Chapter 314: Decisive Battle (1)
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Translated by Frog in the Well
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Watching the Unity stage-level blow plunging into the absolute center of Gwanyun City, which was like the capital,
Clang!
without having to think, he drew his sword, and drew a diagonal line simultaneously with the drawing of the blade.
Not to mention the Blood Wings that underwent the fifth circulation, but also from the Golden Body Dharma Image to the last remaining Burning Moon Slash.
He did his best in what he could do in the sudden situation.
Whoosh!
The moment the sword light surging from the ground touched the sky.
The Burning Moon Slash that cut and cleaved the dark blue flame lump about in half collided with the invisible shockwave that flew in consecutively, and slowed down rapidly, then was ground by the silver vortex and scattered to pieces.
Although it was safe to say he was pushed back one-sidedly… it had a meaning.
A split second of time created while blocking the Unity stage-level blow.
Hummm!
Boasting a distant scale, the 7th-rank immortal city of the human race, the entirety of Gwanyun City vibrated, and was then enveloped in blue light.
The alleys where street stalls were set up, the great avenue where thousands of carriages came and went, the floating island that drifted in the sky serving as a market…
Every wall and floor existing in Gwanyun City was covered in blue lines. The moment the pattern highlighting geometric beauty emitted light.
An invisible barrier that puffed up like an air bubble blocked the Unity stage-level blow.
And,
…………………!
A roaring sound surpassing perception shook Gwanyun City.
“Keugh. Suddenly what…”
“Attack! It is an attack!”
“What?”
The human cultivators who lost their balance and staggered at the sudden shock looked up at the sky,
“Ah.”
and lost their souls. Their complexions turned even paler than a sheet of paper.
“D-Dao Sovereign!”
“Why is the Asura Dao Sovereign here?”
An everyday life that was same as usual. At the disaster that appeared without any warning.
“Aaaaaaaack!”
The entire city was enveloped in a hellish pandemonium.
The low-tier cultivators who were terrified ran blindly to escape somehow, and some sat down completely despairing.
However, it was not that everyone gave up.
Led by the Unity stage Celestial Lords who took flight from various places in the city, tens of thousands of middle and low-tier cultivators who rose like a swarm of bees took their places at the core of the formation.
“Gather your senses and concentrate! If we only hold out for a moment, Gwang-myeong Dao Sovereign will come!”
Gongya Dao Sovereign, the Asura who glanced at the human cultivators shouting urgently, said.
“Their response is quite fast. Is this because it is nominally a 7th-rank immortal city?”
“A 7th-rank formation… parsing it will not be difficult. That spot over there, it seems it will break if we attack about seven or eight times.”
Right at that moment when the entire city was enveloped in chaos due to the sudden surprise attack.
Jin So-myeong, who prevented the catastrophe by throwing the Burning Moon Slash, turned his gaze.
A young man running desperately to escape somehow even without being able to fly, a child crouching and trembling, an old man looking up at the sky with a soulless face…
Amidst the people enveloped in chaos and fear, people trying to defend the city while gritting their teeth were seen.
Staring intently at the people trying to face the disaster they could not resist, he turned his gaze again.
He saw the Asura Dao Sovereigns who were analyzing the formation with cold expressions, and only then could he realize.
Why had he not left for the Northern Mang Xuan?
In the first place, there was no need to participate in the war. That war was helpful for cultivation was entirely nonsense.
Of course, the cultivation speed would become faster.
However, was that truly efficient? Calculating it, it was absolutely not.
It was far better to simply turn his concern away from the war, and cross over to the Northern Mang Xuan to savor the rich resources.
Despite this, the reason he remained here.
The reason he went in and out of the battlefield under the excuse of revenge while risking danger and taking losses was…
because his heart was uncomfortable.
‘I have owed too many debts…’
During hundreds of years of cultivation, if he bestowed goodwill to others, he bestowed it, but the times he received it one-sidedly were not that many.
However, since receiving the Light-Moon Silent-Life Sword, he received too many things.
To the point where he could by no means pretend not to know.
Once he acknowledged the heart that someone would call foolish, and would not be strange even if treated as a fool, everything became clear.
‘This fight will bring a large loss.’
Looking at the Asura Dao Sovereigns trying to smash the formation, he felt it turned out well instead.
Since the situation reached this state, what was there to hesitate?
