Chapter 90: Chapter 90
A perplexed look lingered on the Sect Leader’s face as he welcomed the unexpected guest.
‘Was she the daughter of the Lord of Qinghai Province?’
His gaze headed toward Princess So-hui.
Dressed neatly in clothing that was not flashy but had an antique elegance, she was sipping her teacup with restrained etiquette.
Even he, who prided himself on having built up his Dao to not be bewitched by feminine charms, found her so beautiful that his eyes were stolen for a moment.
Tak.
Princess So-hui set down her teacup.
The silk, with subtle decorations painted here and there, slowly flowed down, drawing an elegant line following her movements.
“I desperately need the Mount Hua Sect’s help.”
Princess So-hui was speaking comfortably even when facing the Sect Leader of the Mount Hua Sect.
And the Sect Leader accepted it.
The title ‘Princess’ was a peerage bestowed upon daughters of the imperial family close to the Emperor, so no matter if he was the Sect Leader of the Mount Hua Sect, he had to bow his head out of courtesy.
The Sect Leader was lost in thought.
‘Difficult, this is difficult.’
The purpose of Princess So-hui’s visit was much more momentous than he had thought.
‘Cooperation with the Imperial Family.’
His head throbbed.
Jianghu and the Imperial Family were mutually non-aggression.
However, the Princess So-hui in front of him right now was hoping for cooperation with the Mount Hua Sect.
“Is the Provincial Lord very critical?”
“He is fine right now.”
Contrary to her words, she gnawed on her thumbnail as if she was anxious.
“However, at this rate, it is only a matter of time.”
She was in a situation where she was impatient.
Right now, her father, the Lord of Qinghai Province, was in a considerably critical state.
He was handling large and small matters perfectly fine, but that was only on the outside.
Inside the splendid dragon robe, there were only emaciated, dry hands and legs, and scars full of them.
‘He needs to receive treatment as soon as possible.’
She had called numerous physicians, but there was no one who could treat her father.
Only the last physician had given her words filled with hope.
That if it was the Divine Physician Seongsu, who inherited the essence of the Heavenly Center Medical Gate, it might be possible.
She tried to move in a hurry.
However, she could not do so.
The Imperial Family was a battlefield right now.
But if it became known now that the Lord of Qinghai Province was critical, it was clear to her eyes that the jackals in the Imperial Family would make their move.
So the method she eventually chose was to move secretly without anyone knowing.
‘But assassins have already chased me.’
Her eyes slightly sank.
She thought she had moved carefully, but assassins were already attacking before she even arrived at the Mount Hua Sect.
For them to have noticed this mission, the client must be someone close to her.
‘At least the fortunate thing is that we hurried and arrived at the Mount Hua Sect, but…’
It was the only positive thing.
The Mount Hua Sect was one of the Nine Great Sects and One Gang.
No matter how much the Imperial Family sent assassins, they could not touch the Mount Hua Sect.
“Please protect us.”
“……Immeasurable Life Buddha.”
The Sect Leader, who had quietly chanted a Daoist greeting, gently closed his eyes.
‘It’s difficult. Will it become fortune or disaster.’
The Sect Leader’s insides burned up intensely.
It was nothing other than the Imperial Family’s matter.
‘Lives are on the line.’
However, his hesitation was only for a moment.
“……Alright.”
The Sect Leader accepted the proposal.
How could he abandon a filial daughter who came braving danger to protect her father.
As a Daoist, he could not do that.
“How can I help you?”
“For now, please protect us. And externally, could you say that we came to invite Daoists to the Mount Hua Sect?”
“You intend to hide the fact that the Lord of Qinghai Province is critical.”
The Sect Leader understood.
“I understand.”
“Thank you.”
Princess So-hui swept her chest down with an expression of relief.
At that time, the Sect Leader brought up his words.
“But we can handle other things, but we cannot tell the Great Hero Divine Physician Seongsu to come and go as we please.”
“I know that as well.”
Princess So-hui spoke in a low voice.
“Persuading him is my role.”
Just as the Sect Leader was about to answer that he understood.
“Ah, I said I don’t want to.”
“Don’t be like that and learn.”
A noisy sound could be heard from outside.
“That’s enough.”
“I’m telling you it’s good if you learn…”
The squabbling sound gradually started to get louder, and through the window, two people could be seen coming up towards the Purple Mist Pavilion.
It was exactly Cheon-hwi and the Divine Physician.
