Chapter 198. Demonic Cult (2)

No matter how vast the Central Plains are, if hundreds were sacrificed, rumors were bound to arise.

Above all, the corpses suffering from the Absorption Art had a common point.

Because they were bound to dry up and twist like mummies as all energy was sucked out.

Just as the Murim people suffered by the Lust Disaster were.

However, throughout the past life and this life, I had no memory of hearing such rumors.

Rumors about hundreds of dried and twisted mummies.

At least until the future Lust Disaster appeared.

Thanks to the bastard’s distorted expression, that deduction turned into certainty.

“You bastard. I will have to kill you using whatever means.”

With a face full of killing intent, the bastard swings the sword wildly.

Enhanced Qi swirls here and there.

Blocking that combo with the Master’s Blade or dodging by stepping with footwork, I asked.

“It won’t be Tibet. Is it Nanman? Or Xinjiang? Northern Grassland?”

I probed once again, but the bastard only snorted.

“Hmph.”

Again, each other’s swords collide.

BOOM!

The colliding Enhanced Qi explodes, and Enhanced Qi fragments scatter in all directions.

Pabababak!!

The ground and surrounding objects hit by Enhanced Qi fragments explode.

“I, I block!”

Nam Geon’s shout was also heard.

It seemed the colleagues caught in the Enhanced Qi fragments were dodging or striking them away here and there.

Again, each other’s swords collided.

Thud!

Perhaps unable to withstand the force, the floor each other’s feet were pressing down on exploded.

Holding onto the floor with the principle of Absorption to maintain balance, I swung the Master’s Blade again.

Then the bastard dodged by stepping back one step with light movement.

“Surprising.”

Contrary to the word surprising, the bastard was still looking down at me.

“I heard rumors that your age was just over twenty (Yakgwan), but to think you already reached such a realm.”

Having said that, the bastard turned his head to look at my rear.

“Come to think of it, everyone is at a ridiculous realm compared to their age.”

Immediately after saying that. A trajectory was embroidered in the air.

No. It was inappropriate to call it one.

Because it was a trajectory close to a plane rather than a line spreading wide like a wave.

Soon, black Enhanced Qi spread wide and flew in riding on the sword the bastard swung in the air.

As if targeting not only me but also the colleagues behind me.

After pulling up internal energy recklessly, I drew a wide circle while loading Enhanced Qi on the Master’s Blade.

It was Moonlight Coiling Sword unfolded with Enhanced Qi.

BOOM!!

While blocking the wave of Enhanced Qi with the Enhanced Qi screen.

Whoosh!

That bastard, who threw his body in an instant, swung the sword again. Throwing unlucky jokes.

“Ah. Now that I see, it seems you guys also learned demonic arts as a group.”

“Did you go blind because of side effects? To compare with your dirty internal energy.”

“Dirty, you say.”

With swords crossed, the bastard let out a sneer.

“Do you know that? Soon you too will become a part of that dirty internal energy.”

BOOM!

“Not just you bastard. Even your colleagues over there will all become a part of me.”

The bastard licked his lips while glancing at the colleagues’ side as if his mouth was watering very much.

“Aren’t they pitiful?”

While babbling pitiful, the bastard sent Enhanced Qi toward the colleagues surprisingly again.

BOOM!!

I barely threw my body and blocked it.

“If they met me first, they could have reached a higher realm by learning demonic arts.”

As if boasting about the overflowing internal energy, the bastard chattered ceaselessly and swung the sword without rest.

Following that, Enhanced Qi was embroidered in the air repeatedly.

“But by the sin of meeting you first, didn’t they become a fate to be eaten by me.”

Trying to strike down the Enhanced Qi the bastard shot, naturally, the battle led to a form of war of attrition.

It wasn’t a very good flow for me.

Setting aside the level or realm of martial arts, looking at just internal energy, that bastard was far superior.

That huge internal energy built up with demonic arts was still piled up full in the bastard’s qi center.

Because that bastard also knew that, he seemed to be inducing this aspect on purpose.

Immediately after striking away the Enhanced Qi flying toward the colleagues again.

