Chapter 2: To Take the Heavenly Demon by Force (1)
Chapter 2: To Take the Heavenly Demon by Force (1)
Even within the vast Central Plains, Sichuan was a region with many mountainous areas. Among them, Ganluo lay in southern Sichuan Province, its terrain crowded with large and small peaks that rose one after another like shoots after rain.
A martial artist with quick feet might find the place a little troublesome, but ordinary people who had settled there rarely left, no matter what.
There was a village in the rugged mountains so remote that people had trouble finding their way there at all.
It was a backwater among backwaters, a village that even merchant caravans seldom visited. Not counting the children, it had fewer than fifty residents, and most of them made their living through farming.
In a mountain valley not far from one of those rural villages, a man was waiting for something.
"Shit. Seriously... that was a long stretch of time I wanted to skip."
He was the man who had once possessed Namgung Gang-o.
He had possessed the body of a young child, but by now he had grown into a strapping adult. Naming himself Geum Tae-yang, he had followed his original plan, cultivating the Thunder Heaven Divine Art and monopolizing every Fortuitous Encounter he could find.
The talent the author had certified as the greatest in all history had made him grow at a rapid pace. It was no joke.
That was Namgung Gang-o's talent—the kind that had made him the Number One Under Heaven in the original story, even though he hadn't begun properly learning martial arts until he came of age at twenty.
Though he had that same talent, Geum Tae-yang had been cultivating the Thunder Heaven Divine Art on his own ever since he was fifteen. Thanks to that, he had advanced far faster than the original story's timeline.
Once he had broken through the barriers between realms and grown strong enough to consider himself worthy of the title Number One Under Heaven, he began, at some point, to set out on his Lust Demon exploits, just as he had originally intended.
He had fucked all kinds of women, from the wives of leaders of small and medium-sized sects to their daughters.
How else would the Murim Alliance have given him the title Thousand-Faced Lust Demon and declared him a public enemy of the murim? They had even put a bounty on his head, and once, while he was out indulging in his lecherous pursuits, he had been caught in a dragnet and gone through hell.
It had been a real fucking ordeal, but Geum Tae-yang had never regretted those exploits.
Thanks to them, he had mastered all kinds of Sexual Arts and built up such skill that he could confidently call himself the greatest in all history even when it came to swinging his dick.
After that, he set off once more in search of Fortuitous Encounters.
I can't accept the reality that my wives are a bunch of weaklings.
So he gathered up every divine weapon and legendary Spirit Medicine he could get his hands on.
No matter which woman he made his wife, if she had plenty of internal energy and a good weapon, she ought to be better than average, right?
Thanks to that, he had made thorough preparations for the Mysterious Sect that would serve as the foundation for his future plans.
All I need now are wives who'll take my dick.
And the woman chosen to be Geum Tae-yang's glorious first wife was the beauty emerging over there, parting the waterfall's rushing waters.
A martial artist who would become the Heavenly Demon in the future.
"Hm? Who are you?"
She was Chi-chi, a woman with the Heavenly Killing Star within her.
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Chi-chi was a descendant of the First Heavenly Demon. After nearly wiping out Kunlun in the First War Between Righteous and Demonic Factions, the First Heavenly Demon had crossed into Sichuan. He had wandered all over the place, spreading his seed wherever he went.
It was hardly strange that a man like the Heavenly Demon had been so unrestrained with his lower half.
The Ten Demon Commanders had been created by the cultists who treated the First Heavenly Demon as a Living Deity, hoping to preserve even a little of his legacy. It was no coincidence that the Ten Demons who upheld the Heavenly Demon Cult included a Lust Demon.
And although the First Heavenly Demon had won his life-or-death duel, he had lost the War Between Righteous and Demonic Factions and decided to return to Xinjiang. Before doing so, he had left Fortuitous Encounters behind in every region he had visited, worried about his descendants.
There were Fortuitous Encounters that included the Heavenly Demon Divine Art—which only the Cult Leader could learn—as well as the divine weapons and Spirit Medicines that went with it, though they came with certain conditions. What was more, they only responded to the First Heavenly Demon's bloodline, so there was no risk of them being plundered.
Anyway, among those descendants, Chi-chi was a woman who would rise to a level beyond even the direct line of the Heavenly Demon Cult's Cult Leader.
The destiny of the Heavenly Killing Star helped her perfectly absorb the most powerful Fortuitous Encounter left behind by the First Heavenly Demon. Just like that, she would go to Xinjiang, take control of the Heavenly Demon Cult, and invade the Central Plains as the Heavenly Demon about five years later.
Then she would lose for the first time in a duel to the protagonist, fall in love with him on the spot, and get put through the redemption machine.
In the first place, since it was a smut novel to begin with, all it took to redeem her was a few well-written, trashy sex scenes.
Anyway, I wasn't going to walk the path of a hero. I was going to walk the path of a Lust Demon.
There'll be no consensual sex.
I was going to rape her and train her into submission.
"Nice to meet you, my first cocksleeve."
"What?"
"Today's the day you're chosen to be this body's cocksleeve. Since you're the first, consider it an honor."
"...So you're a lunatic."
Chi-chi glared at me with a fierce gaze, her murderous intent rising.
