The Regressed Sword Demon Changes the Future

"A genius! A genius has descended upon our Mysterious Profound Sect!!"

Ju Yeongchan was half-sobbing as he repeatedly called Jang Baekseo a genius.

'What's with that old man?'

Although Jang Baekseo had that thought at Ju Yeongchan's sudden strange behavior, in this situation, he was rather grateful for Ju Yeongchan's reaction.

Genius. It was a mysterious word that could justify and make understandable all the bizarre and surprising things that Jang Baekseo had shown.

"Aww, that's not it. This brat has been flying high lately, but before, he wasn't that…"

Cheong Yeonah, who was trailing off her words, looked at Jang Baekseo and winked, pretending to be cute.

As if to say…

'You were a bit of a scrub back then~'

Ignoring Cheong Yeonah's reaction, Ju Yeongchan strongly pushed the Jang Baekseo genius theory.

"Ho ho! Yeonah, you're young, so you don't know, but in the world, there are often people who bloom their talents a little late."

When he said that, Cheong Yeonah also had nothing to say and just scratched her head.

Why? Isn't there a saying like this in the world?

Great talents mature late!

It was a modifier that was too perfect to package the current Jang Baekseo.

At Ju Yeongchan's words, Cheongmu also closed his eyes and was repeatedly muttering the word 'genius, genius'.

"…A genius… transcendent before twenty…"

Jang Baekseo decided to pretend that he hadn't heard Cheongmu's last words.

'I have absolutely no intention of standing out that much!'

If he reached the transcendent realm before twenty, it was obvious that his fame would spread not only in Sichuan but throughout the world.

And Jang Baekseo had no intention of standing out in people's eyes like that, for the sake of his future actions.

As the people of the Mysterious Profound Sect were each having their own thoughts, Myeonggwang entered the quarters of the Mysterious Profound Sect.

Myeonggwang, who had entered the room, first explained the cause of Grandmaster Gwang Oh's death.

"As you all expected, it was poisoning. And since the poison is so rare and uncommon, we have not yet been able to identify what kind of poison was used."

If they could find out what kind of poison was used in the poisoning, they could greatly narrow down the scope of the assassin with that alone.

But it seemed that the culprit had expected that as well and had used a rare poison that could not be easily obtained on the market.

'Well, a transcendent master of Qingcheng wouldn't die from a common poison.'

A master who had reached a certain level would naturally have an immunity or resistance to most poisons, even if they had not specifically prepared or trained for poison.

Yet, to think that it had driven Grandmaster Gwang Oh to his death, the poison used in the assassination must have been an extraordinary item.

"Grandmaster Gwangha…"

"…My master is staying by the side of the deceased Senior Uncle Gwang Oh."

At those words, everyone was at a loss for words.

Grandmaster Gwangha and Grandmaster Gwang Oh must have been close enough to ask for help in such a serious matter as secretly chasing a secret power. But to have lost such a junior brother so futilely, how could his heart be?

'…'

Jang Baekseo, who had already experienced the pain of losing a junior brother before his regression, could fully understand Grandmaster Gwangha's pain.

Myeonggwang approached Jang Baekseo, who was having these thoughts, and bowed his head.

"Thank you."

"Yes? What do you mean by that, Great Hero Myeonggwang? Please raise your head."

To the urgent response of Jang Baekseo, Myeonggwang continued.

"I know well that we can still chase the secret power thanks to your witty intervention. I can't even imagine how heartbroken my master would have been if we had lost Grandmaster Gwang Oh and could no longer chase the secret power, who is also the culprit… it hurts my heart just to think about it…"

"…Great Hero Myeonggwang seems to really care for Grandmaster Gwangha."

At those words, Myeonggwang smiled bitterly and told his story.

According to him, he and his junior brother, Myeongryo, had been mischievous children who had ruled the back alleys in their childhood.

Both of them had lost their parents at a young age and had lived by begging as beggars. When they got a little older and their bodies grew, they had made a living day by day by pretending to be thugs.

Their lives had changed after they had met Grandmaster Gwangha.

One day, the two of them had been caught trying to pick the pocket of Grandmaster Gwangha, who had come out of Qingcheng on some business, and had been severely scolded.

To Grandmaster Gwangha, who was scolding them harshly, the two of them had argued back in anger, saying that they had been orphans since they were very young and that no one in this world had ever reached out a hand to them, so how could they live a proper life?

And Grandmaster Gwangha had said to them, 'Then I will be the first person to reach out a hand to you,' and had taken them in as his disciples without a moment's hesitation and had brought them to Qingcheng.

At that time, the age of Myeonggwang and Myeongryo was the same as Jang Baekseo's now, fourteen.

"Actually, it was a very late age to enter the martial arts…"

Indeed, as he had said, fourteen was a rather late age to enter the martial arts.

But despite that, they had desperately devoted themselves to martial arts to repay their master who had taken them in, and had been able to reach the peak realm.

Moreover, in Jang Baekseo's eyes, Myeonggwang seemed to be on the verge of entering the transcendent realm.

"Then Grandmaster Gwangha must be like a benefactor to Great Hero Myeonggwang and Great Hero Myeongryo."

"Yes, I always worry and worry about how I can repay the great grace I received from him."

At Myeonggwang's appearance, Cheongmu and Ju Yeongchan nodded their heads repeatedly.

