Tangmunjeon - Chapter 276



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Episode 276 Bloody

The two flying wheels grazed the necks of the two Sapa warriors, and hot blood spurted out.

The sleeping Sapha warriors suddenly got covered in blood and grabbed their swords in shock.

“It’s a surprise attack!”

“wake up!”

Jinhae couldn’t tell the extent of the inaction of the two people who died first.

It would have been the same for Dang Mu-jin. How could anyone guess his inaction when all he did was spurt blood in the dark while sleeping and clutch his neck as he died?

Jinhae stood a little distance away, holding Yalulran and Yalulhwan under his arms, and calmed his mind.

‘If you need help, you have to jump right in.’

This was actually the first time Jinhae had seen Dang Mujin and his party fight.

On the day when the battle took place in Gongdongpa, Jinhae could not properly see the fight between Dangmujin and his party.

My head was filled with excitement from the sense of accomplishment of having surpassed the climax, and it was also difficult to block the swords flying at me from time to time. All I did was glance at them from the corner of my eye.

As soon as Dang Mujin retrieved the wheel, Namgung Myung and Hyeon Gong approached the Sapa warriors, swaying. Unlike their leisurely gait, the expressions on their faces were as fierce as wild beasts.

The red dirt on Namgungmyeong and Hyeon-gong’s sleeves stood out. It was a trace of the ground being dug up to bury Yalullan and Yalulhuan’s parents and the villagers.

Namgung Myung’s sword falls from above.

Ugh-

Jinhae took a deep breath, immersed in the situation of the man blocking Namgung Myung’s sword, not Namgung Myung’s.

It’s a bit of a slow sword.

But Jinhae’s shoulders trembled as he held the two children.

Since all the escape routes on all sides are blocked, you can’t dodge to the side and have no choice but to raise your sword to block.

As expected, Sapha Muin raised his sword as Jinhae had thought. The pressure he felt was so strong that he supported the blade with his left hand even though he knew his hand would be cut.

The idea that it would be better to cut off one’s hand than to have one’s head split open.

However, Namgung Myung’s sword, wielded with only his right arm, is very heavy.

A sword that seeks to crush, crush, and shatter. But at the same time, the sword in Namgung Myung’s hand is extremely sharp.

The extremely hard and sharp blade digs into the opponent’s sword.

Sapha Muin groaned in fear.

“Ugh!”

In a moment. With just one sword strike, Namgung Myung’s sword dug through Sapa Muin from his head to his stomach.

Jinhae felt a cool sensation from his head to his stomach.

It’s fortunate that the body is in a clean condition thanks to the sharp blade. It’s not much of a consolation to the dead, though.

‘···.’

Jinhae looked to the side. He saw Hyeon-gong moving forward while swinging his sword.

The Taegeuk sword of the non-partisan faction.

It is not a heavy sword like Namgung Se-ga’s sword. It is not a sword that can take an opponent’s life with a single blow. It is extremely defensive rather than offensive.

But Jinhae’s knees trembled without him knowing.

When Hyun-gong takes a step forward with his sword in hand, the opponent standing in front of Hyun-gong has no choice but to take a step back.

Overwhelming defense goes beyond the limits of passivity. Not allowing the opponent to enter your territory. That is the essence of defense.

Even if two people attack together, or even if three people attack together, the situation does not change.

It’s always Hyun-gong who advances, and the other person’s role is to retreat. It’s as if it was decided that way from the beginning.

If you keep retreating like that, there will come a moment when you will have nowhere to retreat to.

For example, the moment your back touches a cliff or a tree, or the moment you trip over a rock while backing up.

At such times, Hyun-gong’s sword inevitably approaches.

widely-

Hyun-gong’s sword deflected Sapa Mu-in’s sword far away.

Sapha Muin instinctively stretches out both arms to block the sword, but it is impossible to block a sword that cannot be blocked with a sword strike. Blood soon spurts out.

A man was seen trying to sneak away to avoid a fight. Then Hong Geol-gae appeared naturally and blocked his path.

Hong Geol-gae easily defeated one person and then, instead of going forward like Namgung Myeong and Hyeon-gong, returned to his original position. While checking his surroundings to see if anyone was approaching Dang Mu-jin or Jin Hae, or if anyone was running away.

While the Sapha warriors were distracted by Namgung Myung and Hyeon Gong, blood suddenly gushed out from their necks. Before they knew it, Bi-ryun, who had been flying through the air, was seen returning to Dang Mu-jin’s hand.

It didn’t even take half a meal for a group of Safa warriors to be killed.

Jinhae watched the whole scene, lost in thought.

The four of them worked in harmony like a passing formation with four unrelated martial arts skills, overwhelming their opponents.

