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Wang Geum-san, who had finished his daily routine, was heading to the huge mansion in the center of the Wang manor (Wang family village) through a long corridor.
High watchtowers were built in the eight directions of the mansion, and inside them, there were dormitories where the escort team that could be dispatched at any time lived.
Although not visible, the eyes of vigilance were strict between the gardens and buildings spread around the pavilion.
Wang Geum-san passed all of them and entered Wang So-so’s room.
“Father! You’re here!”
The room was as cool as if they had brought the North Sea.
Nevertheless, the heat coming from the child’s body was unusual.
As if heat were being shot from a fire burning fiercely with a lot of firewood, an enormous amount of heat poured out from Wang So-so’s body.
‘Poor thing.’
It was hard to endure because heat rose from all over the body when touching Wang So-so.
As if Wang So-so knew his condition, when she moved away from Wang Geum-san, the cold air immediately cooled him.
“Did you have fun today?”
“Yes. I did some new embroidery today.”
Wang So-so showed the embroidery she had been doing and smiled.
At that sight, Wang Geum-san felt as if the fatigue of the day was washed away in an instant.
She was a child who was such a strength to him. But Wang Geum-san’s two eyes looking at the child were filled with sadness.
The child’s fever, which started around the age of ten, continued endlessly, making her suffer for days and nights once the heat rose.
No matter how much he used famous doctors and precious medicinal materials, this heat did not subside and instead became stronger, and the child began to wither day by day.
The money sprayed into the world to even find out the name of the disease was tens of thousands of nyang.
Only after paying that enormous amount of money did he finally learn the identity of the disease.
“It is mysterious. To think that Tae-yang-gi (Sun Energy) would appear in a girl’s body.”
“Can you cure it?”
“How can I cure something that is not wrong?”
“What?”
“......The heat coming from the young miss’s body is innate. If she had been born with a boy’s body originally, she would have made a name for herself in the entire Mu-rim.”
“Tell me in detail.”
“Do you know what Tae-yang-ji-che (Sun Body) is?”
Wang Geum-san also knew about bodies born with innate talent.
“A person with Tae-yang-ji-che emits the fire energy that boils from the beginning of time from their whole body. This is a natural and obvious phenomenon.”
“Then why are they suffering so much in daily life?”
“That is because a girl’s body cannot accept the energy of the sun.”
“......Are you saying the energy is instead attacking the body?”
“Generally, it is the principle that Tae-eum-ji-che (Moon Body) is manifested in a woman’s body and Tae-yang-ji-che is manifested in a man’s body. Because that principle is reversed, they are suffering so much in daily life.”
“Treatment method? What can be done to get better?”
The doctor said even more cautiously.
“That is......”
“It’s frustrating! Say it quickly!”
“Because it is not wrong, there is no treatment method.”
“What!”
“If she were born with a body that could live long, could you see that as a disease?”
“......”
“You cannot call a person who lives a life full of vitality and energy every day a sick person. That is a blessing from heaven. If she learns a martial art that can manage the energy suitable for her body, no one would think that a body that can easily reach the realm of the Jeol-jeong (Peak) should be cured.”
“......”
Wang Geum-san’s face was distorted beyond description.
The doctor quickly read the mood and opened his mouth.
“Collect plenty of treasures that emit cold air to make the room as cold as midwinter and have her live only inside it. If so, she will be able to avoid a lot of suffering or difficult things when the heat rises.”
“......If she does just that, is there no difficulty in living?”
“......”
When the doctor hesitated, Wang Geum-san made a sound of grinding his teeth.
“I hope there is no occasion where I mention your name because of something I didn’t know even later.”
“......The power of Tae-yang-ji-che becomes stronger after passing adulthood. And if the power of life begins to fade, the body will find it difficult to accept the power of Tae-yang-ji-che......”
“......”
“If you pay attention with all your might, I think she will be able to live until...... twenty-five.”
After that, he went around looking for all the famous doctors and herbalists, but they only said the same thing.
Among them, due to the wrong procedures of those who guaranteed they could cure her, Wang So-so even went into a critical situation.
After those things were repeated, Wang Geum-san also gave up on further treatment.
He just decided to be satisfied with spending precious time with his daughter even for one day.
