Chapter 119

Chapter 119

The beautiful woman continued her story.

“There was a man in the martial world called a chivalrous hero. He was both a gallant hero and a righteous man, so many women admired him. The young maiden I want to tell you about was also one of those many women. But surprisingly, the man rejected all the other women and approached the young maiden.”

The beautiful woman’s story continued.

“However, the man’s purpose was the secret manual that the maiden’s family possessed. After obtaining the secret manual, the man not only coldly cast aside the maiden, but also completely massacred her family.”

The beautiful woman continued while drinking tea.

“And during that calamity, the maiden’s family was branded as a group of demonic heretics and drew the public anger of the martial world, and the few remaining descendants are living in hiding from people’s eyes, unable to find an opportunity to restore their honor.”

The beautiful woman’s expression was extremely cold.

“What do you think? Your impression?”

Jin Ja-gang answered matter-of-factly.

“That man should be killed.”

At Jin Ja-gang’s overly simple words, the beautiful woman suddenly burst into loud laughter.

“Hahaha—!”

Strangely, the sound didn’t spread outward but only echoed around the rock area.

Jin Ja-gang tried not to be tense, but dry saliva went down his throat.

An unimaginably skilled master.

He had only heard in words since childhood about masters who could block sound with qi barriers, but this was the first time he had actually seen it.

“Ah! It’s been a long time since I felt truly delighted. Yes. But that’s not an easy task, is it?”

The beautiful woman’s expression became much softer. When she smiled, she was definitely a beauty.

“No, such words would be rude to you, young hero. To you who, as a descendant of the Medicine Sect, annihilated Yunnan’s Five Great Poison Sects without any special assistance.”

Just how much did this beautiful woman know from where to where? Did she know and want confirmation?

Jin Ja-gang thought there was no need to hide anymore and answered honestly.

“That’s correct. I am a member of the Medicine Sect and the successor of Hundred Flower Valley. This is my personal revenge, my sect’s revenge, and revenge for Yunnan’s Medicine Sects who died unjustly and tragically.”

“Then, was your revenge finished when you annihilated the poison sects?”

“No. It’s not finished yet.”

The beautiful woman put down her teacup and said.

“Isn’t this enough? Stop now. This is purely advice for your sake.”

Of course, Jin Ja-gang didn’t accept those words.

“If I was going to stop, I wouldn’t have started in the first place.”

Even though her goodwill was rejected, the beautiful woman didn’t get angry.

Rather, she smiled again.

The beautiful woman asked.

“Have you never had doubts about the fact that you’re still alive?”

Jin Ja-gang frowned.

Because of the words “You worked hard…” that still remained in his ears.

“I know someone is using me. But if they get in the way of my path, I’ll kill them all.”

“I acknowledge your will. Erasing the Five Great Poison Sects is also a great achievement. But if you don’t end it with Yunnan’s poison sects, difficulties that you can hardly dare to handle await you from here on. If revenge is your purpose, lowering yourself for the sake of revenge is also the way of a gentleman.”

“I’ve never challenged anything because I could handle it so far.”

Jin Ja-gang had to fight risking his life every time because he lacked ability. He had always fought against those stronger than himself on the blade’s edge, killed them, and survived.

“You’re going to continue to the end?”

“Yes.”

The beautiful woman smiled, raising the corners of her mouth.

“Then I’ll have to use you a bit from now on. Because as you said, there are things that need to be killed.”

Jin Ja-gang didn’t back down at all.

“You may use me, but you’ll have to pay a price.”

“I’ll pay the price now.”

“What do you mean…?”

“I’ll give you the power to take revenge.”

Suddenly the air changed. The surrounding scenery distorted and everything that surrounded Jin Ja-gang began whispering toward him.

Jin Ja-gang had the strange illusion that he was in a marketplace with hundreds of people chattering around him. The grass, trees, and even the air itself seemed to be under someone’s control, beginning to regard Jin Ja-gang, who was a separate existence, with suspicion.

