Chapter 204: Chapter 204
The time when the sun was setting, hanging over an unknown mountain.
The place where the carriage arrived at the end of the official road on the border of Shaanxi and Henan was a guest house softly illuminated by lanterns.
“This is decent.”
With those words, Cheon-hwi looked at the signboard of the guest house.
‘Late Pine Guest House,’ was it?
He liked that even the name of the guest house suited the current time perfectly.
Chwarreureuk…
Cheon-hwi entered the Late Pine Guest House first.
Unlike the calm atmosphere seen from the outside, the inside was bustling.
Numerous people and colorful foods.
It was so busy that not only the waiter but even the guest house owner was running around, his huge belly jiggling.
In the midst of the busyness, the waiter, who belatedly discovered them, hurried over.
“I apologize for keeping you waiting.”
“It’s fine.”
Danmok Rin smiled brightly.
At her smile, the face of the waiter boy, who looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, turned slightly red.
“I, I will guide you to a seat.”
“Please give us a good seat.”
“Yes!”
As the waiter, who answered energetically, took stiff steps, Cheon-hwi, Danmok Rin, and Heavenly Ear Beggar followed behind him.
Seueuk…
People’s gazes gathered.
To be exact, they were focused on Danmok Rin.
Some blatantly stared and looked her up and down, while others forgot to put food in their mouths and stared at her in a daze.
At such surrounding gazes, Heavenly Ear Beggar shook his head.
“How about wearing a veil?”
Danmok Rin let out an awkward laugh.
When she had traveled Jianghu previously, she had thoroughly worn a veil. It was because she hated getting entangled in unnecessary troubles.
However, because she had only been training in the Mount Hua Sect and it had been a long time since she came outside, she completely forgot to wear a veil.
“Yes, I will have to buy one separately.”
The group, who thus monopolized the gazes of the guest house, sat at a table on the second floor following the waiter’s guidance.
“What would you like for food?”
“Your most confident meat dish and liquor.”
Cheon-hwi spoke as if he had been waiting.
“The price is high, will that be okay?”
When the waiter asked carefully, Danmok Rin smiled gently and opened her mouth.
“It does not matter.”
“A, alright. Then I will quickly prepare it and bring it.”
The waiter hurriedly left the seat.
And when he was no longer visible.
“Is it okay for you to eat?”
Heavenly Ear Beggar looked at Cheon-hwi and asked.
“Yes? What is it?”
“I mean the liquor and meat.”
“Why, do you not want to eat?”
“As if I wouldn’t want to eat. What I mean is, is it okay for a guy like you to eat it?”
Heavenly Ear Beggar whispered very quietly.
“Aren’t you a Taoist.”
“It is fine as long as I do not get caught.”
“What……?”
Heavenly Ear Beggar looked at Cheon-hwi as if he was dumbfounded, then soon burst into a big laugh.
“Puhahat! I thought you were an extraordinary guy, but to think there would actually be a guy more eccentric than me.”
Having even shed tears from laughing, he wiped his eyes with his finger and spoke.
“If the Sect Leader of the Mount Hua Sect knew you were doing this, his insides would turn upside down.”
“If it is about that, it is fine.”
“Huh?”
“Because he already knows.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar blinked his eyes.
Perhaps because he was too flustered, he forgot his words for a moment and stared at Cheon-hwi with his eyes wide open.
“……What? He knows? But he leaves you be?”
“I said I want to eat, so what can he do.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar was dumbfounded.
At the same time, it was funny.
To think that the guy recently called the future of the Mount Hua Sect would eat meat and drink liquor.
And imagining the situation where the Sect Leader of the Mount Hua Sect could not say anything and was at a loss about it, how could a laugh not come out.
‘I am quite an eccentric too, but this guy is not to be underestimated either.’
At the time Heavenly Ear Beggar was laughing.
“I have brought the food.”
The waiter appeared holding the food.
Looking at the dishes with steam rising and the neatly placed liquor bottles, Cheon-hwi immediately poured the liquor and drank.
“Keueu, yeah. This is it.”
When Cheon-hwi drank the liquor, Heavenly Ear Beggar, who was watching, also immediately picked up a liquor bottle.
Then he immediately drank straight from the bottle.
Ggul-ggeok… Ggul-ggeok…
Having emptied the liquor bottle in one go while moving his Adam’s apple greatly, his nose had already turned bright red.
“Keueu! I will try drinking until my nose is crooked today.”
Soon after, unsuited to his neat appearance, he crammed liquor and meat into his mouth almost as if absorbing them.
Cheon-hwi, who had been drinking liquor and chewing and swallowing meat for a long time, looked at Danmok Rin.
