"First, my plan is this."

After giving the two a general idea of the situation, Namgung Cheon began his explanation.

"First of all, from what I've observed over the past few days, there is only one entrance over there."

"I see. Then how do you plan to get in?"

Namgung Cheon and Hyunjun Hyun, who had been talking continuously on the way, had become quite close and were treating each other quite comfortably.

'Why am I the only one left out?'

Baek Yoonjun felt left out.

He would have felt burdened if they had pretended to be close, but now that they had become close without him, he felt very left out.

In fact, to the two of them, Baek Yoonjun was their benefactor or the successor or the person himself of the White-Robed Sword Immortal they admired, so they felt burdened to treat him familiarly, but Baek Yoonjun had no way of knowing that.

"First, we will attack a carriage coming here from a place a little away from here and seize that carriage."

"Right! And then we'll disguise ourselves as human traffickers and enter that place, right?"

"That's right. However, I don't know how far the carriage can go."

"We'll have to think about that a little. We can protect ourselves, but we don't know what will happen to the children inside."

Namgung Cheon and Hyunjun Hyun discussed the plan, and Baek Yoonjun.

'Ah, I want to finish this quickly and go home.'

He only wanted to go home quickly, so their conversation didn't enter his ears.

"As for that part, after we deal with the assassins we meet there, we can disguise ourselves as them..."

"Assassins are surprisingly thorough with their management. There's a risk of being discovered."

Baek Yoonjun quietly spread his senses.

Baek Yoonjun, who had spread his senses much wider than usual, felt the energy of quite a few humans.

Since what Baek Yoonjun wanted to find was not people, he focused more on his senses.

'A path, a path, a path, please a path.'

And so, as Baek Yoonjun earnestly wished in his heart and focused on his senses.

Whoosh.

A faint, faint gust of wind began to stretch out.

The wind continued on like a thread, and the energy of that wind was fully detected by Baek Yoonjun.

The path of the wind that continued on like that.

Baek Yoonjun, who detected it, his eyes flashed.

'A path!'

Baek Yoonjun immediately kicked off from his spot.

"Great Hero Baek?!"

"Where are you going all of a sudden?!"

A characteristic of a homebody introvert.

The habit of moving according to his own thoughts without saying anything had just popped out.

'Ah, I want to solve this quickly and go home. If I meet a strong guy, I'll run away immediately.'

A second characteristic of a homebody introvert.

To do one's best, hit a limit, and use that to get out of the situation.

This can be exemplified by self-destructing with all one's might when left alone in a cooperative game.

Anyway, Baek Yoonjun did his best, and at the same time, he moved at a lightness skill speed that he considered polite, and the other two struggled to follow behind him.

The place they arrived at was a building hidden in the mountains.

"Hah."

"It was exquisitely hidden."

The two of them just expressed their admiration next to Baek Yoonjun.

Although it wasn't obvious on the outside, Baek Yoonjun.

'This works?'

He was very surprised inwardly.

Until now, all he could find with his senses were living things, and the only inanimate object was his house.

At that moment, a lukewarm wind blew past Baek Yoonjun's ear.

-This is the place, right?

The sound felt like it was whispering in his ear.

'My mental illness must have acted up again.'

Of course, Baek Yoonjun dismissed it as a mental illness and ignored it, hiding his body and approaching the building.

The wall was hidden by the forest, but it was exquisitely high.

It was a height that Baek Yoonjun could easily jump over, but he didn't know about the two people behind him.

Therefore, as he was looking for a place to enter, a wall that was relatively low and seemed easy to jump over because of a rock caught his eye.

'The conditions are good, but there's a watchtower on top.'

However, there was a watchtower behind the wall, and there were two guards.

"There are guards."

Namgung Cheon muttered, glaring at the watchtower.

"Hoho, leave this to this old man this time."

Hyunjun Hyun, who was looking at Namgung Cheon and Baek Yoonjun benevolently, took out the bow he was carrying on his back and nocked an arrow.

"The sword of Diancang is like an arrow. Once it leaves the bowstring, it does not return. Watch carefully! This is the sword of Diancang."

Baek Yoonjun, who was next to him, thought to himself, 'What he's holding now is like an arrow!', but he didn't say it out loud.

