The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 820

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Chapter 820.
No Sa spoke.
“If we leave things as they are, there is a risk that factions within the Murim Alliance itself may collapse from the inside.”
Sensing Mu Jon’s turbulent thoughts, No Sa wore an expression of regret.
“The timing may be premature, but this is merely the natural order of things, is it not?”
And he added one more thing.
“They will eventually become obstacles that threaten even the position of Alliance Lord.”
“Hmm.”
Mu Jon made his decision swiftly.
The timing had merely shifted.
Everything was simply the natural progression, as No Sa said.
“Very well.”
Mu Jon nodded.
“Then let us first deal with the Chief’s private organization. It has grown far too large.”
No Sa drank his tea with a smile rather than a response.
Watching him, Mu Jon’s eyes turned cold for a moment.
But soon he wore a gentle smile and clasped his hands together.
“Then.”
Mu Jon, having expressed his agreement, turned away.
The smile that had been painted across his face vanished in an instant like it had evaporated.
‘In any case, they are nothing but a rotting ship to me.’
I cared nothing for the power that the Murim Alliance could offer.
I too was an outsider, and one day I would depart. The Murim Alliance was merely a temporary dwelling place.
‘Do you think I would be satisfied with the power you offer?’
Had I truly valued the authority of the Alliance Lord?
I would never have permitted the leaders of each organization to freely choose their commanders.
From the beginning, I had no attachment to the Murim Alliance.
‘You too are dogs to be boiled in a cauldron. I shall deal with you slowly.’
When a dog performs its master’s errands long enough, it eventually begins to act like the master.
Mu Jon had made his resolve.
Soon I would boil these dogs who played the role of master in a cauldron.
Creak.
Upon entering the Gunkon Pavilion again, Black Shadow was already kneeling before Mu Jon.
He was the leader of Mu Jon’s secret organization and the shadow that always hovered at my side.
“The decision has been made to eliminate the Blood Heaven Blood Life Group.”
“I shall handle it immediately.”
As the shadow reverberating in the darkness emanated killing intent, Mu Jon shook his head.
“There is no need for you to act. Has there not always been a good method called ‘borrowing a knife to kill’?”
“Then….”
“After all, she desperately wished to strike at the Jung Son Family.”
Mu Jon’s eyes grew even darker than the shadows themselves.
“If I fulfill that wish of hers now, it would benefit us both, would it not?”
“Do you not find it wasteful, my lord?”
Shadow spoke cautiously at that moment.
“We invested considerable effort in elevating her to the position of Chief.”
Mu Jon actually trusted Gong Son Dan Gyeong deeply.
She was extremely capable and possessed the ability to resolve various problems swiftly.
Yet her sole desire remained vengeance alone.
But after boarding the same vessel as Bu Eunseol.
She had changed.
The vengeful specter who once doubted everyone, dug into their pasts, and rushed toward revenge had transformed.
She had become an ordinary woman, her gaze fixed upon a single man.
“No matter how capable one may be, a heart that has changed is worthless.”
Mu Jon withdrew a letter from his robes and tossed it forth.
Within lay a plan that could reduce to ruin in an instant the organization Gong Son Dan Gyeong had devoted her entire life to building.
“Execute it as written.”
* * *
The Murim Alliance, Cheong Myeong Unit.
Darkness blanketed the interior of the office, yet no lamp had been lit.
Two men sat across from each other at a table, their gazes locked.
They were Mu Gyeol, Chief of Cheong Myeong Unit, and Bu Eunseol, who played the role of Seon Woo Jin, Chief of Cheop Mil Won.
“This is troublesome. Coming here so abruptly.”
Mu Gyeol made no effort to conceal his displeasure at Bu Eunseol’s unexpected arrival.
“No matter how discreetly you move, this is the Murim Alliance. Do you understand what I mean?”
Mu Gyeol, disciple of Jeong Cheon Je.
He had been secretly investigating Mu Jon all along, unraveling the truth behind his master’s death.
Bu Eunseol too had made contact with him in utmost secrecy, having once investigated Mu Jon’s Secret Cave.
But problems arose after that day.
After his Secret Cave was ransacked, Mu Jon cast suspicious eyes upon all his subordinates, including himself.
