Chapter 151. Destiny (1)

On the mid-slope of Nine Dragons Mountain.

Every time Hwangbo Ak swung his arm, a roar erupted.

Kwang!!

His entire body was now stained with blood, and his gauntlets were covered in various foreign substances.

“If you want to live, throw down your weapons or flee!!”

Contrary to his words, Hwangbo Ak was brandishing his iron fists with extreme ferocity.

He once fought at the forefront for the bandits, a truly imposing figure.

“Haaat!!”

Now, his iron fists were aimed at the bandits he once called his mountain brothers.

Right after crushing another bandit.

Crack!

A familiar voice pierced Hwangbo Ak’s ears.

“Know that those who flee will all die by my hand!!”

It was the shout of the Vice-Fortress Leader, Yeom Hwaek, as he swung his greatsword here and there.

The Vice-Fortress Leader, who was monitoring the bandits in place of the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, who was tied up with Jin Yuseong.

Hwangbo Ak, having spotted his prey, rushed straight towards him.

“There you are!!!”

After turning the bandits blocking his path into pulp several times.

Hwangbo Ak, who had finally reached the vicinity of the Vice-Fortress Leader, shouted and swung his iron fist.

A powerful explosion erupted as Hwangbo Ak’s gauntlet and the Vice-Fortress Leader’s greatsword clashed.

Kwang!

The two men, with their weapons locked, shouted with their faces contorted.

“Vice-Fortress Leader!! You will pay the price for trying to kill me!”

“How dare you, you traitor!!”

The Vice-Fortress Leader, Yeom Hwaek, swung his greatsword fiercely.

Perhaps the position of Vice-Fortress Leader and second in command of the Nine Dragons Fortress was not obtained for free, as his martial prowess surpassed Hwangbo Ak’s.

But Hwangbo Ak somehow dodged the fierce assault or parried it with his iron fists, looking for an opportunity to break through.

Although his understanding of martial arts was two or three levels below the Vice-Fortress Leader’s, he was not being pushed back significantly.

“Hahaha. It seems you’ve gotten quite fat from eating the things this Hwangbo Ak has given you!”

“You bastard Hwangbo Ak! How dare you try to kill the foster uncle who raised you!”

“Hmph! You were the first to swing your greatsword at me, where are you spouting such nonsensical crap!”

With both the Fortress Leader and the Vice-Fortress Leader tied up, the chaos among the bandits only grew.

In fact, there was no chaos.

Both the Fortress Leader and the Vice-Fortress Leader had already given their orders, and they had been sufficiently delivered.

The front line would fight back. The rear line would return to the main fortress, suppress the forest fire, and then return.

But in the bandits’ minds, orders they had not been given were creeping in.

‘If I run away now, will they know?’

‘Why do I have to fight against so many of them?’

‘Wait! I can just pretend to put out the forest fire, return to the main fortress, grab the valuables, and run away, right?’

The bandits began to watch each other, and one by one, they started to act.

Some secretly slipped away to the side of the mountain path and fled, while others headed towards the forest fire as per the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s order.

But among them, there were few who were actually trying to suppress the forest fire.

All of them had eyes filled with greed.

Moreover, the bandits who had noticed each other’s intentions were on the verge of betraying each other at any moment.

“L, let’s put out the fire too!”

“Right! It’s dangerous if the fire spreads further!”

Even the bandits who were supposed to be fighting at the front made all sorts of excuses and either fled or flew towards the main fortress.

Naturally, the hands and feet of the warriors who had rushed at the bandits became increasingly free.

The Beggar’s Gang members were beating the bandits with the spears or staves in their hands.

“Haaat!!”

Dang Sopyeong was also diligently brandishing his fan.

Every time he swung the fan crafted by Yeo Yun, a faint green smoke scattered towards the surrounding bandits.

It was the poison that Dang Sopyeong had steadily accumulated in his Dantian.

The bandits who inhaled that poison all clutched their throats, screamed, and collapsed.

“Kuaaaak!!”

Some of the bandits who had managed to retreat without touching the poisonous smoke let out faint groans.

“Gasp…….”

While he was performing a fan dance, brandishing the fan in his right hand, the poison needles he had secretly thrown with his left hand had pierced the bandits’ vitals.

After dealing with the surrounding bandits using his poison art for a while.

A path opened up in Dang Sopyeong’s eyes.

“You damn brat!!”

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, who was shouting curses.

“Hehehe. I’ll send you to King Yama today!”

And the path leading to where his bad friend, Jin Yuseong, was fighting.

