Chapter 226
##226fury. Secret of the Namgung family (4) - Message of the Dead)
<Blood Demon Church Anhui Branch>
Baek Soo-ryong's voice trembled slightly when he saw the writing on the signboard..
“Here… … It was a branch of a blood religion.?”
Below the plaque, the entrance inside was blocked by a large rock. It seemed like someone had blocked it from the outside..
White Water Dragon walked forward, drew his sword, and swung it like a thunderbolt..
썣썄죤 죣죣!
A pile of stones collapsed into dozens of pieces. The White Water Dragon released tension and moved the pile of stones aside..
Then what was revealed was a huge, half-crumpled iron door..
The image of the bleeding devil worshiped by the blood religion was grotesquely distorted..
Saaaaa-
“What a chill…….”
White breath leaked out from Baeksu-ryong’s mouth..
It was because through the gap in the dented iron door, a chill that was enough to make my skin tremble came out..
White Water Dragon raised his internal energy to resist the cold and pushed the door with both hands..
It's good…….
The door opened slowly, making an unpleasant noise..
Although it had already been confirmed that there was no one inside, Baek Soo-ryong went inside without relaxing..
“…….”
Baek Soo-ryong gazed at the scenery unfolding in front of him..
It felt completely different from the treasure trove that the devil's brain had arranged for future blood demons that I saw in the evil song..
This was where the followers of the Blood Religion actually lived..
Objects and clothing that appeared to have been used by the cultists, as well as traces of fighting, were visible..
and.
There were hundreds of frozen, white bodies..
Corpses, half-frozen in the strange cold inside the cavity, were strewn here and there, looking poorly decomposed..
“…….”
The sight of believers wearing dark red clothes, which I had not seen in a long time, gave me a strange inspiration..
Jump and run.
Only the sound of footsteps echoed in the quiet cavity..
Baeksu-ryong slowly crossed the cavity and looked at the corpses..
The dead welcomed visitors for the first time in decades with white frost on their skin..
There were also corpses distorted in anger, writhing in pain, or with expressions of comfort even at the moment of death..
Most of the corpses were adults, but some were children as young as ten years old..
And their cause of death was all one.
‘They all died from sword wounds. Only one person did it.’
Even Baek Soo-ryong's eyes could see traces of a sophisticated swordsmanship that was admirable..
Under the circumstances, it appeared that the peerless expert had single-handedly killed hundreds of blood cultists..
Even if you search all over the martial arts world, there are only a few swordsmen of this level..
And now, there was only one swordsman that came to Baek Soo-ryong’s mind..
“Changcheon Sword King…….”
Baek Soo-ryong muttered to himself and walked towards the inside of the cavity..
I didn't feel sorry for the dead..
If they were alive, they would have contributed to the resurrection of the blood religion and brought about a bloody terror in the martial arts world..
‘Why is there a branch of a blood religion in the basement of the Namgung family’s shrine??’
It is impossible for a branch of a blood religion to be established here without the approval of the Namgung family..
So since when did King Namgung have a branch of the blood religion underground?.
Before the religion collapsed?
Or after it goes bankrupt?
Could it be that the Namgung family has been under the control of a blood religion for a very long time??
So what are these corpses here??
Why did the Changcheon Sword King kill them??
Questions continued one after another..
There were a few assumptions that came to mind, but they were still just hasty guesses. I needed a little more clues.
Baek Soo-ryong looked around the cavity and walked further and further inward..
‘What if this place was really used as a branch of a blood religion?…….’
There will be an altar for sacrifices.
And the altar was likely to be inside the cavity..
After a while, the white water dragon discovered a high altar..
As we got closer, we saw a corpse leaning helplessly on top of the altar..
But this corpse somehow looked familiar..
White Water Dragon's eyes grew bigger and bigger..
“no way…….”
His right arm was cut off and his face was half mangled, so it was difficult to recognize him at first..
However, through his unique clothing, which was half black and half white on the left and right, Baek Soo-ryong remembered the other person's identity from his memories of his past life..
Baek Su-ryong furrowed his eyebrows and muttered..
“Yin Yang Mazon?”
Yin Yang Mazon).
Fifty years ago, he was one of the five elders of the blood religion, and he was a super expert who trained both extreme yang martial arts and extreme yin martial arts at the same time with a special constitution called yin-yang body..
The Yin-Yang Mazon must have been unable to close his eyes due to injustice until the moment of his death, and was looking up at the ceiling with his eyes wide open..
“……You left a will.”
White Water Dragon saw graffiti scribbled in blood around the corpse of the Yin-Yang Mazon..
To someone who doesn't know it, it may look like meaningless scribbles, but it is actually a secret word of a blood religion..
death to the traitor!
At the end of the last letter, the Yin-Yang Mazon's left index finger rested like a broken brush..
After cutting off his finger with his teeth, he left a message on the floor with the blood flowing from the wound..
White Water Dragon began to interpret the secret words of blood religion that the Yin-Yang Mazon left behind in abundance around the altar..
I went back from the last letter and found the first sentence..
Namgung Jehak. I didn't trust him from the beginning..
Namgung Jehak was the name of the Changcheon Sword King..
He came to me while I was being chased by the Murim League and made an offer..
If you give me the location of the church's wealth hidden in the world and the church's military achievements, I will provide a shelter for the 100 believers I have..
Baeksu-ryong’s pupils got bigger..
Through the will of the Yin Yang Mazon, the secrets surrounding the Namgung family and their blood relationship were being revealed one by one..
For the first ten years, he kept his promise..
He created a hideout for us in the basement of the Namgung family's shrine, and also found and brought in believers who were being chased by the Murim Alliance..