She took a step, then shot forward like a lightning bolt, appearing right in front of me.
In her hands she held a thick, long, pitch-black spear. The Demonic Spear, wreathed in a menacing aura, surged toward me with a shriek like a ghost's howl, as though it meant to bring about my death.
Watching the Demonic Spear swing with enough power to slice through rock as easily as tofu, I summoned lightning in both hands.
Clang!
Before the spearhead could touch my neck, I punched the shaft upward and knocked it aside. The problem was, even though I had merely deflected it, the pain throbbing through my fist made my brows draw together.
'My Diamond Indestructible Body can even withstand Sword Energy Projection... and it hurts just from knocking aside the shaft of a casually swung spear?'
Was the Heavenly Demon truly the Heavenly Demon, after all?
Chi-chi was still no more than a baby Heavenly Demon, but her Heavenly Demon Divine Art could not be taken lightly. And the Heavenless Divine Might Spear, its perfect partner, was a ludicrous martial art no less formidable than the Heavenly Demon Sword Art used by the leaders of the Demonic Cult.
Whoosh.
With the Heaven and Earth Grand Shift, she caught the recoil from my deflection and sent it right back at me. The butt of the Demonic Spear went for my crotch. Its force was heavier even than what she had put into the spearhead a moment ago.
The terrifying thing about the Heavenless Divine Might Spear was that, by applying the Heaven and Earth Grand Shift of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, the more she attacked, the greater its power became.
Unless I matched her head-on and nullified that force, or she stopped her relentless assault and took a rest, I would lose if things continued like this.
'First, I'll break her rhythm.'
Using Thunder Flow Steps, which applied electromagnetic force, I moved backward as though I were being pulled away, opening up the distance between us.
So that the momentum would not break, she kicked off as if throwing her whole body forward. Her body spun, and the spearhead of the Demonic Spear, spinning faster still, shot toward me like an arrow.
Whoooom—
Perhaps she meant to prevent me from knocking the shaft aside altogether this time.
The ink-dark Qi Wave coiling around the Demonic Spear grew stronger, until the moment it touched me, it looked ready to tear my fist to shreds. But if she had miscalculated anything, it was that my Thunder Flow Steps were far faster than her footwork.
Before the spearhead could reach me, the distance between us widened even further, and her combination ended with a futile swing at empty air.
Frowning at how fast I could move, she gripped the Demonic Spear again and readied herself.
"I have no choice but to give you credit for your footwork. Could you be that Thousand-Faced Lust Demon?"
"Hm? You know me?"
"Tsk. How could I not?"
Chi-chi shot me a sidelong glance, her eyes filled with even deeper loathing, and spoke.
"Even before I entered this secret grotto, I heard a rumor that there was a Lecher who broke through the encircling net and escaped using nothing but his footwork. That footwork of yours now... Your speed alone is enough to impress even me, so it isn't hard to guess who you are. Though I didn't know that Thousand-Faced Lust Demon was a foreigner."
"I'm not a foreigner. I'm a pure-blooded Central Plains native. A side effect of the martial art I've cultivated is that my skin has tanned a little and my hair has changed color."
"...A Demonic Art?"
She committed the discourtesy of suspecting my divine art was a Demonic Art, then held her spear at an angle as she glared at me. The Demonic Spear's aura was so ominous that it seemed ready to strike at any moment.
I, too, summoned Lightning Qi to the utmost in my fists, prepared to respond at any time.
We faced off in a tense standoff that went on for quite a while.
"Tsk."
Chi-chi clicked her tongue.
"I can't see a single opening. Thousand-Faced Lust Demon, I know very well that you're a formidable martial artist, and not just because of your footwork. But to use that martial prowess for nothing more than womanizing... It's lamentable, as a martial artist."
"Hah. Thanks to my womanizing, you, who are going to become my cocksleeve, will get to experience paradise too. I don't see what there is to lament."
"......"
"Ah, are you lamenting that you couldn't take my virginity before becoming my cocksleeve? That's a very commendable way of thinking. I like it."
"It seems I'll have to sew that frivolous mouth of yours shut before you come to your senses."
Chi-chi glared at me with narrowed eyes, and her energy settled into place. Though she had no real combat experience, the Heavenly Killing Star was showing her the optimal path with only the few exchanges she had shared with me.
She was a woman with a terrifying fate, fit for a star that brought about bloodshed.
If I failed to defeat her here, then, just as in the original story, the Righteous-Demonic War would break out, and countless people would die.
And among them would surely be a woman I might get to fuck. As the Lust Demon, I had to stop it at all costs.
After all, a longer peace meant there would be more candidates for wives still alive!
"Hah!"
The fight began anew.
The spear she swung as she came running like the wind was like a typhoon wrapped in a whirlwind. Wielding violence like a natural disaster, she was nothing short of the very incarnation of calamity.
But that did not mean I was outmatched.
Rumble!
The lightning bursting from me was powerful enough that calling it a thunderbolt was no exaggeration.
If she was a typhoon that swept everything away, then I was thunder and lightning, shaking all creation.
The contest between the woman who would become the Heavenly Demon and the greatest Lecher under Heaven was only just beginning.
