Return of the Blossoming Blade Chapter 1229

Episode 1229 I don’t know. (4)

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Cheon Woo-maeng and his party literally ran like the wind. Since there was already a delay, I couldn’t rest even for a moment. Regardless of day or night, I ran and ran through the deserted roads.

Meanwhile.

“for a moment!”

Lim So-byeong shouted briefly and raised his hand. Then, those who were running stopped all at once.

Lim So-byeong wiped the sweat dripping from his forehead with his sleeve and cleared his throat slightly.

“hmm.”

And he asked in a calm voice.

“You have to be a little more careful from here on out.”

“⋯⋯From here?”

“yes.”

Yoonjong looked ahead with puzzled eyes. Because it didn’t seem to be any different from the road I had been on so far. But Lim So-byeong solved his doubts in one word.

“From here on out, I have no information about the route either.”

“yes?”

Jo Geol’s face crumpled.

“No, you boasted so loudly that all the mountains in the world were in your hands!”

“That statement is not really wrong. The problem is… can this area really be called heaven?”

“What is that…?”

It was Baekcheon who answered that question. He slightly turned his head and asked Lim So-byeong. As if he had any idea.

“From here?”

“yes.”

“Sasuk. What do you mean?”

“It is a great mountain.”

“yes?”

“Hundred thousand great mountains.”

At that moment, goosebumps rose up Jo Geol’s back.

‘here?’

When I realized this fact, something new caught my eye.

It was certainly no different from the road we had passed, but before our eyes, instead of a gentle ridge, there were endless jagged mountain peaks.

‘100,000 mountains⋯⋯.’

After learning about it, the scene began to look like hundreds of swords pointing toward the sky.

“From here on, it’s unknown. The reason why Green Forest occupies the mountain is to secure the people who come and go on the mountain. But… as you know, no one enters the Hundred Thousand Mountains Mountain. And a sect with a strong mind will never set foot there. “It’s also a place where it doesn’t happen.”

Everyone nodded at those words.

It’s natural even if you don’t think about it deeply. Anyone with even a little bit of thought has no choice but to avoid this place. Because this place was the home of the demonic cult that drove Jungwon into hell in the past.

Even now that the Demonic Cult has been largely forgotten, the ominousness and fear of its name remain vivid.

As a result, even though it was not specifically decided and announced by anyone, the Jungwon martial arts group treated Hibmandaesan Mountain as a prohibited area that should not be set foot on.

“The… Green Forest King.”

“yes.”

“First of all, people of our political faction have the perception that one should not enter the Hundred Thousand Mountains… Is the same true for the Sa faction?”

“Just because they’re Sapa doesn’t mean they’re not human, right? They know what sinister is.”

Lim So-byeong shrugged his shoulders and continued.

“There’s no great reason why political factions don’t set foot here in the first place, right? It’s just unpleasant and ominous.”

“That’s right…”

“The same goes for Sapa. And Sapa has no reason to set foot here in the first place. Why would Sapa settle down in a place where there are no people? It’s not like cultivating the Tao in the mountains.”

“Hagiya.”

Even if political factions are separated from private homes, there is no problem. In particular, Taoist and Buddhist sects tend to prefer secluded places because their practitioners gather there. Anyway, when a sect becomes famous, people will naturally come to see it.

But Sapa is different. People are reluctant to go to Sapa. And it exists by extorting money from people. As a result, most Sapa villages tend to be located near large cities.

Lim So-byeong chuckled.

“The reason why Jang Il-so was able to raise Maninbang so much in the first place was largely because his base was Guizhou and Guangdong. Other major sects did not move below that because of the Hundred Thousand Mountains. So, there was chaos with only small sects proliferating. This happened and Jang Il-so conquered the land.”

“⋯⋯Depending on what you hear, it sounds like the trouble was caused by those demonic cult bastards.”

“It’s a bit awkward to say it’s the cause, but if you really ask, it’s probably not wrong.”

Baekcheon’s face was distorted.

“Anyway, the Demon Cult bastards are of no help.”

He made an exaggerated joke. But the faces of others still remained frozen.

“⋯⋯Do we have to pass through here?”

“It can’t be helped. Although there is a lack of information, this is also the place where the SPA’s eyes are the least visible.”

“But…”

Nangong Taoyu looked at Hundred Thousand Great Mountains with slightly ominous eyes.

What came to his mind at that moment was the image of the bishop he had seen in Hangzhou not long ago. If there are still remnants of the Demonic Cult there… What if there was even a guy like that bishop?

As I glanced around, other people made eye contact with the same concern.

Lim So-byeong, who noticed this, smiled and said.

“I recommend taking this route, but taking a detour wouldn’t be so bad. It may take time… but it’s not that late in the first place.”

Those who exchanged glances at those words nodded in unison.

“Then…”

“Towards the detour…”

“It was crazy. It was crazy.”

However, their timid voices were completely drowned out by the irritated voices coming from behind.

“What… detour?”

“⋯⋯.”

