The Sex Demon Sovereign Step
From a distance, I ignored the suspicious glances being cast my way and scanned the area for a suitable spot. “That tree over there looks decent.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Tang Seorin’s face was flushed; she still hadn’t noticed the presences watching us. Roughly two hundred jang away, deep in the forest near the main road, stood an ancient tree whose trunk looked easily five hundred years old.
“Hup!”
- Rustle!
Unlike the crowded Jungwon region, Sichuan in this era still had plenty of towering trees left. If you piled leaves on one of these giants, laid a blanket over them, and covered the top with branches, you could make a quick shelter big enough for two people to sleep in.
By the time I finished preparing, the surroundings had already grown dark with evening.
“Hehe, this should be fine for tonight.”
While Tang Seorin climbed up to test how soft it was and lay down, I hit her with a surprise sleep spell.
‘Sleep!’
“Haaah… Why am I so sleepy… Zzz…”
Leaving the deeply sleeping girl behind, I climbed down the tree. The encirclement was closing in, torches lit, no longer bothering to hide their presence. Their numbers were roughly two hundred. Probably the same bandits who had come because of that Su-jin girl I let go last time.
Most of them were between first-rate and second-rate in internal energy, so if I ran alone I could escape without revealing my identity. But among them was a clear peak demon-level presence, so I couldn’t afford to relax. And with Tang Seorin’s safety to consider, I had to be extremely cautious.
- Step, step!
The encirclement tightened around the great tree. At the very front stood a bandit woman in her early thirties wearing a revealing leopard-print outfit that showed off her slim yet alluring figure. Exactly the kind of look you’d expect from a bandit.
If what Su-jin said before was true, this was the peak demon-level female bandit, the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen. Despite her youthful appearance, she had undergone bone-reformation upon reaching the Flower Realm and had lived breathing the clean mountain air, so she was probably in her early to mid-forties. Beside her was the very Su-jin I had released earlier.
‘With the two of them standing together like that, it looks like Su-jin sucked up all her mother’s nutrients.’
The distance between me and the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen was about seven jang. The other bandit women surrounded me at distances ranging from five jang close by to nearly ten jang farther out.
Once they had formed a decent encirclement, the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen shouted at me.
“You perverted bastard! We finally caught you! You think you can get away with doing that to our Su-jin and still keep breathing?!”
“Hngh, that idiot said he wasn’t her dad!? So that idiot really was Su-jin’s dad!?”
“Su-jin! I told you not to interrupt when Mommy’s working, didn’t I?”
- Thwack!
“Kyaa!”
They had gone to the trouble of surrounding me, yet they were busy having their own little family drama. Since the situation had turned ridiculous, I decided to pour some oil on the fire.
“Su-jin! Has it been two days already? Huh!? Su-jin! You said you were bringing your mom, so why’d you bring your big sister instead?”
“Hmph! She is my mom!”
“She looks that young and pretty?”
“Hiss, y-you perverted bastard, your tongue really is like a snake!”
At those words the bandit woman waved her hands in embarrassment, and Su-jin suddenly shouted.
“Hwaaang! You idiot! She really is my mom! And Mom, why aren’t you denying it!? That idiot really is Su-jin’s dad!?”
“Th-that’s not… Su-jin…!”
The peak demon female bandit was far too obvious about how much of a weakness Su-jin was to her. Su-jin didn’t seem stupid either, given her talent in martial arts, so I wondered if spoiling her this much was really a good idea. I decided to poke at that point.
“Su-jin, does that mean I can be your dad?”
“Heehee! You idiot! You made your daughter drink pee…”
“Hwaaaah! Su-jin! That kind of guy isn’t your dad! Get behind me— no, get all the way behind the encirclement!”
“Hiiing, okay…”
The Thousand Gold Bandit Queen forcibly cut off what Su-jin was about to say, sent her daughter to the rear, then pointed her blade at me and shouted.
“You bastard! Last night you hid behind the Tang family and saved your skin, but now that you’ve crawled out here, today is the day you die!”
“Hey now, can’t we talk this out…”
“Shut uuuup! Just die already!”
The Thousand Gold Bandit Queen screamed and began drawing up her internal energy as if she would slit my throat right then and there.
‘She’s not the type you can reason with.’
If she were, she wouldn’t be living as a bandit. Even at the peak demon level, she was still a bandit woman at heart.
- Guoooooh!
- Fwoooosh!
The bandit woman raised her energy and fired a bundle of sword qi at me.
“Hah! This much is nothing!”
“Eeeek! Die! Die already!”
- Fwoooosh! Fwoooosh!
When I dodged the sword qi bundles while taunting her, the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen flew into a rage and launched two even fiercer bundles of sword qi.
- Grab!
“Lemme borrow your back for a sec!”
“Kyaa!”
