Chapter 190 – Dream of the Demon God (10)

Even before the female master’s body arrived, something that looked like a snake shot toward Sun-woo. It was a whip.

Though it was a crudely made object from various materials, judging from the shiny things visible on the whip’s surface, getting it wrapped around skin would definitely end badly.

Sun-woo’s body slipped away from where the whip was and appeared far away behind.

“Dimensional Shift!”

The female master’s face turned deathly pale seeing Sun-woo. Her expression showed she’d picked the wrong fight.

“Everyone attack!”

She retrieved the whip and then lashed it toward her companions.

In an instant, three or four people were caught in the whip and thrown toward Sun-woo who had stepped back.

“Aagh!”

“Damn it!”

“It’s starting again! Dodge!”

Aside from the three martial artists flying toward Sun-woo, the others immediately scattered in all directions. It clearly wasn’t their first time.

Those flying toward Sun-woo made death-facing expressions and drew weapons from their bosoms. A knife carved from bone and a spear with a stone tip appeared.

Those weapons had faint light surrounding them, showing they all possessed internal energy.

But it was meaningless to Sun-woo.

Either way, example cases were needed.

The sword and spear passed by Sun-woo’s side and Sun-woo’s hands touched and left the people’s stomachs.

“Urk.”

“Kek.”

Those who tumbled behind Sun-woo began contorting their limbs and spilling blood.

He had shattered their insides with a kind of striking palm technique.

Sun-woo looked at his hands somewhat bitterly. Now he hardly felt troubled about killing.

He didn’t know if it was becoming a martial artist or if using demonic energy was changing his personality.

Even so, judging objectively, the changed personality wasn’t a problem.

Sun-woo who knocked down the three people who flew at him smiled bitterly.

Those who had blocked his path were already fleeing in all directions.

Among them, the female master had fled first and was already out of sight.

“Are all their survival instincts this great?”

Grasping the situation in one move and escaping, their flexibility was no joke.

“But I need at least one person to hear about the internal situation.”

The ones fleeing before his eyes were difficult to subdue and question.

Just looking at them, it was obvious they hadn’t washed for over 10 years, making it uncomfortable to even approach.

“Can’t be helped?”

Sun-woo’s body disappeared in an instant.

***

Twenty years ago, Miho Jijimin who had caused a stir in the Central Plains was using her lightness arts to the fullest for the first time in a long while, advancing through the cave.

“What, suddenly a super-peak master! Looks young too. Rejuvenation? Or did some mass production method for peak masters come out?”

Even while talking, she continued running quickly through the maze-like cave.

From the start, she had fled to the maze cave avoiding the large, long-stretching caves.

Well, the prisoners who spent decades here would know the way, but a guy from outside would never find the way in here.

“Phew, should be okay having come this far? What on earth happened outside. Something definitely happened. Damn it, I’ve been in this hellhole too long. Lost all my instincts. I shouldn’t have attacked in surprise but should’ve gently seduced…”

Jijimin sat down and held her head. She was very upset about missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“Ugh, I’ve already attacked so it’s hard to approach pretending to be innocent, and charm arts or disguise arts won’t work on a super-peak master… I’m screwed. If he’d just take me outside, I’d do anything…”

A response came to her gloomy muttering.

“That’s a pretty good offer though?”

“Kyaa!”

Jijimin literally screamed in heart-dropping surprise and tried to flee on all fours.

Another person had appeared right in front of her in a completely undetected situation.

There was nowhere to escape inside here, so it was literally a life-or-death situation and she couldn’t not be surprised.

But before running a few steps, she could regain her senses.

“Um… what did you say?”

She who barely stopped walking turned her head slightly and carefully asked Sun-woo.

She seemed to turn her head at a kind of flattering angle, but with her butt stuck out while crawling on all fours and just turning her head, it was only laughable.

“It’s an offer that I could take you outside if you tell me about the situation inside here.”

Sun-woo usually spoke politely, but he had no intention of being polite to someone who attacked him.

Moreover, this woman had been inside here for a long time. Even listening to her talking to herself, who knew what she’d pull if taken lightly.

“Really?”

Color returned to her face.

He had followed the maze she’d never be found in and approached right in front of her while hiding his presence from her, a peak master.

He was definitely a proper super-peak master. However, following the maze wasn’t a super-peak master’s ability but actually because of sorcery.

A super-peak master could definitely escape this hell.

Though there were crazy guys who reached super-peak and still struggled inside, she had no intention whatsoever of dying in here.

Her brightly smiling face was incredibly beautiful. Charm arts that reached peak were involuntarily activated thanks to the emotion she felt.

But Sun-woo’s expression had no change at all.

Jijimin became depressed when Sun-woo was unaffected by the charm arts accidentally activated.

