Chapter 47 : Inevitable (2)

“A lion does its best even when catching a rabbit, but you should have just played around and finished. You enjoyed it too much.”

Seori Hyeonggae muttered.

Kurururung!

The river flowed with a thunderous sound.

Dongbak and Ah Geol, the two had crossed the river.

One had crossed by relying on a rope, and the other had walked firmly on his two feet.

The traces of the two remained intact in the river.

“You can’t find it because you’ve come to a place like this. Isn’t it tiring? Why did you crawl up to a place like this?”

Seori Hyeonggae grumbled continuously.

“Shut up… let’s go.”

Seori Gaheon looked at the forest with sleepy eyes.

Dongbak had had an accident.

It was abnormal that the guy who had gone to catch Ah Geol had not sent a single piece of news until now.

No one had seen Dongbak either.

They said he had disappeared somewhere after chasing Ah Geol, but no one who had seen Dongbak since then had appeared.

If he guessed correctly, Dongbak was dead. If a martial artist had an accident, what else was left but to die?

It was a guess now, but it would soon become a reality.

“It seems he went that way?”

“That’s right. Let’s go.”

Seori Gaheon and Seori Hyeonggae entered the forest.

Dongbak was leaning against a tree and had collapsed.

His two feet were tangled. His left foot was stretched out straight, and his right foot was bent in half.

His upper body had been placed on the tree, so he had not completely collapsed.

He had been struck while standing.

“He’s a bland guy. To be hit by a guy like that and be like this. He’s a guy who doesn’t even deserve to eat gruel.”

Seori Gaheon examined Dongbak’s wound.

Seori Hyeonggae also examined Dongbak. It was clear that he had been struck in the head, but he didn’t know what kind of blade it was.

“What is this?”

Seori Hyeonggae muttered.

Seori Gaheon was also silent. He had the same feeling as Seori Hyeonggae. It was a look of ‘what is this?’.

If it was a blade strong enough to kill Dongbak, it had to be a very strong blade. At least, it had to be a Single-Instant Blade.

Although Dongbak had not obtained the Single-Instant Blade, it was certain that he was one of the strongest masters. He had a blade so strong that he even looked down on the Ten Lesser Swords of the Duke Heo’s residence.

But the wound on his head now was crude, not befitting a master.

It was clearly cut by a blade, but it felt as if his head had been broken by a flying random stone.

It was a blade far from the Single-Instant Blade.

“This guy, it’s not a Single-Instant Blade.”

Seori Hyeonggae said.

“It can’t be a Single-Instant Blade. His master is dead, so who would he learn the Single-Instant Blade from? Then it’s a blade he learned on his own… but the guy I saw before was definitely hit by a Single-Instant Blade. He kills the weak with a Single-Instant Blade, and beats the strong to death indiscriminately? He’s an interesting guy.”

Seori Gaheon laughed.

The body of the Living Sword Sect disciple he had seen before had definitely been hit by a Single-Instant Blade.

Although he had used a chopper instead of a blade, he had cut off his breath more sharply than any blade.

But that blade was inferior to Dongbak’s.

That blade had the thought of ‘I should use the blade like this’, and Dongbak had a blade that split without thought.

Dongbak was one step ahead.

But he had used a completely different blade without using that blade. A blade so crude that it could not be called a Single-Instant Blade.

If you had to give a name to such a blade, it was an impromptu blade.

It was a blade extended recklessly by someone who did not know how to use a blade, and he had been unlucky to be caught by it.

Seori Gaheon and Hyeonggae carefully examined the blade mark engraved on Dongbak’s sideburns.

A blade that had passed while crushing the skull, not cutting it.

Swish! Swish!

Seori Hyeonggae gestured in the air.

He drew the trajectory of the blade’s advance.

He knew Dongbak’s blade well, so he first drew Dongbak’s blade.

Dongbak’s blade was his master’s blade. It was not a Single-Instant Blade, but he insisted on following it.

He had left him to do whatever he wanted.

They did not have the righteousness or loyalty of senior and junior brothers, and they were in a position to go their own ways. There was no reason to interfere at all.

Swoooosh!

His master’s Single-Instant Blade, it strikes down in an instant.

