Chapter 452 : Chapter 452

Vol 2 Chapter 92. I’ve Found You (3)

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However, ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍the warriors of the Hwangbo Clan, despite their family head’s defeat, fought on to the very end.

“Who ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍dares to give up?”

“Fight ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍to the end! We must save the Family Head!”

To ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍be more precise, the elders of the Hwangbo Clan absolutely forbade the warriors from surrendering.

Empowered ‍​‌​​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​​​‌​‌‌​​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌​​​‌‌​​‌​‌​​‌​‌‌‌​‍by their courage and fighting spirit, the Hwangbo Clan warriors fought to the last.

As a result….

“Are these bastards crazy?!”

They got beaten up even more.

By a demon who felt no emotion whatsoever, whether his opponents showed fighting spirit or not, and just hammered them.

From the very beginning, the poor Hwangbo Clan had no chance of winning.

However, even after subduing everyone, the resistance from the high-ranking executives of the Hwangbo Clan, including the elders, was so fierce that they had to have their demonic acupoints sealed and be tied up securely.

“You bastard! I’ll kill you!”

“How dare you… ugghh….”

“Let go. I said let go!”

Watching them resist so fiercely even in that situation, Patrick muttered.

“It is a bit strange.”

It was too blindly fanatical to be seen as simply holding on to protect their pride.

At that, Mun Yul, who was beside him, said.

“You’re only realizing that now?”

Are you saying you only realized it was strange after beating their faces until they were swollen like steamed buns?

At Mun Yul’s implied question, Patrick puffed out his chest and said.

“Yep. I just realized it now.”

“By any chance, does Bong-gong think that violence is the panacea for all things?”

“Are you crazy? How can you solve everything in the world with violence? Can you even call yourself a righteous hero of the Orthodox Faction?”

Thank goodness.

It seems he still has that much conscience and common….

“The number of things in the world that can be solved with violence is only about ninety-five percent.”

“……”

Mun Yul lamented his own foolishness for having expected conscience and common sense from this demon.

Patrick ignored the slumped-shouldered Mun Yul and called for another person.

“Nanok.”

“You called, Squad Leader?”

The one who answered Patrick’s call was a voluptuous woman who seemed to absorb the gazes of all men around her.

The Number One Flower of Sichuan, Dang Nanok.

Patrick called her over and said.

“Examine these people’s bodies.”

“Me?”

“You can do it, right?”

“Well, I can.”

She too was a daughter of the Sichuan Tang Clan.

In the process of learning about poison, she had also learned a considerable level of medical arts.

Although the level of that medical art was likely not as high as someone Patrick knew.

“Examine them thoroughly from head to toe, and if you find anything strange, report it.”

“Yes. But for me to do it alone is a bit….”

“Should I assign someone to help you?”

At that, Dang Nanok swiftly linked arms with Mun Yul, who was standing beside her, and said.

“Please assign the Deputy Squad Leader.”

“Me? Why me?”

Mun Yul was flustered.

He was flustered by being suddenly singled out, and he was also flustered by the soft sensation pressing against his arm.

However, Dang Nanok said nonchalantly.

“Because I need you.”

“No, Miss Dang, I….”

“Just call me Dang-mae.”

“Miss Dang, this is troublesome. I am….”

Mun Yul tried to protest with a serious face.

But….

“Ah….”

Before he could, Dang Nanok put a hand to her forehead and swayed.

“What’s wrong?”

“I suddenly feel dizzy. It will be difficult to carry out the Squad Leader’s orders like this.”

“Really?”

“Yes. I think the dizziness might go away if the Deputy Squad Leader kindly listens to my request….”

“I see.”

And Patrick looked at Mun Yul and said.

“You heard her, right?”

“No, Bong-gong.”

“Ahem, are you saying you don't even have the resolve to sacrifice your own body for the sake of justice in Murim?”

“No, what does this have to do with the justice of Murim?”

“It does. Nanok needs you to be kind to her so she can carry out my orders, and she needs to carry out those orders to find the problem, and we need to find the problem to protect the justice of Murim. Right? Or wrong?”

What is this plausible nonsense?

“No, what does that….”

“Right? Or wrong?”

“…That’s too much of an exaggeration….”

“Right? Or wrong?”

Patrick shows him a clenched fist.

Faced with the blatant threat that he wouldn't be left alone if he made him say the same thing a third time, Mun Yul finally slumped and said.

“I will call you Dang-mae.”

