RM-Bab 204

Chapter 204: You Guys Endure It.

When Geom Mugeok released Ilseon’s pressure points, money that wasn’t there before suddenly appeared.

“I forgot. I have some money saved up separately in the Continental Battlefield.”

“How much?” “About four hundred thousand nyang.”

“You saved up quite a bit, huh?” Ilseon also revealed the secret code for the Continental Battlefield.

Gowol took note of it as well.

Earlier, the funds from the Divine Immortal Treasury amounted to eight hundred thousand nyang, and Ilseon had separately saved up four hundred thousand nyang.

Combined, they had already obtained one million two hundred thousand nyang.

Then, Iseon blinked his eyes with an angry expression.

It was Iseon’s turn again.

“All this time, you only gave us fifty thousand nyang, while you alone pocketed four hundred thousand nyang?” Far from being apologetic, Ilseon looked like he wanted to argue back, but his pressure points were suppressed, so he couldn’t say anything.

“Ilseon has more assets. I know he bought gold and hid it.”

Ilseon couldn’t hide his shock.

It seemed he had intended to keep the gold a secret until the end.

When Iseon scored points using Ilseon’s gold, Ilseon blinked his eyes nervously.

The blinking war between the two had begun.

It was Ilseon’s turn again.

“I was going to mention the gold too. Please, consider my contribution!” “That won’t do. If you feel wronged, don’t forget to keep track of things properly. Who knows, the Second Divine Immortal might show off using your assets.”

Ilseon had completely given up on his assets.

He thought that as long as he survived, he could always make more money.

“I have some land saved up.”

“How much?” “Quite a bit.”

In truth, the whole thing had started to gather information rather than assets, but the two had misunderstood the situation.

From Geom Mugeok’s perspective, it was a fortunate turn of events.

Meanwhile, the more Ilseon’s assets were revealed, the greater Iseon’s sense of betrayal became.

“Brothers? You dog! You were eating it all by yourself.”

In truth, he thought it was possible to eat it all.

But what angered him was that Ilseon had done it without saying a word.

When it was Ilseon’s turn again, he retorted, “Don’t you know that even the fifty thousand nyang you earned was thanks to me? If it weren’t for me, you’d be dead in some gambling den right now. Ugh, spit!” Their relationship, once bound by loyalty, had crumbled in an instant.

And so, the two revealed all the assets of the deceased Third and Fourth Divine Immortals.

Their only thought was to survive by pleasing Geom Mugeok.

Iseon even harbored a desire for revenge, determined to kill Ilseon.

When there were no more assets to reveal, Geom Mugeok suppressed the two men’s pressure points, and they fell asleep.

Geom Mugeok said to Gowol, “Tomorrow morning, take these two and start recovering their assets from the battlefield.”

“Yes, understood.”

Until then, Geom Mugeok intended to keep them alive.

After all, Ilseon might have taught the battlefield’s secret code incorrectly.

Geom Mugeok made a request to the Fengtian Sect Leader.

“Please assist Gowol tomorrow.”

“Understood.”

The Fengtian Sect Leader nodded obediently.

“I thought you’d scold me a lot. But here you are, squeezing money out of these scoundrels.”

“Do you know how much Gowol and I suffer because of that squeezed money?” “I’m sorry.”

“I didn’t mean to boast. I just meant that the money from those scoundrels is being put to good use.”

With the funds from the Divine Immortal Treasury, it seemed that the task of organizing an intelligence network could be completed to some extent.

“I’ve heard all about those guys from Gowol. Why are you letting them sleep? Hang them upside down!” “Understood. When they wake up, I’ll start by pulling out their nails.”

Of course, it was a joke.

No matter how evil they were, death would be the end.

That was Geom Mugeok’s ironclad rule.

Not for their sake, but for his own.

After finishing his conversation with the Fengtian Sect Leader, Geom Mugeok approached Gwonma.

He seemed uninterested in the current affairs, simply gazing at the moon.

Geom Mugeok stood beside him and also looked up at the moon.

“Do you know what I realized during this trip? I’ve lived a life too obsessed with martial arts. I’ve spent my whole life training, my whole life fighting.”

Once, Geom Mugeok had said something similar to Ian.

He had told him not to live a life solely focused on training.

Now, Gwonma was experiencing that regret.

“I just realized something. This is the first time in so long that I’ve looked up at the moon. Does that make sense? In my entire life, I’ve never even seen the moon during the first watch.”

Geom Mugeok’s gaze also turned toward the moon.

