novelraw Chapter 156 : The Young Leader's Return (1)
Chapter 156 : The Young Leader's Return (1)
I thought it was all over now.
I thought happiness would come after suffering.
Because I had returned the tangled parts to their original state.
He had said that causality is a great flow. Now, as time passes, the twisted parts will be untangled, and they will find their proper places.
I had been mistaken.
"Junior sister."
"Yes, senior brother."
"Aren't you going back to the Divine Cult? You have to end your desertion now, right? You, you're the young leader."
"Aren't you going, senior brother?"
"My situation is like this now, isn't it?"
"Then, I won't go either."
My junior sister had become a runaway girl.
I looked to the side and asked.
"Aren't you going? Isn't the Blood Demon worried?"
"Aren't you going with me, Jae-ha?"
"Why would I go to the Blood Cult? If I'm going, it's right to go to the Divine Cult."
"Yeah. Then I won't go either."
There was another runaway boy here.
And I had heard from my grandfather, whom I had met one day and who had passed away one day, that Soma was the Heavenly Killing Star.
I had asked Soma if I had heard it wrong.
-Are you perhaps the Heavenly Killing Star?
-Yeah! I'm the Heavenly Killing Star. Should I introduce you?
-To whom?
-To the Heavenly Killing Star!
I was able to have a strange experience because of Soma.
-Oh! Would you perhaps like to destroy the world with me, boy!
-Boy! You can put this whole world under your feet!
Indeed, Soma was not a madman. He was just a victim who had been negatively influenced because a madman had stuck to a naive kid.
And now, there were one or two more things that I still didn't understand.
"Uh, junior sister. Can I touch you for a moment?"
"Yes."
I first asked my junior sister for permission, and then I placed my hand on her dantian. And I sent my internal energy to check my junior sister's body condition.
It was definitely there.
The yang body and the yin mind's eye!
This time, while giving my junior sister the yin mind's eye, I had gained a slight enlightenment, should I say, an understanding of yin and yang.
I was able to perfectly define the concept of what I had previously thought of as a yin body, a yang body, or a yin mind's eye, a yang mind's eye.
The harmony of yin and yang is the basis.
If a yin body and a yang body collide, the harmony is broken, and of course, the latter case was also the same.
Body and mind.
The mind and the image, that is, the mind's eye.
When a person is defined as a universe, the body becomes yang, and the spirit becomes yin.
So what I had given my junior sister was the spiritual part, the mind's eye.
And it was no exaggeration to say that my junior sister's physical part was already complete.
Now, my junior sister, who had achieved the harmony of yin and yang, her physical part and her previously shaken spiritual part were now in a state of perfect harmony.
"The check is over."
But why did the result become a runaway girl?
The world was full of things that you couldn't know even if you knew.
And there was another problem.
I had definitely given my junior sister the spiritual part, the yin mind's eye, and my harmony of yin and yang had been broken, and my martial prowess had regressed from the Profound Realm to the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
But my awakened realm was still the Profound Realm. I even felt like I had become stronger than before.
I had checked nervously, wondering if my junior sister had perhaps given me her yin mind's eye again, but that wasn't it either.
Perhaps from the faint atmosphere I was feeling now, I felt that I wouldn't lose even if Soma and my junior sister attacked me together. Of course, this could be said to be just a feeling. And I was not a fool to actually check this feeling.
Because I was not stupid enough to face Soma, who was the Heavenly Killing Star, and my junior sister, who had awakened her Heavenly Dragon Sacred Bones and had become a Heavenly Outer Sacred Bones.
Hah, I'm suddenly pissed off. This is all because of my damn grandfather, whose existence I didn't even know when he was alive.
Why is my whole family of no help to me!
Who would have known that the person in front of my grandfather was the emperor!
Besides, the one who had committed the crime is no longer in this world.
And I can't say that my grandfather killed the emperor.
Because the crime of regicide is the extermination of the nine clans.
Of course, since I'm the only one who knows that my grandfather is my grandfather, I can lie, but it didn't seem like the crown prince, who would be the next emperor, would believe me at all.
"What do I do now?"
