Dark and Light Martial Emperor

Chapter 36. The Difference in Level (2)

Yeon Hojeong looked around the first floor of Juru.

As expected, there was no one in Juru. It was unusually deserted here, as if everyone had been driven away.

‘Hmm.’

He felt a presence from the kitchen. Judging by the lack of inner power, they were probably the cooks and the waiters.

Dangyangseon licked his lips.

“Why? Are you surprised?”

He was surprised.

The aura that Dangyangseon unleashed at the banquet was real. Any decent expert would feel fear when exposed to that level of aura.

But this guy was waiting for him here in Juru.

He had to admit at least his mental strength. He wished the members of Changyeongjo would see and learn from him.

“It seems one arm was not enough for you.”

“What, what did you say?”

Dangyangseon’s face turned red in an instant.

Yeon Hojeong ignored him and headed to the kitchen.

“Hey.”

“Ah! Yes, yes!”

The cooks and the waiters were trembling in the corner of the kitchen.

Yeon Hojeong took out ten silver coins from his bosom.

“I need some food for about thirty people, soldiers and officers. Anything that can be done quickly.”

“…Huh?”

“Keep the change.”

Then, a sharp scream erupted.

“Hey! You bastard!”

Yeon Hojeong looked back at Dangyangseon.

Crack!

He kicked the table and got up. A terrifying poison aura swirled around his body.

“How dare you ignore me, you trash?”

Yeon Hojeong asked.

“Where did you drive everyone away?”

Dangyangseon spat.

“What do you care, you worms.”

He felt it at the banquet, but Dangyangseon’s personality was definitely problematic.

He looked down on everyone except himself. He thought he was of a different class.

Even for the eldest son of a renowned family in the world, this was too much. He wondered if his parents had deliberately raised him to be a vicious person.

‘Well.’

He was from a family that dealt with poison and secret arts. A ruthless hand would have a great impact on the mind. It was not incomprehensible that he lived like a crown prince in such a family.

“So? Did you want to take revenge?”

“Revenge? Don’t make me laugh, trash. This is not revenge, this is execution.”

Execution?

Woong.

Dangyangseon’s eyes turned purple. He raised his Samsanggong to the extreme.

“I don’t know what kind of magic you used, but it won’t work this time. I’ll make you scream for three days and nights and then die.”

Yeon Hojeong snickered.

He was going to kill the eldest son of a family that had risen to fame as one of the seven great families. Not because he had the ability to bear the consequences, but simply because he was in a bad mood.

Dangyangseon’s eyes bulged.

“Laugh? How dare you?”

“Because you’re pathetic.”

“You, you bastard!”

Yeon Hojeong looked around the kitchen. The cooks and the waiters were still trembling.

“Did you not take the order?”

How could they dare to cook? The notorious eldest son of the Sachoendang family was there.

Yeon Hojeong sighed.

“I guess I have to clean up first.”

Dangyangseon, who was trembling, sneered coldly.

“You idiot.”

Yeon Hojeong turned his shoulder without a word. His muscles were not fully recovered, but they were calm.

Woo woo woo.

A thicker poison aura spread from Dangyangseon’s body.

“You’re already poisoned, you idiot.”

“Poisoned?”

“I released the Changumdox (Factory Shadow Poison). You lowlifes can’t even feel it…”

Puke!

Dangyangseon opened his mouth wide.

Yeon Hojeong had approached him in an instant and hit his abdomen.

This blow was truly explosive. Yeon Hojeong’s fist sank into Dangyangseon’s abdomen up to his wrist.

“Kweeek!”

Dangyangseon collapsed on the spot and spat out a mouthful of blood.

But that was not the end. He injured his internal organs with a single blow. If he had not pulled his strength at the last moment, his large and small intestines would have been severed. He almost died in the agony of true intestinal rupture.

Of course, it was still painful enough.

“Cough! Kaaak!”

Dangyangseon rolled on the floor, clutching his abdomen.

