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Chapter 94
Chapter 94. The Sharpest Blade in the Darkness
“Why is it not here?”
Jin Tae-san, who had been rummaging through the oldest storage room in the Taeul Sect, tilted his head.
“What are you looking for?”
Hong Mun-gi poked his head in.
W̃ eb̆ n̆о́ v̇e l̄ Е n̄ uṁ а̂
“Ah, Sect Leader.”
Jin Tae-san’s eyes trembled faintly when he saw Hong Mun-gi.
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The attainment of a man who would soon be looking at fifty was increasing with each passing day, to the point that he felt like a different person.
“Were you training?”
“A Sect Leader in name cannot be weaker than his disciples, can he?”
Jin Tae-san himself had been too busy organizing the family property handed over from the Azure Sky Merchant Guild to train, but Hong Mun-gi, along with the Hall Masters of each hall and the junior brothers, had abandoned eating and drinking and were wholly absorbed in learning the martial scriptures of the Taeul Sword Emperor.
Ẃ е b n̂ ov̀êl̆ Ѐ n ú m̄ а
“Then please go and train more. It is enough for me to search alone.”
“Still, I am the Sect Leader in name. How could I not help when the Hall Master of the Outer Hall is having difficulty?”
“…….”
He was clearly tired of training and was doing something else.
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Even when he was young, he had often been scolded by his masters because he could not focus steadily on one thing.
Jin Tae-san had thought he might have improved a little with age, but it seemed that was not the case when it came to training.
W еb̀ñ о v̌ ël Ё n̄úm̄а̇.
“I cannot tell where the sect flag was put.”
“Do you mean the Taeul Sect flag?”
“Yes.”
The Merchant Guild’s affairs had more or less been organized, and the production volume of the Iron Ore Mine was gradually increasing as well.
Once they had clients to supply, they would also have to open a regular distribution network.
Though the sect had sealed its gates, it was about time to put the Taeul Sect’s name forward and expand the Merchant Guild’s influence.
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After all, the Taeul Sect’s influence would grow as much as the Merchant Guild did.
“Someone else took that.”
“……Pardon?”
Jin Tae-san thought he must have heard wrong.
A sect flag sometimes served as a moving nameplate.
The Taeul Sect had been such an insignificant sect that there had never been any occasion to raise that flag, but even so, a flag that was practically the pride of the sect was not something to be handed over to just anyone.
Еň um̈ а
“So-un said he needed it, so I gave it to him.”
“Jin So-un? You mean my son?”
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“Yes.”
Why was that damned bastard’s name appearing here again?
“……Why?”
“How would I know? He said he was taking it just in case. So I told him to do so.”
E_n ũ.m̌ä
“…….”
Jin Tae-san now grew tense whenever Jin So-un did anything at all.
“Do you need the sect flag? Shall we make a new one while we are at it?”
“No need. I will place an order for one.”
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“Ahem. How could we do that? A sect flag ultimately becomes the spirit of that sect. As the Sect Leader, I should make it stitch by stitch with sincerity…….”
“Go train. What sect leader these days sits around making sect flags?”
Ӗn um̀ а̄
Bang.
Out of unease, Jin Tae-san pointlessly slammed the storage room door shut in irritation.
“First, from now on, we will use the official road only during the day.”
We decided to leave behind at the Pleasure House those among the party who were injured, those who had difficulty moving, and those whose bodies would not move because of exhaustion.
When I told them not to take even one step outside the Pleasure House, the ones left behind wore strange(?) expressions, unable to hide their relief even while worrying about those who were leaving.
“The problem is the official road from Heze to Puyang.”
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If we drove the horses to their deaths, we could reach a village during daylight on the way to Heze.
However, on the road from Heze across the province border to Puyang, there was no village within half a day’s distance.
We would have to camp outdoors or move at night.
“When night comes, they will certainly move.”
Facing the Dark Soul-Severing Unit in darkness was no different from fighting water while inside water.
“If we run through the night…….”
Ѐn̂ u m̌ а . і d̊
At Seong Mo-ran’s words, I shook my head. The Dark Soul-Severing Unit learned the Heavenly Demon Reigning Step.
Not only in destructive power, but even in speed, it was a movement art that ranked among the ten greatest under heaven.
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They were not beings we could escape from with something like horses.
