Childhood Friend of the Zenith - Chapter 50

EP.50 This time to the volcano. (4)

This time to Hwasan. (4)

Ten days have passed since we departed from Guga to Hwasan.

If there is something different from going to Sichuan in the past, it is that there is something that makes it difficult to rest comfortably.

“Do you have any uncomfortable places, Bocchan?”

“No. You don’t have to worry about it.”

The biggest problem was that the coachman driving the horse right in front of him was the swordsman, one of the three great kings.

No, why are you driving the wagon I’m riding in out of all the many wagons?

Thanks to that, it was burdensome and hard to notice, and it was ten days that seemed like I was going to die.

If I had to predict the reason, I wondered if it was probably because of Wiseolah, who was riding with me, but in any case, it was a suffocating day for me.

It would have been more convenient if I didn’t know that it was a swordsman.

Damn it…

“How much longer do I have to go unleaded.”

I tried talking to Mu-yeon outside the window.

It was a practically meaningless question.

Muyeon smiled slightly and told me.

“Bocchan… It seems you’ve already asked thirty times today alone.”

“…isn’t it? I also wanted to ask a lot of questions.”

“To say it again, we will have to go several times further than now.”

“…it’s gloomy every time I hear it, isn’t it?”

This goddamn expanse of land…

As I was sighing, Wi Seol-ah clung to me and started talking to me.

“Bocchan, Bocchan.”

“Why are you calling?”

“Which dumplings do you like best?”

“What kind of weird word is that not any food, but some dumplings?”

“But the young master only eats dumplings.”

“…”

I didn’t think it was wrong, so I didn’t have anything to say.

What type of dumplings do you like? Did you go there?

“Gyoza dumplings are just the most delicious.”

“why?”

“It’s cheap and there’s a lot of it.”

It was for a very simple reason. Because it’s cheap and plentiful.

And because it’s delicious.

There are dozens of types of dumplings, but I didn’t bother to pick them.

Moderately cheap and moderately large. The taste should be more delicious than Byeokgokdan.

I’ve never eaten anything worse than that, so I tend to go into my mouth without skipping food.

At my answer, Weiseolah tilted her head.

“It’s strange. The older sisters said that the young master was picky…”

“Not now.”

I don’t know if it was like that at the time.

When I was young, I was told that the ingredients had to be expensive for no use.

I found meaning in the meaningless.

But in the end, I was able to realize with a shudder that even that really meant nothing when I reached the end of my life.

[Just eat it.]

[How the hell do you eat something like this? Do you eat a centipede’s tail as food?]

[Do you think

you eat it as food?

I’ll eat at least one more bite while I have time to build my pride like that.]

I’ll tell you now, but the centipede’s tail was better than I thought.

To be precise, it means that of all the food eaten there, it was worth eating.

It was a place where you had to find and drink animal blood instead of water and eat it to fill your stomach even though you knew it was poisonous.

It’s a really cool memory.

“…my stomach hurts.”

When I think about that moment, I feel like I’m going to vomit.

It was even bloated and disgusting.

Wi Seol-ah looked at my complexion and hurriedly took something out of her arms.

It was medicine.

…What’s the point of rushing out medicines that aren’t even medicine?

Then, in a trembling voice, he hesitated and spoke.

“Do you want to have a bite, Master?”

“…Not even one, but one mouthful. What kind of meanness is that?”

“But… there’s only one left.”

At Wi Seol-ah’s words, I tilted my head slightly forward and ate the medicine.

Pretend to eat a whole bite.

“Ah ah no eh eh eh!”

Inside the carriage, Wiseol-ah’s wails rang out.

Roughly, the ten days so far have been the same as today.

It was said that it was useless.

When night fell, we camped out without a doubt.

The horse pulling the wagon also needed to rest, and since it was a long trip, it was important to reduce physical fatigue.

The fire was lit right away, and the escorts looked around as if they had waited.

It was an early night watch.

The night both Wiseol-ah and Swordsman left the carriage, I was the only one in the carriage except for the escorts placed around it.

I sat cross-legged with an honest posture and slowly turned the ball of the mouth.

The energy that started in the danjeon slowly spreads throughout the body.

Wow! I can feel my body strengthening.

The exhaled breath mixes with heat and red bets.

It meant that we had almost reached 4 stars.

It’s pretty easy so far.

If you turn the bet over a certain amount, it starts to flow in the desired direction.

It felt awkward and rough.

This is the 3 star limit.

If you forcibly turn your energy beyond this, your blood will be damaged.

Once pierced, it would open smoothly, but the problem was that the body could not withstand the piercing now.

As expected,

I keep trying this way in my impatient mind, but I keep getting stuck at this point.

‘I’m in such a hurry, both my mind and the situation.’

I thought I couldn’t do it anymore, so I calmly took the bet back. There was such a thing as useless greed to some extent.

It was important to know exactly what the growth of the mental method was.

Because whether or not to cross the line was an important thing that separates the cultivation of mastery and growth.

In such a situation, the reason for exerting excessive effort on the mental method was not only to reach 4 stars, but also to steadily train the mental method.

Build a foundation step by step and eliminate impure energy.

The skills I’ve cultivated and refined like this will help me gain more as I grow up.

‘…under.’

Suddenly, I felt ridiculous for thinking like this.

‘I thought I left my greed for inaction in the past.’

It’s been a few months since I made up my mind that I was just strong enough to endure moderately.

A little bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of a bit of

As if on the subject, an unmanned person is an unmanned person.

As the heat dissipated, I felt the stillness of the silent night.

The sound of chirping night bugs lingers in my ears.

Listening to the bugs chirping, I relaxed and leaned back in my chair.

It was because he had just finished training and had no strength.

