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Chapter 725 – Great and Small Affairs (5)
by Heavenly CatIt was scorching for once.
Sunlight rippled like transparent flags from the window of the lord’s office. As if it were pages of memory, Jeong Yeon-shin recalled last night. Looking back, it was filled entirely with Yue Shou-lin’s voice.
It had been so from right after Jin Myeong-jo calmly discussed Jeong Yeon-shin’s Baihui acupoint. Meanwhile, Jeong Yeon-shin felt as if his condition had been revealed to his family, but he had stayed still because it was Jin Myeong-jo who did so.
Since he would have to prepare succession anyway.
– Hey, you crazy blood demon bastard! What did you say? What?! If that’s a lie, you’ll get beaten over a hundred and fifty times! What are the ear people doing, not detecting this! Hey, Cheong family fellow… did you know? Everyone but me…?
The transcendent composure was nowhere to be found.
From the beginning, Yue Shou-lin’s upper energy center spirit was at a realm where she didn’t need the help of noble clans in detecting falsehoods or lies.
Her figure was clear in the transparently rippling sunlight.
Eventually she appeared flickering before Jeong Yeon-shin, then squatted at the edge of the round table and reached her hand toward Jeong Yeon-shin’s head.
– This, this…
At the moment her long fingers were about to touch his hair, Yue Shou-lin stopped. She remained in empty air as if she had touched an acupoint.
Though she could have gripped it like a spear to examine the Baihui acupoint, in the end she couldn’t grasp or touch it. Even though whether it was her spear or Jeong Yeon-shin, flying to the River of Three Crossings was all the same.
– I was… discourteous to the lord.
Internal energy breathing that was cut off unlike her was the last.
Yue Shou-lin suddenly broke through the ceiling and flew away. It happened before anyone could catch her, but no one tried to catch her in the first place.
Even Jeong Yeon-shin only carefully added words to Wish for Peace Sword Hall as lord. To deduct the material costs from Yue Shou-lin’s monthly salary.
That’s what Divine Sword Group Leader was.
Even if she committed sudden actions like Tyrant Hero and Fallen Sword, there was faith that she would ultimately return with answers. That was the trust that had weighed heavily on Lotus Nezha’s shoulders for so long. Naturally Yue Shou-lin too would have to become accustomed to it.
Thus the day ended, and it was now.
‘She’ll return soon.’
She was the Divine Sword Group Leader he had appointed. Jeong Yeon-shin stopped worrying about her at this point.
It was a day with a busy schedule.
“Did you cough?”
Dan Jeong-jeong’s voice crossed over the thick stone door. Desolate Fortress Lord’s attendants were all beings who had opened their energy perception.
Jeong Yeon-shin shook his head.
“It didn’t happen.”
“I understand.”
A second meeting at Wish for Peace Sword Hall had nearly continued. The topic was one. What was the way to save Jeong Yeon-shin?
‘Divine Physician already certified that methods can’t be found externally…’
Extraordinary opinions came out.
First, maternal uncle Ma Jin confessed he was touching his own brain like muscles with Jeong Family Dynamic Technique.
Elder Council Lord Shin Byeok said he would present the previous seventeen leaders trapped in Huguang Province’s gate as Divine Physician’s test subjects. There was also the added comment that they were at least those whose Baihui acupoints had been greatly pierced.
Desolate Divine Family Head Shin Seol-ha insisted on including her father in that group. She was Elder Council Lord Shin Byeok’s daughter.
Law Enforcement Leader Woon So-yu suggested moving their base to the lake water of World Tree at Heavenly Pillar Sect, but was blocked by opposition from Radiant Demon Wing Leader Cheong Myeong, who was from Heavenly Pillar Sect. Along with the words that it was already a grave of Unorthodox Path corpses whose crowns had been pierced by him
– They couldn’t regenerate. It’s sewage now.
By then Jeong Yeon-shin had struck Ma Jin’s forehead with finger wind, but he couldn’t do the same thing to Cheong Myeong.
Many were dismissed.
Even Seventh Apostle who whispered to mix blood with him, Dragon Treading Leader Wei Ji-zhi who said he would vividly interrogate his younger sister Sword Dragon Wei Ji-myohwa about Zhongnan Sword Immortal’s death, and even Shin So-bin who said to request Soul Transfer Great Method from Ming Cult Leader to live together in her body.
