Chapter 142: Chapter 142
Both Taowu and Qiongqi fell into confusion.
Bright Moon Blade had previously relayed that he was a person who inherited the true inheritance of the Evil Emperor Palace.
But what was going on right now?
Never mind the martial arts of the Evil Emperor Palace, wasn’t he spewing out Demonic Qi?
And it was a Demonic Qi that far exceeded the ordinary!
“He wasn’t a guy who inherited the true inheritance of the Evil Emperor Palace, but a guy who learned Demonic Arts.”
Taowu spoke while narrowing his eyes.
In contrast, Qiongqi spoke in a low voice with a faintly stiff expression.
“There are not many people in the current Jianghu with such intense Demonic Qi……. Could it be!”
In an instant, one place came to her mind.
The holy land of the Demonic Path and the apex of the Demonic Path.
The Heavenly Demon Cult, a place that could not be caught up with by any single faction throughout all ages!
“……Did they come to the Central Plains.”
Similarly, Taowu, who recalled the Heavenly Demon Cult, curved his narrow eyes.
“To think I would see a Demonic practitioner who learned Demonic Arts in a place like this.”
He let out a dreary laugh.
Meeting a Demonic practitioner in the Central Plains was as rare as plucking a star from the sky.
Because Demonic practitioners were the enemies of the Central Plains’ Jianghu.
But to meet a master exuding that much Demonic Qi, it was an opportunity that would not come again.
Qiongqi, who was watching Taowu burning his fighting spirit, was startled and blocked his path.
“W-wait a moment. If he’s a Demonic practitioner of the Heavenly Demon Cult, it will be troublesome…….”
“Move aside!”
Taowu shoved her, who had blocked the front.
“Who knows when an opportunity like this will come again.”
“……Are you crazy right now?”
Qiongqi’s voice, whose annoyance surged from being shoved, rose higher than ever.
“If the Heavenly Demon Cult has appeared in the Central Plains, it’s no ordinary problem. Especially since that person unfolded not Demonic Arts but the martial arts of the Evil Emperor Palace, it means they are extending their demonic hands…….”
“You take care of that kind of thing.”
However, Taowu ignored her.
Having met a master difficult to see, Qiongqi’s words didn’t even enter his ears.
Right now, his senses were entirely on the enemy in front.
They were entirely concentrated solely on Cheon-hwi.
“I hope you entertain this seat.”
His momentum, which had been whispering, grew.
The murderous intent and fighting spirit, which had already swollen tautly, poured out explosively.
Kwang!
He stomped his foot roughly.
Just how much internal energy was loaded into it, the dirt floor overturned and the dirt fluttered.
Inside the dust that had become hazy.
Swaeek!
His sword stabbed sharply.
The narrow sword blade tore through the air rapidly while bursting with a sharp noise.
‘It’s quite fast?’
Cheon-hwi’s eyes shone as he looked at the sword tip that approached his chest in a split second.
A figure shot like a bowstring snapping.
And the speed of the fast sword unfolded by adding to that speed defied all comparison.
A fast sword of a considerable level.
It was a sword form of a level where even a master of the same Limitless Realm would suffer at least a fatal injury or die if they were slightly off guard.
However, the opponent happened to be bad.
‘It’s still slower than the Soul Chasing Sword though.’
Cheon-hwi lightly deflected his sword.
“……!”
Taowu was surprised looking at Cheon-hwi’s sword that lightly deflected it as if water was flowing, but.
Kung!
He unfolded the Thousand Catty Drop and stopped in place.
After doing so for a moment.
“Try dodging this too!”
He stepped his footwork and stabbed his sword continuously.
Then, dozens of sword shadows appeared and began to aim for all sorts of areas on Cheon-hwi.
Head, eyes, nose, mouth, neck, heart, etc.
A fast sword that didn’t even give time to dodge!
It was the Evil Shadow Sword Art, the sword art that had allowed him to survive through all kinds of life-and-death struggles in the past and earned him the alias of Combat Ghost.
Cheon-hwi looked at the sword shadows.
‘It’s not as good as I expected.’
As Cheon-hwi, who was leisurely watching the dozens of sword shadows, slowly grasped the hilt of the Demonic Sword.
Hwaaaak!
