Chapter 128: Chapter 128
“You’re coming to the Sun Moon Sect?”
“You must be crazy to die.”
“I heard you weren’t an ordinary guy, but I didn’t know you were crazier than us.”
The members of the Half Moon Hall burst into empty laughter.
“Huh? You heard about me?”
Cheon-hwi lightly loosened his hands.
Knowing him meant that their purpose was not the rising stars over there.
“Then it is indeed the Sun Moon Sect.”
“If so, what are you going to do?”
“What do you mean, I’m going to kill you.”
“Puhahaha!”
“You must have lost your mind unable to believe this situation.”
The members of the Half Moon Hall burst into loud laughter.
“Yeah, try killing us once.”
“Though you will die before that.”
Killing intent exploded from their bodies.
At the same time, a terrible demonic energy rose and completely encroached upon the empty abandoned house.
Craaack-
The roof cracked from the impact.
As the roof that had been barely holding on shook, rainwater poured inside.
“Ah, I was going to avoid the rain.”
Cheon-hwi, who was looking at the pouring rain, lightly kicked the ground and came out of the abandoned house.
At that moment.
Swish!
The swords of the Half Moon Hall members who were waiting outside the abandoned house slashed from all directions.
“You’re coming out on your own!”
As Cheon-hwi twisted his waist to dodge the swords.
“Too late!”
Another Half Moon Hall member who had been waiting on the roof jumped down and thrust his sword.
Pushoook!
At that moment, a fountain of blood soared high into the sky and mixed with the falling rain.
“……!”
The members of the Half Moon Hall swallowed their breath.
The Half Moon Hall member who had rushed in was falling down as if he had been struck instead.
And beneath him.
Before they knew it, Cheon-hwi was holding the White Lotus Sword in his right hand with a faint smile.
A moment later, the corpse that was once a Half Moon Hall member fell onto the ground filled with rainwater.
Swipe-
Cheon-hwi swept his rain-soaked hair.
When the two feet of the Half Moon Hall members were frozen stiff as if they had taken root in the ground at the unbelievable sight, Cheon-hwi opened his mouth.
“I think you guys are the ones who are late.”
Facing the cold sneer, the Half Moon Hall members flared up in anger to the tops of their heads.
“This bastard!”
“Do you think we’ll back down!”
Even after seeing Cheon-hwi’s surprising sword strike, the Half Moon Hall members did not back down at all.
Rather, they burned with even more fighting spirit.
‘Oho, they look like the guys from the Divine Cult?’
The corners of Cheon-hwi’s eyes curved.
Their appearance of rushing in whether they die or not resembled the cultists of the Divine Cult.
‘Of course, their martial prowess is far lacking.’
While he was quietly looking at them.
Chaaak!
Numerous weapons held by the Half Moon Hall members pierced through the heavy rain and rushed in.
‘Something that can handle them all at once is……’
Cheon-hwi’s eyes narrowed.
‘I should use that.’
There was a martial art that was just right.
Sss-
Cheon-hwi raised his left hand.
A pitch-black shadow bloomed from a pure white palm that seemed to have not seen the sunlight.
At that moment, the rain stopped.
No, the world stopped in his hand.
The only thing moving within it was one.
Only the pitch-black shadow that bloomed from Cheon-hwi’s hand slowly drew a diagonal line.
Eventually, as the shadow pierced through them.
Swaaa-
The stopped time moved again.
Clang! Clang!
The rushing weapons were snapped off like tree branches the moment they touched the shadow, even before they could reach him.
And at the same time, the owners of the weapons.
The Half Moon Hall members were also miserably torn like their weapons and vomited blood.
“Keuhuk!”
“Keuk!”
A technique contained in the Return to Heaven Knot, a martial art from hundreds of years ago that was now forgotten and occupied the second place among the Four Paths Two Great Absolute Arts.
Cheon-hwi, who had unfolded the Black Shadow Gruesome Murder, looked around with a calm face.
“I like it.”
The Black Moon Hall members were not terrified even though their comrades had died.
Rather, they were smiling.
Cheon-hwi harbored the same smile while looking at those who were bursting into mad laughter.
He liked it very much.
If they had run away, he would have had to go through the trouble of finding and killing them one by one, but weren’t they coming on their own?
“Not running away, that is.”
One of the Half Moon Hall members opened his mouth.
“Fleeing against a mere bastard like you…… Keuk!”
However, he could not finish his words.
It was because a long bloodline had been drawn across his neck before he knew it.
Soon, the long bloodline seemed to get darker, and his neck quickly swayed to the side.
Pushoook!
His severed head fell and blood surged.
Cheon-hwi lightly flicked the sword he had swung and opened his mouth.
