Chapter 427

Jin Ja-gang looked at Mang Ryo quietly without exerting more force.

Mang Ryo was ready.

Ready to see Jin Ja-gang agonizing.

Ready to feel ecstasy at that sight.

“But like you said, we’re not that kind of relationship, are we? Huh? Just kill me. Destroy your entire future with your own hands. Huh?”

For a moment, Mang Ryo’s voice was even desperate.

Thread-like blood flowed from the blood lines all over his body. It hurt as if his whole body had been thinly sliced with a knife, but such things didn’t matter at all.

Mang Ryo screamed.

“Hurry up and kill me and destroy yourself, you stupid fool!”

Jin Ja-gang…

Suddenly had an expression as if he couldn’t contain his laughter.

It was just his eyes.

But Mang Ryo felt like he knew what Jin Ja-gang was thinking.

That damned bastard was speaking with his eyes.

“What? That was all it was about?*”

As if Mang Ryo’s prediction was correct, the Asura Sutra threads wrapped around Mang Ryo’s body were released.

WHIR!

“…What?”

Mang Ryo was dazed. Bewildered.

Suddenly his bonds were released and he became free.

But that was the opposite of what Mang Ryo expected. His expectations crumbled to pieces, and his body that had been ready to feel ecstasy grew cold.

“What. What… are you doing?”

Jin Ja-gang asked back.

“Do you want to see?”

Mang Ryo doubted his own ears.

“What?”

“Do you want to see what I’ll do? I’m going to destroy the salt fleet from now on.”

“You? You alone will do what even Haewol couldn’t?”

“Let’s see if I can or can’t. I think I can.”

Mang Ryo wanted to refute Jin Ja-gang’s bluff.

However, words didn’t come easily.

Just a moment ago, even though Mang Ryo had drawn upon all the power of Red Shadow Pills and Mad Blood Heaven Art, he couldn’t even touch Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang had become a tremendous master. Moreover, he was originally a meticulous person.

When he came out this confidently, there was a reason.

Could it be?

Was he already prepared?

If Master Haewol had spoken so confidently!

Jin Ja-gang saw the doubt in Mang Ryo’s eyes and said.

“Why? Are you afraid I might be able to do it? That things won’t go according to your intentions?”

GRIND, Mang Ryo ground his teeth.

“Can you handle the aftermath!”

“I’ll take care of it myself, so don’t worry about it.”

Blood vessels bulged on Mang Ryo’s jaw and forehead.

“Fine. Then go ahead and try. You’ll end up struggling alone and dying like a dog. Haewol died like that too. Lonely and desolate. Die bearing infamy and covered in notoriety. That’s the death that suits you.”

Then.

A sound came from the main gate of the Tang Family Main House.

“No. That won’t happen. Poison Dragon won’t fight a lonely battle.”

It was Taoist Master Bok-cheon’s voice.

Not only Taoist Master Bok-cheon, but behind him, all of Jin Ja-gang’s acquaintances who had been at the Tang Family Main House appeared one by one.

Bian Bu came out limping on crutches and spat.

“Damn, some crazy bastard was shouting that he killed Master Haewol, so I wondered what was going on, and it was that Mang Ryo fellow?”

Sword Empress Im Yi-yeon said.

“To think such a person is called a great hero. Martial world rumors can’t be trusted.”

Woon-jeong also added a word.

“Poison Dragon friend is not alone! Right?”

Taoist Master Bok-cheon patted the embarrassed Woon-jeong’s head and said.

“That’s right. This isn’t just your affair. It’s the duty of everyone living in the martial world.”

Even Son Bi and So-so, who couldn’t speak, clenched their fists behind them showing they shared the same feelings.

Bian Bh frowned and looked at Mang Ryo as he spoke.

“No need to deal with such a person any longer. Cut him down in one stroke and let’s go together to those salt ships or whatever. Word came by carrier pigeon just now. Emei Sect and the Poison Sect Four Cliques will join too. Funeral Parlour has also turned around.”

What?

Mang Ryo’s lips twisted.

They’re all going to trust this guy and go die?

Mang Ryo mocked them with his mouth where teeth were broken and blood was oozing.

“Hahaha! Hahahaha! Of all people to trust! How can you trust such a guy and entrust your lives to him!”

But no one was swayed by Mang Ryo’s words.

Mang Ryo looked at Jin Ja-gang in disbelief.

In Jin Ja-gang’s eyes was an emotion he had never seen before. The same trust that was in their eyes.

Will.

Mang Ryo’s eyes wavered.

“What… what is all that now? Why does a guy who was like a wandering wolf have such gentle eyes? Are you joking around now?”

Jin Ja-gang answered without even glancing at Mang Ryo.

“My mother who worried about me until the moment of death. My grandfather who cared for me without regard for his own life. Deputy Sect Leader Yong Myeong and the disciples of Medicine King Valley who died in my place. The elderly of Medicine King Valley who gave up food for the young people and died when trapped in the mine tunnels. Foreman Jang and his family who taught me the preciousness of daily life at the Poison Valley construction site.”

“What?”

“All the people I’ve met so far made me who I am now. I didn’t come this far alone.”

Mang Ryo opened his mouth wide and sneered.

“Ridiculous. And what? Daily life? Where do you have anything like daily life! For guys like us, the bloody hell where we can’t survive without biting someone even for a day is what suits us!”

“Mang Ryo.”

Jin Ja-gang called Mang Ryo.

“Even if I kill you, nothing will change. Do you understand?”

“Stop talking nonsense! That can’t be!”

Mang Ryo mocked with a twisted face.

“You’re making fun of me now, aren’t you? Ah yes, that’s right. Otherwise it wouldn’t make sense. You couldn’t possibly have such a carefree expression when everything you’ve built up is about to fly away.”