“There we go. There we go. Then hurry up and go help the kid.”

“…Yes, sir.”

After ordering his subordinates to investigate the small fry, Patrick turned his gaze elsewhere.

There….

“How is it? Do you think you know?”

Persona was examining something on Hwangbo Wicheon and Dang Gyegwang, whom Patrick had subdued.

At Patrick’s question, she paused for a moment before speaking.

“The preliminary investigation is finished.”

“And? The result?”

“…I think it’s a match.”

At Persona’s words, Patrick froze for a moment.

Then he furrowed his brow and said….

“Really? Are you sure?”

“Yes. I’m sure.”

Persona confirmed it.

Then, Patrick let out a deep sigh and said.

“Right. You’re sure.”

He had a suspicion.

A very strong one, at that.

But since he had no proof, he had just been ignoring it.

No, perhaps he had been trying his best to ignore it.

Because he didn't want the present time to end.

But this time, those two bastards had recklessly caught Patrick’s eye, and he could no longer avoid it.

So he had subdued them and ordered an investigation, and….

“I knew I’d find it.”

The suspicion turned into certainty.

The Heaven Breaking Martial Emperor.

He was the incarnation of the Blood Demon.

* * *

To explain the situation….

The Blood Demon and the Heavenly Demon had crossed over to the continent of Pangemonia together.

And that was where the problem began.

At that time, unlike the Heavenly Demon who brought everything he had across the world’s wall, the Blood Demon had left his main body behind in this world.

This was an incredibly audacious act.

To deceive the eyes of the Heavenly Demon and others, he had sent all his power to his incarnation on the continent of Pangemonia, but he had left only his main body in this world.

The Blood Demon's main body, with no power left at all, was so weak that it could be killed by a mere stab from a third-rate rogue.

Yet, he had committed such a bold act.

Because that was what it took to deceive everyone's eyes.

And as the years flowed by….

The Blood Demon’s incarnate body sent to the continent of Pangemonia was annihilated in the war.

And with the main body left in Murim, he began to slowly regain his power.

In this world where the Heavenly Demon was gone, only the Blood Demon remained.

At first, when the Celestial Realm learned of this, they thought it might not be such a bad outcome after all.

For the world to function normally in the first place, the destinies of order and destruction—it was proper for these two to be in conflict, maintaining an appropriate balance.

The Heavenly Demon and the Blood Demon.

Unlike the past situation where both were robust, a world with only the Blood Demon could be seen as a return to normalcy from an abnormal state.

However, the problem was the Blood Demon's nature.

The Blood Demon’s nature was thorough wickedness itself.

He had no thought of succumbing to the destiny of destruction he had received and inflicting trials upon the world, or purifying a world that could not withstand those trials.

He rather wished for the current world to last forever.

He was a bastard who found joy only in making the lives of creatures within this world wretched and miserable.

In a sense, he was even more broken than the Heavenly Demon.

The Celestial Realm realized this fact after the Blood Demon caused an incident.

Once the Blood Demon had recovered some of his power, he went back to the Blood Cult, led his followers, and attacked and absorbed the Demonic Cult.

He then declared the conquest of Murim, but in this process, the Blood Demon himself rarely stepped forward.

All he wanted was to unleash the followers of the Blood Cult into the Central Plains so that even more people would languish in death and suffering.

The war, where victory was not the goal but the process of war itself was, produced catastrophic results.

It created millions of victims throughout the world, including not only Murim but also the general populace.

The Celestial Realm was greatly alarmed by this and expended a massive amount of causality to send a Fighting Immortal to the mortal world.

And they tried to capture the Blood Demon.

Expecting that the Blood Demon’s power had not fully recovered yet, it was not a bad judgment.

However, the Blood Demon's decision was far more drastic.

The Blood Demon refused to fight the Fighting Immortal and killed himself.

To be more precise, he killed his own body and his soul escaped.

Because his soul, possessing divinity, could take some time to usurp another human’s body and be reborn.

In the end, the Celestial Realm only ended up expending a massive amount of causality to make the Fighting Immortal descend to the mortal world, and they lost the Blood Demon.

They tried to catch him several more times after that but failed.

This was because the Blood Demon would immediately abandon his body and flee at the slightest sign of movement from the Celestial Realm.

And through that process, he gradually recovered more of his power, until it became difficult to even find traces of him.

While the Celestial Realm was struggling to find a way, a strange event occurred on the continent of Pangemonia.