“Tsk. That crazy bastard has lost his mind again.”

Dang Sopyeong, who muttered to himself, slowly approached the place.

‘The fact that the crazy bastard has lost his mind means the enemy is so dangerous that he has to fight until he’s on the verge of death again.’

No. He had been lucky to survive so far. This time, he might really die.

I have to help him before that.

Dang Sopyeong, who was thinking that, soon shook his head vigorously.

“Why am I worried about that crazy bastard. Right. This is because of my promise to Miss Yeo.”

Unlike his muttering like someone crazy about women, Dang Sopyeong’s expression was extremely serious.

After poisoning a few more bandits and advancing for a while.

Clang!

Dang Sopyeong stopped at a place about five zhang away from where Jin Yuseong and the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader were clashing.

From here on was their range.

Approaching any further was dangerous in many ways.

Not only Dang Sopyeong but also the bandits couldn’t dare to approach that area.

After checking the hidden weapons hidden in his clothes and observing the life-and-death battle between the two for a while, Dang Sopyeong frowned.

‘Damn it.’

He couldn’t find an angle to hit the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader.

To be precise, he couldn’t throw without Jin Yuseong getting caught in the crossfire.

Because the movements of Jin Yuseong and the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader were too fast. For Dang Sopyeong’s skills to follow.

Dang Sopyeong, who was pondering this, realized something.

‘Ah! I can just hit them both!! As for that crazy Jin family bastard, I can just treat him afterward!’

As long as he didn’t hit a vital point that would cause instant death.

He could at least control that much.

Dang Sopyeong, who had organized his thoughts, calmly observed their movements with a much more relaxed face.

‘Hehehe. Just wait, Jin family guy.’

A chance to help Jin Yuseong. No. It was a chance to land a blow on Jin Yuseong for the first time.

Meanwhile.

Unlike Dang Sopyeong’s assessment that his ‘eyes had gone crazy,’ Jin Yuseong’s mind was very coldly honed.

If it weren’t, it would have been a fight where his neck would have been cut off long ago.

Swiiiiiish.

The two axes flew at a tremendous speed, tearing through the air.

Moreover, a shallow wound would appear from a blow he couldn’t completely dodge.

Slice.

Just as blood was flowing down his chest.

“Haaat!”

The axe in the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s right hand flew again.

An enormous amount of internal energy soared through the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s entire body.

Jin Yuseong boldly performed the Lazy Donkey Rolls on the Ground and threw himself away.

Kwang!!

The axe swung by the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader literally blew up the dirt ground.

A brilliantly shining blade of Qi was formed on the axe blade.

Axe Enhanced Qi. A skill that even the Moonlight Coiling Sword could not block.

If there was one fortunate thing, it was that the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader also could not handle the Axe Enhanced Qi freely.

Compared to when he just swung the axe normally, its speed felt slightly slower.

It was also inevitable.

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, Yuk Jigang, was not yet a master who had ascended to the Heavenly Ladder Realm.

Having reached the edge of the peak, he was forming Enhanced Qi with the help of his martial arts.

Through the final form of the axe art he had learned, the Twin Wind Annihilation Axe, the Mountain-Breaking Soul-Annihilation.

Because he was borrowing the power of his martial arts, the process of forming the Enhanced Qi was bound to be unnatural.

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader was overcoming that unnaturalness in a different way.

By confusing the opponent’s hands and feet with two axes, and then aiming for their opening.

But that method did not work on Jin Yuseong.

Jin Yuseong’s eyes could clearly see it.

Before forming the Enhanced Qi, the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s internal energy was much more powerful and rougher than usual.

Every time the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader tried to perform the form called Mountain-Breaking Soul-Annihilation, Jin Yuseong focused solely on evasion.

There were times when his posture crumbled while trying to avoid the Mountain-Breaking Soul-Annihilation, but that was better.

Because he had already experienced with his own body that he couldn’t block it even with the Moonlight Coiling Sword.

If he rashly tried to block it, there was a risk of his body being split in two along with his sword.

In fact, it was dangerous to clash weapons even without the Enhanced Qi.

The moment Jin Yuseong, who had performed the Lazy Donkey Rolls on the Ground, quickly stood up, another axe flew at him.

He barely managed to swing the Master’s Blade to block it, and the Master’s Blade let out a sword cry.

Clang!!

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s axe was filled with powerful strength. Not only that, but it was several times heavier than the Master’s Blade.

The reason it wasn’t damaged even after clashing weapons like this was because it was crafted from a material called Black Iron and by a master craftsman named Great Jade Yeo.

