Tangmunjeon - Chapter 351



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Tangmunjeon Episode 351: The White Woman Suddenly, Sosang-gakju and Daebyeok-gakju join the party.

A subtle silence flowed between the two footnotes and their party.

And all interpersonal relationships begin with an introduction.

“I am a party···”

“for a moment.”

As Dang Mu-jin was about to step forward, Hyun-gong pushed Dang Mu-jin aside and stepped forward.

Hyun-gong glanced at Seol-hwa behind him, then straightened his shoulders and smiled confidently.

Hyun-gong spoke to So-sang-gak-ju and Dae-byeok-gak-ju.

“I am Hyeon-gong. And the three behind me are my friends. Nam-gung-myeong, Hong-ju-san, and Dang-mu-jin. As you may have guessed, we are moving to capture Baek-hyang-ah and help Seol-hwa retrieve the secret recipe and elixir.”

A very plain story, without a single lie in it.

But not all lies need to be present in every situation.

Hyun-gong’s first concern was not the content of the story, but the manner of speaking and gestures.

He stepped forward and introduced his party, pushing aside Dang Mu-jin. And he gave Seol-hwa his gaze in the meantime, in order to show So Sang-gak-ju and Dae Byeok-gak-ju his false character.

The Sosang-gak-ju and Daebyeok-gak-ju who watched this scene will think that Hyeon-gong is the leader of the group, and will further conclude that he is a fool who is trying to attract the attention of a woman.

Also, introducing the group and revealing his purpose without hiding anything was an act to leave the impression that he was not good at psychology and that he was short-sighted.

A person’s thoughts are contained in the path of the eye. As soon as Hyun-gong finished his story, he looked into the eyes of So-sang-gak-ju and Dae-byeok-gak-ju.

The pupils of the small statue’s eyes moved up and down, scanning the statue in an instant, and finally stopped moving at the statue’s nose.

‘It’s like making eye contact, but it’s a way of handling eye contact so as not to make the other person feel burdened. Sosang-gak-ju’s head turns a little in this direction.’

On the other hand, Daebyeokgakju stared at Hyeon-gong intently, then secretly turned his gaze to check Sosanggakju’s reaction.

‘Is Daebyeokgakju clumsy in interpersonal relationships? However, he may be trying to act clumsy, so you must not let your guard down.’

So Sang-gak-ju smiled kindly and greeted Hyeon-gong.

“I won’t bother telling you my name in the language of the Central Plains, because it will sound unfamiliar. Just call me Sosang-gak-ju (素霜閣主), as you said. This guy is Daebyeok-gak-ju (大霹閣主).”

“I understand. Why are you two wandering in such a distant land?”

“It was to clear our names and return to the Bukhae Ice Palace. We were here because of Baek Hyang-ah’s impulsive actions, carrying false accusations. If we retrieve the secret recipe and elixir that Baek Hyang-ah ran away with and return to the Bukhae Ice Palace, the princess will recognize our innocence. And of course, you too.”

The story itself was plausible, but Dang Mu-jin and his party, excluding Hong Geol-gae, did not believe So Sang-gak-ju’s story.

It is natural to conclude that the background story that Baek Hyang-ah stole the secret medicine and elixir and ran away on her own was a lie.

Hyun-gong asked with a blank expression.

“It looks like Baek Hyang-ah didn’t take the elixir?”

“As far as I know, yes.”

The voice of the small merchant speaking like that sounded somewhat unnatural.

‘That’s a lie. The intonation is faint, and the ending of the story is overly emphatic. If that’s the case, then we should assume that Baek Hyang-ah has already taken the Eternal Ice Crystal. Now, what we need to know is whether Baek Hyang-ah, who took the Eternal Ice Crystal, is alive… Looking at the condition of the body that was hit by the ice crystal, I’m inclined to think that Baek Hyang-ah is alive.’

At that moment, Hong Geol-gae intervened and asked So Sang-gak-ju.

“I heard before that Baek Hyang-ah went to the Demonic Cult. Did the two of you follow her to the Demonic Cult as well?”

Daebyeokgakju flinched. It seemed he had not thought that Honggeolgae would know that much.

The small and medium-sized businesses were surrounded quite naturally.

“Huh, how do you know that much? You’re only half right. Baek Hyang-ah was the only one who entered the Demonic Cult.”

“Then what about you?”

