Chapter 106: Chapter 106

“Splendid single strike.”

“That fellow’s strike is truly fast. Even after losing an arm, he is at that level?”

As Dan Woo-hyun let out admiration, Sa Do-hak sighed.

It felt as if he was gradually returning to his past appearance.

That single strike he saw just now.

Even with Sa Do-hak’s eyes, he could not follow it properly. He had let his guard down considerably because the fellow had only one arm, but he seemed to be gradually recovering the Sword Emperor’s appearance.

‘Although he is still far from it……’

Sa Do-hak smirked.

He knew he still held the upper hand over the opponent.

Therefore, he felt somewhat at ease.

“The Dark Shadow Steps is a footwork of the Black Way Sect that disappeared in the past, do you bastards have a relationship with it?”

“Hmph! Do you think we will tell you!”

Namgung Cheon quietly stroked his chin.

Certainly, what unfolded in front of them was the Dark Shadow Steps as Sa Do-hak said. However, it somehow gave off a strange feeling. Even the internal energy flowing in their bodies felt somewhat different from what they knew.

What is it?

Just then, Dan Woo-hyun’s voice was heard.

“One or two fellows to open their mouths is enough.”

“Hahaha. Is it indeed not possible to kill all of them?”

“If you do not want to find your family, do as you please.”

Dan Woo-hyun shrugged his shoulders.

He felt that the intent to kill in Namgung Cheon’s heart had not subsided yet. The fall of the Namgung Family was that much of a shock to him. Also, everyone who participated in it was an enemy.

“Hahaha. Then it cannot be helped.”

Namgung Cheon shook off the blood on his sword.

Then he quietly looked around at the remaining fellows.

After pausing for a moment, he soon wore a smile.

“I am Gentleman Sword, a country old man. Although you fellows will die soon, nice to meet you.”

“What……”

Gentleman Sword?

It was a title heard for the first time.

No, he seemed to have heard it somewhere. And that mask was also familiar upon thinking of this. Wasn’t it the one commonly seen in the marketplace?

“This crazy old man!”

“Hahaha, the sword of a senile old man is somewhat violent, you see.”

The masked men glared with gritted teeth.

Even so, he was just an old man.

Although they felt the difference in strength, they possessed power. If he thought he had seen everything with what he showed just now, it was a mistake.

The man who seemed to be the leader nodded as he looked at his subordinates.

He was not an opponent who could be defeated easily.

Even if he killed this senile old man in front of them, there was more. The two people sitting leisurely over there also seemed to possess similar or greater power.

‘Where did such monsters appear from?’

It was said there were numerous hidden experts in this Central Plains.

If so, were they among them?

In any case, they were not opponents that could be defeated easily.

If so.

“Begin.”

They gathered their momentum.

A massive power rising from their dantians swallowed their entire bodies. Their muscles suddenly swelled several times. Their internal energy also soared instantly.

This was indeed the grace they had received.

It was the power that brought down that terrifying Namgung Family.

“Hmm……”

“Uh…… What is that again?”

“Hahaha.”

Even Dan Woo-hyun, Sa Do-hak, and Namgung Cheon could not hide their surprise at that situation. Was it possible for a person to undergo such transformation suddenly? They felt that not only the muscles but even the internal energy had increased.

Even their eyes were cold, as if soaked in madness.

A killing intent that felt as if they were born solely for slaughter was felt sharply.

“Is it the Body Strengthening Method?”

Dan Woo-hyun penetrated its identity in an instant.

The Body Strengthening Method.

A spell method that several people had mastered a thousand years ago. A martial art that instantly increased one’s muscles and internal energy, allowing one to overwhelm the opponent.

He was somewhat surprised that this still remained.

Those who could use the Body Strengthening Method were a spell clan that was counted on one’s fingers in the Central Plains at that time, but because its power was too bizarre and destructive, the neighboring martial artists gathered and exterminated them.

Publicly, it was said that their power was heterodox, but in the end, they had tried to grasp the Body Strengthening Method.

“But it is incomplete.”

Yes, the Body Strengthening Method they displayed was incomplete.

The Body Strengthening Method that failed to maintain one’s ego perfectly was merely a tool for slaughter. Dan Woo-hyun smirked and opened his mouth toward Namgung Cheon.

“Can you win?”

“Hahaha. To whom are you saying that?”

Namgung Cheon opened his eyes half-closed.

He did not know what the Body Strengthening Method was.

However, he knew that the martial art displayed in front of him could never be underestimated. If not one person but dozens of people increased all their abilities simultaneously, it was a situation that was quite threatening even to Namgung Cheon.

Yet, he calmly composed his mind.

Had he not overcome this kind of crisis multiple times since childhood?

Who was he?

Indeed, he was the Sword Emperor.

“Now, young ones, come.”

He thrust his sword forward softly.

The power contained in it lightly cut the wind.

The Namgung Family which resided in a thousand-year history.

