Novel Return of Mount Hua Sect Chapter 384

“…….”

“…….”

The disciples of Mount Hua looked at the person in front of them with mixed emotions.

“……So.”

“…….”

Obviously, the milky white uniform covering the entire body belongs to a human, but it is a little vague to say that the face belongs to a human.

‘It’s twice as swollen.’

‘It’s like a steamed bun.’

‘How much did he get hit?’

Baek Chun coughed softly as he looked at the person who had been beaten with a pitiful expression.

“Keuhum. So what you say is… You’re from a place called Yuryong Sect (유령문/Phantom/Ghost Sect)?”

“…Yes.”

“If it’s Yuryong Sect…….”

For a brief moment, Baek Chun tilted his head, blurring the end of his words.

“Have you heard of it, Jo-Gol?”

“I’ve never heard of it before.”

Mount Hua’s disciples looked at the man again, slightly perplexed.

“That… I’m sorry, but our knowledge is short.”

The man’s face, which had turned purple and puffy, bore a look of injustice.

Then Chung Myung frowned slightly.

“Yuryong Sect?”

“Yes.”

“I’ve heard there’s a place like that, but it’s my first time seeing it in person. What I heard was, uh……the Lightness Art was so outstanding…….” (신법 )

“That’s right.”

“It hides its presence and flies like a ghost…”

“That’s right.”

Chung Myung also nodded with a grim look.

“It matches.”

He wondered why he hadn’t noticed it before hearing it. It’s understandable because hearing with your ears and seeing with your own eyes are two different things.

Baek Chun, who had been listening intently, inquired.

“Evil Sect?”

“It’s a little vague to be called Evil Sect, and if you have to group it, it’s like the between of orthodox and unorthodox…”

Chung Myung shrugged.

“That’s what Yuryong is.”

“It’s a person.”

“Then he’s a thief.”

The Yuryong disciple attempted to show his innocence, but his swollen face did not cooperate.

Baek Chun looked at Yuryong’s disciple, as if perplexed and trying to say something.

“Anyway, I see. So, uh… um, uh… .”

After hesitating for a while, he scratched the back of his head awkwardly.

“I’m sorry, but what’s your generation? Your face is so free-spirited that it’s hard to guess your age.” (자유분방하셔서/ His face is so free-spirited that the part was all over the place a.k.a. too swollen and it’s ugly.)

“…….”

The Yuryong disciple closed his eyes in sorrow.

‘There’s no one who’s easy here.’

This bastard is perfectly fine, so he picks the words people hate the most and says them.

“…… I’m over forty years old.”

“Then you’re a senior.”

“…in the middle of all this?”

Chung Myung tilted his head when a slightly sullen word came out of the mouth of a Yuryong disciple.

“No, was this guy not hit enough?”

When Chung Myung grabbed the shovel again, the Yuryong disciple’s faces turned blue……. No, he shuddered away with his original purple face.

“I’m- I’m sorry…….”

“Gol-ah.”

Baek Chun said.

“Yes, Sasuk.”

“Put some sugar in that bastard’s mouth. Let’s start again.”

“Yes.”

Jo-Gol dragged Chung Myung.

As his arms dragged him, Chung Myung screamed and glared his eyes the whole time.

“Answer me well! Before I sent you to Nirvana!”

Baek Chun shook his head as if his head was aching and looked at the Yuryong disciple again.

“But why the hell did you do this?”

“Tha- That’s….”

Yuryong disciple glanced at Chung Myung, who was being dragged away and opened his mouth.

“I’m Gye Hyung (계형(桂炯)), the 12th generation disciple of the Yuryong Sect. In Kangho, I’m called Shadowless Ghost/Phantom (무영귀(無影鬼)).”

Then Chung Myung, gently dragged away, shook off Jo-Gol and returned.

“No one knows Yuryong Sect, but you got a nickname?”

“…….”

Baek Chun winked at Jo-Gol and said with a sorry face.

“Don’t mind it, go on. That jerk is always like that.”

“…….”

“Hey, you thief!”

“Never mind.”

Gye Hong raised his head and looked up at the sky.

‘You better kill me, you bastards.’

One is swearing, one is comforting, it feels like a carrot comes in from the mouth but a whip falls down to the buttocks.

What kind of rhythm is he supposed to dance to?

