Surviving as a Rival in a Martial Arts Novel

Chapter 33 – Food stick picked up from under the bridge (03)

There was no need to pull out a sword against a guy like this, just pinning his body to a sharp piece of metal found in a garbage dump was enough to deal with him.

The Black Moon Blood Moon Mara Heart Gong is simply painless, and is not a technique beyond death that allows one to move even if a hole is pierced in the body.

“Off…!”

The guy struggled and tried to escape from the sharp piece of metal, but as his spine had already been pierced, he could only last a few seconds before dying.

“Uh… Huh?”

Looking at his broken pole and the cross-dressing man lying on the floor, Sik-bong was dumbfounded and tried to understand the current situation, but since he used his energy very briefly from a distance to deal with it, he was unable to figure out my identity, which was crouching in a blind spot. There was none.

‘One more thing is moving’

There was a man who, as if he had no intention of hiding his life, was digging through the garbage dump and rushing towards the food baton, but he was actually a woman dressed as a man, with a thin body and no uvula.

‘Are you a partner with this guy?’

Although I killed the cross-dressing man by impaling him on her fragments using a sharp attack, in the eyes of those who had not reached the climax, it seemed as if he had been blown away and died after being hit by the baton of the Sikbong, so she was driven by her desire for revenge. As it burned, it was spewing out a deadly force that threatened to kill her.

These two even used similar martial arts, but while the dead man at my feet had lost his beard and was feminized, as if he had been neutered, the cross-dressing woman, on the other hand, was in the process of becoming masculinized, with her beard growing and her shoulders broadening.

‘You could say they are a good pair, but…’

“Hi!”

After being hit on her thigh, Sikbong had no choice but to sit on the floor and remain motionless.

Sigh.

She lightly jumped from her trash to another place, brushing past the cross-dressing woman, and she used the Jasper Sword (劈玉快劍), the seventh type of the Okrang Heavenly Sword.

With her crossdressing skills, her feet and lead sword cannot be seen, and her swift blow passes through the air.

“Kruk!”

The cross-dressing woman, who had no idea that she had been cut as she was running, flailed her upper body and fell to the floor, her legs only moving a few steps forward, before collapsing on her trash can.

The area where the upper body fell was exactly next to the cross-dressing man, so in the end, these two were made to be together even after death.

Purrr…

No matter how much she feels no pain, she is using the deep attack of the Black Moon, Blood Moon, but her cross-dressing woman is shaking with her hands as if she wants to be with her lover until the end. Got it.

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‘If it weren’t for the Black Moon Party, these people… Could have just been a slightly unusual couple.’

However, since they have already become followers of the Black Moon Party, they are just monsters that must be eliminated.

“Who… Who? Is there anyone?”

When I used my energy to release the barrier that prevented others from feeling my presence, Sikbong only then noticed my presence and turned his gaze.

“You were…”

‘I thought it just passed by for a moment. As expected, since it is open, does it mean that observation skills are good?’

“Fox scarf small group?”

“……”

Well, it’s not common to see a guy wearing a thousand-year snow leopard around his neck.

‘Except for those two, I don’t sense anyone who looks like an assassin.’

First, after confirming that safety was secured, I taught them that they had no intention of putting the sword in the scabbard and turning it behind their backs to draw the weapon.

“Kwaa!”

Sikbong made a splint for his thigh using an old but clean cloth and a wooden stick that had just broken and stood up on his own.

“Thank you for your help, brother. You will be blessed for being so kind to even such a trivial opener.”

‘It’s a trivial open island…’

Openness is a sect that deals with information, so they know how important their information is, and they hide their information so that others do not notice, so that ordinary beggars or single-payers who have not properly learned external skills, let alone internal skills, are not discriminated against. He was good at it.

In fact, right now, Sik Bong was hiding that she was a woman and was disguising herself as a fat man, and she naturally called him her older brother.

It seemed like she was trying to avoid her place after just giving a cursory thank you, but I told Sikbong… No, to be more precise, I had business with the organization she was affiliated with, so I had no intention of breaking up the meeting with her here.

“Hey, thank you for caring about this lowly fat beggar, but I don’t have anything in her pockets, so I’ll just bow down here and thank you for saving my life…”

“I saved her because I knew that you were Sibong among the five dragons and seven peaks, so there is no need to dress her up as such a loyal thief.”

