The Evil Martial God Chronicles - Chapter 1

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Legend of the Evil Martial God

Chapter 1

Four middle-aged men were fawning over a young man with extremely tense expressions.

“Dae-hyeong. This is the Thousand Day Intoxication we obtained this time. It’s a famous liquor named because drinking it once makes you feel drowsy as if intoxicated for a thousand days.”

“It’s truly difficult liquor to obtain. We went to great lengths to get it for Dae-hyeong.”

“Dae-hyeong, please try this as well. It’s called the Heaven-Defying Body Restoration Pill, a divine elixir that grants eternal youth by defying heaven’s ordained fate.”

“This is our sincere loyalty.”

They respectfully addressed the young man who clearly looked younger than them as “Dae-hyeong” and continuously bowed, while the young man sitting in the place of honor chuckled and flicked his finger.

“Really? Seeing my brothers’ sincerity, shall I at least have a taste?”

“It’s an honor, Dae-hyeong.”

Glug glug—

The young man downed the cup filled with Thousand Day Intoxication in one gulp.

“Ahh! Good!”

“How does it suit your taste?”

“Mm. This is very good. Pour me more.”

“Yes! We have plenty!”

The young man continuously drank the Thousand Day Intoxication as fast as they poured it.

“Dae-hyeong. Please try this as well.”

Then a middle-aged man offered him the Heaven-Defying Body Restoration Pill.

The young man immediately took it and tossed it into his mouth.

Chew chew—

Gulp—

Seeing it go down his throat, subtle smiles appeared on the middle-aged men’s faces.

“Oh! This tastes good too? I already feel like my body is getting younger.”

“Right? We’re also satisfied that Dae-hyeong likes it.”

The young man chuckled at the middle-aged men’s flattery and said.

“What’s this? Why are you all suddenly acting like this? Suspiciously?”

“What do you mean by that? Suspicious? We’re hurt, Dae-hyeong. How can you not recognize our loyalty?”

“That’s right. It’s all our small gesture of devotion toward Dae-hyeong.”

How much time had passed?

The young man collapsed with a heavily intoxicated face.

“Dae-hyeong? Dae-hyeong?”

The four men pretended to be surprised while shaking the young man.

Snore—

When they heard snoring sounds, the four men finally wiped the sweat from their foreheads in relief.

“Damn bastard! He’s finally asleep.”

“Hey hey. Watch your words. What if he hears you?”

“We put the Thousand Day Intoxication that makes you sleep for a thousand days with just one drink, plus a whole handful of Dream-Destroying Soul-Severing Powder that puts you to sleep for life with just a fingernail’s worth. Even an immortal couldn’t wake up from this.”

“On top of that, we made him eat the Heaven-Defying Body Restoration Pill that’s supposed to turn you back into a baby by defying fate.”

“Surely the medicine’s effects won’t fail to work?”

“We confirmed that medicines work on him the first time, except for poisons. It’s just that the second time doesn’t work.”

“Thinking about all the suffering we endured being caught by that damn monster bastard…”

“But when exactly is he going to shrink? Does eating that really turn you into a baby?”

“The Esoteric Buddhism guys from the Western Regions definitely said so. They said eating it returns you to when you were a newborn. Damn. I was saving it to live a new life later.”

“But it’s not working.”

“Did those monk bastards scam you?”

“It wouldn’t be a scam. I told them I’d erase the Esoteric Buddhism headquarters from the world if they cheated me. Their eyes weren’t lying then. Damn, it must not work on that monster. I should have just eaten it myself.”

“Then, what do we do?”

That’s when it happened.

“Mmm…”

He only shifted his body slightly, but the four middle-aged men retreated dozens of steps backward in terror.

They were so nervous that beads of sweat formed on their faces.

Seeing he was still asleep, the four men wiped the sweat from their foreheads and sighed in relief.

“Hah. I feel like my lifespan shortened by ten years.”