Jeong Yeon-shin wished Taoist High Sword would rename the aliases of Desolate Fortress people, but amid that, at least one realistic method came out.
Summon not only the Divine Sword Group but even the Elder Council within the gate to preemptively strike World Tree. So Jeong Yeon-shin would have no regrets.
– If you cut down the monsters and spirits within that tree bark, the lord’s name will be immortal.
It was Jin Myeong-jo.
Jeong Yeon-shin had approved, and now everyone in the stronghold was moving based on that premise.
Jeong Yeon-shin himself was the same. He descended from the office bed like a ghost in an instant. Leaving Seventh Apostle, who slept with wheezing internal energy breathing in the next position, alone.
The grandmaster of Jeong Family Dynamic Technique, who had advanced once again by acknowledging his father, was a master of controlling acupoints and fine channels. Nothing happened.
“Keep pretending to sleep as you are. Don’t act rashly.”
“Ah…?”
The bright red pupils that had been buried diagonally in the pillow revealed themselves through a gap in her half-closed eyes. Jeong Yeon-shin turned his body without bothering to meet her eyes.
“That’s your brain prison. Move only when I permit it.”
Whoosh!
The moment he lifted his foot, space mixed into gentle halos of light and changed scenery. A sharp smell of boiling medicinal herbs struck. It was Divine Physician’s quarters.
“It’s new every time I see it. That beggar chief-like footwork looks so refined.”
Jeong Yeon-shin smiled faintly.
Gurgle…
While absorbing the tremendous shock waves of lightness technique through the Yongquan acupoints on his soles. Now no matter how great the rebound, it couldn’t exceed Jeong Family Dynamic Technique within his body.
Divine Physician, who glanced at that sight, spat out bluntly.
“Your master who expelled you never handles any power so crudely.”
“If you’d tell me more.”
Jeong Yeon-shin tried hard to let the word expulsion flow past his ears while adding quietly.
“I’ll listen carefully.”
“Listen while getting acupuncture. Isn’t that why you came?”
It was about the right arm that had been cut by Praising Earth Sword Duke and joined with Jeong Family Dynamic Technique. He said it might break someday.
Jeong Yeon-shin immediately sat down. The moment he scattered his protective strong energy and relaxed the strength of his whole body’s muscles. Divine Physician, who had suddenly approached, stuck three large needles near his shoulder.
Pffft…
Jeong Yeon-shin had to ask.
“This is treatment, right?”
“Your expelled master… that Wei family girl, after reaching the peerless realm, never allowed her body to be touched by any enemies’ tyrannical martial arts. She only wielded her sword like a willow flower branch, and cultivated so that all things would return to non-action with that fluttering blade work.”
“I don’t know. What I experienced was only strong swords that even raised sword pressure.”
“It must be thanks to some rationality remaining in your expelled master. Nature Sword merely assists that blade work of non-action naturalness. If you truly reach a realm where you can discuss all ages, you’ll soon experience it to your bones.”
“Non-action naturalness…? It was different from Wudang’s Taiji.”
“Of course it was.”
Divine Physician laughed heartily. Simultaneously he deeply stuck one large needle into Jeong Yeon-shin’s chest.
“Because what Zhang Sanfeng taught your expelled master was at best only how to make Fasting Pills. No matter how much Yue Feng pestered him, he didn’t share a damn thing. Your expelled master is a grandmaster who became strong on her own, taking three people as inspiration.”
“Three people…”
“Two are naturally Zhang Sanfeng and Yue Feng. But I truly don’t know one of them. Because she hides everything related to that person with upper energy center spirit. Like jianghu’s maxim to hide thirty percent of true martial arts.”
Divine Physician added. Even knowing this much is thanks to World Tree that should be dried to death.
“……”
The cups he had shared with his master in childhood passed through his mind. Perhaps he himself might be one of her inspirations.
“Who can defeat one who grasped Zhang Sanfeng’s incomprehensible blade work in her own way and mastered it, becoming the incarnation of Divine Sword Group’s seventeen martial arts on her own. If you truly wish to completely recover your expelled master, you must thoroughly find out about the remaining one of the three. That person’s life, very deeply.”
Jeong Yeon-shin suddenly recalled. Whenever he received teachings from his master, the distance between the two was very close.
His fine hairs always stood on end.
Their breaths mixed.
