Divine Demonic Path Chapter 63 : Using Poison to Fight Poison

Using poison to fight poison.

It ans to subdue one poison with another.

Jeok Yorap, who had also learned so dical skills, had heard of using poison to fight poison as a way to detoxify. He was suggesting that they use that thod in human affairs.

"So you're saying we should use a demonic path gang to stop a demonic path gang?"

Hua Sochen asked with a bewildered face.

"That's right. That's why I asked if the head of the family, who does not tolerate the demonic path, could tolerate that plan."

"Even if we chase away and stop the demonic path gangs, as long as they exist, the demonic path will continue to exist."

"That's right. But."

"......?"

"There's a saying, isn't there? If you hang it on your ear, it's an earring, and if you hang it on your nose, it's a nose ring."

"It's frustrating. Please speak in a way that is easy to understand."

Hua Yunhui interjected.

Jeok Yorap smiled brightly and nodded.

"We're going to make a proper sect out of the demonic path gangs."

"It's questionable whether that's even possible, but it will cost money."

"The money should co from the market."

"What?"

"The demonic path is sothing that keeps appearing even if you chase them away and chase them away. In the end, the rchants of the market have no choice but to be extorted in the na of protection money. And we, as a clinic, can't step forward and fight every ti. In that case, let's have them contribute a smaller amount than the protection money they were being extorted for and use it to protect themselves. In other words, it becos a real protection fee."

Jeok Yorap explained at length.

While everyone was nodding, Seokcheong said.

"I don't think that's right. It's a matter that will end quickly if Myung steps forward, so why make it so complicated?"

That's right.

It was a matter that would end simply if Cho Myung stepped forward.

"dical student Seok is right. I just don't want to burden Myung as a grandfather. It may sound cold, but Myung and the clinic don't need to protect everyone in the land of An, and a problem will surely arise soday. At the very least, what will you do when Myung is away from the land of An for a long ti, like he was for the past three years? At that ti, you won't even be able to have this worry. The reason we can even have this worry is..."

"Because Myung is by our side."

Hua Sochen continued Jeok Yorap's words.

Hua Sochen understood Jeok Yorap's thoughts.

It ant that if they did not prepare a proper plan now, they would not be able to do anything when Cho Myung was not here.

"Hey, then we can just wait until Myung cos back."

"Yes, that would be right. But until Myung cos back, we'll have to pretend we didn't hear even if we heard, and pretend we didn't see even if we saw."

At Seokcheong's words, Jeok Yorap smiled slightly and said.

Seokcheong blinked his eyes and realized that he had been thinking too simplistically, and he scratched the back of his head.

At the end of Jeok Yorap's words, everyone fell into thought.

Cho Myung, who was listening from one side, also fell into thought. But unlike the adults, Cho Myung was only interested in the thod of using poison to fight poison.

'Using poison to subdue poison!'

To Cho Myung, it seed like a really strange thod.

'So you're saying you're using bad people to stop bad people. Without using any strength on this side...'

It seems really amazing.

I don't know how my grandfather thought of all this.

Cho Myung looked at his grandfather with a face full of admiration.

"Do you have sothing to say?"

"No. I just think it's amazing."

"?"

"Yes."

"You rascal, thank you."

It's nice of you to think I'm amazing for sothing like this.

Jeok Yorap smiled warmly at Cho Myung.

"I'll et them first."

After a long deliberation, Hua Sochen ca to a conclusion.

Everyone stopped thinking and looked at her.

"I think the saying that if you hang it on your ear, it's an earring, and if you hang it on your nose, it's a nose ring is right. Even if it's the sa person, if they do bad things, they're a bad person, and if they do good things, they're a good person."

"That's right."

Jeok Yorap smiled.

Hua Sochen nodded and then looked around at everyone.

"If no one has any other plans, I'll try it according to old master Jeok's plan. But I'll decide whether they are worth using after eting them tomorrow."

"We also need to ask for the cooperation of the rchants of the market."

"Of course."

Hua Sochen, who had answered Jeok Yorap's point, looked back at Cho Myung.

"Myung, don't go to the mountain tomorrow, and let's go to the market with ."

