Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 261

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‘It looks like the leftover energy from the food that Moji and Soji ate. One of them has a spiritual energy, and the other one seems to have murky energy flowing out of it, so it seems like it’s a collection of murky energy.’

When I answered Hwa-eun’s question, Hwa-eun opened her eyes wide and looked at me.

And then he asked in a surprised voice.

‘Huh? So one is Yeongdan and the other is Madan?’

‘Youngdan Madan?’

‘Yes, Moji and Soji also help restore internal energy. One is obviously Yeongdan. The other is a gathering of turbid energy, which is called Magi. That’s called Madan (魔丹), right?

To an ordinary martial artist, it would be like poison, but if the demons who have mastered the magic of using takki find out, it is a treasure that will cause chaos.

This time, my eyes widened at Hwa-eun’s explanation.

I heard that there are some martial artists who use the toxic energy that ordinary martial artists try to expel from their bodies. The toxic energy is so violent that it resembles their personality and makes them very bloodthirsty and violent.

You could say that it’s like becoming a psychopath in the martial arts world.

So, they say that in the martial arts world, when someone who has mastered magic appears, they try to kill that person, and to those people, it is a treasure.

No matter how I thought about it, it seemed like a dangerous thing.

‘Then let’s hide this for now… As for the mouth control… Since Ji-ryong and Eumbong probably don’t know what it is… I guess we should hide it for now, right?’

Even if I didn’t tell Seol, it was clear that she wouldn’t have been curious, and even if Ji-ryong and Eumbong saw it, they wouldn’t have been able to know its exact identity.

I decided to focus on hiding it for now, as I thought it would raise more suspicion if I did a separate inspection.

‘That would be good, Little Dragon. But what should I do with this? I don’t think I should bring my hand near it.’

As Hwa-eun said, it’s urgent to hide this.

I thought about it for a moment, then quickly ran and got a pair of chopsticks.

Then I opened a drawer in my cabin and took out the wooden box that I had received along with the artificial inner lining from the Kunlun chieftain in Qinghai.

‘Little Dragon, are you going to put it in there?’

‘Yes, Hwa-eun. I’m going to put everything here.’

This wooden box may not seem like much, but it is said that it is a wooden box used to store things like spirits, so it can effectively hide energy.

But I can hear Hwa-eun’s voice mixed with concern.

‘I don’t think it would be good to separate them and leave them together…’

‘Why?’

‘Because they have opposing energies. I’m worried that they might influence each other and weaken each other.’

‘Oh, I see.’

If you put poisons that are clearly incompatible together, they could both die.

Since Yeongdan and Madan would have that kind of relationship, I was wondering what to do and decided to start with two Yeongdan.

And then he approached the demon who was looking at Moji and Soji from one side and asked him a favor.

[Hey, Yo-hwa, can you wrap this up really well?]

-Kissit.

Please, a guy who takes the sword from my hand and quickly wraps it up in thread.

A white thread emerged from the fairy’s buttocks and quickly began to wrap around Yeongdan.

A white thread that quickly rotates one by one, wrapped around the English word.

I wrapped the thing the size of Cheongsimhwan tightly dozens of times, and its size changed to the size of a golf ball, but fortunately, the energy was completely hidden.

I asked you to do this just in case.

If you do this, you won’t be able to easily take out the spirit tablet inside even if you touch it.

Because the thread of the fairy tale cannot be easily broken by anything other than fire.

-Kissit.

[It’s done? Thank you, Yohwa.]

I carefully received the two string beads that the fairy had handed me.

As I received the two beads wrapped around my neck from the fairy and held them in my hand, I heard a clear sound.

-Tiring.

Suddenly, two horns start to ring in my hand and emit a clear sound.

‘What is it? Is that a sound coming from the fairy room? Or are the two inner chambers resonating?’

A guy who tried to hide it quietly, but now you can hear him.

As I was wondering what to do with this, the fairy’s ankle caught my eye.

This is the red thread wrapped around the fairy’s ankle.

Come to think of it, there was a safest place in the world.

