The Poisonous Gaze of the Demonic Sect Leader
Tang Myung opened his mouth as he stared at Jang Young with the cold, venomous gaze of the Demonic Sect Leader.
“Tang Hong.”
“Yes, Young Master!”
Tang Hong immediately appeared beside him. When Tang Myung reached out his hand, Tang Hong handed over a booklet.
Tang Myung accepted the booklet and flipped through the pages.
“You kidnapped two of the servants of the Wu family and turned them into playthings. No, even an old man like you.”
“What?”
“You plundered merchants passing through the Ping Road. It was enough to just steal their goods, yet you killed them all.”
“T-That’s…”
“You forcibly seized the lands of the farmers in Qingdao. When three of them couldn’t contain their fury, they committed suicide.”
With every page Tang Myung turned, the Black Death Hall listed one after another of its countless evil acts.
Tang Myung looked at Jang Young while speaking of these unforgivable crimes in one breath.
“Is there anything else you want to say about the extermination of the Black Death Hall? Even if I do, will the heavens send me punishment for declaring that we will exterminate you?”
“T-This…”
Jang Young, unable to speak, opened his mouth, then closed it with a grim expression.
“You know all this… Why now? Why didn’t you act sooner?”
“Because it had nothing to do with the main family.”
At these words, Jang Young stared at him in astonishment, then shouted,
“Hah! Is that something a righteous faction person would say?!”
“Is the righteous faction supposed to eradicate all evil in the world?”
“Isn’t that what the righteous faction is supposed to do?”
“Nonsense. My body has ten, a hundred copies—anything would be insufficient. How could I bear every evil of the world? I will only do what I can and what I am allowed to do.”
Tang Myung’s words left Jang Young dumbfounded as he stared at him.
“You… are not a hero.”
“Correct. I am not a hero. I am merely the head of the Tang Family.”
Then Tang Myung looked at Jang Young.
“Leave.”
With those words, Tang Myung forcefully pulled his hand.
Swish!
The silver wire began to tightly strangle Jang Young’s neck.
“Ugh!”
With a short groan, the silver wire pierced into Jang Young’s nape and slashed across it.
Swish!
The silver wire dragged Jang Young, still dangling from it, toward Tang Myung.
Tang Myung briefly looked at the sword hanging from the silver wire, then waved his hand.
Whoosh!
Thud!
Jang Young’s sword was deeply embedded into the Black Death Hall wall.
Tang Myung turned his head, and the Visa Unit members stood in perfect formation.
“Have you all killed them?”
“Those Black Death Hall masters who knew martial arts are all dead, and the servants have been gathered in the training ground.”
Tang Myung looked at the members after hearing Tang Hong’s report.
Several of the members were still bleeding from their wounds.
“Casualties?”
“Five light injuries.”
“Treat them and take them to the training ground.”
In the training ground, the servants and workers who had worked for the Black Death Hall trembled violently.
They were truly terrified. Dead bodies littered the area, and wails came from every direction.
“Sister, what… I’m so scared.”
“Don’t… don’t worry. We’re… just workers. Nothing will happen.”
The servants huddled together, shivering in fear, when Tang Myung arrived at the training ground.
With their fearful gazes upon him, Tang Myung lightly stamped the ground.
Thud!
Tang Hong reached out his hand.
Swish!
Tang Myung lightly landed on Tang Hong’s palm and stood there, looking down at the people.
“I am Tang Myung, the head of the Sichuan Tang Family.”
“The Sichuan Tang Family?”
“Why the Sichuan Tang Family?”
“The Black Death Hall has been committing all kinds of villainy against the common people and kidnapping people. That is why the Tang Family, for the sake of justice, has exterminated them.”
Tang Myung looked around at the people and said,
“You are all common people who worked for the Black Death Hall. Therefore, you face no harm. Those without anywhere to go will receive relocation funds, and those who still feel uneasy will be given jobs at nearby estates.”
“A… thank goodness.”
“Looks like there’s no problem.”
“They’re even giving relocation money.”
