Episode 123 Because we are real men
Elder Heo Gyeom responded to my lack of manners.
“… … This old man was certainly a manly man in his youth. “It’s already been more than half a century.”
I nodded.
“I don’t know what the old man expects from me, but I can’t help you if Blood Night Palace remains a magic power.”
Elder Heo Gyeom nodded.
“As I said, the Blood Night Palace will transform into a force that does not harass, kill, or squeeze the weak. If you turn into that kind of force, Moonju will help you. I plan to spend the rest of my life nagging for this. Fortunately, the palace lord also listens to this old man, so it won’t be in vain.”
I usually talk a lot of nonsense, but when I tried to make a promise, my heart became heavy.
But for some reason, I couldn’t easily avoid the old man’s hot gaze.
“Old man, let’s do it.”
“Do you want to make a promise?”
I made a promise while looking into the old man’s eyes.
“I will make it a promise between a wonderful old man and a young man. “The Blood Night Palace escapes the demonic path, and Hao Mun helps the Blood Night Palace.”
With just a few words, I decided to help Hyeol Yagung.
I wondered if this was true, but as I watched the old man’s smile slowly spread, I felt like I was being tricked.
Elder Heo Gyeom is not just an old man.
“I don’t really care what group the Blood Night Palace is fighting against. However, if she does not persecute those who have not learned martial arts, Hao Wen will help her.”
Elder Heo Gyeom responded.
“I will remember those words.”
In any case, the leadership in this situation was entirely held by old Elder Heo.
Suddenly, Elder Heo Gyeom snapped his fingers, and a young man waiting nearby approached.
“Yongmyeong.”
“yes.”
Everyone was watching Elder Heo.
“Do you expect what I will order?”
A young man named Yongmyeong answered.
“I think I understand. Please speak.”
“It’s the third bookcase, the sixth row, the thirteenth book. “Bring it.”
“yes.”
After hearing the explanation, Yongmyeong walked out of the main hall at a quick pace, and Elder Heo Gyeom looked at me.
“Lord Moon.”
“yes.”
“There are not many martial arts in the world that combine the martial arts of extreme yang and martial arts of extreme yin. There are only a few Kang Ho-in who have studied this. Although I lost my inner skills, I did not neglect studying and researching martial arts. Among them, there is a book that organizes the combination of energy from both poles.”
I looked at the old man with my arms crossed.
“hmm.”
“The important thing is to just keep in mind. Muhak is not a definitive study that defines things as this and that. This is because each person’s physical conditions, environment, and type of internal energy are different. Do you understand this?”
“yes.”
“I will briefly explain the combination. “What happens if you hold water in your right hand and water in your left hand and combine them?”
“It will just trickle down.”
“How about holding a snowball in each hand and combining them?”
“The snowball will grow.”
“What if I had a rock in one hand and a snowball in the other?”
“The power increases.”
“This is a book that organizes such simple principles in terms of the expression and harmony of energy. What kind of texture will the energy be expressed and handled? How can we actually combine them to create power? A distinction was made between when handled in vivo and when handled outside the body. It’s a no-brainer summary of my experiences, my fights, and what I’ve learned from taking the beating myself with this old body. Actually, I didn’t know that I would be delivering this to someone in person, so I wrote down the title of the book temporarily. “It’s just a consideration of yin and yang.”
In an instant, Heo Gyeom was pouring out Muhak’s theories, but in fact, I understood them all without missing a single word.
This is because it was a theory that exactly matched my actual concerns.
Elder Heo added an explanation.
“The principle of Taiji in Taoism is also the same. Taegeuk is considered to be the most effective moment when yin and yang meet. The moment two forces come together in some way, an explosion is bound to occur. To deal with this, I studied reverse taiji for a long time in the magic world, and in the end, as I tried to reach the highest point, I realized that I was worrying about the same thing. “Whether it’s climbing a mountain or getting rid of a horse, it’s just a signpost near the road leading to perfection.”
