Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 66

The Three Kings’ Disciple (67)

066

[Heavenly Demon Cave]

The distorted, crackling letters.

It was clearly the name, Heavenly Demon Cave.

Lee Ro-woon immediately checked everyone’s expressions.

“…….”

Most were simply marveling at the appearance of a new entrance, looking curious.

“If it’s the Heavenly Demon Cave….”

Lee Shin-woo.

And Baek Cheong, who was unusually serious with a glint in her eyes, seemed to be the only ones who recognized the letters.

“Is it related to the Heavenly Demon Cult?”

Even Lee Shin-woo, who had the most information about Eun, didn’t seem to know exactly what the Heavenly Demon Cave was.

“Heavenly Demon.”

Lee Ro-woon said.

“It’s the tomb of the Heavenly Demons.”

“The leader of the Heavenly Demon Cult?”

“No.”

It wasn’t that.

The tombs of the true Heavenly Demons, recognized throughout the long history of the Heavenly Demon Cult.

Lee Ro-woon didn’t know the details either.

The story of the Heavenly Demon Cave was something he had heard from the Blood Cult, not from his master.

Things like the Heavenly Demon Cave must have appeared after his master disappeared.

“…….”

But what was clear was that it was a trace of his master.

And that it was what had taken his life.

‘I understand why the Assembly valued it so much.’

They deliberately kept the Dank members alive and fragmented them so they couldn’t gather as keys.

The Heavenly Demon Cave.

And if the Assembly was possessed by demonic energy, their actions could be understood.

Considering the Blood Demon Hidden Cave that was connected to the Blood Cult, though now lost, they would have thought that everything of the Heavenly Demon Cult was left in the Heavenly Demon Cave.

‘If so.’

Lee Ro-woon’s eyes turned to Baek Cheong.

Did she also know about the demonic energy within the Assembly?

How far did the demonic energy within the Assembly and the Heavenly Demon Cult extend?

And one more thing.

‘Did the Assembly swallow the demonic energy?’

Or did the demonic energy swallow the Assembly?

Lee Ro-woon had not yet found the answer to that.

One thing was important.

“What’s in the Hidden Cave is mine.”

The Heavenly Demon Cave was a legacy that he had to take entirely.

He had no intention of letting it be taken away.

“Can you do it?”

Lee Shin-woo’s question.

It was a meaningless question, so he didn’t answer.

‘If the Heavenly Demon Cave is as I think it is.’

Of course, he could.

That place would be his complete domain.

“Prepare to enter-!”

Then, Baek Cheong’s loud voice echoed.

***

Lee Ro-woon of Dank, what he was looking for was the Heavenly Demon Cave.

At first, he thought it was just a type of Hidden Cave where special treasures were hidden.

But when they learned the truth, the Assembly moved more actively than anyone else.

‘Heavenly Demon Cave.’

The information they obtained through the Dharma Tool [a magical artifact] revealed that the Hidden Cave was a place that should never be taken away.

And naturally, they dispatched personnel to seize the Hidden Cave.

But no one could seize the Hidden Cave.

‘Entry conditions.’

There were conditions, and as a price for not meeting those conditions, all those who tried to enter disappeared.

Not only that, but the Hidden Cave disappeared that day.

The Dharma Tool revealed that the Heavenly Demon Cave itself had not disappeared but had been fragmented, and it was already too late. Even some of the upper echelons of Eun, the Nine Great Sects, had learned of the existence of the Heavenly Demon Cave.

The Heavenly Demon Cave, a power that could shake the entire Eun if someone possessed it.

That’s why they made an agreement.

‘The Dank members became the keys.’

The keys were divided, and each took one.

Even though they agreed not to pay attention to the Heavenly Demon Cave, everyone was chasing it, and finally, Jongnam was able to find one of the entrances through a spy planted in the Assembly.

That was this place.

“Yuran.”

At Baek Cheong’s call, Choi Yuran nodded with a tense expression.

With her were fifty players.

The entry conditions for the Heavenly Demon Cave that the Assembly had discovered were as follows.

‘One piece of the key.’

Yoon Tae-sun.

‘Permission from fifty residents of the dimension.’

Why that became the entry condition for the Heavenly Demon Cave was unknown.

When Eun was destroyed, all their common sense and truth had already been altered.

The important thing was to meet the conditions and enter.

“It’s best not to do anything foolish.”

Baek Cheong said to Yuran in an unprecedented voice.

“If you do anything even slightly suspicious, I’ll tear you apart, even if it’s you, Yuran.”

A chilling warning.

But Yuran nodded while looking elsewhere.

A man standing far away with his arms crossed.

-Do as you wish.

Lee Ro-woon.

-You know who is with me.

Lee Shin-woo’s identity had been revealed to Choi Yuran and a few of Baran’s executives.

An Interferer [someone who can manipulate the system].

The owner of a fraudulent ability that could interfere with the system.

-It won’t harm you.

At Lee Ro-woon’s words, Choi Yuran, who had finally relaxed, replied to Baek Cheong.

“Don’t worry.”

It wasn’t about loyalty to her.

-We will enter together.

Because her master, Baran, and Eunha’s master had allowed it.

“As expected of Yuran.”

Baek Cheong, who knew nothing, replied happily and called out one of the Cheongcheonha Squad members.

A man wearing a mask.

“It’s finally your turn, bug.”

A man who had been hiding in the back without any activity even during gate raids.

At his appearance, Choi Yuran’s eyes lit up.

But that was only for a moment. The members of the Cheongcheonha Squad began to take their positions in the formation they had created around the stone tomb.

As they did, the light emanating from the stone tomb gradually intensified.

“The conditions are being met.”

Those who couldn’t see it would never see it, but those who could see it could.

