Chronicles of the Mad Demon - Chapter 158

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Chapter 158. The Source of Echoes (3)

The main gate of the abandoned house was torn apart by the rotating spear strike and turned into countless fragments.

At that moment, Moyong Bi’s eyes caught one object falling between the fragments.

It was a round, black object.

‘A fire bomb, or perhaps a poison bomb.’

Whatever it was, it was dangerous.

Flash!

Infinite True Qi surged up like lightning and resonated with the Brain Gate Heart Technique.

Instantly, the scenery in his vision slowed down, and the flow of all things under heaven became clearly graspable.

Moyong Bi extended his left hand.

From his left hand that advanced while pushing away the wave-like flow of air, the Absorption Formula, one of the Four Great True Formulas of the Three Pure Infinite True Formula, was unleashed.

Whooom!

The black object that had been falling terrifyingly began to be sucked into Moyong Bi’s grasp, drawing a gentle curve.

‘It’s heavy.’

It weighs more than expected.

Moyong Bi drew out more power from his Infinite True Qi.

Whoosh!

The absorbing force became stronger, and the speed of the incoming black object also increased.

At that moment, Moyong Bi’s eyes flashed.

The gradually enlarging black object—he realized the black orb was a fire bomb, not a poison bomb.

‘Dangerous.’

If he were alone it would be one thing, but Jang Chun could be in danger. Moreover, he couldn’t tell what level of power that fire bomb possessed.

But he was a former Martial Alliance Leader who had commanded the front lines for over twenty years.

Whoosh!

He converted the absorbing Absorption Formula to the strongly repelling Repulsion Formula, then rapidly repeated the Absorption and Repulsion Formulas again.

Whooom! Whoooom!

The fire bomb began vibrating back and forth in empty air.

‘I still can’t use the. Then…’

He raised his extended hand upward.

The fire bomb that had been trembling with absorption and repulsion naturally rose upward.

Thunk!

He quickly thrust his spear to drill a small hole in the ground.

‘Dangerous. It’s about to explode.’

Even if not the, using the instant repetition of absorption and repulsion, he subtly twisted the detonator inside the fire bomb.

It would still explode.

There were many types of fire bombs, and this one was an extremely dangerous object that could cause a small explosion even if its internal detonation structure was damaged.

Moyong Bi drove his raised hand straight downward.

The vibrating fire bomb that was driven down went into the hole drilled by the spear strike.

From then on, Moyong Bi concentrated on the Repulsion Formula.

He poured his strength so intensely that his pupils and palms were emitting a subtle pale blue radiance.

Shortly after.

Boom!!

The ground shook violently and grayish-white smoke rose above the hole.

Zing!

When he cut the connection with the Brain Gate Heart Technique that had been resonating with Infinite True Qi, his vision returned to normal again.

Whoosh!

His five senses became sensitive and his true energy writhed madly as if it would be released outside his body at any moment.

Moyong Bi’s head turned to the left.

‘Over there!’

Someone who had thrown the fire bomb was fleeing far away.

Considerable lightness skill, swift body movements.

Moyong Bi kicked off the ground.

Whooom!!

A lightness skill that advanced against the wind—it was precisely the Blue Crane Flowing Water Movement.

For straight-line travel, White Deer Approaching Wind had the advantage, but the wind flow was quite turbulent. Rather, it was faster to naturally twist the external qi with Blue Crane Flowing Water Movement and move like a fish swimming upstream.

His judgment was accurate.

Whoosh!

Moyong Bi, who charged while moving subtly up, down, left, and right, instantly caught up behind the fugitive.

Conversely, Moyong Bi, holding his spear, deployed Flying Spear Technique as he was.

Whooom! Thwack!

“Urgh!”

The opponent, with the spear piercing his thigh, crashed straight into the ground.

Disappointment appeared on Moyong Bi’s face as he immediately landed in front of the opponent.

“Damn it.”

The trembling man had already lost his life.

When he pulled out the spear and turned the body, the man’s face was dyed pitch black and white foam was rising from his mouth.

The moment he suffered a penetrating wound to his leg, he had bitten the poison pill in his mouth and died.

