I Am This Murim’s Crazy Bitch
Chapter 230: Even Vagabonds Have Their Own Code Of Honor. (3)

As soon as she returned to the Wucheon Pavilion, Qing hurriedly changed her clothes.

After wrapping her whole body in arm warmers, she couldn’t bear how stuffy it was. It was a terrible feeling of suffocation, like being in a narrow room with hot steam blasting, or wearing a thick mascot costume in midsummer.

“Whew. I can breathe a bit now.”

With the wind freely entering the hemp clothes, she finally felt like she could live. At the same time, the flow of air in a narrow radius of about one step was vividly felt on her skin without seeing with her eyes.

After being released from the stuffiness of being tightly wrapped, it actually came more vividly.

Ah, so this is what it feels like to see all around without using your eyes.

They said that as you live with your senses opened, the range of flow detection gradually widens, so while it’s just barely one step, barely two inches of space now, it won’t be like that later.

Qing newly realized what Cheon Yuhak meant by calling it a trick.

Should it be called a kind of constitution improvement?

Ximen Surin’s education was a way of drawing out a sense of real combat to establish Qing’s fighting style and lead her to the next realm.

However, the Divine Thief’s transmission was about giving mysterious abilities rather than martial arts.

Of course, if a lineage passed down through single-line transmission relied on slow and orthodox skill training, it would have long since had its lifeline cut off and disappeared.

Come to think of it, there wasn’t much gain in terms of the subtleties of softness, was there?

It seemed like that’s what she was trying to learn originally.

In reality, only her joints had become softer.

Qing bent her wrist backwards.

Her wrist bending slightly over 90 degrees, and each joint of her fingers bending further back gently.

Anyone could do it if they pushed with the other hand, but it was a skill that couldn’t originally be done with just the force of one hand.

Cheon Yuhak could even touch his forearm with his middle fingernail, so Qing, who had only received muscle splitting and bone crushing twice, still had a long way to go.

She needs to fill up Flowing Willow Soft Refinement quickly too.

Anyway, it’s just boring now.

Instead, she’s found a parasite that can feel pain for her.

So Qing lightly begged her master to torture her.

“Master, when are we doing Flowing Willow Soft Refinement again? Can’t we do it tomorrow?”

Cheon Yuhak was dumbfounded.

Last time when she brought it up, she was clearly reluctant, trembling but asking with apparent determination.

But now what’s this?

Now she was asking like a child begging for pocket money.

“You girl are tough, tough. Now there’s not even a hint of fear. No, can you endure it? I still get weak in the knees just thinking about being tortured.”

“Come on, is it that bad?”

“Let’s resolve the Temporary Indulgence Pill issue first. If he appears during the recovery period, we’ll just be sitting ducks, right?”

“I just want to get it over with quickly…”

“No, why are you being so impatient?”

Of course it’s because she’s impatient.

She couldn’t even grasp the Transcendent Realm yet, so she had to make up for it in other ways.

The Divine Thief’s training was more like a mysterious human body modification or development procedure rather than training, so she wanted to finish it quickly.

“Master, please? If we finish it quickly, it’s better for you and good for me too, right? Please?”

“Among all the Divine Thieves in history, you’re the only one, no, the only woman who begs to be tortured with aegyo.”

In the end, Cheon Yuhak grumbled about how hard it is to make Stinking Sewer Medicine and leapt over the wall.

After that, Qing actually felt sorry. This was becoming like exploiting her master.

So tonight she should help prepare the medicinal bath, she thought as she took over Cheon Yuhak’s mat and lay down to wait.

Had one ke passed? Just as she was starting to feel sleepy, she felt someone flying in within one step through the flowing air currents.

“Well well. Now you’re stealing your master’s spot? You really have the nature of a thief. I’ve really taken in quite a capable disciple.”

“Hehe. I was just waiting to help you, Master. Did you already get the ingredients?”

“No.”

Cheon Yuhak shook his head and continued with a serious expression:

“The smell of Fragrant Traces is very strong. It seems that guy has appeared.”

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Among the eight martial artists who advanced to the top 8, two were unaffiliated.

The top 8 advancers were Hero Wang Nopil who uses a chair and Hero Ma Yeongjeon of Earth-Lying Fist.

In fact, by the top 16, even the orthodox faction martial artists are all masters carefully raised by prestigious sects, so they can’t be compared to vagabond backgrounds.

Nevertheless, the reason two vagabond martial artists made it to the top 8 was simply luck in the tournament brackets.