Dongbak fell short of his master’s Single-Instant Blade. In terms of speed, there was a difference of about the blink of an eye.

If there was that much of a difference, it was the same as living with your heart exposed in front of a blade. Although Dongbak probably didn’t know.

Chiiiit!

‘To crush the sideburns with a blade… you have to come in at this angle from around here. To do that, you have to let Dongbak’s blade flow by. It wasn’t that he struck before the blade came. He dodged the blade and struck. This guy!’

A flash of lightning sparked in Seori Hyeonggae’s eyes.

Seori Gaheon’s gaze also sank coldly. He had also figured out how Dongbak had died.

Seori Gaheon stood up.

He looked at Seori Hyeonggae and patted his shoulder.

“It’s your turn.”

Seori Hyeonggae just twisted his lips and smiled.

* * *

“What is it!”

Seori Hyeonggae asked, clenching his teeth as if he were very angry.

“I’m sorry.”

The man standing in front of him trembled his shoulders.

If Seori Hyeonggae got angry, his life was in danger. No one was an exception. There were often cases where even a person who had just been praised had lost their life while standing in front of his anger.

Now, Seori Hyeonggae was angry.

“You guys, what’s with that appearance!”

“I didn’t think the prison would collapse. It’s all my…”

The man could not finish his words.

Like a habit that people often have, he was about to say, ‘It’s my fault.’

Then the other person would just get angry.

Seori Hyeonggae was different. If he said, ‘It’s my fault,’ he would take his life, saying that he should then take responsibility for his fault.

“The prison collapsed?”

“The entire prison, at once.”

“What about the Deceitful Assassin’s record?”

“I didn’t have time to…”

Jwaak!

Before he could finish his words, a hand came up. The face of the reporting man spun around once.

But the man immediately stood up again.

His left cheek was swollen, and his mouth was burst, so blood was flowing out of his lips, but he couldn’t even make a pained expression.

“Twenty people went and only six returned, which is a crime punishable by death, and you even lost the Deceitful Assassin’s record!”

“…”

“Kill them all. If you kill them, the assassin who was heading for the Living Sword Sect will pop out, so report after you’ve killed them.”

“Yes!”

The man bowed deeply.

“I thought you would go yourself, but you sent the kids? If you were going to send them, you should have sent some sharp kids.”

A person stood next to to Seori Hyeonggae.

“If I cleaned up the trash, you should be grateful. You pull me out of the water and then ask for my bundle?”

Seori Hyeonggae frowned.

The man standing next to him also had a displeased expression.

“Stop saying that word ‘trash’. Trash, trash, trash. It’s getting on my nerves.”

“Kukuku!”

Seori Hyeonggae laughed.

The man standing next to him, Jin Gae of the Ten Lesser Swords.

Jin Gae was another word for trash. It was a nickname he had gotten because he had cleaned up all the trash that Heo Dogi had left behind.

From another perspective, Jin Gae was very meticulous. He did not leave a trace. Whether it was a good thing or a bad thing, if he said he would erase it from the world, it would be cleanly erased.

“I sent ten thousand nyang to Jeongdong. But you… are you raising an army? How come you’re always asking for money whenever you do a job? What are all those kids? Don’t you know that a protruding nail gets hammered down? Don’t stand out too much.”

“Hehehe!”

Seori Hyeonggae laughed.

“But… is it really the Blood Sword?”

“That’s right.”

Seori Hyeonggae said firmly, as if there was no need to think.

“After hearing your words, I also examined Kang Jo’s body, but I really didn’t know. I knew that the sword had entered through the middle dantian and had come out through the divine path, but that doesn’t mean that all of them are the Blood Sword, right?”

“He stabbed through the middle dantian.”

Seori Hyeonggae placed his hand on Jin Gae’s solar plexus.

“It came out through the divine path behind his back. It’s a sword that stabs from bottom to top. He used a long sword like a short blade. If you were to stab like this, what kind of form would you use?”

“Hmm!”

Jin Gae groaned.

In fact, although he had said he didn’t know to Seori Hyeonggae, it was not true. The moment he had seen Kang Jo’s body, he had also immediately thought of the Blood Sword.

