Sichuan's Mad Dragon (Novel) - Chapter 37 - He Is Doing It
Chapter 37 – He Is Doing It
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Translated by Heavenly Cat
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Ju-seong advanced, radiating a sharp aura like a well-honed blade. Such an aura was usually seen in swordsmen or saber masters.
Because one’s aura comes to resemble the martial arts one has learned.
But Ju-seong, who had released his killing intent fully, exuded a pointed aura despite having learned bare-hand martial arts.
The sexual predator felt as if the smell of blood suddenly wafted thickly to his nose.
“A worthless fellow with only an impressive aura!”
The sexual predator spread his traveling cloak and leaped savagely. Flying in like a beast, he drew ten claw energies from both hands, crossing as he sent them out.
Ju-seong’s pupils flickered alight like a lit lamp.
-Papapapoom…!
From his hands came the Fluttering Red Lotus Palm, one for each claw energy. Ten afterimages shot out from Ju-seong’s palm like soldiers charging out of an opened gate, neutralizing each claw energy one by one.
A needle for every nail meant Ju-seong was overwhelmingly outmatched.
But even after exchanging one bout and feeling the difference in strength, Ju-seong showed no sign of retreating.
Because he clearly knew he was not fighting alone.
He would not die immediately, so he would advance even if a mountain of swords or a forest of blades lay ahead. Sometimes, charging head-first is the shortcut to victory.
Ju-seong fearlessly grasped the sexual predator’s hands, full of miasmic poison, with the grasping hand technique.
The sexual predator felt his energy response stuttering and choking from the killing intent pricking his face.
“This damn brat!”
He tried to strike Ju-seong with his remaining hand.
But Helian Qiu, who had rushed in, held one of his hands.
Ju-seong concentrated all his body’s power into his right arm, wrapping his forearm and hand in sizzling yellow fire energy.
-Hisssss…!
Fire is the counter to poison. The miasmic poison tried to penetrate Ju-seong’s arm, but could not infiltrate his energy, which resembled primordial fire.
‘How can a mere first-rate martial artist control his energy so precisely!’
The sexual predator clenched his teeth. Concentrating all one’s body power into one part was something that required at least the seasoning of a peak-level martial artist.
Yet this young fool was doing it effortlessly.
Add to that his remarkably exceptional grasping hand technique that was giving the sexual predator trouble.
That was when something happened.
-Hwwung!
Red Beggar’s bamboo staff swung from behind, targeting the sexual predator’s lower body.
The sexual predator pressed down on Helian Qiu’s sword with his left hand and used the reaction to leap high.
The sexual predator restrained Helian Qiu’s sword, evaded the beggar’s attack, and pulled the young fool who had locked him in a grasping hold into the air with him. It was a single move that achieved three purposes at once.
Ju-seong had his own thoughts.
‘This pervert is trying to finish me off in the air. Not a chance.’
The depth of his understanding of the Three Yang Fist allowed him to hold his own for a moment even against a master at the great perfection of peak level.
In such a case, he could create distance by striking with a fierce leg technique. Just as he was about to unleash the sixth technique of Three Yang Fist, Yellow Crow Thunderbolt Kick.
-Tchwik!
Five jet-black thread-snakes flew through the air, baring sharp venomous fangs.
The sexual predator chewed his lips in frustration.
‘Damn!’
Yeo Hong-pa, who had handed the woman to his subordinate and sent her away, had finally joined the attack.
The yellow venom on the snakes’ fangs gleamed in the moonlight.
Five Kill Flying Attack.
A technique of shooting five venomous creatures at once to target an opponent.
The sexual predator’s plan of pulling Ju-seong into the air to temporarily create a one-on-one situation and overpower him had gone up in smoke.
He shot palm force five times in all directions, bursting all the venomous snakes.
The venomous creatures of the Five Poisons Valley were specially bred, so their shells and scales were quite sturdy. The thread-snakes that just flew in were especially extraordinary.
He had no choice but to spend one palm force per creature.
In the process, he inevitably had to let go of Ju-seong’s arm.
Even as Ju-seong fell to the ground, he flicked needles from his left hand.
-Shwik…!
‘I will not be caught by the same trick twice!’
The sexual predator blocked the needle, then waited for the second.
