novelraw Chapter 34 : Chapter 34
Chapter 34 : Chapter 34
Chapter 34 - The Tang Family’s Last Dagger (5)
“Ha. Did you wear Dragon Scale Armor or something? How can someone like you be perfectly fine after taking the Red Blood Steel Fist? Just like before, something is definitely strange.”
Jaun, dangling in the air held by Man Chu-pyeong’s hand, looked straight into Man Chu-pyeong’s eyes.
“That’s because your Demonic Energy has no effect on me.”
At Jaun’s words, Man Chu-pyeong’s expression hardened as it was.
“What nonsense is this brat spouting now…….”
Interrupting Man Chu-pyeong, Jaun smiled and spoke.
“There seems to be a misunderstanding. Me being caught in your hand right now isn’t because you are outstanding. It’s because I aimed for it. Seeing what you did earlier, I thought this method seemed decent.”
Huge energy flared up from Jaun’s body.
Jaun, having raised his energy, instantly utilized the principle of the Thousand Pound Weight and slipped out of Man Chu-pyeong’s hand.
Jaun, having escaped Man Chu-pyeong’s hand like that, instead of widening the distance, pressed closer to him.
“Do you know why I closed the distance like this?”
Jaun, wearing a fishy smile, gathered the surrounding Demonic Energy, including Man Chu-pyeong’s energy.
“I thought that uselessly big bulk of yours would cover my figure.”
The gathered Demonic Energy formed heavily on Jaun’s right hand.
Centering on Jaun’s hand, pitch-black dark energy condensed, creating a small yet infinitely dark circle.
Jaun stomped the ground vigorously and extended his fist forward.
[Soul Severing Spirit Crushing Fist]
One of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art’s fist techniques, which severs the opponent's soul and crushes even their spirit by filling it with internal energy, revealed itself once again.
─ Kwadeudeuk!
Jaun’s fist, surrounded by black energy, dug into Man Chu-pyeong’s side.
“Keo……heok?”
Man Chu-pyeong looked down at Jaun with disbelief even after seeing Jaun’s hand embedded in his side.
“How can you…… use Demonic Energy…… and this, this martial art is?”
Man Chu-pyeong examined Jaun’s hand and his own side alternately with confused eyes.
─ Peoeok!
Jaun’s fist, extended once again, this time struck Man Chu-pyeong’s chest.
A sound of wind escaping came from Man Chu-pyeong’s breathing, as if several ribs were broken by that fist.
“……No, way?”
Man Chu-pyeong’s body, with all internal organs crushed by Jaun’s fist, staggered on the spot.
“Rookie!”
Hyeon-dam’s voice came from close by.
It felt like Hyeon-dam’s energy was rushing toward Man Chu-pyeong, seemingly having finally broken through the Cult members’ formation.
‘It’s a pity, but there are watching eyes…… I should yield the finale.’
Jaun struck Man Chu-pyeong’s thigh with his knee.
─ Kwadeudeuk!
A sound of something breaking was heard from Man Chu-pyeong’s thigh.
Having shattered one leg so Man Chu-pyeong couldn't escape, Jaun twisted his body and slipped out to the side of Man Chu-pyeong’s huge body.
“Careful!”
As Hyeon-dam, confirming Jaun slipping out, raised his energy, profound golden energy bloomed fully around his body.
“Amitabha!”
Behind Hyeon-dam’s golden-filled body, the image of a giant Buddha shimmered.
Hyeon-dam, having gathered all his energy, extended his fist straight. Hyeon-dam’s blow struck Man Chu-pyeong’s back precisely.
─ Kwadeuk!
“Keoheoheok…….”
A strange sound rang from Man Chu-pyeong’s spine at Hyeon-dam’s full-force fist strike, and eventually, Man Chu-pyeong’s body, having lost strength, collapsed as it was.
“Fall into the Avici Hell. You dog-like bastard.”
Hyeon-dam spat ptoo on Man Chu-pyeong’s fallen body.
At the moment they defeated the Red Blood Squad Leader Man Chu-pyeong like that, Tang Il-bi’s telepathic message was heard in Jaun and Hyeon-dam’s minds.
[Stop there. Stop and evacuate now!]
At Tang Il-bi’s urgent telepathic message, Jaun and Hyeon-dam turned their heads back.
Far away, green energy was surging hugely from the body of Tang Il-bi, who was concentrating.
Checking that Tang Il-bi was raising his energy, Hyeon-dam and Jaun hurriedly pulled themselves out from among the black-clad figures and flew toward the inside of the Inner Court.
Confirming the two had escaped, Tang Il-bi’s energy skyrocketed rapidly.
“A sky full of silver light.”
Tang Il-bi’s body, exerting all his strength, trembled, and blood dripped down from his nose.
“The light filling the sky is the essence and breath of the Tang Family.”
