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Chapter 206
Chapter 206. Stealing the Chair (5)
“Hmm......”
“Uh......”
“Ahem......”
An awkward silence flowed through the room.
Еn̄ u m̀ǎ . їd̊
The very person who had caused the awkwardness was merely sitting still, rolling his prayer beads.
“I told you not to smash their heads...... and you came back as if you had torn out their heart instead?”
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At Nam Hwa-seong’s rough impression, everyone nodded without realizing it.
Then they looked at Jin So-un, the one who had done this absurd thing.
Their eyes demanded an explanation.
However, Jin So-un only glanced once at Il-gak’s gleaming head, then shrugged.
Е̃n̈ ům а .ïd̀
“Well, that’s how it turned out. Get along from now on.”
“......”
Jin So-un brushed it off with an explanation that was nowhere near enough.
Should he not at least give the bare minimum explanation about how Il-gak had ended up joining the representative delegation’s executive staff?
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Eun-ho looked at Il-gak with a face full of certainty.
His eyes were filled with pity, as if he knew all of Il-gak’s circumstances.
Е̊_num а. і̃ d́
“Monk....... Did Eldest Senior Brother perhaps seize some weakness of yours with a wicked scheme and threaten you?”
Eun-ho asked politely, not wanting to commit a sin against a monk and go to hell, but the answer came from Jin So-un instead.
“What am I, some kind of blackmailer......? No, well, I do threaten people when necessary, but......”
Each member of the group nodded with eyes that said, At least you know, then only cleared their throats under Jin So-un’s sharp gaze.
“In any case, he joined ‘of his own free will’ to settle his karma, so relax.”
Why did they have to feel relieved by the fact that he had not been threatened?
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The members of the executive staff swallowed that fundamental question and all looked at Il-gak with gazes asking, Is that true?
But Il-gak was only rolling his prayer beads quickly, as if trying to drive away his worldly anguish.
“Oh, right! And you do not need to suspect him of being a spy.”
Of course!
No matter how much idiotic nonsense the Righteous Path Association did, why would they send someone like Il-gak as a spy?
Il-gak’s fingers, which had been rolling the prayer beads, flinched slightly, but soon began moving regularly again as if nothing had happened.
Е n ū m̌а̀ . ĭd
“Fucking hell! I joined of my own free will too, so why am I always suspected of being a spy?”
At Nam Hwa-seong’s question, Jin So-un looked dumbfounded.
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“You are not a giant of his caliber.”
“W-what?”
“If you feel wronged, become a giant.”
“Fucking hell!”
Е́_n umâ
When Nam Hwa-seong crumpled his face and left the room, Eun-ho muttered to himself, “I’ll be tormented again,” and drooped his shoulders.
Just as Jin So-un’s representative delegation had been shocked, Il-gak joining the executive staff caused an enormous controversy within the Academy.
“Monk Il-gak joined the executive staff......! This makes no sense!”
“Did you mishear something about a unified representative?”
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“Is that even a question! Why would Monk Il-gak unify with Jin So-un?”
From the beginning, Il-gak was someone who possessed representativeness for the current Academy generation beyond even the symbolism of being the Righteous Path Association’s chairman.
Ŵ ёb ñ övèl̂ Ē n ǔ m̆a
Because many Academy students acknowledged and respected Il-gak beyond their own affiliations, Il-gak’s actions felt shocking to them.
“Then should we take this to mean Monk Il-gak has acknowledged Jin So-un?”
“Beyond acknowledging him, was Jin So-un not originally the current Academy Representative?”
“Then should we say the Righteous Path Association has also acknowledged Representative Jin So-un?”
Il-gak’s sudden joining of the executive staff also caused confusion inside the Righteous Path Association.
Arguments began breaking out between those who supported Il-gak’s choice and those who criticized it.
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“What exactly is going on? The atmosphere is suddenly becoming one where everyone thinks our Righteous Path Association supports Jin So-un, is it not?”
“Since Monk Il-gak entered the representative delegation, it cannot be helped.”
