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At the training center

“Ju Seo-Cheon!”

“Yes!”

Ju Seo-Cheon replied loudly when Cheol Woong (a third-generation disciple of Mount Hua Sect and instructor of the Nakan Hell) called him as he stepped forward.

“I heard that you achieved getting the Plum Blossom Qi Arts to the fifth level. Is that true?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“If that’s the case, you will be joining in the training of fist techniques.”

Before one was able to reach the fifth star level of the Plum Blossom Qi Arts, the physical training at the Nakan Hell ended at making a round trip to the center.

And when he was about to reach five stars in the Plum Blossom Qi Arts after about one year, he would go over the next physical training phase.

“I will teach you the Plum Blossom Strengthening.”

“Yes, I understand.”

The pride of Mount Hua Sect was the sword but it didn’t mean that other martial arts were neglected. They weren’t at the level of the Sword Skills, but they did exist.

Most of them weren’t hard to understand and were comparatively easy, and these techniques were the fundamentals to protect yourself when you weren’t holding a sword.

“In Kang Ho there’s a saying that goes ‘A hundred spears, a thousand daggers, and ten thousand swords.”

It meant that learning and mastering the sword was the hardest and took the most time of them.

“The fist techniques also contain the essence of Mount Hua Sect so they will become the base for when you learn swordsmanship. So don’t complain and follow well!”

Cheol Woong spoke with a strict tone.

Ju Seo Cheon didn’t make unnecessary remarks and joined in training the fist techniques.

‘Hoh, normally they get disappointed at not being able to practice the Mount Hua Sect’s sword…he has a good posture.’

Cheol Woong saw his back and exclaimed lowly.

After that, a small change occurred in Ju Seo Cheon’s life.

He woke up at dawn and circulated energy near the plum tree. However, that was what attracted the eyes of others.

The fourth-generation disciples were mostly kids that hadn’t even come of age. In addition, children were curious beings by existence.

He would obviously attract attention in a society with those children as he would sit in front of the plum flower by himself and circulate energy.

“Hey, plum tree lover.”

When he opened his eyes after having finished circulating energy he could see a group in front of him. They were all children of the same age.

“I heard that the plum tree is your only friend.”

Kik kik!

“There’s no purer evil than children.”

Ju Seo Cheon mumbled with a sad expression.

“What is he saying?”

The kid who was leading the others heard that and put on a dumbfounded expression.

Ju Seo-Cheon stood up from his place without saying anything and continued speaking with eyes that contained melancholy.

“Normally I would have said ‘This hyung of yours finds it bothersome to deal with you so leave when I’m saying it nicely’.”

“What?”

“But I’m sure that you are going to keep quarreling with me because the world is formed with that kind of continued hate. That’s why I’m going to cut off that hate before it continues.”

The words Ju Seo-Cheon was speaking were hard for these children.

From olden times people would think that you were full of yourself if you spoke in words that were hard to understand.

At first, they came to tease Ju Seo-Cheon a bit as he was alone but they started to feel bad as he came out like this.

“Come you, evildoers! I have polished the Plum Blossom Fist techniques until now to end that cycle of hate!”

Ju Seo Cheon charged forward.

He wasn’t that fast. It was an obvious thing as he had just started training in the Plum Blossom Life Arts and Plum Blossom Fist Techniques.

“Wh, what is with this crazy guy!”

The boss of the group of kids threw back a fist towards the Ju Seo Cheon that was, charging towards him, in a fluster. It was at a fast speed.

“Haha.”

Ju Seo Cheon laughed as if he was having fun and dodged it.

The boss of the kids was superior in terms of speed and strength but he was still a kid.

He wasn’t even a proper opponent for Ju Seo Cheon that had the memories of his past.

He could see clearly how the kid would move and how he would attack.

“Huk?”

The kid’s boss got shocked and turned his body in a hurry but it was already late. Ju Seo-Cheon kicked the chest of the kid boss.

“Kek!”

The kid’s boss screamed and fell backward.

Ju Seo Cheon raised his head high and spoke in a saddened voice.

“This is the fist of Kang Ho.”

“What are you saying, that now was a kick!”

Ju Seo-Cheon was actually the calm and silent type. He was like that because he had lived oppressed by pressure.

He passed his life somehow because he had been training all his life and when he became middle-aged he got gloomy because he had to be walking on eggshells.

But his personality changed a little bit after reincarnating. Precisely speaking, he had started to solve the things that were pressuring him.

A little bit more freely in his new life. But that started to go in a strange direction.