It’s not that he had great martial arts skills, but rather that he knew exactly how to move.

‘No, it might just be because each individual’s inaction is so outstanding···.’

Jinhae felt embarrassed for no reason. It was because he felt like a fool for having refuted Namgung Myung’s claim that he had not yet become a martial artist.

If Namgung Myung had shown me this sight first and then said the same thing, I might have nodded reluctantly.

As soon as the four of them finished fighting, they started moving again.

Jinhae followed the four people carefully so as not to wake the two children.

When we were a fair distance away from the corpses of the Sapa warriors.

And when the sun rose and the surroundings became quite bright, the two children who had been dangling under Jinhae’s arms woke up.

The children opened their eyes half-heartedly, but remained silent for a moment. They seemed to have no idea what was going on.

Yalulan asked first.

“Where is this?”

However, before Jin Hae could answer Yal Yulan’s question, Yal Yulan, who was looking around, looked surprised and pointed ahead.

“blood!”

Unlike Dang Mu-jin and Hong Geol-gae, Namgung Myeong and Hyeon-gong’s bodies were covered in blood.

Namgung Myung talked around appropriately.

“I guess there was too much leftover food from yesterday, and a tiger came out after smelling the food. So I was running away from the tiger.”

“tiger!”

Yulran was surprised. Children tend to react easily to provocative words.

I thought it would just pass like that, but surprisingly, Yal Yu-hwan asked a sharp question.

“Why is there blood on you when you’re running away? Are you hurt?”

Then, Yaryulan, who was stuck under Jinhae’s armpit on the other side, scolded him.

“You’re an idiot. Of course you would have won. You’re adults.”

Yalullan had a subtle fantasy that as an adult, you should be able to defeat a tiger.

It seems that Yalullan and Yalulhuan’s father was a bit boastful when he was alive. Namgungmyeong nodded.

“Yeah, of course I won. But there were too many tigers so I had to get out of the way.”

“If we’re not home, Mom and Dad will worry…”

As Yul-Hwan muttered, Hyeon-Gong answered.

“···He said he would come back later.”

Jinhae thought that Hyungong’s expression was subtle. At first glance, it was a smile full of playfulness, but it felt dark somewhere.

Yalullan asked back, as if she found it hard to believe.

“Really? My dad never said anything like that.”

“Of course it’s true. Your father is a man with a bushy beard, right? Your mother is about this tall and has a mole under her eye.”

It was just a passing guess, but it couldn’t be wrong. Of the villagers that Dang Mu-jin and his party had asked about, there was only one couple who could raise children of this age.

Only then did Yalullan and Yalulhuan seem to have completely cleared up their doubts.

“Hmm. Why didn’t you tell us?”

“You guys couldn’t get up, so you went and spoke to us instead.”

Hyun-gong fooled the children to some extent. Children tend to sleep a lot.

“If you come later, when will you arrive?”

“I told you I would go all the way here to buy you presents, so it will take a long time. I think it will take almost a hundred nights.”

“A hundred nights?”

The children just looked a little bewildered. They didn’t seem to really understand what it meant to live away from their parents.

“If I’m lucky, I might get there sooner, but even if I hurry, it’ll take well over fifty nights. Still, I’ll bring you an incredible gift for going so far, so just wait patiently.”

Twenty nights is a reasonable number, but fifty or a hundred nights is an absurdly long time for children.

At first, you will count the days, but soon you will forget how far you have counted, and you will gradually get used to daily life without your parents.

Children who have lost their parents live in this world. When Jinhae dropped the children off, the two children followed the group, walking unsteadily.

The group spoke briefly and winked at each other so that the children would not notice.

“Mudangsan?”

Just like how Hyun-gong grew up, how about taking these children to Mt. Mudang?

However, Hyun-gong shook his head. The shamans are gentle and will treat children well, but the problem is that they have never taken a woman.

If she’s lucky, Yalullan might be the first girl to enter the Wudang Sect, but if she’s unlucky, the two children might be separated for life.

“Namgung must be having a hard time.”

Namgung Myung nodded. The Namgung family is closed and revolves around blood relatives.

It might not be a good choice for Yalullan and Yalulhuan.

Hong Geol-gae was the first to extend his hand.

“It’s not even open.”

“You didn’t even think about it.”

The problem is not that it is not possible, but that it is not a very good choice.

Determining the future of four-year-old children to be open-minded may be closer to abuse than kindness.

How many people in the world are suited to begging?

The party leader said.

“I should go out and talk to Jongnam, Hwasan, and Cheongseong. If no one comes forward, I’ll take over.”

It was a situation where Jinhae should have come forward and spoken, but he couldn’t come forward and just watched the situation. He felt that there would be no good in coming forward rashly.

