Chapter 136
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 136
Chapter Title: The Mad Demon and the Lust Demon (1)
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Right after Geum Sihyeon hoisted Geum Siyu onto his back and hurriedly rushed to the Divine Doctor.
“Ugh…… Hnngh……”
Dang Narin sat slumped on the floor, half out of her mind.
Of course.
- Grgh, ah, miss…… If you get too close, it’s, dangerous……
- Pfft, it’s fine! You gonna die or something? Kids always grow up roughhousing like that! See? She’s perfectly fine, and she took your medicine too, right? That’s all that matters!
Naturally.
Dang Narin had already warned him about her constitution before.
The biggest fault lay with Geum Siyu, who had ignored it and rubbed against her wildly, ultimately turning his nose into mush.
“It won’t go wrong, right……? Surely nothing bad will happen……”
In the empty room with no one to hear, her fumbling mutter echoed hollowly as she tormented herself with needless guilt.
Around the time Dang Narin had dug herself into a pit at the end of the floor.
“……What’s this, Narin? What’re you doing?”
Dang Narin looked up.
Unlike his startled-sounding voice.
Geum Sihyeon wore a calmer expression than expected.
Dang Narin felt a tiny bit of the weight lift from her heart.
But guilt was guilt.
“Th-the, miss……?”
“What miss. You idiot. She’s fine, no issues at all. Were you sitting here worrying about her?”
“B-but……”
“Sniff.”
Was it because all the tension she’d built up suddenly released?
Tears she’d been forcibly holding back burst from Dang Narin’s eyes in an instant.
Due to her extremely agitated emotions.
Sizzle……
Her tears dripped onto the wooden floor, drop by drop, slowly eating away at the wood.
“Ah, ah, ah……”
Realizing this only amplified her burden, leaving Dang Narin frozen in place, not knowing what to do.
“Haa.”
Geum Sihyeon let out a sigh and strode toward her.
“Eek, ah……”?
Dang Narin instinctively shrank back and scooted away.
But soon.
Whoosh!
Geum Sihyeon yanked the slumped Dang Narin up, grabbed her face, and forced her to meet his eyes.
And then.
“It’s not your fault, miss. You clearly warned him, and Geum Siyu crossed the line. Thanks to the antidote, there won’t be any problems at all. I even asked Elder Dang Wuliang about the antidote, so it’ll only get better.”
“B-but……”
Geum Sihyeon sighed.
And then.
“Hiiyaak……?!”
Without any warning.
Geum Sihyeon buried his face in Dang Narin’s chest.
He took a deep breath.
Lifted his head to meet her eyes again.
“See? It’s fine.”
“Hya……?”
Dang Narin froze completely at Geum Sihyeon’s sudden action.
Yet even as her poison overflowed more strongly than usual due to her heightened emotions, seeing no change in his eyes.
Little by little.
Dang Narin began to calm down.
A moment later.
Finally, the tears stopped from Dang Narin’s eyes.
Of course.
Up to that point, Geum Sihyeon showed no signs of poisoning, which helped her calm even faster.
Geum Sihyeon breathed a sigh of relief.
“……My apologies for the impropriety. But I didn’t think you’d calm down otherwise……”
“N-no, it’s okay……”
Only then.
Realizing just how embarrassing their actions had been, Dang Narin’s cheeks flushed bright red.
“Well, then, I’ll be going……”
Geum Sihyeon flashed an awkward smile and quickly fled.
Left alone in the room once more.
Dang Narin began to feel a different kind of emotion, a different kind of sensation than before.
Nothing…… happened.
I just played the role of a one-day mental counselor.
And soothed a mentally fragile poison Pokémon.
According to Elder Dang Wuliang.
The poison human’s trait made her emotions dominate her like a demon.
So, I’d performed timely emergency treatment.
The treatment area…… was what it was.
But in that position, that angle was all there was.
This was purely selfless.
A rational display of medical philosophy as the Divine Doctor’s disciple.
“Damn right.”
For now……
I’d shelve those thoughts.
And organized the info I’d heard from the Divine Doctor in my head.
- Solitude basically stays dormant, but when it detects a violation of restrictions or such signals, it wakes and secretes venom that can kill the host. Killing it is simple, but doing so either kills the host too or the female along with it, so it’s obvious when Solitude’s been dealt with.
On top of that, the Divine Doctor had crammed all sorts of biological knowledge into me, concluding with this.
A drug that puts Solitude into permanent dormancy.
So even if restrictions are violated, or the female dies, the male can’t react, making it safe.
From then on, it’s just your personal little parasite in your body—name it something cute like a liquor bottle and raise it.
Murim biology was this terrifying.
“……You sure?”
Despite my kind explanation, Dang Mok looked skeptical.
“Positive.”
Well.
What can you do if it’s not?
Unfortunately, Mr. Dang Chunsik can no longer adventure with us at the Geumhyeon Sect…… that’s the ending.
Dang Mok eyed the pill in my hand suspiciously, then hardened his resolve and snatched it, tossing it into his mouth.
“Grgh……”
“I tried it too—it tastes pretty bad.”
