The Eunuch Regains His Manhood in the Second Round

4. Sword Saint Yoo Jin-hwi

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“Is anyone there?”

As I passed through the entrance of the Gongdong Sect, I was met by a middle-aged warrior dressed in black martial arts attire, with a sword at his side.

He was Jeon Yeong, the current head of the Gongdong Sect, known as the Demon-Suppressing Swordsman.

He would later become famous as the master of the Sword Saint.

“…A child?”

He muttered in a small voice.

Ahem.

Jeon Yeong, wearing old black martial arts attire with the reversed Taiji symbol, cleared his throat and spoke to me.

“I am Jeon Yeong, the head of the Gongdong Sect. What brings you to our sect in this winter?”

In response to his words, I clasped my hands in a respectful gesture and said,

“I am Lee Cheol-su. I have long admired the Great Gongdong Sect. I have come here to formally join the sect.”

Sparkling eyes.

I acted as much as possible to portray the image of a naive young boy who yearned for the righteous sect.

Jeon Yeong looked me over after hearing my words.

“…You wish to join?”

“Yes! Please allow me to join!”

I grabbed the hem of Jeon Yeong’s robe and bowed my head.

“Hmm…”

Jeon Yeong touched my forearm and checked my pulse.

A man touching my body.

It was extremely unpleasant, but as the head of the sect, it was natural for him to examine the martial talent and physique of a potential disciple, so I endured it for now.

“….”

Silence flowed between Jeon Yeong and me.

Even for a declining sect, accepting a new disciple was a matter to be taken seriously.

So he must be contemplating.

But his contemplation wouldn’t last long.

The Gongdong Sect was in no position to be picky.

“Do you have parents?”

At Jeon Yeong’s words, I acted with a dark expression and shook my head.

“No, they were killed in a bandit attack…”

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With a sorrowful voice and tearful acting, I began to unfold the story I had prepared in advance.

I was a slash-and-burn farmer, but my parents were killed, and the village was burned down by bandits.

In the process, I decided to learn martial arts to avenge my parents.

So, from a young age, I wanted to join the Gongdong Sect, which I had longed for after hearing the storyteller’s words.

“…So that’s what happened. Very well. Originally, several processes are required before admission, but given the current situation of our sect and your sufficient talent, I will allow you to skip all of them and grant you admission. Did you say your name was Lee Cheolsu?”

As expected, Jeon Yeong granted me admission.

In fact, the mere fact that a child with no background had found the Gongdong Sect at the top of the rugged Gongdong Mountain already guaranteed basic talent.

If I had no talent, I would have fallen long ago.

“Yes!”

“Follow me.”

Jeon Yeong turned his body.

I followed him and walked inside the Gongdong Sect.

In the past, it was splendid, but now it was full of old, collapsing pavilions. The eerie sight of the interior, which was left with only the building sites after being burned during the invasion of the Demonic Sect, unfolded before my eyes.

It was a spooky sight, no different from a haunted house. After walking inside the Gongdong Sect for a while, a relatively intact pavilion finally appeared.

“This is the Juchun Sword Hall, where the ancestral tablets of Gwangseongja, the investigator of the Gongdong Sect, and Bihongja, the middle ancestor, are enshrined.”

Juchun Sword Hall.

Following Jeon Yeong, I entered the pavilion with the signboard that read Juchun Sword Hall.

Inside the Juchun Sword Hall, there was an altar where the ancestral tablets of the successive leaders and important figures of the Gongdong Sect were enshrined.

Jeon Yeong lit the incense placed in front of the altar with a fire stick. He sat down and spoke to me.

“From now on, we will perform the ceremony to formally establish the master-disciple relationship. Perform the Baesa Ritual. Bow three times to the ancestral tablet of Gwangseongja, three times to the ancestral tablet of my master, and three times to me. A total of nine bows.”

Baesa Ritual.

Also known as the Nine Bows Ritual, this ceremony, as described in martial arts novels, was a ritual to establish the master-disciple relationship and join the sect.

