Swordless Demonic Path

Chapter 76 : The Night is Dead (5)

"Ugh..."

Im-sil opened her eyes, letting out a groan.

The place she was in was a wide room.

Although she tried to put strength into her body to get up, her whole body was paralyzed and wouldn't move.

"Ugh!"

Im-sil, who was about to speak, bit the gag in her mouth.

As if they were not at ease even after paralyzing her, her two arms and two legs were tied to the bed in a spread-eagle position.

Although she was covered only by a thin mattress, underneath it, she was naked without a single thread.

Im-sil recalled the memory of being attacked by Do-gang.

A blood-sealing needle coated with a poison that caused paralysis had stabbed the Fú Tū acupoint on her neck.

The Fú Tū acupoint was a vital point corresponding to metal in the five elements, and it was a death point that could kill if stabbed incorrectly.

As the Fú Tū acupoint was stabbed, her arms became paralyzed, and immediately after, her whole body became stiff due to the poison.

Although she had prepared for such a thing to happen, it was of no use.

She had entered the Chung Pavilion when she was young and had lived being treated as an elder by the junior brothers and sisters who had entered late. That time was over ten years.

So she had treated her sworn siblings like her inferiors.

She had never thought that that relationship would break, and she had believed that she could handle it well even if such a thing happened.

'These bastards... I'll chew them up and eat them.'

Im-sil looked around with eyes full of killing intent and tried to find a way to escape.

Although she circulated her internal energy, her dantian was just empty as if it were empty.

'Dispersing poison? Damn bastard... He's thorough.'

Besides having her blood points pressed, it was clear that she had also been fed dispersing poison.

Clank!

With the sound of the door opening, Do-gang and the seventh junior sister, Yuk Seol-jeong, who were half-naked, came in. The two sat on Im-sil's left and right with sweaty appearances.

Yuk Seol-jeong's hand swept Im-sil's hair and then untied the gag.

"If you raise your voice, I'll kill you right away."

As her hand grabbed her neck, Im-sil nodded.

Although she was angry, she suppressed her emotions as much as possible. Right now, getting out of their hands by any means was the priority.

"You two, since when have you been seeing each other?"

Seeing Im-sil ask, Do-gang smiled. Yuk Seol-jeong answered.

"I decided to be with the third senior brother when I left the Chung Pavilion. Because two is better than one."

"Hmph! Anyway, there's only one seat for the Chung Pavilion's pavilion master. You two will also have to kill each other in the end."

"Hohohoho!"

"Hahaha!"

At Im-sil's words, Do-gang and Yuk Seol-jeong laughed out loud.

Yuk Seol-jeong soon stopped laughing and said.

"I ate the twin-blood ghost worms that I'm raising together. If one of us dies, the other will die from the ghost worm's poison. So we can't kill each other."

Im-sil was at a loss for words at the fact that they had eaten a deadly poison to prevent each other's betrayal.

'You vicious bitch.'

The twin-blood ghost worm was a leech-like thing that parasitized the intestines, and its lifespan was one year. It was a ghost worm that would naturally come out of the body after a year.

But if one of them died before that, the other one would die, emitting poison on its own. The poison was so strong that there was no way to block it.

Yuk Seol-jeong had used her cunning, and Do-gang had fallen for it.

Yuk Seol-jeong had enjoyed lust with the fifth senior brother and had injected poison while kissing him. After killing the fifth senior brother in that way, the only one left was Im-sil.

Do-gang touched Im-sil's leg and said.

"The sixth junior sister is smart and has a lot of tricks, so she's very useful. But since the only useful thing about Senior Sister Im is her body, you'll have to be with the sixth junior sister. You'll take the demonic essence pill well."

"You dirty bastard. Even if you two join hands, it's meaningless if you can't kill Jin Sa-wol. Can you kill that guy without me?"

"Why don't you just beg for your life? What's the big deal about killing one insignificant hunter? It's a problem because it's too easy. Hahahaha!"

"If it were easy, the junior sister and junior brother who went to Nanchang would have come back already."

"It's better if they die. There's no need to bother killing them, right? Hohoho."

