Chapter 12.
My Safety and Those Around First (1)
[Republic of Korea Murim Tower (2nd Floor)]
I was holding onto the wart and interrogating him.
"Where is this place?"
"Y-Yunnan Province."
"Be specific."
The wart answered while gagging as I grabbed him by the collar.
"The edge of Yunnan Province, on the mountain pass leading to Sacheon Province."
"……!"
Sacheon Province. The place where my family, the Sacheondang Family, was located.
A thought flashed through my mind and I asked again.
"What were you all doing right now?"
"We… Had just finished an important task and were on our way back."
"An important task?"
Could it be.
"We went to et the head of the Sacheondang Family and settle matters."
"……!"
I opened my mouth in shock.
The Nallyu Gang eting with our Sacheondang Family.
Especially if it was eting my father, the family head.
That incident was certain.
"……Were you on your way back from capturing and then releasing the young master of the Sacheondang Family?"
The wart nodded.
That's right.
It was right after that incident at that exact ti.
These bastards had received orders from the Murim Alliance and used my life as a condition to send my father back.
And in return, gained entry into the Central Plains.
Right after that incident which beca the starting point of the Sacheondang Family's downfall.
What is this.
Why does the Murim Tower start at this point in ti…….
Swish. Thud.
I released the bastard's collar in shock.
Then this ti the wart asked .
"But…… How do you know about that incident?"
"……."
"You're a master of the Evil Path, aren't you? You just asked if I rembered, so it seems we've t sowhere before. I apologize for not recognizing you."
"……."
"Looking at your level of martial arts, you must clearly be a warrior directly under the Evil Path Alliance Leader."
My clothing is modern attire, but.
I've been covered in blood since the 1st floor and showed no rcy in my attacks, so he misunderstood.
I don't understand what's going on, but I decided to collect myself for now.
I asked the wart.
"Are you trapped here?"
"……Pardon?"
"Continuously repeating death and resurrection, fighting with the people climbing the Murim Tower."
"I don't know what you're talking about……."
The wart said while tilting his head.
"We were on our way back after completing our task when we t you, master."
Is that so.
Do these bastards not know they're trapped in this Murim Tower?
The wart asked.
"Are you a master from Poison Valley? Earlier it seed you were using poison techniques, I've heard much about Poison Valley's reputation."
He offered a cupped fist salute.
A ploy to attach himself to now that Sa Hon-il is dead.
"Thank you for sparing my life. I will serve you as my lord from now on."
Ha!
This is absurd.
I looked around.
Right, sothing feels familiar.
I had a gut feeling that the wart's words were true.
The wart gathered his subordinates and held sothing out to .
"Please accept this. It's a token of our loyalty."
It was a small box.
When I opened it, it was full of silver coins.
Clatter.
I closed the box and set it on the ground.
The wart said.
"When we return to our headquarters, we have plenty of gold coins too. The Evil Path Alliance Leader sent them to us, and I will offer them all to you, my lord—."
"Evil Path Alliance Leader?"
I cut off his words and quickly asked.
"Yes. That's right! The Gang Leader knows the details, but he's already dead……. Ah, anyway, I don't know why you suddenly attacked us, but there must be so misunderstanding. We also received orders from the Evil Path Alliance Leader!"
Evil Path Alliance Leader? Evil Path Alliance Leader?
Ha!
Grinding teeth.
I asked the wart.
"Do you rember?"
"Pardon?"
"You captured the son of the Sacheondang Family and held a blade to his throat."
"Ah…… Yes! As expected! You were watching it all."
"……."
"How terrified that bastard was……. Hehe. Seeing that arrogant young master from a prestigious orthodox clan trembling was quite a sight."
The bastard giggled.
Since he was mistaking for a master of the Evil Path, he must have thought he'd score points by putting down the Sacheondang Family.
"I also saw you all curse and spit behind his back after releasing that son."
"Ahaha! Yes, that's right!"
"What did you say to that son at that ti?"
The wart excitedly babbled.
"Did you piss yourself? Smile, you bastard! Smile! Hahaha! That's what I said."
He laughed, and the Nallyu Gang bastards who had cautiously approached the wart also laughed along.
Right.
"Smile. Keep smiling."
"Hahaha!"
Crack!
I shoved both hands into the smiling wart's mouth and pulled in opposite directions.
"Hiiiik!"
The wart looked at in horror.
I cast a shadow over his face and opened my mouth.
"I'll make you…… Smile forever."
Riiiiip!
I tore his mouth and jaw right apart, and I smiled too.
***
[Republic of Korea Murim Tower (3rd Floor)]
After killing the wart and the Nallyu Gang bastards on the 2nd floor, I imdiately ca up to the 3rd floor.
Similarly, 100 Nallyu Gang bastards.
What changed was that Sa Hon-il no longer ran away and that happiness points were given at 5 tis the amount.
Everything else was the sa.