Let us fight for now, and resolve the subsequent matter regarding the Grand Ascension stage even by clearing out all of the Heavenly Lifespan Life-Prolonging Stone and his lifespan.
If he unfolded the Supreme Great Ability with the nine thousand years of lifespan remaining, he would be able to pass at least this event.
Believing so, he kicked off the void.
As he flew toward the outer edge of the formation enveloping Gwanyun City, the gazes of the Asura Dao Sovereigns followed.
‘Are they indeed targeting me?’
As he grasped the enemy’s purpose, a countermeasure came out naturally.
Sticking close to the outer edge of the formation, he said to the Asura Dao Sovereigns staring at this side.
“Did you come to kill me?”
“…”
“It turned out well. I was also just wishing to fight a bout with you bastards.”
“Ha. Are you saying that serious? You speak absurd words well.”
Differently from the two Dao Sovereigns who narrowed their eyes as if trying to grasp his intention, he gestured with his chin toward Cheonra Dao Sovereign, the Asura woman who was merely dumbfounded.
“Follow me. Let us fight a bout in a quiet place.”
“You will step out of the formation of your own accord? Why…”
“Are you afraid?”
With a chuckle, he unfolded the Lightning Escape Art utilizing black lightning.
Although it was his own trump card, he did not spare it. Revealing it openly, he surged into the sky outside the formation.
Boom!
As he traversed the void at a tremendous speed, the Asura Dao Sovereigns who frowned followed immediately.
How long did they fly?
He was able to arrive at a wasteland separated by millions of kilometers from Gwanyun City.
As he landed on a quiet place, the Asura Dao Sovereigns who followed said with stiffened expressions.
“Your escape art is quite something.”
“Why did you abandon the advantageous environment on your own? If you actively utilized the Gwanyun City formation, you would have been able to hold out. Surely is it due to a trivial sentiment?”
“He probably stalls time hoping Gwang-myeong will come. Though it will be of no use since we have blockaded the vicinity of ten million li completely.”
Looking at the Asura Dao Sovereigns speaking as if they could not understand, he tilted his head to the side.
“Nominally Asuras, you bastards speak strange words.”
“Hmm?”
“Does fighting a strong individual require a special reason? One just fights a bout and that is all.”
“…”
The Asura Dao Sovereigns fell silent all at once. Like a person struck a blow.
At that moment when they could not reply while moving their lips.
“Your words are correct. What reason does a man need to fight a bout?”
From behind, a strangely clear voice was heard from a distant place beyond the horizon,
Crack!
and a rough rupturing sound echoed as a dark iron staff popped out from the empty void.
It was a scene as if an invisible wall was pierced by someone beyond the void.
“…Gwang-myeong!”
“How are you already?”
The Asura Dao Sovereigns whose expressions completely changed kicked off the ground, but they were a step late.
Boom!
Following the iron staff, a bare hand that popped out gripped the void, and literally tore it apart.
A muscular giant who forcibly squeezed into the space blocked by the barrier.
Gwang-myeong Dao Sovereign, whose entire body seemed to be made of steel, laughed brightly enough to reveal his fangs.
“To think you swarm in groups just to kill a single kid who is merely at the Unity stage. Know shame.”
Gwang-myeong Dao Sovereign, who spoke in a trivial tone, swung the dark iron staff horizontally without hesitation,
Boom!
and the fist of Myeolsim Dao Sovereign trying to strike down the dark staff was bounced off as if struck by a battering ram.
“…!”
Without even a gap to react, his left shoulder was crushed as it was.
Boom!
Along with a booming sound as if a bomb exploded, he flew and was buried deep underground.
That was also brief.
“Keugh, good! At this opportunity, I shall kill you too!”
The eyes of Myeolsim Dao Sovereign, who appeared by piercing the soil pillar that surged high into the sky, were dyed blood-red.
The dark blue smoke filling the hole pierced at the heart region puffed up, and then covered his skin in an instant.
‘Heart-Shattering Blood Glyph?’
Although the form was different from a real heart bursting, the effect was identical.
Myeolsim Dao Sovereign’s energy amplified rapidly, and the energy that expanded like a sweeping wind swept the surroundings.
Sssssst…!
Merely a tiny part of the energy flowing along his meridians seeped out, yet the earth evaporated and turned into gas.
Within the situation flowing urgently.
Everyone situated in the battlefield moved without anyone being first.
Two among the Asura Dao Sovereigns.
