## Chapter 1636 – Swordsman From Overseas – Heavenly Demon Martial Arts

These bastards… not only are they bandits, but they’re also cannibals?

Judging by this, it seems like they’ve held more than just a few of these professional cannibal feasts. Between the alchemy using human sacrifices and this everyday cannibalism, is a human life worth so little in this world?

It’s like some place like the Aztecs.

Anyway, I grabbed the bandit leader’s wrists and ankles, stretching and pulling them diagonally while singing happily.

“B to the A to the Bang Bang.”
“Gyaaaaaaaaak!”

—Master.

“B to the A to the Bang Bang.”
“Jjeooooooooeom!”

—Masteer.

“B to the A to the Bang Bang.”
“Tteolp!”

Human accordion performance. This is definitely not something to laugh off. The person in question was experiencing the pain of full-body rupture in real-time before passing out.

“Whoever you are, kid, listen to a song on your way to the afterlife.”

—Hwaeaek.

I tossed the unconscious bandit leader aside and used my power to incinerate the child’s corpse, turning it to ash. All that remained were the bandit officers, still bound by my power in their seats.

“Chieftain…!”
“J-Just who in the world are you, sir!”
“We’re sorry! We’re sorry!”

Perhaps it was because they saw their leader turned into a mangled human accordion right before their eyes, but the cannibal bandit officers were terrified, tears streaming down their faces.

It’s been a while since I’ve seen crocodile tears.

The tears shed by evil bastards are nothing but crocodile tears…! I was the kind of person whose murderous intent soared at the sight of crocodile tears.

“Hehehe, you bastards. You’re eating such good stuff without even sending me an invitation. How could I not be angry? Huh? Right?”

I threw out some appropriate words, and the bandits reacted.

“W-We’re sorry! We should have sent an invitation, of course…!”
“Are you perhaps an acquaintance of the Sichuan Taoist!”

Sichuan Taoist, huh?

In terms of translation, it’s closer to meaning “several rivers,” but since this is a martial arts-like world, let’s just call it Sichuan for now.

Anyway, they said the Taoists are very evil guys. Monsters who increase their power by using alchemy with human sacrifices.

The fact that the name of such a Taoist came out of the bandit’s mouth so quickly, could it be that these bastards have built a close cooperative relationship? They’re eating human meat. They’re likely doing human trafficking for the Taoist while committing banditry.

“Sichuan? Do I look like that bastard’s acquaintance?”
“T-Then… Hng! Hnghnghng!”
“Hnghnghng!”

Seeing the vicious bandits crying, all sorts of torture methods came to mind. But torture is a waste of time. Let’s hear some stories first.

“Don’t cry, you bastards. Who do you think I am? Huh? Who do you think I am?”
“A Taoist stronger than the S-Sichuan Taoist…!”
“That’s obvious.”
“C-Could it be!”
“Could it be?”
“A S-Sage…?”

A Sage?

Ah, now that I think about it, something similar came up when I scanned the brains of the Demonic Cult members. They were definitely thinking of the Heavenly Demon as a being who transcended the Sages, or something like that.

“Hahahaha! A Sage! You’re saying funny things! Do I look like a Sage to you!”
“Hiiiiik!”
“Hiek! Please save me! Please save me, Sage!”

Whatever.

I can find out about the Sages by torturing that Sichuan Taoist bastard.

“I might spare you if you speak well. So, where is our Sichuan?”
“W-We don’t know! How would we know the whereabouts of the Sichuan Taoist! Bueoooooooeop!”

—Puck!

I immediately shoved my fingers into his mouth and spread it wide, causing the bandit’s head to explode.

—Chwahak!

Scattered blood and brain matter soaked the bodies of the surrounding bandits.

“Hiiiiiiik!”
“Hiiiiiiik!”
“E-East! There’s a place called the Sichuan Tang Clan in the east!”

A sect where the Sichuan Taoist resides. Then I guess I can translate it as the Sichuan Tang Clan. Bringing in similar settings and naming them like this makes it feel like a real martial arts world.

But the martial arts world I know isn’t like this!

Taoists and Sages in a martial arts world! This isn’t Investiture of the Gods, what the hell is this! I couldn’t understand it! But well, it’s just similar to martial arts, not the real thing, so it doesn’t matter.

“Can I meet the Sichuan Taoist if I go there?”
“Since that’s the Sichuan Taoist’s clan, there’s a high probability!”
“Okay. I got it.”
“Eok?!”

—Kkwak.

I immediately grabbed the guy’s head and used the Heavenly Demon Mind Scanning.

“Hmm.”

This guy really doesn’t know much.

In fact, how would a bandit like this know the secrets of the world? Only a Taoist would know.

Fortunately, it was true that there was a high probability of meeting the Sichuan Taoist if I went to the Sichuan Tang Clan.

Since I’m not familiar with this world, even a wide-area search is a bit ambiguous. Still, if I catch that Sichuan Taoist bastard and analyze his power, I should be able to track down other Taoists in this world.

It’s been a long time since I’ve done something like this.
But it’s worth it.

