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Let’s say I lost.
At first, the Left Master seemed to be using ordinary techniques, but then he surprised me by mixing in a chilling ice technique.
I calmly dealt with the situation while observing his expression.
Come to think of it, I had never heard of the Left Master being defeated.
Instead of losing, he had toyed with the martial artists sent by the Martial Alliance, which led to the enraged leader of the alliance unleashing the Celestial Net.
Now, two men who had escaped from the Celestial Net were competing fiercely against each other.
The Left Master was not just using techniques; he combined various methods like mine—earth techniques, jumping techniques, fist techniques, and golden water techniques—to launch both attacks and defenses.
The exchanges were so fresh and innovative that I ended up fighting for thirty rounds with a fool.
In the midst of it all, I kept teasing the Left Master. “Not bad for a fool.” “Shut up.” “Use the ice technique.” This guy was saving his ice technique as much as possible.
It was understandable.
Although it was extremely effective, it consumed a lot of internal energy.
Moreover, since I was not falling behind the Left Master at all, it was only natural for him to be troubled.
To truly utilize the energy of the extreme sound, which was half of the Heavenly Jade, I needed to completely seize the Left Master’s ice technique.
While fighting, I was curious about many things.
Why was this guy so strong at such a young age? The Fengyun Meng family was famous for using spears and swords, so why wasn’t he using any weapons? No matter how I looked at it, the techniques like the long technique, earth technique, and jumping technique didn’t seem like something he learned from the Fengyun Meng family.
As we exchanged strength, I casually asked, “Who is your master?” “And who is your master?” Suddenly, I caught a whiff of a foul smell and jumped back three zhang in shock.
I had almost been hit by a blatant attack meant to soil me.
It was even more chilling since I was dressed in white.
The foulness of his attack was scarier than the poison-coated weapon.
As I jumped back in surprise, the Left Master smiled meaningfully as if he had caught my weakness.
“Are you scared? You must be.”
“I’m not running away out of fear. I’m avoiding it because it’s dirty. You foolish fool, like a brother of a courtesan, you fool.”
The Left Master looked down at his damp robe and nodded.
“I can’t be the only one to suffer. Don’t run away. That way is the bustling area.”
I looked at the bustling area, crossed my arms, and said in a serious tone, “Your skills are better than I expected. It’s been a long time since I’ve fought someone this well. You’re not just an ordinary fool.
I’ll give you an antidote.”
“I don’t need it since I’ve already soiled myself.”
“Still, wash yourself clean and then challenge me again.”
The Left Master replied coldly, “How could I eat something you give me?” I briefly pinched my nose with my fingers and said in a nasally voice, “Don’t come near me. I’m feeling dizzy.”
The Left Master charged at me like a madman again, and I quickly turned my body and fled toward the bustling area.
As I deliberately laughed while running away, the Left Master cursed in a dignified tone.
It seemed that being a general’s son had ingrained manners in him. ‘But no matter how mad he is, he can’t enter the bustling area in that state.’ How dare he challenge me in strategy? In a duel between men, there’s no hesitation, but the Left Master was a man obsessed with women.
He wasn’t the kind of guy who could swagger around in white while soiling himself.
If he could follow me this far, I must have misjudged him.
When I arrived at the bustling area filled with people, the Left Master, who had been following closely, stopped his lightness technique as I expected.
“... Hey, stop running.”
I turned my back to the bustling area and waved my hand.
“Come in.”
“You come here.”
“The one who soiled himself should come.”
“It’s a matter between men. Do we have to disturb others?”
“There’s a saying that the one who soiled himself gets angry, and that’s you. If you reveal who your master is, I’ll come over.”
“Shut up.”
Suddenly, I found it strange that the Left Master had not revealed his master even after asking twice.
‘He must have learned the ice technique from his maternal family, but does he have a separate martial arts master?’
The Left Master was still not regarded as a martial artist.
At a time when he couldn’t even engage in perverse acts, his honor and popularity must have been very important.
I mixed in with the crowd and glared at the Left Master.
Honestly, I hadn’t been able to fully display my skills during our earlier fight.
Who would have thought that a fool could be this scary? During our exchanges, his lower body was literally invincible.