“Really…”

I hate these kinds of bastards the most.

Before I could even try to find out anything, he just up and died, making it seem like I wasted my energy for nothing.

Regardless of my dislike, he certainly wasn’t an ordinary guy. No matter how trained a person might be, making the choice to immediately end one’s life in such a moment was an extremely difficult thing to do.

‘He’s a thoroughly educated bastard. Trained to kill even his own parents and siblings for the organization.’

Shortly after, Jang Chun arrived.

“Huff! Huff! Is, is this the one?”

“That’s right.”

“…He’s dead.”

“He bit a poison pill.”

His heart still pounding, Jang Chun’s face was completely flushed. It was natural since he had nearly died in an instant.

“Do you know him?”

“He’s someone I don’t know. Looking at his appearance…”

“Extremely ordinary.”

“That’s right.”

“Did you meet anyone coming and going?”

“I didn’t.”

“Well, if you had met them then, they wouldn’t have bothered attacking now.”

“What do you mean by that?”

Moyong Bi’s eyes turned toward Golden Crane Pavilion.

“He was definitely someone who was at Juru.”

“…!”

“Either he was on the same floor as me, or he’s someone who knows the rear garden’s situation well.”

Jang Chun pressed his lips tightly together.

“I’m probably the target, not you, Moyong Dae Gong Ja.”

“That would be right. If they had been after me, they wouldn’t have missed the moment of waiting for you at the abandoned house.”

“Perhaps they were waiting until I came. To finish both of us off in one go.”

“If that were the case, we wouldn’t have had time for such a conversation.”

“Then?”

Moyong Bi recalled his days with the Martial Alliance.

How did the units I dispatched move, and how did the demons of Sacred Blood Palace, who were our enemies, move.

“They don’t know me.”

“What?”

“He doesn’t know me. That’s why he hesitated for a moment.”

“The fact that someone willing to bite down on poison and die would waste time suspecting the Grand Young Master…”

“I’m not talking about this guy, but whoever gave him orders.”

“…?!”

“It’s Juru, isn’t it.”

I had no idea what this was all about.

Moyong Bi spoke quickly.

“Report this matter directly to your superiors immediately. And the Jegal Clan person who provides information to the Hubei Branch, that’s Jeong Gal Ryun, correct?”

“Y-yes, that’s right.”

“Currently, the most dangerous person is Jeong Gal Ryun. He played a major role in capturing Bang Hyo. No matter how crazy these bastards are, they won’t dare directly touch the Alliance Leader of the Hubei Branch.”

More precisely, they won’t dare touch him ‘right now’.

These bastards were plotting something within the Jegal Family. If the second-in-command of the Hubei Branch died during all this, the Main Headquarters of the Martial Alliance might send people.

But who knows about the future.

“Tell the Alliance Leader to be careful, and especially request protection for Jeong Gal Ryun’s safety. These bastards are probably targeting Jeong Gal Ryun even now.”

“I-is that so?”

“Also contact Jegal Chung Ho, the second son of the Jeogal Family Head, secretly. If you tell him I want to see him, he’ll come find me on his own.”

Jang Chun was flustered, but he didn’t forget his lord’s words.

“Understood. I’ll follow your orders exactly. But may I ask just one thing?”

“Speak.”

“What did you mean when you said it’s Juru?”

“It means the one giving orders is in Juru. Either he’s learned extraordinary stealth techniques, or he might not have learned martial arts at all.”

I didn’t know why he thought that way, but Jang Chun didn’t ask about that part.

“If there’s someone giving orders in Juru, what will you do about him? It must be unsettling to leave him alone.”

“I can’t catch someone I don’t even know who they are.”

Golden Crane Pavilion is the finest Juru in Yangyang County.

Its size is more than five times that of an ordinary Juru. The capacity matches its size, and it’s diverse – from people who simply came to drink alcohol, to those who came for meals, to those who came to stay overnight.

“But if I put effort into it, I can catch him.”

“What?”

“There’s no time, so go ahead first. I’ll handle things here on my own.”

“Ah, understood!”

