Chapter 75 : Chapter 75
Chapter 075. Arrival of the Demon God
Un Wol-hyang ridiculed Wi Cheon-rak without hiding her swaggering manner.
Her faith in the Monster Repelling Squad was very firm from the start. Because on top of her martial nephew Dam Jeok-san's outstanding skills, there was even Dark Heaven, a sorcerer with a foot in the absolute stage.
‘……Although it bothered me that it was a place too close to the Black Dragon.’
Un Wol-hyang erased her anxiety. Because she believed Dark Heaven would be faithful to her role whatever her essence was.
“…….”
Wi Cheon-rak glared at Un Wol-hyang while grinding his molars hard enough to make a crunching sound.
A desperate crisis. Even if Un Wol-hyang's blade was hanging over his neck, he would not have been this flustered. Even if he dies, the Black Dragon's corruption is destined to happen.
It is pitiful that there is no place for him in the Grand Plan that will follow, but even the Sword King and Sword Venerable won't be able to stop the Demonic Realm from expanding and the Central Plains falling into misery. Although Wi Cheon-rak is a figure with huge self-interest, he was also a fanatic, so the Cult's great cause came first.
But―
“That brat blocked the Black Dragon's corruption?”
It was a Grand Plan he worked on for decades. From the Sword King to Dam Jeok-san, ridiculous variables popped out from everywhere.
Strange. It is not simply venting unfairness.
Things unfavorable to Wi Cheon-rak were happening one after another to an excessive degree. No matter how much he follows the path of Defying Heaven, his foundation is a sorcerer reading the heavenly principle.
He knew better than anyone that such things do not just happen. Surely there must be a breakthrough for him too. Because the world's causality is originally made up like that.
I must find it.
A way to overcome this difficult situation where even the ritual in progress became unstable while surrounded by two Entering Transformation Realm masters.
The moment he made up his mind, eerie and red ghost qi flickered in Wi Cheon-rak's gaze. A sorcery that covers his body with ghosts wandering the living world to open the Ghost Eye and drastically increase visual prowess temporarily. A kind of necromancy.
What was caught in Wi Cheon-rak's Ghost Eye was,
“Ha…….”
Dam Jeok-san who swallowed enormous demonic energy beyond imagination, and a girl possessing a temperament creepily similar to the Black Dragon he had seen tirelessly.
To the extent that he questioned why he hadn't recognized that fact until now.
‘No, it's not that I didn't recognize it, but that she hid it.’
Around that girl, no, the monster wearing the girl's skin, a powerful sorcery force field impeding perception is laid out. A force field capable of deceiving even the eyes of Wi Cheon-rak, a sorcerer who can discuss under heaven.
‘That is the Black Dragon's Reverse Scale.’
Wi Cheon-rak realized the moment he faced the girl, Dark Heaven's essence. That if he corrupts that, the Black Dragon will also become corrupted. And that that is the last chance left for him.
It is not an easy task. That existence wears the skin of a girl, but its essence must be a dragon. She must be well-versed in all kinds of sorcery.
However, that thing's weakness will also stem from the fact that its essence is a dragon. Because the sorcery Wi Cheon-rak compiled while secluded in the North for the past decades was ultimately about corrupting a dragon.
He cannot tie her up for long. But a split second is enough.
Suddenly, sticky fog rose from Wi Cheon-rak's hand. What constitutes the fog was a poison he used to calm the Black Dragon whenever it occasionally had a boiling seizure.
A fatal deadly poison that works only on dragons, not humans. Since its effect reached even the original body, he should be able to tie up that girl who is merely a fragment sufficiently.
Immediately upon confirming the poison mist spreading, Wi Cheon-rak's figure cut through the void.
A speed significantly faster than super-ascending lightness arts like Void Treading. Wi Cheon-rak was flying with sorcery. His body leaving a roar shaking the earth's axis moved faster than sound.
CLANG!
The Northern Heaven Sword Venerable, sensing the abnormality, hurriedly thrust her sword, but her slash only managed to make a scratch on Wi Cheon-rak.
