Chapter 99

Chapter 99

Wei Zong grabbed the empty wine bottle upside down.

Then…

He struck down on Jin Ja-gang’s head, who was kneeling, with the bottle held upside down.

Crash!

The bottle shattered and broke.

Jin Ja-gang staggered while still kneeling.

Only then did Wei Zong stop smiling and smirked.

“Insolent b*st*rd.”

But Jin Ja-gang still hadn’t stopped smiling. Blood flowed from his forehead as he glared at Wei Zong, but his mouth was still smiling.

Jin Ja-gang slowly stood up. As if making a toast, he lifted the cup with blood droplets floating in it and drank it down in one gulp.

Then he threw the cup to the floor, shattering it.

Crash!

The watching warriors and poison sect leaders clicked their tongues.

“That, that b*st*rd…!”

Wei Zong’s killing intent soared to the heavens, his eyes turning blood red.

“What is… your name?”

His teeth were bared, making his pronunciation lisp through his teeth.

“Jin Ja-gang.”

Jin Ja-gang also stopped smiling now and glared at Wei Zong.

“Is your purpose to kill me?”

Jin Ja-gang corrected him.

“To be precise, it’s to kill you and everyone else.”

“Oh ho!”

Wei Zong suddenly raised both arms and shouted.

“Everyone, did you hear that? This b*st*rd seems to be the one we’ve been looking for!”

At those words, the warriors who had been surrounding them from a distance came closer, tightening the encirclement with swords and spears.

Jin Ja-gang looked up at the sky once, then looked back at Wei Zong.

Wei Zong looked at Jin Ja-gang and asked.

“I’m very curious about who you are and what your intentions were in attacking the poison sects.”

Jin Ja-gang answered. No, he tried to answer.

“I am from the Medicine Sect…”

But Wei Zong cut off those words.

“You’re looking down on me, aren’t you? Well, that’s why you had the guts to enter this valley.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m not the type to listen to such talk while leaving the speaker standing upright.”

Wei Zong narrowed his eyes and smiled.

Jin Ja-gang put strength into his eyes.

This opponent is different from all the previous ones!

All his previous opponents had been curious about Jin Ja-gang’s identity. Thanks to that, they had been impatient and somewhat psychologically cornered. That’s why Jin Ja-gang had always been able to maintain psychological superiority.

But Wei Zong didn’t seem to have such intentions.

“Before seeing you, I was uncertain, but seeing you directly, you’re definitely not someone with outstanding martial arts. Yet Iron Umbrella Sect’s leader died from extreme poisoning? Kang Gyu was a friend who was meticulous and suspicious about everything. What could be the reason for that?”

Wei Zong tapped his own head.

“You’re someone who uses his brain, aren’t you? And to a degree that’s difficult for others to imagine.”

Wei Zong’s words were not wrong.

Jin Ja-gang just looked at Wei Zong without saying anything. Wei Zong smiled and said.

“The rule is not to engage in long conversations with such people. Even if you do talk, you should break all their limbs first and lay them face down on the ground. If you didn’t know that, learn it from this opportunity.”

Jin Ja-gang nodded.

“I’ll gratefully accept that advice.”

“You’re a polite fellow.”

Wei Zong laughed heartily.

Then he turned around and headed inside the main hall!

He couldn’t let him get away like this!

Jin Ja-gang breathed in and drew energy through his Baihui point. He circulated the energy within his body to create a handful of internal energy, then transmitted the internal energy to his fingertips.

The practice of hidden weapon techniques in his spare time had paid off. The time it took to reach into his sleeve, draw out needles, and throw two needles was faster than the blink of an eye.

Swish!

The hidden weapon technique of Bosam Gate, Flying Thread Twelve Branches!

Moreover, the needles were already coated with Four Emperor Divine Water. Even a graze would kill Wei Zong!

Two long needles flew toward Wei Zong’s back.

But Wei Zong, as if he had already anticipated this, flipped his body like lightning and leaped into the air.

Flutter!

The long needles Jin Ja-gang threw were caught in Wei Zong’s fluttering sleeve. When Wei Zong shook his sleeve, the needles flew back in the opposite direction.

