novelraw Chapter 196 : Chapter 196
Chapter 196 : Chapter 196
Chapter 196. Black Heart (3)
The Black Heart Ghost Claw, who unfolded movement arts, approached toward Dang Sopyeong quickly.
Matching this, Dang Sopyeong also tried to widen the distance while stepping with footwork.
In the process, he also threw the needles hidden between his sleeves one by one.
“Where are you running away!!”
The Black Heart Ghost Claw scratched the air wildly using the iron claws worn on both hands.
Then, eight strands of claw qi formed riding on the iron claws flew in toward Dang Sopyeong.
“Tsk.”
Dang Sopyeong, who clicked his tongue, moved his feet hurriedly.
He utilized the Life and Death Blood Steps learned from Jin Yuseong to the extreme.
Utilizing the principle of Release, he threw his body explosively, and utilizing the principle of Absorption, he regained the balance that was about to collapse.
However, it was not easy to dodge all eight strands of claw qi.
When there was absolutely no way to dodge, he swung the Iron Fan willingly to block the claw qi.
CLANG!
He didn’t swing the Iron Fan just to block the claw qi.
Wind swirled riding on the Iron Fan he swung.
It was wind mixed with green powder.
“Where do you think you’re pulling such an obvious trick!”
The Black Heart Ghost Claw swung his both hands similarly to create wind.
The winds shot from both sides tangled with each other, and the green powder swirled like a vortex on the spot.
Aiming for that gap, the Black Heart Ghost Claw shot claw qi again and threw his body.
Dang Sopyeong and the Black Heart Ghost Claw engaged in a chase running around the manor here and there.
It couldn’t be anything but strange.
Because there were several people besides them here.
However, every time Dang Sopyeong and the Black Heart Ghost Claw moved, the people’s positions changed.
Jin Yuseong, Nam Geon, Baek Hyang, and Choyeon were only maintaining the distance as if they would only form an encirclement.
Even while Dang Sopyeong was being chased, they did not step forward to help first.
Instead, they were only finishing off the underworld bastards who could be hindrances while moving here and there.
Slash!
After experiencing that situation a few times, the Black Heart Ghost Claw felt a strange sense of incongruity.
‘Why to this extent?’
It wasn’t because of the encirclement against him.
Why were they trying to dump the task of killing him onto just that one guy using poison.
Furthermore, now even the subordinates were all sprawling on the floor.
Only the enemies remained.
If they attacked together, they could kill him easily, yet.
The initial conversation flashed through his mind, who felt the incongruity belatedly.
Only then did the Black Heart Ghost Claw, who realized something, laugh fishily.
“Hehehe. Now that I see, you bastard were Dang Ogyeol and Jo Miryeong’s maternal grandson.”
There was one daughter under the knees of those two physicians.
After Dang Ogyeol and Jo Miryeong committed suicide, he tried to catch at least that daughter, but unfortunately, it ended in failure.
Because that woman entrusted herself to the Sichuan Sword Clan.
“Hehehe. You were the son of a whore-like bitch who sold her body to the Sichuan Sword Clan to avoid this body!”
He did hear such rumors later.
Rumors that the woman eventually entered as the Sichuan Sword Clan Head’s concubine and even gave birth to an illegitimate son.
At the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s words, Dang Sopyeong’s eyes turned upside down.
“How dare you insult my mother with that dirty mouth!!”
Along with a shout filled with spite, Dang Sopyeong swung his arms wildly.
Then, the hidden weapons hidden between his clothes flew in toward the Black Heart Ghost Claw in heaps.
“Kuhahaha.”
The Black Heart Ghost Claw threw his body along with a sneer.
Strong power was loaded in the hidden weapons thrown in anger, and the speed was also considerable.
However, his martial arts were not so shabby as to be hit by hidden weapons thrown openly like that.
‘As expected, he is a greenhorn bastard.’
Young guys are full of vigor, so they fall for provocations easily.
The experienced Black Heart Ghost Claw did not miss that opportunity.
Rather, he threw his body into the gap of hidden weapons and narrowed the distance in an instant.
The gazes of the colleagues watching that scene turned towards Jin Yuseong.
Jin Yuseong shook his head while finishing the preparation to attack anytime.
As if telling them to watch for now.
At that moment, Dang Sopyeong’s expression, who was throwing hidden weapons with a furious face, crumpled.
In Dang Sopyeong’s eyes, where the hidden weapons ran out, the Black Heart Ghost Claw who approached close at some point was visible.
