Wang Jeonyu and the Great Strength King both looked at each other and did not readily think of attacking Cheon Mubaeck.

The reason why they wanted to chew and swallow Cheon Mubaeck right away but could not.

It was balance.

‘If I attack that guy, and that mountain earthworm hits me?’

‘While I’m killing that masked brat bastard, what if the turtle bastard hits me from behind?’

If their physical condition was at its best, it would be different.

Weren’t they in a situation where they had already inflicted one or two fatal wounds on each other?

They had shed so much blood that they were slightly dizzy.

So even though Cheon Mubaeck had suddenly appeared, spouting nonsense about being a pacifist, no one could touch him.

Cheon Mubaeck smiled.

He was calm, as if he had known this would happen. But his gaze was shining sharply.

‘I have confirmed the extent of their skills with my own eyes. The Great Strength King is a notch above, but at least on the water, Wang Jeonyu and his river pirates are stronger than any martial arts sect.’

The fight on the boat, the unique attack method of ambushing from under the water. The river pirates had shown a great fight. Was it because of that? Cheon Mubaeck wanted to give more points to the Green Forest. Despite the disadvantage of the terrain, the lake, the Green Forest had fought hard. The Great Strength King had also put Wang Jeonyu in danger several times.

Wang Jeonyu glared.

“Black Heart Gang leader! Weren’t you on my side?”

“Yes, we are on the same side. That’s why I saved you, senior.”

At the shameless answer, Wang Jeonyu’s neck stiffened. He growled with a voice that sounded like he would chew and swallow him right away.

“You were just drinking and playing on the boat until now, and now you’re saying you’re mediating? Do you think I don’t know your scheme!”

“I stopped you because I thought you were going to die if I didn’t mediate. So aren’t we on the same side?”

“….!”

Wang Jeonyu’s mouth was agape.

What a shameless statement. If they were on the same side, they should have fought together from the beginning!

“If you, if you had helped, we would have subdued that mountain earthworm bastard and more!”

At that, Cheon Mubaeck clicked his tongue.

“River King senior. Let’s think about it. In any case, to fight the Great Dragon Gang leader, we have to cut off their base. But aren’t all the interests and bases concentrated on land?”

“You, you!”

“So I tested it once. Which of the two would be better to join hands with.”

Wang Jeonyu had a resigned expression, as if there was nothing more to be surprised about. A hollow laugh flowed out without substance.

He felt a strong sense of betrayal as he realized that he had been played.

At that, Cheon Mubaeck said as if to comfort him.

“Don’t worry. I have no intention of letting go of your hand, senior.”

“Hehehehe… that’s very kind of you.”

The Great Strength King, who had been listening to the conversation between Wang Jeonyu and Cheon Mubaeck, shouted.

“You dog-like bastards. What kind of nonsense are you spouting?”

“Well, it’s annoying when a guy who looks like a dog keeps barking. You son of a dog.”

“What? You, you brat…”

At Cheon Mubaeck’s unrestrained harsh words, even the Great Strength King, who had lived in a mountain fortress where harsh and abusive language was rampant, was at a loss for words.

He tried to calm his flushed face.

He realized that he was so flustered by the absurd situation that he was not able to judge the situation properly.

The sudden ambush by the River King and the river pirates.

‘Damn it, the Salt Light Fortress Leader has been had!’

If the Salt Light Fortress Leader had succeeded, there would have been no such ambush.

Then they had come to take revenge.

‘To fight the Great Dragon Gang leader, what’s that about? To join hands? The Black Heart Gang leader? This bastard is joining hands with the River King guy and attacking the Great Dragon Gang leader?’

Although there was a prejudice that he was ignorant, he was the Great Strength King who had unified the Green Forest. His judgment of the situation was keen.

After racking his brain a few times, he was able to grasp the general outline.

“What on earth are you plotting, you turtle bastard!”

“Hmph. It’s the same as what you’re doing. Didn’t you send the Salt Light Fortress Leader to capture me and make me submit? To increase your power? It’s the same for me.”

In an instant, their eyes were strangely entangled.

Although they had fought with all their might, hadn’t they confirmed that their purposes were the same?

At that sight, Cheon Mubaeck laughed heartily.

“As expected. Men become close while fighting, and their intentions also align.”

“You… haa.”

Wang Jeonyu could not continue his words and just sighed deeply.

Cheon Mubaeck walked as if he were taking a walk between the two who were leisurely confronting each other.

“I was originally planning to join hands with the senior River King and drive out the Great Dragon Gang.”

“…”

“But looking at the Green Forest, this is also tempting in its own way. It’s quite difficult to push out the Great Dragon Gang with just the senior River King and me cooperating. Even if we somehow push them out, what if the Green Forest jumps in at that gap?”

“…So what you want to say now is.”

“I’ve made my decision. Specially, I will join hands with all of you.”

As Cheon Mubaeck spoke in a tone as if he were being very generous, a silence lingered for a moment.

What broke the silence was the Great Strength King’s snort. Although it was absurd, wasn’t it a statement that poked at his pride?

