Chapter The Demonic Cult Instructor Returns Chapter 206

Chapter 206

Swoooosh!

The sword tip flew like an arrow.

Chu Ryang couldn’t move a muscle.

Just staring wide-eyed at the sword flying toward him was the extent of his courage.

Finally, the sword stopped right in front of his throat.

The sword energy emanating from the tip seemed ready to pierce a hole through his neck at any moment.

Gulp.

As he swallowed, his Adam’s apple slightly touched the cold blade.

‘As… as expected… amazing!’

Ecstasy filled Chu Ryang’s expression.

Meanwhile, Sa Bigang, who had thrust out the sword, looked at him with a sunken expression and asked.

“Why didn’t you move, my disciple?”

“I… I couldn’t move!”

“Huhhuhu. That would be the case. The reason you couldn’t move is because you were suppressed by my martial arts.”

“Wh… what is that?”

“It’s called the Absolute Supreme Invincible Energy Binding Technique.”

“Ooh! Amazing! Truly incredible! How do you use it?”

“I use internal energy to fundamentally block the opponent’s movements. When I use this technique, even the greatest master in the martial world can’t budge.”

“As expected, Master is amazing! Please teach me that Absolute Supreme Invincible Energy Binding Technique!”

“Before that…”

Sa Bigang stared with sharp eyes, then raised his sword tip to tickle Chu Ryang’s nose.

“M-Master! What is this?”

“It’s a deception strategy to cause tickling and make the opponent let their guard down.”

“As expected… ehehe. But it’s a bit ticklish. Pft, kehehehe!“

“Endure it! If you can’t even endure this much, how can you become my disciple?”

“Puhehehehe!“

***

“Kkeuk! Uhehehehehe! It’s ticklish, Master. Hehehe! Please stop now…”

Chu Ryang, who had been laughing continuously, slowly opened his eyes.

For a brief moment, he couldn’t understand the current situation.

‘Hm? Why am I lying down? And why is Master…’

Right in front of him, Sa Bigang was crouching down.

Sa Bigang was holding a blade of grass with drowsy eyes, tickling Chu Ryang’s nose.

Only then did Chu Ryang realize he had fallen asleep and had a dream.

‘Huh! When did I fall asleep?’

He had left the Alliance and immediately pursued Sa Bigang.

He caught up to him after exactly one day.

But fearing he might lose track, he only tailed him from an appropriate distance.

Yet somehow, he had fallen asleep.

It was incomprehensible.

Anyway, Sa Bigang looked at Chu Ryang with an indifferent expression and flicked the blade of grass at his face.

“What are you?”

“M-Master!”

Chu Ryang jumped up and bowed.

“Master, I will go with you too.”

“No.”

“But Master! Didn’t you say you would take me as your disciple?”

“I did. But I didn’t say to follow me around.”

“Master! Please, I beg you! Let me come with you!”

“Bothersome.”

“I’ll become your porter!”

“I have no luggage to entrust.”

“I’ll cook all the food for you to eat during the journey.”

“I can just buy and eat at inns.”

“I’ll take care of all kinds of miscellaneous tasks!”

“Not necessary.”

“When resting at inns, I’ll be responsible for arranging beautiful women to join us!”

“Hmm…?”

Sa Bigang showed a reaction for the first time.

He narrowed his eyes and asked.

“Would that be possible?”

“Of course! I’ll arrange the finest beauties to join us. I may not look it, but I’ve charmed quite a few women.”

“Let’s go, my disciple.”

“Thank you, Master!”

Chu Ryang bowed deeply once again.

***

“Sa Bigang is coming.”

The Gray Bear Hall Master Shin Chu-gwi of the Blood Death Alliance curled his lips upward.

Dokgo Jin, the Black Tortoise Hall Master sitting across the table, smiled faintly while lifting his tea cup.

“Indeed. Life is truly unpredictable.”

“Even so, I didn’t expect him to come so obediently.”

