Chapter 284: Succession of Battles (2)
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Translated by Frog in the Well
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‘That three-headed snake is also at the mid-Void Refinement stage.’
Combining all the forces of the Dark Soul Demonic Sect, there were four mid-Void Refinement stage entities.
Although the number was smaller than the Stone Heart beasts he had dealt with just now, their combat power was stronger.
Around the time they stared blankly at each other.
“Your senses are decent.”
Whether he had not expected to be discovered, Yin Cheon-ho, who was marveling while slightly opening his mouth, gestured with his chin.
Thud!
The three-headed snake, possessing a body larger than a mountain, crawled while crushing the earth, and a giant canyon was formed simply by its movement.
As the three-headed snake possessing an incredibly giant body and the three men looked down, the sun was covered and a shadow was cast.
Around the time he frowned at their appearance of standing openly above his head.
Yin Cheon-ho stepped forward.
“Should I say I am glad to meet you… I had wondered who made a racket in the mine I had marked. It was Fellow Daoist Jin.”
“…”
“But did you deal with the Stone Heart beasts here all by yourself? There should have been six Void Refinement stage-level ones.”
“What if I did?”
“Hah. What a grand skill. I am saying this sincerely. As expected, is a sword cultivator indeed a sword cultivator…”
Yin Cheon-ho, who applauded exaggeratedly as if praising, curled up the corners of his mouth.
“However, I cannot call you wise. I will give you a single piece of advice for your sake.”
“Advice?”
“In a dangerous place like a secret realm, one must not waste law power carelessly.”
“…”
“If you meet someone harboring evil intent in a tired state, you will be done in without even being able to resist. If so, would it not be too unfair?”
At the words spoken while wearing a friendly smile, a laugh was on the verge of coming out from the absurdity.
Looking quietly to see how far he would go, Yin Cheon-ho shook his head.
“You are taciturn as always. Good. I will simply state only my business cleanly. As I mentioned earlier, the Life-Prolonging Stones here were what I targeted first.”
“So?”
“Strictly speaking, the Life-Prolonging Stones here were mine from the start. However, since you also suffered while dealing with the Stone Heart race… just yield half to me. Then we seem bound to be able to part while smiling at each other. How about it?”
The smiling face was truly brazen.
He had watched to see what he would say, and it was truly a sight.
“You speak too much useless talk.”
“What?”
“Are you curious how much law power I have left? As you can see, not even half is left. Stop testing me like a coward, and if you covet the Life-Prolonging Stones, just attack.”
“Well, well. To think you behave in this manner when I showed goodwill… As expected, words do not work with a sword cultivator.”
Yin Cheon-ho, who snorted, wore a chilly expression and spoke.
“Good. I will ask only one last thing. Do you have the intention to return my Soul-Shattering Bell even now?”
“The Soul-Shattering Bell? I told you it was shattered under the aftermath of the Lightning Tribulation.”
“The Soul-Shattering Bell manufactured to obstruct a heavenly tribulation was ruined by a Lightning Tribulation? A story that even a dog would not believe.”
“If you cannot believe it, it cannot be helped.”
Within the momentary silence created as the conversation cut.
Without saying who was first, they moved simultaneously.
Yin Cheon-ho, who twisted his fingers to form complex hand seals, began to recite an incomprehensible spell, and
Clang!
Jin So-myeong swung his sword simultaneously with drawing it.
Although it was a motion as if thrusting casually, he had not thrust simply.
He harbored his full strength in a light move.
From A Single Flash Lightens the Heavens polished through fierce struggles, to the strength amplified by the Blood Wings and the Golden Body Dharma Image, and even the Five Elements Divine Thunder forged through the Heavenly Thunder Dao Body Art.
He tempered the numerous divine abilities he had accumulated until now into extreme keen Qi.
Here, one more thing.
He wrapped the blade burning like a flame with the Infinite Void Formless Robe to kill its presence.
Looking worthless on the outside, yet harboring a distant strength.
The slash that was blurry like an illusion flew toward Yin Cheon-ho who was reciting the spell.
Swish…!
Right before the slash that flew traversing the air cleaved Yin Cheon-ho.
“Where!”
One of the Dark Soul Demonic Sect Elders.
The man wearing a blood-red rosary on his wrist blocked the front and spread his palm.
A bluish light gathered in the form of a barrier and blocked the slash.