Swish swish swish!

The needles flew past Jin Ja-gang to both sides.

“Ugh!”

Screams came from behind Jin Ja-gang.

Two of the workers had been hit by Jin Ja-gang’s needles.

Ordinary people couldn’t survive being hit by Four Emperor Divine Water, the extreme poison that Shadow Bureau was proud of.

They soon vomited blood and died.

Jin Ja-gang glared at Wei Zong in great anger.

Wei Zong had already gone to the platform at the end of the main hall and sat in a prepared chair, then pretended to be surprised.

“What a powerful poison! That must be the poison that sent Kang Gyu to his grave!”

Wei Zong raised his hand and pointed at Jin Ja-gang.

“Let’s play the game I mentioned earlier. I’ll give Moon Flower Tower to whoever catches him first!”

He also spoke to the hundred or so warriors positioned outside the main hall.

“I’ll give you all a chance too. Isn’t this an opportunity to become a tower master and change your fate!”

Poison Valley’s Moon Flower Tower was a famous wine house throughout all of Yunnan.

Not only the tower’s massive income, but they could become the owner who commanded all the beauties of Moon Flower Tower!

The warriors’ eyes went wild.

Didn’t Wei Zong just say that his martial arts weren’t particularly impressive!

Since Jin Ja-gang was standing outside the main hall, the warriors had the advantage.

The warriors rushed toward Jin Ja-gang.

“Hiyaaaaa!”

Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth and turned around.

A thin warrior, blinded by dreams of becoming a tower master, was stabbing at Jin Ja-gang’s back with a spear.

“Kuk!”

Jin Ja-gang twisted his body, grabbed the spear, and pressed it downward. The warrior staggered and fell forward due to his charging momentum. Jin Ja-gang stepped on the spear shaft to break it and grabbed half of the broken spear.

He thrust the spear blade into the area where the warrior’s neck and back connected, into the spinal cord.

“Gerk!”

The warrior let out a stifled breath and convulsed. It was instant death.

“Die!”

Another warrior slashed at Jin Ja-gang’s leg with a sword. Though he said “die,” he didn’t attack with enough force to actually kill.

Because he knew Wei Zong had said earlier that he wanted to capture and interrogate him.

Thanks to this, Jin Ja-gang had a bit of breathing room.

He pulled his foot back to avoid the sword and squeezed out Four Emperor Divine Water from his dantian. There wasn’t much Four Emperor Divine Water left. His little finger swelled up. Jin Ja-gang bit and tore the tip of his little finger with his teeth and applied the poison to the tip of the spear blade.

Then he rolled on the ground and stabbed the sword-wielding warrior’s foot.

“Argh!”

The sword-wielding warrior grabbed his foot and hopped around. Meanwhile, several other warriors thrust swords and spears at Jin Ja-gang as he rolled on the ground.

Clang clang clang!… Every time Jin Ja-gang rolled on the ground, swords and spears followed behind him, sending up sparks.

While rolling, Jin Ja-gang stabbed and slashed at the warriors’ shins. Several warriors bled from their legs. However, the warriors who had briefly retreated felt dizzy and sat down.

“Ugh!”

“Urgh!”

Just from being scratched or grazed, they were poisoned by Four Emperor Divine Water and foamed blood at their mouths.

Seeing their comrades die so helplessly, some fear crept into the warriors’ eyes. Their offensive against Jin Ja-gang became somewhat slack.

In that time, Jin Ja-gang barely caught his breath.

He created another handful of internal energy and used footwork.

The spears the warriors thrust grazed Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder and side. Jin Ja-gang’s body swayed. Jin Ja-gang seemed about to fall sideways, then spun around.

In an instant, Jin Ja-gang had moved behind the warrior who thrust the spear.

“Huh?”

By the time the warrior sensed danger and turned his head, Jin Ja-gang had already thrust the broken spear into the warrior’s side.

The warrior let out a pitiful scream and staggered while holding the spear shaft stuck in his side. Since he didn’t die immediately, it seemed the poison applied to the spear blade had already been exhausted.

