Chapter 418: Erasing Stars

I was able to see cold sweat running down his face. His pupils shook and he had his hand placed where his Dantian was.

Judging by how his giant body slowly collapsed, it seemed like everything was going according to my plan.

So it does work huh.

I was worried about what would happen if it didn’t, but Demonic Qi was more effective than I thought.

There was a reason why Tang Duk was slowly collapsing.

I couldn’t even remember his minion’s name anymore. Was it Jul Bok? Jung Bok?

I turned the bastard’s minion into a Demonic Human as I had a goal.

I made it so that Demonic Qi inside Jul Bok scatter everywhere if he returns and gets killed by none other than Tang Duk.

I slowly walked up to the bastard and checked on his condition. Despite Demonic Qi working efficiently against him, there was a problem.

It’s a bit difficult.

It was extremely hard for me to make use of the Demonic Qi that was inside Tang Duk’s body.

I felt the same thing against the Black Dragon. It seemed like it was too difficult for me to restrain those that were high in levels using Demonic Qi.

Though of course, I was still in a better situation than Tang Duk who was probably feeling overwhelmed right now.

I walked up to the bastard with a calm expression.

“Nice to meet you.”

“…”

Tang Duk looked at me with shaky eyes.

He must’ve been rather confused by the painful sensation in his body.

“…What did you do to me…?”

“Do you like my gift?”

“You little…!”

Tang Duk shouted with an angered expression.

“You dare to poison me!”

The bastard seemed to think that I poisoned him.

Well, it’s not completely wrong to call it poison.

He’s very angry.

I smirked at Tang Duk becoming angry.

Poison was like a dagger to the bastard.

It was because he had a body that weren’t capable of building immunity against poison which hurt his pride due to the surname he had.

I looked down at the bastard and spoke with a smile.

“What will you do about it?”

“You bastaaard!”

Slam-!

Combat Qi poured out from Tang Duk’s body.

He was ensnared by Demonic Qi, but he was still able to let out an impressive amount of Qi.

If I had to compare, he was barely below the Black Dragon’s level.

Judging by that, I was able to know that he too was a Fusion Realm martial artist.

As I continued to observe the bastard, Tang Duk growlingly started to question me.

“You joined forces with the Poison King…!”

I had to tilt my head out of confusion after hearing his sudden remark.

“Why do you think that?”

Tang Duk responded to my question.

“It’s only that damned household that’s capable of using such poison.”

“Aren’t you a bit harsh? Damned household? Aren’t you also from that household?”

“You bastard…! How dare you put me in the same-! “

“Well… I guess you aren’t anymore. They did throw you out a long time ago after all.”

“…!”

Tang Duk clenched his teeth after hearing my words.

“Just how much do you know…”

“I don’t know that much…”

But I guess I’ll tell him this.

“The Celestial Martial Body Plan.”

“…!”

“Around that much I suppose.”

Tang Duk’s eyes widened and he started to shake after he heard my response.

He didn’t seem to know I knew that much.

It’s not like I wanted to know.

The Celestial Martial Body Plan.

Just the name alone sounded confusing, but it was actually something extremely disgusting and ugly in reality.

This was the name of an experiment led by the previous Lord of Tang Clan, the Poison Emperor.

The Poison Emperor, Tang Bi Seung loved Tang Clan more than anyone.

He had a high regard for the position of his clan and he wanted it to elevate it higher than it has ever been.

So what was the fastest method for that? Tang Bi Seung always thought, but the answer was actually pretty simple.

In order for Tang Clan to rise above all other clans, it just needed to have the strongest martial artist in the Central Plains.

The clan’s image and honor were enough, but that was the reason why none of the Four Noble Clans were able to become the greatest clan of all.

The clan that possessed the absolute.

The current generation was the start of the Orthodox Faction’s prime because of the Three Venerables, but it was also the generation where previous figures of the past disappeared.

The Zenith.

The Sword Emperor, Dishonored Venerable, and Heavenly Venerable.

People only wondered who the strongest of the three was, and no one was able to give a definitive answer as to which one was the Zenith.

They were all masters that were active in different regions, and they never had the chance to fight it out for themselves.

Because of that, people called it the Three Venerable’s generation as peace maintained.

In some ways, it was the most balanced generation in history, but the Poison Emperor wasn’t fond of this.

