Chapter 140: Chapter 140
Above the training grounds of the Divine Spear Yang Clan.
Vwoosh! Vwoooosh!
Yang Se-ryeong, who was in the middle of training the Yang Family Spear Arts that Cheon-hwi had transformed a few days ago, withdrew her wooden spear and turned her eyes when it became noisy outside.
“What is going on?”
She wiped her flowing sweat and looked at the family retainers.
Unlike usual, the retainers were moving in perfect order, and for some unknown reason, they were highly alert.
Right around the time she was staring at them blankly.
“My Lady!”
Seo-yoon came running breathlessly from afar.
Unable to even think about catching her breath, indicating how urgent she was, she approached Yang Se-ryeong closely and tightly grabbed her shoulders.
“You need to go inside right now.”
“What is the matter for you to act like this?”
As Yang Se-ryeong looked at her as if she didn’t understand, Seo-yoon bit her lips.
“The bastards from the Sun Moon Sect have arrived.”
However, Yang Se-ryeong’s expression was surprisingly calm.
It was something she was already expecting.
Myeong-wol-do, Chaos, and the three martial squads had all met their deaths, so it would have been stranger if they didn’t make a move.
However.
“On top of that, as if they made up their minds, Taowu and Qiongqi from the Four Fiends have come to visit.”
At Seo-yoon’s immediately following words, Yang Se-ryeong’s composure crumbled down.
“……The Four Fiends have come?”
She didn’t know the Four Fiends would come.
And two of them at that.
‘Are they planning to start a war or something? But the justification should be with us…….’
The current Jianghu was an era of unprecedented peace ruled by the Nine Provinces Three Supreme Powers.
Therefore, the most important thing in conflicts between great sects was justification.
‘The ones who started this situation wasn’t us but the Sun Moon Sect who first…….’
She flinched while thinking.
Strictly speaking, it wasn’t the Sun Moon Sect that started it.
The very first was…….
Feeling as if a lightning bolt struck the crown of her head at that moment, she swiftly turned her body.
Then, she kicked off the ground and ran.
“My Lady! Where are you…….”
Seo-yoon called out anxiously, but Yang Se-ryeong didn’t even listen.
‘They didn’t come here to wage a war with our clan…….’
Impatience dyed her face.
‘They came looking for the Great Hero!’
Meanwhile, a chilling air was flowing within the Patriarch’s Hall of the Divine Spear Yang Clan.
And at the center of that air was Yang Jo-gang-gang.
‘As the rumors say, it is an astonishing momentum.’
Yang Jo-gang-gang stared at the man and woman.
Not being the Sun Moon Sect’s Four Great Protectors, the Four Fiends, for nothing, the momentum of the two was unusual.
In particular, the Battle Qi flowing out from the old man was enough to stimulate him.
‘With this level of Battle Qi, is that old man Taowu?’
His pitch-black pupils captured the old man.
Perhaps out of confidence, the old man was leaning his back against a chair with both of his legs spread wide apart, acting as if it was his own home.
That appearance completely matched the previous generation master who was called the Battle Ghost before he threw himself into the Sun Moon Sect.
‘Then…….’
He shifted his gaze to the side.
The woman, who had her collar around her chest slightly unfastened, formed an eye smile as soon as she felt his gaze.
‘That woman must be Qiongqi.’
As Yang Jo-gang-gang glared.
Swish…
The woman, who was leaking an ominous aura, unnecessarily kept crossing her legs back and forth, sneakily showing off her bare legs.
‘She is trying to play a trick.’
Yang Jo-gang-gang withdrew his gaze.
At the same time, as his eyes became as cold as ice, a strange light settled in Qiongqi’s pupils.
‘Most would lose their reason when experiencing this much demonic aura, yet…….’
While she was looking at him.
“Did you do that nonsense to our clan’s gate guard?”
Yang Jo-gang-gang spoke in a cold voice.
He had let the two into the Patriarch’s Hall for now, but he had no intention of welcoming them gladly.
Then, as if realizing that intention, Taowu twisted the corners of his mouth.
