Chapter 387: Chapter 387

Plod, plod-.

In the early morning, before dawn broke, the Golden Lion Mu Cheon-pung walking out of the Hunan Dan Family looked exceptionally weak compared to other times. His shoulders were slumped, and his already old-looking face seemed to have aged even more dramatically in a single day.

Namgung So-hye broke into a cold sweat at his appearance, which naturally evoked sympathy just by looking at him.

“Is that person really the Golden Lion Mu Cheon-pung?”

Because no matter how much she thought, she could not understand, Namgung So-hye truly had a disbelieving expression.

This was the same for Zhuge Yeon, as Mu Cheon-pung was in an appearance too shabby to be thought of as someone once called one of the Five Emperors.

Also, his gongfu was not felt to be great either.

Rather than looking grand, he was merely such an old man commonly to be seen anywhere.

“Haha, it must be certain. Seeing that none other than the Dan Family Head has not kicked him out and has kept him until now.”

Namgung Cheon stroked his long beard and nodded.

Although he had aged a lot, his past face remained.

The reason he could not recognize him right away was because it was merely passing by once or twice, so he did not remember clearly.

“Surely… he was captured and lost his dantian…?”

At Namgung So-hye’s question, Namgung Cheon also nodded.

In rumors, it was unmistakably so.

Also, judging merely by how he was held captured for a long time, he judged it was not a wrong rumor.

However, it is none other than Sa Do-hak.

Would he destroy the dantian of someone who was no different from his competitor so easily?

Since he is a poisonous fellow who cannot resist fighting if it is a strong person, and even uses others for his own development, he would not have destroyed the dantian so easily.

“He must have blocked the dantian using some sort of evil art. And breaking it must have been recently.”

“Ah… is such a thing also possible?”

Namgung So-hye shook her head at the absurd words. No matter how much she took the stories of the realm beyond heavens to ear, there were way too many things she could not understand.

“By the way, just what on earth happened…?”

“He is a completely different person from yesterday.”

Namgung So-hye and Namgung Cheon muttered while staring at the back of the departing Mu Cheon-pung.

Unmistakably, until yesterday evening he looked triumphant like a person who had all the world, but simultaneously with early morning arriving, he was behaving as if he had changed.

It was not understood at all.

The gazes of the two turned toward the others.

It was to see if they perhaps knew anything.

“I do not know well, but… that…”

“That what?”

“When I woke up in the morning, there were traces of digging the ground around the storehouse.”

“Oho… is it that which has been frequently discovered recently?”

At Gwon Mu-jin’s words, Namgung Cheon cast an interested look and nodded. Even without that, there were traces of someone digging up the ground here and there in the Hunan Dan Family recently.

At first, he wondered if Dan So-mi was playing with dirt, but because the depth was unusual, when he checked, it was dug up to an extent that a young child could not easily dig.

This was clearly Mu Cheon-pung’s doing.

“So… the Golden Lion Mu Cheon-pung is looking for something buried somewhere in the ground here, right?”

“Indeed.”

Namgung So-hye rolled her tongue and shook her head.

It is the affair of none other than the Golden Lion Mu Cheon-pung. As it was an action shown by such a person, it would surely be related to gold, silver, and treasures, and Dan Woo-hyun would have pierced it from the beginning.

If so, naturally.

‘He must have waited for the time.’

Everyone had such thoughts and nodded.

If the Golden Lion was a human crazy about money, Dan Woo-hyun was someone whose obsession with money was serious enough to be called a money ghost.

If such a person caught the smell of money, he would surely obtain it.

Even without that, due to things going wrong at the Golden Ring Merchant Group, Dan Woo-hyun had suffered a considerable loss. The desire to make up for that must have been more earnest to him than to anyone else.

“The Golden Lion…”

“Umm…”

“Mu Cheon-pung’s treasure…”

Groans were heard in various spots.

The Golden Lion Mu Cheon-pung’s treasure is buried somewhere in this land.

Since there were traces of digging here and there, it looked clear that it was buried somewhere.

If so?

“Ahem! Where was the shovel, again?”

“Ah, I will go together too!”

“Come to think of it, I could not clean over there.”

People scattered in various directions, each grasping a tool that could dig the ground in their hands. Soon, the ground began to be dug up here and there.

* * *

“…Just what are you doing?”

Dan Woo-hyun looked around with a dumbfounded expression. Starting from the yard, here and there were being dug up. As if trying to dig traps densely, pits were filled everywhere.

Dan Woo-hyun’s expression looked quite dazed.

“Ahem…! Ah… it is nothing. Because something fell on the ground…”

“W-We were helping.”

“…….”

Namgung So-hye hurriedly hid the shovel and laughed awkwardly. Because Dan Woo-hyun’s gaze was newly fierce, they could not even make a proper excuse.

Zhuge Yeon covered her face, wondering what was so embarrassing.

“Do not do foolish things. I am embarrassed on your behalf.”

“W… What are you saying. Really, because something fell…”

Namgung Cheon made a poor excuse and broke into a cold sweat. Having grown completely old yet engaging in a treasure hunt just like young children, once he snapped out of it, there was no other thing as embarrassing as this.

He seemed to understand why Zhuge Yeon was covering her face.

Dan Woo-hyun chuckled looking at them.

“Even if you search, it won’t be there. Do not waste time on useless things.”

“Did… did you already find it?”

“No.”

Dan Woo-hyun shook his head with a dumbfounded expression.

