Jinang (1)

 

After escaping from the Black City with one or two rescuers each, Mu Jin and his party first washed themselves in the Li River.

His body was covered in blood from the fighting, and he had to rinse his body and clothes to minimize the marks.

Mujin had time to interrogate while the group bleeded their wounds, drying their clothes and giving those who had been carried away by force time to regain their senses.

"Do you think you'll be safe! I'm going to chase you to the end of hell!"

The branch leader, who was overwhelmed by the demon blood and couldn't move, poured out a clenched blow at Mujin.

"If I was scared of that, I wouldn't have moved. You scumbag..."

Ah· They're human traffickers, so is this an insult to scum?

Thinking of such a poetic thought, Mujin pointed out the bastard's blood.

"And it's not just the Dark Heaven that is chasing us... Won't you chase us in the Divine Heavens?"

“!!!!”

Unable to say anything, he looked at Mujin with dismayed eyes.

The head of the branch regarded this fight as nothing more than a turf war between the Safa factions.

Just as the lord of the Northern Wind Empire regarded it as nothing more than a bandit's plunder.

That's why the branch president didn't choose the option of self-determination.

"Ugh!! Ugh!!"

And now, I've been suppressed by demon blood and blood, and even if I want to commit suicide, I can't...

"It's time to spit out everything you know..."

It was Mu Jin who kindly put a spirit pill into the mouth of the branch president, who looked anxious to die.

I didn't have time to sit back and torture anyway, and I knew that torture and interrogation wouldn't be easy to do, so I decided to use the psychic pill right away.

"Do you know the names or identities of any of the lords?"

When I asked him if he wanted to stab me, the branch president replied.

"Uhh I've heard it myself, but whoever guesses is this..."

"Who's that?"

"It's the Apostle Retreat."

The branch president, who had been distracted by the psychic ring, explained briefly in a sobbing tone. . .

The story is that he was commanded to grow the Black City through the slaves that would be provided by the Divine Heaven in the future, and then become the patron of the Apostles.

This part was something I'd already seen in the novel, so it wasn't anything special, but...

"Then why did you assume that the Master of the Divine Heaven was one of the lords and not the master of the Divine Heaven?"

"It's because I was looking down on the Lord of the Apostle in the order..."

“··· Aren't you just going to use all of them?"

"I've only seen him use the Honorific in Orders once..."

"Respect? To whom?"

"I don't know the details. It's just "It's the order of the Lord of the People." I've seen an order written on it."

Mu Jin tilted his head at the branch leader's answer.

"The name of the organization is the New Heaven, and the title of the head is the Master of Humans?"

He could have been the leader of the Black Curtain Forces, but he felt a tinge in his heart.

Still, one thing was certain: there was a line above the Divine Master. I was expecting it to some extent, but...

"And you don't know anything about them?"

"Please, orders from the Seven Great Lords would come."

"Seven Great Lords?"

'Is the king near here?' he asked ominously.

"That's right. The Great Landlord used to bring the inspection himself, and the inspection smelled faintly like the sea and powder, so I thought that the Seven Great Masters were the women who lived by the sea."

However, Mu Jin frowned at the strange answer that came back.

"Apart from the sea, the king of Nan can't be a woman, right?"

Think about that contradiction for a moment. Mujin remembered something he had heard recently.

"He's the Seven Greats, isn't he? One of the lords died recently?"

"Oh... Ahh That's right. I was told that I had become a lord of the United States."

Mujin was about to slap the back of the head of the branch leader who was trying to catch him, but he was already tasted by the spirit pill, so he stopped his hand.

After that, Mu Jin asked for a few more pieces of information, and in the meantime, the head of the branch collapsed bleeding from the Seven Balls due to the side effects of the Psychic Pill.

Mu Jin threw the branch chief's corpse into the Li River as fish food to wipe out the traces, and then returned to the group.

"Have you figured out the location of the other spots?"

Mu Jin involuntarily flinched at the words of the Qingshui dojo who asked with his eyes glistening to him because he was afraid to go back.