The workers looked at each other in relief when Tang Myung spoke again.
“However…”
The workers looked at him again. Receiving the gazes of the workers, Tang Myung continued,
“Among you are those who went beyond simple work for the Black Death Hall and committed villainy against the common people.”
Some people’s gazes landed on a few individuals. Upon feeling those stares, the people immediately glared at them with fierce eyes.
The people quickly lowered their heads.
But Tang Myung and the Tang Family members were already watching them.
Tang Myung gestured, and several Visa Unit members brought them out.
“What crimes did these people commit?”
“…”
The people lowered their heads without saying a word, their eyes filled with fear. It was an instinctive reaction. Whether they knew martial arts or not, violence was frightening.
Seeing their appearance, Tang Myung said,
“I understand, but we will leave soon. That means these people will remain here… Think carefully. Those who looked at them earlier have already incurred their grudge.”
“Grudge?”
“These people are now in a place where they could die because of you. Think about their usual behavior. Do you still want to see them in the future…?”
The people standing in front glared at them even more fiercely. Upon feeling that gaze, the people quickly lowered their heads.
But one middle-aged man shouted,
“Iron Zhong! That bastard who looked nothing like him made my son… a eunuch!”
“A eunuch?”
Tang Myung unconsciously frowned. The middle-aged man shouted,
“He kicked me in the foot because I bumped shoulders with him… and I became a eunuch! My child is… only ten years old! You bastard!”
At the middle-aged man’s sincere outburst, the man called Iron Zhong hurriedly said,
“No. No, it’s not because of me…”
Thunk!
But the man’s excuse was short-lived. A Visa Unit member drove a needle straight into the man’s throat, and he collapsed without moving again.
The faces of the people standing in front turned pale.
“D-Died?”
“You killed him?”
“Just like that?”
When they stared at the dead with rigid faces, Tang Myung looked at the people.
“If you don’t want to see them anymore, speak their evil acts.”
Tang Myung felt this after exterminating the Demonic Sects this time… Among the non-cultivators among the workers, many committed evils as severe as Demonic Masters.
With their meager small power, their friendship with Demonic Masters, or as bribes, they had forced servants, turned people into idiots, and in the worst cases, killed them.
Even the workers of the Sects had ranks, bullying, and power. It was unavoidable, but due to the Demonic Sect, the people working underneath them committed even worse evils.
That was why he was selecting such people among the non-cultivators.
Seeing the example, several servants shouted,
“That beast-like guy… took our…”
When the servants pointed at one man, he hurriedly opened his mouth, but a Visa Unit member drove a needle into his throat in an instant.
Thud!
The collapsing man’s appearance made the others confess their evils.
All the people who had come out were dead, and a few hiding among the people were dragged out by the people’s feet.
Among them was one who was so evil that even the Demonic Sect wanted to learn his techniques.
After killing all the evil workers, Tang Myung assigned residences for the people.
He gave silver to those who wanted to leave after receiving relocation funds, and made nearby estates available for those seeking work.
***
The Tang Family Visa Unit members were passing through the city, protected by three carriages on both sides.
Inside the carriages, the injured Visa Unit members from this outing were resting.
Although riding horses would have been fine, Tang Myung had arranged carriages so they could fully recover their bodies.
Clop, clop! Clop, clop!
The Visa Unit members still wore blood-soaked battle robes.
The sight of the Tang Family Masters wearing blood-soaked battle robes was filled with killing intent, and the passersby split to the sides, watching with fear and curiosity.
“The Tang Family exterminated the Black Death Hall.”
“Then the Demonic Sect has three sects that were exterminated by the Tang Family?”
“The Tang Family sure killed a lot of people this time.”
“What kind of nonsense? They were all vicious criminals who deserved death.”
“Well, looking at the Tang Family’s wanted posters, their sins were indeed monstrous.”
“Still, I was worried when the Demonic Sect exterminated the Tang Family… but it’s good. It’s good.”
“Right. A major righteous Sect must hold its position or the Demonic Sect won’t cause trouble.”
