The demons who had attacked Wudang headed towards Pocheon Mountain Manor at a rapid pace.

A return order that had fallen while they were busy smashing the heads of the Wudang warriors.

How many years had they lived disguised as ordinary warriors?

Of course, it was not that they hadn’t shed blood in the meantime, but their essence was that of a demon.

A born nature that was satisfied only by breaking, trampling, and tasting blood.

They were freely releasing that nature in Wudang, so there was no way they would be pleased with a sudden return order.

“I don’t know what kind of bastard it is, but I’ll skin him alive.”

“Seeing that they attacked the mountain manor, aren’t they the guys we destroyed while building our power? For example, the Talhonbang.”

“Who is the elder staying at the mountain manor now, aren’t most of the Talhonbang guys dead? Either an enormous number came, or a few really strong guys came, that’s for sure.”

It was a common thought that the enemy was unusual.

And yet, there was not a single bit of fear or hesitation on their faces. Rather, ferocity, excitement, and anticipation overlapped and appeared.

The heat did not cool down. The hot blood they had tasted in Wudang just before pricked their noses.

“Our numbers won’t be lacking, right?”

Originally, the four squads of warriors were 15 men each, for a total of 60 men.

The fight in Wudang had been quite fierce, so the number of personnel had been reduced by half.

The leader of the first squad, who was the most senior here, let out a snort.

“Isn’t it good! Because our share of heads to smash has increased.”

The first squad leader, who had laughed so heartily, his face gradually hardened as he got closer to Pocheon Mountain Manor and the smell of blood pricked his nose.

Since there was a fight, the smell of blood was natural.

The problem was the sound.

‘There’s no sound.’

Not only was there no sound, but he also couldn’t feel any presence. There should still be about twenty people left at the mountain manor.

But there was no presence, and not a single sound could be heard.

It meant that the fight was already over.

The first squad leader’s footsteps quickened.

When they finally arrived in front of the main gate, they took a sharp breath at the sight beyond the main gate.

Countless corpses that had collapsed, vomiting blood, filled their retinas.

“…They’re all dead?”

“How long has it been since we went to Wudang, they’re all dead in half a day?”

“The Five Stars, where is the Five Stars!”

Amidst the bewildered voices that filled the mountain manor.

A coldly sunken voice pierced through.

“Are you looking for this old man?”

Kung!

A corpse that fell at their feet.

The first squad leader, who had confirmed the wide-eyed face, hardened his expression and instinctively drew his sword.

The first squad leader’s pupils shook greatly at the sight of Cheon Mubaeck walking out slowly after throwing the corpse.

The Five Stars.

The five absolute masters of the Blood Demon Valley, and the leadership.

Of course, he was the lowest among them, Biryang, but he was an absolute master that was hard to touch even if all the people here combined their strength.

And that Biryang had become a cold corpse.

A fierce sense of crisis rang an alarm in his head.

‘That guy killed the Five Stars?’

‘Was it just the Five Stars? All the warriors left at this mountain manor…?’

Some harbored doubts.

That young brat, that just pale-faced young master, had killed Biryang, was that even possible?

A martial artist who had reached the realm of entering the divine at that age?

“This… seems to be poison!”

A subordinate who was examining the corpses shouted.

“Poison!”

“Indeed, he used poison!”

At the word poison, the demons’ faces brightened.

“All the corpses that have collapsed here have the same cause of death! They were all poisoned!”

The demons, with a ‘that’s what I thought’ expression, aimed their swords.

Cheon Mubaeck’s brow furrowed slightly for a moment.

A full thirty demons.

They were masters who were at least first-rate, and since they were ruthlessly unleashing their ferocious demonic nature, even an ordinary martial artist would feel a chill down their spine.

As Cheon Mubaeck’s face hardened, the demons revealed their teeth, which had turned red with blood. It was as if a smile was spreading.

But even in that moment, only the first squad leader’s Adam’s apple bobbed with tension.

‘The other corpses were poisoned, but the Five Stars here was killed by a sword.’

A wound that was unmistakably from a sword.

The moment he saw that wound, the first squad leader had an intuition.

‘He’s stronger than the Five Stars. I can’t deny it.’

The fact that the other warriors had been poisoned also needed more thought.

The fact that so many warriors had been taken down without a chance meant that his skill in handling poison was also delicate. And his martial prowess would also be considerable.

‘A being that cannot be dealt with, whether by sword or poison.’

