Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 142

**Chapter 142: The Holgazan is Enveloped (2)**

“Are you sleeping?”

Gong Mujin couldn’t understand it at all.

Wei Yanho is an expert, a formidable expert. Although it is not something that can be understood logically, the difference between Wei Yanho and Gong Mujin is not simply a barrier, but a difference of dimension.

Even if Hua Mount’s best expert, the Master of the Sword of the Plum Flower, arrived, it would be doubtful that he could defeat him.

So, if Gong Mujin felt it, Wei Yanho should feel it too. In fact, he should feel it.

But he’s snoring as experts approach! This is unforgivable!

‘Is it insensitive?’

Or is it that this level of expertise does not pose a threat to Wei Yanho?

Gong Mujin could not understand Wei Yanho’s way of thinking; whether it was laziness or excessive trust.

“Ahem, Miss Wei.”

Gong Mujin, uncomfortable by calling Wei Yanho directly, called Wei Suryun in a soft voice.

“……yes?”

Wei Suryun, who was laying down his brother’s head to clean his ears, turned his head to look at Gong Mujin.

‘That girl is not in her right mind either.’

Although it was understandable that she was excited about the reunion with her brother, being so in the midst of this situation was exasperating. The fact that I Sheolhwa kept looking up made things worse.

“Please wake Wei Yanho up.”

“Wake my brother up?”

Wei Suryun looked at Gong Mujin as if she were shocked.

“Is something so important?”

“Most people who know their brother wouldn’t try something like that.”

“…That’s true.”

But the current situation was too much for one person to handle.

“It looks like we have unwanted visitors. There could be problems, so wake up Wei Yanho.”

Wei Suryun was no fool.

After looking alternately at Gong Mujin and the two approaching people, Wei Suryun nodded and began shaking his brother.

“Get up! Get up, sleepyhead!”

Wei Suryun, who had been pampering him before, was now firm when he woke him up.

“Ah, why! Why! Again why!”

“The great master Gong said to wake you up.”

“Huh?”

At Wei Yanho’s glance, Gong Mujin looked up at the sky.

How can you talk to someone like that?

“Why?”

Wei Yanho was so charming and shameless to ask that Gong Mujin felt a great affection for him. He was so adorable that he wanted to bite him.

…with his fangs.

“Don’t you feel it?”

“Are you a monk?”

“No! It’s not that! No!”

Gong Mujin, trembling, pointed his chin toward the end of the road.

“There! Don’t you see those people approaching?”

“Huh?”

Wei Yanho shook his head when he saw two people walking towards them.

“So what?”

“Don’t you feel her aura? You shouldn’t be unable to feel that.”

Wei Yanho made a grimace.

“Is that why you woke me up?”

“……that’s why?”

“How important is it for two elders to approach who seem to break with a touch?”

“S… yes, I guess.”

Gong Mujin’s eyes were inexplicably moistened.

If those experts broke with a touch, how weak would he look in the eyes of Wei Yanho?

Gong Mujin, who had never been treated as weak in his life, felt a wave of sadness at this unknown treatment. Gong Mujin felt in his own flesh the saying of the martial world: “If you feel wronged, become an expert.”

Wei Yanho got angry, covered himself again with blankets and lay down.

Gong Mujin couldn’t stop him and only sighed repeatedly.

“Death is better than suffering!”

I’ll kill you!

If you just got close to Seolhwa, I’d kill you… no, I can’t kill you, but I would definitely stop you…

No, that would kill me?

Gong Mujin hit his chest with frustration when thinking about his situation: a father who must watch impotent as a lazy man approaches his beloved disciple.

“Why did heaven give you martial skills but it didn’t give you good personality?”

Though he lamented bitterly, heaven, as always, did not respond.

Meanwhile, two people who previously seemed to be far away approached their carriage.

‘Hmm…’

Gong Mujin’s eyes narrowed.

Although they walked slowly, as if they were walking, with each step they advanced several meters.

‘They’re not normal.’

Although he had already felt it, when he saw it with his own eyes, he realized it again.

But to be frightened was strange. Seeing how they came along the main road, they did not need to hide. If so, they could be the greatest of the nine sects.

Gong Mujin came down from the donkey and stood on the floor.

The elders also stopped.

The elders looked at Gong Mujin and spoke.

“Are you from Hua Mount?”

Just by seeing the white uniform with embroidered plum flowers, it was easy to guess the identity of Gong Mujin.

“That’s right. If it’s not too much trouble, I’d like to know their names.”

“Our Names…? ”

The two elders looked and laughed.

“Why are you laughing?”

“No, it’s nothing.”