“What do you mean, it cannot be helped! At this rate, our Righteous Path Association’s spirit might be broken.”
“......Then go grab Monk Il-gak by the hair and drag him back.”
“No, how am I supposed to grab something that is not there......!”
Even words crueler than those of Demonic Cult members went back and forth.
Ě ñum_à
Because the Righteous Path Association had botched things in Sichuan, there had been no small amount of backlash even inside the Righteous Path Association against its existing vested-interest forces. Because of that, the vested-interest faction of the Righteous Path Association could not unite and act together while they were busy watching themselves.
Then did the Orthodox Path Association gain from this?
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No, that was not the case either.
The Orthodox Path Association members, who had been thinking of ghosting into the empty seat left by the Righteous Path Association and shaking it, were startled by Il-gak’s sudden action and ended up fumbling.
“Should we take this as the Righteous Path Association declaring that it will never stand with the Orthodox Path Association again, no matter what happens in the future?”
“The Righteous Path Association and the Orthodox Path Association each walk their own paths, but on the other hand, we are also companions. What reason would the Righteous Path Association suddenly have to oppose the Orthodox Path Association?”
Е̇n̊u m̊ а̄
“Then there is no explanation for why Il-gak moved, is there?”
“Perhaps Jin So-un grabbed him by the hair!”
“No, where is there hair to grab...... Ahem.”
They spent a chaotic time interpreting the political meaning contained in Il-gak’s actions.
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Never imagining that people were discussing his hair, Il-gak sat awkwardly in the representative delegation office.
“Benefactor Jin...... Then what task should I take on here?”
Е̄ n̈ um̆ӓ
“Task? What would you know about worldly affairs, Monk....... Just sit still and nod along to what I say like a sleepy chicken.”
“......”
Jin So-un was busily moving around, assigning work one by one to the people Jang Woo-jae had recruited.
He was apparently going to Mantongbu, and his face looked deeply dissatisfied.
It was not as if the others were idle either.
The existing executives were each handling their assigned tasks one by one, while only Il-gak himself had been assigned no work and was merely keeping his seat like a stone statue waiting for her husband.
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No matter how accustomed he was to wall-facing cultivation, what ordeal was worse than sitting still beside people who were working?
In the end, Il-gak stepped forward first.
“Since I have joined the executive staff anyway, I will properly learn the work. Please tell me what needs doing, Benefactor Jin.”
At that, Jin So-un took out a document as if he had been waiting.
“Well, if you insist that much, then I have no. Choice. But. To give you work.”
“What is this?”
Ѐ ṅ ù m а̄ . і̀d
“Among the sects affiliated with the Orthodox Path Association, these are the ones we need to draw into our representative delegation first.”
Il-gak took the document and quickly tried to grasp the situation.
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“......So, you are telling me to act as a spy?”
Il-gak looked at Jin So-un with dumbfounded eyes.
“Why call it something as serious as a spy? You just go have a conversation with them, earn their goodwill, and make them leave the Orthodox Path Association.”
“......Is that not usually called ‘espionage’?”
Е n̄ ŭm а̂.іd
“Oh......!”
Jin So-un narrowed his eyes in surprise.
“To think you know so much about worldly affairs....... It seems I can entrust you with even more work from now on. How reassuring! Hahahaha.”
What was this?
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For some reason, it felt like he had taken the bait......
Watching Jin So-un burst into roaring laughter, Il-gak wondered whether he had somehow seen something wrong in the past and mistaken Jin So-un for an “enlightened one.”
Ӗ n̄ ùmа̌
But no matter how quick regret was, it was always late.
Surprising news reached one’s ears whether it was true or not.
For example, news that Il-gak had joined Jin So-un’s representative delegation.
‘Jin So-un......’
At first, I dismissed it as nonsense, but after seeing the sight of Jin So-un in the Academy cafeteria picking out only the meat from the side dishes Il-gak had received and eating them, I had no choice but to believe it.
Naturally, a question followed.
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How had Jin So-un made Il-gak join the representative delegation?