If he had known that Mount Hua was so vicious, he would have just run away without looking back.

“You were Daehyup.”

“… Daehyup is too much for me. Just call me Shadowless Ghost.”

“Can I do that? Then I’ll call you Mr. Gye. Anyway… What about you?”

“That’s…….”

Gye Hong sighed deeply and began to explain.

“Where you built the Pavilion is one of our Yuryong Sect branches. To be exact, it’s a safe house (안가(安家)/ Anga).”

“…Safe house?”

Baek Chun frowned.

He had heard the word, “Anga.”

Those who need to minimize exposure to their status and avoid the eyes of others, such as killers (살수(殺手)) and bandits, set up hiding places called “Anga” everywhere and hide whenever they have work.

“Here?”

“Yes.”

“…here?”

Gye Hyung coughed loudly.

“Well, of course, you’re a little perplexed. It’s weird to have a safe house here.”

“…Yes.”

What kind of crazy man makes a hiding place in the most bustling part of Xian? No matter how dark under the brightest lamp is.

“Thi- This safe house has already been built for more than 200 years. At that time, I heard that Xian was not this busy and that there was no official residence.”

“Ah….”

No wonder it’s such an old place.

Yoon Jong, who was listening to the story, exclaimed as if he had guessed it.

“Ah. So, that ghost haunted the abandoned house before?”

“……Yes, it’s us.”

“…….”

When Mount Hua’s disciples looked disgruntled, Gye Hyung protested as if he was being falsely accused.

“In the first place, this was Pavilion that we built. But over the next two hundred years, Xian gradually expanded, and people started to live from side to side, and at some point, they began to occupy it arbitrarily, saying, “It’s an empty pavilion…..”

“Wasn’t it actually empty?”

“……Yes, it is.”

Gye Hyung coughed in vain.

“But… we couldn’t go out as the owner because we have such a status. That’s not only once or twice.”

Baek Chun nodded as if he had finally understood.

“That’s why you drove people out by pretending to be a ghost. If rumors spread that it’s an abandoned house where ghosts come from, people won’t want to live here.”

“Yes, yes. And as you can see, my martial arts are perfectly suited to posing like that.”

“… That’s right.”

“I thought it was a real ghost.”

“That’s enough to be considered a ghost.”

A figure covered with something white is flying at an invisible speed, what would it be if it’s not a ghost? Besides, they don’t even feel the sign.

Gye Hyung nodded furiously.

“This idea worked quite well, and there have been no problems so far. So this time, I came to Xian for management again. The abandoned house that we have managed to keep from collapsing is nowhere to be found…..”

“…of all things, Taoist Sect are swarming here.”

“That’s also equipped with a sword.”

“It’s like hell if we put ourselves in another perspective.”

Gye Hyung nodded his head with an expression that looked like he was about to cry at any moment at the sympathy coming from here and there.

“That… uh… It’s a bit strange to say this in front of you all, but when I found out that the Taoists were Mount Hua people who had recently started making their mark in the world, I can’t bring myself to…….”

“I’m sorry.”

“I’m sorry.”

They didn’t do anything wrong, but they felt like apologizing.

“Well, that’s why I was trying to get people out by pretending to be a ghost somehow like before. Because that’s all I could do.”

Only then did Mount Hua’s disciples, who had learned the whole story of the incident, nod.

“…I don’t think he has done anything so bad, has he?”

“I know. He didn’t hurt anyone, he just surprised people by pretending to be ghosts.”

“He has been beaten too much compared to what he has done.”

“Too much.”

“Yes, too much.”

Pitying eyes poured on Gye Hyung.

In that sympathetic glance, Gye Hyung was about to shed tears.

‘What did I do wrong in my previous life?.’

Why did he meet a poisonous guy like that?

“Never mind.”

But that poisonous guy didn’t seem interested in Gye Hyung’s situation.

“So this is your safe house?”

“Y- Yes.”

“Do you have proof?”

“…Yes?”

Chung Myung asked with a sullen face.

“Is there evidence that this is your Pavilion?”

“…Evidence?”

Gye Hyung narrowed his eyes.

“N- No, the evidence is…….”

They even made it into an abandoned house to hide it’s theirs, how can there be any evidence?

“We bought this. I mean, there’s also the written document.”

“Tha- That’s.”

“And.”

Chung Myung grinned and pointed his chin at the dug-out pit.

