Chapter 498: There Is No Chance
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Eul Sa-jeok surged with anger at Cheol Ryu-heun’s words treating him like a stepped-on insect.
‘Kuk! Damn it…!’
At the same time, he desperately operated a large amount of internal power and burst it out from his body.
Hwaaaak… !
Fierce formless energy exploded out from his entire body.
But that power suddenly disappeared as if it had been entirely sucked somewhere.
It was instantaneous.
Eul Sa-jeok’s heart sank as he realized what the cause was.
‘What! No way…!’
At that moment, Cheol Ryu-heun’s indifferent voice was heard.
“What a mess of internal energy. Tastes absolutely awful too.”
Hearing those words, Eul Sa-jeok’s face turned deathly pale.
‘That bastard…!’
As expected, it was that “no way.”
Star-Absorbing Great Art.
That’s right.
Cheol Ryu-heun had skillfully… No, perfectly… Executed it.
It was horrifying.
Enough to momentarily forget even the pain…
He felt that it wasn’t just a plausible imitation.
He had already discerned it with his keen energy sense.
The fact that the ascending inner energy technique of the absorption technique that Cheol Ryu-heun had executed matched the peculiar subtlety of the gu poison.
At that moment, the languid voice was heard again.
“Yes, squirm like that. Because you’re a bug.”
Cheol Ryu-heun applied pressure with his sole as he finished speaking.
While spitting out the formless energy he had just absorbed.
Crack crack, crack crack…
Eul Sa-jeok, his neck stepped on, let out an agonized sound.
“Gak guk.”
He was suffocating.
His body trembled from the pressure pressing down on his whole body.
Like an insect squirming because it didn’t want to be stepped to death.
But suddenly.
Float float.
Eul Sa-jeok’s left hand and left foot, which had been cut off earlier, gently rose up.
Then they flew like birds… Whoosh!
Tap, ta-tap…
The moment they were joined to each severed part, they healed at rapid speed.
Without leaving the slightest trace.
It was because Cheol Ryu-heun had operated his inconceivable divine power.
Eul Sa-jeok was bewildered at the unexpected situation.
‘What is this…?’
At that moment, the formless energy that had been pressing down on his whole body lifted.
Thwack!
With a dull sound, Eul Sa-jeok went flying far away.
Cheol Ryu-heun had kicked him in the face with one foot.
“Ugh…”
Eul Sa-jeok, having bled profusely from his nose, soon glared fiercely at the front.
‘Damn… What a strange skill. Even reattaching severed parts? And of someone else…?’
It was astonishing.
It was an ability that could be called beyond human realm.
Incomprehensible.
However.
Hadn’t he said earlier that he was the reincarnation of the Divine Martial Sword?
Then it made sense.
The inconceivable divine power of the Divine Martial Sword.
The supernatural ability that only five people in history had supposedly awakened.
According to martial history texts, the Heavenly Demon, Sword Emperor, Evil Emperor, Martial Immortal, and Blood God had each achieved the ultimate divine power of the Divine Martial Sword to the highest level and healed not only their own injuries but those of others as well.
Yes, he must have used that.
Eul Sa-jeok gritted his teeth and immediately raised his body.
‘Tch! Is that bastard really… The reincarnation of the Divine Martial Sword…?’
A situation hard to readily believe, yet unable to disbelieve.
“Come on, try again. Bug.”
“Damn yooou!”
The moment Eul Sa-jeok spat out a curse and charged fiercely.
Kwakwang… !
Two types of demonic energy were released from Cheol Ryu-heun’s heavy stomp.
The combination of Heavenly Demon World-Destroying Step and Blood Demon Reign Steps.
That wasn’t all.
The overall shape was like a magnificent mountain range.
Thus, the black demonic energy and red demonic energy completely devastated the entire front like a charging giant mountain range while producing world-shaking roars.
Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwang, kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwang, kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwang…!
Before that tremendous destructive power, it was almost miraculous that the ground still remained.
Meanwhile, Eul Sa-jeok was battered all over.
By the terrifying stomp offensive that forbade approach.
It was an admirable subtlety.
It was like watching heaven-sent talent.
That was because he had mixed the essence of Heavenly Demon Cult and Blood Demon Cult demonic arts with even the inner energy technique of White Peak Sword Sect.