“And the Tang Family Masters are eccentric, but they never cause conflict or discord.”
“That’s right, that’s right.”
Amid the people’s murmurs, Tang Hong secretly attached himself to Tang Myung’s side and said,
“The people seem to like it. As the Young Master said, it was good that we investigated the criminals and posted wanted posters beforehand.”
At Tang Hong’s words, Tang Myung nodded.
“Those who drew swords against the main family deserve death. But… to prevent the surrounding common people from being terrified, we posted the wanted posters.”
“Excellent idea. An excellent idea.”
“The role of the Milyeong Unit was significant.”
Tang Hong smiled and secretly sent a telepathic message.
[Looking at the Milyeong Unit information, a lot of dirt has gathered on the righteous and Demonic Sects in Sichuan Province.]
Upon hearing Tang Hong’s telepathic message, Tang Myung nodded.
Clop, clop! Clop, clop!
Tang Myung, riding the horse, suddenly pressed his hand against his chest.
“Have you sustained an internal injury?”
Worried, Tang Hong looked at him, and Tang Myung lightly nodded.
“Because I fought Peak Masters one after another, my dantian took a little strain.”
Tang Myung had personally faced Peak Masters during this outing.
Although Tang Myung had reached the Peak realm, the Peak Masters he had faced were middle-aged masters far beyond what Wiji Cheong could compare to. They were burdens even for someone who had only recently entered the Peak realm.
But Tang Myung had personally fought them. Of course Tang Hong had been waiting beside him… but Tang Myung had still slain them all.
Tang Myung’s words caused Tang Cheon-gi to approach.
“This time you overexerted yourself. Leave the rest to me from now on.”
At Tang Cheon-gi’s words, Tang Myung took out a medicine for internal injuries from his pouch and swallowed it, then stimulated a few of his body’s acupuncture points.
“Nothing strengthens me more than the medicine for life and death.”
“Still, it’s dangerous.”
“That is why I have Tang Hong uncle beside me.”
Tang Myung’s words caused Tang Hong to sigh.
“Standing with a blade in my hand, watching beside you… I was so tense.”
Then Tang Hong smiled and looked at Tang Myung.
“Still, how satisfying it was when the Young Master… no, the Head of the Family… eliminated them.”
Tang Hong looked at Tang Myung.
“I have always been beside the Young Master, no, the Head of the Family… When did your martial arts become so slow? Until last year, you hadn’t even touched the Peak wall, right?”
At Tang Hong’s words, Tang Myung recalled last year—or his previous life.
Back then he had been blocked by the Peak wall. Unable to break through the wall between First-class and Peak, but after using the medicine for life and death, the wall had suddenly broken.
Tang Hong, seeing Tang Myung lost in thought, turned his head to look ahead.
“Huh?”
Tang Hong suddenly saw something and whispered to Tang Myung,
“Young Master.”
At Tang Hong’s call, Tang Myung looked at him. When Tang Hong gave a slight glance to one side, Tang Myung looked there.
There was a man holding a death slip, slightly lifting it to look at his face.
[Is that you.]
The face revealed from the death slip was Zhuge Mun. Seeing Zhuge Mun, the only confidant who had come during the Tang Family’s hardship, Tang Myung opened his mouth in joy but closed it again.
There must have been a reason Zhuge Mun had sent him a telepathic message.
[Did you come secretly?]
At Tang Myung’s telepathic message, Zhuge Mun nodded and said, following the slow-moving horse,
[There is the San Hong Guest Inn ahead. We’ll meet there.]
Then, as Zhuge Mun disappeared among the people, Tang Myung said,
“Today we will rest here.”
“Understood.”
Tang Cheon-gi signaled the Visa Unit members, and several took the lead and advanced.
[Decide on the San Hong Guest Inn.]
Tang Myung’s telepathic message caused Tang Cheon-gi to send a telepathic message to the Visa Unit members. Though he didn’t know what it was, since Tang Myung had sent it, Tang Cheon-gi would send it to the members as well.