Chapter 186: Chapter 186
The Chief Steward slyly stepped back.
And he focused on the scene unfolding in front of him, secretly twisting the corners of his mouth.
The pill he had just thrown.
It was something that granted powerful strength in exchange for taking away a person’s reason.
‘Hehe. He didn’t want to take the Soul-Losing Pill no matter what, but to think the Mount Hua Sect would help with this.’
The Chief Steward’s eyes shone wickedly.
Normally, if one possessed a pill that suddenly increased internal energy, a martial artist would try to eat it before anyone else.
However, the Lord of Sayu Valley was different.
He doubted and doubted again.
That was why he had given the Soul-Losing Pill and the mental cultivation method to others to test them.
And after taking the time to check the effects and side effects of the pill and mental cultivation method, he had absolutely refused to put it in his mouth.
That was why he had half-given up on feeding him the Soul-Losing Pill as well…
‘Since his life is in danger, eventually…’
His eyes headed towards the Lord of Sayu Valley.
Although he was a highly suspicious and cautious person, he still wouldn’t have had the time to think about such things in a life-threatening crisis.
‘But it was quite a strong martial prowess. Did he hide his skills all this time?’
He looked at the Lord of Sayu Valley’s change.
The martial prowess he had grasped of him was at the entry of the peak realm or the very end of the first-rate realm.
However, the martial prowess he had displayed just before was at the proficient stage even within the peak realm.
If he had trained for ten-odd years, it was to the extent that he would have reached the realm of the Limitless Realm.
And.
‘Since he possessed that level of skill, he must have had the confidence to control at least one Soul-Losing Pill.’
The corners of his mouth hung on his ears.
‘But it is a bit of a shame. It would have been better if I had fed it to him when his martial prowess became higher than now.’
Although the pill granted astonishing power.
There was exactly only one chance.
And now that the Lord of Sayu Valley had eaten it, it would be difficult to see any more growth.
‘Because he is no different from a dead body.’
Now he could not raise his realm.
It was obvious that his punctured Innate Qi would continuously leak out, and that would be more than the Acquired Qi he built up.
‘I will have to find a replacement for this guy and raise them within five years.’
Around the time he was making plans for the future.
Hwaaaak!
The Lord of Sayu Valley’s momentum exploded.
That tremendous momentum dominated Sayu Valley, blazing furiously like fire.
“Wow, you ate that? You’re completely crazy to die.”
Cheon-hwi examined the Lord of Sayu Valley.
Not only the Lord of Sayu Valley’s momentum, but even his presence changed after eating the pill.
As if he had become a different person.
“It’s considerably faster than I thought. To think it would already invade up to the Upper Dantian in this short amount of time.”
Cheon-hwi gazed at the Lord of Sayu Valley’s eyes.
The black pupils had disappeared.
His eyes, completely occupied only by pure white sclerae, were scattering a terrifying eye light.
‘Has it already occupied down to his bone marrow?’
Cheon-hwi, who was reading the madness contained in his eyes, slowly lifted his sword and opened his mouth.
“Your Innate Qi is a waste.”
His realm had indeed gotten higher.
But that was all.
He did not think it was worth obtaining at the cost of losing his reason and gnawing away at his lifespan.
At that moment, the Lord of Sayu Valley growled while drooling like a starving beast.
“…I will kill you.”
“Yeah? Try and kill me then.”
As Cheon-hwi flicked his sword.
Kwajik!
He kicked off the ground.
In an instant, cracks occurred on the floor, and the pavilion’s roof shook.
“Your momentum is good. But a realm reached by borrowing someone else’s is an empty shell, so it’s not fierce at all.”
The Lord of Sayu Valley’s eyes slanted upwards.
“Do not call me a shell!”
The Lord of Sayu Valley’s hand, which spat out a spiteful sound as if his reverse scale had been touched, aimed for Cheon-hwi’s head at a ferocious speed.
At that moment.
Seueuk…
Cheon-hwi’s sword was stretched out.
