episode_0106

Hongseong Mountain is a place where spiritual energy gathers, so many ghosts gather to chase spiritual energy.

Therefore, Hongseong disciples who learned Hongseong Shingong reacted more sensitively to demonic energy than other sects, and the same was true in Heavenly Myeongwol.

In order to participate in this event, in addition to receiving recognition from officials or the military, others had to complete several prerequisite missions.

First, I had to obtain equipment that reacted to demonic energy, and I also had to separately obtain things like peach branches to fight demonic energy.

But Sayoon was different.

The Hongseong Divine Technique she learned was able to quickly discover Mac in response to the characteristic of Mac, called ‘ghost energy’, and was able to proceed immediately, ignoring some of the things that had to be done beforehand.

Is that why?

Hongryeon, Hyeonhwi, and Sayun, who had learned the Hongseong Shingong, were quietly pulling up the Hongseong Shingong while responding to the ghostly energy they felt inside.

“? What is it?”

Chae-ryeon, who learned the Moonlight Taoism centered on the Moonlight Gong, should also have performed a prior mission in the Heavenly Bright Moon.

The same goes for Chae-jin, who learned Moonlight Ball like her.

“I just feel a bit uncomfortable?”

Like me, Chaejin only reacted slightly to the ghostly energy that could be felt in Mt. Hongseong, and was just puzzled.

That’s why Hongryeon spoke calmly.

“Stay next to the guest.”

“Huh? Yes.”

Chaejin wasn’t stupid enough to fight even in this serious situation.

She nodded, tightened her grip on the sword, and increased her internal energy.

“You mean Mac? By Mac, are you talking about the monster that lives on a person, summons ghosts, causes nightmares, and sucks the life out of the person?”

Zhang Hong asked in a frightened tone. Still, he seemed to have some knowledge about monsters, perhaps because he was someone who worked under Munha-gong.

In response to his question, Hongryeon slightly nodded and then looked at Hyeonhwi.

“Hyeonhwi and Chaejin to protect the guest.”

“Yes.”

Hyeonhwi responded with a stern expression and came next to me.

Looking at me being escorted by two warriors, Chaejin and Hyeonhwi, Hongryeon thought for a moment and then said.

“You stay here. Sayoon. Can you help me?”

“Of course.”

As Sayun spoke while holding the sword, Hongryeon closed her eyes. And after a while. When her eyes flashed, an energy so strong that Hongryeon’s hair rose up rose from her.

-Aaaah!!

A deafening sound resounds in the quiet manor.

At the same time, the cold energy became so strong that even Zhang Hong broke into a cold sweat, and a scream came out from inside.

“Honey! Honey!”

“Aaagh! Ahhh!”

It is the ghost summoned by Mac that causes nightmares in people living in it. The ghosts are scared of Hongseong and are running away, which is why Mun Ha-gong’s wife wakes up from her nightmare and screams.

“Sayun!!”

“Yes!!”

At the same time as Hongryeon shouted, Sayun drew her sword and rushed at her. and.

-Wow!!

The tightly closed door was broken and something came out of it.

She was an old woman who could be described as virtuous, to say the least.

Sayoon, who saw his wife, who was around Yohwan’s age, floating in the air screaming in pain, drew his sword.

What was shot out at the same time as the five-colored light emitted from the sword was red sword energy, and what the sword energy separated was the black smoke behind the wife.

-Keeek!!

It was a bizarre and terrible scream. As the black smoke separated from the sword began to disperse and disappear into the sky, Sayun caught his wife falling from the air.

“Ummmm…”

As the black smoke disappeared, the woman, fully awake from her nightmare, groaned and raised her head.

Hongryeon, who was watching this, stopped emitting energy and lashed out at the old man who was standing looking at her with a devastated face.

“Are you a scholar?”

“Da, who are you! What is this!! Just now…”

Hongryeon paused for a moment and looked at me, looking at the embarrassed old man. I guess it was a bit burdensome to deal with someone who was a high official, and someone who was reluctant to join the martial arts community.

okay. Well, I have to do something like this.

I stepped forward and said, waving my arms around.

