Chapter 91:  Black-Killing Sword Wonho (4)

“I came to help.”

“I don’t need it!”

Jeong Suji snapped back sharply at Yong Hwarin’s words.

But the eldest, Jeong Minji, gave a quick nod and said,

“Thank you. We will gladly accept your help. Those people must be dealt with first. We…”

Unable to finish her sentence, Jeong Minji turned her head away.

Then the resolute third sister, Jeong Daji, spoke.

“We were affected by the sound drug those villains dispersed.”

Yong Hwarin quickly grasped the situation and spoke to the three escorts.

“Instructor Mo, protect these people.”

As Jeong Minji abruptly sat down in a cross-legged posture to suppress the drug, Yong Hwarin commented.

I thought, just how unbearable must it have been for her to begin Qi Circulation Training in the middle of a fight?

The effect of the sound drug far exceeded ordinary expectations.

Jeong Suji, who had lost a lot of blood, somehow managed to endure thanks to it and glared at the Sagaram Shadow Unit.

Jeong Daji, who had also sustained a deep sword wound on her back, likewise sat down in a cross-legged posture and began Qi Circulation Training.

As Mo Biyoung protected them, Yong Hwarin addressed the six individuals.

“Who are you?”

The six exchanged glances and replied,

“We’re a family just passing by when those three women suddenly attacked us.”

Seeing the middle-aged couple lie so nonchalantly, Yong Hwarin nodded.

“I see. Like this?”

As he spoke, Yong Hwarin suddenly thrust his sword forward, prompting the couple to retreat and launch a counterattack.

The Twin Dragons of Fury followed behind Yong Hwarin, unleashing the Soaring Dragon Emperor Sword ferociously at the enemies attacking from the sides.

As Yong Hwarin targeted the middle-aged couple, a girl subtly moved behind to face his back.

Then, pulling out two daggers, she lunged toward his back. Her movement was so fast it resembled a cat hunting a mouse.

At the same time, the middle-aged couple switched from defense to offense to support the girl’s ambush.

They thought that even if they were injured, the girl would be able to plunge her dagger into Yong Hwarin’s back.

Sensing the timing, Yong Hwarin suddenly spun around using the technique of Returning Dragon Circling Heaven, and pierced the girl’s shoulders with his sword.

Splurt splurt!

Her shoulders punctured, the girl could no longer move her arms and staggered back, falling flat.

Yong Hwarin had intentionally drawn her in, judging that subduing the girl who was using sound drugs and poison would tilt the fight in his favor.

“You bastard!”

As the girl went down, the middle-aged couple rushed in swinging sword and saber. Yong Hwarin countered their charge with the Iron Plate Bridge technique, falling back and blocking their attack, then kicked off the ground just before hitting it to launch himself into the air.

This technique was an ultimate move that involved pushing off the ground at the exact moment of contact, using the sword to vault into the air.

Afterward, he would twist midair and attack from an unpredictable direction.

This was the Shifting Body, Surging Sea technique of the Soaring Dragon Emperor Sword.

With Returning Dragon Circling Heaven and Shifting Body, Surging Sea connecting into Heavenly Thunder Soaring Dragon, the middle-aged couple could barely breathe under the pressure.

In that moment, Yong Hwarin’s sword blitzed toward their flanks—there was no way to block it.

As the sword advanced with the Severing the Tide technique, the middle-aged couple didn’t even dare attempt a counterattack.

They retreated in a rush, but had to leave behind an arm each on the spot.

As the middle-aged couple was sealing their acupoints on their severed arms, Yong Hwarin had already approached and placed his palm on their abdomens.

‘This bastard waited for the moment we were sealing our acupoints after he cut off our arms.’

Their realization came too late.

With their Dantians destroyed, they collapsed to the ground writhing in agony as if their entire bodies had been torn apart.

It took less than a moment for Yong Hwarin to bring down all three, and in a way, his method could be called cruel.

From taking care of the troublesome girl first to destroying the Dantians of the strongest-looking middle-aged couple, each scene played out like a dramatic performance.

It was so precise that it seemed almost staged.

The three sisters, who had suppressed the drug’s effect and opened their eyes, watched the scene and realized Yong Hwarin’s fame was not exaggerated.

‘They said the Heavenly Sword Hero even killed the Self-Revolving Blood Demon. It wasn’t a lie.’

They too had been martial arts maniacs who trained only in martial arts their entire lives.

That’s why they could tell Yong Hwarin’s techniques were peak-level ultimate arts.

The Twin Dragons of Fury pressed the enemies like a storm.

The two of them advanced on the elderly man, the young man, and the woman.

Their coordinated assault looked as if they had spent years perfecting it.

Because of that, the young man was slain during the fight, and the woman collapsed with a sword wound.

Then the elderly man suddenly changed the direction of his assault.

Perhaps thinking to take the injured sisters hostage to escape, he turned and charged at Mo Biyoung.

“Hmph!”

Mo Biyoung unleashed the Soaring Dragon Emperor Sword at him without reserve.

Having honed her skill through actual duels, Mo Biyoung showed no mercy.

With both her inner strength and swordsmanship having advanced several levels, the elderly man could not withstand her sword.

Being specialized in assassination, they were weak in direct confrontation.

He couldn’t even endure five moves from Mo Biyoung and soon had his limbs severed.

One might call her technique as cruel as Yong Hwarin’s.

But it was simply because the Soaring Dragon Emperor Sword was overwhelmingly offensive.

