Chapter 70 : Chapter 70
Chapter 070. Sword That Kills The Sky
“Hmm……?”
At the feast of powerful presences felt from outside the barrier, a bewildered look appeared on Wi Cheon-rak's face.
“The screening was definitely perfect…….”
Even if a sorcerer far exceeding his expectations existed on the Martial Sovereign Castle side, tracking the Sword Ghost this quickly is impossible.
Because Wi Cheon-rak's forbidden art not only completely cut off his presence but also transformed him into a different existence through Soul Consuming.
There is no one in the world capable of unfolding a tracking art that finds someone whose soul wavelength itself has changed. At least as far as Wi Cheon-rak knows.
‘It might be different if it was the Cult Leader who possesses the Reverse Demon Eye, but…….’
It is uncertain whether even the Cult Leader, who has the authority to make countless monsters obey, could do it.
So there is no way a mere sorcerer scrub from the Martial Sovereign Castle could accomplish it.
That is Wi Cheon-rak's common sense.
However, Wi Cheon-rak is also one who became a Yin Heaven Cult Cardinal by pushing through a path paved with all kinds of schemes and death.
He knows better than anyone that this world is a place where things beyond his common sense frequently occur.
He also knows well the fact that appealing for unfairness about what has already happened is useless.
I must stop them.
Regardless of who the opponent is, I must stop them.
The completion of the Grand Plan is not far off now. A situation where no variable can be tolerated.
Wi Cheon-rak raised his sorcery power and widened the range of his energy sense. To grasp the identities of the uninvited guests and prepare countermeasures.
VROOOM!
Wi Cheon-rak's energy sense, which spread out in all directions like a spider web, reached outside the barrier in an instant.
A vast energy sense encompassing a terrifying range. However, a gloomy look appeared in Wi Cheon-rak's eyes.
The enemies' power is stronger than assumed.
The biggest problem is that multiple existences with martial power comparable to a Cardinal were detected.
“Do you mean it wasn't just one…….”
Wi Cheon-rak muttered quietly while stroking his chin.
A super master who reached the Entering Transformation Realm is a mass of disaster creating infinite variables just by their existence alone.
So he pulled all sorts of tricks to block their intervention beforehand, but in the end, one more guy appeared from somewhere.
“This presence…… right, is it the Sword King of Namgung.”
Kukuk. A despondent laugh flowed from Wi Cheon-rak's mouth.
The guy I was trying to drag out and kill walked in on his own feet, but instead of being happy, I have to sharpen my senses and be vigilant.
“Useless thing. I should have let him die with his father back then.”
Recalling Murong Gang who died incompetently, Wi Cheon-rak muttered annoyedly.
Originally, the Sword King should have been killed by the Sword Ghost while moving north to this place at the time the Grand Plan was completed. However, because the guy failed to kill Namgung Yeon and dragged in the Northern Heaven Sword Venerable, the order of things got complicatedly twisted.
What can be done? The hound's mistake is soon the master's mistake. It is something he has to bear.
The barrier surrounding this place, the Black Heaven Nine Hells Great Wall, is powerful enough to be counted on one hand among the barrier techniques he unfolded in his lifetime.
Furthermore, there is even the Sword Ghost whose body and soul were made to completely obey by the Soul Consuming Restriction. Even if such a force swarms in, he can sufficiently block them.
Instead of flustering, Wi Cheon-rak calmly formed hand seals. Grotesque patterns and ancient words of unknown meaning appeared and disappeared repeatedly around his body.
When all ancient words and patterns were absorbed into Wi Cheon-rak's body like that.
The spirit he emitted had become markedly different from before. Even before, he was powerful enough to easily suppress the injured Sword Ghost, but now, a truly unapproachable spirit flowed out.
What stood out especially was his bare skin stained darkish black. Proof that his skin had become temporarily close to a state of Invulnerable to Swords and Spears.
With this, the foundation for him to endure among Entering Transformation Realm masters even with a sorcerer's weak body was completed.
No matter how strong the Sword Venerable and Sword King are, it will take at least one double hour to at most three double hours to break through the Black Heaven Nine Hells Great Wall.
Even that is a time estimated shortly considering that both of them are swordsmen specialized in cutting and splitting something.
Since a sorcerer can show overwhelming strength in a prepared battlefield. He began to make this land his battlefield during the given time.
When about one tea-time had passed like that.
RUMBLE-CRASH!!
“Hmm……?”
Suddenly, a roar of the earth's axis shaking and the barrier crumbling was heard.
At the same time, bile rose up inside Wi Cheon-rak.
It is clear evidence that the barrier was damaged by an external impact. What he thought was absolutely impossible happened once again.
“Ominous.”
Wi Cheon-rak muttered lowly while swallowing the bile back.
As a sorcerer, his Upper Dantian intuition is far sharper than martial artists of the same rank. Especially, his premonition about fortune and misfortune is unmatched.
The fact that the word ‘ominous’ came out of such a Wi Cheon-rak's mouth meant that the current situation, as well as the future ahead, would never be easy for him.
However, ominousness can be covered with greater ominousness. Wi Cheon-rak emitted thick demonic energy even while feeling the barrier shaking wildly.
“I should at least see the face.”
Is it the Northern Heaven Sword Venerable? Or the Sword King of Namgung?
Who cut the Black Heaven Nine Hells Great Wall this quickly, just how did they do it. He had to confirm it.
Thinking so, he walked towards the barrier with heavy steps.
The one swinging a sword towards this place from the other side of the desert is…….
“Just a brat?”
It was a young man whose downy hair on his face hadn't even completely disappeared yet, Dam Jeok-san.
