"Please let me marry Xiulian. Right now!"
Hua Yunhui shouted with a breathless face.
But Tang Huazong just looked at Tang Xiulian with a face that was close to indifferent.
"Uncle!"
Hua Yunhui shouted again.
Only then did Tang Huazong open his mouth.
"Can you handle it?"
"What?"
"She's my daughter, but she's a really tough kid."
"......?"
"Don't you know?"
"What do you mean?"
"She's using her dying life as a stake to get you to marry her."
"She's really dying!"
"That's why she's a tough kid."
"......!"
"Save her. If you two want it, I'll let you marry. But know that there won't be a single penny for a dowry or anything. You insolent brat!"
Tang Huazong went outside.
At this time, Tang Xiulian's mother shot up and grabbed Hua Yunhui.
"What are you doing, not treating her quickly!"
"Ah!"
Hua Yunhui, who had come to his senses with a start, lifted the blanket that was covering Tang Xiulian's body.
"I'll be outside, so if you need anything, let me know."
Tang Xiulian's uncle, Tang Huaping, said that and then went outside.
In the room, only Hua Yunhui, Tang Xiulian's mother, and the patient, Tang Xiulian, were left.
Hua Yunhui carefully took off Tang Xiulian's upper garment and began to examine the wound, and Tang Xiulian's mother watched the scene with an anxious face.
Meanwhile, Cho Myung was waiting in the front yard of the inner court.
The martial artists of the Tang family were wary of Cho Myung, as if just in case.
"Who are you?"
The head of the Tang family, Tang Huazong, who had come out first, discovered Cho Myung.
"I'm from the Hua Family Clinic."
Cho Myung answered.
Tang Huazong just stared blankly and said no more.
"What's going on?"
Tang Huaping, who had come out behind him, asked.
"He's a peculiar kid."
At Tang Huazong's words, Tang Huaping also turned his gaze to Cho Myung.
And he examined him for a long time.
"What's so peculiar?"
"Don't you know?"
"No."
"He has the scent of Taoism."
"Do you mean he seems to have learned the martial arts of the Taoist sect?"
"No, it's different."
"Then?"
"Just because you learn the martial arts of the Taoist sect doesn't mean you really have a scent."
"He really has a scent...! Come to think of it, he does smell good."
Seeing Tang Huaping's tone, it seemed he could feel it faintly. And it seemed he was thinking of it as the scent from a sachet that women use.
Tang Huazong frowned and said.
"It's not just a scent. It won't disappear even if you go into the water all day and come out."
"What?"
"It's a scent that comes from inside the body like a body odor. It seems that when you train in the studies of Taoism for a long time and get close to the realm of enlightenment, a scent peculiar to Taoism is generated along with the internal energy."
"What is that...!"
"I've met numerous masters of Taoism so far, but there was only one person who had the scent of Taoism."
"Who is that person?"
"The Divine Sword of Huashan."
"Ah!"
The Divine Sword of Huashan.
A genius of swordsmanship who was known to have entered the absolute realm at the age of fifty.
Tang Huaping nodded his head as if to say that anything could be possible for him.
"To even have the scent of Taoism, the Divine Sword of Huashan must be amazing."
"This kid is more."
"What?"
"This kid's scent is stronger."
"......!"
Tang Huaping just stared at Cho Myung with a face that could not hide his bewilderment.
'This child has a stronger scent of Taoism than the Divine Sword of Huashan? Surely he couldn't have reached a higher absolute realm than the Divine Sword of Huashan, what on earth could be the case?'
At this time, Tang Huazong asked Cho Myung.
"Did you learn the martial arts of Taoism?"
"No."
Cho Myung, who was staring blankly, and Tang Huazong, who was making a face as if to say 'what on earth is this kid?'.
"Did you learn martial arts?"
"Yes."
"What is your sect?"
"My sect?"
"Who is your master?"
"The Fighting Demon."
At the words 'Fighting Demon', Tang Huazong and Tang Huaping made a face as if they had been hit.
"Did you learn to punch?"
"Yes."
The title 'Fighting Demon' and punching.
It was certainly the Fighting Demon who had once caused a considerable stir in the martial world.
'Then what is this scent?'
It was when Tang Huazong's curiosity was deepening.
The door behind him burst open and Hua Yunhui shouted.
"I need red honey!"
Tang Huazong and Tang Huaping looked back.
"Red honey!"
Hua Yunhui shouted again.
Red honey is a type of honey also called fire spirit honey.
The honey that bees call red oil bees, because their bodies are red as if they were coated with red oil, collect is red honey, and the reason this honey is needed is because it is an elixir with the property of extreme yang.
What was driving Tang Xiulian to death now was an energy with the property of extreme yin. So it had to be treated with the energy of extreme yang.