In other words, I was facing an opponent whose lower half was in an invincible state while I was trying to match my strength.
Naturally, I couldn’t display my true abilities.
After testing our strengths, I realized that his martial arts were already quite complete.
In fact, it wasn’t too surprising.
It was very rare for a master to escape from the Martial Alliance’s Celestial Net.
As far as I knew, I had escaped during the time of the Mad Demon, the perverse fool, and members of the Three Calamities had successfully broken free from the Martial Alliance’s Celestial Net.
In other words, among the masters I had faced since my return, that fool was overwhelmingly strong.
And he was really trying to restrain his ice technique unless it was a truly dangerous situation.
He was indeed a man with many restrictions.
The Left Master tried to enter the bustling area several times but then turned back again.
What does it mean that even such a cruel man couldn’t enter the Bai Ying Zhi while soiling his pants? This was the power of Bai Dao, the might of etiquette, and the desire for honor.
I laughed at the Left Master with my arms crossed. “Hehehe.” At that moment, a woman called out to the Left Master from the side of a tree. “Brother Monglang? What are you doing over there?” When I confirmed the woman’s appearance and looked back at the Left Master, he had already disappeared without a trace.
I suddenly made eye contact with the woman who recognized the Left Master and nodded.
“You are indeed the Young Master Monglang.”
“That’s right? You look pale.”
“Didn’t you see?”
“See what?”
I said with a calm expression.
“He soiled his pants. He must have drunk too much.”
“Oh, no way.”
“Didn’t you see the damp white robe he was wearing?”
The not-so-pretty woman suddenly got angry at me.
“That’s impossible! Why are you lying?”
“Why are you angry...?”
Is she in love with the Left Master? This woman suddenly looked at me as if I were the one who soiled myself and turned away.
Does she mean to say that our brother wouldn’t soil himself?
“Tsk tsk tsk.”
While I clicked my tongue, I heard the Left Master’s ventriloquism from somewhere.
“Come out while I’m still being nice.”
“There’s one thing I fear for life, and that’s a guy who fights while soiling himself.”
“...”
I stepped forward and replied, “You foolish fool, this is karma. I’ll let you off for breaking my brother’s arm, so go home and change your pants. The Young Master of the Fengyun Meng family, the fool of the Meng family, the one who can’t even control his own excrement.”
“Shut up!”
I clasped my hands together to tease him.
“Poor creature. Namu Amida—jumping technique!”
Suddenly, a loud sound burst from the darkness, and I reflexively flicked my fingers to unleash the Yin Realm Jumping Technique.
Bang! I deliberately made a loud noise. “Monglang! You bastard of the general’s family! Change your soiled pants and come back to fight again!” I heard a stream of curses, and the Left Master used his lightness technique to distance himself.
I watched the black figure moving away with my arms crossed. “Come back clean. You dirty fool. You don’t deserve to be in Bai Dao.” There was no reason for me to chase after him desperately.
When I inquired, the Fengyun Meng family was near Bai Ying Zhi.
Only when the invincible area created in his lower body was lifted could I unleash my own techniques, so I strolled leisurely through the bustling area of Bai Ying Zhi.
Clean streets, clean clothes, and even whiter skin than anywhere else.
It’s no wonder it’s called Bai Dao.
I returned to Bai Ying Zhi, and since he fled, it was a draw for now.
Suddenly, I noticed a crowd gathered in front of the Bai Xiang Zhu Lou I had visited earlier.
Everyone was discussing something with unpleasant expressions at the entrance, and as I passed by, I overheard that pretty women inside had soiled themselves.
Judging by how the Left Master had been frantically pressing on his abdomen, it seemed that the diarrhea medicine made by Mu Yong Bai was indeed terrible.
So the women must have soiled themselves before reaching the restroom.
I couldn’t help but think of the price of the diarrhea medicine and poison as I looked around.
I found a noodle shop that looked really delicious and sat at an outside table to order.
While eating the noodles, I watched the young people passing by on the street.
How could there be so many women dressed so beautifully and with pretty faces? I had dressed well based on Gong Cheol’s advice, but now that I was here and saw others, I felt like a real bumpkin compared to them.