"Yes."

Cho Myung lifted his head and smiled.

Although he had changed a lot, it was still the face of a child.

"I'm starting to rely on you too much."

Hua Sochen conveyed her sorry heart like that.

"Don't think like that. I'm happy to be of help."

"Yes, thank you."

Hua Sochen also finally smiled.

***

The next day.

After finishing breakfast, Hua Sochen taught the children, including Biyun, how to write, and then went out to the market with Cho Myung.

The reason they did not hurry from early in the morning was because the morning of the demonic path gangs usually started late.

The two asked the rchants of the market and went straight to the Pungwol Chamber. It was the place that the Ghost Blade Sect, which had been smashed by Cho Myung, had used as its base.

When the two walked, the n who were guarding the alley began to watch them.

Hua Sochen's figure stood out even from a distance.

But when they ca closer, three of the five widened their eyes in surprise and lowered their gazes.

They were from the Ghost Blade Sect or had been under the head of the Iron Wall Sect, and they recognized the faces of Hua Sochen and Cho Myung. But the other two did not know their faces.

So they showed their true colors without any wariness at Hua Sochen's beauty and plain clothes.

"Aigoo, there's a bitch who walks into the mouth of a tiger on her own. As if asking to be eaten. Kekekek!"

The mont one of the burly n laughed.

"Myung, blow that mouth away."

"Yes."

"Y-you bastard!"

The mont Cho Myung answered, the man spat out a curse and brought his hand to his waist.

It was at that mont that Cho Myung, who had run up in one step, stretched out his fist.

Thwack!

The man collapsed on the spot as if he had been broken.

Blood was flowing from his mouth.

"Y-you...!"

The mont the other man, who did not know the faces of Hua Sochen and Cho Myung, was about to shout, the three quickly grabbed him. And one of them quickly bowed his head to the two.

"Sh-shall I guide you inside?"

"Please do."

"Th-this way."

Hua Sochen and Cho Myung were guided by the man and entered the Pungwol Chamber.

A small front yard appeared.

A few people were visible.

People who were basking in the sun that had risen for a long ti.

But their clothes were different from the demonic path gangs they had seen so far.

Usually, the demonic path gangs carried small blades like hand axes, but they had large and sharp weapons.

Both Hua Sochen and Cho Myung were ronin they had never seen before.

Ronin are people who wander the world and sell their military power.

Sotis they are hired for disputes between sects, sotis for the trade of rchants, and sotis for soone's escort.

The lives of ronin always wander with the wind and clouds.

So they are weary, and so they are dangerous.

The Pungwol Chamber was a sect created by the union of thirteen ronin.

The two, who did not know that fact, stopped in the front yard at the unexpected sight and just looked around for a mont.

It seed they looked down on them.

Well, a woman in plain clothes of about twenty and a boy who was much younger than her had appeared and were making a bewildered face, so what a good prey they would be in the eyes of the ronin.

"You don't seem to be a prostitute, what's the matter?"

The unique caution of the ronin, who would cross even a stone bridge, made them poke gently without touching at once. Without even knowing that it had saved their mouths.

Hua Sochen was about to get angry at the word 'prostitute', but she suppressed her anger for now.

"We're from the Hua Family Clinic."

The mont Hua Sochen said that, the ronin shot up.

They all looked back and forth between Hua Sochen and Cho Myung with a tense look and then fixed their eyes on Cho Myung.

They knew that the disciple of the Fighting Demon at the Hua Family Clinic had smashed the demonic path.

"Head of the chamber! You'd better co out!"

When one person shouted, the door of the building opened and several people ca out.

They were also dressed as ronin.

"Who are these people?"

A ronin in his early forties asked, staring at Hua Sochen and Cho Myung.

"The Hua Family Clinic."

The mont one of the ronin outside answered, the people who had co out of the building also hardened.

"It seems you know what happened here from your reactions."

Hua Sochen said, looking around with an indifferent face.

Then they all just watched without answering.

It was at this ti that the ronin in his early forties stepped forward.

"I am Song Gang, the head of the chamber. I knew you would co at least once."

"The fact that you settled here even though you knew ans you're confident you can face us."

