Chronicles of the Demonic Cult Conversion-Chapter 20 : Chapter 20

Chapter 20. Doesn't It Greatly Affect Your Life?
‘So, it has come.’
Jin Yeong-in knew that a day like this would come.
He just didn’t know that it would be today.
Yes, in the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, would there only be people who were indebted to the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky?
Jin Yeong-in’s master, the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky, had performed countless chivalrous acts in his lifetime, and as such, he was bound to have accumulated many grudges.
Wouldn’t there be more than a few demonic practitioners who were stopped by the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky while trying to commit evil deeds?
Besides, the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky was a figure who was thoroughly disliked even by people from the same righteous faction.
How much discrimination, contempt, and poor treatment Jin Yeong-in had received for the reason that he was the disciple of the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky…….
Experiencing trouble because of the grudges his master had accumulated was a very familiar experience for Jin Yeong-in.
But Jin Yeong-in did not resent his master.
He was not unaware that becoming someone’s disciple meant inheriting not only the master’s teachings but also his favors and grudges.
Also, wasn’t it that he had not only suffered hardships due to his master’s karma?
The fact that he was able to shake off the pursuit of the Righteous Heavenly Alliance and enter the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult right away was thanks to the connection his master had made with the Iron-Blooded Demonic God in his lifetime.
‘Where there is a favor, there is a grudge, and where there is a grudge, there is a favor, I suppose. Just as yin and yang are. It might not be for nothing that those Wudang Sect bastards keep talking about the Taegeuk(Ultimate Supreme). in circles.’
……That was as far as it went.
The malice right in front of him was closer than his thoughts.
“Huuu. Considering you’ve defected, I’ll at least spare your life. Our cult is not so cowardly as to kill a defector. However, I must take one of your eyes. The higher-ups won’t reprimand me too much for that, will they?”
“Haha……”
Jin Yeong-in scratched the back of his head with a hollow laugh.
He wondered if the man would still be able to spout such nonsense if he knew who had approved the defection.
“Don’t worry too much. I’m not cutting off your limbs, so one eye won’t greatly affect your life.”
“Can’t you just let it go?”
“What?”
“You said it yourself that it doesn’t greatly affect your life. Then it’s not something worth bringing up after 30 years to get revenge for, is it.”
“Th-that is.”
Jang In-geol was momentarily at a loss for words and hesitated.
“……”
The Ghost Soldier Corps members also couldn’t really refute Jin Yeong-in’s words, as they seemed plausible.
“Now that I hear it, it seems so……”
“This bastard!”
“S-sorry!”
One of the clueless members nodded at Jin Yeong-in’s words and got hit on the back of the head by Jang In-geol.
“How dare you.”
Jang In-geol growled at Jin Yeong-in.
“Just like the disciple of Jang Guk-pyeong, you are as slick as can be.”
“……”
Jin Yeong-in could not agree with Jang In-geol’s words.
‘In what way?’
It was absurd to say he was as slick as his master.
The Divine Hero of the Azure Sky was fundamentally extremely talkative, it was hard to find a serious side to him, and as Jang In-geol had said, he was a slick old fox.
It was so bad that when the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky would spin his heroic tales, Jin Yeong-in would often get fed up and cover his ears.
“Or is it because you’ve been influenced by the righteous faction? Just like a bastard from the righteous faction, you run your three-inch to……”
Crack!
“Guk!”
Jang In-geol spewed blood from his mouth and was sent flying.
Clatter!
Bloody yellow corn—his teeth—fell out with a clatter.
“S-Squad Leader!”
“Squad Leader Jang!”
The startled Ghost Soldier Corps members rushed towards the fallen Jang In-geol.
“The one who should be careful with their three-inch tongue is you, not me.”
Jin Yeong-in, holding a bloody dumbbell that he had picked up at some point, threatened Jang In-geol.
“And…… don’t lump me in with those trash-like bastards. I grind my teeth at the mere mention of righteous faction bastards.”
A warning as cold as frost.
Was it because his hatred for the righteous faction was close to a bottomless abyss?
“……!”
The Ghost Soldier Corps members flinched, but it was only for a moment.
“This son of a bitch……!”
Jang In-geol, who had shot up, revealed his killing intent towards Jin Yeong-in.
Several of his teeth were missing, causing him to lisp, and his speech was slurred, but his momentum was so ferocious that no one dared to laugh.
