Chapter 199: Do More

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“That guy…!”

So Cheon-ak shouted quietly and readjusted his grip on his sword.

GRIP-

That was dangerous.

Thanks to the reflexive instinct cultivated through countless training and real battles, he had blocked the sword tip by a hair’s breadth.

An ordinary first-rate master would have had their body pierced through at once.

The linked speed and released power of the surprise attack – stomping, charging, single sword – was at a marvelous level.

So Cheon-ak, having sharply flashed his eyes, drew up the internal power in his body and murmured inwardly.

‘Good… I’ve seen well. Cheol Ryu-heun.’

A trace of smile appeared faintly at the corner of his mouth.

He was a powerful enemy exceeding initial expectations.

However, even realizing that, fear didn’t arise.

Rather, a fire was lit.

In the competitive spirit in his chest.

With the joy of having met a proper opponent.

He was satisfied.

Because if he brought down someone with that much power, his reputation would soar to heights unknown.

While the exchange in a blink of an eye plunged the surrounding crowd into shock and excitement.

“Let’s really begin!”

So Cheon-ak shouted and released formless energy.

JJEOJEO, JJEOJEOJEO…!

When the spot where his foot stood cracked in chaotic lines.

KWAKWANG!

The heavy sound of stamping.

So Cheon-ak’s form, having burst energy through his yongcheon points, advanced like a flash.

The gap compressing in an instant spoke to the speed and power of the offense.

WEEEING!

A blade making a heavy sound, falling from above to below.

Head Severance.

The overwhelming vertical slash, one of the six techniques comprising Rending Splitting Great Six Swords, displayed massive power.

JJEOJEOJEOJEOJEOJEONG-!

With an ear-piercing metallic sound, haze spread wide.

So Cheon-ak’s body wavered slightly before the sword Cheol Ryu-heun had swung up.

However,

TEOTEONG!

So Cheon-ak, having pulled back his right foot far and struck the ground, balanced himself in a flash and moved his hands like lightning.

Flesh Severance.

A horizontal slash.

An extraordinary energy formed on the sword.

SHUAAAAAAAT-!

The blade split the wind.

KWAKWAKWAKWAKWAK- PEOPEOPEOPEOPEOK-!

The ground in the direction Flesh Severance’s trajectory advanced was destroyed for over five zhang, generating countless debris and enormous dust clouds.

As if a giant deity in the sky had gouged the ground.

The wind pressure accompanying the sword power was truly terrifying.

They call it a slashing technique, but to other swordsmen, it was the equivalent of an ultimate move.

If you tried to receive that with your body, you’d be annihilated without even a form remaining.

However, he missed his original target, Cheol Ryu-heun.

At some point, he had retreated backward.

So Cheon-ak’s eyes flashed.

He’s going right away!

There’s no time to catch his breath.

Thus, using the momentum of the horizontal slash going forward, he rapidly spun his form one rotation.

KWANG!

And charged fiercely again, aiming at Cheol Ryu-heun.

The group of super-first-rate powerhouses including Jinjo Jeok-je, Yuk Geum-gang, and Yeo Yong-jeo let out brief exclamations.

It was a graceful motion transformation that didn’t match the dominating formless presence.

Indeed, it was an exceptional skill.

But then.

KWANG!

When Cheol Ryu-heun kicked off the ground and charged ferociously to meet him.

JJEOJEOJEOJEONG- KWAAAAAANG-!

A noisy sound echoed and So Cheon-ak slid backward.

JJEOJEOJEONG- JJEOJEONG, JJEONG- JJEOJEOJEONG- KAKANG- KANG, KAKANG-!

Successive echoes of metallic sounds.

So Cheon-ak, countering sword with sword, retreated hesitantly.

Then.

KKAAAAAAAAANG- PEOEOEOEOENG!

So Cheon-ak’s form, covered in pure white haze, was bounced PAK! to the far rear, more than two zhang away.

“GRK!”

A light of surprise dwelt in So Cheon-ak’s eyes.

TINGLING.

In an instant, heavy pain assailed him, passing from his wrist to his forearm, to his shoulder, to his neck.

‘Is it perfected-level internal power?!’

The permeating shock made his meridians and blood vessels go wild.

He avoided internal injury.

Good, it was bearable power.

Then from now he just had to respond with perfected-level internal power too.

There was no retreat.

Only a head-on collision of competition.

The one whose personal internal power ran out first would ultimately be defeated…

Cheol Ryu-heun was expected to have already consumed a large amount of internal energy, while he himself still had plenty of reserves to use ultimate moves with all his power multiple times.

