Chapter 240. Within Ten Paces, You'll Find A Fragrant Flower (11)

The two hesitated, unable to believe Woo-Moon’s words. Then, they glanced at the Five Poisons Twin Emperors out of the corners of their eyes. They were afraid that they would be punished if they followed Woo-Moon's words.

"Are you afraid of them? You don't have to be."

Of course, they vaguely guessed that Woo-Moon was stronger, seeing that the Five Poison Twin Emperors were still staying still even after being beaten by Woo-Moon earlier. However, the brutal abuse they had endured on their bodies had imprinted on their souls.

Thus, even though they felt that something had changed in their bodies, their instincts warned them against breaking their masters’ orders.

"First of all, if we stay here, we'll be a nuisance to the inn. Let's go outside."

As he said that, Woo-Moon flashed out of the inn, handing a gold tael to the innkeeper on the way out.

“T-this is...!”

The innkeeper’s eyes widened.

What Woo-Moon had just given him was an enormous amount, absolutely dwarfing what Woo-Moon and the Blood Cloud Devil Emperor had eaten. Even accounting for the damage to his restaurant, it was still an absurd amount.

'I've met the God of Wealth, the God of Wealth! With this amount of money, I'll be able to feed the kids delicious meat dishes for a while!'

“Thank you, Great Hero Song, thank you!”

The Blood Cloud Devil Emperor followed behind Woo-Moon, and like chicks following the mother bird, so did the Azure Eagle Gate disciples.

Meanwhile, the Five Poisons Twin Emperors hesitated, looking at each other. Woo-Moon glanced at them.

“Come out.”

As soon as he said that, a sharp qi wave stabbed at their backs, and the Five Poisons Twin Emperors hurriedly followed after him, feeling their backs prickle.

As they walked, however, Geum Jae-Beom dipped his finger in a poison he hid within his robes and flicked it at Woo-Moon.

There was no sound, no scent, no color.

It was impossible to tell how many people lost their lives to this sneak attack. In fact, since well before he had become an Absolute Master, Geum Jae-Beom had killed enemies much stronger than himself in this manner.

The moment the poison touched Woo-Moon's nape, the expressions of Geum Jae-Beom and Geum Seung-Beom brightened. While they didn't have any faith in hurting him if they failed to poison him, they felt that if the poison actually reached him, that would be the end of him.

What Geum Jae-Beom had just used was the Absolute Poison they had created themselves, the Crouching Tiger's Fang. It penetrated the skin as soon as it touched it, destroying the nervous system of one's entire body and stopping the heart in a single breath. It was his magnum opus that he had worked on for his entire life.

He was confident that it would win against any other poison master's most potent poison, whether in the Central Plains or the foreign lands.

Sadly, Woo-Moon was just fine. His physique had been immune to Absolute-level poisons for years, and even Paragon-level poisons would fail to hurt him in the slightest now.

Woo-Moon simply strolled forward without any issues, and the Five Poisons Twin Emperors, whose last hope had disappeared, clenched their teeth.

After everyone emerged from the inn, Woo-Moon looked at the two girls.

“You don’t have to be afraid of those baldies anymore. I'll help you if they try anything."

As he said that, Woo-Moon stretched his hand toward the sky.

Then, a truly fantastic sight emerged. A golden light shot out of his hand and soared into the sky, touching a cloud that was leisurely passing by.The golden light vanished, but the next moment, the cloud changed its shape.

The long, flowing cloud gathered into a single mass, forming a circle before plummeting toward the ground.

Something happened that seemed to break every law of nature: a circle of clouds was floating right above Woo-Moon’s palm.

"Ah, ah?!"

"Howsi..."

The two girls exclaimed in surprise, then belatedly noticed that they had exclaimed in surprise.

"I-I can talk!"

"My throat doesn't hurt anymore!"

At this moment, the two even forgot about the Five Poisons Twin Emperors.

Tears filled their eyes and flowed down their cheeks.

'What a relief. It hasn't been that long since they had their vocal chords severed, so they haven't forgotten how to speak.'

Woo-Moon looked at the cloud that was quietly resting on his palm.

Normally, if one dragged a cloud down to the ground, it wouldn't exist in this form. It would shrink due to the changing temperature and pressure, turning into a fog before eventually dissipating.

However, Woo-Moon had covered the entire cloud with his qi, creating an environment identical to that of the high altitudes.

He sent the cloud toward Five Poisons Twin Emperors.

Swoosh!

A refreshing sound rang out.

“Ugh!”

The gray-white cloud covered the Five Poisons Twin Emperors. They were enveloped in such thick fog that they couldn’t even see their own hands.

Even if they were to open their mouths to say something, nothing that they said would be transmitted to the outside world due to Woo-Moon’s qi barrier.

Woo-Moon looked at the two girls.

"They are the ones who ruined your voices and abused you, right?"

It wasn't just the two girls, actually. The other slaves who were waiting outside for the Five Poisons Twin Emperors were also watching the current situation and were agitated.

Although Woo-Moon had asked them a question, the two girls still hesitated to answer. They were still terrified of the Five Poisons Twin Emperors, who were still struggling within the cloud.

However, eventually, the braver of the two girls spoke up.

"Yes... yes. They are the ones who severed our vocal cords. A-and that's not all. Whenever they were in a bad mood, they would whip us and abuse us in all sorts of ways. I saw many of us children die because of that. Those bastards... Those bastards are truly the worst devils under the heavens! They're evil! Evil!"

Once she opened her mouth and started to tell Woo-Moon all of her grievances, she grew bolder and bolder.

Then, all the anger she had been holding back burst out, and the girl began spewing out all kinds of curses and swear words.

At that moment, the Blood Cloud Devil Emperor, who had been silent until then, opened his mouth.