“I’ll kill you!”
Jang In-geol charged at Jin Yeong-in.
***
“Grrrr!”
The momentum of the enraged Jang In-geol was truly like that of a beast.
Seeing his face flushed red and his eyes bloodshot, it was clear that his demonic qi was boiling over and beginning to consume his reason.
“Kyaaaaaak!”
Jang In-geol let out a bizarre scream and swung his saber.
A lethal technique.
It was a clear intent to kill, a momentum to truly kill Jin Yeong-in.
‘Danger!’
Jin Yeong-in hastily threw himself aside.
“You rat-like bastard! Kyaaaaaak!”
“Ugh!”
Jang In-geol’s attack, with his demonic qi boiling over, was truly fierce.
As was befitting his affiliation, Jang In-geol’s movements were chaotic, and he had many openings.
But his ferocious momentum and relentless pressure covered up a significant portion of those weaknesses.
That was the true strength of a grizzled veteran.
Jang In-geol was a veteran who had participated in the Righteous-Demonic Great War and survived, and he was a seasoned warrior who had fought countless real battles while being a member of the Ghost Soldier Corps for the past few decades.
It would be redundant to say that Jang In-geol, who was merely a team leader of a lower-ranking military unit, was more frightening than the Seven Prodigies of Heavenly Martial, who had not once experienced a proper real battle.
Besides, wasn’t the current Jin Yeong-in nothing more than an ordinary person who had trained a little in outer arts, with not an iota of internal energy?
Clang, cla-ang!
Jang In-geol’s saber repeatedly struck the iron dumbbell—a dumbbell for fitness training—that Jin Yeong-in had hastily picked up, creating sparks.
‘Even a counterattack is dangerous.’
Jin Yeong-in could not easily counterattack.
A clumsy counterattack against a demonic practitioner whose demonic qi was boiling over meant death.
Unless he received a fatal wound, he would likely just take a decent attack and counterattack with a counterattack.
Just like a mutual destruction technique…….
‘If only I had an iota of internal energy.’
Just as Jin Yeong-in was biting his lower lip.
“Young Master Jin!”
Danmok Cheong, who had come running as if flying from a distance, hastily joined the fight.
“You crazy bastard! Do you know who this is!”
Of course, Jin Yeong-in’s identity was merely that of a defector.
But since the person who had approved the defection was who he was, Jin Yeong-in had become a person who could never be treated carelessly.
How could one even dare to touch him?
But it seemed Jang In-geol had no intention of listening to Danmok Cheong to the end.
“Get lost!”
“This person is the Cult Lead……”
“I’ll kill you too!”
“……!”
“Kyaaaaaaak!”
Jang In-geol let out a bizarre scream and launched a fierce attack on Danmok Cheong.
Blood vessels bulged all over Jang In-geol’s body, and the whites of his eyes had long since been stained crimson from bleeding.
It was clear that his demonic qi had boiled over to the point where he had already lost half of his reason.
“How dare you!”
“Do not interfere with the Ghost Soldier Corps’s event!”
In the meantime, the Ghost Soldier Corps members intervened and blocked Danmok Cheong.
It was a move to separate the meddler Danmok Cheong so that Jang In-geol could comfortably cut down Jin Yeong-in.
Thus, the one-on-one situation was formed again.
“You, kruk, will bitterly, krrruk, regret becoming the disciple of Jang Guk-pyeong. Kyaaaaaaaak―!!!”
Jang In-geol let out a bizarre scream and began to launch an indiscriminate attack on Jin Yeong-in.
***
On top of a pavilion not too far from the Body-Fortifying Prescription.
So U-bin leisurely put a long tobacco pipe to his lips.
The long and slender tobacco pipe was so extravagant that there was no doubt at a glance that it was a masterpiece created by a skilled craftsman.
Sizzle, the red charcoal in the bowl at the end of the tobacco pipe lit up.
“Hoo.”
Puffy smoke from the tobacco was blown out from So U-bin’s mouth.
“It’s a complete mess. Haha.”
So U-bin looked down at the Body-Fortifying Prescription in the distance and made a twisted smile.
A fight was in full swing in the Body-Fortifying Prescription.
Jin Yeong-in, who was barely holding on against Jang In-geol, and Jang In-geol, who was trying to kill Jin Yeong-in.
