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Episode 206. Top-class rap magician
Barren Land━
These were the words that came to Dang-Myeong-Myeong’s mind as he crossed the snow-covered plains and snow-capped mountains in an instant on a light plane and finally entered Xinjiang.
The Qinghai land where Kunlun was located was not very fertile, but there were mountains, fields, and lakes scattered here and there. It was an environment where the common people could live by hunting or farming. I heard from the Taoist priests of Kunlun and the public that if you go a little further north, there are huge pastures where they raise sheep and horses on a huge scale. If you go even further north, it is said to be the land of the northern horse-riding people.
The vast grasslands commonly called the steppes (大草原)━ It was said that the equestrian people lived in groups of tribes rather than nations. This was natural considering their habits. Since the equestrian people’s men eat, sleep, and live on horses from a young age, they all learned advanced horsemanship and their range of activity was extremely wide. The horses of the bloodline that were born and raised in the steppes were much stronger and faster than the most famous horses of the Central Plains.
Depending on the tribe, some are moderate, while others are warlike, but in any case, most men of the nomadic tribe support their clans through hunting or plundering. This means that they naturally develop a fierce temperament. Not only that, they enjoy galloping across the vast grasslands with their beloved horses without being tied down anywhere, so it is not easy to control them.
The rough men of the plains only respected the elders of the tribe that had given birth to them and raised them, and those from different tribes simply treated each other as targets of plunder.
In addition, unless the size of the village grew to a certain extent, the nomadic people had a lifestyle of abandoning their place of residence and moving when the grass in the nearby pastures decreased to a certain extent, so there was a limit to tying them down, whether with people or land.
However, as time passed, the tribes that had been plundering each other gradually began to unite as one. The weak tribes were eliminated, and the strong tribes continued to increase their power. When a tribe grew too large, it would split up due to conflicts between successors, but in any case, the horse-riding people of the steppe gradually became one tribe.
It was not possible to plunder the same tribe, and it was only natural that the northern horse-riding peoples who had grown stronger through unification began to gradually look over the Central Plains. In particular, they frequently invaded the Gansu land where the joint was located, as it was far from the Beijing imperial court and much less burdensome than Shaanxi, where two of the six factions were located.
Recently, Gongdong had to be wary of the Black Lotus that was coiled in Sichuan, and he also had to worry about Kunlun being destroyed by the Heavenly Demon Sect. After sending reinforcements to Kunlun, there was a severe shortage of personnel to protect the common people of Gansu from the northern horse-riding people. It was not that there were no government troops, but they could not stay in every small village. Furthermore, the government troops were slow-moving, and they often arrived after the horse-riding people had sufficiently trampled on the civilians and left, so only the Gongdong disciples who had properly mastered light art would be able to protect the civilians. However, in this battle against the Heavenly Demon Sect, not only Kunlun, but Gongdong also lost most of its disciples, so even if Taeheo of the Gongdong faction recovered from his internal injuries, Ziyun had said that he would not be able to use him right away.
Anyway.
The land of Xinjiang looked much more barren than the Qinghai. The trees and plants gradually decreased, and even the texture of the soil underfoot changed. It was rustling and dusty. It would be more correct to call it sand than soil. As expected. The occasional plants that were visible were clearly parched, as if they had not been exposed to rain for a long time, and the desert was visible in the distance.
━It’s Tapgeuk Lamagan (塔克拉玛干). It means an abandoned place. I don’t know if the name has changed, but I’ve been here before. It’s where the Earth Dragon sleeps…
The Sikshin Cheonggyeong said. It seemed to be when he and the founder of the Tang family, Muyeonggaek, were out to eliminate evil dragons. After accidentally killing the Blue Dragon, the only good dragon that could stop evil dragons from harming humanity, Muyeonggaek cooperated with the Bangsaengs to rectify his mistake and eliminated all the evil dragons that existed in the world at the time.
At that time, Cheonggyeong also said that dragons were originally created from the energy of heaven and earth, and the blue dragon, a good dragon representing heaven, freely controls thunder, and the rest of the evil dragons, although evil in nature, can omnipotently control one of the properties of the five elements – fire, water, wood, metal, and earth.
━Unlike other evil dragons that don’t cause much harm to humanity before they wake up and become fully active, this one sucks up all the earth energy around it while it sleeps, devastating the land itself. Not only was the huge desert called Topgeuklapmagan created, but the land of Xinjiang has also become so barren, all because of this dragon. Furthermore, once the earth energy is damaged, it tends not to recover easily, so this one was the first to be eliminated. In fact, even after hundreds of years, it seems that Xinjiang’s earth energy has barely recovered.
‘I guess you saw the demons then.’
