Chapter 343 : True Immortal and Martial God (3)
Chapter 343: True Immortal and Martial God (3)
Attacks that transcended space rendered defense meaningless.
Although he had clearly swung his sword straight ahead, Jang Woo-hyun's sword slashes erupted from behind the True Immortal, above his head, and even from inside his body.
The dozens of giants were mercilessly carved apart by countless sword slashes from every direction—above, below, front, back, left, right, inside, and outside.
【You insolent wretch!】
As the severed heads roared in fury, the shattered bodies gathered together.
Seeing this, Jang Woo-hyun stopped attacking.
He wanted to see what ability the True Immortal would reveal next.
Rumble!
The mass of flesh writhed as waves of power spread outward like rippling tides.
A moment later.
The True Immortal rose once more, even larger than when he had first appeared.
His size was so enormous that it was impossible to grasp it all at once.
【I am immortal. I possess an unbreakable body and shall exist forever.】
Unable to interfere with Jang Woo-hyun's destiny any longer, the True Immortal instead twisted his own Fate.
An incomprehensible and overwhelming force settled into his body.
Black skin grew over the exposed muscles.
Crack!
The black skin gradually hardened until it became armor.
Looking at the True Immortal, Jang Woo-hyun released Baekmu from his hand.
The sword, whose soul was linked to its master, understood his thoughts and naturally returned.
The corners of Jang Woo-hyun's lips curled upward as he took a step forward.
Ever since ascending to the Upper Realm, he had never encountered a worthy opponent.
Now, he had finally met an enemy of equal standing.
Moreover, the True Immortal before him had transformed into something that seemed capable of blocking every attack.
There was no reason not to be pleased.
From this point onward, he could unleash all of his power.
Now that the True Immortal could no longer manipulate Fate, the battle had become a straightforward clash of strength.
And strength was Jang Woo-hyun's specialty.
As he clenched both fists, unimaginable power gathered within them.
The surrounding space twisted merely from the concentration of power.
Primordial Unity referred to Heaven, Earth, and the universe itself.
The Primordial Unity Realm differed from merely opening a Microcosm.
One became a universe unto oneself, capable of wielding power beyond imagination.
Having Ascended through the path of the Martial God, Jang Woo-hyun himself had become both a universe and an entire world.
Though achieved by a different method, it resembled how he had once united the power of his Unity of Blade Mountain and Sword Forest Microcosm against Yong Cheon-myeong.
Every ounce of power gathered around Jang Woo-hyun.
He compressed all that power into both fists before throwing a punch.
There was no elaborate technique.
No stance.
The instant his fist shot forward, a line of light appeared between Jang Woo-hyun and the True Immortal.
KWAAAAANG!
An explosion erupted simultaneously.
The resulting shockwave was worthy of being called a galactic storm.
The shockwave alone possessed enough force to shatter entire continents.
【I am immortal. I am the one who cannot be broken!】
The powerful strike pushed the True Immortal's body slightly backward, but unlike before, it inflicted no serious damage.
'He's tough.'
The smile on Jang Woo-hyun's face deepened.
If the opponent was durable, then all the better.
He punched again.
Once.
Twice.
Ten times.
Twenty times.
A hundred times...
The gigantic body became engulfed in light and explosions.
The True Immortal occasionally unleashed spells, but every one of them was shattered by Jang Woo-hyun's simple punches.
【Aaaaargh!】
Having done nothing but endure the relentless assault, the True Immortal finally roared.
Thump! Thump!
His gigantic body began pulsing like a beating heart.
The world changed.
Rivers of blood flowed.
Mountains made of flesh emerged.
Forests formed from veins and muscles rose into existence.
The True Immortal forced out every last ounce of his strength and broke through his own limits.
Watching the transformation, Jang Woo-hyun once again stopped attacking.
'Show me everything you've got.'
He wanted to witness the full extent of the True Immortal's power.
And in this battle, he too intended to unleash everything.
【You cannot defeat me! I am the immortal who shall exist forever! A new god shall descend upon this place!】
The True Immortal bestowed yet another destiny upon himself.
As another overwhelming force took effect, the world transformed once more.
Blood Spirit Creation World.
The entire world became dyed crimson.
Rivers of blood surged upward.
