Blood Demon of the Past Life – Chapter 205

Chapter 205: The Third Person （2）

Until finding Peng Mujeong.

Many things happened to Seo Munho.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh.

The Murim Alliance was ablaze.

After the truth about Peng Mujeong and Moyeongcheon was revealed, the Murim Alliance was thrown into great confusion but soon united as one. Seo Munho, the common enemy. For the time being, they had to prevent the destruction of Murim, so they desperately struggled. With the defeat of the Invincible Spear God, who was called the last hope of the Murim Alliance, they finally came to an end.

“Cough━.”

The Invincible Spear God coughed up blood.

His chest was pierced.

Ignoring his body, which was gushing out blood, he looked at Seo Munho with a pale face.

“…Please, please stop now. The Righteous Murim does not understand your will. Everyone understands the grudge of killing your family, but haven’t those villains already disappeared or died?”

The Invincible Spear God was a righteous person.

He gained fame with only a single spear without any specific affiliation and rose to the position of Vice-leader of the Murim Alliance. He had never done anything shameful under the sky. That’s why he was truly angry when he learned the truth about Moyeongcheon and Peng Mujeong. He was the one who even said he should apologize to Seo Munho on behalf of the Righteous Murim, but he had no choice but to resist Seo Munho’s relentless actions.

The result was…

This current state.

He was dying.

The hope of Murim was broken, and all that remained was merciless slaughter.

“We think we were wrong in not being able to control them as fellow members of the Righteous Murim. But civilians are not. At least you should show your murderous intent to those who have stepped into Murim, but if you kill civilians who know nothing, you are no different from them. So please…”

“I know.”

The whole situation…

It wasn’t pleasant at all.

He just killed people without emotion, and as the Invincible Spear God said, he knew how wrong this was.

“I know I’m slaughtering innocent people, and I know they have families. So what do you want me to do? Even if my indiscriminate slaughter creates a second Seo Munho, that’s not your problem.”

Just one person.

Until he finished his last revenge against Peng Mujeong, Seo Munho could not stop.

“I won’t kill you, so bring Peng Mujeong to me. If you want to save the people you’re trying to protect.”

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It wasn’t just Murim who reacted sensitively to Seo Munho’s actions.

Murim and the government.

They had been inviolable territories for generations.

Murim did not interfere in the affairs of the government, and the government did not interfere in the affairs of Murim. However, as the emperor, he could no longer stand by and watch the indiscriminate killings caused by Seo Munho. Thousands of people died every day. When the whole country was terrified by the rumors coming from it, the emperor’s army headed to Murim to deal with Seo Munho.

Thud thud thud━

Tens of thousands of soldiers.

It was an overwhelming sight.

In Murim, they thought that maybe Seo Munho’s evil deeds would stop, but that was just a delusion.

Puck━!

Thud.

Until the last one.

He killed them all.

Even though there was no one to listen anymore, he spoke to the emperor, who would be watching from somewhere.

“Emperor. Listen carefully. What I want is Peng Mujeong’s life, not the country you rule beyond Murim. If you don’t want my anger directed at your heart, watch what’s happening in Murim. Or else, find Peng Mujeong and offer him to me. Then I will gladly give you my life.”

It was an overwhelming sight.

Because of that incident, the emperor turned his back on Murim.

Seo Munho declared that he would not leave Murim, so he closed his eyes and watched the emperor’s authority collapse. He had to. The moment the monster that slaughtered tens of thousands of people alone visited the Imperial Palace, no matter how great the martial artists guarding him were, they would have to die. Rather, he sent people to find traces of Peng Mujeong, and from then on, the entire Murim and government chased after Peng Mujeong’s whereabouts.

One year, two years, three years passed.

Time passed.

Murim was completely destroyed.

If a group that declared itself a sect emerged, Seo Munho would visit them without fail and kill them all.

There were no more sects, whether Righteous, Evil, or Demonic, and even if their descendants existed, they dared not say that the lineage of Murim had not been broken. It was a conquest in the truest sense of the word, which had never existed in the history of Murim. Under the name of Blood Demon Seo Munho, everyone trembled in fear.

Seo Munho wandered around Murim.

He killed anyone he encountered.

As if warning everyone of his existence, he proved it with corpses lying carelessly on the street.

So there was this saying.

The corpses on the street are definitely Seo Munho’s doing.

It was a grim world.

It was a world where people could not live like human beings.

Just like the hell that Seo Munho went through, everyone lived in the same hell.

Then one day.

“…Stop now, you damn devil.”

A shabby-looking person.

He didn’t recognize him at first.

Only after facing his fiercely shining eyes did he realize that he was the Invincible Spear God he had spared before.

He said.

“I found that bastard Peng Mujeong.”

At that moment.

Seo Munho felt like his heart stopped.

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Swooooosh━

It rained.

Seo Munho got rained on.

As he found the location the Invincible Spear God had mentioned, Seo Munho fell into thought.

If he had lived in such a remote place where people could not reach, and in a mountain full of bushes, it was natural that he could not be found. Peng Mujeong was a man of great luxury. He was the kind of person who didn’t spare any expense on food, drink, clothing, or anything else. He didn’t expect him to completely give up on himself just to survive.

That’s why he was even happier.

He must have wanted to live that much.

Seo Munho’s heart raced madly at the thought of finally facing Peng Mujeong.

Creak.

The door opened.

As he opened the rattling door that looked like it would fall off at any moment, a man with a bushy beard came out and their eyes met.

