Chapter 70: Heavenly Mandate, A Narrow Escape from Death (2)

When I opened my eyes, an unrealistic scene unfolded.

The main training ground of the Dancheon Clan, which had been magnificent as if a dragon had clawed its way through, was in ruins.

In fact, since the existence of the Heavenly Demon who had descended upon the Dancheon Clan was unrealistic in itself, I thought that this scene might actually be plausible.

What was even more unrealistic were the two individuals bickering in front of me.

“You brat, if you’re the Murim Alliance Leader, shouldn’t you save the common people first?”

“Old man Wiji, are you saying I should have let my disciple die?”

“That’s not what I’m saying. Isn’t it right that I save Dancheon Myeong and you save the common people?”

“Is that important? Didn’t we save everyone anyway?”

“……Sigh. Let’s just say that’s the case.”

“Then that’s settled.”

It was the Emperor Breaker and the Peerless Tyrant.

Since their bickering felt like a daily routine, I was able to calm down my rapidly heating head.

To summarize the situation, the Emperor Breaker saved me and the Peerless Tyrant saved Dancheon Hak and the other household members.

As befitting the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant, who competed for the position of the greatest in the world, they seemed to have taken no damage even after blocking the Heavenly Demon’s Energy Orbs.

My father, Uncle Yeo Baek, Ma Sok, and Lee Chun-baek were also fortunate enough to have their lives saved.

Unlike the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant, who had canceled out the Heavenly Demon’s Energy Orbs with a clash, they had barely managed to avoid it, but the important fact was that they had saved their lives.

“……We’re alive.”

“Indeed we are.”

Thud.

Uncle Yeo Baek and Ma Sok, whose strength was exhausted, lay down next to Lee Chun-baek with a long sigh. Since they had just unleashed their lifelong full power, their exhaustion had to be a consequence.

“Are you alright?”

My father Dancheon Gang quickly went to the side of the household members. He was probably preparing for the Heavenly Demon’s follow-up attack.

“……?”

In the midst of this, the most impressive thing was the sight of Dancheon Hak looking back and forth between his hand and his sword, on which a star cluster had formed, with a bewildered expression.

In any case…….

The two absolute rulers who divided the Jianghu Murim had descended upon the Dancheon Clan to save me and the household members.

Originally, if this much force joined our side, it would be right to be confident of victory.

But I couldn’t.

It was because I had personally experienced the vast realm that the Heavenly Demon was walking.

Since the head of the Demonic Path, the Heavenly Demon, was already present, all three masters of the Jianghu’s three powers had gathered in this place.

It was a strange event that had never happened in my life as Myeong-gae.

The Emperor Breaker’s gaze fell on the cause of all this, the Heavenly Demon.

“Is that guy the Heavenly Demon?”

“It seems so.”

At this moment, it would be right to say that the Dancheon Sword Clan stood at the center of the world.

Though I don’t know if it’s a good thing.

“Are our fates intertwined? Interesting.”

The Heavenly Demon, who had the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant in his sights, said so.

Unlike the words he uttered, there was no rise or fall in his voice, so he seemed to have no emotion.

At that moment.

Drip.

Fresh blood oozed from the Heavenly Demon’s neck.

Flinch.

I saw it for the first time.

A slight tremor that had appeared in the perfect Heavenly Demon.

On the Heavenly Demon’s neck, a scar left by the Dancheon Sword remained.

“Interesting.”

The Heavenly Demon’s gaze took me in and said again.

I could see that an unprecedented excitement was mixed in his voice.

***

“That guy, can you beat him?”

“I can’t.”

The Emperor Breaker answered the Peerless Tyrant’s question, and his voice was as firm as if he were reciting a fixed truth.

Although the Emperor Breaker’s appearance talking about defeat was very unfamiliar, it was an unshakable truth.

More than anyone else in this place, the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant were feeling the authority of the Heavenly Demon, so they couldn’t not know.

“Damn it.”

Although the Peerless Tyrant scowled, he did not offer a rebuttal.

In fact, it was a question that he also knew the answer to.

“Hmm…….”

The Tyrant, who had been contemplating for a moment, couldn’t find the answer himself and sought the answer from the Emperor Breaker again.

“Then what should we do.”

The Peerless Tyrant did not bother to act with power and bluff.

Paradoxically, from that appearance, I knew that the Peerless Tyrant was a true strong person.

The Emperor Breaker answered the Tyrant’s question.

“There are two answers.”

My and the Tyrant’s attention was drawn to the Emperor Breaker at the unexpected answer.

