Return of the Mount Hua Sect [EN]: Chapter 1114

“Can’t you hammer it in straight?”

“Ugh….”

“Ugh….”

Chung Myung watched. Hundreds of people were bent over, heads down. Each person had a heavy stone tied to their back. They were being punished.

His fierce gaze stared at the backs of the Cheonwoo Alliance members.

“I showed you some kindness and let you rest! But you couldn’t even wait before starting a fight?”

“……”

“Is this a protest against me? You have too much energy, so you’re fighting because I let you rest? Huh?”

Jo Gul, who had been bowing his head, suddenly jumped up and raised his hand.

“What?”

“You seem to be misunderstanding. We didn’t fight because we had too much energy.”

“Then?”

Jo Gul shrugged.

“We really didn’t have any energy, but people made us so angry that we got some.”

“Ah.”

“Isn’t it amazing? Haha.”

Chung Myung nodded.

“I think I know how you feel, Sahyung.”

“Right?”

“Yeah. I feel exactly like that right now, you bastard!”

Chung Myung’s foot slammed into Jo Gul’s face.

“Gwaek!”

Jo Gul tumbled across the floor. Chung Myung climbed onto his stomach and started hitting him repeatedly.

“Die! Die! Please just die!”

“Ack! Aack! Ack! S, save me….”

“Die! You bastard! Die!”

Jo Gul had a hard day. He fought the Tang family. He got bumped around in the cafeteria. Now, Chung Myung was happily beating him. No one felt sorry for Jo Gul.

‘He deserves to be beaten.’

‘Honestly, he wouldn’t have anything to say even if he died.’

‘The Chung Myung Dojang who has kept him alive until now is a true master.’

For a moment, everyone from the different groups felt the same way. Even though they were usually arguing, now they all agreed.

“Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!”

Chung Myung stood up, leaving Jo Gul on the floor. He glared at the others.

Everyone quickly looked away, eyes squeezed shut. *Please don’t pick me,* they thought. *Anyone but me.*

“I… uh, yeah. I… was not thinking clearly.”

“……”

“Everyone is so physically fit and energetic. I was worrying for nothing.”

Everyone understood that a voice could sound so scary and threatening. It was new and very frightening for them.

“It’s all my fault! All of it!”

“……”

“If I had known that everyone was so physically fit and motivated, I would have made the training harder. Huh? It’s my fault for not knowing that you guys had so much energy left that you could have a fight even after all that training!”

“W, wait a minute, Chung Myung!”

Baek Cheon looked up in horror, but it was too late.

“A person!”

Chung Myung shouted, stomping on the floor.

“Shouldn’t repeat the same mistake. Of course, of course. Alright. Let’s see what you can do, you bastards. Let’s see if you die or I die! First, let’s roll around for three days without sleeping….”

“Y, you’ll die if you do that!”

“I’m telling you to die, you bastard!”

Chung Myung, eyes rolled back, rushed towards Baek Cheon.

The training hall turned into a mess. Hyun Jong, who was watching from a distance, covered his face. He sighed.

‘How….’

It went from Hwasan to the Cheonwoo Alliance, but how could nothing have changed? How….

Oh, Primordial Celestial Lord….

“I think I’m going to die….”

“I’m already dead.”

“S, Soso-ya. I think something’s wrong with my back.”

“……There are needles over there, so take them and stick them in as you see fit…….”

Groans of pain escaped the Hwasan disciples. Each breath was a struggle. They lay on the floor like broken dolls, sweat soaking their clothes and the training hall floor.

The places they were hit while fighting the Tang family hurt, and the places they were hit while just brawling afterwards also ached. But the most painful places were their backs and knees, which had been overworked by Chung Myung’s tantrum.

How could the places that were overworked while rolling on the floor hurt more than the places that were hit while fighting a martial artist? At this point, Chung Myung’s rolling should be seen as art.

“……Who told Chung Myung?”

“I think it was Baek Ah? I saw him running towards the door not long after the fight broke out.”

“That dirty weasel… betraying his fellow disciples….”

“Ugh….”

While Tang Soso was angry, Baek Cheon struggled to get up and sat on a chair.

“I’m going to die….”

Baek Cheon always kept his clothes neat, but now they were a mess of sweat and dirt. He was too tired to even think about washing.

Jo Gul complained.

“Ugh. Those Tang guys started a fight with unnecessary words….”

“You shut your mouth, you bastard!”

“Ack!”

Yoon Jong kicked Jo Gul. Wasn’t it Jo Gul who made things bigger than they needed to be?

“I feel like I should just….”

As Yoon Jong glared, Baek Cheon stopped him.

“Stop it, Yoon Jong. Geol is wrong…. No, that bastard is wrong. Yeah, that bastard is completely wrong, and it’s clear that that bastard is the root of all evil, but it’s not just that bastard’s fault.”

“……There is an opposite meaning in your words, Sasook.”

“Ugh.”

Baek Cheon sighed and organized his thoughts.

“It’s our fault for getting angry.”

“……Actually, they did say things that were worth getting angry about.”

“That’s true.”

There’s nothing more infuriating than saying they let you win after losing.

Baek Cheon clicked his tongue and looked at everyone differently.

“Speaking of that.”

Baek Cheon looked at Tang Soso.

“Soso-ya.”

“Yes, Sasook.”

“What did you think about what the Tang family said?”

“What are you talking about?”

“That… if they had used poison properly, none of us would have survived.”

“Ah, that?”

Tang Soso nodded.

“Yes. My brother went a little too far. He shouldn’t have said that. From now on, don’t worry about what I think, just beat him up as much as you want.”

“Ah, no, that’s not what I meant.”

“Yes?”