All the scenery surrounding Jin Ja-gang was under someone else’s control except for Jin Ja-gang himself. It was blatantly revealing that if Jin Ja-gang said one wrong word, everything would instantly turn hostile.

Depending on what Jin Ja-gang did, he would have to fight against nature itself, or the being that controlled that nature.

The woman right in front of him.

The beautiful woman spoke to Jin Ja-gang.

“My name is Dan Ryeong-gyeong. In the martial world, they call me Wishful Fairy Maiden!”

Hot heat blazed from the beautiful woman’s entire body and the air heated up.

Jin Ja-gang’s breath was cut off.

He never expected to hear that name here.

It was a name he had heard even when he was young living at Hundred Flower Valley.

Xilin Sword Sect’s Wudang Sect Leader.

Shandong Yaohua’s Wishful Command Lord…

They said that if there was Wudang Sect as the best among the sword sects of the hundred paths west of Taihang Mountain, then on the eastern Shandong evil faction side there was a lord with omnipotent power.

The former referred to Taoist Haewol of Wudang Sect, who was the current Martial Arts Alliance leader, and the latter referred to Wishful Fairy Maiden, the absolute matriarch and heroine of the evil faction based in Shandong.

Although eight more years had passed since then, where would the prestige of a figure who made a name in an era go?

Jin Ja-gang got chills.

‘This is more dangerous than I thought.’

He had simply thought she was a high-ranking official of the evil faction, but she was a bigger figure than expected. To the extent that it wouldn’t be strange for her to know about him.

Such a big shot had come looking for him.

“My name, the organization I possess, and also my martial arts will be on your side. You take the revenge you want, and I take my revenge. How about it?”

Joining hands.

Receiving help.

From such a master?

How could this be refused!

However, Jin Ja-gang didn’t answer.

Since she was no longer using respectful terms like “young hero,” Dan Ryeong-gyeong seemed to have completely revealed her true nature.

While doing so, the aura she emitted grew stronger and stronger, making Jin Ja-gang’s skin begin to heat up.

Inside the qi barrier that circularly surrounded Jin Ja-gang and Dan Ryeong-gyeong, heat rose to the extent that breathing became difficult. The heat was rising only inside the qi barrier without being discharged outside.

Huff… huff…

Jin Ja-gang’s breathing became rough.

Sweat flowed from his forehead and his back became damp. Sweat flowed and dripped from his nose and chin.

Was she planning to suffocate Jin Ja-gang like this?

The beautiful woman herself, though her hair was fluttering and her collar was rising, was fine without a single drop of sweat.

Jin Ja-gang knew.

It wasn’t because Jin Ja-gang was important. What would such a master lack that she would bother to recruit Jin Ja-gang?

‘Bait…!’

It was bait.

She was trying to use Jin Ja-gang as bait to set a trap and draw out the real mastermind behind this incident.

It seemed to refer to those who had already succeeded in using Jin Ja-gang to make Yunnan’s poison sects masterless territory. Those people were likely the ones Wishful Fairy Maiden was targeting.

However, Dan Ryeong-gyeong had said she would pay a price in exchange for using Jin Ja-gang herself.

The tangled and complicated relationships of the martial world were drawing Jin Ja-gang into the center of a whirlpool.

Even though he was being threatened to the point of suffocating from hot heat, it was a sweet temptation.

‘If I receive Wishful Fairy Maiden’s help, I can take revenge much more easily!’

But it was fatal.

Jin Ja-gang realized the fatal danger hidden in Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s proposal.

‘The moment I receive Wishful Fairy Maiden’s help, I will no longer be able to deny my relationship with the evil faction.’

This was the devil’s temptation. To put a sharp dagger with poison in Jin Ja-gang’s hands and constantly reach out to put shackles on Jin Ja-gang’s ankles that would follow him forever.

Thud.

Jin Ja-gang’s body tilted forward as he found it hard to endure the severe pressure.

“Huff… huff…”

But even so, while sweating profusely, he looked up at Wishful Fairy Maiden.

