Little Demon Reversion to Youth

Chapter 65

After eating breakfast, they sat around and drank tea.

The Tang siblings, who had slept soundly, looked at their situation and felt helpless.

Although they did not show it, as they had lived as direct descendants of the Tang family, their hearts were anxious.

It seemed that the Tang family would attack at any moment.

"Drink it before it gets cold. You need to have a warm stomach to have the strength to get through this."

Baekji poured tea for the Tang siblings.

"They say Miss Yunseol tried to kill her older brother. What kind of poison did she use?"

"What are you talking about? Who killed whom?"

Tang Yunqing flared up.

"I heard everything from Lord Go. They say she was caught at the scene. Young Master Yi. That's why you couldn't even think of defending her and ran away, right?"

"..."

When Baekji's words hit the mark, Tang Yunqing couldn't speak and looked at Tang Yunseol.

Tears welled up in his eyes.

"Sister, why on earth did you do that? I can't understand either. Tell me frankly."

When Tang Yunseol remained silent, Nangong Zhao said, "While working as an investigator, there were many things that were different from how they appeared. But no matter how difficult the problem, it was usually solved when many people put their heads together. If Miss Yunseol tells the truth, I will do my best to help."

No matter how much Nangong Zhao looked, it didn't seem like Tang Yunseol would have done such a thing.

Although he had lived by looking only at the evidence as an investigator, he could not ignore his intuition.

'There are no personal feelings. There are all sorts of twists and turns in the world.'

The three women in the martial world who were outstanding in beauty but whose hand techniques were vicious were called the 'Three Flowers of the Martial World', and the 'Poisonous Hibiscus', Tang Yunseol, was one of them.

In Nangong Zhao's view, the moniker 'Poisonous Hibiscus' did not suit Tang Yunseol. Perhaps 'Snow Hibiscus' would.

After she had dressed up, her fair skin stood out.

'The rumors of the martial world are not to be believed.'

He had heard that the Poisonous Hibiscus could melt a person without even blinking an eye.

The Tang Yunseol in front of him seemed as if she couldn't even catch a single ant, let alone kill a person.

At Nangong Zhao's words, Tang Yunseol opened her mouth.

"If what I say gets out, the three of you could also be in danger."

"..."

"That's why I can't say."

Tang Yunseol also wanted to speak. But Nangong Zhao and Baekji were people she had just met yesterday.

Since they had saved her, she wanted to trust them, but she could not confess a secret that could be a disgrace to her family.

But.

Baekji interjected.

"Because of the Blood Sect?"

Tang Yunseol was horrified.

"H-how did you..."

"The young family head was the one who was hit, right?"

"...?"

"!"

Baekji said to Nangong Zhao, "Haven't you heard of the Blood Sect's schemes? Quan Bai was chattering about it until his mouth was dry."

Something flashed through Nangong Zhao's mind.

「It is the Blood Sect's method to take over a sect by playing tricks on its leadership.」

Quan Bai had said that.

Although Nangong Zhao also knew, he could not have imagined that such a thing would happen at the Tang family.

It was one of the Five Great Families.

It was a place with a power that could not be compared to the likes of the White Mountain Sect.

The layers of masters were thick, and the discipline was strict, so even if an outsider came in disguise, they would be quickly discovered.

"Who would suspect the young family head? They were trying to take over the Tang family."

"Wh-what does that mean?"

Tang Yunseol was rather surprised and asked back.

"I'll tell you, so first, confess."

"...Can you keep a secret?"

"Of course! As long as Chief Investigator Nangong keeps his mouth shut. I am very tight-lipped."

Although it was not believable at all, Tang Yunseol opened her mouth as if grasping at straws.

A while ago, Tang Yunseol had been making poison until late at night, and when she had failed at the last moment, she had gone to see Tang Yunlong.

"The residences of the direct descendants of the family head are connected by a secret passage. I was going to my older brother's residence, and someone was going out through the secret passage."

The family head had strictly ordered them not to use the secret passage for security reasons.

But the Tang siblings, who did not think that the Tang family's main residence would be invaded, used the secret passage frequently.

Tang Yunseol, knowing that the one who had gone out was the young family head, Tang Yunlong, followed him.

At first, she had followed him half in jest, thinking that her older brother was going to meet a hidden woman. But Tang Yunlong had gone out of the city and had secretly entered a commoner's house and had kidnapped a woman.

Tang Yunseol was horrified and from then on, she had used her stealth skills to their fullest and had followed him.

