The Genius Youngest Disciple of the Wudang Sect

Chapter 372

"F-fight? You mean fight right now?"

Dokgo Ju-gwak, who had been quiet until now, said with a frown.

"Yeah. Didn't you hear me? Your ears didn't seem bad until a little while ago. Can't you hear well?"

"It's not a matter of hearing or not hearing. It's because I can't understand. A little while ago, you stopped me from fighting Unhwi, and now you're telling me to fight again..."

Dokgo Ju-gwak, as if he had realized something, opened his eyes wide and said, "By any chance, are you telling me to deliberately lose to Unhwi here? To die at Unhwi's hands?!"

Then the Demonic Fire Hall Master pouted his lips and shook his head.

"Why do you say such sad things? You've promised to come under me now, so I have to take care of you."

"Th-then does that mean I can win?"

"Yes. I'm curious who will win, so I'm telling you two to fight. Why are you making me out to be a bad person?"

"I'm not making you out to be a bad person..."

"That's what making me out to be a bad person is!"

I even thought that the two bickering suited each other surprisingly well.

Whether they knew I was thinking this or not, the two continued to talk, and in the end, it seemed they had tentatively agreed to fight me.

"So Unhwi. Hurry up and fight. I want to see you two fight. You can call it a whim. But, I'm a man with a heart like a reed."

"Disgusting."

"That's too harsh."

"Still disgusting."

After making a face of someone who had seen something utterly disgusting, I opened my mouth again.

"Demonic Fire Hall Master. I have no reason to follow your words right now."

"Why?"

"We promised on 'that day', didn't we? That you wouldn't appear before me for a year. But it hasn't even been a year yet, and you've appeared again, so you've broken your promise, haven't you? If you're going to tell me to fight or not, shouldn't you at least fulfill the time you promised me and then appear?"

The Demonic Fire Hall Master's mouth, which had been smiling playfully, stiffened into a straight line.

I had hit him right on the mark.

However, he soon smiled broadly again as if he had never made such an expression and said, "Well. That's true, but let's just say this is a little different. This isn't me calling you, but in a way, me saving you."

"You saved me?"

"If I hadn't stopped him, Dokgo Ju-gwak would have ambushed you. You. You've gotten a lot stronger since I last saw you, but is there a guarantee that you would have been able to block a surprise attack from a martial artist of Dokgo Ju-gwak's level?"

This time, I looked at Dokgo Ju-gwak once.

As expected, Dokgo Ju-gwak had improved much more than when I had met him before.

As if to prove that it was not for nothing that he had become the master of the Four Evils Alliance and the hegemon of Sichuan at a young age.

But, for some reason, I now had a strong conviction that I had surpassed Dokgo Ju-gwak.

I said to the Demonic Fire Hall Master calmly, "I could have won even if you hadn't come."

"What? You insolent brat!"

Then Dokgo Ju-gwak shouted in a rage. He seemed to think that he was much stronger than me now.

Come to think of it, he is now on a winning streak in Sichuan and the Four Evils Alliance.

He would be confident no matter who he was up against.

Of course, unless it was a master like the Demonic Fire Hall Master, who is one of the top ten in the Demonic Cult.

"Don't you remember that you barely survived by using all sorts of tricks when we fought a while ago? If I hadn't shown you mercy and let you go then, you would have been a dead man."

"Then you should have killed me then. Before I grew stronger."

"What...?"

"And you should be precise. At that time, I had won the bet I made with you, and you also couldn't fight me anymore because you had to take care of your youngest junior brother, Go Mun-tak, who has now gone to the other world, right? No matter what, you're only thinking of the situation in your favor."

"You, you... now...!"

When I hit the mark, Dokgo Ju-gwak couldn't say anything more and was just getting angry.

Just then, the Demonic Fire Hall Master, Lee Gwak-sa, who had been listening to our conversation with great interest, burst out laughing.

"Hahaha! See? This is why I wanted to pit you two against each other! Hey Dokgo Ju-gwak. Isn't this a good thing? Let's see who's on top here. And you too, Unhwi. If you defeat Dokgo Ju-gwak well this time, there's only one person left for the Evil Faction Alliance Leader to send. That raccoon-like old man, the First Elder, is not a guy who will ever step forward himself."

"One person... the Evil Faction's First Sword, Gal Ryeok-hyeok?"

It was Dokgo Ju-gwak who was extremely surprised by my words.

When that name came out of my mouth, he was so surprised that his body flinched.

To that extent, Gal Ryeok-hyeok is a name hidden in secrecy, and he hardly even engages in external activities.

Even if he appeared in the martial world, he would only act as the Evil Faction's First Sword, and he acted like a person who had no relationship with the Evil Faction Alliance at all.

So even the Beggars' Sect and the Hao Mun didn't know that he was the first disciple of the Evil Faction Alliance Leader, so when that information came out of my mouth, he couldn't help but be surprised.

"H-how do you know my great senior brother's name...?"

"I told you before. Don't ignore the power of the Beggars' Sect. I know everything. Since it seems you've now left the embrace of the Evil Faction Alliance Leader and crawled under the Demonic Fire Hall Master, I'll tell you, but our orthodox faction has been keeping a close eye on the Evil Faction Alliance for a long time. And we tracked the whereabouts of the money they were earning. It's hard to track people, but it's easy to track money, isn't it? Although half of the money that came out of the Green Snake's gambling house evaporated in the middle."

