Chapter 89. The Scramble (5)
The sll of blood that perated the air made my brow furrow on its own.
Over a hundred corpses were scattered about, and the undergrowth was completely soaked in blood.
And still, over a hundred pieces of trash were there, each holding their weapons.
But strangely, there were no screams, shouts, or clashing of steel.
Everyone gathered there was just standing still, sizing each other up.
“With so much trash gathered in one place, the stench is piercing my nose.”
As I stated a small observation, the gazes of those nearby turned to all at once.
All of them with bloodshot eyes devoured by greed.
“What are you brats doing here!”
A few fellows nearby shouted and rushed at .
For soone who dismissed as a brat, their skills were pathetic.
I cut off the head of the first one who approached.
Swish.
Following that, Nam Geon shattered soone’s left arm and asked with a troubled expression.
Crack.
“B-Bro, wh-who do I kill and wh-who do I let live? T-Too many people.”
Instead of answering Nam Geon’s question right away, I glanced around.
Was it because a few had been taken down so easily? Instead of rushing in recklessly, they were just glaring at us as if to kill us.
I looked at them and said to my companions.
“You all wait here. Those who attack even when you’re standing still deserve to die.”
It was not because it was difficult to distinguish between good and evil.
The herb gatherer who had found the spiritual dicine was already dead.
The one who killed the herb gatherer also seed to be dead already.
The corpses and blood scattered on the ground were already enough to be called a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
They were people who, for the sole reason of greed, had their eyes turned by sothing that was not theirs and committed murder.
If I had my way, I would have told them to kill everyone.
But there were too many of them.
If we were to delve deep into that hell of hungry ghosts, it looked as if soone from our party could be seriously injured or even killed.
But that was only a story for my companions.
“I will go clean up the trash inside and co back.”
For , who was used to chaotic battles, there was nothing to be afraid of.
Fwoosh!
After giving instructions to my comrades, I suddenly launched myself forward.
I swung the Restoring Na Sword at the closest fellow.
The man, with a startled expression, hastily swung his axe, but it was a sluggish movent.
Swish!
Right after one man died futilely, they started swinging their weapons at from all directions, shouting.
“Die!!!”
I stepped on the footwork to dodge a spear, and as I twisted my upper body, a sword blade grazed past my clothes.
The Restoring Na Sword, propelled by the montum of my turn, pierced the heart of a bladesman approaching from the right.
Crack!
As blood splattered, I approached the already dead bladesman and grabbed his collar.
As I spun around, the sound of blades continuously embedding themselves into the human shield’s body echoed.
Throwing the tattered corpse, I closed in on the fool who had collided with it.
Thwack!
Crack!
After piercing the man’s heart along with the corpse, I used the montum from my launch to roll on the ground once.
While weapons from behind repeatedly struck the ground, I pushed off the ground with my hands and got up in a rotating motion.
Dizziness naturally set in.
It was not because I had rolled on the ground so quickly.
Thanks to my first eye, which had opened at so point, I could see the countless trajectories embroidered in the air.
Thanks to so much trash, the number of trajectories was also so great that my eyes were spinning.
But the most absurd thing was sothing else.
A significant number of the trajectories embroidered in the air were not aid at .
“Die!”
A bladesman swinging his blade at .
Crack.
A spear thrust by a fellow behind him pierced through the bladesman’s stomach.
In the ti it took to kill a few, a chaotic battle had already broken out all around.
A situation where hungry ghosts blinded by greed were killing each other.
Amidst the dizziness, a smile naturally ford.
“Yes. Kill each other.”
What was there to be upset about when trash was killing each other?
“Hahahaha!”
I laughed heartily and threw myself into the fray.
I dodged a hook-sickle flying from the front and swung my sword.
Swish!
As blood splattered on my face, I saw two hungry ghosts in front of , locked in a power struggle with their weapons.
I closed in on the nearer one and thrust the Restoring Na Sword.
Crack!
“Th-Thank you!”
I was about to swing my sword at the one who expressed his gratitude, but there seed to be no need for that.
There was already a fellow swinging a blade from behind him.
