Chapter 219: Sleeping on Brushwood and Tasting Gall (7)
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‘Fast!’
Fire Ape felt her chest turning cold at Yeon Ho-jeong’s footwork.
It was a footwork, not a movement technique. Although she could not react, she could see what kind of lightness art he used.
‘What kind of footwork in the world is this!’
She had never heard that such a footwork existed until now.
Footwork, so to speak, is the method of walking.
In martial arts, that is interpreted as a kind of body movement to maximize the advantage of offense and defense. It is not a running technique for moving a long distance like a movement technique, but a single form that creates an advantageous situation in offense, defense, and evasion.
Therefore, there are not many cases where footwork is learned separately. Because the majority accompanies weapon techniques or fist and palm methods.
‘Whatever it may be, he is strong.’
Fire Ape’s eyes shook.
‘To think he would be this strong.’
A mysterious footwork she had never even seen once, and the overwhelming wave of qi surrounding the vicinity.
‘If so, does it mean I couldn’t even read the opponent’s skills all this time?!’
A realm where one could perfectly conceal not only internal energy but even the strength and weakness of martial arts.
‘Wall of the Martial Arts´ End!’
Yeon Ho-jeong looked down at Ape Leg.
At the gaze as cold as a snow wind in midwinter, Ape Leg unconsciously almost screamed.
“I have disliked you since before.”
Yeon Ho-jeong raised his hand.
Uuuuung.
A sharp force qi rose from his hand.
He realizes the sharpness of a weapon with true qi. In reality, the Azure Dragon Qi surrounding his entire hand blade formed a single elongated shape.
It was not a saber or sword.
‘A spear?!’
Fire Ape shouted.
“Stop right now!”
Peoeok!
Ape Leg’s eyes opened wide as if they would tear. His hands and feet trembled quiveringly.
“I am sorry but.”
Jureureuk.
The internal force of the hand spear that split past his Adam’s apple and neck bone tore apart even Ape Leg’s medulla oblongata and cerebrum to shreds.
Yeon Ho-jeong shook off his hand.
The blood smeared on the blue-green true qi splattered in all directions.
“I do not speak empty words.”
Ulkeok!
Ape Leg, who vomited blood a few times, presently drooped down.
“……!!”
The atmosphere within the manor took a sudden downward turn.
He died.
He really killed him. Just for the reason of revealing killing intent.
Yeon Ho-jeong looked at the Fire Ape with cold eyes.
“You……!!”
Hwareureureuk!
An unusual momentum spurted out from the Fire Ape’s body.
However, she could not easily make a move. She could not believe it, but the opponent was a super-peak master who had broken through the Wall of the Martial Arts´ End.
She might not know if it was a battlefield with many variables, but it was hard to win in a frontal match. Let alone, behind her was Yeon Ho-jeong’s party as well.
They were also masters possessing unusual skills. The probability of fighting and winning was close to nil.
“I must have said it before. If you are an escort warrior, protect the house well like an escort warrior. I said we are not yet Manor Lord Yang’s subordinates, so we have no need to listen to his orders or whatever.”
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled.
It was an eerie smile. Unlike the expression drawing a smile, an unimaginable killing intent was contained in the wave of qi pouring in like a waterfall.
“And I also said this. That if you glare like that, I will pluck your eyeballs out.”
“……!”
“Next is your turn, bitch. Meekly stick out your head. Because it shouldn’t be that your head gets plucked out while plucking your eyeballs.”
Fire Ape felt goosebumps rising.
‘Crazy bastard!’
This is completely a crazy bastard, there’s no other.
It would not be insufficient to express him as a Madman or a Mad Demon. No matter how much he made a certain contract with her Lord, to commit such a ridiculous nonsense in the front yard of the Black Dragon Manor?!
“Come forward.”
Yeon Ho-jeong reached out his hand.
As if telling her to hand over his property, it was a truly imposing hand gesture.
“Stick out your head. If you don’t want to die.”
“……It’s you, right?”
“I told you to stick out your head.”
Fire Ape shouted spasmodically.
“Wasn’t it you who smuggled away the successor of the Ghost Iron Sword Sect!”
Yeon Ho-jeong spoke in a blunt tone.