There were two matches between unaffiliated martial artists, so two had to advance no matter what.

Anyway, it meant they were among the top eight rising stars of the current generation, so it was a joyous occasion for the vagabond martial artists as if it were their own achievement.

So after the top 16 matches, the vagabond martial artists gathered for an after-party.

It was to celebrate advancing to the top 8, and also to console those who were eliminated.

That heated good atmosphere suddenly cooled down all at once, because Wang Nopil and Ma Yeongjeon went out saying they had a visitor, and came back after meeting that guy who distributed the pills.

It was just when the atmosphere had become quite chaotic and subdued that Qing followed Cheon Yuhak into the Zhongzheng Restaurant.

Qing inwardly clicked her tongue at the sight.

If it’s an after-party, why not do it somewhere nice, in a secluded spot at a place that’s not doing well, and even a restaurant.

It wasn’t a fancy restaurant or bar but just a regular restaurant, showing the real financial situation of vagabonds.

Still, it seems they had rented out the whole place.

Qing joked to lighten the depressed mood:

“If it’s a company dinner, you should have invited me too, how could you leave me out and go just among yourselves? I’m hurt. Is this all our relationship as fellow vagabonds amounts to?”

“Ah. Miss Ximen. That. The place is a bit shabby so…”

“What’s shabby about it? With a roof, separate cooks, and even renting out the whole place without having to worry about others, it’s practically a banquet hall. Ah. Hero Wang, Hero Ma, congratulations on advancing to the top 8.”

Qing said this while pouring them a drink first.

Even the two with serious expressions accepted the cups and gulped them down.

“It’s nothing else, I came because the Fragrant Traces opened up. So, you met that guy, right? What did he say?”

“He gave us this and left.”

Hero Wang Nopil held out another wooden box.

Already from the outside, it was elaborately carved with red patterns, clearly a treasure box containing precious items.

When Qing opened it, there was another bright red pill.

“What? He gave you Temporary Indulgence Pills again?”

“This time he said it was an elixir. There are some side effects, but he said it would add ten years’ worth of inner power.”

“He gave you an elixir? Without taking money? He just gave an elixir as a gift?”

Even Qing knows how precious elixirs are.

“He said how interesting would it be if a vagabond won, and asked us to reveal later that we took an elixir given by the Divine Thief, that’s what he said.”

“Tsk.”

Cheon Yuhak, who was next to her, clicked his tongue loudly.

“Anyway, you put the Fragrant Traces on him, right? Both of you.”

Cheon Yuhak said he had made slight differences in the Fragrant Traces given to each martial artist.

Since Fragrant Traces would inevitably rub off on the person who sprinkled it too, it was to track someone with several types of scents coming out simultaneously.

In the end, two types of scents were put on the guy, so they achieved their goal quite excellently.

“If it weren’t for Miss Ximen’s words, we would have eaten it without suspicion. But now we know it’s no ordinary plot. In the world, what idle person would bestow elixirs on vagabonds? I could understand up to Temporary Indulgence Pills.”

At this, the martial artists nodded.

Qing clapped her hands at this.

“Now. Isn’t right now when he’s just left the most unguarded moment? Before he prepares another trick, yes, it would be good to get him tonight. What do you think?”

At this, killing intent flashed in the martial artists’ eyes.

Unlike the young masters and misses of the orthodox factions, vagabonds were savages who had lived with bloodshed as their daily life.

This shouldn’t happen already. Are you going to brag to the whole neighborhood that you’re going to fight?

At this, Qing raised the mood:

“For now, let’s just enjoy the after-party. There’s no one who can’t hold their liquor, right? Then today I’ll really treat you properly.”

Qing only earned money and didn’t spend it, so her money pouch was full.

Her friends were shocked just seeing Qing hold her money pouch, Peng Daesan and Namgung Shinjae because of the Central Plains perception that it’s shameful for a man to let a woman spend money, and Tang Nanah because she thought of Qing as some kind of pauper or beggar.

So for once she opened her money pouch, had food delivered from restaurants, brought good alcohol, and naturally the atmosphere couldn’t help but rise as they drank.

When she came out after going to the toilet for a small matter, Cheon Yuhak clicked his tongue.

“What kind of stupid plan is this? I’ve never heard such a stupid idea to charge in like this in my life.”

“What?”

“Anyway, the Fragrant Traces are on him, if we just follow him for a few days, couldn’t we find out what kind of guy he is and what he’s up to?”