Patrick, a mere human, had taken the Heavenly Demon's head and saved the world from the brink of destruction.

The Celestial Realm thought.

What if, instead of expending enormous causality to make a Fighting Immortal descend, there was someone who could stay on the mortal plane and capture the Blood Demon?

They thought.

In other words, they needed someone who had reached divinity while still alive.

At the same time, someone who wouldn't cause a major backlash of causality even if they stayed in this world.

That person was Patrick.

Having reached divinity by taking the Heavenly Demon's head, he was originally a human from the Central Plains of Murim, so he could minimize the world's rejection, and thus the causality backlash would not be large.

So, the Celestial Realm, through Yupinel and Kalaron, explained the situation to Patrick and requested that he come to their world.

And Patrick, to resolve his lingering attachments in the Central Plains and to prevent the world he originally lived in from suffering as the Blood Demon's plaything, had thus crossed the world's wall.

And now.

“Found him. I’ve found him.”

Patrick let out a deep sigh.

The Twin Dragon Sect was now somewhat on track, and that fellow Mun Yul had even learned the Twin Dragons Heaven and Earth Primordial Heart Law.

So, even if he were to disappear, it was safe to say that the Twin Dragon Sect had at least a minimal foundation.

But….

“If possible, I wanted to watch over them a little longer.”

It was inevitable that he would have lingering feelings.

In Patrick's eyes, the current Twin Dragon Sect was nothing more than a child who had just started to walk.

It was still too unstable to be left by the water's edge.

‘Still, can it be helped?’

Patrick, having made up his mind, spoke.

“Sona? Then, can you find out where the Blood Demon is now through those two guys?”

“Yes. I’ll try.”

Persona placed her hands on the crowns of Hwangbo Wicheon’s and Dang Gyegwang’s heads.

And as she infused her divine power….

“Kuh… kuaaaaak!”

“Uwaaaaaaaaak!”

The two were in extreme agony.

Their eyes rolled back, their bodies stiffened, and they trembled and convulsed, giving a hint of the intense pain they were suffering.

And….

FIZZ….

A red aura began to seep out from their seven orifices.

And that aura formed into distinct shapes above their heads.

Towards that aura, which had taken the form of red centipedes, Persona commanded.

[Return to your source.]

The Dragon’s Word of the Dragon Lord.

The two red centipedes, having received the command from her restored divine Dragon’s Word….

KIEEEEEK!

Suddenly, they let out a shriek and began to attack Persona.

“Huh?”

At that, Persona was flustered.

Startled by the completely unexpected event, she was unable to react at all.

Just as the two centipedes were about to bite her defenseless, snow-white neck…

POW! POW!

Two streaks of light shot out and blew the centipedes to pieces.

“Tsk tsk tsk, well done. Really well done.”

Fortunately, Patrick, who was beside her, had saved her.

And clicking his tongue, he said….

“My goodness, a martial artist who can’t even handle this? Huh?”

“I… I was careless.”

“If you die, should I carve ‘The Dragon Lord died from being careless’ on your tombstone?”

“Eek… this isn’t supposed to happen.”

“Thiiis iisn’t suuppoosed to haaappeeen.”

Wow, master or not….

Isn’t it legal to punch that face?

But unfortunately, Persona was weaker than Patrick.

She lamented her own weakness and said.

“It’s strange. I told them to return to their source, so they should have reverted to their main body.”

“And?”

“The moment I gave that command, my control shattered.”

“Hmmm….”

“This kind of thing happens when my command itself violates the laws.”

With the Dragon’s Word, one can command a person to do possible things.

For example….

Eat your meal.

Run through the streets naked.

Get up and dance.

All these commands are possible, so the Dragon’s Word holds.

But it's a different story if you give an impossible command to that person.

For example….

Fly in the sky.

Transcend time.

Punch that damn master.

If you give an impossible command like that, the control of the Dragon’s Word shatters.

“In other words, the command I gave to those auras just now was something that was impossible to execute.”

“How could that be?”

“That is… I’m sorry. I don’t know either.”

“Hmmm….”

Patrick pondered.

It seemed finding a trace of that bastard right now would be difficult.

He felt a sense of relief inwardly, but….

‘Isn’t this not how it should be?’

Fundamentally, solving the most important problem had become even more difficult.

As Patrick pondered, Persona spoke.

“Master. Would it be alright if I were to leave for a while?”

“What? Where are you going?”

At Patrick’s question, Persona replied with a determined face.

“I need to go see my uncles.”