The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 667

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Chapter 667.
Bu Eunseol finally understood the full scope of the situation.
So Hwa Ru was no mere Pleasure House.
It was an Experimental Laboratory for some faction—a place where children’s bodies were harvested as material to curry favor with high officials,
restoring their health and youth.
Crack.
The sound of bone echoed from Bu Eunseol’s clenched fist.
I wanted nothing more than to sever their necks immediately and console the spirits of the dead children.
But not now.
If I killed them all here, I would never find the root of this evil.
Now that I had found concrete evidence, I had to trace the chain of command—those who orchestrated the kidnappings and these atrocities.
The Study Room of the Separate Annex at Anpyeong Guest House.
There sat Bu Eunseol, So Ok Rim, and Yu Cheong Rim, their expressions grave.
Throughout Murim’s history, there had been countless forbidden techniques that used children as sacrifices.
But most of those were merely means for the wicked to gain power.
These people were different.
To restore the youth of the elderly. For nothing more than a more pleasing appearance.
They took innocent children in their prime,
dismembered them like meat in a butcher’s shop, and used them to practice their forbidden arts.
Such a thing could not be tolerated.
“Whatever faction this is, they are beasts in human form, wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Yu Cheong Rim trembled with rage as well.
He too had grown up an orphan, and before meeting his master, had spent his entire life begging in the streets.
That these wretched orphans were not helped,
but instead ruthlessly kidnapped and used as medicinal material to restore the youth of high officials—it was unforgivable.
Absolutely unforgivable.
“I have already used Ben Jeon’s forces to quietly surround this entire area.”
At Bu Eunseol’s words, So Ok Rim nodded.
“Surround them. Just surround them.”
A crimson gleam blazed in her wide eyes.
“Not a single one escapes.”
A terrible killing intent radiated from So Ok Rim’s body.
Even as she restrained her fury, the very building of Star Courtyard trembled.
All these years of supporting the Orphanage,
maintaining her sanity in this desolate Murim—it had all been for the sake of protecting those pure children.
And now those wretched orphans were being ground into medicinal powder?
So Ok Rim’s rage pierced the heavens.
“Understood.”
Bu Eunseol swallowed hard.
Though I too burned with fury, it could not compare to So Ok Rim’s rage.
It was only right that she handle the resolution of this matter.
“But we cannot touch them just yet.”
Bu Eunseol spoke calmly.
“Unless we capture both their body and head, it will be utterly useless.”
“I’ll seize the real Lu Ju immediately. That should suffice.”
“Jin So So is not the real Lu Ju.”
It was Yu Cheong Rim who spoke then.
“She is merely a puppet managing the affairs of So Hwa Ru and its courtesans. The true Lu Ju exists elsewhere.”
So Ok Rim’s eyes blazed with bloodshot fury.
“So you’re saying we should leave them untouched?”
“In four days, the messenger who commands her will arrive. Until then, we must wait.”
So Ok Rim clenched her teeth hard.
Though she possessed a volatile temperament, her mind was not dull.
Rather than destroying So Hwa Ru, which was currently conducting grand rituals using byproducts derived from the children’s bodies,
it was far more crucial to capture the true root behind the kidnapping and orchestration of these atrocities.
“Fine, I’ll wait four days. But.”
Flames of such intensity blazed in So Ok Rim’s eyes as if they could incinerate the entire world.
“I will personally handle So Hwa Ru.”
Four days later.
As the morning sun rose, an eight-horse carriage stood before So Hwa Ru.
Could it be that someone had come to drink at the pleasure house from the crack of dawn?
Click.
The carriage door opened, and the Masked Assassin, clad entirely in black garments, slowly revealed himself.
Creak.
As the Masked Assassin descended from the carriage, the great gate opened and someone came out to greet him.
It was neither Chong Gwan nor Lu Ju Jin So So.
Rather, it was Se Ha, who had been playing the ajaeng before, standing there demurely.
Remarkably, it was not Jin So So, but she who had played instruments and heightened the revelry, who was the true Lu Ju.
