◈ Heuksi (2)
After obtaining the necessary information from Pyo Guk-ju and Geumwangchae, Mujin gathered Heukungchae’s bandits.
“ruler. “Everyone, take your share now.”
“You want to take a share each? “What do you mean by that?”
The bandits look puzzled at Mujin’s sudden words.
“A lot of people have died, and they have done so much that they will be chased soon, so I am telling them to share what they have captured so far.”
“ah… … .”
Take a moment to let out a faint exclamation. There was a deep aura of greed in the eyes of the bandits.
Mujin clearly knew this, but he didn’t care.
Marks captured from the North Wind Flag Bureau. And around this time, the bandits were wrangling over the gold and silver treasures they had been accumulating before.
“Are you going to just let me go like that?”
Mu-kyung asked Moo-jin with a puzzled look.
Aside from forgiving the bandits, they even gave me a beautiful gift like that.
“ah. “Is this a lump sum of money to give you to stop stealing, reform your life, and settle down?”
As Moo-gyeong shared her reasoning, Mugung, Cheongsu Dojang, and Moo-hyul looked impressed.
“You too are a Buddhist.”
“ha ha ha. “It is indeed Kang Hyuk Do-nim.”
“wow! Smart!”
Mujin looked at the three’s reactions as if they were talking nonsense.
“Gaegwacheonseon? “They?”
If the openness stopped begging, they would stop, but there was no way something like that would happen.
“… … “Then why are you even giving me a gift?”
“That’s not a gift. “It’s bait.”
“bait?”
“I stole Shincheon’s flag, but there’s no way they’re going to sit still.”
“ah! “So that they will chase those people, not us, from that new heaven?”
“okay. Most of the things over there are goods, not money, anyway, so if you want to exchange them for money, you’ll have to go somewhere and sell them. In the process, they will all leave behind a trail, so there will be more traces for them to follow.”
It would have been an option to kill all the bandits here and leave, but if I did that, there was a high chance of getting caught.
Even if you move while erasing your traces, if the traces only go in one direction, you are bound to get caught someday.
But what if countless traces were scattered in all directions?
No matter how new they were, it was bound to take time to find them.
‘Since we robbed Yongrinsa Temple, we need to get insurance.’
In particular, there was a risk that he would come after me as I stole his belongings.
In reality, for the current Mujin group, the Seven Kings level expert was no different from the Death God.
‘So, take care of yourself.’
It was Mujin who smiled wryly at the bandits who were fighting to get as much treasure as possible.
They won’t know. The fact that the treasure they took with all their might would become a talisman that would bring in evil spirits.
* * *
After taking out all the Geumwangchae bandits and Pyo Guk’s fake messengers along with the Heukungchae bandits, the bandits greeted Mujin and the others brightly and each took a bunch of old money and left, scattering in all directions.
After seeing them leaving, Mujin and his party left Nosan dressed lightly.
Two days to travel along the mountain path using light air.
Mujin and his party were able to reach their destination, Gyerim.
A place in Guangxi Province that boasts natural scenery.
Mujin, who knew in advance the exact location where the Heuksi was held through Geumwangchae, was able to catch a guesthouse located quite close to that place.
“Let’s take a break for a day and see the scenery of Guilin.”
Since there was about a day left until the day of the Heuksi, Mujin and his group unpacked their luggage and went sightseeing.
Li River (漓江), one of the most famous places in Guilin.
‘Wow. ‘I never thought I’d be able to see in person places I’ve only seen on YouTube and TV.’
On the left and right along the wide and long Li River, there were dark green bushes and strangely shaped rocks that could be called towering stone mountains, creating a strange scenery.
And along the Li River, there were unique wooden boats floating that could only accommodate one or two people.
It is not the type of sailing ship that people commonly think of, but is simply a ship made of five or six long trees as thick as a person’s forearm woven together.
In each boat, a fisherman was enjoying fishing with one or two birds.
“Let’s make that and ride it too!”
It must have seemed like something fun, so Muyul jumped up and ran towards the bushes that were visible around him along with Lingling.
In the end, Mujin’s group followed Muyul’s lead and cut a few trees from the bush each, then woven them together and made a disposable wooden boat.
In modern times, it would have been a day’s work using various tools, but thanks to the use of martial arts tools, breaking the tree was not that difficult.
As the Mujin group headed toward the river, each carrying their own boat, an old man spoke up.
“Hehehe. “Do you want to go fishing with that boat now?”
“That’s right. “Elderly.”
“Hmm. “Why don’t we just pay the people here and join them?”
“Is there something wrong?”
In response to Mujin’s question, the old man took out a fish from a basket made of woven tree trunks, fed it to the bird on his shoulder, and then opened his mouth.
“Fishing here is difficult without this guy. “These guys help locate the fish and show them the waterway.”
“You mean that bird?”
“That’s right. “It’s a guy called Cormorant.”
“Ah, so you’re saying we should pay the fishermen and join them?”
“Hehehe. “These animals are quite picky, so they tend to only listen to the words of their owners who have trained them by consistently feeding them since they were cubs.”
“Is that so?”
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At the old man’s words, Mujin tilted his head. That’s right too.
“Oh really!? If you go over there, are there fish!? thank you!”
This was because the cormorant and the muyul, which are said to be difficult to tame, seemed to have become friends.
Also, it wasn’t a cormorant that had already been habituated to humans, but it was one that wandered around alone.
The old man turned his head to follow Mujin’s gaze, and his jaw dropped open.
“What is this?”
Saliva was flowing out of the old man’s mouth, as the common sense he had built up over sixty years of living here was shattered.
‘… … ‘You’re not going to fall down like that, are you?’
