The Lazy Young Master of the Jin Clan

“Wouldn’t it be more comfortable to prepare more things? Anyway, the news that Jin Sohyun is alive and well will reach the ears of the Alliance Leader.”

At Seolpyeong’s suggestion, Mu Yu took a small sip of the medicinal tea he was holding and took a long breath.

“When the Alliance Leader first ordered me to gather ten talented young children, I was able to gather a thousand children from all over the Central Plains with the help of the Hao Sect.”

From the refugee villages where beings worse than beggars lived.

From the illegitimate children born and abandoned in brothels to beggars, thieves, waiters, and even the youngest children of families whose fortunes had declined.

If they had martial talent, he gathered them without discrimination.

In the end.

Mu Yu had succeeded in gathering a total of two thousand children under the age of ten.

“Two thousand… perhaps?”

“That’s right. I trained a thousand children harshly under the Alliance Leader’s order and selected a hundred from them, and then I trained the hundred children again and left only ten.”

One of them was Ma Seongun, who was driving the Central Plains into fear with the title of the Blood-Sucking Sword Demon.

“And the remaining thousand children were driven into an underground cave that I had prepared separately.”

The children, who were driven into the underground cave without knowing anything, were only provided with a very small amount of drinking water.

The first week passed without any trouble.

Rather, the children trusted and relied on each other and sought a way to escape the underground cave.

But.

When the second week came, Mu Yu threw animal bones into the underground cave.

He had wondered what use bones without any flesh would be, but soon the children who had picked up the animal bones began to seize power.

They had obtained weapons.

The bones were used in various ways.

They used large bones like clubs, or they split them in half and began to use the sharp parts like awls or daggers.

Weapons were created.

Fear was created.

And hunger was created.

The children who had trusted and relied on each other soon realized.

That to survive, they had to eat the prey in front of them.

And so, the children became monsters.

“By the time a month had passed, the number of children, which had been a thousand, had decreased to seven hundred. But no corpses could be found.”

“…”

Seolpyeong was at a loss for words.

He seemed to know where the corpses had gone without even asking.

He felt nauseous for no reason.

Mu Yu, as if nothing was wrong, even showed a faint smile.

“I dropped a basic martial arts manual into the underground cave. The ones who knew how to read hurriedly read the book, and the children who didn’t know how to read threatened the children who knew how to read but had no power and made them read the martial arts manual.”

Now, the aspect of the fight had changed a little.

The children who had read the martial arts manual and had learned martial arts began to overwhelm the group that only had weapons.

At that, the desire for martial arts became even stronger.

They began to learn martial arts, risking their lives to survive.

In the pit of hell where they killed each other day and night, the children were losing their humanity.

Around that time, he also threw in raw meat.

Of course, the raw meat that Mu Yu had thrown in was far from enough for the children of the underground cave to eat.

Naturally, the children aimed their bone-made weapons at each other to get the blood-filled raw meat.

Among them, there were also some children who gave up on the food and practiced cannibalism.

“And so, by the time a year had passed, less than three hundred children had survived in the underground cave.”

Mu Yu decided to move on to the next stage.

Since he had created their minds and bodies, it was now time to build the foundation.

He mixed a poisonous herb that helped to increase internal energy into the drinking water provided to the underground cave.

Although it was a dangerous poison that could be life-threatening even with a small intake.

It was a poisonous herb that greatly helped to increase internal energy.

Originally, it would have been normal for them to complain of stomachaches and then die soon after.

But.

For the three hundred children who had survived by engraving cannibalism and all sorts of dirty and ugly things on their bodies, the poison of the poisonous herb was nothing.

And from then on, another year passed.

When the number of children in the underground cave was about a hundred.

That place could no longer be called an underground cave.

The name Hell Pit was more fitting.

Because there were no humans under the cave, and only hungry ghosts remained.

Mu Yu, who had judged that the time was ripe, personally went down to the Hell Pit.

The children, who had met a person for the first time since being dragged into the underground cave, were wary and showed their teeth.