And said.

“I refuse.”

Dan Ryeong-gyeong asked as if it was hard to understand.

“Why? Do you dislike hearing that you’re associating with the dark path?”

Jin Ja-gang closed his eyes, opened them, and answered.

“I learned something just before being dragged to hell. That revenge shouldn’t be entrusted to others’ hands.”

“Do you think you’re in a position to choose?”

A bluish energy slowly formed at the corners of Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s eyes. Instantly, the heat inside the qi barrier reached its peak.

The view was shaking due to heat haze.

Dan Ryeong-gyeong said in a low voice.

“Being insolent should also be done in moderation.”

“I don’t think I’m being insolent. Ah? No. Perhaps that’s my… huff huff, delusion.”

“Hmm?”

Jin Ja-gang, while sweating profusely, contorted his face and smiled.

“Because everyone who tried to say such things to me is dead.”

Jin Ja-gang drew up one drop of pinellia poison he had accumulated. One skein of pinellia poison was enough to kill more than ten healthy adults.

Poison liquid flowed through the torn flesh of the Shaoze acupoint on his little finger that he had cut in the morning. The poison liquid instantly vaporized due to the heat inside the round qi barrier.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, poison spread inside the qi barrier. The inside of the qi barrier became hazy as if filled with steam. This was a situation that even Dan Ryeong-gyeong hadn’t anticipated.

Pinellia poison paralyzes breathing and causes limbs to convulse and become paralyzed. Because it was the essence of poison liquid refined and purely concentrated, its effect was very fast!

Jin Ja-gang also felt stinging in his eye membranes as the poison penetrated, causing tears. His throat swelled and the sensation in his nose disappeared.

Still, it was only temporary. If he endured the brief side effects, he could overcome the poison.

But Dan Ryeong-gyeong…!

“So this is what you were relying on to act so arrogantly, just believing in this one trick.”

At that moment, Jin Ja-gang witnessed an amazing sight.

“Sssssslurp!”

Dan Ryeong-gyeong was glaring at Jin Ja-gang with fierce eyes while sucking in air through her mouth.

She was sucking in the poison along with the air.

“Ssslurp—!”

The qi barrier rapidly shrank.

“Wh-what! …Gack!”

Jin Ja-gang’s breath was completely blocked. He couldn’t breathe!

This wasn’t because of the pinellia poison but because Dan Ryeong-gyeong was fiercely sucking in air.

“Gack, grack!”

He tried to hold his breath, but as if even the air inside his body was being taken away, he rapidly became short of breath.

Blood vessels bulged prominently in Jin Ja-gang’s neck and eyes, and his blood vessels became clearly visible.

Thinking he would die like this, Jin Ja-gang bit his lips hard. He wondered for a moment whether he should use internal energy.

The blood from biting hard floated in the air and even that was sucked into Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s mouth.

Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s eyes squinted.

Whoosh.

Instantly, the qi barrier covering Jin Ja-gang and Dan Ryeong-gyeong disappeared.

“Huff! Huff!”

Jin Ja-gang gasped for breath, then gritted his teeth. He grabbed the teapot in front of him with both hands and smashed it on the ground.

Crash!

The teapot broke and tea water splashed. Jin Ja-gang gripped pieces of the broken teapot in both hands and quickly breathed to generate internal energy. His right side hurt as if it would break… Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth and divided one breath of internal energy in two, sending it to his right foot and right hand. When he kicked off with his right foot infused with internal energy, explosive speed was attached. It was an intense speed that Jin Ja-gang had never produced before.

He planned to collide with his body to make her lose balance, stab Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s neck with his left hand, and cut her waist from below where it couldn’t be seen with his right hand.

Jin Ja-gang’s surprise attack was almost perfect. It was much faster than before, and it completely caught Dan Ryeong-gyeong off guard, who had thought he wouldn’t dare attack after she revealed her name.

But Dan Ryeong-gyeong, who had been puffing up both cheeks, this time blew out wind instead.

Phooooooo—!

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The beautiful woman continued her story.