“Me too.”

“If we stay here, we won’t live our natural lifespan. L-let’s get out of here quickly.”

“R-right. Let’s go somewhere that person can’t see us first.”

The four middle-aged men hurriedly left that place.

After running for a long time, the four arrived at a position where the pavilion was no longer visible.

“Huff huff! This is the second time in my life I’ve used Light Body Technique with full power like this.”

“Me too. The first time was when I used it to escape from Dae-hyeong.”

“Even using full power, he caught up in an instant. That guy isn’t human.”

“He doesn’t even have Internal Energy, so where does that kind of strength come from?”

“Hey hey. Don’t say such horrifying things. If you think that monster even had Internal Energy…”

“He’s a human who blows away mountains with just Fist Strikes thrown with his bare hands, without any Internal Energy.”

“Don’t even call him human. How is that human? He’s a monster.”

“Even monster isn’t enough. And his personality is so damn awful too. He’s evil. Pure evil.”

“Hey hey. Stop chattering and what are we going to do now?”

“What do you mean what? We run away like this, change our identities and live in hiding.”

“Right. If we just change our identities appropriately and live, he’ll never find us.”

“We can’t do things halfway! We need to completely transform! That’s why I even learned the Thousand Faces Bone Shrinking Art.”

“Even the Thousand Faces Bone Shrinking Art? This bastard only cares about saving himself!”

“I’ll teach it to you.”

“Hey. Teach it to me too.”

“Me too!”

“Alright. I’ll copy the secret manual and share it with everyone, so make sure you all hide well and learn it.”

“Got it.”

“Now we’re set! With the antidote pill to erase the Ten Thousand Li Tracking Incense and the ability to change our appearance, that monster will never be able to find us.”

The four men looked toward the direction of the pavilion and ground their teeth.

“Damn monster bastard. Let’s never see him again.”

“Don’t even appear in our dreams.”

“Fuck. The people of the Central Plains would never dream of it, right? That the Four Heavenly Demons, who once threw all of Central Plains into terror, trembled in fear of a human without internal energy?”

“They probably just think we suddenly disappeared. No one knows we were captured by that monster.”

“While we were captured, he sucked out all our techniques.”

“Damn monster bastard. He’s so smart that he absorbed everything we taught him.”

“Heaven is truly unfair. When I think about how we lived trembling in fear because of that monster all this time…”

“Still… saying we trembled is a bit much, isn’t it?”

“You didn’t tremble? Your speed at getting up and prostrating was the fastest among us.”

“Anyone listening would think it’s true.”

“What joke? Look at the callus on your forehead from prostrating so much.”

Seeming embarrassed by his words, he quietly covered his forehead.

“There’s nothing to be ashamed of. We simply encountered a natural disaster. Human bodies can’t avoid natural disasters. We can either adapt or run away like we’re doing now – one of the two.”

“We were once called natural disasters ourselves…”

“Hey hey. That’s embarrassing. What natural disasters… Actually, we met that monster in the place we fled to after being defeated by that old man, the Heavenly Martial Emperor.”

“To think there was such a strong guy in the Central Plains.”

“We need to get revenge on those damn One Emperor Eight Kings…”

“Forget it. The One Emperor Eight Kings aren’t the problem right now. We need to survive. When that monster wakes up from sleep, he’ll definitely come looking for us. Before that happens, we need to hide so perfectly that he can never find us. We have a thousand days.”

“It might not be a thousand days. That monster could wake up in just ten days.”

“Damn! Then we need to hurry even more.”

“L-let’s go to the Great Desert first. Let’s learn the Thousand Faces Bone Shrinking Art there.”

“How about returning to Hundred Demon Heaven?”

“Hmm… It’s not that I haven’t thought about it… but could Hundred Demon Heaven handle that monster?”

“Hmm…”

The four men fell into deep thought.

Then they all shook their heads in unison.

