The Genius Grandson of the Namgung Family Chapter 31

The Genius Grandson of the Namgung Family

Chapter 31

Clang-

The moment he heard the sound of weapons clashing, Namgung Min instantly looked at Ha Hyeon.

And just as he was about to say something.

Shake shake-

Ha Hyeon desperately shook his head as if he knew what Namgung Min was going to say.

‘How did he know I was going to tell him to run away to the inn.’

Namgung Min contemplated for a very brief moment.

If he told Ha Hyeon to stay at the inn, he would eventually listen.

However, he couldn’t say there was no risk in that.

From the situation, it seemed there was sword fighting inside the estate, and there was no way to gauge what enemies they might encounter on the way to the inn.

Although they had just carefully checked the surroundings moments ago, Namgung Min wasn’t someone who would carelessly dismiss even a one percent possibility.

-Fine. Come with me. But stay close to me. You must not separate from me.

In the end, Namgung Min judged that being by his side was the safest option.

After sending a sound transmission to Ha Hyeon, he channeled internal energy into his body and leaped onto the wall.

Whoosh-

Despite being the height of one zhang, Namgung Min jumped over it as easily as climbing a single step.

His worry about Ha Hyeon not being able to follow lasted only briefly.

Ha Hyeon also lightly jumped over the wall and followed behind him.

His footwork was flawless, not making a single sound when landing.

‘Where did that sound come from earlier? The main inner courtyard?’

Namgung Min moved through the shadows, minimizing sound as much as possible while keeping it within Ha Hyeon’s ability to follow.

If anyone saw this movement, they might suspect he had learned the Huashan sect’s Dark Fragrance Drifting technique, such was the stealth of his movement.

There was a time when Drunken moon elite taught him lightness skill.

‘Want to make no sound while walking? That’s even simpler. Wouldn’t it naturally make less noise if you reduce the surface area touching the ground? Instead, you’ll need to focus more internal energy on your toes. Isn’t it common sense that pressure increases when the area decreases?’

Ha Hyeon recalled the lightness skill he learned from Drunken moon elite while following Namgung Min as best he could.

His movements were so quiet that even Namgung Min, who was leading ahead, momentarily thought Ha Hyeon wasn’t following.

Swish-

As they got closer to the main inner courtyard, Namgung Min felt an eerie energy.

Though clearly visible, there was an alien feeling as if it wasn’t really there.

And as they got somewhat closer to the inner courtyard.

-Wait. Stay here.

Namgung Min spread his hand in a stop signal to Ha Hyeon while sending a sound transmission.

Since Ha Hyeon didn’t yet know how to send sound transmissions, he silently waited for Namgung Min to speak.

Namgung Min examined the surroundings where he felt the alien sensation and sent a sound transmission.

-It’s a formation.

Formation.

Ha Hyeon recalled what his grandfather had told him about formations.

In the martial arts world, there are martial artists who use various formations utilizing the Four Directions, Five Elements, and Eight Trigrams.

Among formations, there are those that show illusions, and those that create traps.

And Ha Hyeon could easily guess what kind of formation was deployed.

Tap tap-

Ha Hyeon gestured covering his ears with both hands.

Namgung Min nodded.

What was in front of them appeared to be a formation that contained sound from spreading outward.

-I’m going in. If anything happens, withdraw immediately.

Nod

After Ha Hyeon signaled understanding, Namgung Min pressed himself even flatter to the ground and passed through the formation.

Whoosh-

Just as they felt passing through something.

“You bastard! How dare you commit such a heaven-defying act. Have you no shame!”

A roaring voice was heard.

“Shameful to whom? To heaven? Haha. If heaven was really watching, it would strike me with lightning.”

“Shut up!”

Namgung Min approached the inner courtyard even more quietly than before and hid in the bushes to observe the courtyard.

‘That’s Chief Justice Jung’s voice. Who is the other person?’

In the courtyard, several men dressed in pitch-black clothes from head to toe were in a standoff with men dressed in white.

And around them lay over ten corpses bleeding on the ground.

