Chapter 115: Chapter 115

Have you ever heard of the realm of Entering Divinity?

What many people said in reference to the past Three Heavens was precisely that they were those who rose to Entering Divinity. To that extent, it could be called the highest realm for martial artists and was also a realm difficult to ascend.

Since even the Five Emperors, called the strongest of the current Central Plains, were not called Entering Divinity, but were said to have risen to the Half-Immortal realm.

Ma Jang-gang had seen the martial arts of the Five Emperors only once in the past.

The Beggar Sect, one of the largest organizations in the Central Plains.

It was the martial art of the one called the Beggar Emperor of that place.

That existence whom he had thought was just a smelly old man who was always stumbling drunk, full of the smell of alcohol, and did not wash properly because he was a beggar.

However, in the actual fight against the Unorthodox Faction, his martial art was indeed overwhelming.

He felt like he understood a little why people called him one of the Five Emperors and said he was one of the five strongest.

But now.

An existence showing an overwhelming martial art to the extent that even that strength felt like dirt on a toenail stood before his eyes. At most a single lightly taken stomp, the Twenty Ghosts, whom they had found difficult even to handle, were collapsing in vain.

Looking at that, he was just lost in awe.

“They endure quite well.”

Conversely, Dan Woo-hyun frowned.

It was a stamp he took thinking he would kill them all in one blow. Yet, five died and the others were alive without dying. If one asked if they were fine, that would by no means be the case, but still, it was true his pride was hurt.

“Quite something for mere corpses? Haha.”

Dan Woo-hyun shook his head.

Jiangshi.

Looking at their movements, it was hard to view them as simple jiangshi. If so, they were living jiangshi created using living people. Even if that were the case, they would not have been able to master the Demon-Absorbing Art, so as a result, they were Heaven-Defying Jiangshi who had summoned and descended the souls of the dead.

Although it was hard to view them as finished products, this much was great.

Was absorbing the opponent’s internal energy with the Demon-Absorbing Art one of the spells to keep their existence in the present world?

Dan Woo-hyun wore a sneer.

Quite a variety of questions mixed in his head.

However, he did not throw questions.

Because even if he did, it would be the same that there would be no answer.

Rustle!

The surviving Twenty Ghosts moved.

Whether they recognized that the opponent in front of them was strong, they were faster than before, and their momentum was also quite sharp.

However, conversely, their eyes changed, which was like a wild beast aiming for prey. In their heads, nothing but the desire to swallow Dan Woo-hyun seemed to be filled.

“Do you want to steal my internal energy with the Demon-Absorbing Art? Come at me.”

Dan Woo-hyun reached out his hand leisurely.

It was a hand movement that went in threatening the opponent in an instant. One of the approaching Twenty Ghosts was caught, unable to evade it.

He did not simply grab the clothes.

As if to prevent escape, Dan Woo-hyun’s hand dug into the Twenty Ghost’s chest and pulled while holding the chest.

Crunch!

Along with the sound of the ribs shattering, a small groan was heard. At the same time, blades from all directions tore through that body and emerged. Was it a Chain Scheme using their comrade? Or did they not even possess comrade consciousness?

Anyone who saw it would believe without a doubt that Dan Woo-hyun would become a hedgehog.

However.

The thrusting blades stopped right in front of Dan Woo-hyun’s nose, and as if he had predicted it would be like this from the start, he moved leisurely and reached out his hand again.

Crack!

Releasing the dying one, he turned his body and threw a kick. As the refreshing sound of a watermelon breaking spread, the opponent’s shattered bones flew like hidden weapons and struck a comrade’s head.

Thud!

Watching their comrade fall in vain, the Twenty Ghosts paused. Although they could not display their emotions properly since they were jiangshi, the word terror did not easily disappear for them either.

Dan Woo-hyun laughed as he read their thoughts.

“Do not worry. Since all of you will return to where you should be soon.”

Tighten!

The Twenty Ghosts put strength into the weapons held in their hands.

Glaring at Dan Woo-hyun with flashing gazes, they revealed fighting spirit. It was a gaze that showed a will to survive without fail.

“Lowly things who cannot even display that will properly because they are already dead…… are you clinging to life just because you lived again?”

Flinch!

This time they reacted.

Not only did they react, but their gazes also grew even more murderous. Their fiercely surging momentum dominated all directions, making it feel as if one could not even breathe properly.

“Kill……”

At the clumsily heard word, Dan Woo-hyun smirked.

And looking at the remaining Twenty Ghosts, he clenched his fist.

“It is not ‘kill’, but ‘kill me’.”

Tremble, tremble.

There was a man watching that scene from afar. He was the one who encountered Ma Jang-gang while following the traces of the Twenty Ghosts and those assumed to be the Sword Emperor.

He had been watching, thinking he would see quite an interesting scene.

However, an entirely unexpected person popped out.

“Who is that?! Why is the Twenty Ghosts……!”

The man could not even swallow his breath.

The carnage happening before his eyes was to the extent that he did not know what to say. If all of the Twenty Ghosts gathered, they were fellows evaluated that even he could not defeat them.

Yet, the person in front of his eyes now was lightly pressing down on those Twenty Ghosts.

Boom, boom!

The resounding bizarre sounds were heard loudly.

Trees broke and boulders shattered. The ground even split, looking as if a natural disaster had occurred. But to think all of this was a scene created by a single human?

