novelraw Chapter 200 : Chapter 200
Chapter 200 : Chapter 200
Chapter 200. Demonic Cult (4)
“Cough…….”
Wi Mugyeol vomited a mouthful of blood.
At the same time, the huge energy staying in Wi Mugyeol’s body began to run wild.
“Gurgle.”
Holding the pierced heart, he lets out bizarre groans.
For a moment, black energy protruded like tentacles riding on the seven orifices and acupoints all over the body while tearing apart the bastard’s whole body acupoints.
BOOM!!
Along with an explosion, the bastard’s body literally exploded.
It was a grotesque sight.
Blood and flesh scatter.
Simultaneously, the black energy trapped in the bastard’s body spread in all directions.
It was a sight that looked exactly like vengeful spirits eaten by the bastard returning to where they lived.
“Fuu.”
A sigh flowed out in regret.
I achieved revenge for those who suffered by Wi Mugyeol, but I couldn't obtain more information.
This bastard wasn't the end.
There was a need to find the force this bastard belonged to and root it out altogether.
Recalling such a resolution inwardly, I turned my head.
I saw Junior Sister Baek Hyang approaching this way while raising her body.
“Are you okay. Senior Brother?”
“Are you okay yourself, Junior Sister?”
Perhaps she suffered an internal injury in the battle just now, blood was smeared on Junior Sister’s mouth.
“I am okay. Rather than that, Brother Nam and Junior Sister Choyeon…….”
As if responding to Junior Sister’s words, the Tang Clan bastard’s voice was heard.
“Do not worry! Both do not have their lives in danger! At least, if I continue to treat them, they can heal!”
Naturally, a sigh of relief flowed out from my mouth.
“Phew.”
Junior Sister Baek Hyang also let out a sigh equally and looked at me.
“I am sorry for not being much help. Senior Brother. Still, I thought I chased to some extent while training diligently for the past few years…….”
“Don’t talk nonsense. If it were me alone, I probably would have been absorbed by the bastard.”
I inflicted internal injury on the bastard and broke his sword in my own way, but as a price, not a grain of internal energy remained.
In addition to the colleagues buying time, I could kill him because I grew the bastard’s internal injury further.
“It seems everyone improved really a lot during that time.”
In the early stage of the battle, I tried to protect the colleagues unknowingly.
Come to think of it, I also always rushed like a crazy guy at masters several levels above.
Because I won in those perilous battles, I grew at a speed not befitting talent.
Perhaps I was taking away the opportunity for the colleagues to grow fast.
However, it was a feeling I wanted to stop as much as possible in the future.
Because the appearance of sprawling with serious injuries all over looked like seeing the past me.
***
For injury and internal energy recovery, we headed to the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s manor again.
After recovering internal energy moderately, I left the manor leaving the colleagues behind.
I gave instructions to the Tang Clan bastard to treat Nam Geon and Junior Sister Choyeon, and to Junior Sister Baek Hyang to protect the three.
Because of the sudden encounter with Wi Mugyeol, I had to handle the postponed work.
Moving my steps just like that and arriving at the red-light district, a somewhat chaotic atmosphere wafted.
It was a problem caused because we fought with Wi Mugyeol and then bought time for recovery.
In the meantime, the underworld bastards who heard rumors had all run away.
It was regrettable that I couldn't sweep away even the remnants, but I decided to pass over it for now.
First, I called the remaining people together.
“The Black Heart Ghost Claw is dead, and his subordinates also died or ran away. So now there is no need to do this kind of business here anymore.”
An unexpected reaction came out.
There were those who were pleased, but there were also those who were perplexed.
I asked those who were reading the mood.
“Is there any problem?”
Then one person answered while reading the mood.
“If, if we close the business altogether, w, we will be out on the streets as beggars right away. Great Hero.”
It was a difficult problem.
After pondering for a moment, I put forward a temporary measure first.