The reason red honey was also called fire spirit honey was because they only collected honey from the fire spirit grass, and since the fire spirit grass was a very rare herb, red honey was also a very difficult to obtain and precious elixir.
"Where can we get that? Is there anything else?"
It meant, was there anything that could be substituted?
In the eyes of Hua Yunhui, who was frowning and contemplating, he saw Cho Myung.
"Don't you have any fire spirit grass?"
Hua Yunhui shouted and asked Tang Huazong.
Before Tang Huazong could answer his question, Tang Huaping answered.
"There's one root."
"Bring it quickly. Quickly!"
When Hua Yunhui shouted, Tang Huaping looked at Tang Huazong. And when Tang Huazong nodded, he ran off in a hurry.
"Will it work with the fire spirit grass?"
Tang Huazong asked with a puzzled face.
It was because he had looked for red honey at first.
"No. It's not even close with the fire spirit grass."
"Then what are you going to do?"
"I have to find red honey. There will be a hive of red oil bees where there is a lot of fire spirit grass."
"......!"
The logic was right, but when would he find it?
"What on earth are you going to do?"
"Myung will find it. You will, right?"
The question at the end was directed at Cho Myung.
"Yes."
Tang Huazong's gaze turned to Cho Myung.
With a bewildered face.
"Now...!"
The moment Tang Huazong was about to shout, asking if he was teasing him, Tang Huaping returned. Since it was such an urgent situation, he had even used his lightness skill.
"Here it is."
"Where did you dig it?"
"I heard it was Mount Emei."
"Myung, Mount Emei is half a day's distance south from the clinic."
Hua Yunhui threw the red herb, the fire spirit grass, to Cho Myung.
"I know Mount Emei too. Big brother Cheong told me about it."
"There will be a hive where there is a lot of fire spirit grass. It's a bee that looks like it's coated with red oil. Bring the whole hive."
"Yes."
"Myung."
"Yes?"
"It's two days at the latest. If you can't find it within that time, your sister-in-law will die."
Hua Yunhui's face looked very hardened.
Cho Myung nodded as if he understood.
"I will definitely find it!"
"I'm counting on you!"
At Hua Yunhui's request, Cho Myung nodded vigorously once more.
At the sight of the two, Tang Huazong and Tang Huaping, who were making a face as if to say 'what on earth is this?', were soon to see an amazing sight.
Cho Myung kicked the ground and jumped up as if soaring into the sky, and then disappeared over the wall and dozens of zhang away.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
It was the sound of Cho Myung moving away.
Tang Huazong and Tang Huaping, who had looked at each other with surprised faces at the sound, turned to Hua Yunhui.
But Hua Yunhui had gone inside with a busy appearance.
Tang Xiulian's upper body was naked, without a single thread on it.
It was a beautiful body that suited the words 'body of a virgin'. But on that beautiful body, dozens of golden needles were densely inserted, making the viewer's heart ache.
"Is there, is there really no other way?"
"If a master whose martial arts have reached the absolute realm helps, it will be possible. Is there such a master?"
When Tang Xiulian's mother asked, Hua Yunhui answered by asking back.
There was no such master in the Tang family.
As far as she knew, there was no such master even among the people who were close to the head of the Tang family.
"To Tianlian, we should have gone to Tianlian from the beginning. Since she's a member of the Divine Martial Stage, someone there would have saved her. Why did she come here..."
Tang Xiulian's mother collapsed in her chair and just held Tang Xiulian's limp hand tightly.
Hua Yunhui could not say anything.
It was because he now knew the reason why Tang Xiulian had come to the Tang family and not to Tianlian.
'Just hold on until Myung comes back. It's not like you to go like this, so please hold on.'
The next day at dawn.
Hua Yunhui came out of the patient room.
It was because he had heard a sign of someone outside.
"I couldn't sleep, so I came."
It was none other than Tang Xiulian's father, Tang Huazong.
Although he had shown a cold appearance, saying things like 'how dare you' and 'I won't give you a single penny even if I allow the marriage', in the end, a father was a father. How could he sleep with his dying daughter?
"What about Xiulian's mother?"
"She's inside."
Tang Huazong, who had nodded at Hua Yunhui's answer, stared blankly at the patient room window and then suddenly asked.
"Were you very disappointed?"
"What?"
"About breaking off your engagement."
"It was a natural thing, how could I be?"
"Yes, it had to be done that way. Because the power of the Tang family was not enough to protect even you in the land of An."
"What?"
"The Tang family has many enemies. When the divine doctor was here, the clinic was so great that even the most formidable people could not look down on the clinic, but now that it's just you, it's not. If I send Xiulian to you, I don't know what the people who have a grudge against the Tang family will do. I thought about bringing you, but you wouldn't be the type to do that."
