Chapter 248: The Time of Resurrection (4)
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‘Heok!’
The Dead Soul Group Leader Gyeong-san was surprised to the point his eyes almost popped out.
Pabababababak!
He struck away all the scattering stone pieces and wooden fragments with a single narrow-blade sword.
It was an amazing sword technique. To strike away that many stones and wood with a narrow-blade sword specialized for stabbing rather than slashing meant that his sword method had reached a high realm.
That wasn’t all.
The entire Dead Soul Group were masters of the Sword Way. Moreover, they cultivated a special internal energy that allowed them to recover consumed internal energy with just a few breaths, and they had learned martial arts specialized in smashing force, allowing them to crush any powerful martial art.
In other words, the military organization specialized in battles against masters was exactly the Dead Soul Group. Furthermore, the Dead Soul Group had never failed a mission so far.
But right now, the situation was not good.
Because the ones they were facing were not masters running wild relying only on their own strength, but an army.
Piyuuuuuuuung! Puuuuuck!
It couldn’t even be seen.
An iron arrow shot through the darkness pierced straight through the head of one Dead Soul Group member.
It was a terrifying archery skill. Gyeong-san shouted.
“There’s an archer! Narrow the distance and start with the archer……!”
Puuuuck!
An iron spear directly bounced off another Dead Soul Group member.
It was truly a terrifying power. The charge of a warhorse, and the spearmanship of the top secular master who had cultivated the superior martial arts of the Emei Sect, boasted a fatal power in itself.
Moreover, it wasn’t just her.
Chachachaachang!
The spearmanship of ten spearmen sweeping like one body created a tremendous destructive power.
The spear strike of a marching army, it was the charge of the Emei Sect spearmen led by Song Yeon-gyeong. The baptism of the Demon-Sweeping Spear pouring down from horseback was pushing the entire Dead Soul Group back.
Terrifying power, martial arts full of killing intent.
“Scatter!”
At Gyeong-san’s shout, the Dead Soul Group split wide to the left and right.
Kwareureureung!
Gyeong-san, who was about to give the attack order immediately, felt his mouth blocked for a moment.
Behind the spearmen pushing from the center, about forty cavalrymen split exactly in half and charged in. As if they knew they would split like that, the movement of the warhorses was immediate.
Hwoooooooong!
The light illuminating the darkness emitted a chilling killing intent.
Without exception, everyone loaded extreme true qi into their weapons. The sharpness of the swords and blades shone under the moonlight, brilliantly lighting up the wide mountain path.
Muk Bi shouted.
“Charge!”
Heeheeheeheeheehing!
Along with the sound of horses crying that would shake the heaven and earth, the soldiers swung their weapons in unison.
Jjeojeojeojeojeong! Kwaang!
The corners of Gyeong-san’s eyes shook.
‘They’re strong!’
The Dead Soul Group members gathered respectively to crush or bounce off the enemies’ attacks.
And yet they were pushed back. The driving force was so strong that a perfect defense was impossible.
‘Damn it! The terrain is……!’
They clashed in a place they shouldn’t have clashed in the first place. While the Dead Soul Group was riding up the mountain path, the suddenly appearing Evil-Annihilating Army was pressing down from above to below.
No matter how capable the Dead Soul Group was, they couldn’t exert 100% of their strength even in a disadvantageous terrain.
It was then.
‘Killing intent?’
Gyeong-san instinctively lowered his head.
Piyuung! Smack! Kwaang!
It was a moment that made one’s hair stand on end.
The iron arrow that brushed past Gyeong-san’s hair flew through a Dead Soul Group member’s chest and even destroyed the base of the tree behind him.
Really, at the jaw-dropping power, Gyeong-san clicked his tongue.
‘This is too strong even if it’s strong. To think there is such archery in the world……?!’
Kwareureureung!
“Keuaaak!”
Finally, a scream rang out.
It wasn’t the Evil-Annihilating Army. It was a scream bursting from the mouth of a Dead Soul Group member.
Slash!
Yeo-guk, who drove his sword into the chest of one Dead Soul Group member, blew his neck off as it was.
It was a clean and deadly sword strike. The martial learning of Kunlun, called the holy land of Taoist martial arts, was being deployed as fatal killing moves.
Gyeong-san yelled.