If such a thing actually existed and was found, rumors would have already spread widely within the Dan Family. However, not to mention Dan So-mi, even Dan Woo-hyun had not known of its existence until now.

What this meant was.

“It is not here. I guarantee it.”

“Because the Family Head already obtained it?”

“…….”

Gwon Mu-jin muttered with an extremely regretful expression. He looked like a person who regretted, thinking that if he had known just a little earlier, all of those things would have become his.

Dan Woo-hyun pinched the bridge of his nose.

They said money could move even ghosts, and it was holding and shaking even that sturdy Gwon Mu-jin.

“If I say it isn’t there, it isn’t. I also did not even know it existed.”

“Then So-mi?”

This time, Ma Jang-gang shined his eyes.

The one with the highest probability was Dan So-mi. If that child had taken the lead and discovered it first, Dan Woo-hyun’s words also made sense to some extent.

It was none other than that Dan So-mi.

The child who dragged heavenly luck around.

If so, Ma Jang-gang was full of intent to approach Dan So-mi right away and rub his hands, hoping some crumbs would fall.

However, Dan Woo-hyun shook his head even at that.

“Did I not say no.”

“Then what on earth is it? Was Mu Cheon-pung not clearly searching here.”

“It is a story of twenty years ago. If someone had taken it, they would have taken it long ago.”

“So you…”

“I said no.”

Dan Woo-hyun felt a headache coming.

He did not know how much the Golden Lion’s treasure was, but seeing their eyes spin to that extent, it must surely be an extraordinary amount.

“It is only natural for everyone to act this way, hahaha. Do they not say the Golden Lion’s treasure matches even the Myriad Gold Merchant Group?”

At that moment, Zhuge Un revealed himself while fluttering his fan. Whether he had no interest at all in the treasure, he merely looked to find this situation highly amusing.

“That old man has that much money?”

Dan Woo-hyun also knew of the power of the Myriad Gold Merchant Group. Since the things heard by his side were of that sort, even if he did not want to know, he had no choice but to know.

“It is a simple rumor. Are rumors not always bound to have things added? However, it is certain that it is a considerable amount.”

“I see…”

Dan Woo-hyun stroked his chin.

He was not uninterested.

However, seeing the Golden Lion finding nothing for a few days, he noticed there was no treasure in this manor. Even more, since there was also yesterday’s affair, that soon turned into certainty.

“Someone who is not even a merchant managed to gather it well.”

There was also a somewhat incomprehensible aspect. How could a person like a tiger floating alone, not the leader of a group, gather such treasures?

Dan Woo-hyun looked at Zhuge Un and sought the answer.

“It is simple. It was because he received any request without choosing. Sometimes he received requests, and sometimes he plundered bandits and water bandits. Or they say he also took bounties.”

“Does a treasure stack up with such things?”

“…….”

“Ahem.”

“Haa…”

“Absurd.”

The moment Dan Woo-hyun’s single word was spat out, everyone looked at Dan Woo-hyun with absurd gazes. He had done most of what the Golden Lion Mu Cheon-pung had done.

He plundered bandits and water bandits, caught those with bounties, and received that money.

As it began to stack up one by one, who was the one who had already become the number one wealthy man in Hunan?

It was precisely Dan Woo-hyun.

However, whether Dan Woo-hyun did not think the money he possessed was that much, he wore a somewhat indifferent expression.

“Well… it is not exact, but that’s what it is.”

“Is that so…?”

“Yes.”

At that moment, Zhuge Un saw.

That deep interest surged in Dan Woo-hyun’s eyes.

If it became this way, surely.

‘He will find it.’

Zhuge Un wore an insidious smile.

No matter how much they dug the ground and looked for the traces, they could not discover it. Even if it was discovered, since Dan Woo-hyun was there, they would never possess it.

If so, making Dan Woo-hyun find it directly would suffice.

Since they could not have it anyway, at least let them watch.

It was something easily possible just by giving a slight push on the back.

At that moment, suddenly the door opened wide.

The gazes of everyone naturally returned toward that place.

“Uhahaha! This Sam-tae has returned!”

A shrill voice was heard.

Wondering what made him so pleased, Jang Sam-tae raised his voice loudly. Whether he was glad to return to his home, even his face was fully bloomed.

“Have you only come now? You are quite late.”

“Hehehe, I wanted to come even a day earlier because I missed the Manor Lord, you see. Ah, because dog-like things kept picking fights somewhere.”

Jang Sam-tae approached with a silly smile and rubbed his hands. In his eyes, clinging tightly by Dan Woo-hyun’s side, a genuinely glad look was clear.

Dan Woo-hyun stared intently at Jang Sam-tae.

A look different from when he last saw him was felt.

A feeling somehow familiar yet unfamiliar.

The moment he realized it, Dan Woo-hyun nodded.

“It seems to suit your body well, indeed.”

Jang Sam-tae, who realized something from Dan Woo-hyun’s words, stood up abruptly with a confident expression. Proudly thumping his chest, he raised his voice.

“Uhehehe! This Jang Sam-tae! Now call me the number one under heaven!”

“Madman.”

“You’ve gone crazy?”

“Heh… dumbfounding.”

Sa Do-hak, Namgung Cheon, and Jeok Mu-seong wore dumbfounded expressions. Although getting high-nosed was fine, to speak of such things, the ones in front of his eyes were all too lofty existences.

Dan Woo-hyun chuckled looking at that entire situation.

Standing up slowly, he spoke.

“A good confidence, indeed. Let us have a look.”

“Yes?”

Jang Sam-tae wore a puzzled expression.

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