Return of Mount Hua Sect - Chapter 460
Thousand miles journey starts with one step.
If you keep going, no matter how far the road is, you will eventually reach the end.
The words change slightly when it becomes two thousand Li, rather than a thousand, and again when it becomes 3.000 Li.
When it’s about six thousand Li, it’s a completely different type of story.
“………is it possible to arrive?”
“We’ll be there one day.”
“…….”
Since Chung Myung’s arrival on Mount Hua, the disciples have been constantly reminded of the importance of never giving up. As a result, they were able to continue their journey in some way.
They have, however, encountered another issue that cannot be solved solely through grit and hanging on.
“Ugh…….”
“……Hiik.”
Jo-Gol rubbed his trembling hands across his face. Even his hand was frozen, and he couldn’t feel anything.
“Nose……I think my nose is going to fall off, Sahyung.”
“…… my hands……I can’t feel it.”
Short voices were heard, as if their tongues were also frozen.
A strong wind literally slapped their face over and over.
They’ve only heard how cold it is. But they had no idea it would be this much.
“What kind of wind blows is this!”
“… … Why are you asking me that?”
Their teeth trembled, bumped into each other, and appeared to break at any moment.
They are aware that the temperature is low. Because they expected it to be cold up north.
But was it mentioned that it was this windy?
It felt like their entire body had been slashed with a knife, and their eyes were on the verge of freezing and breaking.
“This is a sword wind.”
“The sword of Myriad Man House weren’t even this sharp.”
Jo-Gol shuddered and looked sideways.
“Mo- Monk. Are you all right?”
“… I’m all right, Siju. I…….”
“You must feel colder because you don’t have a hair.”
“…….”
Hye Yeon looked back at Jo-Gol with a look of ‘This punk?’ However, Jo-Gol’s expression of genuine concern made him a little sad rather than angry.
“Sa- Sago……Is it supposed to be this cold here?”
Tang So-so, who has lived his entire life in the warm south provinces, has not adapted to this situation in particular.
The whole body was wrapped in wool and covered with leather, but the fierce winds made leather or whatnot useless.
“…I don’t know.”
Yoo Iseol murmured quietly, barely moving his frozen mouth.
“It’s amazing. There’s a people living here… that…”
“……I know. I think they’re all out of their minds, Sago.”
Everyone was shrinking little by little from the extreme cold they experienced for the first time in their lives.
“…Are we almost there?”
“I don’t know.”
“Huh?”
Jo-Gol looked around Baek Chun with his eyes wide open, but the wind was blowing and he couldn’t win making him narrow his eyes again.
“What should we do if Sasuk don’t know?”
“Have I ever been to the North Sea? I’m just guessing.”
“But I’m sure you’ve heard something.”
“…… We should see something by now.”
Baek Chun turned his head and looked at the cart, paused for a moment, and tilted his head.
“But where did Chung Myung go?”
“Yes? He is over the……. Huh?”
Jo-Gol frowned still with his eyes open.
“Where’d he go?”
“Didn’t he fall on the way here?”
“……Where is he going to fall? He’s the kind of guy who doesn’t fall to hell even by living like that.”
“That’s true. Then where the hell is this guy…….”
Yoo Iseol then put down the handle and approached the cart. Then she jumped up and began to sweep the piled-up luggage from side to side.
“Sago?”
Yoo Iseol, who dug into the luggage as if a rabbit digging a nest, pulled his head back and frowned.
“Nothing.”
“Huh? Nothing?”
Everyone opened their eyes wide.
Does it make sense that he’s not even in there?
“Where’d he really go?”
“Didn’t he really fall off on the way here?”
“He won’t fall off. Would that leech ever fall?”
“He may have fallen from freezing.”
“Huh? I never thought of that.”
Jo-Gol’s eyes shook greatly.
But while they were squabbling, Yoo Iseol squinted and looked around. Then, at some point, she stared into one place.
Then.
Tok!
He grabbed a large pile of bags and threw them up at once.
“Sa- Sago? All of a sudden…….”
Twitch.
“…….”
But the bag thrown over the luggage moved subtly. Baek Chun’s mouth opened blankly.
“… don’t tell me?”
Baek Chun, who ran like an arrow, grabbed the bag and opened it. The remaining wool, leather, and blankets were tangled in it.
