Chapter 151

Here, before reaching Muganggok.
An Hui had already weathered one storm.
The Martial Alliance hadn’t been formed, but there was no disagreement that they were all moving in unison. The only problem was that it was still as light as a feather. Nothing had been finalized, nothing had been fixed.
“Shandong’s Huangbose Family has been attacked!”
“Hebei’s Hebei Fang Family has also been attacked!”
“The volcano in Shanxi, Zhongnan, has been attacked by the swarms of the Yangtze River and the Green Forest!”
“It’s said that many demons are ascending from the Great Wall right now!”
The countless tales from the beggars of the open road left everyone shaken.
And so it was that the members of the Five Great Families and the Five Families of Gu Feifang rose from their seats, each of them defending their respective positions. At the very least, they were more focused on the immediate defense of what was theirs than on the empty promise of the Martial Alliance.
They wouldn’t collapse in the face of an attack, but they would look back if something went wrong.
At the time, I felt uneasy for some reason.
If I were me.
If I were to go back in time, when and at what moment would I target the enemy.
According to Black Lake, there were already Salmak’s Salsu, who had infiltrated Anhui as an official, Salsu disguised as a pointillist, and Salsu disguised as a succubus.
I felt a sense of crisis now, as I felt that I was already in the radius of the reversal of fortune and in their grasp.
And it was.
In the glorious moonlight, while everyone was asleep, countless feral beasts leapt over the wall several times, and I led and guarded them, including the Iron-Blooded Sword King, An Baek, and Ho Tae Do.
It must have been the moment when the Fengyun Jie was over and everyone’s minds were relaxed.
“……Everyone, listen to me carefully. They’re coming.”
So, just before they dispersed, he opened his mouth to speak to everyone. Even if we scattered when we scattered.
I gave them a reason to come together again.
* * *
Tudadadadad. Kuung!
I stumbled backwards and slammed into the wall, sending a bitter pain up my spine, but the expression of the one who had caught me was even more murderous.
“Ouch. Did I see the wrong person?”
“Brother.”
“Did I do something to offend you?”
“Brother…….”
I could tell how loyal Huang Tianhou was to the Huang Clan by the way he was holding his fists.
But I knew him, how loyal he was to the Huang family.
And why he was loyal to the Huang family.
“Are you worried about the princess?”
“It’s only natural……!”
“Do you have any intention of leaving the welcome?”
“……!”
Huang Tianhou is a man who lost his own daughter at the time of the princess’s birth. And it is the princess, Joo Young Young, who follows him like a father.
As the captain of the Heavenly Army who followed Huang Tianhou, and as someone who looked up to him as a mentor, even though he was the leader of the entire Aguidan, it was clear how much he missed and cared for his family.
“Big brother.”
“Don’t say any more bullshit. No matter what, I will never tolerate or accept you taking Princess Aurora for yourself. If you cross the line any further than this, I will draw the line at you, and you will know it.”
I shook my head at the declaration of the great warlord, the monkfish leader, Huang Tianhou.
“Brother.”
“…….”
He didn’t know me, but he didn’t know me too well.
“Do you think I don’t know that you’re thinking of the princess?”
“……Then why on earth!”
“Even so, you don’t know why you said that.”
Raised, Huang Tianhu’s eyes met mine, and I looked back at him. There was a silence. I give him time to calm down in between.
I figured he was too excited to talk, but he quickly relaxed his grip and sighed.
“Tell me about it.”
“Yue Tiankai, do you know about it?”
“I do.”
“Zhu Tiehua, the leader of the Red Clan, do you know that he has joined hands with the forces of the Sect?”
“Of course. You don’t seem to know about that.”
“If so.”
I opened my mouth to speak to Huang Tianhu. No, I was about to open my mouth when Huang Tianhou cut me off.
“You think they’re going to kidnap the princess.”
“Yes.”
“That’s right.” ”……Unless they’re insane, ugh. Do you know what a Daemyung is?”
“…….”
“It is the home of the 100,000 Earthly Lords, the Five Thousand Gold Weapons, and me, the monkfish leader Huang Tianhuo and the monkfish. If we face the wrath of the Heavenly Fury, we can wipe out the Zhongyuan Martial Clan and the Hongjian Enemy in an instant. That’s a story for the uninitiated, but Zhu Taihua knows. She knows what happens when you touch a princess.”
It’s a valid point. The power of a great name, the power of a country that flavored an era, was unparalleled.
But.
“I know.”
“You …… know?”
I know. More than anyone else.
How many years have I served as Captain of the Ten Thousand, and how many wars have I fought, both just and unjust.
And yet.
Why isn’t Daemyung cleaning up the Hongjian Enemy, why isn’t he cleaning up the powerful martial artists who won’t listen to him?
That should have been the focus.
