Chapter 255: Jaseung, Rests
“The Asura Three Demons are dead.”
Yao Hong snapped his eyes open at the sudden ergency report. The chilling demonic energy radiating from his body made the Demonic Humans present cower.
There were seven Demonic Humans serving him. The Sword God was closest, and the Ghost Soldiers were on the opposite side. The remaining person was Sa Nogun, who had volunteered for the role of tactician.
Sa Nogun asked on behalf of Yao Hong.
“By whose hand? Was it the Captain of the Divine Sword Regint or the Captain of the Iron Cavalry Regint?”
A voice answered from the air.
“No. It has been confird that they were in different locations at that ti.”
“Even though those two were absent, the Three Demons failed?”
“It seems they were defeated by Baek Seolyoung.”
“Baek Seolyoung?”
“She is Lee Jaseung's wife.”
“The Three Demons were all defeated by a single woman?”
“That is not exactly the case, but it is certain they were defeated under her command.”
Sa Nogun looked at Yao Hong.
Until then, Yao Hong, who had shown no reaction as if the sacrifice of the Asura Three Demons was nothing, finally spoke.
“So they are not a tiger and a fox, but a Heavenly Dragon and a Phoenix?”
Despite the situation where a burst of rage might erupt, he was calm. Since coming down the mountain, things had not been going well, but his heart was actually fluttering.
He recalled the ti long ago when he plotted one conspiracy after another to swallow the Heavenly Demon Sect.
It was this difficult back then, too. Things kept getting twisted and entangled, and unexpected variables followed one after another.
But he solved them one by one. He showed a smile when he wanted to explode in a mad rage, and he crushed and killed opponents he could have just passed by with a laugh.
He navigated the Jianghu with his own judgnt and standards.
It would be the sa this ti as well.
Because no one would be able to stop him.
At that mont, five n stepped forward.
“Please send us. We will deal with those bastards all at once and return.”
They were the Ghost Soldiers. They were certainly individuals whose martial arts were superior to the Asura Three Demons. In terms of wickedness, they were the most notorious villains in the Demonic Cult.
Yao Hong had no intention of sending them.
“There is no need to use our own strength yet.”
The voice then guessed Yao Hong's intention.
“I will imdiately send word to the Dark Noble Clan.”
Yao Hong gave a satisfied smile at the quick witted subordinate's reply.
“Kill the tactician bastard, and bring the woman before .”
* * *
At the sa ti, Cheon Myeongin was dreaming.
It was a happy dream.
Having unified the Jianghu, he stood atop a massive castle looking down.
Tens of thousands of warriors were prostrate below. They looked like ants.
The Absolute.
He, who held the power of life and death over everyone in the world, was truly a Heavenly God.
Cheon Myeongin was overjoyed. Truly, he had never felt such an overwhelming heart since birth.
It was a life lived only for this day.
The past years of creating a secret organization to manipulate the Alliance Leader and accumulating power to grow his influence flashed by like a kaleidoscope.
‘If only Mountain had not betrayed , I would have stood in this position much sooner...’
The ti when Mountain betrayed him suddenly ca to mind.
The ti when he was pushed out of power.
Those miserable monts when he lay on a bed after being poisoned.
‘How did I overco all those obstacles?’
Then a single face ca to mind.
It was the face of Lee Jaseung.
‘Right, Lee Jaseung. That bastard gave dicine. The dicine I had to take once a month so he could manipulate . What a cowardly bastard.’
After overcoming such difficulties, I am in this position and...
‘What happened next?’
He could not rember. There must have been decisive monts to reach this position. The touching monts of dealing with Lee Jaseung and Yao Hong.
But not a single thing ca to mind. It was as if he had skipped all those monts and stood in this position directly.
Erging from his thoughts, Cheon Myeongin was startled.
The people who had been bowing their heads below all raised their faces and were looking up at him.
Their expressions contained no respect or fear. The emotion they revealed was clearly mockery.
‘How dare these bastards! Do you all wish to die!’
Cheon Myeongin glared at them and let out a shout. The words only circled in his head; his voice did not co out.
In the next mont, fear appeared on the people's faces. They all bowed their heads at once.
‘Hahaha, that's more like it.’
Cheon Myeongin gave a satisfied laugh. But he soon felt that the flow was sowhat unnatural.
A chilling sense of terror felt from behind.
Cheon Myeongin slowly turned around.
In the next mont, Cheon Myeongin snapped his eyes open.
Sothing black and massive was looking down at him.
The mont he made eye contact with those slit eyes.
“Aaaaaagh!”
Cheon Myeongin woke up from his sleep screaming.
Only then did he realize he had been having a nightmare. His entire body was drenched in sweat.
“Huff, huff.”
