Chapter 345 – Chapter 69 (5)

The first all-out war between the Northern Heavenly Palace and the Jeong Mu-maeng started with a landslide victory by the Northern Heavenly Palace.

No, it wasn’t the extent of Bukcheongung’s landslide victory, but there was no damage.

Rather, the morale of the Bukcheongung was overwhelming as they forced overwhelming damage to the Jeongmu-maeng and captured even the supplies they could not take while retreating.

“I can’t believe it… Was it this much…”

Since he had not seen Jinchun fight in person at the martial arts tournament, he knew that Jincheon was strong, but did not know what level he was, because he had only heard from others.

“Hey, Adjutant Wall.”
“Yes, yes!”

Byeok Kang-woo, who occupied the camp of the Jeongmu-maeng at Jincheon’s order to attack, put excessive shoulder strength at the sight of Jincheon approaching him.

Although he is strong, he could not have imagined that he would be able to crush hundreds of warriors head-on, so he could only react differently because he felt that the current Jincheon was different from the Jincheon he had seen before.

“Clean up the looted supplies and feed the kids plenty. Since morale has been raised, we should maintain it.”
“Yes. I will.”
“Tsk. I thought Jeongmu-maeng would be fun, but it’s nothing special.”

Jincheon grumbled as if he couldn’t satisfy his fighting spirit at this level, and headed to the commander’s barracks on the side of Bukcheongung with his women.

“Then I’ll leave it to you.”
“Take care.”
“Yes. Please rest in peace.”

The women of Jincheon smiled at Byeok-Kang-Woo and greeted Byeok-Kang-Woo, who took on the troublesome task for them.

All of them are beautiful beauties, but Byeok Kang-woo, who watched with his own two eyes how they just fought, couldn’t see them as usual.

Sapa’s future.
Realizing that the words someone had called him were not an exaggeration, he couldn’t hide his excitement that he was working with a hero who would make a name for himself in the history of Moorim.

However, this overwhelming victory quickly hit the factional faction camp because of its ripple effect.

However, this led to a phenomenon in which the power of the political faction grew stronger.

For hundreds of years, there were quite a few cases where the power of the Demonic Cult and the Sapa faction prevailed.

Nevertheless, the reason why the political faction remains strong is that when a political faction faces a crisis, the former masters who had been quietly living are revealed.

The existence of these former masters is very helpful in preventing the crisis of the political faction.

In other words, the power of the Jeongmu-maeng became stronger as some of the former masters and former masters who thought that the political faction was in great danger due to the existence of Jincheon woke up.

And, the goal of such former masters was focused on Jincheon Hana.

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By the time Jincheon and his party achieved overwhelming results on the battlefield,

“Aww~~!”
“Don’t be in a hurry, Ha-yeon. If you make a lot of mistakes while cooking, it will lead to the taste and quality of the dish.”
“Ugh, ugh. Whoa… Let’s calm down, calm down.”
“Can I do it this way?”
“Hmm~ It’s not bad, but it’s cut too finely. It’s easy to eat, but you have to cut it into the right size to enjoy the chewy taste. Cooking isn’t just about the taste, but the smell and texture are also important.”

At their home in Jincheon, Im Ha-yeon and Hong Seol-lin were receiving cooking training from Cheon Hye-woon.

It started with Lim Ha-yeon, but as Seol-rin Hong, who did not know how to cook properly, was stimulated, a cooking class was held together.

Seo Yu-ran was not particularly interested in cooking, so he was watching the three of them in a cooking class.

“Lim Ha-yeon.”
“Why.”

Seo Yu-ran, who noticed her strangeness on the way, tilted her head as if it was strange and asked her.

“You know how to cook.”
“That’s true, but it’s not at the level of Lim’s brother. In the first place, my cooking is a form that I somehow managed to achieve with the ingredients that were lacking while camping.”

According to her words, the cooking that Im Ha-yeon knows how to do is a level where she only has a rough shape after camping, but there is not much proper cooking knowledge.

“If you practice like this, it must be hard to catch up with Master’s cooking skills, right?”

Jincheon’s cooking skills are astonishing even to Im Ha-yeon, who has the richest culinary experience.

Even if you cook with the same ingredients and the same utensils, Jincheon instinctively captures the situation in which the most delicious dish will be perfectly delicious.