“Who do you think you are, even without you. Even without those turtles of the Yangtze River. I am already pushing out the Great Dragon Gang leader!”

At that, Cheon Mubaeck sneered.

“Really? You really don’t need me? A man like that would cowardly ambush and try to take the River King hostage? Then should I stick to the Yangtze River and catch the Green Forest first?”

Although the Great Strength King snorted, his expression hardened strangely.

At first, he had judged that it would be difficult to win because he was tired.

But after coming to his senses a little and thinking about it, it was not.

The Great Strength King swallowed his saliva.

‘He’s not an easy guy. Putting aside the guts to attack the Great Dragon Gang, he’s a guy who has enough confidence to do so. He’s strong. Strong.’

The sword strike that had clashed when he had cut between them and the solid aura that was subtly felt were unusual.

‘If he sticks to that fish and becomes hostile to the Green Forest, far from checking the Great Dragon Gang, the Green Forest will suffer great damage first.’

It was truly a mess.

If he had his way, he would have cut off that guy’s head, but given the situation, there was nothing he could do.

A sense of admiration for the opponent who had created this situation welled up.

The Great Strength King’s goal was also to expand his power and build an influence similar to the Great Dragon Gang at the Black Assembly.

To completely push out the Great Dragon Gang leader? That was impossible.

“Do you think the Great Dragon Gang leader is a person who will collapse so easily just because you join in?”

Cheon Mubaeck clicked his tongue and sighed. He had a face that was tired of talking any more.

“Ah, well then I’ll fight the Great Dragon Gang leader alone.”

“….!”

“Ah, since you might tell my plan to the Great Dragon Gang leader, you both will have to be buried in the water here.”

At the same time, Cheon Mubaeck released all his momentum.

Of course, he did not open his upper dantian.

He had only opened his lower dantian to its maximum.

But that alone was enough. As all the supreme yin energy that had been contained in the Ten Thousand Year Moon Pill raised its head roughly, the surroundings froze coldly.

And with that alone, the two felt it.

A threat.

If they fought in this state, those words would not be a lie.

They had no choice but to submit.

Wang Jeonyu was covered in goosebumps. It wasn’t him that was the target in the first place. That man had intended to draw both him and the Green Forest into his fold.

That’s why he had set up this board.

Receiving Wang Jeonyu’s astonished gaze, Cheon Mubaeck smiled.

“Now, I will make a final proposal. Let’s both cooperate with me. Let’s overthrow the Great Dragon Gang leader.”

It was Cheon Mubaeck’s style of cooperation proposal.

* * *

[Don’t worry. It’s just to use the Green Forest. In any case, if we fight the Great Dragon Gang, it will be on land, so in the end, it’s highly likely that the Green Forest will be the ones fighting on the front lines. The Great Dragon Gang will also try to avoid fighting the river pirates on the river.]

He flinched at Cheon Mubaeck’s telepathic message that had pierced him in an instant, but he soon made a glaring expression.

On the opposite side, the Great Strength King was contemplating with a complicated expression.

[Then in the end, both the Green Forest and the Great Dragon will be shedding blood and dying, and you and I, senior, will be stealthily eating up the interests and power that fall in between, and then we can just put a definite end to it later.]

It was plausible.

Although he still didn’t like the fact that he had just watched without joining the fight, saying he was testing which of the two was better.

Wasn’t it not a wrong statement?

[No, think about it. If I had teamed up with you from the beginning and pushed the Great Strength King, wouldn’t this man, with his personality, have given up on the Black Assembly and everything and gone to war? So I’m saying that I’ll make the two forces cooperate well from a neutral position. Of course, my intention is with you, senior.]

At the continuous telepathic messages, Wang Jeonyu’s ears perked up.

‘Hah. This bastard. He would have been successful even if he had gone into business.’

Well, since he was such a guy, he had the enormous thought of pushing out that Great Dragon Gang leader.

Although he was just the leader of an Unorthodox Alliance sect, he didn’t hate his boldness and guts.

In any case, Wang Jeonyu was also a man of the Unorthodox Alliance with a wriggling desire.

In the end, Wang Jeonyu nodded his head.

“Let’s cooperate.”

“….!”

The Great Strength King’s pupils shook.

What would happen if he refused here?

“What do you think will happen? Your neck will be cut by the two of us and you’ll be left as a corpse at the bottom of the lake.”

“Are you threatening me?”

“That’s right.”

“…”

At the calm reaction, the Great Strength King sighed and lowered the sword he had been aiming.

“Fine. Now what are you going to do?”

Although it was ambiguous, it was practically an expression of acceptance.

Cheon Mubaeck smiled and clapped his hands.

“Hey! Vice-leader! Bring a table of drinks here!”

“…”

The two were at a loss for words at the sight of Cheon Mubaeck, who had suddenly ordered a table of drinks, and Neung-heo, who had brought the table of drinks as if he had been waiting for it.

Cheon Mubaeck sat down in the center and said.