She must not have wanted to hurt her subordinates, because she hid behind them, causing the sword qi to dissipate harmlessly.
“Hmm, even a bandit woman has some camaraderie, I see.”
“H-how cowardly, hiding behind a woman to dodge!”
“Then is it okay for you to surround and attack me right now?”
“Sh-shut up, you bastard! Why is your tongue so long!? Save the chatter for the afterlife! I’ll crush you!”
- Fwoooooosh!
The Thousand Gold Bandit Queen wrapped her blade in sword qi and switched to close combat. The other bandits also began slowly closing in.
Since I had to seriously fight a peak demon expert, it was time to stop pretending to be a peak-level master.
- Guoooooh!
A fierce demonic energy surged from my dantian and gathered in my legs along the blood vessels.
If the first real opponent of ‘that wide-area technique’ was the peak demon Thousand Gold Bandit Queen, that would be more than enough to test its power.
‘Heavenly Demon Sovereign Step.’
To reduce any future grudges with the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen and her daughter, I suppressed my killing intent as much as possible and stomped the ground.
If the others were properly tense, the weaker ones would have their dantians shattered while the stronger ones would suffer severe internal injuries.
- Rumble rumble rumble!
With one stomp of my Heavenly Demon Sovereign Step, I would shatter the internal energy of nearly two hundred experts and make them all acknowledge my greatness.
“”Kyaaaaah♡“”
“?!?”
- Splurt splurt, splurt!
The forest shook not with screams but with moans from the bandit women, and even I was so shocked I nearly fell over. When I performed the Heavenly Demon Sovereign Step, the flow of internal energy normally travels from the lower dantian through the thighs and calves to the soles of the feet and into the ground. But because of the male anatomy—specifically the testicles located below the dantian—some of the energy passed near them and resonated with my sexual energy, turning the technique into an incredibly powerful sex art instead.
“Th-the Sex Demon Sovereign Step!”
Stunned by the miraculous sex art I had accidentally created, I looked around. Not only had the mediocre bandit women, who were at best just below peak level, collapsed while squirting, but even the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen, who had taken the full brunt of the unrestricted Sex Demon Sovereign Step at close range, was far from normal.
“Haaah♡ Y-you’re no ordinary pervert! Hwaaang♡”
- Thud!
The Thousand Gold Bandit Queen let out a cute moan completely unbecoming of her age and collapsed on the spot.
- Drip… drip…
The sound of her urinating broke the silence of the forest, making me feel dizzy instead.
“Hweehee, hngh♡”
- Splurt! Splurt!
Even Su-jin, who I thought would be safe because she had retreated from the encirclement, had fallen into a frog-like pose on the ground, staring up at the sky while spraying fluids from inside her chastity belt.
The forest, which should have been filled with the sounds of insects and birds and the scent of grass, was now filled only with intermittent moans from women, the sound of fluids squirting, and the unique fishy, lewd smell of female arousal.
“Good grief…”
I couldn’t exactly tie them all up and hand them over to the authorities myself, so I was thinking I should wake Tang Seorin and run somewhere when—
- Rustle!
From about two hundred jang away came the sound of someone stepping on leaves. Worried that more trouble might arrive, I quickly adjusted the level of energy I was emitting back to mid-peak level and erased all traces of demonic and sexual energy from inside and outside my body.
- Tap tap tap tap!
Soon, accompanied by the sound of lightness skill, a woman appeared before me.
‘She surpasses peak level. She’s right at the threshold of super peak.’
She wore a simple white martial robe and had short hair that suited her well; she looked to be just under thirty, a highly skilled female martial artist.
“Wh-who are you!?”
I spoke to her while pretending to be startled by her sudden appearance.
“Amitabha. This humble nun is called Seon-a of the Emei Temple. I was passing through this area when I sensed an unusual demonic energy and rushed over.”
Emei Temple. It was one of the great temples on Mount Emei and a major orthodox sect that, together with Shaolin, represented the Buddhist factions among the Nine Great Sects. Unlike the Emei Sect I had known from wuxia novels in my first life, this Emei Temple was a proper Buddhist monastery where nuns trained in martial arts, just as Shaolin trained monks. Calling them the Emei Sect apparently carried a somewhat derogatory nuance.
I gave her a slightly fabricated account of what had happened while clasping my hands together.
“Ahem, it seems I used my sect’s secret art to fend off those bandits who tried to ambush me under cover of night, and it caused you some concern. My apologies.”
When I said “sect’s secret art,” the beautiful nun’s brow furrowed slightly as she looked at the collapsed bandit women, but it was probably just my imagination.
“It is nothing. Those bandits were likely trying to use some sinister demonic art on you, benefactor.”
“Hahaha, still, they’re all lying there unable to move thanks to my art, so it turned out to be a rather pointless effort on their part.”
“To achieve such a level with such pure internal energy at a young age is truly remarkable. If it is not too presumptuous, may this humble nun ask for your honorable name?”