“But are these bastards out of their minds? Hey, you bastards! A hundred years ago, even if there were a lot of Demon Cult bastards over there, they would have just shut up and attacked head on. But the descendants of those bastards are so scared that they can’t even enter the land they have cleared? Why? The Demon Cult? Are you scared?”

“We must have been herded around like a pack of dogs back then! There are only ten of us now!”

“So you’re scared?”

“Who said they were afraid of the Demonic Cult?”

“then?”

Jo Geol trembled and shouted.

“There might be a ghost! That’s a devil’s ghost… Argh!”

Jogeol, who was suddenly kicked by Cheongmyeong, screamed and flew away.

“Look at what this crazy bastard is saying! Hey, you crazy bastard! You are a Taoist, a Taoist! A Taoist who catches ghosts!”

“That’s right.”

“It’s true that we play that role in the first place.”

“I’ve never caught one, but…”

Even those who are involved in Buddhism rather than Taoism tend to rely on Taoism for matters related to miscellaneous spirits and ghosts. Hwasan rarely touches such areas, but for shamans, apprenticeship accounts for a fairly large portion of their income.

“And you bastards! If they had become ghosts, would it have been just those demonic cult bastards? All the bastards from the political faction that fell over there would have also become ghosts! The ghosts who won are on our side, so what’s the problem!”

“Cheongmyeong! You are our ancestor!”

“You can’t talk to them like that, you bastard!”

“Tsk…”

Cheongmyeong clicked his tongue.

Why can’t it work? It was Cheongmyeong who kicked those useless things in the ass and dragged them to Hundred Thousand Mountains.

‘How is it that nothing has changed between then and now?’

Cheongmyeong took a deep breath, shook his head, and took the lead.

“Stop talking nonsense and follow me.”

“⋯⋯No⋯⋯.”

“Just follow me.”

Everyone bit their lips with anxious expressions as they watched Cheongmyeong run ahead.

“Shall we go?”

“⋯⋯I have to go. I have to.”

In the end, one by one, they reluctantly followed him. But I couldn’t shake off the feeling of anxiety.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Not long after entering the foot of Hundred Thousand Mountains, the speed soon began to pick up again. That’s because, other than the occasional encounter with a mountain animal, there were no traces of anything alive.

Even those who had been anxious the entire time soon began to regain stability.

“It’s excessively quiet.”

“I know.”

They weren’t necessarily moving along a bad road to avoid being noticed. Still, there was no encounter at all.

‘It makes sense.’

Baekcheon looked around and quickly realized the reason.

Even if this place was not the base of the Demonic Cult, it would not have been easy to find people.

To begin with, this is not a good place for people to live.

Because the jagged peaks were densely packed, it was not good for farming, and each of the peaks was too steep to make a living by hunting wild animals.

It was a land where there was no reason to settle down as the uninhabited people became the uninhabited people and the common people became the common people.

But one thing was certain.

“⋯⋯It’s scary.”

“Yes, it’s really scary.”

Yunjong nodded and agreed with Baekcheon’s words.

I once saw Mt. Hundred Thousand Mountains with my own eyes from afar. This is the time when we collected the remains of our ancestors and returned to the volcano.

However, when I entered the Hundred Thousand Mountains in person, it was quite different from when I viewed it from a distance.

This breathtaking terrain made me understand why this place was the stronghold of the Demonic Cult and why such a terrible war was fought here.

Because of the endless jagged peaks, it is impossible to see the situation just a few miles away no matter where you look.

Distances that would be clearly visible elsewhere in Jungwon are difficult to see here. It was close to complete darkness.

Even if you turn to the side to secure the view, another peak blocks your path. To find out what’s going on behind the scenes, you have no choice but to go inside.

‘I don’t know where the Demonic Cult might be…’

Cold sweat ran down my back.

Thinking about being in a position to lead the military seemed far-off. You won’t be able to enter without knowing where the ambush will be.

If he had been stationed here and fighting, he would have been in trouble too. You must have been racking your brain trying to figure out which of these ambush sites would be more effective.

‘You led the elite and pushed into a place like this?’

In the past, I just vaguely thought it was great. All I had to think about was the courage of the guild leaders who threw away their lives like stubble to kill Cheonma.

However, seeing Mt. 100,000 with my own eyes revealed that the situation was not as romantic as I thought.

If someone had asked Baekcheon to gather all the elites and rush in there, what would he have responded? I don’t know, but the first thing that would have been asked was whether I was sane.

Just one mistake. This is terrain where it would not be strange to lose all power due to a single misjudgment.

Nevertheless, how did those who had to come here with the elite feel?

It’s all good. It’s just one gamble that you accept with the feeling that if you fail, you’ll lose everything.

I couldn’t explain it otherwise.

‘And there was a volcano there.’

Leading more than anyone else…

Baekcheon turned around without realizing it. The expressions on the faces of those who followed behind were also frozen. It seemed like they were feeling the same way he was feeling.

In particular, Hwasan’s disciples had a darker complexion.

And that was then.

“Sa Sasuk! Over there!”

Baekcheon turned his head at the sudden burst of Jo Geol’s voice.