One possibility that easily came to mind was that he had seized a weakness.
But that made no sense.
There was no way the Orthodox Path Association would not know something Jin So-un knew.
The Orthodox Path Association and the Righteous Path Association cooperated a great deal inside the Academy, but in the end, once they entered the Murim Alliance, they would become competitors.
That was why trying not to let the other side seize one’s flaws was practically an instinct carved into their bones.
Wе̂b̊ ń_ŏv̂ е ľ Е̃ ň u̇m ã
Moreover, this was not an ordinary person, but Il-gak.
He was not someone who would move even if threatened.
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In the end, the unresolved question changed direction and manifested as an act of blaming the other party.
And in a direction favorable to oneself.
“The reason Il-gak is moving like that is because he dislikes the situation in which the Orthodox Path Association takes the representative position.”
At Jegal Jeong-gi’s assertion, the Orthodox Path Association members naturally had doubts.
Еnŭm̄ã.і̌d
“Even so, what benefit would Il-gak gain by joining Jin So-un’s representative delegation?”
And Jegal Jeong-gi was far too clever to be left speechless by such an obvious question.
“Because of the matter in Sichuan, the Righteous Path Association is in danger of being judged inadequate to perform the role of representative.
In that case, from their position, would this not be the last desperate struggle to plant the impression that Jin So-un maintained the representative position not because they were incompetent, but because Jin So-un was exceptional?”
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At Jegal Jeong-gi’s opinion, they began nodding one by one.
“And most of all, it means the prestige of our Orthodox Path Association is frightening enough that Il-gak himself had to move.”
Еǹ ůḿ a
Now, a subtle gleam began appearing on the faces of the Orthodox Path Association’s temporary executives.
Jegal Jeong-gi smiled with satisfaction.
“In the end, this means it is practically a foregone conclusion that the Orthodox Path Association will reclaim the representative position from Jin So-un.”
With the interpretation that Il-gak had suddenly joined Jin So-un’s representative delegation because he feared the Orthodox Path Association’s prestige, the temporary executives became motivated and gained even more confidence in the event they were holding.
Although Jegal Jeong-gi pretended to be relaxed on the outside, he was in truth confused inside.
‘He truly is impossible to predict.’
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Jin So-un’s actions were difficult to guess with his own head.
This was not limited to the matter with Il-gak.
Ever since he had heard that Jin So-un had taken out Jegal Cheon-gi, who had been imprisoned in the Prison after causing a serious problem in the clan, he had been unable to understand his intentions.
What could he possibly do by taking in a child whose heart had been stolen by vulgar machines like Mechanism Formations?
Furthermore, the fact that Jin So-un had received an Entry Token from his grandfather, Jegal So-myeong, made him feel not merely doubt, but even betrayal.
To think he had given an Entry Token, something he had absolutely refused to give even to his own blood-related grandsons, to a disciple of some unknown third-rate sect.
Е̌nu̇ m̂ a
Jegal Jeong-gi had thought that Jegal So-myeong, whom he respected beyond measure, would never do such a thing, but when he heard the inside story that the one who had received the Entry Token had passed it to Murong Jae-hwa and made him pass, he even felt dumbfounded.
Jin So-un was truly a man whose actions could not be predicted at all.
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A being like a Thunderbolt Bomb that could bounce in any direction.
To the current Jegal Jeong-gi, Jin So-un was exactly such a being.
And that unpredictable human came to him at an unexpected time.
“I hear you brought Monk Il-gak into the executive staff?”
Ŵ е b̆n̈о̊ vе̂ l̄ Е ń.u̇m ӓ
Far from answering his question, Jin So-un was staring blankly only at the teacup containing Seven-Colored Flower.
“......Hm? Ah, yes. That is how it turned out.”
As expected, he was a man whose inner thoughts could not be understood.
“You must be pleased.”
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“Pleased? Now we cannot even hold dinners at taverns, and at meals we have to order without meat, so there are more than a few things to pay attention to.”
And...... no matter how one looked at him, he seemed like a man who was not in his right mind.