“These are people who heard about what happened to Lord Munha and came to lend a small helping hand.”

“Uh…”

“It is said to be June of the island village.”

First, I introduced myself as the representative. He then presented Cheon Il-hwa’s letter of introduction to him, and Mun Ha-gong, who received the letter of introduction despite being embarrassed, sighed deeply.

“Cheon Ilhwa… For now. Please come in first.”

Although Mun Ha-gong was said to be reluctant towards the martial people, he was not a rude person to the point where he was reluctant even to the person who helped him.

Maybe that’s why he treated us politely after seeing his wife sleeping with a more relaxed look on her face.

“My name is Mun Ha-gong. Please feel free to just call me Bachelor Moon.”

“This is Hongryeon, the great disciple of Hong Seong-moon and the inspector general of the Murim League. And these are my brothers and sisters.”

“This is Hong Seong-moon’s Hyeonhwi.”

“This is Hong Seong-moon’s Sayoon.”

“I am Chaejin, the great disciple of Moonwoljeong and a high-level martial officer of the Murim Alliance.”

After the brief introduction, Mun Ha-gong nodded. There was silence for a while, and it was Hongryeon who broke the silence.

“A lot of demonic energy had accumulated, so I had to forcefully release it. We apologize for being very surprised during the process.”

“Oh. no. no. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen my wife’s face sleeping so peacefully. You said Hong Seong-moon, right? You’ve heard my story many times. I’m sure the Sword Saint…”

“Yes. Yes.”

“I see. When I was at the imperial palace, the Sword Saint traveled around the world and performed many good deeds… He even came to the imperial palace himself at one time.”

“I see.”

As he continued his story with simple personal details, he let out a heavy sigh. It looks like we are slowly getting to the point now.

“Do you have any idea why this happened?”

“Did you say it was June? That’s right, Teacher Yu. There is one thing that bothers me.”

Just like in Heavenly Moon, he seemed to know the reason why Mac became a parasite on his wife.

“It was a few months ago. Some people have appeared trying to buy our family’s mountain. But that mountain is our family’s ancestral mountain, so how can we sell it? And then after some time…”

“Are you saying your wife started having nightmares?”

“That’s right.”

He nodded with a gloomy expression and sighed heavily.

“In an attempt to somehow prevent my wife’s nightmares, I called some Buddhist monks and Buddhist monks to hold a ancestral rite, but it didn’t have much of an effect. Noble people came and solved the problem like this. Thank you. I will never forget this grace of mine.”

“If you had contacted the Shaolin Temple or the Shaman faction, you would have been able to receive help…”

The martial arts of Shaolin Temple have the power to fight demons, and some of the shaman factions fight demonic spirits on their own.

When Chaejin asked, Mun Ha-gong nodded.

“I haven’t been on good terms with them for a long time, so I couldn’t ask them to help me. Also, my wife knew about it and tried hard to stop me… But as her condition got worse, I decided to visit her sooner or later and bow down to her. But this is how you get help. Thank you so much.”

Mun Ha-gong stood up and bowed. Hongryeon shook her head at him.

“I haven’t figured it out yet. So, please say thank you later.”

“You mean not yet?”

“Yes. Mac is a monster that appears at night… so you have to wait until night. So, I’ll see you again at night.”

“I see… You can stay here if you want.”

“It’s okay.”

“If you say so…”

Mun Ha-gong, who looked clearly tired, also left. After work was over and I returned to the guest room, everyone gathered in my room and Hongryeon asked me.

“What do you think?”

“If you are asking my opinion… there is only one answer. And it seems like everyone has similar thoughts.”

When I looked at Chaejin, she also nodded. That’s why we opened our mouths at the same time.

“Magic Church.”

In this event, it was the demon religion that made Mun Ha-gong’s wife parasitize Mac and asked Mun Ha-gong to sell the mountain.

Originally, if something happened in Heaven’s Bright Moon, one-third of it was done by the Iron Blood Order, and one-third by the Demonic Cult.

In other words, this time too, it was the work of the Demonic Cult.

“But why did Magyo want to buy that mountain?”