The first squad leader tried to hide his trembling eyes and glared at Cheon Mubaeck.

Then, the possibility that his thoughts were wrong also faintly came to mind.

Because Cheon Mubaeck’s condition seemed not very good, and his face was hardened.

At a glance, he also looked flustered. Like he was intimidated by the demons’ momentum.

But that was his illusion.

The moment Cheon Mubaeck’s mouth opened, his neck stiffened.

“What, is this all? It’s too few, isn’t it?”

“…!”

Cheon Mubaeck’s sharp gaze swept around. Every time his gaze landed, he felt a delusion as if his flesh was being cut by a knife, and his body flinched on its own.

“I thought all the guys who went to Wudang had come. But that ridiculously long-nosed guy who pretended to be a Taoist didn’t come.”

Hmm. That guy was at least as good as Biryang.

“Well, he’ll probably be caught well. It’s Wudang. I can just go when it’s not too late.”

Muttering so, Cheon Mubaeck slowly aimed his sword at the demons.

The moment the sunlight was reflected on the tip of the sword, the demons flinched at the same time.

“Now. Let’s finish this quickly. There are many more guests to come besides you guys.”

It was a lazy voice, as if he were going for a walk.

* * *

The atmosphere became bloody after the carrier pigeon arrived at the nearby Cheongrin Escort Agency from Pocheon Mountain Manor.

All the planned escort missions were stopped, and the escort warriors who were in charge of security duties also returned to the escort agency.

The sight of them all maintaining their respective weapons was filled with a ominous energy that was hard to see in an ordinary escort warrior.

The escort agency chief, Im Cheokdo, narrowed his brows after seeing the letter.

“The Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero has ambushed Pocheon Mountain Manor, so they are requesting urgent support?”

The vice-chief, the general manager, and the chief escort leader had dumbfounded expressions.

If it was none other than the Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero who had attacked, it was clear that the identity of Pocheon Mountain Manor had been revealed.

It was a question of how he knew, but let’s leave that aside.

“He’s afraid of the Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero, so he’s asking us for support? Why?”

Pocheon Mountain Manor was the strongest among the secret organizations of the Blood Demon Valley in Hubei Province.

“The Five Stars elder is also at the mountain manor, and the Six Stars elder is also at the nearby Wudang, isn’t he?”

“…”

“There’s no way both of them would have left their positions at the same time. And even if they did, they would have contacted them right away and called them…”

Im Cheokdo tilted his head.

“Are there any Orthodox Faction warriors who have moved on a large scale from other places?”

“The Zhuge Clan is quiet.”

“Not long ago, the Arhat Hall Master of Shaolin led eighty Arhat Monks and headed to Wudang.”

“Arhat Monks? Is that so. Well, if it’s the Arhat Monks… still, since the Five Stars elder is there, I don’t think it will be a big danger.”

He couldn’t get a feel for it.

Originally, the general manager, Jang, of Pocheon Mountain Manor had a meticulous and persistent personality. When sending such a letter, he would have specified how urgent it was, how many enemies there were, and what the situation was.

‘The handwriting is correct.’

The handwriting was that of the general manager, Jang. But the content was too poor.

“Is it so urgent that there was no time to write in detail?”

It was a place where there were two absolute masters of the realm of entering the divine, the Five Stars and the Six Stars.

The Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero had gained a great reputation, and the Blood Demon Valley had figured out that he was a master close to the realm of entering the divine.

But wasn’t the realm of entering the divine and the realm close to entering the divine completely different levels?

So it was not easy for Im Cheokdo to make a decision.

“I will lead thirty percent of the forces and go right away. I will arrive in one hour by lightness skill.”

“If the chief escort leader is going himself, I will be quite relieved. If anything happens, please contact me right away.”

“I understand.”

He had reached the realm of the peak a long time ago, and since he was one of the best swordsmen among those from the Dark Sect, he was trustworthy.

When Im Cheokdo agreed, the chief escort leader immediately moved with thirty percent of the escort warriors.

Half a day passed.

“…”

“Shouldn’t there be a contact by now?”

Im Cheokdo’s face hardened.

They had moved with only the elites, and since they were lightly armed, they would have gone using their lightness skill.

Since they would have arrived in one hour, they should have at least sent a message through a carrier pigeon.

Wasn’t it a time when they would have gone back and forth two or three times even if they had sent a messenger?

“Since it has come to this, there is no choice. I will lead fifty percent and go.”

