Chapter 13

Chapter 13: Morality Has Aesthetic Standards.

If you were to gauge Cheon Mujin's martial prowess by pitting him against any cult member, then you could say Cheon Mujin can fight equally against one of the Five Strongest, which is a lot to say, since even the greatest martial artists recorded in history, Western Dharma, Jangsambong, or Chun Ma, were only at the Grandmaster Stage at age twelve. Cheon Mujin was already at the Supreme Master Level or Profound Grandmaster.

Currently, Cheon Mujin's arsenal of martial arts is composed of martial arts from the three factions.

From the Forces of Justice all the way to the Forces of Evil, he got them all, and what's impressive is that he thought up a way to combine those principles he learned from other faction's martial arts into the martial arts he was creating.

Among these many techniques, there was one particular martial art that Cheon Mujin is fond of.

It's the Pure Body Manipulation Arts, a technique capable of fully controlling one's body using neigong. Though it was quite a weak martial art, since its manipulation was only a little, the potential it has was limitless. And here's the story of how he got it.

Three Years Ago: River of Evil/Forces of Evil

In the Forces of Evil Faction, there was a famous and notorious criminal who went around killing young men with handsome faces.

His name is Chak Mujok, the Unsightly Fist. He gained his title Unsightly Fist due to his ugly appearance but powerful fist.

His story is actually heartbreaking if you were to ignore his crimes.

Chak Mujok came from a low-class family of farmers. They were a family of five, starting from his father, who broke his back every day in the ricefield just to put food on their table. Sharing this burden was his mother, who went around the village washing clothes for some spare change.

He had two brothers, two brothers who were fortunate enough to be born with both looks and smarts.

Recognizing his brother's brightness, his mother and father enrolled the two of them in a school to make them scholars, but he was an exception.

Born with a deformed face and an average mind, Chak Mujok was neglected inside his own house, with his father even giving some snide remarks. 'If you can't do anything because of that unsightly face, at least do your brothers a favor and leave the house so that the mouth to feed will decrease.'

He endured all of it because he knew that not everyone inside his village judged his worth based on appearance. Even though all of the people inside the village insulted him for his appearance, there was one who was different.

She was a girl that he grew up with; she was always cheerful and she didn't criticize him just because of his appearance. She didn't judge his worth based on looks but based on his personality.

Chak Mujok was happy; he was happy with her, and he even confessed to her, which, to his surprise, the girl didn't reject.

He was as happy as one could be until his brother came back after passing the imperial provisional exam.

One day, as he was buying some dumplings to give to her, he witnessed a sight that would forever change him.

He saw the girl he loved the most kissing his brother; his whole world broke down, and despair filled him.

He rushed towards his brother to beat him up, but his brother was also an exceptional martial artist. Besides being a scholar, he was also a talented martial artist.

He was beaten black and blue; out of shame, he ran away deep into the forest. He ran and ran until his legs gave up on him. It was deep in the night, and he needed some place to sleep; thankfully, he found a cave.

But inside the cave, he found a book, a book that would forever change his life.

He learned the martial arts inside the book and came back two years later, but when he came back, the girl he fell in love with was already pregnant with his brother's child.

He was so furious that he killed his brother in cold blood, only sparing the woman. Then after that, he made it his goal to kill all handsome young men to express his hate and anger for the world that gave him this horrendous face.

One day, on one of his hunts, Chak Mujok was stalking a young handsome man from some unknown background. The handsome man was quite mysterious, but he was definitely sure that this man is the same as those he had hunted once. When night fell, the handsome young man thought that kidnapping women for his entertainment would be fun.

He kidnapped a young girl from a poor family in a small village; fortunately, Chak Mujok was there at the time to witness his crime.

He followed the footsteps the mysterious man left behind, and when he arrived, he was greeted by that very man.

"Oh, there you are! Took you longer than I thought?" The man said.

Chak Mujok was surprised; he thought he was the one hunting, but it seems it was just a trap set up by the true hunter.

"You! You baited me!" Screamed Chak Mujok in anger. He was baited by this man, a man he thought he was going to hunt.

"Well, you are actually quite easy to bait, to be honest," The man laughed mockingly.

"How dare you!" Not only was he baited, but he was also being humiliated, and he, who had hunted many young martial artists from different clans, had his pride high in the sky.

"Where's the girl?" Asked Chak Mujok with contained anger. He was a man who wouldn't even bat an eye killing a man, but if someone innocent were to get involved, then he wouldn't be able to stomach it.

"Oh, don't worry, she's a servant of mine; she's safe and sound, away from someone as ugly as you," Laughed again by the man. Chak Mujok became furious and screamed.

"I'll kill you!" He used his Pure Body Manipulation Arts and enlarged his arm and fist. The man smiled and dodged his attack.

"You know there's a quote from a Western philosopher that stuck with me,"

"He once said: Kill a cockroach and you will be called a hero, but if you kill a butterfly, you'll be a monster, morality has aesthetic standards." He said, then he paused, he scanned his eyes up and down, scanning every nook and cranny of the latter's face before continuing.

"But you, my friend, are a cockroach, and killing you would be deemed a heroic act," Then the man pulled out his sword; it was an unusual sword, it had wavy blades as if it was a snake.

Without even being able to react, Chak Mujok felt something pass through his neck, and before he could even process things, he saw his body detached from his head.

The man approached the cold body of the man once called Unsightly Fist; he ruffled around his robe until he finally pulled out something.

"Ah, there you are," He looked at the book and smiled. The man stood up and grabbed the edge of his face, then pulled out his mask, revealing a young man who looks like he was in his seventeens but in actuality he was only twelve. He had string-like eyes full of deceitfulness and cunningness and an arrogant smile.

"With this, I think I'll be able to come up with a new martial art?"

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