The Martial Genius Who Remembers Everything Chapter 94

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“Why is it not here?”

Jin Tae-san, who was rummaging through the oldest warehouse in the Tae-eul-mun, tilted his head.

“What are you looking for?”

Hong Mun-gi peeked his head in.

“Ah, Sect Leader.”

Jin Tae-san’s eyes trembled slightly as he looked at Hong Mun-gi.

The achievements of this gentleman, who was now nearing fifty, increased with every passing day, making him feel like a different person.

“Were you training?”

“A sect leader cannot be weaker than his disciples, can he?”

Jin Tae-san himself could not train because he was busy sorting out the family fortune handed over from the Chang-gung Trading Company, but Hong Mun-gi, the masters of each hall, and the junior disciples were so focused on learning the martial arts of the Tae-eul Sword Emperor that they had forgotten to eat or sleep.

“Then please go and train more. It is enough for me to look for it alone.”

“Still, as the Sect Leader, how can I not help when the master of the External Hall is experiencing difficulties?”

“…….”

He was clearly bored with training and was doing something else.

Even in his childhood, he was a gentleman who could not focus on one thing for long and was always scolded by his masters.

He had thought he might have improved a little with age, but when it came to training, that did not seem to be the case.

“I cannot find where the sect flag (Mun-gi) was placed.”

“Are you talking about the Tae-eul-mun flag?”

“Yes.”

The organization of the trading company was mostly finished, and the production volume of the iron ore mine was gradually increasing.

If they had a target for supply, they also needed to open a regular distribution network.

Although they had closed the sect, it was gradually becoming necessary to use the name of the Tae-eul-mun to expand the power of the trading company.

Because the power of the Tae-eul-mun would grow as much as the size of the trading company.

“Someone else took that.”

“……Yes?”

Jin Tae-san thought he had misheard something.

A sect flag sometimes acted as a moving nameplate.

The Tae-eul-mun was such a trivial sect that there was no need to raise that flag, but it was not an object to be casually given to anyone, as it was like the pride of the sect.

“So-un said he needed it, so I gave it to him.”

“Jin So-un? You mean my son?”

“Yes.”

Why did that damn guy’s name have to come up here again?

“……Why on earth?”

“I don’t know about that. He said he would take it just in case, so I told him to do so.”

“…….”

Jin Tae-san now became tense whenever Jin So-un did anything.

“Do you need a sect flag? Should we make a new one while we are at it?”

“Forget it. I will put in an order for one.”

“Ahem. How can you do that? A sect flag eventually becomes the spirit of that sect. The Sect Leader, which is me, making it with sincerity, stitch by stitch is…….”

“Please go and train. What sect leader sits around making sect flags these days.”

Bang.

Jin Tae-san nervously closed the warehouse door out of anxiety.

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“First of all, from now on, we will only use the official road during the day.”

We decided to leave those who were injured, those who had slightly uncomfortable movement, and those who could not move due to fatigue at the Hongru.

At the words not to move even a single step outside the Hongru, those who were left behind had strange (?) expressions, showing that they were worried about those who were leaving but could not hide that they were glad.

“The problem is the official road from Haze (Ha-taek) to Puyang (Bo-gyang).”

If we rode the horses like crazy until we reached Haze, we could arrive at a village during the hours when the sun was up.

However, on the way from Haze, crossing the province to Puyang, there were no villages within a half-day distance. We would have to sleep outdoors or move at night.

“When night falls, they will definitely move.”

Facing the Dark Severing Soul Group in the darkness was no different from fighting water in the water.

“If we run all night……”

At Seong Mo-ran’s words, I shook my head. The Dark Severing Soul Group had learned the Heavenly Demon Ruling Step (Cheon-ma-gun-rim-bo).

It was a movement technique that ranked within the top ten in the world, not only in destructive power but also in speed.

It was not an existence that could be outrun by horses or anything like that.

“It will only result in meaningless damage.”

“…….”

Seong Mo-ran shut her mouth tight.

The existence of those guys gave off such fear that even she, who was bold, was frightened.

Namgung Seon-hwa said, struggling to hide her trembling voice.

“Then…… what should we do?”

I looked at Eun-ho.

“It is this.”

Eun-ho spread out the cloth held in his hand.

Seong Mo-ran, who had been dejected, and Namgung Seon-hwa, who had been trembling quietly, both had eyes wide like rabbits.

“Ar, are you crazy?”

“Even so……”

The impression of the people who saw the flag of the Tae-eul-mun was not much different from the two women’s.

“What they want most is not to be discovered. We will hide among the people.”

“No, look here…… Haa.”

“Young Master Jin, I don’t think this is right. If you raise that flag, everyone in the world will chase after us.”

“That is exactly what I want.”

The two women sighed at the same time.

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“Is this the right thing to do?”

While riding the horses to Anhyeon, the first village, Seong Mo-ran asked Eun-ho, who was holding the flag.

“This is the same as wrapping straw in your body and jumping into the fire.”

There were a dozen warriors left at the Hongru in Pung-hyeon. Now the number of warriors was slowly approaching one hundred.

