Chronicles of the Lazy Sovereign Novel - Chapter 15

Chapter 15

Wei Yan-ho turned his head without regret.

The huge stone door that had blocked his step at first appeared before his eyes. Now, something like that was nothing at all.

The stone door had a thickness of a full Jang. When Wei Yan-ho first entered this place, even with all his might, he could barely scratch it.

But Wei Yan-ho was no longer the same one who had come to this place. He was the successor of the Crazy Baek Muhan Sword.

“He told me to break it and leave.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled slightly.

It would certainly feel good to split the stone door that had blocked his way all this time.

But Wei Yan-ho did not do that. He approached the stone wall and gently leaned his hand on it.

Grrrrr!

The stone door rose slowly.

The stone door that would not have moved even if hundreds of strong men swung over it, not just dozens, rose up in a cloud of dust.

If someone had witnessed this scene, they would have been surprised, but fortunately or unfortunately, the cave outside the stone door was empty, just as it was when Wei Yan-ho first entered this place.

Wei Yan-ho walked slowly under the stone door. Still, as if he still had attachments, he kept looking back.

Deaf noise!

The stone door went back to the ground.

The stone door returned to its place as if it had been there from the beginning. No one would think there was another space inside.

If I had cut the stone door, anyone could have looked inside, but now, unless it was Wei Yan-ho, no one would know what was behind this stone door.

If over the years the stone door had cracked, a lost hunter who entered the cave would only discover mysterious traces.

“Even so… I will visit you from time to time.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled with nostalgia.

I thought I’d bring the cave down, but he couldn’t do it.

If I erased the traces that were still intact, I felt that all the time until then it would disappear like a fantasy. Even knowing that they were together, the sense of loss would not disappear.

Wei Yan-ho slowly left the cave.

Whether it was for persistent attachment or because he was being silly… his gaze kept turning to the cave beyond the stone door where there was no one anymore.

When he finally managed to lift his reticent feet, he could see the entrance of the cave through which the light leaked.

“Mmm…”

The sunlight I saw after five years was too harsh.

Wei Yan-ho realized again that his clothes were worse than rags.

“Let’s see… were there new clothes?”

Wei Yan-ho unwrapped his package.

“Huh?”

And he discovered something strange, there were clothes in the bulge, the problem was that he had strange letters engraved on those clothes.

They were letters made by inlaying stone dust.

“This is…”

Yan-ho, look here.

By the time you read this letter, I will no longer be in this world.

No, I’m already dead, so these words are not entirely appropriate.

Anyway, I’ll go.

There are many things I would like to say but I leave it in writing so that my final appearance is not ridiculous.

You should have been very surprised and confused, but please understand.

I wanted to remain your constant teacher until the end.

Clear drops sprang from Wei Yan-ho’s eyes. He seemed to still have tears to shed, even though he had cried so much.

“What is this? Leave something like that behind?”

It seemed that he would have to retract his words about the lack of consideration.

The reason I’ve taken the trouble to leave you a letter is because there’s something I absolutely have to tell you.

As you can imagine, your martial arts are not yet complete.

Since they are martial arts that were hurriedly instilled in you for five years, there are many unstable aspects.

After much deliberation, I have come to a solution.

A method to establish a base while completing your martial arts yourself.

“You care about all kinds of things.”

Wei Yan-ho smiled slightly.

But after reading the next passage, Wei Yan-ho’s face twisted horribly.

If the training ended like this, you’d obviously come home and spend your whole life playing and eating lazily.

In the end, my martial arts would be buried without anyone even knowing about their existence. I know very well. Oh, yes, I know very well.

Of course, I have no intention of letting that happen.

As you may have noticed, the reason I leave these words in a letter is because I didn’t want to see your terrible expression on my final journey.

Getting to the point, I’ve installed some kind of device on your body.

I have established your martial arts based on my Sword of the Twelve Ways of Light, but centered on my inner core, I have made your martial arts grow by themselves.

At first glance, it might seem like your martial arts will be strengthened without you doing anything…

Not a chance!

There is no such thing.

If what you experience and gain is behind the speed with which your martial arts are strengthened, you will die with your inner energy drained like a leech by my inner core.

Let me say it one more time: if you neglect your training, you will die.

This is not a joke or a threat.

You’ll really die.

Wei Yan-ho’s hands shook violently.

What kind of lightning fell from the sky was this?

“This… this old man!”

Wei Yan-ho’s hands grabbed the clothes.

Of course you want to break these clothes right now, but you’ll regret it if you do.

I guarantee you, you’ll totally regret it.

Wei Yan-ho released the strength from his hands.

He was really an old ghost.

I didn’t want to use those methods either, but if I don’t, I see very clearly how you’ll live.

So you could say this is all your fault.

Now you must go out and experience the world.

Travel to the places I tell you and experience everything under the sky.

The more you see and feel there, the more your martial arts will grow, and if you don’t win a lot, we will meet again very soon!

