Chapter 78 : Yangtze River
Hyeokryeon Yeom watched the approaching rchant ship.
Although it looked like a rchant ship to anyone.
'That is a Yangtze River Waterway Keep ship.'
It was said that the water bandits dominating the Yangtze River made the opponent let their guard down and robbed them of valuable things.
"A ship is approaching!"
"Can't we get a ride on that?"
If they crossed the Yangtze River, Hubei was right there.
'Get a ride.'
People showed their faces one by one from the ship.
Their gazes turning toward Seol Ye-rin and Wi Ji-yeong were clearly visible even from afar.
Then.
Grin-
I saw the corners of their mouths going up without them realizing it.
Sothing was unpleasant.
"I don't think there is a need to get a ride."
"Yes?"
"I-It seems to be a Waterway Keep's ship. Everyone hide, if they show interest in us, it is certain they will attack!"
It seed the Geumgang Escort Agency's escort, Deung Ga-so, also recognized them.
Looking at their excited expressions, it seed likely they would pull all sorts of tricks to get us on the ship, just as Deung Ga-so said.
That too.
'Is experience, though.'
I wanted to shake off this unpleasant feeling.
"Small Snow Squad Captain, your expression doesn't look good."
At that ti, Seol Ye-rin spoke to .
It seems my expression crumpled without realizing it.
"Ah, the Waterway Keep bastards look a bit disgusting. So, I was thinking."
I whispered to Seol Ye-rin.
"......?"
The Small Snow Squad looked at with questionable eyes.
Seol Ye-rin nodded.
"Hm? The Young Palace Head is stepping forward?"
Wi Ji-yeong asked with a puzzled expression.
"What did you talk about?"
The Divine Physician also had a curious expression.
"Will it... be okay?"
Cheon Deung-jin stared at Seol Ye-rin's back as if she heard my words.
"You'll know if you watch."
I put a smile on my lips.
That mont.
"Hello there!"
A man's voice was heard from the ship.
A man with quite a large build, who looked like he was saying 'I am a water bandit' to anyone who saw him, revealed himself.
"Seeing as you intend to cross the Yangtze River, if you pay the fare, I will give you a ride!"
"Get on quickly!"
"I will take you for a cheap price!"
"She is a beauty!"
I saw them all looking at Seol Ye-rin with flashing eyes.
"Everyone quiet! Can't you see they are unable to speak!"
At that ti, Seol Ye-rin stepped forward.
"Hello."
"Oho, is the young lady the representative of the party?"
"Yes, that's right."
"I will give you a ride for a cheap price. Will you get on?"
"We will get on. But I have no intention of paying money."
"Huh?"
"It is a great honor to et the water bandits of the Yangtze River Waterway Keep I've only heard about."
The Black Dragon Keep Boss, Cruel Blade Kang Su-seon, frowned.
"Guys, we're busted!"
"Get them on quickly!"
Seeing the water bandits throw their bodies toward the Yangtze River upon hearing the Boss's words, Seol Ye-rin muttered.
"It would be better not to fall into the water."
"Haha! What is that bitch saying! Are you saying that knowing how strong we are in the Yangtze River!"
"Catch them quickly before they run away!"
"What do we do? The water bandits are attacking!"
As Deung Ga-so made a fuss.
" Shouldn't we prepare for battle?"
The Small Snow Squad rookie, Yu So-dong, agreed.
"There is no need to worry too much."
Eun Bin cald the two down.
When Deung Ga-so looked to the side, everyone except the two had calm expressions.
"Why is everyone so..."
"You will know soon."
Snap, the mont Wi Ji-yeong finished those words.
"We will borrow that ship for a bit."
Splash.
Seol Ye-rin put her hand into the Yangtze River.
Then,
Crack crack crack crack-
"W-What!"
"T-The river is freezing!"
"S-Save ...!"
Crack-!
The Yangtze River froze in an instant.
"I-Ice Art..."
It wasn't just the Yangtze River that froze.
The ship the water bandits rode on also completely froze along with the water bandits riding inside.
***
Deung Ga-so swallowed dry saliva.
He knew they were people from the Ice Palace, but he didn't think they were people who had mastered such incredible martial arts.
'The Young Palace Head of the Ice Palace.'
All the personnel of the Black Dragon Keep were cleaned up with a single hand gesture from the Young Palace Head.
Deung Ga-so, who walked on the ice and got on the ship, got goosebumps seeing the water bandits turned into ice statues while alive.
"Physician sir. Is the Young Palace Head perhaps one of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens?"
"Well. People from the Outer Regions cannot beco one of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens, so I don't know well."
"Captain, by the way, how do we start this?"
"Everything completely froze over!"
Unlike Deung Ga-so, the Small Snow Squad was pondering how to start the ship without much of an impression.
"By any chance... is this kind of thing daily life in the North Sea?"
This ti, he approached Cheon Deung-jin and asked.
"Umm, I did see many ice statues standing."
"I see."
As expected, the North Sea seed to be a dangerous neighborhood.
'Wait.'
Did I just readily accept the escort goods of such a person?
Although he wrote it as if it were flying, he couldn't check the content of the letter the Ice Palace martial artist delivered.
At the thought that perhaps the content might shake the Murim, Deung Ga-so swallowed dry saliva.
"Can your Captain also use this kind of Ice Art?"