Fortunately, traces remained suggesting an intruder untrained in martial arts, yet the culprit’s identity remained shrouded in mystery. Despite endless investigation, the truth had not been revealed.
But if Mu Jon were to discover that Mu Gyeol had made contact with Bu Eunseol in such circumstances?
He could fall under Mu Jon’s serious suspicion.
“I understand well enough.”
“Then leave.”
Instead of answering, Bu Eunseol withdrew a wooden box from her robes.
“What is this?”
“You will know once you look.”
Mu Gyeol furrowed his brow and opened the wooden box. Within lay papers that appeared to have been torn from a book.
They were fragments of the Spring and Autumn Records that Bu Eunseol had obtained from the Secret Cave at Baek Woon Mountain.
“This is…”
Mu Gyeol’s eyes trembled ceaselessly as they traced across the paper within the coffin chamber.
Within the Spring and Autumn records lay something he had desperately sought.
Information about Mu Jon, inscribed in his master’s own handwriting.
“My suspicions were correct.”
Tears streamed from Mu Gyeol’s eyes as he read through the written words.
“So my suspicions were right after all.”
He wiped away his tears and asked Bu Eunseol in a low voice.
“How did you obtain this?”
“It was purely by chance.”
Bu Eunseol honestly recounted her chance encounter with the Black-Robed Masked Killer and the Blue-Faced Assassin.
“So that’s how it came to pass.”
“Were those masked assassins members of the organization you lead?”
“I wouldn’t call it my organization. Rather, they are those who share the same purpose.”
Mu Gyeol evaded a direct answer, his expression profoundly melancholic.
“Do was a righteous man. He merely assisted Dan Mok Ki because of a debt of life.”
After reading the contents inscribed in the Spring and Autumn records, Mu Gyeol had discerned Mu Jon’s true identity.
He now referred to him entirely as Dan Mok Ki.
Mu Gyeol spoke with a troubled expression.
“Yet knowing that Mu Jon walked a corrupted path, he still aided me. But in the end, I drove him toward death….”
Bu Eunseol could understand the anguish in Mu Gyeol’s heart.
She too had wandered through Gangho seeking vengeance, encountering countless comrades and subordinates.
But if they had died for her revenge?
She could never forgive herself.
“Seeing that you’ve given me this letter, it seems you intend to leave the Alliance.”
Mu Gyeol perceived Bu Eunseol’s true intentions and nodded.
“Is that not so?”
“It is.”
Bu Eunseol withdrew an envelope from her robes.
“What is this?”
“A plan I have devised.”
Mu Gyeol’s eyes widened as he read through the letter.
It contained not only a flawless plan for Bu Eunseol to leave the Murim Alliance under the identity of Seon Woo Jin, but also
a plan to establish a new alliance called the Changcheon Alliance, all meticulously detailed.
“Why are you showing me this?”
“Because I believe you too are a righteous adherent of the Orthodox Path.”
Mu Gyeol shook his head upon grasping the meaning of her words.
“Not at all. I stand against Mu Jon for my master’s vengeance. I know nothing of righteousness in Murim.”
“I am not asking you to join immediately.”
Bu Eunseol spoke calmly.
“Should your heart change at any time, come to me.”
“I’m not sure whether to thank you for trusting me, or to tell you that you trust people far too naively.”
How strange indeed.
Upon reading the letter Bu Eunseol had presented, Mu Gyeol’s demeanor shifted.
His gaze now carried unmistakable contempt.
“I’m afraid I have no desire to share ambitions with someone as cold-blooded as you.”
“What do you mean?”
Mu Gyeol fixed his eyes directly upon Bu Eunseol’s.
“You deliberately placed the Chief in a precarious position to advance this scheme, did you not?”
Mu Gyeol spoke with utter coldness.
“Only then could you ensure her complete allegiance.”
“I don’t follow your meaning.”
“You intentionally put her in danger this time.”
“She was placed in danger?”
“Are you feigning ignorance?”
Mu Gyeol’s voice turned glacial.
“To completely destroy Seon Woo Jin, one must first topple those who stand behind him, must one not?”
“Are you saying they’re already moving against the Chief?”
Bu Eunseol understood well that if they sought to eliminate Seon Woo Jin, they would naturally move first against Gong Son Dan Gyeong.