The Emperor Breaker made a Yeom Gi-ha-like expression and then.

“Either fight with the determination to die, or run away.”

He answered,

“…….”

It was a wise answer to a foolish question.

“Is it possible to run away?”

The Tyrant asked with a mocking laugh.

“Old man Wiji and I could at least try to run away.”

“Hmm.”

In other words, it also meant that it was impossible for anyone who was not at the level of the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant to even attempt to run away.

“And if we reorganize our forces and come back, we can win.”

The Emperor Breaker’s subsequent words were reasonable.

The Central Plains Murim was vast and the Murim Alliance was huge.

If the Emperor Breaker took the lead and brought the assembled forces of the Alliance, it would definitely be possible to defeat the Heavenly Demon.

But…….

The one who would buy that time would be the Dancheon Clan. The price would probably be the destruction of the family.

“Are you thinking of running away?”

The Peerless Tyrant, who knew the Emperor Breaker’s nature well, asked with a hollow laugh.

“I can’t do that.”

The Emperor Breaker answered firmly.

The Emperor Breaker’s gaze was on me.

“Then I can’t run away either.”

The Tyrant who answered so also had his gaze on me.

How could I not know the meaning?

I thought that I hadn’t lived the three years after my regression in vain.

The Emperor Breaker, who had made up his mind, took a step forward.

“Heavenly Demon, let’s have a go.”

Although it was the Emperor Breaker who had talked about defeat, there was not a hint of falsehood in his fighting spirit. It was the true demeanor of a Grandmaster.

“Let’s do it together, you brat.”

The Peerless Tyrant accompanied the Emperor Breaker’s steps.

The Tyrant, who had met his lifelong adversary, did not think of a combined attack as a shame.

It might be the nature of the Evil Faction.

“…….”

The Emperor Breaker silently gave a look to the Tyrant.

To express it, it would be right to call it a sorrowful look.

I could understand the meaning at a glance.

A combined attack was only possible if the levels matched, and it was only meaningful against an opponent who could be affected by it.

The Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant, who had once pioneered their realms with the Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Extreme Blood Treasure, were no longer at the same level, and the Heavenly Demon was not an opponent who could be affected by a combined attack.

The Emperor Breaker’s gaze clearly conveyed such a meaning in a condensed form.

“……Hmph! I’m next after you.”

Perhaps the Tyrant also understood this. So I guessed that he had answered so.

“Why don’t you just pray for the Heavenly Demon to defeat and kill you, old man Wiji.”

The Emperor Breaker laughed mockingly, as if to comfort the Tyrant.

“If you don’t like that, then just win.”

“Yes. The old man is right.”

As he answered, the Emperor Breaker’s Fire Spirit Heaven-Breaking Art took on its full authority, and Yeom Gi-ha became a huge fire.

“Come.”

“Good.”

When the Emperor Breaker responded to the Heavenly Demon’s words.

Swish.

Rumble-!

A huge fire clashed with the abyss.

Boom-!

The clash of unprecedented great power was like a natural disaster.

I must correct myself.

It was somewhat insufficient to describe the clash between the Iron Mountain Demon Lord and me as we performed the Heavenly Ladder as a battle of immortals. I knew that it was nothing more than the swordplay of martial artists.

Roooar-!

A true battle of immortals should be described as such a fight.

I don’t want to miss a single shred of this great battle, but I can’t.

It was because I also had something I had to do.

“Father.”

“What is it.”

I called my father Dancheon Gang, who had come to my side.

“Please be my guardian.”

The Tyrant would have to watch their fierce battle. He was waiting for his turn.

So my father was the right person.

Thud.

After saying that, I sat down in a cross-legged position.

Clang.

My father did not express any doubts.

He just stood in front of me with a tense expression that hadn’t faded.

Before I sank into my inner self, I took in the back of my father who was preparing to be my guardian.

It was truly broad.

So it would be alright.

In the middle of a battlefield, I performed meditation to regulate my Qi.

***

In fact, there was nothing better than meditation to regulate Qi for a martial artist to recover their body.

It was because another name for meditation to regulate Qi was meditation to heal injuries.

I had taken various elixirs that were not unworthy of the name ‘supreme’ while reaching the Fifth Stage of the Healing Sage’s Mind Cultivation Art.

It was a shameful thing, but I knew that I hadn’t been able to completely melt the energy of the elixirs I had taken at that time and make it completely my own.

It meant that the energies of the Immaculate Pomegranate, Vermilion Fruit, Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Fleeceflower Root, Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Snow Ginseng, and Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Extreme Blood Treasure still remained in my blood vessels.