“Welcome.”
Se Ha greeted the Masked Assassin with the utmost courtesy.
“….”
The Masked Assassin offered no response and entered immediately.
Then, after some time, he emerged again and boarded the carriage.
The carriage raced forward, kicking up clouds of dust.
Whoosh!
At that very moment, three shadows concealed upon the rooftops began to pursue the carriage.
They were Bu Eunseol, So Ok Rim, and Yu Cheong Rim, who had shed his disguise and returned to his true form.
“Ah, it feels like I can breathe again now that I’m back to my original appearance.”
Yu Cheong Rim spoke with evident relief.
From this day forward, there would be no need to mimic Yak Hong again, for So Hwa Ru would be utterly destroyed.
Yet despite his jesting, the two followed silently in the wake of the carriage.
Kidnapping children alone was a crime deserving of heavenly retribution.
But they did not stop there—they brutally murdered the children, using their bodies to rejuvenate the flesh of high-ranking officials.
Such atrocities alone warranted being torn limb from limb.
Dusk was falling.
The carriage, which had raced without pause, arrived at an orphanage far removed from Seong Do’s outer reaches.
Click.
The Masked Assassin descended from the carriage and strode unhesitatingly into the orphanage.
Could he be wearing stilts?
The Masked Assassin’s height had diminished by a full foot compared to when he had alighted before So Hwa Ru.
Tap-tap.
An elderly man with a benevolent countenance greeted him with a smile as he entered with quickened steps.
Bu Eunseol and her companions, observing from a distance, exchanged glances with widened eyes.
—Could a fully operational orphanage truly be their headquarters?
Remarkably, the sanctuary where the one who commanded So Hwa Ru resided was
none other than an orphanage still operating openly.
In such harsh times, few visited orphanages, and those who did were only those connected to them.
When one considered it, there existed no better hiding place for orchestrating sinister schemes.
“Ha ha.”
As the Masked Assassin disappeared into the depths of the orphanage with the old man, So Ok Rim, who had been watching, released a hollow laugh.
“They didn’t raid the orphanage—they established it themselves.”
The old man was unmistakably the one operating this orphanage.
In other words, rather than raiding the orphanage to abduct children, they had established it from the outset
and were supplying wretched children as medicinal ingredients.
“You remain here.”
Fire blazed in So Ok Rim’s eyes as she turned her head.
She began walking inward, following the trace the Masked Assassin had left behind.
“Yu Cheong Rim. You are to subdue those within that carriage and evacuate the children.”
Bu Eunseol spoke with measured calm.
“This place will soon become a wasteland.”
“Understood.”
As Yu Cheong Rim acknowledged, Bu Eunseol immediately followed So Ok Rim inside.
I knew her martial prowess was formidable, but judging by their actions, they were likely among the Gwi Il Gye of the Three Realms.
No matter how capable So Ok Rim was, they would be far from easy opponents, and with the unpredictability of what might unfold, I needed to aid her.
Boom.
Bu Eunseol and So Ok Rim entered the orphanage side by side.
The place where the Masked Assassin and the old man had entered was a dilapidated warehouse erected in a corner of the orphanage.
Upon entering, Bu Eunseol and So Ok Rim found the interior empty.
Given that the two had vanished suddenly, there was undoubtedly a secret passage within.
Yet no matter how thoroughly they searched, they could find no trace of any mechanism.
‘Hmm.’
If it didn’t appear to be a hollow passage, then surely this place must also conceal an entrance hidden behind some peculiar mystical technique.
Bu Eunseol spoke as she drew upon her crystalline divine energy.
“I’ll find the entrance.”
“That won’t be necessary.”
So Ok Rim shook her head and suddenly extended her left hand, beginning to draw upon her inner power.
Whoooosh.
Then the air surrounding her palm began to be drawn in ceaselessly.
Rummmble!
Suddenly, countless mystical points of light began to spread in all directions.
Shimmering.
The points of light that had spread forth were forming the shape of a transparent door.
It revealed the hidden door that had remained invisible until now.
“How did you do that?”