She tried to ignore my words with her natural smile, but at the same time, she narrowed her eyes and looked at my behavior, trying to confirm her identity.

Since I had no intention of engaging in a fight with the intelligence organization, I simply brought up the matter from the beginning.

“I will protect you until you reach the Yongbong branch, so please provide me with information.”

“Soin isn’t that great of a person, is he?”

Are you still planning on leaving?

“I also know that there are only a handful of people who are called top-class experts in the open world. Moreover, there is only one female expert there.”

Even though she thought it was too easy to pinpoint her, Sik-bong neither denied nor confirmed, only smiling awkwardly.

Her head would still be spinning quickly.

“No matter how much you are a beggar, it would be enough to eat in a place with few people, but you had to hide in a place where people wouldn’t get caught, and it means you felt danger. But if it’s at a level where you can’t stop it even if you knew about it in advance, It has no meaning.”

Even if you knew that the opponent was coming, it was okay if you had no power to stop it. So she frowned as she pondered, rolling her dizzy eyes back and forth.

“Hmm… I think Young master is right, since he almost died here. But it’s also dishonorable for Young master, who doesn’t even know his name, to expect him to protect this lowly beggar…”

“Yeon Cheong-ha. I’m from Cheongshim Glass Door, which operates near Sacheon.”

Since I had no intention of hiding my identity, I revealed my clan and whereabouts.

He learned the sword from Jade Myeoncheongeom, but he did not force me to be his disciple, and I promised him that I would not treat him as a teacher, so my teacher is still Jade Tianja Ungja.

Our hermitage is not very famous, but if we have the information power of openness, we can find out whether such a shrine actually exists.

“Go to Gaebang and check his identity. It’s around the border between Gansu and Sacheon.”

“Phew… Since you saved the life of a small person, it is not polite to doubt it any more. I will follow the practitioner’s suggestion.”

Since they couldn’t figure out my identity, they seemed to be planning to follow me around for a while and gather information.

I thought that since I at least defeated the Black Moon Party, I was not a member of the Black Moon Party.

‘That’s enough. ‘I didn’t intend to become more friendly than necessary.’

“Then what information is needed…?”

“The current whereabouts of Five Dragons and Seven Peaks.”

“May I ask why you need that information?”

“Because right now, like Sikbong, he is dying from the attacks of the Black Moon Party.”

This situation was an opportunity in its own way.

An opportunity to kill two birds with one stone by increasing the power of the Murim Alliance and reducing the power of the Black Moon Party.

I was thinking of starting a declaration of war by cutting off the hands and feet of the Black Moon Party before I was defeated.

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First, I took Sikbong to a place where there was an open bunta.

Bunta looked like a beggar village on the outskirts, but the majority of ordinary beggars were Gajeong’s disciples who had learned martial arts, and there were only two or three people in each bunta, so it was just a beggar village, but the fact that Gaejeong was parasitic. That would be correct.

In order to maintain the confidentiality of the information, I went inside by myself and looked away from the beggars outside who were begging for me. In reality, if these were starving enough to beg, I would consider emptying my pockets, but I Since beggars were people who could sell information or get a meal at a restaurant by relying on open payment, there was no need for me to help them, so I ignored them.

Anyway, when Sikbong came here, he asked me to buy a lot of dumplings, so he will distribute them on his own in a little while.

“Kkiiing…”

Actually, Seol-ah is having a harder time than me.

Since it is a wild animal with a very sensitive nose, not only the stench coming from Sikbong’s body but also the stench unique to the beggar village will be distressing.

“Brother! I’m back!”

As she smiled brightly and saw her warmly approaching her, the smell made her dizzy again, but she slightly spread the membrane inside her nose to block out her smell and greeted her with a nonchalant expression.

“It is said that I had some connection with Master Ok of Cheongshim Glass Door at the opening. I am so lowly that I did not know Master Ok’s best disciple. hahahahaha!”

I wonder if Master had a connection with Gaejae, but although Gaejae didn’t know about the Cheongshim Glass Door, it seemed like they had information about Master Ok Cheon-woong.

It seems that he figured out that he had a strong disciple and found out that it was him through a rough examination of his appearance.