“……Huh?”
At the sight of her not even touching the liquor cup and only picking at her food with chopsticks, Cheon-hwi tilted his head and asked.
“Are you not drinking?”
“Because I have never drunk before…….”
Danmok Rin revealed a troubled expression.
In the past, she had stayed away from liquor for the health of her body due to her Extreme Yin Foundation Body.
Because of that, let alone drinking liquor, she had never even properly smelled the scent of liquor.
However, Cheon-hwi, who was already intoxicated by the excitement of drinking liquor, did not leave her alone.
‘It is good for accomplices to keep increasing.’
Cheon-hwi, who smiled broadly, opened his mouth.
“Do not be like that and try drinking. If not at this time, when would you try drinking?”
“T, that is true, but…….”
As if she was not completely uninterested in liquor, she looked at the liquor cup with tempted eyes, swallowed her saliva, and then held out the liquor cup forward.
“Then I will also have just one cup…….”
“Here, take it.”
Jjoreureu…
Danmok Rin, who was looking at the liquor filling the cup, closed her eyes tightly and drank it in one breath when the cup was full.
“Huh?”
A moment later, Danmok Rin opened her eyes and looked at Cheon-hwi.
“It is not very bitter.”
“Because it is not strong.”
Unlike how she had been full of tension, she chuckled at the liquor that went down smoothly.
“If it is this much, even if I drink one more cup…….”
The moment Danmok Rin, who was laughing, held out the liquor cup.
Kung!
Her upper body collapsed just like that, and her head hit the table hard.
Seeing her side profile chuckling as if she was already dead drunk, Cheon-hwi let out a chuckle.
“No wonder she kept chuckling.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar looked at her collapsed figure, swallowed the meat in his mouth, and asked.
“Mumble mumble, what…… will you do?”
Cheon-hwi glanced at her, poured liquor again, and threw it straight into his mouth.
“It will be fine if I take her to her room later.”
* * *
The next morning.
Danmok Rin, who was riding the carriage that had departed since early dawn, covered her mouth with her hand.
“U, ueu…….”
At the hangover she felt for the first time in her life, she felt a headache and dizziness like never before.
As she somehow calmed her nauseous stomach, she looked to the side.
Seeing Cheon-hwi’s side profile, she focused to recall the events of last night.
‘What happened? I definitely drank liquor and…….’
She furrowed her brow and tried to bring up memories, but that was the end.
“Um, Senior Martial Brother, what happened yesterday…….”
“Nothing much happened.”
Cheon-hwi spoke insignificantly.
As he said, nothing much had happened.
Since she had immediately fainted.
Following that, he slightly looked at Danmok Rin suffering from a hangover and added words.
“Hmm, try not to drink liquor if possible.”
Danmok Rin nodded her head faintly.
Even without him saying, she had that thought.
Even if she did not know what happened yesterday, she did not want to experience this hangover again.
‘I, I think I am going to die.’
Her face became tearful.
As the carriage passed the official road and headed towards a mountain path, the nausea grew bigger and bigger.
To the point where she wanted to throw up her insides right away.
However.
‘I must not make them stop.’
She bit her lip and endured it somehow.
In this journey, she had merely squeezed in as a side branch, and Cheon-hwi was the center.
But to stop the path they were taking because of her?
That was unacceptable.
‘Rather than getting on Senior Martial Brother’s bad side.’
At the time when she was enduring while forcibly pressing down what kept trying to come up.
Hiiing!
Suddenly, the carriage rattled greatly.
“Eup!”
She hurriedly covered her mouth.
With her complexion turning pure white, she struggled to lift her head and looked out the window.
There, martial artists holding bizarre weapons were blocking the path.
“If you want to pass this road, pay the toll!”
At that moment, her expression brightened.
“I, I will handle it!”
She, who hurriedly shouted, quickly got off the carriage thinking this was the time.
“Eheo! Quickly hand over the toll…….”
The man, who was standing at the front and yelling loudly, stopped his words just like that after seeing the face of Danmok Rin who got off the carriage.
That was not all.
At the time when all the men surrounding the carriage nearby lost their minds and stared at her.
“Huu.”
Danmok Rin, who deeply inhaled the outside air, asked with a much better face.
“Are you bandits?”
Hearing her bright voice, the man snapped back to his senses in surprise and opened his mouth.
“How dare you try to treat us the same as bandit bastards.”
The man lifted the Horse-Chopping Blade he had planted in the ground in a flash and rested it on his shoulder.
Kung!
With a heavy sound, his feet sank about an inch, and dust rose.
‘With this much, she must be scared.’