“There was a man in the martial world called a chivalrous hero. He was both a gallant hero and a righteous man, so many women admired him. The young maiden I want to tell you about was also one of those many women. But surprisingly, the man rejected all the other women and approached the young maiden.”

The beautiful woman’s story continued.

“However, the man’s purpose was the secret manual that the maiden’s family possessed. After obtaining the secret manual, the man not only coldly cast aside the maiden, but also completely massacred her family.”

The beautiful woman continued while drinking tea.

“And during that calamity, the maiden’s family was branded as a group of demonic heretics and drew the public anger of the martial world, and the few remaining descendants are living in hiding from people’s eyes, unable to find an opportunity to restore their honor.”

The beautiful woman’s expression was extremely cold.

“What do you think? Your impression?”

Jin Ja-gang answered matter-of-factly.

“That man should be killed.”

At Jin Ja-gang’s overly simple words, the beautiful woman suddenly burst into loud laughter.

“Hahaha—!”

Strangely, the sound didn’t spread outward but only echoed around the rock area.

Jin Ja-gang tried not to be tense, but dry saliva went down his throat.

An unimaginably skilled master.

He had only heard in words since childhood about masters who could block sound with qi barriers, but this was the first time he had actually seen it.

“Ah! It’s been a long time since I felt truly delighted. Yes. But that’s not an easy task, is it?”

The beautiful woman’s expression became much softer. When she smiled, she was definitely a beauty.

“No, such words would be rude to you, young hero. To you who, as a descendant of the Medicine Sect, annihilated Yunnan’s Five Great Poison Sects without any special assistance.”

Just how much did this beautiful woman know from where to where? Did she know and want confirmation?

Jin Ja-gang thought there was no need to hide anymore and answered honestly.

“That’s correct. I am a member of the Medicine Sect and the successor of Hundred Flower Valley. This is my personal revenge, my sect’s revenge, and revenge for Yunnan’s Medicine Sects who died unjustly and tragically.”

“Then, was your revenge finished when you annihilated the poison sects?”

“No. It’s not finished yet.”

The beautiful woman put down her teacup and said.

“Isn’t this enough? Stop now. This is purely advice for your sake.”

Of course, Jin Ja-gang didn’t accept those words.

“If I was going to stop, I wouldn’t have started in the first place.”

Even though her goodwill was rejected, the beautiful woman didn’t get angry.

Rather, she smiled again.

The beautiful woman asked.

“Have you never had doubts about the fact that you’re still alive?”

Jin Ja-gang frowned.

Because of the words “You worked hard…” that still remained in his ears.

“I know someone is using me. But if they get in the way of my path, I’ll kill them all.”

“I acknowledge your will. Erasing the Five Great Poison Sects is also a great achievement. But if you don’t end it with Yunnan’s poison sects, difficulties that you can hardly dare to handle await you from here on. If revenge is your purpose, lowering yourself for the sake of revenge is also the way of a gentleman.”

“I’ve never challenged anything because I could handle it so far.”

Jin Ja-gang had to fight risking his life every time because he lacked ability. He had always fought against those stronger than himself on the blade’s edge, killed them, and survived.

“You’re going to continue to the end?”

“Yes.”

The beautiful woman smiled, raising the corners of her mouth.

“Then I’ll have to use you a bit from now on. Because as you said, there are things that need to be killed.”

Jin Ja-gang didn’t back down at all.

“You may use me, but you’ll have to pay a price.”

“I’ll pay the price now.”

“What do you mean…?”

“I’ll give you the power to take revenge.”

Suddenly the air changed. The surrounding scenery distorted and everything that surrounded Jin Ja-gang began whispering toward him.

Jin Ja-gang had the strange illusion that he was in a marketplace with hundreds of people chattering around him. The grass, trees, and even the air itself seemed to be under someone’s control, beginning to regard Jin Ja-gang, who was a separate existence, with suspicion.