The elder, rejecting Gong Mujin’s words with a gesture of his hand, responded with an expression of difficulty to contain laughter.

“I can’t help but laugh when I hear you calling me ‘old man’.”

“Really?”

“Ancient… It’s a very interesting phrase. Hmm.”

The old man seemed to think about it for a moment and nodded slowly.

“It’s a unique experience for a young man from Hua Mount to call me ‘old man’, so I’m leaving today.”

“Yes?”

“If we have the chance, we will meet again. Take care.”

“Oh, yes.”

Gong Mujin nodded unconsciously.

They seemed to have the power to keep people from resisting.

With a stunned expression, Gong Mujin made way for them, and the elders struck him on the shoulder before leaving.

“Sirs, your names?”

“Ah, you don’t need to know our names. Anyway, you wouldn’t know who we are. It was a nice meeting, so let’s just keep the good memories.”

“Then…”

Gong Mujin, suspecting there was some reason, nodded and fired them.

Gong Mujin rolled his head as he watched the elders walk away with a smile.

‘They don’t look evil…’

His smile and manner of speaking seemed kind, but why didn’t they reveal their identities?

There are a thousand reasons why people do things, so they didn’t push them, but they felt a strange restlessness.

“One moment.”

Gong Mujin raised his head.

Wei Yanho was sticking his head out of the carriage.

“Old people.”

Hearing Wei Yanho call them “old men,” the elders frowned.

“Haha, ‘elder us’. Young man, we are still in our best time, so don’t call us that.”

“What should I call them then?”

“Hmm, how about ‘older brothers’?”

“Yes, I like it. Older brothers, if it’s not too much trouble, can I ask a question?”

“Okay.”

“Did something happen here?”

“This way?”

“Yes, where you came from.”

“No, nothing has happened. Why do you ask that?”

“So there’s no one around?”

“I only saw one house. But there was no one.”

Wei Yanho jumped out of the carriage.

“You said it was a house, right?”

“Yes. What’s wrong? Is there a problem?”

Wei Yanho’s expression hardened. It was an expression that had never been seen in him before.

“What’s going on?”

Wei Yanho, without answering Gong Mujin, asked another question.

“You said there was a house but nobody was there, right?”

“Yes, young man.”

“What was in that house?”

“Hmm…”

The old man scratched his cheek and spoke.

“They weren’t people, let’s say they were animals.”

“What?”

Wei Yanho’s eyes opened slightly.

“So the blood on their sleeves is from those animals?”

“Huh?”

One of the elders, being reprimanded by Wei Yanho, raised his arm and looked at the bottom of his sleeve.

“Haha.”

The old man said with an uncomfortable smile.

“It seems like we haven’t been in the martial world for a long time. What a silly mistake.”

“If it’s not used in combat, any sword will go off. We won’t make the same mistake next time.”

Gong Mujin grabbed the handle of his sword when he heard his quiet conversation.

There can’t be just animals in a house, so it shouldn’t be called a house.

“…can I ask them their names again? Even if it’s disrespectful, I need to know them this time.”

“Tsk tsk.”

The elders said with regret.

“Thanks to you calling us ‘old men’, we wanted to let it go, but a brat like you is causing trouble. It’s not us who caused this, so don’t blame us. Well, I’ll tell you. My name is Gong Chi ().”

The other old man also spoke.

“My name is Beophang ().”

“…Gong Chi, Beophang.”

I couldn’t know who they were just by their names, it seemed they weren’t known by their names.

“I told you you wouldn’t know them. But don’t worry. I’ll tell you myself. The world knows me as the Ghost Demon ().”

“They call me the Devil of the Sword ().”

Gong Mujin’s face paled.

“The Ghost and Sword Demons ()!”

“You know well. Do you understand why they should die?”

Gong Mujin looked at them both with a tense expression.

‘Why have these demons returned to the martial world?’

They were famous in the martial world before the demonic cult became powerful.

Back then, the Ghost and Sword Demons were so infamous that even the children stopped crying when they heard their names.

Since they had not appeared since the rise of the cult, they were believed to have died or retired, but now they had reappeared.

“Are you… also looking for the legacy of the Sword Emperor?”

The Ghost Demon nodded.

“Of course. Although we are elderly with little movement, the legacy of the Sword Emperor is worth it.”

“At your age, how much more can you accomplish!”

“The way of martial arts has no end, young man.”

“Don’t call me young! I’ve never had teachers like you!”

“Hahaha, you called yourself young, and now you say something different. It doesn’t matter. You won’t be able to call us teachers anymore or ‘you’. The dead don’t speak.”

At that time, Wei Yanho walked forward, pointed to the Ghost Demon and said:

“I should ask them what they were doing before.”