“Isn’t it the way for men to become close after a fight by having a drink?”

As if fed up with that shameless attitude, the Great Strength King sat down without realizing it.

And he sneered.

“Is your goal to kill the Great Dragon Gang leader?”

“If possible.”

“If possible? Then it’s not a blind purpose… I guarantee you. You can’t kill the Great Dragon Gang leader.”

“…”

At the Great Strength King’s firm tone, Cheon Mubaeck lightly drank his cup and looked at him.

“The Great Dragon Gang leader himself is an inhuman monster who has reached the realm of entering the divine, and the three guardian guards called the Three Monsters who are by his side are also not to be trifled with. If we fight one-on-one, I or this Wang guy can catch one each. But if there are three, we’ll die even if we attack together.”

“The Three Monsters… I’ve heard of them. The three sea serpents.”

Wang Jeonyu also drank his drink with a reluctant voice.

“Is it that much?”

Cheon Mubaeck’s eyes widened as if he were surprised.

The Great Dragon Gang leader’s guardian guards, the Three Monsters.

But could these three face the Great Strength King and Wang Jeonyu at the same time?

‘The information from the Hao Faction wasn’t that much?’

A curious light appeared in Cheon Mubaeck’s eyes.

“They’ve gotten ridiculously strong since some time ago. The sea serpent bastards, and the Great Dragon Gang leader himself.”

“…”

“Did he get a lucky break?”

Wang Jeonyu, who had relatively less contact with the Great Dragon Gang in the Yangtze River than the Green Forest, also had a question.

The Great Strength King suddenly burst into a sneer.

“Hehe. You were running around trying to kill the Great Dragon Gang leader without even knowing that? You moron turtle bastard. And you, you brat.”

“Shut up and just talk.”

“You can’t kill him. The reason I’m causing a conflict with the Great Dragon Gang is just to get more influence at the Black Assembly. Because I can’t kill the Great Dragon Gang leader.”

“…”

“Now, all the Unorthodox Alliance are uniting, that’s the trend of the times. The Orthodox Path guys are gathering in Zhongjing, saying something about a Righteous Alliance, right? Should the Unorthodox Alliance just stand by? That kind of thought is secretly flowing.”

Cheon Mubaeck became a little reluctant at the thought that the snowball he had rolled had reached this far.

“In the end, if we kill him, there will be an internal strife among the Unorthodox Alliance, and the Great Dragon Gang leader’s subordinates will be hostile to the Green Forest and the Yangtze River. They’ll kill each other until one side is annihilated. So, killing each other is something that all the members of the Unorthodox Alliance will not be able to accept.”

He hadn’t known that the atmosphere flowing under the Unorthodox Alliance was this much.

Then it was impossible to use Wang Jeonyu and the Great Strength King to kill the Great Dragon Gang leader. In a situation where the fact of the Unorthodox Alliance coalition had become clear among the members of the Unorthodox Alliance, killing the Great Dragon Gang leader was something that the members would not be able to accept, so even the Great Strength King and Wang Jeonyu could not do it rashly.

‘Then killing the Great Dragon Gang leader is impossible, and if the Unorthodox Alliance is completely integrated, it will be quite burdensome… In the end, the plan to divide into three is the best goal.’

And the Great Strength King drove the nail in.

“And, the Great Dragon Gang is bigger than you think.”

“Bigger?”

Could it be bigger than the information that the Hao Faction leader had given him?

“An external force has joined. That’s why I’m trying to increase my influence even a little. Because I can’t see an external force controlling the Unorthodox Alliance.”

At that moment, Cheon Mubaeck stared at the Great Strength King’s eyes.

The Great Strength King smiled and said.

“There are some noisy guys these days, aren’t there? The dog bastards of the Demonic Path called the Blood Demon Valley.”

From suspicion to certainty.

A strange smile appeared on Cheon Mubaeck’s lips.

* * *

In the end, the conclusion of that day’s meeting was not exactly reached.

First, a strange cooperative relationship between Wang Jeonyu, the Great Strength King, and Cheon Mubaeck was established.

But the goal was undecided.

Wang Jeonyu said that if the Blood Demon Valley had a hand in the Black Assembly, they should kill the Great Dragon Gang leader, who was the link. The Great Strength King opposed, saying that it was impossible and that half of the Green Forest would burn and half of the river pirates would be buried in the river.

Cheon Mubaeck also contemplated.

In the end, when competing with the Great Dragon Gang leader for interests at the Black Assembly, they would cooperate with each other to check the Great Dragon Gang leader.

Only the gist of that was established.

‘But if this continues, the Great Dragon Gang leader will sit in the leader’s seat. Do those two have the skill and justification to check those two positions?’

But at that time, a message came to Wang Jeonyu and the Great Strength King in the name of the Great Dragon Gang leader.

<Instead of fighting among ourselves like this, how about we set up proper rules and elect the leader of the coalition that will be launched at the Black Assembly?>

“……Hmm.”

Cheon Mubaeck’s eyes flashed.

(End of Chapter)

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