He thought to himself at the time.

It was his chance to lead Tang Clan to the top.

However, it was impossible for him.

The Poison Emperor clearly knew his limits, so he decided to wait for the future.

That was how the Celestial Martial Body Plan came to fruition.

The Celestial Martial Body is a body sent down from the heavens.

It meant that one with such a body had a perfect body and brain to learn martial arts and a gigantic Dantian to hold great amounts of Qi.

A body born to become a perfect martial artist.

That’s what the Celestial Martial Body was.

The Poison King hoped to raise such a body in Tang Clan.

Then, he would be able to raise him into a Zenith so that Tang Clan could become the greatest clan of all.

That’s what Tang Bi Seung’s ambition was.

However, the ambition filled with greed turned into a brutal experiment.

The Celestial Martial Body wasn’t achievable that easily.

It wasn’t called a talent that might born once a thousand years for no reason.

Because of that, Tang Bi Seung decided to artificially create the Celestial Martial Body rather than relying on the low chances of such a body being born naturally.

Artificial Celestial Martial Body.

What kind of nonsense is that?

That’s what I thought at first, and I wasn’t wrong because I almost gasped after hearing what the experiment was about.

First, Tang Bi Seung gathered nameless children from around the Central Plains, locked them in a basement and gave them the Tang surname.

Then,

He injected blood of Demons in them.

He forcibly injected Demons’ blood into children.

It was such a monstrosity, but it actually happened and was written in the records.

The blood of primate Demons with hard, strong muscles that no mere humans can match.

That was what was injected into children.

What was the result?

Obviously, they all died.

It was an obvious result. Demons were completely different from humans, and even their blood colors were different.

If a large amount of their blood is forcibly injected into a human body, then the person who had the blood injected will obviously die from it as they aren’t able to endure a Demon’s blood.

This information was found very deep in Tang Clan’s basement in my past life.

I was able to find thousands of journals with such information written in them.

It was likely that some of the written records were lost as well, so there were probably way more.

Just how many children had to die because of Tang Bi Seung’s greed?

Moreover, the youngest of those children that died were five years old, and at oldest ten.

Were all of those children really killed by Tang Bi Seung?

I wasn’t able to know that myself, but Tang Duk in front of me was a victim of the experiment.

I thought about what I read at the end of the thousand journals.

It was obvious that everyone died in the experiment, but there was one person that survived the process of having Demon’s blood injected in them.

I found it logically impossible.

How could someone survive after mixing their blood with a Demon’s? I found it hard to believe, but that was what the record said.

Injection successful.

Great muscle expansion along with hardening of the skin… that was what was written in it.

I didn’t know what method they used, but Tang Bi Seung’s experiment came to a success and as long as things went according to his plans, he should’ve successfully created a body close to the Celestial Martial Body, but the record said that this experiment was a failure in the end.

Thousands of experiments were carried out, yet it ended in a failure.

There was only one reason for it.

No poison resistance.

There was a requirement in this experiment.

Because Tang Bi Seung wanted a Zenith to be born under Tang Clan’s name, he prioritized not just the body, but if the body was capable of learning Poison Art.

In that regard, this subject was indeed a failure.

The body had no resistance in poison.

No one knew how such an impressive body could have such a result, but that was what the reality was and Tang Bi Seung called it a failure.

Though of course, they didn’t give up at first because of how impressive the body was. They did a ton of experiments to build poison immunity in the body, but they all failed.

In Tang Bi Seung’s records, it said that the test subject was completely removed from the world, but I was certain.

The test subject in that story, was Tang Duk who was right in front of me.

After all, the name written in the records is Tang Duk too.

There was only one Tang Duk. I didn’t read all the records I found, but I was able to know just by looking at him.

His name was Tang Duk.

He had an unbelievable amount of strength and possessed a seemingly indestructible body.

He also couldn’t build any immunity to poison.

His hatred towards Tang Clan.

All of those things added up.

“The failed subject that wasn’t able to become the Celestial Martial Body in the end. That’s you, right?”

“…You bastard… just… what are you.”

“What am I?”

I thought to myself for a moment after hearing Tang Duk’s question.

My identity huh…

What should I call myself? I didn’t even know why I was wondering.