“What are you doing, Woo-Moon? How much longer are you going to spend here? Stop playing knight and let’s go.”

"No worries, it’s only going to be a minute. It's not like I can just let this go after seeing it, can I?"

Woo-Moon had already been thinking that he couldn’t waste any more time here.

He had just stepped forward as he felt that his mother would hate it if he just pretended not to see anything.

Woo-Moon glanced at the eighteen slaves whose vocal cords were still damaged. Then, aura seeped out of his body and passed through each and every one of them without fail.

All of their vocal cords were fixed.

None of them believed him at first when Woo-Moon told them to speak. However, after one of them tried to speak as a test and was indeed able to produce sounds, the others also followed. They burst with tears of joy at having regained their speech.

Still there was a problem.

While the younger children were able to recover easily, as it hadn't been long since their vocal cords had been severed, some of the young men who had been carrying the palanquin had been mute for as long as ten years and thus couldn't speak properly.

"Good. Then, for now, all of you children close your eyes. No... you know what, let me do that."

The children’s arms moved against their will, covering their own eyes.

Then Woo-Moon looked at the Five Poisons Twin Emperors. The fog that had surrounded them disappeared all of a sudden.

“It’s time to die now.”

Woo-Moon’s eyes filled with bloodlust.

"D-damn it!"

Thinking that they couldn’t just die like this, the Five Poisons Twin Emperors each unleashed their Five Poisons Heaven Slaying Palms at Woo-Moon.

"Tsk. And here you were thinking this weak stuff lets you be on top of the world. Pathetic."

As soon as he finished speaking, Woo-Moon swung his sword in the air.

Squelch!

The qi blade instantly cut off the legs of the Five Poisons Twin Emperors.

“AAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHH!!!”

A scream that sounded as if it was tearing one's vocal cords echoed through the air. The young men who had been carrying the palanquin clenched their fists at the sound.

They felt a strong sense of exhilaration, and who could blame them? They had suffered immeasurably at the hands of the Five Poisons Twin Emperors.

"Well, I could be here all day chopping you up bit by bit, but I don't have the time."

These words sealed their fate.

Two aura bolts flew out from his fingers and pierced the Five Poisons Twin Emperors’ foreheads.

With that, two Absolute Masters of the

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, one of the Eight Heavenly Martial Emperors and one of the Six Rising Challengers, lost their lives simultaneously.

The Azure Eagle Gate disciples were left speechless.

Before Woo-Moon had appeared, the Eight Heavenly Martial Emperors and the Six Rising Challengers were absolute beings. In the

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, no one could approach them, and everyone had to keep quiet for fear of offending them.

Among them, the Blood Cloud Devil Emperor and the Five Poisons Twin Emperor reigned as absolute nightmares. Although everyone denounced them, claiming that they should be killed, no one dared to say that to their faces, much less actually step forward.

Well, even if they did, they would have ended up corpses anyway.

However, Woo-Moon had killed the terrifying Five Poisons Twin Emperors all by himself when he wasn't even in his mid-twenties. And it wasn’t a prolonged and difficult battle; he had done it with a literal flick of his fingers.

Woo-Moon called out to them as they stood there slack-jawed.

"Sorry, do you mind if I ask a favor from the Azure Eagle Gate?"

The eldest disciple of the Azure Eagle Gate regained composure and cupped his fist.

“Of course, Great Hero Song. Whatever you command.”

"Thank you. If it's fine with you, I’d like you to take care of these people here. It seems like they're in a miserable state with nowhere to go in the future. Could I ask the Azure Eagle Gate to take responsibility for them? I'll come to offer my thanks later."

Technically, the eldest disciple was still just a disciple and didn't have the authority to accept such a proposal. However, he was so impressed by Woo-Moon and so excited that his mouth began to move before he could even think.

“Understood. From now on, they will all become part of the Azure Eagle Gate!”

But Woo-Moon shook his head.

"No. If any of them want to learn martial arts and become martial artists, then please accept them as disciples. But if they don't want to, then please just help them with whatever they want. That's my wish for them."

"Ah! Understood, Great Hero Song. I will definitely do so.”

One of the Azure Eagle Gate disciples with a relatively cool head tried to stop the eldest disciple from making a hasty decision before quickly changing his mind.

'No. Making Great Hero Song owe us a debt here is much more valuable than what it would cost to take responsibility for a few children. I'm sure that the Gate Master will be happy about it.'

After finishing the conversation, Woo-Moon turned the bodies of the Five Poisons Twin Emperors into dust and blew them into the air. He didn’t want the young children to see the bloody scene, after all.

“Then let’s go, Blood Cloud Devil Emperor," Woo-Moon said after releasing the children.

When Woo-Moon called his partner “Blood Cloud Devil Emperor,” the Azure Eagle Gate disciples’s jaws dropped once again. Not only had Woo-Moon obliterated two of the

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’s long-feared devils, but he was accompanied by a third!

The Undefeatable Sword Immortal and the Blood Cloud Devil Emperor... What are they doing together?

“Let’s go.”

Seob Un-Ha used his movement art and left first, while Woo-Moon followed him leisurely.

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"Why did you get involved?"

"I didn't have any specific reason. I just felt strangely uncomfortable."

As he finished speaking, his interlocutor suddenly began to wilt and then melted to death on the spot, without even a scream.

Martial Heaven God’s eyes briefly filled with surprise at this scene.

'How strange. The phenomenon of people dying around me should have disappeared now that I have reached a new realm.'

Before Martial Heaven God began his closed-door training, he couldn't have anyone around him other than the Martial Heaven Emperor.

This was because the martial arts he had learned with the sole purpose of defeating the old Daoist Woo Bok-Hee had become a poison to the world, and even though he had no intention to do that, his Zenith Qi would flow out and kill people around him.