Chapter 367: Trying to Use Me Again
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On top of the spacious bed.
Eul Sa-jeok, still sunk in sleep, squirmed his body while breaking out in cold sweat.
His expression was like one being tormented by a nightmare.
Indeed, in his mind, the past appeared as a dream.
The events from the time that was the starting point of all this misfortune…
-Senior Brother, I’ve prepared a special medicine for you today as well. Please take this poison pill as usual and lie still as if dead, falling into deep sleep. When the appropriate time comes, I shall send you to the underworld. No need to worry about the sect. I will manage it well on my own…
-Freeze.
-Seni… Senior Brother…?
-Was it you? The one who made my perfectly fine body end up like this?
-…!
-The moment I wake up, one task that needed to be dealt with immediately arose.
The him in the dream once again experienced that agonizing moment.
-Bbeok-!
His frame toppling from taking a surprise headbutt.
A face instantly covered in blood.
Cheol Ryu-heun’s kicks came flying indiscriminately from the bed he had kicked aside.
His head snapped left and right from those.
Was that all?
They struck his abdomen, as well as his chest, stomach, and side in disorderly fashion.
-Peok, peok, peok…!
In the instant he groaned from the shock assaulting his five viscera and six bowels.
-Ppak- ddudduk!
Cheol Ryu-heun’s right leg dropped down and broke two or so ribs.
-Keu… Seni, Senior Brother… There’s been some misunderstanding… First… Please calm… down. Keukeuk…
Though he had pleaded desperately thus, Cheol Ryu-heun showed no mercy.
A large, heavy toad statue entered his eyes.
Cheol Ryu-heun, having gripped it, looked down coldly.
And when he let go with both hands.
KKUKKUNG- UDUUDUK!
His shin bone was shattered by the dropped toad statue.
-Keuaaaaaaak!
At the end of the dream where he let out a scream, Cheol Ryu-heun’s words grazed past.
-Take that away.
“Keuaaaaaaak!”
Eul Sa-jeok, having awakened from sleep, screamed as he shot up!
“Huk, huk, huk…”
Having caught his breath roughly, he soon wiped the sweat from his forehead.
‘Damn it… To dream that dream again…’
It was a nightmare that visited frequently.
One he couldn’t forget no matter how hard he tried.
Right at that moment, the door to the luxurious guest room opened smoothly.
SREUREUK-
Following that, one person strode inside.
It was the Central Heaven Division General Commander Pa Ga-wi.
Eul Sa-jeok, still having difficulty moving, gave a simple courtesy.
“Ah… You’ve come.”
“Did you have a bad dream again?”
“Yes… Related to Cheol Ryu-heun, that bastard!… I’m embarrassed to keep showing you this sight.”
“Hoot, what’s there to be embarrassed about?”
Pa Ga-wi, having spoken with a snicker, sat on the edge of the bed.
“The woman you toyed with and killed has been cleanly disposed of. So, did you enjoy yourself enough?”
“Yes. Thanks to your consideration…”
“That’s good then.”
Pa Ga-wi then lightly grasped Eul Sa-jeok’s wrist along with those words.
He was checking his body condition by feeling the pulse points to take a reading.
When True Energy flowed in, Eul Sa-jeok felt a ticklish sensation.
Pa Ga-wi, having released his hand, spoke in a low voice.
“Your body’s recovery is fast.”
“Pardon? Has something improved further overnight?”
When Eul Sa-jeok brightened and asked, Pa Ga-wi smiled.
“Yes, it’s gotten better. Perhaps last night’s pleasure hastened the recovery… Hohoo.”
“I’m eager to get on my feet and repay my debt of gratitude.”
“Indeed, you should. Nothing in the world is free.”
“Yes, I have that engraved deep in my heart as well.”
“I expect your bones will be fully healed in five or six days. The strengthening of your entire body’s muscles too, of course. It means the egg’s incubation period is being shortened.”
“Ah… So quickly…!”
“It seems the Gu poison’s excellent efficacy is responding to your desires.”
“Whatever the case, if recovery speeds up, it’s good.”
“Here, now I shall bestow the essence of supreme martial arts.”