The man, who showed a sight that would make the knees of someone who did not know martial arts tremble, tilted his chin up and acted confident.
However.
“Then while not even being bandits, why are you trying to block the road and receive a toll?”
Her reaction was different from expectations.
At her calmly asking again, the confident man’s expression distorted suddenly.
‘She is not scared by this?’
He secretly gave a look to the middle-aged man next to him.
Then, the middle-aged man with a bushy beard standing next to him nodded his head.
“Eheo! How dare you not know who this person is! It is Lord Ghost Slaying Great Blade (Ghost Slashing Great Blade)!”
At the ringing shout, Cheon-hwi and Heavenly Ear Beggar, who were inside the carriage, came outside.
“My eardrums are going to fall off.”
Cheon-hwi dug his ear and asked.
“They say he is Ghost Slaying Great Blade, do you know who he is?”
“No, it is my first time hearing it. He is probably a guy who attached a grandiose title to look like something.”
“It is a shallow trick.”
“Well, most of the Unorthodox Faction bastards are like that.”
Ghost Slaying Great Blade’s face distorted.
“These things! I was going to send you off obediently if you just paid the toll, but that arrogant loose tongue of yours is hastening your lifespans.”
Ghost Slaying Great Blade lifted the Horse-Chopping Blade in a flash.
The crude and heavy Horse-Chopping Blade blocked the sunlight, and a shadow gradually cast over.
“Everyone attack those guys!”
The ones surrounding grabbed their weapons.
And they stealthily narrowed the distance.
Eventually, around the time they surrounded a radius of ten jang centering on the carriage.
“I will not kill you, wench. I will keep you alive and put you next to me…….”
Ghost Slaying Great Blade smiled foolishly and spoke.
“You talk a lot.”
Danmok Rin sharply cut off his words.
Right after that, she, who drew her sword, wore a cold gaze and thrust the sword.
“This wench!”
Ghost Slaying Great Blade, who was greatly surprised, roughly swung the Horse-Chopping Blade he had raised high.
Buuuung…
A fierce wind raged.
The moment the Horse-Chopping Blade, which was swung while crushing the air, collided with the slender White Lotus Sword.
Jjeo-eong!
“Heok!”
Ghost Slaying Great Blade swallowed a vain breath and stepped back.
Even though it had collided with the extremely thin White Lotus Sword, his Horse-Chopping Blade and hands trembled violently.
“How…….”
“I will not go easy on you next time.”
Danmok Rin half-opened her eyes.
Perhaps thanks to drawing up her internal energy.
Her headache disappeared, her boiling stomach stabilized, and her mind and body gradually became calm.
Soon her sword was slightly raised.
The White Lotus Sword gifted by Hyeon-ryeo.
It was not a famous sword, but an ordinary sword.
However, when held in her hand, the ordinary White Lotus Sword exuded an extraordinary spirit.
Before long, internal energy thickly condensed on the sword body.
Hwaljjak…
A beautiful plum blossom bloomed at the tip of the sword.
It did not have vitality yet, and it was not a vivid red color enough to be called a plum blossom.
However, just that was enough to overwhelm Ghost Slaying Great Blade right now.
“Huh? She has already bloomed a sword flower of that level?”
Cheon-hwi observed Danmok Rin and the sword flower she bloomed with surprised eyes.
The plum blossom that bloomed at the tip of her sword was still unstable, but thinking about when she entered Mount Hua, it was an amazing achievement.
“At that level, Jeok-geom and Seol Ran might be caught up to before long.”
At the time Cheon-hwi muttered.
“To reveal an opening in front of me!”
Aiming for the moment Cheon-hwi observed Danmok Rin, a man greatly swung a sickle at him.
However, before that sickle could even reach.
Peo-eok!
Cheon-hwi’s scabbard, which was swung before one knew it, struck the chin of the man who rushed in just like that.
“Kkeueoeok!”
While broken teeth and blood splattered, the man’s body collapsed helplessly to the ground.
It was a miserable state.
However, Cheon-hwi did not even give a glance to him who helplessly collapsed on the ground, and looked at Danmok Rin more closely.
‘At that level, she is almost counted among the top three talents I have seen.’
When he purely admired the talent Danmok Rin possessed.
Seueuk…
Her sword was slowly lifted.
Following that, the moment the tip of the sword pointed at the man wielding the Horse-Chopping Blade.
Kung!
Ghost Slaying Great Blade naturally placed the Horse-Chopping Blade on the ground from the posture he was swinging it in.
After that, he knelt down and shouted loudly.
“I greet the Fairy of the Great Mount Hua Sect!”
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