Chapter 24

Elder Wenhu’s tone of voice made the man from Zongnan frown.
The man looked at Elder Lingfeng, who was only smiling, which only made the man’s frown deepen.
Elder Wen Hu snorted and pushed himself up.
All six of the four-man groups followed Elder Wen Hu’s lead.
Even though they were said to be the weakest of the Nine Sects, they were all highly skilled in the Divine Laws as well as in the art of kung fu.
In no time at all, they arrived at a mountain called Mengyu Mountain.
As the name suggests, it is a mountain that cries out for water.
It was very desolate and far away, with sparse trees that reminded me of a desert, and not the slightest sound of water.
Looking at the barren mountain, Elder Wenhu smiled.
“It’s a very good place for training.”
“Why?”
Hearing Elder Wenhu’s words, one of the Volcano Sect’s land inspectors asked.
His name was probably Qin Xiaotian?
One of the inner circle disciples.
“You must have learned in practice that anything can happen.”
Everyone nodded, including me.
It’s basic common sense.
“For example, you may suddenly find that a route boat or a group of old soldiers appear to help you, or you may find that the terrain hinders your foraging and you lose even though you are better than your opponent.”
Elder Mujin paused for a moment.
“That’s why this is a good place. The barren, dry land, the parched lips, the thirsty throats. It may seem like a practice for the faint-hearted, but you never know what can happen in a stronghold. Do you understand? The first step in martial arts training is to overcome the obstacles of the terrain.”
His eyes shone as he finished.
Elder Lingfeng had been nodding his head in affirmation from the beginning to the end.
As soon as Elder Lingfeng finished, he spoke up.
“And there is one more thing to teach this time. “And there is one more thing to teach this time. Today you will learn both at the same time.”
We all scratched our heads, including me, because we didn’t know what the connection was between the True Law and martial arts.
“You’ll see when you get up there. Come on, let’s go.”
Slowly, slowly, we followed the path up the mountain.
The slow, relaxed pace of our steps made us all start to relax a bit.
By the time we reached the halfway point, everyone’s eyes were starting to clear.
But not me.
As soon as Elder Lingfeng finished speaking, I saw his foot brush against a branch.
As an elder of the Sect, it was impossible for him not to have seen a branch. Thinking that it must be a sign of something, I climbed the mountain, chanting the Jahasim mantra.
I was right, and the reaction of the other latecomers was strange.
Their eyes were watering, and their bodies were becoming more and more obviously damp.
I told Yan Hua, but she’s the same way.
Furthermore, Zongnan’s half-dragon, Ma Jintian, was the same.
If he was that powerful, that capable, he should have known something was about to happen and prepared, just like me.
“Something’s wrong.
I stopped walking and broke away from the group.
I raised my jinjutsu to its polarity and observed my surroundings.
The most common jin methods are basically the eight-legged jin and the four-legged jin. It is not an exaggeration to say that all the famous jins in the martial arts are based on these jins.
So, with Sasang and the Eightfold Path in mind, I looked around.
Gun, Tai, Yi, Jin, Son, Gam, Liver, Gon.
And the sun, fire, yin, tai, and noise.
Water, fire, earth, and stone, the elements.
“What’s the difference?
My familiarity with the True Law is very low anyway.
The Elder’s techniques must be of the ascended realm.
With my meager skills, I dare not find anything unnatural in it.
“What should I do?
Don’t panic.
I thought calmly as I swung my chi in the field of the mind, the interrupted battle.
“It may not be the Four Noble Truths. Let’s think of something else.’
But no matter what he thought of, whether it was the six elements or the nine balls, he couldn’t find an answer.
He returned to the beginning and ran forward to catch up with the others.
Somehow, I was able to catch up with them after only running a short distance.
This was enough for me to realize that I had been caught.
Even though I was prepared and ready, I realized that I was still far from being caught.
But it didn’t take long for me to think of a plan of action.
‘Let’s not think too quickly. The elder said it’s training, so he’ll help us in case of danger.
I could feel myself relaxing at the thought.
‘No, you shouldn’t think like that. I should think of it as real life. I’m in a dangerous situation.
I calmed down and looked around again.
As I was looking around, I heard a sound.
‘It’s ……, it’s ……, it’s…….’
“I can’t hear you…… but…….”
When I listened closely, I recognized the voice.
I hurriedly ran in the direction of the voice.
After running for about a mile, I reached the source of the sound.
“Oh, it’s Cheongwoo!”
Yan Hua exclaimed.
“What the hell, you were over there!”
“Huh? Where?”
“With the group over there…….”
“That’s the same thing, you were in the group I was in, but I didn’t expect you to actually come when I called you because I felt weird.”
Yeonhwa smiles sweetly.
“What, so we’re both stuck in the same camp?”
“No, there are four of us.”
A voice came from the back.
“Who?!”
He drew his sword and swung it backwards.
Swoosh!
