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Chapter 286
Chapter 286. The Right to Hold Opportunity (2)
[Whether I will give up or not is not the right question. I will still make the attempt.]
The words Jin So-un had left behind remained as an afterimage in Cheol Sun-jik’s mind for two days.
He knew Jin So-un was exceptional.
He had defeated Il-gak, called the strongest master of the Academy, in a Martial Duel, and in the practical strategy-and-tactics exam, he had led an inferior force and ultimately seized victory.
E n̆ ù.m_а̂
However, that did not mean the Taeul Sect’s absolute martial power was high.
Strictly speaking, he obtained what he wanted by maximizing auxiliary abilities such as quick judgment, improvisation, adaptability, and application.
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For example, Jin So-un had indeed defeated Il-gak in a Martial Duel.
But could the other Taeul Sect disciples defeat Il-gak in a Martial Duel?
‘There is not even any need to consider it.’
Il-gak’s victory was certain.
Е̌n u m̈_а̇.ĭd̄
The Taeul Sect’s martial arts could not even be compared to Shaolin’s.
In that respect, Jin So-un had something in common with him.
He did not care about means or methods when it came to filling in the deficiencies of his absolute indicators.
This was something that depended entirely on Jin So-un’s personal ability.
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When one entered the world where sect clashed with sect and force clashed with force, the influence of a variable like one person’s special ability could only diminish.
That was why Jin So-un’s composed face, as he had spoken as though saying something utterly obvious, would not disappear from Cheol Sun-jik’s mind.
Е̄ṅ u ḿа
And another question arose.
[Can Jin So-un truly face Zhongnan?]
Whether viewed historically or in terms of the present scale of their forces, the gap between the two groups was obvious.
Moreover, right now, Zhongnan had drawn its own martial force to its utmost limit.
What could five Taeul Sect disciples possibly do?
But why was it?
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On the other hand, Cheol Sun-jik also found himself looking forward to it.
If Jin So-un said it could be done, then in other words……
‘It will prove that I can do it as well.’
A strange sense of anticipation filled his heart.
Anticipation. Anticipation, was it……
‘Hmph. How absurd.’
En̂um а́
Cheol Sun-jik, who had been lost in thought, gave a faint laugh.
After being bested by Jin So-un a few times, had he now reached the point of idolizing his opponent?
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To think he was doing something only fools would do.
Since entering the Academy, he thought his heart had grown somewhat unsettled.
At that moment.
“Hmm?”
W ӗb̃ ṅо̂ v̌ е̇ l̊ Е̃ n ü mа̄
Cheol Sun-jik, who had been leaning on his sword and sunk in contemplation, raised his head.
The surroundings were dark, and the torches that had burned through the night were gradually dying out.
Looking at the position of the moon, it was still the Hour of the Tiger.
It was a time when even those who had been protesting against Zhongnan should have fallen asleep.
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‘People?’
Cheol Sun-jik rose from the boulder he had been leaning against and broadened his Sensory Perception.
Е nŭ ḿâ
Then he sensed the presence of people climbing the mountain.
Moreover, it was not just one or two people.
‘Their numbers are increasing?’
From what he could roughly sense, there were dozens.
These people were moving secretly in the middle of the night, yet they did not seem to intend to hide their presence or their footsteps.
No, some were even conversing or shouting.
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‘A surprise attack?’
A large-scale clash erupting after dissatisfaction had accumulated was the worst situation Cheol Sun-jik had expected.
The damage would spread intact to Zhongnan’s lay affiliates.
As Cheol Sun-jik rose and headed toward Zhongnan’s tent, Cheol Hyeon-jik, who had been dozing, startled and stood up.
“Sun-jik, what is it?”
“People are gathering.”
W̊е̃ b n̂о̃ v̀е̄ĺ Ё n um а̇
“People? At this hour?”
Cheol Sun-jik nodded slightly.
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“We should prepare for now, just in case.”
“Understood. Let us go together.”
When Cheol Sun-jik arrived at Zhongnan’s tent, the eyes of the disciple standing guard sharpened.
“What is it?”
Е̌ n̈ ů m̈ä . і̃d̃
“May I see the Hall Master?”
The disciple was not much older than Cheol Sun-jik.
He had failed this Academy exam.
Was that the reason?
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“What for?”
The Zhongnan disciple was not remotely friendly toward Cheol Sun-jik.
Еn̈ǔ m̀ à.і d̀
‘No. Perhaps this is simply natural to them when dealing with lay affiliates.’
Cheol Sun-jik swallowed his sneer and bowed his head.
“There are people climbing the mountain.”
“The mountain?”
“Yes. Judging by the fact that they are not hiding their presence, it seems they have some other scheme.”
The Zhongnan disciple gave a scoffing laugh.
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“What scheme could they possibly have?”
The privilege of those who possessed power.
Arrogance.
