Novel Return of Mount Hua Sect Chapter 472

“Cough! Cough! Keuhuhuk!”

Im Sobyong groaned as he wiped his mouth with a handkerchief and looked up at the sky.

“…Will it rain?”

It’s a ridiculous story that a martial master who leads a sect, even at such a young age, can predict the weather. (it’s said that the old and weak can feel weather changes since they got chill and aches all over when the weather got bad)

But what can he do? That’s the truth.

Im Sobyong squeezed his numb fingertips tightly.

‘Damn it.’

The symptoms appear to have gotten worse recently. The yin within his body became so powerful that learning martial arts became a serious problem.

Creak.

The door then swung open violently. Bonchung was the one who brought the medicine bowl.

“It’s time to take your medicine.”

“That useless, Cough! Medicine! Cough!”

“You still have to eat.”

“Ugh.”

Im Sobyong ingested the medication. Eating it on a regular basis does not cure the disease, but it does relieve symptoms slightly, so he couldn’t help but eat it.

“But isn’t it a drug that Myong gave?”

“Haaa, yes, yes.”

Hundreds of thousands of nyangs were spent to find drugs that worked as well as the ant’s eye, and the cost of the drug is over 100,000 nyang a year.

Im Sobyong gulped down the medicine with a crumpled face.

Tok!

Then, he put down the medicine bowl as if throwing it and slowly leaned back on the chair decorated with the tiger skin.

“Haven’t you heard anything from Mount Hua yet?”

“Yes.”

“…It’s late.”

When Im Sobyong made a groaning sound, Nine Chain Sickle (구쇄겸(九鎖鎌)), Nagok (나곡(羅谷)), chimed in.

“Aren’t they, by any chance, just eat and run?”

“That…….”

“This bastard!?”

Im Sobyong was about to open his mouth when Bonchung shot fire from his eyes and let out a thunderous roar.

“How dare you say such a thing! Are you saying that my Hyung-nim is the kind of fool who deceives people? Come here! I’m gonna tear that jaw apart right now!”

Nagok stepped back in Bonchung’s excitement as if he had heard his parent being cursed.

“…What’s wrong with him?”

“It’ll only rot your inside if you heard it.”

Im Sobyong sighed deeply.

‘This one, that one.’

There’s no one to trust, no one.

At times like this, he should be more healthy, but isn’t it a pity that he’s not feeling well day by day?

“……but still, they are a well-known Righteous Sect. They won’t break what they said with their own mouth so easily.”

“I heard they looked like a bandit…..”

“…….”

“I’ve been told they look like a scammer.”

At the following words, Im Sobyong looked back at Nagok with a soulless face. Nagok tilted his head.

“Am I wrong?”

“…It’s because you’re not wrong.”

Im Sobyong sighed with frustration.

“Anyway, we don’t need to pretend as long as we had that one pill. It’s about time for it to arrive…….”

It was then.

“King Nokrim-nim!”

A loud voice was heard outside the door, and then the door swung open.

“…If this is always the case, then just leave it open.”

These bandits didn’t have the concept of asking permission before opening the door. For Im Sobyong, who is as delicate as an orchid, this Nokrim was too wild and desolate to live in.

It was Dark Night that rushed inside.

“A letter comes from Mount Hua!”

“Oh?”

Im Sobyong sprang up from his seat, opening his eyes wide.

“It’s here!”

It’s a letter, so he didn’t expect this but it’s also a method. Isn’t that fine?

“So, what came with the letter?”

“…Yes?”

As the Dark Night tilted its head, Im Sobyong’s forehead narrowed sharply.

“Did anything else come with it? Like a wooden box?”

“None.”

“… There isn’t?”

“Yes.”

“None?”

“Yes.”

“……Cough.”

“…….”

Im Sobyong, who shook his body once, asked with a slightly distorted face.

“Is the letter bumpy or anything?”

“It’s very flat.”

“……Bring it over.”

“Yes.”

The Dark Night politely handed the letter over to Im Sobyong.

Im Sobyong opened the envelope with a sour face and looked at the letter.

“…….”

At the same time, Im Sobyong’s eyes and mouth opened wide.

“Ugh….”

He soon grabbed his chest and staggered sideways.

“King Nokrim!”

“Doctor! Call the doctor, now!”

“Wa- Water… Doctor or whatever, hurry up, water……. Quick!”

“Yes! Here it is!”

Im Sobyong snatched the water bottle and gulped it down at once as the Dark Night hurriedly offered it to him.

“Keeeeek! Cough! Argh!”

Then he coughed violently and spouted the water again.

‘I’m really going to die at this rate.’

The Dark Night picked up the letter that fell on the ground.

‘What the hell does it say…….’

The Dark Night’s eyes widened as large as Im Sobyong’s.

