Protagonist (2)

 

"Monk Mujin?"

"Mujin-ah· Where are you going?"

Perhaps, if the others hadn't called him from behind, he might have been mesmerized and talked to Dao Yuechen.

‘··· It was almost dangerous."

If you approach Dowolcheon here and go wrong, your future will be distorted.

In order to see the end of this novel, Do Wol-cheon had to grow into a "loser" according to the content of the second part of the novel.

And the trigger event was the extermination of his entire family.

So, at least not until he has completed five years of cultivation after the incident.

But·

‘··· You want to let your family perish?'

I didn't mind it until I thought he was just a character in a novel, but after seeing him with my own eyes, my mind became complicated.

Clearly, he was just a character in a novel.

"Monk Mujin· Are you okay?"

"What's wrong? You don't look good, do you?"

Zhuge Jinhui who looks at herself worriedly, Mukyung Muyul Mu Yul, Mu Yul Mu Mu Yu Yu Mu Yu Yu Mu

So, are the people who have been laughing and chatting together until now just characters from a novel?

Was Hyun-kwang, who cared for him like his paternal grandfather, just a character in a novel?

Have I always treated them as fictional characters?

The topic that she had been living unconsciously until now had settled in Mujin's mind.

* * *

Mujin was deep in thought, but he couldn't continue thinking about it for too long.

"Shaolin monk Mujin! Please enter the theater!"

He heard the examiner's voice calling him out.

Mu Jin shook off his complicated thoughts for the judging of this preliminary round and headed to the theater room.

The interior of the theater was divided into sections by a kind of tent, and in the compartment where Mujin entered, a middle-aged man sat there.

"This round of qualifying is going to be done through sparring. I'm going to give you the first strike, so when you're ready, let's go."

A middle-aged man briefly explained about the second qualifying round.

Since the second round of qualifying was sparring, a tent was set up in the arena to divide the divisions. I don't know if it's the main line... You don't want to show off your feats to each other in the qualifiers.

And the middle-aged Mujin, who was in charge of Mujin's second qualifying round, stared at Mujin with a calm attitude and a sword drawn.

'I'm a Shaolin disciple . . . The results of the first qualifier were pretty close, right?'

The middle-aged Muji who was in charge of this preliminary round was a Mujin belonging to the Wulin League.

As it was a coalition of all political factions, the level of the Murim people who belonged to it was considerable.

Especially for the Munfa and Sega, which were limited to the Gu Pile Room and the Five Great Sega, it was a great honor and opportunity for one of the disciples to become a Murim Meng warrior.

This was because if you were selected as a martial arts warrior, you could learn the martial arts provided by the Wulin League, or you could be trained by instructors who were elected from the Gu Pil Bang or the Five Great Families.

The middle-aged warrior who drew the Tao was also a man who had been active as a warrior of the Wulin League for more than a decade, so he had reached the point where he could be called a master in his own way.

On the other hand, he had lived in the Wulin League for a long time, so he knew better than anyone how scared he was, but at least he was confident that he wouldn't be defeated by the kids of the age group that would be called the late Jisoo.

But·

“!!!”

The moment Mu Jin moved his body, a ripple appeared in his eyes, which had been silent.

The speed at which Mujin moved with the utmost enthusiasm was such that even the eyes of the master warrior could only see an afterimage.

It's an explosive speed that can be described as "palace and spirit"!

'But the movement is too blatant!'

Surprise for a while. The middle-aged Mujin swung his sword in the path of Mujin's rush.

The Shaolin disciple, who thought he would avoid it of course, surprisingly threw a punch at his Tao.

The young monk's fists were tinged with gold, and the middle-aged warrior also hurriedly raised his energy.

Just before the sword of the warrior and the realm of the martial arts collided, the blue pottery also spewed out from the middle-aged warrior's sword.

Bang!!!

Immediately after the collision, which caused a violent explosion·

Clink·

"Huh· Hehehe..."

With the sound of metal echoing across the floor, the middle-aged man burst out laughing.

"I didn't think this was going to break..."

He looked at his half-torn Tao with a bewildered expression.

Of course, his Tao wasn't so special that it could be called a recruit.

"Even so, it was wrapped in pottery, so how could it break in two so neatly?"

It was a complete defeat. It's only one thing.

"Ahem· Shaolin Mujin Monk· Congratulations on qualifying..."

"Amitabha Buddha· Thank you..."

At the words of the middle-aged warrior, Mujin raised the law as a class leader.

My mind was in a complicated state, so I adjusted my strength, went to sleep, and just did my best to perform martial arts, and the sparring was over more easily than I thought.

After winning the sparring match, Mu Jin, who had come to his senses a little, suddenly remembered something, and asked the middle-aged Mu Yin.

"But is this the end of the Dragon Seal Qualifier? I knew there was up to the third round..."

"In addition to the third qualifier, it is a sparring match between the juniors who have shown outstanding skills in this preliminary round. But those who win against this preliminary examiner will advance directly to the finals."

"Thank you for the clarification· Amitabha Buddha·"

After making another bow, Mujin walked out of the examination hall.

Looking at the back of Mujin, the middle-aged Mujin thought.

"You've raised a ridiculous monster in Shaolin..."

* * *

After finishing this preliminary round, Mujin and his companions headed to the Tianryu Upper Bunta to exercise, but Mujin couldn't concentrate on the exercise properly.

Thinking that he might get injured for nothing, Mujin decided to take a day off.

"Hah, you want to take a day off?"

“··· Isn't it painful, Mujin-ah?"

"Are you a coin mouth?"

When Mujin said that he was going to take a day off, the eyes of the trio of Muja Bae·

Mujin is taking a break from muscle training. It was the story of the sun rising in the west.

