Chapter: 298
“...”
“The Sword Art of the Sky Demon that every Lord learns is not the real sword skill left by Father Chun Ma.”
“...!!!”
This was shocking news. Yeowun was shocked. If what Hameng said were to spread, this was enough to dismantle the entire cult.
“Then you mean...”
“The true sword skill that was taught to Lords were stopped.”
About 500 years ago... the Demonic Cult did not have a Lord to have many wives at the six clans to create successor. The Lord at the time was given woman chosen by the Dark Fire within the Giant Altar at the shrine, woman who was called as the Demonic Lady. At the time, only the child born from the Demonic Lady was allowed to become the future heir, so there was no reason for a specific clan to rise in power.
“That’s how it was for a long time until the day....”
The Lord of Demonic Cult was originally required to set out upon pilgrimage after becoming a new Lord. Chun Muhey, Lord from 500 years ago, was also required for this and had set out for pilgrimage after five years of becoming the Lord.
“And in that pilgrimage... the worst incident within the history of our cult had happened.”
Every member who set out on the pilgrimage had come back as a corpse. That was when the Right Guardian at the time had died also, who didn’t have any successor. This required a new Right Guardian. The death of one of the top five warriors of Wulin brought a shock to the cult or the Wulin alike.
“Who can kill the Lord who was one of the top five warriors of the Yulin?”
“...Did you hear about the name, Blade God?”
“Blade God!”
Yeowun’s eye became wide with shock. He wasn’t familiar with a lot of powerful warriors of the Wulin, but he knew the name as a cultist. This was the only known person who Demon Sword, a legendary swordsman from the cult couldn’t defeat. They tied in the end, but Demon Sword had lost his right arm from that fight and had to be retired from battle afterward.
“Then did the Sword Demon fight Blade God for revenge?”
“Yes. But that fight didn’t happen right after. With the Lord being killed, a huge problem had brought upon our cult.”
The biggest problem was the successor. Chun Muhey had one child between the Demonic Lady at the time but the child was a girl. And Chun Muhey who couldn’t have further child, had to leave for pilgrimage before it was too late, not realizing that it will be his death trip.
“With the death of the Lord, we had the problem of having no successor and losing the sword skill left by Father Chun Ma at once.”
The Sword Art of the Sky Demon was only taught with mouth and had no books. This was the worst case scenario for the Demonic Cult.
“And to solve this problem, the Elder Council had chosen Sword Demon, First Elder at the time, as a Vice Lord at the time.”
They couldn’t have 8 years old Chun Muhey’s daughter as a Lord yet, so they had to find an alternative. Fortunately, Sword Demon was talented in every way, not only in his sword skills. He had cleaned up and stabilized the cult very quickly. This was only because he had respects from all cultists. What Demon Sword wanted to solve fast after stabilizing the cult, was to find the Sword Art of the Sky Demon back. He had experience dueling the former Lord, but he didn’t know the breathing skill or the right flow so that had no way to be restored.
“That’s when for the first time, someone not from the Chun family had entered the prison cave where Father Chun Ma had left his secrets.”
‘Ah...!’
Yeowun, who knew the secret to the prison cave, was astonished. The prison cave was originally a place known that Father Chun Ma had left his secret to the truth before he died. Only members of the Chun family were allowed to enter at first, but they couldn’t let the young girl to enter in hoping to find that. And with the thought to take what’s left in there, and create something better if that’s not possible, Chun Ma was blocked with a huge obstacle.
“Everyone had entered the prison cave until now, but none had learned the founding of truth. Sword Demon failed it also.”
“Why was that?”
“It was possible to replicate the sword formation left by Father Chun Ma from the sword marking left on the pedestal, but it required breathing skill or the flow of energy to use it.”
‘...So no one unlocked that secret.’
Many members of the Chun family had entered the cave but none had unlocked the mystery behind it. Sword Force of the Sky Demon required the user to use the right breathing skill wrote on the shiny stone above the cave and the flow of energy hidden behind the poetry.