Chapter 299: Chapter 299

“What does that mean?”

Hwangbo Won frowned as he looked at the returned subordinates.

Since they were rambling, he could not make head or tail of what they were saying.

When he frowned and pressed them hard, the subordinates flinched.

“Th… That is, bl… blades were just flying around, and anyway, that place is somewhere we must never touch.”

“What?”

Hwangbo Won snorted in disbelief.

What was this talk about flying blades, and what was this about sword qi?

Did it not sound like they had gathered three of the Five Emperors in a single family residence?

Could that really be possible in reality?

The Five Emperors are absolute masters capable of easily crushing even Mount Tai.

Those people are gathered in a humble family like the Hunan Dan Family?

It was a laughable nonsense.

Hwangbo Won looked at his subordinates with a lukewarm expression.

“Right, so what did that fellow comparable to the Five Emperors do?”

“H… hoeing…!”

“These crazy bastards…”

Hwangbo Won raised his eyebrows and sent them an incredulous look.

A master around the level of the Five Emperors hoeing?

If one spoke such things anywhere, they would naturally be called a crazy person.

Hwangbo Won held his throbbing head.

It was his own fault for trusting such fellows and sending them as subordinates.

A sigh escaped his mouth.

“Since there are no reliable fellows like this…”

“Family Head, really, that place… must never be touched!”

“Shut up! Are you not ashamed as a member of the Hwangbo Family!”

Hwangbo Won raised his voice.

It was the Hwangbo Family, which was called a main pillar of the Eight Great Families. But if they could not handle a single newly rising family now, numerous people in the Jianghu would point fingers and mock them.

Just thinking about it seemed to make irritation surge, as Hwangbo Won stood up from his seat.

He was a fool to have trusted such fellows.

‘I wanted to make the Hunan Dan Family fellows come directly to kneel… but…’

Hwangbo Won highly disliked the fact that he had to move directly.

Originally, it was a situation where it would not even be enough if the people of the Hunan Dan Family came in a hurry to kneel and beg.

Gnashing his teeth hard, he picked up his sword.

Now that things had turned out like this, he intended to thoroughly trample them so they would never dare touch the Hwangbo Family again.

* * *

The path to the Hunan Dan Family was longer than thought.

Because they had to leave Yueyang and move southwest, but no path itself had been made.

Since they had to walk through rough terrain, it was tiring, and since the scenery looked similar, they could easily get lost.

Hwangbo Won and the members of the Hwangbo Family walked, breaking into a cold sweat.

“I… I heard that an immortal lives there, but…”

“What immortal…”

Hwangbo Won snorted.

He had also heard rumors about the Hunan Dan Family. Things like a house being built overnight or an immortal living there.

Certainly, in the eyes of those who did not know martial arts, they might misunderstand the ability to perform lightness art or use internal energy as immortal arts.

Because they were that miraculous.

“If those fellows are immortals, we are also immortals.”

“Haha! It certainly seems so.”

Several people burst into hearty laughter.

However, at the heard mockery, a few had turned pale.

They were the men who had already been to the Hunan Dan Family.

“That… was not just on the level of an immortal…”

“Th… That is true.”

“I really… do not know if we are going to be fine.”

Their faces were filled with anxiety.

Even though what they had seen before their eyes was by no means a lie, they were being treated as fools just because they had not seen it with their own eyes.

There was undoubtedly a master who hoed, and those who performed Telekinesis and launched crude sword qi.

That place was a cave of demons that must never be touched.

“We will not die, right?”

“We might die…”

“…”

The three muttered with expression as if their souls had half departed.

There was no way Hwangbo Won, who was in front, could not hear that sound.

Even Hwangbo Gwon, who was walking alongside him, frowned.

“Weak fellows! How can the retainers of the Hwangbo Family make such weak statements!”

“No… it is not that, but…”

“Are you going to talk that nonsense again? That there is an absolute master who hoes?”

“…”

No matter how many times they spoke, he did not seem likely to believe them.

The men let out sighs and left everything to fate.

However, the anxiety that dug deep into their hearts did not ease easily.

Eventually, after walking along the forest path for a long time, they finally arrived in front of the Hunan Dan Family, which could be called their destination.

“…”

“…”

And at that moment, Hwangbo Won saw something.

It was a man carrying an A-frame carrier on his back.

Seeing that it had a foul smell, it was undoubtedly a manure carrier, and perhaps because he was scattering fertilizer around, a nose-stinging stench vibrated.

‘I have seen that face somewhere…’

Hwangbo Won fell into thought briefly while looking at that face.

He kept feeling like he had seen him somewhere.

But no one in particular came to mind.

Because among those humble enough to carry a manure carrier, there was no one he would remember.

“You fellow! Is this place indeed the Hunan Dan Family?”

The man who was scattering fertilizer blinked his eyes.

He seemed to ponder for a moment, then let out a sigh.

‘The fellows behind him are the ones I saw this morning, and the one who dared to shout was the Family Head of the Hwangbo Family, right?’

Since he had seen him a few times, he remembered clearly.

It was certainly not a pleasant meeting.