Following Jeon Yeong’s instructions, I bowed three times to the ancestral tablet of the investigator, three times to the ancestral tablet of the master, and three times to Jeon Yeong.

A total of nine bows.

After the Baesa Ritual was over, Jeon Yeong took a brush and wrote my name in the disciple register.

“Good. From now on, you are a disciple of our sect.”

Jeon Yeong said with a faint smile.

Since my name was now in the disciple register, as he said, I was now a formal disciple of the Gongdong Sect.

It was the moment when my first goal towards Unwoojirak and Samcheosacheop was finally achieved.

“Before I inform you of the rules of our sect, let me tell you in advance that besides you, I have another disciple. Privately, he is your senior brother, and in our sect, he is the head disciple.”

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Jeon-yeong speaks to me.

Senior brother.

I know very well who the head disciple he is talking about is.

Sword Saint Yoo Jin-hwi.

Also known as the First Sword of the World.

A prodigy who rebuilt the fallen Gongdong Sect and elevated it to the top of the Nine Great Schools.

The reason I came to the nearly ruined Gongdong Sect, bypassing all other sects, was to buy Yoo Jin-hwi’s coin at a low price.

“Senior brother?”

I asked back in an innocent voice, pretending not to know.

“Yes. Your senior brother’s name is Yoo Jin-hwi…”

“Master!”

Before Jeon-yeong could finish speaking, the door of the hall burst open and someone entered.

“I’m here… Huh?”

A face so handsome that even a man would find it attractive.

Yoo Jin-hwi is one year older than I am now. I am thirteen, so Yoo Jin-hwi is now fourteen.

Yet, his face already seemed to glow, so handsome that even if I combined all the handsome men I met in my past and present lives, they wouldn’t come close to his level, as if he combined all the beauty in the world.

Yes, he is the future Sword Saint Yoo Jin-hwi.

The person who would become my senior brother.

Even his eyelashes were unnecessarily long and luscious like a gigolo’s.

‘No, a person should be moderately handsome. Damn, he’s disgustingly handsome.’

My appearance was never something that could be called handsome, just average.

I joined the Gongdong Sect to cover my mediocre looks with the fame of being a hero.

But to be paired with such a disgustingly handsome man as my senior brother?

To women, I would surely look like a squid next to him.

Already, the future scenarios of me and Yoo Jin-hwi suffering together started to naturally unfold in my mind.

‘Young hero, hohohoho. Can you at least pass on my regards to your senior brother?’

‘Young hero, how is Yoo Jin-hwi doing these days?’

The absolute beauties flocking to me.

But their target is not me, but that damn senior brother Yoo Jin-hwi.

They seek me out only to inquire about Yoo Jin-hwi’s well-being and show interest in him, with no concern for me.

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Because of my excessively handsome senior brother, I am not even treated as a man.

‘A truly terrible, future that should never come.’

I knew that Yujinhui was handsome through information gathering and facial sketches. But I just brushed it off.

In my previous life, I had met him a few times due to official duties. However, Yujinhui always wore a hat with a net that completely covered his face, even when meeting me.

Thanks to that, I had never seen his real face in my previous life.

With my level of skill in my previous life, I could have enhanced my vision to see through the net and see his real face. But I didn’t want to go to such lengths to see a man’s face.

So I didn’t check. I had already confirmed Yujinhui’s facial sketch, and I thought that was enough.

‘I should have checked back then!’

I cursed my foolish self from my previous life.

Anyway, there were two pieces of information I knew about Yujinhui’s appearance in my previous life.

The first was that his handsome appearance caused numerous troubles with women during his travels. So he wore a hat with a net to avoid these troubles.

The second was his portrait drawn through facial sketches.

Honestly, even the facial sketch was extremely handsome. So I expected his real face to be handsome too. But I didn’t expect it to be this much.

It’s shocking.