W е̂ bn̂ оv̇ е̂l̆ Е̃ n u m̈ ã_
“How did you persuade Monk Il-gak?”
“Persuade?”
“Monk Il-gak is not someone who would move for money. Did you seize some weakness of his?”
“Oh? So when you persuade people, you always seize their weaknesses?”
“If not that, then there is no way he would move.”
Jin So-un shrugged once as if it were no big deal.
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“I did nothing special. I simply asked him to join me. If something motivated him, would it not be my ‘character,’ rather than anything else?”
“Insane......”
“Hm? What did you just say?”
Jegal Jeong-gi tried not to get dragged into his nonsense and changed the subject.
“By the way, what brings you here today?”
“......Hmm, indeed. Why did I come today?”
W е́b ñ_о̊ v_е́l̈ Е núm̆а̀
With his eyes still fixed on the teacup where the Seven-Colored Flower swayed, Jin So-un offered a Zen riddle and said nothing else.
That sight made Jegal Jeong-gi become certain of his own thoughts.
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If power gathered in the hands of such a completely unpredictable human, there was no telling what would happen.
The Academy needed a fair and just representative who would not abuse power in order to improve.
That was why Jegal Jeong-gi could not simply let go of the opportunity his clan had created for him.
The Seven Stars Seven Seizures Formation.
Е nǔm å . іd
It was the Jegal Clan’s strongest Mystic Gate Formation, one that any famed clan under heaven would be certain to install.
The world often distinguished whether a faction was a giant sect or not by whether the Seven Stars Seven Seizures Formation had been installed there.
And soon, a new formation created by the greatest geniuses belonging to the Jegal Clan’s Elder Council and Technical Institute over the past twenty years would be announced.
The Two Principles Eight Trigrams Myriad Phenomena Formation.
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If the existing Seven Stars Seven Seizures Formation merely had about five thousand formation paths, then the Two Principles Eight Trigrams Myriad Phenomena Formation had no fewer than twelve thousand formation paths.
It was truly an ultimate death formation from which one could not escape once entering, not until death.
Ŵ е.b ńо̄ v е̊ l̄ Е̄ n̆úm̌а̀
Some might say the Jegal Clan’s myth had been broken because of the Boundless Indestructible Soul-Destroying Formation.
However, had it not been proven through the Academy event?
The Boundless Indestructible Soul-Destroying Formation was an ultimate death formation that humans could not control.
If a Mystic Gate Formation meant to block enemies swallowed up allies as well, that would be the very image of the guest becoming the host.
That was why the world still continued to seek the Seven Stars Seven Seizures Formation.
Moreover, with the Black Path Murim forming an alliance, the Green Forest Alliance showing suspicious movements, and even the Blood Cult appearing in a martial world where tension was already rising, the world would be unable to hide its curiosity at the appearance of a Mystic Gate Formation stronger than the Seven Stars Seven Seizures Formation.
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And Academy students, who were practically the representatives of each sect, would have no choice but to participate in the academic event demonstrating it.
And if public opinion moved, the Training Masters would also be able to lend a hand in condemning Jin So-un.
No matter what desperate struggle Jin So-un put up now, the Orthodox Path Association’s victory was as good as certain.
‘Will I finally be able to see that vile face go blank?’
Jegal Jeong-gi looked at Jin So-un, who still could not take his eyes off the teacup containing Seven-Colored Flower, and smiled wickedly.
As the event schedule drew near, the Orthodox Path Association suddenly revealed the identity of the event they were holding.
Еñ ú m̃ ä
It was none other than a new Mystic Gate Formation presented by the Jegal Clan.
At the appearance of a new Mystic Gate Formation that had not yet been shown anywhere under heaven, not only the Academy, but the nearby Murim Alliance, and even the martial world beyond, began to stir.
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People were anxious to find out the true nature of the Two Principles Eight Trigrams Myriad Phenomena Formation by any means possible, and each person used their own connections to dig up information about it.
At this point, the number of letters Academy students received from their own sects, or from close relatives, increased massively.
