Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 131

"It is not right to treat the leaders of sects outside like this. Everyone, please come in."

Jin Tiansuo led the way to Half-Moon Fortress.

The three sect masters followed with mournful faces.

Baekji recalled the drinking table where only peanut fragments had been served.

"Scholar Bing, bring a roasted pig."

Scholar Bing, after telling his subordinate to prepare alcohol and meat, followed beside Baekji.

"What on earth happened?"

Scholar Bing asked with a face as if he had been possessed by a ghost.

Baekji, who had been tearing at pork with him, had suddenly disappeared, saying he had someone to bring, and then had brought the leaders of the enemy.

"Did you have an appointment with those three sect masters?"

"Scholar Bing said so."

"I did?"

Scholar Bing tilted his head.

"Wasn't it Scholar Bing who said, 'What are we going to do if the enemy is watching from across the river and we're roasting pigs so openly'?"

Ah. That's right.

"Just in case, I spread my senses, and three pretty strong brats were caught."

This is why being strong in martial arts is a good thing.

"What did you feed the South Snake Sect Master... why is he making such a strange face?"

"It's a truth-telling pill made by the Tang family. He will answer whatever you ask obediently. Do you want to try one?"

Scholar Bing hastily stepped back. Baekji had seen the technique of feeding the truth-telling pill to the South Snake Sect Master.

Just in case, he even covered his mouth.

"There is nothing the Honored One cannot do."

"The Black Path is also good at flattery..."

"Isn't that the shortcut to success? It's basic."

"Stop with the nonsense and find out who's behind those brats."

A drinking table was set up in the room where Baekji had had a drink with him the previous evening.

The meat and food were plentiful.

"This is more like it."

Baekji was satisfied.

They sat around the round table.

"I will pour the drinks."

Scholar Bing poured the drinks and then sat next to Jin Tiansuo.

Jin Tiansuo stood up and proposed a toast.

"We are enemies, but in the end, isn't it a fight for our families? If possible, I would like to end it by coming to a good agreement."

"Hmph! That won't happen."

The South Snake Sect Master, blurted out without realizing it and then covered his mouth in surprise.

To be so defiant after being dragged into the enemy camp... he would die immediately.

It was something that would never have happened under normal circumstances.

"What's wrong with me?"

The words he had thought in his mind came out of his mouth.

Baekji told him.

"It's because you ate the truth-telling pill. The South Snake Sect Master has become the most truthful person in this room."

"Why only me..."

"Look at your face. You look like you'd lie the moment you open your mouth. These two here... but who are you?"

"Dong Gwi of the Sea Ghost Sect."

"I am called Seok Pa of the Mother Fox Sect."

The two were not of the Han people.

"Your names are easy to remember. Anyway, these two look mostly truthful. See! They look like they have no thoughts, right?"

Was it a compliment or an insult... The expressions of the Sea Ghost Sect Master and the Mother Fox Sect Master subtly contorted.

"But you, your eyeballs are constantly rolling around. I can almost hear the sound of your eyeballs rolling."

Everyone looked, and indeed, the South Snake Sect Master was moving his eyeballs ceaselessly.

"That person's title is the 'Southern Fox'."

The thoughtless Sea Ghost Sect Master, as if he also knew something, immediately tattled.

"As expected! I thought so. The fox of the south, I've told you the reason you ate the truth-telling pill... now tell me the story you were telling. Why is the Zhuge family coming out here?"

At the mention of the Zhuge family, silence fell.

The potential of the Five Great Families was very deep. Unlike the Tang family, the Zhuge family had not suffered much damage in the last calamity of the Blood Sect.

They had preserved their power intact and held a high position even among the Five Great Families.

"As expected... so the Zhuge family was behind it?"

Jin Tiansuo muttered and then drank.

Scholar Bing, as if he had also guessed, asked, "What did the Zhuge family want?"

"...They asked us to join hands with the southern sects and pretend to attack the Four Shrines Heaven to tie them down."

The South Snake Sect Master, with a very mournful face, spilled the beans.

"What did they offer in return?"

"...We were to receive the hegemony of the south and a part of the Zhuge family's business."

"What did they say was the reason for the Zhuge family to attack the Four Shrines Heaven?"

"I don't know."

Baekji interjected.

"Scholar Bing, that's not how you use a truth-telling pill."

"...?"

Baekji asked the South Snake Sect Master, "South Snake Sect Master, what kind of person is the Sea Ghost Sect Master here?"

"...An ignorant brat who only knows how to use his strength..."

The Sea Ghost Sect Master's face contorted.

The South Snake Sect Master was in a living hell. When Baekji asked about the Sea Ghost Sect Master, what he usually thought of naturally came to mind and came out of his mouth.

Even if he didn't want to speak, his mouth moved on its own.

"Oho? Really? What about the Mother Fox Sect Master?"

"A pathetic pushover who is indecisive and takes others' words at face value..."