[Heavenly Demon Cave]

The letters of that name were gradually becoming darker.

And finally, when everyone was in place.

“Move, bug.”

Baek Cheong’s command to Yoon Tae-sun fell.

Yoon Tae-sun walked towards the stone tomb without hesitation.

Hwaaaap!

A clear stream of light emanated from the stone tomb, and cracks began to appear in the sky.

Crack!

In the end, the existence of this special gate was only to hide the entrance of the fragmented Heavenly Demon Cave.

The presence of the Heavenly Demon Cave was being emitted, and the gate was unable to withstand it.

“Finally.”

Baek Cheong’s face was full of anticipation.

But it didn’t take long for her face to distort.

“What is…!”

The cracked sky.

The stream of light emanating.

But all those changes stopped.

“Why? The entry conditions should have been met!”

Even after checking the information again through the Heavenly Treasure Orb, there was nothing different.

The entry conditions were clearly met.

One piece of the key, and fifty residents of the dimension.

What had Choi Yuran or Baran’s guild members done?

No.

If they had, Baek Cheong would have known.

Then….

“Interesting.”

At the sound of someone’s voice, Baek Cheong’s head snapped around.

Someone was walking out from among Baran’s guild members.

“The entry conditions have been met. I can see it too.”

“Who are you?”

“But it seems I’m the only one who can see something else.”

Lee Ro-woon walked out leisurely and slowly opened his mouth.

“A message that the special condition has been met.”

It was true.

A message that only Lee Ro-woon could see.

[The true owner has appeared.]

[The Heavenly Demon Tomb can be opened.]

Red letters that only he could see.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Baek Cheong, who had already drawn her sword.

She could instinctively sense it.

This man who had stepped forward now.

‘I hadn’t noticed it.’

She hadn’t even properly confirmed his presence while they had been together until now.

There was definitely something there.

And it was related to the Heavenly Demon Cave that wouldn’t open.

“I’ll make you talk.”

It was the moment Baek Cheong was about to kick off the ground to use force.

“I’ll open the Heavenly Demon Tomb.”

Lee Ro-woon’s voice followed.

Kukukukukukukung!

Along with that, a vibration like an earthquake reverberated from the ground.

There was no way Baek Cheong would lose her balance from that level of vibration.

Thud!

She was kneeling on the ground, unknowingly succumbing to the pressure.

It wasn’t just her.

Everyone was being pressed down to the ground with a feeling of being crushed.

Crack!

The ground was cracking.

Hwaaaaaak!

Darkness was emanating.

In the moment when it swallowed everything, Baek Cheong could glance up.

“This is mine.”

The only man standing upright.

Lee Ro-woon.

* * *

The darkness emanating from the opening of the Heavenly Demon Tomb engulfed the entire gate.

Tremble, tremble.

A trembling man.

Yoon Tae-sun, whose mask had shattered at some point, was trembling there.

All he could see was pitch-black darkness.

He only had a faint sense of being alive, as if all his senses had been swallowed.

But at the same time, he felt a sense of relief.

“I, I survived.”

A surge of joy.

The fact that he was left alone here was giving him joy.

The past days in Jongnam.

Those were days like hell for Yoon Tae-sun.

The martial artists, no, Jongnam did not treat him like a human.

‘Bug.’

Bug.

A traitor who sold out his comrades.

He had abandoned Dank and Lee Ro-woon, expecting glory and a bright future, but all he had been given was punishment.

“Hehe… Hehehe!”

A life lived out of necessity.

There were many days when he thought it would be better to die.

‘I’ll kill you when this is over.’

He endured everything, believing only in Baek Cheong’s words.

“I survived! I survived!”

But he had survived.

The hidden instincts and desires were awakened.

He could roughly guess the situation.

He was the key.

The qualification to possess the immense power contained in that secret place that even the Assembly coveted.

The darkness that had emanated as the ground cracked must have swallowed everything.

He, the key, was the only one who had survived.

He hadn’t heard the last conversation Baek Cheong had with someone.

‘It’s probably nothing.’

Right now, there was only one thing.

“Hahahahahaha!”

Yoon Tae-sun was filled with the thought of surviving and becoming the owner of immense power.

“……Huh?”

But then, he stopped as he felt something constricting his body.

Squeeze!

The feeling of being constricted grew even stronger.

“W, what is it! What is it!”

He was the key.

No, he was the chosen one.

The owner who would survive and wield immense power.

Swoosh.

A blue flame appeared in front of him.

It slowly began to approach.

“Go away! Go away!”

The blue flame, which was gradually growing larger, was opening its maw as if to devour Yoon Tae-sun, taking on the form of a demon.

Crack!

And finally, the flame devoured Yoon Tae-sun as it was.

The blue light that had been burning gradually faded, and Yoon Tae-sun’s figure was revealed.

Yoon Tae-sun, standing strangely with his eyes dyed black.

“Hehehe.”

He was making a low growling sound.

* * *

A strange, unpleasant sensation.

Baek Cheong released her inner energy and opened her eyes at the sensation of bugs crawling all over her body.

“……!”

She saw that the blue flames crawling on her body had been burned away by the inner energy she had released.

“Ugh.”

A headache that was tightening her head.

She knew what this feeling was.

‘Demonic energy!’

A terrible, perhaps even pure, demonic energy.

It was causing pain by reacting against the Taoist energy she had cultivated.

“Haa.”

Baek Cheong quickly sat down in a lotus position and began to circulate her energy.

Even though it was pure demonic energy, she, who possessed the Heavenly Treasure Orb, was able to open her eyes in a short time.

The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was.

“I won’t kill you.”

A man squatting down, opening his eyes languidly.

He was the one who had created this whole situation.

“I liked what you did.”

Lee Ro-woon said to Baek Cheong with a slight smile.