Becoming the Swordmaster Rank Young Lord of the Sichuan Tang Family Chapter 266

Episode 265. Seeds

As the sunset dyes the entire mountain red.

The main headquarters of the Cheonmasingyo Church has become so quiet that it is now difficult to even hear people talking or breathing.

Suddenly, a young man came out. He roughly jumped over the rubble of the buildings he had destroyed himself, stepped on them, and jumped, and soon landed where the main gate had been. With every step he took, the hem of his light green uniform fluttered. It wasn’t just because a cold wind was blowing at that moment. It’s more reasonable to assume that it was because the distance he was moving with each step was extremely long. This is a passage that allows us to guess at the young man’s accomplishment of a new method.

But what was most impressive was that the sunset that enveloped the entire Cheonsan area in an instant and dyed the world red could not do anything about the color of the young man’s military uniform.

Perhaps the vivid green color in the reddening landscape suggests that even in the midst of chaos in the world, Sacheondangga will remain intact.

Of course, there was a clear reason why the sunset did not dye the hem of the garment red.

Close the Vessels and Hide (閉脈隱就) – This is a martial art passed down in the Sacheon Dang family, exclusively for the head of the family. It is a technique close to taboo, where you close the meridians to hide your achievements, but if you fill all twelve meridians with internal energy and then close them, you have the ability to wear an internal energy armor at all times.

Without consuming much internal energy━ This is the completion of the self-defense weapon Yongrin (龍鱗).

And the green halo that the dragon’s scale created was blocking the invasion of the sunset. This was the reason why the green uniform of the Sacheondangga Sogaju did not lose its color at this moment.

Anyway.

Immediately after landing, the young man stopped walking for a moment.

‘The harvest was huge. It will be of great help in the future.’

Now that he had become a dragon, Cheong-gyeong opened up a new power called subspace and swallowed the magic books along with their spells. Since there was no delay, he was able to secure some time. Naturally, he did not stop there, and went to the treasury where the Demonic Cult had stored up its wealth, and had Cheong-gyeong put the contents into the subspace.

The Jeongma War is not a battle fought by a single faction. It is a power struggle between the Jeongdo and Mado factions on a much larger scale. It would not be an exaggeration to call it a war. Furthermore, since the imperial family had already declared that they would not intervene in the affairs of the martial arts world, there was a high possibility that the Jeongma War would escalate into an all-out war. It was winter, making it difficult to move troops, so there had been no large-scale skirmishes, but if the weather cleared up even a little or the balance of power shifted to one side, it was obvious that the advantageous side would immediately settle the matter. After all, the leader of the Jeongcheon Alliance, Yu Myeong-myeong, was willing to do so if the situation flowed in his favor.

In this situation, it was something that anyone with a brain could have predicted that both sides would try to prepare supplies competitively. How would the merchants who dealt with goods act? They would likely hoard goods on the market to get higher prices or hide the goods they already bought and not let them go. There was also a possibility that they would exchange goods among themselves and raise the prices. The prices of consumables such as food, cloth, iron, and other items related to battle would probably skyrocket.

As the Sacheondangga destroyed the Heuksayeon and took over their legacy and the uninhabited Sacheon, the Jeongcheon Alliance established by Sogaju Dangmyeong also gained considerable financial power, but the Central Plains Demonic Clan forces led by Ma Gwangcheon had a much wider area under their control. It would be safe to say that the entire area south of Hubei is Demonic Clan territory.

‘I heard that you don’t even pay tribute to the country.’

Naturally, the Three Houses of the Demon Path come to mind. The Lord of the Heavenly Magwang, Yeon Jung-hyeok, had been rapidly expanding his power in the Central Plains using his marriage proposal as an excuse. He exterminated all the families that refused his marriage proposal, and incorporated those that accepted it into his command.

The Black Death faction, which transformed the old faction into the sixth faction in one breath and eventually made Sacheon a complete territory of the Apostles – no, it was something that happened while the Jeongdo faction was hiding due to the appearance of Yu Gil-jun, the Black Death faction leader.

Meanwhile, Ma Gwang-cheon-ju Yeon-jung-hyeok took all kinds of women as his wives. The chastity of women who were worried about the destruction of their families was trampled by him. Dang Ji-hye, the mother of Dang-myeong, almost became one of those many women. If her father, the Dang family head, had decided to sell his daughter out of fear of the destruction of his family, that would have happened.

Anyway.

There were women who had relationships with Yeon Jung-hyeok and gave birth to his children, even if it was through coercion. Their families are said to occupy the third and fourth positions in the current Five Great Families, and are otherwise called the Madosamga.

Shaanxi painter

Guo family of Guizhou

Fujian Liu Family

In terms of location, the Shaanxi Hua family was in charge of the vanguard of the Central Plains, and the Guizhou Guo family and the Fujian Confucian family each ruled half of the land south of Hubei, so it would not be an exaggeration to say that they reigned as the true martial arts powerhouses. Not only did they not pay tribute to the imperial court themselves, but they even intercepted the tributes of the commoners and stored them in their own granaries. It was even said that they had long since replaced the officials they dispatched with people who suited their tastes.

It has already been about twenty years since Yeon Jung-hyeok destroyed the Hubei Martial Arts Alliance and established Ma Gwang-cheon in its place. How much money have the Guo family of Guo and the Fujian Confucian Confucian families accumulated in that time?

