Chapter 456: Den of Demons (9)
Jeong Yeon-shin slowly lifted his upper body. A chilling sensation rose from the hand pressed against the floor. The texture was strikingly clear.
"......."
There were many questions.
Why was he still alive?
The attack he had faced from the Dark Heaven Emperor at that moment had been nothing short of overwhelming. Given his precarious state at the time, a direct hit should have been fatal—even if he had been at full strength, the sheer force of it would have left him critically wounded.
The Dark Heaven Emperor, who had claimed the land of Hangzhou as his domain, was the absolute master of sorcery-infused martial arts.
If so—
Had it truly been an almost miraculous stroke of luck that he was dragged into a cave after being crushed under the ice mountain? Or had So Cheonmujuk, for some unknown reason, concealed him using a technique like Formless Void?
‘Would there even be a reason for that?’
Jeong Yeon-shin’s eyes narrowed.
Why had his body recovered, even if only slightly? The Heaven's Extremity Sect Master’s sword strikes had suppressed even the Jeong Family’s martial arts.
And most of all—