Seeing the two, the Sect Leader opened his eyes wide.
‘What happened?’
The aloof Divine Physician was clinging to Cheon-hwi with all his might without keeping up his appearances.
“Aren’t I saying I will just teach you.”
“No, I said it’s fine.”
Cheon-hwi detached the clinging Divine Physician.
Exhausted by the sight of him continuing to force him to become his disciple, Cheon-hwi headed to the Purple Mist Pavilion.
‘I should tell the Sect Leader.’
While ignoring the Divine Physician and walking for a moment.
“Uh?”
He made eye contact with a woman and the Sect Leader who were looking through the open window.
‘That woman is?’
Cheon-hwi narrowed his eyes.
Right at that moment, the woman also looked at Cheon-hwi and had a slightly surprised look in her eyes, just as she was about to speak.
『Let’s pretend not to know each other, alright?』
Cheon-hwi immediately sent a telepathic transmission.
The woman flinched slightly, but observed Cheon-hwi and nodded her head with a surprised face.
“Why, why are you trying not to learn?”
Even in the midst of that, the Divine Physician continued to speak.
“I’m not interested.”
Cheon-hwi spoke cuttingly.
‘I’m already too busy to look at new martial arts right now, why would I waste time on medicine.’
The reason he learned medicine in the past was just to kill time after mastering all kinds of martial arts within the Heavenly Demon Cult.
But learning medicine first?
Was that even a reasonable thing to say.
‘With the time to do something like that, I will roam the Jianghu and look at other martial arts.’
Now that the large framework called the Heavenly Demon Cult was gone, he had no restrictions on his travels in the Jianghu.
The Nine Great Sects and One Gang, the Eight Great Clans, and the Six Imperial, no, Five Imperial Sects of those bastards called the Four Black Alliances.
In the Central Plains, there were still a pile of martial arts he hadn’t seen.
At Cheon-hwi’s indifferent appearance, the Divine Physician opened his mouth to somehow draw his interest.
“It will be quite useful if you learn it. One of the supreme arts of my sect is the elixir…”
Suddenly, the Divine Physician’s voice was cut off.
Thinking he had given up now, he turned his head to see the Divine Physician blushing.
“S-since when were you looking?”
His gaze was directed toward the Sect Leader who had approached closely at some point.
“I didn’t see anything.”
The Sect Leader slyly turned his head away.
The Divine Physician covered his face with his palm.
At that moment, Princess So-hui suddenly stood up.
“Elder Divine Physician!”
At the loud shout, the Divine Physician frowned and looked at her, then tilted his head.
“Hmm…?”
For some reason, it was a familiar face.
However, the name didn’t immediately come to mind, and around the time he was digging through the memories in his head.
“It’s been a long time since we met.”
He realized who it was at the continuing words.
“You are the daughter of the Lord of Qinghai Province.”
“That is correct.”
At the sight of the Divine Physician recognizing her, Princess So-hui’s expression brightened significantly.
“Excuse me.”
Speaking shortly to the Sect Leader, she slipped out of the Purple Mist Pavilion and ran to the Divine Physician.
“I kept searching for you.”
“For me, you say?”
The Divine Physician spoke as if displeased.
If it was the Imperial Family, he shuddered with disgust.
How many terrible things had he seen when he stayed in the Imperial Family a long time ago.
The dirty sights of blood relatives fighting in secret strife to kill each other to become the Emperor.
Not only that.
The sight of exterminating three generations to cut off the roots was enough to make him shudder with disgust.
That was why he avoided the Imperial Family and roamed around, but.
“Elder.”
Princess So-hui grabbed the Divine Physician’s hand.
Erasing her usual cold expression, she showed a face slightly showing tears and appealed while making eye contact with the Divine Physician.
“My father is critical.”
“So what do you want me to do?”
The Divine Physician spoke bluntly.
Whether the Lord of Qinghai Province was critical or not, it was a matter unrelated to him.
“Please help him.”
“I refuse.”
Despite her continuing appeal, the Divine Physician spoke firmly.
Princess So-hui’s complexion darkened.
She knew the relationship between the Divine Physician Seongsu and the Imperial Family, so she thought it wouldn’t be easy, but this seemed to not even have a shred of hope.
Meanwhile, as the two conversed.
“What exactly happened here?”
The Sect Leader asked Cheon-hwi.
“He told me to become his disciple?”