“Perhaps because everyone in the world praises him, he has nothing to fear. He probably doesn’t even know where he’s stepping into.”

“Come to think of it, Hall Master Dokgo, you’ve seen him directly, haven’t you?”

“I saw him once during the last Righteous-Evil Accord.”

“What kind of person was he?”

“A very arrogant and impudent fellow, completely drunk on self-conceit.”

Dokgo Jin spoke definitively as if there was nothing more to consider.

In his view, Sa Bigang was exactly that kind of person.

Someone completely filled with arrogance beyond confidence.

Dokgo Jin put down his tea cup and continued.

“I don’t know what heavenly fortune followed him, but he wasn’t a person suited for that negotiation table. He must have had very strong backing.”

“But how could he have become the Inspection General Bureau Chief of the Jeongdo Alliance through luck alone? Moreover, there are reports that he stabilized the Jeongdo Alliance, aren’t there?”

“Hmm. Whether that was due to his capabilities or the exceptional abilities of those around him is unclear, isn’t it?”

Shin Chu-gwi nodded at Dokgo Jin’s words.

“That’s true. Anyway, I wonder how long he’ll last. Those he’ll be handling are…”

Shin Chu-gwi trailed off and showed a vile smile.

The organization Sa Bigang would handle was composed of the worst scoundrels even within the Blood Death Alliance.

To be precise, they couldn’t even be called trainees.

It was a class reorganized entirely of those who had already been assigned to various organizations but caused problems.

Therefore, the ages of those called students varied wildly.

Dokgo Jin said.

“No matter how much he taught problem students at Yongcheon Hall, those guys will be qualitatively completely different. Generally, they’re the type whose hands move faster than their mouths. Huhhuhu.”

Shin Chu-gwi also grinned as he lifted his tea cup.

In truth, the invitation as an instructor sounded nice, but in reality, it was no different from summoning him as a hostage.

What was known to the world as instructor, was just a pretty facade.

“We’ll hold him as a hostage for the time being and dispose of him when the opportunity comes.”

Afterward, they would conceal the assassination fact as much as possible.

For a while, they would pretend Sa Bigang was still alive.

During that time, the Blood Death Alliance would do everything to rescue Hong Myo, who was held hostage by the Jeongdo Alliance.

“After that, a splendid Righteous-Evil Great War will resume.”

Dokgo Jin chuckled.

Shin Chu-gwi laughed along and raised his cup.

“Sa Bigang is quite pitiful too. Hahaha.”

“Well, that’s only if he arrives here safely.”

“You’re referring to Red Ape.”

“Perhaps he’s meeting Sa Bigang around now?”

“Indeed, Red Ape would be capable of an unexpected ambush.”

At Shin Chu-gwi’s words, Dokgo Jin showed a pleased expression and turned his gaze toward the window.

***

Ban Jo was a man called by the alias ‘Red Ape’ in the Blood Death Alliance.

Red monkey.

In other words, it meant he was that versatile.

He carefully touched the box loaded on the cart.

Though it looked like a simple and ordinary wooden box on the outside, it was actually a very precisely crafted hidden weapon launcher.

‘Good, now I can eliminate that bastard!’

Ban Jo clenched his fist.

He had already begun the operation to eliminate Sa Bigang two days ago.

First was the honey trap.

The guy traveling with Sa Bigang had brought women by seducing them.

Those women were all his planted subordinates.

But for some reason, they only shared drinks and didn’t sleep together.

Later he heard there was a lover?

In the end, the assassination using the honey trap ended in failure.

It was a strategy that could only succeed if Sa Bigang had relations with the women.

So he cleanly abandoned that method.

‘Unlucky righteous faction bastards are all like that, anyway.’

They’re the type who would be proud of not being swayed even when seeing beautiful women right in front of them and could live for days on that feeling alone even if they starved.

Then this time, he’d use a different method.