“It’s annoying, so come all at once.”
“……I will kill you.”
Even after seeing the astonishingly terrifying sword art, the Half Moon Hall members were not intimidated.
Rather, they bared their teeth toward Cheon-hwi and exuded killing intent as if they were going to rush in without deciding who would go first.
A Half Moon Hall member fell from a tree and swung the long saber in his hand largely.
Swoosh!
At the same time, sword light flashed.
The Soul Piercing Sword, one of the Unorthodox Faction Ten Great Sword Arts, was displayed for the first time in hundreds of years and pierced the Half Moon Hall member’s abdomen like a skewer.
“Keuhuk!”
As Cheon-hwi, who was looking at the Half Moon Hall member who dropped his long saber, tried to pull out the stuck sword.
Squeeze!
The Half Moon Hall member with a pierced abdomen tightly grabbed the sword body and sharply opened his two eyes.
Following that, he spat out phlegm.
“Ptooey!”
Cheon-hwi dodged the blood-mixed phlegm by twisting his head and twisted the corners of his mouth.
“Is this your last struggle?”
“Do you think…… I’ll die…… alone.”
At that moment, a sharp sword pierced through the Half Moon Hall member’s chest and rushed in.
“Was this the only thing you thought of?”
Cheon-hwi dodged with a whoosh and then looked at him, who had his eyes wide open with an unbelievable face.
“It’s too obvious.”
“H-how did you…… that surprise attack……”
“It’s obvious since I can feel the presence.”
The Half Moon Hall member, whose eyes were trembling, glared at Cheon-hwi before gradually losing the light that lingered in his pupils.
At the same time as dropping his head, the hand holding the sword body fell weakly downwards.
He pulled out the sword while looking at the slowly dying Half Moon Hall member with indifferent eyes.
The corpse collapsing with a rustle.
Before he knew it, the blood mixed with rainwater scattered in all directions and began to spread gradually.
And he raised his head and locked eyes with the Half Moon Hall member who had just made the surprise attack.
“By the way, your individual skills are decent, but I guess you don’t have joint attacks or anything like that?”
At Cheon-hwi’s words, the Half Moon Hall member flinched.
Just as he said, there were no joint attacks in the Half Moon Hall.
Let alone joint attacks, it was only filled with crazy bastards who fought regardless of whether they died or not.
There was no way they would combine their strength.
Cheon-hwi’s Soul Piercing Sword shot out again.
The Soul Piercing Sword pierced the side of the Half Moon Hall member, chasing his soul just like the martial art’s name.
“Keuhuk!”
Cheon-hwi whispered while looking at the Half Moon Hall member holding his side with bloodshot eyes.
“Myeong Wol-do came here too, right?”
At Cheon-hwi’s question, his pupils lost focus and his complexion turned pale.
Falling into the extreme stage of the Soul-Snatching Demonic Command Art, he seemed to have lost his reason, showing only the whites of his eyes.
“H-he…… came.”
“Where is he?”
Cheon-hwi looked at him and asked, but.
“Gurgle-“
What was heard was the sound of boiling blood.
“Was the extreme Soul-Snatching Demonic Command Art too much?”
The extreme Soul-Snatching Demonic Command Art that suppresses the spirit had accelerated the lifeline of the man whose breath was already ceasing even faster.
“Well, there’s still a lot left anyway.”
Cheon-hwi scanned the remaining people.
A number of personnel exceeding at least twenty.
There were still many left.
“……!”
The fearless Half Moon Hall members flinched.
No matter how terrible of a method they saw or what kind of expert they saw, their reason that had not been shaken was slowly collapsing.
No, to be exact, they were regaining it.
An emotion they could not feel at all since they learned the Soul Fetching Heart Method.
Fear and terror!
Cheon-hwi opened his mouth while looking at them whose pupils began to tremble slightly.
“Aren’t you coming?”
* * *
“Do you know who we are?”
Zhuge Seung-ho asked while looking at them, but.
“Who else but enemies.”
What returned was ridicule.
However, Zhuge Seung-ho did not waver at their words and opened his mouth.
“I am Zhuge Seung-ho of the Zhuge Clan. And these people are from the Hebei Peng Clan……”
“So noisy.”
A Half Moon Hall member cut off his words.
“So because you are children of the Eight Great Clans, you’re telling us to tuck our tails and run away?”
Zhuge Seung-ho swallowed his saliva and spoke.
“Are you really thinking of not hesitating to go to war?”
“Kuhahaha!”
“They say the guys from the Zhuge Clan are smart, but it seems that’s not always the case.”
At those words, the Half Moon Hall members unanimously burst into mad laughter and shone their eye light.
“Why do you think a war will happen?”