“Kek kek…get that crazy bastard!”

The boss of that group yelled while grabbing his stomach.

And then all the other kids yelled and attacked Ju Seo-Cheon.

“Haha, this is the Plum Blossom Fist Technique! Take the Plum Blossom Fist Technique!”

Ju Seo-Cheon handled the kids in an indulgent manner.

It was an obvious thing but in his position, fighting with kids was no different from kid’s play. It did look like the kids had fought with all their strength but in Ju Seo Cheon’s position, the movements of the kids were too simple and easy to read that he could dodge them with his eyes closed.

Ju Seo-Cheon slipped off from among the kids like an eel and trampled on them.

“Uwaaak!”

“Kueeek!”

The kids screamed and fell down in large numbers.

Ju Seo-Cheon looked at those kids and smiled gently.

“Do you…want to be secret friends with this uncle?”

“Hiiiik”

A lunatic was at that place.

‘Having lost in a fight was a really shameful thing, especially for young boys.

That was even more so if the opponents they fought against were younger and smaller than them.

The kids that picked a fight with Ju Seo Cheon didn’t go speaking around how they had been beaten by him.

They picked a fight against the youngest of the fourth generation disciple that was only nine years old and got defeated without even being able to lay a hand on him. They would lose all their dignity if that got to be known.

Contrary to that, they observed Ju Seo Cheon anxiously in case he would say what happened to someone.

“Huhu, kids are originally like that.”

Thanks to that, this fuss didn’t get bigger and Ju Seo-Cheon was able to not get noticed so he got greatly satisfied.

“Let’s still reflect on it. I couldn’t hold it in and burst out. I feel like I’m aging backward perhaps because I got younger.”

Ju Seo-Cheon reflected himself and smiled proudly while thinking of what happened not long ago.

It was the first time he had run so wild. This had never happened even before he returned back in time.

“Should I focus on training again now that all the obstructions have disappeared?”

In addition, the kid boss and the other kids that picked a fight with him were located at the highest spot among their age.

They were worried that Ju Seo-Cheon may spread his tales of heroism so they blocked the kids that approached him with interest.

Thanks to that, he could train near the plum blossom tree without caring about his surroundings.

One month passed since he started circulating the Plum Blossom Life Arts and learned the Plum Blossom Fist Techniques.

“Haha!”

The results he obtained at that time were great.

“I managed to accumulate half a year’s worth of internal energy in one month!”

The condensation of the Plum Blossom Life Arts was no joke. He had only taken one month in accumulating half a years worth of internal energy thanks to having breathed along the plum tree.

He completed his dantian when he was merely eight and took one year’s worth of time in reaching the Plum Blossom Qi Arts to the fifth star.

But he accomplished half of that in only one month. It would be weird if he wasn’t happy.

The current internal energy Ju Seo Cheon had was a year and a half’s worth.

“Should this much be enough for the Plum Blossom Fist Techniques?”

Ju Seo Cheon swung his fist lightly.

Fwoosh!

He knew more about the Plum Blossom Fist Techniques than the instructors.

His body wasn’t trained but he learned most of it in less than a month after training in concentration.

It seemed like he had taken close to a year before he returned in time but he got to be able to use it freely in less than a month.

‘Um, what is left is boring repetition.’

Even if there was insight following its comprehension, all of that became meaningless if his body couldn’t follow it.

Your body wouldn’t be able to follow if you didn’t have the body of a heavenly martial artist.

It was still the body of a growing nine-year-old kid. His body would get destroyed if he got greedy.

If only his body followed the memories he already had, he would have stolen a sword and started training in swordsmanship already.

But he couldn’t do that so he could only train his body step by step by executing the Plum Blossom Fist Arts.

For reference it was only slow in Ju Seo-Cheon’s position, it was a crazily fast speed for others.

It was unavoidable as the understanding of martial arts was low in the beginning except for geniuses.

‘I should revise my plans.’

He could execute the Plum Blossom Fist Arts without thinking about it now.

It was almost at the boundary of it being unconscious.

There was no need to go through the process of thinking about it.

So instead, Ju Seo-Cheon organized a few things that would happen in the future.

“I really don’t want to think about it but the first thing that remains in my memories on what happens is…”

A dark shadow enveloped Ju Seo-Cheon’s face.

It was something that would happen five years from now when he was fourteen. It was something that had happened tens of years ago but he couldn’t forget what happened.

That’s why because couldn’t get to see his master Yu Jeong Mok from that year on anymore.

The soft smiling sword, Yu Jeong Mok.

