#94. Xi'an (6)

“The Vajra Divine Monk?!”

After returning to our room, I told Cheon Yeo-hwa about the rumor I'd heard from Elder Su Yang-geon.

At first, Cheon Yeo-hwa hadn't shown much interest, but the moment I mentioned the Vajra Divine Monk, her eyes widened in surprise.

“Who is this Vajra Divine Monk, anyway?”

“...He was said to be the greatest man of his time, active three hundred years ago, and the abbot of the Shaolin Temple.”

The Vajra Divine Monk (金剛神僧), Master Beopjin. Though he had lived several hundred years ago, almost everyone in the current Murim had heard of him.

Not only had he single-handedly subdued the Murim Alliance Leader of his time—a peerless master who had fallen into qi deviation and taken countless lives—but he was also a hero of the orthodox faction who had, all on his own, stopped the Unorthodox Alliance's uprising.

No one could begin to count the number of villains who had fallen at his hands, and the peerless martial artists of that era had recognized the Vajra Divine Monk as the greatest under heaven.

For some reason, however, Master Beopjin, who had been respected by countless martial artists, left the Shaolin Temple in his later years and never returned.

“They say the ‘Formless Vajra Art (無相金剛訣)’ he created is a peerless martial art, on par with Shaolin's ‘Yijin Xisui Jing (易筋洗髓經)’ and ‘Supreme Great Power Scripture (無上大能力).’”...