"He went to the Yishen Shrine by the river and cut the woman's throat."

Tang Yunseol shuddered as the terrible scene came to mind again.

"Umm. He cut the woman's throat and drew her fresh blood to burn it. He must have been trying to draw out her blood energy to fill his 'Blood Blood Demonic Art'."

Baekji muttered.

"How do you know that?"

When Baekji spoke as if he had seen it himself, Nangong Zhao asked.

"Why do you think a chatterbox is a chatterbox? He talked about all sorts of things."

Baekji had heard about the Blood Sect from Quan Bai.

Of course, Quan Bai had not intended to confess everything from the beginning. He had intended to leak just enough information to provoke Baekji, but in the process, he had revealed that he was a master of the Wind and Cloud Pavilion.

Baekji had threatened to reveal Quan Bai's identity to Tie Yantai and had extracted everything he knew.

Nangong Zhao, who did not know this, thought that Baekji had been defeated.

He knew well Quan Bai's method of moderately provoking the opponent, making them jump into the matter, and then watching from behind to get what he wanted.

'Kehehe. So you can be defeated too.'

It was understandable that Baekji had reacted sensitively to the Blood Sect in that way.

"So you tried to kill the young family head?"

Tang Yunseol shook her head.

"No. I thought my older brother was learning a demonic art. So I looked it up in the literature, and there was a similar demonic art in the Blood Sect."

Tang Yunseol, who knew that her older brother was learning the demonic art of the Blood Sect, was perplexed.

After pondering, she decided to find out the whole story first.

"There is a medicine that makes you confess everything in a state of confusion when you eat it."

"Oh? There's such a medicine?"

Baekji's eyes sparkled with interest.

Tang Yunseol had intended to feed the young family head a truth serum to find out the whole story.

"It's not a poison, is it? Then you weren't trying to kill him, so why all this fuss?"

At Baekji's question, Tang Yunqing answered instead, "That medicine has to be used very carefully. If you use even a little too much, you can go crazy or lose your memory completely. That's why it's a medicine whose use is strictly restricted."

"But that medicine must not have worked."

"How did you know?"

When Baekji spoke as if he had seen the situation, Tang Yunseol was beyond surprised and even became suspicious.

It seemed as if Baekji had manipulated all of this.

When Tang Yunseol stared at him, Baekji said in a tone that suggested he knew everything she was thinking, "I'm not that kind of person. Don't look at me with those eyes."

"Then how do you know in such detail?"

"The Blood Sect's methods are things like soul manipulation, soul exchange, and soul transfer. Even if they used a mind-controlling drug, if the soul is being controlled, it won't listen properly."

"Ah!"

Tang Yunseol was impressed.

Baekji was right.

Tang Yunlong, who had drunk the tea given by Tang Yunseol, had seemed to lose consciousness for a moment, but then had suddenly thrown the teacup and had rushed to subdue Tang Yunseol.

The young family head's escort warriors had rushed in, and Tang Yunseol had become a criminal caught in the act of trying to assassinate the young family head because of the truth serum left in the teapot.

"Still, it's not assassination."

Nangong Zhao said, as if making an excuse for her.

"The poison left in the teapot was highly concentrated."

Tang Yunseol confessed the truth obediently.

"If my older brother was really learning a demonic art, I had hoped that he would rather lose his memory."

"So there was a slight intention to harm him."

Baekji muttered and then looked at Nangong Zhao.

"You have to be careful. If you're caught cheating, you might die without even knowing when."

At the unexpected words, Tang Yunseol was bewildered.

Nangong Zhao, thinking that the moniker 'Poisonous Hibiscus' might not be entirely wrong, let Baekji's words slide.

How many women would be able to take decisive action when their own older brother was endangering the family by learning a demonic art?

'She is soft, yet has a strong side.'

Once you see something in a good light, everything looks good.

Baekji asked again, "Where would the young family head have met the Blood Sect?"

Tang Yunseol had a guess.

When the poison had not worked on Tang Yunlong, she had thought that he was not simply learning a demonic art. The records of the Blood Sect that Tang Yunseol had seen had mentioned the 'soul exchange grand law' that Baekji had spoken of.

Although she had thought it couldn't be, her suspicion was increasingly leaning in that direction.

When Baekji mentioned the soul exchange grand law, it had almost solidified into a certainty.

"A while ago, they said that the Blood Hand Grand Seal had appeared at the White Mountain Sect. Because of that, Qingcheng had sent a warning to be careful."

"Yes. Has that rumor spread this far?"