It was a nickname he received because his smile was always soft and pure.

Ju Seo-Cheon knew about Yu Jong Mok more than anyone else.

And what would happen to him in the future.

‘Master…’

Yu Jong Mok was a respectable great man and martial artist.

That wasn’t a subjective observation at all.

A person that can be considerate towards others, gentleness, and a comfortable smile. There were no flaws in his personality and his martial arts were also great.

There was a position called Plum Blossom Sword Examiner.

One could become a Plum Blossom Sword Examiner only after going through strict tests and trials that tested your martial arts, personality, and wisdom.

That position was the greatest in Mount Hua Sect and they were the idol of all the disciples of the sect.

Yu Jong Mok was so outstanding he was selected as a candidate for the Plum Blossom Sword Examiner and had even passed some examinations.

Yu Jong Mok herself worked hard with that dream in mind but solely speaking about the results, he wasn’t able to climb to that position because of a certain thing.

It was because of the chronic disease he had from long ago.

No, precisely speaking it wasn’t known if it was even a disease.

Yu Jong Mok had a high understanding of martial arts from his youth and could even execute it more precisely than others.

However, he got exhausted more easily than others and his body structure was also weak.

It was because his health and physique weren’t good from birth.

It was to the point that he got teased for being a weakling by his fellow apprentices when he just joined the sect.

But Yu Jong Mok didn’t yield and worked a few times more than others in training his body to complement his weakness.

It was harder than others, perhaps because he was born that way, but he somehow managed to overcome it with his solid will.

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But his weak constitution didn’t get better even with the passing years.

Fortunately, he never got greatly ill but he frequently suffered from slight fevers or light sickness.

The conditions for becoming a Plum Blossom Sword Examiner were really harsh and strict and he fell down on the examination site due to suffering from these diseases frequently.

The reason Ju Seo-Cheon didn’t have other fellow brothers was because of this.

Yu Jong Mok wasn’t healthy enough to take in more disciples besides Ju Seo-Cheon

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Master said that his body was weak since he was young and just let it slide, but afterwards when I thought about it it was weird.’

It was weird for a martial artist to have a weak body in the first place.

Training in internal energy also trained your body and mind.

It was weird for an experienced martial artist to suffer light illnesses as frequently as common people.

It wasn’t that they starved or didn’t maintain their hygiene. It was because they couldn’t clean themselves.

There was no way you couldn’t stay healthy if you kept a regular routine, slept regularly and breathed in the qi of nature.

Even if his weak body was inherent, it should have gotten fixed already.

But of course, it was an exception for people who were at the end of their lives or suffered severe internal injuries in the past.

But Yu Jong Mok didn’t belong to any of those categories.

So why?

The reason was simple.

‘It wasn’t his constitution. He had a chronic disease.’

He didn’t know for how long his master’s illness had been lying dormant.

He didn’t even know of its identity and couldn’t even know whether it was innate or acquired.

This disease slowly gnawed at his life and after five years it completely took away his life.

When Ju Seo Cheon found out that Yu Jong Mok caught a disease was when his health had already deteriorated.

‘I still can’t forget the helplessness I felt at that time.’

One day, his master suffered an intense fever and had collapsed.

He called the medical staff immediately but they gave out some really despairing words.

‘We don’t know the details but it seems like the disease was concealing for quite a long time. We have never seen these symptoms before…’

For reference, Yu Jong Mok had borrowed the hands of the medical staff a lot in his life as he suffered from minor illnesses from when he was young.

He had taken medical examinations regularly but no symptoms were found before he collapsed.

In the end Yu Jong Mok left the world a few days later without being able to leave a will behind.

‘I must stop it!’

That was the reason he burst out crying when he first saw his master after returning back in time.

The existence of Yu Jong Mok was that special for Ju Seo Cheon.

He was determined that he wouldn’t let Yu Jong Mok die again.

Saving his master. That was the first thing he had to do.

‘The next major thing that happens, comes after about six years, when I turn 15?’

One year after the death of Yu Jong Mok.

Something that would cross a line in the history of the center of Murim would happen.

‘The treasury of Three Eyed Immoral God!’

There was a legendary thief that spread his name in all of the midlands three hundred years ago.

That thief always left a note of a three eyes diagram when he stole something. That’s why he was called the Three Eyed Immoral God.

The Three Eyed Immoral God was active for about a hundred years after appearing but nobody could discover anything besides his notes.

After about a hundred years more passed and the activities of the Three Eyed Immoral God had stopped, the government announced that they had captured him.