Eul Sa-jeok once again keenly felt his terrifying talent.
The expression “once-in-a-generation genius” was insufficient.
Who in the present world could act like Cheol Ryu-heun?
Drip, drip drip, drip…
The sound of blood dripping.
His appearance, with chunks of flesh torn off here and there all over his body, was truly gruesome beyond measure.
His trembling legs seemed to speak for his body’s condition.
Eul Sa-jeok’s gaze, as he planted his sword in the ground, wavered greatly.
‘Guk…! Damn it… I almost died!’
He had barely held on.
With an energy net using maximum-level internal power…
It had been a close call.
If his reaction had been even slightly late, he would have been swept away by the stomp and died.
Eul Sa-jeok once again grew angry.
‘That bastard…!’
Rather than fear, resentment and rage toward Cheol Ryu-heun came first.
That bastard was just lucky, he thought.
If he had obtained that opportunity, he would have become an even more amazing existence, he thought.
To the end, he refused to acknowledge Cheol Ryu-heun, who had once been his senior brother.
Truly a petty and swindler-like shabby attitude.
Having caught his breath, Eul Sa-jeok soon struggled to raise his voice.
“Damn it! Using all sorts of techniques and showing off your martial arts! If only I could use all kinds of wondrous supreme techniques as a reincarnation of the Divine Martial Sword like you…”
“From now on, I won’t use any techniques at all.”
“What…?”
“Let’s see if you can match me with pure strength.”
“Setting aside all supreme techniques… You’ll only use pure internal power?”
“Right. First, let me make the conditions equal.”
Immediately after, Cheol Ryu-heun operated his unique divine power and the energy across the gap healed Eul Sa-jeok’s injuries.
‘Goodness…!’
Eul Sa-jeok truly wore an expression of disbelief.
On the other hand, he was going crazy with envy at Cheol Ryu-heun wielding such amazing power.
So he hated him even more.
He wanted to kill him here somehow.
“Bastard, you’ll regret this!”
Having shouted, Eul Sa-jeok charged forward fiercely.
Pak!
Cheol Ryu-heun, having run forward to meet him, suddenly vanished.
Pit…
The moment Eul Sa-jeok flinched.
Shukaaak… !
The two swords Cheol Ryu-heun gripped came falling down onto Eul Sa-jeok’s head.
‘Hup!’
The startled Eul Sa-jeok reflexively swung his sword upward.
The sword’s body laid flat to block the offensive.
The Gan Jiang and Mo Ye Sword struck it hard from above.
Kaaaang… Poooong!
The moment transparent haze explosively spread in all directions, an agonized groan rang out.
“Uuk!”
At the same time, a heavy sound was heard.
Cra-cra-crackle…!
Before the vertical slash that Cheol Ryu-heun had secretly and swiftly leaped to deliver, Eul Sa-jeok’s body had broken through the ground and been driven in up to his waist.
If the internal power loaded on the defending blade had been lacking, his spine would have been ruthlessly bent and broken.
Cheol Ryu-heun’s follow-up movement after landing was like lightning.
Bang!
It was the sound of his right knee striking Eul Sa-jeok’s lower jaw.
Crunch… !
As the jawbone shattered, Eul Sa-jeok’s body was pulled out.
His vision was dizzy.
Because the impact that had seeped into his brain was too heavy.
Right at that moment, Cheol Ryu-heun reattached Eul Sa-jeok’s jawbone with his inconceivable divine power instantly.
And then.
Thwack!
He kicked his chest hard.
Crack… !
A gruesome bone-breaking sound rang out.
“Guh guk!”
Eul Sa-jeok flew backward and fell to the ground with a thud!
This time, his chest bones had been considerably caved in.
Cheol Ryu-heun, having moved like a beam of light, stood at close range.
“It’s truly an endless punishment.”
From then on, Cheol Ryu-heun drove Eul Sa-jeok… Who had severed the bond of sect brotherhood… Into a living hell.
That is, he repeatedly broke, cut, and reattached his body.
Buuuk… Crack crack… Crackle… Snap…!
Bone-cutting and bone-breaking sounds that made one’s skin crawl just from hearing continued bursting out without pause.