You know what it means to meet again, don’t you?

“Kraaaah!”

Wei Yan-ho grabbed the hem of the clothes and threw it to the ground.

Aaaah, this old man is playing jokes!

Wei Yan-ho attacked and destroyed everything around him. There was nothing to destroy except innocent trees, but for Wei Yan-ho, with the view red, it did not matter whether those trees were guilty or innocent.

What mattered was what he saw before his eyes. Wei Yan-ho fought the urge to destroy all the trees on the mountain, and then gasped as he looked around.

Still, his anger was not completely liberated.

He felt like immediately dragging the old man and beating him unconscious, but how could he drag someone who had already died and disappeared without leaving anything behind?

“Ah… I am ruined.”

Wei Yan-ho sat heavily on the ground.

Then his eyes caught what was written on the hem of the clothes lying on the floor.

If you think I’m threatening you falsely, wait. If you feel pain all over your body, it means that what I installed works properly.

If you feel pain, just accept it peacefully and do as I say.

At that moment, as if it were a lie, unbearable agony swept through Wei Yan-ho’s entire body.

“Grrrrgh…”

The agony was very brief, but it was intense enough to instantly soak the entire body of Wei Yan-ho with sweat.

Wei Yan-ho grabbed the solar plexus. He felt a feeling of heaviness inside. Baek Muhan’s inner core seemed to be moved.

“This one…”

Wei Yan-ho’s face turned bright red.

What the hell did you do?

But there was nowhere to vent his anger.

After getting angry for a while, Wei Yan-ho finally found the composure and picked up his clothes with an impotent hand.

Travel the world and look at it.

When you see the world, you’ll feel something, and if you feel something, you’ll win something.

Don’t be happy to stay in a small place and become a small person; see big things and become a great person.

The first place you should go is the Academic World.

Learning and martial arts have a lot in common. They are people who seek the most differently from us.

Find the Great Scholar under the sky and stay by his side.

You’ll probably feel something.

Then…

After reading the entire text, Wei Yan-ho threw the hem of the clothes on the floor.

How many places are you telling me to visit?

But what could I do?

If he didn’t want to die with his inner energy drained like a leech, he had to obey.

“In any case, even in death it torments people.”

Coming to this cave had been a mistake.

And meeting Baek Muhan had been a mistake.

But…

“Damn…”

Wei Yan-ho kept complaining, but he still picked up the hem from the clothes and put it in his package.

As disgusting as writing was, he did not differ from the last memory Baek Muhan had left him. Even if he was angry, he could not break it or abandon it.

“I was going home…”

Wei Yan-ho looked away. “His home would be far away. A home he had not seen in five years.

He wanted to see his mother and Su-ryeon too.

He wanted to see his father a little, but honestly, he didn’t want to see his older brother.

“You must be very worried.”

Still, it couldn’t be helped.

It would be better if your son died, so that his parents understood.

Wei Yan-ho sighed deeply and bowed towards his home.

“I’ll figure everything out and I’ll come back, so don’t worry too much…”

Wei Yan-ho looked silently at his house, then turned around and made a gubae towards the cave.

For better or worse, he had been his teacher.

You’re tormenting me till the end. I’ve changed my mind. I’m not going to visit you again, so you must know.

Wei Yan-ho sighed deeply, then turned around and walked away.

“Where is the academic world?”

As Wei Yan-ho walked away with difficulty and grumbled constantly, the sun set behind his back. And as Wei Yan-ho walked away, the figure of a person appeared in front of the cave.

“Heh, heh, heh.”

There was the figure of Baek Muhan, who was believed to have disappeared.

“Hahahahahaha!”

Baek Muhan laughed willingly.

The Wei Yan-ho figure, now small as a point in the distance, was visible.

It was so satisfying that sesame seeds could spill.

You will dry up and die like a leech if you don’t learn about the world! Where are those martial arts?

Baek Muhan smiled widely.

The content of the letter was a lie. It did not have the capacity to create such martial arts, nor the power to force Wei Yan-ho’s body.

The pain Wei Yan-ho felt was exactly the result of having squeezed his last forces.

Baek Muhan, who had been anxious to the end wondering if he would be deceived or not, looked at Wei Yan-ho with a rewarding smile.

The world is too vast to live in a corner. Of course, my martial arts are too valuable to be wasted.

Baek Muhan looked at Wei Yan-ho with a warm smile.

“You’re a scoundrel…”

Baek Muhan looked at Wei Yan-ho’s back.

Wei Yan-ho, who had constantly caused him headaches, went out into the world.

If I saw and learned many things in the world, Wei Yan-ho would grow even more.

Even if he could not see it directly, only the fact that his disciple grew up was enough to make Baek Muhan smile.

Baek Muhan’s figure gradually disappeared.

Now it was the end.

“Thanks to you I was happy.”

Baek Muhan smiled with a joy he had never shown while alive.

“Be happy.”

In the place where he disappeared there was only the scent of wildflowers.

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