No matter how absolute a master one was, one could not win in a battle of numbers.

But they were not even absolute masters.

Moreover, Jin So-un was raising the flag of the Tae-eul-mun and attracting enemies like crazy.

“I don’t know.”

Eun-ho shook his head, saying he didn’t know either.

That reaction was quite fresh. Eun-ho was the smartest and most articulate of the Geum, Eun, and Dong brothers. Wasn’t it Eun-ho who explained most of Jin So-un’s actions that couldn’t be understood?

“Really?”

But even such an Eun-ho didn’t know.

“Yes. The Senior Brother (Dae-sa-hyeong) sometimes does things that can’t be understood by common sense. Ah, no. Not sometimes, but often.”

“……And yet you work quite hard.”

Eun-ho had personally found bamboo and held the flag high.

Even though riding a horse and holding a flag was not an easy task, he did not entrust it to anyone else and stepped up to do it himself.

“I don’t understand, but I still trust the Senior Brother.”

“Hmm?”

“The Senior Brother’s choices are always directed towards us. Not even once have they been directed toward himself. Perhaps in this choice, too, he thought of us before himself.”

For some reason, Seong Mo-ran felt a thud in her chest.

She remembered the time they had acted together for a short while.

Even though he could have eaten a warm meal while practicing sword techniques with his junior disciples, he had been with them.

Thanks to that, Gang Seo-pyo and Cho Mu-bin, who had to protect her and Namgung Seon-hwa, could pay more attention to the other warriors.

For most of the time, she hadn’t even seen him sleeping. He was awake even when she was exhausted and fell asleep, and when she woke up, he was already up first, poking at the tinder.

“That’s why I sometimes stop thinking. If I use my head and think for no reason, my actions become sluggish because I’m trying to figure out the Senior Brother’s intentions.”

“……You like the Senior Brother.”

Eun-ho, who was picking up and eating dried meat while holding the reins and tying the flag.

Eun-ho chewed his mouth and grinned.

“How could I not follow him? Such a Senior Brother.”

“…….”

She nodded naturally.

“Yes, then I shouldn’t think anymore either.”

“You thought well. Considering the schedule ahead, it will be more comfortable to act without thinking anyway.”

“Hmm? What does that mean again?”

“This morning, when we left the village, the Senior Brother told the Haomun to let the examinees know our location. I don’t know for sure, but from now on, there won’t even be time to eat dried meat.”

“Hey! You should have told me that sooner!”

Seong Mo-ran hurriedly took out the dried meat pouch from her bosom.

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There was no major damage until we arrived in Anhyeon.

There were groups that looked like other examinees, but the examinees who were not prepared before the absurd strategy of ‘shut up and charge’ did not become a big obstacle.

The amount of crowd changed while going from Anhyeon to Seongmu.

Seeing the flag visible from afar, examinees and warriors rushed in from all directions.

They did not form sword formations or defensive formations.

Unconditional charge.

If a horse got injured, they immediately got on someone else’s horse and ran.

When entering Seongmu, hundreds of examinees were following long behind.

From Seongmu, we stopped by the Chang-gung Trading Company again.

Because hundreds of people flocked around the branch of the Chang-gung Trading Company and were aiming at the Chang-gung Trading Company, there was no need to go to the Hongru, which lit up all night.

The most stragglers occurred while going from Seongmu to Haze.

Some were injured in battles with other examinees and could no longer be together, and some were hit by the Dark Severing Soul Group.

Because we were ambushed by other examinees just before entering Haze, the ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) sun had set, and the warriors who stayed in the darkness without light for even a moment in the melee did not return.

The number of warriors was now only eighty.

Most were greatly exhausted due to the forced march.

“Now it is for real.”

We ran like crazy with the chasing examinees long behind us from Haze, but by the time we crossed Shandong Province, the sun began to set.

Behind us, hundreds of examinees began to light torches one by one, and in front, examinees who were waiting in advance lit torches as if to announce their existence.

“How should we distinguish those existences?”

To Seong Mo-ran’s question, Jin So-un answered as if it were natural.

“If you feel no aura, pour sword energy there.”

“Yes?”

An absurd and unreasonable response method.

“If there are so many people here on all sides, yet no aura is felt, then those are the existences.”

“……I understand.”

Torches began to be lit from all directions.

In the nearby forest, on the distant ridge, from the back where dust was blowing.

Hearing the information from the Haomun, hearing the information from the Beggar Sect, seeing the flag of the Tae-eul-mun, and seeing other examinees moving.

A thousand people gathered to steal the gate tokens.

And even more terrifying existences hiding in their darkness.

If you realize reality, only fear and dread grow.

I continue with only one thought.

“If there is no aura, cut. If there is no aura, cut.”

Only Dong-ryong’s voice, repeating Jin So-un’s words, echoed among the people.

Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang.

Clang, clang, clang, clang.

Clang, clang, clang-.

“Please.”

In the end, the eighty personnel were blocked by a barrier of hundreds.

The horses they had ridden often fell or were startled, abandoning their masters and running away, and those who fell from the horses did not hesitate to fly their swords toward their enemies, using small torches as lamps.

