Chapter 187: Chapter 187
“Public enemy of the Murim?”
“That’s right.”
Cheon-hwi looked back and forth between Heavenly Ear Beggar and the fallen Chief Steward, no, Manbyeonggoe.
Then, he tilted his head.
‘That guy is a Public Enemy of the Murim?’
A Public Enemy of the Murim was someone whose danger was sensed by both the Righteous and Demonic Paths, who then declared them a public enemy.
However, he did not feel such great danger from Manbyeonggoe at all.
“He is that weak, though?”
“Do you think evil deeds are judged by strength and weakness? The number of commoners this guy has killed goes beyond dozens and exceeds hundreds. Furthermore, those he killed were all people who had not learned martial arts. No. To be exact, he probably targeted only those kinds of people on purpose.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar’s voice was calm.
However, his eyes were as fierce as blazing flames.
‘If he only intensively attacked those who hadn’t learned martial arts, then it’s correct.’
Cheon-hwi understood.
No matter how much the Jianghu was a place where the strong were revered and annexed the weak, that was only between those who immersed themselves in the Jianghu.
It was not right to drag in commoners who had nothing to do with it.
“Is that all? If this guy hadn’t touched her, his actions would have never been known, as he was that meticulous.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar’s gaze, speaking while shuddering in anger, was fixed on Manbyeonggoe and did not move.
The flames spreading in his pupils burned as they captured the bleeding Manbyeonggoe.
It was anger.
In fact, it had not been long since Manbyeonggoe’s notoriety spread in the Jianghu.
Naturally, he had been thorough.
He killed commoners every day and handled the corpses well to dispose of them.
Until then, it was to the extent that people thought it was the work of an unknown murderer.
However, a long tail is bound to be caught.
By touching someone he should never have touched, his identity was revealed, and his atrocities were brought to light one by one.
That was how he became a Public Enemy of the Murim.
Faster than any other time.
“We couldn’t find a trace of you no matter how hard we looked, but you were hiding in a place like this?”
Heavenly Ear Beggar’s eyes became fierce.
When Manbyeonggoe was announced as a Public Enemy of the Murim, the Beggars’ Sect worked hard to find him.
However.
‘We couldn’t find even a single hair.’
At some point, his traces completely disappeared.
It didn’t disappear naturally either, but was an information blockade.
“Who hid you?”
His voice slightly rose.
The information power of the Beggars’ Sect was absolute, with no equal in the Jianghu.
No matter how much people said the Hao Sect was rising recently or whatever, they could confidently say they were superior to them.
But to avoid the eyes of such a Beggars’ Sect?
It was absolutely impossible for a mere individual.
And even for a sect, there were few places in the Jianghu that possessed such power.
Heavenly Ear Beggar waited for an answer, but.
“…….”
There was no answer to that.
No, Manbyeonggoe could not speak.
Because his chest was miserably crushed by Cheon-hwi’s merciless hands, he was at the point where even breathing was difficult.
“Tsk……!”
Heavenly Ear Beggar clicked his tongue and moved his hand.
His hand gesture, moving smoothly like a willow tree, instantly tapped the acupoints of the fallen Manbyeonggoe.
At that moment.
Drip.
The flowing blood stopped.
Heavenly Ear Beggar, who temporarily stopped his bleeding, glared at him and whispered.
“Damn it. To think I would stop the bleeding of a dog-like bastard like this.”
Frowning, he sighed and quickly tapped his sleeping acupoint.
Then, Manbyeonggoe’s face, which had been fully distorted in pain, became comfortable, and soon his two eyes gently closed.
Heavenly Ear Beggar shook his hand quickly, as if he had touched something dirty.
“This is the first time my hands have gotten dirty.”
It was the first time in his life.
As a beggar, he had no qualms about touching dirty things at all, but he felt that enduring this alone was torture.
“Crunch, yes. Sleep well. It will be the last time you sleep peacefully.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar, who glared disapprovingly at Manbyeonggoe who had fallen sound asleep, raised his head and met Cheon-hwi’s eyes.
“Can I take charge of this guy?”
“As long as you hand over the information, I don’t care.”
“You don’t need to worry about that.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar lifted Manbyeonggoe.
“I will tell you all the information I get from this guy. Everything from one to ten.”