‘All the dead are wearing white. This isn’t a standoff, it’s a one-sided massacre by the men in black.’

And behind the men in white clothes, an old man was trembling all over trying to suppress his fear.

‘Chief Justice Jung!’

Namgung Min quickly grasped the situation.

‘The men in black are enemies. The men in white are Chief Justice Jung’s guard warriors.’

Ha Hyeon also followed Namgung Min and saw this scene.

And at that moment, the pungent smell of blood wafted over.

This bloody smell that had filled the mansion on the night the Shin family was massacred.

When Ha Hyeon smelled this scent, rather than being startled, he felt his racing heart calm down and his blood turn cold.

“Chief Justice Jung. Didn’t I warn you? If you had quietly handed over your wealth, this wouldn’t have happened.”

“I have no money to give to the likes of you. Just kill me instead.”

“I was planning to do just that. If I take your head to your wife, won’t she kindly tell us where the hidden wealth is?”

“I manage all the wealth. If you kill me, that money dies with me.”

“Then there’s no choice. We’ll clean this place up thoroughly and hit another estate.”

The guard warrior standing at the front of Chief Justice Jung’s guards spat out the blood pooled in his mouth and said:

“Before you harm our master, you’ll have to cut me down first!”

“Hahaha. For a rich man’s dog, you sure know how to bark impressively.”

The man in black appeared relaxed.

The guard warrior bit his lips while watching him.

He was a well-known martial artist from Gansu Province, belonging to one of the Nine Schools, specifically the Gongdong School.

Though he was too skilled to be merely a guard warrior in such a rural village, he was here now due to Jung Dae-in’s reputation and the enormous compensation.

It was clear that his skills were too great to be easily defeated by bandits who would raid such an estate.

“You there! Taste my Demon-Subduing Sword!”

The guard warrior charged at the frontmost man in black while displaying his most powerful sword technique.

It was a sword stroke that seemed capable of cutting through anything, true to its name of subduing demons.

Swish-!

As the sword was thrown fiercely toward the man in black,

Slash!

The sharp sound of something being cut pierced everyone’s ears.

“Keuph, kuk, how……”

Although it was the guard warrior who had charged and struck with his sword, the black-clothed man’s sword was now embedded in the guard warrior’s chest.

The swords hadn’t even clashed.

The black-clothed man’s sword had cut through the guard warrior’s chest as if passing through his sword.

“Urgh……”

The guard warrior collapsed with only a death rattle remaining.

The man in black walked to where the guard warrior had fallen and picked up the precious sword he had been using, saying:

“Such weak martial arts. But he had a good sword.”

It was the precious sword that Jung Dae-in had difficulty obtaining and bestowed upon the guard warrior.

He swung the sword a few times and, seemingly pleased with it, showed a cold smile.

“This is quite well-maintained, isn’t it?”

The man in black took a large step toward Jung Dae-in.

‘Demonic cult?’

Namgung Min speculated about the identity of the men in black.

The black clothing and their tactical formation.

He naturally thought of the Demonic cult.

The man in black approached the white-clothed people slowly, as if deliberately trying to torment his prey.

Although all the white-clothed people were trained martial artists, they could only tremble and flinch with each step he took closer, with no one able to stop him.

Watching this scene, Namgung Min seemed to make a decision and transmitted sound to Ha Hyeon:

-Ha Hyeon. Stay hidden here and don’t move.

Ha Hyeon silently nodded from within the bushes.

-You said you were curious about life-and-death battles? Watch carefully, don’t miss a thing.

Namgung Min left these sound-transmitted words and drew his sword, using his movement technique to enter the courtyard and launch his sword at the man in black.

Whoosh-

“!”

Clang-

The man in black barely blocked Namgung Min’s sword.

Inappropriately for the situation, the sound of the two swords clashing rang out clearly.

“Who are you!”

“Intruders always make that expression at times like this. That expression of being annoyed at having their work interrupted. Actually, you’re the ones who shouldn’t be here.”

“I asked who you are!”

