The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 101

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Chapter 101

“Grandmother! Grandmother!”

My anxiety became reality.

When I arrived at the noodle shop, it was already eerily devoid of any human warmth, as if it were a lie.

Only a single note was left sitting alone on the table.

Seolha.

Don’t worry about Grandmother.

You know now that Grandmother isn’t an ordinary person.

I’ll just go see your father and come back soon, so listen well to Elder Tak and your master.

Don’t skip meals.

Understood, my child?

Grandmother loves you very much.

“Wh-which way?”

My body was trembling, so my voice trembled along with it.

“Th-the fastest route to Sichuan… Please tell me. No, a map! I need a map!”

I desperately tried to think rationally.

If I recklessly chased after Grandmother right now, it would be difficult to even meet her.

Though I had been to Sichuan with Eok I-geon before, I had only followed along without knowing the direction or the roads.

In a world like this without GPS, if I went out alone, I definitely wouldn’t be able to reach Sichuan, let alone Qinghai.

“Don’t tell me there’s no map?”

Uncle Gong Pae-cheon didn’t answer my question.

He too seemed greatly shocked, as if he hadn’t expected Grandmother to leave so quickly.

I trembled violently as I paced around inside the shop.

Grandmother was the person who helped me survive in this unfamiliar world.

She was the only reason I could accept this martial arts novel world that was sometimes strange, frightening, and difficult to the point of death.

Even if this was a fictional world created by someone, even if I was a possessor… she was my one and only family!

“Calm down, let’s be calm. Come to think of it, Grandmother hasn’t been gone long. Maybe she’s still nearby.”

Once I reached a conclusion, my mind was filled with only the determination to find Grandmother.

“Grandmother!”

I rushed out of the shop door without looking back.

That was the last memory I had of myself.

An emergency was declared in the Cheonma Sect.

The biggest problem caused by Dang Yeong-ryeong’s absence, who had left to attend her father’s deathbed, was Seolha.

Just before Seolha was about to set out to find her grandmother, Eok I-geon pressed her pressure points and barely managed to put her to sleep.

But for some reason, she hadn’t woken up since then.

After one day passed and it became the second day, everyone was parched with anxiety.

The leadership of the Demonic Sect gathered in Maeuigam where Seolha was sleeping and began a meeting.

Those present were Sect Leader Eok Yeo-gwang, Tak Joong-hak of the Hyeon-ma Tak Family, Gwihongak Master Gong Pae-cheon, and Eok I-geon and Physician Pyo Jin-yang.

The five of them sat around a round table and discussed the current situation.

“Is Seolha really okay?”

“Physically, there’s nothing wrong. For now, we have no choice but to wait and watch.”

Tak Joong-hak was asking for the fifth time already. Nevertheless, Pyo Jin-yang answered without showing any sign of annoyance.

“…Uncle, could I have pressed the wrong pressure point?”

“You wouldn’t have done that, but the pressure point has already been released. I suspect Seolha herself doesn’t want to wake up.”

Sometimes this happened when someone received a strong psychological shock.

“It’ll be a problem even when Seolha wakes up. With that personality of hers, she’ll definitely make a fuss about going to find her grandmother, so how can we stop her?”

“If she takes after my daughter-in-law, we absolutely won’t be able to stop her. Whatever she wanted to do, she always did it.”

Moreover, this was a matter involving Dang Yeong-ryeong’s life.

As far as they knew, Seolha wasn’t a child who would give up on her grandmother.

“Gwihongak Master, tell us in detail. Is the Dark King’s condition so bad that Dang Yeong-ryeong had to leave in such a hurry?”

“…”

“Master!”

Even at Tak Joong-hak’s question, Gong Pae-cheon just stared blankly. Cheonma infused his voice with internal energy to try to bring him back to his senses.

“My apologies!”

Fortunately, Gong Pae-cheon immediately snapped out of his distraction. He shook his head left and right for a moment, then explained.

“The Dark King has been consumed by extreme yin poison and doesn’t have many days left to live.”

“Extreme yin poison? How did that happen?”

“To understand the Dark King’s physical condition, we must start with how he overexerted himself 17 years ago to evacuate his daughter, Lady Dang.”

As he recalled the orthodox sects’ scheme from 17 years ago, Gong Pae-cheon’s expression instantly turned cold.

“Ryeong-ah, go!”

“F-Father!”

“What are you doing! Hurry up and go!”

“Sob!”

“Live. You must survive!”

Dark King Dang Cheol-woo sent his daughter away with tears, then stood to block the enemies’ path. His face was filled with resolute determination.

“Head of the Dang Family. You refuse the offered drink and choose the punishment drink instead.”

Namgung Cheon, head of the Namgung Family, clicked his tongue with a displeased expression.

“You bastard! What offered drink, what punishment drink!”

Dang Cheol-woo suppressed his anger as he retorted.

“Are you really going to act this way?”

Moryong Gil, head of the Moryong Family, spoke as if gently persuading him.

“Whatever Head Dang thinks, the Dang heir has already become a public enemy of the martial arts world. He committed terrible massacres too horrific to speak of. And all to hide his own shame.”

“Shut up!”

Dang Cheol-woo’s voice trembled with rage. No words could break his resolve.

“I too have a child. I fully understand Head Dang’s feelings. However, evidence and witnesses are already overflowing.”