Forests of veins and muscles writhed.
Mountain ranges of flesh twisted as they rose.
【This Exalted One is the supreme existence, the ruler of the world woven from flesh.】
The urgency vanished from the True Immortal's voice.
Merely expressing his will caused both space and the world to ripple.
【I govern life and death, and command time and destiny. The dragon that gazes upon all creation shall appear here and now.】
Boom! Bang!
The skin that had formed his armor exploded apart.
Writhing flesh and blood poured out like waterfalls.
His body, already far larger than a planet, continued expanding.
Blood and flesh churned as the True Immortal transformed.
His body lengthened.
His single head became eight.
The giant humanoid form vanished.
In its place appeared an enormous serpent with eight heads and blackish-red scales that filled the entire world.
Each serpent head resembled an earthworm.
There were no mouths.
No eyes.
No noses.
Only blunt, featureless heads.
Blood World Eight-Headed Demonic Dragon Sovereign.
He had squeezed out every last drop of his power to elevate his very existence.
At this moment, he had stepped beyond the limits of a True Immortal and reached toward the next realm.
Craaack—
A massive mouth suddenly split open upon one of the eight heads.
Then countless mouths appeared all across the serpent's immense body.
【Die, insect.】
The instant those words were spoken, every mouth simultaneously cast a spell.
Countless voices overlapped until only an endless humming could be heard.
Countless formations appeared before the eight-headed serpent.
One entire side of the world became filled with spell formations.
【It is over.】
The formations unleashed an endless torrent of spells.
Everything was crimson.
Ice.
Flames.
Lightning.
Tentacles made of flesh.
Poison.
Even sinister spirits.
Everything was blood-red.
In response, Jang Woo-hyun drew the Dragon King's Scale.
Then, without putting any force into it, he gently swung the blade.
Click.
The blade-like scales separated.
Thanks to the help of the Sighing Heavenly Treasure Dragon, they had increased from mere hundreds to millions.
Into every single scale, he infused the power of the Star-Destroying Fist.
Meteor Shower Filling the Heavens.
Every blade scale became a meteor.
Millions of meteors rained toward the wall of approaching spells.
Space exploded and crumbled.
Had such power been unleashed within the Middle Heaven Realm, even the dimension itself would have collapsed.
Rumble—
Perhaps the True Immortal's spells possessed even greater power.
The explosion was pushed back toward Jang Woo-hyun.
Around him, the Five Elements Energy appeared and began rotating.
The Five Elements formed the very foundation of the world.
Through the principle of mutual generation, the Five Elements absorbed the explosive energy.
The blood power wielded by the Demonic Dragon Sovereign could not be absorbed directly, so he first incinerated it with fire.
The burned energy became ash, which was absorbed by earth.
Following the cycle of mutual generation, it transformed into metal, then water, and finally wood.
While Jang Woo-hyun absorbed the energy, the Demonic Dragon Sovereign launched another attack.
Opening a mouth large enough to swallow entire continents, he spewed forth blood.
Everything ahead became an ocean of blood that surged toward him.
The mouths on his heads disappeared, replaced by enormous eyes.
Crimson beams shot forth.
At the very same moment as the Demonic Dragon Sovereign's assault—
A colossal giant rose behind Jang Woo-hyun.
Eight Desolations Heavenly Sword God.
A giant rivaling the Demonic Dragon Sovereign in size appeared and swung his sword.
The eight-armed giant embodied every sword art in existence.
He split apart the sea of blood with the Fast Sword.
He suppressed the crimson beam with the Heavy Sword.
He blanketed the world with the Illusory Sword.
He shattered everything with the Mighty Sword.
Though the Demonic Dragon Sovereign continued attacking, none of it had any effect.
As time passed, Jang Woo-hyun's expression gradually hardened.
His smile disappeared.
The excitement that had once filled his eyes slowly faded.
To end the battle, Jang Woo-hyun condensed the Five Elements Energy surrounding him.
Soon, he forged a sword containing all five elements.
When he brought it into contact with the sword held by the Eight Desolations Heavenly Sword God, it was absorbed.
A divine sword of the Five Elements formed within the giant's grasp.
Then the attacks resumed.
The first strike.
The fire sword swept outward, igniting everything in sight.