“Hmph. Putting forward a guy who can’t even withstand this bitch’s demonic aura as a gate guard, resulting in that state…….”
Just as Taowu’s words were gradually getting rougher.
“Elder.”
Qiongqi cut off his words.
Taowu glared with cold eyes at Qiongqi, who had cut off his words for the second time today alone, and spread a terrible killing intent.
“Who told you to cut off my words?”
Qiongqi stared at the murderous Taowu and moved her blood-red lips.
“Have you forgotten the Sect Leader’s command?”
Although it was words close to a threat.
“Ridiculous. Do you think I have to unconditionally follow just because it’s the Sect Leader’s command?”
Taowu snorted.
“Unlike you, my relationship with the Sect Leader is not a hierarchical relationship…….”
Around the time the two were bickering.
“Are you ignoring me right now?”
A chilling voice struck the two.
At the same time, a heavy momentum suddenly erupted and pressured the two at once.
“……!”
“……!”
Startled by the crushing aura, Taowu and Qiongqi turned their heads.
Yang Jo-gang-gang had his eyes half-closed.
His pupils, which were clearly divided into black and white, pierced through the two and completely confined them.
After a short while, his mouth opened.
“It seems you have forgotten where this place is.”
A voice with no high or low pitch.
The moment his voice reached their ears, all the hairs on the two’s bodies stood up on end.
“Fufufu, it’s quite tingling. You are called the Setting Sun Divine Spear, so I was curious about your skills…….”
Vitality circulated in Taowu’s pupils.
The moment he, who had been leaning his back against the backrest all along, tried to abruptly raise his upper body.
“Stop.”
Qiongqi spoke while glaring at Taowu.
“You bitch again…….”
“Our enemy is someone else. If you still want to continue fighting despite that, how about speaking directly to the Sect Leader?”
“……Tsk.”
At Qiongqi’s dismissal, Taowu formed an expression showing his displeasure and sat back down.
After glancing at Taowu for a moment, Qiongqi turned her head and met eyes with Yang Jo-gang-gang.
“Excuse me. Patriarch.”
“It is fine.”
Yang Jo-gang-gang spoke, cutting her off firmly as if there was no need to hear more words.
“More importantly, with what face did you visit our clan?”
“You have quite a sharp reaction.”
“Then did you expect me to welcome you?”
“I didn’t think you would do that.”
She answered slyly.
“To visit despite that, you are bold.”
“Our sect’s enemy is right here, so we couldn’t just pass by, could we?”
“Enemy?”
Just as the image of a young man suddenly floated in Yang Jo-gang-gang’s mind and then disappeared.
“We have one purpose in coming here.”
The woman spoke in a cold tone.
“Hand him over to our sect right now.”
Yang Jo-gang-gang looked at her like that and spoke expressionlessly.
“This is absurd. Despite being the ones who tried to silence the late-blooming talents of our society through murder, to now brazenly tell us to hand over a guest who visited our clan…….”
He erupted a ferocious aura.
“Are you looking down on our clan?”
The woman flinched for a moment but soon held a smile and spoke calmly.
“No way. Who would look down on the Divine Spear Yang Clan, which is one of the Eight Great Clans and the clan that rules over this Gansu?”
She was praising him with a smile, but the woman’s expression was stiff.
“However, you must know this one thing. The one who touched first was not our sect, but that person.”
Yang Jo-gang-gang’s eyebrows wriggled.
“Are you trying to argue about justification right now?”
The woman smiled instead of answering.
“Even so, I don’t have the slightest intention of handing him over to you. He is the benefactor of my daughter, no, of our clan, so…….”
“Benefactor? That is interesting.”
“What is so interesting?”
Qiongqi let out a sinister laugh.
“Perhaps, Patriarch, do you even know what martial arts he is learning?”
As Yang Jo-gang-gang just stared at her quietly as if asking what she meant, the woman placed her index finger on her lips and bloomed a sticky smile.
“He has learned evil arts.”
“What nonsense…….”
“The true inheritance of the Evil Emperor Palace, to be exact.”
Yang Jo-gang-gang’s pupils, which had been steadfast all along, shook faintly for the first time.