Swish.
I rotated my body halfway and swung the Restoring Na Sword.
Swish.
A whip that had been aiming for my back was cut off.
I swung my left leg and kicked the ground.
A masterless sword lying on the ground flew towards the one who had swung the whip.
“Gack……”
After a glance at the one who collapsed with a groan, his stomach pierced, I launched myself again.
I moved freely through the hell of hungry ghosts, swinging my sword without rest.
Just the sword was not enough.
I threw the daggers hidden in my sleeves, and I used the Lazy Donkey Rolls on the Ground to roll on the ground and then threw the weapons I picked up from the ground like hidden weapons.
With blood and corpses everywhere, there were plenty of masterless weapons.
Well, thanks to that, my whole body was caked with dirt and blood every ti I rolled on the ground, but it did not really matter.
Swish!
Every ti I killed a hungry ghost, blood splattered on my clothes, so my whole body was already stained with blood.
Right after stabbing the back of a fool who was exchanging blows with another, just as I was about to close in on the one in front.
The man opened his mouth in an urgent tone.
“Y-Young brother! Join us!!”
I had no intention of playing along with that nonsense, so I gladly thrust the Restoring Na Sword.
That fellow was quite skilled, so he did not die in one exchange.
Clang!!
Soon, from the side, soone else shouted.
“Fellow martial brothers! Everyone calm down!”
The sight of those who were busy killing each other calling each other ‘fellow martial brothers’ was so ridiculous that I hesitated for a mont. The one who had blocked my sword quickly pointed sowhere and shouted.
“Qingliang Xueshang has the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass!”
“Fellow martial brothers! For now, let’s deal with that man first!”
“Who gets the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass is a matter to be discussed after that, isn’t it!”
Surprisingly, after the shouts of those two ended, the sound of steel clashing in the surroundings subsided.
Thinking what a stupid thing to say, I sneakily turned my head.
Towards the direction the fool had pointed his finger.
Beyond the curtain of people, a strange sight ca into view.
I could see an old man, covered in blood from head to toe just like .
Watching that old man thrust his judge’s pen, goosebumps rose on my arms.
It was a motion that looked like he was swatting a fly, but that single move contained a deep martial art that was unfitting for trash.
Crack!!
Soon, the sound of a human body being pierced by that judge’s pen echoed.
I knew instinctively.
The most skilled master in this hell of hungry ghosts. The one who stood at the pinnacle of the hungry ghosts was that old man.
Qingliang Xueshang.
It was an alias I had never heard of during the ti I was active in the Jianghu.
Well, considering that old man’s age, he would have probably died of old age by then.
Crack!
The face of the old man who was slaughtering the hungry ghosts with his judge’s pen was truly strange.
A boredom like that of a butcher cutting at. Only annoyance was contained within it.
A sight that was truly not lacking to be called a human butcher.
Just how many people had he killed so far?
No sooner had I thought that he was an old man who must be killed here than an interesting plan ca to mind.
Actually, I was not very interested in the spiritual dicine.
It was not mine in the first place.
If a situation arose where I had to cut both the body of the one holding the spiritual dicine and the spiritual dicine itself, I was determined to gladly swing the Restoring Na Sword.
No. If I could kill all the trash here in exchange for losing the spiritual dicine, I was determined to gladly do so.
Because I had engaged in battle with that mindset, I had not thought of a certain simple logic.
The fact that if I killed that old man and took the spiritual dicine, the hungry ghosts with their eyes turned by greed would surely continue to flock to .
Just like these fellows who had proposed a temporary alliance to now.
That trash would co to on their own without having to go look for them. Could there be anything more interesting than this?
While I was observing Qingliang Xueshang, the people around had already joined forces and were shouting.
“Alright!”
“Of course! Punishing that vicious old man is the priority!”
They looked as if they were about to swear brotherhood under a peach tree today.
Finding the sight ridiculous, I grinned and nodded.
I gladly accepted the alliance proposal of those who were only thinking of stabbing in the back at any ti.
“I will join you.”
