Chapter 26 (Abandoned Disciple of Heavenly Demon)
Episode 26: Conflict (2)
Mok Ja-gyeong frowned as he looked at Jin Myeong who had blocked his attack.
“Hoo.”
But what surprised him more was that, Jin Myeong blocked his attack, without being pushed back at all.
‘I wanted to see that special martial arts…. But he isn’t showing any such signs of using it, yet.’
Phew!
‘Surprisingly, he chose to swung his sword, himself. It was the same kind of movement as ordinary martial art.’
‘It’s not that great of a martial art, but…’
Jin Myeong’s swordsmanship was neither fast nor sharp. It wasn’t flashy because there were a lot of changes, and it wasn’t something that took advantage of an opening.
‘But why is it so difficult?’
‘It’s just basic Sword Form, just swinging and stabbing, so why wasn’t it easy to find an opening and attack him.’
Hurrruk!
‘Is it because of the pure white flames surrounding the sword of Jin Myeong.’
Because of the unusual feeling of the flames, it was not easy for Mok Ja-gyeong to close the distance with Jin Myeong.
“Tsk.”
It was a very humiliating experience for Mok Ja-gyeong. Because he is having a hard time subduing even his youngest whom he has been ignoring until now.
Mok Ja-gyeong hid his feelings and looked closely at Jin Myeong.
‘Since it is basic swordsmanship, it seems like there aren’t any weak points. It isn’t easy to find loopholes.’
‘Despite this technique being inferior to the Quick Sword or the Strong Sword, but it is loaded with a level of power that cannot be ignored, as if Youngest had not been slacking off in his training.’
“Youngest, you have certainly grown a lot.”
A smile appeared on Jin Myeong’s lips when he saw Mok Ja-gyeong’s smile.
“Thank you. I don’t know what to do with myself for your compliments, Senior Brother.”
“But I don’t think I’ll take kindly to you being so arrogant over something like that”, said Mok Ja-gyeong.
‘I will admit that, Jin Myeong became stronger than my expectation.’
‘Even without the strange martial arts I heard about from Gye Bu-il, he was able to fight against me this long. But that’s all.’
Bang!
Mok Ja-gyeong tried to assess as much as he could because he couldn’t figure out what the pure white flame was, but he didn’t plan on watching Jin Myeong run wild forever.
Mok Ja-gyeong immediately ran to Jin Myeong and moved his hand.
“Hmm!”
Certainly, the movements of Mok Ja-gyeong have become bolder. Unlike before, he didn’t give Jin Myeong a good distance and stuck to him.
Jin Myeong was blocking Mok Ja-gyeong’s attacks and was being pushed back little by little.
‘It’s not easy’, Jin Myeong frowned.
Perhaps because Jin Myeong had no real-world experience, he quickly began to fall behind Mok Ja-gyeong.
‘I had to block it somehow, but….’
‘I have to block his attacks and counterattack, but it’s not easy. I was only concerned with blocking the relentless attacks of him.’
‘Still, to this extent…’
Jin Myeong, who thought he was holding it off well enough, glanced at the wooden box he had put down.
Then, the swords inside the wooden box began to shake as if ready to move at any moment.
“Stop!”
At the same time, someone came between Jin Myeong and Mok Ja-gyeong.
“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t interfere with the fight, Commander Neung?” asked Mok Ja-gyeong frowned at the sudden appearance of Commander.
Because for Mok Ja-gyeong it seemed like Commander suddenly stepped forward in a dangerous situation.
“I think this fight should end here.”
“So, to protect the youngest?
“Isn’t it rather to protect you?”
At Jin Myeong’s words, Mok Ja-gyeong’s eyebrows twitched again. It was really difficult to maintain composure because the opponent was Jin Myeong.
“I am worried that you will suffer great harm since your skills cannot keep up with your mouth.”
“Wouldn’t it be better to worry about yourself first, Senior Brother; instead of worrying about me?”
Both of them growled again. They looked like they were about to rush at each other at any moment.
“It’s not like that, so stop talking nonsense.”