“It seems you want to end up like your subordinate.”
“……!!”
“If you really want that, understood.”
Yeon Ho-jeong advanced forward one step, one step.
Hwaaaak.
A terrible killing intent was loaded on the cool wind.
It was a truly terrifying killing intent. It was a mad murderous intent that one could spurt out only if they were at the level of a demon head who killed people as easily as eating meals.
Ga Deuk-sang looked at Pae-yul.
[W-What should we do?]
[I don’t know either, you beggar bastard.]
[That gentleman over there, no matter how much it’s a fabricated killing intent, isn’t it too brutal? What if he really kills her?!]
Pae-yul’s eyes flashed.
That killing intent is fabricated?
‘That can’t be.’
Pae-yul knew. That such a killing intent could never be forcibly fabricated.
That was the same even for a master who had broken through the Wall of the Martial Arts´ End. That killing intent was not just to the extent of loading an intent with internal energy and spreading it, but a killing intent coming from the true heart of someone who committed murder as easily as eating a meal.
‘Tsk.’
That bastard, just what kind of life did he go through that he can spurt such a terrible killing intent?
‘This won’t do.’
Pae-yul stepped forward one step.
“Wait a moment.”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s foot flinched.
Pae-yul spoke with a calm voice unlike him.
“I also dislike that monkey-like bitch, but since you caught and killed one guy, how about enduring it at this point.”
Yeon Ho-jeong furrowed his brows.
It was an expression of displeasure. And that expression entered intact into the Fire Ape’s eyes as well.
Pae-yul smacked his lips.
“Wasn’t this role originally mine? With you running wild like that, it rather makes me feel uncomfortable.”
“…….”
“Endure it. You have to see Manor Lord Yang’s face too.”
“……Huu.”
Yeon Ho-jeong let out a sigh.
Seureureureuk.
The air that had heated up hotly regained its previous coolness. Yeon Ho-jeong had erased his killing intent.
He said to the Fire Ape.
“You, know that you are lucky.”
Fire Ape bit her lip.
Yeon Ho-jeong kicked the collapsed corpse of Ape Leg.
Peoeok!
He kicked it so strongly that the corpse flew outside the wall.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
“W-What is it?!”
“It’s a corpse!”
Outside the wall became an Asura realm in an instant. Since a corpse suddenly fell on a street corner where people were coming and going, it was understandable to be terrified.
Would the actions of a tyrant soaked in madness be like this. Except for Pae-yul, all the companions were inwardly startled by that radical action.
Yeon Ho-jeong said coldly.
“So, what did you say?”
“Ghost, Ghost Iron…….”
If one cultivates martial arts, their mental strength naturally becomes stronger as well. But was it because she encountered a sight so far beyond imagination? Her voice trembled without her knowing.
Fire Ape quickly cleared her throat.
“Are you the one who smuggled away the successor of the Ghost Iron Sword Sect?”
“You, did you say you were Fire Ape?”
“……?”
“I don’t know if there will be an occasion for you to seek me out again in the future, but if you bring matters that haven’t even been properly confirmed, I will really tear you to death.”
Ossak!
Goosebumps rose all over her body.
He hadn’t even revealed his killing intent, but it was words that rather felt even more brutal. In reality, hadn’t this crazy bastard killed her subordinate right before her eyes.
Fire Ape gritted her teeth.
Although she heard such words, she could not help but confirm again.
“T-Then are you saying you don’t know the successor of the Ghost Iron Sword Sect?”
Yeon Ho-jeong chuckled. It was a smirk exuding despondency.
“Which guy said that? That I hid away the successor of the Ghost Iron Sword Sect?”
“…….”
“No, before that, didn’t they say the Ghost Iron Sword Sect was annihilated?”
Fire Ape’s eyes shook.
“How do you know that?”
“What do you mean how do I know? Even just taking a spin around the marketplace, it naturally enters my ears.”
“…….”
“Annihilation means the sect is ruined, but if so, doesn’t it mean that at least from the leadership to the successor they all died entirely? The successor survived?”
A frowning face, an ambiguous eye light.
Even while being terrified, the Fire Ape read a faint puzzlement from the opponent’s face.
‘What is it? He really doesn’t know?’