Yet Mu Jon had summoned him to Gunkon Pavilion and ordered him to cease the Cheong Sim Ryeong activation.
But then he was told to attack Gong Son Dan Gyeong immediately afterward? This made no sense whatsoever.
“You deliberately refrained from monitoring the Chief’s forces this time. And was that not to redirect the arrows aimed at you toward her?”
Mu Gyeol spoke with a bitter smile.
“Your plan was to annihilate her organization and place her in a position where she has nowhere to turn, thereby recruiting her as your Chief.”
He was laboring under a misunderstanding.
He was asserting that Bu Eunseol had devised this scheme specifically to recruit Gong Son Dan Gyeong.
“You’re no different from Dan Mok Ki.”
Mu Gyeol spoke with an expression of utter revulsion.
“You stop at nothing to obtain what you desire.”
“You’re mistaken about something.”
“Mistaken?”
Mu Gyeol’s lips curled into a cold smile.
“Is this what you wish to say? That I sought to save her—that it was merely a means to free her from the Murim Alliance, that den of evil…?”
“Hahaha.”
Bu Eunseol burst into a hollow laugh.
He gazed at Mu Gyeol and let out a derisive snort.
“Is that not why you’ve been unable to find evidence that Mu Jon has harmed Jeong Cheon Je—because you’re so intoxicated by such naive dreams?”
“What did you say?”
“Do you think the Chief is a hothouse flower? An incompetent woman commanding her subordinates blindly?”
He regarded Mu Gyeol with an expression of absolute coldness.
“Listen well. She has earned Mu Jon’s trust within this cesspool of the Murim Alliance and risen to the position of Chief.”
And she spoke firmly.
“And she is always prepared to dirty her own hands. Do you truly believe such a woman would fall for their schemes?”
Gong Son Dan Gyeong was no ordinary talent.
She had climbed to the pinnacle that a woman could reach in this hellish Murim Alliance through her own strength.
She was a figure who had earned the trust of the suspicious Mu Jon himself.
No matter what circumstances arose, she would surely survive.
Bu Eunseol harbored no concern for Gong Son Dan Gyeong whatsoever.
But Mu Gyeol spoke words that defied expectation.
“That’s true. In the past, it was so.”
“In the past?”
“Don’t feign ignorance.”
“Explain yourself clearly.”
“Would she, who knows this well, deliberately fall into Dan Mok Ki’s scheme?”
“Deliberately fall into a scheme?”
“She has gone to voluntarily disband the secret force she has been cultivating for so long.”
Mu Gyeol delivered words of shocking impact.
“For your sake.”
Sparks ignited in Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
“What do you mean by that?”
“Mu Jon has been detecting the secret organization she created for a long time. And at some point, he saw through the change in her heart as well.”
Mu Gyeol sighed as he spoke.
“Mu Jon summoned the Chief. And because of your activation of Cheong Sim Ryeong this time, he said you would die by the hands of the Murim Alliance’s shadow organization.”
“….”
“And if you wish to save your life, he proposed that you disband the secret organization you have built up until now.”
Bu Eunseol snorted derisively.
“Of course she would refuse….”
“She accepted.”
In that moment, Bu Eunseol’s eyes, which had been flickering ceaselessly, ceased their movement.
She had already anticipated that Mu Jon could use her safety to threaten Gong Son Dan Gyeong.
But she had naturally assumed that Gong Son Dan Gyeong would refuse.
Yet she was accepting the proposal and attempting to disband the organization?
‘That cannot be.’
Her target was the Jung Son Family, one of the legendary Three Families.
Then that secret organization would be something she had nurtured with great care for a long time, and it would possess tremendous power.
So why would she disband the organization because of me?
That heartless Gong Son Dan Gyeong… why on earth?
“As you can surely anticipate, that is naturally a death trap.”
Mu Gyeol spoke coldly.
“Dan Mok Ki—he is a descendant of the Dan Mok Family, where only geniuses are born. He is not one to leave behind any lingering troubles.”
Bu Eunseol realized something and asked.
“You’re saying you lured the Jung Son Family’s forces to strike at her?”
“Of course.”
Mu Gyeol let out a snort.
