A Baby Cat Who Commands the Dog Clan - Chapter 247

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Chapter 247
He swayed unsteadily, as though drunk, unable to maintain his balance.
“So dizzy… ugh…”
The moment his body slipped beyond the Golden Cat Sect’s protection.
The frenzied poison energy of the medicinal toxin seized the opportunity and surged joyfully through Nam Goong Baek’s entire form.
Wherever that energy flowed, blood vessels tore and joints twisted grotesquely.
“Ugh…”
Finally, Nam Goong Baek dropped to one knee.
Thud!
Then his body collapsed to the ground.
“Brother!”
Hong Seol rushed to support Nam Goong Baek, but—
The vital essence was already draining from his body.
“Seol… are you…?”
He could barely manage to meet her eyes and whisper her name.
“Come… closer…”
Nam Goong Baek’s ashen lips, drained of all color, seemed desperate to speak.
Hong Seol leaned her ear close to him.
“Did you… find his weakness?”
Hong Seol turned her gaze toward the Heavenly Demon for a moment, then looked back down.
The Heavenly Demon, like a colossal stone wall, loomed above with overwhelming momentum.
“I found it, but…”
I had no confidence.
No confidence that I could pierce through the Heavenly Demon’s aura and tear into his body.
No.
In truth, I knew the method.
Finding a solution under any dire circumstance.
That was what I had done my entire life.
If I employed the method I had conceived, I could certainly shatter the Heavenly Demon’s body without fail.
But…
“Then my brother will die…”
Crystal tears overflowed from Hong Seol’s eyes.
“I hate this. Even if I kill the Heavenly Demon, if my brother dies too, what meaning would that have for me?”
“You must do it…”
Nam Goong Baek’s hand brushed weakly against Hong Seol’s cheek.
“You can do this.”
Nam Goong Baek whispered in a voice that seemed to be fading.
“I’m already a finished man. Since the day I obtained the Golden Cat Sect, I’ve been living on borrowed time. For no one but you.”
Nam Goong Baek pulled Hong Seol’s hand with what little strength remained, pressing it against his own wrist.
The skin beneath her fingertips was cold as death.
“Oh, oh brother, your pulse… it’s almost gone…”
One drop, then another.
Hong Seol’s scorching tears dampened Nam Goong Baek’s cold forehead.
Nam Goong Baek accepted those tears with joy, as if they were a healing elixir.
“So please, by your own hand…”
The moment Nam Goong Baek whispered these words.
“Now, inscribe my name upon the Golden Cat Sect tablet.”
The Heavenly Demon thrust the Golden Cat Sect tablet directly before Hong Seol’s eyes.
Nam Goong Baek’s bloodstain was vivid upon it.
Hong Seol’s pupils, fixed upon the Golden Cat Sect tablet, blazed with a venom she had never revealed to anyone before.
Hong Seol spoke through lips drained of color, her words grinding out like shattered glass.
“…Do you truly believe I would write your name upon the Golden Cat Sect tablet, even if it meant my death?”
The Heavenly Demon fell silent for a moment.
Then he slowly nodded his head.
“Yes, I knew you would say that.”
He laughed.
But that laughter held no sincerity—rather, it was a smile laden with cold murderous intent.
An ill omen.
“Then, how about this?”
The Heavenly Demon, having tucked the Golden Cat Sect tablet into his robes, raised his right hand.
Kwaaaack!
Nam Goong Baek, his body ravaged and broken, was drawn toward the Heavenly Demon’s hand like iron to a magnet, clinging to him.
The Heavenly Demon spoke slowly.
“If you do not write your name, you shall witness this man wither away before your eyes like a mummy.”
“…It won’t work.”
“What won’t work?”
“The Heavenly Resurrection Technique requires a specific incantation set by the caster. And my mother, who was the caster, has already passed away. I do not know the incantation.”
Hong Seol bit her lip.
“So please, let my brother out of the Barrier so he can receive treatment…”
Now that a true seizure had taken hold, no method—not even the Golden Cat Sect tablet—would work.
Even knowing this, she had no choice but to make this plea.
If she did nothing, she felt she would lose her mind.
The Heavenly Demon scoffed at Hong Seol’s words, spoken with her pride shattered.
