Chapter 87

Like someone who had been holding water in their mouth, the warrior spewed out a bowl of bright red blood.

The warrior who vomited blood couldn’t believe he had expelled so much blood.

“Blood… blood…”

With that as the starting point, the condition of the other warriors rapidly deteriorated.

“Uwaaagh!”

Some vomited blood or had nosebleeds, while others began bleeding from their rectums. The warriors’ pants became soaked.

The warriors looked at each other.

“Urgh! Your eyes!”

“What about my eyes?”

Most of them had burst blood vessels in their eyes, turning them bright red.

This phenomenon wasn’t limited to just one or two people. Groans and screams began to emerge from everywhere.

The warriors were terrified. The situation was dire.

The warriors looked at the young man with desperate eyes.

“H-hey. Please. Call a doctor.”

Yet the young man’s expression remained unchanged from before. It was calm, as if devoid of emotion.

That made it all the more chilling.

“S-save us! We were wrong yesterday.”

“Did you say you were wrong?”

“Yes, yes. We’re sorry for mocking and laughing at you.”

The young man asked in a low voice.

“Just a moment ago, didn’t you say what you would do to me if I didn’t listen to you?”

“Th-that…!”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! That was our fault too. Please save us!”

The young man’s expression didn’t change at all.

“Why?”

“Huh?”

The Iron Umbrella Sect warriors were momentarily confused about what the young man meant by “why.”

“Why… what?”

“Urgh, so you’re saying you’ll just leave us here to die?”

Only then did the young man’s expression change slightly.

The young man retorted as if it were obvious.

“I used poison to kill you, so why would I have any reason to save you?”

The young man, Jin Ja-gang, had finally revealed his true colors.

The Iron Umbrella Sect warriors felt chills down their spines.

It was both absurd and shocking.

Yeom Jo, who had been silently observing until now, frowned.

“So this was your doing?”

Many warriors still couldn’t believe it. How could they accept that they had been poisoned by a mere chicken seller?

“Urgh, so when you examined us one by one earlier… you weren’t checking our symptoms but confirming how poisoned we were?”

“That’s right.”

With blood-red eyes, the warriors shouted.

“You despicable b*st*rd!”

“What did we ever do to deserve this!”

“You wretched…!”

“Medicine Sect.”

Jin Ja-gang cut them off.

The name “Medicine Sect,” which he hadn’t heard in eight years, sounded somewhat unfamiliar.

“Medicine Sect? What’s that?”

Jin Ja-gang sneered.

“The victims never forget, but the perpetrators do. I’m talking about the Yunnan Medicine Sect that you massacred.”

The warriors were in such excruciating pain that even their minds were becoming hazy.

“Medicine Sect… I heard they were all killed back then, so why…?”

Jin Ja-gang’s eyes hardened, as if his anger was boiling up again at their attitude.

“Is that so? Well, one of them is still not dead.”

The warriors’ eyes filled with bewilderment at those words.

“That would be me.”

The warriors looked at Jin Ja-gang, drooling blood.

“Impossible…”

“Urgh… such a thing…”

Yeom Jo shouted.

“You! What exactly is your identity!”

“I just told you. A descendant of the Medicine Sect.”

Jin Ja-gang looked at each of the Iron Umbrella Sect warriors, including Yeom Jo, and said.

“The poison I used on you is extremely potent. Your intestines are dissolving, so you have at most one quarter of an hour to live.”

The warriors were dumbfounded. There were already many who were vomiting blood. Jin Ja-gang’s words were no lie.

Yeom Jo gritted his teeth.

“How dare you… target our Iron Umbrella Sect?”

Jin Ja-gang’s killing intent surged at those words.

“Until now, you may have been together under the name of Iron Umbrella Sect, but you’ll have to find your way to the afterlife on your own.”

The warriors writhed in pain, feeling even more tormented by their despair.

“Urrrgh!”

“Kuuuurgh!”

“You, you… b*st*rd…”

Yeom Jo struggled to lift his iron umbrella. As Jin Ja-gang had said, this poison was extremely potent. By the time the effects appeared, their internal organs were already too damaged to use martial arts.

Just then, Jin Ja-gang happened to be standing with his back turned.

Yeom Jo aimed at Jin Ja-gang.

“Dieeeeee!”

Yeom Jo vomited blood as he pulled the mechanism on the handle.

Pssht!

The joint-breaking needle shot from the iron umbrella and embedded itself in Jin Ja-gang’s back.

“Hahaha! Die! Die, you b*st*rd! cough cough”

Jin Ja-gang slowly turned around. Then, as if it were nothing, he pulled out the joint-breaking needle.

Seeing Jin Ja-gang holding the needle, Yeom Jo laughed maniacally.

“You’re as good as dead now!”

A trickle of blood ran from Jin Ja-gang’s nose, but he merely wiped it away.

“Is that so?”

“Kuhehe, cough cough”

Yeom Jo manipulated his iron umbrella to extract the antidote.

“When we go out for external events, only division leaders and above carry antidotes. So cough, ugh… this is the only antidote here right now.”

Yeom Jo giggled as he held up the antidote and said.

“Now that I think about it, I remember other Medicine Sect b*st*rds dying with their bones and joints melting after being hit by the joint-breaking needle. They begged and pleaded for their lives!”

Jin Ja-gang just stared at Yeom Jo. Despite spitting blood, Yeom Jo shouted with a malicious face.