When Cheon-hwi spoke apathetically, the Sect Leader was startled and narrowed his brow.
“How could a disciple of the Mount Hua Sect…”
“Right?”
Cheon-hwi chimed in as if he was right.
“So please stop him instead of me.”
At Cheon-hwi’s words pointing at the Divine Physician with his index finger, the Sect Leader nodded his head.
“I understand. I will try talking to him for now.”
Just as the Sect Leader was about to take a step.
“Pant, pant.”
Rough breathing sounds could be heard from the front.
“Hall of Medicine Master?”
The Hall of Medicine Master, who had come running while unfolding footwork at some point, blocked the front of the Sect Leader.
“Did you also come?”
“I-it’s a little different from Cheon-hwi’s words.”
“What does that mean?”
“The Elder Divine Physician told Cheon-hwi that he didn’t need to become a disciple, so just receive his teachings.”
The Sect Leader wondered if he had heard wrong.
The Divine Physician Seongsu was the foremost physician under heaven of the present generation.
Therefore, it was even harder to believe, let alone understand.
“How could he do something with no benefit like that.”
“It seems the Elder Divine Physician fell in love with Cheon-hwi’s talent.”
“Ah!”
At the Hall of Medicine Master’s words, the Sect Leader almost nodded his head without realizing it.
Cheon-hwi’s talent.
That was something beyond surprising and would be an astonishing matter.
But it was strange.
‘Cheon-hwi’s talent is martial talent, so it should have absolutely no relation to medicine.’
At the deepening question, the Sect Leader looked at the Hall of Medicine Master and asked.
“Did Cheon-hwi have a talent for medicine?”
“Did you not know?”
The Hall of Medicine Master spoke in excitement.
“It is a talent that won’t exist again under heaven.”
He didn’t properly understand the conversation between the Divine Physician and Cheon-hwi from just before, but he knew the medical skills shown afterwards.
“……He might be even above me.”
At the Hall of Medicine Master’s confident words, the Sect Leader’s thinking stopped slightly on whether he should be happy or not.
‘Not only martial arts, but he also possesses an eternal talent in medicine?’
It was an absurd matter.
For martial arts and medicine, digging into just one was a matter that took a whole lifetime.
But right now, Cheon-hwi’s realm in those two was considerable at that young age.
At that time.
“I refuse.”
The Divine Physician shook off the earnestly speaking Princess So-hui and clung to Cheon-hwi.
“Try learning it. You have nothing to lose, right?”
“I said I don’t want to.”
“Elder.”
“I’m not going.”
Princess So-hui chased the Divine Physician, and.
The Divine Physician chased Cheon-hwi.
The three spat out one-sided requests towards each other like a game of tag.
At that time, Cheon-hwi raised his head with an expression that he was sick and tired of it.
“I’m telling you I’m a disciple of the Mount Hua Sect. It’s already overwhelming to learn the Mount Hua Sect’s martial arts right now.”
The Sect Leader let out a chuckle inwardly.
‘Overwhelming to learn martial arts.’
Not only had Cheon-hwi mastered all of the Mount Hua Sect’s martial arts, but he had also learned them all to the point of restoring past martial arts.
At that time, Cheon-hwi stared at the Sect Leader.
“Isn’t that right?”
Facing the gaze forcing him to chime in, the Sect Leader smiled awkwardly and answered.
“H-haha. That’s right.”
“What nonsense about martial arts.”
The Divine Physician snorted.
“This guy is a fellow sent down from the heavens to learn medicine. If he learns my medicine, he will not only be called the second coming of Hua Tuo, but he will be a physician who remains down in history.”
“He is not.”
This time, the Sect Leader reacted immediately.
The second coming of Hua Tuo!
Cheon-hwi was not a person who would be satisfied with merely the second coming of Hua Tuo.
“Cheon-hwi is a child who will become a Daoist remaining down in the history of our sect.”
“It seems you don’t know the medical talent this guy has right now.”
“I may not know his medical talent, but I know his martial arts talent.”
Sparks flew from the eyes of the two glaring at each other.
“Even throughout all ages, this guy’s amazing talent is counted on one hand…”
“Cheon-hwi’s talent is comparable to the Great Master Bodhidharma and Zhang Sanfeng of all ages…”
As the Sect Leader and the Divine Physician suddenly started to passionately debate about Cheon-hwi’s talent, Cheon-hwi secretly slipped away from that spot.
“Ah, whatever. They’ll figure it out.”
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