Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 37

Baekji said, "You were tricked by that fake True Man Changshan brat. He was the one who threw you the bait. Perhaps he was aiming for you. If he took over your body, he could swallow the White Mountain Sect, couldn't he?"

"..."

Bai Renguang was also a cunning old man who had been through the mill in the martial world. He had already been doubting the authenticity of the Blood Sun Sword Manual. But since the Blood Sun Sword Manual was gone, he couldn't confirm it.

"The Blood Sun Sword Manual is gone? Aha. General Manager Ximen must have taken it. That brat will also suffer from cultivation insanity. We'll know if we wait and see."

When Baekji realized that he couldn't track the Blood Sect through the circumstances of obtaining the secret manual, he lost interest.

"Ximen Suo, that brat? That brat..."

Bai Renguang gritted his teeth.

After coming out of the stone chamber, he had first visited the secret vault behind the scroll. The secret vault was empty.

General Manager Ximen had returned the secret manuals from the third-floor library, saying he had only stored them. But he had insisted that he didn't know about the secret vault.

Although Bai Renguang had his suspicions, his priority was to get the White Mountain Sect in order, so he had let it go for the time being.

But from Baekji's words, he was certain.

'That bastard emptied the secret vault.'

Grind.

He gritted his teeth once more.

Immense funds and secret arts. With just that, a sect could be re-established.

"If you keep grinding your teeth, you'll suffer when you're old."

Baekji released Bai Renguang's shackles.

"A promise must be kept. Go."

When Baekji released him so easily, he became suspicious.

'Could he be planning to release me and then chase me down and kill me?'

He didn't know that Baekji didn't even consider Bai Renguang to be in his sights, so it didn't matter whether he released him or not.

Baekji's mind was complicated.

'Finding my identity might be harder than I thought.'

He needed time to think quietly.

Baekji sat down in the middle of the prison cell and thought.

'The place where I woke up as Baekji was Xi'an.'

His first memory was meeting Yang Soryeong while sitting against a wall on a cold winter day.

Bai Renguang cautiously slipped out of the prison.

From the opposite prison cell, Yu Mungwang grabbed the iron bars and whispered, "Sect Master, me too..."

Bai Renguang glanced at Baekji. Baekji was sitting in the middle of the prison cell, deep in thought about something.

Bai Renguang stealthily went to the prison where Yu Mungwang was locked and opened the door.

As the two of them tiptoed out of the prison, Baekji's voice was heard.

"Lock the door on your way out. Don't let anyone in."

'He's really a crazy brat.'

To want to be locked up in a prison himself.

Bai Renguang came out of the prison and locked the outer door.

"Keuuu..."

Bai Renguang, who had safely locked it, leaned his forehead against the iron door and let out a brief, strange laugh.

For the situation to be reversed like this.

The heavens had looked after him.

'It's over. I've locked up the monster.'

It was an iron door that was a foot thick. No matter how much of a master he was, he couldn't get out.

Grind.

Bai Renguang gritted his teeth and lowered his voice.

"Mungwang."

"Yes, Sect Master!"

"Let's go."

Bai Renguang turned around.

His eyes shone with a blue light.

"It's time to show the traitors hell."

* * *

Young Sect Master Bai Yandu's bedchamber.

Bai Yandu, who was lying on the bed, had his eyes open, but they had no focus.

True Man Changshan, Yang Soryeong, and Shang Yiqing stood by the bed.

It was the first time Yang Soryeong had seen Bai Yandu. He was more handsome than she had thought. The corners of his eyes, which were turned up, made him look a little mean.

She had to get a grip on her complicated feelings.

'Soryeong. You can't kill someone just for your own good.'

Shang Yiqing's feelings were even more complicated.

To have to save his rival.

'Let's save him first and then ask for a duel. I can only be called a disciple of the Qinghai Hall if I fight fair and square.'

Yang Soryeong asked True Man Changshan, "Will he really wake up with this medicine?"

"Hehehe. The mind is a really complicated thing. It's really difficult to treat with medicine."

"Then you can't guarantee it?"

"No, no. Child. Who am I? He will wake up with this medicine I made."

True Man Changshan took out a pill, put it in Bai Yandu's mouth, and struck his throat.