Precisely exploiting those righteous faction bastards’ pathetic sense of justice and consideration.

Soon, Sa Bigang would pass through here.

Then the old man he had arranged in advance would pretend to struggle desperately to pull a cart out of a pit.

Righteous faction bastards who live and die for righteousness would surely meddle and try to help.

When they touched the cart or wooden box, hidden weapons would immediately fire.

The hidden weapons consisted of poison needles.

Since they’d be fired from right in front, it would be absolutely impossible to dodge.

Protective energy barrier?

He’d be hit directly without any leisure to deploy such a thing.

The poison coating the needles was the deadliest among deadly poisons.

Without taking an antidote within half an hour, survival would be absolutely impossible.

He heard Tang Iháp was kept as a subordinate.

Therefore, he had specially coated them with a rare poison that even the Sichuan Tang Family couldn’t handle.

Very expensive poison.

Only he possessed the antidote.

‘Sa Bigang. No matter how extraordinary you might be, since you’ve become my target, survival will be difficult.’

Assassinations using such devices were more dangerous than assassins.

Precisely because they couldn’t be detected in advance.

The old man he hired had learned no martial arts at all, and no killing intent could be felt from the launching device.

The reason most assassins failed in assassination was precisely because of that uncontrollable killing intent.

No matter how much they hid and concealed it, killing intent would inevitably arise at the moment of trying to kill the target.

But inanimate hidden weapon launchers were different.

In that aspect, they were more useful than most masters.

“Huhhuhu. Now I should just watch and see.”

Ban Jo curled his lips upward.

Now he just needed to hide at an appropriate distance and watch.

***

It was when Sa Bigang and Chu Ryang were walking down the hill road.

By the roadside, an old man was struggling desperately to pull a cart out of a pit.

Chu Ryang glanced at Sa Bigang and asked.

“Shouldn’t we help him?”

“Leave it. In the martial world, kindness shouldn’t be carelessly bestowed.”

“But that old man isn’t a martial artist, is he?”

“I know that too.”

Chu Ryang didn’t argue further and obediently listened.

But just then, the old man requested help first.

“There, you two. Are you perhaps martial artists?”

“Yes, that’s right. Haha.”

Chu Ryang readily stepped forward and answered.

The old man’s face brightened as he spoke.

“Won’t you help this old man? I need to pull the cart up, but it just won’t come out of the pit. If the two heroes would help this old man, I won’t forget the favor.”

Sa Bigang stopped walking and glanced back.

“What will you do for us if we help?”

At the unexpected words, the old man showed a bewildered expression.

He rolled his eyes for a moment before answering.

“I don’t have much, but I’ll definitely reward you.”

“So with what?”

“Uhm. One tael of silver…”

“No deal.”

Sa Bigang coldly turned around.

The old man was desperate.

He had received thirty taels of silver as payment for this job.

It was truly exceptional conditions.

But if he failed to complete the mission?

Not only would the thirty taels be taken away, but he might receive harsh reprimand.

“Si-silver, I’ll give you five taels!”

“I don’t want to sweat for a mere five taels.”

“Te-ten taels!”

“……”

“Fifteen taels!”

“Good luck.”

The old man was troubled.

What kind of heartless person was this?

If he had a body trained in martial arts, he could at least help a little!

Chu Ryang also had no choice but to follow Sa Bigang.

The desperate old man shouted loudly.

“Wait! Wait!”

“What?”

“I’ll give you thirty taels. It’s everything I have.”

It was true.

Of course, after paying these thirty taels, he planned to demand equivalent compensation from his employer.

Sa Bigang seemed to think for a moment, then nodded.

“Good, if it’s that much, it’s worth exerting effort.”

He walked over steadily and went to the back of the cart.

“Then, I’ll pull from the front.”

As soon as the old man spoke, he quickly grabbed the handle and lifted it up.

Due to this, the wooden box loaded on the cart slid and came crashing toward Sa Bigang and Chu Ryang.