A Baby Cat Who Commands the Dog Clan - Chapter 136

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Chapter 136
“Seol Ah!”
Nam Goong Ho cried out, his palms slick with sweat as he watched the match unfold.
A sharp whistle pierced the air.
Hong Seol clutched at her lower abdomen where Dang Cheon Gang’s blow had landed.
Tears welled up at the corners of her eyes.
Her slender legs trembled violently, threatening to collapse beneath her at any moment.
“Ha. You’ve got some skill, little one. But it seems you forgot to wrap yourself in protective inner energy!”
Dang Cheon Gang steadied his breathing and laughed with unbridled confidence.
Then he began circling rapidly around Hong Seol.
“Let me teach you what true combat with inner cultivation looks like, young one!”
Nam Goong Ho’s eyes widened as he watched.
‘Wind Blade Technique!’
It was clear Dang Cheon Gang intended to unleash Storm Blade Technique once more.
He knew Hong Seol, having taken a blow to her abdomen, couldn’t evade as nimbly as before.
“This ends it!”
Dang Cheon Gang’s triumphant shout rang out across the Martial Arts Arena.
A torrential rush of sound and motion!
Dozens of blades, striking like serpent heads, lunged toward Hong Seol’s body.
A sharp crack echoed out!
Hong Seol launched herself lightly from the ground, soaring upward.
Gone was the image of her clutching her abdomen in pain moments before.
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
The blades collided densely where Hong Seol had been crouching.
The Binding Meteor Hammer that had been on the ground vanished from its position.
“A feint?”
Where had she learned such a thing?
Dang Cheon Gang’s face went pale in that instant.
‘Now!’
Hong Seol’s small fingers gripped the clanging iron chain tightly.
A long chain weighted with metal crashed through the air!
The chain bearing its iron weight soared through the heavens.
“Ugh!”
In a flash, Dang Cheon Gang’s right foot was bound firmly by the chain.
But then.
“Has she failed?”
The words tumbled from Nam Goong Ho’s lips in alarm.
When using the Binding Meteor Hammer for attack, one must bind the entire body at once to be effective.
If the hands were free, one could easily break free from such a weapon.
Dang Cheon Gang gazed skyward and laughed heartily.
“How foolish! I thought your gaze had changed, yet your movements remain nothing more than child’s play!”
In the instant he swiftly extended his right hand to pull free the binding chain whip.
Suddenly, a single question flashed through Dang Cheon Gang’s mind.
‘Why isn’t she stopping me from releasing the chain whip?’
Normally, she would seize this moment to attack without hesitation.
The moment he lifted his head, unease gnawing at him.
Dang Cheon Gang saw Hong Seol smiling brightly.
And then.
A sharp sting.
From the fingertips of his right hand grasping the metal weight attached to the chain whip came a sudden, piercing pain.
Looking down, he could see fine needles covering the surface of the round metal weight.
They must have sprung out the moment he attempted to release the chain whip.
“W-wait… is this poison?”
Dang Cheon Gang asked, struggling to maintain consciousness as it began to blur.
“Yes. It’s a paralytic poison said to be capable of felling even an ox.”
Hong Seol answered kindly.
“A child of the Nam Goong Family using poison…?”
“Ah, well, this was originally a Dang Family weapon.”
“What?”
“Isn’t it natural for Dang Family weapons to be coated in poison?”
At Hong Seol’s measured words, Dang Cheon Gang retorted sharply.
“Foolish! Regardless of where you obtained it, I have trained my body since childhood by consuming poison. Do you truly believe such crude paralytic toxin could fell me?”
“Of course not, Young Master.”
Hong Seol opened her eyes wide.
As if to say she would not speak such illogical nonsense.
“I never expected the paralytic poison to actually fell Young Master Dang Cheon Gang.”
“?”
“But it can certainly dull your movements somewhat.”
“…!”
Dang Cheon Gang’s face went deathly pale.
That was true.
He was not entirely immune to paralytic poison.
Only that his long familiarity with toxins rendered its effects negligible.
In a world where a fraction of a second determined victory or defeat, even poison with “almost no effect” could prove decisive.
“Well then.”
Hong Seol assumed a stance with her nails extended, both hands now completely free.
“Shall I demonstrate once more the technique you just mocked as ‘parlor tricks’, Young Master?”
Which would prove faster—my two hands or your dulled body?
