Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 105

The Blood Fiend stretched out both hands towards the 'Chief Guarding Brigade' warriors.

A blood-red light flashed from both arms.

Pung!

Peopeong!

The entire bodies of the 'Chief Guarding Brigade' warriors exploded and turned into a handful of blood mist.

It was a death too futile.

"Aaaak!"

"H-how can that be!"

The onlookers let out screams of horror.

For a person to explode in an instant and turn into a blood mist...

Moreover, that blood mist was sucked into the Blood Fiend's palms.

The Blood Fiend slowly raised his head and looked at the night sky again.

It was a reluctant movement, as if he were being controlled.

"..."

When the 'Chief Guarding Brigade' warriors were defeated so easily, no one else stepped forward.

Although they were warriors who had bet their lives on a single sword, they were terrified in the face of a bizarre death that did not even leave a corpse.

A heavy silence flowed in front of the Lighting Pit.

They could not even swallow their saliva properly, fearing that the Blood Fiend's gaze might turn to them.

A common thought dominated everyone's mind.

'Th-that's not martial arts...'

It was as if a demonic god had descended.

The 'Chief Guarding Brigade' warriors had all possessed first-rate martial arts.

The martial artists who had trained for decades had not even left their bodies behind.

Their bodies would not move out of fear that they too would die like that.

As their consciousness was hardening in the cold fear.

A grumbling voice was heard from somewhere.

"I told you. The brats won't do."

Baekji muttered.

"Even if they were masters, it seems it wouldn't have made a difference... he's become a monster."

Although Baekji's voice was not loud, quite a few people heard it.

And they too agreed.

That was not the realm of humans.

Even the Grand Elder, Haewol, who liked to step forward, just closed his mouth and watched.

The Alliance Leader...

The Alliance Leader must come!

When people thought of the Martial Alliance Leader, as if in response, a person flew in from the darkness.

Kung!

The person who had descended from the sky like a heavenly god...

Everyone who had been terrified woke up.

The Alliance Leader, who had not shown himself for the past few years, had appeared.

"Alliance Leader!"

"The Alliance Leader has come!"

Loud cheers erupted from all sides.

A master of the Heaven Beyond Heaven who had surpassed the top ten masters, who were absolute masters!

Everyone believed without a doubt.

That the Alliance Leader would subdue that monster!

"Alliance Leader!"

Shangguan Ming ran in front of the Alliance Leader and bowed.

"The Blood Fiend... seems to have achieved the 'Blood Demonic God'. I am ashamed."

The Alliance Leader's gaze turned to the night sky where the Blood Fiend was looking.

The Alliance Leader, who was looking at the whirlwind of blood ki with a grave face, opened his mouth.

"Everyone, retreat a hundred zhang."

At the Alliance Leader's order, the martial forces all retreated.

Haewol and the elders hesitated.

There were many eyes watching.

Since they had the dignity of elders, they could not just retreat in a group at the Alliance Leader's single word.

The Alliance Leader said to the elders, "You too, retreat."

"We cannot do that."

A person stepped forward and shouted.

It was Chuganyang.

In his left hand was the One Flash Blade.

However, a few elders were already stealthily retreating.

Chuganyang shouted at them, "There... stop! Are you not the ones who have always called yourselves the leaders of the Alliance? If you run away without even fighting because the enemy is strong, who will follow the Elder's Hall in the future!"

Chuganyang's voice was loud and was heard by everyone.

The elders who were about to retreat flinched.

"If you have been treated as masters of the Alliance, you have to earn your keep! Can you be called elders while you drive your subordinates to their deaths!"

At Chuganyang's sharp words, Haewol frowned.

"Who said anything about retreating? Do you think the Elder's Hall is afraid of a brat like that?"

Haewol took a step forward and said to the Alliance Leader, "It's been a long time. The Elder's Hall will fight with the Alliance Leader until the end."

Just one step.

He did not come out any further.

It meant that the Alliance Leader should take the lead.

The Alliance Leader, without a word, nodded and looked around at the elders, and then discovered Baekji in the back.

'Why is that brat here?'

Baekji, whose eyes met the Alliance Leader's, said with his mouth, 'Alliance Leader, you're cool!'

What is that brat saying?

Although he wondered why Baekji was with the elders, he had to deal with the matter at hand first.

The Alliance Leader turned his head and looked at the Blood Fiend.

"..."

The Blood Fiend was still looking at the whirlwind of blood ki.

The Alliance Leader's gaze followed the Blood Fiend's to the night sky.

"..."

A swirling blood ki in the night sky.

The Alliance Leader was feeling it.

He had to break that.

Otherwise, the Blood Fiend would turn into a 'Blood Demon' controlled by the Blood Cult Leader.

