Chapter 208: Clash of Champions
Chapter 207 – Clash of Champions
Elder Yi Won-bo, who had said he would persuade Great Elder Yi Won-gun, did not return.
The elders of the Heavenly Demon Bloodline, who had been waiting with a sliver of hope, made up their minds.
“As expected, the task of persuading the Great Elder seems to be tedious.”
“Is it not an obvious matter? Where is the Great Elder’s temperament an ordinary one? I knew from the start that it would turn out this way.”
“Haha! The luxury of time is not very great in this situation.”
The elders of the Heavenly Demon Bloodline slowly turned their words and built up an atmosphere.
Although no one spoke directly, the direction was the same.
The elders of the Heavenly Demon Bloodline, who watched each other’s expressions to see if there were any opposing opinions, finally confirmed that their opinions were gathered and nodded.
“In a state of affairs like now, we cannot go on looking only at those two, can we?”
“To think they are dawdling like this in a situation where every hour is urgent…”
“First, let us move among ourselves.”
The warning Elder Yi Won-bo had left turned into empty words.
The Heavenly Demon Bloodline, whose reins had slipped off, began to move, catching their own direction as they pleased.
***
The martial prowess Yeon Cheong-un showed was of a different class from when he dealt with the Demonic General-level warriors.
He proved that he possessed the talent and skill to claim to be the Heavenly Demon.
The Heaven-Rebelling Faction cheered, and the Heaven-Obeying Faction conflicted.
Yeon Cheong-un’s influence penetrated deeply into the entire Heavenly Demon Cult.
Someone even claimed a conspiracy theory regarding the current situation.
Actually, Yeon Cheong-un’s movements were carried out under the direction of the Heaven-Entering Divine Demonic Sovereign, and all of this was a preliminary preparation for the Heaven-Entering Divine Demonic Sovereign to ascend to the position of Heavenly Demon.
Even the appearance of Yeon Cheong-un confronting and trading with the Heaven-Entering Divine Demonic Sovereign in front of everyone watching was planned in advance.
Yeon Cheong-un’s footsteps were patchworks of shock themselves, enough for such stories to circulate.
And the place where the shadow left by that shock reached.
“Sigh…”
Between the darkness of the night proving that a day was passing, Yi Cheon-gyeong, who looked at the moon floating in the sky with an expression as if he held something exceedingly bitter in his mouth, let out a deep sigh.
“Has it rotted and collapsed to this extent!”
The Heavenly Demon Bloodline of the Elder Council, who led the Heaven-Obeying Faction, sent their hands and feet to extend a hand to Yi Cheon-gyeong.
They had been subtly contacting him since the first day Yeon Cheong-un smashed the Heavenly Demon’s head, and today they moved completely straight to the point.
What they demanded was simple.
-If you are of the bloodline that inherited the blood of the Heavenly Demon, we must be one family. Come over with the Heavenly Demon Divine Art. Then we will place you on the position of Heavenly Demon.
“…How is this different from begging?”
The Heavenly Demon Bloodline’s proposal was no different from begging.
Ultimately, because they could not solve it with their own strength, they wanted to borrow an external hand.
“No, is even the word begging a luxury?”
A beggar who begs lays down everything for survival.
However, the ones called the Heavenly Demon Bloodline were full of meaningless pride. they spoke nonsense so confidently.
Trash who were merely drunk on the legacy of the past without a reality or a future.
It was the true entity of those called the Heaven-Obeying Faction.
“Absurd. Did I dream of a comeback while yearning for such people…”
Recalling the period when he had hardened his determination that he would definitely return to the Demonic Cult someday and sit on the position of Heavenly Demon, only a hollow laugh came out.
The position of Heavenly Demon he had yearned for so much looked trivial.
Yi Cheon-gyeong headed to the Divine Maiden’s shrine without even having to worry.
“Mmm! Is the Heavenly Demon absent today as well?”
The Heavenly Demon Yeon Cheong-un had been absent every night recently.
The next person Yi Cheon-gyeong sought was the Divine Maiden Yi Hwa.
Although she was a young age who had not yet completely shed her girlishness, the practical second-in-command of the crowd was the Divine Maiden.
Although the Vajra Iron Demonic Sovereign also had an influence and strength that could not be ignored, whether because of his temperament or because there was a reason, it felt like he was keeping a step away from power.