Bu Eunseol asked in amazement, and So Ok Rim answered matter-of-factly.
“What occurs in the heavens and what occurs on earth influence each other.”
Seong Hwang had comprehended the principles of the Unorthodox Path by studying the cycles and trajectories of celestial bodies.
And by observing the phenomena that occur in the heavens, he had attained mastery of the Unorthodox Path.
And So Ok Rim was a descendant of that Seong Hwang.
It was not something one could understand at a glance.
But it seemed that within Seong Hwang’s Unorthodox Path, there must be a secret to blocking mystical techniques.
Click.
Bu Eunseol and So Ok Rim unhesitatingly opened the transparent door and stepped inside.
Then a new landscape came into view.
As if the world had met its end, the sky was stained a crimson hue,
and beyond a hill in a desolate forest stood a massive fortress that appeared to be centuries old.
So Ok Rim furrowed her brow and unhesitatingly entered the fortress.
Creeeeak.
As a colossal door, seemingly five zhang in height, laboriously swung open, a broad Great Hall emerged into view, suffused with a gentle luminescence.
Above it stretched an endless series of elliptical stairs.
And upon those stairs stood a small silhouette.
Could he have been around ten years old?
He was a young boy with innocent, bright eyes and a prominent nose.
Anyone would have called him adorable, yet Bu Eunseol’s gaze turned cold.
He was none other than the very boy she had encountered on Lengyue Island.
Gwi Il Gye.
The force behind So Hwa Ru was indeed Gwi Il Gye, as expected.
“Quite the surprising combination. A wanderer like Seol So, and Seong Hwang’s bloodline, So Ok Rim.”
Remarkably, the boy seemed to have anticipated to some degree that Bu Eunseol and So Ok Rim had infiltrated this place.
He spoke without great surprise, his tone utterly indifferent.
“It’s not a place that would be exposed or suspected at all. I’m not sure how you managed to find your way here.”
“What on earth….”
So Ok Rim bit her teeth, suppressing the fury that threatened to burst forth.
“You established an orphanage and brutally murdered innocent children.”
“Innocent children? Hahaha.”
The Young Boy suddenly burst into cackling laughter.
“You truly know nothing. Innocent children, you say. Hahaha.”
After laughing for a long while, the Young Boy clicked his tongue and spoke.
“Did you really think Ben Gye captured random orphans with no knowledge and brutally killed them? Like that foolish Infinite Realm?”
“Stop spouting nonsense and answer me!”
As So Ok Rim immediately tried to unleash her power, Bu Eunseol pulled her arm back.
“Let’s hear what he has to say.”
“Hmm. Indeed. I heard you possess martial arts of a new generation master, surpassing even elite-class warriors.”
The Young Boy, who had been observing Bu Eunseol as she reversed her role to Seol So, smiled faintly.
“Quite composed. Your eyes are sharp too. I like that. For that reason alone, I suppose I should tell you the story.”
“If they weren’t innocent children, then you brought children who deserved death to the orphanage.”
“Oh, that’s right. A similar way of putting it.”
The Young Boy smiled faintly at Bu Eunseol’s words.
“Those children. They were seeds of the Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In cultivated by the Infinite Realm.”
Thump.
So Ok Rim’s eyes widened as if she had been struck on the back of her head.
“What nonsense is this!”
“You still don’t understand? To accommodate those children, to create such experimental subjects. The Infinite Realm established the orphanage from the very beginning.”
The Young Boy smiled in a spinning manner, as if finding it all amusing.
“Because they were trying to create a perfected form of Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In from those children.”
“The Seyangwon I was supporting… was an orphanage created by the Infinite Realm from the start?”
So Ok Rim’s vision darkened.
The Seyangwon, which she had thought was merely an ordinary orphanage, had been an experimental laboratory created by the Infinite Realm.
And those lovely children were seeds of the Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In created by the Infinite Realm?
“Seyangwon? Oh yes. Among the orphanages created by the Infinite Realm, there was such a name.”
“Lies!”
Whoosh!