Perhaps the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader also felt this, as he made a greedy expression.

“A brat like you has a weapon you don’t deserve!”

At this, Jin Yuseong also snorted and replied.

“You’re the one with an axe that a piece of trash like you doesn’t deserve!”

As if he didn’t care about his life, Jin Yuseong rushed at the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader again.

The trajectory of the Master’s Blade and the trajectory of the twin axes were embroidered in the air several times.

The moment one axe and the Master’s Blade clashed again, something flew in stealthily from the side.

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, who was clashing weapons, quickly tried to throw himself away.

But Jin Yuseong, instead of dodging the hidden weapon, stuck to the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader.

“Hmph!! Where did you learn such a cheap trick!!”

At this, the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader blocked Jin Yuseong’s sword with the axe in his right hand and simultaneously rotated the axe in his left hand with one hand.

Sparks flew continuously, and the needles that were flying through the air fell to the ground.

Some of them were even stuck in Jin Yuseong’s body.

“Hahaha. You foolish.”

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, who was about to burst into laughter to mock him, let out a faint groan.

“Kuhk…….”

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader lowered his head and looked at his thigh.

A very small needle was stuck there.

A needle ground as thin as a hair. An Ox Hair Needle.

It had been thrown mixed in with other needles, and by aiming for a non-vital area, it had deceived the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader.

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s eyes turned.

Towards the man who threw this needle. Towards Dang Sopyeong.

“Hmph. What do you think you can do with a small needle like this.”

The thigh was not a vital point. Moreover, it hadn’t penetrated that deeply.

“Hehehehe. On the other hand, this one has become a beehive.”

On the other hand, several needles were stuck in Jin Yuseong’s body, who had rashly stuck to him.

But Jin Yuseong didn’t care.

“It didn’t hit any vital points, so don’t worry.”

He actually felt satisfied.

Not distinguishing between means and methods to kill trash.

It seemed the Tang Clan guy had finally understood his teachings properly.

At Jin Yuseong’s words, Dang Sopyeong also nodded.

“I know.”

The one who threw the needle at his ally and the one who got hit both had satisfied expressions.

Just as the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader was thinking, ‘has another crazy one appeared?’.

A terrible pain shot up from his thigh.

It was the place where the small needle had been stuck just a moment ago.

An unusually intense pain for the size of the needle.

The skin there was melting. Not just the skin, but even the muscle.

It was definitely poison.

The moment the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader tried to pull out that needle.

Pat!!

Jin Yuseong rushed at him again and swung the Master’s Blade.

Clang!!

“You vile bastard!!”

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, with a face full of anger, swung his axe.

At this, Dang Sopyeong snorted.

“A bandit is talking about being vile. The world is coming to an end.”

Instead of saying anything, Jin Yuseong nodded with a satisfied expression and swung his sword like a madman.

Perhaps because it was a very small needle.

As he moved his right leg a few times while exchanging blows with Jin Yuseong, the needle stuck in his thigh dug deeper.

A pain as if his entire right thigh was being burned by fire was felt.

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader focused a part of his internal energy on his right thigh to push out the poison, but it was not easy.

It wasn’t just Jin Yuseong who was interfering in front of him. It was a potent poison he had never experienced before.

At this, the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader exclaimed with a face full of anger.

“Are you trying to die too!!!”

The Nine Dragons Fortress Leader had only been hit by a single needle. A very small needle at that.

On the other hand, several needles were stuck in Jin Yuseong’s body.

This time, it was Dang Sopyeong who answered the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader’s shout.

“Don’t worry. He’s immune to that poison.”

What Dang Sopyeong said was true.

The poison he had mixed in with the needle was not the poison accumulated in his Dantian.

It was a potent poison far stronger than the poison he had accumulated with his poison art. The best poison he possessed. It was the poison of the Human-faced Spider.

“Kuhk.”

To the Nine Dragons Fortress Leader, who was groaning in agony, Jin Yuseong said with a sinister smile.

“Let’s see you overcome this.”

Suffering from the poison of the Human-faced Spider while circulating internal energy and fighting.

Jin Yuseong knew very well how terribly difficult that was.

That was why Jin Yuseong also understood very precisely what he had to do.

To prevent him from pulling out that needle, and furthermore, to prevent him from pushing out the poison with his internal energy.

“Your vision will probably turn yellow.”

When he was attacked by the Human-faced Spider, it was a truly dog-like situation, but using it in reverse was a truly enjoyable situation.

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