Enraged, I attacked the bastards much more fiercely than on the 2nd floor.
Once I made Sa Hon-il unable to fight, the Nallyu Gang bastards, frightened of , fled.
I didn't chase them.
Instead, I captured Sa Hon-il and interrogated him.
"I-I really don't know. I have no idea what you're talking about……."
I asked about the tower, but.
He was the sa as the wart.
An expression of complete ignorance.
I asked a different question.
'We also received orders from the Evil Path Alliance Leader!'
Those were the words that bastard wart had said.
Sa Hon-il quickly confessed as my torture continued.
"The Evil Path Alliance Leader sent soone. Telling us to attack Sacheon Province."
"……."
"Naturally we tried to refuse! If we attacked Sacheon Province, that Dang Family would step forward. The Sacheondang Family, one of the Five Great Families, is not at a level our Nallyu Gang can handle."
"And so?"
"He said he'd watch our backs so we shouldn't worry. Honestly…… We didn't believe it, but if we didn't follow, he had the montum to kill us all, so we had no choice."
"Continue."
"So we went to Sacheon Province first. The Sacheondang Family stepped forward, and we were afraid, but we coincidentally ca to possess the Dang Family Head's son."
"Ca to possess?"
Not captured?
Sa Hon-il said urgently.
"The day before the Dang Family arrived, a man in black ca carrying a sack on his shoulder and threw it to . When I opened it, the Dang Family Head's son was inside."
"……!"
In the past, wasn't it the Nallyu Gang that kidnapped ?
"Who was the man in black?"
"He was wearing a mask so I couldn't tell, but I guessed that the Evil Path Alliance Leader must have sent him."
That was it.
The beginning of my despair was all a sche by the Murim Alliance Leader and the Evil Path Alliance Leader.
……The two Alliance Leaders joining hands was faster than I thought.
There was no other information to obtain from Sa Hon-il.
Thwack!
I smashed his head.
Ding!
【Additional Mission Success】
【Eliminate Sa Hon-il, Gang Leader of the Nallyu Gang.】
-Mission (3rd Floor) considered successful!
-Happiness Points 50,000!
【Ti taken to achieve mission: 9 minutes 58 seconds】
【Overwhelming Achievent (GOLD)!】
【Murim Tower 3rd Floor turns golden.】
【The entire world is watching the Republic of Korea's tower.】
A notification ssage appeared.
Wuuuung—
Two doors opened again.
First, the door leading to the 4th floor.
【You have consecutively broken through up to the 3rd floor.】
Entry to the upper floor is currently not possible.
【Ti remaining until 4th floor entry is possible】
29 days : 23 hours : 59 minutes : 59 seconds
A ssage that the 4th floor is inaccessible.
So I can go 3 floors every 30 days.
If I enter through the real Murim Tower's door instead of this door.
It said entry is possible once every 10 days.
My door, which allows to go 3 floors at once, is much better.
No wonder it kept opening for . There was a limit.
I wonder if this door levels up too?
I stood in front of the next door.
The door returning to the dicinal herbs and poisonous herbs field.
"Huuu……."
I swept back my disheveled hair.
I can roughly guess the structure of the tower just from the information I have so far.
In the end, I have to climb to the very top of the tower to et you bastards.
Murim Alliance Leader, Evil Path Alliance Leader, Heavenly Demon…….
Then there was sothing I had to do before leaving the tower.
I searched through Sa Hon-il's and the wart's belongings and found one more box containing silver coins.
Two boxes of silver coins.
It would be nice if a door was created that could go down to lower floors too.
So I can gather more silver coin boxes.
And I gathered Sa Hon-il's sword and weapons that looked usable and placed them in front of the door.
These can all be sold for money too.
Also, there was one last thing I had to check.
I don't know how far I can go from here, but.
"What dicinal herbs are there in Yunnan Province?"
I have to take what I can take.
***
Wuuuuung—
I returned to the dicinal herbs and poisonous plants field again.
Clatter.
I threw the things I'd gathered onto the field.
While planting several dicinal herbs and poisonous plants I'd dug up in my field, I thought.
An additional fact I discovered was that the form of each floor is shaped like a cube, like this dicinal herbs and poisonous plants field.
Walking slowly from end to end took about one shijin, so the diater is probably about 2 km.
"The 3rd floor's area is 4 km². Wider than I thought."
While breaking through up to the 3rd floor and collecting points, my skills also developed.
First.
【Congratulations. Poison Demon’s dicinal and Poisonous Herb Field lv4】
【The dicinal and poisonous herb field expands.】
My field beca wider.
【You have acquired Heavenly Frost Kick lv1, Big Dipper Eighteen Steps lv1, Soul-Crushing Drum lv1.】
So of the martial arts I frequently used were officially registered.
The power is definitely different.
Before, it felt like sothing was blocked, but my energy channels opened up.