Dang-myeong recalled that he had once encountered the cultists in Hyeonyang Village near Sacheon Castle. At that time, Sacheon was the territory of the Black Lotus, and dozens of the elite troops of the Heavenly Demon Sect were hiding in a small village. He did not know what scheme they were plotting, but they had killed all the little devils who were trying to kill the innocent General Mak In-cheol and the cultists who were secretly following him. He had obtained the famous sword Cham-ma (斬魔) used to kill the Black Lotus Master Yu Gil-jun at that time, and the General Mak In-cheol, who had helped him escape to Dangga, had made another dagger, Baek-seol (白雪), using the dragon horn (龍角) left behind by Yu Gil-jun.
In any case, the hearing immediately recognized that the strange aura faintly emanating from the hidden demons was magical energy. It was clear that they had already experienced the magical energy.
━Okay.
Shikshin Heungcheong obediently agreed. As a fool, he became a follower of Deungmyeong and could not tell a lie.
‘But, Muyeonggaek, why did he leave the Demonic Cult alone even after walking all the way to Xingang? They are the ones who have mastered the martial arts of going against the flow and going against the flow.’
The name of the cult was questionable. The history of the Cheonmasingyo is as old as that of Shaolin. The Sacheondang family is also a family with a long history that has lasted for hundreds of years, but it is not as old as Shaolin. Naturally, the Cheonmasingyo would have existed even during the time when Muyeonggaek was active.
My mother said that Muyeonggaek, who was born in Salsu and possessed the best martial arts in the world, hid his identity and punished the wicked. There were many more powerful martial artists in the time than there are now, and among the wicked were some masters of Hwagyeong, but no matter how strong he was, he was torn to pieces and turned into a handful of blood in front of Muyeonggaek’s peerless secret martial arts, Mancheonhwawoo (滿天花雨).
The magic martial arts are a regressive martial arts based on the energy of the reversed heaven, the magic energy. Going against the natural order inherently carries with it many dangers. It is not hard to hear stories of magic martial arts masters who have lost their humanity or reason and have gone on a killing spree. In addition to the common side effect of demon possession, the magic martial arts themselves often affect the character of the practitioner. Some magic arts even demanded blood from the training stage.
This is why there is a high possibility that the demons who enter the world of magic will turn into evil people. Not all demons are evil, but it is strange that the evil-potentially growing forces were left alone by the evil spirits. If they hadn’t come, I wouldn’t know, but they came all the way to Xinjiang.
According to what Dang-myeong-myeong had figured out, although Mu-yeong-gaek was from the Salmun clan and used poison and secret weapons, he was a true man of the right path. He possessed martial arts that could be called the best in the world, but rather than raising the reputation of his family or himself, he acted in the shadows. Such a person did not cut off the lineage of the Cheonma Singyo, which could be the source of great evil or devilry… …?
It was obviously a strange thing. People of the Sacheondang family were known to leave no traces behind.
━Muyeonggaek had a deep connection with the broadcasters.
The food god’s hearing began to respond.
━The Radiators are also beings who subdue or destroy the evil spirits that cause harm to the world. They are clearly people who benefit the world, and it is said that they naturally became friends because they needed their help to defeat the evil dragons, even though they practiced magic, also known as bangsul, for the purpose of reaching the highest level.
‘so?’
Dang-myung asked back. Is the friendship with the shamans the reason why the lineage of the Cheonmasingyo cannot be cut off…?
━You know how this body was created, right?
‘… …True poison.’
Dangsangmyeong muttered to himself. That’s right. When he obtained the Danggasipdok, according to the letter left by Muyeonggaek himself, the ten poisons were made through the method of solitude. Instead of poison, he gathered poisonous Imaemangryang and went through the process of solitude, and then selected those who survived and went through the process of solitude once more – and the one who ultimately survived was the true venomous green-horned white snake.
━As you can probably guess by now, this body’s presence was significant in the dragon killing of the Muyeonggaek. It releases a poison that is unparalleled in the world, and for those who have mastered the secret method of poison, it is not only a means of killing, but also a source of boundless true energy.
The hearing continued.
━Subduing a poisonous Imaemangryang was something that any skilled shaman could do. However, the technique of isolating Imaemangryang was not something that anyone could attempt. That was because it was a kind of forbidden technique. A shaman who could perform the forbidden technique without hesitation was needed.
‘The radiation of the reverse flow…?’
━I don’t know the details either. However, it is said that rather than honing one’s magic, one raises one’s rank by having numerous Imaemangyangs as followers. It is said that one’s rank increases in such a way that one can practice forbidden magic and avoid divine punishment.
‘It’s a class… … .’
The obvious name muttered and thought. Now that I think about it, the fact that hearing can recognize dragons is also due to this rank. A being with a completely different rank from humans – that is the dragon. If that is the case, would the radiation of the reverse sky, which has a higher rank, be comparable to a dragon?
━For that idiot, Muyeonggaek, it was like he was indebted to the radiation of the reverse sky. The harm caused by the Earth Dragon was great, but there was also one that had just awakened and was starting to run wild, so there was a reason why he killed the evil dragon of the land of Xingang first. It was natural that he left the Heavenly Demon Sect alone.
‘That’s only natural… … ?’
━Yes. Because the person who caused the reversal was a person from the Cheonmasingyo.