Chapter 250

Chapter 250

I might be attacked.

I had been assuming as much. Because I knew how high the value the Divine Maiden’s bloodline holds for the Demonic Cult.

The only existence who can resolve the Demonic Cult’s long-cherished wish is the Divine Maiden. Now that the Divine Maiden’s bloodline itself has been severed, if a new bloodline appears, it would be no different from regaining the hope they had lost.

So even when facing Ilryun, I didn’t loosen my tension. I wasn’t careless. That’s why I could understand.

That I couldn’t react to Ilryun’s attack not because of my carelessness.

But simply, because the opponent was impossibly fast.

Kagagagagagang—!!!

Continuous strikes.

While blankly watching the sparks flying before my eyes in an instant, I struck with the Uicheon Sword. The appearance of the long pipe digging inward through Father’s sword momentum and attacking me.

They meet.

The moment the long pipe and sword touched, I hummed while feeling the shock entering sharply through my wrist. Because the power of the long pipe that penetrated the sword momentum so dense there wasn’t even a gap for water to seep through exceeded what I imagined.

“You receive it well.”

“Isn’t it the power of home education?”

“……Yes. That’s right. The Gongsun Family’s blood wouldn’t have gone anywhere. As heirs were precious, it was a family blessed with talent.”

Ilryun, who looked at the blocked long pipe and bore a small smile, put her hand on her beloved weapon and glanced at the Ten Heavens who had half-finished striking, letting out small laughter. Because excluding Taeak and the Sword Emperor, everyone had shocked faces.

“It seems you didn’t inform them.”

“There would be nothing good from informing, would there?”

“You mean the fact that you’re the Divine Cult’s legitimate line?”

“Yes. To the Central Plains, isn’t the Demonic Cult a thorn that’s painful but can’t be pulled out?”

“That’s not wrong.”

Without teeth, one can’t chew food.

That’s why poor people sometimes deliberately leave rotten teeth without extracting them even knowing the teeth are rotting. Though rotten, painful and sensitive, still it won’t do without them. Because they’re needed to survive.

“Yeonbi was an outstanding child.”

“It seems you were close with Mother.”

“Because she was a child anyone with their right mind couldn’t dislike. The main cult doesn’t reject each other just because ideologies differ in the first place. Having different values to pursue is a secondary issue.”

“You’ve inherited Yeonbi’s boldness.”

No wonder she seemed familiar from somewhere.

Ilryun, who burst into a small empty laugh, retrieved her long pipe and sat down. Additionally, Ilryun asking in a heavy voice.

“Yes. Child. Revealing you’re the Divine Maiden’s bloodline here means to use that as negotiation material. Isn’t that right?”

“……That’s correct.”

“For your bloodline to become negotiation material, there are only two methods. Either you leave the Central Plains and devote yourself to the main cult, or…… release the shackles.”

“Xinjiang is a good place. For coming on an outing.”

“You mean it’s not a good place to live.”

“As you see, I’m a body leading one sect.”

Abandoning Uicheonmun and settling in Xinjiang. What does it mean to perform the Divine Maiden role while living suppressing the Demonic Cult that might explode at any moment?

That’s no different from sacrificing me and sacrificing the future to save the immediate Central Plains martial world. The Demonic Cult is suppressed and suppressed and about to explode anyway. Before it explodes grandly, shouldn’t we open the lid even a little to let steam out?

“Release the shackles……?”

“I can’t release them right now. As you know, if I release the shackles right now, there will only be war.”

“But if you discuss the Great Seal’s release, I think that matter can also be coordinated. After all, it would need decades for people to adapt to demonic power, and only after that can the Demonic Cult enter the Central Plains, can’t they?”

Abandoning duty is unacceptable. However, I’ll open the future. So give me time.

“It’s a dead end.”

At my negotiation proposal, Ilryun, who let out a small sigh, looked directly at me.

“Child of the Baek Ri Family. Son of Yeonbi. As far as I know, you’re not an only child.”

“I have one older brother and one younger sister. Though they’re currently missing.”

“What if I find those children first? Those children would also have authority to release the shackles.”

“You won’t be able to catch my older brother. Because he’s someone who appears and disappears like a god to the point where even I who lived together for over ten years can’t get a grasp. Risan would be possible, but…… do you have enough time?”

“Either way, you calculate you can buy time. How shrewd.”

“I’ll take it as a compliment.”

At my appearance answering silently, Ilryun, who had been tapping her long pipe against her palm, closed her eyes for a moment and maintained silence. And after a moment, Ilryun bringing up a story.

“Thousands of years have passed since the Divine Cult shouldered the duty.”

“It’s been too long during that time. It was a long, long wait. Days of accumulating hatred even while knowing you Central Plains people did nothing wrong.”

They simply left it alone because there was no way.

That can’t be called wrong. Because there was no way. Who wouldn’t know how hollow it is to cry out for what can’t be obtained?

“It’s about time to slowly sever that chain.”

“Those words mean.”

“Yes.”

Ilryun, who raised her view above the meeting place as if reading the heavenly energy that would reflect in a corner of the sky, half-opened her eyes. And.

“The main cult. The Heavenly Demon Divine Cult will accept your request to cast off this old duty…….”

We will accept.

The moment Ilryun was about to say so——.

A black dot appeared from the sky.

“That is.”

Swaeeeeeeek! Kwaaaaang!!!

Simultaneously with the words, the fallen black dot destroyed the meeting place’s table and struck into the floor. The Ten Heavens entering combat stance in an instant.

