Chapter 25

Shriek! Shriek!
A series of popping spears.
He dodged the first one by spinning his body, and the second one by drawing his sword and striking the spearhead.
Ground!
You kicked the shaft of the third spear out of the way.
Pit!
“Ouch!”
Just then, the sphere of the deflected spear stabbed him in the forehead.
I had a bigger problem than a sting.
After a moment of panic, the fourth and fifth spears came flying at me, aiming for my heart and thighs.
“Plum blossom!”
Instead of letting out a panicked scream, he unleashed the Five Second Plum Blossom Sword that had been transformed into the Plum Blossom Sword.
Whirrrrr!
The sword swirls, leaving a trail of plum blossoms in the dizzying air.
The sword instantly created a wall of plum blossoms.
The ground, thud!
Luckily, I was able to completely block the canker sore.
“Woohoo!”
With the right move at the right time, I barely escaped the threat.
This was the difference between practice and training.
In training, I didn’t panic when I was slightly injured, but in practice, I panicked for a moment when I was grazed on the forehead and missed the right time to continue my attack.
Luckily, I was able to react quickly enough to get out of the situation, but I didn’t know if it would happen again someday.
I vowed to myself that it wouldn’t happen again and looked at the place where the canker sores and memorization flew.
“Is this an organ?”
A sheet of iron with a tiny hole in it and a barrel with a tiny hole in it.
“Not alive.”
Relieved, I slammed my sword down on the organ.
Boom!
The plate deflected the sword.
The rebound was surprisingly strong.
“It’s surprisingly hard.”
This time, he concentrated his chi into the sword and was about to strike down when he heard a hissing sound.
“Another trachea?”
I raised my sword in the direction of the sound.
“Ugh!”
All at once, the memorization flew in the opposite direction from where the sound came from.
If he hadn’t quickly tilted his upper body in the direction of the sound, he would have been punctured in the heart.
‘It was dangerous…….’
As I broke out in a cold sweat and tensed up, I heard the sound again.
This time, I looked at the source and all seven other directions.
To the northeast, in the darkness of the foliage, there was a mirror-like glow.
“Hot!”
I flung myself toward the northeast.
But all that was there was a tiny longing.
“This is…….”
Topjeon warned.
I quickly ducked my head, and something slammed into the hollow of the tree.
Bishu.
I was fooled again.
The pressure of being trapped in a deep forest, the terrain of a forest where blind spots are relatively common.
I can’t even tell if it’s just the wind or the sound of memorization flying by.
It’s a terrain that shuts down two of your five senses and makes you lose your composure.
“So this is the training for the terrain feature…….”
It uses the Jin method to lead you to the organ, and uses the terrain to panic you.
It’s a trap.
“Don’t panic, there’s a way out. This is just part of the training, there must be a clue somewhere.
I took a break and prayed.
Then he calmed down.
“We can’t move too quickly. We don’t know where the institution is, and the forest terrain makes it hard to see.
What then?
This must be martial arts and the training of the jin. The jin has already been triggered, so it’s a test of strength, not intelligence. Why was I thinking about something so simple?
Chastising himself for his foolishness, he sprang into action.
I looked around and flew to the first suspicious place I could find.
Sure enough, there was an institution.
Tada, tada, tada!
A steady stream of needles shot out of a small barrel.
Dodging the tiny needles, or parrying them with the plum blossom’s herbivory, I pushed forward.
“Hot!”
I snapped the barrel in half and launched myself back into the air.
Ten arrows shot into the air where I had been just moments before.
I launched myself in the direction of the arrows, using a dark marking technique.
I smashed the trachea, then launched myself again, smashing one after another.
When he had smashed every last one of them, he caught his breath.
“Whoa.”
I flopped down on the ground and wiped the sweat from my brow.
My head ached a little from all the concentration I’d put into that short period of time.
“Huh? That’s…….”
The fifth organ, where Jiang Chen flew in.
Something was stuck in the rocks.
“It’s definitely the branch that Elder Lingfeng touched.”
I remembered it because it was an unusual branch.
It had a small groove in the middle, a single leaf stuck to it, and was very thin.
As I pulled it out of the rock, the terrain around it began to change.
Swoosh!
With an eerie sound, the landscape transformed, finally revealing its true colors.
The forest disappeared, revealing the desolation of the mountain.
Pow!
He forcefully broke the piece of wood he had pulled out and rushed to the rendezvous point.
When I arrived at the rendezvous point, I saw Top Hiyun.
“How was it for you?”
Top Hiyun opened her eyes wide and looked at me.
‘…….’
“I didn’t find much. How was yours?”
“I found and destroyed the medium of the True Law.”
“Good.”
Top Hiyun smiled broadly.
The surroundings seemed to brighten.
Top Hiyun smiled, then suddenly lowered her head.
“What’s wrong?”
When I looked at her, she seemed embarrassed by the red color on her face.
She smiled sheepishly and looked to her right.