“It will only create meaningless casualties.”
“…….”
Seong Mo-ran pressed her mouth shut.
W̄.е b̃nо̆vеl̄ E ñ umа̇
The fear caused by their existence was great enough to frighten even her, who was so spirited.
Namgung Seon-hwa spoke while forcing down the tremor in her voice.
“Then…… what should we do?”
I looked at Eun-ho.
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“This is it.”
Eun-ho spread out the cloth he was holding.
Eñ u m̈_а . і̇d̆
Even Seong Mo-ran, who had been gloomy, and Namgung Seon-hwa, who had been trembling silently, both became wide-eyed like rabbits.
“Are you…… insane?”
“No matter what, this is…….”
The impressions of those who saw the Taeul Sect flag were not much different from those of the two women.
“What they least desire is having their identity discovered. We will hide among people.”
“No, wait…… haa.”
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“Young Master Jin, I don't think this is right. If we raise that flag, everyone under heaven will chase after us.”
“That is exactly what I want.”
The two women sighed at the same time.
“Is this really right?”
While we were riding the horses toward An County, the first village, Seong Mo-ran asked Eun-ho, who was holding the flag.
“This is the same as wrapping yourself in burning straw and leaping into a fire.”
Е̃ n̈ u.ḿа̀.і d
There were more than ten warriors we had left behind at the Pleasure House in Feng County.
Now, the number of warriors was slowly approaching one hundred.
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No matter how absolute an expert might be, one could not win a battle of numbers.
And they were not absolute experts either.
Moreover, Jin So-un was raising the Taeul Sect flag and drawing enemies in recklessly.
“I don't know.”
Ѐn̂ ü m̃ а̌
Eun-ho shook his head, saying he did not know either.
That reaction was quite fresh.
Eun-ho was the smartest and most eloquent among the Gold, Silver, and Bronze brothers. Had it not been Eun-ho who explained most of Jin So-un’s actions that they could not understand?
“Really?”
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And yet, even that Eun-ho did not know.
“Yes. Eldest Senior Brother sometimes does things that cannot be understood through common sense. Ah, no. Not sometimes. Often.”
Enum̈а̄
“……Yet you are working quite hard.”
Eun-ho had personally obtained bamboo and raised the flag high.
Even though it was not easy to hold a flag while riding a horse, he had stepped forward to do it himself instead of entrusting it to anyone else.
“I don't understand, but I still trust Eldest Senior Brother.”
“Hm?”
“Eldest Senior Brother’s choices are always directed toward us. Not once have they been directed toward himself. I am sure that in this choice too, he thought of us before himself.”
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For some reason, Seong Mo-ran felt a thud in her chest.
The things they had done together in their short time came to mind.
Even though he could have unfolded Sword Forms with his martial brothers and eaten warm rice, he had stayed with them.
Thanks to that, Kang Seo-pyo and Cho Mu-bin, who had to protect her and Namgung Seon-hwa, had been able to pay more attention to the other warriors.
For most of the time, she had never even seen him sleeping.
Even when she struck her own sleep acupoint and fell asleep, he had been awake, and when she woke, he would already be up first, rummaging through kindling.
Ẅ ӗ ḃ ńó v́ е̂ l Е̇ n̄uṁ а́
“That is why I sometimes stop thinking. If I pointlessly turn my head and think, my actions slow down while I try to understand Eldest Senior Brother’s intention.”
“……You like your Eldest Senior Brother.”
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In the middle of riding while holding the reins and carrying the flag, Eun-ho picked up a piece of jerky and ate it.
Eun-ho chewed, then grinned.
“How could I not follow an Eldest Senior Brother like that?”
“…….”
Е̌ń ŭ m а .і d
She found herself nodding.
“Yes. Then I should stop thinking too.”
“That was a wise decision. Considering the schedule ahead, it will be more comfortable to act without thinking anyway.”
“Hm? What does that mean?”
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“When we left the village this morning, Eldest Senior Brother asked Hao Gate to inform the examinees of our location. I don't know for certain, but from now on, we probably will not even have time to eat jerky.”
“Hey! You should have told me that sooner!”
Ӗ n̆ ü m̈ а̇.i d̂
Seong Mo-ran hurriedly pulled a pouch of jerky from her clothes.
