Childhood Friend of the Zenith – 417 (Part 1)



417 (Part 1)

**Chapter 418: Erasing the Stars**

I can see the cold sweat flowing. Trembling pupils and hands clutching the qi center.

The figure standing there slowly crumbling into nothingness showed that my plan was working effectively.

‘It really is connecting.’

I was worried about what would happen if it didn’t work. The versatility of demonic qi seems broader than I expected.

As I examined the fallen Dangdeok I recalled the reason he had ended up like this.

Now I couldn’t even remember the name of Dangdeok’s subordinate. Was it Julbok or Jungbok?

I had corrupted his subordinate into a demonic practitioner while setting one goal.

If that guy were to return and die at Dangdeok’s hands.

I wanted the demonic qi he possessed to spread out into the surroundings.

I had applied the principle that when a demonic practitioner dies the demonic qi they held spreads out.

I approached him little by little while checking my own condition. Contrary to the plan that was working well there was one problem.

‘It’s a bit tough.’

Using the demonic qi I had placed in Dangdeok was quite challenging.

I felt it during the Black Dragon Sword incident as well but it seemed that the higher the opponent’s level the more difficult it was to impose restrictions using demonic qi.

Of course it would be much better than the pressure Dangdeok was currently feeling.

I forced a nonchalant expression and approached him.

“Nice to meet you.”

Dangdeok looked at me with trembling eyes.

It seemed he was quite flustered as the demonic qi gradually tightened around his body.

“…What have you done to me…?”

“Do you like the gift?”

“You bastard…!”

Dangdeok shouted at me with a twisted face.

“Did you poison me?!”

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He seemed to be under the impression that I had poisoned him.

Well it was poison in a way.

‘He’s really angry.’

Feeling Dangdeok’s fury I couldn’t help but chuckle.

To him poison was like a dagger.

He couldn’t develop any resistance to poison at all.

It stemmed from the inferiority complex derived from his surname.

I looked at him grinning widely and said.

“So what are you going to do about it?”

“You bastard!”

Kuwung—! The aura emanated from Dangdeok’s body.

Though his body was bound by demonic qi it was still an impressive energy.

In terms of momentum it might be slightly less than the Black Dragon Sword.

From this I could guess that he was also a martial artist who had reached the realm of pressure.

As I was gradually confirming information about him with my eyes.

Dangdeok growled and asked me.

“Did you join forces with the Poison King…?!”

I had to tilt my head at his somewhat unexpected words.

“Why do you think that?”

At my question Dangdeok pouted his lips and replied.

“The only family that can use such poison is that damned family.”

“That’s harsh. Calling it a damned family. Aren’t you from that family too?”

“You bastard…! How dare you compare me to that place…!”

“Well… I suppose you wouldn’t be. You’ve probably forgotten about it a long time ago since you were already discarded.”

“….!”

At my words Dangdeok gritted his teeth.

“How much do you know…?”

“I don’t really know much….”

If I had to say how much I knew.

“The plan for the birth of the Cheonmu Body.”

“…!”

“About that much.”

Upon hearing my answer Dangdeok’s eyes widened and began to tremble.

It seemed he hadn’t expected me to know this much.

‘I didn’t want to know it either to be honest.’

The plan for the birth of the Cheonmu Body.

Just by looking at the name one might wonder what it is.

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But digging into the reality reveals a lot of dirty and ugly content.

This was the title of an experiment planned by the head of the Tang Clan known as the Poison King who was a master of the previous generation.

The Poison King Dang Biseong was someone who loved the Tang Clan more than anyone else.

He held the Tang Clan in high regard and wished for it to rise to a higher position more than anyone.

What was the fastest way to achieve that? It was something Dang Biseong always pondered.

The answer was quite simple.

In a way it was a straightforward principle.

The fastest way for the Tang Clan to reach the highest point was to possess the strongest martial artist in the Central Plains.

Despite having sufficient status and reputation none of the four great families could be called the strongest due to this reason.

The absence of an absolute being.

Currently the era of the Three Lords had begun with the emergence of orthodox sects.

But it was also an era where figures who had existed in every age had disappeared.

The world’s best.

The Sword Lord the Overlord and the Heaven Lord.

Discussions about who among these three is the strongest continued endlessly.

Yet no one could provide a definitive answer on who truly was the world’s best.

They were masters operating in their respective realms and there was no flow to determine this.

It was simply an era called the age of the Three Lords achieving peace.

In a way it could be said to be the most balanced era.

However the Poison King was not pleased with this.

At that time the Poison King must have thought.

In such a gap of opportunity the Tang Clan must seize the top position.

He himself found it impossible.

The Poison King clearly understood his limitations and decided to plan for the future.

That was the starting point of the plan for the birth of the Cheonmu Body.

The Cheonmu Body refers to a person endowed with a body and talent bestowed by heaven.

It possesses the most perfect physique for learning martial arts.

Moreover it has the most suitable brain for understanding martial arts and a vast qi center that is ideal for accumulating qi.

The most excellent existence to become a martial artist.

That is the Cheonmu Body.

The Poison King wished to nurture such a Cheonmu Body within the Tang Clan.

Thus he aimed to create a future world’s best and have the Tang Clan recognized as the strongest family.

That was Dang Biseong’s ambition.

This plan like an inflated ambition would proceed in a somewhat cruel manner.

The Cheonmu Body is not something that can be obtained just by wishing for it.

It is not casually referred to as a talent that is born once every thousand years.

Dang Biseong sought to artificially create the Cheonmu Body hoping to rely on that slim probability.

An artificial Cheonmu Body.

What a contradictory statement.

I thought that at first.

And as if to confirm that my thoughts were not wrong the method of the experiment was enough to make me gasp.

First Dang Biseong took nameless orphans from all over the Central Plains locked them underground and gave them the Tang surname.

Then.

‘He injected them with the blood of demonic beasts.’

He forcibly injected the children with the blood of demonic beasts.

It sounds bizarre but the records confirm that it actually happened.

Demonic practitioners with muscles that are tough and strong beyond comparison to ordinary humans.

Among them he injected the blood of the primate demonic beast which is the most similar to humans.

What was the result you ask?

What do you think? They all died.

It was an obvious outcome. Demonic beasts are entirely different creatures from humans.

Even the color of their blood is different.

If injected in large quantities humans cannot withstand the blood of demonic beasts leading to convulsions and death.

This information was something I could confirm in the very depths when I discovered the Sichuan Tang Clan’s underground in my previous life.

Thousands of journals containing such information were found.

Including the missing journals there could be even more than this.

So how many people died entangled in Dang Biseong’s ambition?