As his title of lust demon suggested, he enjoyed embracing women, but there was something he enjoyed even more.
Blood.
The reason Pa Gahyeol had waited over a decade for ‘his’ command was the anticipation of being able to taste blood to his heart’s content once the order was given.
In a few days, when the First Plan officially began, the Namgung Family would be annihilated.
In that process, a gruesome scene of bloodshed would naturally unfold.
As he imagined the Namgung Family stained red, Pa Gahyeol’s body began to glow with an even more intense silver light.
Along with it, the movements of his lower body grew more violent.
“Hah, hah!”
“Kya, kyaak!”
The pitiful sacrifice, unaware that she was about to die, had her eyes rolled back in pleasure, her body writhing in ecstasy.
She was a martial artist his subordinates had captured yesterday.
Since she was on her way from Soaring Sun to the Namgung Family, she must have been going to celebrate the marriage of Changing Shadow and Namgung Hye.
Though the sacrifice was completely unaware, her family or sect would likely also vanish from the Jianghu soon.
‘They might already be gone.’
Gwang Woon was by no means a merciful man.
Having gone to lay the groundwork for The Second Plan, the Murim of Anhui Province would be utterly devastated.
Though he couldn't be certain, several ‘Clouds’ must have been mobilized for The Second Plan.
It was only a matter of order.
No sect in Anhui Province would be able to escape Gwang Woon’s grasp.
On the other hand, a total of seven Shadows were mobilized for the First Plan.
‘Me, Changing Shadow, the four hidden in the Namgung Family. And.’
The other one was in charge of the Chao Lake area.
If the Anhui Branch of the Heavenly Demon Castle that he led, the Namgung Family, and the force commanded by that other Shadow were to clash in Anhui, the outcome was self-evident.
Now that Mubon’s First and Second Plans had begun, the chances of the Anhui Murim remaining intact were……………….
None.
“Ahhhahaha!”
The woman, oblivious to all this, was lost in paradise even as her Yin Qi was being completely drained.
Pa Gahyeol knew the time had come to finish and absorbed the last of the woman’s remaining Essence Qi with abandon.
But just as he was about to reach his climax!
Flash! Flash! Flash!
Three short but incredibly intense streaks of light caught his eye.
The direction was toward the Namgung Family.
‘What is that!?’
Just because the Namgung Family was faintly visible from here did not mean the distance was short.
Unless the light was extraordinarily intense, there was no way it could have reached the peak of Ascending Dragon Mountain from the Namgung Family, especially at night.
A light that intense would have to be either sunlight or the explosion of a Thunderclap Bomb.
That was definitely not a signal from Changing Shadow.
Not only had Changing Shadow not learned the Solar Divine Art, but he also didn't possess any Thunderclap Bombs.
Above all, there was no way that the heat emitted by the Solar Divine Art or the destructive flash from a Thunderclap Bomb’s explosion could carry such a comfortable and inexplicably warm energy.
That was why Pa Gahyeol felt even more uneasy.
Something unknown had clearly happened at the Namgung Family.
This was definitely not part of the plan.
“Aaaargh!”
Finally, Pa Gahyeol and the woman reached their peak.
Thud.
As his yang object was pulled from the woman’s body, the woman’s life came to an end.
His body had already returned from silver to its original color, and his yang object hung limply below.
“Immediately seal all routes leading to Hefei.”
To whom was he speaking?
It was clearly not to the dead woman.
“As you command.”
As if to prove it, a reply came from somewhere below the rock.
As soon as the voice sounded, the shadows cast beneath the rock began to stretch out in all directions before splitting into several strands.
The shadows quickly vanished down Ascending Dragon Mountain.
Several people had been secretly hiding beneath the rock where Pa Gahyeol had been performing his lust art.
Once the shadows disappeared, Pa Gahyeol also vanished from that spot as if extinguished.
Whoosh~.
The cold wind blew again at the summit of Ascending Dragon Mountain, but now there was no one to receive it.
There was one, but she was just a corpse.
It meant nothing now, but the corpse’s name was Danri Hui.
At the same time, at the Namgung Family.
Two men stood on the sailboat, facing the cold wind blowing from Chao Lake.
Dong Bongsu was long gone, but the horrifying scene he had left behind still remained, weighing heavily on their minds.
One was the Heavenly Thunder Corps Lord, Namgung Hu, and the other was the Heavenly Wind Corps Leader, Namgung Il, who was responsible for the dead here.
