Absolute Sword Sense

nd I realized that doing it in succession had to be avoided.

Or I should just do them little by little with a gap to recover.

‘I need to cultivate.’

-Yes.

After cultivating for a little time, my innate qi and internal qi which were consumed would be restored.

If I hadn’t stopped I would have collapsed.

-Wonhui

Iron Sword calling out to me had retrieved me from my thoughts.

“Kuak!”

The lord, So Ik-heon, who had been half embedded into the wall of the training room, staggered down.

He seemed to calm down as he looked at me with a confused face.
I don’t know if it was because of his defeat, but he looked quite shocked.

“You…”

“It should be better if you cultivate”

Even though he managed to not be hit by my sword, he was still slammed with the full force behind it.

The qi of an opponent was not something one should leave in their body, as it will corrupt the body and the internal organs.

Sss!

A haze rose from So Ik-heon’s body.

In front of me, he couldn’t even cultivate, so he decided to forcibly push out the qi.
And he frowned,

“Why did your hand hold back?”

He seemed puzzled that my technique was orthodox.

“… did you want me to kill you?”

“… don’t say useless stuff, you let me live for your own sake.
Unless you prove that you aren’t a Blood Sect…”

“Stop provoking me.”

“What?”

“Let’s get rid of this pretentious act we do.”

“You…”

“I do not want you to misunderstand, your life is in my hands, and you aren’t even my father by blood; so you shouldn’t push your luck.”

‘…!!’

At those words, So Ik-heon looked shocked.
He never would have thought I would know the truth.

“You… how do you know that?”

Judging from this reaction, it seemed like my mother told him to never let me know the truth.
Confused he asked,

“… did you know?”

“Two hyungs, the way you look at your children is clearly different, did you think I wouldn’t notice?”

So Ik-heon gulped,

“… if your mother heard…”

Before he could even finish his sentence, I threw back his Blue Decree Sword.

Shh!

The sword infused with my innate qi flew to him and lightly brushed by his clothes and embedded itself into the wall.

“Do not speak of my mother with that disgusting mouth.”

So Ik-heon didn’t speak further.
From the start, we never had a good relationship.

His desire to believe that his actions and attitudes toward me were done in the name of taking responsibility only made me more disgusted by him.

And he quietly whispered,

“I am…”

“Do you want to say you have done enough for me?”

“…”

“Please don’t say that you were trying to protect me and Yong-yong from your wife and children.”

His face contorted.

He must be upset because he was being forcibly ripped out of the illusion, his false sense of duty, forced to see the truth now.

“For the sake of my mother, you said you’d treat me like your child.
It was to keep that promise.
And you justify your selfishness like that?”

“How do you!”

“If you really wanted to protect me or Yong-yong, wouldn’t it be by defending us when your wife was going to come onto us? You think ignoring us is a fair attempt with the other kids?”

“Kuak!”

Blood gushed from his mouth

He was pushing my qi out by circulating his qi, but it seemed like my words had disturbed his concentration.
It didn’t matter to me.

“I don’t care what you did behind us.
If you think that it is your duty and obligation that you did those things, let me tell you that you are mistaken.”

“Ha…”

His face turned dark.

Maybe it is because I told him that his reasons were shit.

“I… was protecting you….”

“Is pushing me out protecting me?”

“…”

“You were running away from your responsibility.
You did enough for a guy who wasn’t even your child? From now on whatever happens isn’t my fault? Is that your true intention?”

“Cough!”

He coughed and didn’t respond.
He must be upset now that the mask he had put on was being pulled down.

“If you hadn’t thought that and sent me out, I wouldn’t have been kidnapped by the Blood Sect”

‘…?!’

He looked quite shocked.
Look at how he reacted when I talked about the Blood sect.

“If my teacher hadn’t come to save me at that moment, I would have been pulled into those people.”

I took something from the sleeve and threw it at him

He received that thing only to show a shocked face.

“This…”

“The plaque of the Great Doctor.”

“This?”

“You might like to think that my dantian got healed by the Blood Sect, but this is the truth.”

I never thought I’d use the plaque of that man like this.

Well, this was no lie.
He did heal my dantian, or at least he tried to,

“Teacher had acquaintance with that man and he restored my dantian”

“Sigh…”

He sighed.
It seemed like he was a bit shocked when it was the best physician that had helped me.

But the important thing comes now.

“Did you think I don’t qualify to be a representative?”

Srng!

With that, I drew Iron Sword, puzzling So Ik-heon.

Not caring, I took the stance.

“You… no?”

His eyes widened as he recognized the stance of the Sodong Ranged Sword.

I moved my body following the memories I had seen, following the shadow of So Ik-gyeom.

Chak!

The movement of the heavy sword was being demonstrated and So Ik-heon became confused.

“I don’t….”

It was natural to show this reaction as this wasn’t some simple imitation.

Now, I was performing on the level of the former lord.

So Ik-heon couldn’t take his eyes off me even for a moment and the moment I finished, came a shout.

“No!”

His body shuddered as the first half ended and the second half was being unfolded.

Even if he hadn’t learned it, he was bound to recognize this.
At least, he should have seen his father do it.

Pak!

The floor of the training room was being dug into a hole as I continued to move the slashing sword technique.

I was able to perform it correctly, and as I finished he looked dumbfounded.

“Do you still think I don’t deserve it?”

At my question, he asked,

“H-How do you know that?”

I pulled out a paper that I had prepared in advance, on it was the latter part of the sword which I had written down with pen and ink in the training room.

“The Great Doctor always takes something in exchange for healing someone.
Even if it cannot be used, he decides to keep things for the sake of honor.”

“Then father?”

So Ik-heon connected the dots.

Thanks to this, I made a plausible situation and the man couldn’t take his eyes off the paper I held.

Seeing the full technique made him become quite shocked.

Now it was his turn to beg.

I took the paper back and said,

“Who is in the position to make requests now?”