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Wang Geum-san’s eyes drooped.
martial
I knew all too well that the sects that revered [it] were striving to possess more military power.
Gold
Because he thought that those who worship it are similar to those who are obsessed with money.
However, I never imagined the degree of obsession would be this extreme.
“What is this?”
The Spirit-Saving Snake
They say that.
At Jin Taesan’s answer, Wang Geumsan’s gaze once again turns toward the being called Guryeongsa.
True to its name, Guryeongsa, it has the shape of a snake, but it does not have the smooth body typical of snakes.
Its entire outer shell looked incredibly hard, as if it were wearing armor, and with two small horns growing on its head, it certainly did not look like an ordinary snake.
“You’re going to feed this to the kids?”
No matter how much it could become stronger, it wasn’t in a form that a human could eat. ‘Isn’t this a bit much?’
To be precise, I am not feeding the Nine Spirits. I am extracting the energy within it… … .”
I was well aware that Taeeulmun was currently facing difficulties due to internal energy issues.
Upon hearing that they were desperately searching for a means to supplement their internal energy because they lacked the ability to manufacture spiritual pills.
“Use every means possible!”
He said that.
He also issued orders to the merchant guilds and other companies affiliated with him to collect information on medicinal potions.
I wonder what happened in the meantime.
“Ugh…….”
This strange-looking snake was in their shared office.
“……
“We cannot simply feed it to him. I was told that he requires special treatment because the venom of the Nine Spirit Master is so potent. If we were to make a spiritual elixir, we could enhance its efficacy, but…”
Ah, well, you’re saying it in such a complicated way.
So, to put it briefly.
So you’re saying you can’t eat it right now?
I understood that.
Since the manufacture of spirit pills is one of the most secret practices held by each sect, they cannot be easily obtained or produced.
It was an unavoidable choice for Taeeulmun to choose the supply of elixirs instead of manufacturing elixirs.
I can understand why there is a strange snake among those elixirs.
“But… ‘Why are you bringing this to the office!’ Jin Taesan calmly answers Wang Geumsan’s question.”
“Elixir……
Isn’t that right? We can’t treat it carelessly.
“No… I get that. But couldn’t you just leave it in the warehouse? Um… it’s a bit concerning.”
Jin Tae-san, who had been looking at the documents indifferently, turned his gaze to Wang Geum-san.
Are you scared?
Jin Taesan’s provocation(?)
At that, Wang Geum-san opened his eyes wide.
“Hah! Ha! Good heavens! This is absolutely dumbfounding! How dare I, Wang Geum-san, feel fear toward a mere snake?”
If it’s not, then it’s not. Why is he puffing out his chest like that?
“Didn’t I tell you? You know what? Back in the day, when I was on a caravan, I even met a white tiger as big as a house!”
White tiger? What the hell, a white… … .
At that moment.
“……!”
Jin Taesan looked at Guryeongsa with a surprised expression.
“No, that fellow has, has opened his eyes!”
“What!”
Wang Geum-san, startled along with him, jumped up and ran to the corner of the office.
Lord Wang claimed he had never practiced martial arts, but that was a complete lie. To think that heavy body could spring up so high.
“Now, you get out of the way quickly too…!”
Still, perhaps having some conscience left, the moment Wang Geum-san turned his head, worried that his best friend Jin Tae-san might suffer a misfortune.
“Baekho…?”
Jin Taesan’s eyebrows furrowed, and his nostrils were seen flaring.
As I shifted my gaze downwards again… …
Guryeongsa was still in a deep sleep.
“Pfft, ahem, I think I saw it wrong.”
Wang Geum-san’s face turned bright red from the sudden surge of shame.
Whether Wang Geum-san did so or not, Jin Tae-san held back his laughter.
You don’t need to worry. I heard that winter is the season when the Guryeongsa hibernates, so he won’t wake up until spring.
Wang Geum-san glared at Jin Tae-san with a devilish look on his face, but Jin Tae-san feigned nonchalance.
“If King Jangju is someone who does not fear even a white tiger the size of a house, surely he would not be afraid of a mere snake, would he?”
“…….”
You’re really playing with it now!
However, if you get angry here, you will end up losing.
Wang Geum-san deliberately acted very haughty.
“Cough! What do you think of me!”
He walked toward the commander’s office huffing and puffing.
“Do you think I’d be afraid of such a lowly creature!”
Thump! Thump!
The movement was large, but a small shock that did not match it was transmitted to the bars.
Jin Taesan struggled to hide his sneer as he watched that sight.
How could a man who is not easily intimidated even in the presence of high-ranking officials of the imperial court be afraid of a mere snake the length of his forearm?