So Ok Rim leaped up in an instant and unleashed her power toward the Young Boy standing on the high stairs.
Boom!
As the tremendous power poured down upon the Young Boy’s body,
Crash! Screech!
Suddenly, a blade-like wind erupting from behind the Young Boy immediately dissolved So Ok Rim’s strike.
Moreover, it pushed So Ok Rim, who had been suspended in mid-air, back down.
Thump. Clang.
Yet a strange, eerie sound echoed.
Looking closely, I could see roughly a dozen coffins painted pitch-black lined up behind the Young Boy, their lids all standing open.
“You seem skeptical. How unfortunate.”
The Young Boy clicked his tongue and slowly retreated, spreading both arms wide.
“I spoke the truth—why won’t you believe me?”
“Stop spouting nonsense!”
“Then verify it yourself. I’m leaving.”
So Ok Rim bolted back up the stairs, desperate to chase after the Young Boy.
But the moment she reached the top, a strange cry echoed from one of the open coffin lids.
“Hehehehe.”
So Ok Rim peered toward the coffin, wondering what it could be.
Then, from within the open lid, a young boy slowly began to rise.
“Cheon Woong.”
To her shock, the figure emerging from the coffin was Cheon Woong—the boy from the Seyangwon orphanage that So Ok Rim had been supporting.
Upon seeing her, he spread both arms wide and wept tears of blood.
“Kyaaaaa!”
His cry was so piercing it seemed it would shatter her eardrums.
Yet she moved forward without hesitation, intent on rescuing Cheon Woong, when—
“Wait.”
Bu Eunseol, who had followed close behind, seized her sleeve.
“Don’t get any closer.”
“Let go! What is this? Don’t you see the child crying?”
“I see it. Does that look like a child to you?”
“What?”
Only then did So Ok Rim examine Cheon Woong’s body carefully.
Cheon Woong had clearly only raised his upper body from the coffin.
Yet his height had risen as if he were standing upright—didn’t she notice that?
So Ok Rim had been too overwhelmed by shock to perceive it.
“Ah.”
The moment So Ok Rim stopped moving, Cheon Woong—who had been wailing with tears of blood—
Stopped abruptly.
His tears ceased, and his eyes fixed upon her with a terrifying gaze.
Then, from behind the stacked coffins, the Young Boy from Gwi Il Gye, who had been observing So Ok Rim’s movements, spoke:
“What a shame.”
He smacked his lips and clicked his tongue.
“We could have drained his vital essence.”
As it turned out, the coffin from which Cheon Woong had risen was filled with something resembling pig intestines.
His lower body was not ordinary legs, but rather had transformed into the shape of massive intestines.
“Cheon Woong. How did this…?”
As So Ok Rim cried out, it was not Cheon Woong standing in the coffin, but the Young Boy from Gwi Il Gye standing behind it, who answered instead.
“This is not a matter of ‘how’—it is his original form. After all, he was created as an experimental Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In by the Infinite Realm from the start.”
“You spout nothing but nonsense….”
So Ok Rim tried to cry out, but no further sound escaped her lips.
In truth, she too had sensed it instinctively.
This child was no forgery.
It was Cheon Woong from Seyangwon. The very child she had cherished so dearly, whose cheeks she had caressed so tenderly.
“Very well. Suppose we grant that you hunted down and slaughtered the experimental subjects of the Infinite Realm faction.”
It was then that Bu Eunseol stepped forward.
“But why did you need to capture and kill those children to restore youth to these high officials? There would have been no necessity for it.”
He had employed Seol So in reverse, after all.
Even knowing the boy was a member of Gwi Il Gye, he feigned ignorance.
“Hahahaha.”
The boy laughed coldly.
“That’s right. I restored their youth. But that youth… is a youth that becomes swift and natural death.”
Bu Eunseol’s brow furrowed deeply.
He had grasped the meaning behind the boy’s words.
“Surely those grand techniques didn’t actually restore youth at all….”
“Hehehehe. Exactly right.”
The boy smiled, baring his white teeth.
