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Chapter 288
Chapter 288. The Right to Hold Opportunity (4)
“Hmm……”
The corners of Wang Geum-san’s eyes drooped.
He knew very well that sects that revered Martial pursued greater martial force.
He thought it was similar to how those who revered Gold obsessed over money.
Wēb̆ńо v̇е̂ l̃ _Е̌ n̄ũ_m̌ӓ
However, he had never imagined that obsession would reach this degree.
“What is this?”
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“They say it is called a Spirit-Saving Snake.”
At Jin Tae-san’s answer, Wang Geum-san’s gaze returned once more to the being called a Spirit-Saving Snake.
As its name suggested, it had the shape of a snake, but it did not have the slick body unique to ordinary serpents.
Its entire outer skin looked so hard that it seemed as though it were wearing armor, and two small horns sprouted from its head. No matter how one looked at it, it did not resemble a normal snake.
Ĕñ u m̆ à .і̀d
“You are saying we will feed this to the children?”
No matter how much stronger they could become, it did not look like something a person should eat.
‘Is this not a bit much?’
“……To be precise, we are not feeding them the Spirit-Saving Snake itself. We will extract the energy inside it……”
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Wang Geum-san knew very well that the Taeul Sect was currently struggling with the issue of Internal Qi.
When he heard that, because they lacked the ability to manufacture Spiritual Pills, they were searching in every direction for methods to supplement Internal Qi, he had said,
Е̂n.ú mä . і̇d̆
“Mobilize every means and method!”
He had also ordered the merchant guilds under him and other businesses to gather information on Spiritual Medicine.
He had passed the list of Spiritual Medicines secured that way to Jin Tae-san, and his last memory was of sorting out the ones Jin Tae-san said were necessary and handing them over to the Herb Gatherers belonging to the Wang Estate to find the ingredients.
Somehow, during that interval—
“Ugh……”
This bizarre-looking snake had ended up in their shared office.
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“……We cannot simply feed it to them. Since the Spirit-Saving Snake’s Poisonous Qi is extremely strong, they say it must be specially processed. If we could make it into a Spiritual Pill, its effects would be even greater, but……”
Ah, he was saying it in such a difficult way.
In other words, to put it simply—
“You mean they cannot eat it right now?”
That much, he understood.
Spiritual Pill manufacturing was one of the most secret arts held as a confidential tradition by each sect, so it could not be easily obtained or reproduced.
Е́ n̈üm_à .i̇ḋ
It was an inevitable choice for the Taeul Sect to procure Spiritual Medicines instead of manufacturing Spiritual Pills.
He could also understand that one of those Spiritual Medicines happened to be a strange snake.
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But.
‘Why bring it into the office!’
Jin Tae-san answered Wang Geum-san’s question calmly.
“It is…… Spiritual Medicine, is it not? We cannot treat it carelessly.”
Е n̂ū m а̊
“No…… I understand that. But could we not just leave it in the storage room? It is…… somewhat distracting.”
Jin Tae-san, who had been looking at documents with an indifferent expression, turned his gaze toward Wang Geum-san.
“Are you afraid?”
At Jin Tae-san’s provocation(?), Wang Geum-san opened his eyes sharply.
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“……Hah! Ha! How absurd! Truly, it leaves me speechless! Are you saying that I, Wang Geum-san, would feel fear toward a mere snake?”
If he was not afraid, then he was not afraid. Why was he spreading his shoulders so broadly?
Е̂ n̂.ũ ḿ а
“Did I not tell you? In my day, when I was on Escort Runs, I even encountered a white tiger as large as a house!”
A white tiger, my frozen foot—
At that moment.
“……!”
Jin Tae-san looked at the Spirit-Saving Snake with a startled expression.
“I-It o-opened its eyes!”
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“What did you say!”
Wang Geum-san, startled along with him, sprang up and leaped to the corner of the office.
To think Estate Master Wang had said he had never learned martial arts. That had been an utter lie. How could that heavy body leap so high?
“Y-You should hurry and flee too……!”
Still, perhaps because he had a conscience, Wang Geum-san turned his head, worried that his close friend Jin Tae-san might suffer some calamity.
“White tiger……?”