“Come on. Well, that’s true, but. Well. When people get greedy, don’t they make mistakes and waver? If we want to resolve this together and bury it, we shouldn’t give them time to have stray thoughts.”

Qing didn’t know much else, but she took terribly good care of her own safety.

Originally, Qing’s plans always started with the premise of running away if it doesn’t work.

The enemy’s location was specified, and it was a situation where they could spy on him anytime if they took the time.

Rushing in together without properly finding out the enemy’s identity and skills?

Looking at it, it was quite a stupid plan.

This is because Sun Tzu, who admonished to know your enemy as well as yourself after “know yourself”, became an eternally undefeated absolute victor with just that one remark.

Yet there was a separate reason why she pushed the martial artists to charge in right away late tonight,

If even one person leaves their sight, they might succumb to temptation later, that is, they might betray them.

There’s no martial artist who wouldn’t be tempted by an elixir, let alone Temporary Indulgence Pills, so if they’re blinded by greed for the elixir, it wouldn’t be strange no matter what they do.

It was a situation where if just one person opened their mouth, they would all become bastards who ate human elixirs.

So the intention was to gather them all together under the guise of an after-party to monitor them, and end it without giving them time to be swayed by temptation.

Cheon Yuhak clicked his tongue again.

“Even so, they’re just vagabonds you’ve never met before and who aren’t particularly helpful to you, right? Why are you taking risks to help those guys?”

After all, the ones who would get beaten up were the suspicious vagabonds who ate Temporary Indulgence Pills, not Qing.

So of course he couldn’t like the sight of his disciple taking risks to protect the face of mere vagabonds when it wasn’t even her business.

Full of displeasure at Cheon Yuhak’s words, Qing gently used aegyo:

“Come on, you know. I can always escape. Didn’t you see my Traceless Shadow Step? Even Master said no one can catch me if I really try to run away. Even you probably can’t catch me, right?”

“Ugh.”

Cheon Yuhak tried to nag but stopped.

And it was also true.

How is this girl so skilled in movement techniques, while he might catch her in a short-distance sprint, in a long-distance endurance race of who can run away longer, she was already practically the world’s best.

Like that, they held a feast drinking late into the night, and only at 2 AM did the vagabonds all drive out their drunkenness at once.

Driving out alcohol with inner power was a skill any first-rate martial artist could do.

However, if used carelessly, they’d be cursed at to just not drink in the first place. So it’s also a technique that needs to be used carefully while reading the situation.

With over twenty martial artists gathered, the alcohol vapor they expelled at once was enough to create a mist.

Finally, the vagabond martial artists who returned to their senses flashed killing intent in their eyes again.

It could be called the pre-battle mindset unique to vagabonds who live by selling their swords.

“Well then, shall we go?”

At this, Wang Nopil smoothly cut in:

“Miss Ximen. How can we just go like this? We vagabonds need to hear a word before a fight to feel satisfied, it would be good if you could say something cool.”

“Come on, how embarrassing…”

But in fact, a pre-battle speech was quite an important ritual. It’s about defining ourselves to strengthen unity and specifying the enemy to raise morale.

Qing scratched the back of her neck as she chose her words:

“Um. They say vagabonds are called that because they wander alone like wolves, right? But originally, wolves are said to live in packs with the most excellent loyalty among beasts. And aren’t we just like that? Aren’t we the people who repay loyalty with blood even for small amounts of money?”

She packaged the idea of selling swords for pocket change quite well.

In fact, this is Qing’s real specialty.

Bewitching mouth! Hellish maw!

“Oh!” “That’s right!” “Exactly!”

The vagabonds responded excitedly.

“There’s a bastard over there who looks down on us just because we’re vagabonds, just because we’re from vagabond backgrounds, and tries to use us while pretending to bestow favors, right? Should we just watch that? No, right? What should we do? We should beat him up vagabond style. Why? Because we’re vagabonds.”

“Because we’re vagabonds!”

“Loyalty, and the sword. That’s what it means to be a vagabond.”

“Loyalty!” “Sword!” “Vagabond!”

The completely won over vagabonds each raised their voices.

It was because they had never heard a more heart-stirring speech in their lives until now.

It was enchanting eloquence that even made them feel pride in their past lives as vagabonds.

After confirming their full of fighting spirit, Qing drove in the final nail:

“Let’s go. Let’s engrave with our swords the lesson that vagabonds have vagabond loyalty.”

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