Still, I should stop teasing now before she sulks even more.
Still, just when I thought I was getting less bored because I was using a shared office.
“Hey, hey.”
“yes.”
Wang Geum-san’s face had turned pale.
“Look, look at this. Who, who opened their eyes?”
Master Jang, you are truly clumsy at lying. Don’t you realize that if you play a trick this quickly, people will notice right away?
True to his nature as someone who can’t stand being wronged, he immediately tries to take revenge, but Jin Tae-san swallowed a laugh inwardly.
To think that the Nine Spirit Master, who wouldn’t wake up even if his body were on fire all winter, would suddenly open his eyes. Does that even make sense?
Still, since I teased him earlier, he should play along.
If I don’t respond properly here, I’ll have to endure a stern, silent expression for the next week.
Jin Taesan let go of the documents he was holding and playfully raised both hands.
“Ah! Is that so? This is a really big problem.”
“Ah, no. I really, I really opened my eyes!”
“Yes, yes. We need to find someone to make the elixir quickly and handle this. I am truly worried about whether the doctor Jin So-un is sending is competent.”
When I roughly agree with them and try to devote myself to work again.
Clunk!
“Eek!”
The iron bars shook violently, and Wang Geum-san let out a startled scream.
Honestly, is it fun to play pranks like that even at your age?
Still, I should probably start drying it out.
Although it was said that the spirit medium was valuable as a miraculous medicine, it was a spirit creature so toxic that even snake catchers dared not touch it…
Once again, the sound of the iron bars shaking violently was heard.
Tsk—that’s going too far.
“Master Jang… please stop the joking.”
Just as I was about to warn them to stop.
Jin Taesan saw.
The look in Guryeongsa’s eyes as he glared at him and Wang Geumsan with his two gleaming yellow eyes wide open. ‘Why… did he open his eyes?’ Jin Taesan was not even given a moment to lose himself in thought.
wedge
– The commander crouched down and shot his body like an arrow, slamming it into the iron bars.
Clunk!
At that shock, the solid iron bars moved on their own by a foot.
He realized that the spirit guide was a cage binding him and began to toss and turn in his sleep to escape.
“H-hey…… uh, do something!”
True to his name as a spirit creature, Guryeongsa seemed to realize his predicament immediately.
Knowing that the iron bars are solid and will not break, he goes to the edge of the bars again and wraps his body tightly around them.
Then, as if using the technique of shooting arrows, he bounces his body and keeps hitting the iron bars.
Jin Taesan, a warrior, could not close his mouth at the mesmerizing divine power of nature.
Wow! A spirit creature is certainly a spirit creature!
“Look here! This isn’t the time to be marveling!”
Jin Taesan suddenly came to his senses at Wang Geumsan’s words.
He cleared his throat and crept toward the door.
“Don’t worry. No matter who he is, he won’t be able to break through those iron bars…”
“Damn it! Then why do you keep trying to go outside!”
“Huh? Master Jang! Do you swear?”
“No, I’m telling you to do something about this!”
While Wang Geum-san was clinging to Jin Tae-san’s clothes until they were torn.
The commander, having crouched down once again, slams his body against the iron bars with violent movements.
Clunk!
A solid iron cage that moved another cubit.
Guryeongsa seemed to have become even more vicious at the iron bars that were not easily broken.
Snail extract
– The Nine-Armed Demon, gaping wide open and dripping venom from its four sharply protruding fangs.
At the sound of crying, Jin Taesan and Wang Geumsan trembled violently.
“Look, look. That guy will never be able to get out of there.”
“But aren’t the bars pretty dented for that!”
“It may be crushed, but it will not be broken. How could a mere lowly creature possibly withstand the dexterity of a human….”
“Ugh!”
Wang Geum-san, who was supporting Jin Tae-san who had almost fallen over in shock, began to push Jin Tae-san toward Guryeongsa.
It was an instinctive move that made a mockery of the friendship between Guan Zhong and Bao Shu, who had boasted that they were incomparable.
“Hurry up and do something. Either put them to sleep or kill them.”
“You must not kill him! Then his value as a miraculous medicine will be…….”
“Hey, look at that guy! Look at him!”
The commander, who had been clashing with him, seemed to realize he couldn’t go on like this and soon began to bite through the iron bars with his sharp fangs.
Bang!
The fangs sticking out of the bars feel even more terrifying.
“Don’t worry. No matter how strong that guy’s bite force is, it’s only against a steel cage…”
“No, why did they use something made of steel! You said it was a spirit creature! Then they should have at least made the iron spear out of steel!”
“Master Jang! Is this iron spear some kind of metal used to make hoes! It is a mere lowly creature…….”