Moryong Gil wanted to resolve this as easily as possible. But the more he tried, the more indignant Dang Cheol-woo became.

“Do you think I don’t know this is your doing? How dare you try to cover the sky with your pathetic palms! I will never stand by and watch!”

“This won’t be good for the Dang Family either.”

Moryong Gil’s tone became resolute.

“Please quietly step aside. Both Head Namgung and I, as fathers with daughters, understand the bond between father and daughter. If you just step aside, there will be no retaliation. You must preserve your family, mustn’t you?”

“I only pity those who are played by that filthy tongue of yours!”

“Tsk.”

Feeling that Moryong Gil’s persuasion was no longer meaningful, Namgung Cheon couldn’t hold back and stepped forward.

“What is the Azure Sky Unit doing! Hurry up and capture this public enemy of the martial arts world!”

The Azure Sky Unit, the Namgung Family’s direct military organization, moved in unison at his command.

“Everything that happens after this is entirely Head Dang’s responsibility. The follow-up measures will be harsh too. Don’t blame us.”

Moryong Gil shook his head as if feeling sorry while looking at Dang Cheol-woo. He gave his order.

“Whirlwind Unit, step forward too!”

“Yes!”

“Yes!”

The military organizations representing the Namgung and Moryong families surrounded Dang Cheol-woo.

Even so, there wasn’t the slightest waver in Dang Cheol-woo’s eyes as he faced them directly.

“This is really the last warning! Step aside!”

“No one may pass through this path!”

“Very well. Dark King Dang Cheol-woo is an accomplice who aided the escape of a public enemy of the martial arts world. Subdue him!”

“Kill them if you must!”

At last, a bloody battle erupted.

The Changcheon Squad and Seonpung Squad charged toward Dang Cheol-woo.

“Kindness repaid tenfold, grudges repaid a hundredfold.”

Swords swept in from all directions. In the storm of sword energy, Dang Cheol-woo unleashed the Rain of Ten Thousand Flowers, deflecting hundreds of swords in an instant.

Having pushed back the Changcheon Squad and Seonpung Squad with a single move, Dang Cheol-woo glared at Namgung Cheon and Moryong Gil as he pulled out a small jade bottle from his chest.

“Family Head Namgung, Family Head Moryong. Are you prepared to become companions on the road to the afterlife?”

With those chilling words, Dang Cheol-woo opened the jade bottle and drank the liquid inside.

Swoooosh—

Dang Cheol-woo’s alias was the Dark King, the King of Hidden Weapons.

Unlike ordinary weapons, hidden weapons were consumables, and even Dang Cheol-woo couldn’t throw hidden weapons indefinitely.

That was what Namgung Cheon and Moryong Gil had been counting on.

The moment his hidden weapons ran out, they would be able to kill Dang Cheol-woo.

However, their judgment was a fatal miscalculation.

Dang Cheol-woo was not only a master of hidden weapons but also the head of the Sichuan Tang School that handled poisons.

The extreme yin poison energy spreading from his body gradually began to freeze the surroundings.

“Cough!”

Horror flashed across the faces of Namgung Cheon and Moryong Gil, and before they knew it, the poison had begun to seep in.

“P-poison!”

“Retreat! Quickly!”

“No one will return alive.”

Of course, Dang Cheol-woo was not unharmed either. Thin, black blood was flowing down from the corner of his mouth like a thread.

“What the Dark King consumed then was the poison of the Snow White Poison Toad.”

“The Snow White Poison Toad… Good heavens!”

When a toad survives for many years in the Snowy Mountains, where life can barely exist due to the extreme cold, absorbing the frigid energy, extreme yin poison settles in its body.

The toad reborn in this way was precisely the Snow White Poison Toad.

“Still, isn’t the head of the Sichuan Tang School someone who would laugh at poison in all the world?”

“It was possible precisely because he was of the Sichuan Dang Family. He must have refined and re-refined the Snow White Poison Toad’s poison to maximize the extreme yin energy. I suspect he prepared it either by balancing it with an extreme yang poison, or as a contingency for a successor who would complete an extreme yang poison cultivation method.”

“He drank something so dangerous without preparation?”

“With the military forces of two Sega families, Namgung and Moryong, involved, he likely had no other choice to protect his daughter.”

Gong Pae-cheon bowed his head. Dang Yeong-ryeong never spoke of that day even once, as if she had forgotten it all.

However, her longing for family was so palpable that Gong Pae-cheon could only carefully investigate and relay information.

“If he consumed extreme yin poison, the internal balance must have been broken. The yang energy would have completely dried up.”

Divine Physician Pyo Jin-yang muttered as if he was finally grasping the situation.

“If it’s the Sichuan Dang Family, they would have sustained his life with medicines full of yang energy for the time being. But then they reached their limit.”

“Being almost completely sealed off, it wouldn’t have been easy to continuously obtain medicinal herbs.”

At Gong Pae-cheon’s elaboration, Pyo Jin-yang waved his hand.

“Medicinal herbs and such would be useless. To save the Dark King, we’d need yang energy strong enough to devour the Snow White Poison Toad’s extreme yin poison.”

“Uncle.”

It was when Pyo Jin-yang was sighing over the Dark King’s pitiful situation.

Eok I-geon, who had been quietly keeping his place, called to him.

“Would a Unicorn Fire Dragon work?”

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