As if responding to it, the Demonic Qi exploded.
Following that, the Demonic Qi very naturally submitted to Cheon-hwi and volunteered to surrender.
It was a natural sequence.
Because rejecting him, who was the Supreme Venerable of Ten Thousand Demons, was an impossible thing.
‘As expected, Demonic Qi sure is comfortable.’
It was comfortable and familiar to handle.
Even though he had become a Daoist of the Mount Hua Sect now and learned the Plum Blossom Divine Art, he had learned Demonic Arts for a lifetime in his past life.
Soon, he lifted his sword.
At that moment, a pitch-black dark thunder struck roughly in his two pupils.
Seueueu-
At the same time, the Demonic Qi moved under his intent and sublimated into a single flame.
“……!”
In an instant, Taowu swallowed his breath.
‘For such a thing to exist in the world…….’
It was a hard-to-believe sight.
The pitch-black ink flame that bloomed from the opponent’s sword did not harmonize with the world at all.
It was so heterogeneous that it seemed as if only that was isolated from this place.
As if it was defying the natural order.
Taowu narrowed his eyes.
He realized that he had unconsciously had everything taken away by that thing.
‘……At this rate, I will be devoured!’
Taowu bit his lip hard to regain his mind, which was becoming distant.
Jureuk-
As the fishy taste of blood swirled in his mouth, he snapped to his senses.
Following that, the internal energy in his lower dantian.
He drew out and gathered every last ounce of his Combat Heart Qi.
‘Only the One Shadow Sword……!’
His sword, having recalled the final move and ultimate technique of the Evil Shadow Sword Art, changed.
The path of the sword merged into one and the momentum contained within became even sharper.
The realm of Body and Sword as One!
His hand and sword became one and aimed for the heart of the enemy in front, Cheon-hwi.
‘One move! I will decide the victor in just one move!’
His figure was segmented.
No, he shot forward showing an extreme speed to the point where he looked segmented.
An astonishing extreme speed that would make others think it was an optical illusion if they saw it!
Only after the sword was swung.
Swaaaaek!
Even the sound followed belatedly.
However, despite such an astonishing fast sword, Cheon-hwi swung his sword wrapped in the ink flame without the slightest change in expression.
A simple swing, not even a sword form.
But the moment it overlapped with the ink flame.
Hwareureureuk!
The whole world was burned by the ink flame.
“Keuk! W-what is this!”
Qiongqi swallowed her breath and backed away.
‘Just what is that ink flame…….’
Her eyelashes trembled faintly.
Would the Scorching Hell be like this.
Even though she was ten zhang away, a terrible heat washed over her.
‘For such a terrible Demonic Art to…….’
She recalled the situation just a moment ago.
The pitch-black ink flame that bloomed from the sword swallowed Taowu as he charged right in.
Not stopping there, the flames grew fiercer and were burning everything up.
As if they would burn the world away.
‘……Who is he?’
Her mind became complicated.
What was the reason for unfolding the martial arts of the Evil Emperor Palace when he had learned such Demonic Arts.
Not only that.
Despite being a Demonic practitioner, he touched the Sun Moon Sect and helped the rising stars of the Flying Heaven Society.
‘Just what is his objective?’
Everything was full of questions.
‘Is the Heavenly Demon Cult trying to extend their demonic hands to the Central Plains again? To purposely make the Flying Heaven Society and the Four Black Alliances clash? Then why didn’t they attack Shaolin?’
Around the time her head started to get hot with numerous questions.
Chijiji-
The ink flame cleared and a voice was heard.
“It’s been a while, so I couldn’t control it well.”
Cheon-hwi lightly shook his head and looked at Taowu lying spread-eagled on the floor.
“Keoheok!”
Taowu’s chest heaved and he vomited blood from his lips that had turned pale blue.
The pitch-black dead blood flowed out between his lips and dirtied his white beard.
At that time, his head turned.
The trees that were completely burned and the overturned floor entered his vision.
And Cheon-hwi standing in the center too.
‘For the Evil Shadow Sword Art to be smashed this miserably…….?’
It was hard to believe even now.
The sword move from just a moment ago was an ultimate technique that would inflict at least a heavy injury even on a master of the Limitless Realm.
Rather, he was the one who was done in.
