Episode 341 Come with us.
The white robe student was a man who had no mercy at all. We are also ruthless men, but compared to him, the white-robed student fought like a guy with no emotions at all. In the first place, the four major evildoers alone were capable of committing a massacre, but when the White Cloaked Scholars joined in, the corpses of the hostiles were laid on the ground one by one.
It’s like looking at a checkerboard with red stones on it.
As soon as I and the white-robed student joined in, we killed all the enemies and even some of the surviving ghosts, and then took a rest.
It was a bright night, as if the moonlight was pouring in, so we could see each other’s expressions very clearly.
After checking the status of the four major evildoers, I asked the white-clothed scholar.
“If we unite with all our efforts, including the Western forces and the opening of Baekdo Haomun, will we be able to destroy the Demonic Cult?”
The white-robed student crossed his arms and looked at me sitting on the corpse.
“Why should we make such sacrifices?”
“Is unity also a sacrifice?”
The white-robed scholar looked around at the four great evildoers and said.
“Even if we unite like that, half of each force will die. “We are no different.”
I nodded.
“That’s right. Originally, I was planning to watch the battle between the White Sword and the Magic Sword and take the fisherman’s position, but an all-out war would be a bit too much for you. It doesn’t suit my temperament either. I don’t want to make sacrifices. “It would be less fun to plot.”
The white-robed student nodded.
“It’s an accurate judgment.”
“Anyway, do you agree that the Demonic Cult is the strongest single force?”
The white-robed student suddenly walked up to the wriggling ghost and trampled on the back of the still-breathing ghost. The crack sound was briefly accompanied by the sound of bones breaking.
The white-robed student answered.
“I guess so.”
“Then make sure you die last. People should live the way they want. One day, if we collide with the Demonic Cult, you will take the lead and take care of things. Even the Murim Lord eats it from your side. “Please take care of Hao Mun too.”
The white-robed student looked at me.
“You are truly crazy. “You’re going to attack the Demonic Cult first?”
I said, looking around at the corpses around me.
“You have to do that when the time comes. You can’t live like this. I can’t help but see this as clearly playing with me. I wonder if it’s eating away at my daily life. It seems like they are planning to send assassins to stop them and kill them by preventing them from resting even for a single day. Anyway, the eldest brother knows the location of the Demonic Cult. As long as the troops are gathered, there is no reason not to launch a preemptive attack. Moreover, since they have already attacked a private house and committed massacre, there is sufficient justification for whitewashing.”
The white-robed student looked at the sword demon.
“Do you think the Sword Demon has a chance of winning? Hao Wen-ju wants to launch a preemptive attack against Sanjae, who is almost impregnable. What do you think?”
The Sword Demon answered.
“Too many people will die if this is resolved through war. If the religious leader’s true intention is the best in the world, he can be brought out without going to war. If it is struck before that, the believers will unite and decide on a holy war.”
Although my eldest brother’s opinion was unexpected, I listened with a serious attitude.
“hmm.”
“If a holy war is fought, one of the believers will grab one of the strongmen and retreat to Donggui. Half of the damage is due to luck. It can be said that most sects are extinct. Moreover, it is still impossible for the Lim leader to defeat the religious leader. In that case, we can say that the Murim Alliance will also be devastated. “For one reason or another, I cannot support an all-out war.”
I looked at the sword demon.
“What are your thoughts, eldest brother?”
“The results of bringing out a religious leader and settling the dispute are similar to striking a settlement by launching an all-out war. In that case, the best way is to win the game in a powerful way where less people die. In the end, this is also related to the strong self-respect pursued by the demonic cult, so the cult leader probably has no intention of avoiding it.”
I looked around at the four great evildoers and the white-robed monks.
“So, I have to be harassed by the cult leader’s minions until that time comes? “Life is so painful.”
Sword Demon said.
“So we were given limited time. The cult leader is still not confident that he can defeat both Samjaes at the same time. That in itself must be the reason why peace in Gangho continues. Of course, there will be no such peace for us who travel with our third child.”
Everyone looked at me.
“….”
The demon said with a pale expression.
“You’re not the only one suffering. “I feel like I’m going to die too.”
Suddenly, I got up and approached the demon. He was bleeding from his head, chest and arms. The same goes for colored horses. His complexion was paler than ever, perhaps because he had overused the season.
The sword demon had no injuries and only looked a little tired.
I sat near the Four Great Villains and looked at the white-robed scholar.
It feels like I’ve reached a turning point in my life. After thinking about a few things, I left it to my instincts and spoke to the student in white.
“…White then, let’s go to Manjae with us.”
“Why all disabilities?”