“Ilryun. A report.”

“……Didn’t I tell you not to come to the meeting place? I said attendants weren’t necessary.”

“It’s urgent. The meeting isn’t important.”

“……What?”

At the words of the man who had returned after leaving earlier, Ilryun narrowed her eyes. However, not caring, the man continuing to speak.

“Northern seal axis, Gahyang. Completely destroyed.”

“Western seal axis, Nojeong. Completely destroyed.”

“Eastern seal axis, Gongsak. Half-destroyed.”

“The Great Seal is under attack. Blood Cult members as the main force are attacking the Great Seal.”

“What on earth does that…… there’s no way those Blood Cult dogs could dare covet the Great Seal.”

Blood Cult.

Ilryun, who recalled those who wield strange and mysterious magic arts and martial arts, squinted her eyes. Though knowing it’s a group with some power, it wasn’t a group with so many strong people that they could scheme against the Great Seal. Aren’t they opponents who could be stopped even if only some of the Chilryun stepped forward without the entire Demonic Cult mobilizing?

“What happened?”

“Speak in detail.”

At Ilryun’s expression that turned serious, the man paused for a moment then clenched his fist heavily. And the words that followed.

“At the vanguard is the Divine Cult.”

“……What on earth does that mean? That the main cult is trying to destroy the Great Seal.”

“A letter remained at the lodging. Just making those who must pay the price pay the price. It was written so.”

“……Don’t tell me.”

“They betrayed the main cult.”

The man who answered silently closed his eyes.

“Leading the Blood Cult’s vanguard are the main cult’s Chilryun.”

People are incomplete from the moment they’re born.

Ilnachar sincerely thought so. That there’s nothing as unstable, incomplete, and insufficient as humans.

Good and evil don’t exist in the world of Yokai or beasts. If you want to eat, eat; if you want to play, play; if you want to sleep, sleep. What bewilderment would there be, what anguish would there be in doing what you believe?

That’s providence. Completely doing what you desire. That’s the way the world flows, and also providence. This world was formed from the entanglement of desires and desires. However.

How incomplete humans are that from birth they endlessly worry about their own identity. Are humans born good? Or do they become good through education? If not that, are they neither good nor evil?

Heaven-defying ones wearing the mask of ideology.

To cast off that disgusting ideology, there’s no choice but to destroy the mortal world. Cast off humanity and be reborn as a higher-dimensional existence.

Yes.

Like this, the mortal world where human flesh is the highest point must not continue.

“What? You have no energy?”

At Ilnachar’s brightly smiling appearance, the old man who was watching the quietly burning settlement lowered the large scythe held in his hand. The appearance of the great scythe covered in blood from handle to blade after cutting down who knows how many people.

“Unpleasant.”

“Ahahaha! At this point? Isn’t this what you always wanted? Making the Central Plains’ humans pay a fitting price!”

A member of the Chilryun who couldn’t bear to answer and maintained silence. While watching Hyeolgyeom, Ilnachar laughed loudly. Because it was truly a ridiculous sight.

‘As expected, people are truly incomplete.’

Though the Demonic Cult protects the Great Seal for thousands of years without problem, they’re not protecting it easily.

Immediately, there are several Great Yokai who know that Xinjiang’s Great Seal blocks demonic power from flowing into the Central Plains, and among them are ancient Yokai that couldn’t be completely sealed.

Several times a year, the Demonic Cult fights wars determining life and death. Hyeolgyeom’s daughter, a member of the Demonic Cult’s Chilryun, stood at that vanguard and met a miserable death with her limbs torn by a Yokai’s hands. And at that moment, Hyeolgyeom harbored hatred.

It means he didn’t harbor it toward Yokai who are subjects he can’t even understand, but harbored hatred toward the Central Plains people forcing this role.

“I really had no choice but to be shocked. I made contact just in case, but did I know over half the Chilryun would actually come over? It must have been piled up quite a bit?”

“……Don’t mock our compatriots.”

“Ah, I had no thought of mocking. We’re compatriots now too, right? My compatriot’s compatriots are the same as my compatriots. Former compatriots though.”

Ilnachar, who let out laughter going hihihi, twisted her lips crookedly.

“Now, with this we’ve destroyed two axes of the Great Seal. Did the Great Seal take some damage?”

“……The Great Seal won’t break with that much.”

“Oho. It seems this Great Seal thing is considerably solid?”

“Because the Great Seal’s axes merely assist in maintaining the Great Seal.”

Hyeolgyeom, who answered in an aged voice, slowly continued speaking.

“The primordial Divine Maiden installed the Great Seal and installed four axes beside it. So the Great Seal wouldn’t collapse even after tens of thousands of years.”

“Conversely speaking, even erasing the four axes doesn’t immediately affect the Great Seal. Because they’re axes for maintaining the seal. However.”

If all the axes are destroyed, the path toward the Great Seal opens. And if that happens, not just releasing but even destroying the Great Seal becomes possible.

“Is it truly possible?”

“What?”

“Nothing changes just because you destroy Xinjiang’s Great Seal. It just means demonic power flows into the Central Plains. With just that one variable…… can you break the remaining Great Seals?”

Liberating the Yokai of the mythical age. Thereby announcing the mortal world’s end.

At Hyeolgyeom’s appearance asking about that possibility, Ilnachar burst into clear laughter. And the answer that followed.

“What are you asking?”

“Our cult devoted a lifetime for that.”

If conditions are met, it’s easy.

“Humans will plummet to livestock without exception.”