The true sword art of the dead Hyeonjeong!

No, the Blood Sword Sutra was the sword art of Hyeonjeong’s father, the Blood Sea Sword Saint.

He had no particular talent for martial arts, and had approached martial arts with the intention of becoming a bodyguard. Then he had accidentally obtained the Blood Sword Sutra and had trained in it, and after that, he had become the Blood Sea Sword Saint in one leap.

He had become one of the top five masters in the central plains martial world.

Such a martial art had appeared on Kang Jo’s body.

A Drunken Flower Garden assassin had used the Blood Sword.

He didn’t know how the Drunken Flower Garden had obtained the Blood Sword Sutra, but from the Sacred Sword Sect’s perspective, it had become very troublesome.

Strictly speaking, wasn’t it the martial art of the previous sect master’s wife who had been forced to commit suicide?

The Blood Sword had appeared, and the Single-Instant Blade had appeared.

The previous sect master, Heo Dogang, and the thirty-sixth Single-Instant Sect Master had an unbreakable, close relationship.

This was revenge.

“It’s the Blood Sword.”

Seori Hyeonggae said firmly.

“So what are you going to do? I heard from behind that you were going to kill them all, so who are you going to kill?”

“The Drunken Flower Garden assassins. I’m going to kill them all.”

“They’ve disbanded, haven’t they?”

“Huhu! It’s a habit to test the waters.”

“You’re coming in too deep. You’ll really get hammered if you do that. Looking at you, it seems like there will come a time when even I can’t do anything. Let’s keep our lines. It’s good to be good.”

“Hmph!”

Seori Hyeonggae smirked.

Heo Dogi had not given the Single-Instant Sect freedom. But he had not taken them as his subordinates either.

He had allocated a certain area to the Single-Instant Sect.

The Wind Path Valley.

It was called the Wind Path Valley, but it was over five hundred li in all directions. It could be called a single province.

The Single-Instant Sect was the king of the Wind Path Valley. They could do whatever they wanted there.

But if they left the Wind Path Valley, it was a different story.

All information was cut off. What happened outside the Wind Path Valley was not transmitted inside the Wind Path Valley. It was so thoroughly cut off that they would not know even if the world changed.

He had blocked the eyes and ears of the Single-Instant Sect.

The Single-Instant Sect could only go outside the Wind Path Valley when the Duke Heo’s residence requested it.

It was Heo Dogi’s special order.

Of course, this order could be lifted at any time. You just had to defeat Duke Heo Dogi with martial arts. The fight between the Duke and the Single-Instant Sect was a matter of life and death, and if you killed Heo Dogi, you would gain freedom.

But there was an exception here.

Jin Gae had used Seori Hyeonggae to clean up the trash, breaking the Duke’s special order. And he had allowed him to use the information of the Duke Heo’s residence’s secret pavilion.

The secret pavilion collected information about the central plains martial world.

The fact that Seori Hyeonggae could see the secret pavilion’s information meant that he could see through the central plains’ situation clearly.

It was the same now. Seori Hyeonggae was trying to kill the Drunken Flower Garden assassins using the secret pavilion’s information. The secret pavilion had not only marked the nine first bases of the Drunken Flower Garden, but had also predicted their actions after leaving the first bases and had marked them with diagrams.

If you used that, a bloody storm would blow in the central plains.

Jin Gae said with a frown, “Haa! I wanted to end it quietly… but to think that you’re going to eliminate all the Drunken Flower Garden assassins, it’s become quite noisy.”

If the one who had killed Kang Jo used the Blood Sword, then killing all the Drunken Flower Garden assassins could be a good measure.

If you killed the Drunken Flower Garden assassins, the Blood Sword would also appear.

If you even killed the Blood Sword, the back would be clean.

There was no need to argue about revenge or anything. There was no need to find out how he had obtained the Blood Sword Sutra. You just had to cut off Hyeonjeong’s back. The one who used the Blood Sword would disappear without a trace.

Seori Hyeonggae said with narrowed eyes, “Just block the back.”

“If possible, handle it quietly. Don’t come in too deep. This is real advice.”

Jin Gae turned around.