Return of Mount Hua Sect - Chapter 1752



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Episode 1752. I, too, am a person who has failed to uphold my duty. (2)

Heo Do-jin calmly explained what he had heard.

“… … That’s what happened.”

In that moment, Baekcheon’s head slightly bowed. He tried to hide it, but he could not fully hide the agitation that was visible.

At this, Heo Do-jin sighed softly.

“Are you feeling sorry for yourself?”

“I am…….”

“You’re crazy.”

Baekcheon raised his head with a slightly surprised expression.

“So you’re saying that this sacrifice could have been prevented if you had stayed in the mansion or not been injured?”

Baekcheon couldn’t say anything and just kept his mouth shut.

“If their goal was to harm the Cheonwoo Alliance, it would have happened at any time. It would have just been in a different form. It is nothing but arrogance to think that you could have prevented it with just one response.”

A short sigh escaped Baekcheon’s dry lips.

“Thank you for your consideration.”

However, Heo Do-jin, who was staring at Baekcheon, shook his head.

“You didn’t understand. Well, I guess you can’t understand it just by words.”

It was the same for him. No matter how righteous a path one takes, eventually something will happen that cannot be solved by the power of one person or one sect.

I should have known that fact sooner.

Heo Do-jin looked blankly at Baekcheon.

His arms were still hunched, his face was incredibly haggard, and his eyes, which had been bright when I saw them before, were now clouded and murky.

Can I use the word downfall?

Heo Do-jin denied it. It is not true.

If that was the case, even if it was a situation worthy of sympathy, Heo Do-jin would not have personally provided Baek Cheon with a place to hide.

Even in those murky eyes, Heo Do-jin could still see the person he had encountered in the past, Baek Cheon.

Heo Gong and Jin Hyeon, who brought him here, must have seen the same thing.

‘No, maybe it means that two people who are in the same situation are leaning on each other’s backs.’

Heo Do-jin, who had a ridiculous and pointless thought, coughed slightly.

If that was really the intention, then it would have been somewhat correct. If it were the Heo Do-jin of the past, he would never have given Baek-cheon a place to rest.

Now even Heo Do-jin knows well.

The feelings of someone who wants to escape from everything in the world. The despair of someone who has nowhere else to fall.

It’s not that difficult to give someone like that a small nest.

“Okay. What are you going to do now? You can’t hide here forever, right?”

But now I had to ask.

“You know very well that this is nothing more than an escape.”

The voice became sharper than before. It wasn’t because he wanted to reprimand the young man in front of him. In fact, it was like asking himself a question. That’s why he became sharp.

What was it like before that young man showed up here?

Before you got down on your knees in an untidy state and asked for a place to rest for a moment, what were you like?

The two people were not very different.

Heo Do-jin also hid himself in a small house in this forbidden area to avoid people’s gaze and his situation.

“As you know, there are many outstanding people in the Cheonwoo Alliance. I may be confused and unable to find you now, but in the end… … .”

“That won’t happen.”

“……hmm?”

Baekcheon said with a calm face.

“It’s not that I’m panicking and can’t find it. There’s someone in the dungeon who can find where I am right now. It’s just that… … I’m not looking for it.”

Heo Do-jin, who had been staring intently at Baekcheon, nodded his head.

“I see. It’s not my place to be curious about what happened or what was said in the meantime.”

“… … .”

“But that doesn’t change my question. I’ll ask again. What do you plan to do now?”

Heo Do-jin’s eyes darkened.

Although he took Baekcheon in himself because he felt sorry for him and felt sorry for him, Heo Do-jin-in also saw that Baekcheon’s situation was not easy. It was a situation that was perhaps even more desperate than that of Heo Do-jin-in, who had lost the will to live.

Heo Do-jin lost many of his disciples and disciples due to his wrong choices.

It was because of a small arrogance that I couldn’t let go of until the end. The arrogance that if I put my mind to it, if the opportunity came, I could personally cut off Jang Il-so’s head and turn everything back to how it was before.

That greed temporarily clouded his vision, and Heo Do-jin paid a harsh price.

But even so, Heo Do-jin is still a shaman. He has people by his side who understand him. So how can he be compared to Baek-cheon, who fell into the world alone?

“If you want to live in the wilderness, I will help you.”

“… … .”

“I can give you enough wealth. You can go to a distant country and live there doing whatever you want.”

I knew that these suggestions wouldn’t resonate with Baekcheon.

The reason why he suggested it even though he knew it was because Heo Do-jin had imagined all of this and also wanted it.

In the end, I couldn’t choose that path, but wouldn’t it have been different if someone had pushed me from behind?

“If not, is there anything else you want?”

At Heo Do-jin’s question, Baekcheon slowly raised his head.

The Hwasanjeonggeom, which had been praised for its devotion even by shamans, has now become so damaged that it is meaningless to say it is in ruins.

But that gaze suddenly seemed to have returned to the past. It was the ‘gaze’ that Heo Do-jin had seen most impressively from Baek-cheon, and the only one he remembered.

“Could you please… teach me a trick?”

“……teaching?”

The teachings are interpreted in many ways, but there is only one teaching that a warrior can ask for. That is, if Baekcheon still thinks of himself as a warrior.

“What are you talking about?”

“The ability to make steel with flexibility.”

“… … .”

“Or, four-two-thousand-pound (四兩撥千斤). I’ve heard that shamans are the best in the world at using small forces to subdue greater forces. Can you tell me the secret?”

A look of bewilderment appeared on Heo Do-jin’s face.