Crunch!
After biting the bars several times, the commander soon realized the bars’ durability and began to pry open the gaps.
and.
“Aaaargh! The bars! The bars!”
“Aaaah!”
A frail voice is let out, hard to believe coming from men of the age when frost has begun to form at the temples.
Smack! Clatter! Smack! Clatter!
Now, the commander, filled with malice to the very end, begins to rampage like a madman.
Every time the iron bars, which were the size of a small box, rolled around haphazardly and rattled, Jin Taesan and Wang Geumsan’s hearts sank.
Crunch!
Finally, the moment the bars opened wide enough and a space to escape was secured.
The commander crouched down tightly and shot out like an arrow, widening the opening of the iron cage even further.
yet.
bang!
The spirit master’s body, having come out of the bars, rolled across the office floor and hit the wall.
“……!!!”
Jin Taesan and Wang Geumsan’s faces turned pale.
“P-save me!”
It was Wang Geum-san who moved first.
The moment he moved like lightning, opened the office door, and was about to rush out.
eww?”
Clatter clatter!… …
The office door did not open.
Rattling, rattling, rattling!
“Ughhhhh!”
While Wang Geum-san was shaking the door like crazy, Jin Tae-san came over to his side and shook the door with him, but the door did not open at all.
“Didn’t I tell you long ago that we should fix this, Master!”
“Are you holding me responsible now! It was none other than you who brought that damn monster!”
“What are you going to do now!”
“Why are you asking me that! You are the one who mastered the martial arts! Subdue that guy using the martial arts of the legendary swordsman, Taeeul Geomje!”
Move aside. I will break down the door to the Ocean Hall.
“No! I said use the Taeeul Sword Emperor’s martial arts, not the old Taeeul Sect martial arts!”
I’m telling you, I couldn’t learn it because I was busy earning money!
“Damn it! I’m disappointed in you! What a disappointment!”
“Ocean Commander!”
puck!
The Great Ocean Palm, imbued with Jin Taesan’s internal energy, was fired, but it was impossible for a martial art that did not have much destructive power to begin with to break down the office door made by the Wang family’s top carpenter.
-Master Jang! Since it is the door to the office, I will make it sturdy enough so that it will not break even if a cannon explodes.
Suddenly, it seemed as though a first-class carpenter had briefly flashed through my mind, giving a thumbs-up and smiling.
While Wang Geum-san was briefly looking at the first-class carpenter’s damn smile.
The venomous Guryeongsa, having escaped the iron bars, approached the two people.
As if he knows who locked him up in a cage.
“Aaaah! Is anyone there! Help me! Over here!!”
While the commander crouched down at a certain distance from the two people and prepared to rush out.
Despair hung over the faces of the two people.
at that time.
Clunk.
The door opened from the outside, and the two people swayed and fell out the door.
Now, Master of the Chamber? Master of the Merchant Guild?
Two people who fell down shabbily.
While the servant expresses doubt about the inexplicable situation.
“R-Run away! Monster! The monster is chasing me!”
“A monster?”
“Right! The monster that bit through the bars with its own strength and broke out…….”
While Jin Taesan and Wang Geumsan hurriedly ran out the door.
A stranger who had come with a servant looked around the inside of the office.
May I take a look for a moment?
“huh?”
However, before Wang Geum-san could answer, Guryeongsa, who was crouching low, shot out at the four people like an arrow.
“Ugh, ugh!”
The servant screamed in terror, and the man calmly took a step into the office, reached out, and grabbed the commander by the neck.
“Oh my goodness. You’re a man of great strength. Isn’t this the Nine Spirit Master?”
If you raise the temperature slowly, the spirit will wake up from hibernation quickly.
For some reason, the commander who had bitten and broken through the iron bars was unable to move an inch in the man’s hands.
“But it’s rat poison against the cold.”
The man took the subdued commander out into the yard and buried him in the snow.
The spirit master’s body, which had been shaking violently, slowly becomes calm.
Eventually, how much time had passed?
The spirit slumped limply in the man’s hand as if it were dead.
When storing indoors, it is best to keep it in a cool place.
The face of an extremely carefree man.
Jin Taesan and Wang Geumsan stared at his face with blank eyes.
Excuse me, who are you?
A face shining with a radiant halo, as if he were a lifesaver.
Wang Geum-san asked for his name in an extremely polite tone, and the man casually raised the corners of his mouth as if receiving such a greeting was only natural.
“My name is Sama Jeong. I came here through the introduction of Jin So-un, a student at the academy.”
It was a beautiful smile that made it hard to believe the monster had been subdued in an instant.