Perhaps because it was the realm of Bai Dao, no one was picking fights.
Even those who hadn’t learned martial arts were happily wandering around, which felt quite strange.
By the way, after fighting with the fool, the taste of the noodles was quite unsatisfactory. “I’ve lost my appetite.” After paying the bill, I asked the waiter if there was a stream nearby.
The waiter replied, “If you go straight up that way, you’ll find Yonglang Stream.” The direction the waiter pointed was to the north where the Left Master had disappeared.
It seemed unlikely that a son of a noble family would return home after soiling his pants, so I thought he might be carefully wandering around the stream, washing his pants by now.
This was my instinctive sense.
The waiter asked me, “But why are you looking for a stream at this hour?” I patted the waiter’s shoulder and replied, “It’s a matter of chivalry. I’m chasing a villain.” In truth, I was chasing that fool.
As if he had longed for chivalry, the waiter’s expression became serious, and he took a martial arts stance. “Young hero, you’ve worked hard.” Perhaps because it was the Bai Dao region, even the waiter was polite.
I nodded and headed toward the stream like a lonely hero.
In fact, everything I had done since my return was focused on the peace of the martial world, the happy lives of women, the protection of the rights of workers, and the punishment of evil.
Even if the world didn’t recognize me, what I was doing was no different from the path of a hero.
Or maybe not.
Following the moonlight along Yonglang Stream, I stopped when I heard the splashing of water on an old bridge.
In the quiet Yonglang Stream, the Left Master was bathing completely naked.
A man who turned a clean stream into dirty water, that was the Left Master.
I thought about going down immediately to make him a eunuch, but I hesitated for a moment.
The Left Master was calm, showing no signs of surprise even though he had spotted me. ‘Is it a trap?’ Suddenly, dark clouds drifted away, revealing the moonlight that illuminated the Left Master’s upper body.
There were numerous marks on his upper body, whether from whips or swords, and in between them were tattoos drawn in ink.
I couldn’t tell if he had been tortured or if he had learned martial arts.
I looked at the Left Master with my arms crossed. “Wash yourself clean, you dirty brat.” The Left Master emerged from the stream with a liberated expression, shook off the water on his upper body, wrapped it around his lower half, and looked up at me with his upper body bare. “Come down, you bastard. I’m all washed up.” “Huh...” A sigh escaped me.
The moment that fool kicked excessively, I felt like the noodles I had eaten earlier would surely come back up. ‘He’s not just any pervert.’ How could he properly cover his lower half with just an upper garment? He understood the psychology of women well, but he was also a master of psychological warfare who perfectly understood the psychology of men.
Even the neckline of his upper garment was near his groin.
I scolded the Left Master in a subdued tone. “Just go home, you bastard. Let’s fight again tomorrow. Let’s say I lost today.” Under the moonlight, the pervert smiled with a chilling expression. “Hehehe.” I, being an orphan, didn’t understand the twisted mindset of a noble’s illegitimate child.
Honestly, I wasn’t interested.
However, since I had known this man since my previous life, I was curious about the marks on his upper body.
Without expecting much, I asked, “What are those tattoos? Are they related to martial arts?” The Left Master replied, “You’re curious about everything.
I won’t forget your face now. You can’t escape from me anymore. Whether you run to the Martial Alliance or the Demon Sect, you will end up in my hands.”
I mentioned the exchanges we had earlier.
“You must know that I couldn’t fight properly because of your filth.”
The Left Master pointed at me with his finger and said something strange.
“I’ll specially ask my master to take you as my disciple. You’ll probably think it’s better to die.”
“So who is your master?”
Suddenly, I became alert.
‘Huh?’
I knew information about the Left Master, the Demon Sect, and had heard about martial arts related to tattoos.
In an instant, I wondered if the Left Master’s plunge into the Demon Sect was also part of a scheme.
Because, as I suspected, the Left Master’s master was a man who turned the entire Demon Sect into enemies over a dispute for the position of the sect leader.
As the Left Master moved upstream along Yonglang Stream, he said, “You’ll see me again soon.” I opened my mouth to reveal the Left Master’s master but then closed it.