Jin Ja-gang pulled out the spear and stabbed the side several more times.

Thud thud!

Only after the spear blade had penetrated a full span did the warrior’s movements stop.

Jin Ja-gang moved sideways to obtain a weapon and saw a warrior’s punch coming at him. It was too close to dodge.

Jin Ja-gang instead rammed his head into the warrior’s fist.

Crack!

There was a sound of bones breaking from the warrior’s fist that struck precisely between Jin Ja-gang’s forehead and crown.

“Aaaaagh!”

Jin Ja-gang was also shocked and saw stars, but he grabbed the warrior’s shoulders and kicked up at his groin with his knee.

Crunch.

The warrior couldn’t even scream and his eyes rolled back.

Meanwhile, Jin Ja-gang was kicked in the lower back.

“Kup!”

As he was pushed sideways and tumbled, he felt the wind of a blade. Jin Ja-gang raised his arm.

Scrape!

The sword scraped along Jin Ja-gang’s forearm. Fortunately, he had wrapped a leather band around it and stuck needles densely in it, so he wasn’t cut by the sword. Jin Ja-gang reached into his chest and pulled out a bamboo tube the size of a finger joint. He bit off the tube’s stopper with his teeth and sprayed it at the warrior who had attacked him.

“Cough cough cough!”

The warrior hit by the poison powder squeezed his eyes shut and wildly swung his sword. Jin Ja-gang rushed into the warrior’s embrace and tripped him. As the warrior fell backward, Jin Ja-gang placed one hand on the warrior’s face and put his weight on it. Jin Ja-gang and the warrior fell together.

Crash!

The force of both their body weights was applied directly to the warrior’s head. The warrior’s nose, pressed by Jin Ja-gang’s palm, was crushed, and his skull cracked when it hit the ground, splattering brain matter.

His vision somewhat recovered. As soon as it recovered, he saw a long shadow approaching. Jin Ja-gang rolled his body to the side.

Thud!

A spear was stuck in the ground.

Jin Ja-gang rolled and then sat up, supporting himself on his knee against the ground. The warrior who had thrust the spear was right in front of him. Jin Ja-gang sprayed the remaining poison from the bamboo tube while blowing it at the warrior’s face.

Puff!

“Aaaaah!”

The warrior staggered while shedding tears. Jin Ja-gang stood up abruptly and struck the warrior’s nape with a hand blade infused with internal energy.

Snap!

There was a sound of something breaking from the precisely struck throat. The warrior’s face turned purple as he foamed blood.

Slash! Jin Ja-gang’s leg was cut and blood spurted. He had been hit by a sword from behind.

Unfortunately, it was his right thigh, not his left leg. It was his good leg. It was the side that bore more of his body weight compared to his limping leg. The flesh was split open, revealing the inside.

This seriously hindered his ability to walk and support himself with his right foot.

“I got him, I got him!”

The warrior who had cut Jin Ja-gang’s leg seemed to want recognition for his achievement, or perhaps he was so happy that he momentarily lost his mind, raising both arms and looking toward the main hall. Jin Ja-gang picked up a spear from the ground and thrust it with all his might toward the back of the warrior’s neck.

The spear pierced through from the back of the warrior’s neck and protruded from his mouth. The warrior slowly collapsed with his eyes bulging and both arms raised.

The poison sect leaders watching from the main hall frowned at this scene.

What on earth was Wei Zong thinking, wearing down the warriors like this?

But Wei Zong seemed to be thinking about something, making it difficult to approach him. He didn’t seem to be enjoying it like before. He was even sitting with his legs crossed, flicking his beard with his fingers.

“Strange… it’s strange. There’s something strange.”

Wei Zong muttered, but that wasn’t particularly important to the poison sect leaders.

In any case, Wei Zong had promised to give Moon Flower Tower to whoever caught Jin Ja-gang.

“Valley Master! Now we’ll step forward too!”

As the warriors became ineffective, the poison sect leaders gradually stepped forward.

Most of the leaders had brought one or two elder-level members from their own sects. The leaders and elders of each sect exchanged glances with each other.

They had to catch the limping one before the other poison sects!