Not just bad; purely by taste, it was like pouring Albothyl straight down your throat.
Whatever, I’d never have to eat it again.
Dang Mok, face twisted like a goblin, gulped down water frantically.
“Hm……”
He smacked his lips.
Still not fully convinced? I specially sharpened a finger acupuncture needle.
“The Azure Heaven Society…… is a group gathered under the banner of making the murim great again. ……Hoo.”
Finally, the Azure Heaven Society secrets he hadn’t uttered a word about started spilling out.
Trump, is that you?
If not for you, I…… I……!
“It’s really fine…… Now it’s fine……”
“Ah, sorry. Wasn’t trying to threaten you.”
Seeing my twisted expression, Dang Mok cowered and spilled info more politely.
As with all shady bastards.
The Azure Heaven Society was cell-structured.
He didn’t know the leader’s identity, nor did Nangong Baek.
“A very high-up elder in the orthodox faction…… At least on the level of a Nine Great Sects retired sect leader.”
“Gonna need a genealogy chart.”
“What’s that?”
“It’s a thing.”
Looks like I’d need to carry a palanquin into the final boss fight.
Or put Ttolbu-nim on the palanquin, have me do the movement technique while he swings the sword technique—perfect ultimate martial art of offense and defense united.
“Come to think of it, haven’t seen Nangong Baek lately.”
“I killed him.”
Dang Mok shuddered.
I extracted a few more bits after that.
But nothing too nutritious.
Well, Dang Mok was just a grunt, so par for the course.
Still, with the antidote’s effect proven, send him to the Tang Family and the family head would handle his imprisoned buddies.
“Anyway, glad you’re safe.”
“……Thanks.”
Dang Mok shot me a look like ‘You didn’t just use me as a guinea pig, right?’, but I grinned and brushed it off.
He wasn’t wrong.
Anyway, that wraps up the Azure Heaven Society for now.
Blood Cult’s left……
I wonder if the Mad Demon’s movements match my deductions.
My head was getting complicated.
All because of that Lust Demon bastard.
Should’ve just spat out the Cloud-Rain Lust Technique formula and died.
Despite the youngest son of the Geum clan’s fervent voodoo.
“Ah…… I wanna double-cultivate……”
In the underground prison of the Hundred Flowers Academy.
Yeon Hongun was still alive and well down there.
Well, more alive than living.
Because.
Just as his philosophy went—one day without dual cultivation and thorns sprouted in his mouth—invisible formless thorns had already sprouted thick in his mouth.
At this point, even Yeon Hongun himself started questioning why they hadn’t dealt with him.
If he’d been tightly linked to the Blood Lord like other Blood Cult members from the Demonic Cult, sure.
But he wasn’t even from the Demonic Cult originally, just a dual cultivation contract with the Blood Lord.
Yeon Hongun hadn’t particularly cared what the Blood Lord was up to.
He’d just enchanted one woman for him.
And in return, gotten the Jade Transformation Preservation’s location.
The Blood Lord hadn’t lied.
Thus.
- I’ll tell you everything I know! Please spare my wife and child!
Yeon Hongun hadn’t lied either.
If there was tragedy.
- You fiend. Does that even make sense?
……The orthodox murim folk showed no sign of believing him.
Day by day, just surviving in the prison.
Regretting not learning Jade Transformation Preservation back then, groaning in quiet misery.
Thud──
The door to his solitary cell opened after a long while, so Yeon Hongun looked up.
Not mealtime, so definitely a visitor.
Right now, he could even grin and flash his teeth at Geum Sihyeon.
However.
“You the Lust Demon?”
“Krahk!”
The moment he sensed the intruder’s presence, Yeon Hongun couldn’t help letting out a scream from the depths of his soul.
Yeon Hongun’s least favorite types.
1. Married women.
2. Non-virgins.
And for 3rd place.
“Green Forest Bandit King……”
“Hm? You know me?”
Old-looking young master women.
Of course, the rejuvenation art involving bone marrow replacement was mighty indeed.
Even after losing vital feminine functions, it fully restored them, regaining the youth of one’s twenties. Fact.
Indeed, there were female warriors in the jianghu who’d married young, succeeded in rejuvenation later in life, and bore over twenty children till death.
But.
In Yeon Hongun’s philosophy, that was ‘fake’.
“Hmph. What business do you have with this lord?”
His self-esteem, bottomed out, rebounded sharply.
“Geum Sihyeon said if you act cocky, lop off your dick first. I’m in a position to overstep on that, so how about it?”
“Heh heh, what’re you curious about?”
Of course, for future dual cultivation, Yeon Hongun could discard that pride like old rags.
.
.
.
A moment later.
Yeon Hongun had all his acupoints sealed.
Stiff as a log, sealed into a paulownia coffin.
Only his hearing among the senses left alive.
“……No, even so, can I really ride in a carriage?”
Same Blood Cult affiliate.
The Poison Demon’s voice rang in Yeon Hongun’s ears.
‘Wh-what the fuck? I’m crammed in a coffin for transport, and that Poison Demon geezer gets a carriage? You orthodox dogs! What the hell did I do wrong!’
His retort never escaped his throat.