Reincarnation of the Demon - Chapter 71



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The news of the vampire’s appearance in Hanam quickly spread widely. The fact that Cheonyeong’s demon had infiltrated Hanam was a major incident.

Furthermore, the vampire was an old monster who had been in the Twelve Monsters for over fifty years. The fact that he was targeting the person who was considered the best follower of the Jeongpa was an incident that could not have been avoided.

Although there was no Samun, Yongun was staying in Hanam and had a base in Jeongpa-maeng. Jeongpa-maeng, who could not stand by and watch this happen either externally or internally, declared a large-scale decree to exterminate the vampire spirits and greatly increased the patrol ratio in Hanam.

“Are you okay?”

After the Yongbong branch meeting, many people returned to their headquarters. Gyu-rin was one of them, and the only ones left were Jang Han-baek, my teacher and the leader of the Jeongpa faction in Hanam, and Dokgo Gu-wol.

As soon as they heard that the vampire was after Yongun, they came looking for him while sitting in Yongun’s villa.

“You’re better than I thought. Chanbulgwangkwon has done a great thing.”

Chanbulgwangkwon was the nickname of Heo Heon, who was particularly good at using the Baekboshinkwon.

The information that had spread outside, to be exact, was that Yong-un and Heo-heon had kissed.

It is a well-known fact in the martial arts world that the vampire monster escaped after being fatally wounded by the Jeun Sword’s Hyunmok Jinin. When he heard that the noble prince Yongun had taken the Daehwandan, he entered Hanam to eat his body and treat his internal injuries.

However, Hanam is Shaolin’s territory. Heoheon noticed the vampire and defeated him.

“The Blind Dogs are crazy. The vampires are one of the dirtiest of the twelve monsters.”

“That’s true. If you’re a vampire spirit… aren’t you considered a villain among the magic sects because you’re interfering with the people’s livelihood?”

Jang Han-baek and Dokgo Gu-wol’s bodies were covered in wounds. The distance between them, with large and small sword wounds carved into them, was far apart, and it seemed that the two had fought dozens of times.

Yongwoon looked at Dokgo Guwol with a slightly surprised look. Although Dokgo Guwol had achieved enlightenment, it was clear that he was still not as good as Jang Hanbaek.

Even if you only look at the state of the wounds on Jang Hanbaek’s body, you can tell when the wounds were inflicted. The more recent the wounds on Jang Hanbaek’s body were, the more frequent and deeper they became.

It was said that he was gradually catching up. Emperor. Dokgo Gu-wol, who had the meaning of being dull under genius, was facing Mok-seong, who was the greatest talent in the past fifty years.

Dokgo Guwol, who read Yongwoon’s gaze, smiled and shrugged his shoulders.

“Well, congratulations are in order. You got a new nickname, right?”

“How can a black ghost be something to celebrate? It’s definitely not a nickname like Jeongpa.”

“You idiot, stop thinking about the sword and listen to the outside rumors. You’ve got a new nickname. Dignified and Clean.”

As he said that, Dokgo Guwol took out a large piece of paper. It was a piece of paper with the rankings of the Jamryongbang written on it.

Jamryongbang and Cheonyubang, who changed the rankings every three months, distributed ranking lists to each region as soon as the Yongbongjihoe ended. The people who bought the papers from beggars, hawkers, and gisaengs would learn of the changes in Jamryongbang in this way.

Yongwoon looked at the paper indifferently.

1st place. Yongun, the Flame Star

2nd place. Jang Han-baek, the ink star

3rd place. Seolhonbaeknyeo (Snow Soul White Woman) Seolhan

4th place. Princess Nacha (羅刹公女) Dokgo Seol-yu

5th place. Plum Blossom Sword Phoenix Nam Gyu-rin

6th place. Gongjin, the silent monk

7th place. Sword Dragon Dokgo Guwol

8th place. Blood Rain Spear Hyuk Jin Chan

9th place. Defeated Cave Sword (敗洞劍) by Murong Ma Seung

10th place. Jangung (殘雄) Peng Hwan-cheol

The new sleeping dragon room’s top ranking. Naturally, the one in the highest position was Yongwoon.

Yeomcheonseong? Yongwoon reacted nervously to the unfamiliar nickname.

Jang Han-baek chuckled.

“I guess it was really impressive that you had a fiery aura all over your body at the end. And you’re called a star? Isn’t that too much of a nickname for someone with a later rank?”

“Nature… Am I the only one who sees your intentions?”

“A little bit.”

In each era of the Gangho era, the treatment and proportion of the stars, kings, and emperors changed. In the current era, the stars have become a nickname for the overwhelmingly high ranking officials, while the proportion of kings and emperors is extremely small. In the first place, the kings and emperors disappeared from Cheonyubang.

