Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 106

When Haewol was unable to withstand even a single blow from the Blood Fiend, the elders were shocked.

They surrounded the Blood Fiend from a distance of five zhang, unable to attack rashly.

The Blood Fiend's behavior was also strange.

He was looking down at Haewol's corpse.

It was the gaze of a beast staring at its delicious prey.

It seemed as if he would explode Haewol's corpse at any moment.

However, the elders did not dare to retrieve Haewol's corpse.

They could not overcome the fear that if they approached, they would end up like Haewol.

'The Blood Sect's situation is also complicated.'

Baekji muttered to himself.

He had seen the Blood Fiend resisting the Blood Cult Leader's consciousness.

If the Alliance Leader had not broken the Blood Cult Leader's consciousness, his soul would probably have been devoured.

Then what would have happened?

He was curious.

* * *

Shangguan Ming, having secured a safe distance, sat the Alliance Leader in a cross-legged position.

Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol stood guard on either side.

Although the two of them were not in good condition either, for now, they were the people Shangguan Ming could trust the most.

Since the Alliance Leader had lost consciousness, it was a situation where anything could happen.

There were many others besides Haewol who were aiming for the hegemony of the Martial Alliance.

Shangguan Ming did not even trust his own confidants.

He knew that the Elder's Hall had planted spies in the military affairs department.

"Form a wall at a three-zhang distance!"

The martial force formed a human wall at a three-zhang distance, with their backs to each other.

"Alliance Leader?"

Shangguan Ming called the unconscious Alliance Leader.

There was no answer.

He checked his breathing and pulse, but they were normal.

And surprisingly, the Alliance Leader's complexion was peaceful.

'What happened?'

Even Shangguan Ming, who was said to have mastered all kinds of knowledge, could not understand what was going on.

'This is an unprecedented realm! It is something that happens in the world of absolute masters!'

Shangguan Ming came to his senses.

In this place, the only absolute master he knew was Baekji.

"Hey! Baekji! Come here! Your master is calling you!"

Shangguan Ming shouted at Baekji.

Baekji, who was observing the Blood Fiend, was puzzled when Shangguan Ming called him.

"Master? Me? Why me?"

He was already flustered that the Alliance Leader had called him his disciple.

"Your master has something to say!"

The martial force that surrounded Shangguan Ming and the Alliance Leader had their backs to them, so they did not know the situation behind them.

As if in response to Shangguan Ming's shout, someone shouted.

"Ah... the Alliance Leader is safe!"

At the shout, as if he had to be safe, people let out a sigh of relief in unison.

The Alliance Leader had lost consciousness, and then the Grand Elder, Haewol, had died in an instant.

But to hear that the Alliance Leader, who they had thought was dead, was alive, hope surged from the abyss of despair.

The elders and everyone in the hall all looked at Baekji.

The Alliance Leader's hidden disciple who had suddenly appeared...

An unspoken pressure to go and receive the Alliance Leader's order poured towards Baekji.

"This is really..."

Pushed by the gazes of hundreds of people, Baekji moved his steps.

The martial forces cleared a path for him on their own.

Baekji walked through the path with a trudging gait.

There was no one to stop the Alliance Leader's disciple.

Baekji's mind was complicated.

'I might be a member of the Demonic Cult, but if I become the Alliance Leader's disciple... what will happen?'

A feeling that things were getting twisted.

A thought that there were also good points flashed through his mind.

'What's wrong with it? Who would suspect the Alliance Leader's disciple of being a member of the Demonic Cult?'

He could obtain the most certain identity.

'The Alliance Leader said it himself. Everyone heard it. So no one will be able to question it.'

He saw the Alliance Leader sitting cross-legged, Shangguan Ming, and Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol guarding on either side.

"Ah, Chief Investigator! Miss Yunseol! I've been looking for you. I'm glad you're safe."

Baekji ran over, waving his hand happily.

Nangong Zhao raised a finger to the middle of his mouth.

Shh!

It meant to be quiet.

"Huh?"

Shangguan Ming's telepathic message pierced his ear.

―Check the Alliance Leader's condition.

Baekji looked back and forth between the lying Alliance Leader and Shangguan Ming and then realized what was going on.

'Oh. This is a situation where the dead Zhuge Liang is chasing away the living Sima Yi.'