“What do you think?”
Namgung Il spoke first.
Even as he spoke, his gaze remained fixed on the ship’s deck.
There, words were written in a magnificent script, as if a dragon were ascending to the heavens.
However, the scent rising from it was not of ink, but of blood, which made his brow furrow.
Namgung Hu, being the Heavenly Thunder Corps Lord, had arrived here sooner than Namgung Il.
When the three flashes of light originated from here, the closest guards on duty were the Heavenly Thunder Corps members standing watch at the Western Heaven Guest Hall.
Namgung Hu had arrived on this ship first after hearing their report, and Namgung Il had rushed here shortly after, having received a report from the fourth squad that came to relieve the third squad of the Heavenly Wind Corps, who had died today.
Namgung Hu pointed to the lower chamber below the central structure without giving a direct answer.
“Just by looking at this, we cannot fully understand the creator’s intent. Follow me.”
Namgung Hu led Namgung Il down to the ship’s lower chamber.
Namgung Il, thinking there must be a reason, followed Namgung Hu down without a word.
Since it was still deep in the night, the inside of the lower chamber was dark.
Pow!
Namgung Hu unleashed a palm art on the side of the lower chamber, creating a hole.
The faint light from the moon soon streamed in, illuminating the chamber.
Thanks to that, the previously obscured scenery of the lower chamber was laid bare before their eyes.
“This is!”
On the floor of the lower chamber, fragments that looked like human bones were meticulously embedded, forming a four-character sentence just like the Blood Script on the deck.
Its horrifying appearance was so gruesome it could not be compared to the one on the deck, but the elegance of the writing, just like the words written on the deck, was the work of a world-renowned calligrapher.
“The Heavenly Thunder Corps members who were on duty at the Western Heaven Guest Hall this morning were the first to arrive. According to their investigation, this Bone Script seems to have been written before the Blood Script on the deck. In other words, the intruder flayed the flesh and bones of the Heavenly Wind Corps members here to do this, then went up to the deck to write the Blood Script.”
Namgung Hu added an explanation for the astonished Namgung Il.
Hearing his words, Namgung Il briefly prayed for his subordinates’ souls before continuing.
“But I don’t understand why the intruder, after going through the trouble of infiltrating, would do such a… no, why they would do such a thing. They must have been busy trying to hide.”
“I wonder. I don’t know either. Why infiltrate the Namgung Family with such difficulty, only to write something like this?”
If one combined the Bone Script in the lower chamber and the Blood Script on the deck in order, they formed the following eight characters:
When the moon is full, the emperor shall fall, and I, who walk slowly, shall become king.
Namgung Hu and Namgung Il talked about those eight characters for a long time, and as the day slowly began to break, they made their way to the Emperor's Hall.
It seemed this matter was not something they could handle on their own.
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“Hey, did you hear what happened last night?”
“What?”
“Ah, you haven’t heard yet? Well, what happened was…………….”
The Namgung Family was abuzz with noise from the early morning.
The cause was the three bright lights that had enveloped the Namgung Family last night.
Since ancient times, people have considered the number three to be sacred.
One was equated with Yang, and two with Yin, so three, being the sum of one and two, was considered a perfect number where Yin and Yang were harmonized.
Moreover, the light that had covered the entire Namgung Family yesterday was, in itself, so brilliantly bright and gentle that it seemed as if it would purify the entire world.
All the warriors who were on guard duty at that time, and the few people who were awake, were all saying in one voice that it was no ordinary event.
Three Sacred Lights.
As the story passed through many mouths, the three lights came to have the grand and plausible name of the Three Sacred Lights.
“The Three Sacred Lights, I’m telling you…………….”
Even though it was still early morning and many people were not yet awake, rumors about the Three Sacred Lights were spreading like wildfire.
[This is the heavens blessing the upcoming marriage of Namgung Hye and Do Heo-ok!]
It was unknown who said it first, but before breakfast time, there was hardly anyone in the family who didn't know about it.
In fact, because of this matter of the Three Sacred Lights, the key figures and elders of the Namgung Family had all been summoned to the Emperor's Hall since morning.
However, the content of their meeting was not as hopeful as the ordinary family members and congratulatory guests thought.
The reason was that what the Three Sacred Lights heralded was not a blessing from the heavens, but in reality, a prelude to disaster called the Four-Bone Script and the Four-Blood Script.