He swung the Iron Fan hurriedly.
Poison qi spreads out riding on the Iron Fan again.
This time, the Black Heart Ghost Claw also charged straight instead of dodging the poison.
“Do you think I’ll be hit by this kind of poison!”
He pulled up the internal energy in his qi center recklessly to resist the poison qi.
Eventually, he entered the distance where his iron claws could reach.
“Haaat!”
As the Black Heart Ghost Claw swung his left hand, Dang Sopyeong also lifted the Iron Fan hurriedly for defense.
A metallic sound rings out, and the Iron Fan, unable to withstand the power of the claw qi, gets cut off little by little.
Along with a small noise ‘Pik’, a few flagpoles of the Iron Fan spewed out.
They were hidden weapons hidden in the Iron Fan.
“Kugh.”
A light wound appeared on the face of the Black Heart Ghost Claw who twisted his upper body hurriedly.
But it didn't matter.
“Hehehe.”
The guy’s decisive move returned to nothing, and the Iron Fan was also cut off.
Slash!
Following the hidden weapons, even the fan was made useless.
“It’s the end!”
Taking a step, the Black Heart Ghost Claw dug into Dang Sopyeong’s bosom.
The right hand’s iron claw flies in toward Dang Sopyeong’s body.
He didn't intend to kill.
Because there was a possibility of escaping from here only if he took this guy as a hostage.
From the moment the Iron Fan was cut off, Dang Sopyeong revealed a flustered expression.
However, that was merely an expression revealed outwardly.
‘The opportunity is only once.’
Unlike the flustered expression, his inside was very calm.
The amount of poison qi staying in his qi center decreases rapidly.
He wasn't spewing out poison qi.
The poison qi filling the qi center was being condensed endlessly.
Furthermore, even before the Iron Fan was cut off a while ago, Dang Sopyeong was continuously condensing the poison qi.
As if he was waiting for that Black Heart Ghost Claw to approach.
And the moment the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s iron claw was about to touch Dang Sopyeong’s acupoint. Poison qi condensed into the size of a single very small water droplet escaped the qi center.
Running through the acupoints hurriedly, the poison qi headed to Dang Sopyeong’s mouth.
Soon, Dang Sopyeong spat toward the eyes of the Black Heart Ghost Claw who approached right in front of his nose.
“Ptooey!”
A distance practically no different from being right next to each other.
The Black Heart Ghost Claw closed his left eye hurriedly.
And he pulled up internal energy recklessly and sent it to his left eye.
Since that guy learned poison arts, surely there must be poison mixed in the saliva too.
However, there was no big problem.
He had been pushing away that guy’s poison qi with internal energy until now too.
As long as it doesn’t touch the eye directly, it won’t go as far as blindness.
At least the Black Heart Ghost Claw thought so.
But why was it.
The sight of the saliva the guy shot flying in is visible slowly to the right eye still open.
The moment he saw the thick black saliva that seemed not to reflect a single point of light, an unknown ominousness occurred.
Splat.
And immediately after that saliva touched the left eye socket. An ominous sound was heard.
Sizzle.
A noise as if something was burning and melting down. Following that, terrible pain came.
“Aaaaargh!!”
The eye socket was melting down. Even though he was infusing internal energy recklessly.
The skin of the eye socket was pierced in an instant.
The Black Heart Ghost Claw realized instinctively. That the poison had already dug into the eyeball.
Due to ominousness, the Black Heart Ghost Claw tried to take off the iron claws worn on both hands hurriedly.
At that moment, a stinging pain was felt suddenly riding on the throat and nose.
“Cough…….”
Breathing was uncomfortable.
Furthermore, a stinging pain was felt even in the right eye which didn’t touch the poison, and tears flowed down ceaselessly.
The poison that touched the left eye was vaporizing and being absorbed through the pupil, nose, and the mucous membrane of the throat.
A voice seemingly mocking him shedding tears was heard.
“Try pushing that away with your great internal energy too. With that internal energy built receiving my maternal grandparents’ help.”
The poison Dang Sopyeong spat just now was the essence of the poison art he had built up all his life.
He condensed all the poison qi remaining in his qi center into a single drop and spat it out.
It was also because of this that he waited for this guy to approach close.
The problem that it can only be used once. Furthermore, there was a risk of involving people nearby.
Because this poison was too powerful, it was not something usable when there were people around.
Of course, that Black Heart Ghost Claw was an exception.