“What are you saying……”
“Who do you think will know that you died here?”
“Th-that means silencing witnesses by murder……”
Zhuge Seung-ho took a step back.
“Your brain is finally working now.”
The Half Moon Hall member smiled sharply and moved.
“Let’s taste the blood of the smart guy called Divine Machine Zhuge.”
Zhuge Seung-ho bit his lip for a moment.
‘Damn it! Why am I the only one in this state!’
Right now, he felt so wronged.
Did he attend the Dragon and Phoenix Gathering because he wanted to?
It was something he had to do unavoidably because his older brother, who was originally supposed to participate, went into closed-door training saying he recently gained enlightenment.
But what is this!
To be on the verge of losing his life to an attack by the Half Moon Hall!
He felt so deeply wronged that his chest was stuffy to the point of bursting.
‘Is it a sin to have no talent!’
Zhuge Seung-ho condemned.
His older brother’s martial talent was so outstanding that even their grandfather took an interest in it.
And his younger brother made traps and formations on his own since he was three years old, and now no one in the family could catch up to him.
Compared to them, how was he?
His martial talent was average, and although he could deploy traps and formations, he didn’t have talent.
Zhuge Seung-ho tightly gripped his folding fan.
And by borrowing the Lesser Heavenly Star Art, he wrapped a faint fan energy around his folding fan.
‘To hell with it! Die!’
Swish-
Plucking Leaves and Flying Flowers!
Zhuge Seung-ho, who unfolded the flying dagger art of the Zhuge Clan with his folding fan, clenched his fists without even seeing what the result was.
And he took a large step forward with his left foot.
Thud!
The moment the heavy Thousand Catty Fall was deployed, he vigorously extended his right fist.
Heavenly Star Collapse Fist.
The fist art that Zhuge Seung-ho was uniquely confident in lodged into the abdomen of the rushing Half Moon Hall member, sending him flying backwards.
However.
Whirl-
The flying Half Moon Hall member spun once and then wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth after landing.
“Is that the Heavenly Star Collapse Fist of the Zhuge Clan? It has no power at all.”
Zhuge Seung-ho’s face distorted.
No matter how he looked at it, he didn’t seem to have taken a big hit.
‘Damn it! If I knew this would happen, I should have whined to my father that I wanted to learn the Great Heavenly Star Divine Art!’
Zhuge Seung-ho clenched his fist again.
What was the use of regretting.
When his life was on the line right now.
“Come.”
As Zhuge Seung-ho spat out words he didn’t mean, the Half Moon Hall member revealed a smile.
“I shall.”
Zhuge Seung-ho crumpled his face.
‘You don’t have to come!’
However, he couldn’t bear to spit it out in words.
It was because the other rising stars next to him were already engaged in a bloody battle.
‘As long as I don’t die!’
Zhuge Seung-ho and the Half Moon Hall member clashed.
Meanwhile, the situation of the other rising stars was not that good either.
Rather, it was on the bad side.
It was partly because the martial prowess of the Half Moon Hall members was outstanding.
But even so, there were way too many of them.
“Damn it!”
Moyong Sang, who had struggled to knock down a Half Moon Hall member, bit his lip. It was because another Half Moon Hall member was already rushing in while raising a blade before he knew it.
He quickly drew up his internal energy.
And he deployed the Moyong Clan’s family martial art, the Flash Cloud-Dividing Sword.
Puk!
Blue sword energy bloomed from his sword and shot out like a sharp thorn.
However.
“Is that all?”
The Half Moon Hall member chuckled and deflected the Flash Cloud-Dividing Sword. And then he stubbornly started aiming for Moyong Sang’s weak points.
Just how many exchanges had they shared like that.
Moyong Sang eventually ended up receiving a fatal wound from the continuously pressing blade of the Half Moon Hall member.
“Keuk!”
Moyong Sang covered his cut waist.
“Damn it!”
Curses came out automatically.
Just how many scratches was this already.
His martial arts uniform was already in tatters, and the blood flowing between them was not completely washed away even by the heavy rain pouring through the broken ceiling.
And that wasn’t the only thing.
“Pant, pant.”
Peng Cheol-wi was taking heavy breaths and slowly moving backwards, while Yang Se-ryeong and Hwangbo So-hyeon looked like they were struggling to even stand.
Around the time they were gradually retreating back as if fleeing, they finally reached a dead end.
And at that moment, they were flustered.
“Corpses?”
“Half Moon Hall members?”
Corpses were piled up like a mountain.
And on top of that mountain of corpses.
A man was sitting aloofly.
“You’re finally here.”
Cheon-hwi opened his mouth while looking at the Half Moon Hall members who chased after the retreated rising stars.
“I’ve been waiting for you.”
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