Chapter 286: Shadow War (6)
It was as if her crown had been struck ppeok! with a massive pickaxe.
‘A spy? What spy? Huh? But what did a spy do again?’
Gi Wu-hui’s face, which had entered a state right before fainting from extreme shock and confusion, was a mess to the point where it was difficult to bear facing it.
Looking at such a face of Gi Wu-hui, Yeon Ho-jeong thought.
‘It’s amusing.’
With this reaction, it became certain that the Divine Maiden of the Western Regions Gi Wu-hui belonged to the Three Cults.
At the same time, Yeon Ho-jeong felt the mood breaking.
‘Why is she so sloppy?’
He knew the power and cruelty of the Three Fanatical Cults. He didn’t know what their true purpose was, but he also knew that they would occupy the Central Plains and completely evaporate the Murim and the government.
Just with that, the Three Fanatical Cults were the enemy of everyone in the Central Plains. Naturally, the Three Cults would also be aware of that level of reality, and if they sent a spy, it was certain that they would select extremely carefully.
But what is this? Why did they think of sending such a fool as a spy?
Yeon Ho-jeong felt himself getting a little tired.
‘Just because history changed, did all the Three Cult bastards become fools or what?’
No matter how outstanding Yeon Ho-jeong’s discernment was, looking back at himself was bound to be difficult.
Gi Wu-hui was definitely not of a resolute personality. However, the guts and malice she had gained while treating patients for over ten years were quite thick.
However, no matter how much guts Gi Wu-hui had, it was not to the extent of being able to handle Yeon Ho-jeong’s coercive feeling.
Excluding Heuk-yang, the gaze of Yeon Ho-jeong, who was having a private meeting with a figure of the Three Cults for the first time, was as fierce as a blade. Not just Gi Wu-hui, but anyone would be bound to shrink back.
Decisively, the reason Gi Wu-hui showed this kind of appearance was because of her sixth sense.
Her sixth sense was outstanding to the point where she could catch Hidden Shadow Number One’s hiding technique even with a skill that was not even first-rate. It was a natural talent, so to speak.
That talent was telling her.
The dangerousness of Yeon Ho-jeong, the bomb-like murderous intent hidden inside the outer appearance that looked like a scholar.
Jiing! Jiiiing!
Gi Wu-hui swallowed her saliva without realizing it.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s gaze looking at her was gradually becoming transparent. At the same time, her sixth sense was running wild more and more roughly.
‘It hurts.’
Her brain seemed to boil from the fear brought about by her sixth sense. Her vision seemed to turn pure white from a severe headache.
The times her own sixth sense had sounded such a fierce alarm were only two times until now.
She recalled one person.
The incarnation of absolute power looking down on all people with blue eyes without a single blemish like the blue sea.
‘Father.’
The one who lights the Divine Fire.
The single Son of Heaven who will light up the whole world with the hottest and purest flames under heaven, the Divine Fire Cult Leader.
At the same time, another absolute being came to mind.
‘And…… that person!’
If there is light, there is also darkness.
The one who leads the darkest and most wicked group under heaven, the master of Evil Lust who is fully prepared to rise to the most noble seat paradoxically because he dwells in the most vulgar place.
‘How could this be! What on earth is this person……?!’
Unbelievably, Yeon Ho-jeong was transmitting a terrifying sense of pressure to the extent of making Gi Wu-hui recall the two top strongmen under heaven.
Martial arts? Strength?
It was not such a problem.
This young man had absolutely not reached the martial arts of her father or the Evil Lust Cult Leader. No, even among the Saintly Heaven Thirteen Seats who contended for the number one in Jianghu of the current era, there wouldn’t even be three strongmen comparable to the masters of the Three Cults.
Then what of this young man was outstanding enough to be reminiscent of the masters of the Three Cults?
Hwareureureureu.
In an instant, Gi Wu-hui saw an illusion.
