Chapter 15
Translator: uly
Chapter: 15
Chapter Title: Murong Sang-ah's Scoundrel Fiancé - 4
Translator: uly
Chapter: 15
Chapter Title: Kang Yun-ho's Scoundrel Fiancée - 4
“I heard you witnessed the martial arts of the Murong Family. How were they?”
The next day, Murong Sang-ah requested a meeting, so I went to the room where she was.
“Truly profound martial arts. However, my exposure was brief, so it was difficult to gauge their depth.”
It was a roundabout way of saying, ‘I could tell there was something flashy, but I couldn’t see it properly.’
“Huhu, it’s not a martial art that someone who hasn’t trained in martial arts could properly see.”
Murong Sang-ah understood the hidden meaning in my words and smiled softly. Ah, it’s good that she’s smiling. She was like a flower just by existing, but with just a slight smile, she was like a flower in full bloom.
Huh? But what did she just say?
“Young Lady, what did you just call me?”
“Since we are about to be married soon, I thought it would be better to call you ‘Gaga’ rather than ‘Gongja’. Is it strange?”
Murong Sang-ah said to me, her face slightly flushed.
“No. No. It’s not strange.”
Gaga. It’s a term used in martial arts novels to refer to a fiancé or loved one. I never thought I’d live to hear it directed at me.
“Then I will call you Gaga until the wedding.”
The situation of a stunningly beautiful woman calling me ‘darling’ made it a little hard to keep my composure, but I shouldn’t misunderstand.
Gaga is a term for a loved one, but it’s also a term for a fiancé.
“Very well. By the way, from my position of taking you as my wife, it’s a bit embarrassing that I couldn’t see the martial arts,”
I pretended to be embarrassed, scratching my head slightly.
“How could not learning martial arts be embarrassing? Martial arts are merely one of the paths to becoming a proper person. You are an excellent person even without learning martial arts, Gaga. Rather, I am the one who is ashamed for being a little proud of being somewhat skilled in martial arts.”
Why are you suddenly gilding me like that? It’s burdensome.
“Haha, hearing that gives me a bit of energy. But I’m also afraid that if a sword suddenly came at me, I wouldn’t even see it.”
We’re going to be in the same boat. We’ll have to row together. I could get stabbed and die. So you know what I’m saying, right? Hand it over willingly.
“Do you perhaps wish to learn martial arts?”
Yes. That.
“As someone who must enter government service as an interpreter, it’s difficult to learn martial arts. However, I would like to experience it once.”
Just a taste. Just a taste. If I flee to the Central Plains, I’ll swallow it whole.
“……Alright. Since there are unforeseen situations, I will teach you one breathing technique.”
Murong Sang-ah pondered for a moment, then nodded. Finally, will I be able to learn an internal energy method?
“Alright. Can I learn it here?”
“Please come to my personal training hall. I will teach you there.”
“Let us go then.”
I turned my body to head out the door.
“W, wait a moment.”
Suddenly, Murong Sang-ah stopped me. Is there something to bring?
Looking back, Murong Sang-ah was looking at my arm. When I looked at her curiously, Murong Sang-ah’s cheeks flushed slightly. Murong Sang-ah lowered her eyes gently and took a small, deep breath. Why is she like that?
Suddenly, as if having made some resolution, she gave a slight nod and opened her mouth.
“I, I will guide you.”
So saying, she suddenly linked arms with me.
Why is she like this? Suddenly acting so familiar.
“I, I heard that in Joseon, wives walk with their husbands like this.”
In which Joseon do they walk like this?
“This is the Central Plains. If the family members see, it could be troublesome.”
“My personal training hall is right ahead, and only a few of my maids will be around.”
“No, but still……”
You’re clinging too much. Your chest is touching.
My arm was wrapped around Murong Sang-ah’s arm and chest, becoming like a sausage stuck in a hot dog bun.
The underwear in this martial arts world is not made of modern bra material. With our arms linked, the sensation of her chest through the slightly thick cloth was felt all too clearly.
It’s too stimulating.
“Let’s go.”
Ignoring my words, Murong Sang-ah led me to the training hall.
“What I will teach you is a simple breathing technique that the direct bloodline members of the Murong Family learn before they begin studying proper internal energy methods.”
After the embarrassing walk and calming our flushed faces, the martial arts training began.
“To learn that, don’t you need to read a secret manual or something first?”
“In the Murong Family, this breathing technique is taught to direct bloodline members around the time they become three-year-olds. It’s easier to learn with the body than through text, and its safety is proven as it’s not dangerous.”
“I see. If I learn this, will internal energy accumulate in my body?”
Learn this and you too can be a martial arts master! Mastery in 180 days!
“It will not accumulate.”
“My knowledge of martial arts is shallow, but isn’t a breathing technique a method to accumulate internal energy in the body?”
“Most are like that, but this breathing technique is a method to lay a foundation in the body before learning a proper internal energy method.”
“Huh.”
I want to learn most internal energy methods.
“If you learn a typical internal energy method, demonic energy will accumulate in your body, making it impossible for you to become an interpreter. However, if you learn this breathing technique, your body will become healthier and your physical abilities will improve, making it easier for you to see something like a blind sword flying at you unknowingly.”
“Good. Teach me.”
I won’t be becoming an interpreter anyway, but there was no need to arouse Murong Sang-ah’s suspicion, so I agreed to learn.