Gulp.

Bai Yandu's Adam's apple bobbed, and the pill went down.

A moment later.

Bai Yandu's body trembled.

"Grand Martial Uncle, his condition doesn't seem good."

Shang Yiqing's voice was full of anticipation. His honest wish for Bai Yandu to die was revealed.

"No. The two souls are fighting now."

"What? Two souls are fighting?"

"The Blood Sect has all sorts of demonic arts. Among them is the 'Soul Exchange Grand Technique'. The brat who impersonated me was trying to take over this brat's body."

"-!"

Yang Soryeong and Shang Yiqing couldn't believe it. That there was a demonic art that could take over a person's body.

"But for some reason, the grand technique seems to have ended incompletely. So now there are two souls in this brat's body."

"Then what will happen?"

"He'll become a crazy brat. Because the two souls will fight to take over the body."

"..."

"Now that he has taken the medicine, his original spirit and soul will be firmly combined. Then the fake brat's soul will be pushed out."

The more they heard, the more amazing it was.

True Man Changshan's guess was mostly correct.

If Bai Yandu had taken the Qingling Huanhun Pill, the fake True Man Changshan would have smoothly taken over his body.

The Qingling Huanhun Pill had the effect of completely emptying the spirit and erasing the soul. That was why an ordinary person would become a fool if they took it.

But Baekji had eaten it. The fake True Man Changshan was on the verge of death, his chest pierced by Bai Renguang's sword. He had no choice but to enter Bai Yandu's body, but he had to confront Bai Yandu's original soul, which had not disappeared.

But there was a fact that True Man Changshan had not thought of.

Bai Yandu had suffered from cultivation insanity while learning the Blood Sun Sword Manual.

The Blood Sun Sword Manual was a demonic art of the Blood Sect. Before he suffered from cultivation insanity, his soul was already being eroded by the demonic energy. In a way, he was no different from the fake True Man Changshan.

When True Man Changshan's pill entered, Bai Yandu's soul, which had firmly combined with his spirit, gained momentum and tried to absorb the fake True Man Changshan's soul.

Originally, it should have been pushed out, but the soul, stained with demonic arts, considered the fake True Man Changshan's soul to be of the same kind and sucked it in.

The fake True Man Changshan's soul resisted desperately but was absorbed by Bai Yandu's soul.

No one knew what had happened inside Bai Yandu's body.

"Ah! He's opened his eyes!"

Bai Yandu, who had closed his eyes and trembled after taking the medicine, suddenly opened his eyes.

His eyes focused.

Yang Soryeong came into Bai Yandu's eyes.

'Am I dead?'

A celestial fairy was looking down at him.

'Mother?'

He had a feeling that she somehow resembled his dead mother.

Bai Yandu reached out his hand to grab Yang Soryeong but then went limp. He had lost consciousness right after the difficult soul battle.

"He will wake up after sleeping soundly now."

True Man Changshan was pleased.

Yang Soryeong called a maid and told her to take care of Bai Yandu.

As the three of them were leaving Bai Yandu's residence, a scream erupted from somewhere.

"Kaaak!"

The three of them ran towards the direction of the scream.

The warriors who were guarding the estate also rushed over.

* * *

In front of General Manager Ximen's office.

"Keuk! Keok!"

Bright red blood gushed from the mouth of General Manager Ximen, who was sprawled on the ground.

"Sect, Sect Master... it's a misunderstanding. Please spare me."

General Manager Ximen, with all his might, raised his body and knelt. Since his broken shin was splinted, it was difficult to even kneel properly.

The eyes of Bai Renguang, who was standing in front of him, were burning with a blue light.

"A misunderstanding? You're still flapping your open mouth. Mungwang, tear that mouth."

When Yu Mungwang went with a dagger, General Manager Ximen struck his forehead on the ground.

"Sect Master! It, it wasn't me. Please spare me. Please consider the affection of having served the Sect Master for the past several decades. Please believe me. I did not take it."

General Manager Ximen repeatedly struck his forehead on the ground and shouted in a flurry.

When the commotion arose, not only the guards on duty but also the martial force brigades rushed over.

The White Mountain Sect members were terrified when Bai Renguang, who had been locked in the prison, returned.

