Chapter 591

Chapter 591 - Side Story 25

Jin Heon walked on despite Yeon Gi-sang's attempts to stop him. The surrounding area was overwhelmed by his atmosphere and cold expression. The ordinary Green Forest bandits were so pressed down by Jin Heon's overwhelming presence that they couldn't even think of approaching and retreated backward.

A Green Forest bandit wearing a Sparrow Scarf shot an arrow at Jin Heon. Jin Heon slightly twisted his shoulder and dodged the arrow. Another Sparrow Scarf Green Forest bandit swung down his blade. The heavy pressure of Mountain Topping descended upon Jin Heon. Instead, Jin Heon advanced forward and stuck close to the Sparrow Scarf Green Forest bandit.

"Guk!"

They were too close to swing the blade down. Jin Heon headbutted the Green Forest bandit's philtrum. Crack! His teeth shattered and the Green Forest bandit screamed and fell away. Still, as a Sparrow Scarf, even while falling, the Green Forest bandit swung his blade and wounded Jin Heon's foot.

"A house!"

The Green Forest bandit with broken teeth, blood pouring from his mouth, tried to run away immediately. Jin Heon lifted his foot and stomped on the Green Forest bandit's waist. The Green Forest bandit died instantly.

Thwack!

An arrow embedded in Jin Heon's shoulder. Jin Heon hesitated for a moment, snapped the arrow in the middle, and resumed walking.

"Throw it!"

An iron net with heavy weights fell over Jin Heon's head. Jin Heon didn't dodge. Simultaneously, the Green Forest bandits rushed at Jin Heon covered in the iron net, striking with clubs and slashing with swords. Because the iron net covered him, the swords didn't work well, and instead the clubs were effective.

Clang clang clang!

Thwack thwack thwack!

Seeing Jin Heon getting hit, the Yeon Family Sect warriors tried to help.

"Hold on a bit longer!"

Jin Heon slipped one hand out through the mesh of the iron net. The neck of a Green Forest bandit who had just been swinging his club was caught.

Crack!

Without fail, the neck broke and the Green Forest bandit died a miserable death.

The Green Forest bandits were shocked and backed away.

Jin Heon removed the iron net and threw it away. He had been beaten so much that he was covered in blood. However, his eyes weren't dimmed at all. Rather, even thicker killing intent flowed out, making the air seem sticky.

Jin Heon glared at Soul Destroyer Kill and walked straight ahead.

A path opened wide.

It was tremendous presence. The surrounding area was overwhelmed, and the fights around them instantly reached a lull.

Soul Destroyer Kill also got goosebumps and bared his teeth.

"What the hell is that bastard. How can there be such a guy."

Yeon Woong, who had been beside Tang Yu-jeong, got goosebumps at Jin Heon's appearance and drew in a breath.

"His presence is truly tremendous. Chu-mong... I've seen him like this once before, but I didn't know it was to this extent..."

Tang Yu-jeong asked.

"He was like that before too?"

"A few years ago. Back then he was fighting a bear, not a person."

Yeon Woong asked.

"Was the former alliance leader in his prime like that too?"

Jin Heon was already torn up everywhere and covered in blood, with an arrow even piercing through one shoulder.

He wasn't harboring any poison energy at all, showing how many times he'd done something like this. It meant he was perfectly sane and quite deliberate.

There was a reason he controlled his poison energy well.

Tang Yu-jeong watched Jin Heon silently for a moment, then answered.

"No. Dad had no choice because he had to survive fighting against many stronger than himself. But Heon..."

Tang Yu-jeong stopped speaking for a moment and swallowed the rest inwardly.

She couldn't bring herself to say that it seemed like he was barely feeling relief by driving himself to the extreme to shake off his confused emotions.

"Arrogant bastard!"

Soul Destroyer Kill shouted and pulled out daggers in both hands.

"You're going to face me in that state? Do I look easy to you!"

Soul Destroyer Kill slashed his daggers toward Jin Heon several times from the air. Sharp energy gathered at the tips of the daggers like sword energy.

Pshh, pshh.

Jin Heon slightly twisted his body to dodge the daggers. Wounds appeared and blood spurted without them even touching his body.

"Why? Can't take this hit?"