"I've found a few places, but I don't think I'll be able to find them right away."

"Why?"

In response to the Qingshui dojo's question, Mujin looked at those who had saved him.

"You can't go to such a rough place with them, can you?"

“··· I see..."

Mujin asked with a smug expression on his face as he turned to the Qingshui dojo who replied with a voice full of regret.

"Why are you doing that earlier? It's not usual."

“··· Is that so?"

Of course not! It was too quiet for him to yell, so Mu Jin shook his head moderately.

Looking at Mu Jin's nod, Qingshu opened his mouth with a somewhat complicated expression.

"I see. We will be careful· Countless waters..."

“····”

There must have been something, but it was too vague to pry into it, so Mujin sighed inwardly and spoke to the group.

"Let's move now. If you delay any longer, you may be tracked down..."

"Where are you going?"

Mu Jin asked, and Mu Jin pointed his finger in the southeast direction.

"Haju County (賀州縣)·"

Located on the road from Guangxi to Guangdong, the county· There, the dragon who led Dowolcheon to the path of the first person in the Sapa Dynasty· Chen Nang was asleep.

This was one of the purposes of Mu Jin's visit to Guangxi Province along with Guilin Black City.

* * *

Guilin and Hezhou counties were both located in eastern Guangxi Province, but they were only close by the standards of a huge continent.

If it was only Mujin and his companions were moving, they could have used light air to move in half a day, but there were people who had rescued them, so there was bound to be a delay.

They paid money to get clothes from a small village they found on their way to Haju County, disposed of bandit clothes and slave clothes, and then got a wagon from a nearby county and moved to Haji County.

"Hahaha! If you want to pass through this place, you will have to pay a toll to these old men!"

It was a bonus that the bandits would pop out in the middle of the way, lest it be an area where the sectarians would dominate.

"I'm sorry for my sins!"

"If you let me live, I'll come to my senses and live a good life. Great deal!"

It didn't take long to deal with the bandits.

After disposing of the dozen bandits in an instant, Mu Jin glanced at the group.

"I think it's because everyone has a lot of experience in the field, so I feel like I'm definitely getting better."

Mu Yul and Lingling· And while the growth of Mu Gung was also noticeable, it was Mu Kyung who showed the most rapid growth.

In the first place, it was only natural that he had a different amount of talent.

'But why the hell is he doing that?'

From that point of view... This time, the movement of the Qingshui dojo against the bandits was somewhat strange.

The Qingshu dojo had literally slaughtered the bandits who stood in their way, just as they had done in the Black City last night.

"Stop!"

However, it was moderately mentally educated (I meant to make you an) Thinking that it was enough to proceed, Mujin dried the Qingshui dojo, and the Qingshui dojo became noticeably sluggish.

It was as if the shaman's sword technique that he had learned over the past decade had become an ill-fitting garment.

When I did the spraying last night, I felt like my skills had gone up a few notches, but the level of the sword had dropped a few notches.

Why the hell is the Qingshui dojo doing that, when Mujin is watching... Suddenly, the martial arts officer called out to me.

"Mujin-ah..."

"Huh? Why?"

"Why are there so many bad guys here? That black poem last time..."

"I told you... Guangxi Province is the domain of Safa."

"No... It's weird even in the realm of Safa... Normally, bandits and traffickers wouldn't be left alone by the authorities, would they?"

The other children were curious about this, too, and their eyes were drawn to Mujin.

Mu Jin decided to tell the truth about adults to the innocent children with a bitter face.

"It's because the government office doesn't act as a government office..."

"Hmm? Is that okay?"

"It's not supposed to be like that, but that's the way it is. There are a lot of people who think it's not a sin if they don't get caught..."

A military maxim that any South Korean reservist knows, "Going undetected is not Gara." As the saying goes, if you don't get caught, everything will be fine.

And this was an area with good conditions that would allow it to go unnoticed.

"Originally, the imperial family would have to monitor the provinces, but the distance from Beijing, where the imperial court is located, to Guangxi Province here is you~~very far... It's the same in Guangdong and Fujian..."

