Volume 6 Chapter 2 – Seamless Heavenly Robe

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Translated by Rain

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Luoyang Sword Family.

Special Grade Closed-Door Training Center.

A warrior entered the entrance of the closed-door training center hesitantly.

Due to the dazzling afternoon sunlight, the interior looked dark for a very brief moment.

However, like a martial artist born with a talent for managing qi, the scenery of the interior came clearly into his view as soon as he blinked his eyelids once.

“This is the closed-door training center…?”

In his memory, his sect’s closed-door training center was merely a word to describe a mountain cave nicely.

It absolutely did not refer to a five-story pavilion packed tightly between cliffs on both sides.

“Incredible…”

At his voice muttered with a dumbfounded expression, the woman who was guiding him smiled and spoke.

“Because this is the Special Grade Closed-Door Training Center.”

“Ah…!”

“However, the closed-door training centers used by general warriors also always receive high scores in usage evaluations.”

“Ah, yes. I see…”

The two headed inward along a hallway made of polished rock.

“Fufu. It seems you are not yet accustomed to the Main Family.”

Despite the woman’s subtly boastful tone, the warrior, intimidated by the facilities, merely nodded his head.

“I was active in the north of Gansu Province, and it hasn’t been long since I joined the Sword Family, no. The Main Family…”

It was still awkward to refer to the Sword Family as the Main Family.

“Fufu. Right. You should call it the Main Family. Since the Kongtong Sect is also a member of our Luoyang Sword Family.”

The warrior smiled bitterly.

“Indeed, Kongtong Sect is now a part of the Sword Family…”

“Not a part, but one family.”

“Yes, a family.”

Although he replied so, it was still awkward to consider them as one family or a member.

The Kongtong Sect was merely a subordinate sect of the Luoyang Sword Family.

He felt needlessly embarrassed by the worn-out hilt of his old sword.

It had been about ten years since the Kongtong Sect was absorbed into the Luoyang Sword Family and practically dissolved into thin air.

He had drifted around Gansu with only his master, like floating duckweed.

However, for those who had no place to lean on and were ignorant of the ways of the world, earning living expenses through ‘rightful methods’ was by no means an easy task.

Eventually, after his master’s death, he chose the path to the Luoyang Sword Family, just like the other members of the Kongtong Sect.

“If so, is this your first mission in the Main Family?”

The warrior, whose attention was caught by the sight of martial scholars sitting comfortably by a sunlit window, discussing martial arts politely, nodded his head.

“Yes. It is my first mission.”

Following his gaze, the woman smiled and explained.

“The Main Family’s closed-door training center always has martial scholars belonging to the Main Family’s Martial Arts Academy staying. They assist the user in modifying the martial arts to suit themselves.”

She shrugged her shoulders.

“Of course, as this is a Special Grade, more and better martial scholars are deployed here.”

The warrior’s steps stopped before he knew it.

“Did you say they adapt the martial arts to the user…?”

From master to disciple.

And from that disciple to the next.

The Old Orthodox Faction, which staked its life on correctly learning the transmitted form and the contained intent by pouring everything into the martial arts handed down through dozens of generations.

That was the sacred tradition.

“Of course. Aside from the patriarch who created the martial art, how many people would be perfectly suited to that martial art?”

The woman mocked the tradition of the Old Orthodox Faction.

“Those with outstanding talent, getting buried under past bad habits…”

Her eyes flashed.

“The Main Family absolutely does not tolerate that.”

She showed a fierce smile, then turned around and walked along the hallway.

The shocked warrior followed behind the woman without being able to say anything.

“Remember.”

The woman opened the massive door in front of her.

“To those with outstanding talent, the Main Family provides unlimited resources without stint.”

The money for that.

The power for that.

The force for that.

That was the Luoyang Sword Family.

As the door opened and sunlight poured in, a wide open space between cliffs revealed itself.

It was a training ground.

“…!”

The warrior could first smell a clear fragrance.

It was the fragrance of a pure spiritual medicine, to the point that his energy wriggled just by smelling it.

Apothecaries wearing the name tags of the famous Medicine Fairy Sect were adjusting instruments with cautious expressions.

Beside them, physicians who seemed to be deployed to prepare for any accidents were reading medical books.

Along the edge of the training ground, figures who had received the ‘same mission as the warrior himself’ were sitting with practice swords, taking a rest.

And in the center.

The woman pointed to the center of the training ground.

“All of this exists solely for that person.”

A young lady engaged in a fierce discussion with the martial scholars.

A body with a height matching that of an adult male, containing an explosive and fierce energy that could be felt just by looking at her briefly.

A momentum that seemed to overwhelm and captivate those gathered just by the energy flowing gently from her eyes.

At that presence of one who had clearly crossed the wall, the warrior swallowed his saliva.

“Is that person…”

To the words of the warrior who had received his first mission as the sparring opponent of that expert, the woman who had guided him smiled.

“Yes. That person is the one whose name is renowned in the Central Plains nation as the ‘Seamless Heavenly Robe.’ The Second Young Lady and the pride of this Luoyang Sword Family, Lady Yeon Seo-rin.”

* * *

A while later, mealtime.

Second Young Lady Yeon Seo-rin was having a meal with her personal maids.

“Ugh…, spiritual medicine meal. It tastes terrible. Truly terrible.”

As if to show her easygoing personality, she was eating while sitting in the most comfortable posture possible.

Of course, it was a behavior possible because it was a place others dared not enter.

