MTLNOVEL 11 - Those Who Plot Conspiracies (2)
If the Martial Arts Alliance has a military strategist, so does the Evil Sect.
The Evil Brain.
A title given to the one with the most brilliant mind in “warfare” between factions, not just in martial arts.
The current Evil Brain, Sima Jun, could only reach one conclusion no matter how much he thought about it.
The current Evil Sect was ruined.
After the Demon King’s miserable defeat by the Sword Star in the duel that determined the fate of the Sun Moon Holy Cult, the Evil Sect was effectively defeated.
They say when a rich man falls, it takes three years.
Or perhaps it’s because there’s no other strong power in Tianshan besides the Evil Sect.
Or maybe it’s because the Demon King, though rotten, can still defeat all other Evil Sect members despite losing to the Sword Star.
The Evil Sect maintains its existence.
With decreased revenue, they must wear patched-up old clothes.
Without the resources to repair collapsed halls, Evil Sect members are told to go outside when they fight.
Even though most of the Evil Sect’s Ten Demons have betrayed the sect and are looking for opportunities to blend into the Central Plains or have already halfway crossed over.
Still, the Evil Sect is alive. At least it’s alive.
If the Martial Arts Alliance strategist weren’t from the Zhuge family, Sima Jun might have slipped down to the Central Plains, washed away his past, and become the Martial Arts Alliance strategist.
But there is still hope.
As the Demon King concluded most quickly, if the “present” doesn’t work, one can bet on the “future.”
Part of that future path has opened.
Evil Brain Sima Jun headed immediately to the “Demonic Realm Pavilion,” the Demon King’s residence, as soon as he heard the report.
But when he arrived.
“Where is the Demon King?”
“He is sleeping.”
At the words of the Tiger Protector, who wore a black tiger mask on his face, he hung his head low.
“It’s urgent.”
“You know, Evil Brain. When he’s sleeping, anyone who wakes him loses their head.”
“……It’s a matter of minutes.”
“Anyone who shouts from outside will die. Wait until he wakes up.”
“Is he drunk?”
“Yes.”
At the Tiger Protector’s answer, the Evil Brain’s shoulders drooped.
It’s all because of the Sword Star.
The once vibrant hero of the Evil Sect who tried to overturn the world has now become an irredeemable human trash, all because of the Sword Star.
But what can be done?
The righteous martial world is flourishing daily, and they’ve even developed a cure for meridian blockage.
“I wonder how the Demon King will react when he wakes up and hears this.”
“Indeed. I’m curious too.”
The Evil Brain immediately bowed at the voice from behind.
“You’ve arrived, Great Princess.”
“Yes. Is Father sprawled out sleeping again today?”
“Great Princess, that.”
“It’s not like this is unusual.”
Even amid his anxiety, the Evil Brain glanced up at the Great Princess who was saying what he wanted to say.
Her crown barely reaching his waist.
A girl of such small stature that she wouldn’t look out of place being called a granddaughter by other old monsters—his peers in the Evil Sect.
But this girl is the hope of the Evil Sect.
It’s no exaggeration to say that the fate of the Evil Sect rests entirely on this girl, which is why the Evil Brain also remains here, barely supporting the pillars before they collapse.
“Evil Brain. I seek your wisdom on one matter.”
“Please ask, Great Princess.”
“Originally, sending the Evil Physician and his disciple to the Mo Yong family was not only to assassinate the Mo Yong daughter but also to find a cure for meridian blockage, right?”
“That’s correct, Great Princess. That….”
“I don’t really care, though.”
The Great Princess flashed her red eyes and slightly rolled up her sleeve.
“Those who master the Demon King Divine Technique may have lifespan issues with meridian blockage, but pain isn’t a problem.”
“…….”
“It doesn’t matter since it’ll be resolved if I reach the transcendent realm, no, the life-death realm before forty. The problem is that now, the Evil Physician’s disciple ‘can remain’ in the Mo Yong family.”
“…Y-yes.”
The Evil Brain is clever and knows how to survive.
“Should I order hidden poison Seok Mu Wol to return to the Evil Sect? Right now?”
“No. If we did that, the Sword Star would immediately chase after us. At least until I can face the Sword Star, it’s still difficult.”
The Great Princess shows a negative reaction.
But the Evil Brain knows her true heart well.