‘It is hard to believe, but there is a story that she received a divine message from the Progenitor Heavenly Demon residing in the heavens and went to find the current Heavenly Demon who was thousands of miles away.’
However, looking at the supernatural power she occasionally showed, it was also difficult to just deny it.
Decisively, it was a fact that the Divine Maiden of the Heavenly Demon Cult was following the Heavenly Demon.
Above all, around the Heavenly Demon, it was full of unrealistic things.
Such as his progress in martial arts, which was hard to believe, the fact that he used the perfect Heavenly Demon Divine Art while being from an orthodox martial family, and the fact that the Azure Bird of Mount Heaven followed him.
Each one was merely amazing stories like legends in mythology.
Above all, looking at the appearance of Yeon Cheong-un occasionally talking to himself, he was often startled.
‘If the anecdote the Divine Maiden Yi Hwa spoke of is true…’
It meant that the Progenitor Heavenly Demon ascended and became a god(?) of the heavens.
It was surprising, but on the other hand, a complicated thought also arose.
If the Heavenly Demon had truly become a god, why did he neglect his descendants who inherited his blood to ruin themselves in such a miserable state!
‘Could this also be the arrangement of the Progenitor Heavenly Demon?’
A hypothesis that a great existence intervened for the completion of a new Heavenly Demon with better and more excellent qualities.
Although he also thought it was excessively pieced together, in the first place, it was unreasonable for a foolish human to fathom an existence that surpassed human perception.
“You have a face with many thoughts.”
Amidst all kinds of conjectures complicatedly tangled together, a calm voice in which a child-like tone was not felt at all woke Yi Cheon-gyeong’s thinking.
Yi Cheon-gyeong immediately collected his mind and brought out the words he had kept.
“The Heavenly Demon Bloodline of the Heaven-Obeying Faction contacted me.”
“Was that so?”
“They are wishing for the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and my betrayal. I thought it was something I must report.”
“Yes.”
There was no disruption in Yi Hwa’s words and actions.
She was so indifferent that Yi Cheon-gyeong even frowned.
“You are not surprised at all. Did you know?”
“Yes.”
“…You knew?”
When Yi Cheon-gyeong was surprised, Yi Hwa finally harbored a smile.
“Those who approached Uncle Cheon-gyeong moved openly as if they wanted us to notice. According to the reports of the Heavenly Demon’s Personal Guard who were guarding the surroundings, it was so.”
“…Damn it!”
Although they pretended to approach secretly, in truth, it was a story that they moved conspicuously to make it noticed.
What would it mean that they deliberately revealed their tracks!
“An alienation tactic…”
They induced Yi Cheon-gyeong to be suspected from the inside.
If Yi Cheon-gyeong had not reported this matter, he could not have helped but buy suspicion.
He had not thought that the pathetic Heavenly Demon Bloodline guys would use this kind of tactic.
“Since they have at least one thing they are good at, they must be sitting in those seats.”
They were people whose bones had grown old in this kind of tactic.
Although they had lost the strength to put forward as the Heavenly Demon, the evaluation was that they raised at least one poison fang instead.
Therefore, they were even more wretched.
“Anyway, it’s a relief. Since useless suspicion is not needed.”
“Though I am in the middle of getting angry…”
He was almost trifled with by the writers he had evaluated as pathetic.
Yi Cheon-gyeong was one who had once dreamed of the position of Heavenly Demon.
Although it was said that he faced a wall he could not cross and folded that dream, his pride had not vanished either.
To Yi Cheon-gyeong, who revealed an angry air, Yi Hwa suggestively proposed.
“How about giving them what they want?”
“Giving them what they want?”
“If it is the oral formula of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, I think they will rush in without looking back.”
The corners of Yi Hwa’s mouth went up. She became a mischievous expression fitting that age group.
“I heard that before you met the Heavenly Demon, you made original conceptions to supplement the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.”
“I did. …Though it was a meaningless deed.”
Receiving the perfect Heavenly Demon Divine Art from Yeon Cheong-un, Yi Cheon-gyeong was one who realized how much his own independent Heavenly Demon Divine Art had been heading down a wrong path.
“If we shake the Heavenly Demon Bloodline enough to make them lose their minds, it will also be much easier for us to approach the targets we need to win over.”