It was a pain that could not be controlled by inner power. It was a blow that was not intended to kill, but to inflict pain thoroughly.

He writhed in pain as if he were going crazy, but Dangyangseon could not hide his bewilderment.

‘Why?!’

The Changumdox was colorless and odorless. But it had no effect by itself.

Samsanggong.

The moment the poison aura of the Samsanggong, which he unleashed to the extreme, combined with the Changumdox, it made the opponent lose control of himself. But the opponent was fine even after being exposed to the Samsangdox (Three Yang Poison Aura).

‘Why on earth!!’

Crack!

Dangyangseon’s eyes widened.

“Kuaaak!”

His right arm, which had been broken by the elbow, broke again. Yeon Hojeong stepped on it and broke it again.

It was a cruel attack.

Then, there was a sudden movement on the third floor of Juru.

“Stop, stop!”

Paaak!

The ones who came down to the first floor were the Dokryongcheolpyeon Hanhomyeong and the Cheokjuda (Red Spider Squad), who had escorted Dangyangseon.

They had no choice but to hide on the top floor because Dangyangseon said he would handle it alone. But they were a little relieved because he had sprayed the Changumdox.

But they didn’t expect the fight to end with one blow.

Hanhomyeong shouted.

“Save the prince right now…!”

Gulp.

Yeon Hojeong stepped on Dangyangseon’s neck.

Dangyangseon’s neck turned blue in an instant. He couldn’t breathe on top of the pain.

No, it wasn’t a matter of breathing. If he put more strength here, Dangyangseon would die of a broken neck.

Hanhomyeong and the Cheokjuda members turned pale.

Yeon Hojeong pointed at Hanhomyeong.

“You.”

“…?!”

“Come here.”

Hanhomyeong trembled.

Yeon Hojeong’s pupils had a blue glow.

Gwooook.

“Krrrr.”

Dangyangseon’s eyes rolled back. He was on the verge of dying from suffocation.

“Stop! I’ll go! I’ll go, so stop!”

Yeon Hojeong took his foot off. Then, Dangyangseon spat out a rough breath.

Hanhomyeong came to Yeon Hojeong with a lot of tension.

At that moment, he was swept by a strong temptation. He had gotten close to the opponent within a zhang, so he wondered if he could attack him and get away from Dangyangseon.

Yeon Hojeong reached out his hand.

“Don’t think about anything useless, and give me that thick iron whip you have around your waist.”

“…?!”

Yeon Hojeong didn’t give him time to think.

Puke! Crack!

“Kwuk!”

Dangyangseon’s right leg broke.

Hanhomyeong’s face turned dark.

“I’ll give it to you! I’ll give it to you!”

He hurriedly handed over the whip. It was an iron whip with sharp pieces of iron attached to the elastic metal.

Yeon Hojeong took the iron whip and swung it once.

Peeoong!

“Kuk!”

Hanhomyeong flew towards the Cheokjuda.

It was a fast and exquisite surprise attack. No matter how good Hanhomyeong’s skills were, it was not easy to block in this situation.

The Cheokjuda caught Hanhomyeong in an awkward posture.

And then, Yeon Hojeong moved.

Chiririring!

The iron whip in his hand came loose and made a chilling sound.

“What, what is that?”

“Be careful!”

The three Cheokjuda members who caught Hanhomyeong each put their hands in their bosoms. They were trying to pull out their secret weapons.

Yeon Hojeong’s eyes flashed.

Pebberberberk!

The floor and the wall were stained with blood.

There was no scream. The iron whip became a living snake and mercilessly wrapped around the Cheokjuda members and knocked them down.

‘Huk!’

Hanhomyeong’s eyes widened.

Whirik! Peeoak! Ppak!

The movement of the iron whip was beyond imagination.

He couldn’t tell how he swung it. He couldn’t tell if it was a whip or something else. It just looked like dozens of iron whips were wriggling in the air.