“There’s a clean way to dispose of her without dirtying my own hands. There’s no reason not to use it.”
Stars flickered in Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
Had Mu Jon acted directly, Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s life would not have been in danger.
Their objective was to eliminate the secret organizations under the Chief’s command.
But if the Jung Son Family was sent, the situation was entirely different.
Even if they didn’t know Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s true identity, they would never let her live.
Because the Jung Son Family would never allow the leader who had cultivated forces to oppose them to survive.
“You truly didn’t know?”
Mu Gyeol’s brow furrowed as he watched Bu Eunseol’s increasingly desperate face.
“Someone as intelligent as you?”
Bu Eunseol was intelligent.
That was an unchanging fact.
But he was particularly insensitive to understanding women’s emotions.
Moreover, Gong Son Dan Gyeong had never once expressed such feelings to him…
So naturally, he could not have known.
That cold and ruthless Gong Son Dan Gyeong.
She who clung to vengeance more than anyone.
Had abandoned her revenge to save him.
“Where is she?”
“….”
“Tell me where Mu Jon lured her. The location. Now.”
A crimson light deeper than blood surged in Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
“Immediately!”
* * *
The Jung Son Family.
They were uniquely obsessed with the power of Baek Pal Sung, collecting and storing their strength through Gyeong Seong Ok.
Therefore, Gong Son Dan Gyeong had long studied how to confront them directly and annihilate their clan.
Baek Pal Sung.
Their power manifested only within a certain domain, and within that domain, they wielded an absolute supernatural ability.
Thus, ordinary martial arts could not possibly contend with them.
Among Murim practitioners, only those who had entered the Extreme Heaven Realm could stand against them.
―If the martial techniques of Yeongak Dojeon and the formation methods of the Gong Sun Estate were unified… perhaps.
The reason Gong Son Dan Gyeong had asked Gong Sun Hwa Wook to go to the Murim Alliance.
It was partly to build the intelligence network and forces capable of opposing the Jung Son Family.
But above all, it was to research a method to counter the power of Baek Pal Sung.
And heaven blessed her.
She had accidentally discovered a secret hidden on the first level of Yeongak Dojeon.
In that place, she had integrated martial arts with mystical formations and created a mysterious artifact—the Phantom Shadow Demon Lantern—a magical tool of extraordinary power.
A new secret technique never before seen in the Murim, capable of suppressing any supernatural force.
The secrets of the Dao Aspect were recorded within it.
Though insufficient when facing supreme masters,
against Baek Pal Sung, who possessed supernatural abilities, it could unleash perfect offensive capabilities.
―But this could not be wielded alone.
Just as the Sim An Gyeong that Yu Woon Ryong had discovered could not be deployed by a single person,
the Dao Aspect recorded in the secret manual likewise could not be executed by one individual.
After much deliberation, Gong Son Dan Gyeong invested vast wealth and manpower
to cultivate an elite force capable of specifically countering the Jung Son Family and Baek Pal Sung.
The Blood Heaven Blood Life Group.
The name carried the weight of her hatred—a resentment so profound it would stain the heavens crimson—and her unwavering vow to stake her very life on vengeance.
After years of rigorous training,
the masters of the Blood Heaven Blood Life Group possessed not only exceptional martial prowess but also mastery rivaling formation specialists.
This was because she had taught them the superior ascending techniques preserved in the Murim Alliance’s Yeongak Dojeon, as well as the Gong Sun Estate’s own formidable formations.
―Now, perfect preparations were complete.
Gong Son Dan Gyeong was confident.
Though she herself had not cultivated exceptional martial arts, with the Blood Heaven Blood Life Group at her command—
she was certain of victory against the Jung Son Family’s masters, even those bearing Baek Pal Sung’s power.
Cheong Woon San, Ssang Su Gok.
This was where the main headquarters of the Blood Heaven Blood Life Group, which Gong Son Dan Gyeong had cultivated, was located.
“Aaaahhh!”
“Krrgh!”
Agonized screams echoed ceaselessly through the valley.
They were all warriors of the Blood Fate Sect, who had undergone endless training under Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s command.
The Blood Heaven Blood Life Group included former masters she had begged on her knees to recruit,
as well as young men barely past their coming of age.
