Chronicles of the Mad Demon - Chapter 166

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Chapter 166. Cannibalism (6)

“Huff, huff!”

Even the breath he exhaled felt heavy, as if it had physical weight.

The sword he gripped became as heavy as a thousand pounds, disrupting his body’s center of balance, and from wounds that gaped like clam shells all over his body, life itself was draining away.

“Impressive.”

Admiration appeared on Baek Cheong’s face.

“To still not collapse in that condition—this is no ordinary martial arts.”

This isn’t the power of martial arts or anything like that.

If he had the leisure, Jegal Dan would have said so.

Even if he had learned the world’s greatest martial arts, he would have collapsed in this state. The power keeping Jegal Dan standing now was his pride as family head and his responsibility as a father to protect his family.

Baek Cheong shook his head and spoke.

“You must know this too. If we had wanted to, we could have killed you long ago.”

“Huff, huff.”

“Kneel obediently. If you resist to the end, we’ll have no choice but to kill you.”

They must be keeping him alive because they want something.

Even if that weren’t the case, Jegal Dan wouldn’t give up. Thinking coldly, he knew it would be better to cast aside pride and responsibility for now, preserve his life, and look for opportunities until the end, but strangely, he didn’t want to do that.

‘My lady, I’m sorry.’

To save his children, for the future, this era’s inadequate family head must fight to the end here.

Jegal Dan knew his lifelong companion wouldn’t blame him for this. No, he was certain she would be proud of him for holding out until the end.

Still, he felt sorry to his wife. It wasn’t enough that she fell ill after marrying an inadequate husband—didn’t she collapse miserably because of these lawless bastards?

‘Though I’ve shown you only inadequate sides my whole life, at least for this final moment, I’ll remain in the dignified warrior’s form you loved so much.’

Jegal Dan’s eyes suddenly changed.

Baek Cheong frowned.

‘Is he really going to come at me?’

He admired his opponent’s struggle as a warrior, but that was all.

It would have been better to just kill Jegal Dan here. The reason he was doing this unnecessary thing was because of Jeogal Myeong.

‘If it weren’t for that person’s orders, there’d be no reason to follow that fool’s words.’

There was no choice.

Orders were absolute. Baek Cheong judged it was time for him to step forward directly.

Thump!

Jegal Dan kicked off the ground and charged forward, unleashing the Jegal Family’s secret Eight Trigrams Rising Mechanism Sword Technique.

Baek Cheong’s face hardened.

‘Incredible martial arts.’

The Jegal Family was known to be more skilled in strategy, formations, and mechanisms than martial arts.

But the martial arts of direct bloodline descendants—especially those that only the family head could learn—were worthy of being called super first-rate.

The sword techniques meshed together exquisitely like parts of a mechanism, amplifying power with extreme delicacy. Creating great force with small movements, the swordsmanship itself was reminiscent of a formation or mechanism.

If they had fought in perfect condition, it would have been difficult to handle.

Baek Cheong drew an axe from his waist and swung it.

Crash!

The sword path lost its way under the brutal strike, and the unstable sword energy scattered into fragments.

Jegal Dan coughed up blood but deployed his sword technique again.

Even in pain so severe that death would be preferable, he deployed his sword again—his spirit was dominating his flesh.

Baek Cheong coldly swung his axe.

Bang! Bang! Crash!

The fast and delicate swordsmanship was completely shattered by a few brutal and bold axe strikes.

Thud!

Jegal Dan was finally sent flying by the shockwave and crashed into the wall.

Blood streamed from his nose and mouth, his face white as snow. He couldn’t move a single finger.

Baek Cheong grinned and stood before Jegal Dan.

“It was bound to end up like this.”

“Cough!”

“Don’t worry, we’ll capture all your brats too.”

“D-don’t make me laugh.”

“Didn’t you send them to Gi Hak Forest?”

“…!”

“How long do you think we’ve been preparing? Do you really think we didn’t know about the things you secretly prepared to counter our uprising?”

Despair appeared on Jegal Dan’s face.

Did they know all this and pretend not to know until now?

‘No, that can’t be.’

They must have been reading this side’s movements.

But they couldn’t have read ‘everything.’ If they had really read everything, they should have moved much faster.

However.

‘It’s meaningless now.’

It doesn’t matter if I die alone, but my children dying is absolutely unacceptable.

They had foreseen even that far. It really was all over.

‘Chung Yang, Rin. Don’t forgive your inadequate father.’

Should he be relieved that at least Chung Ho had left?

No. These bastards would eventually find his second son, and even if not, entrusting the future to Chung Ho was too much.

‘So this is how it ends.’

Baek Cheong looked back and shouted.

“Bind the family head and set fire to the Family Head’s Office!”

Several men tied up Jegal Dan with rope.

Jegal Dan felt miserable. Surprisingly, some of these men were laborers or scholars from the inner courtyard.

It meant they had been secretly active while hiding themselves as laborers and scholars.

He knew there were invisible eyes and ears everywhere, but he didn’t know it was to this extent.

‘I deserve to die.’

Having given up everything, Jegal Dan’s aura began to become unstable.

Whoosh.

Fires were lit here and there in the Family Head’s Office.

Baek Cheong turned around.

“Let’s go.”

That’s when it happened.

Swish! Thud!

With a strange impact sound, shattered bone fragments and flesh drew an eerie map on the wall. And red ink much larger than that map stained the wall surface.

Clang!

Among the demons drawing their weapons.

Baek Cheong shouted.

“What bastard is it?”

No voice could be heard.

Instead of a voice, a streak of air-rending sound answered in its place.

Whooooong!

The sound of something terrifying flying through the air.

Baek Cheong instinctively twisted his body.

Thud thud thud! Crash!