As Yuk Seol-jeong laughed, Im-sil trembled her shoulders.

Do-gang threw a smile and approached Im-sil's face.

"Yesterday was fun. After enjoying it a few times, I'm tired of it now."

Swish!

Do-gang pressed Im-sil's neck hard.

"Keok!"

In that instant, Yuk Seol-jeong took out a dagger and stabbed Im-sil's solar plexus. After that, she cut up to her dantian.

Hot blood flowed down and soaked the bed.

Im-sil, with her eyes wide open, trembled her body a few times and then soon went limp.

Do-gang and Yuk Seol-jeong, who had confirmed that Im-sil was dead, embraced each other, went into the next room, and coveted each other's bodies.

* * *

Jin Sa-wol and Jo Geom-ok, who had entered the main gate of the Gangnam Grand Inn, looked at the huge three-story building.

The building, which was about fifty zhang long on the left and right, gave off a huge sense of pressure. The first floor had a restaurant and a tea house, and from the second floor, there were guest rooms.

The guest rooms here were third-class, a place where ordinary guests stayed. Those with money went to the second and first-class, and only a few were guided to the special-class rooms.

The two were guided to rooms 30 and 31 at the left end of the second floor.

The room was not spacious. There were only two beds, a tea table, and a few decorative cabinets.

Jin Sa-wol, who had changed into a gray light robe, sat at the tea table. Jo Geom-ok, wearing a gray robe, opened the door and came in.

"What should I do here?"

"We're going to save one person. A doctor."

"A doctor?"

"Yes. He might know more about the Soul-Stealing Needle."

Jin Sa-wol, who thought of Song Ha-sang, had a little expectation of him.

When he had seen Song Ha-sang in Luoyang five years ago, he could not forget his beggar-like appearance.

He, who had tried to survive even by doing that, had first apologized to Jin Sa-wol and begged for forgiveness.

Jin Sa-wol didn't care. Anyway, Ghost Spirit Valley had disappeared, and there was no place to be loyal to, and it was full of only enemies.

Jo Geom-ok came up to Jin Sa-wol's face and said.

"At this point, shouldn't we be honest with each other? I don't know much about you."

At her words, Jin Sa-wol said without hesitation.

"I am of the Demonic Cult."

Was it expected? Jo Geom-ok was not surprised.

"Even now?"

"Not now."

Jin Sa-wol answered and then asked Jo Geom-ok with an indifferent face.

"What's your relationship with the Namgung family?"

It was Jin Sa-wol, who was suddenly asking about the Namgung family. Jo Geom-ok stared at Jin Sa-wol.

"Why are you asking about the Namgung family?"

"We've come to Nanchang, so it would be stranger if we didn't make a deal with the head of the Namgung family, right? Am I wrong? I'm asking because I think I would make a deal with the information I have if I were you."

"You unlucky bastard. You're right."

Jin Sa-wol looked like a person who knew all his inner thoughts.

Although Jo Geom-ok didn't like that, she didn't hate it.

"If the head of the Namgung family becomes the Alliance Leader, I will live. That's the condition. I handed over a lot of information on that condition."

"So you hurried to go to the Martial Alliance like that."

Jin Sa-wol muttered and then poured water and drank. Jin Sa-wol, who had stood up from his seat, looked at the main gate of the grand inn beyond the window.

People coming and going from the main gate entered his eyes. Among them, he saw Bi-sun.

Bi-sun was on his way back from meeting an informant who lived in Guguang City.

He had to know exactly where the disciples of Loyal Ghost King were staying to be able to move tonight.

A short while later, Bi-sun, who had entered Jin Sa-wol's room, shared the information he had obtained.

* * *

Although it was a deep night past the hour of the rat, the Gangnam Grand Inn was full of numerous lights.

The brothel district, where the brothels were gathered, was full of laughter, and from the gambling house district, shouts exploded here and there.

The words 'sleepless city' seemed to be referring to the Cheonhadae Inn.

Swish!

The man in black, who had passed the dark shopping district, jumped over the wall without a sound.

It was Jin Sa-wol.