All of them had been trained thoroughly in the martial manuals and formations Gong Son Dan Gyeong had transmitted, prepared to eliminate the Jung Son Family—those who had ravaged the Gangho, kidnapped and murdered children.
Warriors who had waited solely for the day to strike down the Jung Son Family,
now lay dying in agony, their blood pooling beneath them.
‘This cannot be.’
Tears of blood streamed from Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s eyes as she watched the battle from afar.
―If you disband the organization, we will no longer pursue the matter regarding Seon Woo Jin.
Mu Jon’s words from not long ago echoed through her mind.
In the end, she had accepted his proposal and intended to discuss the dissolution of the Blood Heaven Blood Life Group at Ssang Su Gok.
But the moment she arrived at Ssang Su Gok, as if they had been waiting,
the Jung Son Family’s forces, which had never revealed themselves until now,
and Baek Pal Sung’s innate masters, whom she could never locate despite relentless pursuit,
launched a sudden assault.
“Chief, you must retreat.”
Gwak Sung, the Chief leading the Blood Heaven Blood Life Group, took hold of Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s arm.
He was a swordmaster who had pacified the entire Gangnam region with a single blade, and had long since retired to live as a recluse.
Yet after Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s desperate pleas and persuasion—staking her very life on revenge—he had finally accepted the position of Chief.
“Because they destroyed the Maeying Madeung beforehand, I cannot unfold the Dosang.”
The Dosang—the Blood Fate Sect’s supreme secret technique and the mysterious formation capable of eliminating the Jung Son Family.
To unfold it, the leaders of each unit must possess the Maeying Madeung in advance, for it serves as the material necessary to activate the Dosang.
But somehow, the Jung Son Family had discovered this.
After destroying the Maeying Madeung stored in Ssang Su Gok and revealing themselves, we were left utterly defenseless.
“I cannot. I cannot be the only one to escape.”
“Chief!”
Gwak Sung bellowed, his voice cutting through the chaos with absolute resolve.
“If the Chief falls here, who will avenge our Blood Fate Sect’s warriors?”
“….”
“We gathered under the name Blood Heaven Blood Life Group, so surely you must see this through to its end, must you not?”
At Gwak Sung’s thunderous words, Gong Son Dan Gyeong bit her lips until blood flowed.
He was right.
She had rallied countless warriors consumed by hatred, vowing to achieve revenge.
She had imparted martial arts and formation techniques to them.
So it was only right that she bear the burden of their vengeance as well.
“I understand.”
Gong Son Dan Gyeong gazed upon the Jung Son Family forces flooding toward Ssang Su Gok, her eyes burning with lethal intent.
And with a voice heavy with anguish, she cried out.
“I will have my revenge.”
“That the Jung Son Family forces found this place so precisely, when the Chief was targeting them… suggests the traitor walks close beside you.”
At Gwak Sung’s words, Gong Son Dan Gyeong’s eyes blazed with crimson light.
Only two people in this world knew of her vendetta against the Jung Son Family.
And whoever sent the Jung Son Family forces here—
whoever could eliminate the Blood Fate Sect’s secretly cultivated forces—could only be one person.
‘Mu Jon!’
Tears of blood streamed from her eyes.
So Mu Jon had ties to the Jung Son Family all along, and had concealed them all this time.
And having discerned that she shared a boat with Seon Woo Jin—no, that she harbored feelings for him—
he had laid this trap under the guise of ordering the Blood Fate Sect’s dissolution.
‘I will never forget this grudge!’
The stone rumbled.
She opened the door to the secret passage she had prepared in advance.
Unable to face Gwak Sung, she lowered her head and spoke.
“Please, survive this by any means.”
Gwak Sung smiled faintly.
“Whenever you issue the summons, I shall await you at the safe house you have prepared.”
And then he continued.
“They have surely laid a dense encirclement around Ssang Su Gok. Even if you escape through the Secret Passage, you will certainly be pursued… Be cautious.”
“I understand.”
Gong Son Dan Gyeong bowed respectfully to Gwak Sung.
Gwak Sung returned the gesture with solemn dignity.
With her lips bleeding from biting them so hard, she rushed into the Secret Passage.
From this moment forward, she had to carve a path of blood and return to the Murim Alliance at any cost.

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