All the scenery surrounding Jin Ja-gang was under someone else’s control except for Jin Ja-gang himself. It was blatantly revealing that if Jin Ja-gang said one wrong word, everything would instantly turn hostile.

Depending on what Jin Ja-gang did, he would have to fight against nature itself, or the being that controlled that nature.

The woman right in front of him.

The beautiful woman spoke to Jin Ja-gang.

“My name is Dan Ryeong-gyeong. In the martial world, they call me Wishful Fairy Maiden!”

Hot heat blazed from the beautiful woman’s entire body and the air heated up.

Jin Ja-gang’s breath was cut off.

He never expected to hear that name here.

It was a name he had heard even when he was young living at Hundred Flower Valley.

Xilin Sword Sect’s Wudang Sect Leader.

Shandong Yaohua’s Wishful Command Lord…

They said that if there was Wudang Sect as the best among the sword sects of the hundred paths west of Taihang Mountain, then on the eastern Shandong evil faction side there was a lord with omnipotent power.

The former referred to Taoist Haewol of Wudang Sect, who was the current Martial Arts Alliance leader, and the latter referred to Wishful Fairy Maiden, the absolute matriarch and heroine of the evil faction based in Shandong.

Although eight more years had passed since then, where would the prestige of a figure who made a name in an era go?

Jin Ja-gang got chills.

‘This is more dangerous than I thought.’

He had simply thought she was a high-ranking official of the evil faction, but she was a bigger figure than expected. To the extent that it wouldn’t be strange for her to know about him.

Such a big shot had come looking for him.

“My name, the organization I possess, and also my martial arts will be on your side. You take the revenge you want, and I take my revenge. How about it?”

Joining hands.

Receiving help.

From such a master?

How could this be refused!

However, Jin Ja-gang didn’t answer.

Since she was no longer using respectful terms like “young hero,” Dan Ryeong-gyeong seemed to have completely revealed her true nature.

While doing so, the aura she emitted grew stronger and stronger, making Jin Ja-gang’s skin begin to heat up.

Inside the qi barrier that circularly surrounded Jin Ja-gang and Dan Ryeong-gyeong, heat rose to the extent that breathing became difficult. The heat was rising only inside the qi barrier without being discharged outside.

Huff… huff…

Jin Ja-gang’s breathing became rough.

Sweat flowed from his forehead and his back became damp. Sweat flowed and dripped from his nose and chin.

Was she planning to suffocate Jin Ja-gang like this?

The beautiful woman herself, though her hair was fluttering and her collar was rising, was fine without a single drop of sweat.

Jin Ja-gang knew.

It wasn’t because Jin Ja-gang was important. What would such a master lack that she would bother to recruit Jin Ja-gang?

‘Bait…!’

It was bait.

She was trying to use Jin Ja-gang as bait to set a trap and draw out the real mastermind behind this incident.

It seemed to refer to those who had already succeeded in using Jin Ja-gang to make Yunnan’s poison sects masterless territory. Those people were likely the ones Wishful Fairy Maiden was targeting.

However, Dan Ryeong-gyeong had said she would pay a price in exchange for using Jin Ja-gang herself.

The tangled and complicated relationships of the martial world were drawing Jin Ja-gang into the center of a whirlpool.

Even though he was being threatened to the point of suffocating from hot heat, it was a sweet temptation.

‘If I receive Wishful Fairy Maiden’s help, I can take revenge much more easily!’

But it was fatal.

Jin Ja-gang realized the fatal danger hidden in Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s proposal.

‘The moment I receive Wishful Fairy Maiden’s help, I will no longer be able to deny my relationship with the evil faction.’

This was the devil’s temptation. To put a sharp dagger with poison in Jin Ja-gang’s hands and constantly reach out to put shackles on Jin Ja-gang’s ankles that would follow him forever.

Thud.

Jin Ja-gang’s body tilted forward as he found it hard to endure the severe pressure.

“Huff… huff…”

But even so, while sweating profusely, he looked up at Wishful Fairy Maiden.

And said.

“I refuse.”

