Chapter 206 |
The Blood Immortal Sect members all want to receive the secret arts of Blood Immortals and become Blood Immortals themselves.
Among them, the top ten executives are called the Blood Immortal Ten Thousand Army, those closest to becoming Blood Immortals.
They could be said to be those who have half-shed their human shell and are advancing toward the Way of Beasts.
Therefore, their methods of cultivation are things humans should never do.
Though called by many names, they’re different from the Demonic Cult – the Sun Moon Divine Sect – at their very roots.
The Blood Immortals they serve fundamentally enjoy controlling and playing with humans.
They are Evil Immortals, Devil Immortals.
In the end, their goal lies in chaos and blood itself. Unifying the world was never their purpose.
Pure evil, in other words.
“Yes.”
“How have such people hidden in the martial world until now?”
The master clicked his tongue without changing expression.
Finally, he spoke.
“However, if it’s possible, it means they must be that powerful. And for some reason, my disciple knows about such beings.”
“Hahaha…”
“I briefly wondered if you might be an escapee from the Blood Immortal Sect or a spy, but there’s too much evidence against that. Given the circumstances, it seems right to think the Blood Immortal Sect didn’t know about you either.”
“…”
Don’t ask.
That was their agreement.
But Jin Cheonhee wondered if it could be maintained even in such matters.
Though his master said he didn’t doubt him, it would be natural to have doubts.
“…”
Silence pressed down on the air.
Though he wanted to run away from that weight immediately, he couldn’t because this was none other than his master.
Finally, Zhuge Rin spoke.
“You must have struggled, bearing this burden alone.”
“!”
That was all Zhuge Rin said.
Just concern and sympathy for his disciple.
Just one sentence. A brief sentence. But at that one sentence containing so much, something welled up inside Jin Cheonhee.
It climbed up his throat like a sigh, urging him to tell everything. But Jin Cheonhee had to forcefully suppress it.
Something that even he wouldn’t believe if someone else told him.
Not wanting this relationship to break, he just kept his mouth shut and stared at his master for a long while.
“…”
The master stroked his disciple’s head with profound eyes.
Feeling his master’s concern, the disciple thought.
It’s impossible to hide everything forever anyway. The Blood Immortal Sect must have realized things aren’t going according to plan. They’ll become more persistent now.
The beginning of “Supreme Heavenly Demon” starts with Little Supreme Heavenly Demon Yeo Ha-ryoon joining the Demonic Cult.
Though there were stories of the attacks Jin Cheonhee experienced and the deaths, those parts weren’t heavily depicted.
Rather, the story focused more on Yeo Ha-ryoon’s training in the Demonic Cult and completing missions.
Many people died.
There were evil people, but there were more good ones.
Like water slowly rising, by the time one realized, everything had been prepared.
During that process, Yeo Ha-ryoon gained opportunities and formed relationships.
His full encounter with the Blood Immortal Sect happens after the middle part.
While fighting against them, he loses many companions and subordinates.
However, that doesn’t mean Yeo Ha-ryoon lacked ability.
Days of fighting against the madness of the Heavenly Killing Star.
But the Demonic Cult itself had its own problems.
The current Demonic Cult leader, the Supreme Heavenly Demon, was preparing for ascension, and he indeed succeeded.
That is, he succeeded in ascending to immortality.
But before ascending.
Like an excellent leader, he declared he would select the next generation’s Supreme Heavenly Demon to continue his legacy.
The Supreme Heavenly Demon Blood Path.
In the Demonic Cult where the strong rule, successor Demon Lords would kill each other to determine a single Supreme Heavenly Demon.
Conflict, scheming, and bloody battles amid fratricidal strife.
During this, the martial world would be dyed in blood, regardless of Righteous Faction, Unorthodox Faction, or commoners.
But was that wrong?
Jin Cheonhee could assert it was wrong. But from the Demonic Cult’s perspective, it was poison breeding to birth a true Supreme Heavenly Demon.
The current Supreme Heavenly Demon was strong and had leadership ability, but he was also infinitely close to being demonic.
His ego, approaching madness, became ever more steel-like within the providence of the strong ruling.
The Demonic Cult was his duty to bear and legacy to pass on.
Supreme Heavenly Demon meant one who would bear the weight of the crown and must be strong, cunning, and ruthless.
As he himself was.
So too must the next generation’s successor be.
Therefore, the Supreme Heavenly Demon Blood Path was the Demonic Cult’s tradition and blood-drinking flower.
When that flower withered in blood and bore fruit.
The next Supreme Heavenly Demon would sprout.
After watching this, he seemed satisfied and crossed the final wall of selfless state to ascend to immortality.
It would be an exciting story full of romance. If only I weren’t in this world.
As a reader, it could be called an thrilling development.