“Everything that originally came out of the land belongs to its owner. That’s the law.”

“What?”

“That’s ours now.”

Chung Myung smiled brightly.

“If it’s not fair, go to the Government and submit a complaint.”

“…….”

Gye Hong looks blankly at Chung Myung. Then, he opened his mouth with difficulty.

“Hey…….”

“What?”

“I- It’s a little bit too much to judge Murim’s affairs according to the law of Imperial Family…”

“Isn’t the people also Empire’s people? Is this a big deal for you?”

“……That, that’s…….”

Gye Hyung pleads in panic.

“The- There’s that secret room. Like I said, wouldn’t that be proof?”

“How does that prove? We dug first and then you came.”

“…….”

“A gold chest came out from the floor of your house, and I went there and buried it, so if I insist, will it be mine?”

“N- No, that’s not it, but…….”

In the pouring sophistry, Gye Hyung seemed to be losing his soul.

“Never mind.”

Chung Myung grinned.

“In any case, that’s ours. Needless to say, get out of the Pavilion. If you snoop around one more time, I’ll be pissed off.”

“The- There’s no such law…..”

“How can you come to someone else’s house and pretend to be a ghost and kick people out?”

Gye Hong shuddered.

“You’re lucky. You’d be a real ghost if I was in a bad mood.”

It was the moment Chung Myung tapped him on the shoulder a couple of times and turned around.

“The- There’s no treasure there.”

Ttuk.

Chung Myung’s body was stiffened on the spot.

Then, after a while, his neck twisted strangely and bent backward.

“…what?”

A voice that was several times more dreary and terrifying than when Gye Hyung imitated a ghost came out of Chung Myung’s mouth.

‘Hiik!’

Frightened, Gye Hyung quickly changed his words.

“Mo- Money! There’s nothing to call wealth, this one! There’s something else…….”

“Really?”

Chung Myung’s face is again as bright as snow melting.

“Ei, what’s important in there? It’s a treasure if you can make money out of it. So what’s in there?”

“That…….”

Gye Hyung hesitates with his lips twitching.

Then Chung Myung approached and tapped him on the shoulder.

“You’re so frustrating. If it’s like this, then I have no choice but to go in and check it myself. The result is the same anyway, so let’s not waste our strength.”

At that, Gye Hyung sighed deeply as if he had given up everything.

“……Sect Leader Decree.”

“Huh?”

“There is Sect Leader Decree. Inside that safe keep is the Sect Leader Decree.”

“……Huh?”

The world-famous Chung Myung couldn’t hide his shock this time.

“Sect Leader Decree?”

“……Yes.”

“Sect Leader Decree, that symbolizes the authority of the Sect Leader who controls the big things and small things of the sect?”

“Yes.”

“That in some circumstances, the Sect Leader Decree that has more power than the Sect Leader?”

“…… That’s right.”

“That’s what in there?”

Gye Hyung nodded weakly. This should never actually be revealed, but he didn’t have the power to stop what was happening here anyway.

That demon-like bastard will somehow open it up and look around.

“Why is it here?”

“… It’s a little complicated to explain. It’s…….”

“I don’t care if it’s complicated. Don’t explain.”

“…….”

‘Then why did you ask me, you punk?’

“Hmm. So there’s Sect Leader Decree in there?”

“Yes, it’s a very important thing for Yuryong Sect, so please…….”

“Sect Leader Decree ……….”

“…Yes?”

The corners of Chung Myung’s mouth rolled up.

“So, Sect- Leader- De- Cree, who can have the same command authority as Sect Leader, is in there?”

“…….”

“Really? Hexhehe. Is that so? Hehehehehehe!”

“…….”

Chung Myung began to smile brightly like a child who received a toy he loved so much.

Feeling the indescribable horror beyond words at that moment, Gye Hyung insinuated and called him with his eyes full of anxiety.

“So- Sodojang?”

“No.”

“…Yes?”

Chung Myung straightened his shoulders and looked at him with the most benevolent expression on his face.

“From now on, you should call me Sect Leader Decree (장문령주(長文令主)).”

“…….”

“Looking forward to your kind cooperation. Hehehe.”

‘What do you want from me, you crazy…….’

‘There’s really no answer, really…..’

Gye Hong, who was barely holding out, finally grabbed the back of his neck and fell back.