The Blue Sky Boundless Sword always holds the wind and cuts the clouds. A mind like looking up at the clear sky was indeed the evidence that he could use that sword properly.

Quiet.

A clarity was felt and the blue sky was visible.

He gradually contained all of those in the sword and swallowed his breath.

It had been a truly long time.

This kind of feeling.

It felt as if he had returned to his childhood…… to that time filled with yearning for the strong.

Namgung Cheon looked at those in front of him.

Those possessing massive frames were rushing recklessly.

Fast.

It was beyond comparison to the speed they had shown just now.

However.

That was it.

The sword of Namgung does not bend.

That was indeed the sword of the Heaven Under Namgung Family.

Splat!

The moment he unleashed a single strike, the entire surroundings spurted blood. It was a marvelous sight to the extent that one could not even know who was cut where and how.

The masked men, who looked endlessly at the spurting blood, fell one after another. No one endured that sword, and no one escaped from the influence of that sword.

The unleashed sword could not be avoided, nor could it be blocked.

“Kugh!”

The masked men fell one by one.

Most of them seemed to have died and did not budge on the spot, while several survivors groaned and crawled like dogs on the ground.

“Kugh……”

They wriggled with rolled-up eyes.

Like a dying earthworm, the appearance was truly amusing. Namgung Cheon looked down at them with a cold gaze.

“You have not died, indeed.”

“Hahaha, did I not say so? This old man’s sword does not bend so easily.”

“Hmm. But compared to the past……”

“Would you like to try?”

“Bring it on, you bastard! You must be crazy to die!”

Sa Do-hak jumped up and gripped his sword.

He intended to immediately suppress the nose of Namgung Cheon, who was confident just because he swept away such fellows at once. His demonic qi rose patchily.

Along with it, Namgung Cheon’s momentum also spread.

As it pressed the surroundings, it was as if a natural disaster was occurring.

Tremble.

The masked man, who fell and could not gather his senses, trembled while feeling all those momentums. It was not something a human could emit.

Wasn’t this truly on the level of a natural disaster?

‘What…… what on earth is this……’

Within his fading consciousness, he quietly looked at the two of them. It felt as if he would disappear without even a trace left if he got caught between them.

It was then.

Step, step.

Footsteps were heard.

Within his increasingly fading vision, a person’s foot was visible. That person soon stopped in front of him and sat down. Then he reached out, grabbed his hair, and lifted it.

The face was visible.

That man who had been sitting a moment ago.

An expression sending a gaze that was calm to the extreme was visible.

His breath faltered.

Although he had not felt it when looking from afar, he felt it clearly now that he was in such close proximity.

This man.

Something was different from those two old men.

A fear that gripped his entire body just by looking.

As he met that gaze, he was sucked into a distant darkness.

“Since there is much to ask, rest for now.”

At the single sentence heard soon after, his mind went blank.

“Aaaack!”

“Noisy.”

Sa Do-hak removed his hand and covered the mouth.

Then he swung his fist and battered the face.

Thud, thud!

With a rough sound, the masked man’s head shook violently back and forth. As if he had a realization of being beaten, the strength was gone from his eyes.

This place was not very far from the Namgung Family.

As if no people came and went, no one came to rescue them even if they let out screams.

Furthermore, what was this?

Torturing was for the sake of making them open their mouths.

Yet, this old man wearing the mask of the Demonic Heavenly Monarch did not ask anything. He was just punching and carrying out all kinds of torture joyfully.

The man who was their leader gasped for breath and opened his mouth.

“K… Kill me……”

“You are good at joking, indeed.”

Sa Do-hak let out a ridiculous laugh and swung his fist again. It was not extreme pain. Since it was not the kind of torture where fingers were cut or flesh was carved out.

However, because he did not try to find out anything and did not ask, this continuing violence gave him a mental shock that was hard to endure.

Since the thought that he might die did not arise at all.

He wanted to escape the pain.

However, he knew he could not.

That came as a greater shock.

“Kugh…… K… Kill me……”

The subordinates beside him were the same.

It would have been better if they could see death.

They seemed to be aiming for this kind of mental collapse.

“Now. Speak. Where are the captured people?”

Sa Do-hak muttered and asked.

It was a question asked naturally while wiping the blood on his hands onto the masked men’s clothes. However, when no one replied and only groaned, a smirking laugh was heard again.

It was as if he had expected this from the beginning.

“It seems a bit lacking. Can the Demonic Heavenly Monarch of the world only do this much?”

“Stay still! I said I will handle it!”

Sa Do-hak shouted loudly toward Dan Woo-hyun. Adjusting the strength to torment someone until their mind collapsed was quite hard work.

Furthermore, it was not general torture either.

Sa Do-hak frowned.

Then he grabbed a man’s mouth.

After making him open his mouth wide, he gripped the gums with his fingers.

Crack!

“Aaaaack!”

“Come to think of it, one fellow dying is fine, isn’t it? Ten fingers and toes each. I wonder if you can endure if I crush your teeth and gums?”

Sa Do-hak wore a sinister smile.

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