Chapter 40: Beginning of my Banquet (2)
Translator: Hwarang
Editor: Klaurem
When I returned home it was pretty chaotic. Since he heard the news about me beating up Song Hwa Rin, Song Wu Kyung came to our house.
“You stupid rascal! You lame punk!” My mother was all up in the air hitting my back.
And my father was busy trying to hold her back, “Please hold it in wife!”
I remembered the day I woke up into the body of Byuk Lee Dan, that day too, my mother was. .h.i.tting me. Ah, the life of a man is so pitiful, I get hit when I get beaten up by a girl and I also get hit when I beat up a girl.
“Why did you do it?”
My mother was truly angry. She wanted the best between for and Song Hwa Rin. But after hearing that I made Song Hwa Rin bedridden for a couple of days, why wouldn’t she be like this?
My father as well as Song Wu Kyung would be feeling the same but they are just not expressing it.
The person who should be the angriest was Song Wu Kyung.
“I am Sorry”
But father made the most perplexed expression. He was thinking how could I do something like this; that was miles apart from how I was when I shared a drink with him.
Song Wu Kyung approached me, I wouldn’t be surprised if a hand came out since I was already prepared to get beaten up.
Rather than a fist he asked me a question, “Why did you do it?”
“Rin-ee and I wanted to exchange pointer. Since she became so strong I had to try my hardest. And somehow this happened.”
“Is that the only reason?”
He was asking me whether this was a revenge from the last time. I might have told Hwa Rin-ee’s guard Soo Ran that this was the revenge from last time since I wanted Ma Jung Soo to hear it, but in front of Song Wu Kyung I couldn’t say that.
“Yes. That was my only intention.”
“Is that the truth?”
“Yes”
After observing me with a cold expression he loosened up and started laughing.
“Hahaha. It seems that our son-in-law is pretty strong.”
Hearing something I never expected I was surprised. It seemed father was surprised as well.
Song Wu Kyung looked at my father and said, “As you know my daughter’s martial arts aren’t just for show and she even received lessons from a well-known expert. To be able to beat her in an exchange. Don’t you think this is a great achievement?”
Oh my! Who would have thought that he would compliment me.
My father shook his head and said, “But he hurt Hwa Rin-ee. He is at fault.”
“There are bound to be one or two accidents during an exchange.”
“He should have been more careful. He should be punished.”
Song Wu Kyung nodded in agreement, “Yes. He should be punished. Entrust that to me.”
He looked back at me, “Are you ready to be punished?”
“Of course.”
“Alright. I want you to visit Rin-ee regularly after she gets better. That is your punishment. Alright.”
Due to the mood I could not say no, “I will try my best to.”
Even though it was an ambiguous answer, Song Wu Kyung accepted it, “All right then”
Then he looked at my father and said, “Let’s have a drink since we are all here”
My mother who was watching all this with an anxious expression finally relaxed.
“Should I show off my skill for today? It has been a while since you tasted my dish.”
Then Song Wu Kyung looked at my father with a conflicted look. This was a rescue signal. Although my mother was good at everything else her cooking skills were not the best. The term ‘not the best’ was a generalization, in truth her cooking skills were demonic.
After looking at the two people my father couldn’t say anything and looked toward the window. How could my father’s taste be any different than others, but since he truly loved my mother he didn’t say anything.
Then Song Wu Kyung said to my mother, “There is no need to overwork yourself.”
“Your expression looks like someone is forcefully trying to feed you poison.”
“Hu hu. There is no way. I think you are mistaken.”
Watching Song Wu Kyung get all nervous my mother said while laughing, “I was just joking. I know the full extent of my cooking skill. I know that the only time you need my cooking skill is when you want to feed it to my enemies.”
“It’s not to that degree...”
After saying that he lamented what he said. But his words already told her the sad reality of her skills.
Then my mother said with a smile, “You are no fun since you are caught so easily.”
Song Wu Kyung replied laughing, “Hahaha, I wasn’t a fun fish since long ago.”
After tossing some more casual jokes back and forth they made their way out of the room.
I was certain that inside Song Wu Kyung wasn’t all smiling and laughing. Which parent would feel good if their child was bedridden? He just wanted to keep a close relationship with my father. At the end of the day it looked as though this little incident wouldn’t create a chip in their relationship.
The next dawn I went up to the cave where I opened all of my meridian points. Since this cave was really well hidden I visited this place every time I need to do something important.
From this encounter, I was able to figure out two things. One, Ma Jung Soo was targeting Song Hwa Rin, and two Ma Bong Gi was the one who was behind all this. In other words, Ma Bong Gi was starting his plan of expanding his influence throughout all of the Central Plain.
Would he only be making a move in San Dong City? I think not. He would have sent his descendants throughout all of the Central Plain and would do a similar thing.
This means I could have been poisoned, but I will not go crazy over some revenge. This was all the more reason why I should quickly get stronger. It’s not like my life was cut short, I lived as long I could have lived so I made up my mind to live this life without think about revenge but …
This was…no…
This was the Central Plain that I spent my entire life protecting. How hard had I tried to help those who were weak and poor from those who had money and strength. But these motherf*kers want to do something this fast. This wasn’t something that I could tolerate about. I need to raise my strength so that I could stop this nonsense. ‘You b*tches, just you wait!’
