Episode 440
“Please take care of Cheonan while I am away.”
“yes. “Don’t worry and have a nice trip.”
Adjutant Hwadaerang waved his hand to see me off.
During his visit to Haenam Ind, he would be in charge of all the major and minor affairs of the department.
It would have been fine to leave it to Sima Yun, another deputy, but he was currently in the Sima family with Seonhye Dojang.
It was to greet the messenger of the Cheonghyeoldomun (淸血刀門) who would visit the family.
Suddenly, a conversation I had with a blood red sword when I visited Cheonghyeoldomun in the past came to mind.
[Then, what do you think about the Blue Blood n bing a Baekdo n?]
[What?]
[Why are you so surprised? [It is not entirely without precedent.]
The work of making Cheonghyeoldaomun and Sima Sega into the two major martial powers in Guizhou was progressing smoothly.
From the beginning, the Cheonghyeoltaomun was a sect with enough power to be the loser of a region, and the Sima family had Sima Yun, the best martial arts expert in the world.
Soon, there would be upheaval in Gwiju’s power structure.
It was unfortunate for the Baekdo ns and families who were previously active in Gwiju, but there was no reason for me to care about their circumstances.
[under! This guy is really no good!]
[Wasn’t tomorrow the day we were originally supposed to enter the ruins? You say you will ignore the alliance’s decision and y as you please, monopolizing the treasures? There are levels of shamelessness!]
Although it had already been several years, I remembered it clearly.
Those with vested interests in Gwiju who scolded them and told them to hand over their bundles to rescue those who had fallen into the water.
‘An elder of Soolmun, the head of the Muk n, the head of the Yun family.’
No one stopped them as they chased Simaun, saying things that didn’t even sound like words.
I say this every time, but I was a person with a bad personality.
Even if we forget grace, we never forget resentment.
I was the one who had to repay double what had been done to relieve my anger.
“Then let’s leave.”
As we boarded the carriage, the disciple of the Haenam Sect sitting in the driver’s seat waved the reins.
The carriage wheels began to roll with a rattling noise.
There were a total of three members who would go to Haenam Ind with me.
Namgung Geum Cheon Ga-ryeong Tang Seoyeon.
Chen Jia-ling apanied Hao Wen when necessary, and Tang Seo-yeon simply wanted to apany him, so he offered to apany him.
We could have increased the number of people, but we decided not to.
There was a need to minimize the number ofpanions so as not to attract attention.
The fact that the me Soul Sword fell into a demonic state is a secret to the public.
Then why are you taking Namgung Geum with you?
It was a simple reason.
This was because I had in mind the story I heard from Jeolhaegeom two days ago.
Jeolhaegeom said that it was highly likely that the reason Yeomhongeom fell into mental illness was because of the death of Geomwang, whom he regarded as a teacher.
Namgunggeum, who came from the Namgungse family and watched the end of the Sword King from the side, might be able to persuade Yeomhongeom to jump into the battlefield.
‘Yeomhongeom is the highest leader of the Haenam faction and a person of the same rank as Munju. If someone like that moves, the other Haenam believers won’t be able to stay still.’
The reason I went to a distant ind and tried to save the me Soul Sword was to demand active participation from the Haenam faction in the war.
In that sense, Namgung Geum could be said to be the most appropriate choice.
Doo doo doo doo!
Arge four-horse chariot moved along the well-maintained road.
Disciples of the Haenam Sect positioned themselves around the carriage as if guarding it and drove the horses.
“…….”
Cheon Ga-ryeong, who was sitting across from me and staring nkly out the window, secretly turned to me.
As I made eye contact with a puzzled expression, a sound prated my ears.
-Have you done any research?
-what?
-What do you think?
-……I did my own research and even questioned people. I also asked for cooperation from the Open Office (丐幇). Because it is such a vague issue, there has not been much progress yet.
Last year, when we recruited new members on arge scale.
There was a time when Cheon Ga-ryeong, who called me to his guest house in Akyang, gave me information that I had never specifically requested.
The information written on the information sheet was truly unexpected.
It may be possible to solve the problem of Dang Seo-yeon not being able to have children.
‘How surprised I was at the time.’
Single women cannot have children.
To be exact, you shouldn’t have children.
This is because the poison is transmitted to the fetus, resulting in the terrible experience of stillbirth.
Because it is not a problem that can be solved through medicine, the fact has been ignored until now.
Even if we don’t have children, I thought that if Dang Seo-yeon and I cared for and cared for each other, that would be enough.
But now things have changed.
Because a way to solve the problem was presented.
Although he never said anything, he knew very well how much Tang Seo-yeon cared about his physical shorings.
If possible, I wanted to spare her any more trouble.
-Has Hao Mun discovered anything?
-no. If that were the case, I would have told you sooner.
Of course, I did not inform Dang Seo-yeon of the relevant facts.
Because she might end up feeling miserable.
It was only a possibility, but there was no guarantee that there really was a way for Germans to have children.
-It’s not easy.
-I told you from the beginning. Don’t have too high expectations.
-In the end, we have no choice but to expose the roots of the Demonic Cult.
I buried myself in the backrest and sighed.