In the first place, it was not said to him but to Namgung Cheon, and he didn't have the courage to say it out loud.

Thwip.

In any case, the arrow shot by Hyunjun Hyun excellently pierced through the two guards almost simultaneously.

The problem was that the arrow continued to move in a parabola even after piercing the two.

The arrow excellently passed the watchtower and quickly disappeared over the wall.

-Attack!!

-Assassin! It's an assassin!

Whether it had pierced someone else over the wall, the other side was in an uproar.

"The sword of Diancang does not stop, just like an arrow that has left the bow."

Baek Yoonjun looked at the shameless face of Hyunjun Hyun and shouted inwardly, 'It was an arrow, not a sword, in the first place! And is that the problem now?!'

In any case, since they were discovered, there was no reason to hesitate.

Baek Yoonjun's figure blurred and appeared on top of the watchtower.

Following that, Hyunjun Hyun jumped over the wall from his spot, and Namgung Cheon kicked off the rock next to the wall and jumped over the wall with a running start.

As Baek Yoonjun continued to look far away from the top of the watchtower, Hyunjun Hyun and Namgung Cheon also came up to the watchtower.

"Great Hero Baek, time is of the essence, what are you looking at?"

"Over there."

Baek Yoonjun pointed to one place at Namgung Cheon's words.

There, a child was sprinkling something at a group dressed in black.

-It's poison!!

-This damn brat is using poison?!

-Damn it, I thought it was an assassin!

Baek Yoonjun muttered as he watched the scene.

"It seems we weren't the ones who were discovered. The commotion earlier must have been because that child caused trouble at the perfect timing."

The two also agreed with Baek Yoonjun's words and watched the scene unfolding a little distance away.

A child, a girl with a strange appearance who looked to be not even of learning age.

A girl covered in red and blue scars and wounds, wounds that didn't seem to be from a sword, was sprinkling a powder presumed to be poison from her bosom at a group presumed to be assassins.

-When did this damn brat escape?!

-This wicked girl!!

The poison seemed to be quite potent, as the people near the girl collapsed, spewing a blackish liquid, and the remaining assassins couldn't approach the girl and just circled around her.

"Hah, even if she used poison, to stand up to that group of assassins so bravely, she's a child with guts."

Namgung Cheon admired the girl.

"But the situation doesn't look very good. We should help."

Hyunjun Hyun drew his bowstring.

"The sword of Diancang does not stop until it has pierced all evil!"

An arrow left Hyunjun Hyun's bow and pierced through quite a few assassins.

-Enemy!!

Baek Yoonjun glanced at Hyunjun Hyun's bow and then at the sword on Hyunjun Hyun's waist.

'Why does this old man have a sword but not use it, and while using a bow, he keeps talking about a sword?!'

There were one or two things he wanted to nitpick, but since Baek Yoonjun didn't have the guts to say such things, he just jumped down from the watchtower to deal with the assassins who had noticed them and were rushing over.

"The attacker is here!!"

Baek Yoonjun immediately cut down the assassin who was wrapped in black clothes and rushing at him.

'I don't see any particularly strong guys?'

As he scanned with his senses, he didn't see any particularly strong people, so he was relieved inwardly.

And so, as Baek Yoonjun was easily cutting the assassins' necks.

"Keuk!! Ugh!!"

Clang! Clang! Clang!!

Namgung Cheon, who was next to him, was struggling to block the assassins' swords.

Baek Yoonjun felt a great sense of incongruity as he watched the scene.

'The sword form he's using is clearly a heavy sword, so why is he just flailing it around?'

Namgung Cheon's sword looked heavy.

However, he was flailing it around as if swinging a light sword.

Since there was no harmony at all, neither the heaviness of a heavy sword nor the softness of a light sword was visible.

Baek Yoonjun cut down the necks of the assassins around Namgung Cheon in one go and asked.

"Brother Cheon. Why on earth are you swinging your sword like that?"

"That's... I've become disillusioned with my family, so a proper sword style isn't coming out."

Baek Yoonjun looked at Namgung Cheon's sword intently.

"Keoheok!"

And yet, he didn't forget to cut the assassins' necks.

'Hmm, looking at that, it seems like it would work if I move it in a circular motion like this.'