“Why don’t you beg for your life too! But you won’t survive either!”

Yeom Jo quickly swallowed the antidote for the joint-breaking needle.

“cough cough!”

He had vomited so much blood that it was unclear whether he had managed to swallow it or vomited it back up.

But Jin Ja-gang didn’t care at all.

Yeom Jo’s face contorted.

“You b*st*rd, you think you’ll survive by staying so calm? You’ll die. You’ll die! The antidote is gone, so you’re going to die now!”

“That’s your opinion.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. You were hit by the joint-breaking needle! You may look calm on the outside, but… cough cough”

Jin Ja-gang rummaged through his clothes and pulled out a bamboo tube the size of a finger.

“Curious what this is?”

“Ugh, ugh…?”

It clearly wasn’t the antidote for the joint-breaking needle. Somehow, it looked like it might be the antidote for the deadly poison that had poisoned the Iron Umbrella Sect warriors.

Jin Ja-gang opened the lid of the bamboo tube.

Then he tilted the tube slightly and began to pour out its contents.

Jin Ja-gang didn’t say anything, but judging by his attitude, it was definitely an antidote.

Yeom Jo was already bleeding profusely from his mouth, nose, and even rectum. The pain of his dissolving intestines was also tremendous.

“I won’t… fall for… such a trick… urgh!”

Srrrrr.

The powder inside continued to fall out.

“Urgh?”

Yeom Jo watched Jin Ja-gang’s expression. Jin Ja-gang seemed intent on pouring out everything inside.

Antidote. It’s an antidote! It must be an antidote!

Few people can remain detached in the face of death and pain.

Yeom Jo, unable to bear the pain any longer, went mad.

Yeom Jo crawled over, watching carefully, and ate the powder that Jin Ja-gang was dropping. The surrounding warriors also crawled toward Jin Ja-gang.

An Iron Umbrella Sect warrior who was too weak to crawl over shouted.

“Us too! Give us the antidote too!”

“Antidote?”

Jin Ja-gang continued pouring the powder as he spoke.

“This is the poison you all ate this morning.”

Yeom Jo, who had been catching the powder with his tongue, now tattered with burst blood vessels, had his pupils shake violently.

“Wh-what?”

“We ate poison… this morning?”

Yeom Jo and the warriors stared at Jin Ja-gang with bloodshot eyes, dumbfounded.

“Th-the antidote…?”

“This poison, called Abundant Sediment, takes effect later, but once bleeding starts, your intestines will completely dissolve, and you can’t survive even if you take the antidote.”

“N-no! This can’t be!”

“We can’t die like this!”

The warriors screamed in agony as they vomited blood.

Yeom Jo wailed.

“Save me. Save me!”

Jin Ja-gang ignored Yeom Jo and took a step back. Then he looked around at the warriors and said coldly.

“Your names will soon be registered in the netherworld, so prepare yourselves.”

Yeom Jo gritted his teeth as he vomited blood.

“You’ll die soon too!”

“That may be. But you won’t be around to see it, so don’t worry about it.”

“You…! You!”

Just then.

“Urgh… aaaah! I want to live!”

Somehow finding the strength, one warrior got up and tried to run away. Though he could barely walk and was staggering, his desperate attempt to run was pitiful to see.

When one started to run, a few others joined in, also struggling to their feet.

Jin Ja-gang picked up several iron umbrellas that had fallen haphazardly on the ground. He aimed them at the backs of the fleeing warriors and fired.

Pssht! Shssk!

“Urgh!”

“Uwaah!”

The fleeing warriors were hit in the back with joint-breaking needles and fell face down.

“Urgh. Sob…”

One warrior cried like a child as he lay face down.

But Jin Ja-gang, showing not a trace of sympathy or compassion, said.

“You can’t go anywhere. Until every last one of you is dead.”

“Urgh… you demon…”

Gulp, gulp.

The Iron Umbrella Sect warriors died, vomiting blood.

The warriors’ movements gradually subsided until finally, not a single one was left breathing.

The scene was horrific. Blood was everywhere.

Because Abundant Sediment dissolved their internal organs, the dead warriors had vomited several bowls of blood before dying.

This time, there was an unusually large amount of blood.

Jin Ja-gang’s face grew hot with excitement from the blood. He had to take several deep breaths to calm himself down.

“A demon…”

He had thought that he wouldn’t mind becoming an Asura if it meant getting revenge, but hearing such words directly didn’t feel particularly good.

They were villains and murderers who deserved to die, but in their final moments, they were just ordinary people.

Jin Ja-gang steeled his heart to avoid becoming weak and surveyed the scene once more.

* * *

Kang Gyu and the two experts from Poison Valley were on their way to catch up with their sect warriors after having lunch.

However, they sensed that something was wrong.

Their stomachs had begun to ache with a subtle pain.

Naturally, their pace slowed as they walked using lightness skill. Kang Gyu stopped first. Yang Tae also frowned as he rubbed his solar plexus.

“How strange.”

The three of them had eaten lunch together, but only Kang Gyu and Yang Tae were experiencing severe pain.

The other expert, Wang Yisheng, said he only felt slightly uncomfortable. Wang Yisheng was in his seventies but still a robust old master.

Kang Gyu frowned and asked.

“Did anything happen that could have harmed us?”

“Not that I know of.”

“Then…”

But Yang Tae’s eyes widened as he was speaking.

“Huh?”

A faint smell of blood.