He felt a thrill run through his body as if he had been struck by lightning.

He found him.

He finally found him.

Seo Munho smiled brightly, tears of joy welling up in his eyes.

“You were here, Peng Mujeong.”

The cause of everything.

Peng Mujeong was right in front of him.

It was the moment he had been waiting for.

Even when he slept, even when he was lost in thought for a moment, Seo Munho always reminisced about this moment and endured reality.

“…Countless people have died because of your selfishness. Because you struggled to live, because you wanted to take care of your own safety, you hid in this mountain. Murim has fallen. You wouldn’t care about such things. The fact that the people you called family died in cruel torture. The fact that everyone who knew where you might be hiding didn’t die easily.”

Murderous intent boiled.

But he held back.

He had to hold back.

There were many things he wanted to do with Peng Mujeong, so it was too much to kill him in a moment of anger.

He had to die as slowly as possible.

For longer than the three years it took to find him.

“It’s over now. From now on, you will not be able to die as you please, and you will have a fun time with me.”

Step by step.

He moved.

He drew his sword with a clang.

He would resist.

He expected him to scream and struggle to survive until the end.

But.

“…Who are you? Do you know me?”

At those words.

A huge crack appeared on Seo Munho’s face.

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He thought it was strange from the beginning.

If he was a coward who had been running away to survive, he should have collapsed and wet himself the moment he met him.

But that face that didn’t know what was going on.

He showed no fear.

His heart sank.

He strode over and attacked Peng Mujeong.

Flash.

“Kyaaak!”

He screamed.

Peng Mujeong collapsed helplessly, and Seo Munho immediately grabbed Peng Mujeong by the collar and pulled him up.

Thud.

“What do you mean? Who am I?”

“N, no. W, who the hell are you to attack me?”

“Ah, I see. That’s the plan, is it? You’ve been caught in the end, so if you think you can get out of this situation with such an absurd plan of not remembering, you’re very much mistaken. Whether you remember or not, it won’t make much difference.”

“Agh! Agh!”

He dragged Peng Mujeong away.

He roughly tied him to a chair.

He took out the torture devices he had prepared for this day and picked up one of them and began to pull out Peng Mujeong’s toenails.

Crack.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!”

Crack, crack, crack.

“Ugh, ughhhhhhh!”

Peng Mujeong’s eyes rolled back.

He pulled out his toenails one by one, ignoring his screams of pain.

“You still don’t know who I am?”

“I, I really don’t know! O, open the box in the room! I can prove my innocence!”

He flinched.

He stopped.

Box, innocence.

He had a strange feeling.

Seeing him insist that he didn’t remember even while being tortured, the ominous thought that it might not be a lie began to creep up on him. It didn’t make sense for him to claim amnesia. Even if he didn’t remember, he wouldn’t be stupid enough not to know that Seo Munho wouldn’t leave him alone.

Thud.

He grabbed the back of his neck.

He threw him into the room tied to a chair and checked the box Peng Mujeong had mentioned.

It was a strange object.

It was sealed with internal energy, so it was something that could not be opened unless you were a martial artist.

He got goosebumps.

Come to think of it, he didn’t feel any internal energy from Peng Mujeong.

As his reason, which had been lost due to anger, returned, he began to realize that everything was strange.

He pushed his internal energy into the box.

Creak.

The box opened.

When he checked inside, there was a piece of paper.

『The fact that you’ve checked this means you’ve managed to find me.』

His hands trembled.

He felt Peng Mujeong’s presence in the writing style.

『At first, I was very flustered. I never thought a being who was nothing would grow into the Blood Demon, destroy my family, and threaten me. Just like the saying, ‘Cut the grass and remove the roots’. I should have killed you that day. It’s a useless regret now. The day I ran away from you, I went to see the countless sects that had received favors from the Hebei Peng family. They welcomed me and expressed their willingness to fight with me, but as more and more people died because of you, the way they looked at me changed. Whispers, meaningful glances. They must have wanted to survive even if it meant selling me out.』

There were actually informants.

And they all said that Peng Mujeong had attacked them and run away.

『Those were desperate moments. I had to run away at night from the guys who used to flatter me, and I had to live on unknown grasses and food waste when I couldn’t even eat unless it was carefully selected ingredients. Still, I thought there would be a way if I endured. I didn’t think that this Murim would be destroyed because they couldn’t stop you. And finally, the day the Murim Alliance collapsed. I thought. There’s no turning back now. This world cannot stop the Blood Demon Seo Munho.』

The writing style deepened.

It looked like he had crammed his emotions into it.

『Why me? Why the hell do I have to go through this? Because I killed your family? How would I know? If I had known you would take revenge like this, I would have sacrificed another village. I’m not the kind of person who can live like this. I don’t want to live in despair, hiding in the mountains to save my life, trembling in fear of when I might be discovered. So I came to one conclusion. Let’s take revenge on the guy who made me like this. He struggled and struggled to find me, but how funny would it be if he found a soulless shell?』

His breathing became more and more ragged.

He had a bad feeling.

The fact that he had anticipated that he would find this place did not bode well for the future.

『I abolished my own martial arts and confined myself here. And.』

The moment he reached the last sentence.

Seo Munho’s world collapsed.

『I erased my memories. Your existence, the evil deeds I’ve done. So I can’t remember anything. That’s my revenge, the revenge I’m putting all my effort into against you, Seo Munho, who cornered me.』