“Then that’s fine.”
Cheon-hwi, hearing Heavenly Ear Beggar’s emphatic answer, was about to turn around but stopped.
“Ah! Hold on a second.”
“Huh? What is it?”
Cheon-hwi strode towards Heavenly Ear Beggar. After that, he rummaged through the sleeves of Manbyeonggoe, who was draped over his shoulder.
“It should be here…….”
When Heavenly Ear Beggar looked at Cheon-hwi doing sudden actions strangely.
“Found it.”
Cheon-hwi took out a gray pill.
It was the Soul Loss Pill that Manbyeonggoe had thrown to the Sayugok Lord just before.
“A pill……?”
Heavenly Ear Beggar glared at the pill.
It was a strange smell.
It seemed fragrant, but for some reason, his brow furrowed automatically.
‘What is that?’
Around the time he glared at the pill.
“I should check it properly later.”
Cheon-hwi put the pill in his sleeve.
“What is that?”
“I’m going to find out now.”
Around the time Heavenly Ear Beggar frowned deeply at the irrelevant answer, Cheon-hwi spoke.
“There’s one more in that sleeve, so find out yourself.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar’s eyes sparkled.
‘If that guy took it, it must definitely not be an ordinary pill.’
Cheon-hwi also raised one corner of his mouth.
‘With the information of the Beggars’ Sect, it should be easy to find out what kind of pill this is.’
While Cheon-hwi was looking at Heavenly Ear Beggar hurriedly rummaging through the sleeve.
“Valley Lord! Right now, attackers are……!”
The door was violently thrown open.
Cheon-hwi silently stared at the man who rushed in and opened the door panting.
“Aren’t you too late?”
In an instant, Cheon-hwi’s lips thinned.
At the same time.
Slash!
The neck of the person who entered flew into the sky.
Cheon-hwi, who watched the severed head rolling on the floor, quietly looked outside the door for a moment.
Step.
Cheon-hwi, who had drawn his sword at some point, took a step. Following that, what greeted him, who came out of the room with light footsteps, was.
Swoosh!
A sharp blade.
However, putting their ambush to shame, Cheon-hwi unfolded the Divine Movement Hundred Transformations, dodging all the blades and turning his head to the side.
“If you’re going to ambush, do it all at once. Why throw a bait first uselessly.”
Cheon-hwi made eye contact with those who were constantly hiding behind the door, waiting for an opportunity.
“……!”
A brief moment of eye contact.
However, the moment those performing the ambush met Cheon-hwi’s gaze, an unknown fear swept through their bodies.
At that time.
Flash!
A flash of light swallowed them.
And that was the last thing they perceived.
Thud!
Their corpses, dead with holes pierced through their foreheads, fell to the floor.
Warm liquid splattered everywhere.
It splattered on the faces and clothes of those waiting outside the door, spreading in dots.
Cheon-hwi met their eyes.
Even roughly counting, it was over a hundred people.
‘There are more martial artists than the Mount Hua Sect.’
He smacked his lips, saying ‘Tsk’.
Seeing Sayu Valley now, he could definitively compare how lacking the Mount Hua Sect’s military power was.
‘Still, there is a difference in skill. Since the majority aren’t those kinds of half-wits.’
Cheon-hwi flicked his raised sword.
“Don’t just keep glaring, come at me?”
It was a low voice.
However, the voice carrying subtle internal energy flowed through the air and spread everywhere in Sayu Valley.
“…….”
Sounds of swallowing breath could be heard from everywhere, and Cheon-hwi scratched the back of his head.
“You’re being annoying.”
Cheon-hwi’s figure blurred and disappeared.
And what replaced him were corpses falling in all directions and a mess of blood.
And sounds of groans and screams.
“Keo-heok!”
“Kkeu-reu-reuk… “
“Kkeu-a-ak! S-Save me!”
Heavenly Ear Beggar’s brows furrowed.
“……Terrible bastard.”
A blood storm arose all around.
Blood scattered, and severed heads and corpses poured down to the floor.
Dozens of precious human lives disappeared in a single breath.
Of course, Heavenly Ear Beggar did not feel pity for those dying right now.
No matter what, they were enemies.
Because they were people who had to be killed someday.
However.
“It’s too excessive.”
His gaze directed at Cheon-hwi.