That’s not all.

‘Mangum Merchant Group.’

Dang-myeong still remembered the time when he had argued with Jawoon about Shin-gang-haeng. It was when he was trying to persuade Jawoon, who had lost all three of his limbs except one, to entrust the treatment to a so-called magic doctor.

When Jawoon continued to refuse treatment, Dang-myeong asked if it was because the person called Ma-ui was a person from the magic world that he was reluctant.

━I’m not being stubborn just for that reason. Does your Maeng-ju know about the Man-geum-sang-dan?

━I don’t know the details, but I’ve heard of it. It’s said to be the most powerful merchant in the Central Plains. The nickname of the merchant was impressive. I remember it as Man-geum-gwi (萬金鬼).

━Mangumgwi Kang Haesang had a son. When he was young, he got injured while falling from a horse and became paralyzed from the waist down. He even offered a huge reward to cure his son. The whole of Jungwon was in an uproar for a while. The amount he initially offered was considerable, but in the end, he declared that he would give him all of his life’s savings.

━Did the magician cure him?

━The exact facts are unknown, but Kang Hae-sang and his son did visit Xinjiang. Not long after, Kang Hae-sang’s son was caught walking around normally. Not only that, but when Ma Gwang-cheon advanced into Hubei, they secretly provided financial support, which is also a well-known fact to all who know.

According to Jawoon’s words, there was evidence that the wealthiest merchants in the Central Plains had been on the side of the Demon Lords for a long time.

The leader of the Jeongcheon clan, facing the Jeongma War, had to be concerned about supplies. That was why, even though he was busy, he took the time to report on the Demonic Cult.

The Demonic Cult, with a history comparable to Shaolin, had a truly enormous amount of wealth stored up in its main sect.

Having already personally collected the legacy of the Black Lotus, Yu Myeong-myeong was confident that he would not be surprised by treasures of any level, but perhaps it was because of the years of accumulation. The Demonic Cult’s report contained treasures that emitted a dazzling light, and medicinal herbs and elixirs that continuously exuded a miraculous energy that could be seen even at a glance, piled up like a mountain.

At first glance, it seemed like an unbelievable scale, but after thinking about it a little, it seemed natural. Those who were born and raised in Xinjiang, as well as those who happened to enter the magic arts and those who sought the ascending magic arts, had been collecting and offering their wealth on their own for nearly a thousand years. Despite the harshness of the land, the Demonic Cult could not help but be wealthy. It seemed that they were also continuously exchanging with merchants from other countries. Herbs and exotic items that did not grow in the Central Plains were abundant.

Originally, most of those precious things would have had to be thrown away. Even if one’s wit reached the heavens, the amount of things one could carry on one’s person would not be that much. It was a matter of volume rather than weight.

However, all of those things were resolved at once by the unexpected awakening of hearing and the power of the subspace of the Yonggyeok.

This was the reason why Dang-myeong had a happy expression at that moment.

With this, the possibility of the devil being born again in Xinjiang was completely eliminated━ As he muttered that, Dang-Myeong decided on the direction in which to walk.

Soon the red light of the sunset will be consumed by the darkness. My night vision is not that bad, but wouldn’t it be easier and faster to go back the way I came?

So I headed east towards Goiter.

If at this time.

If the swordsman of Sacheondangga had not taken the faint magic energy wave he sensed from afar lightly, he had at least stopped by Akesu, a village adjacent to the Topgeukrapmagan Desert located south of Cheonsan Mountain, and then returned to the Central Plains━

The Immortal God Demon Sect that would later cause great chaos in the world once again might not have been born.

* * *

A man with a mysterious presence was standing in the desert.

How should we define him now?

He was originally born as the blood relative of an elder who held power in the Sacheondang family, and was expected to grow into a promising later-generation figure, but in a rapidly changing environment, he abandoned his original surname and began using the Yang surname.

That’s not all.

He abandoned the ignorance of the right path and the correct way of doing things and took up the ignorance of the devil’s path and the reverse way.

I have been initiated into the art of magic.

It wasn’t ordinary magic either.

The protagonist of a rebellion that occurred only once in the long history of the Cheonmasin religion━ He learned the Immortal Demon Art, the exclusive martial arts of the Immortal Demon.

And based on that, with the help of a medicine prepared by Madokyangga, he instantly became a poisonous person.

That alone was an amazing achievement, but the man held a grudge against someone who was beyond his ability to overcome.

So he asked the leader to obtain the true reverse blood magic. He had a desire to become stronger even if it meant risking death. Perhaps because of this desire, he eventually reached the ultimate demon.

It didn’t end there.

Finally, something unexpected happened to the man.

The heavenly demon descended from the high heavens and implanted spirituality into his blood… … !

━[The regenerative ability has been greatly enhanced, and its rank has been slightly lowered. Now, even if only a handful of blood remains, you will be able to infinitely restore your body as long as the spirit contained in that blood allows it.]

━[Increase your clan and build up your rank. Then, you will naturally achieve all that you wish for in this world and reach where I am.]

Cheonma transformed the man into a new blood demon, showed him the way forward, and then disappeared.

That’s right.

The man who had a temperament that was difficult to distinguish between being mysterious and being strange was Yang Moon-chan, who had completely lost his former appearance.

It was the seed of the devil that remained in the land where the swordsman, who was convinced that he had destroyed the devil in Xinjiang, left.