Dozens of times.
Amidst the repetition of terrible pain and forced healing, Eul Sa-jeok’s mental fortitude finally became rapidly exhausted.
Before he knew it, even his venom had disappeared.
He was tired.
He just wanted to be killed.
But Cheol Ryu-heun’s cruel punishment simply continued.
“Enjoy it. Even that pain.”
Having spoken apathetically, Cheol Ryu-heun once again cleanly severed all four limbs.
“Uaah… Uaaaaak…!”
Eul Sa-jeok’s cries of agony echoed like an echo.
Cheol Ryu-heun still wore an emotionless expression.
However.
Did the gu poison within his body sense some crisis, as if it were a person?
Something like, a vitality similar to innate true energy suddenly spread rapidly throughout Eul Sa-jeok’s body.
‘What’s this…?’
It was power that seemed to be the gu poison’s own life force.
In an instant.
Flash!
Light exploded from his entire body as a gloomy energy wave extended in all directions.
Cheol Ryu-heun stepped back briefly and observed.
Just then, the previously severed limbs were drawn as if guided by some formless energy.
And then.
Swoosh, swooosh, swoosh…
While playing a faint energy sound, they were completely healed.
That was not the divine power Cheol Ryu-heun had executed.
It was a supernatural ability displayed by the isolated poison itself.
Shortly after.
Snap!
Having raised his body, Eul Sa-jeok grinned.
‘Kukuk… New power is being born again.’
But then his body moved bulgingly and his skin was dyed pitch-black as if painted with ink.
Moreover, his appearance including his facial features changed to look like a bizarre monster.
It was gruesome.
An appearance of something that was neither human nor beast.
In the meantime, Cheol Ryu-heun’s sword strike flew in rapidly.
Chuhaaak… !
His left arm was cut off at the stump.
Also.
Hwi-hwit… Puthwack!
Cheol Ryu-heun’s right foot struck Eul Sa-jeok’s left ribs hard.
Cra-crackle… !
Following that, the left-hand sword strike, the Mo Ye Sword, cut off Eul Sa-jeok’s right hand.
“Ueoook!”
The moment Eul Sa-jeok let out an agonized cry.
Kwahaaang!
Eul Sa-jeok, who had transformed into a large monster, flew backward.
By the tremendous internal power loaded in Cheol Ryu-heun’s rapid kick.
It was power enough to rupture the five viscera and six bowels.
But the two arms that had been cut off floated up like birds and flew… Whoosh!… To stick firmly to his shoulders.
Seeing that, Cheol Ryu-heun muttered inwardly.
‘Interesting. Could it be that the gu poison… Learns and develops?’
It seemed to have imitated his divine power.
But it wasn’t at a complete level.
Perhaps because the internal power within his body was lacking, the healing wasn’t complete.
It was simply barely attached, so to speak.
Bang!
Cheol Ryu-heun kicked the ground and went to that close range, cutting off both arms again.
“Kooheoook!”
While Eul Sa-jeok screamed.
Bang… Crack, cra-crack… !
The sound of his jawbone followed by his upper and lower teeth breaking into pieces rang out.
It was because of Cheol Ryu-heun’s kick that had flown in immediately.
Thud!
Eul Sa-jeok, having collapsed on the ground, quietly returned to his original form.
“Guh… Guk… Da… Mn… It…”
Having realized that even the gu poison’s new power was useless, he despaired.
But in his wavering eyes, there still resided anger and envy toward his opponent.
Yet within that, great fear was also glimpsed.
At the fact that he would meet his death at Cheol Ryu-heun’s hands…
That brought a strange servility to his survival instinct.
“Guh guk… Senior Brother… Please forgive… If you spare me… I will be useful. So… Just once… Give me a chance… Please. From now on… I will live… Only for the sect.”
Cheol Ryu-heun, looking down at him, opened his mouth expressionlessly.
“You be reborn as a bug in your next life. And get stepped to death by someone once more. That’s fitting.”
His right foot was raised high, then quickly came dropping down.
Thwack… Splatter!
Fresh blood and brain matter scattered in all directions.
Thus, Eul Sa-jeok, the traitor of White Peak Sword Sect, met a miserable end as his head was ruthlessly smashed apart.