Chapter 215: Chapter 215

“You dared to cut off the line of the Murong Clan?!”

Two fists clenched tight.

A face flushed red.

Eyes with burst blood vessels.

Even snorting through his nose with his dignity thrown away.

In any case, anyone could tell at a glance that he had failed to vent his anger on Murong Jae-hwa.

But why had that arrow flown toward me?

“What do you mean? Cut off the line?”

“Hah, you intend to feign ignorance?”

Murong Gang, who had been about to enter the office, grabbed what had once been the broken door that caught on his clothes with one hand.

Crrrack, crack……. CRASH.

……And tore it apart.

Wow……. Once you become an absolute master, you can even do that kind of thing.

Apart from my admiration, Murong Gang’s face was still full of unresolved anger.

“Then I will remind you.”

Crack, crack.

The sound of his finger joints cracking as though the bones were breaking, and the sound of him loosening his neck, rang throughout the office.

How was that the bearing of an absolute master? He would be more convincing as a neighborhood thug.

What I had expected was a beautiful scene where I urgently stopped Murong Gang while he was beating Murong Jae-hwa to death, represented Murong Jae-hwa’s position, and resolved the misunderstanding between grandfather and grandson.

Yet somehow, an absolute master with no anger control, one who even Black Path people trembled before, was now treating me as his irreconcilable enemy.

If I wagged my tongue the way I had before Jegal So-myeong, would he understand me?

Maybe he would.

The problem was that I would only be able to persuade him after I made him vent that anger somewhere first.

“Wait!”

“…….”

“Please wait just a moment.”

When I confidently rose from my seat, Murong Gang did not take his eyes off me, as though daring me to try something.

“Do you have something to say?”

“Hoo…… The dust…… Cough, cough…… I cannot speak. Why did you have to break an innocent door?”

“What did you say?”

I clicked my tongue and slowly walked toward the window.

Murong Gang stared at me with trembling eyes, as though he was dumbfounded.

“Fine. Say whatever you want. Only then will I at least not break all four of your limbs.”

At last, killing intent even appeared in his eyes.

“……After all, are you not the benefactor who saved the Young Clan Head’s life?”

No, if I was his son’s benefactor in the first place, he should not break all my limbs.

He lacked common sense and reason.

There was only one best way to deal with someone like that.

Rattle.

I opened the window and placed my foot on the windowsill.

“What are you doing right now……”

The best plan, one that was even written in the Art of War.

The Thirty-Six Stratagems, fleeing is best.

Bang.

The Unrivaled under Heaven Movement Art, which I unfolded with all my power, changed the surrounding scenery in an instant.

“Jin So-un!!!!!!!”

Even Murong Gang’s voice grew more and more distant.

The autumn air felt more refreshing than ever.

***

-It would be better for you to stop while I am still asking nicely.

A thunderous voice that I could not tell was Sound Transmission or sonic arts rang out as though it would tear my eardrums apart.

What the hell, that was scary.

In great shock, I moved my feet even faster.

When I was young, my father had once told me about three types of people one should never meet.

Those with overwhelming martial arts.

Those incapable of controlling their anger.

Those whose thoughts could not be read.

Even my father probably did not know that all three types could come out of one human being, right?

In any case, the best way to deal with Murong Gang right now was simply to “run.”

From what I had experienced,

the Unrivaled under Heaven Movement Art was an excellent movement art, one that would rank within the top five even if all of the murim was searched.

No matter how excellent the Murong Clan’s movement art was, it could not catch up to a movement art created through the joint efforts of the Heavenly Demon and the Taeul Sword Emperor.

Moreover, my inner arts amounted to a full four cycles.

If I added Moving Circulation, which had become as natural as everyday life, then……

‘I can run away all day!’

Why did I feel like I would be even more at ease if I picked up a shield too?

-Oho! It seems you are confident in your movement art!

The Sound Transmission that seemed to tear my eardrums apart rang out again.

I sent a small apology in my heart.

No matter how absolute a powerhouse Murong Gang was, there was no way for him to catch up……

BANG, BANG! BANG, BANG

Huh?

At the sound of air exploding, the back of my head went cold, and when I turned around,

Murong Gang’s figure, which had been as tiny as a grain of millet, was drawing closer in huge strides with explosive sounds.

What the hell! Fuck!

I startled and tried raising my speed even more, but Murong Gang’s Sound Transmission stabbed into my ears frighteningly.

-Did you think none of my enemies ever had feet as fast as yours?

No, I told you I was not your enemy in the first place!

BANG, BANG.

Murong Gang was creating explosions of qi at his feet, then stepping on them and compressing space.

Wow……. So the concept Murong Jae-hwa had used in my past life to send arrows farther had been learned from his grandfather…….

While I was enjoying the joy of gaining another realization, Murong Gang had already compressed the distance to within ten jang.

If he repeated the same thing only a few more times, he would be able to catch up to me.

I raised my speed until it felt as though my thighs and calves would burst.

“You foolish brat! You could have simply been beaten, yet you had to provoke my anger!”