Shangguan Ming was trying to prevent the Alliance from being shaken by letting them know that the Alliance Leader was alive.

'Chief Military Advisor... he wouldn't starve even if he were an actor.'

―Hurry and check. If something happens to the Alliance Leader now... there will be no way to handle the Alliance.

Shangguan Ming's telepathic message flew in again.

'Alright, I'll play along.'

Baekji shouted in a loud voice, "Master! Your disciple has come!"

Huh? If this is the case, then Yang Soryeong and the Alliance Leader are on the same level...

The master-disciple relationship is getting complicated, isn't it?

When Baekji naturally claimed to be a disciple, Shangguan Ming was rather surprised.

Although he knew it wasn't true, he couldn't help but wonder.

'Did the Alliance Leader really raise a disciple?'

That can't be, right?

The reason why he had responded to the Alliance Leader's words of calling him a disciple was because Baekji was the only absolute master who could handle the current situation.

He hadn't thought he was a real disciple.

Nangong Zhao was surprised for a different reason.

'That brat, he can even speak formally?'

Baekji, whether Shangguan Ming and Nangong Zhao were surprised or not, chattered away.

"The Blood Fiend? You want me to beat that brat to death? Understood. Don't worry and get some rest. But, the Grand Elder is dead. Who would have imagined that he wouldn't be able to withstand even a single blow from the Blood Fiend? Don't worry about me..."

Baekji, while chattering away, took the Alliance Leader's pulse.

'Hmm... as expected, the 'natural realm'... amazing. To have reached the 'natural realm' just by training.'

He himself had only been able to enter the 'natural realm' after his 'rejuvenation' and after eating True Man Changshan's spirit pill.

'But to not have been able to achieve 'rejuvenation'... it must mean that 'rejuvenation' is not something that can be achieved just by martial arts accomplishment.'

Baekji, while checking the Alliance Leader's condition, once again realized that his 'rejuvenation' was not the providence of nature.

'But when did he see me and treat me as a disciple?'

Baekji hit the Alliance Leader's head.

―What are you doing?

Shangguan Ming looked at him with a suspicious eye.

―Ah... I'm checking the condition of his head. The Alliance Leader is sleeping.

―Sleeping?

―It's similar to meditation. A bit different, but... you saw him break the night sky earlier, right? How hard must it have been to do such a thing.

―Watch your words! Such a thing!

―...

Baekji closed his mouth.

Shangguan Ming, in his impatience, asked again.

―Then when do you think he will wake up?

―...

―Answer.

―I don't want to say.

Shangguan Ming was burning with impatience.

―I was... wrong... I will be careful in the future...

Only then did Baekji say, ―I don't know. He might stay like that until he dies.

At Baekji's blunt telepathic message, Shangguan Ming's complexion hardened.

Shangguan Ming said to Nangong Zhao, ―Draw their attention.

Nangong Zhao was flustered by Shangguan Ming's urgent telepathic message.

What was he supposed to do?

Then Baekji came into his eyes.

A thought flashed through his mind.

The crisis of the Alliance!

Let me throw my body!

Nangong Zhao knelt on one knee towards Baekji, raised his sword, and shouted, "Young Alliance Leader! The military affairs department's chief investigator, Nangong Zhao! I will follow the Young Alliance Leader and strike the enemy!"

At Nangong Zhao's sudden shout, even the martial force that had formed a human wall turned around.

Young Alliance Leader?

The Martial Alliance was not a sect or a family that was passed down through direct lineage, so what Young Alliance Leader?

The gazes of the elders and the heads of the inner and outer halls, and the gathered masters, all turned this way.

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

Baekji was flustered.

"Yes... Chief Investigator, what's wrong? Did you hurt your head?"

"Young Alliance Leader! Have you forgotten the Alliance Leader's words? The Young Alliance Leader must take care of the rest! I will assist you with all my loyalty!"

Baekji's mouth fell open.

'Such cunning...'

The grandmaster of cunning clicked his tongue at the young master of cunning.

Tang Yunseol also knelt on one knee next to him.

"The Tang family, which has received the grace of the Young Alliance Leader! The Tang family will follow the will of the Young Alliance Leader."

Miss Yunseol has also been tainted.

* * *

"Keuk!"

A groan erupted from the depths of the 'Blood Cliff'.

As the 'blood breath' was broken, a pain as if his whole body were being shattered washed over him.

