The Martial Master - 46 A high jump.

“Come out! I don’t want to come looking for you now!”

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“What a nice looking town…”

Su Min, staring into the distance, sighed as he grabbed a dark cloak and draped himself in it. A corpse laid beneath his feet, one whose eyes shone with unwillingness and shock.

In the distance, a sprawling town pierced his view. It was surrounded by a stone wall, one that shone with a bright white that exuded a faint majesty onto all creation.

Nonetheless, confronted with the wall that Su Min soared over, this is but a trivial speck in his eyes. One that, although mighty to mortals, was something he could topple with a simple palm…

“I hope they have hotels…”

Sighing on his lack of rest, Su Min walked down a narrow dirt path and headed toward the gate of the town. His face was covered in a dark cloak, and so was his body, making him blend into the background.

He didn’t rush, he didn’t run, he just walked the pace of a mortal…

*WHIP* *NEYYY*

“Quick! We can’t be late for the opening ceremony!”

Just as Su Min began his walk toward the town a couple of kilometres away, a crazed carriage getting tugged by two white horses blitzed behind him. The horses had one horn atop their head, and their eyes shone with a strange intelligence.

“Hm?”

Su Min paused as he took a glance at the carriage soaring right at him. At the rate it was moving, it would collide with him within seconds. Of course, Su Min wasn’t worried about that.

‘Guess I’ll ride that.’

Instead, a strange idea surfaced as Su Min retreated off the road and watched it close in on him. A cloud of dirt spewed out of the road as the two horses darted past him, accompanied by the incessant commands of a fat driver.

*WOOSH*

Su Min didn’t care, though, as he blurred through the air and jumped atop the golden encrusted carriage that was being tugged by the two fierce horses.

*Creeeak*

“I really ain’t made for stealth am I…”

A sudden creak titled the floorboards as Su Min stumbled to prevent any further noise. Nevertheless, it didn’t seem anyone heard him as the carriage continued to drive right towards the town at a supernatural pace.

Minutes passed and Su Min lazed on the carriage, yet his eyes seemed to glimmer as he watched the carriage arrive. The walls looked like giants to him as they stood tens of meters high, though it was still trivial.

“Madam! Quick!”

The driver jumped off the reigns and ushered whoever was inside the carriage to get out. It seemed that something important was occurring, though Su Min didn’t know what.

“Mhm.”

A feminine voice whispered out of the carriage as a woman dressed in simple clothes walked out. However, her face was pale and her gait weak, yet she seemed to contain an ethereal beauty not seen often. She was young, having skin fair like jade and a figure men would drool over.

“We have to win this no matter what, miss! Otherwise…”

The fat man’s eyes tightened with sorrow as he looked at the struggling girl, yet he shook himself out of it and shuffled to her. The girl’s eyes shone with a deathly white, and with a dry whisper, she spoke with a sad smile.

“You shouldn’t do this for me… I’m a lost cause anyway. Right?So stop that idiot from fighting in the duel… Please…”

The fat man shook even more as heard that, but he gritted his teeth and remained silent as he escorted her towards the gate. Su Min, watching this with a yawn, remained unchanged to it all. The only thing he felt was curiosity.

“I wonder why she doesn’t have any of those stupid circles on her head…”

Scratching his cloak Su Min’s eyes shimmered as he jumped off the carriage like he does it on a daily basis. He watched as the two got questioned by a couple guards, where they handed in a strange metal and walked in.

“A fee?”

Su Min grumbled as he proceeded to wander up to the gate, where three guards bearing white armour stood. Two circles swirled on each of their foreheads, glimmering with a radiance that pressured the air around them.

They caught sight of Su Min walking toward the gate, where one of them took a step forward and blocked his path.

“Stop. Hand in 200 Heaven Stones.”

He gazed at Su Min contempt as he gestured for a currency Su Min had never heard of. Su Min, hiding under the black cloak, pondered. He obviously needs to pay, but he cannot do such a thing…

“Can I owe you?”

Su Min replied, but the guard’s expression turned as the two circles on his forehead shuddered then bathed him in a dim holy white. He, with an incensed voice, spoke back with an irritated voice.

“Fuck off if you’re going to waste our time!”

If anyone else were to be in Su Min’s position, then they would have without a doubt raced away out of pure terror. However, Su Min here didn’t feel the slightest thing as he continued to just, well… Stand there.

The guard’s expression dropped even further as he frowned. This cloaked person didn’t even react to his tyrannical aura, how? He has been told to keep the gate in check; so he cannot have people think that you could just do this!

Who would dare insult the towns guards? Especially this cloaked man who appeared to be but a mortal from a village!

“I’m warning you!”

He bellowed out an even louder uproar as the two guards behind him joined him and stared at Su Min with pressuring gazes. It seemed to arouse quite a lot of attention as a couple people on top of the walls gazed down.

“Uh… I guess I just have to force myself in.”

Su Min sighed as he gazed at the vicious stares of the three guards. He didn’t really want to cause a commotion, but if he has to then it is only fate…

“Arrogant!”

The guard in front finally lost it as he seized a sword beside him and slashed at Su Min. Su Min, not even budging, just watched it fall above him. A trail of thoughts ran through his head as this happened, calm as ever.

‘I can’t just kill them out in daylight, so maybe I can just rush in? I need to be low key after all.’

Nodding at himself, Su Min’s muscles tensed with a sudden tremble as the ground beneath him shook. The three guards eyes widened as they watched the black-clothed figure in front of them kneel down. He gazed at them with a single simple golden eye beneath the black hood, almost as if he was grinning at them.

Of course, he didn’t have just one eye, but because his other eye was black, they couldn’t see it underneath the cloak.

“?!”

*BANG*

The guards trembled as Su Min, with a sudden leap, darted right over the wall with a speed so fast that their eyes couldn’t even catch his silhouette. Then, not even taking a split second, he disappeared over the wall to never be seen again.

Just afterwards a crazed white emerged from the wall and formed a barrier, but it became confused as it found nothing to block.

“What?!”

The three guards blanked out for a couple seconds as they tried to figure out what on earth just happened. The cloaked man, to their eyes, jumped over the wall..? The wall wasn’t that tall, but it wasn’t something you could just jump over…

The barrier was one of the reasons, but that cloaked man seemed to have literally bypassed it? They couldn’t even imagine the speed needed to do that…

“A-alert the commander!”

The guard in front, with a face drenched in sweat, stammered out a sentence as he thought about what he had just done.

‘I-I insulted such a monster?’

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*Thud*

“Hrmmm, I need a new disguise now…”

Su Min, falling onto an empty street within the town, grumbled as he gazed at the simple houses that plagued his view. He still found it hard to get used to this ancient way of living, but he guessed that cultivators were just strange people.

“I wonder where that sick person went…”

He patted his robes as he started to walk down the street. He could sense a large number of people not too far away, and they all seemed to surround something.

“Maybe over there.”

Wandering down the quiet stone streets that were packed with houses, Su Min followed his senses. Thus, it didn’t take him long to reach the large group of people. They were surrounding a small block of stone, where two people stood facing each other.

The crowd was roaring, roaring in excitement.

“Lucky me.”

His gaze flashed under his hood as he eyed the commotion.