“… … Are you asking me to teach you martial arts now? I’m not a doctor. I can’t fix that arm for you.”

“I know.”

“But?”

“I don’t think that a shaman’s magic is limited to just the sword and spear.”

“… … .”

“There must be a way to use your body and legs.”

Heo Do-jin let out a sigh.

“Are you having trouble?”

Baekcheon’s expression when he asked again looked firm and calm, without any wavering.

‘What kind of person is this… … .’

Baekcheon himself would know best what kind of condition his body is in. But how can he say he wants to fight in the midst of all that?

Certainly, as Baekcheon said, shamanism is not limited to swordsmanship and martial arts. Rather, in terms of how to use the body and legs, it is the best sect in the world, surpassing even Shaolin. After all, wasn’t that Tai Chi the shaman’s martial arts?

But even so, how much can you teach someone who has almost no internal energy and can’t even use his arms?

“I don’t understand.”

Heo Do-jin opened his mouth as if he was dumbfounded.

“Even if you learn the shaman’s secrets, do you think you will be able to regain your skills?”

“How could that be?”

The answer came out surprisingly refreshingly. That made it even more absurd. Heo Do-jin asked.

“But what exactly do you want to learn?”

Baekcheon tilted his head instead.

“What do you mean?”

“hmm?”

“Of course I am a long-winded person… … .”

“Call it a dojo.”

“Yes. I know that even if I were to learn from you, it wouldn’t be able to reach the level of my past accomplishments. But I don’t have to become as strong as I was in the past to fight, do I?”

“… … .”

“There is a fight between the strong and the weak. I am just trying to find a way to fight from my position. I hope it will be of some help, however small.”

Heo Do-jin’s two eyes shook.

“The volcano will not accept your return.”

“I know.”

“Jongnam also wouldn’t want you, who isn’t his disciple.”

“That’s a given.”

“I might not even be able to become a leader of the Cheonwoo Alliance. I have no affiliation.”

“That could be the case.”

“And you still want to fight?”

Baekcheon stared at Heo Dojin as if he had heard something difficult to understand and opened his mouth.

“I am no longer a disciple of Hwasan, nor a leader of the Cheonwoo Alliance. I may not even be a warrior who fought with the confidence of mere swordsmanship.”

“… … .”

“But I didn’t fight because I was a disciple of the Volcano, nor did I fight because I was a leader of the Heavenly Warriors. I didn’t even fight because I was strong. But… … Is there another reason why I shouldn’t fight now?”

Heo Do-jin’s hands trembled slightly. Baek Cheon’s last words weighed heavily on his heart.

“There are reasons why we shouldn’t fight… … .”

It is said that he did not fight because he was a disciple of the volcano, nor because he was a leader of the Cheonwoo Alliance, nor because he was strong.

then…….

“Yeah, now that I think about it, there’s no particular reason for that.”

Heo Do-jin chuckled. An awkward laugh kept leaking out.

“Heh heh. Heh heh heh. Yeah, there isn’t any. There wasn’t any. Yeah… … .”

Something transparent sparkled in his eyes that couldn’t stop smiling. Heo Do-jin naturally wiped his eyes and stared at Baek-cheon. His eyes were completely different from before, and they were gentle.

“Did you ask me to teach you how to fight?”

“yes.”

“You are someone who refused to be Jongnam’s disciple. Naturally, you would not want to become a shaman’s disciple.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Then you are asking me, a former head of the shaman family, to teach the shaman’s secrets to you, a non-shaman’s disciple. Even so, ‘moderately’ that we cannot ask anything specific of you.”

“… … .”

“But then again, I have to make sure that it’s at a level where they won’t die… … The situation is so urgent that even that has to be resolved in just a few days?”

“So to speak… … . Yes.”

Heo Do-jin shook his head as if he was amazed.

“There is no such thing as a robber. Don’t you have any shame?”

“Face is the least of what I have lost. It’s not something I should bother trying to get back now.”

“… … .”

Heo Do-jin was momentarily speechless at Baek-cheon’s calm answer. His blank gaze was fixed on Baek-cheon, but it seemed as if he was looking somewhere else.

“coating?”

“… … I see. Yes, you are right.”

“… … .”

“It’s not something that can be recovered… … . Yes, it could be like that for someone who has lost something bigger. They say that everything in the world is meant to be looked at.”

Heo Do-jin’s eyes turned to the sky. His eyes were empty.

After staring at the empty space for a while, he opened his mouth.

“The highest Way is the most bizarre… …. When viewed from a human perspective, it is a mess, and even more so, the Way.”

Now I think I understand what that means.

Heo Do-jin suddenly looked at Baek-cheon with fierce eyes.

“Listen.”

The voice sounded heavier than ever before.

“The purpose of ignorance is for the weak to fight against the strong. If you want, I can teach you how to fight back. However, just like people, ignorance is not perfect. Even if you do your best in your current situation, you will not be able to escape what the world calls a third-rate ignorant person.”

“… … .”

“And yet, to get that little thing, you’ll have to go through terrible hardships. Do you still want to fight after enduring all this?”

“yes.”

There was no great resolution or determination. I just nodded as if discussing something extremely obvious.

The corners of Heo Do-jin’s mouth, which rarely moves, rose slightly.

‘Maybe I’m the one learning.’

Heo Do-jin slowly extended his hand.

“Then, brace yourself. The way of the shaman is not as lenient as a volcano. I will carve strictness into your body.”

Deep in the depths of Mt. Wudang, where no human eyes can reach, the voices of two people who had turned their backs on the world began to be heard.