“May I report this to the Hall Master?”
“Do you think it is reasonable to wake the Hall Master over such a trivial matter?”
“……If they are attempting armed resistance……”
Ӗ n̆u m а̌
“Are you suggesting that Zhongnan might be pushed back by them? How dare you?”
And what brought down those who possessed power was also arrogance.
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Cheol Sun-jik once again swallowed a bitter laugh.
As he was engaged in a meaningless argument with the Zhongnan disciple—
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!
The entire world brightened for an instant, as though lightning had exploded in succession.
Е n̊um̆ à .id
“Wh-What is that!”
“Is it an attack?”
“Wake everyone!”
At the ominous explosion, as though Thunderbolt Bombs had gone off, those who had been sleeping rose with their nerves on edge.
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Among them was Gongson Su, the Nine Palaces Hall Master and the person in overall command.
“Find out what has happened!”
Е n̊ú m̆а̊ ._í d
At his command, a group of disciples ran toward the place where the explosion had occurred, while others climbed trees and examined all of Mount Judang.
As expected of disciples from a well-trained sect, their reports were swift.
“People are climbing Mount Judang!”
“A large cave has appeared where the explosion occurred.”
“From what we can hear, they are saying it is a new entrance into the Thousand Caverns.”
At the report, Gongson Su’s eyes turned bloodshot.
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“What! An entrance? What in the world were you all doing for matters to reach this point? Who was standing guard at the Hour of the Tiger?”
The Zhongnan disciple who had been confronting Cheol Sun-jik came forward, trembling before the fierce momentum.
“I-I apologize. I was attending to the area around the tents…… The B-Bamboo String Gang! The Bamboo String Gang was tasked with watching for those approaching.”
At this ridiculous situation, Cheol Sun-jik was about to step forward to tell the truth.
‘Hm?’
Cheol Hyeon-jik seized his hand, stopped him, and stepped forward instead.
Ёń úmă . i d̃
“I apologize, Hall Master.”
Cheol Hyeon-jik bowed his head deeply, but what returned was a sharp hand.
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SLAP!
“You cannot even perform such a simple task properly, and you call yourselves Zhongnan’s lay affiliates?!”
Cheol Hyeon-jik touched his reddened cheek and lowered his head again.
“I apologize. Our studies are shallow, and we failed to properly identify those approaching.”
Е̇ n̈ūm̌а̌ . іď
Gongson Su looked as though he could not suppress his boiling anger, but time did not allow him to continue.
“Let us go!”
“The Five-Spirit Immortal Flower Oil is mine!”
“It is an entrance Zhongnan is not guarding!”
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After the explosion rang out, shouts and cries erupted from every side of Mount Judang as though it were broad daylight.
Gongson Su bit his lip once, then turned around.
Е̄nu.m а̊.ǐ d̂
“Block them at once! We must not let them enter the Thousand Caverns!”
At that command, the Bamboo String Gang, two other Lay-Affiliated Martial Sects, and thirty members of the Nine Palaces Hall headed toward the newly created entrance.
However.
“This is……”
The crowd already entering the entrance was too numerous to count.
“Stop them!”
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Zhongnan’s forces, having appeared late, tried to stop those climbing the mountain.
“Stop at once— Urgh!”
The people, who had already seen many others entering the cave, no longer endured Zhongnan’s conduct.
If no one had been able to enter, it might have been one thing.
But if there were already people who had gone in, that was a different matter.
CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG CLANG!
Е̊ n u̇ m ӓ. ĩ d
“Move, you bastards! I spent twenty gold taels on that map!”
“Does the Five-Spirit Immortal Flower Oil belong to you? We can obtain it too!”
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“Push them aside! Even if they call themselves Zhongnan, most of them are lay affiliates!”
The psychology of a crowd was enough to conceal an individual’s fear.
Those who had not dared even meet Zhongnan’s eyes were now drawing swords and charging forward, each without waiting for the others.
The battle that began before anyone realized it was also utterly bewildering to Zhongnan’s disciples.
W̌ е̄ b̌ňо ṽ е.l̄ Ӗnũm̌ а̌
Moreover, Zhongnan’s lay affiliates had nothing to gain from this incident.
Naturally, they took a passive stance in battle, and because of that, a chaotic melee broke out around the entrance.
Among them were Cheol Sun-jik and his older brother as well.
“Sun-jik, people are going in.”
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At Cheol Hyeon-jik’s report, Cheol Sun-jik, who had been lightly swinging his sword and slowly retreating, turned his gaze.
Taking advantage of the melee, people were entering the newly created entrance one by one.
Ēn̈um̀a
“…….”
Then, as the crowd pushed forward with sheer numbers and forced Zhongnan’s disciples completely to the opposite side of the entrance, the number of people entering the cave increased visibly.
If he wanted to go in, now was the perfect time.
