Monochrome Sovereign (Novel) - Chapter 114 - The Price of Insult (2)
Chapter 114 – The Price of Insult (2)
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Translated by Heavenly Cat
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Murong Yeon-hwa was inwardly startled, but she didn’t show it on the outside.
“What nonsense are you talking about? Do you think you’ll be fine after making things this way?”
Yeon Ho-jeong, who had been staring blankly at Murong Yeon-hwa, snapped his index finger and thumb.
“Muk Bi.”
“Yes?”
Yeon Ho-jeong threw three chopsticks that had been rolling around on the table.
Muk Bi, who received the chopsticks, looked at him with questioning eyes.
“There are three. You know, right?”
Three?
Muk Bi, who was wondering what he meant, suddenly felt a bizarre sensation.
‘Someone is watching this place?’
Muk Bi looked out the window. It was in three places: North, East, and South.
Yeon Ho-jeong spoke calmly.
“I don’t want what happens between us to be known to others.”
In an instant, Muk Bi realized what Yeon Ho-jeong was talking about.
Thud!
Stepping strongly on the floor, she threw the chopsticks in her hand.
Piiiiing!
Even though she threw three, it felt like she threw one. The sound of cutting through the air sounded sharp.
Thwack! Thump!
Startled voices were heard from outside the window.
“Kyaaak!”
“W-What is it? Is it a person?!”
“A person fell!”
Murong Yeon-hwa’s eyes trembled.
“You…?”
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled.
“I don’t really like bugs hovering around.”
They were the Desolate Wind Pavilion intelligence agents.
The Lake Fresh Great Joy Tower was the best tavern in Zhejiang where only those with qualifications could enter. Therefore, Murong Yeon-hwa’s attendants were waiting at a high-class tavern a little distance away from here.
However, the Desolate Wind Pavilion was different. They were watching this place every moment.
But no matter how great their hiding techniques were, it was not enough to deceive Yeon Ho-jeong. Muk Bi, too, was at a level where she could somehow catch them if she fully opened her senses.
Murong Yeon-hwa looked at Muk Bi.
‘…!’
Muk Bi’s two eyes had already become sharp like blades.
‘A master?!’
Murong Yeon-hwa was startled.
She too knew that Muk Bi had learned martial arts. But the internal energy she felt and her gait were by no means that of a master.
She was wrong.
Muk Bi’s true martial arts resided in a realm that Murong Yeon-hwa could not catch up to. Even her gait had simply become ordinary because her movement and footwork states were too outstanding.
‘How could this be!’
She had misjudged the person.
She thought she was just an ordinary woman Yeon Ho-jeong carried around. Her face was fairly pretty, but she looked so naive that she was certain she was a second-rate martial artist ignorant of the world.
The descendants of the merchant alliance were also in shock.
Because she looked mild and stupid, they thought she was just a lowly Murim person of low status, but that wasn’t the case. The subtle energy radiating from Muk Bi was incredibly great enough to make their hearts tremble.
“Now speak.”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes turned cold.
“Why did you mess with Muk Bi?”
Murong Yeon-hwa calmly retorted.
“What do you mean? It was this side that caused trouble first, not me.”
“You didn’t directly cause trouble. However, you probably manipulated them with that venomous snake-like tongue of yours so they would mess with her on their own.”
Murong Yeon-hwa’s eyes deepened.
“Stop insulting me. Do you think you’ll be fine even after doing this?”
Her tone of voice changed roughly.
Yeon Ho-jeong chuckled.
“Why? Is burying one guy like me easy for you?”
“Of course. Even though the Yeon Clan’s prestige has grown quite a bit recently, it cannot be compared to the Murong Clan. If the main family makes up its mind, burying a single Yeon Clan is not difficult.”
“Can’t you think about why they still haven’t been able to do that not difficult thing?”
“At least it’s not because of you.”
“That is why your father does not appoint you as the Young Clan Head.”
“…What did you say?”
“Although you are smart, you are still a greenhorn who only sees what she wants to see. That’s why he doesn’t appoint you as the Young Clan Head. By any chance, are you still consoling yourself thinking you can’t be the Young Clan Head because you’re a woman?”
Murong Yeon-hwa’s cheeks twitched.
The opponent touched her reverse scale. She felt a stronger anger soaring up than ever before.
“If you insult me with such wicked words one more time…!”
Whoosh.
Murong Yeon-hwa was startled.
Yeon Ho-jeong, who was five steps away, was already standing right in front of her, looking down at her.
“If I insult you?”
“…!”
“Even if I kill you right here, there are no bastards to report it, so what are you going to do?”