“These bastards. They were a complete cannibal and human trafficking group?”

It became clear after scanning them.

These bastards were a deeply rooted human trafficking organization that regularly supplied humans to the Sichuan Tang Clan.

“That’s…!”
“Die, all of you!”

—Kukung!

The moment I lightly stomped on the ground.

—Peobeong!
—Peobeobeobeong!
—Peobeong!

The heads of the bandit officers all exploded. Of course, the same goes for the bandits inside this building.

“I need to blow up all the heads except for the civilians.”

Then I should go to the place called the Sichuan Tang Clan.

* * *

After slaughtering all the bandits in the Green Forest Camp, I headed to the Sichuan Tang Clan. But now that I think about it, isn’t this complete chivalry? It’s literally the feeling of a knight-errant going around doing good deeds.

The Sichuan Tang Clan is said to be quite a large family.

The most notorious guy here is a guy called the Sichuan Taoist, who possesses very strong power, and he uses that power to reign in his territory.

But he doesn’t just reign in a normal way.

According to the bandits’ speculation, they are not the only human trafficking organization that provides fresh humans to the Sichuan Tang Clan, and it is said to be widespread throughout this region.

“Terrible.”

A Taoist who is a powerful authority and a skilled person is using his power to collect sacrifices for alchemy.

Anyway.

As I was flying like that.

“Huh?”

A very wide manor came into view.

“It’s fucking huge?”

In the fucking huge manor, fucking many workers were fucking working. Seeing that scene reminded me of the inhuman sugarcane field I was cultivating.

“Shit. It’s exactly the same?”

In the inhuman sugarcane field I’m cultivating, countless prisoners are harvesting sugarcane in agony, with harsh and cruel working conditions thoroughly guaranteed.

That’s because they are prisoners.

But are the workers here prisoners? They look like they’re working in inhuman pain at first glance.

—Paat.

So I secretly landed and approached a worker.

“Hey. Worker.”
“Yes? H-Heok?!”

—Neopjuk!

The worker bowed down as soon as he saw me. He’s completely ingrained with a slave mentality. Then, should I do a little mind scan?

—Kkwak.

I grabbed his head and performed a scan, and knowledge flowed in.

“No way.”
“Keureureuk.”

The worker’s identity was none other than a slave of the Sichuan Tang Clan. In order to pay the harsh taxes imposed by the Sichuan Tang Clan, he borrowed money from a high-interest loan company operated by the Sichuan Tang Clan, and the debt snowballed, so he is doing inhuman labor in the manor to repay the money.

“It’s so inhuman…!”

—Hwareureuk.

I immediately restored his stamina and kicked off the ground, soaring into the sky.

Let’s do some reconnaissance first.

This world is a bit strange.

* * *

As a result of the reconnaissance, I was able to learn some surprising facts.

First of all, it seemed like there were really fucking many people in this world. This is not an exaggeration. There were just fucking many.

And the land was also fucking big. The vast farmland seemed to be in units of hundreds of thousands of hectares. And countless slaves were being exploited in that farmland.

Not only that, but if you go to the mountains, there are fucking many people collecting things, anyway.

But if you get out of this farmland, there are also quite a few normal cities. They were all cities that looked okay. It seemed that business and trade using waterways were also quite active.

In conclusion, as the world is fucking big, there was a huge gap between rich and poor.

And it seemed that the Taoists were at the top of that gap. The Sichuan Tang Clan alone is like that. It seemed that this entire region was owned by the Sichuan Tang Clan.

“There are many people. Human life is disregarded.”

If there are so many humans.

Are they using these countless humans like slaves and using them as materials for alchemy? But if there are so many humans, is there a need to do human trafficking from other regions?

“There is.”

If the slaves here all looked like they were about to die, the woman and children I saw in the bandit camp earlier were lively and had decent looks. If there is such a difference in materials, they will naturally commit human trafficking.

“Then let’s go.”

I had already identified the location of the Sichuan Tang Clan.

The space itself was just so different there. It was literally like all the wealth of this neighborhood was concentrated there.

“They’re living in a fucking big castle.”

A very large and luxurious castle was surrounded by a huge castle wall.

“Sichuan Castle.”

I guess I can name it roughly like that.

Anyway, it was like a hellish fortress made of the blood of countless slaves. What kind of people live in that castle? I immediately headed to the sky above the castle wall and looked down, and indeed. I could see a very magnificent city. And the huge castle in the center was the headquarters of Sichuan Castle.

The base of the Sichuan Taoist.

The living room of an evil monster who kills countless humans and uses them as materials for alchemy.

“Good.”

Then let’s see the face of that Sichuan Taoist bastard.
There were rumors that she was a woman, but everyone didn’t know for sure.

“Ha. But really.”

What kind of brains do these kids have to live with to create a world like this?

First of all, the humans in this world are all the same humans. That means that just like the Titans accidentally discovered Earthlings and enslaved them when they opened a dimension in the past, there is a high probability that this world started when something went wrong with the dimensions and Earthlings flowed in.

But how could it have developed so abnormally?