At that time, the young man in front muttered.
“I’m too weak compared to the past.”
Taowu looked at him with a blank face.
‘……That powerful sword is weak?’
His pupils shook.
Just recalling the sword from a moment ago made his body tremble like this now, but he was truly not satisfied with it.
“Geureureuk-”
Taowu tried to ask what he meant by that, but no voice came out and only blood flowed out of his mouth.
At that sound, Cheon-hwi turned his head.
“Hm? You were still alive?”
Cheon-hwi, who glanced down at Taowu, raised his sword and struck it straight down.
Puk!
The sword parted his flesh and pierced his heart.
“Keuaaaak!”
Taowu’s scream pierced Cheon-hwi’s ears like a needle. Following that, red bloody water splattered from below, wetting his martial robes, and a fishy scent of blood tickled his nose.
Uuu-
The Demonic Sword, which had imbibed blood, cried faintly.
Perhaps because it tasted blood for the first time in a while, the Demonic Sword was flowing with terrible Demonic Qi.
“You seem to like it.”
When the Demonic Sword trembled as if answering.
“I’ll fill your stomach today.”
Cheon-hwi, who chuckled, lifted his left foot.
Hwik-
In an instant, his figure disappeared and he shortened the distance of twenty-something zhang in one breath.
Cheon-hwi looked at Qiongqi, who had frozen in that state upon seeing him, and brought out his words.
“Still, you didn’t run away.”
“That distance…….”
Qiongqi bit her lip.
It was to hide her unconsciously trembling lips.
‘I can’t win in a frontal bout.’
She rapidly racked her brain.
Taowu and her martial prowess were at a similar realm. In contrast, what about that person?
He killed Taowu miserably in one move.
‘Still, if it’s that…….’
Her eyes shone wickedly.
She had something to believe in.
At the same time, a sticky energy flowed out from her entire body and spread stealthily.
Unlike Taowu, she possessed a deadly weapon targeting men.
An innately born Bewitching Qi.
In addition to that, she flashed her eyes while unfolding the Bewitching Heart Knot, which amplified the Bewitching Qi.
‘He won’t be able to escape from this Bewitching Qi.’
The thick Bewitching Qi wrapped around Cheon-hwi.
Even for a master of the Limitless Realm, if they were a man, it was hard to escape the Bewitching Qi combined with the Bewitching Heart Knot.
‘It’s impossible unless it’s a martial prowess at the level of the Sun Moon Sect Leader.’
No matter how much that person killed Taowu in one move, she couldn’t think he possessed that level of martial prowess.
Her gaze nailed onto Cheon-hwi.
Along with that, after raising the Bewitching Heart Knot, she unfolded the Bizarre Bewitching Soul-Snatching Art.
‘It’s done.’
Confirming that the Bewitching Qi had not only wrapped around him but penetrated deeply, her red lips twisted.
“Did you come from the Divine Cult?”
“No.”
Qiongqi’s eyebrows narrowed.
‘He’s not from the Heavenly Demon Cult?’
She subconsciously thought he belonged to the Heavenly Demon Cult.
It made sense, because wouldn’t anyone think a person possessing such intense Demonic Qi and martial prowess came from the Heavenly Demon Cult.
Frowning at her expectation missing the mark, she asked Cheon-hwi again.
“Then are you alone? Or do you belong to another affiliation?”
She stared fixedly at Cheon-hwi’s lips and waited for an answer to come out.
A moment later, his mouth opened, and soon a pitchless voice flowed out.
“What are you going to do by knowing that?”
“……!”
Qiongqi backed away in fright.
“H-how are you, even after being encroached by my Bewitching Qi…….”
Cheon-hwi wore a sneer.
Let alone breaking Cheon-hwi’s immovable mind, her Bewitching Qi couldn’t even put a small crack in it.
He might not know about others, but he had opened his upper dantian with the Absolute Reigning Art.
To try and bewitch such a self with Bewitching Qi?
With this mere Bewitching Qi?
Even a snort didn’t come out.
“You think you can dominate me with this kind of ridiculous Bewitching Qi?”
“…….”
Qiongqi’s eyes tore vertically.
With her sharp eyes half-closed like a fox, she stared fixedly at Cheon-hwi.