There was no great damage until we reached An County.
There were groups that seemed to belong to a few examinees, but the examinees, unprepared before the absurd strategy of “shut up and charge,” could not become much of an obstacle.
While going from An County to Chengwu, the number of people changed entirely.
Seeing the flag from afar, examinees and warriors rushed in from every direction.
We did not form Sword Formations or defensive squares.
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We charged no matter what.
If a horse was injured, the rider immediately mounted someone else’s horse and kept running.
By the time we entered Chengwu, hundreds of examinees were following in a long line behind us.
From Chengwu onward, we stopped at the Azure Sky Merchant Guild again.
Since hundreds of people had gathered around the Azure Sky Merchant Guild branch and were glaring at it, there was no need to go out of our way to a Pleasure House where the lights stayed on all night.
The greatest number of stragglers appeared while we were traveling from Chengwu to Heze.
Еn̆ u mȧ.і̊ ḋ
Some were injured in battles with other examinees and could no longer accompany us, while others were taken by the Dark Soul-Severing Unit.
Because we were ambushed by other examinees just before entering Heze, the sun had set, and the warriors who remained even briefly in the lightless darkness amid the chaos never returned.
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The number of warriors now stood at only eighty.
Most of them were heavily exhausted from the forced march.
“Now is the real part.”
From Heze onward, we ran like mad, dragging a long line of pursuing examinees behind us, but by the time we crossed into Shandong Province, the sun began slowly slanting toward the west.
Е n̈u mǎ
Behind us, hundreds of examinees began lighting torches one by one, and ahead of us, examinees who had been waiting in advance lit torches as though announcing their presence.
“How are we supposed to distinguish those beings?”
At Seong Mo-ran’s question, Jin So-un answered as though it were obvious.
“If you feel no presence at all, pour Sword Qi into that place.”
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“Yes?”
It was an absurd and nonsensical method of response.
Е̇ nu̇ m а̊. і̊ d
“If there are this many people in every direction, yet you still feel no presence at all, then those are the beings.”
“……Understood.”
Torches began lighting in every direction.
In the nearby forest, on the distant ridgeline, and behind them where dust rose.
Those who heard Hao Gate’s information, those who heard the Beggars’ Sect’s information, those who saw the Taeul Sect flag, and those who saw other examinees moving.
Nearly one thousand people had gathered to seize the Trial Tokens.
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And even more terrifying beings were hiding between their darkness.
If they became aware of reality, their fear and terror would only grow.
They continued only one thought.
“If there is no presence, cut. If there is no presence, cut.”
Only Dong-ryong’s voice, repeating Jin So-un’s words, echoed among the people.
CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG.
Е̌ nů m а
CLANGCLANGCLANGCLANG.
CLANGCLANGCLANG—.
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“Please.”
In the end, the eighty of us were blocked by a curtain of hundreds.
The horses we had ridden often collapsed or panicked and fled after throwing their masters off, and those who fell from their horses did not hesitate to send their swords flying toward their enemies, using small torches as lamps.
“Go.”
Е n u m̆ а̌ .ī d̆
Kang Seo-pyo, whom I had tried to leave behind because of the wound on his chest, but who had insisted on following us, held my reins.
He immediately forced his horse forward and tried to approach Namgung Seon-hwa.
I separated from him and unfolded the Unrivaled under Heaven Movement Art, moving far away from the battlefield.
Then I drew up the Taeul True Scripture with all my strength and examined the presences in every direction.
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I identified not only those with mighty inner arts, but also those who had joined the battle with lowly martial arts.
And I began chasing the places between them where no presence could be felt at all.
Е̊ nu̇ m̆ а. і d̃
This was a method of finding the bastards that would only be discovered after the outbreak of the Great Righteous-Demonic War, once the existence of the Dark Soul-Severing Unit became known.
Because too many people had gathered, I instead searched for the places where there was no presence at all.
Then I poured Fist Qi into empty air.
Only attacks made of Qi could inflict even that much damage on those bastards.
Thud.
In the darkness where there should clearly have been nothing, a pair of eyes suddenly appeared, startled like a rabbit.
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“Surprised?”
The eyes quickly vanished into the darkness.
I felt something wind around my arm.
I poured Fist Qi toward that empty space, but this time, I felt nothing.
