Devastating The Murim with My Little Sister
Chapter 38: Going for the Rescue.

Chapter 38: Going for the Rescue.

After getting all I needed, I step out into the night, dashing up into the mountain, through the trees.

Under the night sky my hair turned red from their tips towards the base.

I kept moving up the mountain until I got to a point where I could feel the presence of people.

I could sense the children’s presence.

There were a total of forty-six children.

I sense the presence of fifteen First Rate Martial Artists, five Early Peak Martial Experts and one Late Peak.

Damn! this person really is serious with this.

Twenty - one martial artists?

I go closer, to a distance where I could see the children.

I hide behind a tree.

Looking over my shoulder I see the children.

They were all put together in the middle.

There were torches placed around them which brighten the area a bit.

The children looked wrong.

They looked drugged.

Their eyes were open but they seemed unconscious as they all knelt on the ground.

The twenty one Martial Artists surrounded them, hiding within the trees.

I sense three other presences.

A First Rate and two other beings I couldn’t exactly gauge.

One has to be a Master from the energy I feel from him.

The other?

I couldn’t exactly guage it.

It felt... different.

"So you’ve come.

it was getting late, I was starting to think you wouldn’t make it." The voice of a young man is heard from the darkness.

That voice...

"Ximen Jong!" I say as he steps out the darkness into the light.

So it was this bastard.

As he steps into the light I notice two other beings by his sides.

By his right was a man, totally bald with thick beards and a great sword in hand.

The other was a beast.

It looked like a giant wolf.

It was as tall as Ximen Jong.

The guy at the left side of Ximen Jong.

He is gonna pose a problem.

He seems strong.

How did Ximen Jong manage to hire so many Martial Artists and Experts including a Martial Master.

And worst of all, how’d he manage to get a spiritual beast.

Judging from its energy it’s probably a level nine Spiritual Beast.

It would be around the same strength as a Late Peak Martial Expert.

How did he lay his hands on a level nine Spiritual Beast.

Even a level one Spiritual Beast is fucking expensive.

And it would be almost impossible to say he caught it in the wild.

Except he had the assistance of a Master.

Even if he did, to tame it to become obedient? That would take a very long time.

"Stop hiding Ximen Yeong, I know you are there.

Why don’t you come out and let’s have a nice conversation." Ximen Jong says out loud to me.

With twenty one Martial Artists around, there’s no way I’m leaving my spot.

"I really just want to talk." He says with a cunning smile.

I say nothing and just remain where I was.

"Fine! if you don’t want to come out, maybe I’ll just have a conversation with the children." He says as he snaps his fingers.

As he snaps his fingers, I suddenly felt killing intent.

Behind me, at my right hand side, above in the trees.

The killing intent was directed towards the children.

This crazy bastards.

Do they really plan on killing the children?

As the killing intent reaches its peak I couldn’t just stay there anymore.

They were going to harm the children.

I quickly dash towards the children catching an arrow shot towards them with my bare left hand as I reached there.

Catching the arrow my hand begins to bleed.

I dropped the arrow.

"Thought I said I didn’t care, but here I am bleeding for children I don’t even know." I say to myself as I looked at my bleeding palm.

I heave a sigh.

I suddenly felt a stinging pain on the surface of the injury.

Fuck it was also poisoned?

They really came prepared huh?

"Oohhh, you finally came out." Ximen Jong says almost laughing.

I really want to take his head off his neck right now.

"What do you want Ximen Jong?" I ask him, my voice low and cool.

"As I said, I just want to have a good discussion with you." He says with a cunning smile.

"As you know, we are the only two children of the Patriarch remaining, and I thought, why don’t we come together and make something happen?

You know? work together to stabilize the clan and even move it forward." He says as he began pacing left and right.

What is he talking about.

He just wants me out of his way.

"I do not seem to understand what you are saying and how that has to do with abducting all this innocent children." I say trying to hide my hostility, so he doesn’t do something stupid to the children.

He stops in his tracks and says;

"Ohh, the children? just think of them as some form of insurance."

Insurance? the lives of innocent children?

Even when I was Sangdaejong I hardly ever killed children.

Even when when I went to eradicate the Tang Clan.

Aside from the two branches I didn’t go to, the only reason the Dang Clan of today has enough people to be a Clan is because I didn’t touch the skin of a single child.

And this bastard, using children as insurance?

I’ve always hated pussies like him.

I wanted to rush at him.

But I couldn’t do that.

At least not yet.

As it stands right now he has too many advantages over me.

Let’s try to keep our cool for now and figure out a way to get the children out of this unharmed.

"So what is your plan Ximen Jong?" I ask him.

"Well at first, I thought of just killing you and then there would be no one else who could pose a threat to my seat, but, something else came to mind.

Why don’t we join hands and work together." He says with a wired smile.

"And how are we supposed to work together?" I ask him.

"Well, of course I’ll become the head of the clan while you support me all through.

If the two sons of the Patriach work together, who could stop them?

So why don’t you come under me.

You never had any plan of becoming the Patriarch did you?" He asks me.

"Of course not, that’s why I do not seem to understand the essence of all this." I tried to sound sincere when saying this.

"Yes, yes, I know, but I can’t just take your words for it can I?" He throws a question.

"So what do you want?" I ask him.

"Well, why don’t we start with this." He says as he pulls out a little jar from his storage ring.

Using Ki, he pulls out one of the contents of the jar.

This fucker, isn’t that...