Chapter 88

Whoosh!

The two people watched the burning safehouse from a distance.

It was Jeok Leegeon and Muyeong.

"It seems the funding issue will be completely resolved for the time being."

Jeok Leegeon didn't respond to Muyeong's words. He looked somewhat troubled. Muyeong continued calmly.

"I will hire fifty people with reliable backgrounds for now."

"Fifty people?"

"Yes. For the time being, we'll use them to run Divine Wind Stronghold while deceiving others. And we urgently need someone to train the Martial Artists. We can entrust it to Cheonghae Chilgaek for now, but they don't like teaching or leading others."

"Then who would be good?"

"There's a suitable person nearby."

"Who is it?"

"It's the former head instructor of the Luoyang First Pavilion."

"That's good. Let's meet him first."

"And we will immediately absorb all the commercial districts and clients that Palm Heart Clan controlled."

"Muyeong, take care of it. Don't attract the attention of the Four Hegemons yet."

"Don't worry."

Jeok Leegeon stared blankly at the flames, reassured by Muyeong's reliable answer.

After a moment of silence, Muyeong cautiously asked.

"Are you unhappy with the result?"

"Not at all. If they committed a crime, they should be punished. I have no sympathy for them."

"Then why are you like this?"

"Huh?"

"You seem depressed."

Jeok Leegeon nodded readily and said something out of the blue.

"I thought this Jianghu was my father's Jianghu."

Unable to guess the meaning, Muyeong simply waited for Jeok Leegeon's next words.

"I started my first journey when I was ten. I really didn't know anything then. I just wandered around. I didn't even know Muyeong was following me. At that time, I only wanted to impress my parents."

"Is that so?"

It was unexpected. Even though he was young, Jeok Leegeon was passionate about relationships and proactive in everything.

"Do you really think I liked traveling? Muyeong, I was only ten years old. I was just following my mother's advice that a man should travel a lot. I wanted to show them how wonderfully I was growing up. For my parents. But the Jianghu was not the Jianghu my father spoke of."

Jeok Leegeon's face flushed slightly.

"Do you know why I'm angry at this Jianghu? Do you know why I'm angry at my father?"

"....."

"It's because I realized that the Jianghu I heard and learned from my father when I was young is nowhere to be found in this Jianghu."

"......"

"I realized that my father was just dreaming. What I learned from traveling around the Jianghu was not righteousness and chivalry. It was how to survive. How not to be deceived by others. How to deceive others."

Muyeong knew that Jeok Leegeon had experienced a lot and been hurt a lot over the years. Jeok Leegeon had been hurt several times by the Jianghu's heartlessness, where kindness was repaid with murder and extermination.

"That's because you were young, Master."

Muyeong hoped that such wounds would not remain in Jeok Leegeon's heart.

"Yes, I was young then..."

Jeok Leegeon stared at Muyeong seriously.

"I've changed. I'm becoming an adult now. But this Jianghu is still the same. Good people become fools, evil dominates good. You have to be ruthless to survive in this Jianghu. This Jianghu will never change."

"Master."

The flames flickering in the distance flickered in Jeok Leegeon's eyes.

"What exactly is the Jianghu that my father sees? Is my father really seeing something that I can't see?"

Muyeong had known for a long time.

That the source of Jeok Leegeon's dream of conquering the Jianghu was his father. It was such a complex and complicated emotion.

Muyeong knew that he was trying to hate his father the most because he liked him the most. There was a deep chasm of love and hate between the two that could not be explained in a few words.

Even when he was stealing the wealth of the rich or beating up a passing Rogue, Jeok Leegeon always tried to find a justification. That would be the last respect for his father's teachings.

Jeok Leegeon stared at the night view of Infinite as if looking around the world and said.

"I don't just dream like my father. I'm going to make my dreams a reality."