So he had intended to hit me no matter what I said. That man!

Murong Gang had now caught up to a distance where he did not even need to use Sound Transmission.

Perhaps he was extremely frustrated that I seemed just barely catchable yet not quite within reach, because he eventually caused another explosion at his feet to get ahead of me.

Bang!

His intent was to pass me in an instant, get in front of me, and stop me.

But I had no intention of being caught so easily.

The moment Murong Gang blocked my path,

‘Now!’

Crrrack.

In an instant, I twisted my direction so violently that all the joints in my lower body, including my ankles, screamed.

“Th-that! Damned brat!”

Murong Gang, who had been waiting for me in front, began chasing me again with an even angrier expression.

Murong Gang was not the kind of person who could use internal qi finely enough to adjust the strength of an explosion in minute detail.

His alias was Wind Earl Sword-Breaker, after all.

‘If I keep running away like this…….’

Then.

As I was playing a life-or-death game of tag with Murong Gang, I suddenly felt the space before my eyes distort.

“Wh-what is this…….”

The perfectly normal scenery of the academy became tangled and murky.

Then the distorted space changed into the distinct shape of a hand.

Fist Force? Airborne Object Grasping? No, it was too clear and too large for that, was it not?

“Kek!”

The instant I recognized that unknown something, I turned direction with all my might, but the enormous formless hand had already struck my side.

CRASH!

My feet tangled, and after rolling across the ground dozens of times, I hurriedly rose from my place.

“You brat!!”

At some point, Murong Gang was approaching through the hazy dust, carrying a massive fist strike.

Clang!

I desperately drew the Black Dragon Sword and blocked Murong Gang’s fist.

CRASH!

Murong Gang’s fist met Diamond Indestructible Iron, the strongest metal.

However, far from being dispersed, the fist strike passed straight through the sword and struck my solar plexus.

Babang!

The pain felt as though the bones in my chest were breaking, and I nearly lost my mind, but I could not just sit there in pain.

Because Murong Gang had already scattered his second move.

Heaven-Earth Invincible Palm.

A monstrous palm art whose destructive power was no less than Heaven-Earth Wave-Splitting Sword.

Huh, this old man was serious?

I used the Black Dragon Sword to execute Lotus and deflect Heaven-Earth Invincible Palm, and at the same time, I unleashed Ten Thousand Transformations Invincible Fist with my left hand.

At the fist forms of Ten Thousand Transformations Invincible Fist spreading across my entire field of vision, Murong Gang’s eyes grew even sharper.

“You brat! You dare rebel against an elder?!”

No, he was the one who had gone all out against a much younger later-generation talent in the first place……!

Dooong! Dooong! Dooong!

The sound of bells spread widely as Murong Gang’s fist strikes, which responded with Blue Wave Fist, collided with my fist forms.

At the same time, I constricted his divine might with Twin Heaven Sword Formula.

Shrrrrrrrrk!

Black Dragon Swords filled the air without a gap.

Each and every one of them held Sword Qi powerful enough to make one feel the danger of death, yet Murong Gang looked indifferent.

“Did you take me for the same level as those playing snake and chicken?”

A fierce heat gathered in his right foot, and as though a fire dragon were spitting flames, he sprayed heat in every direction and burned away the Sword Qi.

As expected, he was a fiery man.

“Is that all you have?”

Murong Gang waved away the heat and Sword Qi with a gesture and approached with a face still unable to suppress his anger.

Was that all I had?

“Of course not.”

I might not look it, but I was someone who had taken the Guardian Dharma King’s head through sheer persistence, if nothing else.

I grinned at him.

“This is only the beginning.”

Three Forms of White Moon Ruling Heaven.

First Form.

“Extreme Speed.”

The Black Dragon Sword stretched out like a beam of light with a bold sound.

***

“……Ugh.”

“Raise your hands properly!!!”

At Murong Gang’s shout, Jin So-un, whose eyes had swollen black and blue, shot both hands high into the air.

“E-Elder, a full hour has already passed. If I keep my hands raised any longer than this……”

Seeing Jin So-un’s hands tremble as he pretended he was about to die, Murong Gang wore a dumbfounded expression.

‘A brat whose martial arts depth is at that level is claiming he is tired after only one hour?’

The first time Murong Gang had been surprised was when Jin So-un dodged the Void-Annihilation Fist, which was the realization of his entire life.

Then, overlaying Sword Qi onto Twin Heaven Sword Formula had been startling enough, but what was that swift sword he had fired off afterward?

Putting aside its sharpness, its speed had been far beyond expectation.

If Murong Gang had been just a little late, he might have suffered the humiliation of having the front of his clothes cut by a brat who had only just picked up a sword.

‘It is definitely that Sword Demon bastard’s martial art…….’

Just how had this brat learned the martial arts of that man who had vanished like evaporating mist five years ago?

And in the end, had he not even shown the insane act of coating the Ten Thousand Swords he had seen before in Sword Force and swinging Twin Heaven Sword Formula?