The world created by the Demonic Dragon Sovereign.
Even every spell he had cast.
The second strike.
Then the third.
Beneath the burning sky, endless earth spread into existence.
Mountains of metal rose.
The fourth strike.
Endless rivers appeared.
Finally, a Divine Tree capable of reaching every corner of the world emerged.
The eight-armed giant raised two of his remaining three arms.
At that moment, the world of the Five Elements vanished.
Instead, one black sword and one white sword appeared in his hands.
They were Yin and Yang.
They were Heaven and Earth.
They were Immortal and Demon.
They were God and Devil.
The two swords crossed toward the True Immortal.
Krrrkkk!
Even under a force powerful enough to shatter space itself, the body of the Blood World Eight-Headed Demonic Dragon Sovereign remained intact.
His destiny of existing forever blocked every attack.
【I have obtained the immortal destiny that shall exist forever.】
The Demonic Dragon Sovereign proclaimed proudly.
But—
At the very center where the cross-shaped sword slashes intersected—
The powers of Yin and Yang fused into one.
It was an attack embodying the profound principles of the Black-and-White Mad Demon True Energy.
The Yin-Yang Great Explosion.
Crack.
The sound of something shattering echoed.
The center of the cross-shaped slash collapsed.
The True Immortal's body was annihilated.
It was not merely his physical body that disappeared.
His soul and very origin suffered damage as well.
Twenty thousand years ago.
Lee Tae-seong had given birth to an entirely new realm of martial artists.
That marked the beginning of the Martial World's true development.
It was also the moment martial artists gained the ability to stand shoulder to shoulder with cultivators.
Every realm of martial artists had been created for the sole purpose of fighting cultivators.
Unlike cultivators, martial artists inevitably specialized in destruction.
While cultivators Ascended to the Upper Realm and gained the power to twist destiny and create worlds—
Martial artists gained the opposing force.
The power of destruction.
Among all such martial artists, Jang Woo-hyun was exceptional.
One of his defining traits was his ability to unleash power far beyond that of others within the same realm.
That remained true even after ascending to the Upper Realm.
【Grrraaagh...】
The Demonic Dragon Sovereign screamed in agony as his soul and origin were destroyed.
Without even using Causality Severance, Jang Woo-hyun, now fully unleashing the power of the Primordial Unity Realm, was capable of destroying an existence that had surpassed the level of a True Immortal.
He had simply crushed the True Immortal's destiny through overwhelming power.
【Exist forever...】
As the Demonic Dragon Sovereign attempted to bestow yet another destiny upon himself, Jang Woo-hyun summoned Baekmu and swung it.
He had already seen everything he wanted.
There was no longer any need to continue the fight.
Slash.
The law connecting cause and effect was severed.
The destiny bestowed by the True Immortal vanished.
No matter how much he twisted destiny, nothing happened because cause and effect no longer connected.
The armor surrounding his body.
The power restoring his injuries.
Everything that had seemed eternal.
All of it shattered.
【No! Impossible! This Exalted One shall not perish! I am deathless and immortal! I shall exist forever! I am the new god! No one shall ever wound me!】
The True Immortal once again invoked the power of destiny.
Yet every forced destiny vanished beneath Baekmu's blade.
The enormous eight-headed serpent disappeared.
Soon, only a humanoid body remained.
The black skin that had become armor was gone.
His exposed muscles and veins had been torn apart and shredded everywhere.
As the Demonic Dragon Sovereign attempted to summon his power once more, Jang Woo-hyun casually threw the Dragon King's Scale.
Crunch!
Hundreds of defensive spells unfolded.
But the Dragon King's Scale transformed.
It became hundreds of thousands of dragons covered in metallic scales.
The countless dragons tore apart the defensive spells.
They smashed through them with their bodies before charging toward the True Immortal.
The dragons' sharp fangs bit into the heavily wounded True Immortal and devoured him.
【Wait! No! Stop! Let us talk! Speak with me... Wait... stop! Senior! Please! Please... give me time...!】
Ignoring the desperate pleas of the True Immortal—
A moment later.
The Dragon King's Scale completely devoured the wounded True Immortal.
Then—
【Senior, we have finally gathered enough power.】
Lei Yunli could now open the gate leading to the Palace of Myriad Immortals.