"Jeong Unbaek... quite something..."

The Blood Cult Leader, who was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the boiling blood-red pond, had his eyes turn bright red.

He had missed the sacrifice, the Blood Fiend, which he had put a lot of effort into.

'It was a chance for a proper 'Blood Demon' to appear...'

If that had happened, the plan for the 'Blood Heaven's Descent' would have been much smoother.

But that was only for a moment, and the Blood Cult Leader's gaze returned to a clear blood-red.

Countless years.

How many things had happened in those years...

Missing the Blood Fiend was just one of those many things.

The scheduled day will come.

To the one who does not die...

Because time is infinite...

Enemies appeared endlessly...

But they disappeared in the flow of time...

The 'Extreme Heavy Island'...

The 'Mysterious Moon Divine Palace'...

The 'Martial Martial Sect'...

The 'Silver Moon Sect...

The enemies of the past.

Now he could not even remember who had aimed a sword at him.

The Martial Alliance...

Compared to the enemies of that time, they were just a ragtag bunch that did not even catch his eye...

However, he had not expected that the brat called the Alliance Leader would reach this level of accomplishment.

The brat he had seen at some point was content in the Profound Realm.

He had been caught off guard and had been stabbed.

The Blood Cult Leader suddenly realized that he had stimulated Jeong Unbaek's realm.

"For a human body to reach the 'natural realm'... kehehe... interesting..."

The Blood Cult Leader, with Bai Yandu's face, smiled faintly.

The day of the 'Blood Heaven's Descent' will surely come.

The resistance of the paltry humans was just laughable.

A drop of water that had formed on the ceiling of the cave fell into the blood-red pond.

'Tto-ok!'

A blood-red concentric circle spread in the 'blood pond'.

* * *

"Young Alliance Leader! The Swift Wind Brigade will follow you!"

This time, Zhang Li knelt on one knee.

"Uh, Deputy Brigade Leader Zhang... no... Brigade Leader Zhang, you don't have to... do that..."

He had heard that Zhang Li had been recognized for his hard fight in Sichuan and had become the leader of the Swift Wind Brigade.

When Zhang Li knelt on one knee, the entire Swift Wind Brigade, although reluctant, followed their leader.

In the spacious plaza in front of the Elder's Hall's Lighting Pit, the key personnel and the martial force of the Martial Alliance were gathered.

Following Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol, when the Swift Wind Brigade said they would follow the Young Alliance Leader, they looked at each other.

The group was roughly divided into three.

"We will follow the Young Alliance Leader!"

The group that knelt on one knee one by one and said they would follow the Young Alliance Leader, the group that stood stiffly and watched the situation, and the group that awkwardly took a stance and were fiercely watching each other.

'So this is what the Martial Alliance was like...'

Baekji suddenly thought of Bai Renguang, Ximen Suo, Mo Dahou, and Hu Yeonjo. He realized that if he expanded the secret struggle they had waged over money and the White Mountain Sect to many people, it would be exactly like the Martial Alliance.

Baekji looked at the group that was kneeling on one knee.

Their various inner thoughts came into his eyes.

'Those brats are just blindly following the Alliance Leader, and that group over there seems to be doing it because they don't like the Elder's Hall, and that side over there are the quick-witted brats who are trying to grab a new lifeline... that bastard has a dirty impression, so why is he saying he'll follow me? He's a brat who would stab me in the back...'

He also swept his gaze over the group that was standing stiffly. They were mostly from the great sects or the great families, or were masters who occupied key positions in the Alliance.

To accept the Alliance Leader's disciple as the Young Alliance Leader, there was no justification, and they could not accept a brat who had appeared out of nowhere as the Young Alliance Leader. There were brats with the ambition to challenge the supreme power of the Alliance, and there were upright brats who believed that one should choose their own lord...

And another group had various stances.

They were awkwardly cupping their fists or bowing halfway and watching the situation.

There were brats who were rolling their eyes, thinking that one should be cautious in their conduct, brats who were watching the Elder's Hall, which was backed by the power of the 'Nine Great Sects' and the 'Five Great Families', brats who thought they should first defeat the strong enemy and then slowly consider the succession, and even brats with no thoughts at all...

Baekji's eyes saw the various inner thoughts.

'As expected, the position of Alliance Leader is a headache...'

(End of Chapter)