Chapter 392: Chapter 392

“Haa, haa, haa…”

A woman was running like crazy. Sensing signs of pursuit from behind, she ran and leaped up vigorously, her appearance not looking like a human.

In an instant, she rose several zhang high and moved by riding the trees. Then, realizing something, she quickly came down and dodged.

Swish!

The sword qi that brushed past cut down the tree branches, and the sword wind following behind poured down, targeting her.

Slash!

Her skin was cut.

The blood surging the moment it brushed past was no joke.

The running woman frowned, but whether she could not bring herself to stop, she put more strength into her legs.

Slash, slash, slash!

The pouring sword qi was truly mindless.

It was to the extent that one wondered if avoiding it was possible, and that fierce attack cut even rocks like tofu, sweeping away even the trees all around.

“Seriously, really… absurd, isn’t it?”

The man chasing behind frowned.

It was already a three-day chase since he discovered her.

Did they not commonly say these words?

Chasing and being chased.

Between the man and the woman, such a thing was taking place. He must have missed her right before his eyes about twenty times, and the wounds he inflicted alone must be considerable.

Although normally anyone would have surely fallen or died at this level, perhaps because she was a life transcending human, her recovery ability alone seemed to be superb.

The man’s eyes grew even deeper.

He looked at the woman who had vanished far away before he knew it.

Bang!

In an instant, the man also pursued with a tremendous lightfoot technique. As if he was confident if it was a short-distance match, though it would be hard if it was long-distance, his speed was indeed like a ray of light.

The woman turned back in surprise.

Seeing him narrow the distance in an instant, she thrust her sword.

Clang!

But it did not hit.

The thrust sword clashed and bounced back.

In a single moment, the sword blade chipped, and the pain was transmitted to her wrist.

“I won’t miss this time!”

The man shouted shrilly and swung his sword.

A heavy sound stimulated their ears.

Whoosh!

Although he was clearly swinging a sword, the sound was like swinging a great saber.

At that sound, the woman twisted her body.

Swish!

The blade brushed slightly past her waist.

However, perhaps because the gap was narrow, only her hem was cut off.

“Damn fox bitch!”

The man shouted, gritting his teeth even more.

For him, he thought it was a gap that could never be avoided, but the opponent grasped even that and twisted her body to dodge, so he felt a disgusting feeling as if his martial art had been neutralized.

The moment he corrected himself and swung once again, something flew in like an arrow.

It was a hidden weapon thrown by the woman.

It filled the empty air as if hundreds of arrows poured down at once. It looked somewhat like seeing the Sichuan Tang Family’s Rain of Heavenly Flowers, but a stronger force was loaded in it, and it was also fast and precise.

Boom, boom, boom!

The moment the hidden weapons embedded into the ground, the axis of the earth shook.

All the force poured onto the man who was blocking it since he could not bring himself to dodge.

“Keuh!”

For the first time, a perplexed groan flowed from the man’s mouth.

To think she was hiding such a move.

The man gritted his teeth and looked ahead.

Before he knew it, the figure of the woman going far away was seen. A move simply for flight. Furthermore, the gongfu to be able to display such lightfoot technique even after pouring out such force.

The more he thought of it, the more he felt he must not miss her.

“Damn bitch!”

The man spat out rough curses and pursued behind.

‘Just where on earth are you going?’

He could not understand.

Even if she fled, this pursuit would not end. She herself must know well that she would be caught in the end. Even so, why was she fleeing so desperately?

Although not knowing how to give up was a good thing, a limit to his patience was gradually approaching for the chasing man.

Soon, the moment they arrived at one place.

Flash!

An enormous flash occurred as if lightning struck right in front of his nose, and in a single moment, his vision was distorted.

“Damn wench!”

The man raised his voice and maximized his five senses even more. It was to prepare against a possible ambush.

“…!?”

Soon, in a single moment, the man stood blankly in that spot.

Simultaneously with his unseen vision coming into view, he pointed out the countless signs felt in the surroundings one by one and let out an absurd laugh.

“What kind of fellow are you?!”

“An enemy!”

In his gaze, countless people were seen.

It was not one or two people.

Hundreds of people at a low estimate.

Every single one was an expert hovering between first-class and peak, and there were also signs that went beyond that. Judging by how they wore red blood robes, they were unmistakably the crowds of the Blood Heaven.

It was clear that they were experts moving to Sichuan.

The man, no, Cheon Mu-gwang exhaled while watching that.

“Really absurd.”

In a single moment, the Blood Heaven crowds surrounded Cheon Mu-gwang.

They aimed their sword hilt as if they would absolutely not miss, emitting thick killing intent.

Cheon Mu-gwang turned his head with a dejected expression.

Between them, a person passing by leisurely was seen. At those ghost-like movements, they did not even notice and merely looked at Cheon Mu-gwang.

Cheon Mu-gwang gritted his teeth and held his sword.

“Kill him!”

Looking at those who shouted, he let out a small sigh.

Slash, slash, slash!

Soon, a blood wind swept in an instant.

* * *

“Whew…”

The woman, who ran for a long time, stopped at some place.

Since there was no sign of pursuit behind for nearly two hours already, she thought she had shaken him off finally. Even so, whether she could not let down her guard, the woman let out a long-delayed breath with her five senses spread out in all directions.

“Of all people, it had to be him…”

The woman thought while wiping her injured body with a cloth.

Fleeing the Blood Demon and hiding was just the other day, but now it became a situation where she had to flee Cheon Mu-gwang. Since she had completely exposed her signs, even if she hid, she had no choice but to be discovered.

