The Growth of a Titan in the Cultivation World

"God damn it! What is it now?!"

A stressed and infuriated roar echoed from the entrance of the ruined pavilion.

Everyone winced at the volume before nervously looking at Yoon-Jae who was standing atop the steps with completely bloodshot eyes.

Whether it was from anger or from exhaustion, it was hard to tell.

"Brother Yoon-Jae, we found the Demonic Cult spy!"

The youth who found and was carrying Bong Seong stepped forward and yelled this. However, the other disciples who came with him wore hesitant expressions.

Yoon-Jae's eyes fell on Bong Seon and seeing her conditioned his eyes narrowed.

"Who is it?"

The youth opened his mouth to respond, but a voice was heard asking.

"Brother Yoon-Jae, what's going on?"

Yoon-Jae, and the crowd of Alchemy Disciples who were still increasing in numbers, turned to see Sol and Ji-Hoon exit the ruined pavilion.

The disciple who was interrupted by Sol had his eyes go wide.

"This person says he knows who the Demonic Cult spy is."

Sol stiffened when he heard that, and both he and Ji-Hoon turned to look at the wide-eyed youth.

When Ji-Hoon saw him below the stairs along with Bong Seon, who looked slightly frail and had bruises from his chains, he couldn't help but let out a curse under his breath.

"Fuck…"

"It's him! It's that bastard Ji-Hoon! Brother Sol, he's the Demonic Cult spy, hurry and get away from him!!"

The Alchemy Disciples all erupt into a cacophony of shocked exclamations upon hearing that. However, for some of them, their first reaction was to immediately fly into a rage.

"Bastard, so it was you! You really hid yourself well!"

"Fuck, I was so paranoid for an entire week because of that fucker? Let's get him before he escapes!"

All of the pent-up emotions and intense paranoia these disciples had over the last few days compounded, and now that they found an outlet it was released all onto Ji-Hoon.

"Yeah, this bastard even assaulted Senior sister Seong, if we can't beat him to death, we should at least beat him within an inch of his life!"

"Yeah, that's right!"

"Wait! Shouldn't we turn him into a eunuch?"

"That too!!"

"NO! You're all wrong! What are you people talking about?!"

Bong Seon yelled at the Alchemy Disciples, but her voice was completely drowned out by their roars of anger.

This was bad.

Yoon-Jae frowned at the situation.

Even if Ji-Hoon wasn't the Demonic Cult spy, there was no way this crowd of disciples was going to calm down.

Last time he was able to nip it in the bud before chaos broke out, but this situation was like an avalanche. Once it started it wasn't going to stop or slow down, it was only going to escalate more and more. And it was already showing signs of doing just that.

One person from the crowd of Alchemy Disciples that numbered in the hundreds took a step forward, and like a domino effect more people started approaching Ji-Hoon; screaming and roaring with red faces.

"Damn it…"

Sol could hear Ji-Hoon mutter under his breath before he felt a cold wind approaching his neck from behind.

Sol took a step forward and appeared eight meters away, dodging Ji-Hoon's sudden sword strike.

"Bastard! How dare you attack Brother Sol!"

"This confirms it, he's definitely the spy! Get him!!"

The Alchemy Disciples all roared out as they rushed towards Ji-Hoon.

They seemed fearless despite most of them not being battle orientated. However, they felt that they had strength in numbers, Ji-Hoon was only one person.

In response to their charge, Ji-Hoon chose to leap over the disciple's heads and run away.

"He's trying to escape, after him!"

"These idiots!"

Yoon-Jae was heard yelling as he leaped down from the steps.

He could tell that Ji-Hoon wasn't running away because he was scared of a fight, it was because he chose not to attack them.

Something wasn't right.

As Yoon-Jae landed below the steps, Bong Seon suddenly came rushing towards him and grabbing at his hand before frantically saying.

"Brother Yoon-Jae hurry, you need to save Brother Ji-Hoon, he didn't do anything wrong!"

"Elder sister, what are you saying? He assaulted you!"

Bong Seong's head snap towards her brother and she gave him a vicious glare before she started slapping him over the head.

"Wah! Elder sister, what did I do?!"

"Shut up! Most of this is your fault, you and that big mouth of yours! How many times do I have to tell you not to interfere with my business? Bastard, if Ji-Hoon dies then I'll make sure you never have children in the future!"

"Wait, Elder sister please stop, that really hurts."

Bong Seon was too weak to give her little brother a proper beating, so she settled on pulling his hair, cheeks, and earlobes.

Anywhere she could inflect the most pain.

Frustrated, the youth said.

"Elder sister, you always do this, but have you ever considered my feelings? How could I, as your little brother, stand back and have some random man be with you? I'm only trying to protect you from those evil bastards!"

As it turns out, this little brother had bad intentions. He was only trying to get someone to find his sister who ran away from him to stop her from doing who knows what with who knows who. He merely used the Demonic Cult spy harming her as an excuse. Ji-Hoon being the Demonic Cult spy was just a happy coincidence for him!

However, in response to his words, Bong Seong put more force into her pulls and pinches.

Yoon-Jae glanced at them strangely, before he ignored the brother and sister, and turned to Sol who was walking down the stairs.

"What happened?"

"…Brother Ji-Hoon is innocent… I think."

Sol said that last part while glancing at Bong Seong and the bruises on her arms.

"He's not the Demonic Cult spy?"

"He is, but he's innocent."

Yoon-Jae frowned at that as he looked at Sol. He was a bit confused, but he realized something must have happened when they left together.

"Well, looks like he's escaping, tell me everything insid-"

Yoon-Jae suddenly stopped talking and gritted his teeth.

"This annoying fucker!"

Yoon-Jae watched as red robe figures surround Ji-Hoon who was trying to escape.

Sol frowned before he formed a hand seal behind his back, causing the two tattoos on the back of his hands to glow for a brief second.

The only one who noticed this was Little Abdu.

After forming his hand seal, Sol flipped over his hand and retrieved his massive golden bow from the Samsara Formation's storage space.

Surrounded by the red robe disciples from the Irregular Dharma Pavilion, Ji-Hoon stopped in his tracks before he turned and coldly stared at Yun-Soo who was walking up behind him.

"You think you can escape just like that? It was you, wasn't it? The one who killed a member of my Wudang Sect?"

Ji-Hoon didn't respond and only glanced behind Yun-Soo to see the Alchemy Disciples had stopped. Perhaps because Yun-Soo took over.

"You aren't going to answer? If so, then I'll make you."

Ji-Hoon turned his gaze back to Yun-Soo and sneered at his words. All the reservations he had about fighting evaporated.

BANG!

A terrifying aura suddenly erupted from Ji-Hoon's body causing his long black hair, as well as his headband and robes, to flap wildly.

When everyone felt his aura, they were startled.

Especially Yun-Soo and the red robe disciples, they had shocked expressions on their faces.

Ji-Hoon drew his sword and suddenly everyone felt as if they were being cut.

They quickly realized this situation had taken a frightening turn, as they could sense that Ji-Hoon's aura was infinitesimally close to a Spiritual Realm cultivator. It was practically a hair's width away.

"You—You bastard! You were hiding your true cultivation realm?!!"