‘yes!’

[Hey, Yohwa, can you keep this for a while?]

-Kishi?

[I think it would be good to tie it to the string on your ankle, like a bell.]

A guy looking at his ankle and the beads I gave him.

He said this while showing me the red thread of the fairy that was shaking its ankle and putting a bead on it.

[I think it would be pretty like this?]

Then the boy nodded with a satisfied expression, took the drop, licked it once, and attached it to the red thread on his ankle.

Two drops that are not tied together, but are stuck together like glue because they are threads of magic.

-Tiring. Tiring.

Soon after, whenever the demon moved his ankle, a clear sound of the spirit flowed out.

If the teenage poisonous Yohwa protects it directly, no one will dare touch it.

It was clear that one or two lives would not be enough, as this was not a case of putting a bell around a cat’s neck, but rather a case of removing the bell from a teenage poisonous animal’s ankle.

Yeongdan was now relieved and decided to deal with Madan next.

[Hey, make me a small pouch.]

-Kissishit.

A very excited guy who was happy to receive the drop.

The guy quickly made a thick pouch and handed it to me.

It would be nice if I could actually feel the magic, but I couldn’t deal with the magic in the same way because I was also a bit reluctant to touch the magic.

So the method I chose was to put it in a small pouch and store it in the wooden box I just took out.

I picked up the sesame seeds with the chopsticks I had brought and put them in my pocket.

Unlike the dozens of times wrapped quilts, the energy flows out smoothly through the thin pockets.

When I opened the wooden box that the Kunlun elders had given me, moved the pouch inside, and closed the lid, only then was the flowing energy completely hidden.

‘Okay. That’s good. Little Dragon.’

After checking carefully to see if any of the tacky energy was leaking out, he asked Yohwa to tie it in a cross shape like a seal and put it inside his sleeve.

I thought about wrapping it with a fairy’s thread, but then I would have to keep it inside the cabin, so I didn’t wrap it with thread.

You have to carry this kind of thing around with you.

‘I’ll have to show this to Grandfather Mandokshin and think about what to do.’

And I guess I’ll have to take this to the party and discuss with my grandfather what to do about it.

After dealing with the demon group made up of the spirit group and the evil energy, let’s look at the corner and see Moji and Soji weaving the still shining silver threads, one by one, to make a house.

He covered the windows of the room with a cloth and spoke to the children and people inside.

“It will probably take more than two days to spin the thread. In the meantime, we will try to keep as quiet as possible and not move the ship.”

“Okay, Little Dragon.”

“Okay, okay. Okay.”

Moji and Soji were moving their mouths diligently in the corner of the room’s ceiling.

***

It usually takes three days for a silkworm to make a cocoon.

The first day is spent roughly outlining the outline, and the second day is spent thickening the thread so that the inside cannot be seen from the outside.

And the work continues inside, and after three days, the cocoon is completed and the cocoon itself hardens.

However, since Eunjam is a spirit, she decorated the room with almost nine threads just to make the inside invisible.

It took about four times as long as a normal silkworm.

“Now I can barely see inside.”

After eating and checking Moji and Soji’s ears early in the morning, Hwa-eun brought Gochi’s ear close and spoke.

“Yes, I think it’s because the thread is thinner than I thought. Can you hear the sound?”

“Yes, Little Dragon. I can hear a rustling sound inside.”

“Then I guess there are still about eight days left.”

He completely covered his body with silver thread, but it only covered the room.

It would probably take about two weeks just to make the cocoon, as it would take time for the cocoon to harden.

“Then I guess I’ll have to wait another day?”

“Yes. I should tell people to wait a little longer.”

The search schedule was indefinitely postponed due to Moji and Soji suddenly getting into trouble.

I started searching, but I was worried that if that watermelon guy came in like before and caused a ruckus, it would interfere with Moji and Soji’s work of fixing it.

The period of construction is a period that requires extreme stability.

This was because if done incorrectly, the body could not be able to shed from the inside or could become permanently deformed due to the vibrations drying out the body.