The illusion of the scholar-like young man with sharp and malicious eyes turning into a monster with hundreds of arms and legs, dozens of pairs of eyes, and sharp fangs like a beast.
Every exhaled breath is poison, and every swinging hand gesture blows a typhoon. Moving one step causes an earthquake, and an emitted shout whips up thunder and lightning.
Rumble!
‘Heup!’
An illusion of a true monster that could not even be described with the words three heads and six arms.
An evil god who came up to the surface leading five Demon Kings behind his back was here. He was an unprecedented incarnation of evil who would burn the sky beyond the continent.
Bureureureu.
Gi Wu-hui trembled her body in severe fear.
She, who inherited the thickest yet turbid blood among the bloodline of the Divine Fire, was surprisingly born with a Spirit Eye that had not manifested in anyone among the bloodline of the Divine Fire.
Yeon Ho-jeong, captured in that Spirit Eye, was an uncontrollable monster that grew up heavily plastered with the concepts of fear, hatred, and destruction.
“Why are you acting like that?”
“…….”
“Look here.”
“Heok!”
The startled Gi Wu-hui returned to reality from the world of illusion before she knew it.
Yeon Ho-jeong furrowed his brow.
“Are you sick somewhere? Why are you pouring out such cold sweat?”
Though it was no wonder she was surprised since it was abruptly exposed that she was a spy.
“Ah, no.”
Gi Wu-hui’s appearance of gasping for rough breath with her hand placed on her chest was abnormal no matter who looked at it.
Yeon Ho-jeong, who quietly watched such Gi Wu-hui, relaxed his posture.
“Yeah, it seems you really are a spy.”
He comes out assertively.
It was clear that he knew her true identity from the beginning. Thinking about it, the unknown coercive feeling she felt since first meeting Yeon Ho-jeong might have been because he knew her true identity.
‘Huu.’
Gi Wu-hui, who caught her breath, somehow felt her mind become comfortable.
Gi Wu-hui spoke calmly.
“Do you think I am a spy of another organization?”
“That is so.”
His way of speaking changed.
Gi Wu-hui read an unbearable violence from that change.
And surprisingly, she felt even more comfortable at that change. In the first place, she neither liked hiding something from others nor was good at lies.
“Then, from what organization do you think I am a dispatched spy?”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes shone.
He too could feel Gi Wu-hui’s change. Gi Wu-hui was not trying to make an excuse, but rather trying to tell everything.
‘She is a bizarre human.’
Usually, when hit with such an unexpected strike, apart from being surprised, denying being a spy was common. And that was normal.
However, Gi Wu-hui was not like that. Her voice was gradually becoming calmer as if it was a good thing.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes narrowed.
“Well? I don’t know which of the three places it is, but at least it doesn’t seem to be Evil Lust.”
Gi Wu-hui flinched.
‘As expected.’
This person knew about the existence of the Three Cults.
She swallowed her saliva once again.
“You know. About the Three Cults.”
“That is so.”
“H, how……?”
“I don’t have the obligation to tell you even up to that.”
It was correct.
Gi Wu-hui exhaled a sigh.
“Are you going to kill me?”
“If necessary.”
“……If necessary?”
“That is so.”
Yeon Ho-jeong formed a faint smile.
It was a smile that clamped down Gi Wu-hui’s mind, which had become fairly calm, with fear at once.
“A spy does not admit that they themselves are a spy. But you admitted it.”
“…….”
“I don’t know what kind of circumstances you have, but to my eyes, you yourself seem to feel a strong repulsion to acting as a spy itself.”
Gi Wu-hui swallowed her saliva again.
Even if the opponent didn’t have a sixth sense or Spirit Eye like herself, he had the experience and discernment of having pushed through pandemonium.
In a certain sense, it was a much more powerful strength than innate talent. And to that discernment close to certainty, Gi Wu-hui could not tell a lie.
Yeon Ho-jeong inwardly sighed.
‘Older Brother’s words aren’t wrong either.’
He had no intention of forgiving anyone if they were a figure related to the Three Cults.
