Chapter 108
Wu Guang, knowing that Tang Yizheng had restricted access to the forbidden zone, requested a meeting with him.
Xi Xichang and Wu Guang were able to meet Tang Yizheng right away, and while they were arguing about their different stances on the forbidden zone, they heard an explosion that shook the Tang Clan.
And then, news came that the forbidden zone had been struck by lightning with a sudden gust of wind and had burned down.
The surprised Tang Yizheng, Xi Xichang, and Wu Guang flew their bodies towards the forbidden zone that was said to have burned down in one step.
And what came into their eyes was indeed the sight of the forbidden zone burning and emitting black smoke.
Tang Yizheng was so surprised that he did not know what to do, and Xi Xichang searched for the disappeared Jiang Ziya.
And Wu Guang, when he was lamenting that the opportunity to arrest the culprit had disappeared, a martial artist of the Tang Clan had reported to them the existence of a monster that had invaded Mrs. Yin's chamber.
The first to react to the martial artist's words was Wu Guang.
He displayed his Two Forms Infinite Divine Art to its extreme and moved towards the scene of the incident in one go.
It was not difficult to find the place where the martial artists of the Tang Clan had gathered with murderous intent.
But Wu Guang could not help but to spew out his anger when he witnessed the miserable sight that was unfolding before his eyes.
"This villain who deserves to be beaten to death!"
Nezha, who had used the Heaven and Earth Fist on a person for the first time, was startled by the chilling sensation of breaking bones that he had felt in his fist.
"A-are you okay...?"
"I will surely crush the bones and flesh of that treacherous villain!"
Wu Guang roared and hurriedly tapped Shen Naye's blood and qi, displaying a body-transferring technique.
Shen Naye's inside was in a mess, and dark red blood was pouring out of her nose, mouth, and ears.
Shen Naye's condition was very serious.
The bones in her chest were shattered, and it seemed that not only her blood and qi but also her internal organs were injured.
Moreover, since the poisonous qi was quickly penetrating her blood vessels, it was clear that her breath would stop in less than a cup of tea's time if she were to be left like this.
Wu Guang drove out the poisonous qi with his own qi and took care of Shen Naye's injured blood and qi.
And as a quick measure, he pressed Shen Naye's blood vessels to stop the bleeding.
"You, call the doctor of the Tang Clan right now and to have him look at this child!"
"Y-yes."
Some of the martial artists of the Tang Clan who had been pointed out, at Wu Guang's murderous command, hurriedly ran to find a doctor without realizing it.
Wu Guang, who had entrusted Shen Naye to the surrounding martial artists for now, clutched the Tai Chi Sword and glared at the flinching Nezha.
"This evil villain! What on earth is your identity?"
He had almost experienced a great disaster where he would have lost both his great disciple, Weibu, and his second disciple.
Wu Guang, while examining Shen Naye, was able to be sure that the small monster in front of him was the culprit who had killed his disciple.
The cruelty of his hand, the evil of using poison, and even his hideous appearance.
The culprit, unlike his expectation, was not the Shadowless Divine Thief, but the small demon head in front of him.
"I... I..."
Nezha hesitated, not knowing what to say to himself at Wu Guang's stern question.
He did not know if he should explain his existence, or what he should say, and he did not have the eloquence to explain how misunderstood the current situation was.
Seeing the frustrated Nezha, Wu Guang slowly gathered the energy of his divine art.
Seeing the demon head who was acting innocently with a child's face, he trembled and his anger rose again.
It was only lamentable that he had been so careless and ignorant as to have suspected the head of the Tang Clan and others when things had come to this.
If he had been a little more careful and a little more meticulous, Shen Naye would not have ended up in that state, and his anger rose even more.
"This demon head! If you won't answer, I will hear the answer with my sword!"
Swoosh!
It seemed that Wu Guang was stretching his sword from that spot like Mount Tai.
Although he was not moving, the sword began to move as if it were riding the wind freely.
The Two Forms Divine Art was originally the ultimate art of the Wudang Sect.
Wu Guang, who had a high seniority in the Wudang Sect, to the extent that he was a senior brother to the current Wudang Sect leader, had had the opportunity to practice the Two Forms Divine Art.