Because he was an existence not human. Borrowing Jin Yuseong’s expression, he was trash worse than a beast.
Dang Sopyeong pretended to fall for the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s provocation to use this poison.
He too had been through several chaotic battlefields. Even if he was angry at the trash’s insult, he did not lose his reason.
Rather, he used the guy’s provocation as an opportunity.
So that this guy would approach on his own. In addition to that, to induce this guy’s carelessness at the very last moment.
“Kaaack. Kack. Heok.”
The Black Heart Ghost Claw, whose throat and nostrils began to melt down due to poison qi, struggled while screaming bizarrely.
Touching his left eye with both hands after barely taking off the iron claws, the area around his eye melted down just like that.
At that terrible pain, the Black Heart Ghost Claw let out a bizarre scream again.
“Gurgle.”
“Compared to the pain suffered by the two who passed away because of you bastard, my mother who was chased by you bastard, and the people you bastard tormented all this while, it is insufficient, but feel that pain to your heart’s content and die. You trash worse than a bug.”
How long did he struggle in pain under Dang Sopyeong’s feet.
Around the time his head half melted down. The body of the Black Heart Ghost Claw, who struggled like a bug, went limp.
Dang Sopyeong, who looked down at that corpse with complicated eyes for a moment, shouted.
“Please check if there is strong liquor or oil here in the manor! The poison qi is too strong, so it would be better to burn the corpse!”
At Dang Sopyeong’s request, the colleagues scattered and searched the manor.
Before long, the colleagues returned taking strong liquor and oil.
Dang Sopyeong poured those on the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s corpse and set fire to the corpse.
Whoosh.
Looking down at the burning corpse for a moment. Jin Yuseong, who approached at some point, said.
“What are you thinking so intently?”
“I am thinking about the ones in the Heavens. As a grandson and son of physicians, I do not know if this is the right method.”
“Since you surpassed the skills of the two, they will be pleased enough.”
“What does that mean?”
When Dang Sopyeong asked with a puzzled face, Jin Yuseong answered.
“This guy is trash who became strong with the spiritual medicine your maternal grandparents refined. Since you killed such trash with your poison, doesn’t that mean you surpassed your maternal grandparents’ skills?”
Dang Sopyeong, who looked at Jin Yuseong for a moment, let out a hollow laugh.
“Are you saying that as comfort?”
“It is not comfort but just my thought.”
Jin Yuseong, who answered so, added with a serious expression.
“If you are that concerned, how about thinking about it like this? If a guy who stole and ate the spiritual medicine you refined commits evil deeds day after day, how do you think you would feel.”
“……I feel like I would have to punish that guy somehow because it seems it became like that because of me for no reason.”
At Dang Sopyeong’s answer, Jin Yuseong lifted his head and looked at the sky.
“Probably those two who would be in the Heavens would also have the same thought. You, the grandson, resolved the last resentment the two were harboring.”
Then Dang Sopyeong laughed lightly.
Dang Sopyeong, who returned to his usual expression at some point, said.
“It is amazing. To think you knew how to do something like comfort too.”
Jin Yuseong, who was looking up at the sky, lowered his head and turned his back just like that.
“I said earlier too, but I didn’t say it to comfort you.”
And moving his steps, he scanned the surroundings.
Dozens of corpses were sprawling.
“We have to clear away all these corpses too.”
“It seems digging a pit and burning them one by one would be fastest, Senior Brother.”
“I, I am strong. I, will dig a pit.”
As Nam Geon tried to dig the ground hurriedly, Jin Yuseong stopped him.
“Corpse poison won’t occur right away, so let’s go to the red-light district side first for now. Since remnants might still remain there.”
While organizing the corpses here. There was a concern that remnants who noticed the signs might flee.
“And the courtesans sold through kidnapping or human trafficking……. Let’s talk with them first and decide the aftermath.”
Jin Yuseong said so with a complicated expression and moved his steps.
The colleagues also left the manor at some point and chased Jin Yuseong’s back.
Running toward the red-light district unfolding movement arts for a while.
Jin Yuseong, who was running ahead, stopped his steps.
There was a man coming out of the red-light district leisurely as if he had just finished his business.
Wearing luxurious attire and shaking a fan with feathers leisurely.
His age looked a little over thirty (Irip), and he had a face that looked like he would have toyed with several women in his youth.
And for some reason, Jin Yuseong’s eyes were fixed on that man as if nailed.
“Long time no see.”
It was truly familiar.
Because it was the face Jin Yuseong had been searching for since a few years ago.