Baek Chun quickly pulled out the wool and leather inside.
And
Tok!
Baek Chun’s eyes flashed at the alien sensation that soon touched his hand.
“This bastard!”
He burst out and pulled out what he had grabbed. Then a familiar head showed up.
“His Sahyung and Sasuk pulling a cart in these cold wind! But this bastard is in the bag? Aren’t you going to crawl out right now?”
But there was no immediate answer. Chung Myung, who normally should have shouted at this point, raised his head slightly without any reaction.
After a while, a small trembling voice came out.
“Do- Dongryong.”
“…….”
“Ugh, it’s cold.”
“…….”
“I- It’s so cold. Ugh.”
Chung Myung quickly picked up the fallen wool and crawled back into the bag.
Baek Chun, who was staring at the scene in a daze, hurriedly grabbed Chung Myung again.
“Come out!”
“It’s cold! I’m freezing!”
“How dare you do that! You don’t even look like a human!”
Mount Hua’s disciples muttered, looking at the two bickerings.
“Do people usually think of going in bags? No matter how big the bag is.”
“Isn’t it because it’s Chung Myung?”
“That’s true, but…… no matter how cold it is, do you think about going under the luggage? Isn’t it heavy?”
“Because it’s Chung Myung.”
“……that’s so omnipotent.”
It was surprising that in any situation, once the name Chung Myung came out, they could somehow understand it.
“Won’t you crawl out right now?”
“Shaah!”
“This punk is now even screaming! You’re out of your mind!”
“…Not me.”
“Huh?”
Baek Chun looked into the bag with puzzled eyes. Then, between the wool, a ball of fur thicker than the wool raised its head and revealed its teeth.
“Shaah!”
“…….”
Baek Chun’s eyes looking at the scene were like those of a man who had lost his country.
“… … It’s hard to handle one, but now two… … . No, they both turn people inside out.”
‘What did I do in my past life?’
‘What the hell am I guilty of….?’
Baek Chun was rotten to the core, but Chung Myung was also full of excuses.
“Ugh! What the hell is this place?”
In the past, Chung Myung has reached the realm impervious to cold. The energy overflowed and the cold did not dare to invade his body.
But that’s an old story!
“Oh, I’m freezing!”
Rather, it was more problematic that he was impervious to cold. Having lived without the cold for decades, he couldn’t adapt to this situation at all.
If he reaches out his hand now, it felt like he’s shaving knife. How is he supposed to hold this?
“It’s pretty bearable if you use your skills! You punk!”
“I can’t do that, I can’t!”
Chung Myung screamed.
His internal strength is the purest in the world.
What that means is…… as the output is tremendously high, the amount is the size of a rat tail. If he warms himself up with such internal strength, he’ll have less of what he already had now.
Where is he supposed to waste his internal strength in such a way? They don’t know if Magyo will come after them with a sword.
“Da- Damn it! Why do you needlessly build up such internal strength!”
‘It’s good for nothing except for fighting! Not at all!”
“Shaah! Shaah!”
Meanwhile, Baek-ah slapped Baek Chun’s hand, which came into the bag, with a sharp claw. Then he quickly hid in a pile of wool.
“Excuse me…… Sasuk.”
“Yes?”
“Isn’t the white marten originally an animal that lives in the cold?”
“That’s what I think.”
“But what’s wrong with him?”
“Don’t you understand? He must have been like that since he lived in Namman Yasugung.”
“… He has accustomed after living in the warm south all his life.”
Baek Chun sighed deeply.
‘Anyway, this guy and that guy!’
Taking advantage of Baek Chun’s nerves being focused on Baek-ah, Chung Myung slowly dug into the wool and leather and began to tighten the opening of the bag again.
“Come out, you punk!”
“I’m freezing to death!”
“To hell with frozen to death! Are you going to be like this all the time in the North Sea?!”
“Sasuk!”
“Yes?”
“It’s nice knowing you!”
“Get out!”
When Baek Chun didn’t back down, Chung Myung screamed and pulled his neck out of the bag. And he checked the surroundings.
“All I can see is empty things.”
Snowfield.
It was a vast snowy field with no end in sight. Without this cold, it would have been a spectacular sight. However, as he was beaten mercilessly by the cold wind that penetrated his armpits the whole time, it only looked like a white hell.
