Chronicles of the Mad Demon - Chapter 175

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Chapter 175. Malice (4)

It was merely one person joining the battle, and even being generous, it was hard to see the barehanded martial artist as being in proper condition.

Even if not worthy of scorn, it was reinforcement that would be difficult to reverse the tide of battle, so there was no particular reason to be tense.

But they should have been tense.

It was just one person who wasn’t even in proper condition, wasn’t holding a blade, and had disrupted breathing so couldn’t properly circulate internal energy.

Yet when Neung Hyeong and Moyong Bi began coordinating, the Tiger Killing Formation, a quite efficient battle formation, collapsed at a terrifying speed.

‘What is this?’

From the day he first dreamed of making the Jegal Family his own, Jegal Moon had never once imagined he would witness such a scene.

The Tiger Killing Formation was crumbling.

The White Horse Unit was being destroyed.

The tiger spirits were being annihilated.

The demons of the White Horse Unit couldn’t be said to have been particularly careless. Rather, under Baek Ho’s systematic command, they tried to eliminate their enemies by burning stronger demonic energy and killing intent as time passed.

And as time passed, the speed at which things that ‘had been’ tiger spirits turned into worthless chunks of flesh accelerated.

‘How is this possible?’

Neung Hyeong grunted and smashed a tiger spirit’s head with his forehead.

If a third party were watching, they might have admired what a truly remarkable thick skull it was, but Jegal Moon wasn’t given such luxury.

And finally.

With Moyong Bi’s attack that coldly pierced the heart of a half-crazed demon wildly swinging a large sword with a long spear blade, the Tiger Killing Formation completely collapsed.

What remained were Jegal Moon and Baek Ho, whose entire body had become bloodied from being counterattacked every time he tried to attack Moyong Bi.

“Huff, huff.”

Neung Hyeong’s eyes gleamed as if bewitched by something.

His breathing was still rough, but his depleted internal energy seemed to be refilling.

The same was true for Moyong Bi. Despite being wrapped in several layers of blood-stained robes turning brown, far from struggling, he seemed to have recovered quite a bit of internal energy and stamina.

Jegal Moon unconsciously asked.

“What are you people?!”

Having spoken, he was inwardly flustered. His voice was trembling excessively.

Neung Hyeong said indifferently.

“Stop talking nonsense and kneel, bastard.”

“…What did you say?”

“I’ll send you off cleanly, so kneel. If you act up and get hit wrong, you’ll only suffer more.”

It meant that even if heaven and earth turned upside down, killing you wouldn’t be difficult.

Jegal Moon couldn’t get angry at those words.

Those two had massacred the demons of the White Horse Unit. It didn’t look easy, but it didn’t look difficult either.

Therefore, he had no choice but to accept the fact that he too could die at the hands of those two.

‘This isn’t the time to be flustered.’

Jegal Moon’s thoughts raced quickly.

‘Those two are unbelievable masters. Even now, my chances of winning are slim.’

It was a cold assessment, but even so, Jegal Moon couldn’t contain his bursting frustration.

It had been a virtually won battle. But two flies interfered in this fight, and before he knew it, he was following the path to defeat.

Though the demon wanted something else, he was both a demon and a Jegal. As a Jegal, he had acted entertainingly and lived splendidly for a long time for his dream.

That long life had collapsed in an instant due to flies that arrived without any prior warning.

Sadly, the flies were a tribe larger than tigers and more mysterious than dragons.

‘I need to escape for now.’

In his anxiety, he glanced toward Thunder Prison beyond the Family Head’s Office.

‘Isn’t it ready yet?!’

That’s when it happened.

Whoosh!

A long spear flew like lightning.

Jegal Moon hurriedly twisted his body.

Rip! Crash!

The spear that tore through his sleeve was embedded in the ground.

At that moment, Moyong Bi and Neung Hyeong charged toward Baek Ho and Jegal Moon respectively.

For Jegal Moon, who thought Moyong Bi would attack him, even that moment was like being caught off guard.

Jegal Moon’s thoughts continued faster than light.

Had he ever been toyed with by enemies to this extent? No, had there ever been such things as enemies to him?

‘Then who was I fighting against?’

Grrrowl!!

The White Face Demonic Energy scraped from the bottom of his dantian made his face even whiter.

“You damn bastards!!”

His appearance wielding the White Annihilation Palm with a roar looked like a tyrant fallen alone in some desolate land.

Disappointment appeared on Neung Hyeong’s face.

‘To think such a guy is a descendant.’

He could tell without conversation.

This guy must have been quite confident. Looking at how he had patiently infiltrated the outstanding Jegal Family for so long, he was probably quite an intelligent person too.

However, as always, those who don’t know despair and defeat lose most of their advantages the moment they face failure for the first time in their lives.

‘You should have tasted the futility that defeat brings before dreaming of victory.’

Bang! Bang!

The White Annihilation Palm was strong.

The White Face Demonic Art was one of the Fifty-Five Demon Studies of Seongheolgung. If properly mastered, one could become a master second to none.

Jegal Moon had properly mastered the White Face Demonic Art. However, he hadn’t reached its peak.

‘The White Face Demonic Art requires composure as essential. The moment you get excited, the sword forms reveal gaps and the flow of internal power gets choppy.’

On the other hand, the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Divine Art was different.

The cultivation itself was extremely difficult, but if targeting demons, the Heavenly Dragon Demon Subduing Divine Art continuously produced tremendous power.

This was why the Bodhi Vajra Divine Fist could shatter the White Annihilation Palm’s sword forms, the White Lotus Vajra Palm could sweep away Jegal Moon’s demonic energy, and the Bright King Eighteen Kicks could easily break armor made of demonic energy.