In any case, Yeon Cheong-un wished to actively pull people from the Heaven-Obeying Faction.
“I must make it plausible.”
Yi Cheon-gyeong harbored a smile. It was the laugh of a person who thought of a way to repay the anger he felt.
***
“It runs well on its own.”
When he returned to the shrine in the morning, the Heavenly Demon’s Personal Guard came and reported that the subordinates of the Heavenly Demon Bloodline elders contacted Yi Cheon-gyeong, and that Yi Cheon-gyeong informed Yi Hwa of this content, and the two discussed something.
Having created the situation, it was extremely satisfying that it ran on its own.
If it went well, the time for the Heaven-Obeying Faction to collapse seemed to be shortened further.
“Then, the remaining problems are two…”
The Blood Cult and the Heaven-Entering Divine Demonic Sovereign.
Even if the Blood Cult side is cleaned up along with sweeping away the Heaven-Obeying Faction, the Heaven-Entering Divine Demonic Sovereign is the problem.
A grace period of fifteen days was created, and although things are turning out better than thought, the situation after fifteen days cannot be predicted.
‘He was a nutcase.’
Even if he used an half-hearted move, not even a tooth would go in.
In addition, the movement of the Tibet side is also concerning.
One of the reasons why the dead fake Heavenly Demon Yi Gang-mu called me was because the movement of Tibet was unusual.
Although it was true that the fake Heavenly Demon Yi Gang-mu was not like a Heavenly Demon, he was not an idiot either.
There might be something I did not see, who was busy with the matter before my eyes.
“Damn! Then come up!”
“This fellow who doesn’t even know his place!”
While he was walking while repeating his worries, a strange commotion was rising from the Great Martial Arena side.
The man who was shouting at the top of his lungs on the Great Martial Arena had a lot of dirt and dust on his clothes.
‘Did he help repair the Great Martial Arena?’
The aftermath of receiving the Pacifying Heaven Demonic King’s first move head-on was not small.
Although it looked as if he received it simply, the floor of the Great Martial Arena was considerably damaged by that aftermath alone.
Around the man on the Great Martial Arena, blue stones to lay the floor were piled up.
The reason why his clothes were dirty with dirt and dust also seemed to be because he had trimmed and moved those all night.
On the other hand, the other one who was pointing fingers and getting angry was wearing clean clothes.
Even looking only at the attire and composition, he could roughly get a sense.
‘Heaven-Obeying Faction. Seeing him dissing him by saying he doesn’t know his place, it seems to be a superior-subordinate relationship.’
At the provocation of the dirt-dust man, the guy who was pointing fingers leapt onto the Great Martial Arena.
Finally, others using the Great Martial Arena appeared besides me.
I killed my presence and watched the fight unfolding on the Great Martial Arena.
Thud! Thud thud!
“You bastard! Ugh!”
Thud! Thud!
“Did you show off with only that level of skill! Argh!”
It was rough and crude.
Both were below the standard. They were skills that did not even reach the Demonic General level.
However, there was a taste that strangely drew the eye.
‘Is this why people watch?’
Of course, I cheered for the subordinate side who had helped repair the Great Martial Arena. Fortunately, the skill of that side was also a bit better.
“Die! Just die!”
“Cough! Argh!”
Crash!
The dirt-dust man, who flew wildly, eventually dug into the opponent’s embrace and rammed his brow.
The man, who harvested corn by planting his fist into the face from which blood flowed profusely due to a broken nose bone, still did not have his resentment resolved, so he grabbed him by the collar and hurled him out of the Great Martial Arena.
“Argh!!”
And he screamed at the top of his lungs as if throwing up all that had accumulated in the meantime.
“Heavenly Demon Descent! Eternal and Infinite! Eternal! Eternal! Everlasting!!”
The man was shouting.
That the superior had no qualification as a superior!
That this fight that took place on the Great Martial Arena was righteous!
The one who wished for righteousness cried out while honoring the Heavenly Demon.
“Heh! Since he calls, I must go.”
I flew in a single step and stood on the Great Martial Arena.
“Ah… Ah?”
The man was flustered as he looked at me who suddenly appeared right in front of his nose.
“Wasn’t it me you called?”
“Hiccup!”
The sound of a hiccup that came out before an answer represented his heart.