“Then receive guests and sell alcohol, but stop all courtesan work. If by any chance a guest tries to drag a woman by force, come find us immediately.”
Anyway, for the recovery of Nam Geon and Junior Sister Choyeon, we had to stay here for a few days.
At my instruction, someone raised a hand cautiously.
“Speak.”
“There must be women who want to do courtesan work voluntarily to earn money. Is that also not allowed?”
I nodded my head.
“Absolutely impossible.”
I had to block it right now.
Because it was a place doing such work in the first place.
Voluntary had an ambiguous corner.
If it was after things were organized to some extent, I don't know. If I let them do courtesan work now, the possibility that everyone would do so looked high.
Under the pretext of that voluntary.
After putting out the urgent fire first, I brought up the most important story.
“And who is the one who became Wi Mugyeol’s drinking buddy?”
Wi Mugyeol was clearly on his way out after stopping by the red-light district.
It meant it was after distributing the Absorption Art to someone in the red-light district.
Toward the women with puzzled expressions, I continued speaking additionally.
About the appearance of the guy called Wi Mugyeol.
Where the tavern or brothel the guy visited was. Furthermore, up to who the woman who dealt with that guy was.
Talking with the gathered people, I continued the deduction little by little.
Thanks to that, I could find the woman who dealt with the bastard.
I said to her who was reading the mood.
“The manual that person distributed is a demonic art. The bastard must have promised to give you power to take revenge. However, that is a lie.”
Side effects when learning demonic arts. I explained to her the appearance or end shown by the bastards who learned demonic arts.
“If you learn that, someday you too will become a monster eating innocent people. If that happens, you too will have no choice but to die at my hands someday.”
“Hiiik…….”
I uttered one promise to her who turned pale.
“Instead, hand over that manual and tell me your story. Instead of becoming a monster, I will take revenge for you. Just like I subjugated the Black Heart Ghost Claw and his gang this time.”
“P, please wait a moment. I, I will go to the brothel and bring it.”
Just in case, I headed to the brothel with her.
She brought two booklets from her room and handed them to me.
One was a martial arts manual, and one was written about Appearance Changing Art and Bone Shrinking Art.
Scanning the martial arts manual, the thought ‘as expected’ occurred.
The characteristics of the martial art were similar to what I knew.
Absorption Art was the main content, and claw arts and footwork were written as methods to handle that Absorption Art.
Examining the characteristics of that martial art, it was very similar to the martial art the future Lust Disaster learned.
Since it could be a clue chasing the Demonic Cult, I decided to keep that booklet instead of burning it for now.
Additionally, I heard her story too.
“A, actually I was kidnapped from the village and dragged here.”
I recorded all the appearances or characteristics of the bastards who kidnapped her.
“I will make sure to punish them using whatever means.”
If I obtained information through the Beggar’s Gang or Twin Heroes Alliance, finding them didn't seem that difficult.
***
A day passed while staying in Sahong.
I organized the red-light district’s work albeit with a temporary measure and burned all the corpses in the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s manor.
Next morning, I also distributed the wealth the Black Heart Ghost Claw piled up in the manor to the residents.
Nam Geon and Junior Sister Choyeon, who finished minimal recovery, became able to move reasonably.
Nam Geon, who came to his senses, was looking at the sword blankly.
The half-broken Mother’s Affection Sword.
“Are you okay?”
At my question, Nam Geon looked at the Mother’s Affection Sword blankly.
Then, perhaps organizing some thoughts, he nodded heavily.
“I, I am okay! St, still took revenge on Danmok Hwan with mom’s memento. M, mom also would have been satisfied. Su, surely that’s why it broke.”
Suddenly such a thought occurred.
Though the tone was still childlike, thinking that Nam Geon also became quite mature now.
“M, mom left satisfied. S, so now I, don’t need th, that sword.”
Nam Geon, who said so, raised his body abruptly.