Although people did not know, the fear that was currently dominating the battlefield also originated from the whirlwind of blood ki.

A 'Blood Demon'.

A demonic god that was only passed down in legends, along with the 'Heavenly Demon' of the Demonic Cult.

If a 'Blood Demon' appeared, the world would become a sea of blood.

"..."

The Alliance Leader was in agony.

If he broke the eye of the whirlwind, the consciousness of the Blood Cult Leader...

He would have to bear the full brunt of the aftermath.

If by any chance he could not handle it, who would handle the aftermath?

Although the elders boasted of being masters, there was no master among them who had reached the 'manifestation realm'.

Only Chuganyang was looking at the 'manifestation realm'.

The Alliance Leader glanced at Chuganyang.

He sometimes regretted having brought him in as an elder.

Chuganyang was a selfless martial artist.

That was why he had recommended him to the Elder's Hall.

Thanks to that, he was able to barely balance the Elder's Hall, which was tilted towards the 'Nine Great Sects' and the 'Five Great Families'.

But it was poison to Chuganyang himself.

He had had far too little time to train in martial arts.

In fact, the elders had also once been talented individuals that their sects had high hopes for.

That was why they had been recommended as elders and had come to the Alliance.

But after coming to the Alliance, they were swamped with the major and minor affairs of the martial world.

They had far too little time to train.

'If he hadn't been an elder, he would have reached the 'manifestation realm' long ago...'

Perhaps if he himself had only pursued martial arts like the Blood Cult Leader...

Would he have been able to see beyond the 'natural realm'?

Shaking off a wisp of regret, the Alliance Leader looked back at the Blood Fiend.

The Blood Fiend's entire body was trembling.

A strange light flashed in the Alliance Leader's eyes.

'He is rejecting the Blood Cult Leader's consciousness. He doesn't want to become a 'Blood Demon' whose mind is controlled.'

Then there would be a way.

The Alliance Leader looked at the martial forces that were waiting a hundred zhang away.

If he did not turn into a 'Blood Demon', although there would be considerable damage, he would eventually be able to defeat him.

There were also the elders...

And that brat would also lend a hand, right?

The Alliance Leader, who had looked at Baekji's side once more, hardened his resolve.

'I'll break the consciousness first...'

The Alliance Leader raised his sword towards the night sky.

The whirlwind of blood ki was not visible to people's eyes.

When the Alliance Leader aimed his sword at the night sky instead of attacking the Blood Fiend, they were puzzled.

Since they could not know what the Alliance Leader was thinking, they thought it was a process of the absolute masters sizing each other up.

Silence flowed again.

The Alliance Leader's back looked particularly lonely.

Baekji intervened.

"Ahem... it seems it will be a bit dangerous if you break that."

"...?"

The Alliance Leader, who was raising his sword and concentrating his consciousness on the eye of the whirlwind, asked with his mind.

―Can you see it?

He immediately realized that there was no need to ask.

He must have said it because he could see it.

'Then that brat's realm is...'

A question arose.

When he had fought with Mado, he had seemed to be at the Profound Realm... was he beyond that?

Baekji muttered as if to himself, "First, I recommend sending the masters of the Elder's Hall to catch the Blood Fiend."

Baekji was annoyed by Haewol's trick of sacrificing the 'Chief Guarding Brigade'.

"Why don't you, the Grand Elder, go and fight first? You're from the number one Shaolin in the world, right? Shaolin is the best at catching demons."

'That brat?'

Haewol glared at Baekji.

"Someone, go and lock that brat up!"

"Alright! I was going to ask you anyway. Tell me! Why are you tormenting me? Can the Elder's Hall arrest an innocent person without any evidence?"

"That brat has impersonated the Alliance Leader's disciple and has received a bribe. The person who gave the bribe has confessed himself, so what clearer evidence is there? Quietly admit your crime and wait for your punishment!"

Surprisingly, Haewol was still playing politics even in this urgent situation.

Haewol's eyes swept over the Alliance Leader and Baekji, and then to Shangguan Ming.

To be able to interrogate Baekji in the presence of the Alliance Leader and the Chief Military Advisor.

Although it was not an appropriate place, it was also a great opportunity.

If it was revealed that Baekji was a swindler.

The Chief Military Advisor, who had known nothing, would be reprimanded...

And if the Alliance Leader was also criticized...

The prestige of the Elder's Hall, which had revealed the truth, would rise...

And he could tear away more authority from the Alliance Leader and the military affairs department...

"That's..."

As Baekji was about to protest.

"Disciple!"

At the Alliance Leader's voice calling his disciple, everyone's gaze was drawn.

Haewol's eyes widened.

'Is he really a disciple? Is the rumor true?'

The rumor that had been circulating about the Alliance Leader's seclusion.

