Chapter 434: Chapter 434

Sa Do-hak was calmly guarding the door while listening to the shouting coming from inside. Jang Sam-tae and Mae-hyang were trembling with anxiety and couldn’t sit still.

Because they didn’t expect a torture to take place in the manor of all places.

Was it a relief that since it was quite far from where the children were, the sound didn’t reach them?

“What are you doing? Get back to work.”

“U… Understood.”

Jang Sam-tae and Mae-hyang turned their heads and hurriedly moved away due to Sa Do-hak’s chilling gaze. It was an action that seemed to show they knew they wouldn’t see anything good if they stayed here any longer.

That was how bad Sa Do-hak and Dan Woo-hyun’s moods were.

Like that, about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea passed.

Bi Cheon-woong’s shrieking voice could no longer be heard, and soon after, Dan Woo-hyun revealed himself along with the creaking sound of the door.

His gaze, sending a calm look, contained somewhat complex emotions.

As he was someone who rarely showed his emotions, Sa Do-hak frowned and asked.

“The culprit?”

“He doesn’t seem to know anything.”

Sa Do-hak swallowed a small groan and frowned, looking sharply into the room.

It was the bastard who tried to kill Dan So-mi of all people. He shouldn’t end things like this. He felt like his stomach would only be satisfied if he caught that culprit and ground him up.

“Shall I try?”

Sa Do-hak, who was confident in torture, huffed and rolled up his sleeves.

If he just got permission, he looked like he would immediately go in and torture Bi Cheon-woong.

However, Dan Woo-hyun shook his head.

“No, he is truly a doll that only executes orders. He is a guy who doesn’t know how to judge and act for himself.”

“By that you mean… he was raised?”

Sa Do-hak made a face saying it made no sense.

Who was Bi Cheon-woong?

He was an absolute powerhouse who ranked in the top five even in the Central Plains. There was someone who raised such a person? He reached a conclusion he didn’t want to think about.

“Yes.”

“Who? Could it be the Blood Demon again?”

“No.”

He had already heard the story of the Blood Demon and the Martial God until his ears bled. Also, the reason why there had been so many disturbances in the Central Plains until now was because of the Blood Demon and the Blood Heaven.

Thinking that they would get tangled with them again, he just thought it was a terrible fate, but Dan Woo-hyun shook his head and denied that thought.

An expression that seemed to show there was someone even bigger above the Blood Demon.

“It’s the Heavenly Martial Emperor.”

“The Heavenly Martial Emperor? What is he again?”

It was natural that he didn’t know.

When he actually appeared was before even the basic framework of the Central Plains was created.

If the Central Plains started with the legend of the Martial God, the Heavenly Martial Emperor was a person from even longer ago, so he was someone whose legend had not even been passed down.

Actually, even Dan Woo-hyun only knew him as the head of the Eight Immortals, so it would not be an exaggeration to say he was perfectly hidden.

“Haa… Just how many enemies do you have?”

“Well… It wouldn’t be strange even if the whole world was my enemy.”

“How many years ago was this?”

Sa Do-hak smiled with an absurd expression.

Since the time Dan Woo-hyun was active was a thousand years ago, if it was his enemy, it meant they were a person from a thousand years ago.

If so, in the end, this person named the Heavenly Martial Emperor couldn’t be young either.

Sa Do-hak sighed.

“You know. I used to not believe in things like legends. But you know. Since I knew you, I’d believe it even if you said a dragon was living next door.”

“…….”

“There’s Baek-ho and the white cat inside the house… There’s a nine-tailed fox… Three humans from a thousand years ago… Geez, what am I supposed to call this?”

Sa Do-hak’s expression looked like a person who was sick of something.

No matter how much he thought about it, it was a dream-like story for people living at the present time, and they were also phenomena that could never be believed.

If he went somewhere and said someone had lived for a thousand years, he would be called a swindler.

“Is he strong?”

Sa Do-hak glanced at Dan Woo-hyun and asked.

In fact, it was what he was most curious about.

Of course, since he raised one of the Five Emperors, his strength would be a given, but he wanted to know how much compared to Dan Woo-hyun.

“Yes.”

“To what extent?”

“Well… We might be a little equal or he might be a little behind.”

“…!”

Dan Woo-hyun thought for a moment and opened his mouth.

He had clashed with the Heavenly Martial Emperor a few times. However, predicting his strength was somewhat unreasonable.

He had won without losing even once, but the power the Heavenly Martial Emperor had was vastly superior in dark arts than martial arts.

The one who taught dark arts to the Blood Demon was also the Heavenly Martial Emperor. Maybe he had an even stronger power now.

“If you say so, he must not be an ordinary guy.”

“His subordinates will also be strong.”

“Than me?”

“I haven’t seen them, but… You can tell just from the fact that he’s merely a doll.”

Someone called one of the Five Emperors playing the role of a doll?

If so, it meant there were plenty of beings exceeding the name of the Five Emperors under the person called the Heavenly Martial Emperor. He wondered if there were people around the level of Cheon Mu-gwang, whom he saw last time.

“Cheon Mu-gwang is also on that side.”

“…!”

Sa Do-hak narrowed his eyes.

The one who wrote the history of the Demonic Cult.

Once one of the Three Heavens.

Rather than the shock that the person he thought had a special relationship with Dan Woo-hyun had betrayed him, it was unbelievable that a person of that level was merely in a position to be used.

Sa Do-hak swallowed a groan without realizing it.

What if they were attacked by such people?