“That is a very wonderful bamboo, it grows straight, and its spirit feels magnificent.”
“I want to make father’s clothes with this.”
“That will be a very wonderful outfit.”
“Yes. Please look forward to it.”
At Wang So-so’s smile, who laughed innocently, Wang Geum-san’s heart broke again.
To relieve this emotion, he always asks his daughter.
“Is there anything you want?”
“I have beautiful hairpins, ornaments, decorations, mirrors, clothes, and silk.”
“Still. If you are bored, shall I call a performance troupe? How about a Beijing opera?”
“Hmm......”
“Say anything. Doesn’t your birthday come soon?”
“I want to see the market scene.”
“What?”
“I want to draw a picture, but I’ve never been to a market with many people, so I don’t know well.”
“Ah......”
“If you are worried, you don’t have to force yourself.”
Did they say that a kind child reads the parent’s expression?
Wang So-so, who immediately read Wang Geum-san’s expression, glossed over her words with a smile.
Wang Geum-san changed his expression then and said.
“I didn’t intend to tell you until I was ready......”
“What is it?”
“Actually, I am preparing a carriage for you.”
“Yes?”
“Yes....... I am producing a carriage that you can ride without being tired and can stay in for a long time. If that is completed, you will be able to go outside as much as you want.”
“Really! Thank you so much, Father!”
Wang So-so hugs him.
The hot heat is felt again.
Wang Geum-san, who came out of Wang So-so’s residence, was walking down the corridor again.
At that time, a man in black stealth clothes dropped from the ceiling and walked next to Wang Geum-san.
“Sect Leader, how about refraining from going out for a while?”
“Why is that?”
“The threatening letter that came this time bothers me.”
“You worry too much.”
A threatening letter left by someone.
It was written with an arrogant and absurd story that someone would dare to target Wang So-so here in the Wang manor.
Coming to now, the Wang manor is not to the level of the Nine Great Sects or the Five Great Clans, but it has come to have power to the level of the sects that occupy the head of the 108 peaks.
In addition to that, the connection with the government built with financial power gave the Wang manor even more absolute power.
Who on earth could break through such a Wang manor and come in? It was clear that there would be none, excluding the Nine Great Sects or the Five Great Clans.
“Then, may I increase the escort?”
“......Do so.”
He tried to erase his anxiety by saying it was useless worry and fell asleep, but the first report he welcomed in the morning was desperate.
“The young miss...... seems to have been kidnapped!”
“C, Mu-rim-maeng! Contact the Mu-rim-maeng!”
“The branch head is running here right now.”
The warriors who ran with the branch head searched So-so’s room thoroughly, but they could not find any traces.
“Was there any contact from the culprit?”
At that time, he suddenly remembered the threatening letter.
“......They are a daring bunch. Sending a letter saying they would kidnap so openly. First, I will start searching the surroundings.”
“You must save her quickly.”
“I’m sorry to say this in such a situation, but don’t worry about the young miss’s life. In the case of such kidnappings, most of them are aiming for money, so contact often comes quickly.”
“No! No! That’s not the problem! So-so has a disease!”
A thunderbolt fell on the Hefei branch of the Mu-rim-maeng, and the news spread directly to the entire Hefei.
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Among the members of the So-jeong-dae, there was a guy called the Mu-heun-sa-sin (Traceless Death God).
In the first place, I didn’t know that the guy was the legendary Mu-heun-sa-sin, and it was only when we were in a situation where there was no way to escape while the Jeong-ma-dae-jeon (Righteous-Demonic Great War) was in full swing that he revealed his identity.
Originally, when a guy with insignificant nae-gong and techniques said such a thing, we cursed and beat him up, saying he was saying useless things in an emergency, but we were astonished at the one move the guy showed.
Clearly, no sign could be felt from the guy visible in front of our eyes.
Even though the guy was moving and wielding his sword, we didn’t feel the sense that a person was moving at all.
Of course, at that time, we ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) were more astonished by the fact that the ‘Mu-heun-sa-sin’, who was practically a giant of the Heuk-do-mu-rim, was working as a low-level warrior of the Mu-rim-maeng.