When you’re in such an empty state, you think of things you need to do in the future or sins of the past, and it’s annoying and complicated.

I didn’t feel that way these days.

It was because of the scent of plum blossoms that filled the carriage.

As soon as I retrieved the bet, I felt a little dizzy from the scent in the carriage.

If you suddenly ask me what plum blossom scent is, it would be because of the stone on my chest.

“…There’s no time to try, really.”

The fragrant smell that pierces the tip of the nose naturally makes you smile dejectedly.

The gift I received from Elder Lee was emitting a fragrance from my chest.

At first, it had no effect because it was wrapped in cloth, but since a few days ago, it started to emit incense even without removing the cloth.

I was passing it off thinking it was something like this originally because it was a ghost, but today it was particularly severe.

“How did something like this come about?”

He carefully took the cloth bag out of his bosom.

Ghosts were more mysterious even in the future than now.

Not to mention this guy named Dol who embraces plum blossoms.

Such were the swords containing Namgung’s brain energy and Buddhist statues that contained the light of Shaolin.

Unknown objects that seem out of line with nature.

It was called a ghost, but the unknown about its existence was still a difficult story to think about.

It just exists because it exists.

After looking around for a stone the size of two fingers, he put it back into his bosom.

If you play with the wrong thing and eat it, you really have to disappear somewhere far away, let alone go to the volcano like this.

I put the stone back in my bosom, but the carriage was still full of the scent of plum blossoms.

If it wasn’t for the volcano, it would be a faint season

for plum blossoms to bloom.

It was full of smell, so I heard the illusion that the petals are scattering.

‘Is it because I’m sleepy…’

I rubbed my eyes for a while, but the petals were still there.

Thinking that he must be quite tired, he shifted his posture slightly to the side.

The attendants would have made a bed outside, so it would be much more comfortable to go out and sleep.

I was strangely sleepy today.

Okay, let’s just close our eyes for a moment.

After resting for a while, I will go out and do some physical training.

I relaxed my body with such a light heart.

By the time you slowly fall asleep. It was as if a voice could be heard faintly in the midst of the hazy feeling.

[What is this guy…?]

Where did you hear it? It was the voice of an old man I had never heard before.

[Doesn’t it sound like a volcano kid?]

Is it a dream?

Are you having nightmares again?

[How can someone who isn’t even a volcano eat up his energy?]

As I was dreaming about that, the old man’s voice sounded quite angry, as if he didn’t like something.

[…Is there such a thing as living a carnal life… Where did you come from? Then I’m going to get out of here!]

As if something was telling me to wake up, he kept tapping me on the cheek.

However, his body, drunk to the fullest from drowsiness, could not move easily.

[…Oh, shit…!]

After swearing like that for a while, the voice disappeared, probably giving up.

And when I wake up

“What….?”

Unexpectedly, out of the blue, Guyeomhwarunkong was ranked 4th.

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Hwareuk!

The bet wrapped around the fingertips shook wildly.

Until yesterday, it had changed like this, which had barely managed to smoke a haze.

This was proof that the Simbeop had risen to 4 stars.

I looked at the flames with a puzzled face, but there was no change. This was reality.

“What? What the hell is this…”

Until yesterday, I hadn’t thought about going up from 3 stars, but in the morning, I was up to 4 stars.

It’s so absurd that I can’t even speak properly.

It felt good because I wanted to go up, but it was frustrating because I didn’t know the reason.

It was not that the body suddenly strengthened overnight.

The body was still intact, but the bet was strangely quiet.

The energy flowing through the body flows calmly and smoothly without being rough. Thanks to that, it passed through in the desired direction without damaging the bloodstream.

Being kind to the world… No matter how much you think about it, it doesn’t suit the mouth-watering ring ball at all.

If you dare to compare the current energy, it was similar to the Taoist energy.

Do you think the energy of the famous simbeop, like a rampaging beast, is similar to that of Taoism? What kind of funny word is this?

Even the biggest problem was that the bet, which should have been burning red, looked strangely pale.

…It was, to put it mildly, a bet that felt like I had seen it many times before.

Coming all the way here, I feel it intuitively.

With a subtly trembling hand, he took out a stone from his bosom and untied the cloth.

Please no… God please.

‘Please…’

Was it through my desperate heart that I hoped otherwise?

Fortunately, there were no problems with the Maehwa Yeonjeongseok.

Recently, whenever I touched a strange-looking stone or marble, I had a history of sucking it up, so whenever this happened, I was overcome with anxiety.

If this mad gong had sucked up the energy of the monster, let alone going to the volcano, he might have had to live in a corner unnoticed.

In that sense, it couldn’t have been so fortunate that there was no problem with the stone.

While breathing a sigh of relief, looking at the stone, I felt a bit of a difference.

‘…I think the light has decreased a bit?’

When the cloth is unwrapped, the light of the plum blossoms that used to illuminate all directions now seems somehow to have diminished.

No, it must be an illusion… It must be an illusion.

“In case you don’t know… I’ll put it somewhere else instead of carrying it around.”

Rather than harpooning a ghost while holding it, putting it somewhere and losing it…

No, no matter how you look at it, both of them seem to be screwed…?

Shiba How did you take charge of something like this…!

Elder Lee, who had entrusted this to me, was deeply resentful.

“…It’s okay, pretend you don’t know, return it, and if you come back after achieving your goal, no one will know.”

In the first place, the purpose was not to return the demon, but to bring my sister back.

As long as it doesn’t get messy, it’ll be fine.

No, if it’s not okay, you have to make it okay.

I thought so at this time.

“I was so rude because I wanted to ask you something.”

And I stupidly forgot one thing.

“I am called the spirit wind of the volcanic wave.”

That means I’m out of luck.

….Fuck.