Cheol Sun-jik looked at his older brother.
“Brother. I will be back shortly.”
“Hm?”
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When his younger brother’s gaze then turned toward the Thousand Caverns entrance, Cheol Hyeon-jik cried out in horror.
“What are you saying? Do you know what punishment might befall you if you recklessly enter that place……!”
Even amid the melee, he grasped his younger brother’s sleeve tightly.
At that grip, Cheol Sun-jik’s gaze returned to his older brother.
A cheek swollen red.
Even in the middle of this night, it was clearly visible.
É ñ ŭ mа̀.і d
Cheol Sun-jik shook off his brother’s hand.
“……There is something I must confirm.”
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“Confirm?”
“Yes. I will tell you after I return.”
Then he immediately hurled himself toward the newly created entrance.
‘This is no coincidence.’
Е̇ ńu.m̀ ã_. i̇_ḋ
The situation now unfolding must have been carried out under a meticulous plan.
And naturally, one person surfaced in his mind.
[Whether I will give up or not is not the right question. I will still make the attempt.]
[You Zhongnan bastards. Let us see how far this goes.]
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Jin So-un, laughing “kkeul-kkeul-kkeul” with a vile expression.
Cheol Sun-jik wanted to see it.
W ё ḃ nо̄v̆ е́l̇ Еn üṁ a
He wanted to confirm with his own eyes whether Jin So-un could truly bring about an absurd result.
While the martial artists who had realized a new entrance had opened into the Thousand Caverns fought fiercely to enter its interior, the martial artists of Xi’an who knew nothing of the new entrance also began climbing Mount Judang one by one.
The great noise and explosion.
Those two things alone were enough to swell their expectations.
If those damned Zhongnan bastards were still blocking the entrance like a stubborn case of constipation, there was no way such a commotion would be occurring.
The warriors who climbed Mount Judang became fully excited at the chaotic situation and threw themselves into it of their own accord.
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Meanwhile, Zhongnan, which had failed to prepare for the new entrance, hastily selected disciples and attempted to block it.
“A gap! I see a gap……!”
Because of that, the entrances they had originally been blocking also began to be breached.
“Strike! No one can tell who anyone is anyway!”
“Push with numbers!”
“Forward!”
E̊ǹ um̌ а̌.і̆d
Meanwhile, the junior disciples of Jin So-un, who had splashed cold sewage over Zhongnan’s event and taught the Zhongnan Sect warriors what filth tasted like, were digging with shovels on the exact opposite side of the newly created third entrance.
“Brother! It seems something has happened.”
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Eun-ho stopped his hands, his eyes wide like a startled rabbit.
Geum-pyo’s expression hardened as he looked at him.
This bastard is scheming again, is he?
“Lee Eun-ho, are you not moving your hands?”
Ẁ е̃ḃn̈ óv е l Е̌ n úm̊ǎ
“……No, I am saying something seems to have happened.”
Then Sa-ryeon, beside him, also sent him a sharp look.
“Junior Brother, move quickly, will you? You are falling farther and farther behind.”
With even Hong Sa-ryeon joining in, Eun-ho had no choice but to lower his head again and continue shoveling.
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No, something truly might have happened. Why were they all so eccentric?
It was surely because they had been traveling with that Eldest Senior Brother that their personalities had become twisted.
Ènù m а̊ .іd̀
When he glanced to the side, Jin So-un was squatting as he tore into a piece of jerky.
Huh, that sight looks very familiar…… Hmm……
“Ah.”
Now that he thought about it, he had seen it before. When he was young, the ruffian who blocked the alley in his neighborhood and extorted coins looked exactly like that.
‘No matter how I look at him, he seems experienced in this field…….’
If it were the Eldest Senior Brother of another sect, he would at least try to show a proper and upright appearance.
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But their Eldest Senior Brother had never once been seen standing properly.
“Eun-ho.”
“Yes, sir!”
“Your hands are slow.”
“…….”
Moreover, after making a large entrance, why did they have to dig with shovels to enter the Thousand Caverns?
W̌ е b̈ń о̃vе l̇ Èn̊ ǔmă
Suppressing his frustration, Eun-ho shoveled like a madman.
And not long afterward.
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Just as Eldest Senior Brother had instructed, they had made an underground tunnel that dug into the mountain by exactly two jang.
“Hah, hah……”
“Senior Brother…… It is done.”
“Uah! This is different from swinging a sword……”
En̊ù m̊ ȧ.. id̈
As the four junior disciples sprawled across the ground, Jin So-un, who had been squatting behind them, walked forward.
Then.
Tap, tap.
“Ugh……”
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……He caressed(?) his junior disciples with his foot.
“You dig a little and start wheezing. Can you still call yourselves disciples of the Taeul Sect?”
Ẇё ḃ n о vе̄ l .Е ṅum̀ а̃
You were sitting the whole time……!