“…… Brother, if what you say is true, shouldn’t the Hongjian Enemy have been eliminated long ago, and shouldn’t the countless Murmurers who are rampaging like thunder beetles have been organized?”
“…….”
“Then how come they are still here, how come, how come.”
Huang Tianhou’s expression darkened. Even if it were, it would be impossible to know. The walls of the South Palace in his previous life were only discovered after the Great Fire.
“The Great Spirit will never wipe out the Hongjian Enemy. It will never wipe out the Red Army.
Even though it has the power to do so.
Why would he do that?
It’s the core of the power he holds.
I knew it. I knew that Daemyung and Taemuje had aligned themselves with the Hongjian Enemy’s mainization in order to enjoy each other’s power and consolidate their respective positions.
Therefore, there was no way for Daemyung to take the initiative and wipe out Hongjian, and that was the problem.
“That’s what makes the existence of the Reversal of Fortune so dangerous.”
It’s definitely problematic to have beings from previous lives that you don’t know. At the very least, it’s a realization that I don’t know what variables they have, so I need to get rid of them quickly.
“Is that why you’re suggesting we sacrifice the princess?”
“The princess will be safe.”
“Do you think taking …… hostage is consistent with saying she’ll be safe?”
“Because the princess won’t be riding in the carriage that the princess will be riding in.”
* * *
“So this is what it comes down to.”
“It was only natural, princess.”
“Mr. Huang.”
“Yes.”
Huang Tianhou looked at the princess who was looking at him. His expression was lighter, unaffected by the princess’s grumpy expression.
“The princess will be acting as Fang Sojourner, so you can go the other way while we lure them in and deal with them. ”
“Shouldn’t we also go to help the Southern Palace Confucius?”
“The princess’s safety comes first.”
Princess Zhu Yingyoung’s eyes were tinged with disappointment as she looked at Huang Tianhou, who had cut off his words.
“I thought you said you were my brother-in-law…….”
“There’s a difference between a prince and a princess.”
“Just now, it was Uncle Huang who made me talk about so many things, about Guan Mubai and Hua Qin.”
“Princess.”
“Go ahead.”
“There is always a sacrifice for what you want to protect.”
“And that sacrifice is your brother-in-law?”
“The …… princess must really hate me.”
Seeing Huang Tianhu sneer bitterly, Zhu Yingyong closed the carriage’s entrance, and Huang Tianhu opened his mouth to speak, but then looked up at the sky in vain.
As if to foreshadow what was about to happen, the azure blue sky filled his eyes.
“Why is it so blue?”
* * *
“Giggle, giggle.”
“What makes you smile so much?”
Black Woong’s chest was pierced. I arched an eyebrow as he laughed, making a boiling sound of phlegm.
“You’ve gotten stronger, that’s for sure.”
“I’m dying, and you’re admitting it.”
“Cough, cough, cough! Kulk!”
The eyes that seemed to fill the world with life began to fade. Black Woong’s eyes gradually began to die, and as I looked at it, I slowly pulled out the black cloth from my chest pocket.
Fuqiao.
The blood that gushed out as I pulled it out must have been because I was aiming for the heart.
“You think you’ve won, don’t you?”
“…….”
I arched one eyebrow. In the corner of my eye, Fang Xiang was stomping on the corpse with a dagger through the nape of Zhao Yung’s neck, and a giant who had arrived late to the party after sweeping away the Green Forest bandits above the canyon was holding his own against Cheng Wong’s crippling fists.
Nevertheless, Black Wing’s words were strangely disturbing.
“Even after seeing that you won, you still don’t want to admit that you won.”
“That’s right, this is the beginning of ……. We’re just tourniquets…….”
His voice was annoying, even in the midst of my breathlessness. So I grabbed him by the scruff of the neck and flipped on the twin wristbands.
“What are you talking about?”
“……Princess.”
“A princess? The only information I’ve already given you is that she’s headed to Mugan Valley, which is why you’re here.”
“……Hoo hoo hoo. The princess is…… a reed field that passes through the province of Gangseo…….”
At those words, I let go of my grip. It was a fact that only a few knew.
How could it have been exposed?
It wasn’t just me who heard the story, but Pang Hyang’s eyes widened as well. I wasted no time in plunging the knife into the black wolf’s udder.
“Let’s leave ……this place to the wall powers to make the move.”
“You don’t think we have a traitor……!”
I shook my head. There couldn’t be.
At least, there shouldn’t be any traitors here. The only people who knew about this were the masters of the Old Pile, the Ark of Openness, and the patriarchs of the Five Great Houses.
Then there was the monkfish sect leader, Huang Tianhou, and the other members of the Wu Nai Fifty Zones.
“I will …… go to Jiangxi Province, and you, Fang Sojourner, return to Anhui to deliver the message.”
“Who am I supposed to tell? Who can I trust in this situation…….?”
At Fang Xiang’s words, I shake my head and open my mouth.
“There is someone I can trust, and he is…….”