But no one was able to believe that.

The Three Eyed Immoral God got persecuted by several factions of Murim, including the government, for close to a hundred years.

But the Righteous Faction, Death Sect, Demonic Church, and Blood church and not even the Royal Palace was able to track the stealing of the Three Eyed Immoral God.

People thought that the Three Eyed Immoral God hid the things he stole somewhere and died a natural death.

After that countless people tried to find the treasury but no one was able to find it.

And six years later, that legendary treasury gets discovered and shows itself to the world.

‘I have to go and rob it first!’

As soon as the treasury got discovered in the future, all kinds of people aimed at the treasures and flocked like bees.

An era of war didn’t happen but still, bloody battles that were comparable to a war occurred so it became a disaster.

And in the end, they touched the wrong mechanism before they could retrieve the treasures and the treasury collapsed and ended there.

That’s why he had to act first.

‘The problem is that I couldn’t even go out after six years.’

In the central plains he was an adult but one wasn’t free even if they became adults in Mount Hua Sect.

In Hua Sect, you had to be at least twenty years old to get permission to go out of the sect except for special cases.

This was to prevent their younger disciples from dying an absurd death after going out to Kang Ho.

That’s why they took more thorough preparations to train them in martial arts until the age of twenty and sent them off to Kang Ho.

‘What should I do?’

Two more months passed.

And in that time he was able to accumulate another year’s worth of internal energy.

Ju Seo Cheon’s internal energy was now two and a half years worth.

“I also sensed it before returning in time but this really…”

He admired his Qi condensation speed many times after returning back.

The martial arts of the Righteous Sect were normally called Righteous Arts.

First of all, the Righteous Arts were safe. If you trained properly the probabilities of your internal energy getting twisted were very low.

But instead, the speed in which internal energy was accumulated and the training speed was really slow.

On the other hand, the training speed of the Demonic Arts and all other aspects were so fast it could be called a cheat.

However all things had their demerits. The Demonic Arts instead had lots of side effects. It wasn’t called demonic for nothing.

For example, they become mad men for being dyed with the demonic arts, become cannibals or their sexual desires become uncommonly high.

The side effects were so many and varied that they couldn’t be counted.

But the Plum Blossom Life Arts was based on the Righteous Arts and had the peculiarity that the condensation speed was the same as the Demonic Arts.

Precisely speaking, it wasn’t as fast as the Demonic Arts but was still much faster than the Righteous Arts

“Whew, today was a fulfilling day too.”

Ju Seo Cheon finished his daily routine and headed to the residence of his master at dusk.

Ju Seo Cheon stood in front of the door and then dusted off his clothes before entering.

“Cough! Cough!”

Flinch.

Ju Seo Cheon stopped moving as his eyes widened.

The voice that was heard beyond the door a while ago.

It was the sound of his master coughing.

‘Master…..!’

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It was the voice he couldn’t forget his entire life.

The only person he could call family.

The only person he relied on even after aging.

‘Nine years, it is not time yet.’ The remaining time Yu Jong Mok had was five years.

However it wasn’t ‘five years’ but ‘only five years’.

In addition, all diseases had to be discovered in its early stages and measures had to be taken.

If not, it could become too late and he wouldn’t be able to treat him.

He didn’t even know what disease it was exactly so in the worst case scenario he may have to act right now.

Ju Seo Cheon worried endlessly the past two months while training his martial arts earnestly.

‘I can only ask the supreme doctor to treat him.’

Supreme Doctor.

The boundary of their medical arts surpassed skilled physicians and became the current doctors. They were living legends.

Masters and experts, that were hard to find now, filled the lands in the era of war.

The Supreme Doctor was one of those people and he passed away in the era of war and disappeared.

‘But how would I contact the Supreme Doctor?’

The Supreme Doctor wasn’t someone he could call as he pleased.

Most of all, Supreme Doctors were so cranky they were also called as Odd Doctors that it was really hard to obtain their hearts. Not even threats worked on them.

There were some famous tales that said that he ignored the requests of the Murim Leaders and other elders.

‘I remember that people went crazy on medical books now that Supreme Doctors were rare…’

Such as Supreme Doctors were beings that stood at the peak of medicinal arts, they had also gathered and recited many medical books.

There were so many of them that there was a rumor saying that all the medical books of the central plains were possessed by the Supreme Doctors.

He was glad that they were medical books. If they had been martial arts books, winds of blood would have blown around the Supreme Doctors.

Whatever the case, Supreme Doctors would go crazy if there was a medical book that not even they saw appeared.

