Chapter 63- Wu and Yue in the same boat (7)
In fact, obtaining effective results from poison attacks is surprisingly difficult. Of course, once poison properly enters and spreads, even highly skilled masters would be affected and inevitably fall.
However, it takes time before that happens. Even masters who have reached the realm of being immune to all poisons could draw upon their internal energy to defend themselves to some extent.
And that is the most frightening aspect of poison attack. Once affected by poison attack, one must defend against it to prevent the poison from circulating properly, and in that process, a considerable amount of internal energy is consumed.
In that case, a master affected by poison attack cannot even demonstrate half of their original capabilities. Furthermore, there is no rule that there is only one poison. The world is vast, and the varieties of poison are countless.
Moreover, poisons like Scattered Energy Poison exist, that scatter inner strength and render one completely defenseless. Of course, Scattered Energy Poison is rather unsuitable for use as a poison attack.
Of course, that does not mean there are absolutely no methods to counter poison attack. One could build immunity to poisons consistently from childhood or acquire knowledge to detoxify it.
Dang Baek-ha, who was facing Dang Baek-seo, is a person included in both conditions. Even at his lowest, he was a martial artist who had entered the first-class late stage and was knocking on the wall of the peak realm.
But when it comes to poison arts alone, he possessed knowledge and skills that were by no means lacking for the early peak realm. That is why he could endure like this.
“Damn it!”
“Is this how this father taught you? How could you be so weak?”
“That’s because you’re not really my father!!”
There was no more courtesy to maintain. The words of Dang Baek-seo, who had already fallen to become a ghost, only served to enrage Dang Baek-ha further. It was hard to believe he was the same playboy who had been flirting with women earlier.
Of course, this was natural.
It might differ depending on the sect or family, but at least the Sichuan Tang family was not so brutal as to make blood relatives fight each other. The father also truly loved his children. That is why Dang Baek-ha also made efforts to somehow revive the fallen Sichuan Tang family, and didn’t he actually achieve that? And now his father had become a puppet.
And to those damned Evil Sect members who could be considered the masterminds behind the Sword Demon War. How could his usual relaxed personality emerge in this situation? He just got angry.
It is said that those who harm one’s parents become their mortal enemies. The meaning of not being able to share the same sky is that there is no way to live and breathe together with that bastard.
“You damn bastards from the Evil Sect, I’ll chew you up!!”
“Are you still saying that! Didn’t I tell you that you must accept the truth!”
“Stop that damned truth nonsense!!!”
To make matters worse, he was spouting that absurd, cult-like nonsense in the very image of the father he once knew in life. As his son, the frustration was so overwhelming, it felt like blood-tears were about to pour from his eyes.
And such intense emotions inevitably create openings. Though he was merely a jiangshi who hadn’t fully realized enlightenment, a soul had at least been infused into him. In that sense, martial arts was the real deal.
“Hmph!!”
“Huh?!”
Due to his agitated emotions, Dang Baek-ha revealed an opening which Dang Baek-seo’s attack exploited. As a result, Dang Baek-ha failed to defend properly and ended up allowing Dang Baekseo’s poison attack.
This is dangerous.Â
The symptoms of poisoning are already rising. If I don’t detoxify right now…!!
Naturally, Dang Baek-seo was not going to just stand by and watch. Although he had fallen to the state of a puppet, he was still undeniably a master who had reached the peak realm.
“Those who cannot accept the truth do not deserve to live. Even if that person is my son!!!”
Kwaaang!!!
“You’re not treating your son very well, Dang Baek-seo.”
Of course, the one who blocked that sword was none other than Mu-myung. After all, he was a collaborator who would work together to destroy the Evil Sect. It would be very difficult if such a collaborator were to die in a place like this.
From Mu-myung’s perspective, he had no choice but to intervene to help his collaborator. However, Dang Baek-seo, upon facing Mu-myung, displayed intense anger on his face for the first time and shouted with all his might.
“You scoundrel, Sword Demon!!! After killing my Sichuan Tang family like that, are you still not satisfied?!!”
“What nonsense are you talking about…?”
“No need for questions and answers! I will avenge my blood relatives who fell by your hands!!”
Naturally, from Mu-myung’s perspective, this was absurd. Hadn’t they been having a civil conversation at first? But now he suddenly calls him the Sword Demon and expresses rage?
“I see, you must be having hallucinations.”