So in those three places, the local clans and government offices were acting as if they were the imperial family.

"It's easy to be corrupt as it is under scrutiny, and the corrupt guys' favorite thing is bribes and rewards. Instead of doing bad things, the Safa forces are symbiosis by paying bribes."

"So the bandits are also paying bribes!?"

Mu Yul's eyes widened in surprise, and Mu Jin shook his head.

"No, they're just going on a rampage because they're weak..."

Do corrupt politicians care about the lives of the common people?

Regardless of whether the money is stolen or not, the soldiers in the government office are only needed to maintain their money and power.

"And Guangxi, Guangdong, and Fujian are particularly bad, but Guizhou and Zhejiang and Hunan are not much different. It's less so near the provincial capital of each province and in the north, which is closer to Beijing, but it's pretty much the same in the south."

"Then why don't the factions from the political faction come and fight instead of the government office?"

Mu Jin laughed bitterly at Mu Jin's question, which had fantasies about the heroic tales of the city and the word "Great Gorge".

"It's hard to do that because of the Sadkai and the Sapa Seven-Week..."

The apparent problem was theirs, but the real problem was on the partisan side.

Although they have formed an alliance under the name of the Wulin League, most of the large forces belonging to the Gu Pil Bang and the Five Great Se Families are in a hurry to increase their own power.

It was obvious that if a certain faction came forward and tried to fight the Sapa Clan, he would stand back and cheer them on, and when they lost their power, he would aim for the enemy.

However, the situation on the Safa side was not better than that of the political faction.

Unlike the political factions that care about the cause, can the blatant Safa have the chin to truly unite?

It is just a temporary alliance against the political faction.

When the factions were not attacking, they were fighting for territory in the south.

"It was Jinang's plan to dig into that very part..."

In the early and middle stages of the novel, Dowolcheon, who went on a rampage by himself and smashed his head without covering the Sect of Sect, ended up becoming a "Wulin Princess" for exterminating the Heavenly Stream and Zhuge Sega.

But he didn't care.

Very important information in the war against Zhuge Sega· It was because he had learned that the Heavenly Sword Emperor Hyuk Jingang, the leader of the Sword Cultivation and one of the Three Swords of the Heavens, had a deep connection with the Black Curtain.

Zhuge Sega, who had joined hands with the Black Curtain, was planning to destroy the shaman with the help of the Hyukjin River through the Black Curtain's connections. To monopolize Hubei Province·

Naturally, Dowolcheon tried to reveal the truth and clear himself of the accusations, but in the end, he gave up and chose a different path.

Thanks to a character who takes on the role of Ji Nang (智囊) in the second half of the novel.

After secretly rescuing Dao Yuechen, who had fallen into a state of distress for defeating the Zhuge family alone, Jin Nang had told him while he was resting in his hospital bed.

– Anyway, now that he has become a Murim Achievement, no one in the political faction will believe his words. So take advantage of this situation.

– Reverse use? What does that mean?

– After all, isn't the current goal of the Great Cooperative the Apostles' Refinement? No matter how good the martial arts of the Great Canyon are, it is impossible to face the entire Sado League alone. So I'd rather create a new faction in Safa. Take advantage of the prestige of having stood tall against the political faction and single-handedly defeated the Zhuge family.

– ··· Why bother with that?

Create a faction under your command· It also has the power of Safa·

It was an idea that Dao Yuechen, who was from a political faction, could not easily accept, but in the end, he could only nod his head in agreement with Chen Nang's explanation that followed.

– Cultivate your power as a sectarian and challenge the Lord of the Apostles. If it were to be approached by an external force, the Sectarians would unite to block the Great Alliance, but if it were a struggle between internal forces, it would be a battle to determine the leader.

In this way, Dowolcheon began to walk the path of a full-fledged sapin after that.

"That's why we need to get Jinang as soon as possible."

He's a talented person who will help him in many ways in the future, and something terrible was going to happen to him in a few years.