The reason for this is unknown now. It could be that they rejected the king or the emperor, or there could have been a secret plot by the imperial family. It was just the times.

Nowadays, the nicknames given to kings and emperors were ‘Jon’ (尊). Examples include ‘Hyeonjon’, ‘Gwonjon’, and ‘Geomjon’.

Yongun’s nickname became Yeomcheonseong (炎天星) instead of Yeomseong (炎星). The reason why his intention is visible is because of the Chinese character for heaven (天).

Heaven. It is a nickname given to those in the imperial family, but it is not uncommon in martial arts. The imperial family has been indifferent to martial arts for a long time.

But now, now that the Hwangryongmun has begun, attaching the word “heaven” to it…

“Isn’t that childish and immature? Did you do it yourself, Punggae?”

“I guess so. And to be honest, there are people who enjoy this kind of thing…”

Yongwoon smirked. It didn’t matter. Yeomcheonseong. It was a nickname that was glaring, but not bad.

“You’re saying that you’re higher than the White Witch, or rather, the Snow White Witch? Is that right?”

“What are you, you idiot? You’ve defeated me in every battle, and yet you’re still talking nonsense. What are you arguing about when you’re considered lower than Gong Jin?”

“It’s strange that I, who was abandoned by Sega after leaving Shaolin behind, won. Be honest. You lost to Baeknyeo?”

“What are you being honest about? It’s something Haomen and Gae-bok decided. If you keep mumbling, I’ll force a Tai Chi into your mouth.”

Yongwoon looked at the rankings, ignoring the petty bickering between the two who had become much closer.

It hasn’t even been a year since I became a warrior. Even so, I have eaten the top spot in Jamryongbang, but I still haven’t reached the true heaven.

Cheonyeong’s Mirror. Even though the vampire was injured, Yongwoon couldn’t do anything. If he got involved in a fight between true masters, Jamryongbang and all, he would be nothing more than a fly.

‘I guess I’ll have to be content with feeling good.’

Yongwoon thought so. After the argument ended, Dokgo Guwol grumbled and looked at Yongwoon.

“But it’s a shame that we still haven’t been able to bring down the Blind Dogs. What are we going to do? Even just the vampires aren’t enough evidence to prove that the Goodwill is in collusion with the Demonic Cult.”

“It doesn’t matter. In fact, it’s certain that the Blind Dogs will fall while I’m alive.”

“hmm?”

“The Black Ghost’s test isn’t over yet.”

Yongwoon smiled. Two days passed.

**

Contact with the vampire spirit was lost. Jeon Seo-gu did not return, and the laboratory in Anhui that he usually went to also disappeared.

Even ‘he’ who was subject to the great law of blood magic.

The office is quiet. Today, I checked the ‘problem’ in the private room next to the office, but there was no unexpected gain other than the ‘determined’ achievement.

Two days left. There is one more meridian and two more acupoints left that I have not told you about in the note.

It means that I dug into the problems of ten people but got nothing. They were all mines, rats hiding in Hanam.

It was natural that there was a mine in Hanam. And now that the Yongbongjihoe had occurred, there had to be informants from the Demonic Cult to obtain information about them.

However, it was unknown how he had detected their magical energy, which even the masters of the Jeongpa Alliance could not detect.

“…”

The glass of wine in front of him is already cold. The five-color fragrant wine, which is heated and drunk, is the most popular drink of the Mengjian group, and is worth one coin per bottle.

Still, it was cold. Even though I ate it several times, it didn’t taste like the food I had last week or last month, and I couldn’t feel the warmth that had been warming me from the inside.

I felt the blade. The invisible blade was approaching very slowly, leisurely, aiming for the neck of the blind dog group.

A blade that aims to kill a person must be fast and precise. But right now, the blade wielded by the so-called disciple of the devil is very slow and deadly.

I was being made fun of. I couldn’t help but feel it deeply.

‘…’

Where did it go wrong?

When the Yongcheon point is poked, the Taeyang point bursts. When the ring finger of the left hand is stimulated, the blocked acupuncture point hidden in the big toe of the right foot reveals itself.

If you take the pulse at the moment you stab Yongcheon point, the blood flow in your entire body will be reversed and you will die. However, if you do not take the pulse right away to share the energy after reversing the two twisted meridians, the meridians will become entangled again and the conception vessel will be cut off.

What kind of harmony is this? It’s like the feeling I got when I first saw the first-class martial arts I had worked so hard to obtain. I can’t understand it.

Despair.

“Heh heh.”

The empty laughter was genuine. Was there such a difference? Was the medical skill of a man who had died twenty years ago and was not yet in his forties, stronger than mine, who had been a doctor for forty years?