Murong Yeon-hwa’s eyes wavered fiercely.
‘This bastard!’
Only now did she understand the reason why he eliminated the Desolate Wind Pavilion watching this place.
Yeon Ho-jeong had completely turned this place into an independent space. Although there were many people eating, this problem was a fight between descendants of the Six Great Clans. Their eyes or opinions did not exert much power.
Of course, he probably couldn’t really kill her. But suppressing or trampling her was no problem.
Since if Yeon Ho-jeong’s side claimed it wasn’t true anyway, she would have nothing to say.
“You truly are a petty man.”
“I wouldn’t hesitate to do any petty thing to smash my opponent.”
Murong Yeon-hwa bit her lip.
‘Damn it.’
At least for now, there was no way to resist Yeon Ho-jeong.
Whether it was Yeon Ho-jeong or Muk Bi, they were masters with martial arts several levels above hers. Besides, neither the Desolate Wind Pavilion nor her escort warriors were here.
She had become completely alone. That fact embarrassed her greatly.
“I will ask you one last time.”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes spewed fire.
“What is the reason you messed with Muk Bi?”
Murong Yeon-hwa twitched her lips.
“…Is that so important?”
Smack!
Murong Yeon-hwa opened her mouth wide.
‘…What?’
Her waist folded in half. Yeon Ho-jeong’s knee had struck her abdomen.
Yeon Ho-jeong looked down at Murong Yeon-hwa with cold eyes.
“You listened to the word ‘last’ in vain.”
“Keuheuk!”
“Goodbye.”
Thud!
Murong Yeon-hwa spat blood and retreated. She was hit in the jaw by a palm strike.
Her head was shaken by the powerful release of internal force. She couldn’t come to her senses.
Was it fortunate that her jaw wasn’t shattered at least.
‘Eek!’
Even while she was out of her mind, Murong Yeon-hwa reached out her hand.
Wooooong!
The internal energy erupting from her delicate hand was incredibly sharp. It was the North Wind Divine Hand of the Murong Clan.
Baaang!
Yeon Ho-jeong’s fist simply smashed the hand technique’s internal energy and struck her thigh.
Crack!
“Aaaah!”
An immense pain swept through her entire lower body.
It wasn’t broken, but it was enough to make her kneel. She completely had no sensation in her entire lower body.
Murong Yeon-hwa hurriedly raised her head.
Before she knew it, he was holding his fist up.
Whooooosh!
A translucent white vortex swirled around his fist.
‘Heuk!’
I’m going to die.
The internal energy he gathered in an instant was terrifying. It was a momentum to smash her head with a single blow.
“You looked at me too lightly.”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s murderous voice made Murong Yeon-hwa’s heart beat twice as fast.
‘It’s a bluff.’
It had to be a bluff. If he killed her now, Yeon Ho-jeong would not be safe either. No, not just Yeon Ho-jeong, but the entire Yeon Clan would become a sea of fire.
He absolutely cannot kill me. It’s just a threat.
Vrooooom!
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled like a ghost and swung his fist.
Murong Yeon-hwa’s pupils shrank drastically.
‘He will stop! He’ll stop!’
Even before the fist touched her, her hair was already blowing backwards from the fist wind.
Time seemed to pass slowly. Like ripples causing waves, the fist pouring down while pushing the air away looked slow.
‘He absolutely cannot kill me…!’
At that moment, Murong Yeon-hwa saw Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes.
Those eyes burning with sincere murderous intent. A crimson murderous intent cast within the unique blue energy was visible.
The murderous intent of a ferocious beast.
Murong Yeon-hwa tightly closed her eyes.
“There was no reason!!”
Kwakakak!
A terrifying sound rang throughout the entire floor.
“Heuk! Heuk!”
Murong Yeon-hwa panted. Honest fear was colored in her two slowly opened eyes.
She really almost died.
Murong Yeon-hwa trembled and looked back.
‘Heuk!’
Behind her, the floor and wall were a mess, as if they had been crushed by a heavy blade storm.
‘This bastard…!’
It wasn’t something to be happy about that she survived.
Although retrieving his internal energy in the middle was also amazing, the sight created by the fist pressure was terrifyingly amazing.
If he hadn’t withdrawn his power, her entire upper body would have been completely crushed. It wasn’t a fist technique pressed down with strength, but an Internal Force Emission Fist thrown with Silk-Reeling Energy.
External and internal, it grinds everything away and makes it disappear.
It was a terrifying killing move. If he hadn’t intended to erase the existence of Murong Yeon-hwa itself, there would have been no need to launch such an attack.
“There was no reason?”
Murong Yeon-hwa bit her lip.
“…Yes.”