Sa Do-hak would not even be able to last the time it takes to brew a cup of tea. With that thought, Sa Do-hak smiled naturally.

“As expected… the Central Plains is fun!”

The heart heading towards a higher place doesn’t break easily. Sa Do-hak, who was always looking down from the top seat, realized once again that there were actually people in an even more supreme position than himself.

He clenched his fists.

His eyes, filled with resolution, sparkled boundlessly.

“Don’t even think about trying it. Because you’ll die.”

“…?!”

At Dan Woo-hyun’s words, Sa Do-hak widened his eyes. Although he had heard many words up to now, no word had hurt his pride as much as this time.

* * *

How long had it been since he fainted, Bi Cheon-woong opened his eyes.

His mind was blank, and his arms and legs wouldn’t move. Enveloped in a shitty sensation as if all the bones in his body had been shattered into pieces, he only rolled his eyeballs to look around.

“I’m… alive.”

To think he would spit out these words again.

Bi Cheon-woong smiled derisively, being pessimistic about his situation.

Just how many times was he passing the crisis of death?

Even Dan Woo-hyun’s torture gave him so much pain that even he couldn’t bear it, so if there was something he knew, he might have spilled everything.

‘No… did I spit it out?’

Dan Woo-hyun knew Bi Cheon-woong’s entire life.

From one to ten.

From the moment he met the Heavenly Martial Emperor until now.

How he executed the orders, and also what he had been doing.

Bi Cheon-woong, who had merely carried out orders without even trying to find out any meaning, had to confess everything he had to Dan Woo-hyun.

The moment he thought of those things, a sneer escaped him.

He prided himself on having received numerous trainings.

He only thought he would be able to keep a secret in any situation.

However, Dan Woo-hyun shattered that common sense.

In front of him, training to endure torture was completely useless, and the moment he met his gaze, he was just sucked into darkness and had to spit out everything he knew.

It was a dizzying experience even thinking about it now.

Bi Cheon-woong, who let out such a small sigh, slowly tried to move his body.

The extreme pain made it seem like even his organs were torn apart.

However, seeing that he was alive, it didn’t seem like his organs were torn or his bones were broken. It was just a simple illusion.

Dan Woo-hyun’s torture didn’t crush bones or tear organs, but it gave extreme pain to the extent of causing such illusions. It was a method of pushing a person into endless darkness.

Bi Cheon-woong sweated coldly and caught his breath again.

He slowly regained his senses.

From the tips of his toes to his fingertips.

Concentrating his mind on each one and trying to move, he felt the sensations that hadn’t returned until now returning one by one.

After about an hour like that.

Bi Cheon-woong finally reached a point where he could move his body.

He checked his internal energy first.

The feeling that fully circulated his entire body had noticeably decreased.

He wanted to circulate his energy, but right now something else bothered him more.

Bi Cheon-woong, who was checking his body condition one by one, finally realized that the sensation constricting his heart had disappeared and trembled violently.

“The restriction… is gone.”

He had felt it.

However, because the pain Dan Woo-hyun gave was so great, he had no time to think about anything else.

But now, he realized that the Heavenly Martial Emperor’s restriction, which he had felt since childhood, had disappeared.

Did someone capable of this even exist?

‘I think I finally know… why the Heavenly Martial Emperor was paying so much attention to the existence named Dan Woo-hyun….’

Bi Cheon-woong nodded, groaning without realizing it. In truth, he didn’t know what kind of being Dan Woo-hyun was. He only knew the fact that he was someone the Heavenly Martial Emperor kept in check, but looking at it now, he thought he might be the only one who could kill the Heavenly Martial Emperor.

Thinking that far, Bi Cheon-woong slowly got up from his seat and looked out the window.

Whether it was unfortunate or fortunate, he didn’t know, but there seemed to be no one guarding him. Well, there wouldn’t be anyone who could cause a disturbance here even without guarding.

Dan Woo-hyun was there, but Sa Do-hak was also there.

That alone made the security here like an iron wall.

“Keuk!”

The reason Bi Cheon-woong got up from his seat enduring the pain was because there was something he wanted to confirm.

It was none other than whether Yeo Eun-wol was alive or dead.

However, Bi Cheon-woong soon stopped his steps and sat back down on the bed.

What would he do looking for that child now?

If she was dead, his heart would ache, and even if she was alive, he had nothing to say.

He had wounded that child twice, and with his blood-stained hands, he couldn’t even console her.

In truth, the fact that he felt this way was also strange.

Bi Cheon-woong had always lived with his heart dead, but after meeting Dan So-mi, he felt various complex emotions reviving.

He wanted to brush them off, but even that was impossible.

“Shh! Be quiet.”

“Is it really here?”

“I’m telling you it’s real.”

At that moment, a whispering sound of conversation was heard from outside.

Startled, Bi Cheon-woong looked towards the door.

Even if his senses hadn’t fully returned, to think he didn’t notice someone approaching until now? Bi Cheon-woong admitted he was too deep in thought and frowned.

Eventually, the door opened with a creak.

A gaze was seen.

A pair of eyes.

A gaze hesitating to come inside as if it was scared. Those eyes sneaked glances to check Bi Cheon-woong’s figure, and soon widened.

The clear gazes of children stimulated Bi Cheon-woong’s vision.

Soon.

“Are you okay, mister?”

A voice was heard.

It was unmistakably the voice and eyes of the young child who was once Bi Cheon-woong’s target and whom he had saved for the first time.

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