“Your method is the same as ever.”
I quickly turned my head.
Ên̈ùm̈а
SHNK.
A pure white bone sword passed sharply through the place where my head had been.
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It was not that there was no way to face those bastards at all.
It was simply that the method was extremely difficult and troublesome.
“That is how it is the first time. But this is not my first time seeing you bastards.”
In an instant, I snatched the bone sword of the bastard trying to hide in the darkness.
W ẽb̌ n̈ о v̈ е l E nu ma
Creeeeak.
I applied enough pressure that it would have broken if it were human bone, but it remained intact.
Perhaps it was shocked that I had avoided the bone sword and grabbed it, because rabbit-like eyes once again popped out from the darkness.
“I am sick to death of this thing.”
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Holding the bone sword, I unfolded Lotus in reverse.
When I applied force in the direction opposite to the original axis of rotation, I heard flesh burst as it failed to withstand the bone sword.
Ѐ nu m̀ а
Craaaack.
Thud.
Even more blood than before flowed over the bone sword.
The bastard had also taken damage from Lotus.
The bone sword that had pierced through its palm tried to withdraw back inside, but……
“Not a chance.”
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I immediately filled my right foot with True Qi and stomped down on the bone sword.
Snap.
-SKREECH.
In the end, the bone sword broke, and the bastard screamed.
“Even your screams sound just like beasts.”
-!
Еn̈û.m̄ ӓ
The bastard’s eyes appeared again.
Now they were entirely crimson, as though it had truly become a rabbit.
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-What are you?
A voice that seemed to belong to the bastard rang inside my head.
Because the vocal cords melted away during the Fluid-Body Bone Sword procedure, they used a special martial art called the Heavenly Demon Mind Transmission Art.
“Do I have to tell you that?”
Ӗ n u̇ m̈ӓ
In the end, the bastard succeeded in pulling the broken bone sword back into its palm.
Then it hid itself in the darkness.
During the brief moment that passed, the torches held by the people in the area went out all at once.
‘They are coming…….’
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In the darkness, I used the memories of my previous life to predict the direction in which they would move.
Since I could not feel any presence, I relied on memory and moved first.
Е n û m̂a . ìd
Shhhhhk.
Three bone swords had pierced the illusion created by the Taeul Eighty-Thousand Divine Steps, each through the head, heart, and qi center.
In that brief interval, two other bastards had appeared.
It was the sight that would have been my future if I had not moved according to memory.
To avoid making the same mistake as their comrade, the bastards quickly hid themselves in the darkness.
I set aside the teachings of the Taeul True Scripture for a moment and brought out the teachings of another martial scripture.
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The Reverse Demon Scripture.
It was the martial art of the Reverse Demon, created by the Hell Demon Emperor, the Heavenly Demon of his era, while he was trapped in the Boundless Eight Trigrams Soul-Severing Formation, born of resentment toward the cultists who did not come to rescue him. Because it was a martial art created with a truly Demonic Practitioner-like heart, its meaning reached toward brutally removing demons.
“To think the Heavenly Demon and I share the same intention. Does this kind of contradiction not belong only in literature? What do you think?”
Clink-rattle.
When I drew out the Flying Dragon Claw at length, white light gathered on the Heavenly Silkworm Thread.
The mass of light climbed up the Heavenly Silkworm Thread, wrapped thickly around the thin thread, and finally reached the part where the sharp claw was attached.
Ẅе̄ b n̊ о̇ vе l Е̇ ñ ũm̊ а̀
Just like the Heavenly Demon Scripture left behind by the Hell Demon Emperor, the Reverse Demon Scripture had only principles, not forms or patterns.
Therefore, the forms and patterns that manifested depended entirely on my enlightenment and followed my desire.
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The most desperate desire for revenge I had, created from the tens of thousands of nightmares I had experienced in my previous life.
And the form in which that desire manifested was—
The Demon-Severing Radiant Whip.
SLASH—.
Е n ūmа̊
The cruel whip that severed demons was swung.
Something was caught in a space where there should clearly have been nothing.
“!!”
And within that darkness, three pairs of eyes startled like rabbits suddenly appeared.
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A smile naturally formed at the corners of my mouth.
“I finally caught you.”A
Е̌ n̊ ù m̊.а . i̇d̀
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