fast!”

It was so fast that I couldn’t hold on unless I grabbed onto something.

“Joe, slow down a little bit-!”

“It’s no use! Those people’s eyes are spinning!!”

“Whew, hold on tight so you don’t get swept away!!”

The transportation business of the Jang Gang-hyeop-gaek-dan was drastically reduced to half of the time it should have taken originally.

These transport operations were taking place simultaneously throughout the thirty-six Changjiang Merchant Corps stationed along the Changjiang River.

As a result, the logistics of the Yangtze River were completely blocked, and the economy of the Gangnam region experienced an unexpected boom, which was a truly absurd situation······.

“Tongue, you’re a knight······! You’re a knight···!”

“Hey, those guys are crazy…. Those guys are crazy…!”

Rumors about the Jang Gang Hyeop-gaek-dan spread throughout the world once again, making my flesh grow grotesquely.

* * *

The merit of conversion should have been seen right away.

But nothing floated above the table. It was a blank sheet of paper, and perhaps because of that, there was no sign of life from the table.

“Why is he like this?”

······I thought maybe he was really dead.

But surely it’s impossible for the boy to really be dead.

“Could it be because I gave a reward to the Jang Gang Hyeopgaekdan?”

It seemed that the stool could not handle the merit it had received in return and had ceased to function. The following were the possibilities that came to mind immediately:

No, this was all there was.

But does that make sense?

That would be the case. Even with the merit of defeating the leader of the Demonic Cult, Akjihak, and saving tens of thousands of lives, it wasn’t to this extent.

Even when I gained over 9,999 months of converted merit, it just caused an error and did not show the numbers. It did not become so unusable that it stopped functioning.

But now, it was as if it had truly died, as if it had lost all its functions and was not moving······.

“······How much did you get back in refund?”

For the time being, I really couldn’t understand what was happening in the Yangtze River.