Seol-Hwi was surprised and stopped breathing for a moment. The proposal was too sudden, but it was because the words appeared before his eyes at the same time as when the End Demon spoke.
<The End Demon, the First Disciple has made a proposal. Will you accept ‘One Life of the End Demon’?>
This is nonsense...
Seol-Hwi’s face had twisted up.
The text appeared. It was the moment for a choice, it appeared now.
The direction of life the End Demon suggested? No, that was not even something to consider.
What angered Seol-Hwi was the fact that even at this time the system was messing around with him.
Does it really think it can mess around?
A life and death situation—
It presented another way of the system in a desperate situation where the mission failed even if a slight change happens.
In the end, if this problem could not be solved, another option would be forced on him, and he would have to live his life according to the End Demon’s suggestion.
“Your expression is quite enraged. It is about your life.”
Life?
Seol-Hwi wondered if he heard this wrong.
“...Just what exactly does that mean?”
“This fight. It means nothing will change if you intervene. Your life will just get caught up in it and break down.”
Shhh
The End Demon got up and slowly approached the window. And he said while picking up a small potted plant placed there,
“To you, the current fight seems like the last stage to solidify the composition between the successors, right? But, I was wrong, the aspect of the war has turned out quite differently than what you intended too.”
“War...?”
“Do you know why I brought Mount Hua into this fight?”
Shhh
The End Demon asked as if this was a funny incident.
“Mount Hua and First Disciple have something to gain from each other so they are using each other?”
“What... that is a superficial reason. The other disciples seemed to have forgotten something because we only fought each other,”
He said, sneaking up this small potted plant by the window.
“If we limit the battle to the sect, we will be the only ones fighting. But what if we change the battle to include the entire nation?”
“...What is this?”
“It is as I said. When the sect’s fight is changed to the Central Plains, the question comes, who is a threatening enemy for us? Are they also fighting for the top position? Or is it the Murim alliance, which is hostile to our sect? Which one do you think?”
“...”
Seol-Hwi’s face went stiff at those words. It felt like the blurry puzzle in front of his eyes was now turning clear.
The reason why they joined hands with Mount Hua, and what happened when they expand their control over the Central Plains.
“Let me supplement your understanding a bit more. Me of the sect versus the ones whose brains are just stones and don’t work, who are focusing constantly on the power struggle within the sect. Well, it is an important thing for them. However.”
The End Demon raised his voice.
“There is an unwritten rule in the sect to respect the strong. The strongest gets to decide everything. But there is one major thing. It means that there is a forbidden road which cannot be crossed.”
“Forbidden...”
“The absolutely unacceptable taboo of joining hands with any power of the Justice Faction.”
The struggle for the succession was limited to just inside the sect, gathering forces within the sect and mobilizing troops to fight against each other.
Even if it means to work with the Justice Faction, if you use them in a fight which involves the matters of the sect—
That was what was forbidden.
“Isn’t the First Disciple the one who crossed that line?”
Smile
At Seol-Hwi’s question, the End Demon had a fun look.
“You want to criticize me or is there any proof? Right, strictly speaking I did join hands with Mount Hua. But that is just using them to my advantage. And it is true. As a result, four pillars of the Nine Great Sects were destroyed. But what about you?”
“...”
“The cause that isn’t even there, if you decide you can cause damage to me. For example, if you attack from behind when we go for Wudang, victory will be certain. But you see.”
Round
The potted plant in the hand of the First Disciple rose into the air. It was a technique which uses the empty space. The pot shook in the air.
“That way you will be signing your own death.”
Crack!
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“What if the warrior who went to overthrow the Wudang Sect dies at the hands of fellow sect members and not even the enemies. What will happen? To win the struggle for succession in the sect, the power struggle.”
“He wouldn’t have come to fight. After all, he is no match for you.”
Cho Ah-ran glared fiercely at the words of Ack Bi.
Seol-Hwi quickly joined the conversation,
“Yes. He wasn’t here to fight. It was to make a proposal.”
“Proposal? What kind?”
When Cho Ah-ran looked interested. Seol-Hwi thought for a moment. He wondered if it was right to bring despair by saying that, but he opened his mouth just in case.
Are they not also hard workers with time and experience on their side?
“So the thing is...”
But he did not speak about it.
If he harmed someone, then the simulation would come, and now he could only meet Goo Jong-myung.
He did not bother to suggest that he was asked to come under the First Disciple’s wing.
After hearing the explanation of Seol-Hwi, Cho Ah-ran asked,
“So if we hit back, we will be helping the justice faction?”
“Yes.”
“This man. His plan wasn’t done in a day or two,”
Cho Ah-ran exclaimed.
Somehow in the middle of the fight for the successor, they were turned into traitors. If they left them alone, everything would be over.
If the Wudang Sect collapsed and only Shaolin remained, it was impossible to stop them even if they wanted to.
“Usually, when it is like this, it is basic to respond with a straight attack.”
“...?”
Seol-Hwi looked away.
Cho Ah-ran was organizing her thoughts.
“We said we would help the Justice Faction if the First Disciple moved. Then what if Wudang hits Mount Hua?”
The eyes of Cho Ah-ran turned to Seol-Hwi.
Then the movement of the End Demon will change. Rather, the cause of helping would rise.
Of course, one can get out of the crisis with a lie, but it was not a situation to handle overnight.
Because the ones who determine the succession were watching this.
“There is no justification for the Wudang Sect to move. As one might know, the sect leader is a person who neglected the work in the Central Plains...”
Seol-Hwi had such thoughts—
To meet the Wudang sect leader and persuade him to attack the enemy first.
But the problem was that no matter what happened the Wudang Sect would never step out on their own. And it was obvious they would rather die on their mountain.
“Don’t stay mum and say something.”
When Seol-Hwi was still worried, Cho Ah-ran looked at Ack Bi and reprimanded him.
Even after coming in, he was saying useless things.
“The view is nice here.”
“Ah? Is that so?”
It was only then that he felt his attention fall and Ack Bi scratched the head.
Then slowly crossing the arms he nodded a couple times and said,
“It is obvious that the First Disciple has the will to fight and Wudang will not step ahead. Then Mount Hua will be able to step ahead.”
“...What?”
Cho Ah-ran frowned.
They were asking for his opinion and he was speaking nonsense. But Ack Bi continued,
“Mount Hua will act for their own benefit, but they are part of the Justice Faction. They surely are cooperating with the Demonic Sect but their motive is for their own gain right?”
“Right.”
When Seol-Hwi agreed, Ack Bi smiled.
“Then we need to give them something to be satisfied with, something better for example...”
“...”
“It is the Purple Cloud Divine Arts restored to their original form.”
“...!”
Seol-Hwi’s eyes widened at it. A way had opened up in a situation they thought was impossible to counter.
Of course, he was not fully confident, but with the memorization and understanding of the system—and if it becomes possible to interpret the martial arts due to reaching the realm of Profound Demon.
Maybe, they would want to do it?
Well, this fight.
It was feared that a situation would come when just the Demonic Sect could fight each other without Mount Hua.