“The North Sea Ice Clans or whatever, these crazy bastards. What the hell are you going to pick up and eat in a place like this?”
“…I never thought I’d agree with your nonsense.”
He seems to know why things like Hancheol and Ice Crystals are formed here. If beaten for thousands of years by this kind of wind, even steel would go crazy.
“I’m sure it’s about time we got there, though.”
“It’s still a long way off. I can’t see the sea.”
“Huh?”
Chung Myung turned his head and looked at Baek Chun.
“What sea?”
“It’s the North Sea (북해(北海)). No matter how cold it is, the sea doesn’t freeze. Then we should see the water, but we haven’t seen it yet.”
“Keuk…….”
Chung Myung twisted his neck and shook as if his stomach was about to explode.
“Y- You ignorant man! You think the North Sea is in the sea?”
“…Don’t they?”
“It’s a Lake, a lake! A great lake in the north!”
“Why is the lake called the North Sea? Then shouldn’t we call them the North Lake (북호(北湖))?”
“It’s a lake that’s huge enough to look like an ocean!”
“Oh, is that so?”
Baek Chun nodded as if he had now understood.
“Ah, the lake must be frozen.”
“That’s right.”
“Then find a large frozen lake… … .”
Baek Chun looks around and looks at Chung Myung again.
“……How?”
“…….”
All they can see is a white plain.
Asking people to search for a frozen lake in a snowfield here is the same as asking them to search for yellow dirt in the desert.
Chung Myung, who looked around silently, scratched his head with his hands pulled out.
“Shouldn’t you look for it?”
“Chung Myung-ah.”
“Huh?”
“Get dressed and come out. If you don’t want to die.”
“…….”
It was a moment when Chung Myung crumpled his face as if he had been told to die.
“Sasuk!”
“Yes?”
“Isn’t that a man?”
“Huh? People?”
Baek Chun’s head turned.
While passing through the northern steppe before arriving at this snowy land, he had rarely seen inhabited huts. However, even after he entered the snowy field, he could not see a shadow.
But suddenly a person?
“Where?”
“There! There is!”
Baek Chun looked very closely in the direction Yoon Jong pointed.
‘Where is a man…….’
“Hm?”
His eyes narrowed.
There was definitely a black dot in the distance.
“Isn’t that a bear?”
“I think it’s a little small for a bear.”
Baek Chun agonized for a moment before nodding.
“Let’s just go. Whether it’s a man or a bear, it’s better than being here.”
Kudangtangtang!
“Huh?”
Baek Chun turned his head and distorted his face.
The lunatic crawled through the baggage he had thrown out and hid away.
“Live like a human being, you bastard! Like a human being!”
“…Please give up now, Sasuk. It’s not a day or two, is it?”
“I’m doing this because it’s not just a day or two!”
“… … Even so.”
Baek Chun, gritted his teeth, eventually sighed deeply, and jumped out of the cart. His expression as he grabbed the handle of the cart was determined.
“Let’s go!”
“Yes!”
Mount Hua’s disciples dragged the cart and ran fast. Fortunately, it was flat ground, so it wouldn’t be too hard to drag a cart…….
“Argh! My legs are falling out!”
“Sasuk! The wheel is buried in snow and won’t go out!”
“Argh! There was a stone!”
Baek Chun clenched his teeth and closed his eyes.
‘Is this okay?’
‘Are we really going to be able to accomplish this mission and get back safely to Mount Hua?’
“North Sea, North Sea. I’ve only heard of it…….”
It was just amazing that such a place existed in the world.
After a long ordeal, Baek Chun, who approached what seemed to be a human being, unknowingly put the cart handle down.
The same was true of the others.
“…Oh my God.”
“Thi- This all……?”
A sight they have never seen before unfolds before their eyes.
Transparent ice.
Clear and transparent ice that shines white in the sunlight spreads endlessly.
It was like a desert of ice. Mount Hua’s disciples opened their mouths in dismay.
“……then, is this the frozen lake?”
“How big is the lake?”
“…Pretty.”
At the enchanting and astonishing sight that can never be seen in Jungwon, all of Mount Hua’s disciples exclaimed.
But then.
“Sasuk! There!”
“Hm?”
A bear or a human sitting on the lake slowly turned his head towards them.
“Are you people from Jungwon?”
Baek Chun’s eyes widened. It was a familiar language.