Killing Wind Spear’s Owner (2)

The Yu family’s Heaven and Land Palm, first form, Breaking Through Martial Scar.

“The first is to control the movement with stillness and leave no traces behind.”

His palm stretched out to the front, as if he were pushing back waves. The swift lightning strike created by a breeze made Yu Seol’s hair flutter.

“Hehe!”

Seeing his granddaughter’s happiness made Yu Jinsan feel stronger. Even though his left arm was injured, it posed no problem in displaying this technique.

As his hands moved busily to create a circle, the surrounding fallen leaves began to gather.

The fallen leaves gathered in a circle and swirled around in his hand.

“When a fierce dragon acts out, give it a gentle slap.”

When he spread his arms wide, the fallen leaves spun in circles.

It was the second form of the Yu family’s Heaven and Land Palm, Fierce Dragon Hit in the Face.

Yu Seol clapped her hands, clearly enjoying the sight of the leaves falling to the ground.

“Hehe~”

The Yu family’s palm technique consisted of a total of 8 forms, and its power varied depending on the strength and ability of the user.

Yu Jinsan was the best palm technique master in his family, and he was proud of this.

He displayed it now with a blank face, and before he knew it, just one more form was left.

“Lastly, use the power of the other person, let go of reality, and return it with void.”

He brought down his hands that he had pushed high into the sky, creating a strong wind. At that moment, his right hand rose up again along with the gust of wind and tore the sky apart.

Pang!

It was the Yu family’s Heaven and Land Palm technique’s Peak form, the Heaven and Land One Hit.

After showing her how to do it, he took a deep breath. Having worked so hard for a long time, he felt tired.

“Again, Grapa!”

His granddaughter’s eyes shone brightly, eager for more playtime, but his stamina was already at rock bottom.

“I really want to, but that’s all for today. If I do any more, I will truly die.”

This made Yu Seol look rather regretful, but she didn’t ask any further since her grandfather spoke of death.

“…”

She looked like a cute duck with its mouth closed.

Yu Jinsan picked up the child with a happy smile and headed to the kitchen.

“It’s late now, so let’s take a bath and go to bed early.”

He washed himself, then went back into his room and sat down.

After a while, once he confirmed that she was sleeping, he sat cross-legged. He couldn’t neglect his internal qi training for even a day.

After purifying his internal qi for a week with his family’s method, his face and exhaustion slowly recovered.

He even tried to assess the situation while cultivating.

‘Seol’s talent shines brighter as the days go by. Where in the entire history of martial arts has there ever been a child like this? If this were the case, passing on the palm technique wouldn’t be a problem.’

It was an encouraging thing, but the situation ahead was still tough for them. He had no time to relax.

Danger was everywhere and anytime. Wasn’t there always a problem related to survival? He couldn’t do anything useless.

‘Starting tomorrow, I would have to teach her to cultivate and use internal qi, too.’

Another month passed.

Meanwhile, Seol’s movements changed a lot. This was because she managed to control the flow of her qi.

Although her grandfather explained things in an easy way, she managed to realize and understand things through her own attempts.

It was very dangerous to use true qi without understanding the flow. This was because one might end up moving it against the natural flow and fall into a qi deviation.

However, this didn’t apply to his granddaughter. Didn’t she have the body of a Grandmaster, where there was no obstruction of qi? Maybe that was why the child’s achievement increased with each day, like a fish meeting water.

“The wind hit the tree and made the sound of thud!”

Yu Jinsan, who had been distracted for a moment, looked around and asked,

“Uh? Thud?”

“The tree child…”

The child pointed her finger somewhere, and Yu Jinsan, who looked at that place, was startled.

A towering, beautiful tree stood where the sunset. This was because there was a cute palm print engraved on it.

No matter how hard he tried to remember, he couldn’t recall teaching her these martial arts.

“H-how did you do this?”

He couldn’t believe that she had learned Palm Wind on her own. This was wonderful.

Yu Seol kept her mouth tightly shut and looked around with her wide, frog-like eyes. Even she couldn’t explain this.

‘She can already release the qi outside her body… Is this even possible?’

It wasn’t just this. There were quite a few things that went beyond common sense. At that time, Yu Seol opened her eyes and asked,

“Again?”

“N-no, I will teach you properly when my arm heals.”

For a child, martial arts training might seem like play.

But how could one express the fun of learning about things one by one? Moreover, the changes in nature that occurred every time a technique was performed made the child even more curious.

“Grapa, be a bird?”

A bird came out of nowhere in the conversation. It was a very unexpected question.

Judging by her expression, it seemed like she wanted to show him something.

“Right, if I get the chance, I would like to be a bird that can fly. But why ask that…?”

Yu Jinsan opened his mouth but didn’t speak. This was because his body was suddenly floating in the air.

There was only one way to explain this.

“… Moving Things In Air!?”

Moving Things in Air was a technique to move items or objects in the air without touching them, and it couldn’t be attempted unless one had profound internal qi.

Moreover, moving another person’s body was only possible if one was an absolute being who had risen to the rank of a beast.

Before he knew it, Yu Jinsan’s feet had risen a little closer to the ground.

When had she even learned such a thing? It was truly shocking, and when he looked down, his granddaughter was stretching her hand out and showing her dimples.

“Fun?”

Could this be fun? He was in a daze and immediately used the Hammering Self Down technique. This technique increases one’s weight through internal qi.

His weight turned a thousand pounds heavier in an instant, and he began to slowly descend to the ground again.

Yu Jinsan, free from his granddaughter’s control, sighed as he walked closer, squatted down to the ground, made eye contact, and looked at her with a serious expression.