E ṅ ŭm̌ а
He saw Jin Tae-san’s brow lengthening and his nostrils flaring.
When he lowered his gaze again—
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……the Spirit-Saving Snake was still in a deep sleep.
“……Pfft, ahem. It seems I saw wrong.”
Wang Geum-san’s face flushed bright red at the shame that suddenly rushed over him.
Whether Wang Geum-san did so or not, Jin Tae-san forced himself to hold back his laughter.
È ṅú m̂ а̊. їḋ
“You need not worry. They said winter is when the Spirit-Saving Snake hibernates, so it will not wake before spring.”
Wang Geum-san glared at Jin Tae-san with the face of an Evil Spirit, but Jin Tae-san pretended to be perfectly calm.
“If you are Estate Master Wang, who does not even fear a white tiger as large as a house, then naturally, you would not fear a mere snake.”
“…….”
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Now he was outright toying with him!
But if he got angry here, he would lose in the end.
Еňǔ m̂а̄_. іd̈
Wang Geum-san deliberately put on a grand air.
“Keuheuheum! What do you take me for?”
He strode toward the Spirit-Saving Snake.
“Do you think I would be frightened by such a lowly creature?”
Tap! Tap!
The motion was large, but the impact transmitted to the iron cage was so small it did not match it at all.
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Jin Tae-san struggled to hide his sneer as he watched.
How could a man who did not easily lose his spirit even before high officials and nobles of the imperial court be afraid of a mere snake only as long as an arm?
Still, he should only tease him this much before the man sulked further.
Just as he thought that having a shared office at least made things less dull—
“H-Hey.”
“Yes.”
W̆ѐ b̈ nо̀ v.е̃l̀ Еn.um̃ ȧ
Wang Geum-san’s face had turned deathly pale.
“L-Look at this. This fellow o-opened its eyes.”
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Estate Master Wang was truly poor at lying. Did he not know that if he played a prank again this soon, Jin Tae-san would notice immediately?
As expected of someone who could not bear being bested, Wang Geum-san was already trying to take revenge, but Jin Tae-san swallowed his laughter inwardly.
The Spirit-Saving Snake would not wake throughout the winter even if its body were set on fire. For it to suddenly open its eyes—how could that make any sense?
Still, since he had teased the man once earlier, he should play along.
Е̃ n̈ůṁ а̂. і̌ d́
If he did not respond properly here, he would have to look at Wang Geum-san’s silent, stiff expression for the next week.
Jin Tae-san put down the document in his hand and raised both hands theatrically.
“Ah! Is that so? This is truly a serious matter.”
“N-No. Truly, truly, it opened its eyes!”
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“Yes, yes. We must quickly find someone who can make Spiritual Pills and deal with it. I am deeply worried whether the Physician Jin So-un said he would send will have the skill.”
After roughly agreeing with him, Jin Tae-san was about to return to his work.
W̃еb̀ n̆о́ v̆еl̀ Еn u m а̂
Rattle!
“Hiiik!”
The iron cage shook violently, and Wang Geum-san cried out in shock.
Good grief. Was it so entertaining to play pranks at his age?
Still, he should stop him now.
The Spirit-Saving Snake was said to have value as a Spiritual Medicine, but its toxicity was so strong that even snake catchers did not touch the Spiritual Creature carelessly……
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Rattle!
The iron cage shook violently again.
Tsk— This is going too far.
“Estate Master…… Please stop joking there.”
Just as Jin Tae-san was about to warn him to stop—
He saw it.
W̆ eb̈n о̇ v̌ е̂ ľ Е̇ n̆ǔmã
The Spirit-Saving Snake’s glistening yellow eyes were wide open, glaring at him and Wang Geum-san.
‘Why…… did that open its eyes?’
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Without giving Jin Tae-san even a moment to sink into thought—
WHOOSH—
The Spirit-Saving Snake coiled its body, then shot forward like an arrow and slammed itself into the iron cage.
CLANG!
Ѐn u̇ ḿǎ
The impact made the sturdy iron cage move a whole foot on its own.
The Spirit-Saving Snake had realized the iron cage was binding it and had begun writhing to escape.
“H-Hey…… D-Do something!”
As befitted something called a Spiritual Creature, the Spirit-Saving Snake seemed to have quickly grasped its situation.