However, Murong Yu said. At least she doesn’t seem like a person with a bad nature, and there is no dangerous look right now, so conversation is first for now.
At least just limited to this case, Murong Yu’s judgment was correct.
‘Even if he is young, the real deal is the real deal.’
Yeon Ho-jeong, who had been watching Gi Wu-hui all along, suddenly struck the table.
Kwang!
The startled Gi Wu-hui looked at Yeon Ho-jeong with eyes full of fear.
Yeon Ho-jeong spoke calmly.
“Useless talk is enough with this. I knew you were a spy, and you too admitted it.”
“……!”
“Now it’s time to make a choice.”
“……A choice?”
“That is so.”
Yeon Ho-jeong crossed his arms.
“Do you want to die?”
Gi Wu-hui’s complexion turned pale.
“Of course you wouldn’t want to die. But since it’s been found out that you are a spy, it’s difficult to avoid death too. If so, you have two paths.”
“Yes?”
“Either die in this place, or bring us their information.”
Gi Wu-hui’s eyes shook.
Yeon Ho-jeong smiled.
“Killing you is easy. Since twisting your neck in this place would be the end of it.”
“……!!”
“However, obtaining the Three Cults’ information is difficult. Thinking like that, you are a fairly useful chess piece.”
“Are you telling me to…… betray the Cult?”
“That is so.”
“I can’t do that.”
“Then die.”
Deureureuk.
Yeon Ho-jeong stood up from his seat.
Gi Wu-hui, who had been looking at Yeon Ho-jeong with trembling eyes, soon closed her eyes.
Yeon Ho-jeong, who was staring down at Gi Wu-hui blankly, smiled and spoke.
“Isn’t it amusing?”
“……Yes?”
“In truth, if the Three Cults do not try to take over the Central Plains, we too have no reason to hate the Three Cults. Of course, we would be vigilant, though.”
“……!”
“Do you understand? We know nothing about them. But they are trying to take over the Central Plains. And that path will inevitably be dyed with blood.”
Gi Wu-hui’s tightly clenched fist trembled faintly.
“They are Evil. Regardless of what they seek, at the point they try to kill the innocent common people of the Central Plains, any justification or excuse is meaningless to them. Why? Because they are Evil.”
“…….”
“A murderer can also have a story. However, you cannot forgive their sins with that. That is what you guys are trying to do.”
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes spat out deep blue sparks.
“And you are a physician. Fixing people’s bodies and saving lives is your karma. Such you are just watching their behavior of spilling innocent blood, no matter how much they are an affiliated group.”
“……!”
“Even if you die and go before King Yama, do not say you were a physician. It’s disgusting.”
Gi Wu-hui opened her eyes.
Her bloodshot eyes were full of unknown anger and confusion.
“I also, I also hate conflict! I too hate seeing blood!”
“Then why didn’t you try to change it?”
“I have no power, so how……!”
“So the result is this shape. If it was going to be like that, why didn’t you speak the right words and die early on? If you did, even if you died at a younger age, at least you would have been dignified to yourself.”
“……!!”
“You too are saying the exact same excuse that countless wicked people babbled about. With that, what meaning would there be even if your nature is Good? When the result is to this extent.”
The smile disappeared from Yeon Ho-jeong’s face.
“Do not try to make excuses with words like age, relationships, courage, etc. You could not make a choice when you had to make a choice. Therefore, you do not have the qualification to curse the Medical God Society.”
Gi Wu-hui’s expression became full of vainness.
There were many words to refute. But she could not refute.
Because as a result, she understood that Yeon Ho-jeong’s words were true.
Thwack!
“Keok!”
Gi Wu-hui’s body was lifted into the air.
Yeon Ho-jeong, who grabbed her neck, spoke coldly.
“I will give you a final chance.”
“…….”
“Will you die dirtily? Or will you even try to struggle to change your incomparably miserable life, you bitch?”
“……!!”
“Choose. Right now!”