Chapter 132
Chapter 132
After a while, Dan Bulseok and Son Gyeongbaek came with the Gwanghyeoldan. In fact, Baek Seokhu had already heard this fact, so one of Son Gyeongbaek's subordinates was waiting in the room with the desk. Because it would be troublesome if someone removed it.
Sure enough. Someone had approached, but fortunately, when the subordinate blocked them, they ran away. So the two were able to return safely with the Gwanghyeoldan.
"This came out from under that person's desk."
Dan Bulseok handed the Gwanghyeoldan to Mok Wigun.
"This is the Gwanghyeoldan."
Now, he really couldn't make any excuses. And it wasn't just a problem for Taeseokgwan alone; it became difficult for the Huashan Sect to just let it go.
It was then. While everyone's attention was on the Gwanghyeoldan, the Huashan Sect leader quietly moved to Taeseokgwan. And then he whispered in his ear.
"You must die for Huashan to live."
"Pardon?"
Taeseokgwan thought it was strange and tried to turn his head to look at the sect leader. But he couldn't.
Thwack!
Suddenly, there was a sound of something bursting. When people looked in surprise, Taeseokgwan was collapsing with his head broken.
"This bastard! To think you were a spy for the Blood Cult!"
The Huashan Sect leader was shouting. Mok Wigun thought, 'Oh no.'
Murder to silence. He was trying to kill Taeseokgwan and pin everything on him.
"What do you think you're doing?"
Mok Wigun ran over, but Taeseokgwan was already dead. Since his head was broken, he couldn't be saved even if the Great Luo Immortal came.
"To think this bastard was a spy for the Blood Cult. Our sin of not knowing that is great."
The Huashan Sect leader said with a sorrowful expression. It was a really clever thing to say. We didn't know. Everything was done by the dead Taeseokgwan. It's a personal matter. It has nothing to do with the Huashan Sect.
"The Huashan Sect will also actively cooperate in this matter. The Martial Alliance must investigate and thoroughly reveal what happened."
Ha. You're going to just let it go like this?
The sect leader ordered Taeseokgwan's body to be removed and then tried to gather the people and leave.
- It's a pity. If there weren't so many people, I could have looked at his memories.
- It can't be helped. And you have a big aftereffect if you use that. So it's better not to use that power.
Even if it was unavoidable last time, this time he roughly knew what had happened. It's just that there's no physical evidence.
The guys will be relieved. That it has been roughly resolved at this point. But that's nonsense. It's just the beginning. You guys are still far from paying for the sins you have committed.
"Wait."
Mok Wigun stopped the Huashan Sect people who were trying to leave. It was because there was one more thing to make clear and move on.
"You said you would start the tournament again."
"Let's talk about that later. As you can see, it doesn't seem appropriate to talk about such things now."
The Huashan Sect leader said, pointing at Taeseokgwan's body. What a funny guy. He killed him himself and then he's trying to sneak away using that as an excuse? That's not going to happen. It has to be dealt with for sure when so many people are gathered.
"Who was the one who said there was a problem with the stone wall and that the tournament should be held again?"
"Do we have to talk about that right now?"
"Yes! I have to hear it now. Don't think of running away cowardly after killing him with your own hands. Tell me. Who did such a thing!"
Everyone was surprised. The Huashan Sect leader was not a person that Mok Wigun could talk to so rudely, considering his position and generation.
"This bastard. You think you're something because you opened a small sect?"
An elder of the Huashan Sect shouted in anger. But Mok Wigun retorted.
"Shut up! I'm doing this because it's more than enough. Tell me! Who did it?"
The Huashan Sect elder who had stepped forward also flinched, and the sect leader was also uneasy. It seemed he was doing that because he had something to believe in, but he couldn't tell what it was.
"I was the one who made the final decision."
"Alright. Then you know you have to take responsibility for that."
Mok Wigun shouted at the empty air.
"Come on out."
People wondered what he was talking about, but soon someone flew from the distance. It was a person carrying a large load, with white hair and a long beard, and a considerable build for an old man.
"The... Sword Saint..."
An old swordsman recognized the Sword Saint and shouted. But the majority did not know the Sword Saint. It was because he had not been active for so long.
Of course, all the elders of the Huashan Sect knew the Sword Saint. They showed respect to the Sword Saint.
"It's been a long time."
"Yes. It's been quite a while."
The Sword Saint grumbled as he put down the load he was carrying.
"You're probably the only one who would make me do something like this."
"Because I'm short on hands. And there's no one I can trust and ask. You've worked hard."
People were surprised at Mok Wigun's words. He was making the Sword Saint do work, and his tone was also strange. It was not a tone that a much younger junior could use to the Sword Saint.
"Ah. This guy has his reasons, so just know that."
The Sword Saint declared. People wondered if he was a different person, not the Sword Saint. To think that a twenty-year-old was on par with the Sword Saint.
"Is that person really the Sword Saint?"