Danmok Cheong, who was trying to stop it, and the Ghost Soldier Corps members who blocked Danmok Cheong.
On top of that, even the Body-Fortifying Prescription rats who couldn’t bear to watch any longer and stepped in to help Jin Yeong-in and Danmok Cheong.
“Among all the fights to watch, the fight between grunts is the most interesting.”
“……”
While So U-bin smoked his tobacco and watched the fight, Jeok Ji-ho quietly maintained his silence by his side.
“The choice wasn’t bad. It seems you chose the most mediocre ones among those who held a grudge against the Divine Hero of the Azure Sky. Am I wrong?”
“I am too foolish to understand what you are saying, Young Master.”
“Good.”
So U-bin made a satisfied expression, as if he liked it.
“He’s pretty good for what he is. Is it because he was considered one of the promising young talents in the righteous faction? His movements are good. He might even pull something off. Hoo.”
So U-bin’s eyes sparkled through the hazy tobacco smoke.
In So U-bin’s view, the fight between Jin Yeong-in and Jang In-geol was surprisingly evenly matched.
On the surface, it looked like Jang In-geol was unilaterally attacking and Jin Yeong-in was running away like an eel, and that was the truth.
But the Jin Yeong-in that So U-bin saw was not just running away.
Jin Yeong-in was waiting for an opportunity.
All of Jin Yeong-in’s footwork was stepping on places where he could inflict a fatal wound on Jang In-geol.
He was moving only in directions where not only defense and evasion but also counterattacks were possible.
‘Oh-ho. At this point, he’s just playing with him. If he hadn’t lost his martial arts, he would have killed his opponent in the blink of an eye…… but now he’s walking on thin ice.’
Just as he was watching the confrontation between Jin Yeong-in and Jang In-geol with great interest with such thoughts.
“Why is that human here?”
So U-bin suddenly frowned.
A man was entering the Body-Fortifying Prescription where a commotion was taking place.
Although not as much as the Manual of Formulas of the Body-Fortifying Prescription, he was a man with a tall stature, broad shoulders, sturdy thighs, and angry-looking forearms.
A physique that made the opponent shrink back…… and yet his appearance was so handsome and neat that he could have passed for a promising young talent of the righteous faction.
“Does it only satisfy you when you ruin things like that?”
A complaint flowed out of So U-bin’s mouth.
***
Jin Yeong-in spotted Jang In-geol’s biggest opening and prepared a decisive blow.
The target was the eye.
With no sword and no internal energy, that was the only way for Jin Yeong-in to incapacitate Jang In-geol.
It would be absurd to inflict a fatal wound on the Seventh Squad Leader of the Ghost Soldier Corps without an iota of internal energy.
‘Just a little more.’
The moment Jin Yeong-in, who was waiting for an opportunity, spotted Jang In-geol’s fatal weakness.
‘Now.’
Jin Yeong-in leaned his body to avoid the saber that Jang In-geol swung and then instantly threw himself forward.
“……!”
The eyes of the onlookers were filled with astonishment.
Jin Yeong-in was truly audacious.
Far from running away, he was digging into Jang In-geol’s bosom.
Wouldn’t it be like crawling into the jaws of death on his own feet if he made a mistake?
It was a choice he would never have been able to make if he had even an iota of fear in his heart.
‘Stab.’
Whoooosh!
Jin Yeong-in’s fingers shot out towards Jang In-geol’s remaining eye like the talons of a hawk snatching its prey.
But…….
Whoosh!
Jin Yeong-in’s fingers stabbed the air.
His fingers should have definitely stabbed Jang In-geol’s remaining eye…….
‘What is this!’
Just as a look of bewilderment appeared on Jin Yeong-in’s face.
Whoosh!
Jang In-geol, who had been sent flying far away, crashed to the ground with a thud!
Soon, the face of the person who had thrown Jang In-geol was visible.
“Who told you to fight in the Body-Fortifying Prescription.”
A voice full of displeasure.
“Huk!”
“N-no!”
Those who recognized him all knelt on one knee and paid their respects.
“We greet the Fourth Young Master!”
Army-Shatterer, Yeom Bi.
Heavenly Demon Divine Cult, the Fourth Young Master.
He was from the Demonic Weapon Yeom Clan and the fourth disciple of the Iron-Blooded Demonic God.