The Heavenly Demon Cult’s Strongest Maid - Chapter 186

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Chapter 186

“Seolha, would you like to take a walk with grandfather?”

While wearing those tiger skin clothes?

Why don’t you just advertise that you’re a bandit!

“Seolha, it’s such a beautiful day. Won’t you have a cup of tea with this old man?”

I don’t really like tea.

Maybe iced coffee instead.

“Seolha, grandfather bought some dumplings. Your father really loved dumplings.”

Sigh, what a persistent old man.

Though he could have grown tired of my lack of response, Hojeon Grandfather kept approaching me with different excuses each time.

As if to show he had no intention of giving up on me, he even got a room at the inn where I was staying and settled in.

“Excuse me, bandit grandfather.”

“Yes, yes.”

When I occasionally spoke to him like this, he would get so happy.

This made me feel uncomfortable in its own way, making my heart uneasy.

If only the original work had mentioned his son even once, I could have told him clearly.

That’s really unfortunate.

“Aren’t you busy?”

“Not at all!”

“But you’re the chief of Nokrim Sibpalchae, aren’t you?”

Even if he was a bandit, he could be called the chairman of a huge group. Though subordinates usually handle most of the work, wasn’t he being too idle?

“For bandits like us, it’s good when we’re not busy. It’s not good to be too active either. And what could be more important than my granddaughter?”

The conversation always ended this way.

This won’t do.

The time had come for drastic measures.

I avoided the bandit grandfather’s eyes and went to a secluded place to call Cheon-yeong.

“Cheon-yeong, please come out for a moment.”

I stamped my feet impatiently, urging him.

“Did you call for me?”

Cheon-yeong appeared later than usual.

“Why are you so late?”

“There’s a dangerous person around, so I paid more attention to my concealment technique.”

That damn concealment technique, when will I ever learn it.

“It’s not about that. I want to ask about my biological father.”

“You mean Senior Noh?”

“Yes. I heard he was the leader of Hyeon-wol-dang at the time. I was told that you three, including my mother, were very close.”

“We lived like brothers.”

“Then have you ever seen something like a mole on his shoulder?”

“A mole?”

“Five red dots. They resembled the shape of a star.”

“Well…”

Cheon-yeong seemed to know nothing about it.

“Why don’t men together…”

I almost said sauna.

“Don’t you bathe together and such?”

“There were times like that during group living at Hyeon-wol-dang, but no matter how close we were, we didn’t stare intently at each other’s bodies. We were too busy washing quickly and going to bed.”

I had heard that the Hyeon-ma Tak Family’s training methods were incredibly rigorous.

“Then let’s do this.”

I had no choice but to use the card I had saved as my last resort.

“Please send a messenger pigeon to the Dang Family. Ask Grandpa Tak whether my biological father had five red dots on the back of his shoulder or not. I think this situation needs to be resolved this way. It can be done quickly, right?”

“Of course, miss.”

It wasn’t a person going, but sending a messenger pigeon.

Soon enough, there would be a conclusion somehow.

A small hope unknowingly arose that the bandit grandfather wouldn’t be hurt by the result.

The Ten Supremes referred to the ten strongest people in the world.

When one reaches that level, they can see things others cannot.

A granddaughter he was meeting for the first time in over forty years.

The internal energy Seolha possessed was peculiar.

‘Was it called Cheon-sin-mun?’

It was neither orthodox sect internal energy, nor demonic sect internal energy.

No, it would be correct to say she possessed both types of internal energy.

What was strange was that the two internal energies weren’t mixed.

That wasn’t the only odd thing.

The people around his granddaughter were also extremely suspicious.

Tian Shou Du Hua Dang Ying Ling, who pretended to be an old woman at such a young age.

The one who appeared to be Jeong-in had eyes that made it impossible to tell what he was thinking.

From the bodyguard who treasured his granddaughter to the demons hiding in the vicinity.

There were more than one or two things that bothered him, but he deliberately didn’t ask.

“Bandit grandfather.”

Seolha, who had come back from meeting the demon in the back yard, called him.

“My granddaughter, you’re here?”

As this child said, it might not be true.

Though it was a uniquely shaped mole, he understood intellectually that coincidence upon coincidence could occur.

But he sincerely hoped that Seolha was his granddaughter.

Honestly, even the ember of hope had been extinguished long ago.

So much time had passed that now he could barely recall his wife’s face or his son’s face.

He wanted to spend his remaining years growing attached to his granddaughter and living out his old age.

Chaohu, located south of Anhui Hefei, was one of the five great lakes in the world, and among them, it was renowned for having the most beautiful scenery.

Sunlight glittering on the water colored the lake.

Dang Yeong-ryeong and Gong Pae-cheon slowly walked along the lakeside, enjoying the scenery.

“It’s truly beautiful.”

“We did well to come.”

Both were in positions where they couldn’t move freely in Hefei.