Putting aside the quantity of his inner arts, that was destructive power he could not show unless his body had been trained through outer arts.

A brat who had reached that level was tired from merely keeping his hands up?

Even a passing dog would laugh at that.

“Tsk, I thought he might roughly balance with Seol. When did he catch up this much?”

Murong Seol had recently been performing so brilliantly in the murim that people called her the next-generation Sword Empress.

So he had thought it was about time to bring up the matter, but at some point, this brat had opened the door to yet another realm.

However, Jin So-un, not knowing what Murong Gang was talking about, only wore a blank expression.

“Pardon?”

“Raise your hands properly!”

At that sight, Murong Gang snapped irritably for no reason.

Jin So-un, not losing to him, stealthily lowered his hands little by little and asked Murong Gang,

“Elder, I am asking because I am truly curious…… Why exactly are you doing this to me?”

“Why am I doing this?”

Jin So-un nodded without the slightest hesitation.

“I really do not know.”

“Then why did you run?”

“Is it not only natural to run when a frightening being chases after you?”

At that calm response, Murong Gang let out a hollow laugh.

“That is not it. You ran because you did something wrong.”

“No! What exactly did I do wrong to you, Elder?!”

At last, Jin So-un beat the ground with both hands as though he felt wronged.

“Raise your hands again……”

“Yes, sir!”

To think he even tried to cut corners in the middle of all this.

Was this brat not afraid of him, who was called the Sword-Breaker?

“In any case, I truly did nothing wrong.”

“Nothing? If seducing and threatening a direct descendant of the Murong Clan into taking up the bow is not a crime, then what is?”

When Murong Gang asked directly, Jin So-un turned pale in shock.

“Wh-what are you talking about?! Seducing and threatening him……!”

He had known this brat would deny it like this.

That was why he had struggled not to tear up the letter in a fit of rage.

“Tsk.”

Murong Gang took the letter from his bosom and threw it at Jin So-un.

The letter, which should have fluttered down, flew toward Jin So-un while stretched stiffly as though it were an iron plate.

Jin So-un watched Murong Gang’s mood, then lowered his hands again, caught the letter, and began reading.

[This unworthy grandson, Murong Jae-hwa, should meet Grandfather in person, yet because I am too ashamed of myself, I beg your forgiveness for greeting you in this manner……

I had never once thought of taking up the bow, but the Great Hero Black Flame Dragon, whom I began to follow out of chivalrous righteousness, used such feelings of mine……

Furthermore, because he threatened me that if I did not take up the bow, everyone around me might die, I had no choice…….]

After reading the letter, Jin So-un let out a small sound of admiration.

“Wow, the bastard called Black Flame Dragon in here is one complete son of a bitch.”

The moment he read the letter, even though he knew it was about himself, anger surged up inside him.

Moreover, the stories intertwined with incidents in the murim that were mentioned here and there made it feel even more realistic.

Hah, if he had known it would be like this, he should have made Murong Jae-hwa hold a brush instead of a bow.

But…….

‘Wait…… I have seen this handwriting somewhere before.’

When he focused a little and checked the handwriting, another face rose over the letter.

This was definitely, yes, definitely…….

‘……Eun-ho! This bastard! You dared to sell out your Eldest Senior Brother because of your friend?’

Jin So-un glared at the letter with blazing eyes as though he would burn it at any moment.

Seeing Jin So-un tremble, unable to overcome his anger, Murong Gang asked,

“Are you admitting your own wrongdoing?”

Jin So-un shot to his feet as though springing up.

“No, Elder! I am truly wronged. This letter is full of fabrication and incitement……”

“Silence! Even if there are lies in that letter, you will not say that even making Murong Jae-hwa take up the bow is a lie, will you?”

Jin So-un, who had risen with fierce momentum, hesitated for a moment.

“Th-that is……”

“I already heard everything from the Academy Head on my way here. They say you even specially created an archery lecture for Jae-hwa.”

Fuck, this was checkmate.

“Even with the facts this clear, you still refuse to admit your crime?!”

Jin So-un stretched his hand forward and stopped Murong Gang’s steps.

“W-wait! In truth, the line has not actually been cut off, has it?”

“What do you mean? Speak well, if you do not want to eat your own memorial rice this day next year.”

Gulp.

Jin So-un swallowed thickly and racked his brain as hard as possible.

“I-in truth, Lady Murong Seol is better in sword arts, is she not?”

“Mm?”

“And I heard the Murong Clan is not such a closed-minded clan.”

A chilling smile formed on Murong Gang’s lips.

“Oho. You are saying we should take in a matrilocal son-in-law?”

“W-well, not necessarily, but that could be one method, and moreover……”

“Good. Then you can become the Murong Clan’s matrilocal son-in-law.”

“……Huh?”

At Murong Gang’s sudden words, Jin So-un tilted his head.

‘Fuck, what kind of nonsense is this now? I really feel like I am going to lose my mind.’

At Murong Gang’s way of thinking, which he could not possibly keep up with, Jin So-un’s head began to hurt more and more.