Anyway, the ‘Gwi-sik-haeng-bo’ (Ghost-Breathing Movement) was a unique footwork that gave him the title of the legendary Mu-heun-sa-sin.
The Gwi-sik-haeng-bo makes it feel like you are using the Gwi-sik-dae-beop (Ghost-Breathing Technique) while moving.
If you are not in sight, even someone with good senses could not feel that a person was there, and we were able to catch the Ho-gyo-beop-wang using this ‘Gwi-sik-haeng-bo’.
And now, when chasing Wang So-so and the Chang-gung-san-dan, I was using it effectively.
As I expected, the guys who moved from the Wang manor to Hefei, and from Hefei to Lake Chao, shook off the pursuit team that the Mu-rim-maeng had urgently organized and fled to Ye-gang.
The guys who arrived at the abandoned house in the mountains of Ye-gang, where the headless corpse had been found, had a somewhat embarrassed appearance, contrary to my expectations.
“This woman’s condition is strange.”
“What are you talking about? She was fine when we brought her out of the house.”
“Look at this. Her body is boiling like fire.”
The man who touched the bundle was surprised and took his hand off.
“If this happens, she has no value as a hostage. Untie the Ma-hyeol (Demonic Acupoint).”
“S, save me. Please save me!”
“Hey. Do you have some kind of disease?”
“Save me! I want to go home.”
The man pressed Wang So-so’s Ma-hyeol and put her back into the bundle.
“We have to be here for one more day. What are you saying we should do if her condition is like that.”
“So what? Do you want to call a doctor? Leave her alone, she’ll endure for a day.”
The guys gathered in groups of three or five, lit a fire, caught a rabbit, and roasted it, continuing lazy acts that one could not imagine as kidnappers.
‘It’s better for me.’
I used the Gwi-sik-haeng-bo to slowly approach the guys.
“Hiccup. Ugh, eating greasy food without alcohol...... Ugh, what are you......”
I killed the first guy who was trying to defecate.
“Hey! If you’re going to shit, go far away! If you shit around here......”
I killed the second guy who came to stop the guy shitting.
As the presence of two people disappeared at once, the warriors with good senses began to pick up their swords one by one.
“Someone is here.”
“Draw your swords!”
“Who is it! Come out right now!”
I released the nae-gi and presence that I had been hiding with the Gwi-sik-haeng-bo at once and kicked one of the guys, throwing him onto the fire.
Kuaaaak.
The guy scattered the campfire in all directions, rolled around trying to put out the fire on his body, and then lost his life after being hit by my sword, and the surroundings were gradually submerged in darkness as the campfire went out.
“Reveal your identity!”
“Dae-yeon-geom-jin! Spread the sword formation!”
“You crazy bastard! Shut up! If our identity is revealed here......”
As I burrowed into the guys who were milling about and cut the life threads of two more, the guys who had been chatting without tension shut their mouths.
“Wh, who are you!”
“Who are you to kill so recklessly!”
“We are people of the Nam-gung-se-ga. There seems to be some misunderstanding. Let’s solve it with words.”
The guys who were desperately looking for me in the darkness unfolded the Chang-gung-mu-ae-geom-beop with all their might at the sound of the stone I threw, and what they sliced through were just falling leaves and a few trees.
And I stood behind those guys and said.
“I know it well, who you guys are. You are the guys of the Chang-gung-sang-dan of the Nam-gung-se-ga.”
“Y, you do this knowing who we are! Are you not afraid of the great Nam-gung-se-ga...... Keuk.”
One of the three remaining guys collapsed.
“If I were afraid of the Nam-gung-se-ga, I wouldn’t have started.”
The remaining two guys unfolded the Chang-gung-mu-ae-geom-beop with all their might, but I suppressed their sword techniques with the Pa-geom-sik.
“Th, this is......”
“This is nonsense!”
And the end was their heads falling and rolling on the floor.
“I never thought in my life that I would receive the help of you, Mu-heun-byeong-sin (Traceless Cripple).”
I honored his contribution with the nickname we used to call him and approached Wang So-so.
“Our rich young lady. It’s time to go home.”
Wang So-so, who came out of the bundle, had a pale complexion.
She was on the verge of breathing her last breath at any moment.
“Sa, save me.”
Wang So-so said that as if she were going to die soon.