At the same time, red sword qi flowed out like a skein of thread from his sword, and it soon bloomed a clear plum blossom redder than blood.
One blossom, two blossoms.
In the blink of an eye, dozens and hundreds of plum blossoms were embroidered in the empty air.
‘This many plum blossoms…?!’
The Chief Steward’s eyes were swallowed in shock.
He had seen the Plum Blossom Sword Art a few times in the past, but.
This was different.
Because there were many plum blossoms? It was not.
It was clearly the same sword form, but he could not say this was the same.
Cheon-hwi stopped his sword.
However, both the opposing Lord of Sayu Valley and the watching Chief Steward felt that this pause was exactly the tranquility before the clouds of war.
Eventually, Cheon-hwi’s sword fell down.
“Out of the Plum Blossom Sword Art, this one was at least the most tyrannical sword form. Receive it well.”
Hundreds of petals moved respectively and fluttered down.
As if they had vitality.
‘…!’
The Lord of Sayu Valley, who should have lost his reason, stopped attacking and crossed his hands.
It was an instinct that even the soul-snatching Soul-Losing Pill could not block that accidentally came out.
The Lord of Sayu Valley’s fist and palm were swung.
Including the Sayu Eight Palms, the Eight Trigrams Palm, Goyeoil Fist, Sogyeong Fist, and so on…
Ferocious fist arts and palm arts unfolded.
As if showing the training he had built up until now, the fist arts and palm arts loaded with Fist Gangqi tore the plum blossom petals falling before his eyes to shreds.
However.
“This is just the beginning.”
Plum blossoms poured down like rain.
The most tyrannical sword form with the thickest killing intent among the Twenty-Four Movements Plum Blossom Sword Art.
It was the manifestation of the Plum Blossom Blood Rain.
The fluttering petals instantly pierced in a straight line and reached the Lord of Sayu Valley.
Seugeok!
The moment the petals touched, terrible bloodstains were engraved on the Lord of Sayu Valley’s body.
His crossed hands were already tattered to the point where bones were exposed, and blood had already pooled into puddles around him.
And eventually.
Kung.
The Lord of Sayu Valley pitched forward onto the floor.
‘…This is Mount Hua’s Plum Blossom Sword Art?’
The Chief Steward’s chest cooled coldly.
The fallen Lord of Sayu Valley’s appearance felt serious even just looking at it. From the top of his head to the tips of his toes, there was not a single place without a wound, and blood was muddying the floor.
This was like, rather than the Righteous Faction.
‘It is a martial art closer to our side.’
When the Chief Steward tried hard to hide his shock inside, Cheon-hwi bent his neck.
His gaze was on the Chief Steward.
To be exact, it was on the internal energy in the Lower Dantian that the Chief Steward deeply hid in order to conceal it.
The same energy as the guy who used the Disguise Art.
“Shall I take on the real deal now.”
The Chief Steward’s expressionless face broke for a moment.
However, it was restored in a split second and soon put on a surprised face.
“W-what are you saying?”
“Doing a ridiculous acting.”
“Pardon? What you mean by that, this lowly one does not quite…”
“Ah, I loathe troublesome things.”
Cheon-hwi lifted his sword.
A light action.
But the Chief Steward, who saw the martial arts Cheon-hwi displayed just before, automatically pulled up his internal energy and took a defensive starting stance.
Cheon-hwi smiled mockingly as he looked at that.
“You reveal it on your own.”
“…”
The Chief Steward’s expression turned chilly.
“Since when did you know?”
“From the beginning.”
The Chief Steward’s eyebrows wriggled.
“That’s bullshit.”
“Think whatever you want.”
Cheon-hwi spoke nonchalantly.
No, it really wasn’t a big deal.
Regardless of what he thought, the thing to do was just one anyway, wasn’t it?
“I don’t have any interest in whoever you are anyway. Ah! If there’s one thing, I am curious about what on earth that pill is.”
Cheon-hwi let out a smirk.
“You have no intention of telling me anyway, right?”