The feeling of always being thrillingly spellbound. When Jeong Yeon-shin sensed every detail of his master’s internal energy breathing and the energy waves in her fingertips, was she too becoming stronger because of Jeong Yeon-shin touching her hand? Like any peerless masters who never stop advancing.
‘Plus the Unified Noble Clans.’
It matched the world’s greatest family. No matter how successful the preemptive strike, Desolate Fortress’s forces would inevitably be whittled down. Which meant Jeong Yeon-shin would inevitably lose someone again.
It wouldn’t be just one or two.
He thought deeply while receiving acupuncture. How should I not cry? It was something he would have to ponder for a very long time.
Then.
“Since you won’t come visit.”
Suddenly a man’s voice rang out close by. Speech that seemed to ride a melody, and in an instant the sky outside the window grew dim like lantern light.
“I have walked here.”
When he turned his head, a noble clan man entirely gray in color stood there. The faded monarch. Jeong Yeon-shin looked up at him with an indifferent face.
“Bold.”
“Are you evaluating me?”
“Having visited to steal Divine Physician elder, yet doing suspicious things right before me.”
“Since I walked here when you were present, it can’t be called suspicious. Won’t it not be stolen?”
“That’s also true.”
Only after Jeong Yeon-shin nodded did the faded monarch sit opposite him with a faint smile. Then he stared intently at Jeong Yeon-shin’s face for a while.
It was clear he had been staring at Divine Physician’s guest hall from the beginning. The grandmaster of Eight Ring Divine Art, destroyer of Xinye County, the previous Desolate Fortress Lord’s betrothed. With his eye techniques, he could capture even the world’s fastest movements.
Thud, drip.
Even amid that, Jeong Yeon-shin was offering his shoulder to Divine Physician’s acupuncture. A situation where he could hardly use his right arm even for an instant.
Someone transcendent like the faded monarch would be more than enough to target the opening. Originally Jeong Yeon-shin had secretly escaped with noble refusals and returns.
The voice flowing from the faded monarch’s mouth tickled empty air like a tune.
“I ask respectfully, are you not tense at all?”
“Should I jabber in my own stronghold?”
At those words, the faded monarch’s smile deepened.
“My question was wrong. It was quite ambiguous.”
“What should I be tense about in my stronghold?”
Suddenly one window paper grew dim. Due to a shadow cast from afar, something that would be difficult unless it was a giant-like existence.
Literary Star was approaching.
As if he had anticipated in advance when the young lord, who couldn’t sleep due to the beauty-toppling blood demon, would rise and where he would first walk to.
He was Divine Sword Strategist.
The faded monarch also glanced that way, but immediately only met eyes with Jeong Yeon-shin. As if Literary Star were still a half-baked weapon not properly grasped in Jeong Yeon-shin’s hands.
“I can tell you the truth. The circumstances of tribes completely different from Han Chinese arriving here beyond the gate. The process of Ming Dynasty’s founding centered on noble clans. Even what it means to ‘cut down World Tree.'”
“……”
“I can even give you myself, Sword Venerable, and Helian Feng-yue since you lack blades. I’ll also help with the great undertaking of putting my betrothed to eternal rest. However, there’s a condition.”
“Jabber on.”
“Give me Yue family Dream Flight.”
Words that approached as speech transcendent of all affairs because they were so out of the blue.
Brief silence flowed. It was because there was much room for interpretation. It was when Jeong Yeon-shin’s head tilted to the side.
Literary Star’s thick voice spread like spring wind turning pages.
“Yu Ling’s report.”
“Speak.”
“World Tree’s location has been specified.”
[Prepare for expedition.]
It was Jeong Yeon-shin’s Six Harmonies Uniting Heaven Sound.
Instantly bleak winds wrapped around all directions. As if a different giant from Literary Star had raised a vast flag. It was the presence of Yue Shou-lin’s spear rising somewhere in the stronghold.
The Yue family’s command token that he had Dan Jeong-jeong deliver, Dark Lotus Spear.
[Prepare for expedition.]
It was her voice.
Immediately after, all of Desolate Fortress responded. There was no counting how many had placed hands on their sword hilts and risen from bed. The vicinity became even more blurred, and the presences of sword winds that shot up to the sky overlapped layer upon layer.
At early dawn, everyone in the stronghold arose.
They were Jeong Yeon-shin’s swords.
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