No, in the first place, what did being a disciple of the Taeul Sect have to do with shoveling?
The question rose all the way to their throats, but because their breath rose first, the junior disciples gave up on asking.
“My, my. How deeply saddened the Taeul Sword Emperor must be up in the heavens. Tsk, tsk.”
“……Senior Brother, why did you tell us to dig a separate tunnel? You already made a large entrance.”
At Sa-ryeon’s question, Jin So-un, who had been looking at the sky and lamenting, tossed out an answer in a tone that asked why she was asking something so obvious.
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“When sneaking into someone else’s house, one must give meat to the dogs.”
“Pardon?”
“Do you not know Feint East, Strike West? A commotion has to break out somewhere unrelated so they will not pay attention to us.”
Wow. To think their Eldest Senior Brother was not a back-alley ruffian after all, but a thief.
……Should they be happy about that?
Jin So-un the thief continued speaking smoothly.
Ӗ nům̊ а́ . і́d̊
“It is good because Zhongnan will be too busy paying attention to the martial artists to pay attention to us, and it is good because the martial artists gathered in this town will receive an opportunity. Is this not what it means for both the elder sister and the brother-in-law to benefit?”
Instead, Zhongnan must feel as though they had been struck in the balls and then hit in the back of the head as well.
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He was their Eldest Senior Brother, but his mind was not merely sharp. He seemed like a swindler……
“Hm? Eun-ho, why are you looking at me with those eyes?”
“Pardon? What eyes?”
“Hmm. You look as though you are staring at something contemptible.”
En_umа̇
……He truly was a genius without equal even when it came to intuition.
Eun-ho hurriedly lowered his head slightly.
“Hehe. How could that be? I am merely striving to remember even one more word from you, Eldest Senior Brother, as each is like a golden precept.”
“Hmm? Is that so?”
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Soon, Jin So-un stood at the end of the tunnel with an expression that looked somehow pleased.
“Since this much time has passed, the Zhongnan disciples inside the Thousand Caverns will have realized that outside intruders have appeared. Therefore, there should be no one on this side.”
Ѐń u mа̊. і d̆
Then he gathered Inner Qi into both hands.
He began thrusting them toward the cave wall in succession.
THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!
Each time he swung his hands, the Taeul Sect’s former martial art, the Great Yang Palm, shot out.
The Great Yang Palm had neither much destructive power nor much speed.
But at this moment, it was the best martial art for digging through a wall without making much noise.
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“Using the commotion, we need only quietly sneak into the Thousand Caverns and take the Five-Spirit Immortal Flower Oil.”
Even while speaking, Jin So-un continued sending Palm Force at the cave.
The junior disciples could not help but marvel at Jin So-un’s divine might as he fired Palm Force without pause, as though he did not care that clumps of dirt were splattering across his face.
Before the Taeul Sword Emperor’s martial arts returned, the Great Yang Palm had been one of the martial arts in the Taeul Sect that consumed a great deal of Internal Qi.
Seeing that divine might, each of the junior disciples’ minds grew complicated.
‘The Palm Force from earlier too…… Just how much Internal Qi does he have?’
Е̄_nüṁ а
‘It seems his skill is already sufficient with martial arts alone, so why does he keep using petty tricks?’
‘If I become Eldest Senior Brother’s enemy…… Ugh! Absolutely not! It will not merely be exhausting. It feels as though my soul would be threshed…….’
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How much time had passed like that?
THUD! RUMBLE.
The mound of earth that had been flying toward them suddenly collapsed and fell to the other side.
Just as Jin So-un had thought, it had connected precisely to the Thousand Caverns.
Ѐnü ṁ а̌. і̂d̆
Jin So-un looked back at his junior disciples and curled the corner of his mouth into a grin.
“Did you see that? This is what military strategy is.”
It was very strange, yet impressive.
It was impressive, but on the other hand, he seemed like a madman…… No, strange.
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The four junior disciples quickly shook their heads and scattered those irreverent thoughts.
Jin So-un, who had no way of knowing what was in their minds, gave a stylish gesture ordering entry.
Е ňû.m а̊
Following him, the junior disciples finally entered the Thousand Caverns.
But.
“Hm?! I-Intruders!”
“No, how did they get here?!”
“Wake everyone!”
……What was this situation?
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In the place they had entered, six Zhongnan disciples had already spread out their bedding and were sleeping.
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
“…….”
‘What was that about military strategy?’
W е̌ b̀n̄ о v е̂ l Е ǹ ům а
‘Feeeeint eaaast, striiiike west?’
‘Using the commotion? Are we not causing the commotion?’
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At this absurd situation, the four junior disciples all looked at Jin So-un with sullen eyes at once.
“……What are you doing? Go subdue them at once.”
Eldest Senior Brother Jin So-un deliberately ignored those gazes and stepped forward first.
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