‘They can no longer be called human.’

Manggoe.

That’s what Mu Yu called them.

Mu Yu, who was looking at the hundred Manggoe, spread his hands.

At that, the martial artists of the Alliance who had followed Mu Yu brought well-cooked meat and fruits and placed them in front of the Manggoe.

“Eat as much as you want.”

“…”

“Ugh… uwaaaah!”

The Manggoe, who had been living on cannibalism and raw meat, rushed in all at once and began to devour the food greedily.

Mu Yu, who was watching this with satisfaction, discovered a boy from the deepest part of the underground cave.

Unlike the other Manggoe who were devouring the food, having lost their reason.

A boy who was staring at him with an indifferent gaze.

Mu Yu immediately noticed that the child was the leader of this Hell Pit and approached him.

“Tell me what you want. What do you want.”

The child looked at Mu Yu silently and then asked.

“What can you give me?”

At his bold answer, Mu Yu smiled with satisfaction.

“Anything.”

“…”

The child nodded his head and stood up from his seat.

“Then give me the person who brought me here.”

“Hoo? Is that all?”

“I’ll start by eating that person.”

“When you are qualified enough, I will do so.”

The boy, who had nodded his head, sat down on the spot and closed his eyes.

In the meantime, behind Mu Yu, the Manggoe were attacking the martial artists of the Alliance who had brought the food.

“Keuaak!!”

“S-save…!”

Despite the terrible screams coming from behind him, Mu Yu came out of the Hell Pit with a satisfied smile.

After that, Mu Yu dropped all sorts of martial arts manuals into the underground cave, and the children, who had already tasted the sweetness of power, desperately learned the martial arts and swallowed the water containing the poison.

“And so, the fifty Manggoe and Mangryang were born.”

The leader of the Manggoe, Mangryang.

“It was originally my own blade that I had created to face the Alliance Leader, but I can’t help it.”

The Manggoe and Mangryang were his own swords that he had created with great effort to counter the Heretic Path's Alliance Leader, Ju Cheon, in case of an emergency.

“I should have nipped it in the bud.”

Mu Yu stood up, feeling a bitter taste.

Because a messenger sent by the Alliance Leader had just come to find him.

“Head of the sect, the Alliance Leader is looking for you.”

***

“You really came.”

The man said this and stood up.

“You. What’s your name.”

As the man asked, Jin Sohyun shrugged his shoulders.

“It’s a secret.”

“I’ll know after I eat you. Who you are.”

The man’s emotionless voice was creepy.

‘Strange…’

Although he looked like an ordinary man on the outside, the aura and feeling he was emitting were not human at all.

In particular, the thick smell of blood on the man’s body was to the point of being nauseating.

“Eat him.”

The leader of the Manggoe.

At Mangryang’s order, the monsters who were hiding, erasing their presence from all directions, soared up all at once.

“Ugh!?”

Beomgang, who had not felt their presence, was greatly surprised but immediately took a stance and raised both his fists at the approaching monsters.

In the meantime, Jin Sohyun spread his ki sense with his blue eyes flashing.

‘Is the number about fifty?’

Jin Sohyun, who had roughly calculated the number, took out a flying sword from his bosom and shot it at the monster that was rushing at him first.

The flying sword, imbued with the power of lightning, flew, emitting a blue lightning ki.

Thud—!!

Jin Sohyun’s flying sword, which was extending straight in a straight line, was embedded in the innocent ground.

‘They’re incredibly agile.’

The monsters’ movements did not seem to be human.

The movements of the monsters, who were wriggling their bodies bizarrely, could not be predicted at all.

And more than anything… they were fast.

The flying sword imbued with the power of lightning boasted the fastest attack speed among Jin Sohyun’s Flying Heaven Ten Sword, but the monsters dodged the flying sword with their amazing reaction speed and excellent ki sense.

After that, Jin Sohyun, who had thrown the flying sword several times, could not hit the monster’s body even once.