‘Everyone watch closely. This is the power I, Severing Finger Sword Venerable, possess.’

KWADEUK-!

So Cheon-ak, smashing the floor as he advanced, instantly crossed a gap of over ten paces and slashed diagonally with his right hand’s sword.

KWAAAAAAAA-!

The air, drawn by the blade’s power, caused a terrifying tremor.

Heart Severance.

A technique of the Rending Splitting Great Six Swords technique using perfected-level internal power.

It was a ferociously powerful offensive, as if waves of sword energy poured down tilted, enveloping Cheol Ryu-heun.

PEOPEOPEOPEOPEOPEONG-!

With a large explosion, Cheol Ryu-heun’s form was trapped within that massive sword energy.

It was a level that could fairly be called an ultimate move.

Through the hazy dust, a glimpse was visible.

Cheol Ryu-heun’s staggering figure.

Soul Severance.

From the sword tip, massive sword energy was released like waves once again.

KWAAAAAAA- PEOPEOPEOPEOPEOPEONG-!

Immediately after, So Cheon-ak’s expression changed.

Because Cheol Ryu-heun, trapped in the hazy dust, was still holding his ground in that spot.

What?

After being hit by this, he should have been bounced backward while spurting blood.

At that moment, a voice flew through the thick dust.

“Do more.”

In an instant, So Cheon-ak was aghast and without further thought, executed an ultimate move with all his might.

Earth Severance.

KAKAKAKAKAKAKAK- KAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAKAK-!

The earth split long.

One of the ultimate techniques within the Rending Splitting Great Six Swords technique, boasted to have such tremendous power as to sever even the vast earth, revealed its majesty.

But Earth Severance’s formidable energy arrived at Cheol Ryu-heun’s face only to be broken into fine pieces and scattered left and right.

As if torn apart by a barrier of countless spinning teeth.

“URGH!”

“Th-that…!”

While the Six Polar Stars, Five Martial Paragons and others let out shocked sounds.

URUREUREUREUNG-!

The void shook violently.

It was above Cheol Ryu-heun’s head.

Heaven Severance, linked with Earth Severance.

Another ultimate move said to cut the sky had poured down fiercely.

KWAAAAAA- KWAAAAAAAAA-!

Massive sword energies falling like heavy rain.

Suddenly.

SHUKAAAK!

As Cheol Ryu-heun’s Ganjiang Sword shot rapidly up into the void, countless sword energies exceeding Heaven Severance’s scale were released.

White Peak Sword Art’s ultimate move, Mountain Road.

As if a mountain had raged and shaken, countless white flows broke upward in straight lines.

KWAKWAKWAKWANG- KWAKWAKWAKWAKWANG- KWAKWAKWAKWAKWAKWANG-!

Simultaneously with the loud explosion, Heaven Severance was perfectly shattered.

All that was visible was haze quietly scattering.

A silent shock swept through the great plain.

Silence.

Everyone had lost their senses.

“…!”

Has Rending Splitting Great Six Swords been a technique so easily blocked?

Cheol Ryu-heun’s indifferent gaze turned forward.

“Is that all?”

At that, transparent ripples spread in So Cheon-ak’s dark brown pupils.

‘Wh-what is this…! Then my form appearing to waver earlier was just my imagination…?’

The thing called fear was finally raising its head.

It was a first.

A person who had neutralized Earth Severance and Heaven Severance like this.

Moreover, it wasn’t even the same ultimate moves as before.

These were Earth Severance and Heaven Severance newly completed after refining and refining their wondrous functions for three to four years.

STEP, STEP, STEP…

The moment Cheol Ryu-heun leisurely took steps.

‘It’s not over yet!’

So Cheon-ak concentrated all the energy in his body into his sword.

UWOONG-!

The sound of a vibrating blade.

The earth cracked and the sky squirmed.

He had executed Earth Severance and Heaven Severance loaded with perfected-level internal power once more.

Within the heavy power madly rushing about, Cheol Ryu-heun’s response was merely simple bladework.

Moves that seemed to swing carelessly.

However, the power displayed was simply terrifying.

Thus pure white mountains covered heaven and earth.

KWAAAAA… KWAAAAAAAAA…

The white sword energy carrying fearsome power created a small mountain range in this great plain.

Before Earth Severance and Heaven Severance, which had vanished too futilely, So Cheon-ak felt as if everything he had painstakingly built was being destroyed.

KWANG!