The Mother Fox Sect Master looked as if he would kill the South Snake Sect Master at any moment.

Baekji said to Scholar Bing, "You have to ask specifically like this."

"Ah. I see. It is truly a miraculous item."

Scholar Bing exclaimed in admiration.

Baekji asked again, "How was the brat who came from the Zhuge family?"

"...Zhuge Jiao was an insidious person whose inner thoughts could not be known. He sat on top of my head and played with me..."

The face of the South Snake Sect Master as he spoke was flushed red. It was understandable, as he, who had prided himself on his outstanding resourcefulness, had to speak ill of himself.

"And yet you did as he ordered?"

"If I refused... he said he would erase the South Snake Sect."

The South Snake Sect Master had not made a deal with the Zhuge family, but had been threatened.

"Who was taken captive?"

"He took my son."

Baekji pointed at Jin Tiansuo and asked, "What do you think of Heaven Lord Jin?"

"...A master with immeasurable martial prowess. An incomprehensible being..."

Baekji said to Scholar Bing, "This South Snake Sect Master here was afraid of Heaven Lord Jin, but he had no choice but to follow the words of the Zhuge family. If you think about it, he's a pitiful shrimp. The Sea Ghost Sect lives by the sea, so you should know well. You know the shrimp whose back breaks in a whale fight, right? That's your situation."

"..."

"Although Heaven Lord Jin is of the Black Path, his heart is like silk. He's even serving you, who have been tormenting him for a month, with alcohol and meat, right? Since he has tremendous martial arts, he could have killed you all by himself, but he has endured it all this time."

"..."

"The Zhuge family probably had no intention of giving you anything from the beginning. Because Heaven Lord Jin would have killed you all. It's a perfect 'borrowing a knife to kill someone' scheme..."

At Baekji's words, the Sea Ghost Sect Master said, "You seem to not know something... even if I die, another person will take over the Sea Ghost Sect. I am just serving as the sect master as a representative of our tribe. So the Zhuge family will have to keep their promise."

Baekji knew the reason why Jin Tiansuo had not wiped them out at once.

They were sects put forward by the ethnic minorities, so whether the sect master died or the sect members were annihilated, they could just select new members and create a sect again.

Since they were sects created to secure the sea routes in the first place, as long as they had a purpose to exist, they would not disappear.

This was the same for the Mother Fox Sect and the South Snake Sect.

"Did you make a promise in writing?"

"..."

"Even if there is a document, it's useless. Would the new Sea Ghost Sect Master go all the way to the Zhuge family in the far north and ask them to keep their promise? He would just sharpen his sword, saying he would take revenge because the Four Shrines Heaven Lord had killed the former sect master."

"Then what is the Zhuge family after?"

The Mother Fox Sect Master, as if he were really curious, gathered his courage and asked.

"They're trying to frame the Four Shrines Heaven as a notorious Black Path and eliminate them. If they become a public enemy of the martial world, the great sects, the noble families, and the Righteous Path wanderers who want to make a name for themselves will flock. The Zhuge family just has to move their mouths, so how great would that be?"

"As long as the Four Shrines Heaven wants to unify the Black Path, they are our enemy."

The thoughtless Sea Ghost Sect Master said.

Baekji looked at the Sea Ghost Sect Master with surprised eyes.

"The Sea Ghost Sect was the Black Path?"

"No! We are a sect gathered to protect the sea routes."

"Then you're not the target of the Black Path unification either."

"Well... it's not like we only do business in the light."

The southern sects of Guangxi were ambiguous to classify as black or white.

"Alright. I'll sort it out for you."

"..."

"Where in the world is there a place without the Black Path? People can't all live according to Confucius's words. Brats who like to gamble, brats who are fond of women, brats who live for the fun of swindling others... what can you do about their nature? So the existence of the Black Path is inevitable. The problem is the brats who cross the line. Brats who do things like human trafficking and drugs must be beaten to death."

When Baekji asked with his eyes if they also did such things, the three leaders all shook their heads.

"That's a relief. That we don't have to see blood in this place... but where was I?"

"You were saying that it is difficult to eradicate the Black Path."

Scholar Bing told him.

"That's right. Human nature originally has yin and yang. The Black Path is like that. But when I came and saw, the Black Path of the Four Shrines Heaven was rather more disciplined than the White Path."

After Jin Tiansuo became the Heaven Lord, the Black Path did not cross the line. So he had even gained the trust of the merchants and farmers. This was the reason why the Four Shrines Heaven could quickly establish itself in Guangxi.

"Why did Heaven Lord Jin unify the Black Path of Guangxi? It was to fight the Blood Sect. You know the Blood Sect, right? They are brats who cut people's necks and drink their lifeblood."

The south of Guangxi was so remote that the calamity of the Blood Sect had not reached it. Still, they had heard of the notoriety of the Blood Sect.

"In other words, he's trying to protect Guangxi from the Blood Sect. That's why he even sent Scholar Bing to invite me. He called me for the safety of the world."