Phwaaak!

The Cheokjuda squad was blown away by the blood.

There was no place to avoid in the narrow space. But that made it even more amazing.

It was something that Hanhomyeong couldn’t do, to adjust the iron whip, which was hard to handle, to fit the narrow space and knock down the opponent.

‘What am I seeing?!’

Yeon Hojeong’s whip technique (鞭法) was terrifying. No, this was not a whip technique. It was similar to a whip technique, but much more cruel.

‘How can this be!’

No matter what martial art it was, he couldn’t help but lose his mind in front of this overwhelming power. The Cheokjuda couldn’t even pull out their secret weapons properly and were all knocked down.

A weapon skill that reached the level of a divine skill. But Yeon Hojeong didn’t seem satisfied and frowned.

‘It would have been better if it was a chain.’

The martial art that he was most confident in was the axe and the chain. He would break through the enemies with the axe tied to the chain, or annihilate a whole enemy unit with a single chain.

‘I’ll have to get an iron hook later.’

He knocked down nearly twenty enemies in the blink of an eye and threw the iron whip away.

Hanhomyeong’s eyes glared.

He had hit his allies with his own weapon. That was enough to make him angry, but he threw it away as if he had touched something he couldn’t touch.

“You bastard!”

Bang!

Hanhomyeong’s hand swung towards Yeon Hojeong’s back. He didn’t care if the opponent was the son of Yeonga anymore.

Then, Yeon Hojeong grabbed Dangyangseon’s ankle.

Peeoak!

Dangyangseon’s eyes widened. Hanhomyeong’s face turned pale.

Hanhomyeong’s palm touched Dangyangseon’s waist.

Thud.

“Kuaaak!”

Dangyangseon collapsed on the spot.

His waist bone cracked. Was it lucky that it didn’t break? But if he didn’t treat it soon, he would live as a cripple for the rest of his life.

Yeon Hojeong bit his tongue.

“You knocked down your allies and tried to make my master a fool? Well, you must have been angry after serving under this guy.”

“…!!”

“I hope Dang Gaju would be generous to you after seeing their wounds. You must have suffered a lot.”

Hanhomyeong’s face turned blank.

Dangyangseon muttered half-consciously.

“Why, why did you…?!”

Puke!

Yeon Hojeong kicked Dangyangseon and knocked him out. He fainted.

Hanhomyeong was the same. He didn’t need to be knocked out. He had already lost his mind.

Yeon Hojeong crouched down in front of him.

“Do you want to live?”

“…!”

“I’ll tell you how to live. If you answer my question first.”

Hanhomyeong looked at Yeon Hojeong with empty eyes.

“It’s strange when you think about it. Unless you or your master have been wandering around the Central Plains for your whole lives, it would have been hard for you to know that we were heading this way. It’s quite far from Hambi.”

“…?!”

“Did you get a good informant or something? That wouldn’t be easy either. You could do anything if you wanted to, but this bastard said it was only two days ago?”

“That, that is…!”

“Let’s not make things harder for ourselves.”

Yeon Hojeong’s eyes flashed.

“Who told you that we were heading here?”

* * *

“Huh! Your Highness?”

“What?”

“Oh, there’s blood on your clothes…?”

“Oh, this? It’s nothing. Don’t worry about it, and take this. There’s a lot of it. Oh dear, our second prince has lost his appetite.”

He couldn’t help but worry.

Shinmo’s eyes turned fierce.

“Could it be, Namgung?”

He had heard belatedly why the prince had made such a big fuss yesterday. If he had someone do such a thing, it was likely that it was Namgung Hyun this time.

Yeon Hojeong snickered.

“You don’t have to worry about it anymore.”

Shinmo felt a chill.

“Could it be…”

“Hey, do you think I would have killed him? I’d rather make him a fool.”

Isn’t that more horrible?

Yeon Hojeong looked at Juru.

“Sometimes, the tongue is more frightening than the sword.”