– I’ll go to the North Sea and get the ingredients for the Honwondan, so wait a bit.

– Oh, it’s not fun if you make an accident while I’m away.

“Wha- What the hell is this….?”

The Dark Night opened his mouth wide and was speechless.

“…… Cra- Crazy…….”

“Cough! Cough! Keuhuk! Ptoo!”

Im Sobyong coughed with the force to vomit even his lungs. Then, when blood came out of his mouth, the Nokrim Ten Shadow was frightened and rushed to him.

“Lord!”

“Are you all right?”

Im Sobyong looked at them with sad eyes.

“I bit my tongue.”

“…….”

“…….”

“No…… that crazy guy…….”

Im Sobyong looks at the letter with a frustrated look.

‘What do he mean North Sea? What nonsense is this? What about the Honwondan he said he’d give?’

“This is not something to put up with! We have to run to Mount Hua right now and make them pay for this!”

Nagok burst into anger with his face flushed. However, Bonchung and the Dark Night were just dull in response to his raised volume.

Nagok did not stop and raised his voice firmly.

“Nokrim King must directly strike the neck of that cheeky bastard Chung Myung or something so that he pays the price for making fun of Nokrim… … .”

“You.”

“Yes?”

Im Sobyong nodded at him with a tired face.

“Come here. Here.”

“Huh?”

Nagok tilted his head and approached.

At that moment.

Puk!

“Kuk!”

Im Sobyong kicked Nagok in the shin. As if it was not enough, he started to hit the fallen Nagok with both hands.

“What? Cut his neck myself? I thought that this bastard’s eyes looking at my seat were unusual, so he wanted to kill someone! You hope i’d come back with my head cut off, don’t you? You bandit bastard!”

“Argh! Argh! Tha- That’s not what I mean! That! Argh!”

“Die! Die!”

Im Sobyong violently hit Nagok, but then Bonchung approached and dissuaded him.

“He will really gonna die. Calm down.”

“Are you going to die covering him?”

“No, Lord.”

“…….”

Im Sobyong, who was panting, straightened his back and took a breath as if he was convinced.

“… Lock this bastard and starve him for three days.”

“Yes.”

Nagok, who was beaten without knowing what was going on and even imprisoned, went outside sobbing. Im Sobyong sighed on his chair with a small cough.

“……That Dojang has a knack for turning people upside down.”

“What are you going to do?”

“Tsk.”

Im Sobyong, who picked up the letter, looked down at it, and set it on fire.

“There’s no way the sly person could have gone to the North Sea without thinking. There must be a reason. He told us to wait, so we have to wait.”

“Would it be all right?”

“……Then shall I go to the North Sea?”

“…….”

“Yes, he’s someone who sees the big picture. There must be a reason! Hah! There must be! The reason!”

Seeing his bloodshot eyes, Bonchung somehow couldn’t get rid of the idea that his master had been held by his Hyung-nim.

Unfortunately, that is.

* * *

“Ugh.”

“What’s wrong?”

“My ears are itchy. Who keeps swearing at me?”

“… … That’s weird. If your ears are itchy because of that, then it will be itchy all day.”

“…….”

Just as Chung Myung was about to turn his eyes upside down, there was a commotion coming from the front.

“Sasuk!”

Baek Cheon’s turned his head.

The person who had closed his eyes helplessly and lay on the bed began to open his eyes with trembling eyelashes.

“Wa- Wake up!”

Baek Cheon, Yoon Jong, Jo Gol, and Hye Yeon looked at the conscious child with a tense faces.

The child opened his eyes and spoke more helplessly to the ceiling as if looking for a focus for a moment.

“……Mom.”

“Yes! Are you awake?”

“I’m hungry.”

The child’s mother, who had been waiting so long for that short word, hugged the child with tears in her eyes.

Baek Cheon sighed, now relieved.

“He’s getting better. He’s getting better.”

“Thank God, Sasuk!”

“Amitabha. These are all thanks to Buddha.”

But Chung Myung, standing behind him, narrowed his eyes.

“The disease was found by Soso, and I caught the fish, but what did Buddha do? I don’t know if it’s Taesangnogun!”

“…Siju.”

“Huh?”

“Aren’t you afraid of hell?”

“Look at this guy blabbering about hell.”

Chung Myung snorted and clicked his tongue. The patients were now woken up one by one. It’s only been a day since they fed them raw food, and really, as Tang Soso said, the patients were getting better.

“Here is the porridge!”

“Cool it down and feed it to the patients! Slow down because you might get sick if you eat in a hurry!”

“Yes, Doctor!”

The villagers, who had seen their patients recovering consciousness with their own eyes, were now ready to jump into the fireball if Tang Soso said so.

Why wouldn’t they?

From their point of view, she was a doctor who solved the mysterious disease that could not be fixed by all means in a few days. It was weirder if they didn’t trust her.