"Hahaha!"

Jin Tiansuo shot up. Then he poured alcohol into two large bowls until they were overflowing and handed them to Baekji.

"What is this?"

"I have met someone who understands me, and if I don't empty a glass of alcohol, I cannot be called a man."

"This isn't a glass. It's a bowl."

"Ah! I heard my younger brother is a light drinker. Don't worry. Your older brother will drink it for you."

Jin Tiansuo, stealthily making Baekji his younger brother.

'This brat? If I had had a child before my reincarnation, I would be your father's age!'

While Baekji was muttering, Jin Tiansuo really did empty both bowls.

"Oh! As expected! They said Heaven Lord Jin was a true man, and it is indeed so. Although you are an enemy, I cannot help but admire you!"

The thoughtless Sea Ghost Sect Master, unable to distinguish when to butt in and when not to, stood up and exclaimed in admiration, then crossed the line.

"I too am a man of the sea! I cannot lose when it comes to drinking."

Then he lifted the wine jug and, drank from the mouth of the jug.

Half of it spilled to the side.

'Sigh... these Black Path brats...'

Baekji inwardly sighed and raised his hand to calm him down.

"Sea Ghost Sect Master, this is not a drinking contest. It would be better for you to stop drinking."

"What are you talking about! I can drink ten jugs in one night and still be fine!"

The Sea Ghost Sect Master, who was getting drunk beat his chest.

Aigoo...

Should I have fed this brat a sedative...?

"Alright... calm down... where were we?"

"You were saying that you came to form an alliance to fight the Blood Sect."

Scholar Bing answered.

"That's right. I did. Oh! I didn't tell you who I am, did I? I'm the person the Alliance Leader calls his disciple. An absolute master. Have you heard?"

The border sects were not interested in the Martial Alliance. It seemed they had heard it as a passing word...

"What about the 'Four Hegemons of Shaanxi Great Assembly'? Haven't you heard of it?"

"..."

"As expected, it's the borderlands. Anyway... I came all the way to these borderlands. Do you know how much I wandered after getting lost on the way? I had to spend a lot of money because of that."

"..."

"I came here with such difficulty, and you all are getting in the way. Yesterday, Heaven Lord Jin said so. That because of the people gathered here, he couldn't lend his strength for the time being. How disappointed I must have been. So we released our boiling anger through a martial arts contest... did you see that? I used quite a bit of strength."

"..."

Baekji, tapped the heads of the three leaders with his bamboo staff.

"Leaders, now you know what's going on, right? Don't you feel pathetic for yourselves, playing into the hands of the Zhuge family without even knowing this deep meaning of Heaven Lord Jin and myself? Don't you feel a sense of self-loathing for sitting in a corner of the borderlands, not being able to distinguish between shit and bean paste, and just messing around?"

"Yes."

Surprisingly, the truthful being, the South Snake Sect Master, answered immediately.

"But I can't help it. My son's life is at stake."

"The South Snake Sect Master's son was a dead man from the beginning."

"..."

"If the South Snake Sect Master dies at the hands of Heaven Lord Jin, his son will have no value as a hostage. Would the Zhuge family give a free lunch? They would stealthily kill him and put a brat who listens to them well in the position of sect master."

"Yes. That's what would happen."

The South Snake Sect Master answered as it came to his mind.

"The father has to live. You're still young. You can have another son. It's a pity, but..."

"No. That brat is like my own life."

Jin Tiansuo, who had been listening while sipping his drink until now, said, "I will save him. If I do, will you withdraw your subordinates?"

"Oh!"

Baekji exclaimed in admiration.

"Heaven Lord Jin is a true hero. To even save the son of an enemy who has become a prisoner. Leaders. Did you see? This is the kind of person Heaven Lord Jin is. A true great hero."

"Don't talk nonsense."

Jin Tiansuo, who had suddenly been painted with makeup, let out a dry cough.

"No. It's a character I can never follow... I can't help it. It seems Heaven Lord Jin will have to be the leader of the 'Blood-Shattering Alliance'."

"The 'Blood-Shattering Alliance'?"

At Baekji's words, Scholar Bing, was startled and interjected.

"It's an alliance to crush the Blood Sect."

It was an alliance that Baekji had created after much thought while on his way.

Of course, no sect had joined yet...

Scholar Bing, as well as those in this room, did not know that fact.

Since the Blood Sect had appeared, they thought an alliance to fight it had naturally been formed.

"That is difficult. The Four Shrines Heaven is just a Black Path in the borderlands of Guangxi. It is possible to participate as a member of the 'Blood-Shattering Alliance', but..."

Baekji shook his head.

"Scholar Bing. Isn't it good for your lord to do well? Why are you opposing it?"

Well. Of course. It's a scheme to make the Four Shrines Heaven a pushover.

Scholar Bing glared at Baekji.

(End of Chapter)