Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 25

Baekji let go of General Manager Ximen's wrist and stood up. Of course, he took the token.

"This is the property of the White Mountain Sect, so the acting sect master should have it."

"You bastard!"

As soon as his wrist was free, General Manager Ximen rolled to the side, took out a dagger from his bosom, and threw it.

Thwack!

Baekji caught the dagger.

Since his right wrist was broken and he had thrown it with his left hand, its power was pathetic.

"This is pretty good."

Baekji admired the dagger as he examined it.

The dagger, which was light yet held a cool, keen energy, was clearly no ordinary object at a glance.

While Baekji was distracted by the dagger, General Manager Ximen stood up and threw another dagger.

Thwack!

Baekji caught it again, then 'whoosh', he approached and struck General Manager Ximen's mute point.

General Manager Ximen realized that the acting sect master's servant was a master whose level he could not fathom.

'Where did a guy like this come from!'

Baekji searched General Manager Ximen's bosom.

Another dagger came out.

"Is this all?"

General Manager Ximen was completely out of his mind.

Although he was now called a master of the Iron Claw Skill, before that, he had been a master of the flying dagger technique called the 'Three Paths of Certain Death'.

After joining the White Mountain Sect, he had had no reason to use the flying dagger technique, but he had continued to practice it, yet it did not work on Baekji.

It was a situation he could not understand at all.

"I'll take this too."

Baekji took the flying daggers and then searched General Manager Ximen's bosom again, even taking his money pouch.

General Manager Ximen, whose mute point was sealed, was robbed with his eyes wide open.

"Thanks. I'm glad my curiosity is satisfied. As expected, cause and effect, and reason, do not lie."

Baekji left with those incomprehensible words and left.

* * *

Baekji went to see Hu Yeonjo.

Hu Yeonjo's residence, the Great Light Hall, was surrounded by a double and triple layer of security.

Baekji stealthily crawled under the cover of night and snuck into Hu Yeonjo's residence.

Hu Yeonjo was with a woman, a table of drinks in front of them.

The woman was acting coquettishly.

"Brigade Leader, when you become the White Mountain Sect Master, you will formally take me in, right?"

"Of course. To take care of the household, a smart woman like you should be my wife."

"Hoho. I can finally end my life as a courtesan."

The woman, with all sorts of coquettish gestures, lifted a cup of wine and brought it to Hu Yeonjo's lips.

As Hu Yeonjo drank the wine, he wrapped his arm around the woman's waist and touched her chest.

"Hehe. No matter how much Mo Dahou runs wild, he's just a wild boar. In the end, the White Mountain Sect will fall into my hands. It's all thanks to you."

"You're too kind. I didn't know the information I gave you was so important. I just relayed what the Meixian Fang warriors were whispering, but it was you, Brigade Leader, who immediately understood, who is brilliant."

"What a lucky charm. Hehe. I had my suspicions too. But I had no proof, and you confirmed the Meixian Fang's scheme, so your contribution is great. When I become the sect master, I will specially exempt the Hongmeng Brothel from protection taxes."

"Aing. You should take care of me more than the Hongmeng Brothel. I was the one who gave you the information."

"Haha. Is that so?"

The woman gently pushed Mo Dahou's arm, slipped out of his embrace, and asked, "But what are you going to do now? They say the Twin Swords of Meixian are great masters. Can you handle them?"

"Why should I? A White Temple Brigade member died, so Mo Dahou should take care of it."

Hu Yeonjo drank his wine with a pleased expression.

"I just have to watch. The moment Mo Dahou and the Twin Swords of Meixian destroy each other, I just have to clean up the mess."

"Hoho. So that's what they call 'the fisherman's gain'."

"Aing, you cute thing. You even know such words. This is why I can't help but cherish you."

"I don't know where to put myself."

"Where on earth have you been until now? From now on, just as Yu Miaoyi was by Xiang Yu's side, you stay right by my side."

"Of course."

As the woman was acting coquettishly, a head slowly descended from the ceiling.

"Those two died early. Do you want to be like that?"

"Oh my!"

"Gasp!"

The woman and Hu Yeonjo were surprised at the same time. A person was hanging upside down from the ceiling, looking at them.