"It would have been nice if our family's poison martial arts were registered."
The martial arts of the Sacheondang Family are largely divided into two lineages.
One is the Five Poisons Divine Sand lineage that handles poisonous substances.
Martial arts that handle the Eight Great Extre Poisons like Divine Immortal Waste, Seven Steps Soul-Severing Powder, and Soul-Drawing Water.
And the end of that is precisely Poison Man.
This was dismissed as re legend.
That is, until I achieved it.
The second is hidden weapon techniques.
Hidden weapons and martial arts like Soul-Severing Sand, Heavenly King Needle Tube, and Wandering Soul Below the Sword are also unparalleled under heaven.
The end of hidden weapon techniques is that famous Flowers Filling the Sky Like Rain.
I chose the first path.
The reason was that my enemies had taken all the hidden weapons needed for hidden weapon techniques.
Above all.
In our Sacheondang Family's final battle,
Father executed Flowers Filling the Sky Like Rain, but the Murim Alliance Leader blocked it.
Even if I could learn hidden weapon techniques to the end and execute Flowers Filling the Sky Like Rain.
If I can't face even one of the Murim Alliance Leader, Evil Path Alliance Leader, or Heavenly Demon, isn't that end clear?
But.
As I aged and reached higher realms, my thinking changed.
Indeed.
Was the Flowers Filling the Sky Like Rain that Father executed.
……The real Flowers Filling the Sky Like Rain?
Surely from what I heard, the Flowers Filling the Sky Like Rain created by the Dang Family's founder was said to have power enough to overturn heaven and earth.
Honestly, it didn't feel like it matched such a description.
They said the Dang Family founder achieved great success in both poison techniques and hidden weapon techniques.
Could it be because of that?
So I belatedly learned the manufacturing thods for hidden weapons from the Iron Instrunt God's son, but.
At that ti, the Heavenly Poison Blood Divine Art had beco too strong, making it unsuitable for hidden weapon techniques.
When learning hidden weapon techniques, pure and orderly internal energy is needed, but it has beco filled with poison energy.
"Just how did he achieve great success in both polar opposite martial arts at once?"
I couldn't believe it at the ti.
Legends are just legends.
"But now it's different."
The power of the Heavenly Poison Blood Divine Art is also suppressed.
Above all, as the regression has been applied, I possess internal energy more pure and orderly than any mont in my previous life.
Now.
"Both poison techniques and hidden weapon techniques. I can achieve great success in both!"
Thump.
I sat down on the field and crossed my legs.
I recited the incantations and circulated my internal energy.
Ten Thousand Streams Return to Origin Divine Art.
The foundation and the end of Sacheondang Family's hidden weapon techniques.
……Will it work well?
It will work.
Heavenly Frost Kick, Big Dipper Eighteen Steps, Soul-Crushing Drum.
I used them all many tis, so the tower officially registered them for .
It will be possible.
If not.
"I'll make it happen."
***
I left the poisonous herb field and returned to my room again.
I took off my blood-soaked clothes and stuffed them into my bag.
I probably can't wear them again.
I'll have to throw them away.
I entered the bathroom and scrubbed my body with soap.
Ah, soap.
Right after the Republic of Korea, the thing I like most is this soap.
This soap that washes away blood, slls, and sweat.
Hard, soft, cheap.
I wanted to wash away the jumbled ss in my head with soap bubbles too.
"Ehyu."
With a face full of worry, I ca out drying my hair with a towel.
"Tae-yang!"
Mother was in front of the bathroom.
"Yes, Mother."
"Where were you?"
A face full of worry.
Her expression is darker than mine.
Every ti she runs into , her expression isn't good.
Ehyu. This unfilial son Kim Tae-yang.
"I was washing up."
"No! I had a strange feeling so I ca ho early, and you definitely weren't here."
I can't let her catch entering and leaving the tower.
I firmly denied it.
"No, I was."
"What do you an no. Father clearly called saying you ca back a long ti ago!"
"I went out for a bit and ca back."
It seems she had been searching worriedly when her troubled son didn't co ho.
"Really?"
Mother's doubtful expression.
I wiped off the remaining moisture with a light smile.
"Don't worry. I'm perfectly fine."
"You don't seem perfectly fine……."
"Ah. I'm hungry. Is there anything to eat?"
"I did so shopping."
Mother's expression relaxed considerably.
"Food, not porridge."
"You still need to eat porridge."
"Eh, not that."
"Then what do you want to eat?"
Co on, speak up, Kim Tae-yang.
What do you want to eat?
What ca to mind at that mont was.
"Kimchi stew!"
Mother smiled with a comfortable feeling.
I smiled broadly too.
And.
This guy also seed to be smiling.
【Kim Tae-yang is delighted. 50 Happiness】
【Current Happiness Points: 150,335/999,999,999】
Kim Tae-yang.
I don't know where the end is, but.
Let's go.
……Together.
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