Jin Heon reached out his hand. Soul Destroyer Kill naturally dodged, but his wrist was caught before he knew it. Soul Destroyer Kill was horrified. He stabbed Jin Heon's forearm with the dagger in his opposite hand. Thwack thwack thwack. The dagger embedded in and pulled out of Jin Heon's forearm several times. Blood spurted from the forearm and Jin Heon lost his grip on Soul Destroyer Kill's wrist.

If both arms had been intact, the fight would have ended instantly. Soul Destroyer Kill stabbed down at Jin Heon's head with his dagger. Jin Heon forcibly raised the arm with the arrow embedded in the shoulder to block. That arm's forearm was also stabbed several times by the dagger. Jin Heon couldn't lift both arms and let them hang limply.

"Die!"

Soul Destroyer Kill's dagger stabbed toward Jin Heon's brow. In that instant, Jin Heon turned his neck and bit the dagger with his teeth.

Chomp. The moment the dagger was blocked, Jin Heon kicked Soul Destroyer Kill's abdomen.

Thwoom! Even though it was slightly off, the organs inside his belly shook. Soul Destroyer Kill let go of the dagger and retreated. His expression went pale. If it had hit properly, all his organs would have burst out.

In the midst of this, a middle-aged Yeon Family Sect warrior who thought Jin Heon was in danger rushed at Soul Destroyer Kill swinging his blade.

"Young hero, take care!"

Soul Destroyer Kill didn't even dodge and stretched his arm out long through the blade light. In an instant, a dagger embedded in and fell from the side of the middle-aged warrior's neck.

"Urgh!"

The Yeon Family Sect middle-aged warrior grabbed his bleeding neck and retreated. He couldn't last even barely a second.

Contrary to his light manner of speech, Soul Destroyer Kill's skill was at a considerable level. Even though the Green Forest's overall level was low, an Eagle Scarf ruling Guangdong would be at the top expert level of an average medium-sized sect.

"Where does a small fry get off."

Jin Heon was still approaching while glaring at Soul Destroyer Kill. Soul Destroyer Kill leaped back.

"I thought you wanted an interview, where are you going?"

Soul Destroyer Kill clicked his tongue and tapped his head with the tip of his dagger.

"Since you're young, you're still lacking in thought. Why should this elder bother facing you?"

Soul Destroyer Kill commanded his subordinates.

"Boys! That bastard can't use both arms. Throw the nets first!"

From all directions, nets were thrown at Jin Heon.

Tang Gyeong shot out palm force and cut two nets.

Tang Gyeong wanted to extract himself too, but there was a limit since the Yeon Family Sect people would suffer if he did.

"Older Brother! What are you doing!"

Jin Heon was covered in two or three layers of iron nets. Unable to use his arms, he couldn't cut or shake off the nets. Four Sparrow Scarves immediately ran over and hammered stakes with hooks into the ends of the nets.

Once the demon-like Jin Heon was bound, the Green Forest bandits no longer hesitated and attacked Yeon Family Sect freely.

"Urk."

"Kurk!"

Everywhere, Yeon Family Sect warriors were being defeated and falling. Though Yeon Family Sect had quite a few skilled fighters, they couldn't easily extract themselves while helping or saving others.

The Sparrow Scarf Green Forest bandits stabbed Jin Heon with spears. Several holes appeared in Jin Heon's body. He was so covered in blood that it was impossible to tell which were new wounds.

Soul Destroyer Kill sneered.

"You're supposed to be the Poison Dragon's children, can't you even use that famous poison? Why don't you try using it."

Even while being stabbed by spears, Jin Heon kept glaring at Soul Destroyer Kill.

A faint green light began to appear in his eyes.

"Do you want hell?"

The Green Forest bandits pressed in, and Yeon Woong was also fighting the bandits frantically.

"Miss. This won't do. I need to go help! Miss? Miss!"

Tang Yu-jeong, who had been beside Yeon Woong just a moment ago, was gone.

Soul Destroyer Kill laughed loudly.

"Kahahahaha! The Poison Dragon's kids are nothing special. Guangxi will come for nothing. That bastard is finished, and where are that little one and the girl?"

As Soul Destroyer Kill turned his head to look around, several Green Forest bandits who met his gaze were looking at Soul Destroyer Kill with eyes wide open.