“By having no reason, it means you picked a fight just because she was my companion, right?”
“…”
“The answer?”
Murong Yeon-hwa spoke in a venomous voice.
“Yes! I did!”
Surprisingly, that was the truth.
Murong Yeon-hwa sincerely wanted to torment Muk Bi, so she made them pick a fight. There was no grandiose justification or hatred in it.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes deepened.
“You’re a bitch worse than a scoundrel of the Black Path.”
Shiver.
Murong Yeon-hwa’s body trembled. It was not because of fear, but because of indignation.
She wanted to scream if she could, but she kept her mouth shut. Because she realized that bursting her emotions here would only be a loss.
‘Damn it! Damn it!’
Originally, she was not a person who made such childish mistakes.
The reason Murong Jun cherished her was because of her cold heart and high-level intellect. Murong Yeon-hwa had never disappointed Murong Jun.
However, there was a side of her that Murong Jun didn’t know about.
It was her inferiority complex.
Unbeknownst to them, Murong Jun had inflicted many wounds on Murong Yeon-hwa’s pride. Most of it was because of the Young Clan Head issue.
But recently, an existence appeared that inflicted a much greater wound on her pride.
Yeon Ho-jeong.
Murong Yeon-hwa could not stand her father praising Yeon Ho-jeong as a more outstanding talent than herself.
Because if she admitted that, it would mean acknowledging that she could not become the Young Clan Head not because of her gender, but because of her abilities.
Once a wounded heart has a great impact on a person’s life.
Moreover, the sight of the Desolate Wind Pavilion intelligence agent returning dumb made her hot blood surge to the top of her head. Because she thought Yeon Ho-jeong was mocking her.
Attaching an intelligence agent in the first place was a mistake. However, she could not admit it, no, she could not even recognize it.
Her shaken pride and anger drove the situation to this point.
Murong Yeon-hwa suddenly raised her head.
“How dare you use a killing move on the eldest daughter of the great Murong Clan! The main family will absolutely never forgive the Yeon Clan!”
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled.
“It’s good that you’re putting in effort, but you will never be able to surpass the main family in your lifetime.”
“You…!”
Thud!
Murong Yeon-hwa collapsed just like that. Her sleeping acupoint was struck.
Yeon Ho-jeong spoke to the descendants of the merchant alliance.
“Take care of her on your own. And…”
He whispered a few words into a young man’s ear.
At the same time, his face turned pale.
“T-The Murong Clan?!”
Yeon Ho-jeong patted the young man’s shoulder.
“You wouldn’t want to completely go bankrupt, right? You just took your first step.”
“I-Is that true?”
“Why would I tell a lie that will be exposed? It’s a fact you can know immediately if you check.”
“Heuk!”
“You have to cause trouble in moderation to be forgiven. I’m sure you don’t want to end up on the streets looking like beggars. You shouldn’t drive such a nail into your parents’ hearts.”
“…”
“Act wisely. Got it?”
“…A-Understood!”
Yeon Ho-jeong, who patted the young man’s shoulder several times, picked up his axe and walked over to Muk Bi.
“I’m starving to death, I just wasted my energy. Let’s go outside and eat.”
“Will it be okay?”
“Huh?”
Muk Bi looked around at Murong Yeon-hwa and the descendants of the merchant alliance with worried eyes.
“If by any chance they hold a grudge…”
“Don’t worry. By the time that bitch who can’t distinguish between front and back wakes up, the world will have changed a little.”
“Yes?”
“There’s no way I would beat her up like that without a thought.”
Even if Murong Yeon-hwa said she didn’t want to go, he had to forcibly send her to Murong Yu.
He wanted to make her incapable of recovering for the rest of her life, but now was not the time.
‘As prey for Murong Yu, someone on the level of Murong Yeon-hwa wouldn’t be bad.’
Seeing Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes sparkling as if he was looking forward to it, Muk Bi smiled.
“I don’t really know, but hasn’t your father suffered a lot of headaches because of you?”
“If I wasn’t his child, I might have died.”
“Heh.”
“Let’s go. Let’s go and have a drink today too.”
“Are you buying?”
“What a thing to say when you don’t even have money.”
“I have a lot of money.”
“Where would you have money?”
“Your father gave me an allowance.”
“What? To you?”
“Yes.”
“Damn it. Then you buy.”
“No going back on your words.”
“I can. You buy today.”
“Okay, then.”
“Hahaha.”
“Do you have to laugh like that?”
“Making a fuss over how I laugh.”
It seemed they had completely forgotten the bloody atmosphere from just a moment ago.
The faces of the two people leaving the Lake Fresh Tower looked quite happy.