Scurry, this ti he approached Tae Un-seo and asked.
"The opposite."
Tae Un-seo spoke coldly.
Because Deung Ga-so kept acting annoyingly when they had to start the ship.
"Opposite?"
"The Captain uses Fire Arts."
"Fire Arts?"
"Baek Mu-yong, bring up the carriage."
"Yes!! Haaap!"
Baek Mu-yong pushed the carriage on the ground straight in.
-Neigh!
The horses were startled and slipped, but Baek Mu-yong's imnse strength pushed the carriage along with the horses.
Just as the carriage with added acceleration was about to board the ship.
"I got it."
Energy emitted from Cheon Deung-jin wrapped around the carriage.
"...Was that young master also a martial artist?"
Deung Ga-so was surprised at the sight of Cheon Deung-jin, who looked frail on the outside, easily boarding the carriage.
"Young Master Cheon... did learn martial arts."
But the Small Snow Squad was also looking at Cheon Deung-jin with fascinated expressions, as if seeing Cheon Deung-jin use martial arts for the first ti.
Cheon Deung-jin, who accepted Extre Yin Qi into his body following Extre Yang Qi, had a constitution very sensitive to energy, and his strength was being able to control energy in detail.
The martial arts of the Potala Palace were especially based on Buddhist power, and he was handling the warm energy very well.
"Even if getting the carriage up is one thing..."
Isn't the problem from now on?
The frozen solid Yangtze River and the ship.
Both of these had to be lted for the ship to start.
At that ti.
"Fla Butterfly."
At my murmur standing at the prow.
Red butterflies began to flutter.
"That is..."
"That is the Captain's specialty."
The red butterflies flew fluttering and landed on the stern of the ship and the frozen Yangtze River.
Then,
Boom!
With a huge explosion sound,
"Aaaah!"
"Hold on tight!"
"You should have told us in advance!"
Along with the explosion, the ice began to break apart.
At the sa ti, the ship began to advance forward madly.
"Good output!"
"Unfurl the sails!"
When Baek Mu-yong unfurled the sails,
Whoosh!
Riding the wind, the ship began to shoot forward.
"It's refreshing!"
"Oh my god..."
Deung Ga-so looked back at the rapidly changing scenery with an unbelievable expression.
Because in all his life, it was the first ti he saw people snatch a ship off the Yangtze River Waterway Keep and drive the ship away.
***
"It must have belonged to the Black Dragon Keep."
A large black ink dragon drawn inside the ship has its mouth open.
"Can you handle the aftermath?"
Deung Ga-so was asking again, having so many worries.
"What aftermath are you talking about?"
"Didn't you snatch a ship from the Black Dragon Keep? There are a total of eighteen waterway keeps in the Yangtze River. It is the sa as destroying one of them, so it is certain the Water King will be angry."
"If it is the Water King..."
"I am talking about the Chief Boss who rules the Yangtze River Eighteen Waterway Keeps."
"It doesn't matter. Bastards who only do water banditry in the water can never beat the Young Palace Head."
Didn't you see, the sight of freezing the entire Yangtze River.
"B-Blech-"
Facing the river wind and getting closer to Hubei, I saw the rookie, Yu So-dong, throwing up his insides from the side.
"It is the first ti I see a martial artist getting seasick."
"It is because I am still a novice."
"Yes, what-vice?"
"Novice. It hasn't been long since I learned martial arts."
Yu So-dong, who regained his senses after eating the Purple Cloud Pill, now had a constitution that could easily learn any martial art.
The first thing I taught Yu So-dong was the Iron Blood Divine Art of the Iron Venerable, one of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens.
I intended to teach him inner arts after making his body hard first.
"Tsk tsk."
Watching the Divine Physician clicking his tongue and patting Yu So-dong's back, I approached Seol Ye-rin.
Seol Ye-rin, standing at the prow, was facing the wind with her hair fluttering.
"You look like you're having fun?"
"Thanks to you, I'm boating and it feels good."
"Would it be different from boating on Dongting Lake?"
"I want to try that too. The Central Plains really seems vast."
"It is."
It was the first ti for to tour the Central Plains like this too.
It's to the point where I regret my past of only training martial arts in the Demonic Cult all the ti.
I feel like I now know how enjoyable and fun it is to experience many things while wandering the Jianghu.
The scenery seen while advancing through the vast river water taking on an ochre color as if embracing all the soil under the heavens was so wide it was hard to gauge the end of the land, evoking the illusion of floating on the swaying Yellow Sea.
"I started wanting to experience a bit more diverse things."
"If you go to Namman, you will be able to see scenery different from this again."
Seol Ye-rin looked back at .
"Seeing unique scenery is good too, but the fact that I can see this scenery together with the Third Young Master feels better."
Seol Ye-rin's smiling appearance reflected in the river water looked truly beautiful.
It really felt like an engagent trip.
"Captain! Young Palace Head! I think we are almost at Hubei!"
"Yeah, seems so."
Hubei.
The land where the Murim Alliance is located.
That place was getting closer and closer.
***
At that ti.
The stern of the ship.
Unlike the people comfortably watching the blue waves of the Yangtze River from the ship.
'I'm envious! I'm envious!'
The monitor attached by Seol Baek-ho, Han Seol-bi, was following them to the stern of the ship using the Wall Lizard Art.
With tears streaming down as the wind brushed her eyes.
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