Jang Chun immediately left.

Moyong Bi, who had been quietly looking down at the dead man, picked him up and returned to the front of the abandoned house.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

After stabbing the spear blade into the body several times, he dumped the corpse in front of the abandoned house and climbed up to the second floor through the rear garden.

“Hah, this is great!”

The bustling Juru.

Neung Hyeong, left alone, was already flushed with drink.

Moyong Bi, who sat across from him, clicked his tongue. Three empty wine bottles were rolling around on the table.

“Did you drink this much in such a short time?”

“Hey, do you know how long it’s been since I had a drink? In your tiny little house, it didn’t even taste good.”

“Stop talking nonsense and expel the alcohol.”

“Ah, why! I’m feeling pleasantly buzzed for the first time in ages! Ah, do you want a drink too?”

“Did you forget why we came here?”

“Not ‘we’ but ‘you’. I’m just a pitiful sacrifice.”

“Oh please.”

“I don’t say it, but do you know how miserable each day is?”

“Stop bullshitting and quickly expel the alcohol. I have work to do.”

Neung Hyeong’s expression turned sullen.

“What work do you have again as soon as we arrive, damn it?”

Tsk tsk tsk.

Despite his words, he had already cleanly expelled the alcohol.

The amount of alcohol he drank wasn’t small, but he expelled all the alcohol in the blink of an eye.

As expected, a master is different.

“I’ll stay positioned here, so you go to the mountain path abandoned house that connects to the back of the rear garden.”

“Why there?”

“I threw out some bait. They’ll approach cautiously. Catch whoever approaches stealthily and bring them here.”

Neung Hyeong’s face immediately turned fierce.

“Why should I do that? You do it.”

“Since I already entered through the rear garden, the fish who wants to take the bait will sneak over to check it out.”

What scheme has he cooked up now.

“Damn, it’s annoying.”

“Then have another drink.”

“Huh?”

“We have some history together, so would it be right to kill you while sober? Once you get properly drunk, I’ll send you off in one blow. Do you prefer a spear? Or would you like the Blood Explosion Technique?”

Neung Hyeong jumped up.

“I’m going, going! I said I’m going! Geez, if misfortune strikes a life, it really strikes hard. What kind of bastard is this, really.”

“The guy who’s like the essence of demons is talking crazy.”

Watching him swagger away while even covering his ears as if he didn’t want to hear it, he looked not like an old man over seventy, but like an uneducated youth of that age.

Moyong Bi unconsciously chuckled.

‘As dangerous as he is, there’s also fun in teasing him.’

Now he had a sense of how to deal with Neung Hyeong.

Neung Hyeong was simpler than expected. But being simple didn’t mean he wasn’t wise.

His personality was like that, but once he seriously started using his brain, he probably wouldn’t be inferior to himself.

His intuition was especially good.

‘Still, let’s not let my guard down until the end.’

During the past three months living together, he sometimes forgot the fact that he had fought a life-and-death battle with this guy.

It might be because they actually met just before the war ended, or perhaps because he was seeing the pure human Neung Hyeong freed from the cruelty that demonic arts bring.

Still, letting his guard down was forbidden.

As the guy said, not all demonic arts twist human nature.

Moyong Bi quietly ate his food.

He would have liked to have a drink with it, but now wasn’t the mood for that.

‘He targeted Hubei Branch people immediately upon meeting me… No matter how much they were watching him, Yangyang County is vast. Yet they moved so quickly, which means these bastards know all the places where the Hubei Branch actively operates.’

There are several ways to summon Hubei Branch people.

Among them, there’s a method of summoning branch people from the largest Juru in the city, but actually very few people know this method.

‘Unless these bastards planted spies in the upper levels of the Martial Alliance, this would be absolutely impossible.’

Actually, that possibility is low.

It could be possible, but for now he had to think excluding that possibility.

‘…Is it information that leaked from the Jegal Family.’

How much time had passed like that.

– Come out.

Moyong Bi, who heard Neung Hyeong’s telepathic message, got up from his seat.

Even though he grumbled, he was someone who definitely did his assigned work well.

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