Originally, the Two Forms Divine Art was a supreme divine art that handled the two opposing energies of yin and yang, and Wu Guang, with the understanding he had obtained from the Two Forms Divine Art, had created the Two Forms Infinite Divine Art by releasing yin and yang into the two movements of stillness and motion.
The Two Forms Infinite Divine Sword of Wu Guang, which was displayed to its extreme, contained the pinnacle of stillness in motion, and it showed without a filter that he was the supreme swordsman of Wudang who had the nickname of the Wise Sword.
Nezha was the enemy of his two disciples and a clear demon head.
It was enough to question him about his purpose or identity after cutting off his limbs and subduing him.
Moreover, Wu Guang had no intention of letting Nezha live.
Nezha hurriedly swung the Heaven-Mixing Silk to protect himself.
Perhaps because he had used the Heaven and Earth Fist in a real battle once, the skill of the Heaven and Earth Fist was naturally contained in the hand that was handling the Heaven-Mixing Silk, and the Heaven-Mixing Silk that Nezha had wrapped around himself created a small gust of wind and swirled.
Clang!
As Wu Guang's sword, which contained a sword qi, was deflected by the fiercely rotating Heaven-Mixing Silk, Wu Guang's face hardened heavily.
He had realized how scary the powerful force that Nezha possessed was with the exchange of one move.
It was hard to believe that his one sword, which had already entered the realm of a supreme master for a long time, had been blocked so easily. Moreover, Wu Guang, who had felt a poisonous qi flowing towards him along the tip of his sword, drove out the poisonous qi in one go with a long breath.
"This demon head! An evil art like that won't work on the pure martial arts of Wudang!"
The sword art of Wu Guang, who was stepping on the divine footwork and swinging his sword again, was crude to look at, but from Nezha's perspective, it felt as if numerous swords were closing in on him.
Although Nezha was dizzy from Wu Guang's divine sword art, he gritted his teeth and swung the Heaven-Mixing Silk, enduring it.
Swoosh!
Wu Guang's murderous sword qi grazed Nezha's skin.
No matter how hard Nezha's skin was, it could not block even a sword qi.
Nezha, feeling a burning pain, flinched and stepped back.
"S-stop..."
Dozens of martial artists of the Tang Clan were already surrounding Nezha and Wu Guang, and unless there was a way to soar into the sky or to sink into the ground, there was no way for Nezha to escape.
Wu Guang, after exchanging a few moves with Nezha, predicted a certain victory.
Although he did not know the reason, he had realized that the power of the culprit's martial arts was not as great as he had thought.
Although it was a little strange that Shen Naye had ended up in that state with this much skill, if it were to continue like this, it was only a matter of time before he would avenge his disciples.
But Wu Guang did not let his guard down and began to push Nezha with all his might.
Nezha, who had never experienced the ever-changing nature of a supreme sword art, began to get injured all over his body.
As Nezha's blood fell to the ground, a hazy smoke rose, and a strong poisonous qi began to spread in the surroundings, and Wu Guang frowned and swung his sword in one go to drive away the surrounding poisonous qi.
"Where do you think you're going with a trick like that!"
Nezha had a tearful face.
His whole body was sore and stinging. It was a sensation he had never felt in his life.
Nezha felt that he might really lose his life in the grasp of that old man who was rushing at him as if to kill him.
Where on earth had it gone wrong?
Nezha felt that it had been a mistake from the beginning to have disobeyed his father's orders and to have gone out.
If he had just endured the stuffiness a little, he would not have ended up in this state.
At least he would have been able to see his mother's face once in a while and to have lived in hiding in the forbidden zone without any pain.
'No...'
But because he had not, he had also met Jiang Ziya and had heard the story of his uncle, and he had also been able to learn the martial art called the Heaven and Earth Fist.
He had obtained the hope that he could return to a normal person and a being that he could call 'master', which he had not even dreamed of.
A shining wheel suddenly appeared on Nezha's fist.
"No?!"
Wu Guang, who had been consistently in the lead, was startled and twisted his body, feeling something enormous explode from within him as the Heaven-Mixing Silk fluttered and was gathered.
Bang!
Just as Shen Naye had, Wu Guang had also tried to receive Nezha's Heaven and Earth Fist with the technique of diverting a flower to a tree, but Nezha's Heaven and Earth Fist was a heavy fist that was looking at the realm of a strong qi.