An iron spear that had pierced through more than ten warriors like skewering them penetrated the wall of the Family Head’s Office and stuck in the ground.

Baek Cheong’s eyes bulged as if they would pop out.

‘Tremendous power!’

At that moment, he could feel it.

Powerful energy waves that had somehow enveloped the surroundings were surging up.

It was like dark clouds covering the peaceful Seon Gyeong created by warm sunlight. The metaphor that suited them better, having left negative impressions on people, felt eerily chilling and frightening now that they were on the receiving end.

“Enemy! Prepare for battle!”

Though they already knew of the enemy’s presence, the leader’s shout cast trained composure over his subordinate warriors’ alertness.

And that composure turned into a barrage of sparks flying wildly due to the sudden disaster that struck.

Bang! Crash!

The transformation of the white-horned spirit deer into a fierce tiger, the mountain king, happened in an instant.

Moyong Bi’s movements, advancing with heavy and deliberate steps while swinging both fists indiscriminately, reminded one of crashing waves.

Baek Cheong unconsciously held his breath.

‘That, that’s…’

A terrifying attacker.

His two fists, dyed with pale blue energy, were hammers forged from the world’s hardest steel. Each step was heavy, yet his two legs that had somehow penetrated halfway through his subordinates’ formation were like accumulated thick northern winds.

The force erupting from his fists replaced roars, and his ghostly terrifying killing intent replaced the intense tremors that seemed capable of causing earthquakes. Not fast but swift, seemingly infinitely heavy yet light.

Thud! Crash!

His subordinates’ bodies were crumbling to the brutal thunderous sounds.

One person died with each movement. The sight of subordinates flying left and right, spewing blood as the enemy charged forward using consecutive one-hit-kill boxing techniques, looked like the bloody wings of a butterfly with a pale blue slender body.

Witnessing this almost surreal scene, Baek Cheong couldn’t just stand there in shock.

“Tighten the formation! Kill without fail!”

No questions asked.

His subordinates, those who had been operating in secret within the Jegal Family, began unleashing their demonic arts in earnest.

Hissss!

The demonic energy bursting forth all at once was suffocating.

Their demonic energy gave the impression of being blue rather than red.

But it wasn’t cool and pure. It felt as vast as the winter ocean, and looking into it instilled fear of falling into the abyssal depths.

The feeling of limbs growing heavy from the pressure of demonic arts alone.

But it posed no problem for Moyong Bi.

Whirrrr!!

Like the sun’s heat radiating in all directions creating mirages like phantoms, his Brain Gate True Energy was drawing out intense power in the face of the powerful demonic energy barrage.

Whoosh!

Within the demonic energy that seemed capable of shaking internal organs and slowing blood circulation with energy waves alone, Moyong Bi’s movements became even faster and more violent.

Crash!

With one uppercut from below, a confident demon flew vertically into the sky.

The sight of a corpse with a shattered jaw, crushed palate, and eyeballs dangling from the fist pressure, spraying blood fountains while floating through the air, was like a clown falling into an upside-down world.

Bang! Bang! Thud!

Moyong Bi’s advance shattered not only the enemies’ bodies but also the weapons they held entirely.

At that moment, Baek Cheong realized.

‘This isn’t annihilation.’

Judging by his momentum, it wouldn’t be strange if he declared he’d take on the entire Jegal Family.

But Baek Cheong thought Moyong Bi’s advance was strange.

‘Why the frontal approach?!’

It was an all too natural and logical question.

Though it looked like the destructive charge of a mythical giant beast with horns on its forehead, worthy of being called a battering ram, the opponent was neither a battering ram nor a beast.

With such martial prowess, his ability to control energy would be tremendous too, and rather than charging so conspicuously, he would have revealed himself at the crucial moment to deploy his martial arts from the position that could inflict the most damage.

Finding the answer wasn’t difficult.

“Erect barriers! Make it absolutely impenetrable!”

Crack!

Baek Cheong turned his body and infused demonic energy into his axe.

Whooom!

The axe blade, dyed blue-white, spewed fierce killing intent.

That killing intent flowed with its master’s will and reached one part of the target.

That was precisely Jegal Dan’s forehead.

‘That bastard came to rescue the family head!’

With a master of that caliber, even he couldn’t guarantee victory.

But he couldn’t flee with Jegal Dan at this point. The inner courtyard was vast, and before reaching where his comrades were, the unidentified attacker would surely catch up to him.

Then?

‘Kill him.’

The demons who noticed Baek Cheong’s intention released their hands supporting Jegal Dan and retreated left and right.

Baek Cheong swung his axe without hesitation toward the falling Jegal Dan.

But in such an urgent situation, he failed to consider one possibility.

That there didn’t necessarily have to be just one attacker.

Crack!

The moment the axe cut through empty air, two awl-like golden energy streams shot through the wall.

Clang!

One energy stream struck Baek Cheong’s axe blade, disrupting its path.

Thud!

The other tore away a chunk of flesh from Baek Cheong’s shoulder as it passed.

If Baek Cheong hadn’t instinctively sensed danger and twisted his body, the remaining energy stream would have pierced through below his Adam’s apple instead of his shoulder.

“Gasp!”

Staggering backward, Baek Cheong looked in panic at the hole in the wall pierced by the energy stream.

Beyond that hole was a single eye.

“Good hit.”

Crack!

The hand that pierced the wall grasped Jegal Dan’s shoulder.

That hand was brilliant with golden radiance, giving Baek Cheong, a demon, such overwhelming pressure that just looking at it seemed to disturb his demonic energy.

A hand wielding the power of the esoteric art, the Heavenly Dragon Demon-Subduing Divine Art.

The one who manifested the strongest power of esoteric Buddhism in reality spoke while pulling Jegal Dan away.

“Cannibalism among kin, I have no idea what the hell I’m doing.”

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