Junior Sister Baek Hyang’s shout came from behind.

“Senior Brother!! You don’t need to mind us!!”

“Th, that’s right! I, I will block on my own!”

It seemed the colleagues also roughly grasped the flow of the fight.

A moment of hesitation followed.

Aiming for that gap, the bastard swung the sword toward the colleagues again.

Having made a decision, I rushed toward the bastard shouting to the colleagues.

“Dodge!!”

Enhanced Qi advances in the direction where the colleagues are.

At the same time, the presence of colleagues unfolding movement arts hurriedly was felt.

The bastard laughs fishily.

Soon, that bastard’s figure elongated.

An appearance of rushing toward one of the colleagues dodging Enhanced Qi by unfolding movement arts of extreme proficiency.

Aiming for that gap where the bastard’s gaze turned, I pulled up energy from the qi center recklessly.

The Master’s Blade vomits sword cries roughly.

Enhanced Qi swirls on the Master’s Blade.

Just like that, I swung the Master’s Blade toward the bastard who was in the middle of unfolding movement arts.

Then Enhanced Qi tangled and advanced toward the bastard taking a bizarre shape.

A shape just like a tiger.

“Mm?”

That bastard, who was rushing out, twitched his forehead and twisted direction hurriedly to dodge the first tiger.

But it didn’t matter.

Wiiiiing.

On the Master’s Blade vomiting sword cries, the second Enhanced Qi was already lingering.

“Haaaat!”

As I swung the Master’s Blade with a shout, the second tiger flew toward the bastard and swung its front paw.

Then the bastard lifted the sword hurriedly and blocked that front paw.

Each other’s Enhanced Qi collides and an explosion bursts out.

BOOM!!!!

Meanwhile, I was swinging the sword in the air toward the bastard again.

The manual the Fighting Venerable gave me. Five Tiger Gate Severing Blade.

Until heading to Tibet, I couldn’t even unfold it properly.

Because the level of martial study was high, and even unfolding blade arts with sword arts was not an easy task.

However, after reaching the Heavenly Ladder Realm, I could understand the contents of the manual reasonably well.

Of course, unfolding it as much as the Fighting Venerable was impossible.

Because the later forms of the Five Tiger Gate Severing Blade were at the level of forming five tigers simultaneously and handling them freely.

Instead, something like swinging one by one like this was sufficiently possible.

Whizz!!

Riding on the Master’s Blade swung for the third time, a tiger with its maw wide open flew in toward the bastard.

BOOM!!

Amidst the explosion bursting out. The fourth and fifth tigers pounced on the bastard repeatedly.

The surroundings where the bastard stood were devastated.

Sand dust scatters and covers all surrounding vision.

Power that would have turned ordinary people literally into pulp.

But to my eyes, it was visible.

Beyond the sand dust, that dull black internal energy moving through acupoints fine.

It didn’t matter.

I didn’t expect to catch the bastard with the Five Tiger Gate Severing Blade at once.

In the first place, I unfolded it with the intention of tying the bastard’s feet.

I dug into the bastard unfolding movement arts with full power.

The Fighting Venerable’s Primordial Origin Steps focusing on explosive movement.

There, I unfolded it mixing the principle of Release of the Life and Death Blood Steps.

BOOM!

The floor I stepped on explodes, and the distance with the bastard decreases in an instant as if space folded.

I swung the Master’s Blade toward the scattered sand dust just like that.

Whizz.

The Master’s Blade advances tearing apart the air.

Beyond the dust wind covering the vision, dull black energy surges.

Soon, a sword collided with the Master’s Blade.

BOOM!!

At the wave energy generated with the explosion, the dust wind scatters.

Beyond the dust soaring like a tornado. The bastard was revealing a surprised expression.

“I heard rumors that you were dragged by the Fighting Venerable, but surely I didn’t expect you to inherit his legacy.”

“Did you know the Fighting Venerable’s martial arts?”

As I asked with swords crossed, the bastard laughs lightly.

“Since it is information about a guy I might have to kill someday, shouldn’t I naturally know?”

