Chapter 569:
“Gulp.“
The sound of swallowing dry saliva was clearly audible.
‘I think I’ve seen something like this before?’
Right, it was at the Tang Family. At the Tang Family too, Wei Yan-ho had absorbed the poison from someone who was poisoned and turned into a blood-red mess.
But the situation now was a bit different.
‘How much did he eat?’
That was the poison energy that the Poison Demon had stored inside his body. The Sichuan Tang Family also had those who professionally learned poison arts and used poison strength, but the Sichuan Tang Family basically preferred martial arts that dispersed poison.
However, the Poison Demon stored poison energy inside his body and used it. If one swallowed that poison, even the world’s greatest Poison King wouldn’t last a moment and would become a handful of blood.
But he ate all of that?
“……are you alright?”
Shin Gi-sua, understanding the situation, asked awkwardly. Even as he did so, he didn’t forget to stealthily step back.
‘This ignorant bastard.’
It was true that finding a way to resolve this poison had been difficult. But among all the methods he had imagined in his head to find a solution, there was no method as reckless as this.
No, would anyone even imagine it? What was that thing that he just ate!
“Ah…… well, um……”
Wei Yan-ho tilted his head.
“It seems fine…… no, wait. It doesn’t seem fine? Hup!“
Wei Yan-ho’s body lurched, and instantly green smoke gushed out from his nose and mouth.
“Hiiiiiiek!“
“Throw it up! Throw it up!”
The group urgently stepped back.
“Heoueup! Heoueup!“
Wei Yan-ho flailed his hands as if struggling in water, pulling at the smoke and then sucking it back in. Then he shouted with eyes filled with poison in every sense of the word.
“Running away to live alone!”
“……We can’t all die together, you bastard.”
Wei Yan-ho’s gaze snapped toward Wei Jeong-han.
“Abandoning your child and running away! Abandoning your child?”
“I have to survive too.”
Feeling the remaining filial piety completely disappear, Wei Yan-ho threw a tantrum.
“I’m going to tell mom everything!”
“……I was wrong.”
Watching this scene that was neither laughable nor tearful, Shin Gi-sua was losing his mind.
‘What the hell are these bastards doing?’
How serious was this situation?
In one moment, all the people of Luoyang could have melted into blood. Even Shin Gi-sua, who prided himself on having experienced everything under the sun, swore this was the first time he’d encountered such a hair-raising situation.
Even if that Great Demon Emperor ran wild, could he kill all the people of Luoyang at once? Absolutely impossible. But if this matter went wrong, truly hundreds of thousands would die in an instant.
Just looking at it should make cold sweat pour out and hearts pound like crazy to be normal.
But…….
“A father abandons his child and runs away, and friends leave me alone and flee!”
“People who can live should live! Is dying together loyalty, is it loyalty?”
“Then is running away loyalty, is it?”
“Loyalty isn’t what’s important!”
“Then what is important, what?”
“Living is important!”
Wei Yan-ho was protesting with his eyes rolled back—which looked even more eerie because his eyes were green—and Jang-il and the others were bickering while somehow trying to counter him.
Watching that scene, Shin Gi-sua smiled warmly.
“They’re having a good time.”
I don’t know anymore.
Shin Gi-sua was keenly feeling that once entangled with Wei Yan-ho, one shouldn’t expect normal situations. Two of the Demonic Cult’s bishops attacked the main base of the Righteous Alliance, which was practically an empty house, and in the process, the Poison Demon nearly massacred Luoyang.
Each and every incident was truly what could be called unprecedented, yet they happened consecutively……
The atmosphere…….
“This is really too much, even for this!”
“Don’t come! Don’t come, you bastard! If we get poisoned, we’ll die immediately!”
“Amitabha. Donor, before I smash your head, don’t come even one step closer.”
“Is that something a monk should say?”
“Do monks have nine lives or something? If you die, going to hell is the same for you and me. So don’t come. Before I blow your head off!”
The sight of him threatening with bloodshot eyes was no different from an Asura. How did such a specimen emerge from Shaolin?
‘No, the situation isn’t over yet.’
Shin Gi-sua coughed several times to calm his chest. If Wei Yan-ho couldn’t control that poison energy, the same situation would just repeat.
“Are you alright?”
“……Whether it’s alright or not, this is……”
Wei Yan-ho pressed his stomach firmly. Every time he pressed his stomach, something green flowed out of his mouth and then went back in repeatedly. It was a sight one would fear appearing in dreams.
“I’m having indigestion?”
“It’s not digesting because it’s not food! What do you expect to digest from that!”
“Is that so?”
Wei Yan-ho tilted his head.
“But usually when you eat something, it gets digested, right?”
“Does iron get digested when you swallow it?”
“It might……”
Wei Yan-ho scratched his head vigorously. Watching that scene, Shin Gi-sua finally noticed something strange.
‘But why…… isn’t he dead?’
Shouldn’t he be dead? Normally, wouldn’t you die from eating something like that?
Wei Yan-ho had turned his entire body perfectly green yet showed no signs of pain whatsoever. Common sense would dictate that with that level of poisoning, he should be dead.
“……Are you fine?”
Though he spoke what came to mind, even to himself it was a ridiculous question.
How could such an absurd question come out while looking at that appearance?
“Ah, it seems fine…… huh?”
Suddenly, Wei Yan-ho’s shoulder swelled up greatly. Seeing this, Shin Gi-sua’s eyes widened like lanterns.
“Huh? Why is this happening? Ootcha!“
When Wei Yan-ho pressed it down with his hand, his shoulder went in and this time his side bulged out.