How could they be supreme elixirs otherwise?

The statement that an elixir had special effects on martial arts enhancement and body transformation meant that it also had a great influence on body recovery.

To exaggerate a little, the fragments of the energy contained in elixirs of that level could even make a dead person get up.

Weren’t healing medicines nothing more than imitations of the mechanism of elixirs in the first place?

Crack-

At the same time as the meditation, the twisted bones began to set, and the shaken blood vessels began to stabilize.

The injuries I had sustained from the Heavenly Demon were being repaired in real time, and my body was returning to its original state.

Not all meditation had such dramatic effects.

It was thanks to the energy of the elixirs remaining in my blood vessels and the Golden Body and Impenetrable Body exerting their effects to the maximum.

In fact, I knew that meditating in an exposed place was an extremely dangerous act. To even meditate on a battlefield was not an exaggeration to call it madness.

Although I had my father Dancheon Gang as my guardian, it was hard to deny that it was a crazy act.

It was because during meditation, one was not only cut off from the outside, but also a small shock could twist one’s Qi and blood and lead to Qi Deviation.

Moreover, since the Heavenly Demon was currently rampant, my act of meditating openly was no different from suicide.

But I meditated because the opponent was that Heavenly Demon.

It was thanks to my conviction that the Heavenly Demon, who I had observed to be a noble person, would not bother to touch me while I was meditating.

My gamble was not wrong, so I was able to open my eyes after safely finishing my meditation.

Boom-

“Guh!”

At the same time as I opened my eyes, the figure of the Emperor Breaker flying away was caught in my eyes.

The Emperor Breaker’s left arm was dangling out of control. It must have been broken.

“It’s my turn.”

As the Emperor Breaker’s figure flew away and hit a wall, the Tyrant stepped forward.

“……Not yet, old man.”

The Emperor Breaker, who had composed himself, approached and said. He was far from being in good shape.

That Emperor Breaker had become a wreck in the short time I was meditating.

“Shut up, you brat.”

“…….”

Although it was the Emperor Breaker who always beat the Tyrant in everything, this time he couldn’t refute the Tyrant’s scolding.

“The little one should just take a nap.”

As the Tyrant spoke in a casual voice, resplendent Unseen Swords floated up next to him.

As if to prove that he would not do his best in the battle of the Ice Palace, the Unseen Swords that were swimming around him numbered well over ten.

Although he might be slightly inferior to the Emperor Breaker, it was an authority that proved that he too was an absolute ruler of the Jianghu.

But…….

“You can stop now.”

With the Heavenly Demon’s voice.

Thwack-

“Guh!”

Swoosh- Boom!

The Tyrant’s body flew at least a hundred feet and was embedded in the wall of the main training ground.

The Unseen Swords that had been showing their authority had vanished without a trace.

The Peerless Tyrant, the supreme being of the Evil Faction, had been subdued in a single move.

Thud.

The Tyrant barely managed to get up, brushing off the remnants of the wall.

Although it was hard to see him as intact, he too had survived.

“Be grateful that the time has not yet come.”

The Heavenly Demon’s seemingly indifferent words were the final piece.

It meant that the strange sense of unease had finally reached me as the truth.

“It’s my turn.”

“I will go.”

“…….”

“I will go.”

“……Alright.”

The father could not stop his grown son, so I was able to push my father back and face the Heavenly Demon.

There was a conclusion that could be inferred from the Heavenly Demon’s actions.

It was…….

“Is my life alone enough?”

Unlike his great authority, it was a fact that the Heavenly Demon had not taken a single life so far.

-Are you the one? The star that must disappear?

The Heavenly Demon had descended here looking only for me.

In fact, wasn’t it possible that he had even carried out the indiscriminate attack of the Energy Orbs after noticing the presence of the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant? It was just a guess, though.

“…….”

The Heavenly Demon did not give an answer to my question.

But it was enough to be sure that my inference was true.

“So it was.”

My shoulders felt lighter.

It was because I had learned that at least my precious people in this place would have their lives saved.

I recovered my body by meditating and regained my composure through a conversation.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that I was in perfect condition.

However, the empty space of the Dancheon Sword, which was always with me, was regrettable.

It’s alright.

When I stretched out my hand, it was because a resplendent sword was in the place that should have been empty without the Dancheon Sword.

Intention was will, and a reflection of the mind.

Rumble-

At least at this moment, an Unseen Sword that was not lacking compared to that of the Emperor Breaker and the Tyrant was in my hand.

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