“Well… there may be many possible reasons… but isn’t there only one most likely reason?”

I smiled at Sayun and Hyeonhwi answered seriously.

“Is there something hidden in that mountain? However, if you are not looking for it secretly and you have to buy it…”

“It may be something that can be found only through large-scale construction, work, or investment of manpower. And most of those things…”

Chaejin was the one who continued what I said.

“Secret place?”

“Then what kind of secret place is it so that they attack a good person like Mun Ha-gong and try to obtain that mountain?”

As Hyeonhwi muttered bluntly, everyone looked at me.

“No, I don’t know everything.”

“Still, I’m looking forward to it. Do you know a good answer?”

Hongryeon smiled, Chaejin nodded, and Sayun’s eyes lit up.

Hyeonhwi was blunt as always, but there was trust in her gaze.

“They call them devils, but they are also people. This is because each person has something they want. So what do you want most from the Demonic Cult now?”

Since Hongryeon and Chaejin were active in the Murim Alliance, they would be aware of the current situation of the Demonic Cult.

That’s why their eyes lit up at my question.

“…The leader of the Demonic Cult.”

“That’s right. But now, the five families of the Demonic Cult are in sharp conflict, and no one can step up to the position of leader. If one person tries to dominate, the other four families will unite and attack that family. But there is a way to put that conflict to rest at once and ascend to the position of religious leader.”

Hyeonhwi slightly raised his hand.

“Is this the trace of the Heavenly Demon…?”

I smiled and nodded.

“I heard it before when I was talking with Hano. Even without the agreement of the five families, if you possess all traces of the Heavenly Demon, or if you perfect half of the Heavenly Demon’s divine skill, you can become the leader of the cult. However, since the Demonic Cult has yet to get a feel for the Heavenly Demon Demon’s side, the five families that have similar powers and are reluctant to go to war are said to be desperate to obtain traces of the Heavenly Demon.”

The name of the Heavenly Horse is grandiose, but in reality it is just a symbol.

It was an item that didn’t have much effect in Heaven’s Bright Moon.

But the Demonic Cult is anyway a religious organization. As a result, there was a tendency to become obsessed with such symbols.

Anyway, it seems that Hongryeon and Chaejin also knew about the traces of the Cheonma.

When they nodded, I tapped the table.

“Because there is a secret area with traces of the Heavenly Demon on that mountain, they are probably trying to acquire that mountain.”

“However, if it was the birth of someone of scholarly rank, there would be many people taking care of it, and if there were such people, even if they were demons, it would be difficult to search quietly, so I tried to purchase it and investigate…? Isn’t it too obvious?”

“If you don’t do research or development right after you buy it, it’ll be okay. Whether it’s the Murim League or the government, manpower is limited, and they won’t be able to protect and investigate that place forever. Also, the Demon Cult is currently in a stalemate among the five families, so it would be beneficial to take the time to find the secret area and obtain traces of the Heavenly Demon, so they probably tried to proceed slowly when surveillance was reduced.”

“Well…”

Anyway, that decided what we had to do.

“When something is complicated, I told you to solve the problem in front of you first. Whether our reasoning is correct or not, let’s make it a priority to take down Mac today. Let’s think about the next thing later.”

-smart.

Then there was a knock on the door. Who is it? No one can find us here, right?

Puzzled, Chaejin opened the door and was startled to see a person standing in front of the door.

“…Why are you here?”

“Huh? That’s right.”

The person standing in front of the door was Chae-ryeon. She smiled brightly and waved her hand at Sayoon inside.

“I saw the letter sent from Hongseongmun and it said they would stop by Murimmaeng first and then come back? My friend is experiencing Murimmaeng. How can I just stay there?”

“Uh… really?”

It worked out just fine.

“It’s been a while.”

“Hehe. It’s been a while. How have you been?”

I held out my hand to Chae-ryeon, who greeted me warmly.

“While we’re here, let’s do something together.”

“…Yes?”

Chae-ryeon, who was puzzled, joined in full force.

good.

I have enough power to overflow, so I can easily beat the Mac grabbing event.