“Umm!”

The vice-chief said so and stood up.

Although he was a vice-chief from the Blood Sect, a different sect, his skills were the real deal.

A master that even Im Cheokdo could not treat lightly, and as befitting someone from the Blood Sect, he was skilled in quick situational judgment and schemes.

Although Im Cheokdo didn’t like the idea of taking fifty percent, he had no choice but to agree. Rather, it was a relief that he was leaving at least twenty percent. In this gap, this escort agency could also be attacked, couldn’t it?

“Please go and come back, Vice-chief.”

“As soon as I arrive, I will quickly grasp the situation and send a carrier pigeon. Since the carrier pigeon might have been dropped in the middle, I will also send a messenger.”

“I ask you.”

Eighty percent of the escort agency’s forces. Two peak warriors like the vice-chief and the chief escort leader.

At this point, unless it was the Zhuge Clan or Wudang, it was a martial force that could lightly crush any sect in Hubei Province.

It was enough to be relieved.

Im Cheokdo tried to suppress the anxiety that was fluttering in a corner of his heart.

And when a day passed and morning came.

Not a single contact arrived at the escort agency. He felt that something was seriously wrong.

It was then.

“Chief Im! Chief Im!”

Im Cheokdo hardened his expression as he saw the middle-aged man running towards him.

He was the leader of the Yoseong Medical Hall, which was quite a distance from here and was located in the south of Hubei Province.

Of course, it was only a medical hall on the outside, and it was also a disguised force of the Blood Demon Valley.

“Chief Jeok, what brings you all the way here? And with the doctors…”

Although they were doctors on the outside, they were elite warriors on the inside.

Seeing Chief Jeok’s serious expression, Im Cheokdo felt the anxiety that had been fluttering in his heart grow bigger.

“Did you, by any chance, receive a request for support from Pocheon Mountain Manor?”

“How did you… don’t tell me, the Yoseong Medical Hall too?”

“That’s right, but I came because there was something very strange.”

“Something strange?”

“I sent half of my forces. But in the middle, the contact was cut off. I came to check myself because I thought something was wrong.”

“You too…”

“You too? Then…”

Chief Jeok’s face hardened. He realized what was going on after seeing the empty escort agency.

Im Cheokdo stood up with a hardened face.

“To be defeated by just one Heavenly Dragon Sword Hero. I can’t believe it. I have to go. Perhaps we all have to rush in.”

If one of his ominous predictions, that Cheon Mubaeck had the martial power to kill Biryang, was true.

If he sent only a part of his forces like this, they would surely die as soon as they went. Wasn’t the fact that there had been no contact until now proof of that?

“Let’s move together. No, on the way, just in case, let’s stop by other places and go together.”

When Chief Jeok cautiously suggested, Im Cheokdo nodded his head.

Im Cheokdo, together with Chief Jeok, found the nearby disguised organizations of the Blood Demon Valley and gathered their forces.

It was the same that many organizations had already sent their forces to the mountain manor, and it was also the same that there was no contact at all.

Im Cheokdo, who realized that something serious was happening at Pocheon Mountain Manor, gathered the organizations and moved right away.

The number was a full hundred, and since it was the forces that each organization had left behind for just in case, they were the elites of the elites.

As that many gathered, Im Cheokdo felt the anxiety that had been lingering in his heart subside a little.

Cheon Mubaeck would probably be tired from the fight so far.

Then this force would be enough to subdue him.

Thinking so, Im Cheokdo, who had run to Pocheon Mountain Manor, had no choice but to stop in his tracks in front of the main gate.

“…!”

How could that be?

That the hundred who had been moving with such momentum were all overwhelmed in the same way.

“N-no way…”

The wide road that led from the main gate to the numerous pavilions.

Countless corpses piled up like small hills on the left and right of the road.

And behind them, the blood-soaked man, Cheon Mubaeck, sitting as if leaning against a tree with a tired look.

Cheon Mubaeck, who had felt the presence, slowly raised his head.

His lips twisted and curled up.

It was a terrible smile.

“Ha. These bastards. Why don’t you come all at once? Are you testing the waters? Why do you come in small groups?”

The moment he saw Cheon Mubaeck’s face, which was covered in blood.

Im Cheokdo understood.

Mountain Manor Emissary.

If you go to the mountain manor, you will die and not return. There is an emissary of the underworld at the mountain manor.

The being in front of him was the emissary of the underworld.

(End of Chapter)

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