Baek Cheon sweated as he looked at Tang Soso, who asked as if she didn’t know what she had done wrong.

“I’m asking what would have happened if the Tang family had really used their poison properly.”

“Ah… that’s what you meant.”

Tang Soso frowned.

“Well. When you think about it, Sasook and Sahyung didn’t really do it properly either. The essence of Hwasan swordsmanship… it’s hard for me to say it myself, but it should be seen as being in the killing sword, but you can’t use that in sparring.”

“That’s right.”

“But if it came to that, the Tang family would have poured out all of their hidden deadly poisons and forbidden hidden weapons (禁用暗器: hidden weapons that are too dangerous to use)….”

Tang Soso rested her chin as if she was worried.

“Hmm. This is a bit difficult….”

Baek Cheon nodded as if he had guessed when she couldn’t answer easily.

“The Tang family would have won.”

“Ah, no. I don’t necessarily mean that.”

“No. I thought the same thing.”

Then Jo Gul got angry.

“What are you talking about, Sasook! We would lose! That will never happen.”

“Listen to me until the end.”

“Yes?”

Baek Cheon sighed and said.

“If we fight the Tang family for the first time, we will definitely lose. We are not familiar with poison or hidden weapons. Aren’t they the first people who fight like the Tang family that you’ve ever faced?”

“W, well, that’s true….”

“We know the Tang family to some extent. No, we may have been confident that we knew them well. But that’s the Tang family as colleagues, not the Tang family as enemies.”

“…….”

“Even though we can withstand poison to some extent with the Jasodan, many of us fell from the first surprise attack. That means that even if we could have avoided it if we had prepared in advance, we could still be caught off guard.”

Jo Gul, who was the first of the Five Swords to be poisoned by a poison needle, quietly closed his mouth. There was no room for excuses.

“If we suddenly met the Tang family as enemies on the battlefield, do you really think we could have shown our skills properly? The side that would have suffered more damage would definitely have been us.”

“Ugh.”

Jo Gul groaned, unable to respond.

“Then are we still weaker than the Tang family? Even though their elders didn’t participate?”

“It’s a little different.”

“Yes?”

“We will definitely lose if we clash for the first time, but we will get better if we fight twice, and we are confident that we will win if we fight ten times. That is, if the Tang family doesn’t develop from beginning to end and remains the same.”

Yoon Jong nodded.

“I understand what you mean.”

They lose because they don’t know their opponent. But if they get used to their opponent, they can handle them.

Yoo Iseol, who had been silent, suddenly spoke. “Five times.”

Everyone looked at her. “Five times?” Baek Cheon asked, raising an eyebrow.

Yoo Iseol nodded once, firmly. “Five times is enough.” Her voice was quiet, but everyone knew she meant it.

A smile formed on Baek Cheon’s lips.

“If Sajae says so, then five times will be enough.”

Tang Soso had a complicated and strange expression. It seemed like a boast that they could adapt to the Tang family’s poison and hidden weapon techniques so easily, but on the other hand, it didn’t sound completely wrong.

“As everyone knows, Chung Myung… that rotten demon… that mudfish that can’t even be used as firewood, that damned devil who crawled up from hell….”

“Please calm down, Sasook.”

“Ahem, yes. Anyway, none of the training that bastard makes us do is meaningless. This isn’t just about fighting and ranking each other. It’s definitely meant for us to experience the Tang family’s poison and hidden weapon techniques.”

“……And also the free-for-all.”

“Yes, the free-for-all. And… it’s probably meant for us to feel the conflicts that arise when several groups are mixed together in one place.”

Baek Cheon continued in a meaningful tone.

“Before long, we will have to experience it in a more intense form.”

The Hwasan disciples thought of the Sapaeryeon and Jang Ilso, and their faces became serious. Then Jo Gul said.

“No, you’re thinking too positively. With that bastard’s personality, he might just be twisting our guts to torment us.”

“…….”

“He doesn’t have to bother giving instructions here and there, and everyone is dying, so it must be easy for him.”

Everyone turned to look at him.

Jo Gul reflexively looked upset.

“Are you going to tell me I’m wrong again?”

“……No. It makes sense.”

“It’s very convincing.”

“Actually, my hunch is closer to that.”

Everyone sighed.

Of course, it’s something that can’t happen logically, but wouldn’t it be stranger to expect common sense from a guy who rushes at Jang Ilso and headbutts the Shaolin abbot just because he’s angry?

“A, anyway….”

Baek Cheon cleared his throat and tried to salvage the situation.

“Since the training we have to do in the future is clear, now we should prepare for that….”

“In the future?”

“Huh?”

Jo Gul looked shocked.

“Are you saying we’re going to keep doing this crazy thing in the future?”

“……I agree that it’s crazy, but we need experience to deal with the Sapaeryeon, don’t we?”

“Sapaeryeon? Sapaeryeon?”

Jo Gul says as if he doesn’t understand.

“No, Sasook. If we keep doing this, the Cheonwoo Alliance will be ruined by fighting each other before we even get to deal with the Sapaeryeon!”

“…….”

“Just two days ago, the Tang family were our colleagues. But what about now?”

“Those damned poison users.”

“Cowardly bastards.”

“Villagers from Sichuan.”

“I’ll kill them!”

Jo Gul laughed.

“Look at this. I guarantee you, if we go on like this for a few more days, we’ll be drawing swords just by looking at each other. And if we mix in that Nokrim King and the Namgung young master, who gets angry easily, it won’t be long before the Jang River turns red, will it?”

“…….”

“The Cheonwoo Alliance is ruined now. There’s no dream or hope.”

‘Geol-ah, you’re only saying right things today.’

What a strange day….