As Tang Il-bi threw his robe wide open, all the glittering hidden weapons from his bosom soared into the sky.
“The light containing the Tang Family’s will shall gain life and bloom fully.”
The silver hidden weapons soaring into the sky swayed and occupied the heavens.
The hidden weapons, spread out at a speed hard to follow with eyes, swayed in the air like fluttering flower petals.
“When the flower petals that gained life become rain and fall.”
Soon, the hidden weapons floating in the sky began to rotate at high speed.
“They shall take the breath of all living things.”
Blood mist sprayed from the eyes and ears of Tang Il-bi, who threw the eight daggers held in both hands into the sky for the last time.
“Ten Thousand Flowers Filling the Sky .”
Simultaneously with Tang Il-bi falling forward.
The hidden weapons reflecting light while filling the sky began to strike down to the ground like rays of light.
***
“Kuaaaaagh!”
The hidden weapons that filled the sky fell to the ground, slashing everything in all directions.
The gathered Demonic Energy had been mostly used up by Jaun, and even Man Chu-pyeong had lost consciousness and collapsed.
The Cult members possessed no means to protect themselves from the Ten Thousand Flowers Filling the Sky.
“Keoheok!”
“Aaagh!”
Screams rang endlessly.
Soon, all the hidden weapons that filled the Inner Court’s sky disappeared, and what remained were only close to two hundred black-clad figures rolling on the ground.
“My, my arm……!”
“Keo……heok! B, breath!”
The poison coated on Tang Il-bi’s hidden weapons took the lives of the roughly two hundred Cult members one by one.
─ Kwaaaaang!
At that moment, with a loud roar, Yeon Seung-il and the Black Blood Squad Leader, who were engaging in a bloody battle in one corner, widened their distance.
The Black Blood Squad Leader, having pulled his body far back, stared blankly at the Cult members sprawled on the floor who had stopped breathing.
“The Flower Rain remained in the Tang Family? I heard it was already lost…….”
The Black Blood Squad Leader examined the surroundings with a complicated expression.
“Because it was…… a taboo of the Murim, it could not see the light until now but……. Cough! The soul of the Tang Family…… has not disappeared.”
Lying face down on the ground and gasping for breath, Tang Il-bi mumbled.
“The plan has gone awry. I have no face to see the Demonic Brain.”
The Black Blood Squad Leader, looking around once again and sighing heavily, glared at the group.
The body of the Black Blood Squad Leader, who was looking around at the group with burning eyes, disappeared in an instant.
─ Kwadang
Confirming the Black Blood Squad Leader had retreated, Yeon Seung-il’s body collapsed.
Yeon Seung-il’s body was full of deep cuts, and the surroundings were thickly soaked with blood flowing from his body.
“Squad Leader!”
Baek-myo, who was running from afar with Tang Hun tucked under her arm, saw that sight, threw Tang Hun away, and accelerated.
“Uaaa!”
Along with Tang Hun’s scream from afar, the sound of rolling on the ground was heard.
“Are you okay!?”
Baek-myo, approaching in an instant, shook Yeon Seung-il’s body, but his eyes were out of focus.
“……Careful…… someone, is approaching, is…….”
Yeon Seung-il’s mumbling head dropped down.
Hyeon-dam and Baek-myo tilted their heads at Yeon Seung-il’s words.
Only Jaun, as if already sensing something, turned his head and looked at a spot with indifferent eyes.
Not long after, small dust rose in the silent Inner Court.
The dust gradually approached Jaun.
Then, breaking through the dust, two people revealed themselves in an instant.
“Sam-ho. Now!”
One of the two masked people, hearing the instruction, sprinkled something toward Jaun.
“Rookie! Watch out!”
At the appearance of the two strangers, Hyeon-dam and Baek-myo moved belatedly, but after inhaling the white smoke that spread thickly in all directions, they collapsed on the spot as they were.
After confirming the two had fallen asleep, the masked person looked around once and spoke.
“We have no intention to cause harm, so be at ease. What we just sprinkled is sleeping incense. Please rest comfortably.”
The masked person, holding a Poison Avoidance Bead in their molars and dusting off their hands tuk tuk, looked at Jaun.
Since the detoxification effect of the Ten Thousand Poison Pill had already ended, Jaun quietly raised the Reverse Heaven Asura Art.
After calmly burning the toxic energy remaining in his body, Jaun smacked his lips jjeop.
“No, you. H, how are you still?”
Looking at Jaun standing his ground even after inhaling a tremendous amount of sleeping incense, the masked person stuttered.
Jaun, sighing deeply, looked back at the group who had fallen into a deep sleep.
“You are the people who were by Miss Pan’s side, right?”
At Jaun’s words, the masked person’s body froze like ice on the spot.
***
“Have you awakened?”
An old man dressed in dark green asked Tang Il-bi, who woke from sleep and slowly raised his body.
“……Elder Poison King?”