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“Huh, I cannot believe it even seeing with my two eyes.”
Namgung Family Head, Sword King Namgung Gwan said while stroking back his rough chin.
“Yeon-ah, I thought you exaggerated Master Dam's ability too much in the letter…….”
Looking at it now, it was rather to the extent that he wondered if she downplayed it thinking he wouldn't believe it.
“Family Head, that is not true.”
However, Namgung Yeon denied such a guess of her father.
She never downplayed Dam Jeok-san's ability. He just became stronger during the time Namgung Gwan arrived.
At that explanation of Namgung Yeon, the Sword King opened his mouth wide.
Reaching the Ultra-Peak realm at that age? It is sufficiently possible. However, there would be few people who showed such a steep growth trend even if one searches the entire history of Murim.
However, there was absolutely no look of disbelief on Namgung Gwan's face.
Because a truly unbelievable spectacle was unfolding before his eyes.
Phew—
Dam Jeok-san exhaled the breath he held back while feeling the countless gazes shooting towards him.
The Black Heaven Nine Hells Great Wall is a Super-ascending level barrier technique. According to Dark Heaven's story, it would be at a level that the Sword Venerable and Sword King could barely break only if they poured out their full power.
But since cracks went crackle-crack on the barrier with Dam Jeok-san's single sword, it is not strange for the onlookers to be surprised.
However, it wasn't that difficult a task for Dam Jeok-san.
‘Because I saw the path the sword must advance.’
There is no other way to express it. It just ‘was seen’.
It is not that the Predator's Eye itself grew. Just that as he rose to the Ultra-Peak realm, the capacity of the human named Dam Jeok-san became dimensionally different from before, so his Eye techniques also reached a stage different from before.
Dam Jeok-san ignored the reactions around him and focused his mind on the barrier once again.
Then faintly twinkling dots lingered in his vision. They were closer to illusions created by Dam Jeok-san's Eye techniques rather than dots with substance.
The path created by piercing those dots as one is exactly the only sword path capable of destroying the rare barrier called the Black Heaven Nine Hells Great Wall.
However.
He cannot convey that destruction method to Un Wol-hyang or the Namgung Family Head. Because it was a sword path that only Dam Jeok-san, who possesses the ability of Predation, could reproduce.
So as soon as he arrived at the barrier, Dam Jeok-san sent a telepathic message to Un Wol-hyang to ask for permission and swung his sword.
Since there were things he showed while dealing with the Sword Ghost, obtaining her permission was not difficult.
Dam Jeok-san said he thinks he can do something to that barrier and…….
—Good, since Martial Nephew is also an Ultra-Peak master, you should be able to make that level of judgment.
Because Un Wol-hyang consented without an inch of worry.
Dam Jeok-san focused his mind completely once again. He fully captured the shapes twinkling like dots in his eyes, and constantly recalled the perfect single sword that would connect them.
However, Dam Jeok-san's sword was fixed without moving an inch.
Because the trajectory of the sword strike he recalled was too short, or deep, or if not that, excessive, or insufficient. Due to various reasons.
Although the time actually passed was merely a split second, in Dam Jeok-san's thoughts, it felt like several double hours had passed. Accordingly, his head hurt as if it would break, but he continued his thoughts without caring at all. As if fighting a battle.
Step, Step—
However, Dam Jeok-san's enemy was not just himself.
Yin Heaven Cult Cardinal Wi Cheon-rak, who noticed the abnormality of the barrier, began to approach him.
The distance between outside the barrier where Dam Jeok-san stands and Wi Cheon-rak is quite far.
However, as if that distance was meaningless, Wi Cheon-rak got drastically closer to Dam Jeok-san with every step he took.
A sorcery applying the principle of Earth Shrinking. A genuine technique different from the Life-saving ultimate technique the Sword Ghost used.
VROOOM!
An unidentified strange black sphere begins to condense in Wi Cheon-rak's hand. A sphere where ominous energy undulates as if it sucked up all kinds of evil in the world.
The moment it tried to jump over the barrier like an illusion and directly hit Dam Jeok-san's chest—
“How dare you!”
Sword King Namgung Gwan scolded in a stern voice, and at the same time, emitted formidable sharpness along with intense presence from his entire body.
BOOM!
Not only did the surrounding air sink heavily just by the pressure originating from Namgung Gwan's body, but even the black sphere rushing towards Dam Jeok-san at formidable speed stopped for an instant.
The manifestation of the Emperor Sword Form, which dominates and controls the domain where his existence reaches.
Although it is a phenomenon closer to a miracle than martial arts, only blunt killing intent hovered on the face of Namgung Gwan who accomplished it.
“Damn it.”
Wi Cheon-rak, who intuited that his single blow didn't work, immediately slipped back with a curse.
Because he wanted to avoid the situation of directly facing two Entering Transformation Realm swordsmen if the barrier broke by any chance.
Thanks to that, Dam Jeok-san could complete the best sword strike without any interference.
Soon after, the sword strike he spun pierced the void while emitting brilliant starlight and exploded on the barrier.
Dots connect to dots to become a line, and that line can easily pierce a plane.
CRASHHHHHHH—!
Everyone in the place saw sparks flying up from the barrier with an intense rupture sound.
Along with a sizzling sound, a crack finally appeared on the barrier that was shaking uneasily.
Black Heaven Nine Hells Great Wall. That thing, which is located at the very top among the Yin Heaven Cult's barrier techniques, was shattered into pieces by the hand of a swordsman who reached the Ultra-Peak realm merely a few double hours ago.