The problem was that having fallen into the martial world, Jin Cheonhee himself was now involved.
Jin Cheonhee cherished his friends.
He cherished Wang Gak-yeon, Three Seasons Tiger, and Tang-ah. The Namgoong siblings and Gongsun sisters.
The people of the Hwangbo Clan. The people he met at the Beggar’s Sect and Hao Sect.
People like Nun Abi of the Putuo Merchant Guild and Putuo Temple.
The adored emperors. The relationships with people in the Imperial Palace were precious.
Bloodborne Elder Eccentric was peculiar and strange but interesting in her own way.
He loved his younger brothers too.
He loved Cheon Woo, and Sama Hyeon whom he met today.
Though he always fought with Yoo Ho, he was still grateful.
He loved his master.
He could do anything if it meant saving him.
The White Dragon Medical Pavilion was his home and everyone he met there was family. They were relationships his master had given him.
And finally.
He loved Yeo Ha-ryoon.
As a martial arts novel reader, he loved the boy’s heroic tales.
He had walked alongside the protagonist’s joys and sorrows.
Now seeing him in person and crossing life and death together, he had feelings he couldn’t tell others.
I see. I’ve come to have too many precious people.
Because he didn’t want to lose any of them.
Sacrifice…
Death.
Jin Cheonhee’s eyes trembled slightly.
Days of fighting desperately to change the future.
A premonition swept over him that this was the turning point.
It was a sensation only someone who had experienced death once could feel.
He hesitated because it was such a faint feeling that he couldn’t be certain.
And then the choice.
“Master. I know the future.”
Zhuge Rin’s eyes widened briefly, then he nodded.
“This will be a long story.”
He didn’t press about why his disciple had hidden it until now, or if it meant he couldn’t even trust his master.
He just quietly looked into his disciple’s eyes.
Under his master’s profound gaze, Jin Cheonhee felt his soul being pierced.
“…I don’t know where to begin the story.”
Of course, he didn’t tell about dying one day and finding himself in a martial arts novel world.
What Jin Cheonhee could tell was a vague story.
About obtaining some relic one day and glimpsing the future through it.
That he hadn’t known it was a special relic then, but now he did.
He didn’t say that the relic was a novel called “Supreme Heavenly Demon.”
“I don’t remember who made it or what the relic looked like.”
It was strange, actually.
Such a long novel. Something he’d read with such enjoyment should normally leave memories of its cover or author, but only that he couldn’t remember.
“Do you remember where you got it?”
“…”
Jin Cheonhee shook his head.
He couldn’t even remember how he came to buy that book.
After saying it, even though he expressed it as a relic, it was still an incredibly absurd story.
Haha, even I think I’m talking nonsense…
Zhuge Rin, who had been listening silently to his disciple, asked:
“Then is your unique medical technique also related to that relic?”
“No, it isn’t. But if you ask if there’s absolutely no connection, that’s not true either.”
Since they’re both from Earth, from the future.
“I see.”
“…”
Time like countless eons passed in an instant. Finally, Zhuge Rin spoke:
“Yes. That’s enough.”
“You won’t ask more?”
“If I think about your strange movements, it fits. Though I hoped some of my guesses weren’t true, they match, which is troublesome.”
His long silver hair scattered diagonally.
“I already know you haven’t told everything. However, I also know that’s for my sake, not yours. So it’s fine. That’s enough.”
Zhuge Rin closed his eyes.
His elegant brow furrowed slightly.
“Just thinking that you were bearing such a huge burden alone worries me. Fist Emperor said I worry too much, but hearing this, even that much worry wasn’t excessive.”
“Ha, hahaha…”
“This isn’t something to laugh off, Cheonhee.”
Though the master said so, his disciple just laughed awkwardly.
He hadn’t expected him to believe this crazy story.
That meant Zhuge Rin had been watching over his disciple as a master that much.
It also meant he had trusted his disciple enough to transcend human reason.
Somewhere in his empty chest had always ached.
Coming alone to this world, there were many happy and joyful things, but often he felt like a stranger.
He couldn’t tell anyone he knew the future, couldn’t share modern jokes or talk about things everyone knew.
He missed fast food restaurants, missed ramyeon.
He even missed cheap instant coffee.
Though it could no longer be called cheap now, loneliness would sweep over him when he craved that taste.
“Cheonhee, what do you intend to do with this knowledge of the future?”
At those words, what had been welling up flowed out as light.
The loneliness flowing from his eyes whispered to his heart that he was here.
Wiping it away with the back of his hand, Jin Cheonhee spoke calmly:
“…Save people. That’s what a doctor does.”
“…”
Zhuge Rin looked at his disciple.
Finally, with a small smile, he said this:
“Then my task is set.”
“What is it?”
“A simple matter. You save people, and I save you.”
At the same time, it was also the hardest thing in the world.