“S, still many bad guys! No, no time to rest!”
Nam Geon, who shouted boldly, held his belly and crumpled his face.
At that time. The Tang Clan bastard, who returned after buying herbs in heaps from the village, saw that sight and sighed.
“What nonsense is no need to rest. If you run around again in that state, your intestines will all burst and the food you ate will protrude out of the intestines.”
“Th, then can’t I eat rice?”
“For the next three days, you must eat only the medicine I make.”
“Hiiing.”
At Nam Geon’s whining appearance, a laugh flowed out.
“Just rest for a few days. Even if you don't use the Mother’s Affection Sword, don't you have to manufacture a new sword anyway.”
Since there is a forge in Sahong too, it seemed I had to order a large sword suitable for Nam Geon moderately.
The completeness wouldn't be comparable to that of Blacksmith Yeo, but it was a kind of temporary measure.
If we visit the Seomoon Clan later, we could request new manufacturing then.
Turning my head, I looked at Junior Sister Choyeon.
“Junior Sister Choyeon is the same. Just rest well for a few days. It seems Junior Sister’s sword also needs to be manufactured additionally here.”
Junior Sister Choyeon, who was trying to get up quietly and start training, creaked like a broken wooden doll.
“……Understood. Senior Brother.”
The Tang Clan bastard, who was watching that sight for a moment, sighed for some reason and looked at me.
“This is all because of you.”
“I am clearly telling them to rest?”
“Think about the things you have done for the past few years. Everyone caught it from you. Training is also a disease at this point. Disease!”
The Tang Clan bastard who shouted so took something out of the herb basket and chewed on it.
It was a poisonous herb.
“Then what are you doing now?”
“Can’t you tell by looking? I am replenishing the poison qi used up because of the Black Heart Ghost Claw.”
The Tang Clan bastard grumbled and organized the herbs, then began to manufacture pills to feed Nam Geon and Junior Sister Choyeon.
Even in the meantime, the guy picked up and ate poisonous herbs consistently with one hand.
It seemed that guy also caught that disease called training.
***
I went to the forge to order swords for Nam Geon and Junior Sister Choyeon to use as temporary measures.
And after returning to the Black Heart Ghost Claw’s manor, I sat cross-legged and reviewed yesterday’s fight.
The techniques the bastard unfolded come to mind.
I killed the bastard, but I didn't succeed alone.
How could I kill such a master alone.
Continuing the review, a certain scene I saw yesterday came to mind.
The moment letters appeared above the bastard’s face.
Even those letters were not illusions.
Because I could win by shaking Wi Mugyeol through the content I saw at that moment.
Just what happened.
Reflecting calmly on the postponed worry, one possibility came to mind.
Perhaps is it because of the eyes?
When I first returned to the past, only trajectories were visible.
That too only when concentration reached the extreme.
Then after opening the Gate of Life and Death and achieving Lesser Heavenly Circulation, seeing trajectories became natural.
Instead, when concentration reached the extreme, I became able to see Qi.
And now that I succeeded in Body Reformation and achieved Grand Heavenly Circulation.
Seeing trajectories and Qi became natural.
I could see them whenever I wanted.
Naturally, I thought that was the end.
But what if that wasn't the end?
Perhaps isn't there a next stage?
Furthermore.
“Just what are these eyes.”
Even though it is an ability generated in me, even I didn't know exactly what this was.
Just as I was continuing the worry about this. A strange presence was felt.
Opening my eyes and looking forward, an old beggar was entering the manor.
Perhaps because I was worrying about the eyes.
The old beggar’s truth reflected in the two wide-open eyes.
Inside the skinny body staggering harmlessly. Clear energy was knotted very hugely.
Thanks to that, deducing that old beggar’s identity wasn't difficult.
Raising my body willingly, I took a clasped hands greeting toward that beggar.
“Junior Jin Yuseong of the Murim greets the Beggar’s Gang Leader.”