Clang!
The violent shockwave covering his vision was brief.
Soon, the result of the clash was revealed, and both sides could not hide their startled signs.
‘He blocked that?’
When they did not grasp each other’s skill, he had intended to sever his breath with the first strike, but it was blocked.
Of course, as it was a slash sent with his full strength, the opponent was also not fine.
“Th-this, what.”
The face of the man wearing the blood-red rosary distorted violently.
A part of his upper body, from his left shoulder to his entire arm, was completely blown away.
Around the time he was hurriedly staunching the blood pouring like a fountain from his shoulder.
Boom!
Jin So-myeong kicked the air. Although he faced an unexpected result, he did not delay at all.
As he had to deal with several simultaneously, he had intended to induce a melee through his specialty, close-quarters combat.
As a streak of lightning cleaved the air, distance lost its meaning.
The moment the distance between the two sides narrowed sharply.
The three-headed snake, the mid-Void Refinement stage demonic beast, reacted first.
Roar!
It tried to swallow him while presenting fangs glistening with poison, but that was a bad move.
The moment the sword light resembling moonlight flashed, the head presenting its mouth lost its owner.
A momentary gap created in that process.
The Elder possessing a long beard swung a dark staff, and
The arm that fell off during the first clash and the head of the three-headed snake sliced just now exploded along with a thud! sound.
‘Sacrifices?’
The flesh that turned into a blood mist condensed in the air, forming spell characters.
The moment he narrowed his brow at the intense smell of blood.
Strength completely drained from his left arm, and his skin cracked like dry fields.
His expression frowned automatically.
The sensation of rotting from beneath the skin was highly unpleasant.
Sizzle!
As he scorched his entire arm with the Five Elements Divine Thunder spread along his meridians, an acrid black smoke rose through the cracked skin.
“Hah, to think he lightly burns the Soul-Dissolving Spirit-Destroying Curse like that.”
“He mastered a lightning-attribute cultivation art properly. Furthermore, at the highest grade.”
Hearing the words muttered as if evaluating, a puzzling feeling suddenly crossed.
‘Even if they are of the same sect, can they behave like that?’
The reaction of the man who became one-armed in an instant was strange.
Should he say he was cold?
His companion had offered his arm as a sacrifice, yet far from rebelling, he did not even get angry.
He merely glared at Jin So-myeong without even paying attention.
‘Even if he had packed up the sliced arm, it would have been helpful to recovery.’
Did he intend to dedicate himself to the immediate battle rather than the future?
Leaving behind the doubt, he focused on the present.
He extended a fist toward the three-headed snake that lost one of its heads and swung its tail.
Boom!
While repelling the tail with the Golden Body Dharma Image, he burned the curse trying to encroach his left arm by controlling the lightning Qi.
Slicing all the spells flying in succession with a single sword, he narrowed the distance.
The moment he became close enough to reach with an extended hand with the Elders whose eyes opened wide.
He drew a diagonal slash with the sword enveloped in A Single Flash Lightens the Heavens, and
The man wearing the rosary on his wrist blocked the front and spread his single remaining palm.
Even though he had lost his arm just now, he did not hesitate at all.
It was a grand courage, but he had no intention of sparing the opponent’s circumstances.
Just as he was about to slice him without mercy.
The other Elder who was behind formed a hand seal, and the surrounding spiritual Qi turned into a dense net and tangled with the blade.
Clang!
Was it because of the rapidly slowed sword speed? The sword was deflected by the barrier spread by the one-armed man.
Although he tried to swallow the opponent with his Law Domain, it failed because the two Elders who opened their eyes wide resisted while pouring out their Qi like crazy.
‘Their coordination is good.’
If it was one, the victory would have been decided with a few slashes.
As the two Elders moved as if one body to assist each other, there was no gap to slip in.
Around the time he narrowed his eyes.
A repulsive smell of sulfur brushed the tip of his nose, and his stomach churned.
Yin Cheon-ho, who had been reciting the spell incessantly since the battle started, finally moved.
The moment he flashed his eyes and clasped his hands.
A giant statue appeared, large enough to fill the sky.
‘A Buddha statue ?’
A giant sitting cross-legged looks down on the battlefield.
At a glance, it looked like a statue representing a Buddha, but the atmosphere was completely different.