The rumor that he was raising a disciple, and as a result of a secret investigation, no such signs had been found...

Haewol looked back and forth between Baekji and the Alliance Leader.

Even Shangguan Ming looked at the Alliance Leader with a puzzled expression.

"Disciple. Did you receive a bribe?"

"No..."

Baekji, not knowing the Alliance Leader's intention, answered falteringly.

"If you say no, then that's it. There's no way that Jeong Unbaek's disciple would receive a bribe!"

The Alliance Leader stealthily turned around.

"You take care of the rest."

"Huh, what do you mean..."

In an instant, the Alliance Leader turned around.

Paa-aang!

A pure white lightning exploded from the sword and shot up into the sky.

Kwaaang! Pajijijik!

A huge bolt of lightning struck somewhere in the dark night sky.

Baekji saw the lightning that Jeong Unbaek had shot up pierce the eye of the whirlwind.

'Wow. He broke it like that... the Alliance Leader was also at the 'natural realm'.'

The Alliance Leader had shot up a lightning bolt containing his consciousness into the eye of the whirlwind.

In an instant.

The dark night sky trembled.

Kukukung!

Urureung!

Only then did people realize that there was something strange in the night sky.

The whirlwind of blood ki, 'paang', exploded and then, in the blink of an eye, contracted, and the remaining ki struck the Alliance Leader.

Kwaaaang!

A wave of ki exploded from the Alliance Leader's entire body, and the ground he was standing on shot up and then collapsed.

Kwajijijik!

With the Alliance Leader at the center, the ground cracked like a drought.

"Aaaah..."

"What happened?"

People could not contain their horror at the sudden sight.

The Alliance Leader raised his sword to the sky...

The energy of lightning exploded...

The place where the Alliance Leader was standing was devastated.

"..."

Silence flowed.

"That brat is moving!"

Someone shouted.

The Blood Fiend, who had been staring blankly at the night sky, seemed to have come to his senses and looked around.

The blood-red ki from the Blood Fiend's entire body disappeared, and his original appearance returned.

"..."

The Blood Fiend's eyes, which were flashing with a blood light, swept around.

It seemed he was trying to figure out where he was.

The Blood Fiend's gaze turned to the Alliance Leader.

The Alliance Leader, who had shot up the lightning, was not moving, with his sword hanging down.

He had lost consciousness while standing.

Shangguan Ming flew and shouted, "Alliance Leader! Protect the Alliance Leader."

The martial forces of the military affairs department and the Alliance Leader's office rushed in an instant and protected the Alliance Leader.

When the martial forces rushed in, the Blood Fiend instinctively tried to retreat a step but staggered.

Seeing this, Haewol flew like a madman.

"Get out of the way! I'll take care of that brat!"

Haewol, who had jumped over the air in an instant and had approached the Blood Fiend, swung his iron staff and struck down.

The iron staff, which he had always boasted was eighty jin in weight, came down on the Blood Fiend's head.

In an instant, a brilliant light flowed from the Blood Fiend's eyes.

Although his cognitive ability, which had been intoxicated by the blood ki, had not fully recovered, his instincts warned him of the danger, and he unfolded the 'Blood Shadow Mysterious Divine Step' and stretched out both hands.

A crimson blood energy shot out from both hands.

Seeing the blood-red blood energy, Haewol's heart turned cold.

'I misjudged!'

Although he didn't know the details of what the Alliance Leader had done, he had thought that the Blood Fiend was seriously injured when he saw him staggering.

So he had intended to finish him off, but when the Blood Fiend responded, he realized that his thoughts were wrong.

But it was already too late.

There was no other way.

Haewol put all his strength into his staff and imbued it with his internal energy.

Kwaaaang!

Thwack!

The Blood Fiend's strong ki, which had just entered the Profound Realm, broke Haewol's strong ki contained in the staff and pierced Haewol's chest.

"Keo-eok!"

Haewol's head, in pain, was thrown into the air, and he screamed.

His bloodshot eyes looked as if they would pop out at any moment.

"Keup..."

Then, Haewol's head snapped back, and blood burst from his chest.

When Haewol opened his mouth, blood poured out.

"Th-this..."

His words could not continue.

All of this happened while Haewol was floating in the air.

Haewol, without even being able to land properly on the ground, was smashed and rolled away.

"Grand Elder!"

"How can that be!"

The elders were horrified.

For the Grand Elder of the Martial Alliance, it was a death too futile.

To not even be able to handle a single blow from the Right Honored One of the Blood Sect.

In the meantime, Shangguan Ming had picked up the Alliance Leader and had retreated.

Baekji, seeing the body of Haewol who had fallen to the ground, put his hands together.

"Grand Elder, I'm sorry... I didn't know you were that weak."

(End of Chapter)