“Please go.”

Gang Seo-pyo, who I had intended to leave behind because of the scar on his chest, but who had followed me anyway, grabbed my reins.

He immediately tried to force the horse to approach Namgung Seon-hwa.

I separated from him, unfolded the Heavenly Solo-Traveler Divine Step, and moved far away from the battlefield.

And I pulled the Tae-eul-jin-gyeong to its full power and examined the aura of the surroundings.

I grasped everyone, from those with powerful internal energy to those who participated in the battle with humble martial arts.

And I began to follow the places where no aura was felt among them.

This was a method of finding the guys that would only be grasped after the outbreak of the War of Righteousness and Evil, after learning of the existence of the Dark Severing Soul Group.

Because too many people gathered, I looked for places where there was no aura at all.

And I poured fist energy toward the empty air.

Guys who couldn’t even be damaged unless it was an attack by energy.

Thud.

In the darkness where there should clearly be nothing, eyes surprised like a rabbit’s suddenly appeared.

“Surprised?”

Eyes that disappeared into the darkness again.

I felt something wrapping around my arm. I poured fist energy toward that empty space, but this time I felt nothing.

“The method is still the same.”

I quickly turned my head.

Swish.

A white bone sword flew sharply toward where my head had been located.

It was not that there was no way to deal with them at all. It was just that the method was very difficult and tricky.

“It is like that if it is your first time. But I am not seeing you guys for the first time.”

I snatched the bone sword of the guy trying to hide in the darkness in an instant.

Crackle.

I applied enough pressure that it would have broken if it had been a human bone, but it was fine.

Perhaps surprised by the fact that I had avoided and snatched this bone sword, rabbit eyes popped out in the darkness again.

“This is very tiresome.”

I grabbed the bone sword and unfolded the Lotus (Yeon-hwa) in the reverse direction.

As I applied force to the exact opposite side of the original rotation axis, I heard the sound of flesh bursting because it could not support the bone sword.

Crackle, crackle.

Thud.

More blood flowed on the bone sword than before. The guy had also been damaged by the Lotus.

The bone sword that had pierced through the palm tried to go back in, but…….

“No way.”

I immediately put full energy into my right foot and trampled on the bone sword.

Flap.

-Kyak.

In the end, the bone sword broke, and the guy screamed.

“Even the scream sounds just like a beast.”

-!

The guy’s eyes appeared again.

Now, as if it had become a real rabbit, the eyes were entirely bloodshot.

-What is your identity?

A voice presumed to be the guy’s rang in my head.

Because the vocal cords melt and disappear during the Fluid Bone Sword surgery, they use a special martial art called the Heavenly Demon Mind-Transmission Art (Cheon-ma-jeon-sim-gong).

“Do I have to tell you that?”

The guy finally succeeded in putting the broken bone sword into his palm.

Soon, he hid his body in the darkness.

While a moment of time passed, the torches held by the people in the area were extinguished all at once.

‘It’s coming…….’

In the darkness, I predicted the direction the guys were moving by recalling my past life’s memories.

Because no aura was felt, I moved first by relying on my memory.

Swish, swish, swish.

Three bone swords were pierced into the head, heart, and Dantian of the afterimage that appeared through the Tae-eul Eight Thousand Divine Steps.

In that short moment, two other guys had appeared.

It was a scene that would have been my future if I hadn’t moved according to my memory.

The guys hid their figures in the darkness again, not wanting to make the same mistake as their comrade.

I put down the teachings of the Tae-eul-jin-gyeong for a moment and brought the teachings of another martial scripture.

Reverse Demonic Scripture (Yeok-ma-gyeong).

A martial art of the Reverse Demonic, created by the Hell Demon Emperor of that era, who was trapped in the Boundless Eight Trigrams Severing Soul Formation, bearing a grudge against the cult members who did not come to save him. Since it was a martial art created with a truly demonic heart, its meaning reached toward cruelly removing the demonic.

“To think that the Heavenly Demon and I have the same will, doesn’t such a contradiction exist only in literature? What do you think?”

Clatter.

As I pulled out the Flying Dragon Claw (Bi-ryong-jo) long, a white light shone on the Heavenly Silk (Cheon-jam-sa).

The light beam that climbed up the Heavenly Silk wrapped the thin Heavenly Silk thickly, and in the end, it reached the part where the sharp claw was attached.

Like the Heavenly Demon Manual left by the Hell Demon Emperor, the Reverse Demonic Scripture only had the essence, without form or pattern.

Therefore, the form and pattern that were realized followed entirely my realization and followed my desires.

My most desperate desire for revenge, created based on the tens of thousands of nightmares I had experienced in my past life.

And the appearance of that desire was none other than…….

Cruel Whip of Severing Demons (Jeol-ma-gwang-pyeon).

Chwaak-.

A cruel whip that cuts off the demonic was swung.

Something was caught in a space where there should clearly be nothing.

“!!”

And in that darkness, three pairs of eyes surprised like rabbits suddenly appeared.

A smile naturally formed on my lips.

“Finally caught you.”