Seoyeon Dang, sitting next to me, looked at me with a puzzled expression.
* * *
In the early days of the Demonic Cult, there was a being called a divine woman.
A member of the demon god revered by all demons.
Although a symbolic being, he was sometimes supported by believers for his insight into the future.
The priestess yed the role of a medium to bind the unruly and self-centered demons within the framework of religion.
‘Now the organization has stabilized and the religious overtones have disappeared.’
In the past, I heard that the symbolism of a priestess was essential for the stability of an organization.
The problem urred here.
Since ancient times, power and religion have been inseparable.
Priestesses were essential for the survival of the Demonic Cult, but they were something that the cult leader could not help but feel ufortable about.
It cannot be dismissed and must be checked to ensure that its influence does not grow too much.
Looking at the records, it appears that the conflict between the religious leader and the priestess led to an incident that almost split the power of the Demonic Cult.
In the end, both the priest and the believers who revered and revolted against the priest were torn limb from limb and died at the hands of the religious leader.
Chang Gye-gon, the leader of the Four Great Churches, who personally suppressed the rebellion, enacted aw to prevent the same thing from happening again.
『A priestess cannot marry a man other than the religious leader.』
He made the new priestess subordinate to him so that she would not dare to challenge for power.
In this way, a priestess was reduced to an essory in a disy case, having to live a single life for the rest of her life if she could not be a sect leader.
‘In fact, many of the priestesses of the past became thepanions of religious leaders.’
What Cheon Ga-ryeong brought me was a record of that priestess.
『The priestess who was thepanion of the Six Great Religious Leaders performed a ‘ritual’ while pregnant.』 Even if
other people didn’t know, I knew for sure.
What is the ritual that the priestesses performed?
What process do they go through to ept the power of a sacred object containing the power of wisdom?
[ording to what Reporter Cheon has figured out, there are two main conditions for using the sacred object of wisdom. The first is energy based on the Heavenly Demon Heart Gong.]
[Are you saying that previous priestesses learned the Heavenly Demon Heart Gong?]
[No. My guess is that when the priestess gained the power of wisdom, the religious leader would have been present and flowed energy into her body.]
In order to infuse the priestess with the power of a sacred object, the magic energy umted through the use of the Heavenly Demon Heart Gong must be flowed into the priestess’s body. I needed to put it in.
So what happens to the body of a priestess afterpleting the ritual?
‘Of course it’s bound to hurt a lot.’
No matter how much the priestess learns martial arts and develops resistance, even if she controls the energy flowing in from the demonic cult leader.
It is inevitable that a huge burden will be ced on the body.
The destructive nature of the inner energy umted through practicing Heavenly Demon Heart Gong could not be taken lightly.
It would be easy to understand if you think about how long Yeo So-ok spent in a hospital bed, consumed by the demonic energy emitted by the religious leader of the time.
Yeo So-ok was like that, but what about the priestesses who received that energy directly into their bodies?
Even at the minimum, I would have had to abstain for half a year to recover my health.
The reason why Cheon Ga-ryeong, who did not know anything about sacred objects, was interested in the information was probably because she saw records about it.
The surprising fact here was that thepanion of the six great religious leaders, who had performed the ritual while pregnant, gave birth safely.
It was something that couldn’t have happened based onmon sense.
The energy umted by practicing Heavenly Demon Heart Gong swirled through the body, and the mothery ill for a long time due to the aftereffects.
Is it really possible for the fetus inside the womb to survive it safely?
It is said that the mother took good care of herself afterpleting the ritual, or that the child in her womb had a unique constitution.
It was not an issue that could be understood by giving such a reason.
[ording to the records, it appears that the priestess at the time used a special method to protect the fetus from demonic energy.]
[Special method?]
[I don’t know exactly what she did. Even though I searched through all the remaining records of what happened at that time, I couldn’t find anything. I’m just specting that it may have something to do with witchcraft that was said to have been prevalent in the distant past.] [It’s
witchcraft.]
[This is the point. If it is possible to protect the fetus from demonic energy for more than half a year, wouldn’t it also be possible to protect the fetus from miasma?] [……It might certainly be possible.] [It’s worth digging
into
. I think there is enough.]
We have been continuously conducting investigations based on the information we received from Cheon Ga-ryeong, but we have not yet achieved any significant results.
The most certain way was to expose the headquarters of the Demonic Cult.
If you want to catch a tiger, you have to go into the tiger’s den.
If we overthrow the Heavenly Demon Pce, we might be able to salvage records rted to the early days of Demonicism.
‘It’s truly ironic.’
It wasn’t long ago that I was relieved that thanks to the records left by Reporter Cheon, the secret about the return was solved and there was no longer any need to search Cheonmagung.
Now I have to investigate that ce for another reason.
At this point, I felt like there was something called fate that had tied me and the Demon Cult together and wouldn’t let me go.
‘Whoa.’
It had toe to an end one way or another.
Wouldn’t it be a good thing if additional ie awaits you at the end of the inevitable fight?
Thinking like that made me feel a lot more at ease.
I closed my eyes and muttered in my mind.
‘In the end, what needs to be done is the same. Defeat the cult leader and destroy the demonic cult.’