“We stayed near the Demonic Cult. Baek Hyang-ah had committed a sin, so she naturally joined the Demonic Cult, but we had no sin, so there was no reason for us to join the Demonic Cult. Fortunately, Baek Hyang-ah was expelled from the Demonic Cult before long. Thanks to that, we were able to continue to track Baek Hyang-ah’s movements.”

Hong Geol-gae asked again.

“How are you two pursuing Baek Hyang-ah?”

“Baekhyang-ah often harms people and leaves behind corpses, so if you follow the corpses that are found, you can guess the direction Baekhyang-ah is moving, even if it is late. And Baekmocho (白毛貂) also helps a lot.”

“White moss?”

“Show me.”

So Sang-gak-ju took out a small flute, about a fingertip long, from his sleeve, put it between his lips, and blew it.

But no sound was actually heard from the flute.

“What is that?”

“Please wait a moment. It is a flute that produces sounds inaudible to human ears.”

I don’t know if there is such a thing as a sound that is inaudible to the human ear, and I don’t know if it is okay to call such a thing a sound.

But the story of the little ox was not a lie, for a small animal was seen running towards me from afar.

The animal was a marten. A marten with bright, sparkling black eyes and fur as white as snow.

The raccoon did not approach readily and instead hovered around the group.

“That guy is Baekmocho. A special scent that can be smelled from thousands of miles away… A civet. Now that the scent of Chujong has been absorbed into Baekhyang-ah, we can use Baekmocho to find Baekhyang-ah.”

Dang Mujin and Hyungong glanced at Seolhwa. Seolhwa seemed unaware of the white mocha and Chujonghyang. It seemed that this was not a method commonly used in the Bukhae Ice Palace.

“If you can find the white incense with the white moss, why don’t you catch the white incense and return to the Bukhae Ice Palace instead of wandering around?”

So Sang-gak-ju responded as if he was embarrassed by Hong Geol-gae’s question.

“The problem is that the sense of smell of the white moss is so keen. It can smell the faintest scent from a long distance and find its target amazingly, but because its sense of smell is so keen, it can’t tell which direction the scent is coming from once it gets near its target. All it can tell is that there must be a white moss moss tens of miles away.”

“Oh, that’s the situation…”

Hong Geol-gae seemed to agree, but Hyun-gong thought differently.

‘That can’t be. I heard that Baek Hyang-ah escaped from the Bukhae Ice Palace almost two years ago. If I had two years to spare, I should have searched around the area haphazardly and found Baek Hyang-ah dozens of times.’

‘There must have been a reason why he didn’t approach Baek Hyang-ah.’

‘There are two possibilities that come to mind. Either he and Baek Hyang-ah are in the same boat but are moving separately for some reason, or he and Baek Hyang-ah have a falling out. Which one is it?’

‘There is no need to rush to judgment. There are plenty of opportunities to find out the situation.’

Of course, Hyun-gong did not reveal his true feelings.

Instead, Hyun-gong spoke with a slightly stupid expression.

“I’m glad to have met people with the same goal. Let’s work together to catch Baek Hyang-ah.”

“Of course.”

So Sang-gak-ju and Hyeon-gong looked at each other and smiled happily.

*

“I’m not sure, but Baekmocho seems interested in this. I hope it goes well this time…”

“All right.”

The small and medium-sized guardians and the large and medium-sized guardians were in charge of guiding the way, and the party of Dangmujin followed the guidance of the small and medium-sized guardians and the large and medium-sized guardians.

Since the attitude of Dang Mu-jin and his party was very cooperative and showed no hostility, So Sang-gak-ju and Dae Byeok-gak-ju also seemed to have let go of much of their suspicions toward the party.

However, Dang Mu-jin was picturing in his head the direction in which the group was moving.

‘As expected, there is direction.’

At first glance, it may seem like they are wandering around in confusion, but there is direction to the group’s movements.

It must be a lie that the white moth cannot find its way at close range to its target.

And on the sixth day, Sosang-gak-ju began to make excuses and delay his journey.

“Ouch, my ankle hurt just now… Can I rest a little early today?”

“Please do so. If you are sick, please tell me in advance.”

“Hehe, thank you for your concern. But it would be a problem if the trip is delayed too much.”

But thanks to that joke, Dang Mu-jin gained confidence.

A change in behavior means a change in circumstances.

‘Is it time to meet Baek Hyang-ah?’

The group had a quick dinner and went to bed early.

Sosanggakju and Daebyeokgakju did not sleep deeply for the first four days and watched over Dangmujin and his party, but from the fifth day onwards, they fell into a deep sleep.