Along with Baek Yoonjun's thought, Baek Yoonjun's sword style changed.

Baek Yoonjun's body moved as if rotating slowly, and his sword did the same.

The sight of Baek Yoonjun's white robe and black sword moving as if flowing was like.

"Taegeuk?"

Namgung Cheon felt something flash in his mind as he watched the scene.

That light shone brightly and then exploded.

Darkness and light, yin and yang.

'Yin and yang are originally one.'

Namgung Cheon wanted to consolidate his enlightenment a little more, but now was not the time.

Although Baek Yoonjun was wiping out all the assassins as they came, and Hyunjun Hyun was piercing the foreheads of all the assassins who tried to shoot hidden weapons or arrows from afar.

'Wouldn't it be fine without me?'

Namgung Cheon shook off the thought that came to his mind and jumped into the battlefield.

The color of the Namgung heavy sword had long since disappeared from the sword he was wielding, and it had become a sword that resembled the Taegeuk.

Baek Yoonjun noticed Namgung Cheon's state.

'It's much better than before.'

Feeling that Namgung Cheon's sword had stabilized, Baek Yoonjun changed back to his own sword style and raised his aura.

"Keoheok!"

"I can't block it!"

There were no assassins who could stop Baek Yoonjun's advance, and Baek Yoonjun's figure was already next to the girl who had been sprinkling poison earlier.

"Are you okay?"

As Baek Yoonjun spoke next to the girl, the girl was startled and tried to sprinkle the poison in her bosom at Baek Yoonjun.

"I am not an enemy."

Baek Yoonjun quickly grabbed the girl's hand.

"It's okay. I'm here to help. Child, what is your name?"

The girl was surprised that her hand was grabbed, but she soon nodded her head and opened her mouth.

"Tang Yuhwa."

Baek Yoonjun's thoughts stopped for a moment at the girl, Tang Yuhwa's words.

Because it was a way of speaking he had never heard in the Central Plains.

Tang Yuhwa, who saw that, immediately waved her hands.

"Not rude. No misunderstanding."

Having said that, Tang Yuhwa opened her mouth wide with both her index fingers and stuck out her tongue.

Tang Yuhwa's tongue was red, blue, and greenish, as if it had been pickled in poison.

"Poison experiment. Tongue is stiff."

"..."

"So speak short."

Baek Yoonjun, seeing Tang Yuhwa's miserable state, his eyes flashed and he turned to the assassins.

"These heaven-defying bastards!!"

Baek Yoonjun's aura turned ferocious.

Baek Yoonjun's figure shot towards the assassins, and the assassins' bodies were torn to shreds as if caught in a storm.

"Ah, misunderstanding. I'm a doctor, I experimented with poison on my own body, so I'm very poisoned."

Thanks to that, Tang Yuhwa's last words did not reach Baek Yoonjun's ears.

Thanks to that, dozens of innocent assassins were torn to shreds.

Baek Yoonjun, who had torn apart the surrounding assassins, approached Tang Yuhwa.

"The wicked bastards who used people as test subjects have all been killed. Rest assured, child."

At Baek Yoonjun's words, who spoke affectionately while placing his hand on her shoulder, Tang Yuhwa blinked her eyes.

"Didn't you hear? Poison, I tested it on my own body."

"Huh?"

"And I'm not a child."

Baek Yoonjun blinked his eyes at Tang Yuhwa's words.

Tang Yuhwa looked at Baek Yoonjun with a sullen face and continued.

"I'm long past learning age."

At the shocking words that followed, Baek Yoonjun couldn't say anything and closed his mouth, scanning Tang Yuhwa's body.

Leaving aside the red and blue body that looked like it had been slathered with poison.

'This body is long past learning age?'

Baek Sowol was small because she was really young.

But the girl in front of him was five or six years older than Baek Sowol.

But her height was only about one or two inches different from Baek Sowol's, and she was so small that if they stood together, they could be seen as the same age.

Tang Yuhwa, as if she had noticed Baek Yoonjun's gaze long ago, looked up at Baek Yoonjun with a blank expression.

"I didn't grow because of the poison."

"Uh, uh, right."

"It's true!"

Baek Yoonjun could only agree and nod his head at Tang Yuhwa's confident words.

(End of Chapter)