Only greed, not mercy, was felt from the smile formed on its mouth, and a sinister light flowed from its eyes curved like half-moons.
Not to mention,
Clean blood drops fell drip by drip from the dark-red robe worn by the Buddha.
An ultra-large Buddha statue reaching several km in height. No, an intense smell of blood came from the Blood Buddha .
It was a spell deployed by the mid-Void Refinement stage cultivator after spending a considerable amount of time.
Since it was a secret technique that looked far from normal, he did not stay still.
Chirrrk!
Although he flew a crescent-shaped slash to divide the upper body of the Blood Buddha, there was no effect.
The Blood Buddha harboring a sinister smile merely wavered like a mirage.
The moment the smile that became unpleasant just by looking reached its peak.
The Blood Buddha moved its giant hands to clasp them as if praying.
Clang…!
The sound of a bell that echoed from somewhere shook heaven and earth, and the sky was covered with dark clouds.
“This place is soon hell, so the Blood Tribulation will arrive.”
The moment the entire world was dyed in darkness.
All vegetation visible to the eye withered simultaneously and turned black.
Withered branches waved in the darkness, which was nary short of the feeling of skulls wriggling.
‘My senses became blurry.’
Simultaneously with the Blood Buddha making the bell sound.
His five senses, which were sharp like a blade, became blunt.
Not to mention sight, which was most important, but touch, smell, hearing, and even taste lost their sensitivity as if thick dust had accumulated.
‘It is not a common spell.’
Is it a secret heritage of the demonic sect?
He tempered his spirit sharply to swing it like a blade. Slicing through his blunted senses again, he unfolded the Lightning Insight Spell-Breaking Eye.
Just as he was observing the Blood Buddha to grasp what kind of spell it was.
Clang!
The bell sounded once more, and thick blood drops began to pour down like a downpour.
Pitter-patter…!
It was not normal rain.
The moment it touched the blood drops, the Law Domain dominating the surroundings withered as if corroded.
Looking at the bizarre phenomenon caused by the Blood Buddha, he realized.
‘When Void Refinement stage cultivators fight each other, it is important to break the opponent’s Law Domain…’
Unlike him, who could ignore typical Law Domains thanks to A Single Flash Lightens the Heavens, normally, a Law Domain was a deadly weapon that could snatch each other’s life in an instant.
Looking at the Blood Buddha trying to raise its giant hands to clasp them once more,
He admitted cleanly.
‘They are strong. Stronger than I thought.’
Something that had troubled his mind whenever things did not go well, what had seeped in at some moment.
Once he laid down his arrogance, it was seen properly.
The three including Yin Cheon-ho. They were, after all, Elders of one of the three great sects of the Stone Heart Realm.
The peak of human demonic cultivation arts.
They were powerhouses of whom it was fine to say they had mastered only the highest-grade secret heritages.
Regardless of their outward appearance that looked shallow and light, their skill was real.
‘Let us pull ourselves together and fight properly.’
Maintaining the state where the Blood Wings were in the first circulation, he folded his mind to try to win while casting a constraint on himself.
It was arrogance and excessive greed.
He also laid down his obsession to break through 6th-rank body tempering through a life-and-death battle.
It was because he realized that increasing the danger by forcibly constraining his strength was of no use.
What was important was not how dangerous it was, but clashing with all his heart and strength.
Simultaneously with recognizing the opponent as a powerhouse.
He released the constraint that was suppressing himself, and the Blood Wings entered the second circulation.
A moment.
As he deployed the Purple Lightning Escape Art with the energy amplified as if exploding, the entire world slowed down.
Now that the opponent had not adapted to the rapidly strengthened Qi.
He targeted a short, truly short moment.
While guiding half of the energy galloping along his meridians to his palm to pour out seven Chaos Sky Shattering Annihilation Palms.
The weakest axis in their precise coordination.
He targeted the three-headed snake, of whom it was no exaggeration to call it detached, and swung his sword.
Accelerating while deploying the Purple Lightning Escape Art to the extreme, he sliced and sliced again.
The blade swung horizontally sliced the remaining two heads of the three-headed snake, and also sliced the remaining body into dozens of pieces.
Thus.
The Void Refinement stage-level demonic beast that boasted a menacing Qi fell to a lump of meat in an instant, and
The eyebrows of the three Elders including Yin Cheon-ho twitched.
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