Hu Yeonjo spun around and grabbed the saber hanging behind him, pulling it out.

Chwaak!

A sharp saber energy filled the room.

"Who are you?"

"Me? I think we've met before. You're dumber than I thought."

Baekji did a somersault and jumped down.

Hu Yeonjo also found him familiar.

"You, by any chance... aren't you Yang Soryeong's servant?"

"Yang Soryeong? How can you call the Acting Sect Master's name so freely?"

Hu Yeonjo was momentarily bewildered.

Right now, his Great Light Hall was under strict security. Concerned about assassins, he had forbidden anyone from entering within a ten-zhang radius of the building.

'But how did this brat get in?'

His mind was in chaos at the absurd fact.

"How dare a mere servant trespass into the Great Light Hall!"

Hu Yeonjo swung his saber.

He swung it lightly, as cutting off a servant brat's neck was no big deal.

But.

Clang!

Baekji took out the dagger he had taken from General Manager Ximen and blocked it.

Hu Yeonjo's saber was a fairly long saber. To block it with a palm-sized dagger.

Moreover, Hu Yeonjo's hand trembled.

'A master!'

A chill ran down Hu Yeonjo's spine.

Instantly, a thought flashed through his mind.

'Yang Soryeong's marriage to the White Mountain Sect was a conspiracy from the beginning!'

Hu Yeonjo thought that the Meixian Fang had sent Yang Soryeong to marry and had infiltrated a master disguised as a servant.

'The Sect Master and the fake True Man Changshan were also done in by this brat.'

Coincidentally, not long after Yang Soryeong arrived, Bai Renguang was attacked.

Since Hu Yeonjo usually had excessive confidence in his own intelligence, he connected the thoughts in his own way and then said, "So the Meixian Fang has joined hands with the Blood Sect."

"Huh? The Meixian Fang joined hands with the Blood Sect?"

Baekji, who did not know the complex thoughts in Hu Yeonjo's mind, was rather curious and asked back.

"Don't play dumb."

Hu Yeonjo shouted, but Baekji's gaze was on the woman behind him.

The woman was covering her disheveled clothes and trembling.

"What?"

Hu Yeonjo quickly blocked the woman's front and raised his saber.

Although he looked like a young brat, he thought he was a master sent by the Blood Sect, so he had no choice but to act cautiously.

Baekji tilted his head and said, "That woman's internal energy is higher than yours. But why are you blocking for her?"

"What? What nonsense is that?"

"Aren't you an idiot? That woman's martial arts are higher than yours. But you're the one holding the sword and making a fuss, so isn't that strange?"

When Baekji spoke seriously, Hu Yeonjo unknowingly turned around.

The woman shouted, "Be careful. It's a trick to divert Brigade Leader Hu's attention."

Hu Yeonjo, realizing his mistake, swung his sword, performed a self-defense saber form, and took a step back. It was a move he had performed, expecting Baekji to attack.

"..."

"What are you doing? Are you doing a sword dance?"

Baekji did not move at all and just stood there. Moreover, he was still looking at the woman.

"Familiar. Very familiar. What is this feeling?"

Baekji muttered and approached the woman.

"Stop!"

Hu Yeonjo held out his saber to stop him.

Swish!

A flying dagger flew and exploded on Hu Yeonjo's solar plexus.

"Keok!"

Hu Yeonjo's eyes widened, and he clutched his chest and slumped down. He couldn't believe it.

Although he was not one of the top one hundred masters of the Central Plains, for him, who was counted among the masters in Sichuan, to be brought down in a single move.

Fortunately, it had hit with the hilt first, so it was not embedded.

Baekji did not even glance at Hu Yeonjo and went in front of the woman and squatted down.

The woman, covering the front of her open chest with her left hand, was lying back at an angle, trembling.

'Ugh!'

Hu Yeonjo's eyes widened, and he tried to get up, but he couldn't use any strength.

"You crazy brat? If you harm that woman, you will die!"

Hu Yeonjo seemed to really care for that woman.

Baekji silently examined the woman from this way and that.

"Sa, save me..."

The woman said with a trembling voice. It was a pitiful voice that would make any man's heart drop, no matter how much of an iron heart he had.