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Wei Zong grabbed the empty wine bottle upside down.

Then…

He struck down on Jin Ja-gang’s head, who was kneeling, with the bottle held upside down.

Crash!

The bottle shattered and broke.

Jin Ja-gang staggered while still kneeling.

Only then did Wei Zong stop smiling and smirked.

“Insolent b*st*rd.”

But Jin Ja-gang still hadn’t stopped smiling. Blood flowed from his forehead as he glared at Wei Zong, but his mouth was still smiling.

Jin Ja-gang slowly stood up. As if making a toast, he lifted the cup with blood droplets floating in it and drank it down in one gulp.

Then he threw the cup to the floor, shattering it.

Crash!

The watching warriors and poison sect leaders clicked their tongues.

“That, that b*st*rd…!”

Wei Zong’s killing intent soared to the heavens, his eyes turning blood red.

“What is… your name?”

His teeth were bared, making his pronunciation lisp through his teeth.

“Jin Ja-gang.”

Jin Ja-gang also stopped smiling now and glared at Wei Zong.

“Is your purpose to kill me?”

Jin Ja-gang corrected him.

“To be precise, it’s to kill you and everyone else.”

“Oh ho!”

Wei Zong suddenly raised both arms and shouted.

“Everyone, did you hear that? This b*st*rd seems to be the one we’ve been looking for!”

At those words, the warriors who had been surrounding them from a distance came closer, tightening the encirclement with swords and spears.

Jin Ja-gang looked up at the sky once, then looked back at Wei Zong.

Wei Zong looked at Jin Ja-gang and asked.

“I’m very curious about who you are and what your intentions were in attacking the poison sects.”

Jin Ja-gang answered. No, he tried to answer.

“I am from the Medicine Sect…”

But Wei Zong cut off those words.

“You’re looking down on me, aren’t you? Well, that’s why you had the guts to enter this valley.”

“What do you mean?”

“I’m not the type to listen to such talk while leaving the speaker standing upright.”

Wei Zong narrowed his eyes and smiled.

Jin Ja-gang put strength into his eyes.

This opponent is different from all the previous ones!

All his previous opponents had been curious about Jin Ja-gang’s identity. Thanks to that, they had been impatient and somewhat psychologically cornered. That’s why Jin Ja-gang had always been able to maintain psychological superiority.

But Wei Zong didn’t seem to have such intentions.

“Before seeing you, I was uncertain, but seeing you directly, you’re definitely not someone with outstanding martial arts. Yet Iron Umbrella Sect’s leader died from extreme poisoning? Kang Gyu was a friend who was meticulous and suspicious about everything. What could be the reason for that?”

Wei Zong tapped his own head.

“You’re someone who uses his brain, aren’t you? And to a degree that’s difficult for others to imagine.”

Wei Zong’s words were not wrong.

Jin Ja-gang just looked at Wei Zong without saying anything. Wei Zong smiled and said.

“The rule is not to engage in long conversations with such people. Even if you do talk, you should break all their limbs first and lay them face down on the ground. If you didn’t know that, learn it from this opportunity.”

Jin Ja-gang nodded.

“I’ll gratefully accept that advice.”

“You’re a polite fellow.”

Wei Zong laughed heartily.

Then he turned around and headed inside the main hall!

He couldn’t let him get away like this!

Jin Ja-gang breathed in and drew energy through his Baihui point. He circulated the energy within his body to create a handful of internal energy, then transmitted the internal energy to his fingertips.

The practice of hidden weapon techniques in his spare time had paid off. The time it took to reach into his sleeve, draw out needles, and throw two needles was faster than the blink of an eye.

Swish!

The hidden weapon technique of Bosam Gate, Flying Thread Twelve Branches!

Moreover, the needles were already coated with Four Emperor Divine Water. Even a graze would kill Wei Zong!

Two long needles flew toward Wei Zong’s back.

But Wei Zong, as if he had already anticipated this, flipped his body like lightning and leaped into the air.

Flutter!

The long needles Jin Ja-gang threw were caught in Wei Zong’s fluttering sleeve. When Wei Zong shook his sleeve, the needles flew back in the opposite direction.