Cheon Myeongin let out a sigh. He recalled that black thing he saw before waking up. He could not rember anything else, but those eyes were vivid. Truly, just thinking about it made his spine turn cold.
“...What on earth was that?”
* * *
Rumbleeee.
A carriage was racing along the official road.
The people in the carriage were Lee Jaseung and Gwangdu. Gwangdu was in a state of sleep after having his pressure points suppressed.
Lee Jaseung was looking into his own body with his eyes closed.
It was still a body weakened with a tightly blocked Dantian.
Now, regardless of inner Qi, he had beco able to explode strength by imbuing it with a sliver of his mind.
It was still a ager strength. It was a strength that would only work for a surprise attack, and even that would not work if he t a real expert.
He had to sohow remove the mbrane that blocked his Dantian and muscles.
As he looked into his body like that, a thought suddenly occurred to him.
The thought that he had not looked into his body properly until now.
Of course, he had worked incredibly hard until now. training, practicing, and training again without fail. Of course, that practice included ditation.
But it was literally ti for his heart thod practice. It was nothing more than habitually checking his Dantian and blood vessels. Even that was sothing he did in an unconscious state.
There was never a ti he looked into his body unrelated to heart thod practice like this... not in the past.
The ti he was imprisoned in the martial arts academy was the first, and this was the second. Even the first ti, he was too frantic, so this could be called the first ti he looked at it calmly.
For the past few days, Lee Jaseung was able to look into his body calmly with a relaxed mind.
Furthermore, as his realm of martial arts rose, there was also a change in his perspective on looking at the body. As the saying goes that a person sees as much as they know, martial arts are the sa. There is sothing that becos visible according to one's skill.
Lee Jaseung beca more and more relaxed. He did not focus only on checking his body. He recalled things from his childhood and reminisced about his first etings with Baek Seolyoung and his subordinates.
Eventually, he even stopped his peaceful observation and took a deep rest. It was a rest for the first ti in a very long ti.
The carriage, which had been running without rest while only changing the coachman and horses, finally slowed down and stopped.
A familiar voice heard from outside.
“It is Ma Young-gi.”
When the carriage door opened, Ma Young-gi stood there with a face mixed with worry and emotion.
“Are you alright?”
After escaping the martial arts academy, Lee Jaseung stopped at the nearest Black Way Alliance branch to send a ssage to Dan Woobin and then returned by carriage.
Dan Woobin, who received the ssage, had sent Ma Young-gi to et him.
“I am fine.”
“I will drive the carriage from now on.”
Ma Young-gi sat in the driver's seat after sending the coachman back.
“And we have moved our headquarters to another location.”
“Did sothing happen?”
Ma Young-gi briefly told the story of the Asura Three Demons' intrusion.
“The Great Lady saved Strategist Dan and Captain Mook.”
Lee Jaseung was startled.
Ma Young-gi nodded once with a serious expression as if it were not a joke.
“In the process, the Great Lady even used Sword Kinesis.”
Lee Jaseung was startled again.
“Already?”
“Yes. It is such a sha I could not see it personally.”
It was the sa for Lee Jaseung.
A smile naturally ford on Lee Jaseung's lips. He wanted to see her soon.
* * *
Baek Seolyoung was having a nightmare.
She was being chased by the Asura Three Demons. The Demons created by Strange Demon pursued her. No matter how much she cut them, the beasts sward endlessly.
Especially when she saw those dangling things of the male beasts, she felt so chilled that she got goosebumps.
She ran and ran.
She did not know where to go. She just ran blindly.
She could not exert Sword Kinesis in the dream.
In her heart, she wanted to fly her sword and skewer them all, but let alone Sword Kinesis, she was in a situation where she had even lost the sword she was wearing sowhere.
A storm like wind whirled and shook her. It was the wind created by Wind Demon, who died from Mook Young's surprise attack. As if it were a sha he died without showing his skill, he was whipping up a mad wind in the dream.
Caught in the wind, her body crashed here and there. Her limbs were torn.
Splash.
The wind threw her into the water. An imnse water pressure was felt. She struggled to rise to the surface, but she only flailed her limbs.
The mont she saw Water Demon laughing unpleasantly in the distance, water poured into her mouth.
In the next mont, she woke up from her sleep.
“Huff, huff, huff.”
She exhaled roughly on the bed.
As she lay there for a mont looking up at the night sky through the window, her mind stabilized.
Suddenly, the sword standing next to the bed caught her eye.
Seeing the sword she had lost in the dream, her mind felt stable for so reason.
She could not believe the fact that that sword had exerted Sword Kinesis.
She thought it would be nice if the sword could talk.
She wanted to tell it thank you so much for that day. And... that she looks forward to its help in the future.
She closed her eyes to try to go back to sleep.
It was then. As if it knew her heart well, the sword humd lowly.
Zing.
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