The reason I joined hands with the vampire spirits. It was because I had heard a tip from ‘them’. Blood Man Magic. I heard that the magic that makes people truly immortal was combined with medicine.

If I could create an immortal human, I would accomplish it with these hands.

I could defeat the dead demon. No, I could even get the nickname of the greatest of all time. With that in mind, I abandoned my humanity to learn demonic arts, and secretly kidnapped civilians to conduct experiments.

Although it did not make the aged body look younger, there was also such a desire.

Was that all? Even after becoming the head of the party, and even though people around him praised him as the best in the world, his desire for ambition did not dry up. He was thirsty. That was why he made ‘that guy’ a test subject for his blood-in-the-soul technique. Because he could be controlled.

If I could learn the martial arts of the Blood Demon, which was said to be stronger than anyone else’s, and completely control him as my servant.

It was a dream that seemed possible.

But it was all in vain. Now all that was left for him was the karma created by jealousy that had built up over a long period of time.

‘…Should I run away?’

It was a serious thought. The position of the righteous was comfortable. The lawmakers from all over the world came and knelt down, and the noble ones bowed their heads first to allow their children to receive treatment first.

There was no need to mention the bribes that flowed in. Nevertheless, everyone respected him and learned from him.

But it is a power that has already been let go once. If only he could save his life, wouldn’t he be able to rise again?

‘…’

I could tell that it wasn’t him. Black Ghost. At that time, I couldn’t forget the look in his eyes when he treated Plum Blossom Sword. That look… was exactly the same as the look in the eyes of the demon I saw at Pengga.

The devil is certain of silver and gold. If you receive a favor, he will help you, but if you hold a grudge, he will become a ghost and torment you even after death.

Now. If I can’t solve this problem, if I can’t kill that black devil,

I’m dying. This time, what I’m giving up isn’t power, it’s my life.

‘…’

I should kill him. It was humiliating to think like this. At first, I thought it was shameful to solve the problem he gave me as if it were a test. No. My true feelings were…

The fear that he might not be able to solve it. That fear was what made him want to kill him.

And that fear became reality.

It’s okay. I know who he is and where he is. Just kill him. Just kill him.

…

how?

Crackle, crackle…

I knew he would become a vampire. The Heavenly Sword, a very Heavenly Sword. If someone who is one of the top 50 masters in the world can’t kill a single child who isn’t even in the Ogijowon, isn’t that strange?

It was something that should have ended easily. It was strange for the vampire to show any other movements since he had designated it as a killer.

Even the heart was seen through. Heo Heon said that they met by chance, but the Meng Jian Dan knew that it was not true. Was there some kind of deal with Shaolin? How did they boil that wooden and stone-like Yaksha Buddha?

Kkaduk- I threw away my distracting thoughts. Now was not the time to ask ‘why’.

…A assassin? No. Since the vampire couldn’t kill him, there was no point in hiring a first-class assassin now.

He could not move Cheon-sal, the best assassin in the world. There was no reward or time for him, but he was well-versed in the subject of assassination.

Killing with politics. Who will respond? Everyone has already left Hanam and headed to their own base. Even if we gather the remaining people, those close to us.

Who would think that Gwisu-gongja is a black ghost? And even if they really thought so, Gwisu-gongja, or rather, that guy named Yeomcheonseong, has now become a symbol of the righteous faction.

The swordsman and the wind god protect him, and the young ones, the silent ones, and the plum blossom swordsman also favor him.

He was a man who couldn’t be easily driven out even by his position as the head of the medical community.

No. No. No. Even in this situation, the blade was slowly casting its shadow.

Suddenly, I had that thought. Isn’t it okay? Rather, since that vampire bastard had erased all the evidence, there was no one left to connect him and them.

The information that he learned magic was definitely obtained by following him. I don’t know how he did it, but he had no idea about the ring.

This ring is one of the vampire spirits’ divine items, the Yin Demon. It is a ring that absolutely blocks out magic energy. The blind dog wearing this ring, even the swordsman, the heavenly lord, and the Yaksha Buddha did not notice that he had mastered magic.

He received the Eumma only after joining hands with the vampire spirit. Even the Blind Dogs knew about the Eumma’s existence only after they made a contract with them, so there was no way he would have known.

There was a restriction that he had to feed the blood of one corpse a week, but it was not a restriction for him. Of course, there were plenty of corpses that ‘inevitably’ failed to be treated.

“…”

Yes, I am still free. Even if I can’t kill him, he can’t kill me. The Guardian of the Law is still my bodyguard. The Guardian of the Law, Seomjeon Kwaigeom (閃電快劍), is stronger than Heo Heon.

Still, we are prepared. The blind dog group took up the ink pen.

His brush did not stop working all night long.