“…”
“I thought as much. I didn’t expect it either.”
Cheon-hwi swung his sword.
In an instant, sharp sword qi shot out like wind and swept over the place where the Chief Steward was.
Kwaang!
In an instant, dust bloomed up.
And at that moment.
Huung!
Something shot through the dust.
‘A fan?’
He struck away the Iron Fan flying while scattering a sharp edge with his sword.
Small sparks splattered, and the Iron Fan bounced off.
However, the Chief Steward, who had already risen in the air, bent his knees and kicked off the wall.
“This is novel again.”
Cheon-hwi twisted his sword while looking at the Chief Steward freely unfolding his martial arts.
For a moment as the Iron Fan and the Chief Steward bounced sideways with a ‘Kkaang’ sound.
Hwirik…
The Chief Steward spun his body in that state.
And he flew the Iron Fan just like that.
The moment Cheon-hwi was about to strike down the Iron Fan.
Pababat!
The Chief Steward wildly swung his fists.
It was the Iron Breaking Fist, one of his life-saving ultimate skills that was said to even crush iron.
A barrage of eighteen strikes made in a single breath occurred, but Cheon-hwi completely dodged them all just by shaking his head.
“Unlike your flashy movements, your fist and palm arts are so-so.”
Cheon-hwi raised his left hand and snatched the wrist that was swung last.
“Keuk!”
The Chief Steward gritted his teeth.
But the grip strength holding his wrist was so strong that he could not get out.
And he was soon dumbfounded by the pressure that was getting increasingly stronger.
Ududuk!
He felt that an unusual sound rang, and then his wrist bones were completely smashed.
“Kkeuaaaak!”
Cheon-hwi silently gazed at the screaming Chief Steward and pulled him.
The face that approached right in front of his nose in a single breath.
Only then was the light of fear creeping up in the Chief Steward’s eyes.
“Not yet.”
Cheon-hwi, who twisted his lips, threw him.
At the moment when Cheon-hwi swung his sword largely towards the Chief Steward floating in the air.
“Stop!”
Heavenly Ear Beggar ran over while shouting.
However, before that, the already swung sword pierced through the fallen Chief Steward’s body.
Seugeok!
The Chief Steward trembled his body.
“…”
Heavenly Ear Beggar stopped in his tracks in that state.
He alternately looked at Cheon-hwi and the Chief Steward with pale eyes and moved his lips.
“Did you kill him?”
Cheon-hwi lifted his sword.
Drops of blood coagulated and dripped down.
“Not yet.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar immediately examined the Chief Steward.
“Heok, heok.”
His condition was gruesome.
The sword wound drawn from his left shoulder blade to his right waist was gaping open, and blood was flowing out incessantly.
Looking at the depth of the wound, it had barely not touched his internal organs, but his face catching his breath was filled with pain as if his ribs had broken from that shock.
The furrow between Heavenly Ear Beggar’s eyebrows deepened.
He was managing to stay alive well.
No, this was not living even if he was alive. It would have been better to die instead.
“…Is this being alive?”
“His breath is attached, isn’t it.”
“Even so, this is too…”
Heavenly Ear Beggar was about to say something for a moment, but swallowed his breath and shook his head.
“No, nevermind. This might actually be the perfect end for this damn bastard.”
He cut off his words and made eye contact with the Chief Steward taking short breaths.
“I didn’t expect to see you in a place like this. Ten Thousand Weapons Eccentric.”
“…!”
The Chief Steward’s eyes dyed in blood shook.
Cheon-hwi asked Heavenly Ear Beggar, who seemed to have recognized the Chief Steward at a glance.
“Do you know who he is?”
“Of course I know him.”
Heavenly Ear Beggar’s lips jutted up.
“He is a very vicious murderous demon who would kill passing commoners to test whether the blade is sharp or not whenever he obtains a new weapon, and recently…”
In an instant, Heavenly Ear Beggar’s eyes sank.
“He is a guy who was declared as a public enemy of the Murim.”
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