Considering the current situation, the matter of being entangled with the Chaotic Heavenly Society was on the level of a flea's blood.
A feeling of being an enemy of the whole world.
No! In fact, I had become an enemy of the world itself.
Since it has come to this, I'm in a position where I have to destroy the imperial palace as my grandfather had said.
Of course, I knew that this was ridiculous. No matter how much of a master of the Profound Realm I was, I had no confidence in facing the nearly 2 million government troops lurking in the imperial palace.
And so we were situated on the mountainside of some unknown mountain.
"How do I live now? Should I just hide somewhere where no one knows."
"The two of us?"
"This kid has to come too. If this kid commits a murder somewhere, our sins will only deepen."
"Then, should we just cleanly pierce his dantian and make him an ordinary person?"
"Wait a minute, let's think about that. I have a bad memory of my dantian. And that's too cruel for a man."
"Why?"
"It's too early for my junior sister to know."
"Yes. If senior brother says so."
Just then.
Grumble.
"I'm hungry."
At Soma's complaint, which didn't fit the situation, I couldn't... say a sharp word.
Grumble.
This shameless stomach.
Yes, a person has to eat first.
* * *
An inn in a village.
The innkeeper had been watching the three people who had been wearing their hats deeply since a while ago.
"Another bowl of noodles here."
"Yes, coming."
The innkeeper put the noodles in the kelp broth that had been simmering all day, stirred it a few times, and then brought it. Placing the noodles on the table, he looked at the three intently once more.
The three did not take off their hats even when they ate the noodles. Just then, one of the three glared at him and opened his mouth.
"What are you staring at? Is there a show?"
At the bloodthirsty pupils at a glance, the innkeeper immediately turned his gaze and answered.
"N-No. I was just wondering if you needed anything else..."
"I don't. And I'm not going to run off without paying, so don't worry. Ah! And please add some duck meat."
"Yes, yes!"
Recently, an order had been issued throughout the Central Plains. It was to report to the lord of each provincial capital immediately upon seeing a martial artist.
The martial artists had protested, but this time, the imperial family was so angry that they had no choice but to follow.
The innkeeper secretly sent the innkeeper's boy out.
After a while, the three people wearing hats stood up from their seats.
The innkeeper quickly approached, bowed his head, and extended his hand.
"The total is 1 silver coin."
"Ahem!"
An awkward coughing sound was heard. The innkeeper, who had been running an inn in one place for over 10 years, couldn't help but realize with his naturally cultivated instinctive sense. That the three people in front of him had no money.
'These bastards!'
"Excuse me, customer?"
"What?"
"It's 1 silver coin. I'm saying it twice."
"I-I see. Wait a moment."
The customer who was awkwardly searching his pocket.
The trembling pupils, unlike before.
The sweat on the tip of his nose.
The innkeeper glanced at the entrance. The government troops were not yet visible.
"I must have left my money. Wait a moment."
"Customer. Then, can you take off your hat for a moment for identification? We also need a guarantee to be able to trust and wait."
"I don't want to."
"Customer."
"What?"
"Are you dining and dashing?"
"N-No! I have money! I just forgot to bring it! Right? We're not dining and dashing, are we?"
"Jae-ha, we don't have any money! You said we should just eat and run, right?"
It was Soma, who took care of his conscience in useless parts while killing people as if it were a meal.
"Run!"
Just then. The door opened, and the government troops rushed in all at once.
A familiar standoff situation.
"Innkeeper, did you dare to report us now?"
The innkeeper, who had become triumphant at the appearance of the government troops, shouted at the beggar bastards who were trying to dine and dash.
"Where do you criminals think you are, raising your voices!"
"Jae-ha was bad. The Blood Demon said that even if you kill people, you should pay for your food. That's common decency!"
That's worse, you bastard!
"You said you would take care of it, senior brother!"
You ate too! And junior sister, you! You weren't like this in the old days!
You two were the ones who told me you wanted to eat a warm soup after starving for three days in the mountains!
-A warm soup is the best in winter.
I had just suggested that we catch a rabbit in the mountains and roast it.
Since it has come to this, I'm sorry to the innkeeper, but I was planning to pay him back later.