When an explosion burst, Cheol Ryu-heun had already closed in on the opponent’s face and was swinging his sword.

JJEOJEOJEOJEONG- KUHAAAANG!

So Cheon-ak’s body bounced across a full three zhang and was driven KUNG into the ground.

‘KURGH…!’

His head was dizzy.

But then.

What was dizzier than that was his mind.

That guy was crazy.

To still be able to pour out such great power.

What was this – could his internal power not be depleted? Or did he have infinite internal energy that could instantly gather and circulate? Logically, that couldn’t be…

Wei Ta-gong, Yuk Geum-gang, Jinjo Jeok-je and others were just as shocked.

The moment So Cheon-ak, having bitten down on his molars, desperately raised his body, Cheol Ryu-heun moved again.

PIPIT-

Disappearing from the front like wind.

JJEOJJEONG- KWAKWANG!

Appearing from behind like lightning.

“KUREOK!”

So Cheon-ak received the terrifying bladework again and bounced far away, colliding with the ground.

KUNG- PEOPEOK!

The floor sunken like a pit.

His right arm had been severed and was gone at some point.

At that moment, a figure flickered in the void.

It was Cheol Ryu-heun.

Having leaped the far distance at some point, he was falling ferociously.

KWAKWANG!

The ground surged like waves from the stomp loaded with tremendous power.

“KULREOK!”

So Cheon-ak, who had barely dodged by rolling his body sideways, coughed blood from the aftermath of that power and floated upward.

GRAB!

Cheol Ryu-heun gripped his head with his left hand and drove the Ganjiang Sword in his right hand deep into the torso.

PUUUUK- KWADEUK!

Chilling sound of flesh being pierced and bones being shattered.

“GURGH… HEOEOH…”

So Cheon-ak let out a pained groan with his hair grabbed.

Soon Cheol Ryu-heun leaned his head close and spoke into that ear.

“Did you think the authority built on evil deeds would last forever?”

Immediately after, So Cheon-ak convulsed violently and screamed.

“GUH… HAAA… AAK! GUH… HUAK!”

Cheol Ryu-heun had lifted the body impaled on his sword.

Following that.

PAT-

When he rapidly spun his right hand, So Cheon-ak, pulled from the blade, spun and flew through the void before landing KUNG in the far distance.

That place was right in front of where the Sword Seal Sect group was positioned.

“How can this be…”

“Sect…Leader…”

While everyone was frightened like that, several people drew their swords and rushed out.

The leadership of the Sword Seal Sect, the Vice Squad Commanders.

Five in total.

They were a group of powerhouses of equal or higher class than Immoral Edge Sword Cho Baek, who had been killed by Cheol Ryu-heun’s hand some time ago.

Admirable loyalty.

However,

Their character was corrupted just like their master.

Cheol Ryu-heun, in the blink of an eye, charged to meet them and subdued all five.

“GUAAH…!”

“UWAAK, U… AAAAAK!”

“HUEU…!”

Each rolling on the ground and screaming.

Some had their arms cut off and some had their legs cut off.

He didn’t kill them.

That would be too light a price for their sins.

Since a large government army mobilized using Ju Yu-gang was probably raiding the Sword Seal Sect with evidence right about now, it was proper to hand over even the group that had come here alive to receive judgment.

That’s right.

So Cheon-ak and all of them had to be made to live in the pain of a prison they could not escape.

Cheol Ryu-heun soon spoke nonchalantly with a chin gesture.

“Tend to the wounded and wait quietly. You cannot leave until I permit it.”

The Sword Seal Sect group, their faces gone pale white, had already lost all will to fight and could only obey those words.

The crowd began to stir.

“My goodness…!”

“Marvelous. Really…”

“To reduce the great So Cheon-ak to that state…”

“Is this the birth of the Number One Martial God of Hunan?”

“Th-that might be… No, perhaps he might become the number one in the entire martial world going forward…”

A scene where shock and admiration ceaselessly intersected.

Right at that moment.

-Cheol Ryu-heun, is the opportunity you mentioned yesterday still valid?

Someone’s grand resonant voice echoed.

Following that.

A man could be seen walking out.

Black Silken Sword Sovereign Wei Ta-gong.

The strongest of the unorthodox martial world in the Hubei region had issued a challenge.

Cheol Ryu-heun, with his sword resting on his shoulder, spoke as he advanced to the center of the space like a duel arena.

“Whoever wants to come out, come out. From now on, whether it’s a hundred or a thousand, I’ll face them all.”