Commander Neung cut off the conversation between the two men as if it was not worth listening to any more.
“The Kunlun sect has moved.”
“Hmm.”
It had not been long since Mok Ja-gyeong had killed two Kunlun sect Taoists, but they were already moving.
It was natural, since Qinghai itself could be said to be the territory of the Kunlun School.
“So, they’re coming here?”
“Here?”
“Hmm?”
“Before leaving the inn, I told the inn owner about this place. Of course, I thought the Kunlun sect would come here.”
But things were happening differently from what Mok Ja-gyeong had thought.
“It looks like they going to the Second Martial Brother.”
“Hmm.”
‘It seems like the others went out too.’
Jin Myeong remembered that Jang Hoo had left this place with quite a few people. Not only the other disciples of the Heavenly Demon, but even the young warriors who followed them chose to explore city.
“Then, Master Mok, go and resolve the matter and come back.”
“Commander, are you saying, you won’t go?”
“Aren’t you responsible for this? So, you guys figure it out.”
Commander Neung looked over Mok Ja-gyeong, Jin Myeong, Bi Yeong, and Shin Ye-hyang.
“You stopped the fight so I could solve it? How kind of you to do that.”
“Isn’t that obvious? It’s okay if one of you dies, but if all of you die, it will hinder the mission.”
It doesn’t matter if either Jin Myeong or Mok Ja-gyeong dies. It’s not just two people.
It’s okay if a few of the young people who go out drinking die. But the survival of only a few people was not what he wanted.
‘If only Shadow Demons were here…’
‘If I could have brought more Shadow Demons, I wouldn’t have cared if they died.’
“Tsk. If possible, just rest here.”
Commander Neung clicked his tongue briefly and turned his body around.
“This is why useless kids are the problem.”
If they were members of the Shadow Demon Unit, they wouldn’t have ignored his words and neither would had gone out to fight the Kunlun faction.
“Do your best. If this mission fails, you won’t be safe either”, Commander Neung tried to leave as if he had nothing more to say.
“Are you trying to get away like this?”
But Commander had no choice but to stop at Mok Ja-gyeong’s words.
“In the end, aren’t you just complaining because you don’t have the ability to properly command this group?” Mok Ja-gyeong said with a grin.
Mok Ja-gyoeng gets annoyed, when got mocked by Jin Myeong, but now, when he was teasing and mocking others, he seems to be enjoying it.
‘Why are these people suddenly like this again?’
Jin Myeong saw Mok Ja-gyeong and Commander Neung suddenly getting more and more angry.
The atmosphere became such that, it seemed if they would draw their swords and fight at any moment.
‘Others took it for granted too.’
Bi Yeong and Shin Ye-hyang didn’t seem to have any intention of stopping those two either. Rather, they were looking at these two with interest.
‘Heavenly Demon’s most trusted subordinate and Heavenly Demon’s first disciple. Who among the two is stronger is something that anyone from the Heavenly Demon Sect cannot help but wonder about.’
‘Is it because it’s a demonic sect?’
There was no need for a justification for fighting. It was so natural to fight if you didn’t like the other person.
“There’s no time to be like this right now. It would be best to go quickly and take care of the Kunlun Sect’s business.”
However, it seemed that Commander had no intention of fighting Mok Ja-gyeong right now.
“And I have no intention of escaping.”
Commander Neung did not think that he lacked the ability to lead his group as Mok Ja-gyeong said.
“I just had no intention of leading.”
“If I fail to carry out the orders my lord has given me, I will take responsibility for it with my life.”
To Commander of Shadow Demons, Neung Byeok-mun, Heavenly Demon’s orders were absolute. To the point where he thought that if he failed to carry out that order, he would naturally have to give up his life.
“Of course, you too will have to take responsibility.”
Like Commander himself, with his life.
‘Was this mission that important?’
Jin Myeong couldn’t understand why Commander Neung was risking his life for this mission.
Since it was a mission that wasn’t even mentioned in the novel, Jin Myeong didn’t think it was very important.