One of her personal maids said with a laugh.

“Do not sneakily spill it, and make sure to chew and eat it all.”

Another personal maid also said with a laugh.

“If you spill it on purpose, we will retrieve everything dropped on the floor and make you eat it again.”

“We won’t let you off just because dirt and dust got on it.”

The Second Young Lady, feeling the thick bitter taste rising every time she chewed, looked at the maids with an uncomfortable expression.

“…Do not go anywhere and say that you have served and accompanied me all your life.”

“Rather than that.”

The personal maids cleanly ignored those words as usual.

“How was that new recruit who just entered?”

“They said he was a hunter who experienced real combat in the martial world for a long time, and his momentum was quite fierce?”

The Second Young Lady swallowed the food by force and replied.

“Ah, that Kongtong swordsman?”

And she shook her head immediately.

“I called him because I heard he started empty-handed and survived for a long time in the harsh northern Gansu, thinking he might have learned Kongtong’s secret teachings…”

She smacked her lips.

“He was nothing special.”

At her words, the personal maids wore bitter smiles.

“To call a human hunter, who killed several demon heads in Gansu, nothing special.”

“He was an expert who survived solely on bounties for over ten years after Kongtong was practically dissolved.”

The Second Young Lady shrugged her shoulders.

“If he’s nothing special, he’s nothing special.”

The Kongtong swordsman had shown a dumbfounded face after the sparring, but in truth, the one who was more disappointed was herself.

“…Well, still, his senses seemed quite useful. So, rather than Kongtong’s martial arts, it seemed better for him to learn Mt. Heng’s modified Martial Statue Sword Form. If not that, considering his constitution, would it be better to learn our family’s Sword Heart, Sword Ring…?”

Seeing the Second Young Lady lost in her own world of martial arts as usual, the maids exchanged glances and let out small sighs.

“Indeed, a martial arts idiot…”

“Is she now taking care of others’ training, not just her own?”

As the Second Young Lady seemed to have fallen into her own world and had no intention of returning for a while, the personal maids began to chatter among themselves.

“By the way, did you hear?”

“Is it the story about those people who are scheduled to visit the Main Family in a short while?”

The two looked at each other with meaningful expressions and shouted in unison.

“Tea Fan Maiden!”

They squealed, stamping their feet while sitting on their chairs.

“Maybe a branch of Tea Fan Maiden will be established in Luoyang!”

“Then maybe Tea Fan Maiden’s accessories will be supplied to the Main Family too…?!”

“Then perhaps we, as the personal maids of the Second Young Lady, might also get at least one…?!”

At that clamor, the Second Young Lady snapped out of it and looked at them.

“What is Tea Fan Maiden…?”

The Second Young Lady, who knew nothing but martial arts and merely went around as others decorated her, had no way of knowing about Tea Fan Maiden.

“How…?”

But at that question, the personal maids looked at their mistress with eyes that could not believe it.

“You do not know Tea Fan Maiden now…?”

And a storm of explanation and praise regarding Tea Fan Maiden was mercilessly poured upon the Second Young Lady.

“I get it! I get it!”

Unable to bear it, the Second Young Lady covered her ears and shouted.

“I was wrong! I was wrong!”

Only after shooting back for quite a while longer did the two personal maids let the Second Young Lady go.

Leaving the Second Young Lady who looked as if her soul had left her body, they continued their chatter among themselves.

“By the way, they say the field Tea Fan Maiden is showing interest in lately is art pieces?”

“That’s right. Having discovered unknown craftsmen and elevated the world of accessories to the realm of art, they are now showing interest in real art too!”

“Ohh. Indeed, what kind of new wind will they blow into the art world…!”

“That’s why they accepted the invitation of the Eldest Young Master, who is one of the most famous artists in the entire Central Plains nation…!”

It was a slip of the tongue.

Even though the other personal maid hurriedly covered her mouth, the words that had already slipped out had entered the Second Young Lady’s ears.

“What did you say…?”

The personal maid who covered the other’s mouth replied while sweating cold sweat.

“No, no. It is not so. It was a simple slip of the tongue. I meant to say the Fourth Young Master, but made a mistake.”

When she removed the hand covering her mouth, the maid who made the mistake also nodded hurriedly.

“Indeed. I meant to say the Fourth Young Master. The Fourth Young Master invited Tea Fan Maiden.”

“Do I look like an idiot?”

Veins bulged on the Second Young Lady’s hand.

“Yeon Bi. That fellow is someone who tinkers with poison, not the most famous artist in the Central Plains nation.”

The dining table, which had not even been touched, began to shake as if an earthquake had occurred, and a teacup fell over.

“Speak.”

The personal maids had no choice but to nod.

* * *

“So-hyeon, that child ended his seclusion?!”

The personal maids bowed their heads and could not say anything.

“To think no one told me about that?!”

The Second Young Lady, pacing around the room, picked up her practice sword.

“I must go see him right now.”

At that, the two personal maids jumped up from their seats and stopped her.

“You cannot, Lady!”

“If you break your closed-door training and go out, the Lord of the Law Enforcement Court will unleash his fury!”

The Second Young Lady’s steps stopped.

“Master…?”

The personal maids did their best to stop her.

“He gave orders to everyone in this closed-door training center absolutely not to let you out!”

The Second Young Lady spoke while showing her back.

“…And he must have also ordered not to let stories of my younger brother reach my ears.”

The personal maids could not answer.

“I shall disobey Master’s orders just this once.”