No matter how great a swordsman Wu Guang was, it was impossible for him to completely receive that power.
Wu Guang displayed the Two Forms Infinite Divine Sword and, with half of the power of the fist that Nezha had thrown, he sent it to the ground, and with the other half, he received it and flowed it, and he spun his body greatly.
Bang!
With a sound of the air exploding, the figure of Wu Guang, who had been attacking Nezha until now, was thrown a distance of one zhang.
The ground where he had been standing was deeply dug in a spiral shape and was giving off a cloud of dust, and his neat Taoist robe was also crumpled and torn like a clutched laundry.
Wu Guang composed his shaken blood and qi.
His hair and beard, which had been disheveled as it was, were even more terribly stretched out, and his hideous appearance was no less than that of Nezha.
"Th-this evil villain... you were hiding your skill and preparing a sinister move."
It was truly a demon-like mind.
Although there was a saying in the martial world to hide thirty percent of one's skill, even Wu Guang had not expected that he would be hiding seventy percent of his skill against him.
It was clear that he had aimed for one move, even at the cost of his own flesh and bones, so it was unimaginable how vicious his mind and patience were.
Wu Guang blamed himself for having made the mistake of falling for the same trick as a master, when it was clear that Dao Weibu and Shen Naye had also fallen for this brat's trick.
On the other hand, Nezha's complexion was not very bright either.
Although he had not known it when he had displayed the Heaven and Earth Fist, as the situation had reached a brief lull, he felt a pain all over his body, and his wounds were stinging as if they had been seared by fire.
Moreover, it seemed that all the energy in his body had been drained, and his body was as heavy as a water-soaked cotton.
Nezha felt as if a hole had been made in his chest and that his energy was draining away.
Nezha's training was insufficient to fully display a supreme martial art like the Heaven and Earth Fist.
Since he had been overexerting himself in a row, not only against Shen Naye but also against Wu Guang, that much of a burden had accumulated in Nezha's body.
And just as Wu Guang was about to draw his sword again, saying that there would be no two mistakes, and to fly towards Nezha, someone pushed aside the martial artists of the Tang Clan and showed his face.
"What... what is all this commotion!"
The one who had revealed his face, spewing out a loud voice among the martial artists of the Tang Clan, was none other than Tang Yizheng.
Tang Yizheng and Xi Xichang, who had been moving after Wu Guang, who had been searching the forbidden zone, had finally arrived here.
Nezha's face brightened at the sound of Tang Yizheng's voice.
He had thought that since his father had arrived, he would surely make that demon-like Taoist retreat.
But Tang Yizheng, after pushing through the martial artists and looking at the miserable scene, froze like a stone.
"Head of the Tang Clan! You've come at a good time!"
Wu Guang looked up at Tang Yizheng.
"Th-this is what..."
Tang Yizheng wished that the sight that was unfolding before his eyes was a dream.
Not only had he had a hard time with Wu Guang, who had come to investigate the forbidden zone, but how startled had he been when he had heard that the forbidden zone had been struck by lightning and had collapsed?
Although he had searched the forbidden zone, which had been burned black, like a madman, to the extent that Xi Xichang, who had been with him, had found it strange, there was no trace of Nezha.
But to have the Nezha that he had wanted to hide so much appear here of all places and to be facing Wu Guang, it was as if the sky were turning yellow.
"Ah, ah..."
Although Nezha twitched his lips and tried to call Tang Yizheng, he was startled by Tang Yizheng's scary eyes, which were like those of a demon, and shut his mouth.
His father's two eyes, which were as scary and strict as ever, were surely blaming him for not having listened to him.
Tang Yizheng was speaking to Nezha with his eyes.
Why hadn't he listened to him? Now, the responsibility for this incident was all on him.
"I had a small question while I was facing this demon head, and I think I need to confirm one thing."
Wu Guang looked back and forth between Nezha and Tang Yizheng.
Although he had only thought of him as a demon head at first, there were some suspicious parts to be sure.
Wu Guang had to make that part clear.
"...What are you talking about?"
"Do you know that monster, head of the Tang Clan?"
(End of Chapter)