Pa Ga-wi took out a booklet from his bosom.
Eul Sa-jeok, having received it, tilted his head.
‘What’s this?’
There was no title whatsoever on the cover.
Pa Ga-wi, reading those thoughts, spoke meaningfully.
“Discard needless suspicions. Because it’s a sword technique of excellent mystical application.”
“Could this be something that hasn’t existed before…”
“The fellow has some wits about him. This is one of the sword techniques created by our society’s Society Leader himself.”
“Ah…! Th-thank you!”
“Memorize all of it. I give you three days from now.”
“Understood. But… even if I memorize it all, it must take quite a long time to learn?”
“Is that what you think?”
“Pardon? Isn’t… it?”
“If it’s you, you’ll be able to learn it without difficulty.”
“H-how…? If this is the essence of supreme martial arts, it should naturally be difficult to master…”
“It would feel difficult if your body were incomplete. But you’ve consumed the Gu poison and your body has been undergoing transformation, hasn’t it? That power is far greater than you think.”
“Ah…!”
“Do you understand now?”
“Yes! It would be difficult if my body couldn’t keep up, but if I borrow the power of the Gu poison, it’ll become easier to perform…”
“Exactly. What does it matter as long as your body follows what you think?”
“Yes, that’s right. Hohoo.”
Having snickered, Eul Sa-jeok recalled what was said before.
-If you consume the Gu poison, your lifespan will be shortened. But in exchange, it will grant you terrifying power.
Now, once he fully recovered his body, he would come to know.
The true worth of that terrifying power…
Pa Ga-wi headed toward the door as if he had finished his business.
“Oh, there’s one more piece of news you’ll be pleased to hear.”
“What is it?”
“That your former master sect, White Peak Sword Sect, will suffer disaster very soon.”
“…!”
“I’ll tell you the outcome of that matter later. Perhaps later you might even take charge of that place. A new White Peak Sword Sect, a new sect master… It would be quite interesting.”
Pa Ga-wi, having spoken thus, closed the door and vanished.
Left alone, Eul Sa-jeok let out a snicker while bouncing his shoulders.
“Hohoo… Hohoohoo…”
Then soon, his laughter grew louder.
“Hahaha! Hahahahaha!”
It was an expression where even madness could be glimpsed.
He abruptly stopped laughing and clenched his fist tightly.
‘How delightful! Cheol Ryu-heun… Just you wait. I’ll prove with my own body that miraculous opportunities aren’t only obtained by you.’
* * *
“It seems the process of acquiring new miraculous opportunity is about to begin.”
A low-flowing voice.
The owner of the voice was none other than the Heavenly Demon Cult’s Gun Mu-ak.
Currently, he was in the middle of watching Cheol Ryu-heun’s figure from afar.
Eun Yi-bi and Ya Baek-ji beside him also each said a word.
“Before we knew it, the soul energy fragment in the air has vanished.”
“Was it absorbed into Cheol Ryu-heun’s body?”
But suddenly, enormous light energy exploded upward, soaring high from Cheol Ryu-heun’s frame.
Like a pillar of light connecting heaven and earth…
Upon seeing that, a faint distinctive light gathered in Gun Mu-ak’s dark brown pupils.
“Could it be… a sign of Feathered Ascension to Immortality?”
At that sound, Eun Yi-bi and Ya Baek-ji were startled out of their wits.
“Pardon?”
“Feathered Ascension to Immortality?”
At that, Gun Mu-ak muttered while gazing at the sky.
“Just now in the air…”
He had briefly seen a vision.
A large palm that had suddenly dropped from the sky, that is.
At that moment, he had felt this way.
That something in the sky was obstructing him from completing his Feathered Ascension to Immortality.
However… he wasn’t sure.
Whether that was really the path to Feathered Ascension to Immortality or not.
He had just received a feeling upon seeing the pillar of light soar high that perhaps it might be.
It was a vague intuition.
Since he had never experienced what Feathered Ascension to Immortality was like, after all.
Eun Yi-bi and Ya Baek-ji each expressed doubt.
“The air… you say?”
“I see nothing, though…”
Gun Mu-ak, having withdrawn his gaze, shook his head.
“It’s nothing.”