It was Lim Ha-yeon who knew it better than anyone else, but she shook her head and opened her mouth as Cheon Hye-woon told her to cook her ingredients.

“It would be impossible even if I tried all my life, but she doesn’t want my child to grow up without knowing her mother’s taste as much as she does.”

Im Ha-yeon, who wandered around without knowing her parents and had to enter the Demonic School, wanted her parents the most, and then the food her parents cooked for her.

The remnants of that day still lingered on, and now she had completely given up on her parents, but she didn’t want her child to have the same pain as she did.

“And if you cook with Jinrang, you’ll be able to bury your cooking skills like they’re good.”

As Lim Ha-yeon tried to lighten her mood with her own remarks, she finished off with a joke.

“Puhuh. I don’t know who wrote the nickname Hwanyo, but he did it really well.”

Sensing her feelings, Seo Yu-ran deliberately accepted her joke and she replied with a smile.

Her nemesis who couldn’t kill each other at one time, to a colleague who loved a man, and furthermore, Lim Ha-yeon and Seo Yu-ran, who became her friend, supported her from the bottom of their hearts.

‘Yeah, you should be happy. You can be happy I’ll help you, so you’re enjoying your present happiness without worrying.’

There, Seo Yu-ran felt a sense of duty to wield her sword to protect her friend’s happiness.

“But what are you going to do with the food made through practice?”
“I have to give it to the warriors outside. It would be a waste to throw it away.”

She left Seo Yu-ran and Hong Seol-lin behind for her wives, who were pregnant by Jin-cheon, but she gave Jin-cheon a dozen or so elite warriors as escorts to buy her favor at the northern palace.

In particular, since it is now common sense that Jincheon treats her wives with such care that she cooks and feeds them herself, her calculations to show favor in advance were also mixed in.

Anyway, Lim Ha-yeon decided to give them the leftovers from her cooking, so she felt free to make Cheon Hye-un’s cooking knowledge her own.

‘I can’t lose!’

Seol-Lin Hong was stimulated by Im Ha-Yeon’s love for Jin-Cheon.

However, she thought that she loved Jincheon as much as she did, so she desperately learned to prepare her delicious dishes for her husband.

Im Ha-yeon, who noticed the atmosphere of her Hong Seol-rin, was also stimulated by it.

Thanks to that, there was no sign of the delicious smell leaving the house.

“It’s late now, so let’s finish it soon, shall we?”

Seo Yu-ran, who confirmed that it was getting dark outside the window, suggested that he stop now.

“Why are you making such a weak noise when you’ve reached the prefecture?”

Lim Ha-yeon grumbled in response to Seo Yu-ran’s line.

It is clear that she was overwhelmingly superior to Hyeon-gyeong after gaining her enlightenment, but Seo Yu-ran was not sure whether she was at the end of Hyeon-gyeong or at the beginning of Hyeon-gyeong because she had not met Hyeon-gyeong’s master in person, but everyone else thought she was at Hyeon-gyeong. I was thinking it was over.

Even if she achieves only Hwagyeong, she can endure without sleeping for a week, but she will be able to stay awake for well over a week.

“There’s nothing good about enduring that. Even the owner said it’s good for you mentally to sleep when you’re sleeping.”

Jincheon says she tries to get enough sleep at night unless there are special circumstances.

As Seo Yu-ran said, the reason why a warrior does not sleep is the concept of ‘enduring’, because it is different from normal life.

In particular, Jincheon, who has the knowledge of the future, knows that sleep is not just about recovering from physical fatigue, so he wants to get enough sleep unless it is a special case.

“Yoo-ran unni is right. And trying to learn these things quickly will only increase your impatience, so let’s stop at this point.”
“Tch. Okay.”
“I learned well.”

Im Ha-yeon and Hong Seol-lin decided to finish the dishes they had made while cleaning up after Cheon Hye-woon decided to finish it, and wanted to give it to the warriors.

“Huh?”

For a moment, Seo Yu-ran must have sensed something about her, and her expression slightly distorted.

“Why is that?”

Hong Seol-rin, who felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere, asked her carefully.

“Something’s coming. Decreased presence. Number about 20.”

At her explanation, everyone’s mood changed unexpectedly.

“Sulrin, go and guide the warriors outside and warn them to be careful of the enemy.”
“Yes!”

Cheon Hye-un looked greatly nervous that only Seo Yu-ran had noticed and encouraged her escort warriors to warn her.