Mu-myung reached this conclusion without difficulty.
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Seo’s father, Ryong, was a much stricter father than Seo himself. He always told Seo to devote himself to the Sichuan Tang family, saying that was the qualification of one who ruled from above.
Seo’s personality was not soft enough to obediently follow such domineering teachings at a young age. Rather, he developed rebelliousness, in his youth he simply enjoyed life and ate.
As the young master of the Sichuan Tang family and a martial artist who was at least second-class. There was no one in Sichuan who could stop Seo. Then one day, Seo’s father Ryong suddenly lost his life.
It was said that martial artists from the unorthodox sects, full of resentment, directly attacked the Tang family, and in the midst of it, he died fighting bravely at the very front. Seo could not believe this fact.
The father Ryong that Seo knew was a man who would not even flinch if a hundred renowned carpenters came with axes and chopped at him. How could such a man lose his life?
[Nonsense! Where is my father?]
[Family Head.]
[Who are you calling Family Head? I need to see my father immediately.]
[You must face reality, Family Head!!]
At the old elder’s rebuke, Seo finally faced reality. His father has truly passed away. Thus, Seo became the head of the Sichuan Tang family at a young age not even twenty.
At first, not many people trusted Seo. After all, his past actions spoke for themselves. How long would a bucket that leaks both inside and outside hold up?
[The one who devoured my father.]
[Tsk tsk, the star of the Sichuan Tang family will fall to the ground.]
[… … .]
The family’s expectations of him were not very high. Rather, they were busy criticizing him behind his back even while bowing their heads in front of him. But Seo endured even that.
He had no choice.
It was because of me that my father died. It’s as if I killed father myself.
Of course, this had nothing to do with Seo. The enmity between the unorthodox sects and the righteous sects was known to everyone unless they were fools. But Seo attributed everything to himself.
Because that seemed to be the only way he could endure.
Seo gritted his teeth and persevered. The position of Family Head was surprisingly not about just playing around and eating. He had to coordinate with numerous villages in Sichuan province, manage business establishments, and various other tasks. There was much to do.
But despite this, Seo surprisingly did well. After about 10 years, he was recognized by everyone as a proper Family Head. However, the disaster also visited Seo as well.
The leader of the Righteous Sect Martial Arts Alliance, the Namgung family, summoned the righteous sects and declared the absolute master of the Unorthodox Sects, the Sword Demon, as a public enemy of the martial world. The meaning of being declared a public enemy of the martial world is more cruel than one can imagine.
No matter how much the righteous sects were criticized for hypocrisy and other such things, hypocrisy meant that they valued justification. In other words, without justification, they would not move.
However, being declared a public enemy by the Martial Alliance was justification enough in itself. One could be struck just by a sword while passing by. Why? Because the opponent was not an ordinary person but a public enemy of the martial world.
The Sichuan Tang family was the first to take the lead.
At that time, the Sichuan Tang family led by Seo had grown so powerful that they could even aspire to the position of the leader of the Martial Arts Alliance, the Namgung family. Of course, they didn’t do so because they didn’t want to create conflict.
Anyway, to execute the Sword Demon, the leader of the Unorthodox sects who had been designated as a public enemy of the martial world, Seo led all the forces of the Sichuan Tang family to attack the Sword Demon. And surprisingly, they were all defeated.
[Kill me. I do not wish to preserve my life through your cheap sympathy.]
[I have no reason to kill you people. I merely made you bleed that much because you blocked my path.]
[Shut up!! As an Unorthodox sect leader designated as a public enemy of the martial world, how dare you…!!!]
[I have no reason to explain the situation to those who know nothing. But I will never kill you.]
The Sword Demon captured and killed everyone associated with the Evil Sect, as well as those related to it. And he also killed those who blocked his path. But that didn’t mean he killed everyone.
He spared all those who seemed to have good character or had adequate skills. And in the Sword Demon’s view, Dang Baek-seo, the head of the Sichuan Tang family, was a person qualified enough to survive.
However, that was only by the Sword Demon’s standards. From Dang Baek-seo’s perspective, who knew nothing of this, it was no different from having his life spared by the sympathy of an evil person.
But what Dang Baek-seo could not tolerate most was the fact that his followers had been annihilated. And now he began to unleash that anger in this place.
“I will never forgive you.”
To the disciple of the Sword Demon who had unintentionally succeeded the Sword Demon’s position.