“From now on, try to enjoy life a little.”

“I will.”

If Gwonma could keep that promise, if he could take a step back from martial arts… perhaps he could truly shatter the cliff.

After all, when life changes, so does martial arts.

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The next day, Gowol, along with the Fengtian Sect Leader, took Ilseon and Iseon to tour the battlefield.

The secret code they provided was accurate.

Not only did they recover the money, but they also found the hidden gold and other assets.

Ilseon had amassed this vast fortune in just a few years.

It meant there were many more victims.

Ilseon and Iseon tried their best to impress Gowol with all sorts of words, but Gowol didn’t respond to a single one.

Instead, it was the Fengtian Sect Leader who spoke to them.

Of course, the words he chose were unpleasant, like telling them they were going to the most painful hell or betting on which of them would survive.

So, they pretended not to hear.

Once most of the assets were sorted out, Geom Mugeok sat the two men down again.

“Now, let’s talk about the Master.”

Ilseon knew that his life depended on this answer. ‘I can’t tell everything! But I can’t show that I’m hiding anything either!’ That was the key.

The problem was that he didn’t know much about the Master. ‘How can I spin this to survive?’

Ilseon glanced at Iseon beside him.

He thought that since Iseon knew nothing about this, he could definitely score points here. ‘I can survive.

I’ve already contributed much more in assets, and if I provide information about the Master, I’ll live!’

Ilseon took a deep breath and spoke.

“I’ve only seen the Master once.”

“When?” “When I first made a deal with him.”

“Do you know who he is?” “No. There was a curtain between us, so I couldn’t see his face. But one thing was clear. Judging by his voice, he seemed like an older man.”

“So now we have to look for an older man. How many of those are there in this world?” At Geom Mugeok’s sarcasm, Ilseon panicked and quickly added, “The ones Gwonma killed yesterday were the Ghost Sword Eight. The Ghost Sword Eight wouldn’t move just for money, so the Master isn’t just someone with a lot of money. He must be the leader of a major sect or someone with great power.”

At that moment, Iseon blinked his eyes.

Ilseon quickly said, “No need to release his pressure points. He knows nothing about the Master.”

“What should we do then? Do you have better information?” At Geom Mugeok’s words, Iseon blinked even faster.

Geom Mugeok suppressed Ilseon’s pressure points and released Iseon’s.

Then, more than expected came out of Iseon’s mouth.

“I’ve actually spoken to him directly. Without a curtain.”

At this, Ilseon, whose pressure points were suppressed, blinked and tried to speak, letting out a groan.

It was a fierce signal that what Iseon was saying was all lies.

“Tell me in detail.”

“It was the same day Ilseon met him. I was waiting in the carriage at the manor’s courtyard for Ilseon to come out. Shortly after, the Master came out first. But as he got into the carriage, I saw him slightly bow his head to the coachman. It was clearly a gesture of respect.”

Ilseon was so frantic, groaning, that his pressure points were also released.

“That’s a lie! Why would the Master bow to a coachman?” “It’s true. I saw it clearly.”

With both men able to speak at the same time, it became noisy.

“You’re making this up. If that had happened, you would have told me then. Why didn’t you say anything?” “What are you talking about? You think I was fooled by a lowly servant? That the real Master was the coachman? What would you have done? You would have beaten me up, telling me not to talk nonsense. Right?” Ilseon couldn’t retort.

That was probably true.

“You bastard! Where did you learn to play these tricks? Do you want to live so cowardly?” “Cowardly? Where did that come from? From your dirty mind?” I gestured for Ilseon to be quiet and then said to Iseon, “Keep talking.”

“I even talked to the coachman while waiting. He was an ordinary man. He had a round, friendly face, and oh! He had a tattoo on his chest. I saw it when he bent over.”

“What kind of tattoo?” “A golden pig tattoo. It was so strange to see a pig tattooed on a person that I still remember it vividly!” Thinking he had provided some important information, Ilseon stepped forward.

“This guy is a liar. Don’t believe him. He’s just trying to survive…”

Thud!

Ilseon, who was in front of Iseon, disappeared.

With one strike, his face was shattered, and his body flew far away, becoming a corpse.

The shocked Iseon looked at me.

His shock soon turned to joy.

“I survived!” He was overjoyed.

“It seems that guy was the worse one. It’s only right that you die later.”

For a moment, Iseon was startled.

Dying later meant dying of old age, right? But no.

The cold look in Geom Mugeok’s eyes told him otherwise.