Isn’t it human nature to lose sleep at night worrying about thieves when you’ve piled up a fortune of ten thousand gold in your warehouse?

But now Jin Ja-gang didn’t even respond.

Mang Ryo raged.

“I taught you an easy and comfortable method! I said you could protect it if you just submitted to me!”

Jin Ja-gang smiled slightly.

That was the expression of Jin Ja-gang that Mang Ryo least wanted to see.

Mang Ryo felt like he had been hit in the head.

No?

This isn’t what I was thinking?

Of course, Jin Ja-gang wasn’t looking at Mang Ryo and smiling.

Mang Ryo turned his eyes following Jin Ja-gang’s gaze.

Tang Ha-ran was standing there holding her swollen belly.

Jin Ja-gang was saying with his smile.

Do you see? This is why I no longer waver in killing you.

Mang Ryo became anguished.

Seeing Jin Ja-gang’s unbroken appearance pained Mang Ryo more than physical pain.

If he wasn’t going to succeed in the end, what had he been waiting ten years for all this time!

In this harsh and tiresome world.

I’m alone.

Why is this guy so happy?

Mang Ryo cried out.

Happiness…!

Don’t be happy, you bastard!

Feel despair, not happiness!

Look at me with those eyes and burn with hatred!

“AAAAAH!”

Mang Ryo was unbearably anguished.

He realized why Jin Ja-gang had spared him.

To show him that sight!

To really destroy the salt fleet and prove that Mang Ryo was nothing!

Suddenly Mang Ryo used his remaining strength to roll on the ground.

He picked up a dagger that had fallen on the ground and distanced himself from Jin Ja-gang.

Then he put the dagger to his own heart.

“Didn’t you ask me if I wanted to see? Whether you could do it or not?”

Mang Ryo looked at Jin Ja-gang and laughed while emitting killing intent like a madman.

Then he stopped laughing abruptly and spoke while grinding his teeth.

“I won’t watch, you bastard.”

Jin Ja-gang would be happy while he died unhappy.

But Jin Ja-gang wouldn’t have a chance to prove his words.

Because he wouldn’t watch.

Mang Ryo grinned ear to ear and stabbed the dagger into his own heart.

“Only hell awaits you!”

STAB, the moment the dagger pierced through his ribs and below his solar plexus about an inch.

One of Jin Ja-gang’s hands pointed toward Mang Ryo.

FLASH!

Asura Sutra shot out faster than light rays and became five straight lines piercing through Mang Ryo’s body.

“…”

Mang Ryo’s body stiffened. Asura Sutra’s thin threads had become skewers penetrating Mang Ryo’s body. His fingers and wrists, forearms and elbows, torso were all bundled and skewered so he couldn’t move.

“Urgh!”

Mang Ryo tried somehow to move and escape, but the Asura Sutra that had penetrated his arms and body had also pierced into the ground and was firmly fixed, so he couldn’t move.

Mang Ryo rolled his eyes to look at Jin Ja-gang.

GRIND! GRIND GRIND!

All his broken or half-pulled teeth were ground up and flowed out with blood.

“AAAAH!”

Mang Ryo twisted his body with all his might. His muscles tore and bones twisted on the penetrating Asura Sutra threads. But he didn’t care and tried to drive the dagger into his heart.

Jin Ja-gang’s other arm moved.

PING!

Simultaneously, Mang Ryo’s right hand holding the dagger flew away. Mang Ryo grabbed his severed right hand with his left hand. And tried to commit suicide in that state.

PING!

A curved line also sent his left hand flying. Mang Ryo bit the dagger with his mouth.

Jin Ja-gang cut the dagger with Asura Sutra. SLICE! The dagger itself was cut into pieces.

CRACK! Mang Ryo ended up biting empty air instead of the dagger. He bit so hard that his jaw dislocated and his broken teeth embedded in the opposite gums.

Mang Ryo cried out with his upper and lower jaws crushed together.

“UUHEEEEE!”

And finally, Jin Ja-gang’s Asura Sutra bisected space.

Jin Ja-gang made no words or battle cry.

He just frowned and clenched his molars as he flicked the Asura Sutra.

Mang Ryo’s head floated into the air spinning round and round.

Jin Ja-gang caught and lifted Mang Ryo’s head.

Mang Ryo had a very miserable and anguished expression. He had died with such an expression.

It was a face that bore all the sufferings of the mortal world to an indescribable degree.

Jin Ja-gang looked at that face for a moment while holding Mang Ryo’s head.

He had finally killed Mang Ryo.

Complex emotions also showed on Jin Ja-gang’s face.

How could Jin Ja-gang not have feelings about it?

But he hadn’t wanted to show them in front of Mang Ryo. From the moment Mang Ryo appeared at the Tang Family Main House shouting that he had killed Master Haewol, he knew what he wanted.

Tang Ha-ran approached with So-so’s support.

Tang Ha-ran unhesitatingly took Mang Ryo’s head from Jin Ja-gang.

Then she met Jin Ja-gang’s eyes.

Jin Ja-gang nodded.

Jin Ja-gang bowed toward the direction where Yunnan’s Hundred Flowers Valley had been.

Distant worship.

When Jin Ja-gang finished bowing, Tang Ha-ran placed Mang Ryo’s head facing north.

Bian Bu rushed over and placed the wine bottle from his waist in front of Mang Ryo’s head.

So-so held Tang Ha-ran from the side.

Jin Ja-gang and Tang Ha-ran bowed simultaneously.

Deep bow twice, respectful bow four times.

Jin Ja-gang’s shoulders trembled lightly with his head bowed to the ground.