“Ah, my apologies for the late introduction. I am Wang Geogeun, the current successor of the Thunder Gate. I was traveling the jianghu when…”
While giving a rough self-introduction, I watched the nun—who had longer hair than most nuns—and she placed her hand on the wrists of several bandit women to check their condition before shaking her head.
“Hmm, I can faintly sense demonic energy from them, and an even more sinister aura as well.”
‘Yeah, you won’t be able to track it unless you take my pants off anyway.’
While I was inwardly sneering at the way she was looking at me suspiciously, she suddenly made an absurd suggestion.
“Benefactor, I am sorry to ask, but would you be willing to come with me to Emei Temple?”
Although I had been planning to head toward Mount Emei anyway, the fact that she openly wanted to take me for investigation made me uneasy.
“Me? May I ask why, if it is not too rude?”
“From what this humble nun can see, the remnants left on those people alone carry a very dangerous energy. If any of that impure demonic energy has affected you, Emei Temple would be happy to purify it for you.”
‘That’s only because you’ve never seen sexual energy before, Sister…’
“Uh, w-well, I understand. In that case, I have a companion with me. Would it be all right if she came along as well?”
“A companion… you say?”
“Yes, my fiancée is sleeping up in the tree right now.”
When I climbed the tree with her and showed the unconscious Tang Seorin to the nun, she immediately grabbed Tang Seorin’s wrist to check her pulse.
“Hmm, there doesn’t seem to be any trace of demonic energy… and no signs of her acupoints being pressed either. Yet she sleeps so soundly even in this noisy situation.”
“She always sleeps this deeply. A tiger could carry her off and she wouldn’t notice. Hahaha!”
When I made a clumsy joke, the nun gave me a sidelong glance and spoke.
“Benefactor, this area seems dangerous with those bandits around, so we should move.”
“Hup! As you say.”
I carried the sleeping Tang Seorin in a princess carry and used the Thousand Pound Weight technique to descend from the tree in an instant.
“Ah, the lunchbox! Guess it can’t be helped.”
I remembered the lunchbox I had received from the Tang family, but with my hands full I had no choice but to leave it behind.
**
That same night.
The Thousand Gold Bandit Queen, who had the strongest martial arts among the fallen bandits, was only able to get up after two hours had passed.
- Rustle!
When she sensed movement on the nearby giant tree where the perverted bastard had been preparing to camp, she gathered her wits and shot toward it using the Bow Body Arrow Shadow technique.
“You bastaaard!”
- Crack!
“Kyaaaaah!”
The branch broke and both the figure inside and the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen tumbled down to the base of the tree.
“Ow ow ow…”
Unlike the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen who had protected herself with protective qi, the woman with the familiar voice was rubbing her bottom. That woman was none other than the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen’s daughter, Su-jin.
“Su-jin, what are you doing here?”
“Uung? I was eating! Food! Hweeeng! My fooood!”
The lunchbox had completely shattered from the fall, scattering its contents across the grass below the tree.
“Hwaaaang! My beef! My pork! I hate you, Mom! Hiiing!”
Even though her grown daughter—who was already in her mid-twenties—was throwing a tantrum like a child, the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen could only soothe her as if she were still a baby instead of scolding her.
The Thousand Gold Bandit Queen had become pregnant with Su-jin after a one-night mistake with an unknown man she met by chance on a merchant caravan journey in her early twenties. The man’s identity had been a complete lie, and by the time she realized it, he had already vanished without a trace. Even though her martial arts had already reached first-rate at the time, raising a child alone within the great merchant family she belonged to would have been difficult. In the end, she took all the money she had and ran away from home. With the help of an old woman from a nearby village, she gave birth to Su-jin in a small mountain hut.
The child had been the turning point that completely upended her life, so while she was pregnant she had sometimes resented it. But the moment she saw the baby after giving birth, she resolved to do anything for her.
Having left her family and spent all her money, the only thing left to her was her own martial prowess. She traveled across the Central Plains committing banditry while never neglecting to train her martial arts. Because she robbed merchant caravans so elusively, the caravans began to say in resignation that they had been “robbed by the Thousand Gold bandit woman,” and the nickname Thousand Gold Bandit stuck to her first. Her talent was outstanding, and after giving birth to Su-jin it was as if some blood vessel had opened; her martial arts improved by leaps and bounds. Now in her mid-forties, she had reached the peak demon realm and added the character for “King” to her nickname.
Even so, her unconditional love for her daughter had prevented the now-adult Su-jin from becoming a proper adult herself. Of course, that same Su-jin had become the Thousand Gold Bandit Queen’s fatal weakness.
‘Perverted bastard… I will definitely have my revenge someday.’
She equated the perverted man who had stolen her virginity long ago with the man who had done something terrible to Su-jin, and swore revenge.