“Spare me!” “From the beginning, you four were doomed. Be satisfied with a clean death.”

“Keep your promise! You dog! Who are you? Who are you…”

Thud!

Iseon flew to where Ilseon was and met his end.

Geom Mugeok didn’t hesitate for a moment in eliminating them.

He didn’t hope for their redemption, nor did he give them the grand meaning of dying as a disciple of the Demon Sect.

When he turned around, Gwonma was walking toward him.

“You weren’t planning to dig up the masterminds, were you?” “That’s right.”

“But is it okay to kill them all?” “I’ve found out who’s behind them.”

A round figure, a golden pig tattoo on his chest.

Someone I knew well before my regression.

Sometimes a coachman, sometimes a laborer at construction sites, sometimes a tavern owner.

He enjoyed hiding his identity.

At the same time, he was an extremely greedy person.

“To kill him, I need my father’s permission.”

At Geom Mugeok’s words, Gwonma was startled.

“Who is it?” A name came from Geom Mugeok’s lips.

“Ji Saeng (池生).”

Gwonma immediately thought of someone.

“No way? The Golden Pig of the Demon Alliance?” “Yes. That’s him.”

“He’s behind this?” Gwonma’s expression hardened.

It wasn’t because the opponent was Ji Saeng.

It wasn’t because he was a member of the Demon Alliance.

It was because Ji Saeng was the loyal servant of one man.

The leader of the Demon Alliance’s most elite unit, the Extreme Corps, who only took orders from the Demon Alliance Leader.

The second-in-command of the Demon Alliance, Yayul Han (耶律韓).

Ji Saeng was one of Yayul Han’s four most trusted subordinates.

They had sworn loyalty and each had a tattoo on their chest.

Ji Saeng had a golden pig tattoo, vowing to earn endless wealth for his master.

“That money ultimately goes to Yayul Han.”

Geom Mugeok felt that fate had guided him.

Not just because of this incident.

Yayul Han.

He was an enemy.

A man deeply connected to Geom Mugeok—the Demon Doctor.

The Demon Doctor had once performed a divine technique on Geom Mugeok and asked him to kill someone someday.

That person was Yayul Han.

Though he hadn’t mentioned the name directly, Geom Mugeok already knew.

Yayul Han had slaughtered the Demon Doctor’s family in front of him.

Since that day, the Demon Doctor had lived solely to kill Yayul Han.

When Geom Mugeok heard the request, he had vowed to act when he was strong enough.

Now, he felt the time had come.

Gwonma noticed that I wasn’t planning to give up.

“Yayul Han is off-limits!” “Why?” “If you mess with him, it could start a war.”

“There won’t be a war. There might be some chaos, though.”

“You’re serious.”

In the past, the Demon Doctor had asked my father to kill him, but my father had refused.

Yayul Han, who enjoyed the absolute trust of the Demon Alliance Leader, was more than just an evil man of the demonic path.

“I thought the mastermind behind this was the most despicable. Hiding in the shadows, using pawns like Ilseon to suck the lifeblood of young people until they died. In a few days, Ji Saeng will probably report that all the Divine Immortals are dead. Then, he’ll create new Divine Immortals and repeat the same thing. Even if Ji Saeng dies, another Ji Saeng will take his place.”

That’s exactly the kind of person he is.

The absolute evil in Geom Mugeok’s mind.

The kind of evil that even the righteous sects can’t touch, and ordinary people can’t even approach.

Once, my father had asked me what I thought the demonic path was.

I had answered: -I think it’s our sect’s unique belief in striking down absolute evil.

Catching the great evils that even the righteous sects can’t handle.

The demonic path should make those evils tremble.

That’s the Heavenly Demon Sect I want to create.

“Ordinary people would have to endure it. They’d have to bear it. But we’re not ordinary people, are we? We don’t have to endure it, do we? The reason I trained and worked so hard was so that I wouldn’t have to endure things like this. Why should we endure? They should endure. They should stop tormenting people and stop their nonsense.”

Gwonma silently stared at Geom Mugeok.

Geom Mugeok also silently looked back at him.

Gwonma, by nature, was the kind of person who would be most persuaded by this argument, but given his relationship with my father, he was also the least likely to be persuaded.

After a long silence, Gwonma announced the end of the journey.

“Let’s return to the sect. The leisurely trip ends here.”

The journey that had suddenly begun now ended just as suddenly.

But there was no disappointment.

Gwonma turned his large back and added something unexpected.

“To get the sect leader’s permission, all the Demon Lords will have to step forward.”