Chapter 17. Cho Ryu Hyang Knows (1/2)

Chapter 17. Cho Ryu Hyang Knows

The master of the Heavenly Demon Church, Gongson Chun Gi.

He looked at the muscular old man that came to him, and grinned.

“It’s been a while, Guardian Wu. Getting here was troublesome, right?”

The old man called Guardian Wu. (TL: Dharmapala (Protector of the law) → Guardian)

His actual name was Wu Gyu Ho (右揆護).

He was one of the three experts in the harmonious stage in the church, and he was also one of the people that served Gongson Chun Gi ever since the pope was a young boy.

“I’m just happy to see you healthy.”

“I’m always healthy. Now, sit here.”

“Of course.”

Guardian Wu sat down on the seat Gongson Chun Gi offered him.

Gongson Chun Gi then took his teapot, and filled Guardian Wu’s cup.

“I heard some things happened while you came here?”

“Thing…..s?”

“I know something happened. It’s ok. Just say it.”

“Ah, yeah, err……”

“You can say it.”

“You mean…. You mean the Emei Sect’s female monks.”

“Yeah, what happened? I didn’t really get what the other guys were telling me.”

Guardian Wu anxiously gulped down the steaming tea, and spoke.

“The people over there were insulting the main church, so I kindly educated them, hoho.”

“Educate them? Not go beat them to death?”

“Hak! What are you talking about…..”

When Gongson Chun Gi said that, Guardian Wu widened his eyes and denied it quickly.

“I’m old now, so I don’t just go around killing people anymore, your holiness.”

Gongson Chun Gi glared at Guardian Wu.

When the old man avoided eye contact a little, Gongson Chun Gi opened his mouth.

“Hey, Gyum.”

[Yes, your holiness.]

“Is this old man telling the truth?”

Guardian Wu made a surprised face, then quickly glared at the area behind Gongson Chun Gi.

Lim Hak Gyum sweated a bit when he noticed the glare.

How could he just go on and say that it was a lie, just like that?

[…….Yes. For now….., he’s telling the truth.]

“Hoh? For now? So there’s something he’s not telling me. Oh, and you don’t have to just go and message me like that. In front of this old man, your stealth technique is just fool’s play.”

Guardian Wu was a harmonious expert.

In front of his senses, Lim Hak Gyum’s skills would just be petty tricks.

“Hak Gyum, you’ll have to speak carefully. For all of us.”

When Guardian Wu carefully said this, Lim Hak Gyum made a troubled face.

Wasn’t this a threat?

“Guardian Wu, what are you doing in front of me? Did you go dull or something?”

“O, of course not, your holiness. Uhahahaha.”

When Guardian Wu laughed anxiously and shrunk back a little, Lim Hak Gyum spoke up carefully.

“According to the reports this one got, Guardian Wu didn’t kill anyone, as he said before, but he did personally destroy the dantian of 80 female monks.”

“What? Eighty? He personally destroyed their dantian?”

“Yes.”

When Gongson Chun Gi looked at Guardian Wu with a face that said, “I knew it”, Guardian Wu lowered his head and whispered a few words.

“They were insulting the church, so…….”

“You destroyed their dantian just because of a little insult? A full grown adult like you shouldn’t do things like that. Trying being more kind. Because of things like this, the main church just gets insulted by everyone.”

“……I’m sorry, your holiness.”

Gongson Chun Gi sighed at the old man’s response.

“Oh yeah, you brought everyone from the Blood Wolf Corps (血狼隊). Are you trying to fight the Alliance?”

Guardian Wu spoke with a determined face when he heard Gongson Chun Gi’s words.

“I brought them when I heard that a bunch of trash from the Alliance were trying to annoy us. If you just give the word……, I will present you the head of the Dao Emperor.”

One of the three sovereigns, the Dao Emperor.

Gongson Chun Gi chuckled when he heard the old man’s words.

It might be possible.

The Blood Wolf Corps boasted the most power out of all the other corps, after all.

Everyone in the corps were all peak experts.

There were about five hundred of them here.

“You never change. I’m quite surprised.”

Gongson Chun Gi poured tea into his teacup, and spoke.

“The main church mustn’t have blood on our hands any longer. This is just a repeat of the past events. It’s an evil cycle.”

Gongson Chun Gi, unlike all the other popes in the past, belonged to the moderate faction in the church. This was a very revolutionary event, as something like this never happened in the church, where the blood and strength ruled over all.

‘I just don’t understand.’

Guardian Wu just couldn’t understand the pope’s thoughts.

If you compared the military power the church possessed currently to the past, you would see that the church currently was at the peak of its power. Even though this was the case, Gongson Chun Gi still forbade the church from making any major moves in the Martial World.

“Your holiness, weren’t they the ones that provoked us first? The main church simply retaliated a little strongly.”

Gongson Chun Gi nodded.

“Yeah. In most cases, they were the ones to provoke us first.”

“We need to really show the church’s power this time. We need to massacre everyone that comes to the Qilian mountains, and go down to Sichuan to kill everyone in the Alliance.”

Gongson Chun Gi once again nodded at Guardian Wu’s murderous words.

“That’s not a bad option. But if we do that, the balance crumbles.”

“The balance?”

“Yeah. The balance between the church, the guild, and the alliance. If this perfect balance crumbles now, everyone would start fighting. If this happens, everyone would suffer quite badly.”

“We can only obtain something bigger if we make great sacrifices, no?”

“Something bigger?”

“Heavenly unification! The main church extending out into the mainland.”

Gongson Chun Gi stared at this excited old man for a while.

And then he spoke.

“It must be good for you, to still be so full of passion.”

“Isn’t the expansion to mainland an old desire of the church?”

“You want to see the people of the church be massacred? If we go out into the mainland, thousands will die. Perhaps even more.”

“The men of the church isn’t that weak, your holiness. I trained them to be stronger than any other in the Martial World.”

Gongson Chun Gi nodded.

“I have to agree with you on that. Most of them are too healthy. That’s what worries me more.”

Guardian Wu realized that this was a crucial chance.

He wanted to persuade the pope for them to expand into the mainland now.

“Aren’t the boys I brought here today the ones that you trained with great care? Didn’t we train them just for a situation like this?”

Why would the pope create the Blood Wolf Corps, especially if he wasn’t going to use them? Guardian Wu just couldn’t understand what was going on in the pope’s mind.

“A powerless justice is nothing but an empty voice. That’s why I brought them up. Well, like you said, I also trained them in case of an emergency.”

“Then what should we do when these people attack us? Shouldn’t we at least strike back?”

Gongson Chun Gi smiled playfully.

“Yeah, I’m worried about that, too. But after thinking for a long time, I reached a conclusion.”

“Just give the word. This one is already ready.”

The pope is definitely going to tell him to defend.

He didn’t like this very much, but the pope’s command was absolute.

‘He wouldn’t tell me to just defend and not retaliate, right?’

Guardian Wu was thinking of taking care of all the experts in the Alliance if the chance came.

Then.

The pope issued a weird command.

“If they attack us, let’s just run.”

“……..?”

Guardian Wu wasn’t sure of what he just heard.

“Ehh……”

“Our boys are fast, right?”

“……..”

Guardian Wu wasn’t able to close his mouth.

He was sweating all over his forehead.

“R, really…..?”

“Have you ever seen me joke?”

Gulp.

It was true.