Hyunpa was returning.
“How was it?”
“I didn’t find it.”
Hyunpa shook her head, looking downcast.
I was about to comfort her, thinking she didn’t have to be so heartbroken, when Yeonhwa came running up.
“This one was found. Destroyed.”
“So you found and destroyed two mediums.”
Top Hee-yoon summarized.
“Hmm…… we’ve found them in two of the four directions, shall we search for the rest of the eight directions?”
Hyun Pa broke out into a chuckle, breaking his somber expression.
She had a cool personality after all.
“No, more than that, Yan Hua, where the medium you found is located. How was it?”
“Huh? Why, you mean……?”
I nodded, and she said.
“You did too…… At first I thought it was a sprinkler because it shoots out memorization, but then I realized it was an organ or something.”
“Well, in that case, you should be careful, because you almost got killed by a blind mnemonic while wandering around without getting a full explanation.”
Hyunpa said playfully.
“Then this time, I’ll go to the southeast, Qingwu will go to the northeast, Yanhua Sojourner will go to the northwest, and Huiyun will go to the southwest. Let’s go!”
As he finished speaking, he launched himself at the same time.
This time, he did the same thing, flying and spreading his energy.
They found another unnatural place.
This time, a rock.
So many rocks that it could have been called a tomb of rocks.
“This one’s easy.”
This time, there was no premonition, as if it were not an organ.
Instead, it was the vision of the gate, the magical power of the gate, that caught his senses.
He could sense the energy of the five elements, fire, water, wood, gold, and earth, as if there were talismans attached.
I approached the boulder with the fire energy.
I used my inner gong to amplify my power and lifted the boulder, revealing an amulet underneath.
It was an amulet with the word “Fire Energy” written on it.
He tugged on the amulet, and the djinn began to shake.
The shaking was a sign that it was being destroyed.
I quickly removed the amulets in the order of Shu, Mok, Jin, and Sat.
Then I heard the sound of tearing paper echoing through space.
Crack, crack, crack.
The sound of shattering glass shattered the jin.
“Hoh!”
“What?”
“Ugh!”
Everyone let out a peculiar sound of surprise.
For a moment, a bright light enveloped the world, and the people in our group could be seen.
They were separated by five footsteps, each occupying the five directions of the Five Elements.
“Hooray, the third batch of candidates, congratulations.”
An old man’s voice sounded along with the sound of clapping.
Turning his head to look at the source of the sound, he saw the voice’s owner, Elder Lingfeng.
“Did I make it too easy for you? You’re all going through too fast.”
Elder Lingfeng said with disappointment.
He looked around and saw two other groups that had also passed.
They were Liu Hyuk’s group and Man Qingfeng’s group.
Liu Hyuk was sitting on a rock, stroking his sword, and Man Qingfeng was sitting away from him, staring at Liu Hyuk.
But he couldn’t see Ma Jintian.
When he thought about why, he remembered that Ma Jintian had said something like this.
“This training, it’s better to keep a low profile.
“Oh no…….”
I was puzzled, but then I realized that I was only the third of the six groups, and I hadn’t done anything that stood out, so I breathed a sigh of relief.
“Oh, here come the rest of the groups.”
The unnatural fog that surrounded them cleared, and one by one, they began to appear.
The fourth arrival, Zhao from Mazin Tian, greeted me with a chuckle.
Soon after, the other two groups arrived.
“How have you done, my true method.”
Elder Lingfeng looked around at the six groups and said.
“You, tell me.”
The one who pointed with his finger was Man Qingfeng.
“……I’m surprised, I don’t know when you were caught by the Qin Law and how you made such a Qin.”
Elder Ning Feng laughed in satisfaction.
“Hehehehe. This is gin. If you get caught, you can’t escape, a deceptive path that confuses the senses, the same feeling as reality. Once caught, even the most advanced adept can’t escape it. Its strangeness and mystery can’t be ignored by anyone.”
Elder Ning Feng rambles on.
With a light tap on his shoulder, Elder Wenhu gestured for him to stop.
“Hmph…… hmph…….”
Coughing in vain, Elder Lingfeng stepped back.
Elder Wen Hu immediately stepped forward.
“What about the institution?”
Elder Wenhu pointed his finger at me.
“The institution wasn’t much of a threat, but the terrain. What I encountered was a forest. Threatening powerhouses lurking among the rocks, not being able to tell if the wind was chanting or memorizing, and branches interfering with the Divine Law.”
Elder Wenhu frowned, not liking this answer.
“Well, you have a point, so I won’t argue with you. Anyway, now that you know the effects of terrain in combat, I think it’s time for us to descend.”
“Already?”
One of the Sect’s disciples said.
“Half an hour to descend, then it will be exactly time for dinner.”
By now, it was getting dark.
He had been in the jinn for a long time.
With a fresh reminder of the dangers of the jinn, he followed the elders and others downhill.
The end of the first lesson.