“Then first, please take the lotus position.”
There it is. The lotus position. The national rule posture for internal energy methods in martial arts novels.
It’s the posture of crossing your legs left and right, placing your feet on your thighs, and sitting cross-legged.
Why is this so uncomfortable?
Once I assumed the posture, my pelvis and thighs screamed. To learn an internal energy method, you do this every day? Were martial artists actually yoga men?
“Gaga.”
Seeing me in distress, Murong Sang-ah called me carefully.
“What is it? Is my posture wrong?”
“In order to teach you the internal energy method, I plan to perform a True Qi Guidance. For that, you need to take off your upper garment.”
Why didn’t you say that earlier? True Qi Guidance is a method where one infuses their own internal energy into another person’s body to assist their internal energy training.
Simply put, it’s like the road driving practice at a driving school. A skilled internal energy instructor guides the path inside the body and even drives the internal energy for you, making it a cheat-like skill to become familiar with the breathing technique.
Of course, infusing internal energy into another’s body is very dangerous, so only truly skilled instructors can do it. She can do that? As expected, the genius Murong Sang-ah! Thank you!
I quickly took off my upper garment and prepared to receive the True Qi Guidance.
“……, you haven’t learned martial arts, but you have a good body.”
Since I was always running around outside, my body had better be good. Working at the company and writing at home gives you a turtle neck and belly fat.
Murong Sang-ah brought her hand to my back. Thinking of a beauty’s hand touching my bare skin gave me a slight shiver.
Is the True Qi about to enter now?
I closed my eyes and concentrated.
Murong Sang-ah’s hand touched every corner of my back. Her fingers gently traced near the shoulder blades and stroked the erector spinae muscles. It’s ticklish.
“Y, you’re firm……”
Before I knew it, Murong Sang-ah started touching every corner of my back with not one, but two hands.
Is this the internal energy entering?
Why can’t I feel it?
Is Kang Yun-ho’s body talentless in martial arts?
“Young Lady, I can’t feel the internal energy.”
Sorry, I guess I have no talent.
“Ah! N, now I will begin the True Qi Guidance.”
What were you doing until now then? Suddenly, a warm energy was felt from my back.
Is this internal energy?
“Originally, internal energy methods accumulate energy in the dantian through breathing and circulate it, but this breathing technique is different. It does not accumulate internal energy in the dantian but gathers it momentarily and sends it to the body’s meridians and physique to temper them.”
A warm feeling was felt below the navel. So this is the dantian.
The process of the energy starting from the dantian, passing through major channels, and spreading throughout the body was so wondrous that I felt like singing.
There is a power in our bodies that no one can see. A sun-like energy is hidden. No, since energy comes from outside, it’s not hidden, is it?
“Slowly feel the flow of the internal energy and move along its direction. I will guide you now, so try to move actively once.”
I concentrated and searched for the energy that had entered my body through breathing. Is it really in my body? Half in doubt, I slowly observed my inner body.
Found it.
If the energy Murong Sang-ah poured into my body earlier was a 5-ton truck, the energy I gathered was a tricycle.
Hey, move. Don’t run away.
The tricycle, as if displeased with my words, didn’t move as I wished. This little thing has pride. From now on, I shall name you Azure Speartip.
‘Go, Azure Speartip! Show the power of Joseon’s number one scoundrel riding a tricycle!!’
The energy didn’t move easily as I wished, but perhaps because the path made by the 5-ton truck was so large, it began to turn and move in that direction.
It didn’t spread through the three main meridians of the whole body like the energy Murong Sang-ah sent, but it still moved somewhat towards the main path.
I couldn’t make a car run on a highway, but I succeeded at the level of dragging a tricycle out into the yard.
“I succeeded.”
“Congratulations. If you just keep doing that consistently, your body will become healthier.”
It’s a pity that internal energy doesn’t accumulate in the body, but still, learning this breathing technique is something. This breathing technique will be of help even if I live in the Central Plains later.
“By the way, what is the name of this breathing technique?”
It must have a name like Reverse Muscle Scripture or something.
“It’s better you don’t know the name.”
“Why is that?”
“Because originally, it’s a breathing technique only the direct bloodline of the Family Head learns. I taught it to you because it’s the optimal breathing technique for you to learn, but it’s originally a technique you shouldn’t learn. If you learn the name, you might find yourself in a difficult situation if questioned later. If such a thing happens, you can just say it’s a technique I taught you and that you don’t know the name.”
What, is the original name something like ‘Murong Family Head Direct Bloodline Internal Energy Method - Mastery in 180 Days’?
“Is it alright to teach me such a precious method?”
“……. Aren’t you my Gaga?”
Why are you being so embarrassingly sweet. Since I said I’d divorce you later, you’re even giving me such precious things.
“I see. Thank you. Now I must go prepare for tomorrow’s wedding.”
To escape with 100% condition, I need to start preparing now.
“Gaga.”
A hint of tenderness flowed from her voice.
“Yes?”
“It’s nothing. For tomorrow’s wedding ceremony, I will adorn myself beautifully to look like a person worthy of my Gaga.”
As if embarrassed by her own words, Murong Sang-ah slightly averted her gaze.
“Haha. I look forward to it. Then.”
I’ll work hard to prepare for my escape.
Finally, tomorrow.
The day of the decisive battle.