“No, they absolutely can’t handle it.”

“Right. If that guy barges into Hundred Demon Heaven because of us… the people of Hundred Demon Heaven won’t leave us alone.”

“So we need to quietly hide and live. That’s the most certain method.”

“Sigh. We came out to assess the power of the Central Plains, and what is this mess?”

“At least we passed on information about the One Emperor Eight Kings to Hundred Demon Heaven, so we’ve done our job.”

“What about information on the monster?”

“That… let’s bury it. If we stir things up by trying to verify it… will you handle the consequences?”

“N-no. L-let’s just bury it.”

Once upon a time, the Central Plains suffered a terrible dark age because of these four men.

Their infamy was so great that even crying children would stop upon hearing their aliases.

The red-haired man was Kang Mujin, the Heaven-Conquering Demon who could wield any weapon.

The man in scholar’s robes was Ye Yahyeon, the Poison Life Demon who could handle all medicinal herbs and poisons in the world.

The man with half his face covered by a beard was Baek Ryeongso, Jin Myeol Shin Ma who had mastered all formations in the world.

The man with narrow eyes and a black mask was Jin Muryang, the Ghost-Destroying Demon known as the god of assassins.

If these men had been born separately, each would have been a supreme master who could command the world from beneath their feet.

When four such individuals united and swept through the martial world with their respective specialties, no sect could stand against them like autumn leaves before the wind.

The Central Plains called this period a disaster of heaven’s collapse – the Heavenly Collapse Tribulation.

But one day, they suddenly vanished without a trace.

Rumors said the place that defeated them was called Heavenly Martial City.

Jeok Mugun, the Heavenly Martial Emperor and lord of Heavenly Martial City.

He was the only martial artist to defeat the Four Heavenly Demons.

The martial world, which had been trapped in fear of the Four Heavenly Demons, began to unite around Heavenly Martial City and started reorganizing.

That was already ten years ago.

During that time, the Central Plains martial world had worked together to almost fully restore their past strength, and were striving to become even stronger.

Paradoxically, the Four Heavenly Demons had made the martial world stronger than before.

“Hey, let’s reminisce about the past later and hurry up. I don’t want to stay here any longer.”

“Let’s go to the Great Desert.”

The Poison-Destroying Demon said.

“Right. Let’s go to the Great Desert, completely transform ourselves, then open an inn in the Central Plains.”

The Heaven-Conquering Demon said.

“I want to open a martial arts school. Since what I learned was thievery, martial arts is all I know.”

“What if you get caught?”

“I’ll do it small-scale so I won’t get caught. Just enough to make a living.”

The Ghost-Destroying Demon said with a smile.

“I should become an assassin. That’s all I learned too.”

“Just don’t become famous.”

“You don’t understand. Being famous makes them less suspicious.”

“What kind of bullshit is that?”

“They won’t suspect you if anyone can see you’re not that person. Do you think they’d expect someone to operate so openly? They’d think you’re hiding.”

“Is that so? Do whatever you want. Just don’t get caught.”

“Of course.”

Jin Myeol Shin Ma, the most burly and frightening-looking among them, grinned and said.

“Then I should open a clothes shop.”

Instantly, everyone’s eyes widened as they stared at Jin Myeol Shin Ma.

“You’re going to open what?”

“Why? What? Can’t I make clothes?”

“It doesn’t suit you at all.”

“Ever since I was young, my dream was to make Clothes. It wouldn’t be bad to realize my dream with this opportunity. I was convinced when I saw how surprised you all were. You never would have imagined that I’d be making Clothes, right?”

“That’s… that’s true. If you hadn’t told us, we would have been searching other places trying to hear news about you.”

“You never would have found me.”

Everyone nodded their heads while looking at Jin Myeol Shin Ma.

“Alright, let’s head to the Great Desert for now.”

“Right. Let’s go.”

In an instant, the four people disappeared from that spot.

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