I was also planning to stab these fellows in the back, so there was nothing bad about it.
I took a step with the people who had beco my companions by chance.
A hollow laugh escaped .
“Hehehe.”
It was not that I was laughing because I had beco one of the trash.
As long as I could clean up more trash, anything was fine.
What was funny was because of the trajectories visible to my eye.
Right after dealing with the enemy in front by swinging my sword.
Swish!
A trajectory aid at my torso appeared and disappeared.
It seed the temporary ally on my right had tried to swing his blade at and then given up.
I did not feel the need to deal with the one who had aid for .
Crack.
There was already a spear tip sticking out of the man’s abdon.
“Kuh…! Gah…!”
It was the end of a fool who had not seen the spear flying from the front because he was watching my back, a temporary ally.
It was the sa elsewhere.
They work together while aiming for each other’s weaknesses.
They hesitate, as if they were about to stab soone in the back but decided it was not the right ti yet.
On the other hand, it was clear that with every swing of the sword, they were wary of whether a comrade would stab them in the back.
Often, those who turned their heads, afraid of being betrayed by their sworn brothers, would be struck and killed by a blade flying from the front.
“Gack……”
Every ti I saw that, it was so funny that my laughter would not cease.
The eyes of those who were enraged by the death of their sworn brothers were filled with joy.
“Damn it.”
“Just a little more effort! We’re almost there!”
Since it was the death of soone who would one day beco an enemy, how could they not be happy?
After continuing the pleasant march with the fools for a while.
After breaking through the hungry ghosts, we finally reached the vicinity of that old man called Qingliang Xueshang or whatever.
Our sworn brothers.
Our comrades-in-arms, who had rejoiced in each other’s deaths, began to cautiously size up the situation.
They seed to be afraid to be the first to charge at that old man.
I gladly decided to give courage to my timid brothers.
I stealthily moved and closed in on the fool of a sworn brother who had first proposed the alliance, then thrust both my palms and pushed the man’s back with all my might.
“The eldest brother must take the lead!”
Thwack!
The man, filled with courage, flew towards Qingliang Xueshang as if he had been shot.
Indeed, was the eldest brother the eldest brother?
“Damn it!!”
Clang!!!
That man succeeded in blocking Qingliang Xueshang’s judge’s pen.
Clang!!
Just once.
Crack!
“Gack……”
Was it because they wanted to express their condolences for the regrettable death of the eldest brother?
While the eldest brother held on for one exchange, a few sworn brothers launched a surprise attack.
And at the mont the eldest brother’s heart was pierced, they swung their weapons to avenge the eldest brother.
A chaotic battle unfolds again, centered on Qingliang Xueshang.
As if swatting away troubleso mosquitoes or flies, Qingliang Xueshang swung his judge’s pen with an annoyed expression.
As if they were really mosquitoes, the sworn brothers were torn apart by the judge’s pen and pierced to death.
If this continued, it seed the sworn brothers would lose their courage.
So, I tried swinging my sword at Qingliang Xueshang from behind from ti to ti.
Clang!
And after pretending to be pushed back and retreating, I would push the backs of the scared sworn brothers.
Thwack!
After mingling with the sworn brothers and the crazy killer old man like that for a while.
Crack!
Qingliang Xueshang, who had once again pierced the neck of a sworn brother, turned his eyes to look directly at .
Had he gone mad?
“Hehehehe.”
The old man, who had been wearing an annoyed expression until just now, suddenly burst into laughter.
“Hehehehe. Today is a truly lucky day.”
A laugh filled with killing intent.
“To not only get a spiritual dicine but also have the Ghost Sword Young Master co to on his own feet.”
I gifted another timid sworn brother from the side to the old man and asked.
“Do you know ?”
“Hehehe. How could I not know? The reckless brat who has interfered with our business several tis.”
At Qingliang Xueshang’s answer, a smile also appeared on my lips.
“Hehehehe.”
I had been foolish.
“Today is a lucky day.”
There was no way the Black Market trash would be missing from a scene like this.
“To be able to exterminate the Black Market trash in addition to the nearby trash.”
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