It was a sight that was not good for the old man’s heart.
‘No matter how much I think about it, I think he made a mistake in changing jobs.’
This was a guy who I thought should have been a druid instead of a monk.
Whether others were surprised or not, Muhyul, who became friends with the cormorant he met for the first time today, watched the movements of the cormorants playing on the river a few times.
“Hwajja!”
He jumped into the water, imitating the movements of a cormorant, and suddenly caught a fish with his hand and jumped out of the water.
The movement of the cormorant was imitated by applying the movement of the hakkwon.
‘also.’
Mujin thought that if he were sent to a place like the savannah or the Amazon for ten years, he would come back with at least the Shaolin Hundred Volumes, not the Shaolin Five Volumes.
‘ah. I guess I can only make movements and not the key points of internal energy.’
It seemed like he would just transition to Tarzan level.
* * *
After touring the Li River with human cormorants, Mujin and his group returned to the guesthouse and enjoyed Guilin’s famous food.
The next day, they enjoyed sightseeing around Gyerim during the day, and returned to their guest house in the evening after finishing their meal.
“Then shall we go?”
As night fell, I put on the clothes I had brought with me and secretly left the guesthouse.
Gyerim’s dark poetry was not held in the center of the village. It is held on the outskirts of the village near the village where Mujin and his party stayed, and is only held at certain intervals at night.
“Hoo.”
When I arrived at the place I learned about from Geumwangchae’s debt owner, I saw that the area, which was quiet during the day, was crowded with people I didn’t know when they had arrived.
Some people used masks or cotton threads to hide their identities, while others proudly showed their faces even though they came to these places.
And here and there, tents and stalls made of wood and fabric were spread out, and lights were turned on, creating a scene like a night market.
“There wasn’t a place like this during the day earlier?”
“Did those people just come and prepare everything?”
When Mujin and his companions looked at the people selling goods at the stall and asked, Mujin shook his head.
“no. There is a separate place to manage it. “It’s called Amcheonhoe.”
“Amcheonhoe!?”
“That dark heaven meeting of the Four Pillars of War?”
“You guys have such a loud voice.”
“Sigh!”
Although it was an open secret anyway, there was nothing good about being noticed, so Mujin warned him.
Although black poetry and black markets were held throughout the central plains, most of the black poetry held in the complete Sapa sphere of influence were markets managed by the Dark Heaven Association.
However, perhaps because they live alone in the mountains and don’t know much about the world, they forgot that this was the market for Amcheonhoe, a Sapae Chiljuin, and were completely immersed in the sights of the night market.
“Let’s eat that too.”
“oh. “Is this food you’ve never seen before?”
Those who have completely lost their aversion to eating meat have their eyes shining brightly as they look at the food on the stall.
“I guess there’s really nothing that’s not for sale?”
Various weapons, clothing, gold and silver treasures, etc. are displayed throughout the stalls. Showed interest in various objects.
Some people guarding the stall or on the street laughed at the sight of them wandering around with their eyes wide open, dressed in shabby clothes, but they didn’t care.
“Where did they get all those things?”
Mujin answered the innocent companions’ questions with a wry smile.
“Where are you?” It’s all stolen goods. An item obtained by stealing or killing someone. “Because it was obtained illegally, it cannot be sold except on the black market.”
“… … .”
As they were happily looking at the night market, it was only then that they began to realize that this was not a night market but a black market.
For those group members, Mujin gave a few tips.
“That grass sold over there is probably poison or drugs.”
“That black powder secretly sold over there. Is that probably gunpowder that is only allowed to be used by the imperial family? “If you are caught secretly holding or using it, you will be immediately arrested for treason.”
As Mujin gives some explanations, the excited expressions of the group become tense.
However, I did not come here just to inform the group of the horrors of the black market.
Mujin’s main purpose is to hinder the plans and growth of Shincheon, a dark power.
And the Gyerim Heuksi here was also related to Sincheon.
To be exact, the branch manager in charge of the Gyerim Black City here was a servant of Shincheon.
It is said that Pacheon Sword Emperor Hyeok Jin-gang, the leader of the Four Sects, was related to Shincheon, but not all Sa Sect factions were like that.
In the first place, the Apostolic Alliance itself was merely a ‘temporary’ alliance system created to fight against political factions.
In the meantime, Hyeokjin-gang wanted to control the entire Sapa faction, and the person who made Amcheonhoe give absolute support to Hyeokjin-gang was the head of the Gyerim branch of Amcheonhoe.
The head of the Gyerim branch of the Amcheonhoe succeeded in growing the Gyerim Heuksi here in just a few years into the second largest heuksi among the hundreds of heuksi managed by the Amcheonhoe, and was given the position of vice-president.
By utilizing the influence created through this, he assisted Amcheonhoe to absolutely support Hyeokjin River.
In order to find the secret that allowed the Gyerim branch manager to grow this place to such an extent, Mujin and his party walked deep into the dark city.
Soon, the ugliest bottom was revealed before their eyes.
“Ahh. “Please save me.”
“Cluck clack. Crazy bitch, do I have the guts to kill you? “How much money do you need to make by selling four years of work?”
A middle-aged man dragging a woman with shackles on her arms and legs.
“Mommy!”
“Hey.”
Children who don’t know anything and just look for their parents.
“… … .”
Someone whose eyes seem to have accepted everything and who has lost the will to live.
“A penny of gold. Anything more than that would be impossible.”
And even those who buy and sell them.
slave market.
A hellish scene of humans buying and selling humans unfolded before their eyes.
Gyerim Black Poetry.
This was a den of evil that would grow within a few years into a dark city boasting the largest slave market in the entire Central Plains.
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