He was the sect master they had feared and followed for a long time. Their bodies flinched first.

"Kneel!"

Bai Renguang said, glaring at the rushing sect members.

"Those who kneel will be spared."

The sect members knelt as they came.

"What is it?"

Mo Dahou appeared and flinched upon seeing Bai Renguang. Then, Hu Yeonjo also came and tried to flee upon seeing Bai Renguang.

"Stop right there!"

Bai Renguang glared at Mo Dahou and Hu Yeonjo.

"How could you betray me after how I treated you?"

Mo Dahou and Hu Yeonjo looked around. Their subordinates were kneeling, and the White Mountain Brigade had surrounded them in a circle.

The detestable Yu Mungwang was commanding the White Mountain Brigade.

Mo Dahou slowly cupped his fists and said, "I have never betrayed the Sect Master!"

When Mo Dahou spoke confidently, even Hu Yeonjo bowed his waist.

"I am relieved to see you are well."

"Hmph!"

Bai Renguang snorted.

"Never betrayed? Relieved that I'm well? You detestable brats! Are you martial artists? To kneel before a young brat out of fear of death? To fawn at that brat's feet?"

"Your words are excessive. He is a master who defeated the Sect Master in a single move. What could we do? If we had fought, all the sect members here would have died."

Mo Dahou said calmly.

"From ancient times, when leaders have a life-and-death duel, the winner takes the loser's forces. I was just following that example. Hasn't the Sect Master also done so until now?"

At Mo Dahou's words, the White Mountain Sect members inwardly agreed.

While the White Mountain Sect was rising as the hegemon of Sichuan, it had trampled on countless sects. That was why the sect members considered it natural for the strong to take what belonged to the weak.

Since Bai Renguang had been sent flying by Baekji's single move, it was also natural for Baekji to take over the sect.

Listening to Mo Dahou's words, the sect master, who was now talking about betrayal, seemed pathetic.

"Everyone, stand up. The one in front of you is just a loser who was defeated by the Honored One Bai."

At Mo Dahou's words, they stood up one by one.

Hu Yeonjo's heart pounded. Although he looked fierce like a tiger, he was actually a timid Hu Yeonjo.

He was afraid of how Bai Renguang would react.

'Where is the Honored One Bai?'

Since such a commotion had occurred, Baekji should have come, but he was nowhere to be seen.

Just then, he saw True Man Changshan, Yang Soryeong, and Shang Yiqing coming.

'The Honored One Bai will be here soon.'

Where Yang Soryeong was, Baekji was.

Believing this, Hu Yeonjo cleared his throat and stepped forward to shout, "Since Sect Master Yang has come, I hope the two of you will resolve this peacefully. I and the Great Light Brigade will follow whoever becomes the sect master with loyalty for the future of the White Mountain Sect."

'A cunning brat!'

Bai Renguang glared at Hu Yeonjo.

Yang Soryeong's heart trembled upon seeing Bai Renguang. He was frightening just by looking at him, but now that he was frowning so much, he looked like a demon.

'Yang Soryeong, you are a martial artist now. You are Baekji's master!'

Yang Soryeong steeled her heart, stepped forward, and bowed to Bai Renguang.

"I am relieved that you are safe."

Bai Renguang's cold gaze swept over Yang Soryeong and then turned to True Man Changshan next to her.

The most troublesome person in this place was True Man Changshan.

Although he was a medicine Taoist and did not know martial arts, since he was an elder of Qingcheng, he could not be treated carelessly.

If he had known that True Man Changshan was actually a master with profound internal energy, he would have been even more polite, but since he didn't know that, his tone was disrespectful.

"So the True Man has also come. We are in the middle of dealing with the traitors of the sect. This is not a place for an outsider to be, so please go to your quarters."

"Hehehe. It's okay, it's okay. Everyone grows up fighting. If you get hurt, I'll apply medicine, so don't worry."

'Has that old man gone senile?'

Although Bai Renguang was displeased with the interfering True Man Changshan, since the situation was on the verge of exploding, he had no time to argue.

He glared at Yang Soryeong and said, "It has all been revealed that you came aiming for our sect under the pretext of marriage. With what face do you stand before me?"

(End of Chapter)