"I'm not going to kill you. Why do you think I'm going to kill you?"

"You suddenly appeared... aren't you an assassin?"

"No. But why are you here?"

"I, I am a courtesan from the Hongmeng Brothel in the village below. I just came to serve Brigade Leader Hu."

"Oho? A courtesan? But are there courtesans with such outstanding martial arts?"

"I, I don't know martial arts."

"No? That posture you're in right now is that, what is it... the one where the nine-tailed fox lies down to seduce and then smashes the opponent's head with its tail... a very scary technique. What was it?"

Baekji scratched his head as if he were really curious.

The woman was so surprised that her liver almost dropped. No one in the martial world knew of her secret technique, the 'Nine-Tailed Jade Shattering'. No, they shouldn't.

But for this innocent-looking little brat to figure it out at once.

Instantly.

"Aack! I'm scared!"

The woman pretended to be surprised and waved her hands wildly, and coincidentally, she hit the chopsticks on the table.

The chopsticks flew.

"Keuk!"

Hu Yeonjo, who had barely released the paralysis in his solar plexus and was getting up, clutched his stomach and collapsed again.

The chopsticks were embedded in Hu Yeonjo's stomach.

Hu Yeonjo's wide eyes turned to the woman. It was a desperate gaze of disbelief.

"Oh! Brigade Leader Hu?"

While Baekji was looking at Hu Yeonjo, the woman threw herself out the window.

"See. I was right. You know martial arts, yet you're trying to deceive someone."

Baekji shouted at the woman's back.

Baekji nodded, satisfied, and then approached Hu Yeonjo. His original purpose was Hu Yeonjo, so he had no intention of chasing the woman.

Baekji looked at the chopsticks embedded in Hu Yeonjo's stomach and frowned.

"To stick chopsticks you were eating with into someone's stomach. That's harsh. What if it gets infected?"

Baekji pulled out the chopsticks.

"Keuk!"

Chwararak!

With a groan, blood spurted out.

It was a great fortune that the woman had hastily knocked over the chopsticks on the table, so they had not been embedded in a vital point.

Hu Yeonjo stammered, "What, what on earth happened..."

"Wrap your stomach first. You're bleeding."

Hu Yeonjo took off his upper garment, sprinkled golden wound medicine, and then wrapped his stomach with his upper garment.

"A scary woman. Yu Miaoyi would never do this to Xiang Yu. Right? Brigade Leader Hu? Still, it's a good thing your belly is thick. It's really thick."

Hu Yeonjo didn't know what to say.

Baekji had appeared, and the courtesan had suddenly turned on him and fled.

'Was I wrong? Did he come to save me?'

Hu Yeonjo made a hasty assumption. He thought that an assassin had disguised herself as a courtesan and approached him, and that Baekji had come to save him.

"Thank you. I was saved thanks to you. To think that wicked woman had approached with black intentions."

"Wicked? She was pretty."

At Baekji's words, the face of the woman who had just left came to Hu Yeonjo's mind.

Then his heart was moved again.

'There must be some misunderstanding. Hongyan and this brat must have been enemies. Then is Hongyan a member of a secret organization that fights the Blood Sect?'

Hu Yeonjo's imagination was limitless. Since he had been drinking and had been hit by chopsticks and was bleeding, his mind was in a daze, and his imagination stretched in a strange direction.

When he thought that the courtesan, Hongyan, had approached him in disguise to fight the Blood Sect, the Baekji in front of him became an enemy again.

It was understandable that he would misunderstand. The courtesan had secretly told him that the Twin Swords of Meixian had killed the White Temple Brigade warrior. Since she had overheard the secret conversation of the Meixian Fang warriors who had visited the Hongmeng Brothel, it was certain from the circumstances.

Then why would she harm him?

His tone naturally became cold.

"What is your intention in coming here?"

"Ah! Right."

Baekji hit his own head.

"I don't have time, so I can't be doing this here."

"?"

"You know that the Twin Swords of Meixian are trying to kill the Sect Master and the Young Sect Master, right?"

"Is that true?"

"Don't pretend you don't know. So what are you going to do, Brigade Leader Hu?"

(End of Chapter)