“There is an elixir at the very bottom.”
The Four Great Villains looked at me with a somewhat surprised expression, but I tried to ignore their gaze. As I spoke out, another word lingered in my head.
‘At the very bottom, there is Hao Mun…’
These were words that I couldn’t say because they didn’t fit the situation.
The white-robed student tilted his head.
“Elixir? Under 10,000 obstacles? “If you have the elixir, you can eat it among yourselves. Why me?”
I said in a calm tone.
“There are many elixirs. But it’s an elixir you can’t bring up. It would be right to consume it on the spot. Let’s go down to the floor together. I don’t mind if you bring students and take the elixir later. “What I know, I will share with the students. If I have any elixirs, I will share them. If you run into difficulties, I will come to your aid.”
It’s a strange thought, but…
I think the only people who can deal with a cult leader are true charlatans.
The thought that I wouldn’t be able to do anything big if I took the conditions, reasons, justification, benefits, and benefits dominated my mind. Even though this was a somewhat hypocritical act of charlatanism, it had no choice but to do this in order to fight against the other side of the religious leader.
The white student asked.
“Is it a great elixir?”
“If it’s an elixir that can take away the cold energy of Wolyeong Martial Arts, I guess it’s amazing, right?”
“It’s definitely not a trap, right?”
I said with a smile.
“A trap? You’re not afraid of the four of us anyway. And in fact, there are not many strong experts who can clear 10,000 obstacles. It’s a place where you have to have skills to go down, and you have to have skills to go up. “It’s not a place that anyone can just go to.”
The white-robed student thought for a moment and nodded.
“let’s go.”
With this, I was able to hire a reliable escort for free while on my way to Manjae. The situation was such that the ghosts and demonic cults could attach themselves to each other, so escorts were desperately needed.
Where in the world can you go to find an escort of no title?
Since what you end up eating when you go down anyway are the nameless fish that are plentiful in the lake, there is absolutely no reason to save on escort fees. It is none of my business whether the white-robed student becomes stronger because of the elixir. This is because it is courteous between comrades to help others if they are helped.
I said while shaking the dust off my butt.
“Let’s go.”
I stood up the demon who couldn’t get up from exhaustion and kicked the demon’s butt.
“Let’s go.”
“okay.”
I looked at the sword demon.
“Eldest brother.”
The exhausted Sword Demon pushed off the ground with his bright sword and stood up alone.
“let’s go.”
* * *
The man in black looked around the abandoned shrine and asked.
“Where are we?”
Gwangmyeongwoosa, the man whom the white-robed scholar called blood demon, answered.
“I’m not going temporarily. Let’s wait for those who went out to scout or survivors and then move on. By the way, you were hit by my tension, have you already recovered?”
The man in black looked at Gwangmyeong Woosa.
“yes.”
“You are a disciple raised by ghosts with great effort. “What about Elder Byakuya and Palnoya?”
“He died just before I arrived.”
Master Gwangmyeong said while turning his back.
“To whom? “They are not people who can be easily defeated.”
“He was killed by Hao Wenju.”
“Does he have the skills to do that?”
“yes.”
“That’s strange. “How did you kill him?”
The man in black said as he removed the cobwebs from the chair in the main hall.
“Hao Wenju grabbed the two elders and unleashed an ice ball. Other ghosts attacked Hao Wenzhou, but because of the ice attack, there was no damage at all. Anyone who saw them would have thought that the three of them had died together.”
“however?”
“As soon as I saw Hao Wenju release from the ice ball and kill two elders with a single sword, I joined. “Everyone carried out the strategy of only making the final move.”
Master Gwangmyeong turned his back and looked up at the Buddha statue in front of him and said.
“Those two elders are ghosts who survived the fight with the Sword God. No matter how you look at it, Hao Wen-ju’s skills are far less than that of the Sword God. I never thought we would fight so stupidly. “Why did you follow Munju to a secluded place?”
“It is Elder White Night’s decision. “It seems he was reluctant to join the Murim Alliance.”
The man in black said while staring at Gwangmyeongwoosa’s back.
“Please give us one more chance, Mr. Usa.”
“What more opportunities can I give you? Even the retired people were brought in, and nine out of ten people died. I don’t even know who’s still alive. “I’m at a loss as to why I should report this to the religious leader.”
The man in black listened to his surroundings for a moment.
“….”
Because it was a night with the moonlight pouring quietly, it was quiet. The fact that the surroundings were quiet meant that Gwangmyeong Usa Temple was the only place in this place. The black man’s eyes moved left and right.
The man in black spoke in a low tone.