She thought that couldn’t be true.
To be exact, she didn’t think there would be a culprit other than Yeon Ho-jeong. The timing was the timing, and because he was a guy with so many suspicious corners.
Furthermore, although she couldn’t see through his true skills, she heard he was a talent the Manor Lord praised greatly. With that much, isn’t it certain that he is a master who cultivated considerable martial arts.
So she pushed him.
Speaking more honestly, she also wanted to vent her pent-up frustration of all her subordinates dying.
Though she never imagined that choice would create such a situation.
“So, what is the reason you are certain that I captured that successor or whatever guy?”
“That is…….”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s expression turned cold.
For this time at least, Pae-yul also had no choice but to glare at the Fire Ape with eyes full of killing intent.
Ga Deuk-sang chuckled and said.
“You came to see how he would react.”
Fire Ape thought ‘Oops’ and composed her expression. Of course, it was a belated composing.
“That’s not it! The informants in Changsha definitely said you were suspicious……!”
“Other than me, how many other suspicious people are there?”
Fire Ape could not answer. In truth, if one were to pick the guys pointed out as suspicious people, it was to the extent of not knowing how many lists would have to be made.
Ga Deuk-sang spoke in a sarcastic tone.
“I heard the information power of the Unorthodox was one step above the Orthodox, but looking at it now, it seems you were guys who just habitually manipulated information as you please instead of having good information power?”
“That’s!”
“Someone said so. In a certain village, people’s prayers absolutely reach heaven. If they wish for rain, they pray until the rain comes, so the success rate is ten out of ten.”
“…….”
“How is the state of what you guys are doing any different from that?”
He said to Yeon Ho-jeong.
“Hey look here. What are you going to do about this? Are you really going to make a transaction with the Lord of the Black Dragon Manor? To me, it seems like an organization with only a slick outward appearance and zero substance?”
“Indeed.”
Yeon Ho-jeong did not turn his gaze away from the Fire Ape.
“I am regretting it a bit right now. I already didn’t like the fact that the guys attached as escort warriors were getting on my nerves, but to drive me as the culprit without even certainty……. Before information power, does it mean Manor Lord Yang is an incompetent figure who can’t even educate his own subordinates properly.”
Fire Ape’s face flushed red.
She was both angry and ashamed. She hadn’t known that her Manor Lord would receive such an evaluation because of her single action.
Was it difficult to suppress her soaring emotions? Fire Ape unconsciously shouted.
“Watch your words! This was just my venting of anger, and has absolutely nothing to do with the Manor Lord……!”
Fire Ape could not even finish her words. She realized belatedly that the words she shouted spasmodically were no different from admitting her own fault.
Huuk.
The air heated up hotly.
It was a different killing intent from Yeon Ho-jeong’s incomparably brutal killing intent. It was precisely that the killing intents of Pae-yul, Ga Deuk-sang, Tang Sang-ah, and Zhuge Ah-yeon surged all at once, forcibly raising the temperature of the atmosphere.
Before they knew it, Yeon Ho-jeong’s expression had become calm. Even his eye light.
“Today’s matter, I will inform Manor Lord Yang just as it is.”
“…….”
“Get out now. Withdraw all your units under your command as well.”
Fire Ape, who had been chewing on her lip, left the manor as if running away.
Huuuuung.
The air that had heated up hotly slowly subsided.
Ga Deuk-sang clicked his tongue.
“It was something I said to change the atmosphere, but seeing that state, I’m really half in doubt. Isn’t it a slacker organization than I thought?”
Pae-yul shook his head.
“A murderer can come out of a Buddhist temple, and a thief can come out of a Taoist temple. You shouldn’t ignore the Black Dragon Manor just because they have one bitch like that.”
“Tsk, that is true, but.”
Ga Deuk-sang looked at Yeon Ho-jeong with puzzled eyes.
“Anyway, Older Brother Yeon. What’s this about the successor of the Ghost Iron Sword Sect? Did you really do it, Older Brother Yeon?”
Yeon Ho-jeong silently looked at the main gate.
Not to mention the Fire Ape’s presence, the presence of all the members of the Fire Ape Squad was growing distant.
“……Sharp bitch.”