"Evaporated...?"

"I couldn't be sure where that money went until now, but today it's become clear. That money went to the Demonic Cult first."

Lee Gwak-sa, as if he were interested, took a step or two closer to me and smiled broadly.

"And the other half was divided among Gal Ryeok-hyeok, Dokgo Ju-gwak, Ma Cheon-deuk, and Go Mun-tak, and was used for their respective missions. You also received money from the Evil Faction Alliance Leader, so you would know, right? That your other senior and junior brothers are also receiving similar amounts of money."

"......"

"Think carefully. Although it's true that I'm smart, have excellent martial arts, am good at improvising, and am an amazing martial artist, do you really think it was possible for me to stop Go Mun-tak, who was trying to take over the Tenth Month Tower, destroy the Green Snake's gambling house, and dismantle the Green Forest Bandits that Ma Cheon-deuk had barely gathered, all by myself? I also have a huge backer like you, so I was able to do it with their support from behind the scenes."

"So... it was."

Dokgo Ju-gwak gritted his teeth and barely answered.

Of course, he would have no choice but to show such a reaction.

What would it feel like to find out that all the things you had painstakingly prepared until now were actually just playing on someone else's palm?

'Of course, everything I've said so far is a lie.'

The orthodox faction has grasped all the movements of the Evil Faction Alliance? Bullshit.

Of course, it was all me shaking up the Evil Faction Alliance bastards by using the information I had known since my past life.

But on the contrary, if I said that I had obtained the information on my own and did it all by myself, they would never believe it.

Rather, I am making them believe my words by presenting a more plausible possibility.

"Then let's stop the small talk here, shall we? I'm not interested in whether the orthodox faction knew about the Evil Faction Alliance's plan in advance and tried to stop it or not."

"Demonic Fire Hall Master. Shouldn't you also be interested? The reason the Evil Faction Alliance Leader raised the Evil Faction Alliance was to make the orthodox martial world and the Evil Faction Alliance clash someday to consume the strength of the orthodox martial world. So that it would be easier to take over the martial world when the Demonic Cult invades in the future."

"But so what?"

"So shouldn't you be helping the Evil Faction Alliance more for the sake of the Demonic Cult?"

The Demonic Fire Hall Master tilted his head obnoxiously and asked me back, "So. Why should I?"

"No, of course, because you are the Demonic Fire Hall Master of the Demonic Cult..."

"Aha! You mean that since I'm a person of the Demonic Cult, I must definitely achieve the Demonic Cult's world! And that I should have a sense of mission like this?"

"......?"

"But unfortunately, no. To be honest, I'm not interested in the Demonic Cult's world. To be even more honest, I'm in a position where I hope something like the Demonic Cult's world doesn't happen."

"C-crazy bastard."

I was so genuinely flustered that the words 'crazy bastard' came out of my mouth.

I knew he was crazy, but I never thought he would be that crazy.

"Why do you think all Heavenly Demon Divine Cult members live for the Demonic Cult's world? I really think that if the Demonic Cult's world is achieved... life will be too boring. The Demonic Cult's world doesn't have to be achieved while I'm alive, right? It can be achieved after I die, so what. We've endured for a thousand years, so what's so strange about the Demonic Cult's world being achieved a thousand and one hundred years later?"

I looked at him blankly, wondering if those were really the words that came out of a Demonic Cult member's mouth.

Then the Demonic Fire Hall Master laughed heartily and continued, "Since you were honest, I was also honest. By now, you should know how sincerely I think of you, right?"

"I know very well how sincerely crazy you are."

"Now. Then it's time to really satisfy the desires of a crazy person. Why are you talking so much when I told you to fight? It's okay to kill each other, and it's okay not to kill each other. However, Unhwi. If you defeat Dokgo Ju-gwak and don't kill him..."

"If I don't?"

"This time again, for a year. I will postpone taking you. If you refuse, I will just go back today, and as originally promised, I will appear again in two months to take you."

"Hmm..."

"I think this is a pretty good proposal. What do you think?"

There's no need to think about it. If I can not see that obnoxious face for another year, I have to do whatever it takes.

"Alright. I'll accept those conditions."

"Good! And our Ju-gwak."

"Hup..."

He, as if he had heard the expression 'our Ju-gwak' for the first time in his life, flinched and looked at the Demonic Fire Hall Master.

The Demonic Fire Hall Master, as if even that was cute, smiled broadly and said, "Whether you win or lose, as long as you survive, I will completely take you out of the Evil Faction Alliance Leader's hands. I will mobilize all my position and authority within the Demonic Cult to make the Four Evils Alliance an organization under me and set you free. This won't be such a bad condition for you either. Right?"

"What if I kill Unhwi here?"

"Try it if you can. Then you'll be proving that you have a much more outstanding talent than Unhwi. My affection for Unhwi might move to you?"

Dokgo Ju-gwak reflexively frowned, but it seemed he had finally made up his mind to fight me.

He drew his sword and said, "The martial artists have talked for too long. Unhwi. Come at me."

I also drew the Red Dragon Sword.

Looking around, the inside of the inn is quite spacious. It seems he had cleared all the tables with this in mind.

I took a shallow breath and got into a fighting stance, and then said to Dokgo Ju-gwak, "No. You come at me."

(End of Chapter)