“Seol. It’s dangerous. You cannot use this on other people, understand?”

“Yes”

Surprisingly, she listened to what he had to say without making a complaint.

It was when he was stroking the child’s head with a pleased look that a familiar sound echoed in the air.

“Grandpa!”

It was Hyun Hee, the commander of the Black Mountain Blade bandits.

He wasn’t surprised because he knew in advance about her plan to come.

“Now, let’s go see what Unnie brought as a gift for the new year.”

The moment the word ‘gift’ came out, Seol’s ears perked up. The child was shocked as she understood her favorite word.

“For Seol?”

“Oh my. Grandpa had requested in advance.”

The words caught her ear, and she liked them. She was already waving her arms.

“Hehehe~ Unnie nice.”

The child giggled and ran.

It looked like she was toddling around, but her speed was incredible. If the most experienced warrior was in the image of a child and used footwork, would they also be like this? Yu Jinsan’s face, who was watching, was full of worry.

“Seol, go slow. You will fall!”

She didn’t even hear her Grandpa’s voice, as Yu Seol had already unfolded the footwork of Ladder Cloud Step and jumped over.

As the child vanished from sight, Yu Jinsan followed, shaking his head.

“She didn’t even learn the full technique, so how could she be this fast?”

He worried about having to teach her more footwork in the future. He wasn’t confident that he would be able to handle the child if she started to learn them in earnest.

He was happy about her learning this due to her exceptional talent, but he couldn’t decide whether he should be totally happy or not.

‘Let’s think positively. If we want to survive safely in this dangerous world from now on, it would be best to become stronger.’

The only person who had the same blood as him.

He couldn’t protect her forever, but he couldn’t deny the desire in his heart to grow stronger than anyone else.

While he was lost in thought, his steps reached their destination.

And there was Hyun Hee, holding his granddaughter, who was smiling in her arms. It must have been because of the sugar-coated fruits in her hand.

“Hello, Grandpa! I didn’t realize that Seol would like it this much.”

It was a snack she made by skewering the hawthorn fruit on a skewer and then coating it with starch syrup to harden it.

Seeing the child lick it deliciously like a cat made him smile.

“Haha. Is it easy to find something sweet in the mountains? She can’t help but like it.”

“If I had come empty-handed, I would have been in big trouble. How’s your arm?”

“It doesn’t hurt. The physician who came over seemed to be a man of pretty good skills.”

“Still, aren’t you feeling uncomfortable?”

There was no inconvenience in life. The only problem was being unable to show off his spear techniques.

If a Body Reformation happened, then he would be able to recover his arm, but until then, there was nothing else he could do.

“It isn’t as bad as I imagined. But what’s the bundle on your shoulder?”

Hyun Hee carried the child with her left arm and unwrapped the bundle she had on her right shoulder.

Inside was a bunch of rolled-up paper.

“I’ve been investigating all the troops that exist within a hundred-mile radius from here.”

As expected.

After winter, the Wudang Sect would start moving in earnest.

They had to run away before they invaded again. The first step was to research information about them.

“This will be a long conversation, so it would be better for us to sit down and talk.”

“Yes, Grandpa.”

Yu Jinsan and Hyun Hee went up to the hut and sat facing each other.

Yu Jinsan, who received the bundle of papers, looked at the content, impressed.

“I cannot believe it. How did the bandits manage to organize this information so well?”

Their ability to organize and collect information was unusual.

The size and features of all troops, as well as things to watch out for, were detailed.

Hyun Hee shrugged her shoulders with a proud smile.

“Most of our kids were from the military. I heard some of them used to be spies, too.”

Come to think of it, he remembered hearing it from the bandit leader, Pungho. The Black Mountain Blade were deserters from a military force.

“Anyway, thank you for your hard work.”

Yu Jinsan looked at the data one after another while responding. There was just one chance, and everyone’s fate depended on it, so they had no choice but to be cautious.

When he wasn’t silent for a while, Hyun Hee carefully asked.

“Isn’t there something you like?”

“For us, it might be a one-time plunder, but it could cause some people to suffer indelibly for the rest of their lives. How could the task of choosing that thing be light?”

“Our leader said that he would follow what decision Grandpa would make without asking any questions.”

Yu Jinsan nodded his head and put the classified documents in one place.

“I will exclude these places first.”

They were the escort service places and such.

At the same time, because these were the easiest ones, Hyun Hee’s face was filled with regret.

“…why, though?”

“Although I’m not a charlatan, I hadn’t done anything that went against any agreement. The wealth of those who had gathered it in good faith shouldn’t be touched.”

“Among the remaining places, there wouldn’t be anywhere we could rob with our abilities, right?”

There were six sheets of paper left. All of them were either well-known Black Sects, or they were so large that they couldn’t be tackled.

After much thought, Yu Jinsan wrote the words Heavenly Dragon Merchant Chamber on the paper.

Among the forces that Hyun Hee had investigated, this was the place with the largest assets, so its defenses would be formidable.

Yu Jinsan, who was looking through the contents again, stroked his chin with a puzzled face.

“And their main business is usury… How did this alone increase their strength so much?”

“The more I investigated, the worse they turned out to be. It’s common for their people to lend money to merchants and get repaid dozens of times over, and they even engage in human trafficking.”

“Can someone do something like that and get away with it?”

“They said the amount they pay to the government offices is enormous. Moreover, the Mount Hua Sect also had their backs, so they have omnipotent strength here.”

When the name Mount Hua Sect came up, Yu Jinsan tilted his head with an expression as if he had heard something wrong.

“Why is Mount Hua looking after them?”