Light Novel: Volume 18 Episode 24
Manhwa: N/A
Gu Su-kyung froze in the midst of undressing.
Several traps were set up around her room. Although they were simple, it was still something that ordinary warriors would never be able to detect. They were also so effective, that if anyone had triggered them, she would have been alerted immediately.
But, the opponent had managed to disable all the traps she had set and infiltrated her room. There was no way such a man could be ordinary.
Skin whiter than a woman’s and a beautiful face.
The moment she saw him, she instantly recognized who he was.
“Pyo… wol!”
“Did So Yeowol send you?”
“You’re too hasty. Women don’t like men who are too impatient.”
“The women I’ve met have said otherwise.”
“Ha! With that face, you could whisper and they’d all instantly fall for you. I wonder how many women have fallen for that face of yours?”
Thud!
The clothes she was half-way through removing fell to the floor.
Gu Su-kyung spoke as she placed both hands on her slender waist.
“How do I compare to the women you’ve held?”
“Beautiful.”
“Am I worth taking to bed?”
As she spoke, Gu Su-kyung untied her robe and approached Pyo-wol.
A seductive smile was on her face.
Her face and expression were so beautiful that any man would have immediately fallen for her.
The closer she came, the stronger the fragrant scent of her body.
Gu Su-kyung reached out with her pale hand and wrapped it around Pyo-wol’s neck. Then, she locked eyes with him.
“How about it? Don’t you want to take me?”
“I’d like to.”
“Then embrace me. I’ll be your woman tonight.”
“I can’t.”
“Why?”
“I’m afraid of the poison on that ring you’re wearing.”
“Hic!”
In an instant, Gu Su-kyung’s expression changed, and with the finger wearing the ring, she jabbed at Pyo-wol’s neck.
From within the ring, a fine needle that was almost invisible to the naked eye shot out.
The needle was coated with a deadly poison. A single prick would mean instant death.
The reason Gu Su-kyung had seduced Pyo-wol, despite being out of character, was for this very moment.
Just before the poison-coated needle could prick Pyo-wol’s neck–
Snap!
Something shot out from Pyo-wol’s collar and bit Gu Su-kyung’s finger.
“What?”
Gu Su-kyung’s face instantly darkened.
Suddenly, her head spun and her vision darkened.
It was a symptom of extreme poisoning.
The thing that bit Gu Su-kyung’s finger was none other than Gwiya.
Gu Su-kyung, who was bitten by Gwiya, was unable to pierce Pyo-wol with the poisonous needle. She ended up collapsing on the spot.
“Heek!”
Gu Su-kyung clutched her throat with both hands.
Her throat was swollen, making it hard to breathe.
Pyo-wol knelt on one knee and locked eyes with Gu Su-kyung.
“Did you get a death order from So Yeowol?”
“Heugh!”
Gu Su-kyung took a shallow breath and looked at Pyo-wol. Her eyes were bloodshot, as if she was about to shed tears of blood at any moment.
“Speak!”
Upon hearing Pyo-wol’s cold words, Gu Su-kyung bit her lip.
She couldn’t focus her mind due to the excruciating pain that felt like her entire body was being burnt. She instinctively realized that she wouldn’t survive.
To survive after being poisoned like this, one would need an antidote of an extremely rare caliber.
Logically, such antidotes were not common.
Her death was a foregone conclusion.
There was no reason to tell him the truth when her death was certain.
Gu Su-kyung revealed her blood-stained lips and spoke with great difficulty.
“Go… to hell!”
Gurgle!
The next moment, she coughed up a thick stream of blood.
Her body convulsed a few times, then stopped moving.
She was dead.
A fitting end for someone of her kind.
Although he learned nothing from her death, Pyo-wol wasn’t disappointed.
A corpse can reveal more than one might think.
Pyo-wol opened her palm and examined it.
Her palm was covered in calluses, extending from her little finger. It was a common mark found on martial artists who held their swords in a reverse grip.
Not many wielded their swords in such a manner in Jianghu.
Among them were assassins like Pyo-wol.
The traps that Gu Su-kyung had set up around her room were actually commonly used by assassins to protect their hideouts.
Judging by her age, she probably didn’t learn martial arts or assassination techniques directly from So Yeowol, but it was clear that she also lived the life of an assassin.
Pyo-wol searched through Gu Su-kyung’s belongings and quarters.
Coo-coo!
Just then, the sound of a pigeon cooing reached Pyo-wol’s ears.
There was a hidden space behind the wall.
And in that space was a pigeon trapped in a cage.
It was a homing pigeon commonly used for communication.
It looked like Gu Su-kyung was using it to report to her superiors.
Just as Pyo-wol took out the cage and placed it on the table.
“Who the hell are you?”
“Ah!”
Suddenly, the door burst open, and someone else’s voice was heard.
Turning his head, Pyo-wol saw Gu Su-kyung’s men staring in astonishment, alternately looking between him and the corpse.
They clenched their fists tightly upon seeing Gu Su-kyung’s already darkened corpse.
“Why is the leader–”
“That guy is…!”
The man who had been watching the Zigong Merchant Group while sitting on a bench was shocked to see Pyo-wol’s face.
It was the same face that was drawn on the wanted poster.
“I-It’s Pyo-wol!”
“What?”
“Shit!”
The other men were shocked and drew their weapons.
Whoosh!
Pyo-wol released the Soul-Reaping Thread.
The threads of qi pierced through the foreheads of all the men except for the one who had been sitting on the bench.
They died without being able to scream.
The only survivor was just one person.
“H, How?”
The man’s eyes shook like an earthquake.