But contrary to his raised guard, the second needle did not come.
“Yep, just one this time.”
Ju-seong smirked as he landed.
“KYAAAAA-!”
The sexual predator roared like a beast and fell, wrapping terrible energy around his hands.
-CRAAASH…!
But this time, the martial artists in the field anticipated the sexual predator’s energy attack.
“Die, evildoer!”
Helian Qiu, who had held his ground firmly, rushed in with his ultimate technique.
“I chased you for thousands of li, you son of a bitch!”
Red Beggar drew out ten-tenths of his internal power boosted by the Iron Staff Becoming Dragon technique, swinging his bamboo staff that had become a rod of pure white light.
“Hahaha!”
Ju-seong pushed off the ground with both hands, flipped once in the air, and brought down a thundering shin kick.
This was a combination of the bizarre handstand technique Red Beggar had demonstrated before, Ju-seong’s own somersault skills, and the Yellow Crow Thunderbolt Kick of the Three Yang Fist.
“Come see this acrobat’s trick!”
Heat haze rose from Ju-seong’s shin, leaving a trail like a swathe of yellow silk in the dim sky.
Yeo Hong-pa of the Five Poisons Valley also rushed in, both hands billowing with strange blue-green poison energy. Using the Five Poisons Valley’s original poison art, not the venomous creatures.
The ultimate techniques of different masters all shot toward a single target, the sexual predator.
The sexual predator tried to resist with a mix of claw and palm techniques.
First, Helian Qiu’s ultimate technique disrupted his hands. The flowing sword energy that seemed about to break off yet did not persistently clung to both his hands.
An ultimate technique of the Wudang Sect, executed with a toothless iron sword.
Helian Qiu was a disciple of a Wudang lay sect.
Then Red Beggar’s bamboo staff struck the sexual predator’s side.
Ju-seong’s Thunderbolt Kick drove into the sexual predator’s shoulder.
Yeo Hong-pa’s vicious poison hands only grazed past the sexual predator’s thigh, as the man warily evaded.
“Kuaaaah…! You bastards of the world! Why are you all so eager to torment me!”
The sexual predator vented his own sense of injustice that only he understood…
But Helian Qiu’s decisive swordsmanship severed the tendons of both his thighs, then slashed the tendons of both shoulders.
-Chak! Shwak! Sgak!
The toothless blade bit into and tore the sexual predator’s body like the irregular teeth of a beast, adding to his agony.
“Kkeeyaaaah…!”
The sexual predator screamed and collapsed to his knees. His leg tendons were severed, so he had no choice.
With his eyes rolled back, Red Beggar raised his bamboo staff to smash the sexual predator’s skull.
-CLANG!
But Helian Qiu’s hastily thrown sword energy blocked it.
“Young Brother, this man will be escorted to the Martial Alliance. After reporting to the government and receiving authorization for private punishment! He will be thrown into the prison or executed.”
What he was talking about was regulations.
“This damnable bastard harmed someone precious to me. If I do not kill him, who on earth will!”
What Red Beggar was talking about was the grudges of the martial world.
The Martial Alliance stood at the pinnacle of the martial world, but precisely because of that, it was disconnected from the freedom of the martial world.
Helian Qiu firmly blocked Red Beggar.
“Regulations are regulations. I might understand if you had unavoidably taken his life during the intense fight, but we have captured him alive now. We need to uncover the origins of the martial arts he learned, and if he learned from a master, that master must be punished as well. Not all matters in the world can be resolved by personal grudges.”
“Ha! You are talking as if you alone have full authority in this matter, when it was thanks to me and Brother that this man was caught! You and I alike are not government people but merely martial world folk. Does the Martial Alliance receive orders from the court? By what right do you claim sole authority over a foe we subdued together?”
Helian Qiu answered calmly.
“Among us, I am the strongest, so my contribution is the greatest. I consider the power over this man’s life and death to be mine.”
Red Beggar ground his teeth loudly, then turned to Ju-seong.
“Brother! Say something! We could track this man purely because of your merit, could we not!”
“Mm, Red Beggar.”
Helian Qiu also turned to Ju-seong and spoke.
