Light Novel: Volume 10 Episode 16
Jin Seol-ah covered her mouth with both of her hands without realizing it.
The moment she heard Han Yucheon’s words, it felt as if her own tongue was being cut off.
‘Ah!’
Jin Seol-ah trembled.
Han Yucheon’s killing intent was too scary for her. She was still too young to handle this kind of aura.
Han Yucheon did not openly reveal his killing intent. Nevertheless, Jin Seol-ah couldn’t help but shudder in fright.
‘I’m scared!’
Jin Seol-ah is also a warrior born in a martial family so she learned martial arts from a young age. Thanks to that, she had met many warriors and been exposed to killing intent, but Han Yucheon was on a different level.
Just being in the same space as him made her feel suffocated, making her whole body tremble like an aspen tree.
She couldn’t bear to be in Han Yucheon’s presence.
Pyo-wol and Han Yucheon were staring at each other.
They looked as if they were going to stab each other at any moment.
Jin Seol-ah couldn’t breathe properly and stepped back. However, neither Pyo-wol nor Han Yucheon paid attention to her.
Jin Seol-ah didn’t notice that the two had already started fighting fiercely.
It wasn’t necessary to move and swing a sword to injure another person.
Han Yucheon is a warrior who was close to the highest level that could be reached with a sword.
He doesn’t have to hold a sword in his hand to harm his opponent.
Han Yucheon’s eyes turned to Pyo-wol’s mouth.
At that moment, Pyo-wol’s eyes turned to Han Yucheon’s wrist. Han Yucheon seemed to flinch slightly, but soon his eyes turned to Pyo-wol’s chest.
Pyo-wol’s eyes looked at Han Yucheon’s feet.
Han Yucheon’s eyes grew cold.
They were not having a staring contest.
Their eyes were inspecting and provoking each other.
Where their eyes were directed was where the sword was going.
Ordinary warriors would not be able to understand the idea of using their eyes as a substitute for a sword, but a warrior who had reached Han Yucheon or Pyo-wol’s level could tell what kind of swordsmanship their opponent was going to use just by looking at their opponent’s eyes.
Their eyes were looking at each other, but they were in a world of their own in their heads.
In their world of imagination, they were exchanging attacks at each other.
‘This guy—!’
A light of admiration flashed on Han Yucheon’s face.
This kind of confrontation would not harm the opponent physically, but it could leave a big scar on the mind.
It’s some sort of side effect.
Han Yucheon was quite surprised that Pyo-wol understood his intentions and engaged in a mental battle with him.
This kind of confrontation is actually impossible unless the warrior is a master of a similar level as Han Yucheon.
He had roamed Jianghu for a long time, so he had met with numerous warriors and engaged in a psychological warfare. They were all the top masters of the current Jianghu.
Even when he heard about Pyo-wol from Won Ga-young, he did not acknowledge him.
He thought that no matter how strong Pyo-wol’s martial arts was, he would not be able to escape the limits of an assassin.
There is a clear limit to an assassin’s martial arts.
Although there were certain advantages to their quick and silent attacks, further development could not be expected since their situation leading to the rise is blocked.
Han Yucheon thought that Pyo-wol might have been lucky enough to have the upper hand against the Qingcheng and Emei sect in Sichuan, but he would ultimately reveal the bottom and extent of his martial arts in a head-to-head confrontation.
However, now that he had personally met Pyo-wol, his level far exceeded his expectations.
More than anything, he was shocked with how Pyo-wol managed to understand and even respond to his swordplay mentally.
Han Yucheon stopped their imaginary battle. He collected the swords he had been manifesting with his eyes.
There was no point in testing Pyo-wol any further.
He had had no choice but to acknowledge him.
Han Yucheon is cold-hearted and ruthless to those who he did not acknowledge, but he was also someone who would be infinitely lenient towards those he acknowledged.
Han Yucheon opened his mouth,
“I apologize. You indeed deserve to talk in front of me. Ga-young’s evaluation of you is not wrong.”
“What did she say?”
“She said that you’re someone who can easily kill others, but you won’t die easily yourself. You’re the first person Ga-yeong rated so highly.”
Han Yucheon’s eyes, as he spoke, contained his longing for Won Ga-young.
She was an exceptionally clever and intelligent disciple.
She was his favorite student since she was highly talented and quick-witted. Rather than being a disciple, she was more like his real daughter. So the sense of loss he felt was inevitably great.
Han Yucheon walked and said,
“Let’s walk for a while.”
Pyo-wol nodded and walked with him.
The reason why Pyo-wol didn’t attack Han Yucheon even when he showed his killing intent was because he saw the great sense of loss in his eyes.
Jin Seol-ah did not dare to follow the two and only looked at their backs.
Pyo-wol continued walking with Han Yucheon, not caring about Jin Seol-ah.
The first to speak was Han Yucheon,
“You’re here because of those children’s deaths, right?”
“That’s right.”
“I always told Ga-young that if she stays with a child like a Geum-woo, she won’t live long, so she had to be careful. But that girl didn’t listen to me. Now she came back as a cold corpse.”
“What’s the cause of her death?”
“It was a sword wound.”
“A sword wound?”
“It is a small wound on the forehead, the size of a child’s fingernail. To a stranger, it would have looked nothing more than a scratch by a tree branch. But through that wound, a huge amount of energy went inside of her and completely destroyed her brain. It’s similar to an internal attack.1”
“She looks fine on the outside, but her inside must have been completely crushed.”
“Exactly. My cute student died so miserably. I couldn’t even imagine it. That’s why I can’t forgive Jin Geum-woo for coaxing her to go to Jianghu. If it were not for Jin Geum-woo, Ga-young would not have died.”
“That’s just sophistry.”
“Sophistry?”
“Her choice was not because of Jin Geum-woo’s coercion. She chose it herself. You just needed someone to resent, so you vent it all out on the Jin family.”
“Maybe. But it doesn’t matter. I’m not a person with a big heart anyway.”
“What if the real culprit who killed them is revealed?”
“Then I will do everything in my power to exterminate everything related to the real culprit.”
Han Yucheon exuded a terrifying aura.
The horrific aura he gave off was nothing as compared to before. All the mountains, rivers, trees and plants seemed to be screaming.
Han Yucheon asked,
“Why did you bring up the real culprit? Did you find out anything?”
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