The quite a few government troops surrounding us.
I had already known that the government troops were coming. The reason I hadn't run away was because I had no intention of dining and dashing.
Above all, it was also because I was confident that I could escape even if I were surrounded by the government troops.
I looked up, with my internal energy wrapped around my feet, just as I had run away before.
The wooden ceiling was visible.
'Let's break through that and escape!'
Just before I slightly bent my legs and was about to release my internal energy from the soles of my feet.
My junior sister and Soma, who had been relaxed until just now, were looking at the entrance with a tense expression.
"If you fall for the same trick twice, we also have our pride."
A person wearing armor that was excessive for a government soldier.
The beings who could wear golden clothes so confidently in the Central Plains were set, and the group that was allowed to do so in large numbers was only one place.
"The Golden Guard."
"Oh. Thank you for remembering."
Besides, the person who was talking to me now was emitting a rather unusual energy.
"The Golden Guard Commander?"
"Not that much, I'm the 10th-ranked White Gold Guard Commander. Criminal Yoo Jae-ha, this time, you will surely have to leave your neck and go."
Two people appear around the man who had identified himself as the White Gold Guard Commander.
I could see that those two were also masters who had reached the Profound Realm. And the people surrounding us were at least masters of the peak of the Transcendent Realm.
If a fight broke out here, there would surely be casualties.
If that happened, no matter what I had done in the past, from today on, I would be clearly on bad terms with the imperial family.
But I also had no intention of being caught obediently.
The simplest way to subdue this many people is to spread the reversal of heaven boundary and neutralize the opponent.
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to die yet. And I think I told you before. I'm not the one who killed the emperor."
"If it's so clear, prove it yourself in front of His Majesty."
I'm doing this because there's no way to do that!
Reversal of Heaven Boundary.
I spread the boundary.
The people who stagger at once.
Swish!
This time, I came up through the roof to really run away, and I had to stop again.
"H-How?"
The White Gold Guard Commander, who had been staggering due to the nausea of the reversal of heaven boundary until just now, was standing on his feet.
Although the nausea didn't seem to have gone away, it was definitely a much better level than before.
"I thought I told you."
He leaned on the wall next to him, took a deep breath, and continued.
"I won't let you go this time."
A total of three boundaries were spread around the reversal of heaven boundary.
They were now neutralizing the effect of the reversal of heaven that was happening in the reversal of heaven boundary.
I could see what the principle was as soon as I saw it.
The imbalance of the harmony of yin and yang.
They were forcibly breaking the harmony of the reversal of heaven boundary.
I was surprised once that there was such a method, and I was surprised twice that the imperial family had already equipped the power to deal with the martial world.
Clang.
The reversal of heaven boundary finally broke, and the White Gold Guard Commander, who was standing without leaning on the wall, said.
"Capture them all! If they resist, you may kill them."
A fierce hostility aimed at us.
And because of the three boundaries surrounding us, the situation was reversed this time.
A situation where our ankles are caught.
In a situation where we didn't know what the effects of these boundaries were, it was difficult to deal with this many government troops.
To be precise, it was difficult to subdue them without giving them any damage.
If a fight broke out like this, there would surely be deaths.
A point where no solution to this situation is visible.
In a situation where we have no choice but to fight.
Rumble.
The people who had flown up towards us were all buried in the ground at once.
And the three curtains surrounding us were all broken at once. The method was much more violent and sophisticated than the one that had broken my boundary.
It was to just crush with force, with a more powerful boundary.
Thump, thump.
A quietly heard footstep.
"I've finally found you."
A single man was walking comfortably between the hundreds of government troops as if he were on a picnic.
When I saw that man, a single phrase naturally came to mind.
There is no one to block his steps.
No one can stand with their head held high in front of him.
That is the step of the Heavenly Demon.
One of the phrases describing the Heavenly Demon's Reigning Steps.
Thump.
The man who had reached my front said.
"Nephew, it's time to come home."
Everyone succumbed to the Heavenly Demon's steps.
"Yes, sir!"
Me too.
If I refused here, ugh! The look in his eyes was as if he would beat me to death and then take me.
(End of Chapter)