[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-the-hidden-ruler-of-the-martial-world":3,"chapter-i-became-the-hidden-ruler-of-the-martial-world-i-became-the-hidden-ruler-of-the-martial-world-chapter-100":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Became the Hidden Ruler of the Martial World",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1379448,1826,"Chapter 100","i-became-the-hidden-ruler-of-the-martial-world-chapter-100",100,"\u003Cp>\"Master, are you here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huk!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sudden voice, Baek Yoonjun jumped and stuck to the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yuhwa, who had come in after, slowly looked up at the ceiling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master, what are you doing?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The ceiling looked cozy for a moment...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the nonsensical excuse, Tang Yuhwa shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lack of change in her expression somehow made one feel even more embarrassed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun cleared his throat and came down to the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having come down to the floor, Baek Yoonjun couldn't say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been a long time since they had met, and since they had met in a shabby state, it became even harder to speak first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Tang Yuhwa was one of the few humans who knew Baek Yoonjun's homebody introvert nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why she spoke first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Have you been well?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well... just so-so, I guess?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Tang Yuhwa's words, the events up until now flashed through Baek Yoonjun's mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I haven't been very well.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he thought so, since he had already spoken, it was hard to take it back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You don't look like it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yuhwa immediately saw through Baek Yoonjun's inner thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'She still knows like a ghost.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun was inwardly shocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the same time, a strong question came to mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How on earth did you know I was here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since he had cooped himself up deep inside without telling anyone, no one knew that Baek Yoonjun was here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nevertheless, at the sight of Tang Yuhwa who had found him, he felt a question beyond a question, even fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether she knew Baek Yoonjun's inner thoughts or not, Tang Yuhwa quietly pointed at Baek Yoonjun with her finger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's a smell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What? A smell?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun quietly brought his palm to his nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no particular smell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's no particular smell.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's not it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yuhwa slowly shook her head at Baek Yoonjun's words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The smell of the poison you took from me before remains.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The smell of poison?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the somewhat sudden words, Baek Yoonjun quietly searched his memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'By the way, I remember taking a little of Yuhwa's body's poison to study it and keeping it in my body, right?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He clearly remembered creating something similar to a dantian next to his lower dantian and storing it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun quietly observed his inner self.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Where did it go? Could it be that this also turned into a Heart Sword?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was not there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What he could guess was the internal energy and dantian that had been converted into a Heart Sword before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that the thing similar to a dantian that had stored the poison had also been affected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But then shouldn't the smell be gone too?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why he couldn't understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just in case, he smelled everything from the back of his hand to his elbow, but there was no particular smell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But I can't smell the Heart Sword either.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heart Sword was literally a sword of the heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it affected reality, since it was not a physically existing sword, there was no way he could smell it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that, Tang Yuhwa once again slowly shook her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There's a smell that seems like it could be tracked from a thousand li away.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying so, Tang Yuhwa buried her head in Baek Yoonjun's chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun froze at Tang Yuhwa's sudden action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems I can find Master wherever he is.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange atmosphere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Baek Yoonjun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I'm scared.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just felt fear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Leaving aside friendship, it was the instinct of a homebody introvert to be reluctant to have one's whereabouts known.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The urge to pull his body away and run away welled up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a rice-grain-sized pride was preventing Baek Yoonjun from running away from this place right away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the quietest, deepest part of the Repentance Cave, Tang Yuhwa's voice echoed quietly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is life?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was her usual monotonous tone, at her appearance, which for some reason looked serious, Baek Yoonjun forgot about devising a means of escape and looked down at Tang Yuhwa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere was heavier than usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why Baek Yoonjun wanted to run away even more, but it became an ironic situation where he couldn't run away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun's head spun like crazy, searching for the right words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What's with the sudden question?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the words that came out were a simple question.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because, basically, due to the characteristic of a homebody introvert who was halfway digging into the ground, the language he could utter was limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At Baek Yoonjun's question, Tang Yuhwa's shoulders flinched very slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It didn't seem she was crying or anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for some reason, it felt as if various complicated things were pressing down on her small shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun couldn't say anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yuhwa also kept her mouth shut quietly for a while, then let out a small sigh and opened her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Too many people died this time.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...They did.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since it was a fact that Baek Yoonjun had also seen, he nodded his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he had only intervened for a very short time, he had seen a lot of corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Before, when I was with the Heavenly Demon, I also saw a technique that handled even the dead as it pleased.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A technique that handles the dead?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Strange bugs were moving the corpses.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun quietly shut his mouth and turned his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What came to his mind were the corpses that had run wild in Sichuan before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Did she see those? But bugs?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Baek Yoonjun turned his head, he debated dozens of times whether to bring this up or not, but before he could do anything, Tang Yuhwa's words continued.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When I was learning medicine from my father, I was taught not to have too deep feelings for the dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the subsequent words of Tang Yuhwa, Baek Yoonjun forgot his previous question and nodded his head inwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Although this kid is obsessed with treating people, she was nonchalant about the dead. Was it because of the teachings she received from her father?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun could now understand the reason why Tang Yuhwa had been quite nonchalant in front of the corpses before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But now it's hard.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But at the subsequent words, he fell into confusion again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I've seen too many people die in front of my eyes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Didn't you see a lot of corpses before?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I did. I kept seeing them. I kept seeing more and more. No, I was made to see them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A slight emotion began to be imbued in Tang Yuhwa's usually indifferent and toneless voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was a very small emotion, in Baek Yoonjun's eyes, it looked as huge as the waves of the Yangtze River.