“Hah!”
Without hesitation, Hong Seol lunged toward Dang Cheon Gang.
Pap pap pap!
In an instant, dozens of crimson lines appeared across Dang Cheon Gang’s green martial robes.
“Ugh!”
Dang Cheon Gang, who had pushed me back several times with his palm techniques at first, now began to give ground with each step.
“Just a bit more!”
Those cheering for me held their breath in desperate hope.
“Wait!”
The Dang Family Master’s thunderous cry echoed through the arena. He had already risen from his seat.
“Is the technique that Hong Seol is displaying not from the Orthodox Sects?”
At his words, the gathered crowd began to murmur.
“Well, that’s true…”
“The Eagle Claw technique is rarely seen among the Orthodox Sects, is it? Unless it’s from a feline-type martial family.”
“But this child belongs to the Nam Goong Family. There’s no way she could know the Eagle Claw technique.”
Public opinion was turning against me.
The Dang Family Master, who commanded the entire arena, spoke once more.
“Using Orthodox Sect martial arts in the Dang Family Master selection tournament! This is absurd!”
At that moment.
“Don’t spout such ignorance!”
A thunderous rebuke rang out. Its source was Tian Tong Gai, who had been drinking all along.
“That is clearly an Orthodox Sect technique. Have you never heard of the Yang Family Estate in Hubei Province!”
His voice carried a peculiar certainty.
“That is undoubtedly the Flying Eagle Claw technique of the Yang Family Estate.”
At Tian Tong Gai’s words, the murmuring crowd fell silent.
The Yang Family Estate.
A martial arts family known as an eagle-type clan, whose Flying Eagle Claw technique—a secret transmission—was said to be second to none in the Central Plains.
Yes, just as this small child was clumsily demonstrating on the Martial Arts Arena right now.
“But I heard the Flying Eagle Claw technique disappeared with the Yang Family Estate’s destruction…”
“Hey, you there! Are you suggesting that Elder Tian Tong Gai is lying?”
“But how could a child of the Nam Goong Family have learned the Flying Eagle Claw technique!”
“Heh heh, that’s what they call a stroke of fortune, a fortunate encounter, surely!”
As the spectators continued to offer their opinions, the match went on.
Whoosh!
I stepped back to evade Dang Cheon Gang’s fist.
But I never retreated in defeat.
For every step back, I took another forward, calmly preparing my next attack.
Dang Cheon Gang, by contrast, had lost his fighting spirit from the wounds covering his body.
Blood streamed down his forehead, obscuring his vision.
He could only flail his fists wildly.
“Wh-what?”
As he lost his balance trying to evade my incoming kick, Dang Cheon Gang finally crashed to the ground with a heavy thud.
I grabbed Dang Cheon Gang by the nape of his neck as he lay sprawled on the ground.
“Ugh….”
In a flash, I hauled him to his feet and smiled brightly.
“My apologies, Young Master! I couldn’t let you lose consciousness just yet.”
“What in the world….”
“The Bi Cheon Chui Jo Gong is splendid, but I wanted to finish this with the Nam Goong Family’s martial arts!”
Facing Dang Cheon Gang as he struggled to remain upright, I pressed my small palms together.
Through the robust meridians that had expanded within me, the yin and yang energies—now aware of their rightful path—surged with tremendous force.
A power incomparable to anything I had wielded before now roiled through every fiber of my being.
Rumble.
Everyone present suddenly heard a clear thunderclap.
In that instant, Nam Goong Ho’s lips twisted upward in a sharp grin.
“Heavenly lightning will strike soon.”
Crack-boom-crash!
The next moment, Dang Cheon Gang lay sprawled flat in the center of the elegant Blue Granite Floor.
His eyes rolled back white, consciousness utterly lost.
The venomous glare he had fixed upon me moments before had vanished without a trace.
And at that very moment, below the Martial Arts Arena.
Another child of the Dang Family could not tear his gaze from me.
The boy’s lips had softened into an open expression, and his body kept tilting toward the arena.
Without realizing it, he murmured aloud.
“Seol is strong…!”
It was Dang Yi Woon, his crimson eyes gleaming.
At that moment, Nam Goong Baek, watching Dang Yi Woon from beside him, felt his heart plummet.
For Dang Yi Woon’s face bore unmistakably the expression of a boy who had just fallen in love for the first time.

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