It might be because his sense of alertness was blurred, and because he couldn’t overcome fatigue. A human being can’t overcome the water.

After confirming that Sosang-gak-ju and Daebyeok-gak-ju were deeply asleep, Dang Mu-jin sent a message to Namgung-myeong.

– Have a nice trip.

Namgung Myung did not answer. Instead, he got up without making any noise and disappeared into the darkness.

*

Namgung Myung moved while assessing Baek Hyang-ah’s position.

When more than half the night had passed, Namgung Myeong discovered a woman walking alone on a night road.

The woman’s clothes were wide and flowing, with sleeves and a full chest. She wore an expensive black hat on her head, and cotton thread was wrapped around the hat so that her face was completely invisible.

It was like the attire of a high-class courtesan. However, it was not suitable for walking along the deserted paths between villages, let alone walking along the streets at night within the village.

‘Is it Baekhyang-ah?’

However, Namgung Myung could not judge the woman’s actions. Her clothes were too flashy and flashy, making it impossible to see the slightest movement of her body, and because of the cotton, he could not make eye contact.

How long did he move while maintaining his distance from the woman? Two men appeared on the other side.

One was wearing white clothes, the other was wearing gray clothes. However, they were both made of fairly good quality fabric, and they were even carrying swords on their waists. They both looked like they were martial artists.

Namgung Myung approached the woman and the two men.

The two men discovered the woman late and approached her, speaking to her quite politely.

“My lady, where are you going alone in the middle of the night?”

Judging from the look of their faces, it seemed like the man and woman were meeting for the first time.

The woman did not answer, but lowered her head slightly. Anyone who saw her could tell that she was wary of the other person.

The man in white spoke again.

“Do not be afraid. We do not intend to harass you, young lady. Rather, we came because we were worried that people might harm you under the cover of darkness.”

It wasn’t a very believable story. Kind people talk like that, but bad people also approach you with similar stories.

But the woman answered innocently.

“Really?”

The distance between Namgung Myung and the three men was far. The two men’s voices were slightly muffled to the point that they could be heard.

But the woman’s voice was strangely clear. It was no ordinary voice.

Unlike Namgung Myung, who felt something was strange, the two men next to the woman did not notice anything strange. They just thought that she had a very beautiful voice.

“Of course. Do we look like people who would lie?”

“Your Majesty. Would you like to come with us?”

As the two men talked competitively, the woman nodded.

“I would appreciate it if you would come with me.”

At that moment, a man dressed in gray approached her with a grin and grabbed her shoulder.

“Haha, as expected, she’s a bitch who’s full of energy!”

“Why are you suddenly like this?”

“Should we go together? Should I send you to Luoyang? Or should I show you around Chang’an?”

The two men began to harass the woman in a strangely old-fashioned way.

Namgung Myung still did not approach the three people, but instead looked at them from a distance.

“Let go!”

Finally, the woman twisted her body to shake off the hands of the two men. The wind shook the cotton thread hanging down from her black lips, revealing her lower body. Her skin was very pale.

Of all the people Namgung Myung had ever seen, the one with the whitest skin was Mok Wan-ah.

But the woman’s skin is even whiter than that.

No, the important thing wasn’t simply how white it felt.

Mokwan-ah’s skin was white with a reddish tint. This was natural for someone with blood flowing through them. However, there was hardly any reddish tint to her skin.

It is a pale white, closer to light or porcelain than human skin.

“Huh!”

“You’re lucky!”

But still, the two men seemed to feel nothing unusual.

I couldn’t tell if it was because it was a dark night, or because I was simply amazed by her much whiter skin than I had expected. Maybe it was because I had never seen skin that white in my entire life.

The two men tried to trip the woman or make her sit down.

The intention was obvious without even thinking about it. The only variable was whether the men’s purpose included robbery or murder. Of course, Namgung Myung didn’t see much of a difference.

The woman barely managed to hold on without falling, and finally tilted over and waved her arms.

A hand that had not been revealed until now appeared between the woman’s wide sleeves and grabbed the wrist of the man in gray clothes. Namgung Myung’s eyebrows twitched as he saw the woman’s hand.

It wasn’t a normal person’s hand. It was a hand that felt blue, not just white.

At the same time, it had a strange sheen to it, and was even slightly transparent.

To the point where I thought the bones under the hand should be visible.

The men who had been harassing the woman also felt something strange.

Aside from the fact that the color of his hand was strange, he couldn’t move his arm while it was held by the woman’s hand.

As the man in gray, whose wrist was grabbed, stopped stiffly, the man in white shouted.