“You don’t want lose your life over something like this, can you, Youngest?” said Mok Ja-gyeung while smile returned to his face, as Commander left.
‘Now it seemed like he had completely regained his composure.’
“If Senior Brother hadn’t done that or if it had been resolved to the end, this wouldn’t have happened.”
“I still couldn’t figure out why you had beheaded that Kunlun Sect’s Taoist monk.”
It almost seemed as if Mok Ja-gyeong really wanted a war to break out.
“Youngest, are you thinking of starting again?”
However, the reason why Mok Ja-gyeong ordered the capture of the fleeing Kunlun Sect Taoist monk was roughly guessed.
Perhaps he wanted to gain the upper hand by giving such orders to Jin Myeong.
‘I guess he wanted to remind me that no matter how strong I become, I must ultimately follow his orders.’
“Are we going to keep doing this? I don’t think we have time for this right now”, Bi Yeong said, when it seemed like the two were about to draw their swords.
“Junior Brother, let’s put this prank aside for a moment”, as soon as Mok Ja-gyeong said that, he started walking away.
And the rest of the people followed him and moved towards the place where Zhang Hoo and Kunlun Sect had clashed.
‘You’ve gone quite far.’
Unlike them who had a simple meal nearby, Jang Hoo seemed to have gone quite far to drink. And Jin Myeong could see a lot of people gathered in front of a rather luxurious-looking building.
“I told you not to cause trouble like that! How dare you blow the head of a Kunlun Sect disciple in Qinghai?”
“Even though it wasn’t my doing, if you want, I can cut off your heads as well.”
Zhang Hoo and his party were seen confronting the Kunlun sect Taoist priests.
‘Hmm, I think I’ve seen him somewhere.’
Jin Myeong was looking at The Young Kunlun Sect Taoist monk standing opposite Zhang Hoo.
“This is why I can’t trust these dirty devils.”
Only after hearing the young Taoist monk’s words could Jin Myeong recall who he was. It was the same Young Taoist monk who suddenly attacked Mok Ja-gyeong in the Kunlun Mountains.
‘Hmm. I think he was called a divine dragon.’
Unfortunately, he was not the one who left a strong impression on Jin Myeong.
‘Anyway, it was one of the fifteen divine dragons of the Orthodox Alliance, right?’
The fifteen new dragons of the Orthodox Alliance. It is a general term for the most representative late indices in The Five Great Clans, Nine Sect and One Alliance.
‘They say the members can change, but nothing has changed at all.’
When Jeong Ui-maeng first created the Fifteen Divine Dragons, he said that anyone with the skills could take their place.
However, if someone were not from a prestigious school such as Nine Sects or Five Great Clans, he/she could not enter the Fifteen Divine Dragons.
In fact, the main character, although he was not lacking in martial arts at all compared to the Fifteen Divine Dragons, was unable to become one of them because his origins were unclear.
“So how long are you going to keep talking like this? If you’re going to do it, just do it”, Jang Hoo smiled brightly and pulled out his sword.
Even when surrounded by Kunlun sect Taoist priests, they looked relaxed.
“You are brimming with confidence.”
And then, the Great Void New Dragon, one of the fifteen divine dragons and the eldest disciple of the Kunlun sect, Haksu Dojang, stepped forward.
“Do you think you can handle us with less than ten men?”
Jang Hoo’s party of less than ten people. And the number of Kunlun sect Taoist priests surrounding them is close to a hundred.
Even though they are disciples of the Heavenly Demon and young masters who are the successors of the elders, it will be difficult to deal with them all.
“We have to try it to know.”
However, Jang Hoo, as well as everyone else, continued to look relaxed. It is because he is confident that he can fight moderately and escape from here at any time that he is so relaxed.
“You’re so confident.”
The student tried his best to remain calm. But most could sense the anger in his voice.
“I must make it so that Kunlun will never be ignored again.”
The student leader drew his sword.
Then, the other Taoist priests of Kunlun also drew their swords, and Zhang Hoo and his men also drew their weapons.
It was a tense situation where they seemed like they would rush at each other at any moment.
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