Chapter 543: Side Story 43

Chapter side_43

“Excuse me, but… until when do we have to stay in this place?”

Dan So-mi sat inside a shabby hut, chewing and eating sweets in mouthfuls. When evening came, she slipped out through a secret passage from the manor where Hong Won-chang stayed without anyone knowing, and was hiding.

“Well, won’t it just be a moment? At longest it would be an hour.”

“I mean, what kind of work is it that we have to stay in a place like this, mister?”

“Ugh?!”

At that moment, Ju Ji-yak, who was by Dan So-mi’s side, pinched Hong Won-chang’s knee while frowning. How painfully she pinched him that he almost frowned without realizing it.

But he quickly corrected his facial expression and endured the pain.

“H-Haha, I, I also in detail… It’s just that because the Lord told me to go, I am here…”

“Is a slightly better place not possible? Not a place like this, I mean.”

“H-Haha, because it must be a place where there are no people… P-Please endure it just a little.”

Ju Ji-yak sighed, looking at Hong Won-chang who was sweating cold sweat profusely. Since it was the first time in her life in such a shabby place, she was extremely filled with dissatisfaction, but she knew that even if they returned, they wouldn’t see a good sight.

Because she instinctively knew that Dan Woo-hyun, of all people, letting Dan So-mi take refuge meant it was soon time to pull some work.

“Sigh… it must surely be because of those fellows back then.”

“Huh? Who?”

“No, it’s nothing. You don’t need to know.”

Dan So-mi asked, opening her eyes roundly.

Although she could not understand this situation in the least, Dan So-mi, who had finished adapting now, had an appearance of not minding it in the least. Perhaps if told to take a nap, she would be able to sleep right away.

She coveted such mental strength of Dan So-mi very much.

“Just what kind of crazy bastards are they to pick a fight…”

“I also… well, have the same thought.”

Ju Ji-yak and Hong Won-chang wore bitter smiles.

Even if they did not know where and what kind of group they were, they messed with the wrong opponent, firmly messed with the wrong one. Would they rather step on dog poop passing by than pick a fight with the Hunan Dan Family?

They would come to regret bone-deeply what kind of deed they had done.

Would the Hunan Dan Family be called the house where an immortal lives for no reason?

If they came to know who they were, they would beat the ground and regret it.

“Although it is already far too late.”

No, would they even have a brain that can regret?

Ju Ji-yak shook her head side to side.

* * *

“Is it here?”

“Yes.”

Gu Nok-jin, who shouldered a giant broadsword on his back, smiled looking at the large manor. He definitely remembered this place was where the county magistrate lived.

Then does it mean they have a connection with the fellows over there?

He was thinking of fixing them up anyway, and he thought he could resolve two works at the same time on this occasion.

“Any particularly strange points?”

“None.”

“That White Tiger or whatever it is?”

“It is not seen.”

“Humm…”

Gu Nok-jin scratched his head scratch-scratch.

No particularly strange points, and they don’t even know if the White Tiger exists? Although it was a somewhat disappointing answer, his subordinates must have also searched hard in their own way.

“If we turn it over once, something will come out. What are you doing? Go and kill everyone. Whether women, or old ones…”

“Yes!”

In an instant, all personnel moved toward the manor.

The number was as many as fifty.

From the Yichang branch of the Heavenly Earth Cult, those who were said to exert some strength gathered all together. Gathering this many personnel was to prepare for when they captured the White Tiger.

In their heads, such things as the humans inside the manor were not even in their consideration.

Thus, everyone crossed the wall at once.

Slice-slice!

“Keu-huk?!”

And in an instant, the bodies of those crossing the wall were split vertically and collapsed. That sight of blood splattering and organs scattering in the air created a strange scene indescribable in words.

Splat!

Soon, the moment the corpses of the dead fell onto the floor, those who crossed the wall following behind looked at those in front of their eyes with startled expressions.

“Are there about fifty? How does it look to you, old man?”

“Hohoho, it seems so. However, it looks like it won’t even serve as a warm-up.”

At the end of their gaze, three people were standing.

The two oldest stood at the lead, and behind them was a man leaning his body against a pillar with a relaxed expression.

The moment he engraved that in his eyes, Gu Nok-jin frowned and glanced at the appearance of his subordinates who had become corpses. Soon, after once again scratching his head scratch-scratch roughly, he distorted his face fiercely.

“This indeed… makes things head-aching. If you are old, you should quietly sit in the corner of a room and wait for the day to die.”

“Hoho- you are a young fellow who speaks truly insolently. Come over here for a moment. It seems I must teach you how to treat elders.”

“You bastard! I already claimed that fellow!”

“Hoho, isn’t the one who grabs first the owner?”

The two old men did not care about the number of those in front of their eyes at all, as if it did not matter. As if they thought that with this degree, it could not even inflict any harm to them.

Gu Nok-jin’s face distorted even more fiercely.

Grasping the giant broadsword strongly, he swung it with all his might.

Whoosh!

The wind split, and together with an immense pressure, an insane wind pressure was felt. It flew at a fierce speed and passed by grazing between the two old men, and soon struck the side of the man leaning against the pillar.

Boom!

Would a sound like this be made if a Sky-Shaking Thunder exploded?