In such cases, it would be better to leave the choice to other Qingchengpa masters, such as Gong Lingzi.

But Jinhae felt it was a bit cowardly to keep his mouth shut, so he tried to change the subject.

“Aren’t you tired?”

Dang Mu-jin answered lightly.

“The kids are awake, so it’s not a good idea to rest because you’re tired.”

However, it didn’t seem like Dang Mu-jin was holding out all that much. Dang Mu-jin and his party were just going about their business as usual, seemingly unaware of the intense activity they had been doing all night.

Rather, the most tired person in this place was Jinhae.

‘I want to lie down and rest anywhere.’

While walking along, occasionally listening to the stories of Dang Mu-jin and his party, Jin-hae realized that he too was chatting with the party.

Looking back now, the four of them were so active that it seemed a bit excessive. They were so active that they naturally attracted even the people who were hanging around.

I had a feeling that it wasn’t like this even when I was with other Taoists.

‘Did you deliberately act polite when you were with other people?’

That wasn’t a very accurate expression. Even back then, the four of you weren’t very polite.

But being polite is a relative matter.

Compared to their current behavior of chattering like street kids, they were clearly pretending to be polite back then.

However, it was quite fun to mix with the party’s party members, because the atmosphere itself was so cheerful.

Even if you don’t get involved in the story and just listen quietly, you can’t help but chuckle.

Namgung Myeong approached Jinhae and said.

“Your expression has improved a little.”

“I’m physically tired, but I feel good.”

“It’s like that between us, but you can act like that in front of the Cheongseongpa Taoists as well.”

Jinhae’s steps suddenly stopped. It was a story that seemed reasonable, yet unfamiliar.

Namgung Myung continued the story.

“If you make a serious face, it seems like you’re worried about the future and preparing for it. If you act serious and proper, it makes you feel like you’re some kind of great person. But a serious face doesn’t make hardships go away. Likewise, it doesn’t bring special luck to solve your problems.”

“···That’s true.”

“So you don’t have to force yourself to show a desperate attitude in front of the Qingchengpa Taoists. Just remember it well and don’t forget. Don’t get serious just to show off to others. There’s one person in the Tang family who got his life messed up because of that.”

Namgung Myung seemed to be talking to Jinhae while looking into the most intimate part of his heart, so Jinhae felt as if he could crawl into a hole.

The reason Jinhae killed Dang Hangsangwang was not because he truly hated them, but because he felt he had to do so.

A disciple who loses his master will inevitably harbor deep resentment. If he is given an important task, he must be firm and strong.

Of course, the void left by Young Heo Ja was large and deep, but that was not the reason why Dang Hang Ssang Gwang had to be killed.

“There’s no such thing as perfect people in this world. Everyone is a little crazy. You should be a little crazy too. Unless you want to hold it in and go crazy.”

Only then did Jinhae realize why the atmosphere of Dang Mujin’s group was different from that of other ‘close friends’.

Like everyone else, you weren’t perfect. But you didn’t try to be perfect.

Although the four of them each mastered different martial arts and got along well, the four of them also diverged in slightly different directions.

However, the party led by Dang Mu-jin was not ashamed of such an appearance.

They were ready to freely reveal their own flaws, and they were ready to overlook each other’s flaws. ‘That’s just how he is.’

When he realized that fact, Jinhae’s heart also became lighter.

“That’s good advice. I feel like I’m becoming brighter because I’m around someone with a bright nature. I can feel the generous family tradition of the Namgung family.”

As he spoke like that, Namgung Myung’s expression became subtle.

At the same time, Dang Mu-jin and Hong Geol-gae burst into laughter.

Jinhae looked around with an embarrassed expression, wondering if he had said something wrong.

The party leader said.

“See that guy’s nose is bent? His father broke it. He cut off his left arm too. If anything, he’s a very generous family man.”

“Uh… um. Is that so?”

“Hyungong’s childhood was similar to these kids’. Honggeolgae didn’t have an entirely happy childhood either. It’s true that nature and childhood play a big part in your life, but they are only the starting point. Rather, the most important thing is where you want to go.”

Namgung Myung approached and whispered to Jin Hae.

“You can ignore that guy’s rambling. It may sound plausible at first, but it’s actually an empty story.”

Dang Mu-jin immediately hurled a whip at Namgung Myung without even warning.

Namgung Myung skillfully extended his left arm and successfully caught Bi-ryun by sacrificing three wooden fingers.

As always, when Dang Mu-jin and Namgung Myung fight, it is Dang Mu-jin who suffers the loss.

Jinhae looked at the sight and burst into laughter without realizing it.