Bang!

Jegal Moon, sent flying with an explosive sound, collapsed while coughing up blood.

And.

Crack!

Baek Ho’s body, whose knees were destroyed by the merciless horizontal leg technique strike, also flew next to Jegal Moon.

Whoooosh!

At that moment, an unexpected change occurred.

Powerful demonic energy rose from near Thunder Prison in the distance.

Jegal Moon gasped and said.

“E-even if I die, you won’t survive in this place!”

“Is that so?”

“The True Master has awakened! He must have achieved Divine-Demon Unity using the innate essence left by the Jegal clan! You will never be able to defeat him!”

Moyong Bi’s eyes twitched.

‘Innate? Divine-Demon Unity?’

Somehow those were words that got on his nerves.

But regardless of that doubt, his mouth calmly crushed Jegal Moon’s hope.

“Whether a sickly deer or a strong deer, to tigers they’re just tasty prey. Even if the tigers get hurt, you won’t be able to see that scene.”

“Y-you bastard!”

“Farewell.”

Moyong Bi flicked his finger.

Thud!

Realizing something had pierced through his forehead, Jegal Moon belatedly understood it was an invisible finger wind.

Simultaneously, the world opened.

In that world, there was also the past.

His past self had already been no ordinary human.

The Jegal Family spoke of wisdom and preached morality, but from childhood, he had caught stray dogs and cats to dissect them, realizing the transience of life.

From that time, he thought: If life is ultimately fleeting and bound to fade away, then people need to live as they desire.

He was the type who felt pleasure in deceiving others and stealing. He could empathize with others’ pain, but those moments of empathy were extremely brief.

Naturally, he couldn’t understand being ‘corrected’ through teachings. If he was going to live as he pleased anyway, the act of correction itself was nothing but meaningless bluffing.

He lived only for what he wanted, and so he acted the role of a sickly but warm-hearted younger brother, uncle, and scholar.

Through this, he realized how much pain others would suffer when his dreams were fulfilled in the future.

This made his heart race with excitement. The fact that his targets were his own clan doubled his excitement.

What some might call pure malice was, to him, an extremely normal and inquisitive nature—in some sense, a truly Jegal-like disposition.

‘To fail!’

Jegal Moon’s eyes grew dim.

‘Did I run all this way just to fail?!’

At that moment, a vision appeared.

It was the face of his sister-in-law, transformed into something hideous. With her throat torn out, only her face floating there, she was mocking him.

She cruelly laughed, saying that if he was going to die anyway, there had been the option to live peacefully with everyone, laughing together, and that he was merely a beast who followed only instinct because learning was bothersome.

Therefore, she mocked him, saying that while he had Jegal blood, he was not truly a Jegal-‘like’ person.

‘No!’

Jegal Moon’s eyes closed.

‘I’m not a beast…!’

Hissssss.

Jegal Moon’s body, rotting away in an instant, was utterly pathetic.

For the end of someone who had been central to overthrowing the Jegal Clan, one of the Six Great Families, even the word ‘futile’ felt insufficient to describe this finale.

Baek Ho looked at Jegal Moon with hollow eyes, then turned his gaze to the remaining subordinates surrounding the scholars.

They were staring this way with vacant expressions.

Baek Ho shouted.

“Run! You must tell others what happened here…!”

“Didn’t they say the entire inner courtyard was sealed due to some formation technique called the Ten Perfect Sealing Formation or something?”

Baek Ho’s expression became blank. With everything ruined, he couldn’t maintain his usual composure.

Neung Hyeong raised his fist.

“Farewell.”

Thwack!

The subordinate who had envied his superior’s futile end also followed after him.

“Phew, damn it. The remaining ones are still remaining ones, but.”

The panicking demons stood there awkwardly. Having lost their fighting spirit, they didn’t know what to do.

Neung Hyeong let out a bitter smile.

‘People are all the same.’

That’s when it happened.

“Someone’s coming.”

“What? Ah, that demon bastard?”

“No, someone who broke through the outer courtyard has entered the inner courtyard.”

Neung Hyeong was greatly surprised.

“There are more bastards like us? But hey, how did you know that?”

Moyong Bi didn’t tell him about the mysteries of the Brain Gate Heart Technique.

“Let’s finish off those bastards first.”

“Right.”

A moment later.

The two men who had persistently hunted down every single demon that had fled in all directions sat down panting.

“Hey, that demon bastard got closer.”

“I know.”

“And the intruder you mentioned too. They’ll meet in the middle, right? But this aura… it’s quite familiar.”

“It’s the Mu Dang Faction.”

A terrifying gleam appeared in Moyong Bi’s eyes.

“It’s the Mu Dang Faction, but… this feels somewhat familiar.”

A moment later.

Swoooosh!

Massive sprays of blood erupted from beyond the wall.

Moyong Bi and Neung Hyeong could tell. The demon who had reached right in front of them had been torn to pieces by merciless sword force.

The energy was far too pure, and the sword technique far too terrifying. The fact that someone with such clear energy could kill people so coldly and decisively was shockingly contradictory.

And then.

Bang!

The bolt shattered and the main gate opened.

Two Taoist priests entered through it.

One was someone Moyong Bi knew well. She was none other than Ja Dam.

Furthermore, the other one was also someone memorable.

A Taoist priest whose face had become both familiar and strange.

The old Taoist priest shaking blood off his Song Moon Ancient Sword as he walked forward—Heo Joong Jin In’s eyes widened.

“That energy is…?!”

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