“So how long will it take for the room to be made and for Eunjam-ah to come out?”

The silkworm that makes the cocoon tears the cocoon and emerges into the world after about two weeks.

In light of this, the period from the time the silkworm spends its life to the time it takes for the moji and soji to become adults is up to two months.

“It will probably take two months?”

“So, if you subtract the two weeks for making the gochi, it takes about a month and a half?”

“That’s right. Hwa-eun.”

“It’s still a long way to go. I’m really looking forward to seeing what it’ll look like.”

“Me too.”

As Hwa-eun said, I was really looking forward to it too.

Eunjam-ah.

What on earth does a silver moth look like?

Hwa-eun’s bare face.

No, Hwa-eun hardly ever wears makeup, so I was just as curious about Hwa-eun’s face, which hadn’t been washed for three days.

‘It must be an unknown beauty…’

When I came out of the cabin and explained to the group that they still had to wait a day, Brother Gyu-seong nodded.

“So you’re saying we still have to wait about eight days?”

“I apologize for the delay in your schedule.”

You said it casually, but I’m sorry that my schedule is delayed because of my pet venom.

When I apologized, Brother Gyuseong smiled and said,

“No. It’s a better place to live than I thought, with more animals and fish and warmer weather. It’s also a good place to practice martial arts. Don’t worry, you can practice while you’re at it.”

“Yes, So So-hyeop. Anyway, we are helping So So-hyeop to destroy the Odukmun bastards, so you don’t have to worry too much about it.

“Isn’t coming here itself a nuisance to the Odokmun guys?”

“That’s right. So So-hyeop. I’m having a good time with Seon-hwa, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

The other Oryongsambongs also nodded their heads and said that it was okay.

Then what’s left are the children.

He called the children together and asked them again.

“It’s a very important time for Moji and Soji, so you mustn’t make a fuss or rock the boat. Do you understand?”

-Tsrrrr!

-Kissit.

-Kkuku!

-Char!

-Sia!

The children answered loudly, but some of the answers that should have been heard felt empty.

Let’s check them one by one, some of them are missing.

“But where did Bin, Hyang, and Hongdan go?”

-Tsurut?

A moment of looking around in response to my question.

The pores of the grass swelled and sank as if sighing.

I told the young men to stay quiet, but it was clear that they had probably gone out to drink in secret.

‘Bina, where are you!’

***

Bin, Hyang, and Hongdan, who were bored because of Moji and Soji, came out to drink.

It was probably because it was difficult to stay quiet in the village.

I need to dig some ground and hang from some trees, but I’m just crouching because of the Moji Soji and other spirits that might be nearby, so I’m itching.

Since my father had told me to be careful, I was just going to go and see what the swamp was all about.

The three of them were excited to be in an open space for the first time in a long time.

Excited cries came from all three.

-Tsrrrr.

-Tsurut.

-Kkii!

After passing through a long field of tall grass and arriving at the place where my father said there was a swamp, I saw grass growing here and there.

Fish were jumping out of the pools visible through the tall grass.

It looks like a pond at home.

If they could swim, Bin-i and Hyang-i would catch a few fish and give them to their mother like their older sister Cho did, but they felt sorry for the fish as they watched them.

And Hyang-i, who was on top of Bin-i’s head, gave up the seat next to her and called Hong-dan-i.

-Tsurut.

He told me to come and see.

But the guy who was supposed to be behind me was nowhere to be seen.

-Tsrrrr!

Hyang-i, who was looking around, quickly told Bin-i that Hong-dan-i had disappeared.

-Tsurut!?

When Bin heard that Hongdan had suddenly disappeared, he stretched his body upward and looked around.

At that moment, Hongdan appeared as the grass in front moved.

-Rust. Rustle.

-Kkii!

-Tsurut!?

-Tsururut?

The two who were trying to scold Hong Dan-i for suddenly disappearing after hearing that there was something interesting there, unknowingly followed Hong Dan-i.

And what they found there was something round.

-Tsurut?

It was moving among the grass in front of me.