“Uh, dangerous!”
The voice exclaimed, raising his hands.
I raised my head, indicating that I had no intention of attacking, and looked at my opponent’s face.
“You guys…….”
It was Joe, the man who had sat at the same table yesterday and climbed the mountain with me today.
Two men, the same men from yesterday.
“So this is all of Joe’s people?”
The square-faced, well-built boy (the same guy) asks with a big smile.
“Ah, let me introduce myself first. I’m Zhongnan’s thirty-sixth swordsman, County Master Shen.”
He introduces himself coolly.
His tone was not frivolous or frivolous, but rather spirited.
“I’m Top Hiyun, the thirty-sixth swordsman of Zhongnan.”
A curious, shy-looking girl, or boy.
She blushes shyly, not unlike her impression.
“Haha. Why are you blushing, huh?”
Hyunpa’s playful question made Top Hee-yoon feel even more embarrassed.
“As you can see, I’m a shy person, so please forgive me.”
Hyunpa said coolly.
He let his guard down and greeted her.
“Land Inspector of the Volcano, I’m Qingwu.”
“I’m Hong Yanhua, the prefect of the volcano.”
At the polite and dignified greeting, Hyun Pa made a puzzled face and said.
“If you’re so polite, we’ll feel uneasy. There doesn’t seem to be that much difference in age, so relax.”
I guess this is what she was worried about.
It was a word that matched her cool impression.
‘Uh…….’
I was very embarrassed because the only friend I had in the volcano was Yeonhwa.
“Well, in that case, let’s do it.”
Yeonhwa took the initiative to speak up on my behalf.
“Hmph, you’re more confident than a man.”
She smirked, taunting me.
But if that’s the kind of taunt I’m willing to take, I’ve had enough of volcanoes and death penalty battles.
“More importantly, we’re stuck with the law of the land.”
“Chet, that’s not working.”
Hyunpa blurted out in frustration, then turned serious.
“Yes, the four of us are stuck in the same jin, and I’ve been looking around for a long time and haven’t seen anyone else.”
“How does it look to you?”
“What do you mean?”
“Did each of you have a group that came up with you?”
They nodded.
Then Yeon-hwa’s story confirms their assumptions.
“We were trapped in a camp, and we climbed up the mountain separately, but after being separated from our group for a while, we realized that we were in the same group of people, and we also had an imaginary group that we climbed up with.”
Everyone nods.
They’re listening to me seriously.
“So,” I say, ”one by one, we were caught in a true law, and at some point we found ourselves inside another true law.”
“Hmm…… That leaves us with two theories.”
Hyunpa’s eyes lit up.
“One, that we were initially caught in a pendulum, and then we walked through another pendulum that contained four people. The second, that after we were caught in the jin, we were released from the jin for a short time, or perhaps we experienced the jin in a confined space and then entered another jin.”
I nodded in agreement with what I was thinking.
“Then…… the first assumption has a single fracture.”
Top Hiyoon shyly raised his head and said.
“Even if the truth method was developed by the same person, there is a little bit of interlocking and contradiction at the intersection. So if you find that contradiction and break it, the djinn will be destroyed.”
“Then it’s urgent to find that contradiction first.”
But one question remains.
“What about the second postulate?”
“We’ll think about that later. We need to do what we can.”
Hyunpa blurted out, then looked around for a moment, thinking.
“I’ll take the north, Huiyun will take the south, Yanhua Sojourner will take the west, and Qingwu will take the east, and we’ll return here whether we find it or not.”
“I think it’s better if we go together, since we don’t know what kind of gin we’re dealing with.”
Yeonhwa retorted.
“Judging from the way we’ve gathered here, I don’t think it’s the kind of djinn that disorients and separates companions, but rather the kind that brings us together.”
Top Heeyoon countered Yeonhwa’s statement.
“But…….”
“We can’t do anything if we think about every single thing. Besides, this is a test. Do you really think the Elders are going to put us in a dangerous jinn?”
Shenfa smirked, and Yanhua fell silent.
“Then let’s go.”
Pow!
Each of them launched themselves in their designated direction.
As they ran east, they drew up their Qi and focused it into their eyes.
Strengthening their eyesight.
I spread the aura around and sensed it.
Sensing.
I looked for things that felt different from the others.
And then I found one.
‘That’s…….’
There was an unusually green forest in the middle of a barren mountain.
It looked unnatural, but it also felt dangerous.
Nervously, I slowed down and entered the forest.
It was different.
An unnatural feeling that I could sense in my gut.
But nothing else was particularly different.
It took me a while to get to the center of the forest.
“Is it just a forest?”
When the center was no different, I turned and prepared to leave.
Then, my senses caught something.
It was lifeless and lifeless, but it felt dangerous.
“Ahem!”
Ting! Ting! Ting!
With a swiftly drawn sword, I deflected the memorization.
“There!”
I took a stance and ran into the area where the memorization had popped up.