ATPnovel Chapter 255 : Jaseung, Rests
Chapter 255 : Jaseung, Rests
“The Asura Three Demons are dead.”Yao Hong snapped his eyes open at the sudden emergency report. The chilling demonic energy radiating from his body made the Demonic Humans present cower.
There were seven Demonic Humans serving him. The Sword God was closest, and the Ghost Soldiers were on the opposite side. The remaining person was Sa Nogun, who had volunteered for the role of tactician.
Sa Nogun asked on behalf of Yao Hong.
“By whose hand? Was it the Captain of the Divine Sword Regiment or the Captain of the Iron Cavalry Regiment?”
A voice answered from the air.
“No. It has been confirmed that they were in different locations at that time.”
“Even though those two were absent, the Three Demons failed?”
“It seems they were defeated by Baek Seolyoung.”
“Baek Seolyoung?”
“She is Lee Jaseung's wife.”
“The Three Demons were all defeated by a single woman?”
“That is not exactly the case, but it is certain they were defeated under her command.”
Sa Nogun looked at Yao Hong.
Until then, Yao Hong, who had shown no reaction as if the sacrifice of the Asura Three Demons was nothing, finally spoke.
“So they are not a tiger and a fox, but a Heavenly Dragon and a Phoenix?”
Despite the situation where a burst of rage might erupt, he was calm. Since coming down the mountain, things had not been going well, but his heart was actually fluttering.
He recalled the time long ago when he plotted one conspiracy after another to swallow the Heavenly Demon Sect.
It was this difficult back then, too. Things kept getting twisted and entangled, and unexpected variables followed one after another.
But he solved them one by one. He showed a smile when he wanted to explode in a mad rage, and he crushed and killed opponents he could have just passed by with a laugh.
He navigated the Jianghu with his own judgment and standards.
It would be the same this time as well.
Because no one would be able to stop him.
At that moment, five men stepped forward.
“Please send us. We will deal with those bastards all at once and return.”
They were the Ghost Soldiers. They were certainly individuals whose martial arts were superior to the Asura Three Demons. In terms of wickedness, they were the most notorious villains in the Demonic Cult.
Yao Hong had no intention of sending them.
“There is no need to use our own strength yet.”
The voice then guessed Yao Hong's intention.
“I will immediately send word to the Dark Noble Clan.”
Yao Hong gave a satisfied smile at the quick witted subordinate's reply.
“Kill the tactician bastard, and bring the woman before me.”
* * *
At the same time, Cheon Myeongin was dreaming.
It was a happy dream.
Having unified the Jianghu, he stood atop a massive castle looking down.
Tens of thousands of warriors were prostrate below. They looked like ants.
The Absolute.
He, who held the power of life and death over everyone in the world, was truly a Heavenly God.
Cheon Myeongin was overjoyed. Truly, he had never felt such an overwhelming heart since birth.
It was a life lived only for this day.
The past years of creating a secret organization to manipulate the Alliance Leader and accumulating power to grow his influence flashed by like a kaleidoscope.
‘If only Mountain had not betrayed me, I would have stood in this position much sooner...’
The time when Mountain betrayed him suddenly came to mind.
The time when he was pushed out of power.
Those miserable moments when he lay on a bed after being poisoned.
‘How did I overcome all those obstacles?’
Then a single face came to mind.
It was the face of Lee Jaseung.
‘Right, Lee Jaseung. That bastard gave me medicine. The medicine I had to take once a month so he could manipulate me. What a cowardly bastard.’
After overcoming such difficulties, I am in this position and...
‘What happened next?’
He could not remember. There must have been decisive moments to reach this position. The touching moments of dealing with Lee Jaseung and Yao Hong.
But not a single thing came to mind. It was as if he had skipped all those moments and stood in this position directly.
Emerging from his thoughts, Cheon Myeongin was startled.
The people who had been bowing their heads below all raised their faces and were looking up at him.
Their expressions contained no respect or fear. The emotion they revealed was clearly mockery.
‘How dare these bastards! Do you all wish to die!’
Cheon Myeongin glared at them and let out a shout. The words only circled in his head; his voice did not come out.
In the next moment, fear appeared on the people's faces. They all bowed their heads at once.
‘Hahaha, that's more like it.’
Cheon Myeongin gave a satisfied laugh. But he soon felt that the flow was somewhat unnatural.
A chilling sense of terror felt from behind.
Cheon Myeongin slowly turned around.
In the next moment, Cheon Myeongin snapped his eyes open.
Something black and massive was looking down at him.
The moment he made eye contact with those slit eyes.
“Aaaaaagh!”
Cheon Myeongin woke up from his sleep screaming.
Only then did he realize he had been having a nightmare. His entire body was drenched in sweat.
“Huff, huff.”