‘The wound…’

It was a wound inflicted by none other than Cheon Mu-gwang.

Demonic energy was gathered in every single light wound, eating away at her life. That was how much she was currently facing a barrier.

‘Where should I go?’

She was not in a situation where she could do anything about the wound right away.

A wound of this level required treatment for quite a long time. To do so, she had to hide her body, but that was also not suitable.

Since she did not know when Cheon Mu-gwang or his subordinates would chase behind once again, unless it was a place safe enough to set her mind at ease, it was impossible.

She frowned her fine eyebrows.

There was one place that came to her mind.

But the problem was the question of whether he would welcome her. Given his personality of hating bringing in troublesome matters to the extreme, he might kick her out right away.

She, who thought up to that point, let out a small sigh and turned her head. Still, she thought trying was not bad.

The moment she turned her head like that.

“Hey, did you escape completely?”

“…!?”

Before she knew it, right in front of her nose was Cheon Mu-gwang, who was covered in bright red blood. Just how many people had he killed, that the disgusting smell of blood was transmitted thickly?

The killing intent condensed in his eyes was exceptionally ferocious, and the drops of blood dripping from the clothes he wore were to the extent of making one wonder if he was indeed human.

The moment the woman turned pale and tried to retreat, Cheon Mu-gwang’s outstretched hand grabbed her front collar, and the sword he held was swung.

Slash!

“Aaahhh!”

The woman’s shrill scream echoed.

It was a deep wound.

She felt an enormous amount of demonic energy violently penetrating into her body. Pain to the extent that she could not keep her senses dominated her head, and her eyes trembled violently as her mind soon anticipated death.

“Didn’t I tell you? If you had been captured quietly, you wouldn’t have had to suffer a harsh sight.”

Twitch, twitch-

Looking at the woman whose blood surged, Cheon Mu-gwang slammed her to the floor as if throwing away trash.

The woman writhed in pain and swallowed her groans.

Cheon Mu-gwang’s gaze looked at her as if looking at a maggot and wore a sneer.

Moving his foot slightly, he flipped the body of the woman who crawled on the floor.

Confirming that blood leaked out in gulps, he trampled her dantian firmly.

“It is here, isn’t it?”

“Ugh…!”

“They say that the inner dan of a thousand-year-old gumiho grants not only gongfu but also rejuvenation. They said the Blood Demon bastard decided to offer it to that old man Cheon Mu-je in exchange for reviving him… in the end, he could not achieve it.”

“Re… Rejuvenation? Do you… believe in such nonsense?”

“Not only that. No matter how much a human ascends to the realm of sages, a human ultimately cannot escape the category of human. They cannot possess the unique power that beasts hold, and cannot handle the five elements as much as a beast.”

“…….”

“But your inner dan is slightly different. Because a gumiho’s fox bead allows one to transcend such things.”

Cheon Mu-gwang slightly extended his sword.

The blade entered slightly into her dantian.

If he resolved and moved, it would become a sea of blood in a single moment.

“So hand it over.”

Cheon Mu-gwang does not hesitate.

Also, he does not even give the opponent a chance to struggle. Since his personality was originally cruel beyond bounds, and his desire to surely achieve what he wanted was great, the word hesitation did not exist in his dictionary.

The moment the blade was about to penetrate into the woman’s dantian.

Clank, clang!

Something flew in.

Cheon Mu-gwang’s sword quickly struck it away, and he flew his body as it was to retreat backward. The moment he retreated, a sharp blade brushed past that spot with a ‘Swish!’.

“Damn it…”

Cheon Mu-gwang let out a long sigh.

Just failing to catch a single fox for three days was a shameful situation.

He finally succeeded in capturing it in the end, yet another interference now.

Tap, tap-

He looked at the person walking in.

The one approaching with his white beard fluttering.

Although his wrinkled face was different from the past, the clean aura radiating from him was a feeling that stabilized the mind.

The old man looked at Cheon Mu-gwang.

The gazes between the two met.

“You went too far.”

“Haha, last time it was Nam Ju-ryeon, and this time it is you? It is quite a weary thing to have you visit alternately…”

“How about stopping?”

“If a man wishes to ascend yet gives up, how is he a man? He should cut off that part.”

“…Must you do it even while betraying many people?”

“Hahaha! Have you forgotten, Tae Gong-jin! This Cheon Mu-gwang’s purpose is, both now and in the past-!”

Rumble!

The momentum of the two began to flow and roll. The wind blew violently and the ground trembled as if an earthquake occurred.

Those who transcended human. Those called people who already ascended to the realm of sages and were close to the Limitless.

Their momentum looked to swallow even the sky.

“It is to surpass the Martial God!”

Demonic energy that had not been seen until now rolled from Cheon Mu-gwang’s body. This was his full power, and its ferocity was beyond words.

The grass and trees all died.

It was the descent of the Death God.

“Is that so?”

Watching that, Tae Gong-jin took a stance.

Even while doing so, he did not forget to look at the woman. She noticed something, gritted her teeth, and stood up from her spot.

“Where do you think you are going-!”

Cheon Mu-gwang thrust a palm toward the fleeing woman. The force of the poured palm force was something no one could ignore, but Tae Gong-jin intervened, pushed the woman away, and swung his sword.

Boom!

Gray dust rose thickly.

Before long, simultaneously with it clearing, the figure of the woman was not seen.

Cheon Mu-gwang, who perceived that entire situation, let out a hollow laugh and gritted his teeth.

This time was something he absolutely could not tolerate.

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