He was frozen in shock. In the blink of an eye, all his companions had died, leaving him the only one left standing.
Pyo-wol walked over to him.
“Ah!”
The man let out a pained groan and stepped back.
His body was trembling like an aspen tree.
The fear he felt was even greater now that he realized Pyo-wo’s identity.
“The Reaper–!”
“Who is it? The one who ordered you to be on the lookout for me.”
“I, I know nothing.”
“Is it So Yeowol?”
“I don’t know.”
Whoosh!
At that moment, he felt a searing pain in his shoulder.
Pyo-wol had pierced his shoulder with the Soul-Reaping Thread.
“AHHH!”
The man screamed in agony.
At that moment, Pyo-wol unleashed the Soul-Reaping Thread again and pierced the man’s thigh.
The man couldn’t take it and fell to his knees.
“D, Do you think I’m going to talk?”
The man was no stranger to torture.
He could endure a fair amount of pain with a smile.
Pyo-wol smiled at the man’s confident tone.
In an instant, the man felt chills run through his entire body.
Pyo-wol placed his index finger on the man’s palm and spoke,
“I’ve recently discovered a new use for the Soul-Reaping Thread. Aren’t you curious?”
“I’m not curious at all.”
“It doesn’t matter. You’ll find out soon enough.”
“What?”
Poof!
At that moment, the Soul-Reaping Thread dug into the man’s palm.
The Soul-Reaping Thread, embedded in his palm, continued to burrow into his veins.
“Aaah!”
A desperate scream burst from the man’s mouth.
The Soul-Reaping Thread flowed along his veins to his torso. The pain of the Soul-Reaping Thread tearing through his veins was more intense than any pain he had ever felt.
“S, Spare me…! I’d rather die!”
The man pleaded while writhing in pain.
Pyo-wol placed his index finger on the man’s heart and spoke,
“If you want to die, tell me everything you know.”
“Ugh!”
Tears and snot flowed as the man frantically nodded his head.
Only then did Pyo-wol retract the Soul-Reaping Thread.
Afraid that Pyo-wol would torture him again with the Soul-Reaping Thread, the man hastily spoke.
“I, I don’t know anything. The leader handles everything. She reports to superiors in the West every five days. And today is that day.”
“Really?”
“It’s true. If you’ll let me live, I’ll help you.”
“How?”
“That, that is…”
The man stuttered.
At that moment, Pyo-wol cut off the man’s blood flow.
The man’s eyes rolled back as he took his last breath.
Killing him painlessly was the greatest mercy Pyo-wol could offer.
Pyo-wol briefly looked at the man’s corpse before picking up the cage and walking out.
As he opened the cage door, the carrier pigeon flew into the sky.
The pigeon circled the empty air for a moment before flying in one direction. Pyo-wol used his qinggong towards the direction the pigeon had disappeared.
The pigeon flew out of the city and headed for the mountains.
Pigeons usually don’t fly at night. They forage during the day and rest at night.
Even a trained carrier pigeon would not easily change its habits. So, it was clear that Gu Su-kyung’s superior, who was receiving reports via the pigeon, must be near the city.
Somewhere a carrier pigeon could fly to even at night.
The mountain the pigeon flew into was such a place.
Pyo-wol climbed to the top of the tallest nearby tree.
He saw the pigeon disappear into the forest in the distance.
Pyo-wol stepped on a high tree branch and followed the pigeon. The place the pigeon reached was a small cabin deep in the forest.
It wasn’t just a single pigeon that flew to the cabin. Three or four were sitting by the window of the cabin, cooing.
At that moment, the window of the cabin opened and a weird person with disheveled hair, wearing ragged clothing appeared.
He looked at the legs of the incoming pigeons.
“What the?”
The weird person suddenly became alert.
All the other pigeons had small tubes attached to their legs containing messages, except for one, who had nothing on its ankle.
For a moment, the weird person’s face distorted.
“Could it be?”
He quickly looked around.
At that moment, Pyo-wol kicked off a tree and flew toward the weird person.
“Damn it!”
The weird person spotted Pyo-wol in time and quickly raised his hand. In his hand was a small cylinder.
Fufufufuf!
Darts shot out from the cylinder.
Pyo-wol drew his dagger horizontally.
Ting ting!
The nearly invisible darts collided with the dagger and bounced off.
“Keuh!”
Seeing this, the weird person hastily flew out of the cabin.
He had recognized that his opponent was Pyo-wol.
‘How could he?’
The weird person felt all the hairs on his body stand on end.
He was terrified to the core.
He was one of So Yeowol’s confidants.
He specialized in gathering information.
So Yeowol had ordered him to monitor whether Pyo-wol left Sichuan Province.
So, he had positioned experts like himself at various choke points outside of Sichuan.
The carrier pigeons that flew into his cabin were all sent by his subordinates.
‘I can’t believe he followed the carrier pigeon. How could he–’
He knew that Pyo-wol was a great martial artist, but he never thought that Pyo-wol would track him down by following a flying pigeon.
‘I must inform them quickly.’
Fortunately, it was dark now.
If he fled into the bushes shrouded in darkness, even Pyo-wol would not be able to catch him easily.
With that calculation, the weird person sprinted with all his might.
Swish!
But before he even took ten steps from the cabin, he tumbled forward. His foot had been severed at the calf.
Bearing the excruciating pain, he looked at the spot where he had fallen.
There lay a silvery thread so fine that it was almost invisible to the naked eye.
Pyo-wol had laid out the Spider Silver Net.
“Keugh!”
The weird person gritted his teeth, trying to pull himself up, but it was impossible to stand with his calf severed.
In the meantime, Pyo-wol descended before him.
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