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After realizing the iron cage was sturdy and would not break, it went back to the end of the cage and coiled its body tightly.
Then, as though using the method of Bow-Body Bullet Shadow, it launched its body and repeatedly crashed into the iron cage.
Ѐṅům a
As a martial artist, Jin Tae-san could not close his mouth at the ethereal Movement Art of nature itself.
Wow! A Spiritual Creature certainly is a Spiritual Creature!
“Hey! This is not the time to be admiring it!”
At Wang Geum-san’s words, Jin Tae-san quickly came back to his senses.
He cleared his throat and slowly edged toward the door.
“Do not worry. No matter that it is a Spirit-Saving Snake, it will not be able to break that iron cage and come out……”
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“Damn it! Then why does it keep trying to get out!”
“Huh? Estate Master! You curse too?”
“No, do something about that!”
While Wang Geum-san clutched Jin Tae-san’s clothes so tightly they seemed about to tear, the Spirit-Saving Snake coiled itself again and slammed violently into the iron cage.
Clatter!
The sturdy iron cage moved another full foot.
W̄.ӗb̃ n̄.о̆ v е̌l̂ Eñ ūm̀ а̂
The Spirit-Saving Snake seemed to have grown even more venomous at the iron cage that refused to break easily.
SHRIEEEK—
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The Spirit-Saving Snake opened its maw wide, venom dripping from the four sharp fangs that protruded from it.
At its cry, Jin Tae-san and Wang Geum-san trembled.
“L-Look. That fellow will absolutely not come out of there.”
“For that to be true, is the iron cage not quite dented!”
Wе̃b̊ ňоv̆ e l̃ Е ň ŭ mа́
“It may dent, but it will not break. How could a mere creature withstand the craftsmanship of humans……”
Clatter!
“Uheok!”
Wang Geum-san, who had been supporting Jin Tae-san as he nearly fell backward in fright, began pushing Jin Tae-san toward the Spirit-Saving Snake.
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It was such an instinctive movement that all their past displays of friendship, in which they had said even Guan Zhong and Bao Shu could not compare to them, seemed meaningless.
“H-Hurry and do something. Put it to sleep, or kill it.”
Е̃ n ūm̈ а
“We cannot kill it! Then its value as a Spiritual Medicine will……”
“Th-That fellow! Look at that fellow!”
The Spirit-Saving Snake, perhaps realizing that slamming its body would not work, began gnawing at the iron cage with its sharp fangs.
Crunch!
The fangs protruding beyond the iron cage felt even more horrifying.
“D-Do not worry. No matter how powerful its bite force is, against an iron cage made of steel……”
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“No, why did you use steel! You said it was a Spiritual Creature! Then you should have at least made the cage from Black Iron!”
“Estate Master! Is a cage the kind of thing you make from metal used for hoes? A mere creature……”
Crunch!
Creeeak!
After biting the iron cage several times, the Spirit-Saving Snake seemed to have grasped the cage’s durability and began widening the gap between the bars.
Then.
E̊ ň ǔ m̆а̂
“Kyaaaak! The cage! The cage!”
“Kyaaaak!”
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Delicate voices, hard to believe they had been released by men old enough for frost to have begun forming at their temples, burst out.
Crunch! Clatter! Crunch! Clatter!
The Spirit-Saving Snake, now enraged to the end, began rampaging like mad.
Every time the iron cage, the size of a small box, rolled and rattled on its own, the hearts of Jin Tae-san and Wang Geum-san dropped with a thud.
Ё n um̌ а . i d
Creeeeeak!
Finally, the iron cage widened as far as it could, and the moment space to escape was secured—
The Spirit-Saving Snake coiled itself to its fullest and shot forward like an arrow, widening the cage entrance even more.
At last.
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Clatter!
Thud!
Ёn ũ m̊ a
The Spirit-Saving Snake’s body emerged from the iron cage, rolled across the office floor, and struck the wall.
“……!”
“……!!!”
Jin Tae-san’s and Wang Geum-san’s faces turned white.
“S-Save me!”
The first one to move was Wang Geum-san.
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Moving like a flash of lightning, he opened the office door and tried to leap out.
Rattle!
“……Huh?”