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I thought this kid didn't have much emotional change...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wave of emotion that had once burst out flowed endlessly, as if a dam had burst.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Life is too fleeting and easily broken.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The shoulders of the girl whose emotions had burst out seemed as if they would easily and fleetingly break, just like her words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I thought of Yuhwa too easily. The reason I thought this kid had no emotional ups and downs was just because she was not showing it in order to follow her father's teachings...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yuhwa was holding back her emotions in order to follow her father's teachings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this time, the things she had said before became a trigger and burst out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun organized his thoughts so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'She was really sincere about saving people.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun blamed himself for having felt strange at Tang Yuhwa's indiscriminate treatment before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'A born doctor.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun couldn't say anything and just patted Tang Yuhwa's slightly trembling shoulders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Very lightly, as befits a child with very faint expressions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Master.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, Tang Yuhwa, who had been silent for a while, quietly opened her mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There is a race called chivalrous heroes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Chivalrous heroes?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn't that Baek Yoonjun didn't know the words 'chivalrous heroes'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, since it was so far from the flow of the previous conversation, he had just asked back because it was out of place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Chivalrous heroes, what's with the sudden question.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the sudden words, Baek Yoonjun was at a loss for words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A situation that seemed as if it would become very awkward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the person who had brought it up was continuing to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is said that chivalrous heroes also save people with martial arts that catch people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well... so they say.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to Tang Yuhwa's words, Baek Yoonjun quietly recalled the words of his friend from before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although he recalled that what corresponded to Tang Yuhwa's words was closer to chivalry than chivalrous heroes, he did not bother to open his mouth and correct her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Well, I don't really know for sure, and looking at the big picture, it's not wrong.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And so, as Baek Yoonjun was roughly organizing his thoughts about chivalrous heroes, Tang Yuhwa raised her head towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was her usual sullen face, the corners of her eyes were faintly wet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is Master a chivalrous hero?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the impression of Tang Yuhwa's different face could come to mind, Baek Yoonjun was flustered by the sudden words that came out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it was a sudden and absurd statement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He could assert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Chivalrous hero, what.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun prided himself on knowing himself well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was certain that the word 'chivalrous hero' was a word that was insanely far from him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I'm just a homebody introvert who's scared of people, so what chivalrous hero...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why he could assert 'no'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'In the first place, does the word 'chivalrous hero' even make sense? Isn't martial arts just a good way to cut people?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was even extremely negative about the word 'chivalrous hero'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether Tang Yuhwa agreed with Baek Yoonjun's words or not, she did not particularly refute them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Well, she probably knows. Since she knows me better than I know myself.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since Baek Yoonjun knew that Tang Yuhwa knew his feelings like a ghost, he thought he had sufficiently understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And at the same time, a complicated thought came to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Martial arts are for cutting people, right? But I'm the one who taught that person-cutting martial art to Tang Yuhwa.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A strange bother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was a bother as if the bolt of the heart he had engaged when he had engaged it was misaligned and not properly engaged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Although I taught her martial arts that she didn't want to learn because I wanted Yuhwa to be able to protect her own body at least...'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was the fact that he had taught Tang Yuhwa martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, he had thought that he had taught her well by coaxing her appropriately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'But is it right that a kid who knows my inner self better than I do was swayed by my clumsy words and learned martial arts?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking about it now, he thought it might not be.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Could it be that she learned it reluctantly because I kept pushing her?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun's head became complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Damn it, is this right? Could it be that I made a huge mistake?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Baek Yoonjun's eyes, Tang Yuhwa was a doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at her now, she was not just a doctor, but her born nature itself was that of a doctor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And Baek Yoonjun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'I taught that born doctor a martial art that I myself think is for cutting people. Yuhwa's thoughts about martial arts also don't seem to be different from mine.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As that thought came to him, a crazy alarm bell rang inside Baek Yoonjun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'This kid suddenly brought up the words 'chivalrous hero'. The subject of that was saving people with martial arts.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun could now understand why Tang Yuhwa had suddenly brought up the words 'chivalrous hero'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Martial arts for cutting people, chivalrous heroes for saving people with martial arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as Baek Yoonjun had asserted, he was not a chivalrous hero, and he was negative about the concept of chivalrous heroes itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Putting those thoughts together, what Tang Yuhwa was thinking began to be predicted in Baek Yoonjun's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Does this kid think that since she has learned martial arts, she is no different from an ordinary martial artist? Just because she has learned it?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking so, even the previous events came to his mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tang Yuhwa had even avenged her enemy with that martial art.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there was a sense that Baek Yoonjun had instigated it from the side, the finishing touch was done by Tang Yuhwa's hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Although my share is about 90%, Yuhwa's share is also about 10%, right?'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, by Baek Yoonjun's standards, there was no option to let the enemy live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'No. For Yuhwa, martial arts should not end with just cutting people.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thought that for Tang Yuhwa, martial arts should not be just about harming people, dominated Baek Yoonjun's head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although there was no particular omen now, he had a premonition that if it continued like this, Tang Yuhwa would break somewhere or go astray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That's why Baek Yoonjun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'If it doesn't exist by my standards, I'll just have to make it.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He made a decision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it doesn't exist, he'll make it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At least in front of Tang Yuhwa, he had to make something plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will try to create a martial art that saves people.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun decided to try to create a martial art that saves people for Tang Yuhwa.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...If not a martial art, then another direction...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adding a timid word at the end was typical of Baek Yoonjun, the extreme homebody introvert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at Baek Yoonjun, Tang Yuhwa quietly muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll look forward to it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although her tone and expression were no different from usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'Now her expression has finally loosened up a bit.'\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baek Yoonjun somehow felt that Tang Yuhwa was smiling brightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",2317,"2026-06-05T22:16:29.378Z",1,"novelbin.me","df7a514345baea42a4e10966f664766e38f163e3ab669b51af6c5269829e90d0",null,"i-became-the-hidden-ruler-of-the-martial-world-chapter-99",152,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-hidden-ruler-of-the-martial-world-cover.jpg"]