“What a foolish woman. Even I am powerless against this Barrier.”
“…”
“You say you do not know the incantation? Then I shall simply make you remember it.”
The Heavenly Demon withdrew the golden tablet from his robes with his long fingers, displaying it.
“As long as the Golden Cat Sect tablet exists, I have more than enough time.”
A blood-red aura seeped slowly from the Heavenly Demon.
“Those who have suffered my torture spill blood from every orifice of their bodies, divulging all they know and all they do not.”
I clenched my teeth.
Torture held no terror for me. There was only one thing I truly feared.
Losing Nam Goong Baek forever.
“The one who inscribed the snow-flower mark upon you surely taught you the secret technique. I shall torture you within this barrier again and again until your memories return.”
‘What?’
In that instant, a spark seemed to ignite within my mind.
‘Memories? You think the secret technique lies hidden in my memories?’
I lowered my head in thought for a moment, then slowly raised it again.
Sorrow etched my face, yet beneath it burned an iron resolve.
I spoke through gritted teeth, each word deliberate and measured.
“I cannot inscribe your name in the Golden Cat Sect after all.”
“Ho, so you refuse your bridegroom’s wishes from the very wedding day itself? How presumptuous of a bride.”
The Heavenly Demon nodded without hesitation.
“Then watch closely. Witness the moment death takes hold of this man’s body!”
The instant the Heavenly Demon tightened his grip on Nam Goong Baek.
I suddenly lunged forward.
Whoosh!
The Heavenly Demon instinctively raised his hand to defend himself.
But I did not fall into his trap.
For my target had never been the Heavenly Demon.
Instead of touching his body, I wrapped my arms deeply around Nam Goong Baek’s waist as he trembled in that crushing grip.
“Brother, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…”
Tears streamed down my face as I clenched my jaw.
Through the one arm embracing his waist, a scorching energy—hot enough to melt steel—flowed into Nam Goong Baek’s body.
Normally, this would be guidance technique: channeling one’s inner force to guide and draw out the opponent’s vital energy.
But the energy flowing through my body now was different.
“…Ugh!”
Even Nam Goong Baek, barely conscious, let out a groan from the searing heat.
Its true nature was one of the dual palms that comprised the Yin-Yang Divine Art.
It was the energy of the Yang Extreme Flame Wheel Palm.
I carefully guided my energy, taking great pains not to damage Nam Goong Baek’s meridians.
Yet such caution was meaningless—his body was already ravaged beyond repair.
My energy, vast as a raging inferno, raced along Nam Goong Baek’s meridians.
And that scorching heat flowed directly into the Heavenly Demon’s hand, which gripped Nam Goong Baek’s neck.
And in that moment.
“Release!”
With my sharp cry.
Sizzle!
The Heavenly Demon’s fingers, aged three hundred years, melted away in an instant.
My guidance technique was extraordinary.
But that was not all.
‘The Heavenly Demon had opened his blood vessels wide to use the Absorption of Heavenly Essence technique.’
Thanks to this, my qi penetrated smoothly into the Heavenly Demon’s body.
Into the body of the Heavenly Demon, which I could never have reached directly!
“Krraaaaaaagh!”
The Heavenly Demon writhed in agony as though his entire body was ablaze.
I watched his form with cold, unwavering eyes.
But the Heavenly Demon was no ordinary being.
Shhk!
He severed his own wrist pressed against Nam Goong Baek’s neck with a hand strike.
The Yin-Yang Dual Flame Wheel Palm’s qi that had been flowing into the Heavenly Demon’s body ceased.
Thud!
Nam Goong Baek’s body, unable to withstand the poison and heat ravaging it, collapsed to the ground.
“Brother!”
My heart seemed to crumble along with the sight of him falling.
But I had no time to tend to him now.
For I alone was the only one who could face the Heavenly Demon.
The Heavenly Demon gnashed his teeth, staring at his severed wrist—now a pitiful stump like a tree stripped of its roots.
“Insolent wench!”
Perhaps it was because his body burned with the qi of the Yin-Yang Dual Flame Wheel Palm.
Even his eyes seemed to burn with hellfire.
“Since it has come to this, I shall return to the past with you! Once I recover my body, I will find you again and tear you to shreds!”