It is because of the body that became close to Invulnerable to Swords and Spears. If she spent time, she could cut him sufficiently, but now was a situation where every moment was urgent.
Un Wol-hyang hurriedly chased after Wi Cheon-rak. However, the guy's flight was fast enough to be difficult to catch up with a martial artist's lightness art.
Wi Cheon-rak reached right in front of Dark Heaven's eyes in an instant. In his hand, an amorphous object whose identity was unknown but clearly harbored formidable demonic energy was held.
“This is the end……!”
Wi Cheon-rak muttered in a voice filled with delight. Because if he bursts this, the girl who fell into incapacity by the poison mist would not be able to do anything and become corrupted.
“The end? Are you perhaps talking about your lifeline?”
However, there was someone who suddenly appeared and blocked his way.
The brat who repeatedly ran Wi Cheon-rak's plans aground, Dam Jeok-san.
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“…….”
Dam Jeok-san felt killing intent that literally seemed to cut his flesh.
No, it is not an illusion but real. The killing intent Wi Cheon-rak emits turned into materialized force and was gouging out his skin.
However, Dam Jeok-san had no leeway to care about the fresh blood flowing down from his arm.
“Vulgar, for a bug.”
Because Wi Cheon-rak began to pour out immense demonic energy towards Dam Jeok-san blocking his way.
An attack completely disregarding defense. Not a conduct befitting a sorcerer. However, Wi Cheon-rak's body is already hard enough to endure even the Northern Heaven Sword Venerable's sword strike.
He had no reason to care about merely Dam Jeok-san.
“……It is just surprising that you still think so.”
From when he found his puppet in the duel with Baek Ri-gwan. No, maybe from when he defeated Murong Gang.
From then until now. Dam Jeok-san was always at the center of ruining Wi Cheon-rak's plans.
That was thanks to the ability of Predation, but that wasn't all.
‘My destiny is at the opposite point of the guy.’
The Upper Dantian inspiration, which began to bloom as he rose to the Ultra-Peak, was whispering so.
But even if it is destiny, it didn't mean he could win victory from an enemy he couldn't beat right away. Dam Jeok-san clenched his sword tightly seeing Wi Cheon-rak rushing while harboring formidable demonic energy.
Different from the time with the Sword Ghost. At that time, Un Wol-hyang could intervene anytime. Furthermore, even if she cannot intervene and Dam Jeok-san fails, only he alone dies.
However, now there is no one who can help Dam Jeok-san.
Namgung Gwan is tied up by the berserk Sword Ghost, and Un Wol-hyang is also chasing Wi Cheon-rak a step late.
I must block him, solely with my own strength.
If I fail, the aftermath will be huge beyond imagination.
‘Dealing with the Sword Ghost was at the level of a rehearsal.’
At that time, I thought I obtained understanding while literally crossing the line of death. But it was far from the real line of death.
“This is the end.”
Wi Cheon-rak muttered lowly looking at the blankly standing Dam Jeok-san. The demonic energy fluctuating in his hand had become forged like a sharp dagger before anyone knew it.
The moment that dagger tried to pass through Dam Jeok-san's neck, Dam Jeok-san's sword flashed.
Dam Jeok-san unfolded the fastest sword form among the Heaven-Breaking Star-Destroying Style he forged, the Monkey-Destroying One Flash.
The trajectory of the Monkey-Destroying One Flash embroiders the void like a ray of light. Dam Jeok-san's sword lightly catches up to a sorcerer's speed, even though it extended belatedly.
With a metallic sound of CLANG!, Dam Jeok-san's figure was pushed back far.
COUGH―
A vivid stream of red blood spurts out from his mouth. Evidence of clear internal injury. However, he endured without dying.
Wi Cheon-rak's expression crumpled nicely, and Dam Jeok-san grinned and rushed towards the guy. The guy must have thought I couldn't block it. However, to Dam Jeok-san who came to possess the power of monster destruction through the ability of Predation, blocking this much wasn't that difficult a task.