“But how can we leave an Evil Sect person in the righteous martial world? I will definitely make him return to the Evil Sect and restore him to the vacant position of Evil Physician. For the normalization of the Evil Sect.”
“…Do you have a method?”
The Great Princess perks up her ears.
“A method, we must create one somehow. Even if there isn’t one, we must somehow create it, and even if it seems impossible, we must somehow achieve it—that’s what the Evil Brain does.”
The Evil Brain, knowing how much the Great Princess cried when the Evil Physician and his disciple left, refined his words as much as possible.
“I will stir up the entire Central Plains. No matter how supreme the Mo Yong family’s position is, if the Nine Schools and One Faction, the Five Great Families, and the entire martial world are stirred up, they won’t be able to endure without sending Physician Seok Mu Wol out of the family.”
“…Good. As long as his limbs are intact, or even if they’re not, it doesn’t matter.”
The Great Princess passed by the Evil Brain’s side with gleaming eyes.
“Even if he’s defiled countless times by the lustful women of the Central Plains, in the end, he just needs to be by this ‘Tian Hua’s’ side.”
“Ah, aah…!”
The Evil Brain almost burst into tears.
Isn’t this the very spirit that the “Demon King of the Sun Moon Holy Cult” should have?
“Then… I’ll have to accept it too.”
The Great Princess, Tian Hua, placed her hand on her chest.
“The absolute power to embrace big brother.”
The Great Princess walks forward.
“Great Princess, now is…!”
“Huh?”
“……!”
The Tiger Protector blocks the way, but immediately kneels at just one glance from the Great Princess.
Creak.
The Great Princess opens the doors of the Demonic Realm Pavilion wide.
Amidst all kinds of foul odors flowing out through the door, a man was sleeping in the middle of the hall, snoring without even properly wearing his clothes.
“……Tsk.”
The Great Princess visibly showed her disgust toward the man, but despite the door opening and someone entering, the man did not wake up.
“Can’t be helped. I didn’t want to use this method.”
“Great Princess. The Demon King….”
“I know he can hear everything even while sleeping. A transcendent master should be able to do at least that much.”
Thud.
“I’ll report. Evil Physician White Face’s disciple, Seok Mu Wol, has cured Mo Yong Seol, the Sword Star’s daughter, of meridian blockage.”
“…….”
The man still did not get up.
“He cured meridian blockage. That means I don’t need to cultivate the Demon King Divine Technique anymore, there’s a way to cure my body?”
“…….”
Despite the Great Princess’s urging, the man did not rise.
The Great Princess sighed deeply, wiped near her nose once with her hand, and then opened her mouth.
“They say the Evil Physician’s disciple spent the night with Mo Yong Seol.”
Twitch.
“Because of that, the Sword Star collapsed while coughing blood.”
“What?”
The man, the Demon King, slowly opened his eyes.
“The Sword Star collapsed?”
“…Yes.”
The Great Princess clenched her fist tightly.
“Coughing blood and collapsed, right?”
The Demon King, who seemed somewhat out of his mind, had just woken up from sleep and was trying to raise himself from the bed but rolled forward and fell to the ground—his appearance was clearly abnormal to anyone who saw it.
“His daughl, ugh, spent the night, and because of that, the Sword Star collapsed while coughing blood?”
Even with his face buried in the ground, his wide-open eyes were much closer to blood-red than the Great Princess’s red face.
“Khaha, kahahaha!!”
The Demon King burst into mad laughter.
“Aarm, I saw the right person! Among those I picked up, the one who looked straight at me! Hahaha! He finally did it! Khahaha!”
“…Meridian blockage, was cured.”
“So what?”
The Demon King barely lifted his body that was about to slip and laughed fiercely.
“Tell him, kuk, his name… ah, yes! Tell the Evil Physician’s disciple! To keep, drinking! Until the Sword Star goes mad from seeing his daughter devoured! Kyahak, kuhohohoheuk!!”
“…….”
“Tiger Protector!! Bring wine! On such a joyful day, shouldn’t we get drunk! Uhahahahaha!!”
Seeing the Great Princess clench her fist with a grinding sound, Evil Brain Sima Jun quietly bowed his head.
This is why everyone betrays him.
Indeed.
The Evil Sect is ruined.
If there’s hope, it’s either the Great Princess overthrowing the Demon King, or someone killing that madman.
