The Heavenly Demon Who Reigns Chapter 126 : It's Chilling (1)

A place where only pitch-black darkness could be seen all around. Su Yeongseong stood there alone.

"...?"

A face that didn't even know why he was standing in such a place.

As if trying to find sothing in a place where only darkness could be seen, Su Yeongseong looked around in all directions.

And at that mont, sothing popped out from behind Su Yeongseong.

Kuooh-!

As that sound was suddenly heard from behind, Su Yeongseong was startled and turned around.

Then, a dragon several tis larger than himself was faintly emitting a red light in the darkness.

'W-what on earth is this?'

There was no way a dragon could really exist in reality.

However, the being in front of his eyes was undoubtedly a dragon. And it was a red dragon with a body that was entirely red.

As he felt hostility towards him from the dragon's eyes, Su Yeongseong habitually reached for the sword he was wearing on his waist.

"...!"

A sensation that was not felt even when he clenched his hand.

As nothing was felt in his hand, Su Yeongseong's gaze turned to his waist.

'It's not there...!'

Why was he not wearing a sword?

Since he had always kept his sword by his side even when he slept, Su Yeongseong couldn't help but be bewildered by his empty waist.

Kuooh-!

At that mont, a cry was heard again from the front.

Su Yeongseong raised his head at that sound.

"...!"

The dragon was rushing towards him with its mouth wide open.

In a situation where he didn't even have a sword, there was no way he could win against that dragon.

Su Yeongseong turned his body to the back and started to run away.

Flap, flap, flap-.

Su Yeongseong was running with all his might.

However, the movent of the dragon chasing from behind seed to be faster, and if he continued like this, not only would he be caught by the dragon, but Su Yeongseong's body seed to be swallowed without a trace into that huge mouth.

'Why can't I run faster?'

Su Yeongseong had been raising his internal energy since a while ago to run faster.

However, for so reason, he could not feel any sensation in his dantian, and this feeling was as if he had returned to before he had learned martial arts.

'This can't be... this can't be!'

With that thought, Su Yeongseong tried to raise his internal energy several tis, but what ca back was only emptiness.

Accordingly, his breathing beca increasingly rapid and his movents slowed down.

Su Yeongseong let out a rough breath and suddenly looked back.

"...!"

What he saw as soon as he looked back was the inside of the dragon's mouth.

Su Yeongseong realized that he had been caught by the dragon.

And by the ti he realized that fact, Su Yeongseong's body was already being slowly swallowed into the dragon's mouth.

Gulp-.

The dragon closed its open mouth.

At the sa ti, Su Yeongseong's figure disappeared.

Su Yeongseong could no longer see anything.

***

"Ugh-!"

Su Yeongseong, who opened his eyes with a scream.

The place where Su Yeongseong opened his eyes was a bed with a thick blanket.

"...!"

As his consciousness awakened with a scream, Su Yeongseong hurriedly began to touch his face and body with his two hands.

His body, which he had thought had been swallowed by the dragon, seed to be safe, and after confirming that fact, Su Yeongseong, who had finally cald down, began to look around.

'The, the dragon?'

The figure of the dragon that had swallowed his body was not visible.

The pitch-black darkness was no longer visible around him, and Su Yeongseong could see that he was currently lying in so room.

"..."

A sohow familiar scenery of the room.

Su Yeongseong, who was looking around the room blankly, could imdiately realize where this place was.

'This is... my room.'

It was not his residence located in the main headquarters.

The place where he had been living until he had moved his residence to the main headquarters. It was his room in his family ho.

Creak-.

At that mont, the door opened and soone entered the room.

'Father?'

The person who entered the room was Su Yijeong.

Why was Su Yijeong in a place like this... no, since this seed to be his family ho, it was not that strange that Su Yijeong had appeared.

What was more questionable was why he was in his family ho.

Su Yeongseong tried to think about the reason, but since there seed to be a part where his mory was cut off in fragnts, only a headache rushed in.

"You're awake."

"Father... why was I lying in my family ho?"

"...You don't rember?"

In Su Yijeong's eyes as he said that, a sohow complicated feeling seed to be felt.

"...?"

At that mont, Su Yeongseong's gaze turned to Su Yijeong's left arm.

A sense of incongruity felt from the loose sleeve.

Thinking that sothing was strange, Su Yeongseong compared Su Yijeong's right arm and left arm, but it seed that what should have been there was not visible in the left sleeve.

"Father... that left arm..."

"..."

Su Yijeong looked at Su Yeongseong while maintaining his silence.

Su Yeongseong, who was looking at this side with a blank face as if waiting for an answer.

Towards such a Su Yeongseong, Su Yijeong had no choice but to force open his lips that would not part.

"Cheon Myeong."

"...!"

As soon as his na ca out of Su Yijeong's mouth, Su Yeongseong's expression changed.

He rembered everything. No, why had he forgotten?

The fact that he had fought a Demonic Authority Duel with Cheon Myeong at the Heavenly Demon Festival. And he could rember everything up to the fact that he had been miserably defeated by Cheon Myeong's sword in that duel.

"In order to save you, I offered my left arm to the leader."

"..."

"Thanks to that, I was able to save your life, but..."

Su Yijeong could not bring himself to say the words that followed.

The reason he had cut off his own left arm was also to save Su Yeongseong's life, but ultimately, there was another purpose.

However, reality did not flow as smoothly as he had thought, and as he was about to say the worst result with his own mouth, Su Yijeong's lips would not part due to his misery.

"..."

However, he could not keep his mouth shut forever.

Su Yijeong had no choice but to tell his son, who was looking at him, the cruel reality.