Both of them, who had raised or were currently raising disciples, were very pleased with Myeonggwang's attitude.

Of course, the young people who had not yet raised a single disciple…

"What's with all that… if you eat well and grow up well, isn't that repaying the grace?"

Cheong Yeonah and

"Haa~ my master always compares me to Senior Brother Cheongmu and says, 'You should be just like that brat,' so I'm so tired."

A completely different reaction came from Cheongdo… if this was a generation gap, it was a generation gap.

Originally, a child does not know the heart of a parent, and a parent does not know the heart of a child!

That was a natural thing.

And when the child grew up and became a parent, only then would the child know and understand the heart of the parent.

The master-disciple relationship was the same. There were things that could never be seen or known when one was a disciple.

And that was something that could only be understood when one became a master after time had passed.

As they were talking, how much time had passed?

Grandmaster Gwangha entered the quarters of the Mysterious Profound Sect.

Grandmaster Gwangha's face was haggard.

At the pitiful appearance of Grandmaster Gwangha, who had aged so much in just one morning, not only Jang Baekseo, but also the other people of the Mysterious Profound Sect could not say anything.

"Master… are you alright?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Don't worry too much."

Although he said that with his mouth, Grandmaster Gwangha's steps were so weak that it was hard to believe that he was a transcendent master, and a master of Qingcheng at that.

Grandmaster Gwangha, who had faced the party of the Mysterious Profound Sect in that way, first bowed his head deeply.

"Grandmaster!?"

"Please raise your head!"

"Master!?"

Leaving the surrounding reactions behind, Grandmaster Gwangha continued.

"It's all my fault… I didn't think it would be such a dangerous matter and dragged the Mysterious Profound Sect into this, so I have nothing to say even if I have two mouths."

It was a situation where the story had not come out because the situation was chaotic, but Grandmaster Gwangha's mistake was obvious.

In fact, it was a situation where it would not have been strange at all if the people of the Mysterious Profound Sect had questioned Grandmaster Gwangha first before he had bowed his head like this.

The third power, which he had thought was just using tricks behind Qingcheng and taking profits, had now turned into a heinous group that was killing a great elder of Qingcheng inside Qingcheng.

Of course, there was no such story when he had first received Grandmaster Gwangha's proposal, and even if the people of the Mysterious Profound Sect had shouted at Grandmaster Gwangha, saying 'This is not what you said!' and had left Qingcheng right now, Grandmaster Gwangha would have had nothing to say.

But no one in the Mysterious Profound Sect blamed Grandmaster Gwangha. Because the one who was suffering the most right now was probably Grandmaster Gwangha himself…

"It's alright, Grandmaster. Please raise your head."

Ju Yeongchan personally raised the bowing Grandmaster Gwangha.

"Aren't we in the same boat now? Since it has come to this, we have to see the end."

The end. In other words, it meant that they had to catch the secret power that had caused this incident.

In fact, from the moment they had used the contact as a bait for the Mysterious Profound Sect, it meant that the secret power already knew that Grandmaster Gwangha and the Mysterious Profound Sect had some kind of relationship.

In this situation, if they just fled for their own self-preservation for a moment, it was unknown what kind of damage this secret power would inflict on the Mysterious Profound Sect later.

They had to settle it here, on this Mount Qingcheng.

Suddenly, Cheongmu turned his head and looked at Jang Baekseo, Cheong Yeonah, and Cheongdo.

"I think it would be better for you guys to return to the sect now."

"Yes!? Senior Brother, what do you mean by that?"

"If it's Senior Brother Cheongdo, I understand, but why me?"

"Hey, what do you mean by that!?"

Ignoring the reactions of Cheong Yeonah and Cheongdo, Cheongmu repeatedly urged them to return to the sect.

Of course, he understood Cheongmu's heart.

A great elder of Qingcheng, a corner of the Nine Great Sects, and a transcendent master had been murdered inside Qingcheng.

This meant that no place in Qingcheng was a safe place anymore.

In that situation, he had judged that it was too dangerous for Jang Baekseo, Cheongdo, and Cheong Yeonah, who were not transcendent masters, to remain in the Qingcheng Sect.

At Cheongmu's words, Ju Yeongchan blinked his eyes and looked at Cheongmu, and then said carefully with a dazed expression.

"Uh, th-then should I go back too?"

"…Senior Uncle, you have to stay… you're the representative of the Mysterious Profound Sect."

Cheongmu's face turned red as if he wanted to hit him.

While a foolish conversation was going on on one side, Jang Baekseo, who had been thinking for a moment, opened his mouth with a cautious face.

"I don't think that's a very good judgment."

At Jang Baekseo's words, Cheongmu looked at his disciple and asked.

"Why do you think so?"

"If it were another sect, I wouldn't know, but as you all know, the secret power already knows that we are related to Grandmaster Gwangha. In this situation, if we move among ourselves, excluding you, Master, who is a transcendent master, we might be attacked."

"…That's a plausible remark."

At Jang Baekseo's words, Cheongmu also finally understood and nodded his head.

Cheongmu let out a groan in a dilemma.

In the midst of that, Jang Baekseo realized that there was something that had been bothering him strangely since the contact last night.

'What is it? Something is strange. Why did the secret power act in 'that' way?'

As each of them was having their own thoughts, the sun of the second eventful day in Qingcheng was setting.