“Soso, do we just have to feed them more raw food now? They don’t need any other treatment?”

“Yes, Sasuk, but overall, they’re starving. They need more food.”

“……the grain we brought is about to run out.”

“Anything they can eat is fine. Since it has come to this, it’s good to eat a little more fish…….”

“Hiik! Amitabha! Amitabha! Homage to Guanyin Bodhisattva!”

Tang Soso tilted her head with a curious look at Hye Yeon, who suddenly started chanting.

“What’s wrong with the monk all of a sudden?”

“…There are things in the world that are better not to know.”

It was Baek Cheon who didn’t want to let the youngest know about such a rough thing.

“But it’s fascinating. It’s so simple to solve…….”

“It’s a disease that they wouldn’t have contracted if the situation hadn’t changed.”

“Hm?”

Tang Soso’s face hardened slightly with anger.

“As we’ve heard from the old man Hong before, they would usually fish and eat fresh food in the winter. But the recent situation in the North Sea has kept them from leaving their homes.”

“Hmm?”

“That’s why those who rule the region always have to think and think. They don’t know how one of their small actions will affect the civilian that lives in the area.”

Tang Soso is the daughter of the Sichuan Tang Family, the ruler of Chengdu. Although not as much as the North Sea’s Ice Clan, the Sichuan Tang Family also has a great influence on the people of Chengdu.

That’s why the situation would not look good.

Creak!

At that time, the door opened violently and the Chief, whom they had seen the other day, rushed in. The shaky cane in his hand seemed to tell how excited the Chief was.

“Ah…….”

The old man, who confirmed the patients who came to consciousness, shook his hands and looked back at Tang Soso.

Then suddenly, he grabbed Tang Soso’s hand. His bare shoulders trembled as she heard a half-sobbing sound.

“Thank you……Thank you so much…….”

Mount Hua’s disciples could not say anything. He was the Chief who had treated them badly the other day, but they could all guess how shaken he was at this situation with that one action.

“How can I repay this favor….?”

Tang Soso smiled awkwardly when she saw the blurry water smeared around the Chief’s eyes.

“I just did what I had to do, Chief.”

“No. How can this be normal?”

The Chief bit his lips.

“No one would have said anything if you just went. But you persuaded us to cure the disease, and you have given us grain in this barren North Sea….. I don’t know how to express my gratitude. Thank you so much…….”

As Tang Soso tried to find something to say back, Chung Myung, who is next to Tang Soso, smiled pleasedly and answered instead.

“Well, as Mount Hua’s Taoist, we just did what we had to do.”

“No, that punk?”

“What did he do?”

Baek Cheon and the group glared at behind, but Chung Myung didn’t even listen to them.

“You just have to remember that Mount Hua’s Taoists did their best for this village.”

“Sha- Shaolin…….”

“What? You didn’t do anything.”

Hye Yeon bowed his head sullenly. Yoon Jong tapped at such him on the shoulder.

“We understand. Don’t be too disappointed, monk.”

“…….”

The Chief bowed his head with a look of ecstasy. Then he asked carefully.

“So everyone’s been cured now?”

“They’re a little undernourished, but they’ll all recover soon.”

Tang Soso explained step by step the cause of the disease. The Village Chief, who heard it all, sighed with a sad face.

“… Such a thing.”

Who would have imagined that the terrible situation that blocked them from going outside would cause such illness?

“It was my fault…..”

“Don’t blame yourself. Chief just did the best you could. The problem is not the Chief, but the Ice Clan.”

When the word “Ice Clan” came out, the old man’s wrinkled face showed a little fear.

The corners of Chung Myung’s mouth, which was staring at the Chief, rolled up slightly.

“Now, shall we take the price?”

“Yes?”

“Huh?”

Mount Hua’s disciples hurriedly turned their heads toward Chung Myung.

“Price? Are we going to get paid?”

“Of course! There’s no such thing as free in the world.”

“…….”

Of course, it’s not wrong. But it was not a very appropriate word to say in this situation.

Baek Cheon was about to say something, but the Village Chief crouched and said.

“If one has been helped, it would be one’s duty to repay the kindness. But…… as you can see, we don’t have that much leeway, I apologize in advance.”

“Ei, you don’t have to worry about that. It’s not about money.”

“Yes?”

“We’re rich, so money is out of our needs.”

Chung Myung grinned as he stretched out his stomach.

It was Baek Cheon who, for some reason, wanted to poke his big belly and pop it out today.

“Then what can we give you…….”

When the old man asked with a slightly bewildered face, Chung Myung smiled excitedly and said.

“Chief.”

“Yes.”

“Let’s have a warm cup of tea and a conversation.”

Chung Myung’s eyes sank slightly.

“For what the hell is going on here.”