Had he to believe this?

‘Where did such a person come from! If… If I do not report this quickly!’

This was a big problem.

He had to report this fact to the superiors quickly and receive help. Because he knew that if they did not nip such people in the bud from the start, they would never see a good end.

However, his legs did not move.

Confirming that the ruined and miserably shattered corpses of the Twenty Ghosts were scattered here and there, he trembled and stared only at that man.

Soon, the man’s head turned.

Chill!

Instantly, their eyes met.

Feeling that, goosebumps broke out all over his body. At that gaze and momentum which seemed ready to steal his mind, he had to take a step back unconsciously.

‘He… He saw me. From that distance?’

He tried to deny reality, turn away, and ignore it.

However, that gaze was drawn in his mind and did not disappear. Writhing in fear, he turned his back. He had to report this to the superiors immediately and prepare countermeasures later.

With the Sword Emperor alone being overwhelming, the existence of another person?

It could never be.

Thump!

Yet, the moment he turned his back, he bumped into something.

Trembling at that unknown feeling, he slowly lifted his head.

He was there.

That man.

The man who had slaughtered the Twenty Ghosts far away was standing blankly in front of him, having narrowed the distance before he knew it. Let alone speaking, he could do nothing and just looked into his eyes.

“It is you. The fellow who gave commands to those corpses…….”

“Wh… Who are you?”

“That is what I want to ask.”

Thump!

Instantly, at the same time Dan Woo-hyun’s hand moved lightly, the man’s body was rammed into the ground. Receiving an enormous force to the point that a deep pit was dug, blood sprayed from the man’s mouth.

“Kragh!”

“Who are you, you bastards. I think the Namgung Family’s affair could be so if there was a relationship of grudge…… but the Body Strengthening Method, the Demon-Absorbing Art…… furthermore, Heaven-Defying Jiangshi? It surpasses the level ordinary fellows can think of.”

“Kugh. H-How do you know that……”

The man also knew nothing about those martial arts. Until he joined hands with them and learned them directly, he did not know at all that such martial arts existed.

But what was this person?

He was speaking as if he knew from the beginning.

That further fueled his fear of Dan Woo-hyun.

“If you keep your mouth shut, I will give you greater pain…… and if you flee, I will give you greater despair.”

The man felt it.

This person.

He was by no means someone who spoke empty words.

Not only the momentum flowing from his body, but also the tone he spoke and his firm gaze. He was a person who even possessed the ability to act without hesitation.

This person did not play such foolish tricks of uttering lies to obtain information. The man was feeling that to his bones.

“I…… I know nothing.”

At that single sentence, Dan Woo-hyun laughed.

He lightly kicked his abdomen.

“I have not asked anything yet.”

“Kugh…….”

“Since he is a fellow who would betray his master over just this much, they wouldn’t have involved him deeply.”

As Dan Woo-hyun lightly swung his hand, the wind seeped in and the man’s clothes were torn to pieces. When that which was covering his entire body vanished, his bare face was revealed.

“Who are you from where?”

“Th… That is……!”

The man covered his face with his hands.

What must never be revealed was revealed. In this case, should he rather commit suicide? Such a thought suddenly occurred, but he did not have the resolve to strike his own neck with a sword.

Yet Dan Woo-hyun reached out and looked at the sword he held.

The appearance of the sword was ordinary, but the crest engraved on the pommel was not. The same pattern as what the figures present at the time of the Three Heavens incident held.

It was the Taegeuk.

“Are you of Wudang?”

“Kugh!”

The man jumped up from his seat.

What must never be discovered was discovered. If he had neither the courage to commit suicide nor the hope to defeat the opponent, the remaining choice was only one.

Displaying lightness art quickly to leave this place……!

Crash!

“Aaaack!”

The head of the man who tried to flee was rammed into the ground. It was rammed so deeply that it would not be strange if his forehead was shattered.

Blood sprayed like a fountain and pain surged enough to make him want to die.

Grabbing his head with his hands at the unbearable pain, he rolled on the ground. His mind turned pure white, unable to even think of anything.

Also, by this, he knew for sure.

That even fleeing was no longer possible.

Shiver, shiver.

Grabbing his head, he trembled and groaned. A sobbing sound was also heard, as if he were crying. In the face of overwhelming terror, there was nothing he could do.

The martial arts learned from them?

He did not think it would work either.

Had he to spill everything like this?

What he knew was just in the Martial Alliance…….

“Kugh……!”

Suddenly Man Hu-ryang’s face floated up, and the moment he thought he had to utter his name, a strange feeling arose in his stomach and climbed up to his head in an instant.

‘What? What is it?’

“Heave! Heave!”

Even while vomiting repeatedly, the pain in his throbbing head tormented him unbearably.

“Aaaack!”

Letting out a scream, he grabbed his head. To the point of being unable to know what was happening, no, unable to even think, he did not understand anything.

Soon, at the moment the pain subsided for an instant.

“Sp… Spare me…….”

He reached out his hand toward Dan Woo-hyun.

From his eyes and ears, from his nose and mouth, and even from his head.

He begged for life, bleeding continuously.

Yet.

Thud!

Soon, even though Dan Woo-hyun did not even act, the man’s head exploded. The body of the man, who could no longer speak any words, collapsed in vain.

The surroundings were filled with only blood and pieces of flesh.

Dan Woo-hyun looked at it with a blunt gaze.

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