There were quite a lot of people finding medical books to get treatment by a Supreme Doctor and thanks to that the already expensive medicinal books would boom in price with the appearance of the Supreme Doctor.

‘Should I spread the rumor that there is a medical book in the library of Mount Hua Sect?’

It wasn’t a bad method but it wasn’t enough.

There was no way a Supreme Doctor would move just because of a rumor.

He tried to think of other methods besides that but he couldn’t think of anything. He had thought of quite a lot of things in that time and the most certain thing was the treasury of the Three Eyed Immoral God.

Six years later, the existence of the treasury would make even the most uninterested Supreme Doctors move.

If it was a medical book hidden in the treasury, then treatment was a sure thing. He could even ask them to heal his master.

But right now, he was too young so he would get restricted in his actions so he wasn’t able to slip away from interrogations as he pleased.

The treasury was located at a really far place from Mount Hua Sect but the biggest problem was that his martial arts were too weak.

In his current state, he may lose his life very easily due to a mountain bandit or a ronin while going out to Kang Ho.

No, in the first place this situation was impossible because Hua Sect was taking surveillance with this in mind.

‘How many times have I thought on how I could contact the Supreme Doctor… Is there no other way?’

There was nothing he could do even if he thought about all the things that would happen in the future because of the situation he was in. He got angry at that helplessness.

Ju Seo Cheon got a hold of himself and calmed his rage and then spun his brain desperately to think of another method.

‘Is there nothing like a pill that the Supreme Doctor made?’

The Supreme Doctor stood at the peak of the medicinal arts and Pharmaceutical skills were also included in it.

On top of that, the price of those pills soared at a mouth dropping price. It was obvious because it was medicine from a Supreme Doctor.

It was one of the things you couldn’t obtain even if you had money.

It wasn’t that he had a lot of money either so this was also impossible.

‘Wait, there’s no need for it to be a pill made by a Supreme Doctor!’

Ju Seo Cheon slapped his knees and stood up.

‘There is the Miraculous Medicine!’

The miraculous medicine was a medicine that contained the qi or essence of nature and brought an enhancement to the internal energy of martial artists.

However it was only a ‘medicine’ in the first place and not a means to increase your boundary or get stronger so it was used as curing as its objective.

‘Why couldn’t I think of this earlier!?’

Ju Seo Cheon hit his head and blamed his own stupidity. He was taking a roundabout way while having a shortcut.

‘Let’s see, there were some miraculous medicines that have been discovered.’

He reorganized his memories of the past.

There were about three to four of them.

And one of them was close to Mount Hua.

‘The Water Spirit Deity Fruit!’

That would be discovered about twenty years later.

At the age of war.

Some ronin suffered fatal injuries in the middle of war and then fell to the river while fleeing and got swept by the fast torrents.

But that ronin rode on the torrents and arrived at an underwater cave that no one knew about and experienced a strange fate.

There was a tree growing inside the cave, mysteriously enough, and the fruit that came out from that tree was the Water Spirit Deity Fruit.

When the ronin took in the Water Spirit Deity Fruit, his internal energy increased greatly and thanks to that he climbed to the level of a hundred generation expert.

It was really a mystery.

‘I’m glad, it is comparatively close too!’

The place the underwater cave was near a village called Zuo Yin, a little bit to the north of Mount Hua.

There was a river in the boundary of Shānsè where Mount Hua was located at and near that place was Hanam.

It was good because you were able to arrive at that place in less than a day if you rode on a horse constantly.

It seemed like this ronin of the past was the type to speak a lot because that place became so famous it later became a tourist destination.

There was a time when Mount Hua Sect examined all the nearby rivers and caves in case there was another spirit deity fruit. Thanks to that Ju Seo Cheon knew about it in detail.

It was an obvious thing but they did discover a few caves after the examination and couldn’t even find a tree.

‘It is a miraculous medicine that turned a third rate ronin into a hundred generation expert. There are plenty of possibilities.’

Moreover, it is said that after that Ronin took in that miraculous medicine, he obtained an incredible internal energy in his hands.

He didn’t doubt that with that much energy he would be able to suppress Yu Jong Mok’s disease with the internal energy and solve it.

“Ha, I got blinded by the treasury of the Three Eyed Immoral God until now. I should have a broader mind from now on.”

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Ju Seo Cheon reflected on himself.

‘Master said that he would participate in the periodical assembly after one week, so that will be my opportunity.’

The periodical assembly took about three to five days. That much time was enough. This was his opportunity.

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