"...You have lost all of your internal energy."

"...Yes?"

"Your dantian was completely destroyed by that duel."

"..."

"From now on... you will not be able to accumulate internal energy."

A wound to the extent that the dantian was completely destroyed. In fact, it could be said to be a great miracle that he had survived from that wound.

However, could it really be said that he had survived just by barely holding on to his life like this?

Not only had he lost all the internal energy he had accumulated until now because his dantian was destroyed, but he had also beco a body that could not accumulate internal energy in the future.

That could be said to be already dead as a martial artist.

Su Yijeong had just given Su Yeongseong a death sentence.

"What... what do you an by that?"

"..."

"Did you say that my dantian... was destroyed?"

At that question, Su Yijeong did not give any answer and avoided his gaze.

An anxiety that welled up at that sight.

Su Yeongseong hurriedly sat cross-legged and checked his internal energy.

"...!"

It's not there.

From his lower abdon, where a huge amount of energy was always felt, now only an empty coldness was felt.

'Does that an... it wasn't a dream?'

He could not use his internal energy even when he was being chased by the dragon.

However, he had thought that that was only sothing in a dream...

Could it be that he had not yet woken up from the dream?

"That can't be..."

Su Yeongseong muttered, his body trembling.

"Why do I have to go through this!"

"..."

"Why ! Why , who has the chosen bloodline!"

At that mont, a face ca to Su Yeongseong's mind.

Yes, it's because of that guy.

Cheon Myeong, that damn bastard is the one who made his dantian like this.

"Cheon Myeong!!!"

As he thought of Cheon Myeong, Su Yeongseong could feel a rage he had never experienced before.

Then, as if he had gone mad, he began to shout Cheon Myeong's na towards the ceiling, and that shout could not continue for very long.

Gush-.

Blood flowing from Su Yeongseong's mouth.

He had only regained consciousness, and Su Yeongseong's internal injuries had not yet been completely healed.

But to shout like that in that state, would the healing internal injuries not burst?

In the end, Su Yeongseong had no choice but to vomit blood and fall forward.

"...!"

As Su Yeongseong's condition suddenly beca critical, Su Yijeong hurriedly approached him.

"A doctor! Bring a doctor!"

Su Yijeong shouted towards the outside, hugging Su Yeongseong, who was vomiting blood.

What goes around cos around.

Su Yeongseong was now receiving back the mistakes he had committed in the past.

So to be honest, it was a situation where he could not bla anyone, but even at this mont, Su Yeongseong's hatred was deepening towards one person.

***

As soon as Cheon Myeong arrived at the main headquarters, he headed for the leader's hall.

As if he had heard the news that Cheon Myeong had arrived at the main headquarters in advance, Bang Gitae was waiting for Cheon Myeong at the main gate.

As soon as Bang Gitae saw Cheon Myeong's figure, he hurriedly approached.

"You've co."

While speaking to Cheon Myeong, Bang Gitae's gaze scanned Cheon Myeong's entire body as if searching.

And only after discovering the Heavenly Demon Mirror in Cheon Myeong's hand and the Heavenly Demon Sword slung over his shoulder could his face brighten.

"You have safely retrieved the Three Sacred Treasures."

"Well... yes."

Although Cheon Myeong answered those words with a bit of reluctance, Bang Gitae seed not to have noticed that fact, as he was just happy that the Three Sacred Treasures had returned.

"...?"

At that mont, Bang Gitae belatedly discovered that soone else was standing next to Cheon Myeong.

"H-hello?"

Heo Cham greeted him, still tightly bound with a binding rope.

A rather haggard appearance, as if he had been hit head-on by all sorts of hardships compared to before he had left Namgang.

Bang Gitae silently looked at Heo Cham for a mont and then soon turned his gaze to Cheon Myeong.

"Young Master, who is that person?"

"I have brought a criminal."

"A criminal?"

"Yes, could you please lock him up in the prison for now?"

Although the situation was not yet properly grasped, since Cheon Myeong was saying that, it would be good to lock him up in the prison for now.

In fact, what was so important about Heo Cham in a situation like this?

Since there was nothing more important than the Three Sacred Treasures, Bang Gitae decided to get Heo Cham out of his sight as soon as possible.

"Escort him."

As Bang Gitae gave that order, a warrior approached from sowhere.

Cheon Myeong handed over the rope he had been holding until now to that warrior, and Heo Cham was led by the warrior and headed for the prison on his own.

"Young Master! Please do not forget the promise you made with !"

Heo Cham shouted at Cheon Myeong as he walked to the prison.

Although that voice seed to sound quite desperate, Cheon Myeong did not even give a glance to that side.

"Young Master, then let's go inside."

"..."

"The leader is waiting."

Has this mont finally co?

Originally, the steps heading for the leader's hall should be as dignified as those of a triumphant general.

If it weren't for that one thing.

'What kind of reaction will he show when he finds out that the Heavenly Demon Ring has been broken...'

It was not a problem that could be passed over as just a flaw in the jade.

With this alone, it was a situation where he, who had retrieved the Three Sacred Treasures, could be punished instead.

Sohow, it seed that he was more nervous now than when he had first entered the leader's hall.

"...Yes, let's go in."

"...?"

Bang Gitae could now feel the slight tension in Cheon Myeong's voice.

Why was Cheon Myeong nervous in this situation? Since he had retrieved the stolen Three Sacred Treasures, Cheon Jin would surely give him a huge reward.

'Is it just my imagination?'

Bang Gitae could not know the cause of that slight tension.

(End of Chapter)