“Such dogs and pigs all deserve to die. But if we can’t kill them naturally, it creates backlash….”
The boy whispered as though sharing a secret.
“So by pretending to restore their youth, we kill them naturally, leaving no trace of wrongdoing.”
Bu Eunseol felt dizzy.
What in the world was Gwi Il Gye’s purpose?
Why dispose of the Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In of the Infinite Realm, and why kill these high officials?
Could it be they were actually doing good?
“What is your faction’s true objective?”
“Who knows.”
The boy smiled faintly.
“Even if you are Tan Wang’s disciple, you are merely a wanderer—hardly worthy of such knowledge.”
“Do I frighten you?”
“Hahaha.”
The boy smiled, baring his white teeth.
“Ben Gye has finally obtained a true Cheon Ju. Now the world can return to its proper state. In the end, everything….”
Splurt!
But at that moment, the boy’s cheek split open.
So Ok Rim had closed the distance in an instant.
And in a voice infinitely low, she spoke.
“You’ve been chattering away noisily since earlier.”
With tremendous force, she flicked her fingers, unleashing a powerful wind blade toward the boy.
“Hehehehe. Pung Cheon Il Su So Ok Rim. I am well aware that you have cultivated formidable martial arts.”
Snap.
The Young Boy flicked his finger.
At that, Cheon Woong, who had been standing inside the coffin, rose to his feet, raising a serpentine organ as long as a snake’s body rigidly upright.
Its length was at least ten spans.
The elongated organ hanging below his abdomen gleamed with an eerie luster.
His appearance was as if a colossal serpent demon had manifested itself in human form.
“That child began the breakthrough to become Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In long ago. In its own way, we’ve created quite a remarkable monster in the Infinite Realm, but….”
The Young Boy shook his head as he spoke.
“Unfortunately, the quality and condition have deteriorated. At this rate… it’s only fit to be used as a subject for demon-themed opera.”
“You wretch!”
“My apologies. I do tend to ramble unnecessarily.”
The Young Boy smiled brightly.
“It would be better if both of you simply died here.”
Snap!
As the Young Boy flicked his finger once more,
“Ahhh.”
A low cry emanated from Cheon Woong’s mouth, and crimson mist billowed forth in all directions.
Clang. Clang.
The lids of all the coffins surrounding them opened, revealing ten children.
Fortunately, unlike Cheon Woong, they still possessed their lower bodies.
Yet their eyes had lost all focus, and their skin was discolored a deathly gray.
And they were—
By some cruel twist of fate, the very children So Ok Rim had frequently visited at Seyangwon.
“Quite impressive for defective products, wouldn’t you say?”
The Young Boy turned his body as he spoke.
“Since they’re children, their bones haven’t hardened yet, so even as Shil Hoon In, they can execute perfect martial techniques.”
The Young Boy clicked his tongue.
“Had the Infinite Realm remained intact, we could have created something worthwhile, but it’s ended up like this. Well, we plan to conduct new research in Ben Gye anyway.”
With those words, the Young Boy’s form was already fading into the darkness.
Whoosh whoosh!
Bu Eunseol quickly drew out her flying blade and hurled it, but the Young Boy had vanished without a trace.
“So Ok Rim.”
As Bu Eunseol looked toward So Ok Rim,
A faint hum.
Her fists, which had been gazing down at the ground with infinitely dark eyes, began to emit a subtle radiance.
Those poor children had all become Shil Hoon In.
If that were the case, rather than leaving them to be exploited by those demons, we must end their suffering as quickly as possible.
We must liberate them from the shackles of that wretched flesh.
“Let’s go.”
So Ok Rim spoke to Bu Eunseol, who stood beside her.
“I’ll handle things here, so you must capture that rat-like bastard from before.”
There were twelve Iron Coffins in total.
Moreover, since this was said to be a Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In nearing completion, it would possess terrifying power.
Yet Bu Eunseol showed no concern and nodded.
“Understood.”
Bu Eunseol, who had been watching So Ok Rim,
burst forward in a flash!
In a single breath, I dashed toward where the Young Boy had vanished.

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