Furthermore, if it was the Hwangbo Family, were they not arrogant bastards who considered themselves grand to the extent that there were many sects in the Unorthodox Faction that gnashed their teeth at them?

Splash!

Jeok Mu-seong decided to just scatter fertilizer and ignore them.

He judged that dealing with such fellows one by one would be of no help.

But Hwangbo Won, perhaps because he was highly offended by that, flushed red and shouted.

“You fellow! Do you not hear my words! Go inside immediately and report to your master that Hwangbo Won has visited.”

Splash!

Jeok Mu-seong frowned again and scattered fertilizer.

Why did so many annoying fellows visit since yesterday.

He slightly raised the fertilizer ladle and glared at Hwangbo Won.

“What…?”

Hwangbo Won felt an ominous feeling for no reason.

By all appearances, he looked like a servant, so why did he raise the fertilizer ladle without answering?

He was even frowning fiercely.

Just then, Jeok Mu-seong took a step toward Hwangbo Won.

At the same time, Hwangbo Won, overwhelmed by the momentum, retreated half a step.

“Y… You fellow! Do you not hear my words?”

“Screeching so damn loud. These rotten bastards…”

Holding the fertilizer ladle in his hand, Jeok Mu-seong slowly headed toward them.

* * *

“Eheehee! Oh, my belly!”

“Ugh…!”

“What a terrible smell…”

Jang Sam-tae rolled on the ground, bursting into roars of laughter.

The people of the Hwangbo Family, who had visited with soaring spirits, had been beaten by the fertilizer ladle, their entire bodies swollen.

A wretched state so severe that one could not even think they had been beaten by a single person.

Hwangbo Won, who could be called the pride of the Hwangbo Family, not only had been beaten by the fertilizer ladle but was doing field work while carrying the fertilizer tub.

His face was already unrecognizable, and if one approached his surroundings, a repulsive stench stung their nose.

“Do it properly.”

Jeok Mu-seong watched it with a lukewarm gaze.

The fertilizer ladle was still held in one of his hands, and if there was someone who did not work properly, he swung it without hesitation.

Splash!

“Aaack!”

The fertilizer that flew in an instant slapped the cheek of the slacking martial artist.

A man clutched in fright and wiped his face wildly.

It was an expression showing that he really hated the filthiness more than the pain that woke up his mind.

Seeing that, everyone in the Hwangbo Family trembled in fear.

It would have been better if they had been beaten to death instead.

Because their pride would not have been hurt.

Most humiliating of all was the fact that they were being beaten with fertilizer.

The elites of the Hwangbo Family, who held a firm position within the Eight Great Families and a grand status in the Orthodox Martial World, had tears blinding their eyes upon suffering humiliation for the first time in their lives.

“What? Have these guys come again?”

Just then, Sado Hak showed himself. A huge wild boar was carried on his shoulder, and by the looks of it, he seemed to have returned from hunting.

Because Sado Hak was not wearing a mask, Hwangbo Won recognized his identity in an instant.

“M… Demonic Sovereign?!”

“Huh? Is this fellow not Hwangbo-something?”

“Yes, he is the Hwangbo Family Head.”

Jeok Mu-seong replied, tapping the fertilizer ladle.

In the tone he spat out, not a shred of fear toward the Hwangbo Family was felt.

But on the contrary, the martial artists of the Hwangbo Family trembled.

The Demonic Sovereign of all people was before their eyes.

The one who always gifted death to his opponents, regardless of Orthodox or Unorthodox.

The absolute master of whom it was said that no one could face him unless it were the Sword Emperor, one of the Five Emperors.

He was truly the heaven beyond heaven.

If so, who was that man holding the fertilizer ladle, casually speaking informally to such a monster?

Hwangbo Won stared intently at Jeok Mu-seong.

Something seemed about to come to mind, but did not. He barely managed to drag out that which was deeply lodged in one side of his memory and would not easily emerge.

“F… Flame Emperor?!”

“Hieek?!”

“Je… Jeok Mu-seong!”

What on earth was this ridiculous thing?

The Demonic Sovereign and the Flame Emperor together?

Furthermore, was it not known that the Flame Emperor Jeok Mu-seong was already dead?

Why was such a person carrying a manure carrier and doing work that only servants would do in Yueyang.

“Hahaha, what is happening that you are like this?”

Just then, a gentle voice was heard from somewhere.

Walking from a distance, he held a large basket in one hand.

Perhaps because he had fished, fish were seen struggling and flapping.

The eyes of the Hwangbo Family’s martial artists widened as if they would tear once again.

“H… How…!”

What words should they speak?

The fact that such a thing actually existed was itself astonishing.

The absolute ruler of the Orthodox Faction, the invincible heaven, and an existence like the sun.

Everyone worshipped him, and bowed their heads in awe. There was no one who did not respect him, and the martial artists of the Orthodox Faction swung their swords to catch up to him.

Hwangbo Won shed tears.

He slumped to the ground in that spot without realizing.

“S… Sword Emperor… how…”

His heart surged violently.

The moment he engraved the appearance of the Sword Emperor Namgung Cheon, whom he had thought he would never see again, in his eyes, he felt as if his heart would burst without realizing.

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