“……How can I trust your words?”
“Do we look stupid enough to tell a lie that will be caught immediately?”
Yang Jo-gang-gang frowned.
If inheriting the true inheritance of the Evil Emperor Palace was a lie, wouldn’t it be a matter of time before it was exposed?
Meanwhile, the two pupils of the woman watching Yang Jo-gang-gang’s reaction shone ominously.
‘He won’t be able to intervene in the affairs of the Unorthodox Faction.’
The orthodox and Unorthodox Factions were in a hostile relationship from the past until now.
There was no way he would help.
However, at that moment.
“I see. He was an Unorthodox Faction member.”
Yang Jo-gang-gang returned to the same indifferent expression from just before and lowered his eyes.
“So what do you want me to do about it?”
The woman’s eyes widened roundly.
“Are you saying you will protect him right now?”
“It seems you thought I would hand over his person if you said he was an Unorthodox Faction member.”
At the words that hit the nail on the head, Qiongqi bit her lower lip hard.
It was exactly as he said.
The Divine Spear Yang Clan was a prestigious clan of the Orthodox Faction.
It was because she unconsciously thought that it wasn’t a place that would protect an Unorthodox Faction member.
“Are you planning to intervene in the affairs of the Unorthodox Faction?”
“What a funny sound. To distinguish between the orthodox and Unorthodox Factions in the era of the Nine Provinces Three Supreme Powers.”
Yang Jo-gang-gang’s eyes narrowed.
“Even the Orthodox Factions, the Nine Great Sects and One Gang and the Eight Great Clans, are split in two and fighting each other. So what does it matter if he is from the Unorthodox Faction or the Orthodox Faction?”
Yang Jo-gang-gang’s gaze became firm.
“There is only one important thing right now. That he is the benefactor who saved my daughter.”
Speaking thus, he stood up.
Then, looking down at the two, he coldly notified them.
“I don’t have the slightest intention of handing over our clan’s benefactor to the Sun Moon Sect, so get out at once.”
* * *
Yang Se-ryeong, who even unfolded the Super Flowing Step, arrived at the detached house shortly after.
“Great Hero!”
As she flung the door open.
“What is it?”
Cheon-hwi was eating tanghulu.
He was lounging around carefreely, as if he didn’t know the situation outside at all.
“The Four Fiends have come to our clan right now!”
She spoke urgently.
“Ah, it was the Four Fiends? I was wondering why two guys full of killing intent came in.”
“A-Did you know?”
“It would be strange not to know when they are exuding their momentum so openly.”
Cheon-hwi glanced toward the Patriarch’s Hall and then popped a tanghulu into his mouth.
“This one is delicious too.”
Yang Se-ryeong lost her mind at his completely calm behavior, but then shook her head largely and came back to her senses.
“This is not the time for this, Great Hero. The reason those people came to our clan must be to find the Great Hero.”
Yang Se-ryeong thought Cheon-hwi didn’t know the current situation and added an explanation, but.
“Isn’t that obvious?”
Cheon-hwi moved his lips with an innocent face.
“A-Are you not worried?”
“Worried? What worry? You aren’t by any chance telling me to worry about those guys coming, right?”
Seeing Yang Se-ryeong hesitating, Cheon-hwi let out a dumbfounded laugh.
“Those guys should be the ones doing that worrying, not me.”
He moved his head.
“Isn’t that right?”
Yang Se-ryeong suddenly followed Cheon-hwi, who was asking towards the side, and turned her head, only to be startled.
“F-Father?”
“I have something to talk about with this person for a moment, so could you step outside?”
“Outside? By any chance, is it a conversation I shouldn’t hear?”
“…….”
At the silence, Yang Se-ryeong lowered her head with a sullen expression and bit her lips.
“……Understood.”
Yang Se-ryeong stepped back outside.
Soon, as only the two were left in the pavilion.
Clack.
Yang Jo-gang-gang plopped down a large liquor bottle on the table, not knowing where he took it out from.
“It’s liquor. How about a cup?”
“Oh my.”
The corners of Cheon-hwi’s mouth went up.
“You have the basics of a conversation down.”
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