Then, a group appeared behind them.
It was the entire elite of the Chrysanthemum Martial Hall and Southern Embrace Poison Palace.
Following that, Hegemon of Poison Paramount Meng Wang asked.
“Will you go with us?”
Gun Mu-ak, having quietly turned around, moved his steps.
“I shall.”
Thus, the Heavenly Demon Cult party also joined the rescue activity group.
Meanwhile.
Cheol Ryu-heun had entered full-scale Feathered Ascension to Immortality and was in a state where his mind was completely cut off from the outside situation.
It was a deliberate entry into enlightenment.
And.
As expected, an enormous palm descended fiercely from the sky.
GOOOOOOOOO-!
An existence, whether a god living in heaven or something else, burst out a shout.
-Are you trying to use my divine power again!
Cheol Ryu-heun in the mental image shouted back in kind.
“So what if I am!”
Tremendous energy rapidly discharged throughout his entire body.
When the palm approached and collided, intangible explosive force violently shook the entire mental image.
KKWAREUREUREUREUNG, KKWAREUREUREUREUREUNG…!
-You, to have already regained such power…
The celestial existence spoke as if amazed.
Then, Cheol Ryu-heun opened his upper dantian to the maximum.
Was he overdoing it?
His entire body was in agony as if being torn apart.
But Cheol Ryu-heun maintained his concentration and flashed his eyes.
‘Kuk… Here I will certainly recover complete divine power! Let’s see this through to the end!’
* * *
KWACHAHANG!
Two swords clashed hard.
JIIIIIIK, JIIIIIIK-
The two people, pushed by the repelling force, scraped the ground with their feet as they retreated.
One of them was Son Ja-ryong.
Having soon found his center and stood, he threw sharp eye light at his opponent.
“You are…”
The identity entering his pupils.
Hall Master of Shadow Cliff Assassin Hall, the one and only assassin organization within the Guangxi region, and an ultra-transcendent assassin of Guangxi’s Three Martial Arms rank, Earth-Closing Kill Guest Hwal-bae.
Son Ja-ryong had competed with him in the past.
Though it ended inconclusively.
Yet Earth-Closing Kill Guest Hwal-bae’s appearance was completely different from before.
His build had grown larger from skeletal changes, his fangs and fingernails had grown sharply long, and the dazed-looking eyes emitted dark blue light.
Moreover, he was constantly growling like a violent beast.
As if having lost reason.
It was a feeling as if only the instinct for slaughter existed in his heart.
“Kreurr… You, you’ve gotten stronger since we last met.”
At Hwal-bae’s words, Son Ja-ryong replied coldly.
“And you’ve changed unsightly. Did you come here and become a slave of the Darkness-Craving Blood Clan?”
But Son Ja-ryong didn’t know.
That he wasn’t a simple slave but a powerful Forbidden Soul Ghost Thing Body.
SEUK.
The terrifying eye light of Hwal-bae as he straightened his back.
Killing intent thick enough to present visions of death could be felt.
Suddenly, the Secret Sound Transmission Son Ja-ryong had eavesdropped on yesterday came to mind.
-Just let them pass and then strike from behind. In any case, that fellow is alone… and won’t that person be arriving soon?
Full Moon Sword Master Mo-dong, master of Bright Moon Sword Sect.
He had clearly said so back then, hadn’t he?
‘That person… Was the Earth-Closing Kill Guest the one who organized the meeting?’
Son Ja-ryong immediately operated his powerful Internal Energy Cultivation.
The atmosphere and ground noisily vibrated, proving his overwhelming Internal energy level.
KUKUKUKUKUKU… DEUDEUDEUDEUDEU…
It was terrifying power to the extent that even the word Hegemon Sword King would be insufficient rather than Little Sword King.
Qi barriers very thin and solid resembling dragon scales formed over Son Ja-ryong’s entire body.
Dragon Scale Protection Energy.
The divine power unique to the Dragon Throne Sword that protects its owner’s body with qi barriers in the form of dragon scales, as if external arts had reached the extreme.
Son Ja-ryong walked forward with heavy steps and declared.
“Now, from this point I shall settle this within about ten exchanges.”