Childhood Friend of the Zenith – 540



540

A plain in the Guangdong region.

There a man knelt bleeding.

“Cough….”

He leaned on the ground and spat out blood.

Drip-! Dark red blood flowed.

It indicated that the man’s life was nearing its end.

His left arm was grotesquely twisted.

The center of his chest was abnormally caved in.

It was excruciating pain.

Feeling this the man laughed.

“Haha….”

The man’s name was Do Mun-gang.

Though he was no longer called that just a few years ago he was known as Samaoje.

The Nine Fist Demon Do Mun-gang.

A master of martial arts who could turn his opponent into a pulp with nine punches.

He was dying on the land of Guangdong.

“…This is absurd.”

Spitting out blood Do Mun-gang raised his head.

At the end of his lifted gaze stood someone before him.

Dressed in a martial arts uniform that mixed blue and dark colors the figure looked at Do Mun-gang with arms crossed behind his back.

Seeing him Do Mun-gang raised the corners of his trembling lips.

“…Did I not reach you?”

“You grazed me.”

It was a flat voice.

With a somewhat youthful tone Do Mun-gang laughed helplessly.

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“…Ha….”

It was a martial art that never missed its target.

No it used to be that way but the person before him had shattered all of that.

Did he merely graze him?

The martial arts that contained decades of his life.

Was it all destroyed by a youth who seemed barely past his coming-of-age?

“Chuckle…”

Do Mun-gang laughed and lowered his head.

He no longer had the strength to lift it.

Beyond his gradually closing vision Do Mun-gang asked.

“…May I ask your name?”

He wanted to know.

The name of the martial artist who had so thoroughly defeated him.

Also.

The name of the person who seemed destined to become the greatest in history.

Do Mun-gang wanted to hear that.

The youth hearing the question brightened his light blue eyes and said.

“As for my name that’s not necessary. I’m just the third son of the Gu family.”

“…The Gu family….”

Upon hearing the name a face flashed through Do Mun-gang’s mind.

It was the monstrous man who had placed a golden seal on him.

They shared the same surname.

Could he be that monster’s child?

He had heard he had a son but he couldn’t remember the name.

However.

‘…It can’t be….’

He quickly erased that doubt from his mind.

That monster had used fire techniques.

But the youth before him had not used any fire techniques.

He had killed him solely through hand-to-hand combat so he surely wasn’t from that family.

Having concluded that thought Do Mun-gang asked the youth something else.

“Then… do you have an alias…?”

“Alias?”

The youth rolled his eyes.

A brief moment of contemplation.

Or perhaps hesitation.

A few seconds passed.

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The youth introduced his alias to Do Mun-gang.

“Heavenly Demon.”

Upon hearing the alias Do Mun-gang thought.

“…Heavenly Demon….”

A demon sent from the heavens.

It was a somewhat arrogant yet fitting alias for the youth.

Thinking this Do Mun-gang.

Thud….

Lowered his head and welcomed death.

“Hmm….”

Tap tap.

Looking at the dead Do Mun-gang the youth brushed his hands off.

His face showed little emotion.

Then he pulled out a letter from his pocket.

It was a letter given to him by his master as a gift.

The letter bore the seal of the Open Faction.

Seeing the shape of the seal it was indeed the seal of the Open Faction’s Boss.

The youth had to make a sour expression.

It didn’t seem like an ordinary matter at first glance.

What kind of nonsense had they sent this time?

He felt uneasy already.

Soon he unfolded the letter to check its contents.

“Ah.”

The youth widened his eyes at the first line in the letter.

It contained something unexpected.

– The Divine Dragon Martial Arts Festival will be held.

A somewhat out-of-the-blue and unexpected line.

Why did this suddenly pop up?

It was simply absurd to behold.

Yet for some reason the youth smiled at it.

Perhaps it was a relief.

“I guess it’s about time to move.”

He roughly folded the letter and put it away.

Then he looked up at the sky.

And said.

“Now come down.”

As he glared at the sun.

– Kraaah!

A rough roar echoed from somewhere.

Whoosh-!

Something fell rapidly from the sky to the ground.

Immediately after something unknown collided with the ground.

Boom-! Kwaaaah-!

With a tremendous shockwave dust spread out.

Not long after when his vision cleared again.

Krrr….

The youth was riding atop a massive demonic beast with blue scales.

As he stroked the beast’s scales with his hand the youth said.

“Let’s head home for now; if we’re late that old man will throw another fit.”

Krrr-!

Hearing his words the demonic beast immediately soared powerfully.

Boom-!

It moved swiftly flying through the sky.

The speed was incredible.

The scenery around them changed in an instant.

As the wind violently whipped through his hair the youth repeatedly clenched and unclenched his fists thinking.

‘This should be enough preparation.’

It took longer than expected but he had laid a solid foundation.

Now he felt he could do it.

Yeah.

It seemed that the time had finally come.

‘Let’s get started.’

It was time to truly take flight.