The pressure to obtain information on the Jegal Clan’s new Mystic Gate Formation faster than anyone else had intensified.
However, there was one small problem.
Е̊n̊ũm̆ ӓ .і̂ď
“The Orthodox Path Association’s event overlaps with Representative Jin’s event schedule.”
“I heard Representative Jin So-un formally invited the Mount Heng Sect and prepared a lecture on Dispelling Evil and Exorcism.”
“I was thinking of attending that lecture after hearing the Righteous Path Association’s story this time too.”
Both were excellent events, but unless one had two bodies, one could not attend events held in different places at the same time.
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Moreover, one side was an event related to one’s own life, and the other was an event related to the survival or collapse of one’s own sect.
This situation, like a taut tug-of-war, was more than enough to throw the Academy students into anguish.
W̃e b̃n̂о̃ v́ ė l Е́ n̈ ŭm̊ а̌
At that time, when the entire Academy was buzzing.
“Huff, huff! Fucking hell. Why, why am I the only one shoveling?”
“What are you talking about? I am shoveling too.”
Nam Hwa-seong, who had been going around the entire Horse Station digging into the ground, looked at Jin So-un, who had dug more areas of land than he had, and asked,
“Is it all right for us to be doing this?”
“No, it isn’t, you bastard! If you want dinner, dig faster!”
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At Jin So-un’s immediate answer, Nam Hwa-seong asked again in frustration,
“No, I mean, the Orthodox Path Association said it is going to hold an experience event for a new Mystic Gate Formation, did it not? Should you not at least unfold that Boundless Indestructible Whatever Formation you installed before?”
“Do you know how much money it costs to unfold the Boundless Indestructible Soul-Destroying Formation even once?”
“Even so, do you think people will come to our event after seeing a crappy Nine Palaces Bewildering Formation like this?”
Jin So-un shook his head as if he found him pathetic.
“As a rule, people are weak to things given as bonuses.”
E ň u m̊ a . ĩd
“Bonus?”
“Yes. Bonus. The Mount Heng Sect’s event is the main thing, and participating in the Mystic Gate Formation we are making now is the bonus.”
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“......”
Would people really think a Mystic Gate Formation like the Nine Palaces Bewildering Formation was a good bonus?
Nam Hwa-seong, who usually hated using his head, unusually squeezed his brain and thought it over carefully.
But no matter how he looked at it, the answer was no.
W̊ е̇b n̊ о v ёl Ё ň u m̂ а̌
Even he thought it would be better to experience the new Mystic Gate Formation created by the Jegal Clan than to study Dispelling Evil and Exorcism in advance, which he could learn once he went to the Murim Alliance.
And public opinion seemed to be flowing in a direction not very different from Nam Hwa-seong’s.
‘What exactly is he thinking?’
A scolding flew at Nam Hwa-seong, who was standing alone in the middle of the Horse Station.
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“What are you doing? Why are you not shoveling faster?”
Nam Hwa-seong decided not to question the Nine Palaces Bewildering Formation or Jin So-un’s plan any further.
Е n̊ u̇ mа
Because a more urgent practical question lay right before his eyes.
“So my question is this. Why am I the only one shoveling? There are so many people in the representative delegation.”
“Those people are working.”
“I-I work too!”
“What work could a spy possibly do...... Hurry up and shovel.”
“......”
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He felt uneasy that this digging might really just be digging, but Nam Hwa-seong was unknowingly doing as Jin So-un told him.
“Hup.”
Looking at Jin So-un working hard with his shovel, Nam Hwa-seong decided to simply follow him, just as he had in Sichuan, rather than thinking thin thoughts.
At the very least, he had never taken a loss by trusting him.
“Spy! Why are you not shoveling faster!”
Of course, the treatment he received was extremely unfair.
Еn̆ ü ma.і̀ d
“F-fucking hell! I told you I am not a spy!”
“The fact that you are not working hard means you are a spy.”
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“......”
Even so, Nam Hwa-seong could not quite bring himself to throw away the shovel.
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