Myeolsim Dao Sovereign who unfolded the Heart-Shattering Blood Glyph and Cheonra Dao Sovereign poured offensives toward Gwang-myeong Dao Sovereign, the human Unity stage cultivator,
and Avici Dao Sovereign’s gaze headed toward Jin So-myeong.
Boom!
Even in the chaotic situation, he stretched out his fist while looking only at Jin So-myeong.
The moment he cleaved the invisible shockwave that rushed while drawing a straight line.
Clang………!
At the repulsive force as if forcing his way through a steel lump, his wrist felt numb.
Pain as if his joints were breaking flowed along his nerves, yet this was good news.
‘It is doable.’
Was it thanks to achieving rapid progress over nearly several years?
Before he knew it, he did not get pushed back one-sidedly even while clashing head-on with the Unity stage Dao Sovereign.
The joy was also brief.
The moment they exchanged a blow, Avici Dao Sovereign’s gaze completely changed.
Did he feel alertness from the fact that Jin So-myeong received the Unity stage-level blow?
A dense killing intent was frosted in his gaze, and then he unfolded the Heart-Shattering Blood Glyph.
‘…!’
A split second. Nothing had changed yet, but he felt goosebumps.
Before he could even perceive the change.
His instinct trained amidst the life-and-death struggles warned him,
and he unfolded the Moon-Deducing Dao Scripture, the secret technique of burning life to cross boundaries.
The rapid rise guided him to an unknown territory, but there was no leisure to savor the feeling of elevation.
According to the warning of his instinct, he unfolded the Yin-Yang Reversal.
He blocked the front with a pure white barrier, but…
Crack!
it was penetrated easily to the point of being futile.
Right before the fist that came approaching while tearing apart the Yin-Yang Reversal burst his heart.
Countless thoughts tangled in his head lost meaning.
The starting point where life and death were divided.
His concentration reached an unprecedented realm.
Gathering all the Dharma Domain he had continuously trained since becoming a Unity stage cultivator, he compressed it to the limit and made it smaller than a palm.
Exactly one inch from the skin.
With the extremely thin Dharma Domain, he gripped the fist right before it burst his heart.
Simultaneously, he accelerated his physical body that felt frustratingly slow.
Retreating as if bouncing off the ground, he unfolded the Chaos Sky Shattering Annihilation Palm with his left hand that did not hold the sword.
Crackle…!
Yin-Yang and the Five Elements, he rolled and rolled the dark red energy that gathered while swirling.
With it compressed smaller than a speck of dust, he pushed the wrist joint of Avici Dao Sovereign to the side.
The moment he subtly twisted the trajectory of the fist trying to burst his heart.
Right to the right of the pit of his stomach, his rib bone was crushed into the shape of a fist.
The ominous sound of bones completely shattering to pieces.
Following the sharp pain that dyed his vision white, a floating feeling of his body rising is felt.
As his vision that was cut for a split second returned, the surrounding scenery stretched long like wheat gluten.
The mountains and fields that were right next to him grew distant in an instant.
At that moment when he was flying backward, backward along with the impact that choked his breath.
Boom!
He collided with something. Pain as if his back was struck with an iron hammer arose.
At the heap of soil brushing and passing his cheek, he realized.
That while flying after being hit by the fist, he collided with an unnamed mountain.
It was not even once.
Boom!
Without even a gap to gather his senses, he continued to fly while smashing over ten mountains.
How far had he flown in a brief split second that did not even amount to a single breath, that Gwang-myeong Dao Sovereign and the other Asuras became absolutely invisible.
‘Is this the Asura Dao Sovereign who unfolded the Heart-Shattering Blood Glyph.’
At that moment when he was forcibly holding onto his consciousness trying to turn hazy.
Flash.
Avici Dao Sovereign, who appeared by cleaving the void, threw a second blow.
……………!
The middle action of raising and stretching his fist was not even seen. The moment he perceived it, it was already right before touching his brow.
Precisely at that moment when he was driven to the limit.
‘Now.’
Now when his life was placed at the edge of a cliff.
Along with the sensation of all nerves awakening fully, he realized.
That the first opportunity to counterattack since the combat began had arrived.
Staring intently at the fist that the Unity stage Dao Sovereign trained throughout his life, the thing plunging down like lightning.
Splitting the interval, the gap existing between time and time, he unfolded the Annihilation Slash.