“I shall never forget your merit, Young Hero. If you tell me your name and residence, the Martial Alliance will later provide substantial compensation, and if you join the Martial Alliance in the future, I, Helian Qiu, shall actively recommend you for a key position!”
“Well, Martial Alliance sir.”
Ju-seong was about to say something, but it was drowned out by Helian Qiu’s continued speech. He was passionately arguing toward Red Beggar.
“The same applies to you, Young Brother! The Martial Alliance is thorough in rewarding merit! Your contribution to capturing the evildoer will never be buried, and likewise, you will receive compensation and advantages for joining the Martial Alliance. So please step back now.”
“I do not care about the spoils. If you insist, I will follow you to the Martial Alliance and perform the execution myself.”
“This person really!”
The two stood their ground without yielding an inch.
Ju-seong clapped his hands loudly, drawing attention. When the two looked at him, Ju-seong furrowed his brow and tilted his head, speaking.
“First, let us bind that man tightly and then talk. At this rate, he will escape.”
“Ah, you are right.”
Helian Qiu ordered his remaining subordinates to bind the sexual predator tightly with ropes.
Ju-seong, who had stayed more than five steps away from the sexual predator the whole time, finally approached with a jaunty shoulder shrug.
“The horny sparrow finally has its wings clipped! Oh, how bitter you must be. So many flowers still left in the martial world to snap!”
He struck the sexual predator’s head and said.
“Damn it, bastard. I thought my arm would fall off because of you.”
Ju-seong fingered his right arm, now bruised in the shape of a hand, then formed a crooked smile and pulled out his flying dagger.
“I wonder what a sexual predator who has built up yin energy looks like. According to my reasoning, it should be disappointing. Ah wait, thinking about it again, if he has built up yin energy, should it not be cool instead of disappointing? Haha, was that not funny? Anyway. Let us check. Da-da-dan.”
“…Do not.”
The sexual predator coughed up blood and barely spoke. Ju-seong pointed at him with his dagger and replied quietly.
“I am going to.”
-Swish, swish.
After loosening and checking the man’s trousers, then tidying his clothes, Ju-seong rose and quietly stood.
Then beckoned to Helian Qiu.
“What is it, Young Hero?”
“We were mistaken.”
“Mistaken? About what?”
Ju-seong turned and performed a formal cupped-fist salute toward the sexual predator.
“My apologies, Young Lady! There was a misunderstanding. We were chasing a sexual predator, and he was definitely a man. But having just confirmed, you are undoubtedly a woman…”
Ju-seong watched the sexual predator’s face twist hideously, veins bulging all over.
The man suddenly coughed up bright red blood and rolled his eyes back. Only then did the whites of his eyes show, which had been invisible all this time.
“Keeeuuugh…!”
“Oh.”
Ju-seong quickly stepped back and frivolously patted Red Beggar’s shoulder.
“Hey, hey! He is doing it! That thing!”
“…Qi deviation.”
The sexual predator, who had been tottering on the threshold, had finally fallen into complete qi deviation.
“Wow, qi deviation… this is the first time I’ve seen it for real.”
Ju-seong nudged Red Beggar’s side and raised one corner of his lips. Red Beggar too found it hard to suppress his creeping grin.
When it came to mockery, if realms were measured, his strange companion would probably rank among the top in the martial world.
‘Thank you.’
Red Beggar said so with his eyes.
Ju-seong nodded slightly, then looked at Helian Qiu and spoke.
“Who knew a little teasing would push him completely into qi deviation… This was absolutely not my intention.”
‘It did not seem like just a little teasing.’
Helian Qiu pressed his brow hard and slowly replied.
“…As long as he is alive, interrogation is possible… Anyway, I shall not tolerate any further interference. This is officially Martial Alliance business. Please understand that personal grudges cannot be indulged.”
“Of course. I had no idea this would happen. Heh heh. How weak-willed must he be to fall into qi deviation from a few words.”
“Kkweeeh!”
At Ju-seong’s words, the sexual predator spat blood again.
Ju-seong clicked his tongue.
“Tsk tsk, what a feeble fellow. Turns out, the thing took after its owner.”
“Kkwooohk!”
Unable to watch any longer, Helian Qiu stepped in and stopped Ju-seong. At this rate, the man would really die.
“Enough, enough, please, Young Hero!”