This time I let out a sneer.

“He is not a person the likes of you can oppose.”

Only after reaching the Heavenly Ladder Realm could I know more accurately.

Just as there are high and low even in the realm called Peak, there was a level difference even within the realm called Heavenly Ladder Realm.

If I am at the entrance of the Heavenly Ladder Realm, the Fighting Venerable was a martial artist who already reached a quite high realm even within the Heavenly Ladder Realm.

And this bastard in front of my eyes seemed to be about one or two levels above me.

He was also an enemy I could kill if I utilized the advantage of the eyes. As I had done in fights until now.

The problem was internal energy.

Because of that bastard’s ignorant amount of internal energy, it was disadvantageous to me as it went to a prolonged battle.

So I tried provoking him to shake the opponent, but the bastard only laughed fishily.

“Hmph. I never said I would deal with the Fighting Venerable alone.”

Then perhaps recalling something, he spoke wearing a predator-like smile.

“Come to think of it, you would know where the Fighting Venerable is hiding.”

The bastard who shouted so retrieved the collided sword and thrust his left palm simultaneously.

Enormous internal energy flowing through the bastard’s acupoints flock to his left palm.

Soon, a black palm wind poured out.

Matching the trajectory visible in the air, I stepped with footwork only minimally and dodged the palm wind as if grazing.

Then again, a giant trajectory covers my whole body.

“Haaat!”

Riding on the sword the bastard thrust with a shout, giant Enhanced Qi spread wide like a wave swirls.

Hollow laughter was about to come out.

Now that I see, he didn’t unfold such a technique just to target the colleagues.

Whether because the internal energy obtained through demonic arts remains, or because detailed control is difficult since it is energy obtained through demonic arts.

I don’t know the cause, but the bastard’s techniques were all like this.

Rather than a line cutting something, it was a form swallowing an entire space.

Immediately after barely flowing it away unfolding the Moonlight Coiling Sword with Enhanced Qi. The bastard’s domineering sword art continues.

It felt like engaging in a duel with Nam Geon.

If Nam Geon unfolded domineering sword arts with overwhelming brute strength, this bastard was utilizing overwhelming internal energy.

It felt like becoming a small boat drifting in a typhoon.

Every moment, waves formed of Enhanced Qi surge here and there.

If the bastard thrusts his left palm or swings his leg, giant wind swirled too.

I wanted to escape avoiding that typhoon, but I couldn’t.

Because the moment I retreat, this typhoon would target the colleagues and swirl.

So I had to endure exerting extreme concentration.

Dodging the wind with minimal movement.

BOOM!!

Utilizing the principle of Yielding to the extreme, twisting the flow of surging waves even a little.

Some of the Enhanced Qi fragments that exploded here and there pass by cutting clothes.

Slash!

The moment the bastard swung his leg again, gravels caught in the brute force flew in like hidden weapons too.

Whizz!

It was not easy to block or dodge all of them.

With the mindset of protecting only vital points, I threw my body and swung the sword minimally.

Blood seeps out little by little from the forearm and leg side.

Slash!

Enhanced Qi fragment sweeping past the fleshy flesh above the cheekbone.

Blood also flowed down riding on the cheek.

However, pain was not felt.

Only one thing was visible.

It was only the movement of the black imugi swirling riding on the bastard’s whole body.

Furthermore, I focused only on the flow of the typhoon formed matching the imugi’s seizure.

From some moment, the flow of the world began to feel slow.

“Haaaaat!”

The bastard thrusts the sword with a shout.

Again, the wave of Enhanced Qi surges.

However, that which felt like a typhoon looked just quiet now.

Little by little, I get used to the bastard’s movement.

Not yet. It was still early.

The bastard acts like a predator driving prey and shouts.

“Where did your confident attitude go!”

But something like that wasn’t a real predator.

Hunting is capturing the opportunity of a single moment.

Just like right now.

Again, the swirling wave of Enhanced Qi.

Between the surging waves. A single point where the density of Qi is lowest.

Toward that one point, I thrust the Master’s Blade.

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