"I'm just having something to think about. There won't be a judging tomorrow, so I'm going to double it, so don't worry."

After soothing them, Mujin returned to his dormitory and locked himself in his room to collect his thoughts.

In the end, that was the point.

Are you going to leave it alone and let it become a disaster as it unfolds in the novel?

Or will he completely twist the plot of the novel by informing him of the looming threat to his family?

The first is just a psychological rejection. It was the safest way to see the end of this novel.

And in the second case, Dowolcheon, who did not experience the opportunity of becoming a wipeout, was able to slow down his growth compared to the development of the novel.

Although he had intervened in the affairs of Chen Liu and Zhuge Jinhui before, Dao Yuechen was a different case. He was the protagonist of Part 2, and the extinction of the family was the trigger for his awakening. If he didn't awaken, the further back he went, the more difficult the war against the dark side forces would become.

Moreover, it would be a good thing if the growth of Dao Yue Chen slowed down, but the development would be completely mixed up, and the family might be wiped out by the family.

This is because the chances of surviving the Thousand Islands Gate converge to zero if the facts are informed.

What the dark side forces are aiming for is the heirloom of the Thousand Islands Gate. To be precise, it was the secret hidden in the heirloom.

In order to avoid an attack that naturally did not occur, the father of the Tao Yue Chen threw away his heirloom or did not have an arm jaw.

This was a medieval martial arts world where history, family, and recluse were valued above all else.

As the plot mixes up in a jumbled manner, there may be cases where even the Tao Yue Heaven dies in the process of the fall of the Heavenly Islands.

Rationally, the first option was the right answer...

"From Erai X·"

Pretending to be a monk and uttering insults that he hadn't spoken in a while, Mujin jumped to his feet.

Anyway, I don't even know where Dowolcheon is staying in the outer prefecture right now.

Nope· Maybe the plot has already gone awry...

With four Shaolin disciples, including himself, making it to the finals, Dao Yuechen might not have qualified for the finals.

Even if you left it unattended, something could go wrong, and even if you tried to take care of it, you might not be able to encounter it.

It was not in Mujin's temper to think of the infinitely increasing number of cases without a clear answer.

"I'll just do what I want!"

When it comes to worrying about things that haven't happened, it's enough to go the way you believe is right.

And what if something goes wrong?

That's when you go and solve the problem.

That was Mujin's way.

* * *

Mu Jin gathered his thoughts and focused on cultivation for seven days and nights after that day.

During that period, the Dragon Seal Branch Preliminary Round and the Third Preliminary Round were held in the Wulin League.

And at the entrance of the Murim League, where all the preliminary rounds were completed, there was a bracket with the names of the finalists.

Mu Jin and the Shaolin disciples went to Wulin Meng to confirm the visit.

"Hmmm..."

Mujin glanced at the bracket and stroked his beard that wasn't there.

"I think we're going to get to this next stage easily."

The Shaolin disciples' opponents were all characters whose names they had never seen in the novel.

Of course, Mujin's memory isn't perfect, so maybe it's the characters from the novel.

But it didn't matter because I didn't remember it, it meant that even if it came out, it didn't matter much.

Thinking of this, I looked away, and whether it was fortunate or unfortunate, I saw that the name of Dao Yue Chen was also written on it.

‘··· Looks like there's some kind of fate."

Even though the list of finalists was changed by four due to the Shaolin disciples, Dao Yuechen's opponent remained the same as in the novel.

[Cheonseommun Dowolcheon 對 Namgung Sega Namgung Jincheon]

Dao Yuecheon's opponent was the second baseman who is said to be the best in the world.

"It's the Southern Palace..."

In the novel The Battle of the Apostle Emperor, Nangong Jincheon and Dao Yuecheon faced each other a total of three times, and they had their own personal adversary relationship.

He was also the person who made Dowolcheon realize the "Wall of Talent".

"I've read it so many times that honestly, it feels more like a combat power meter than an adversary..."

In the first duel, the Dowol Heaven is broken unilaterally. In the second duel, Namgoong Jincheon, who ignored Dowolcheon, narrowly defeated.

And in the third duel, he just smashes it unilaterally.

It was unavoidable. At the end of the novel, Dao Yue Chen was a monster equivalent to the current Three Swords.

On the other hand, Namgong Jincheon has a certain amount of delays in the development of martial arts due to "certain problems". The problem is also revealed by Dowolcheon after the third duel.

"Well, that's why I joined the Dragon Seal Society..."

If it weren't for that problem, Mujin would have just used the excuse of the Dragon Seal Society to escape as soon as he left Shaolin.

When Mujin looked at the names of Dowolcheon and Namgoong Jincheon written on the bracket and was reminded of the contents of the novel.

The trio were also talking to each other while looking at the opponents listed in the visit.

They each checked their opponents and then looked at the rest of the bracket.

"Zhuge Jinxi Shi Ju met the Huashan Sect's dojo at that time..."

He looked at the odd matchup and muttered.

Mu Jin slipped out of his mind at their words and looked at the bracket again.

[Zhuge Sega Zhuge Jinhui 對 Volcanic Sect Hong So-il]

As expected, as Mu Gong said, Zhuge Jinxi faced off against Hong Xiao-il.

'Hmm· I was going to take this opportunity to step on the buds of the volcanic sect."

There were some regrets, but when I thought about it, it was a pretty fun matchup.

"If you get beaten up by a girl you like, that's humiliation, right?"

In Mu Jin's eyes, Hong Xiaoil was no match for Zhuge Jinhui.

Naturally, I pictured Hong Xiao-il being beaten up by Zhuge Jinxi unilaterally...

‘··· I don't think that's what the Volcanic Sect disciple likes, does he?'

Suddenly, a tingling thought came to mind.