Gong Pae-cheon because of his status, and Dang Yeong-ryeong because she was conscious of the Namgung Family’s eyes and ears.

“Do you know something?”

“…?”

“This is the first time I’m walking side by side with Lady Dang like this.”

“Was it?”

I hadn’t thought about it, but now that I heard it, it seemed to be true.

“I’ll try to make time more often from now on.”

Anyway, once she returned to Maegyo, Dang Yeong-ryeong would have nothing but time.

Rather, it might be difficult to see Gong Pae-cheon’s face because he would be busy as the chief strategist.

“Oh, don’t go to the inn where Seolha is staying anymore.”

“I heard about it. Ho Jeon is there.”

“He’s insisting that Seolha is his granddaughter, claiming she’s the daughter of the son he lost long ago.”

Dang Yeong-ryeong sighed and shook her head.

“Ho Jeon’s personality is well known. He’s not someone who would say such things recklessly.”

“Seolha has moles on her shoulder. Five red moles arranged like stars, so I used to call them star moles.”

“That’s not a common physical characteristic.”

“No. Ho Jeon also had those moles, as did the son he lost. This whole mess started because it’s supposedly a hereditary trait passed down through the family line.”

“I’ll look into the First Miss’s biological father.”

“Thank you.”

For Dang Yeong-ryeong, Gong Pae-cheon had always been someone she could rely on in difficult times, both in the past and now.

“Pfft.”

Just then, Gong Pae-cheon suddenly burst into laughter.

“What’s the matter?”

“Think about it. Tak Ga-ju, Elder Am-wang, and even Ho Jeon. All these pillars of the righteous faction are focused solely on the First Miss – isn’t that too surreal?”

Having witnessed the tense battle of auras between Tak Joong-hak and Dang Cheol-woo, Dang Yeong-ryeong didn’t even want to imagine it.

“If those three gather in one place, I won’t go anywhere near them.”

Dang Yeong-ryeong shuddered with horror.

“Speaking of Ho Jeon.”

Gong Pae-cheon had been agonizing over when to bring this up, and finally decided to reveal it now.

“It seems the Moryong Family is preparing for war with the Shin Chang-yang Family.”

“What? What do you mean…?”

At these unexpected words, Dang Yeong-ryeong stopped walking and turned to look at Gong Pae-cheon.

“Yang Ja-seong went to the Moryong Family saying he wanted to marry Mo Yong-cheong-a, but it seems Moryong Gil, feeling insulted, cut off his right arm.”

“He cut off his arm?”

Dang Yeong-ryeong was so shocked she nearly stopped breathing.

“He wouldn’t have done it recklessly – there must be some inside story we don’t know about.”

“Then… the one who orchestrated this bloodbath at the Moryong Family was the Shin Chang-yang Family.”

Gong Pae-cheon slowly nodded his head.

“That’s my guess. The sudden rumors about Makya, the unnaturally rapid spread, the excessive gathering of martial artists. All these circumstances support it. They say Mo Yong-hu hasn’t been seen since the night of the bloodbath.”

“Don’t tell me…!”

“Like Yang Ja-seong, his arm was probably cut off, or something equivalent happened to him… for example, his danjeon might have been destroyed.”

A heavy silence fell for a moment.

“Everything you say makes sense, Military Strategist Gong. But the opponent is the Moryong Family. The Shin Chang-yang Family couldn’t possibly have that kind of power.”

“Exactly.”

“…You think the Shin Chang-yang Family hired someone to do it?”

“I suspect Sa Do-ryeon.”

Dang Yeong-ryeong let out a deep sigh.

“Yang Gun-cheol was the previous Martial Arts Alliance leader. He would have known Sa Do-ryeon from long ago. Whether he liked it or not, that position required dialogue even with the Cheonma Sect.”

Dang Yeong-ryeong wanted to refute this, but she had no grounds to do so.

“How did the righteous martial arts world come to this…?”

It was none other than the righteous faction members who had framed her.

“The key point here is that Sa Do-ryeon has moved.”

“It must be because of Makya.”

Dang Yeong-ryeong was certain that Yang Gun-cheol had passed on the information.

Having covered up the Sword Cry Manor incident 17 years ago, there was a high probability he also knew about Ganjiang and Makya.

“I believe at least two of Sa Do-ryeon’s Five Heads crossed into the Moryong Family grounds. It’s even possible that all of them moved.”

Though it was just speculation, Gong Pae-cheon’s tone was full of concern.

“If Makya has fallen into their hands, where do you think will be next?”

His gaze was directed northward.

“Ganjiang and Honcheongi… are you saying the next target will be the Namgung Family?”

“Isn’t it suspicious that Ho Jeon suddenly appeared in Hefei?”

“…!”

“Sa Do-ryeon is a group with many grievances. If they get their hands on all of those things, what kind of havoc will they wreak…”

Before long, great chaos might erupt in the martial arts world.

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