“What’s wrong? Stop fooling around!”

“Don’t move! This motherfucker, he’s not your average bitch-”

The man in gray had not finished his story, because the woman in blue also flew in with her left hand and grabbed the man’s face.

The woman’s hands were not particularly large.

Since grabbing something requires covering the object with the hand, it was impossible for a small woman’s hand to grab the man’s face.

But the woman grabbed the man’s face with her hands.

To be more precise, the woman grabbed half of the man’s face.

As a result, half of the man’s face was torn off without any life.

The woman then ripped her left arm down. The man’s body was torn vertically along the woman’s hand, causing blood to spurt out.

Instant death without any need to consider this or that. The woman’s body was covered in the man’s red blood.

What happened next was even stranger.

The woman held the man’s body tightly so that it wouldn’t fall over. If there hadn’t been so much blood, it might have looked like a scene between lovers, enjoying each other’s warmth.

Then, the woman’s two hands dug into the man’s body through his back.

The woman’s two hands slowly ran over the man’s body, which was still warm. Then, she stood still for a moment, as if enjoying the lingering sensation.

“Ah, euah!”

The man in white was shocked to see his friend die so gruesomely and tried to run away. However, his legs would not move, perhaps because he was so shocked by the sudden situation.

In the end, the man chose the second best option. He drew his sword with trembling hands and swung it at the woman. He thought that he had a chance at winning since the woman was not aware of him.

In Namgung Myung’s opinion, the man’s martial arts skills were not particularly outstanding. At best, he was first-class.

However, when faced with the threat of death, people tend to demonstrate superhuman strength.

Perhaps because the situation was so dire, the man in white’s swordsmanship contained power that surpassed his own skills.

The swords chosen by the man are the most simple and powerful, the downward strike and the Taesan slash. In many ways, it can be said to be the best choice.

But the sword attack had no significant effect.

The woman pulled her left arm out of the corpse she had been holding and blocked the sword. It wasn’t the usual diagonal movement of the recommended method.

The woman blocked the sword with her palm, as if blocking a sword with a sword.

The hand should have been cut wide and blood should have spurted out, but no drops of blood were seen. The black woman was caught without even a small wound left on her hand.

The woman took off her black hat with cotton thread and looked at the man.

She was indeed a great beauty. Except that her whole body was covered in blood.

Namgung Myeong thought.

‘···Baek Hyang-ah is right.’

Baek Hyang-ah gently pushed the body of the man in gray that she had been holding. The body fell down with a stiff movement like a stone and hit the floor.

Then the body broke apart. As if it had not been human from the beginning, but ice that resembled a human. Not only was the skin broken, but even the gray clothes it was wearing were broken along with it.

“Ah, euah···.”

The man in white looked at Baek Hyang-ah, making an incomprehensible noise as if he didn’t know whether it was a dream or reality. He hurriedly put down his sword and tried to run away, but he couldn’t put down his sword.

Before he knew it, his hand was glued to the sword hilt, which had turned white with frost.

“Ugh, ugh.”

The man couldn’t say anything, and just looked at Baek Hyang-ah with tears in his eyes. He had raped women many times, but he had never imagined this kind of outcome.

Baek Hyang-ah walked slowly behind the man with a faint smile on her face. Her expression was not angry.

And Baek Hyang-ah hugged the man from behind. Her expression was as if she was enjoying the warmth of another person, almost happy.

Baek Hyang-ah’s hand dug into the center of the man’s chest. Her hand touched the man’s heart, which was beating vigorously, under his ribs. The heart’s movement slowly stopped.

Finally, Baek Hyang-ah grabbed the man’s heart. The blood that had not yet frozen flowed out from the heart and covered Baek Hyang-ah’s hands.

Baek Hyang-ah shook her hands.

Strangely enough, Baek Hyang-ah’s hands were not soaked in blood. They were still white, blue, and had a strange sheen.

As if nothing had happened.

Baek Hyang-ah lightly pushed the man in white. Just like the man in gray, the man in white also froze and fell down with a thud.

And his body was also shattered into pieces.

Baek Hyang-ah took off her blood-soaked clothes.

Then he took out new, clean clothes from his bag and put them on, then put back on the black hat he had thrown on the floor.

Baek Hyang-ah disappeared into the darkness again.

Only then was Namgung Myung able to breathe comfortably.

‘···This is getting serious.’

Namgung Myung quietly headed towards his friends.

Thinking that Baek Hyang-ah’s steps felt somehow pitiful.

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