The answer the man in black expected didn’t come from Namgung Min.

Instead, Jung Dae-in, who was further back, shouted:

“Mi, Min, is that you who has come?”

“Yes, Jung Dae-in.”

“Oh heavens…! Thank you…!”

To Jung Dae-in, Namgung Min’s presence alone felt like gaining an army of thousands.

Why he was here didn’t matter.

Just the fact that Namgung Min was present at this moment made him give thanks to a god he hadn’t even believed in.

“Min? Min… Namgung Min, the Azure Dragon Divine Sword of the Namgung family?”

Azure Dragon Divine Sword.

It was his title that Namgung Min disliked, saying it was too flashy.

“You talk too much. Leave now and I won’t pursue you. Go.”

“Leave? Haha. I believe you’re not even half my age, yet your words are quite short.”

“I have no courtesy to show to human trash who break into estates to steal valuables.”

“Courtesy? Courtesy, you say. Keukeukeu.”

The man in black found something so funny in Namgung Min’s words that he held his stomach laughing.

Then, glaring at Namgung Min coldly, he said:

“Was it you who recently ravaged our Zhejiang branch?”

This time, Namgung Min smiled slyly.

“I can’t quite remember. I do recall clearing out some vermin there though.”

Though he said this, Namgung Min’s mind was racing.

Recently in Zhejiang, he had indeed eliminated remnants of the Demonic cult.

‘So, these men are from the Demonic cult? But why would the Demonic cult…?’

The man in black’s eyebrows twitched in anger at Namgung Min’s mention of vermin, then said:

“I see. I’ve been wanting to settle things with you anyway. I am……”

“Not interested. In the name of someone who’s about to die.”

“You…!”

Namgung Min became unusually aggressive once he drew his sword, unlike his usual self.

This was a side that anyone who knew the usual Namgung Min would never have expected.

But Ha Hyeon could somehow sense why.

That all of this was Namgung Min’s act to break his opponent’s composure.

‘When facing enemies, brother uses every method available.’

Even though they hadn’t yet properly crossed swords, Ha Hyeon gained a great insight.

A tiger gives its all even when hunting a single rabbit.

Even Namgung Min, called an unparalleled genius, doesn’t underestimate his opponents and uses every method at his disposal.

The man in black draws up his true energy to its peak.

He concentrated all his true energy into his sword with the intention of cutting down both Namgung Min and his sword in one stroke.

Flutter flutter

The black-clothed man’s clothes flutter with the flow of his true energy.

And his sword moves in a mysterious direction.

Zzzik- Zzziik- Zik-

Strange tearing sounds also began to emerge from around him.

It was a tactical sword technique that resembled a butterfly’s flight.

Namgung Min also raises his true energy as if matching him.

While he pretended to belittle his opponent with words to provoke the man in black before him, Namgung Min instinctively felt it.

That this was an opponent who would require his full effort.

Crack- Crack-

As he raised his true energy to his limits, blue lightning-like flashes began to spark around his body.

Heavenly Thunder Emperor Divine Technique

He hadn’t learned the Changgung Daeyeon Technique like Namgung Muryong or Ha Hyeon.

But he had mastered the Namgung family’s secret divine technique that rivaled it.

Because of this, he gained the blue thunder true energy, and as a result, earned the title of Azure Dragon.

“Earlier, you said if heaven was watching, it would strike with lightning?”

“That’s right! There won’t be lightning from a clear sky! Uwaap!”

The man in black raises his true energy to its limit while letting out a battle cry as if not wanting to be outdone.

Kwarung-!

But the blue lightning closed the distance to the man in black in the blink of an eye.

Kwang!

The man in black managed to block the first strike unconsciously.

However, Namgung Min’s next incoming sword was literally Lightning Flash.

“That lightning… I’ll strike it for heaven.”

“Wha, what…!”

Lightning Flash Thirteen Sword Thunder, Eleventh Form: Lightning Flash Annihilation

Kwarurung-!

In the moment the man in black failed to understand Namgung Min’s words, merciless lightning crushed his body.

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