Then, I mumbled words that I was suddenly reminded of.

“Heavenly Demon.”

“…What?”

“Ah, never mind that. I was just suddenly reminded of that name for some reason.”

Why was I reminded of the Heavenly Demon? I didn’t know.

I said it without myself realizing, but Tang Duk nodded his head for some reason.

“A Demon sent down from the heavens… how fitting.”

“You bastard…?”

I didn’t know how he was able to make such an insult when we’ve never met before.

I was definitely annoyed, but I had to suppress my emotion.

Crack.

Tang Duk was standing up using his spear as his support.

“Plus… I now learned that you are working with that Poison King bastard.”

“…”

It wasn’t like that at all, but I didn’t bother denying him.

I knew that he wasn’t going to believe me even if I did.

Moreover.

It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t believe me.

That wasn’t what was important here.

Once Tang Duk stood up fully, he pointed his spear against me and spoke.

“You will die by my hands today.”

Despite struggling with Demonic Qi, it didn’t let it affect his stance.

It felt similar to this back when he had his eyes gouged out by me in my past life.

“Poison King, that damned old man’s descendants will also die by my hands.”

His hatred towards Tang Clan was dense.

It was understandable though. I probably would’ve lived for revenge as well if I was treated the same way he was.

Moreover, all of the bandits that worked for this bastard.

They all probably had hatred towards Tang Clan.

Despite calling themselves bandits, they were just people who lived for revenge in reality.

I didn’t know if they were victims of the same experiment.

I didn’t care enough to know.

I don’t think Tang Clan did a good job.

It was a horrible thing to do, and maybe they deserved to be punished for it.

But I don’t care.

Apologetically, I didn’t care about what happened with them. I was fully able to understand Tang Duk’s hatred and his desire for revenge,

But it doesn’t matter to me.

I had something else that was more important to me.

It may make me look cold or even selfish, but I didn’t care.

I just had to protect what was mine, and Tang Duk was a piece of the puzzle for that goal of mine.

As I continued to think, Tang Duk spoke.

“Moreover, that Poison King. I heard that he has a daughter as well, yes?”

I immediately frowned when Tang Duk mentioned Tang Soyeol.

“She too will die by my- “

“Hey.”

When I called out, Tang Duk suddenly stared at me with a puzzled expression.

“Don’t cross the line.”

“What?”

“I have to make use of you while keeping you alive…”

I forcibly suppressed my boiling emotions.

I wanted to twist his neck right on the spot, but I had to hold back.

“But if you keep going, then I’ll have to kill you. Just do what you came here for. Are you going to fight me or not?”

“…”

Sigh…

Tang Duk let out a short sigh after hearing my words. Then, he held onto his spear tightly and poured his Combat Qi out.

He has this much Combat Qi despite all the Demonic Qi inside him huh…

For some reason, it felt as if the Demonic Qi inside his body wasn’t spreading effectively.

Perhaps,

This is because he possesses a Demon’s blood?

That was possible. Demonic Qi existed before the Heavenly Demon did, so perhaps possessing their blood builds immunity against it as well.

Was it too difficult for me to fight against Tang Duk who wasn’t fully affected by Demonic Qi?
I stared at the bastard and came to a conclusion.

I’ll just have to try.

I wouldn’t know without trying.

That was my conclusion.

I didn’t fight against that many Fusion Realm martial artists in this life.

At most, I fought against the Black Dragon, the White Heavenly Sword, or my father.

Something like that.

Compared to them though, I didn’t feel that pressured fighting against this bastard.

Moreover, I wanted to have a proper fight after reaching Fusion Realm.

It doesn’t matter if I kill him.

The fact that I had nothing to lose made it very helpful.

Though of course, I won’t kill him since I have to make use of him. It’s just that I didn’t have to feel pressured about holding back.

“I won’t touch your eyes this time.”

“…?”

Tang Duk made a puzzled expression after hearing my words.

“Nothing. I just found your eyes rather attracting.”

“…You bastard.”

Tang Duk immediately charged forward at me after being taunted, and at the same time, I charged a ton of Demonic Qi along with a smile.

In an instant, Demonic Qi filled a part of my heart.

Swoosh-!

I felt my body being greatly enhanced and my body started to pour out Qi.

First,

Black Heaven.

I erased the stars from the sky.