But for me, this was far from over.
I released Nam Goong Baek and suddenly lunged at the Heavenly Demon.
Normally, I would be no match for him.
‘I can do this…!’
The poison of the Sa Cheon Dang Family that had tormented the Heavenly Demon for so long.
‘I must succeed…!’
The demon-suppressing power of the Bright Mirror Sword that Nam Goong Baek had unleashed at the cost of his life.
‘Just once, one chance is all I need!’
And thanks to the one arm the Heavenly Demon had severed himself to block the Yin-Yang Dual Flame Wheel Palm’s qi.
I finally seized my opportunity.
Boom-boom-boom!
After exchanging blows relentlessly for over a hundred breaths.
“Now!”
At last, I exploited the opening left by the Heavenly Demon’s missing arm.
Crash!
The moment my Yin Extreme Frozen Prison Palm struck the Heavenly Demon’s flank.
The Heavenly Demon felt the extreme yang qi swirling throughout his body suddenly freeze and sink beneath the earth.
Crackle.
The faint golden cracks spreading across his face multiplied into hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands.
He stopped.
The Heavenly Demon lowered his gaze to the one hand remaining to me.
Countless hairline fractures were visible there as well.
But that was not all.
The exposed skin between the folds of his robes bore them too.
Even the cheek I could feel at my fingertips.
Like discarded porcelain, dozens of fine cracks had formed across his body.
“What… what is this?”
“What was destined to come has arrived.”
“What do you mean by that!”
The moment the Heavenly Demon stepped forward with one foot.
It crumbled.
His foot sank down with a dull thud.
“What is this!”
In an instant, the Heavenly Demon found himself on one knee against the ground.
The Heavenly Demon’s black cloth shoe was crumpled as though nothing remained inside it.
The Heavenly Demon’s eyes widened in disbelief as he suddenly lost one foot.
Hong Seol spoke in a cold voice.
“Your body was nothing more than a vessel on the verge of shattering. The medicine merely numbed the pain…”
Hong Seol’s gaze swept coldly across the Heavenly Demon’s cracked lips.
Surely the Heavenly Demon had greedily consumed the medicinal broth made by Myo Ga Ryung through those very lips.
“That was your own mistake. Because you didn’t realize your body couldn’t endure it, you expended all your strength without restraint.”
“…But that alone cannot be it? The palm technique you just unleashed against me surely contained some profound mystery!”
Hong Seol sighed softly.
The Heavenly Demon, who had never known defeat in three hundred years.
He could not accept the fact that he had lost to a woman not yet twenty years old.
“No, it was merely a palm technique infused with ice energy. I simply deployed fire energy before unleashing the ice energy.”
In the end, it was a doom of the Heavenly Demon’s own making.
Not only did he rampage without understanding his own body’s condition.
He absorbed the energy of the Extreme Yang Flame Wheel Palm through the Absorption Technique, only to be struck immediately after by the Extreme Yin Ice Jade Palm.
It was inevitable that his body would shatter.
The Heavenly Demon remained silent for a long moment before asking.
“What is the name of the martial art you have mastered?”
“Yin-Yang Divine Art.”
At Hong Seol’s answer, the Heavenly Demon’s expression was one of utter disbelief.
“Yin-Yang Divine Art? You speak of that insignificant martial art from Nam Man…?”
“It is not insignificant.”
Hong Seol spoke, barely suppressing a smile.
“It is a martial art I have devoted my entire life to mastering. Because it was the only way to save that man.”
My finger trembled as I pointed toward the fallen Nam Goong Baek.
“And now comes the method to claim your life.”
The moment my words left my lips.
Like a dwelling hollowed of all substance.
The Heavenly Demon’s body collapsed without resistance.
“Ha… that I… should meet such a hollow end…”
His low voice scattered thinly through the air and faded away.
Whissshhh…
Soon his body became hundreds of millions of fine particles of dust, settling softly beneath his wedding robes.
“For the lives of all the children you tormented, may you suffer eternally in the flames of hell.”
I watched his final moments with unwavering coldness.
And the instant I confirmed the Heavenly Demon’s end.
“Brother!”
I rushed toward the fallen Nam Goong Baek, my voice breaking with anguished tears.

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