Elder Heo’s words seemed to have given food for thought not only to me, but also to the Sword Demon, Saek Demon, Palace Lord, and Gyoyoung who were practicing martial arts.
Not long after, Yongmyeong returned and presented the book to Elder Heo, who accepted it and presented it to me without any conditions or feelings expressed.
“Please take a look and refer to it.”
I accepted the book calmly because it said it would help the Blood Night Palace.
“I’ll take a good look.”
“Yongmyeong, let’s retreat now.”
When Elder Heo looked at Yongmyeong, Yongmyeong helped Elder Heo up.
Elder Heo said while looking around the crowd.
“Then let’s talk about it. Also, it would be helpful if you take Yongmyeong, who is here, with you when playing Saryugok. “At least I taught them not to cause trouble.”
People looked at the young man named Yongmyeong.
According to the flow of the story, it was said that Elder Heo was a young disciple who was teaching a compilation of his martial arts knowledge.
Lord Blood Yagung stood up and spoke to Elder Heo.
“Elder, please take a look.”
Elder Heo made eye contact with people comfortably and then said this.
“If you want to live long, you must go to bed early. “I will go first.”
Ordinary words no longer sounded ordinary, so everyone stood up.
“Rest in peace. “Elder.”
“Mr. Musketeer, see you again.”
“Please take a look.”
I called the old man and Yongmyeong aside for a moment.
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“for a moment.”
I spoke after putting the book the old man gave me on the table.
“Old man, I will support you wherever you are staying.”
Yongmyeong, who was supporting the old man, looked at me and Elder Heo with a puzzled expression. When Elder Heogyeom nodded his head, Yongmyeong stepped aside.
I said as I approached Elder Heo.
“An old man and a young man are going on their way, so everyone, please don’t get in their way.”
I clung to Heogyeom’s side and supported his thin body. His body was so light that it seemed like he could lift it with his fingers.
Heo Gyeom lightly tapped the back of my hand, which was supporting me.
“Moonju, let’s go.”
I walked very slowly with the old gentleman. It was short, but it seemed like it would be a long journey, so I secretly applied saliva to my lips.
“Old man.”
“Please tell me.”
“You are half a hundred years older than my grandfather who passed away. My grandfather suffered for a long time in a guesthouse, but the old man survived the demonic path, so he must have survived an incredible journey. In the meantime, you must have seen a lot of his crazy people.”
Elder Heo smiled broadly.
“You mean this? “There was a lot of conflict within the church, so I met many devils of all kinds.”
Only then did we arrive at the main hall and look outside. The cleanly laid out road to the hospital felt truly distant.
If I carried the old man on my back, it would have passed by in an instant, but we are real men, so we kept walking.
“My grandfather in heaven will be very surprised when he sees me someday.”
“Why?”
“How surprised would you be that a guy who couldn’t even make noodles properly and used to do nothing but mop is now running around beating up strong people to death. He would probably have been worried even if he had taken over the house and worked day after day. Even if you see him wandering around Gangho like this, he must be very worried.”
“Do you regret coming to Gangho?”
I shook my head.
“I like it now.”
“So does this old man. There is such a thing as an afterlife, and if there is a river there, I will live there without hesitation.”
I also nodded.
“Same.”
While we were walking down the street with the old man, we stopped for a moment because an unknown flower petal was fluttering before our eyes.
Only after the fluttering flower petals had passed did I start walking again.
“It took me over half a century just to understand the world and realize the foolishness of people, including me. I have seen many people who become crooked the more they press, criticize, and scold them. It shouldn’t have been that way. “At times, I was depressed by the fact that there was no end to killing and killing.”
“I am also a foolish man, so if I had met the old man earlier, I would have been scolded a lot.”
“Since when did you become so crooked, Moonju?”
I smiled heartily and looked back on my memories.