"By now, the entire Central Plains must know."

Baekji thought that it was a good thing he had changed the sect's name.

"So my older brother went out to inspect the Tang family's territory and was defeated by an unknown enemy and returned."

"An unknown enemy?"

"There were suspicious people in an abandoned estate, and when he went to investigate, he was ambushed, lost his Twin Wing Brigade warriors, and my older brother was also seriously injured."

"Umm. That's suspicious. So everyone died and only the young family head returned? Where is that estate?"

"It's around the border of the Tang family's and the White Mountain Sect's territories. The main family's martial force went again, but they had erased their traces and had disappeared."

"The young family head must have been hit then."

Baekji nodded as if he understood.

Nangong Zhao asked Baekji, "I could only have known that the Blood Sect was involved now that Miss Yunseol has told me. But Honored One Bai, you seem to have known beforehand. How did you know?"

"Huh? Ah, that..."

Baekji pointed behind the rock and said to Tang Yunqing, "If you go behind that rock, there will be two brats from the Twin Wing Brigade. Bring them."

The curious Tang Yunqing quickly went and dragged the two Twin Wing Brigade members from behind the rock.

Although Tang Yunqing was only thirteen, his internal energy was outstanding, and he brought them, holding one by the neck in each hand.

The two had been unable to move because their acupoints had been hit by Baekji.

When Tang Yunqing placed them in the living room, they went limp.

"When we met on the official road, this young master was about to sprinkle poison, right? At that time, a blood-red light flashed in these brats' eyes."

"A blood-red light?"

Baekji squatted next to the head of the lying brat and then rolled his eyes back. Then, he lightly tapped his head with the bamboo staff.

Then, a single blood-red light flashed past his pupils.

Nangong Zhao and Tang Yunseol were horrified, but Tang Yunqing had not seen it.

Since it was so faint and was a light that flashed by in an instant, it was difficult to notice if one's internal energy was low.

"I didn't see it."

"Look carefully. I'll do it again."

Tang Yunqing squatted next to Baekji.

When Baekji rolled his eyes back and lightly tapped his head, a faint blood-red light flashed in the brat's eyes each time.

"It's true."

"This brat's internal energy is weak, so the blood-red light is also faint. A strong brat's would be dripping with blood."

Tang Yunqing was amazed.

Although he was the Young Master Yi of the Tang family, he was still a child.

"Should I try it too?"

Although Tang Yunqing hit the brat's head with his fist, no change occurred.

"It's not working for me."

"It's because you're just hitting him randomly."

"Then?"

"These brats usually hide it well. But this phenomenon appears when they feel a threat to their lives or when they suddenly raise their internal energy. So, you have to stimulate the 'brain protection point'. Look."

When Baekji lightly tapped his head and touched the brain protection point with his ki, a blood-red light flashed in his eyes.

Just because their paralysis points had been hit didn't mean their minds were also gone.

The Blood Sect member, who had suddenly become a test subject, was on the verge of death.

As the two took turns hitting him, each time they hit his head, it felt like he was being electrocuted, and his soul felt like it was about to leave him.

"Let's stop hitting him now. If we hit him too much, he might go crazy."

Baekji said to Nangong Zhao, "I'll hand these guys over to you too. Two living Blood Sect members. You have to be accurate with the calculation."

Baekji mentioned the reward. Nangong Zhao did not answer and tightly bound the Blood Sect members disguised as the Twin Wing Brigade and threw them into an empty room.

He had achieved the result of capturing living Blood Sect members. Although he suffered all sorts of humiliation next to Baekji, the results were strangely good.

Nangong Zhao, who had returned after locking up the Blood Sect members, asked, "What now?"

"What do you mean, 'what now'? The whole story of the incident has been revealed. It's time for the chief investigator of the Martial Alliance to step up. Azure Sky Young Dragon! Can't you even eat a meal that's been prepared for you?"

"Umm..."

Nangong Zhao thought for a moment.

In a family like the Tang family, a case involving a direct descendant was very sensitive.

If Baekji stepped up, he would surely stir things up recklessly. If that happened, it could lead to more backlash and the matter could become a mess.

"I will discuss it with Miss Yunseol, so please wait."

Nangong Zhao took Tang Yunseol to his room.

"...Suspicious. Why are they talking alone?"

As Baekji muttered, watching the two disappear, the waiter came in and reported, "A beggar has come."

"Why a beggar?"

While Tang Yunqing was puzzled, Baekji said, "Let him in."

(End of Chapter)