Seeing how these six members of the Sagaram Shadow Unit were taken down in less than a moment, when they themselves had been overwhelmed and close to death, the Three Chivalrous Sisters couldn’t help but be stunned.

However, proud as they were, they showed none of it on their faces.

Having built a manor with the power of women, their pride was stronger than anyone’s.

And knowing that better than anyone, Yong Hwarin didn’t take issue with their attitude.

Still, it seemed to annoy Namwook, who frowned.

‘I didn’t join this fight to be thanked, but shouldn’t they at least show some gratitude for risking our lives to help? What rude women.’

Yong Hwarin glanced over the fallen and muttered.

“Fortunately, none of them used hidden weapons. If even one of them had, this wouldn’t have ended so easily.”

Mo Biyoung thought the same.

Normally, groups like these would rely on hidden weapons, yet strangely, they didn’t use any.

That made it easier to attack.

Mo Biyoung asked Yong Hwarin,

“Young Master, shall we interrogate them?”

“There’s no need. We’ll leave it at this.”

“Sorry?”

Mo Biyoung asked again, not understanding.

“But we should at least know who they are…”

“What’s the point? We saved the Three Chivalrous Sisters—that’s enough.”

Though she had intended to interrogate them to learn if they belonged to an organization and where that might be, when Yong Hwarin shook his head, Mo Biyoung felt puzzled.

But recalling that Yong Hwarin always had a reason when handling things this unorthodoxly, she stepped back.

Yong Hwarin turned to the Sagaram Shadow Unit.

“Because I have no grudge against you, I won’t kill you. But the Three Chivalrous Sisters are people I’m connected with, so I had no choice but to interfere in this fight.”

As Mo Biyoung had guessed, Yong Hwarin had a reason for letting the Sagaram Shadow Unit live.

If he killed them, he would have no way of finding the other Sagaram Shadow Unit hideouts or the remaining remnants.

And even if they interrogated them, it was unlikely they would talk.

If they were under the command of someone who could control the likes of Deung Hwaun or a Demonic Master, then it was highly likely they were mere subordinates of that hidden force.

Yong Hwarin intended to track them back and annihilate the entire root.

Since they were the ones who had attempted to assassinate his father, he had no plans to treat them lightly.

In the aftermath of the battle, Yong Hwarin picked up their torn garments and even discreetly tucked away the girl’s dagger that had been meant to stab him.

He had deliberately rendered only the girl’s arms unusable.

He figured that being younger, the girl would be less cautious than the older ones, which is why he targeted her.

“Give me the antidote in exchange for your life.”

To his words, the girl hissed sharply.

“Hmph! You plan to take the antidote and then kill us, don’t you?”

Yong Hwarin let out a short laugh.

“Think about it. If I were going to kill you and then search for the antidote, why would I bother with all this trouble?”

“And you call yourself a martial artist of Baekdo?”

“Exactly.”

The girl thrust out her chest and said,

“I can’t use my hands, so search me yourself. The antidote is in a blue leather pouch.”

Yong Hwarin looked toward Mo Biyoung.

Even though she was an enemy, rummaging through the girl’s chest didn’t feel right.

Just as Mo Biyoung approached the girl to check her chest, Yong Hwarin suddenly shouted, struck by a thought.

“Instructor Mo! Wait a moment!”

Mo Biyoung stopped just as her hand was about to touch the girl’s body.

“What is it?”

Had he made a mistake, Yong Hwarin would have carried a grudge for a thousand years.

He remembered that among those who ambushed his father in his previous life, there had been no girl.

Among them, there had only been a beautiful young boy disguised as a girl.

That boy, cross-dressed as a woman, carried a venomous snake hidden in an orb shaped like a woman’s breast.

His father had been bitten by that snake, suffered damage to his inner energy, and was ultimately assassinated with various hidden weapons and poison.

‘This girl might be that boy.’

Yong Hwarin slashed open the front of the girl’s chest with his sword.

“What kind of perverse act is this? No matter if she’s an enemy, shouldn’t a woman’s dignity be respected?”

The girl screamed at the top of her lungs.

Others, too, frowned, unable to understand Yong Hwarin’s actions.

But when Yong Hwarin opened her chest, a green snake revealed its fangs toward the blade.

Shiiiiiik!

As the battle ended, Jong Seok, who had approached from the carriage, saw the green snake and grimaced.

Jong Seok, trained in poison arts, recognized the viper instantly.

“That’s the Green-Red Necrosis!”

Most had never even heard of such a venomous creature.

“You can extract venom from this snake to create sound drugs. But even without extraction, a bite alone is enough to rupture the heart within moments—it’s that poisonous.”

It was likely that the sound drug which afflicted the Three Chivalrous Sisters had been made using the venom of the Green-Red Necrosis. Had Mo Biyoung been bitten by that viper, she might have died before anyone could react.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, yet couldn’t help but wonder how Yong Hwarin had realized the boy’s true identity.

“How did you know?”

“I’ve never seen a girl with such a prominent Adam’s apple.”

That was the only excuse Yong Hwarin could think of.

“And from that, you assumed he was a boy carrying a venomous snake?”

“I thought it was strange how the chest kept squirming.”

It was a ridiculous excuse made on the spot, but everyone nodded in agreement. Thankfully.

And so, Yong Hwarin found the antidote in the boy’s chest.

After verifying it was indeed an antidote by administering it to another member of the Sagaram Shadow Unit, he handed it over to the Three Chivalrous Sisters.

In that way, the Three Chivalrous Sisters narrowly avoided the disgrace of being seen in a state of drugged humiliation.

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