The Youngest Daughter of the Hebei Peng Clan Is a Truly a Very Famous Little Heavenly Demon - Chapter 74

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74.

Kill.

Kill. Kill.

I must kill that thing!

“Huff, gasp…!”

Cheonwoo, who had been listening to the whispers of instinct, knelt on one knee while breathing heavily as the life signs nearby completely disappeared. His entire body ached with wounds from repeating meaningless attacks.

‘What was I doing?’

His head felt foggy.

Supporting himself on the ground with his broken sword tip, he blinked in his blurred vision.

When Lady Peng was put in danger because of him, the emotions he had been suppressing burst forth. Without even a moment to suppress his pounding heart, Cheonwoo swung his sword in a trance as if possessed by something. Up to that point, he could remember.

“…!”

He remembered.

Lady Peng had fallen hundreds of zhang down the cliff while entangled with Hyeollu Majon!

Regaining consciousness, Cheonwoo hurriedly ran toward the cliff where the two had tumbled, then stopped short before it.

Thud.

Pebbles and dirt fell right at his feet. Below was a sheer, dizzying cliff, and the rough waters of the Three Gorges that even masters of Gangho would find difficult to survive.

Cheonwoo’s eyes wavered.

‘Again, I…’

How many times had people died before his eyes in just four days?

And yet again, he had shamefully survived. Even without being able to help at all, swayed by the very fate he so desperately wanted to escape—

“Why!”

Grab.

Someone seized the front of Cheonwoo’s clothes as he collapsed. His weakened upper body was roughly shaken.

“Why did you come back, why!”

The touch was cold as a corpse. In contrast to that, the cry mixed with fiery rage made Cheonwoo involuntarily open his eyes wide.

Though it had been a brief meeting of less than a day, he never imagined that Dangsoso, who had been expressionless throughout, would unleash such intense fury.

“You could have just run away like that, why, did you come back, why, why…!”

He couldn’t have run away.

Even if he had fled at that moment, he would have been caught by Hyeollu Majon before long. In that case, it was better to sacrifice himself and let Lady Peng escape.

Moreover, above all else.

At that time, it was physically impossible for Cheonwoo to run away.

From the moment he was dominated by the whispers of the Heavenly Killing Star, his body was no longer his own. It was like sharing one body with unwilling twin brothers…

But he had no intention of making excuses about that.

The fear and terror of loss she was experiencing came to him so vividly that his heart felt like it would drop. So instead of saying anything, Cheonwoo deeply bowed his head.

Guilt washed over him.

Because of what?

If asked that, he couldn’t pick out and define just one thing.

“I’m sorry…”

In the end, he had ruined everything.

Like when he had killed those wailing people before, this time he hadn’t killed directly, but as a result, people had certainly died because of him.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry…”

Seeing Cheonwoo mindlessly repeating only words of apology, Dangsoso irritably released the front of his clothes she had been gripping.

‘Her thoughts aren’t flowing in…!’

Since they met, Dori had always freely poured out various feelings and idle thoughts to Dangsoso.

Her head, which had always been quiet when with the Immortal Witch, was instantly filled with innocent thoughts. Since Dori was quite a noisy chatterbox, she had lived always hearing that chattering voice except when her master was asleep.

That voice had stopped.

Moreover, the connection that used to let even dreams flow in during light sleep felt completely blocked.

This was exactly the same as when the Immortal Witch’s head had been severed.

She had the unpleasant illusion that a heart she shouldn’t have was beating strangely. Dangsoso unconsciously clutched her chest tightly with her pale hand.

‘Did she lose consciousness? Or—’

Or, or.

Dangsoso bit her lips, unable to even think of the next word. Her completely shattered legs had been fully restored with the internal energy Dori had given her, but she couldn’t draw up any more power than that.

The connection between master and jiangshi is unequal. Without the master’s will, the jiangshi cannot arbitrarily draw up internal energy, so Dangsoso had no way of knowing whether Dori had cut the connection first or if the connection had disappeared because she died.

“…”

Dangsoso’s hair fluttered in the cool, damp winter wind of Muryong Mountain as she stood looking down the cliff.

She felt like she might be sucked into the waters far below. Swaying slightly, she took one step, then another step forward.

Finally, her leather boots stepped into empty air with nowhere left to go.

Dangsoso’s figure entered the vision of Cheonwoo, who had been kneeling weakly. His yellow eyes widened.

“Lady Dang, wait—”

Thud.

At the same time he reached out his hand, Dangsoso’s feet stepped into empty air.

The girl’s hair and clothes billowed upward as gravity took hold. Eventually, fluttering like a single flower petal, Dangsoso fell straight into the swirling waters of the Three Gorges below the cliff. Due to the breaking waves, not even small bubbles could be seen from above.

Witnessing that scene right before his eyes, Cheonwoo stood frozen, gasping emptily.

They say when humans see an absurd sight, their minds go blank.

Even though jiangshi masters control jiangshi, most are connected by force. Jiangshi without intelligence and emotion would be freed immediately after their master’s death and often become disasters for the surrounding people.

But this.

‘There wasn’t even hesitation.’

A jiangshi whose master has disappeared has no jiangshi master to supply new internal energy, so if their body breaks, they die as is.

More precisely, they lose consciousness and stop functioning, but it wouldn’t be much different. And that blood jiangshi must have known this fact too.

Yet she jumped.

But why?

Even if she jumped down there, there was no way she could save her master.

‘I…’

Cheonwoo flinched while trying to lift his trembling legs. Whether it was broken in the fight with Hyeollu Majon, his left ankle wouldn’t take weight properly.

Moreover, his right arm that had held the sword was completely like a rag. Pressing the deep cut tightly with his other hand to stop the bleeding, Cheonwoo looked down below once more.

Dizzying.

Frightening.

Vague fear of death, guilt, and survival instinct mixed together, constricting his heart.

Gasping for breath, Cheonwoo ultimately couldn’t follow by jumping and stepped back three paces to lean against a nearby tree stump and collapse. Due to wounds on his back as well, eerie bloodstains remained on the bark where he had brushed against it.

Perhaps from losing too much blood, his vision was growing dim.

His whole body shivered.

Cold. So cold.

He couldn’t tell if what was cold was his body or the gaping hole in his heart.

‘If I fall asleep, I can’t—’

—I mustn’t. But.

The boy, who had desperately tried to hold onto consciousness until the end, soon sank into endless nightmares.

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Jeonryunshinma was dumbfounded.

‘She really can’t kill her?’

When she came to her senses, she had already brought this pretty girl who had lost consciousness, washed her well, bandaged her injured parts, and even covered her with a blanket.

It had been about seven or eight months since she sent all the Makyō followers who had followed the Heavenly Demon back to Xinjiang and fought a lonely battle alone to take over this body.

She had finally succeeded in suppressing the detestable Heavenly Demon’s consciousness, but control of her body had gone awry because of this cute girl who suddenly appeared.

‘I don’t like it!’

Bubble bubble.

Jeonryunshinma, whose insides were boiling, crossed her arms and glared at Dori.

After doing so for a while.

Dori’s eyes sparkled open.

“Mom?”

“Who’s your mom!”

Jeonryunshinma shouted in frustration.

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