Chapter 588: Northern Emperor’s Castle (3)
Before the gates of Yeokluseong (Yeoklu Fortress).
A cold tension hung in the air like a layer of thin ice.
The Ipwang Fortress Divine Sword Corps was entering its second battle. No shards of spears or waves of palm force had burst forth just yet—but the moment they fell behind, a fatal situation was bound to unfold.
It was inevitable.
“......”
The outer walls of Yeokluseong were vast and long, large enough to encircle an entire metropolitan city. Hundreds stood atop the ramparts, looking down at Jeong Yeon-shin.
The crowd was dense.
Not only were there commoners and martial artists who had lived in Yeokluseong for generations, but also drifters from the Demon Realm who had stopped by, wandering martial artists from all over, and others who came—whatever their reason—to glimpse the growing power of Jeong Yeon-shin, even from afar.
A young man in a gray winter cloak, with a fur-lined hood, was among them, crouched on a corner of the rampart.
He was the “Lone Sword Tiger” of the Thirteen Heavens’ Simmuryun.
The next Sword Lord in line.
He had learned the sword under Youngcheon Sword Demon Baek Seo-goon, and sought to perfect her Eight Illusions Divine Art. He had voluntarily taken on the position of intelligence officer.