Jin Sa-wol assimilated into the darkness and moved between the dark shadows. No one saw him move.

'The smell of blood.'

Rustle!

Jin Sa-wol jumped over the wall of the separate room, which was full of the smell of blood, and then seeped into the dark wall.

Swish! Swish!

Song Ha-sang, who was moving his hands busily, looked ten years older than when he was in Ghost Spirit Valley.

His hair was half-white, his beard was also grayish, and his eyes were full of wrinkles.

He was sewing up the split belly of the dead Im-sil. Inside Im-sil's belly, a dozen or so black-mist worms had entered.

The black-mist worms would eat Im-sil's corpse and grow into adult worms.

Song Ha-sang, after sewing up all of Im-sil's belly, began to wrap her corpse with a cloth.

He, who had wrapped Im-sil's corpse like a mummy with a plain cloth, sighed and straightened his back.

At the sound of a sigh, Yuk Seol-jeong opened the door and came in.

"Is it finished?"

"Yes."

"Sleep next to Senior Sister Im today."

"Here?"

"Why? You don't want to? Shall I put black-mist worms in your belly like Senior Sister Im?"

"No."

Song Ha-sang waved his hand and then quickly sat next to Im-sil. Seeing that, Yuk Seol-jeong smiled and then closed the door.

As she disappeared, Song Ha-sang sighed, suppressing the anger that was rising from deep within his heart.

Meeting her on the way to Nanchang was the worst. He had to eat a deadly poison by force, and after that, he had to become a loyal dog that followed Yuk Seol-jeong's words.

Although Song Ha-sang was also a disciple of the Chung Pavilion Lord, he was a general disciple, not a direct disciple. Naturally, his status within the Chung Pavilion was different from that of Yuk Seol-jeong, who was a direct disciple.

Thump!

Yuk Seol-jeong, who had closed the door and came out, looked at the back of Do-gang, who was sitting at a round table.

Yuk Seol-jeong approached and wrapped her arms around his neck from behind.

"Your body is still hot. The fifth senior brother's aphrodisiac must be too strong. Your body doesn't cool down easily."

"Still, it's a relief that I've burned most of it. Let's do the rest a little later. I also have to rest."

"Hohohoho! Alright."

Yuk Seol-jeong laughed out loud at Do-gang's words. Do-gang placed two jade boxes on the table and said.

Inside the jade boxes were the demonic essence pills of the deceased Im-sil and the fifth disciple.

Do-gang touched the jade box with his hand and asked.

"How about eating the demonic essence pill?"

"Already?"

"I think it would be better to eat it and get rid of it. It's bothering me."

"Hmm..."

Yuk Seol-jeong smacked her lips, moved away from Do-gang, and picked up a jade box.

"Huh?"

In that instant, Do-gang raised his hand and touched his neck. It was because he had felt a slight itch.

He lowered his hand and looked at his palm. There was blood on it.

Do-gang's mind recalled Yuk Seol-jeong, who had wrapped her arms around his neck a little while ago.

"Surely... you?"

Yuk Seol-jeong showed Do-gang her clean fingernails and said.

"Why? Is there something on my fingernails? Ah? That's right! I put some poison on them earlier, but I forgot to wash it off."

"You crazy bitch..."

Do-gang's neck area began to turn red, and his eyes became bloodshot.

"If I die, you'll die too."

"What? No way. Did you really think I would feed you a twin-blood ghost worm? That was just a worm marinated in soy sauce. Hohohoho!"

"What?! You bitch!"

Do-gang shouted and jumped up, throwing a blood-sealing needle at Yuk Seol-jeong. But the blood-sealing needle, which was not loaded with internal energy, could not reach Yuk Seol-jeong.

As the blood-sealing needle, which had passed through the air, hit the wall and fell, Yuk Seol-jeong picked up that needle and threw it at Do-gang.

Thwack!

A blood-sealing needle was embedded in Do-gang's shoulder. But because of the poison, Do-gang could not even scream.

"Kraaak... Keuk!"

Yuk Seol-jeong watched Do-gang, who was staggering with a face full of pain, as if it were an interesting sight.

Thump

(End of Chapter)