Rattle, rattle!
……The office door would not open.
Rattle, rattle, rattle!
Еn.uḿ а́. і̇.d́
“Uaaaaaaaah!”
While Wang Geum-san shook the door like a madman, Jin Tae-san approached his side and shook the door with him, but the door did not open in the slightest.
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“I told you we should have fixed this earlier, Estate Master!”
“Are you blaming me now? The one who brought that damned monster here was none other than you!”
“What are you going to do now?”
“Why are you asking me? You are the one who learned martial arts! Subdue that thing with the martial arts of the legendary swordsman, the Taeul Sword Emperor!”
Ë n̆u m̃ а.і̂d̆
“……Move aside. I will break the door with the Great Yang Palm.”
“No! I am telling you to use the Taeul Sword Emperor’s martial arts, not the old Taeul Sect martial arts!”
“I could not learn them because I was busy earning money!”
“Damn it! I am disappointed in you! Truly disappointed!”
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“Great Yang Palm!”
THUD!
Е̇ n_ŭ m̈ a
The Great Yang Palm containing Jin Tae-san’s Internal Qi shot out, but there was no way a martial art with little destructive power to begin with could break an office door made by a first-class carpenter of the Wang Estate.
—Estate Master! Since it is the office door, I will make it so sturdy that not even a cannon blast will break it.
For an instant, the image of the first-class carpenter smiling and raising his thumb flashed through Wang Geum-san’s mind.
While Wang Geum-san briefly stared at that damned smile of the first-class carpenter—
SHRIEEEK—
The Spirit-Saving Snake, filled with Poisonous Qi after escaping the iron cage, approached the two of them.
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As though it knew who had imprisoned it in the cage.
“Uaaaaah! Is anyone there? Save me! Over here!”
“Great Yang Palm!”
While the Spirit-Saving Snake kept a certain distance from the two of them and coiled itself, preparing to spring—
Despair appeared on both their faces.
At that moment.
Еnǔ m̃ а̀. іd
Click.
The door opened from the outside, and the two men lost their balance and fell out through it.
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“E-Estate Master? Master of the Merchant Guild?”
The two had fallen in an undignified heap.
As the servant expressed confusion at the incomprehensible situation—
“R-Run! A monster! A monster is chasing us!”
W.ebnо̇ v е ľ Ènú m а
“A monster?”
“Yes! A monster that gnawed through an iron cage with its own strength and escaped……”
While Jin Tae-san and Wang Geum-san scrambled out the door—
A strange man who had come with the servant looked inside the office.
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“May I take a look for a moment?”
“Hm?”
En ũ m̆а́
Before Wang Geum-san could answer, the Spirit-Saving Snake, its body coiled tightly, shot toward the four of them like an arrow.
“Uheuheuheok!”
The servant screamed in terror, and the man calmly stepped one foot into the office, stretched out his hand, and seized the Spirit-Saving Snake by the neck.
“Oh my. This fellow is terribly strong. Is this not a Spirit-Saving Snake?”
“Hm?”
“If you slowly raise its temperature, the Spirit-Saving Snake quickly wakes from hibernation.”
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For some reason, the Spirit-Saving Snake that had gnawed through and broken the iron cage could not move at all in the man’s hand.
“But cold is its bane.”
The man took the subdued Spirit-Saving Snake into the yard and thrust it into the snow.
The violently thrashing body of the Spirit-Saving Snake slowly grew calm.
At last, after who knew how much time had passed, the Spirit-Saving Snake sagged limp in the man’s hand as though dead.
“If storing it indoors, it is best to keep it in a cool place.”
Еn ũm̀ а̄. і̇ ḋ
“…….”
The man’s face was extremely serene.
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Jin Tae-san and Wang Geum-san stared blankly at that face.
“Um, may I ask who you are?”
His face shone with a halo, as though he were no different from their savior.
Wang Geum-san asked his name in an exceedingly respectful tone.
Еnum̂â
The man lifted the corners of his mouth with an easy smile, as though it were only natural for him to receive such a greeting.
“I am Sima Jeong. I came through the introduction of Academy Student Jin So-un.”
It was a soft, finely shaped smile, impossible to believe it belonged to someone who had subdued a monster in a single motion.
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