-What if I commission Seok Mu Wol to assassinate the Demon King for the Sword Star in exchange for removing the hidden poison in his body and giving him freedom?
The thought briefly crossed his mind, but the Evil Brain shook his head.
Logically, this is the man who took his daughter’s virginity.
Why would the Sword Star cross the continent to Tianshan to assassinate the Demon King for the sake of an Evil Sect man?
Late night.
After the Alliance Chief organized the situation at the main hall, after everyone who wasn’t from the Mo Yong family had left the estate.
“You two follow me first.”
“Dad, that.”
“You must have many questions, but let’s talk where there are no people.”
The Sword Star took me and Mo Yong Seol back to the Mo Yong family’s separate pavilion.
On the way, we received various looks from family members, but the Sword Star silently opened the path by intimidating those who approached me and Mo Yong Seol with questioning eyes.
And after arriving at the separate pavilion.
“What do you want to ask, daughter?”
“What was the Alliance Chief thinking when he revealed that his senior disciple is the Demon King’s daughter?”
Mo Yong Seol asked the question.
I had the same doubt.
“If he wanted to threaten… he could have just brought up the physician’s background. Then the Divine Monk would have backed the Alliance Chief too.”
Why did the Martial Arts Alliance Chief divert the topic while exposing his own, Kunlun’s weakness?
Why did he try to cover the questioning gaze toward me with another suspicion?
“It was to hide Physician Seok’s identity.”
“What?”
“The Alliance Chief, unlike his appearance, is quite a kind person.”
The Sword Star immediately answered Mo Yong Seol’s question.
“I owe the Alliance Chief a great debt.”
“He revealed his senior disciple’s identity… to hide the physician’s identity?”
“Yes.”
“But why…?”
“Because he owes me. He does.”
The Sword Star pointed to the sword at his waist.
“If I hadn’t defeated the Demon King, the Kunlun Sect would have faced annihilation. Since Kunlun is located right below the Evil Sect.”
“Ah….”
“I didn’t expect past connections to return like this, but it will probably be a headache even after he goes back. Especially the Divine Monk… hah. That monk.”
The Sword Star showed blatant irritation toward the Divine Monk.
“Physician Seok.”
“Yes, Family Head.”
“Did you know that the Demon King’s daughters have meridian blockage?”
“I knew about one but not two. I knew the Demon King had one daughter and that she had meridian blockage, but I just learned for the first time that the Demon King has two other daughters.”
“I see.”
Truly.
“In fact, I just learned for the first time that they are the Demon King’s daughters.”
“They. …You have some guesses, I suppose.”
“Probably Kunlun’s senior disciple Jin Hyun, and Point Spear Sect’s disciple Shao Yanchi. I couldn’t have imagined that the Demon King would push his own daughters among orphans… like me.”
Sincerely.
“Because I couldn’t even imagine that someone like the Demon King would abandon his children like that.”
“I see.”
“Yes.”
“Then, you’ll need to cultivate strength from now on.”
The Sword Star lifted the sword at his waist, scabbard and all.
“Seol. If it’s the Demon King, he will try to use his daughters to steal Physician Seok.”
“……!”
“No, he will mobilize the entire Central Plains to steal Physician Seok from you.”
“Why?”
“For revenge against me.”
“…….”
“Your pain is my pain, so the Demon King will now try to hurt you. More in heart than in body.”
“……Yes.”
Mo Yong Seol stepped forward.
“What will you do?”
“……I.”
Mo Yong Seol reached out toward the sword the Sword Star had drawn.
“I’ll learn the sword properly now. I haven’t properly learned it until now.”
Even without properly learning the sword, she’s already a first-class master, no, a being who has reached the pinnacle.
As she slowly drew the sword, blue sword energy began to flow like starlight.
‘Indeed, the Heavenly Martial Body.’
A woman blessed by heaven in martial arts, with the world’s greatest talent that has no difficulty learning any martial art.
“To protect my physician.”
Such a woman has decided to pick up a sword to protect me.
Blue flecks sparkled in Mo Yong Seol’s eyes.
“Anything that tries to steal my physician, I’ll cut them all down with this sword.”
The blade flashed with fierce blue starlight.
And, midnight.
“The Purple Sword Gate’s sect leader, Yu Gui-in. I have come to the Mo Yong family for my daughter’s meridian blockage treatment.”
A meridian blockage patient appeared and knocked on the main gate of the Mo Yong family.