"Of course, you brat. And didn't you see him flying through the sky from the distance just now?"
The Art of Walking on Air. The Sword Saint had deliberately staged it. Just in case there was someone who doubted. How many people in the current martial world could use the Art of Walking on Air so freely? Even if you're generous, it would be hard to exceed five.
"Alright, here it is."
The Sword Saint, Namgung Jincheon, poured out the load. In it, there was a whole lot of stone tablet pieces. Seeing that, the faces of the Huashan Sect people distorted.
"Wow. There's a lot because we did it for a few days."
"There were so many that I couldn't bring them all. But I brought almost all of them, so there will be no problem in examining them."
Hearing the Sword Saint's words, Mok Wigun said, looking at the Huashan Sect people.
"Alright. Since you like verification, you'll have to check this too, right?"
He called Manbakja.
"Can you check if the strength of this is the same?"
"Of course."
He took something out of his bosom. The thing he took out was also a stone tablet. The surface was very smooth, and he lifted the stone tablet with the handprint and drew on his stone tablet.
"This is made of very soft stone. So if you draw on it, a mark is left."
In fact, a line was drawn on the smooth surface.
"If all the stone tablets have the same hardness, then if you draw like this with the same force."
Manbakja said, lifting another stone tablet and drawing a line.
"A mark of the same depth will be left like this. On the contrary, if it is softer or harder, the depth will be different."
Manbakja continued to draw lines with the stone tablet. All of them made marks of the same depth. Mok Wigun looked around and then picked up a stone that looked a little hard and threw it to Manbakja.
"Try it with this."
Manbakja drew a line with the sharp part, just as he had done with the stone tablet. This time, a clearly deep mark was made.
People came to believe that what Manbakja was doing was an experiment to check the hardness of the stone tablet. There was no room for refutation. Because they had seen the evidence with their own eyes.
"Alright. I've tried it, and the hardness of all the ones here was the same."
He held out the smooth stone tablet. On it, a huge number of lines were drawn, and except for just one, all of them were marks of the same depth. The other one was the mark drawn with the stone that Mok Wigun had thrown earlier.
"So that's what they say."
He asked, looking at the Huashan Sect people.
"What's going on here? You said there was a problem with the stone wall and that you would have the match again, but there's no problem at all?"
The Huashan Sect leader, who had a grave expression, said.
"I will make an announcement after an internal investigation."
"So there will be no re-match?"
At Mok Wigun's words, the Huashan Sect leader did not answer. Instead, he glared with a murderous expression and then turned his body. And so, the Huashan Sect people went back.
* * *
"Sect Leader. Please step down."
A person from the grand elder's faction said.
"Is this what you're doing?"
"Our doing? Isn't it all the sect leader's doing?"
The Huashan Sect leader glared at the people of the opposing faction.
"You fools. You don't even know that this is cutting your own flesh. If it weren't for you, would the Demon Dragon Manor have been able to act so quickly?"
"Sect Leader. Considering what the sect leader has done, you shouldn't say that."
Someone said with a bitter sneer. How did he get to the position of sect leader? If you look at how he dealt with Taeseokgwan, you can see what kind of person he is.
"Rest now. Since you have honor, we'll just say you're going into closed-door training."
The grand elder said.
Closed-door training. It's called training, but it's actually confinement. Now, if he enters the training hall for closed-door training, he will never be able to come out again.
"Let's end it with just me."
"We can't do that. The matter is too big for that."
The grand elder was planning to get rid of all the elders of the sect leader's faction who had played a key role. So that he could put his own people in those positions.
"So it has come to this."
It was an unavoidable situation. The Huashan Sect leader accepted all of the opponent's conditions. There was no way to do anything here now. And that news spread everywhere in an instant.
"The sect leader is in closed-door training."
Mok Wigun muttered. He could roughly picture the situation.
"Besides that, the blow will be big. His honor has fallen to the ground, and he will have to be investigated by the Martial Alliance."
Dan Bulseok said.
"I guess so. Shaolin and Wudang will make it so."
"But why did those people tell us?"
Dan Bulseok asked as if he couldn't understand. It's probably true. This is something that people like Dan Bulseok, who are faithful and loyal, will never know even if they die and are reborn.
"Just as people's appearances are all different, their ways of thinking are also different. For those people, what's most important is to seize power."
They just need to seize power. It's okay if the sect they belong to is hit a little. As long as it's not completely ruined. Then I can just act like a king there.
"You know those guys, right? The ones who sell out their country. They're similar to those guys."
The guys who only care about their own well-being. Such guys feel no guilt even after betraying or killing people. If they have gained an advantage through that, they are satisfied with that.
"I don't understand. How can they do that while wearing a human mask?"
"There are many people who are not like people."
You can just treat such people in the same way. There's no need to be polite and courteous to such people. As he was thinking that and organizing his future plans, an unexpected guest came.
"What is it?"
The guest who had come was Mok Wipyong.
- To be continued in the next chapter -
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