"Yes."
Hua Yunhui answered heavily.
He had never really resented or been disappointed.
He just hated his own situation that had become like that.
But to think that it was because they didn't want to put them in danger.
It was an unexpected story.
Was it because it was the world of martial artists?
Or were the thoughts of adults really different?
Regardless of right or wrong, it was really unexpected.
"Take Xiulian. There won't be a grand wedding ceremony. Anyway, the elders of the clinic are not here, and the important thing is your hearts that are willing to die, isn't it?"
"Thank you."
"There's no need for thanks between us. Just save Xiulian. She's your wife now."
"She will definitely get up."
"I believe so too. Because of Xiulian's personality, I don't think she'll go like this."
It was the same thought.
If it was Xiulian, it seemed she would overcome any serious condition.
Her innate nature was that lively.
"By the way, I don't know if that child can bring the red honey. If he is stung by the sting of a red oil bee, he will be paralyzed."
"Myung will be fine. It's a body that even golden needles can't enter."
"......?"
"Ah! This is a secret."
"You mean a body that golden needles can't be inserted into?"
"Yes. He has a peculiar body because he has obtained a fortuitous encounter. I can't say more than that."
"That's enough. It seems he has obtained a fortuitous encounter from the Taoist side. That's why he has such a strong scent of Taoism."
"......!"
This time, Hua Yunhui made a surprised face.
Although the reason why golden needles could not be inserted into Cho Myung's body was not because of a Taoist fortuitous encounter, it was true that Cho Myung had met a Taoist fortuitous encounter.
To have guessed that just by the scent, the insight of the head of the Tang family seemed amazing.
"Hmm, the fist art of the Fighting Demon and a Taoist fortuitous encounter... Depending on what kind of Taoist fortuitous encounter it is, it could be amazing. Thinking about the lightness skill I saw yesterday, it seems to be on the amazing side. Don't you think so?"
"I don't know to what extent. Since I'm a layman in martial arts. But it seems the demonic factions couldn't even move. It seems there was a problem on the way back after coming to Chengdu, but they couldn't even move at Myung's punching."
At Hua Yunhui's words, Tang Huazong showed a slightly surprised reaction.
"The Ten Thousand Iron Sect! I heard that the old man named Han, the head of the family, was finished, so it was that child who did it!"
Although the Tang family was a place that lived quietly as if it were there and not there, they were carefully watching at least Chengdu and the surrounding area of Chengdu.
Although the demonic factions were always noisy, the fact that a man named Han, the head of a family of the Ten Thousand Iron Sect, had been defeated in one punch by a child in his mid-teens was quite a stir.
"I don't know if they'll stay still."
"What do you mean, 'they'?"
"Huh? Ah, no."
Tang Huazong mumbled and stared at Hua Yunhui.
He had thought that moving the Tang family away was to protect the Hua Yunhui siblings, but it seemed the demonic factions had been bothering them instead.
'Did I shrink back too much?'
He could not help but think of his daughter.
Although she had not been injured on purpose, when she had been injured close to death, she had risked danger to obtain her love.
She had acted opposite to him, who had moved away and kept a distance to protect her. And in the end, she had obtained it.
'Yes, that there is nothing that can be obtained for free is the way of the world.'
Tang Huazong nodded his head greatly. And he turned around with his hands behind his back.
The world was submerged in the dim light.
'If you sit down because you can't see, you can't go in the end.'
It was when Tang Huazong's gaze was shining with determination.
From a distance, a very distant distance, a thudding sound began to be heard.
A familiar sound.
Moreover, it was getting closer and closer.
'Fast!'
When he had first caught the sound, it seemed to be coming from hundreds of zhang away. But in an instant, it seemed to be coming from dozens of zhang away, and then it broke through the dim air, shot up over the wall, and then fell down in front of Tang Huazong.
Thud!
"Myung!"
Hua Yunhui welcomed him.
"Big brother Yunhui, here!"
Cho Myung held out something.
It was a hive the size of an ox's head.
"It's really the hive of a red oil bee!"
Tang Huazong recognized it at once and looked back at Cho Myung.
"I'll go in. Myung, you've worked hard."
When Hua Yunhui hurriedly went in, Cho Myung sat down on the spot and then lay down on his back.
"I'll just rest for a moment."
And then he fell asleep.
At that sight, Tang Huazong could realize one fact.
"This kid, he didn't rest for a single moment!"
His own daughter, and Hua Yunhui, and now the child named Myung in front of him.
To have tried so hard to the point of death!
It was something beyond passion.
Tang Huazong, who was both grateful and surprised, looked down at the sleeping Cho Myung and stayed by his side.
(End of Chapter)