“well. I guess I’ve heard drunken guys’ nonsense too often since I learned how to speak. It’s too long ago even for me as a young person. It must have been crooked from a very young age. I thought that when I grow up, I’ll start by beating up those idiotic drunks… … . “How was the old man?”
“I have spent my whole life training and fighting. There was no time to look back. It wasn’t until one day when I lost all the martial arts that had supported me that I saw the world differently. There was a time when he thought martial arts was everything, but it wasn’t until he lost it that he realized it wasn’t everything. He was so foolish by nature that he realized it too late. Fortunately, there were no people in the church who wanted to kill me, probably because they thought my contribution was great.”
“I guess so. “No matter how devils they are, real men must be respected.”
“One day, when I made up my mind to kill the religious leader, I had already lost my martial arts skills. “I was so old that I forgot for a moment that I had lost my martial arts skills.”
I smiled back.
“It would have been great if I had been with the leader during the old man’s heyday.”
“It wasn’t easy to deny where you were and think differently.”
“That is correct.”
The place we arrived at, following the old man’s gaze, was not a fancy outbuilding, but a neat wooden house with a space for training arranged in the front yard. I slowly looked around the frugal residence of a retired magic master.
The old man said.
“I will sit down on the bench.”
I guided the old man to the bench and sat down with him.
As I sat and looked at it like this, I could clearly see the scenery of the main palace and inner garden where the princess was staying.
“Wenju, you may achieve quickly, but do not let your guard down.”
“I will.”
“I taught this to my disciple Yongmyeong. please refer to this.”
“I will listen.”
“If you meet someone who is bigger than you, serve them as your master. If you meet someone who is smaller than you, leave without hesitation. However, if you find an outstanding person that you cannot tolerate, cling to him with all your loyalty and become a friend first. It is difficult for any expert to stop the sudden stabbing of a friend with whom one shares a deep heart. Do you see the logic behind this?”
I made eye contact with Elder Heo Gyeom and then nodded.
“It would be a terrible killing logic.”
Elder Heo Gyeom said.
“you’re right. Yongmyeong is the last spell I taught. This is a man who spends his entire life approaching the person he wants to kill, only to recall his mission at the most certain moments. This is a method used when you need to assassinate a target that is absolutely difficult to kill. He was a disciple who taught with the religious leader in mind. “The fight between the cult leader and I is not over yet.”
I touched Elder Heo Gyeom’s hand. Although I lost my inner strength, the thick calluses on each finger joint were still there.
“Were you the instructor who played Saryugok?”
“I often thought about not being able to catch Instructor Chil back then, but I never thought he would reappear like this. Be careful too. “It means that just as I raised Yongmyeong, Instructor Chil at the time also taught someone.”
I nodded and looked at the distant sky.
“There are many enemies everywhere. Sleep has been uncomfortable all the time because of the sprayers, but how can I overcome this? Lately, I’ve been dozing off even while eating… … .”
The old man was lost in thought and then answered.
“There is no way. Even for assassins, the hardest thing is to resist drowsiness. Holding out for three or four days is bearable, but holding out for more than ten days is difficult even for first-class living. I have no choice but to exercise patience, recognizing that Munju, who is sleeping on the side, is more comfortable than Salsu. Make good use of your minions, too. “The best thing is for Salsu to protect you, but he won’t feel comfortable if a person’s mind is covered with doubt.”
I sighed, tired of the old man’s answer.
“It’s not easy to survive.”
“Living so fiercely is also the joy of life.”
“That’s right. “That is the life of a real man.”
When I got up from the bench, Elder Heo looked up at me.
“Lord Mun, please come see this old man one more time before he dies.”
I grabbed Elder Heo’s wrinkled hand.
“My old gentleman, I hope you survive for a long time. “I will come see you again.”
Elder Heo nodded and then smiled.
“I’ll wait.”
Since we were real men, we just nodded our heads a few times and then said goodbye.
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