The ground vibrated, and the building shook greatly.

Half of the largest manor in this Yichang flew away and collapsed, and those fragments splattered here and there and flew up, making all directions a devastated land.

It was a strength to the point that even Gu Nok-jin’s subordinates were astonished.

Indeed, it is Gu Nok-jin who is said to be not inferior even compared with the Four Heavenly Kings. Feeling the gazes of such subordinates, Gu Nok-jin smiled broadly.

“Old men! I heard… there is a White Tiger here?”

Gu Nok-jin, who fully revealed his own strength with a confident expression, looked at the two old men in front of him and spoke. Since he revealed this much strength, if they did not want to die, they would have to speak.

Of course, even if they spoke, there would be no change to the fact that they die.

“Damn it… what kind of dust… cough cough!”

“Aigo… my eardrums are about to burst.”

However, the two old men do not care in the least.

Even the man at the absolute back is still watching while leaning his body against the pillar, is he not? Even though the building right beside him was smashed to smithereens.

What is with this party?

Gu Nok-jin was enveloped in an unknown strange emotion.

“…Something is strange.”

“I know too, you son of a bitch!”

Although he shouted roughly, a cold sweat flowed down without realizing it. Originally, in this martial world, despite showing strong strength, not even blinking an eye was possible only when their strength transcended imagination.

“So, you came to find the White Tiger?”

“……!?”

“Hoho- if it is that guy, you should have searched the mountain. Had you done so, you would have seen him. Why of all things did you come here.”

Mountain?

Then does it mean they release the divine beast and raise it?

No, prior to that, that old man’s words were speaking as if the White Tiger actually existed.

Gu Nok-jin suppressed his pounding heart.

Soon he smiled broadly and looked at the subordinates beside him. Whether he sent some hand signal with his eyes, they nodded one by one.

Soon, Gu Nok-jin grasped his sword strongly.

He knew what he had to know.

If so, the fellows in this place are all useless.

“Good… then now everyone…?!”

Thud!

“Huh?”

“Mmm?”

Namgung Cheon and Sa Do-hak wore blank expressions.

Because, at the very moment they thought they should teach him a thorough lesson, the head of the guy like the leader was not seen at all where it went.

What remained was a body that lost its head, staggering and falling over. The sight of blood pouring in gushes from the head did not look like he was alive no matter how they looked.

Without realizing it, they turned their backs and looked at Dan Woo-hyun.

He was seen shrugging his shoulders.

“Because he was noisy.”

“No, did you not say we two would do it?!”

“You said you wouldn’t step forward!”

Namgung Cheon and Sa Do-hak shouted roughly.

Dan Woo-hyun said he would absolutely not step forward. Thus, they wanted to warm up their bodies a bit after a long time, but he killed the most useful guy at a single stroke.

Even more, did that fellow not smile while resolving to attack?

Yet he embarked on the path to the underworld without even being able to swing his sword once. By now, looking at the Grim Reaper in front of his eyes, how blank would he be?

“He had too many words. It was merely that.”

But Dan Woo-hyun was confident.

Actually, he was noisy.

From the moment the fellows crossed the wall to when they slashed and broke down the manor. If they had done up to that degree, they should have rushed in and slashed, so why did they flap their mouths about the White Tiger or whatever?

Although it was regrettable that he died without even being able to show off his skill properly once, it was his fate, so it could not be helped.

“I shall go to So-mi now.”

“You damn bastard…”

Namgung Cheon and Sa Do-hak stared at Dan Woo-hyun while grinding their teeth tightly. However, whether he did not perform reflection at all, he rather smirked and began to walk.

In that place, only Dan Woo-hyun’s footsteps rang out solely.

No one could move, and they did not even make a sound.

Gu Nok-jin was killed in front of their eyes.

It was also completely unknown what kind of method it was, and even up to the moment his head exploded, everyone could not recognize this fact.

“Wh… What is this…”

The man who was Gu Nok-jin’s right hand.

He trembled his body, shivering.

Just what on earth is the event that broke out in front of his eyes now?

Gu Nok-jin is an expert who enters within ten fingers even in the Heavenly Earth Cult. How on earth must they accept the fact that such a person was defeated without being able to try anything.

Everyone was astonished, and also shocked.

“Then… what shall we do with these fellows…?”

“Hoho- what do you mean do with them? It suffices if we only hear what we must hear.”

At that moment, Namgung Cheon spoke indifferently and raised his sword case.

Although it was nothing more than the one-armed old man simply raising it without even drawing his sword, in an instant, an immense pressure crushed everyone’s chests.

At that moment, Sa Do-hak looked at Namgung Cheon with half-closed, raised eyes.

“No matter how much I think, your aptitude is the Demonic Cult, the Demonic Cult. Do you have no thought of coming over?”

“Hohoho- I am a person who is orthodox path from birth to roots. How about you coming over instead?”

“Cut the bullshit…”

“Hohoho.”

The two old men began to walk while talking snugly.

It was an appearance of being leisurely and carefree, as if they had come out for a walk.

And that seemed to drive the hearts and minds of everyone in this place even more into a corner.

“Now, now, I shall begin. Because if we only have many words, the Family Head might appear and sweep us away again.”

Soon, Namgung Cheon raised his sword case while wearing a dark smile.

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