Swish swish swish!

The needles flew past Jin Ja-gang to both sides.

“Ugh!”

Screams came from behind Jin Ja-gang.

Two of the workers had been hit by Jin Ja-gang’s needles.

Ordinary people couldn’t survive being hit by Four Emperor Divine Water, the extreme poison that Shadow Bureau was proud of.

They soon vomited blood and died.

Jin Ja-gang glared at Wei Zong in great anger.

Wei Zong had already gone to the platform at the end of the main hall and sat in a prepared chair, then pretended to be surprised.

“What a powerful poison! That must be the poison that sent Kang Gyu to his grave!”

Wei Zong raised his hand and pointed at Jin Ja-gang.

“Let’s play the game I mentioned earlier. I’ll give Moon Flower Tower to whoever catches him first!”

He also spoke to the hundred or so warriors positioned outside the main hall.

“I’ll give you all a chance too. Isn’t this an opportunity to become a tower master and change your fate!”

Poison Valley’s Moon Flower Tower was a famous wine house throughout all of Yunnan.

Not only the tower’s massive income, but they could become the owner who commanded all the beauties of Moon Flower Tower!

The warriors’ eyes went wild.

Didn’t Wei Zong just say that his martial arts weren’t particularly impressive!

Since Jin Ja-gang was standing outside the main hall, the warriors had the advantage.

The warriors rushed toward Jin Ja-gang.

“Hiyaaaaa!”

Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth and turned around.

A thin warrior, blinded by dreams of becoming a tower master, was stabbing at Jin Ja-gang’s back with a spear.

“Kuk!”

Jin Ja-gang twisted his body, grabbed the spear, and pressed it downward. The warrior staggered and fell forward due to his charging momentum. Jin Ja-gang stepped on the spear shaft to break it and grabbed half of the broken spear.

He thrust the spear blade into the area where the warrior’s neck and back connected, into the spinal cord.

“Gerk!”

The warrior let out a stifled breath and convulsed. It was instant death.

“Die!”

Another warrior slashed at Jin Ja-gang’s leg with a sword. Though he said “die,” he didn’t attack with enough force to actually kill.

Because he knew Wei Zong had said earlier that he wanted to capture and interrogate him.

Thanks to this, Jin Ja-gang had a bit of breathing room.

He pulled his foot back to avoid the sword and squeezed out Four Emperor Divine Water from his dantian. There wasn’t much Four Emperor Divine Water left. His little finger swelled up. Jin Ja-gang bit and tore the tip of his little finger with his teeth and applied the poison to the tip of the spear blade.

Then he rolled on the ground and stabbed the sword-wielding warrior’s foot.

“Argh!”

The sword-wielding warrior grabbed his foot and hopped around. Meanwhile, several other warriors thrust swords and spears at Jin Ja-gang as he rolled on the ground.

Clang clang clang!… Every time Jin Ja-gang rolled on the ground, swords and spears followed behind him, sending up sparks.

While rolling, Jin Ja-gang stabbed and slashed at the warriors’ shins. Several warriors bled from their legs. However, the warriors who had briefly retreated felt dizzy and sat down.

“Ugh!”

“Urgh!”

Just from being scratched or grazed, they were poisoned by Four Emperor Divine Water and foamed blood at their mouths.

Seeing their comrades die so helplessly, some fear crept into the warriors’ eyes. Their offensive against Jin Ja-gang became somewhat slack.

In that time, Jin Ja-gang barely caught his breath.

He created another handful of internal energy and used footwork.

The spears the warriors thrust grazed Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder and side. Jin Ja-gang’s body swayed. Jin Ja-gang seemed about to fall sideways, then spun around.

In an instant, Jin Ja-gang had moved behind the warrior who thrust the spear.

“Huh?”

By the time the warrior sensed danger and turned his head, Jin Ja-gang had already thrust the broken spear into the warrior’s side.

The warrior let out a pitiful scream and staggered while holding the spear shaft stuck in his side. Since he didn’t die immediately, it seemed the poison applied to the spear blade had already been exhausted.