‘For something like that, I think I figured it out earlier than expected…’

The master is at a similar level to the Sikbong before his eyes, so he is not an expert at the level of fame in the martial arts world, but he did not expect that he would complete the information verification before even passing one Sikgyeong.

Does this mean that the information power of openness is that great?

“Then, let me introduce you again. I am the Three Sisters of Gyoha, the lowest point of openness.”

Gyoha Samnyeo.

You may be wondering what the name is like, but you can simply think about it.

It simply meant that she was the third girl picked up from under a bridge, just as in the Joseon Dynasty, the name of a key was sometimes written as Seokcheol.

In fact, it can be said that her open ark picked up the abandoned girl under her bridge and raised her jade and gold to become who she is today. Since she was just a name given by a beggar, she could only be lowly and simple.

From the perspective of the Murim League, I was shocked to hear that she was the third girl picked up from under a bridge, but it was impossible to give her a new name, and there was a superstition that if you give a beggar a flashy or classy name, she would starve to death without paying for the name, so I had no choice but to leave her alone. There probably wasn’t one.

“I’ll call you Gyo Sojeo. I’ll take good care of the Murim Alliance as well.”

“You can just call her a beggar. She’s more used to that title.”

“However, she is planning to stop by a temple on the way, so she will have to go back. Is that okay?”

The first priority was to meet her Master and ensure the safety of the Samadhi who would probably be with her Master.

“Are you trying to visit Master Ok?”

“That’s right. The world is a scary place these days, so for Master’s safety…”

“If that’s the case, you don’t have to worry. Master Ok is currently in the safest place in the central plains.”

“……?”

“Last year, Master Ok was invited to be a guest general of the Murim Alliance and is currently at the Murim Alliance’s headquarters in Hanam.”

I didn’t hear that.

‘To the extent that Master was invited to the Murim Alliance…?’

Even if you are a top-class expert in the world, you will literally be called a top-class player, but the Jungwon martial arts world is wide, and those who are worth making a name for themselves must reach the peak even if they are not able to do so.

If you are top-notch like Oryong Chilbong at a young age, if you are at the level of a teacher… Did you gain new enlightenment and reach the peak of mastery?

“If that’s what you said, it’s actually a good thing. We’ll just have to follow the same path.”

I briefly wondered if the teacher was lying while he was still there, but since openness deals with information, I thought that he would not lie to an expert like me right in front of his eyes.

This was because there was no future for the intelligence group if they deceived people with lies, and because Sikbong did not seem stupid enough to tell lies that he could not handle in order to quickly join the Yongbong branch.

Moreover, given that the information about Master was quickly confirmed, it seemed clear that he was not living in a hut at a monastery between Gansu and Shaanxi, but was captured by the open information network in the Central Plains.

‘If the roads are the same, there is nothing to worry about.’

Moreover, you do not have to take responsibility until the end. If you cross Shaanxi and go a little bit into Hanam, there is a Murim Alliance between the Hwasan Sect and the Shaolin Temple, so you only need to escort them there.

Or, if we went all the way to Hwasanpa, there would be someone called Maeryong or Melong nearby, so all we could do was safely gather the Five Dragons and Seven Peaks into a group and tell them to move.

“Kyo Sojeo. For now…”

“For now?”

“Please wash up. If a disciple of openness wants to hide his identity, it would be better to be neat.”

Actually, this was an excuse.

They are blocking it with a curtain now, but Seol-ah is having a hard time, and if she smells like this, she can’t enter any village, so if she wants to take her, she has to wash first.

Right now, I am also blocking her nose with her diaphragm, but I do not want to live in her mode until I reach her Murimmaeng, so I was desperate to wash her by any means possible.

‘Well, you wouldn’t say something ridiculous like saying that good luck will disappear if you wash, right?’

“But if you wash, is it at a disadvantage when begging? The smell will make the merchants or the person being begged decide, ‘Oh, I’ll pay a few pennies to chase them away.'”

…Was even body odor a tool for begging? These guys are more open than I thought… It’s terrible, isn’t it?

“Wouldn’t it be better than being defeated by the Black Moon Party?”

“Ugh… The budget for Bunta is not enough.”

It was obvious that if I let go of this, I would be killed by the Black Moon Party, so although Sikbong grumbled, he understood that what I said was right, so there was no unnecessary argument.

‘If I wash, I’ll become more like a human.’