In return, I told them where our school's martial arts and wealth were hidden..
There was no other way…….
White Water Dragon recalled the image of the Yin-Yang Mazon he had seen in the past..
For an elder of a blood religion, he was a very compassionate man..
He especially enjoyed teaching martial arts, and when instructors sometimes visited him and asked for advice, he was not bothered and did not spare any advice..
Because of this, there were many followers among the instructors of the blood religion..
……After ten years, he started to change..
Support decreased, and demands for the school's vision began..
I should have escaped from here even then.…….
I was too stupid to know.
This was not a resting place, but a cage to confine animals.!
The emotions of anger and regret were keenly felt in the message left by the Yin-Yang Mazon..
He even coveted the martial arts instructors at our school..
This is because our school has the most outstanding technology in the world for training martial artists..
“……what?”
Baek Soo-ryong's expression hardened at the story, which was not unrelated to his past life..
Namgung Jehak made a promise to the principal..
He said he would provide shelter on earth when the time was right, so just wait until then..
In the end, the instructors who followed me passed on the teaching skills they had accumulated to the Namgung family..
But the promise was postponed from time to time…….
Thirty years have passed..
And a few days ago, he came to us with a sword..
The finger must have stopped for a moment, and there was thick blood in that area..
He begged for the children who knew nothing to be spared, but he was afraid that the secret would be leaked and even murdered the children who had just been born..
Baek Soo-ryong stopped reading the will for a moment and closed his eyes..
The Yin-Yang Mazon's intense anger and resentment were clearly conveyed, and it was necessary to regain one's cool for a moment..
“…….”
A scene played out in my head..
The Yin-Yang Mazon kneeling and screaming while looking at the slaughtered cultists, and the Changcheon Sword King standing expressionlessly in front of him holding a sword..
It was the true face of a hypocrite wearing a mask of political faction..
“trash bastard.”
Baek Su-ryong opened his eyes again and read the last words left by the Yin-Yang Mazon with much calmer eyes..
But it looks like he still had a glimmer of conscience left..
When I told him that his last wish was to go up to the church's altar, pray, and die, he obediently retreated, closed the entrance, and left..
I guess they thought that I, who lost my martial arts skills due to the aftereffects of the war, would be unable to do anything..
……That's right.
I don't have the strength to break through the door he blocked, and I'm dying right here..
It will probably be difficult to withstand even one angle..
The handwriting he left behind in his will was becoming increasingly blurred. It meant that my fingers were losing strength..
“So if you organize it…….”
There was a little more left in the latter part, but Baek Soo-ryong stopped reading for a moment and gathered his thoughts..
“The Changcheon Sword King first found some of the survivors of the Blood Cult he was pursuing in the Murim Alliance and provided them with shelter in exchange for their martial arts skills, wealth, and martial arts training methods. And after sucking out the bone marrow, you vomited up?.”
In other words, it is a story that the blood religion's wealth, martial arts, and secret methods of educating warriors became the foundation of the current Namgung family, which is called the best family in the world..
“If it became known outside, there would be an uproar..”
If this fact were to become known to Moorim, the fallout would be enormous..
The Namgung family, who made a great contribution to destroying the blood religion, trapped the remnants of the blood religion in their house for decades and then used them to exterminate them.!
It was something that a prestigious political faction that discussed righteousness and cooperation should never have done..
If this fact becomes known, the reputation of the Namgung family will fall to the ground..
“Changcheon Sword King. you did something really crazy.”
Baek Su-ryong shook his head and finished reading the remaining will of the Yin-Yang Mazon..
Hehe… … But he doesn't know.
I know that I didn't just sit there and suffer for thirty years..
We planted the seeds of destruction in the future of the Namgung family..
I don't know when it will germinate…….
“Seed of Doom?”
The writing gradually became lighter, but instead I felt a strong sense of life..
Fortunately, we managed to get a few people out before he threw up on us..
If those children can visit the headquarters of our school, they will come back and take revenge on us, whether it takes ten or a hundred years.!
death to the traitor!
That was the end of the message left by the Yin Yang Mazon..
The blurry text became darker again at the end. It seemed like a half-bird regaining its strength for a moment before dying..
“…….”
The White Water Dragon looked at the corpse of the Yin-Yang Mazon for a moment, then placed it upright on the altar of blood religion..
Although he was an elder of a hateful blood religion, he was a man who rarely cared for his followers..
When he was a martial arts instructor for the Blood Religion, Baek Soo-ryong also asked him for advice a few times..
Baek Su-ryong sighed softly..
“Elder Oh. I will do your makeup for you..”
It was a small relationship, but it was also a relationship..
Baek Soo-ryong decided to cremate him according to the funeral customs of the blood religion..
It was not as a blood cult, but as a courtesy to a warrior whom I once respected..
They brought burnable items from the surroundings and placed them around the corpse, creating internal energy to drive out the cold around them..
All clothes were taken off..
It was the method of blood religion to burn the body in the same state as when it was born..
“Goodbye.”
White Water Dragon lit the paper on fire and threw it into the firewood..
Grumbling!
The flame spread through the firewood, and warmth began to spread..
But at that moment, the final message hidden in the Yin-Yang Mazon's body was revealed..
You are from our school..
The Murim League may be able to interpret the secret language of our church, but they would never have thought of taking off my clothes and holding a funeral for me..
“This is…….”
Baek Soo-ryong's eyes widened at the unexpected last message..
The Yin-Yang Mazon's final message started from the chest and went down to the stomach..
open my stomach.
Inside, a plan to destroy the Namgung family was hidden..
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