Only after throwing a total of eight flying swords did Jin Sohyun realize.

‘They’re reading my killing intent.’

As long as one was born a human, killing intent would naturally flow out when trying to kill an opponent.

And these monsters had an excellent talent for reading killing intent.

And why not? They had fought desperately to survive for about half of their lives.

The Manggoe, who had a ki sense sharper than a beast’s, dodged his attack, feeling even the faint killing intent that Jin Sohyun was emitting with their bodies.

“Kyaa!”

With a beast-like roar, two Manggoe rushed at him, raising their strangely shaped curved swords.

The ki contained in the tip of the blade was unusual.

“I can’t fight while controlling my strength.”

“I’m already using all my strength!”

Beomgang unfolded his Tyrant Emperor Swift Heat Fist Technique without reservation and faced the rushing Manggoe.

Large and small stab wounds appeared on Beomgang’s body, which was covered in a protective ki like a robe.

“Damn it!”

The Manggoe repeated the process of swinging their swords once and then running away.

Although they had learned martial arts, they were basically closer to hunters than martial artists.

The forty-nine Manggoe moved organically and pushed Beomgang calmly and persistently.

‘If this continues, I’ll be the first to fall.’

Beomgang, who had made up his mind, ran with all his might, putting strength into the tips of his feet.

Kung— kung—!

Beomgang’s fist, which had run, leaving deep footprints, had a strong ki gathered on it.

“Hyaapcha!”

Two fist strikes hit the empty air.

The fist wind that was generated from this pressed the Manggoe, and the Manggoe, who had been moving constantly and confusing Beomgang’s eyes, hesitated.

Beomgang did not miss that short gap.

“Hup!”

Beomgang, who had approached the Manggoe with a short shout, grabbed his wrist and raised his fist high.

“Take this!”

An intense fist strike that could crush even a rock fell like a hammer hitting a nail.

Kwang—!!

Beomgang’s fist swung through the empty air.

Thanks to that, the ki that had lost its way hit the ground hard.

“Wh-what!?”

Beomgang couldn't help but be flustered.

It was definitely an unavoidable blow.

Because he was holding one of the Manggoe’s wrists.

But surprisingly, the Manggoe had cut off his own wrist without hesitation and had run away.

“Ugh… damn it!”

Beomgang had to throw the Manggoe’s hand he was holding and duck his head.

Before the attack could even end, five Manggoe rushed in from all directions and stabbed with their curved swords.

“Fight fair and square! You damn bastards!”

While Beomgang was getting angry and fighting a desperate battle with the Manggoe, Jin Sohyun was also struggling in his fight with the Manggoe.

‘Their ki sense is as sharp as a blade.’

They would quickly dodge just by feeling a slight killing intent.

Because of that, only killing intent was exchanged between the Manggoe and Jin Sohyun, and no proper fight was taking place.

“This is troublesome.”

Jin Sohyun looked at Mangryang, who was standing still and watching the fight, unlike the other Manggoe.

He was also looking at Jin Sohyun.

“Are you the leader?”

“If you’re talking about the head, then yes.”

“In that case…”

Jin Sohyun unfolded his Shadowless Divine Step and approached Mangryang.

But Mangryang, as if he had noticed it, quickly retreated.

His speed was very fast.

‘This time too.’

As if he already knew that Jin Sohyun was about to move, Mangryang moved first.

Thanks to that, even though Jin Sohyun was faster, he could not catch Mangryang.

“You said you would eat me. Aren’t you going to fight?”

“You’re strong. So I have to be careful. Otherwise, I’ll die.”

Mangryang lowered his posture and glared at Jin Sohyun with empty eyes.

“I will never die.”

The Manggoe rushed in from all directions.

Like a pack of wild dogs aiming for their prey.

Jin Sohyun took a starting stance, holding his flying sword.

And he aimed his flying sword at the Manggoe that was rushing at him from the front.

“Hoo.”

With a deep breath.

A flying sword left Jin Sohyun’s hand.

(End of Chapter)