Cheon Myeongin let out a sigh. He recalled that black thing he saw before waking up. He could not remember anything else, but those eyes were vivid. Truly, just thinking about it made his spine turn cold.
“...What on earth was that?”
* * *
Rumbleeee.
A carriage was racing along the official road.
The people in the carriage were Lee Jaseung and Gwangdu. Gwangdu was in a state of sleep after having his pressure points suppressed.
Lee Jaseung was looking into his own body with his eyes closed.
It was still a body weakened with a tightly blocked Dantian.
Now, regardless of inner Qi, he had become able to explode strength by imbuing it with a sliver of his mind.
It was still a meager strength. It was a strength that would only work for a surprise attack, and even that would not work if he met a real expert.
He had to somehow remove the membrane that blocked his Dantian and muscles.
As he looked into his body like that, a thought suddenly occurred to him.
The thought that he had not looked into his body properly until now.
Of course, he had worked incredibly hard until now. training, practicing, and training again without fail. Of course, that practice included meditation.
But it was literally time for his heart method practice. It was nothing more than habitually checking his Dantian and blood vessels. Even that was something he did in an unconscious state.
There was never a time he looked into his body unrelated to heart method practice like this... not in the past.
The time he was imprisoned in the martial arts academy was the first, and this was the second. Even the first time, he was too frantic, so this could be called the first time he looked at it calmly.
For the past few days, Lee Jaseung was able to look into his body calmly with a relaxed mind.
Furthermore, as his realm of martial arts rose, there was also a change in his perspective on looking at the body. As the saying goes that a person sees as much as they know, martial arts are the same. There is something that becomes visible according to one's skill.
Lee Jaseung became more and more relaxed. He did not focus only on checking his body. He recalled things from his childhood and reminisced about his first meetings with Baek Seolyoung and his subordinates.
Eventually, he even stopped his peaceful observation and took a deep rest. It was a rest for the first time in a very long time.
The carriage, which had been running without rest while only changing the coachman and horses, finally slowed down and stopped.
A familiar voice heard from outside.
“It is Ma Young-gi.”
When the carriage door opened, Ma Young-gi stood there with a face mixed with worry and emotion.
“Are you alright?”
After escaping the martial arts academy, Lee Jaseung stopped at the nearest Black Way Alliance branch to send a message to Dan Woobin and then returned by carriage.
Dan Woobin, who received the message, had sent Ma Young-gi to meet him.
“I am fine.”
“I will drive the carriage from now on.”
Ma Young-gi sat in the driver's seat after sending the coachman back.
“And we have moved our headquarters to another location.”
“Did something happen?”
Ma Young-gi briefly told the story of the Asura Three Demons' intrusion.
“The Great Lady saved Strategist Dan and Captain Mook.”
Lee Jaseung was startled.
Ma Young-gi nodded once with a serious expression as if it were not a joke.
“In the process, the Great Lady even used Sword Kinesis.”
Lee Jaseung was startled again.
“Already?”
“Yes. It is such a shame I could not see it personally.”
It was the same for Lee Jaseung.
A smile naturally formed on Lee Jaseung's lips. He wanted to see her soon.
* * *
Baek Seolyoung was having a nightmare.
She was being chased by the Asura Three Demons. The Demons created by Strange Demon pursued her. No matter how much she cut them, the beasts swarmed endlessly.
Especially when she saw those dangling things of the male beasts, she felt so chilled that she got goosebumps.
She ran and ran.
She did not know where to go. She just ran blindly.
She could not exert Sword Kinesis in the dream.
In her heart, she wanted to fly her sword and skewer them all, but let alone Sword Kinesis, she was in a situation where she had even lost the sword she was wearing somewhere.
A storm like wind whirled and shook her. It was the wind created by Wind Demon, who died from Mook Young's surprise attack. As if it were a shame he died without showing his skill, he was whipping up a mad wind in the dream.
Caught in the wind, her body crashed here and there. Her limbs were torn.
Splash.
The wind threw her into the water. An immense water pressure was felt. She struggled to rise to the surface, but she only flailed her limbs.
The moment she saw Water Demon laughing unpleasantly in the distance, water poured into her mouth.
In the next moment, she woke up from her sleep.
“Huff, huff, huff.”
She exhaled roughly on the bed.
As she lay there for a moment looking up at the night sky through the window, her mind stabilized.
Suddenly, the sword standing next to the bed caught her eye.
Seeing the sword she had lost in the dream, her mind felt stable for some reason.
She could not believe the fact that that sword had exerted Sword Kinesis.
She thought it would be nice if the sword could talk.
She wanted to tell it thank you so much for that day. And... that she looks forward to its help in the future.
She closed her eyes to try to go back to sleep.
It was then. As if it knew her heart well, the sword hummed lowly.
Zing.