“Huh?”
“……”
“This shouldn’t happen.”
Every time he pushed here and there, other places would bulge out. Like squeezing a leather pouch. Watching that scene, Shin Gi-sua finally covered his face.
‘Please~ act like a human being, please~.’
What great thing had he expected?
Asking a person to act like a person—what kind of great demand was that, that it couldn’t be properly fulfilled, creating this situation!
“I should do something about this somehow. My stomach feels upset.”
“……”
Eating the Poison Demon’s poison and merely having an upset stomach. If the Poison Demon, who should be in the afterlife, heard this, he’d die once more.
“Can you resolve it?”
Shin Gi-sua tried to hold onto his sanity. If even he lost his mind in this situation, the circumstances would truly flow endlessly without limit.
“It won’t be easy, but, well.”
Wei Yan-ho tapped his stomach.
“I have something to rely on.”
“Hm?”
“There’s such a thing. Since I might fail, please step back a bit.”
“What happens if you fail?”
Wei Yan-ho stared blankly at Shin Gi-sua and asked back.
“What do you think will happen?”
“……I asked something unnecessary. I’m sorry.”
Shin Gi-sua blamed himself for his foolishness. What would happen? Obviously he’d die.
“Tsk.“
Wei Yan-ho clicked his tongue and turned around. Then he moved an appropriate distance from the group and sat cross-legged.
‘Let’s stop joking around.’
Though he acted nonchalant, it was a more dangerous situation than expected. Of course, there was no worry about dying from poisoning. No matter how amazing the Poison Demon’s poison was, it was only at the level of toad poison or bee poison in front of Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core.
The problem was that the place where Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core purified this poison happened to be Wei Yan-ho’s body.
Uuuuuuung.
Already, Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core was sharpening its blade and ready to jump out at any moment. The reason this arrogant ruler, who absolutely wouldn’t tolerate intruders, had left the poison energy alone until now was because it knew that moving recklessly would cause Wei Yan-ho’s body to explode.
So until now it had been well-behaved. But it wasn’t an Inner Core that would keep enduring. The Inner Core’s personality was exactly like Baek Mu-han’s.
Uuuuuuung!
‘I know already.’
Wei Yan-ho took slow, deep breaths. Even Wei Yan-ho couldn’t guarantee what would happen in this moment. Wei Yan-ho knew better than anyone how tremendous the power of Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core was. That power was something even the current Wei Yan-ho absolutely couldn’t control.
He could only hope it would quietly finish purifying and return to its place.
There was only one thing to say at a time like this.
‘Namo Amitabha!‘
This was what Buddha existed for. Wei Yan-ho released the internal energy that had been surrounding his stomach. At the same time…….
Kwaaaaaaaaa!
The sound of a waterfall rushing was heard. The energy that burst from his stomach began mercilessly devouring the poison energy coloring his entire body. No energy in the world could dare resist Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core.
The internal power left by an invincible martial artist was also invincible. Before that massive internal power that couldn’t be seen anywhere else in the world, any energy was only powerless.
But that didn’t mean there were no problems.
“Keuuk!“
Baek Mu-han’s internal power thoroughly destroyed and purified the poison energy. Like hemp cloth filtering out foreign substances mixed in water, it cleanly sorted through Wei Yan-ho’s energies tainted with poison and selected only the poison energy to crush and suppress.
Tuduuk!
But the poison energy occupying Wei Yan-ho’s body was likewise a poison that couldn’t be seen anywhere else in the world. Though it couldn’t dare oppose Baek Mu-han’s internal power, its mere thrashing was tearing Wei Yan-ho’s body to shreds.
The rampaging poison energy and Baek Mu-han’s internal power, which was also rampaging to suppress that poison energy, were using Wei Yan-ho’s body as an arena to clash wildly. His internal organs were being torn to pieces, and his muscles were snapping fiber by fiber.
Drip.
Blood that seeped through his torn internal organs flowed back through his mouth. But that was only momentary. Thanks to the heat emitted as the poison was neutralized, Wei Yan-ho’s body began turning bright red.
The blood flowing back through his mouth boiled, and red steam shot out through his seven orifices.
“Keueueuup.“
Wei Yan-ho bit his lips tightly.
Damn Inner Core.
It was exactly like his master’s personality—fucking troublesome to no end. With that much power, it should be able to easily suppress that level of poison energy, but did it have to rampage like this?
Before he could voice his complaints, his body was breaking apart.
Udeudeuk!
The sound of breaking bones echoed clearly from various places. Massive explosions were occurring continuously inside his body.
“Keulleuk!“
He vomited blood several times and spewed out blood-colored steam, but no matter how much blood was in his body, blood kept gushing out endlessly.
‘Am I really going to die like this?’
The situation was becoming increasingly serious.
He had thought there wouldn’t be any major problem since he had Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core, but instead, Wei Yan-ho was on the verge of death precisely because of that Inner Core.
‘I, I have to do something!’
If his body broke down any further, there would be no answer. Recovery wasn’t the issue. He would become a cripple. Could someone whose entire body’s bones were broken and whose flesh had all burst live normally even if they survived?
That’s when it happened.
Uuuuuuung!
Terrifying energy flowed from Baek Mu-han’s Inner Core. The Inner Core, having instantly burned away all the poison energy spread throughout his body, shot up along his spine toward his head, toward his head.
‘No, don’t!’
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
A massive explosion occurred inside his head. Wei Yan-ho’s consciousness flew away into the distance.