Dan Ryeong-gyeong asked as if it was hard to understand.

“Why? Do you dislike hearing that you’re associating with the dark path?”

Jin Ja-gang closed his eyes, opened them, and answered.

“I learned something just before being dragged to hell. That revenge shouldn’t be entrusted to others’ hands.”

“Do you think you’re in a position to choose?”

A bluish energy slowly formed at the corners of Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s eyes. Instantly, the heat inside the qi barrier reached its peak.

The view was shaking due to heat haze.

Dan Ryeong-gyeong said in a low voice.

“Being insolent should also be done in moderation.”

“I don’t think I’m being insolent. Ah? No. Perhaps that’s my… huff huff, delusion.”

“Hmm?”

Jin Ja-gang, while sweating profusely, contorted his face and smiled.

“Because everyone who tried to say such things to me is dead.”

Jin Ja-gang drew up one drop of pinellia poison he had accumulated. One skein of pinellia poison was enough to kill more than ten healthy adults.

Poison liquid flowed through the torn flesh of the Shaoze acupoint on his little finger that he had cut in the morning. The poison liquid instantly vaporized due to the heat inside the round qi barrier.

Whoosh!

In the blink of an eye, poison spread inside the qi barrier. The inside of the qi barrier became hazy as if filled with steam. This was a situation that even Dan Ryeong-gyeong hadn’t anticipated.

Pinellia poison paralyzes breathing and causes limbs to convulse and become paralyzed. Because it was the essence of poison liquid refined and purely concentrated, its effect was very fast!

Jin Ja-gang also felt stinging in his eye membranes as the poison penetrated, causing tears. His throat swelled and the sensation in his nose disappeared.

Still, it was only temporary. If he endured the brief side effects, he could overcome the poison.

But Dan Ryeong-gyeong…!

“So this is what you were relying on to act so arrogantly, just believing in this one trick.”

At that moment, Jin Ja-gang witnessed an amazing sight.

“Sssssslurp!”

Dan Ryeong-gyeong was glaring at Jin Ja-gang with fierce eyes while sucking in air through her mouth.

She was sucking in the poison along with the air.

“Ssslurp—!”

The qi barrier rapidly shrank.

“Wh-what! …Gack!”

Jin Ja-gang’s breath was completely blocked. He couldn’t breathe!

This wasn’t because of the pinellia poison but because Dan Ryeong-gyeong was fiercely sucking in air.

“Gack, grack!”

He tried to hold his breath, but as if even the air inside his body was being taken away, he rapidly became short of breath.

Blood vessels bulged prominently in Jin Ja-gang’s neck and eyes, and his blood vessels became clearly visible.

Thinking he would die like this, Jin Ja-gang bit his lips hard. He wondered for a moment whether he should use internal energy.

The blood from biting hard floated in the air and even that was sucked into Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s mouth.

Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s eyes squinted.

Whoosh.

Instantly, the qi barrier covering Jin Ja-gang and Dan Ryeong-gyeong disappeared.

“Huff! Huff!”

Jin Ja-gang gasped for breath, then gritted his teeth. He grabbed the teapot in front of him with both hands and smashed it on the ground.

Crash!

The teapot broke and tea water splashed. Jin Ja-gang gripped pieces of the broken teapot in both hands and quickly breathed to generate internal energy. His right side hurt as if it would break… Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth and divided one breath of internal energy in two, sending it to his right foot and right hand. When he kicked off with his right foot infused with internal energy, explosive speed was attached. It was an intense speed that Jin Ja-gang had never produced before.

He planned to collide with his body to make her lose balance, stab Dan Ryeong-gyeong’s neck with his left hand, and cut her waist from below where it couldn’t be seen with his right hand.

Jin Ja-gang’s surprise attack was almost perfect. It was much faster than before, and it completely caught Dan Ryeong-gyeong off guard, who had thought he wouldn’t dare attack after she revealed her name.

But Dan Ryeong-gyeong, who had been puffing up both cheeks, this time blew out wind instead.

Phooooooo—!

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