“Then I will show you a proper Bewitching Qi.”
Qiongqi spoke indifferently.
She couldn’t grasp the opponent’s identity, but she had obtained the most important information.
Namely, that he wasn’t from the Heavenly Demon Cult!
She had no more hesitation.
Ssi-ik-
Cheon-hwi’s mouth tore widely horizontally.
At the same time, the Demonic Qi harmonized with his smile and turned into a Demonic Art that he frequently used in his past life.
A Demonic Art that snatched the opponent’s soul.
Into the Soul-Snatching Demonic Smile!
“……?!”
In an instant, Qiongqi’s body rattled.
‘……What is this!’
She felt something strange.
The Bewitching Qi that had been there since birth was suddenly not felt.
No, it was vanishing.
“W-what in the world did you do?”
“What do you mean what did I do.”
Cheon-hwi’s smile grew thicker.
“It’s the same as what you were doing.”
“What are you talking about……. Keueuk!”
Wrinkles formed on her face.
Starting with the nasolabial folds being deeply engraved, she began to age rapidly.
The balance of her physical body, which she had maintained with the Bewitching Heart Knot while opposing the Demonic Qi, collapsed.
“Eueueueuk!”
She, who let out an evil scream, quickly covered her face with her two hands and glared at Cheon-hwi through the gaps in her hands.
“Are you embarrassed of your original appearance?”
When Cheon-hwi smirked.
“How dare you……!”
She snapped her head up.
At the same time, she moved the hand that was covering her face to her waist and grabbed her sash.
An action taken in a split second.
Hwiririk!
Following that, she loaded internal energy into the sash.
The sword art of the Bewitching Heart Knot, Snake Tail Sword!
Just like the name of the move, the sash that moved like a snake’s tail aimed for Cheon-hwi.
“Die!”
Cheon-hwi looked at the sash with indifferent eyes and then struck the Demonic Sword upwards from below.
Seugeok!
The sash was cut in half.
With a vain expression, Qiongqi glared at Cheon-hwi while holding the cut sash.
At the same time, her vision turned red and the world split in half.
‘I should have run away quickly…….’
Before she could even finish her thought, her consciousness gradually faded away.
Soon, a long bloody line began to be drawn vertically from her forehead.
Teol-sseok-
She crashed down onto the floor just like that.
Looking at the corpse that used to be Qiongqi, Cheon-hwi sheathed his sword.
“Certainly, Demonic Arts are the neatest.”
Withdrawing his gaze, he lifted the Demonic Sword.
“How is it, are you satisfied now?”
The Demonic Sword cried faintly.
Following that, he sheathed the Demonic Sword, which instantly hid its Demonic Qi, and whipped his body around.
“Then I just have to go to Qinghai now.”
Cheon-hwi walked towards the west.
Leaving behind two corpses and Demonic Qi.
Thus, two hours passed.
“This is?!”
A man appeared.
It was the Azure Cloud Spear, who was known as a rising master in the Divine Spear Yang Clan.
Having come out to look for the guest who suddenly disappeared, he swallowed his breath at the sight in front of him.
The surrounding scenery that looked like a landslide had occurred.
Moreover, the two corpses collapsed nearby were figures he had seen a few days ago.
“Taowu and Qiongqi……? What in the world is this?”
He swallowed his breath and looked at the corpses.
It was miserable.
Taowu’s heart was pierced and Qiongqi was also coldly dead.
“Could it be that he……?”
He shook his head vigorously as he thought of the guest, the young man he was looking for right now.
“No. That can’t be. Even for the Patriarch, the chances of winning against two of the Four Fiends are half and half. Then just who…….”
Around the time his pupils were gradually deepening.
“Wait…….”
Cold sweat momentarily flowed down his back.
“The culprit isn’t the problem right now.”
The situation had become complicated.
Taowu and Qiongqi were the ones who visited the Divine Spear Yang Clan a few days ago.
But now they had become cold corpses, if this information became known to the Sun Moon Sect, what would they think?
‘Don’t tell me they will falsely accuse this clan…….’
His back became damp with sweat.
If this became known and the situation ran towards the worst…….
He hastily turned his body around.
Right now was not the time to think about who the culprit who committed this deed was or anything like that.
“I have to quickly inform the Patriarch!”
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