His expression, quickly moving in all four directions of east, west, south, and north and taking their lives, looked bored.
It was the act of taking human lives.
Usually, some level of emotion would be revealed.
Like killing intent or guilt.
But Cheon-hwi was not.
He was calmly swinging his sword and cutting their necks.
Like a carpenter chopping wood.
‘I am a little worried. No matter how much murder is a daily occurrence in the Jianghu, if you become that desensitized to murder, you are bound to become a murderous demon…….’
At that time, Cheon-hwi, who had wiped the blood off his sword after dealing with all the enemies, stopped.
“Hm?”
His gaze directed to the bottom of the cliff.
A chilling killing intent rose from below.
That was not all.
Sharp noises could be heard occasionally, and fierce qi waves surged up.
“This is interesting. You mean the two guys I saw just before weren’t all?”
Cheon-hwi kicked off the ground.
After jumping down towards the cliff without delay, he unfolded the Thousand Catty Drop.
Hu-u-ung!
Cheon-hwi, who was falling at tremendous speed, retracted the Thousand Catty Drop when he saw those fighting below, and kicked the empty air.
Tap.
He stood on a tree branch, making a light sound as if a feather had fallen.
“Hmm, it would be good to experience actual combat.”
Cheon-hwi quietly stared at the Flying Sword Squad and the Hwaryeong Squad fighting beyond ten zhang.
“Flying Sword Squad!”
“Get into formation!”
Jeok-geom and Cheon-hyang shouted loudly.
As if they had been waiting for that, they scattered in all directions and eventually completed their respective joint attack formations.
“Faster than I thought.”
Cheon-hwi’s eyes shone.
Perhaps thanks to their numerous practices all this time, their teamwork was perfect. And among them, the actions of Jeok-geom and Cheon-hyang were by far superior to the other squad members.
At that time, Jeok-geom flashed his sword up.
“There is no retreating for the Flying Sword Squad!”
With those words, he sprinted at once.
“Keok!”
A martial artist of Sayu Valley spat blood and collapsed. His chest had been slashed by Jeok-geom’s sharply swung sword.
That was the beginning.
Slash! Clang!
The Flying Sword Squad relentlessly slashed the martial artists of Sayu Valley in front of them and advanced.
Training that could be considered long, or short.
The results of the numerous pieces of training that took place during that time now appeared before their eyes.
“Two to the left, six to the right!”
Jeok-geom shouted as he grasped the battle situation.
In his eyes, whose field of vision was opened up by operating the Flying Sword Formation, the movements of the enemies were clear as if they were in the palm of his hand.
“And I will take charge of the left!”
Claaaang!
Jeok-geom’s two eyes, glaring at the enemy who had dug into the left at some point, shot sharp light and spread firelight.
“Hap!”
Jeok-geom let out a shout of concentration.
The greatly swung sword mixed with the internal energy of the Flying Sword Formation and slashed the charging martial artist.
Swaaaak!
A long sword mark was carved, and blood spurted from the enemy’s body in all directions.
At that time.
Stab!
A sword extended out from the abdomen of the fallen corpse, aiming for Jeok-geom’s flank.
“This damn……!”
Jeok-geom hurriedly twisted his body.
However, the sword that had already intruded in a surprise attack grazed past Jeok-geom’s flank, tearing his clothes and engraving a sword mark.
“Keuk……!”
With a short groan, his eyes flashed.
A middle-aged man was there.
He was a man with a massive frame to the extent that one would be overwhelmed the moment they saw him.
But what immediately caught Jeok-geom’s eyes were his two eyes.
“……There were more?”
He bit his lip hard.
The man’s eyes only had the whites, like the man wielding a blade that the Flying Sword Squad had struggled to bring down just before.
At that time.
Ta-da-dat.
Six people appeared next to him.
And all of them were people who had lost their reason like the man.
“There are six more……?”
When Jeok-geom, of course, and the Flying Sword Squad were dumbfounded watching the seven people.
“What are you doing!”
Someone yelled.
“Kill those guys right now!”
The Lion’s Roar loaded with internal energy spread at once, contorting the faces of the Soulless people who had lost their reason and changing their momentum.
Hwa-a-ak!
A ruinous killing intent swept over like a tidal wave, and they charged at the same time.
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