‘I expected it… but it doesn’t work. Still, he definitely likes women. He chased me instead of leaving the easy bastards alone.’

She immediately straightened her posture and bowed her head toward Sun-woo.

If seductive didn’t work, she needed to push with purity.

“I’m sorry. I’ve been inside here too long and unknowingly became aggressive in words and actions. What would you like to know?”

“The situation inside this Blood Brain Prison now.”

“May I know what business brought you down here? Knowing what you want would make explaining easier.”

“I’m chasing those who came down here recently. I want to know about the situation inside.”

At Sun-woo’s words, Jijimin made a pleased expression. She didn’t know how skilled those who came down first were, but since they were hostile to each other, various opportunities would surely arise.

Since she couldn’t give information to those who went first, she decided to stick with the man before her eyes for now.

He clearly looked less experienced.

Though his internal energy level was high so martial arts like charm arts wouldn’t work, her beauty alone was worth challenging with.

“I can find that out right away. I have my own force, so if I ask the kids, I mean people, we can quickly find which way they went.”

Seeing they hadn’t found them yet, it was clearly hard to find quickly, but she needed to emphasize her position.

And she needed to contact the kids and devise various strategies.

“No. No need to investigate where they went. Just tell me how the forces inside are, how many masters there are, how they recovered martial arts. And just talk about special areas.”

At Sun-woo’s words, Jijimin became puzzled.

Then there was no difference from the other guys who fled.

In the end, it was because of her beauty, but something about the man’s manner of speaking was strange.

“May I ask why you chose me?”

“You were the cleanest at least.”

At Sun-woo’s answer, Jijimin’s mouth dropped open. It was the most shocking thing she’d heard so far.

“Then what about the chase?”

When she asked with a depressed expression, Sun-woo took the lead.

As he navigated through the maze cave as if knowing the way, Jijimin gave up asking altogether.

“Then explain.”

“I’m Miho Jijimin.”

At Sun-woo’s words, she started her story by first giving her name.

She could give a fake name, but since they’d definitely meet other people inside, there was no need to create misunderstandings.

“I was the daughter of a sect leader of a small sect in Shanxi. I was living a relatively peaceful life when one day I found an old book in the storage.”

Sun-woo clearly asked about the situation inside, but she started talking about her own circumstances from the beginning.

It was clearly an excuse about why she entered here, but Sun-woo decided to wait a bit.

Fortunately, her story wasn’t very long.

The book found in storage was a martial arts manual left by a demon person who was a master of seduction arts long ago.

When that story leaked out, her sect was exterminated as descendants of the Bright Cult.

Fortunately, she could escape through her house’s secret passage.

And she succeeded in revenge using the seduction arts learned from the manual she brought while fleeing, but was caught by Bright Cult members who came looking after hearing rumors about her and imprisoned here.

It was a self-centered explanation that completely cut out how and how far she took revenge and how she learned seduction arts.

After lamenting her situation, she glanced at Sun-woo and only then properly started her story.

“Inside here, one super-peak master and three top-level peak masters each maintain forces while occupying territories. One of them is my force.”

Though she spoke boastfully, soon recalling Sun-woo’s martial arts level, she continued modestly.

“Originally when entering here, the stronger you were the more internal energy you lost and tendons were cut, so masters became worse than ordinary people and didn’t live long before dying while eating each other.”

It was a natural result since that was the Blood Brain Prison’s original purpose.

“But wanting to live is human nature, so they searched through caves somehow to find food. Fortunately water veins flowed underground so there was no water worry, and they continued exploring underground to discover even a bit more moss.”

And they discovered old ruins deep underground.

Strange energy flowed from that place and the moss growing around the ruins became spirit moss absorbing that energy.

“If you take time to consume that ruin’s moss regularly, cut tendons reconnect and broken dantians are restored.”

“Then, does everyone go there to eat moss and recover?”

Even while asking, Sun-woo tilted his head. The prisoners he met a moment ago had quite uneven martial arts levels and some weren’t recovered.

“Because of that eunuch-like bastard, I mean the super-peak master here.”

Unfortunately, her effort to look pure faded due to occasional curses that popped out.

“That guy sits blocking the ruin entrance giving tests to select people who can eat moss. Thanks to him, we’ve suffered so much…”

Jijimin unknowingly ground her teeth.

“Is this direction by any chance heading toward that ruin?”

Sun-woo who was listening to her pointed ahead.

She seemed to have relaxed thanks to moving with someone more skilled than herself for the first time in a while.

She who blamed herself for not looking around soon nodded.

“Right. We have to pass through another faction’s territory, but it’s the ruin’s direction.”

“Then let’s hurry.”

Much time had passed. Important stories were heard, so they needed to hurry.

“Let’s go together!”

As Sun-woo increased speed and shot forward, startled Jijimin flew after chasing him.