It’s certain. The facial sketch I saw in my previous life did not properly reflect Yujinhui’s real appearance. If I had to put it in percentage, maybe 1%?

No matter how much I bought at the bottom, honestly, this is a bit much.

I can’t undo what’s already been done.

I’m going crazy.

“Master, who is this child?”

“Ah, let me introduce you. This is Lee Cheolsu, who has just entered the sect and will be your junior brother. Greet him.”

“Junior brother?”

Yujinhui’s eyes widened at Jeonyeong’s words.

“Junior brother! Nice to meet you! I’m Yujinhui. I’ll be your senior brother from now on. Don’t think too hard about it and treat me like a brother!”

Yujinhui greeted me with an excited expression.

Yujinhui.

He was kind and good-natured, just as the records said.

With excellent character, handsome appearance, and talent bestowed by the heavens.

Yujinhui was a truly unrealistically perfect person, like the protagonist of a martial arts novel.

I gritted my teeth as I looked at Yujinhui.

‘Please, let it be 3cm. Please.’

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There was no information in my head about the size of Yujin Hwi’s manhood. So I hoped he wasn’t well-endowed, and I desperately wished that at least his manhood was small.

Honestly, if he had that kind of specs and was also well-endowed, it would be too much.

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“Nice to meet you, senior brother. I look forward to working with you.”

A boy with a slightly sharp impression, wearing old clothes.

Lee Cheol-soo greeted Yujin Hwi with a polite voice and a fist salute.

Jeon Yeong smiled contentedly as he watched the senior and junior brothers greet each other and build a rapport.

‘It seems I made the right choice in accepting Cheol-soo as a disciple. It would have been a bit much for Hwi to be raised alone.’

Yujin Hwi.

A disciple Jeon Yeong picked up from the back alleys ten years ago while wandering the martial world.

Feeling pity for the dying Yujin Hwi, Jeon Yeong took him in as a disciple of the Gongdong sect and soon realized that Yujin Hwi was a genius among geniuses, a prodigy who could learn a hundred things from being taught just one, and possessed the Heavenly Martial Body.

The Gongdong sect, which had lost its former glory and declined after the Great War of Righteousness and Demons fifty years ago.

To Jeon Yeong, the successor of the Gongdong sect, Yujin Hwi was the only hope to rebuild the fallen sect, which was in such a pitiful state that it was embarrassing to even call it a sect.

Therefore, Jeon Yeong took care of Yujin Hwi with all his heart and taught him diligently.

So that he could stand proudly and without shame before the founder of the Gongdong sect, Gwangseongja, and the martial artists of the previous generation who perished during the Great War of Righteousness and Demons.

‘When Hwi goes out into the martial world, he will have to frequently clash with men of his age. Therefore, before he goes out into the martial world, he needs to naturally learn how to be careful not to reveal his disguise as a man through interactions with a junior brother of his age.’

That’s right.

Yujin Hwi was a woman disguised as a man.

The reason Jeon Yeong gave the female Yujin Hwi a new, masculine name and raised her as a man was because she was the only hope of the Gongdong sect.

In the martial world, a man’s body is much more recognized than a woman’s body.

Therefore, for the sake of rebuilding the sect, Yujin Hwi had to be a man, not a woman.

Now that a junior brother of her age had joined, Yujin Hwi would have to be even more careful not to reveal her disguise as a man.

Moreover, two disciples are better than one.

From what he had observed, Lee Cheol-soo’s talent was not exceptional, but he was not dull either. Considering that he had climbed to the main mountain of the sect, Chwibyeong Peak, alone without any internal energy as a child, he had considerable perseverance.

Therefore, he would be able to assist the prodigy Yujin Hwi.

Jeon Yeong thought this as he looked at the two senior and junior brothers.

‘The future of our sect is indeed bright. Now I can face the ancestors with some dignity.’

Hahaha.

Jeon Yeong burst into hearty laughter.

This was what happened on the first day Lee Cheol-soo joined the Gongdong sect.

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