“Both of you, stay by my side.”
“Huh!”
“Yes!”

Im Ha-yeon and Cheon Hye-woon, unable to fight fiercely for the child in their belly, could feel relief at the sight of Seo Yu-ran with her sword drawn.

After Seo Yu-ran put on her hat with a cotton thread that had been broken on her table, she took the sword Jin-cheon had newly forged and slowly raised her internal energy in her body, awakening her blood flow.

“Tch… It was as Jinrang said.”

Originally, Lim Ha-yeon and Cheon Hye-woon thought that the true purpose of leaving Seo Yu-ran and Hong Seol-lin was for their own comfort.

That’s why Hong Seol-rin was enough, so he recommended Seo Yu-ran to take her with him, but Jin-cheon refused, saying this.

-Enemy who is aiming for the important person of the main character by aiming for the gap where the main character is not there is clear… It’s like a set rule. In reality, there are many people who have a grudge against me, so there must be people who want to take advantage of my absence.-

At first, I thought it was an overreaction, but when I was attacked by an enemy who was really aiming for a gap where there was no Jincheon, I realized that they were looking at the world too easily.

“I’m here to warn you!”

After giving her warning to her warriors, Hong Seol-lin relaxed her body lightly, bringing her own spear.

“Both of you follow me. It’s easier to fight with reinforcements in a wider area.”

If the enemy was attacking the women of Jincheon, they would have weapons suitable for indoor combat.

And when fighting groups, it is better to fight in a wide area than to hit and run in a narrow area.

Lim Ha-yeon and Cheon Hye-woon must have thought the same, and they followed Seo Yu-ran out of the house.

It is not a yard inside the wall, but outside the house.

In a fight between masters, a wall has no defensive advantage.

All the warriors who applied from the Bukcheongung gathered together at the warning of Hong Seol-lin, but they were all buzzing and making suspicious faces because they couldn’t sense the enemy’s presence with their skills.

“Strange.”

But Seo Yu-ran, rather than explaining to them one by one, frowned at her sense of what she was feeling.

“This…What the hell is it?”

Subsequently, Lim Ha-yeon and Cheon Hye-un, masters of the Hwagyeong, also recognized that the 20 people Seo Yu-ran had mentioned were approaching while reducing their presence.

The real problem was not the number of people approaching, reducing their presence, but something more fundamental.

“I don’t feel alive.”
“In addition, she is using a high level of silver thread so that she wouldn’t even notice if Yu-ran hadn’t told her.”

Existence that does not sow advanced stealth and murder.

It would be less tense if you sprayed it hard.

However, it is in line with the fact that 20 or so people approaching without killing a single thing is that it is a terrifying existence.

If they have reached the realm where they can even control their own minds, it means that they have undergone the arduous training that accompanies that mental power.

“What?”
“Kuk!”
“Come!”

Among the warriors of the Northern Heavenly Palace, those with excellent spirits or good skills hurriedly raised their weapons and made a serious expression, as if they had felt something.

“Throw the torch!”
“Get your sights!”

When they told the torch holders to throw their torches here and there to secure their sight, the other warriors who witnessed the changed eyes of their comrades threw their torches far enough away to secure their sight.

Shh shh shh!

At the same time, dozens of raindrops flew from the darkness where the torches could not reach.

Kaka Kaka Kakang! Pupuk!

“Kuk!”

The warriors hurriedly slashed Bido, but the two warriors couldn’t stop it and Bido was stabbed in their limbs.

“At this level…Wow!?”
“Cuck!”

The level was not so low that they cried and complained about being stabbed in their limbs, so the two warriors, who pulled out their swords and refined their fighting spirit, began to vomit black blood and suffer.

Dump!
Shaking–

Blood vessels all over the body became black and protruded prominently, and they collapsed and died in an instant, leaving only wriggling due to post-mortem rigor.

At the same time, as the field of vision was widened by the thrown torches, it was possible to find 20 black men already surrounding the warriors.

Creepy!

In an instant, Seo Yu-ran, who witnessed them, felt a chill and became nervous without realizing it.

‘What the hell is this… ? They are obviously alive. But why can’t I feel any emotion in their eyes?’

It’s not just a killer who can hide his eyes because he’s good at it.

Eyes that contain nothing.

There was only emptiness, unable to feel sadness, hatred, joy, or any emotion.