"B-boss!"

"Huh?"

A shadow fell over Soul Destroyer Kill's head.

Tang Yu-jeong had both hands raised above her.

"Mister, don't die."

With fingers interlocked and gripped together as if to strike, Soul Destroyer Kill was startled but also found it laughable.

'Can she even touch this elder with such a slow motion!'

Soul Destroyer Kill turned and stabbed Tang Yu-jeong's belly with his dagger. In his mind, he had already stabbed dozens of times. However, his thoughts raced ahead while his body stopped. Soul Destroyer Kill was already lying flat on the ground face down. Dust rose hazily.

Tang Yu-jeong landed lightly. There wasn't even a small scratch on her stomach.

The Green Forest bandits nearby recoiled in shock. She hadn't even struck pressure points to immobilize the body... she just beat him down in one strike!

Tang Yu-jeong looked at Jin Heon.

Jin Heon, trapped in the net, twisted his lips with green-tinged eyes.

"Useless interference."

"Look at your eyes. It's not useless."

"So you were watching? In case I use poison."

"If you know, you should restrain yourself. Don't you know that's scarier than the Green Forest?"

The Sparrow Scarves who had been attacking Jin Heon hesitated, then turned their spear tips toward Tang Yu-jeong. In that instant, Jin Heon bit something with his teeth and forcefully turned his head sideways. The Green Forest bandits' ankles flew off.

"Aaaaagh!"

The Sparrow Scarf Green Forest bandits rolled on the ground screaming.

Tang Yu-jeong turned her steps toward another direction. Jin Heon called out to Tang Yu-jeong from inside the net.

"Hey! Hey!"

But Tang Yu-jeong didn't listen and was rescuing Yeon Family Sect warriors. Grabbing limbs and throwing them here and there, the Green Forest bandits were helpless and just flew through the air.

After Soul Destroyer Kill was defeated and even the Sparrow Scarves below had their ankles cut off, the Green Forest bandits became a disorderly mob. Just Tang Gyeong and Tang Yu-jeong rampaging around was enough to punch holes through their formation.

The Merciless Twin Axes sat in one corner watching the fight as if it were someone else's business and clicked his tongue.

"Tsk tsk tsk. If they said no, you should know it's no. Why bother attacking for nothing. How are they going to live with such poor sense."

***

The fight didn't last long. Not even half an hour, but half of half an hour and the situation was settled. Those who tried to escape were all caught by the swift-footed Tang Gyeong who went after them. Unable to even think of escaping, the Green Forest bandits eventually dropped their weapons and surrendered.

"What should we do with these bastards?"

The Yeon Family Sect warriors were troubled. Yeon Family Sect's courtyard was full of hundreds of Green Forest bandits. Taking care of all of them wouldn't be easy.

Yeon Ryang commanded.

"Tie them up for now."

There weren't enough things to tie them with, so all sorts of ropes were mobilized. They got busy moving the injured inside for treatment and organizing.

Yeon Ryang and several warriors expressed gratitude to Tang Yu-jeong and Tang Gyeong.

"Thanks to you, we stopped Soul Destroyer Kill without major damage. Thank you."

"No. We're sorry that things got bigger because of us."

"No need. It's something we had to handle anyway."

Soul Destroyer Kill, who had regained consciousness, spouted curses.

"It's not over just because you caught me! Soon they'll come from Guangxi and Huguang too. Once we bite, we never let go. You can never escape bloody revenge. Until the entire Green Forest disappears! Same for Yeon Family Sect! Releasing us immediately is the only way you can live!"

The faces of the Yeon Family Sect people darkened. The Poison Dragon's children wouldn't stay forever, and if the Green Forest sent proper experts for revenge, Yeon Family Sect would close its doors that day.

Tang Yu-jeong glared at Tang Gyeong.

"Things got bigger because of you."

"No, but still, not being it is not being it. How could I pretend not to know Dad? Sister, can you imagine me doing that?"

"Still, people need to be flexible depending on the situation."

"But sister."

"Ah, what!"

"After revealing my identity, I feel strangely at ease."

"...Hey hey, saying that in this atmosphere is inconsiderate."

"Don't you feel that way too, sister?"

At Tang Gyeong's direct question, Tang Yu-jeong couldn't answer.