Jin Ja-gang pulled out the spear and stabbed the side several more times.

Thud thud!

Only after the spear blade had penetrated a full span did the warrior’s movements stop.

Jin Ja-gang moved sideways to obtain a weapon and saw a warrior’s punch coming at him. It was too close to dodge.

Jin Ja-gang instead rammed his head into the warrior’s fist.

Crack!

There was a sound of bones breaking from the warrior’s fist that struck precisely between Jin Ja-gang’s forehead and crown.

“Aaaaagh!”

Jin Ja-gang was also shocked and saw stars, but he grabbed the warrior’s shoulders and kicked up at his groin with his knee.

Crunch.

The warrior couldn’t even scream and his eyes rolled back.

Meanwhile, Jin Ja-gang was kicked in the lower back.

“Kup!”

As he was pushed sideways and tumbled, he felt the wind of a blade. Jin Ja-gang raised his arm.

Scrape!

The sword scraped along Jin Ja-gang’s forearm. Fortunately, he had wrapped a leather band around it and stuck needles densely in it, so he wasn’t cut by the sword. Jin Ja-gang reached into his chest and pulled out a bamboo tube the size of a finger joint. He bit off the tube’s stopper with his teeth and sprayed it at the warrior who had attacked him.

“Cough cough cough!”

The warrior hit by the poison powder squeezed his eyes shut and wildly swung his sword. Jin Ja-gang rushed into the warrior’s embrace and tripped him. As the warrior fell backward, Jin Ja-gang placed one hand on the warrior’s face and put his weight on it. Jin Ja-gang and the warrior fell together.

Crash!

The force of both their body weights was applied directly to the warrior’s head. The warrior’s nose, pressed by Jin Ja-gang’s palm, was crushed, and his skull cracked when it hit the ground, splattering brain matter.

His vision somewhat recovered. As soon as it recovered, he saw a long shadow approaching. Jin Ja-gang rolled his body to the side.

Thud!

A spear was stuck in the ground.

Jin Ja-gang rolled and then sat up, supporting himself on his knee against the ground. The warrior who had thrust the spear was right in front of him. Jin Ja-gang sprayed the remaining poison from the bamboo tube while blowing it at the warrior’s face.

Puff!

“Aaaaah!”

The warrior staggered while shedding tears. Jin Ja-gang stood up abruptly and struck the warrior’s nape with a hand blade infused with internal energy.

Snap!

There was a sound of something breaking from the precisely struck throat. The warrior’s face turned purple as he foamed blood.

Slash! Jin Ja-gang’s leg was cut and blood spurted. He had been hit by a sword from behind.

Unfortunately, it was his right thigh, not his left leg. It was his good leg. It was the side that bore more of his body weight compared to his limping leg. The flesh was split open, revealing the inside.

This seriously hindered his ability to walk and support himself with his right foot.

“I got him, I got him!”

The warrior who had cut Jin Ja-gang’s leg seemed to want recognition for his achievement, or perhaps he was so happy that he momentarily lost his mind, raising both arms and looking toward the main hall. Jin Ja-gang picked up a spear from the ground and thrust it with all his might toward the back of the warrior’s neck.

The spear pierced through from the back of the warrior’s neck and protruded from his mouth. The warrior slowly collapsed with his eyes bulging and both arms raised.

The poison sect leaders watching from the main hall frowned at this scene.

What on earth was Wei Zong thinking, wearing down the warriors like this?

But Wei Zong seemed to be thinking about something, making it difficult to approach him. He didn’t seem to be enjoying it like before. He was even sitting with his legs crossed, flicking his beard with his fingers.

“Strange… it’s strange. There’s something strange.”

Wei Zong muttered, but that wasn’t particularly important to the poison sect leaders.

In any case, Wei Zong had promised to give Moon Flower Tower to whoever caught Jin Ja-gang.

“Valley Master! Now we’ll step forward too!”

As the warriors became ineffective, the poison sect leaders gradually stepped forward.

Most of the leaders had brought one or two elder-level members from their own sects. The leaders and elders of each sect exchanged glances with each other.

They had to catch the limping one before the other poison sects!

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