Volcanic Age - Chapter 5.1

Editor: Summerstood, Imagine

(Note from Imagine: Sorry that this chapter is cut in half, its quite long being a bit over 2.5k words. I hope you guys understand. Enjoy the chapter!)

Master said that his body was weak since he was young and just let it slide, but afterwards when I thought about it it was weird.’

It was weird for a martial artist to have a weak body in the first place.

Training in internal energy also trained your body and mind.

It was weird for an experienced martial artist to suffer light illnesses as frequently as common people.

It wasn’t that they starved or didn’t maintain their hygiene. It was because they couldn’t clean themselves.

There was no way you couldn’t stay healthy if you kept a regular routine, slept regularly and breathed in the qi of nature.

Even if his weak body was inherent, it should have gotten fixed already.

But of course, it was an exception for people who were at the end of their lives or suffered severe internal injuries in the past.

But Yu Jong Mok didn’t belong to any of those categories.

So why?

The reason was simple.

‘It wasn’t his constitution. He had a chronic disease.’

He didn’t know for how long his master’s illness had been lying dormant.

He didn’t even know of its identity and couldn’t even know whether it was innate or acquired.

This disease slowly gnawed at his life and after five years it completely took away his life.

When Ju Seo Cheon found out that Yu Jong Mok caught a disease was when his health had already deteriorated.

‘I still can’t forget the helplessness I felt at that time.’

One day, his master suffered an intense fever and had collapsed.

He called the medical staff immediately but they gave out some really despairing words.

‘We don’t know the details but it seems like the disease was concealing for quite a long time. We have never seen these symptoms before…’

For reference, Yu Jong Mok had borrowed the hands of the medical staff a lot in his life as he suffered from minor illnesses from when he was young.

He had taken medical examinations regularly but no symptoms were found before he collapsed.

In the end Yu Jong Mok left the world a few days later without being able to leave a will behind.

‘I must stop it!’

That was the reason he burst out crying when he first saw his master after returning back in time.

The existence of Yu Jong Mok was that special for Ju Seo Cheon.

He was determined that he wouldn’t let Yu Jong Mok die again.

Saving his master. That was the first thing he had to do.

‘The next major thing that happens, comes after about six years, when I turn 15?’

One year after the death of Yu Jong Mok.

Something that would cross a line in the history of the center of Murim would happen.

‘The treasury of Three Eyed Immoral God!’

There was a legendary thief that spread his name in all of the midlands three hundred years ago.

That thief always left a note of a three eyes diagram when he stole something. That’s why he was called the Three Eyed Immoral God.

The Three Eyed Immoral God was active for about a hundred years after appearing but nobody could discover anything besides his notes.

After about a hundred years more passed and the activities of the Three Eyed Immoral God had stopped, the government announced that they had captured him.

But no one was able to believe that.

The Three Eyed Immoral God got persecuted by several factions of Murim, including the government, for close to a hundred years.

But the Righteous Faction, Death Sect, Demonic Church, and Blood church and not even the Royal Palace was able to track the stealing of the Three Eyed Immoral God.

People thought that the Three Eyed Immoral God hid the things he stole somewhere and died a natural death.

After that countless people tried to find the treasury but no one was able to find it.

And six years later, that legendary treasury gets discovered and shows itself to the world.

‘I have to go and rob it first!’

As soon as the treasury got discovered in the future, all kinds of people aimed at the treasures and flocked like bees.

An era of war didn’t happen but still, bloody battles that were comparable to a war occurred so it became a disaster.

And in the end, they touched the wrong mechanism before they could retrieve the treasures and the treasury collapsed and ended there.

That’s why he had to act first.

‘The problem is that I couldn’t even go out after six years.’

In the central plains he was an adult but one wasn’t free even if they became adults in Mount Hua Sect.

In Hua Sect, you had to be at least twenty years old to get permission to go out  of the sect except for special cases.

This was to prevent their younger disciples from dying an absurd death after going out to Kang Ho.

That’s why they took more thorough preparations to train them in martial arts until the age of twenty and sent them off to Kang Ho.

‘What should I do?’

Two more months passed.

And in that time he was able to accumulate another year’s worth of internal energy.

Ju Seo Cheon’s internal energy was now two and a half years worth.

“I also sensed it before returning in time but this really…”

He admired his Qi condensation speed many times after returning back.

The martial arts of the Righteous Sect were normally called Righteous Arts.

First of all, the Righteous Arts were safe. If you trained properly the probabilities of your internal energy getting twisted were very low.

But instead, the speed in which internal energy was accumulated and the training speed was really slow.

On the other hand, the training speed of the Demonic Arts and all other aspects were so fast it could be called a cheat.

However all things had their demerits. The Demonic Arts instead had lots of side effects. It wasn’t called demonic for nothing.

For example, they become mad men for being dyed with the demonic arts, become cannibals or their sexual desires become uncommonly high.

The side effects were so many and varied that they couldn’t be counted.

But the Plum Blossom Life Arts was based on the Righteous Arts and had the peculiarity that the condensation speed was the same as the Demonic Arts.

Precisely speaking, it wasn’t as fast as the Demonic Arts but was still much faster than the Righteous Arts

“Whew, today was a fulfilling day too.”

Ju Seo Cheon finished his daily routine and headed to the residence of his master at dusk.

Ju Seo Cheon stood in front of the door and then dusted off his clothes before entering.

“Cough! Cough!”

Flinch.

Ju Seo Cheon stopped moving as his eyes widened.

The voice that was heard beyond the door a while ago.

It was the sound of his master coughing.

‘Master…..!’

It was the voice he couldn’t forget his entire life.

The only person he could call family.

The only person he relied on even after aging.