Hua Sochen looked at him with angry eyes.

It was at this ti that the ronin in his fifties, who had co out from inside with Song Gang, grabbed his sword hilt.

"As far as I know, the only one who has learned martial arts at the Hua Family Clinic is the disciple of the Fighting Demon. And the head of the family has co all the way here."

He was a cunning person.

He judged that even if Cho Myung was strong, he would not be able to subdue everyone at once, so if he could get his hands on Hua Sochen, who did not know martial arts, it would be their victory.

When the ronin in his fifties said that and gestured with his eyes, so of the ronin in the front yard agreed and grabbed their weapons.

The situation was that they had surrounded the two from three directions.

Even a person who did not know military strategy, even a person who was slow-witted, could not not notice the current situation.

Hua Sochen also knew.

But she did not even blink.

"Myung."

"Yes."

"Blow away the faces of the person who just spoke and the people who grabbed their weapons."

"Yes."

Cho Myung answered and shot towards the ronin in his fifties.

At this ti, the ronin in his fifties widened his eyes and swung his sword, and the two ronin who were close to him also swung their weapons towards Cho Myung.

The ronin in the front yard who had grabbed their weapons flew towards Hua Sochen. It was to secure Hua Sochen while their comrades were facing Cho Myung.

But.

Thwack!

The ronin in his fifties, who was swinging his sword like a thunderbolt, was hit in the face and fell backwards. Before he even hit the ground, the ronin who were rushing towards Hua Sochen were also sent flying. And before they even hit the ground, the faces of the people who were trying to face Cho Myung with the ronin in his fifties were also hit by fists.

Thwack, thwack, thwack!

With the sound of faces being beaten, the sound of people falling to the ground was heard from here and there.

Here, thwack, thwack! There, thwack, thwack! Then Cho Myung had returned to Hua Sochen's side.

"Don't step forward!"

When so of the ronin grabbed their weapons and were about to step forward at the sight of their comrades being defeated, Song Gang shouted loudly.

So there were no more clashes, but half of the ronin were groaning on the ground.

"We have no intention of fighting."

Song Gang said, holding up his two hands to Cho Myung and Hua Sochen.

"A fight has already broken out."

"Even under one roof, there are people with different intentions."

"I don't understand, but let's say so. So are you going to retreat obediently?"

"Since we don't have the strength, we have to."

"Good. I'll go back knowing that."

When Hua Sochen saw them, the ronin seed like wolves that could not be tad. So she decided not to even suggest the plan that Jeok Yorap had ntioned.

"Myung, let's go back."

Hua Sochen and Cho Myung turned around.

Song Gang, who was silently watching the two.

For so reason, he opened his mouth before the two reached the main gate.

"Head of the family."

When Hua Sochen stopped, Cho Myung also stopped.

"Even if we disappear, soone will take this place."

"I know."

Hua Sochen walked again.

"He said that the Hua Family Clinic would not interfere in the affairs of the market."

Hua Sochen stopped again.

And she turned around.

"He? Who is he?"

"The Haowu Sect. The manager of the Haowu Sect's An branch."

***

The Haowu Sect had branches in the center of each province.

And they had set up branches in each city of each province and placed them under the command of the branch manager. So in each province, the power of the branch manager was mighty, and in each city, the branch manager exercised absolute influence and had the demonic path under his feet.

That was the system of the Haowu Sect, and their own way of ruling the demonic path of the world.

The Haowu Sect's An branch.

It was a very small-scale inn that Hua Sochen had never been to before and did not even have a na.

"Welco."

When Hua Sochen and Cho Myung entered, a waiter quickly ran up and welcod them.

The two followed the waiter's guidance and sat down.

"We're from the Hua Family Clinic. I'd like to see the branch manager of the Haowu Sect here."

At Hua Sochen's words, the waiter, who had shown a slight sign of wariness, told them to wait for a mont and then ran to the kitchen.

A mont later, a person ca out of the kitchen.

He was a middle-aged man with a large build and hairy arms that were rolled up. He approached with a swagger and then slamd the kitchen knife he was using on the table.

"So, you wanted to see ?"

(End of Chapter)