“Wenju doesn’t know my face yet, so if you give me time, I will prepare a surprise attack personally. “I have already inherited the martial arts of killing spirits.”
“Are you saying you’re going to do it alone, without a ghost?”
“yes.”
Master Gwangmyeong said while looking up at the Buddha statue.
“Look at this Buddha statue. Do you know what it is?”
“I do not know.”
“Looking at the figure engulfed in flames, it looks like the Immortal King. The fact that a Buddha statue was made and enshrined in this way means that there were once people honoring King Myeong, but now it has become an abandoned shrine. It means that humans are people who can forget old graces and abandon God if they want to live well. In that sense.”
The man in black seemed to be moving and stuck his hand into Gwangmyeong Woosa’s back.
When the man in black’s hand was stuck in his back…
“…!”
Gwangmyeongwoosa’s body seemed to swell, and then the red thread that had the shape of a human crumbled into small pieces and was wrapped around the hand of the man in black.
In fact, Gwangmyeongwoosa was looking up at the Buddha statue in the same posture a few steps away.
While the man in black was trying to remove the red thread that was sticking to his arm, Master Gwangmyeong said.
“…What do you think about the fact that even those who offer offerings by making artistic Buddhist statues like this quickly abandon God when you help them?”
The man in black swung his left arm and poured out tension at Gwangmyeong Woosa. With a loud noise, the body of the Gwangmyeong Usa exploded, and hundreds of red threads grew in the air as if opening their mouths, and then wrapped around the left arm of the man in black.
Gwangmyeongwoosa, who appeared only two steps away, turned around and said.
“In the first place, I did not expect that a decent person would emerge from a ghost with a twisted nature. “I tried to give you a chance by saying that you would target Hao Wenju by yourself, but what are you doing?”
The man in black answered with red thread wrapped around his arms.
“Usa, my body is already close to being invulnerable to the sword. “Isn’t this the magic path you’ve been hoping for?”
Gwangmyeongwoosa said.
“It is foolish to believe that true sword invulnerability can reside in the body. “If you had become that strong, there would be no need to absorb Hao Wen Ju.”
The man in black spread his arms.
“Look. “Even your magician can’t do anything about me now.”
Usa Gwangmyeong looked at the man in black with a pitiful expression. As the man in black exploded with energy waves from his entire body, the red threads that were wrapped around his arms also fluttered out. Because of the air waves, even the clothes covering the black man’s body were scattered.
At that moment, the man in black swung his double sword towards Gwangmyeong Woosa, and in an instant, the abandoned shrine began to collapse. Soon, the Buddha statue exploded and the collapsed remains of the abandoned shrine began to scatter in all directions, and the man in black and the warrior of Gwangmyeong, who came outside, faced off.
Gwangmyeongwoosa, who was shaking off the black-robed man’s attacks like a ghost floating in the water, put his hands together and pulled out a red thread. The moment he was about to unfold something, the tension of the man in black covered Gwangmyeong Usa’s entire body.
This time, with a thud, Gwangmyeongwoosa’s body disintegrated into pieces of flesh and blood and scattered.
The man in black looked around with his whole body covered in blood. The eyes of the man in black were already bloodshot.
The man in black said while looking around.
“…a guy named Gwangmyeong Woosa.”
Suddenly, the blood that soared into the air scattered little by little, and then every single drop of blood turned into a red thread and stuck all over the body of the man in black. The torso and forearms, which were claimed to be invulnerable to swords, were not pierced with red threads, so they were held in a coiled form, but red threads were stuck all the way to the hair, eyes, nose, mouth, and ear holes.
When Gwangmyeongwoosa, who appeared two or three steps behind the spot where the black-clothed man attacked, put his hands together, the red threads that were attached to the black-clothed man entered the black-clad man’s body, moving around like loaches struggling.
As blood poured out from the man in black’s entire body…
at some point, a ball of thread that had entered the mouth of the man in black came out of the body.
Master Gwangmyeong watched the man in black with a cold expression.
“….”
The red thread that was piercing the body of the person in black disintegrated him from the inside. As the blood burst and the blood that burst out was eaten by the red thread and returned several times, the body of the person in black disappeared as if it were being eaten by the red thread.
Only then did Gwangmyeongwoosa approach the blood clot created by the red thread and cast something as if drawing Taegeuk.
Now, the person in black has become as small as an inner altar that can be held in one’s hand. It looks like a relic left behind by a high priest, or like an elixir that can be consumed immediately.
Master Gwangmyeong held the human elixir with his index finger and thumb while his entire body was covered in blood.
“….”
Master Gwangmyeong looked at the color of the elixir with his eyes assessing the completeness of the item.