Tang Il-bi, blinking his eyes, confirmed the old man, tried to raise his body hurriedly, but collapsed back into his seat.
“Tsk tsk. Do not overexert yourself. Not knowing your own body is precious and even using your innate Qi…….”
The old man, looking at Tang Il-bi with pitying eyes, took out a pill from his bosom and pushed it into Tang Il-bi’s mouth.
“ admirable. You protected the Tang Family.”
The pill, melting softly, breathed energy into Tang Il-bi’s body.
“Just focus on recovering your body for now. Although more than half of the Tang Family’s elites have left for the Nine Springs, there are still many remaining, so rest assured.”
Pain filled the old man’s eyes and then faded away.
The old man, tapping Tang Il-bi’s chest tuk tuk, stared at Tang Il-bi for a while, then stood up from his seat.
As the old man stood up and turned around, the group standing quietly behind him corrected their posture.
“Thank you. Did you say you belong to the Murim Alliance’s Anti-Demon Squad?”
“Yes. Great Hero.”
At the old man’s warm gaze, Yeon Seung-il with a pale complexion bowed and answered.
Hyeon-dam and Baek-myo, who were standing blankly, also bowed slightly following Yeon Seung-il.
“Tsk. In the end, we became indebted to the Murim Alliance.”
The old man, sighing lightly, looked back at the group and continued speaking.
“Anyway, thank you for helping Il-bi. Thanks to you, we saved not only the Tang Family’s honor but also people’s lives.”
“You do not need to think of it as the Murim Alliance’s help, Great Hero. Il-bi is my long-time close friend. I only did what I naturally had to do as a friend.”
At Yeon Seung-il’s calm words, the old man nodded.
“Did you say you are the Sword Ghost of Hainan? Il-bi has a good friend.”
The nodding old man straightened his small frame upright and turned his body toward the group.
“You know that the Tang Family repays favors and grudges tenfold, right? Since you saved Il-bi as well as our Tang Family, I must pay the corresponding price.”
Having finished speaking, the old man waved his hand in the air without a shred of hesitation.
Simultaneously with the old man waving his hand, jet-black smoke spewed out and began to fill the room.
‘……Poison?’
Jaun, sensing that the smoke filling the room was a type of poison, flinched.
The old man glanced back at Jaun, who sensed the energy first, and spoke.
“Do not resist. I intend to plant resistance to poison in your bodies with the toxic energy I possess.”
Baek-myo, whose eyes stung from the poisonous smoke filling the room, squinted and blinked repeatedly.
“Um…… Elder Poison King. It might be rude to say, but is it really okay to inhale this smoke?”
Seeing the anxious Baek-myo, the old man burst into laughter. Keol keol.
“Keul keul. Is it okay to inhale? Of course. There are hundreds of Tang Family disciples who are desperate just to feel even a handful of my toxic energy. It is a great fortuitous encounter, so stay still.”
As the old man waved his hand, the room began to fill with increasingly thicker toxic energy.
“It is a process of sharing a considerable amount of the toxic energy I have gathered all my life with you all. Once this toxic energy settles in your bodies, you will not lose your lives due to poison in the future.”
At the old man’s words, the group’s eyes sparkled. At the Poison King’s assurance, Baek-myo inhaled deeply and then coughed kollok.
Watching that sight while giggling, the old man approached the group.
“Do not move.”
The old man, standing in front of the group, instantly extended his hand forward.
─ Peobeobeobeok
The old man’s hands began to strike here and there on the group’s bodies at invisible speed.
‘So he’s trapping the toxic energy in this way.’
Watching the old man’s hand movements, Jaun’s eyes shone.
Every time the old man struck the group’s acupoints, a certain amount of toxic energy rushed in and seeped into their bodies.
After moving his hands ceaselessly for a while like that, the old man wiped the sweat on his forehead and spoke.
“Now, everyone hold your breath. Once this process is over, my toxic energy will settle in your bodies. Even if urgent situations arise due to extreme poisons in the future, you will be able to survive a few times.”
Subtle green energy filled the old man’s body. Then, he began to press the acupoints of the group, who were holding their breath, firmly with his index finger.
It was a light gesture, but unlike how it looked, it seemed to require quite some effort as the skin of the sweat-drenched old man began to wrinkle little by little.
Quite some time passed like that, and at some point, all the toxic energy spread in the room was absorbed into the group’s bodies.
“Huu…….”
As if all processes were finished, the old man sighed heavily and slowly stepped back.
“Keu-heum.”
He was originally an old man of small stature, but in that short time, it felt as if he had become a span smaller.
“Now it is all done, so you may move your bodies.”
The old man sat down heavily on a chair placed next to him with an exhausted face and wiped the sweat on his forehead.
“Right. Since the debt has been sufficiently repaid, let’s listen to your heroic tales now.”
The old man, who had been catching his breath for a while, raised his head and looked at the group.