Controlling my anger I took out that bag and put it in front of me. This was everything that I robbed from Ma Jung Soo. I was so busy escaping that I didn’t have to time to look at what I put in my bag so I was even more nervous than the time I bought the Bansho Root.
I opened that bag slowly. First, I took out the Heavenly Origins Sword.
Shiing!!
How long has it been since I last held this sword?
Actually, Heavenly Origin sword was not a sword that I personally liked. This sword was handed down by the previous Mengju so I used it for a while. After that it was kept safe at the Murim alliance, but who would have imagined that it would make its way back to me.
It felt different holding the Heavenly Origin Sword. Each divine sword had a different spirit. Even if I used this sword I would be three times stronger than using a regular sword. But I still cannot use this Heavenly Origin Sword since there are many who knows how this sword looks like.
Thus, I had three options. First I could bury this sword in the cave. Second I could sell it at the black market. Third I could disguise this weapon so that no one else could discern that this was the Heavenly Origin Sword.
I got rid of the idea of selling the sword. Although I am still at a time where I needed a lot of money but I didn’t want to sell this sword. Even if I did sell it, since it was the previous Mengju’s sword they wouldn’t know the exact price of it also they could have an interest in me as follow me. It was completely different than when I went to buy some profound medicines.
I wasn’t worried that Ma Jung Soo will search the black market since it was such a big place. If he wanted to do so he would have to move the whole Murim Alliance. But I was going to wear a face-mask so I would not be found.
So I was left with two choices. Do I hide it or do I disguise it?
In the end I decided to disguise it. If it was my personal Divine Sword of King Shura then I would have hidden it in a safe place until I got stronger. But since this was the Heavenly Origin Sword it wasn’t that precious to me. If it served its purpose of helping me then that was all I needed it to do.
Since I was still weak this was going to be a great help.
Then I placed the Heavenly Origin Sword back down and took out something else from the bag.
This time I took out a bundle of banknotes. There were untraceable bank notes as well as personal bank notes which in total added up to eighty two thousand nyang. Fifty thousand nyang were personal bank notes while the other thirty two thousand were untraceable bank notes.
I couldn’t use the fifty thousand nyang because it is traceable. So I decided to buy a very expensive item like the profound medicine with it since I could just eat it and no one would be able to find out about it. The thirty two thousand nyang I decided to place in a bank for safekeeping. Although I trusted Kong Soo Chan I didn’t know what he would do. So I decided to keep it in case I need it for an emergency.
The next item that I took out were couple pieces of paper. After observing them for a while I figured that they were some doc.u.ments from the Alliance. I didn’t need them so I throw them away. It would drive Ma Jung Soo a little crazy but it wouldn’t matter much if this paper disappeared since they were the ones with power.
The next item that I took out was a box that was the size of my arm. I didn’t know what was in it so I slowly opened it. It could explode or there could be poison inside of it. But I didn’t believe that. He would never place such a dangerous item together with his money and doc.u.ments.
But just in case I held my breath and slowly opened the box.
“Ah!!!”
Seeing the item inside my heart cried in joy. There were nine green leaves, and a divine looking white flower. To my surprise the item inside of it was Nine-Leaved Divine Herb. Its properties were greater than the Thousand Year Bansho root. If the Bansho root gave from ten to fifteen years’ worth of energy, then this Nine-Leaved Divine Herb will give fifteen to twenty years’ worth. Since I bought the Bansho root for forty four thousand Nyang then this would sell for about seventy thousand nyang.
Whether someone from the San Dong Clan offered it to him or he bought it himself, this was one of my greatest prize that I got from him.
“Hahaha” since I was so happy laughter naturally came out. I felt even better since I stole it from Ma Jung Soo. I really wanted to raise my arms in joy.
After some time I calmed down and looked back down. I really wanted to give it to my parents or Kw.a.n.g Du, but this was a critical time for me where I had to get stronger. If it was more effective for them to eat it then I would gladly give it up. But since I was still lacking in many ways I was in need of it more.
I immediately ate the Nine-Leaved Divine Herb. Since I was afraid I might miss even a slightest of energy I took great care in eating every part of it. As soon as it reached my stomach I felt its energy. I activated my cultivating technique the Heavenly Protection Technique.
WOOOOOO!!!!
All the energy started spreading throughout my body. This time I was able to absorb every last drop of the energy given off by the Nine-Leaved Divine Herb. I absorbed it faster than before since the Heavenly Divine Technique was fully incorporated into the body of Byuk Lee Dan.
After fully incorporating all energy into my body I circulated the energy that I had throughout my body. At this time, I had forty-four years’ worth of energy. I succeeded in absorbing forty years of energy into my body.
“Hahaha”
Laughter came out again. Now all I needed was sixteen years more worth of energy to reach sixty years. If I trained the way that I have been doing it would take less than two years, or it could be faster if I come across another profound medicine.
I let go of all my excitement. At a time like this it was very important to remain calm. Then I looked through the bag again. the rest were just medicine for cuts, poison, and other common medicines. If I sold this I would at most get a couple hundred nyang; But I was going to use it.
I burned all the papers since I didn’t need them,packed everything back into the bag and headed out the cave. The sun started rising from across the mountain. This was a great morning.
After watching the scene for a bit I rushed down the mountain. Since there were many things to be done still.