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At the training center
âJu Seo-Cheon!â
âYes!â
Ju Seo-Cheon replied loudly when Cheol Woong (a third-generation disciple of Mount Hua Sect and instructor of the Nakan Hell) called him as he stepped forward.
âI heard that you achieved getting the Plum Blossom Qi Arts to the fifth level. Is that true?â
âYes, thatâs right.â
âIf thatâs the case, you will be joining in the training of fist techniques.â
Before one was able to reach the fifth star level of the Plum Blossom Qi Arts, the physical training at the Nakan Hell ended at making a round trip to the center.
And when he was about to reach five stars in the Plum Blossom Qi Arts after about one year, he would go over the next physical training phase.
âI will teach you the Plum Blossom Strengthening.â
âYes, I understand.â
The pride of Mount Hua Sect was the sword but it didnât mean that other martial arts were neglected. They werenât at the level of the Sword Skills, but they did exist.
Most of them werenât hard to understand and were comparatively easy, and these techniques were the fundamentals to protect yourself when you werenât holding a sword.
âIn Kang Ho thereâs a saying that goes âA hundred spears, a thousand daggers, and ten thousand swords.â
It meant that learning and mastering the sword was the hardest and took the most time of them.
âThe fist techniques also contain the essence of Mount Hua Sect so they will become the base for when you learn swordsmanship. So donât complain and follow well!â
Cheol Woong spoke with a strict tone.
Ju Seo Cheon didnât make unnecessary remarks and joined in training the fist techniques.
âHoh, normally they get disappointed at not being able to practice the Mount Hua Sectâs swordâŠhe has a good posture.â
Cheol Woong saw his back and exclaimed lowly.
After that, a small change occurred in Ju Seo Cheonâs life.
He woke up at dawn and circulated energy near the plum tree. However, that was what attracted the eyes of others.
The fourth-generation disciples were mostly kids that hadnât even come of age. In addition, children were curious beings by existence.
He would obviously attract attention in a society with those children as he would sit in front of the plum flower by himself and circulate energy.
âHey, plum tree lover.â
When he opened his eyes after having finished circulating energy he could see a group in front of him. They were all children of the same age.
âI heard that the plum tree is your only friend.â
He knew more about the Plum Blossom Fist Techniques than the instructors.
His body wasnât trained but he learned most of it in less than a month after training in concentration.
It seemed like he had taken close to a year before he returned in time but he got to be able to use it freely in less than a month.
âUm, what is left is boring repetition.â
Even if there was insight following its comprehension, all of that became meaningless if his body couldnât follow it.
Your body wouldnât be able to follow if you didnât have the body of a heavenly martial artist.
It was still the body of a growing nine-year-old kid. His body would get destroyed if he got greedy.
If only his body followed the memories he already had, he would have stolen a sword and started training in swordsmanship already.
But he couldnât do that so he could only train his body step by step by executing the Plum Blossom Fist Arts.
For reference it was only slow in Ju Seo-Cheonâs position, it was a crazily fast speed for others.
It was unavoidable as the understanding of martial arts was low in the beginning except for geniuses.
âI should revise my plans.â
He could execute the Plum Blossom Fist Arts without thinking about it now.
It was almost at the boundary of it being unconscious.
There was no need to go through the process of thinking about it.
So instead, Ju Seo-Cheon organized a few things that would happen in the future.
âI really donât want to think about it but the first thing that remains in my memories on what happens isâŠâ
A dark shadow enveloped Ju Seo-Cheonâs face.
It was something that would happen five years from now when he was fourteen. It was something that had happened tens of years ago but he couldnât forget what happened.
Thatâs why because couldnât get to see his master Yu Jeong Mok from that year on anymore.
The soft smiling sword, Yu Jeong Mok.
It was a nickname he received because his smile was always soft and pure.
Ju Seo-Cheon knew about Yu Jong Mok more than anyone else.
And what would happen to him in the future.
âMasterâŠâ
Yu Jong Mok was a respectable great man and martial artist.
That wasnât a subjective observation at all.
A person that can be considerate towards others, gentleness, and a comfortable smile. There were no flaws in his personality and his martial arts were also great.
There was a position called Plum Blossom Sword Examiner.
One could become a Plum Blossom Sword Examiner only after going through strict tests and trials that tested your martial arts, personality, and wisdom.
That position was the greatest in Mount Hua Sect and they were the idol of all the disciples of the sect.
Yu Jong Mok was so outstanding he was selected as a candidate for the Plum Blossom Sword Examiner and had even passed some examinations.
Yu Jong Mok herself worked hard with that dream in mind but solely speaking about the results, he wasnât able to climb to that position because of a certain thing.
It was because of the chronic disease he had from long ago.
No, precisely speaking it wasnât known if it was even a disease.
Yu Jong Mok had a high understanding of martial arts from his youth and could even execute it more precisely than others.
However, he got exhausted more easily than others and his body structure was also weak.
It was because his health and physique werenât good from birth.
It was to the point that he got teased for being a weakling by his fellow apprentices when he just joined the sect.
But Yu Jong Mok didnât yield and worked a few times more than others in training his body to complement his weakness.
It was harder than others, perhaps because he was born that way, but he somehow managed to overcome it with his solid will.
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But his weak constitution didnât get better even with the passing years.
Fortunately, he never got greatly ill but he frequently suffered from slight fevers or light sickness.
The conditions for becoming a Plum Blossom Sword Examiner were really harsh and strict and he fell down on the examination site due to suffering from these diseases frequently.
The reason Ju Seo-Cheon didnât have other fellow brothers was because of this.
Yu Jong Mok wasnât healthy enough to take in more disciples besides Ju Seo-Cheon.