However, because the internal injury he received just before was severe, he couldn't forge refined moves anymore. So he swung the two swords wildly.
At a glance, it looks like a messy sword path, but the sword tips were thoroughly stabbing into Wi Cheon-rak's acupoints.
“……!”
Wi Cheon-rak began to condense demonic energy ignoring Dam Jeok-san's attack, even while crumpling his expression.
He intended to ignore even Dam Jeok-san this time and advance towards Dark Heaven. Since his sword won't be able to pierce even his skin anyway.
But.
STAB! STAB! STAB!
Dam Jeok-san's sword strikes that dug in aiming for acupoints pierced the body Invulnerable to Swords and Spears.
Although they are wounds merely like scratches, drops of blood flicker on Wi Cheon-rak's body. The guy was shocked by the fact that his Invulnerability to Swords and Spears was broken, but he also ignored that and advanced forward. Since it is his victory if he corrupts only Dark Heaven.
However.
“……Damn it, why isn't my body moving?”
“Well, because your acupoints were stabbed. Even if you are a sorcerer, don't you know something like that?”
Dam Jeok-san smirked without hiding his laughter. No matter how much he wrapped himself in the efficacy of monster destruction, he cannot transmit shockwaves deep into the body overcoming Invulnerability to Swords and Spears.
However, the places Dam Jeok-san stabbed were all acupoints corresponding to the body's vital points. Just by getting scratches, he has no choice but to fall into a state of temporary incapacity.
This fight was destined to be decided in a split second from the moment Wi Cheon-rak shook off Un Wol-hyang.
And Dam Jeok-san succeeded in making that split second his own.
“Good work, Martial Nephew.”
Un Wol-hyang smiled brightly and aimed her sword at Wi Cheon-rak's neck before anyone knew it.
CRASHHHHHHH!
Namgung Gwan, who bounced the Sword Ghost away by tens of jang using the domain of the Emperor Sword Form, approached with lightning flashing from his sword.
“Haaaaa…….”
Dark Heaven spat out murky poison mist from her mouth and slowly recovered her complexion.
It is the end. It is a moment where such words naturally come to mind, but Dam Jeok-san did not let go of the string of tension until the end.
‘Not yet.’
Strangely, anxiety lingers in his head. No, rather, that anxiety was amplified more than when he first faced Wi Cheon-rak. Clearly, everything should have ended, but why?
Dam Jeok-san thought that the chill he felt was somehow familiar. This is definitely a sensation he has felt before.
When?
‘Don’t tell me……?’
Deep astonishment flashed in the eyes of Dam Jeok-san who realized when he felt this sensation.
‘It was when I predated the Dark Guest.’
An absolute master who scattered transcendental presence despite existing only in the guy's memory.
The master of the Yin God Cult, and one of the most powerful existences lurking in the dark.
Yin God Cult Leader, the one possessing a disastrous alias called the Demon God.
Dam Jeok-san saw his shadow, strangely enough, from Wi Cheon-rak who fell into bewilderment.
“Everyone be careful!”
Dam Jeok-san shouted putting in full internal energy. There is no certainty. But if the Cult Leader is really involved, he must inform them.
In his judgment, the Yin God Cult Leader is an absolute master comparable to his master, the Lord of the Martial Sovereign Castle.
If Man Su-geuk manifests here, even if the Sword King, Sword Venerable, Dark Heaven, and Dam Jeok-san attack at once, they won't be able to last a hundred moves.
The Cult Leader will also not be that different. Of course, the probability of him appearing directly in the battlefield of the distant North is very low but…….
In Dam Jeok-san's feeling, the Cult Leader looked closer to a sorcerer than a martial artist. If it is a sorcerer, supernatural beings capable of projecting their power even to a place thousands of li away.
The moment he organized his thoughts―
“Why did you try so hard, when it would end like this.”
With Wi Cheon-rak's gloomy voice, the sky opened.