“What are you guys doing?! If it’s a group battle, you guys won’t fall behind either!”
In an instant, the eyes of the Dead Soul Group members changed abruptly.
Paaaaak!
They scattered at a terrifying speed.
Some group members climbed up trees, some flew high into the empty air, and some dug deep under the ground.
The Dead Soul Group, who had lost their coldness at the sudden appearance of the enemy forces, finally started showing skills fitting their alias as the unit of death. The scattered ones respectively swung their narrow-blade swords towards the Evil-Annihilating Army.
It was then.
Pipipipiping! Pabababababak!
“Keuak!”
“Keuk!”
Seven Dead Soul Group members who were trying to launch an attack striking down from the empty air vomited blood and flew backwards.
A chill spewed from Muk Bi’s eyes.
“How dare you.”
Invisible Strike Seven-Burst Shot.
It is a superior realm of shooting formless arrows using internal energy. Even if it couldn’t produce the power of actual arrows, the destructive power was sufficient, and it especially had the advantage of rapid-fire capability.
“Cough!”
The bounced-off Dead Soul Group members vomited blood again.
Not a single person died. But not a single one avoided internal injuries either.
Gyeong-san’s face contorted menacingly.
Muk Bi shouted.
“Don’t mind them and kill them all!”
Kwareureureung!
After the archery of divine skill was a cavalry charge full of destructive power. The Evil-Annihilating Army soldiers scattered respectively and swung their weapons towards the Dead Soul Group members.
Jjeojeojeojeojeong! Bang! Puuuuck!
It was a terrifying power.
They were strong before, but the current Evil-Annihilating Army was different again from the past.
Whatever training they did over the past few months, even in a mountain battle where they inevitably suffer losses in mobility, they were naturally driving the enemies back.
It was truly man and horse as one. As if they had assumed cavalry battles from the moment they first learned martial arts, they were showing the battles of hundred-battle veterans.
Kiiiiing!
The narrow-blade sword thrust by a Dead Soul Group member hit Yun-ho’s shoulder guard and bounced off.
It wasn’t luck. Yun-ho exquisitely turned his body to block the narrow-blade sword with his shoulder guard.
The widening eyes of the Dead Soul Group member.
Yun-ho’s sword spewed fire.
Chwaaaaaaaak!
A chillingly sharp sword strike tore the Dead Soul Group member’s body into five pieces.
With the power of the charging cavalry, trained killing methods, and the internal energy of Mount Hua added, smashing force or whatever didn’t work. The strength of the Dead Soul Group was their fast reaction and strong teamwork, but scattered like this, they couldn’t exert proper strength.
Puuuuuck!
Cheok-gang’s bloody sword strike completely blew off the arm and leg of a Dead Soul Group member.
Kwaaang!
Dong-ho’s Bamboo Leaf Hand aiming for a gap crushed the face of a Dead Soul Group member.
It was a continuous series of cruel attacks.
But there was no shaking in their eyes. At some point, they had changed like that.
Cheok-gang who was only endlessly passionate, Dong-ho who was busy vomiting at the smell of blood, and Yun-ho who was always full of playfulness.
All of them had transformed into murderous demons of the battlefield. Regardless of their actual personalities, during battle, they moved just like killing machines only contemplating how to slaughter the enemies.
Hwaaaaaak!
The flame-like blazing aura raised a tyrannical storm as if it would even crush a mountain.
Kwaaaang!
With a mighty saber strike swung horizontally, three Dead Soul Group members bounced backwards.
Martial arts of monstrous strength, Iron Blood saber method. It was a spectacle created by Peng Man-ho’s giant saber.
“These bastards…….”
Peng Man-ho was different from other soldiers.
His heavily contorted face and eyes burning like fire truly resembled those of an evil ghost.
“You dared to touch my big brother!!”
That’s right.
Originally, the Evil-Annihilating Army could have killed enemies more efficiently than this. However, the current them were focusing more on power and cruel attacks than efficiency.
It was because they were angry.
A cold anger, not visible on the outside, suppressing and suppressing it inside. It was precisely because the Dead Soul Group tried to kill Yeon Ho-jeong.
The first impression wasn’t very good, but now to them, the existence called Yeon Ho-jeong was more than just a simple superior. Because of him, the Evil-Annihilating Army existed, and thanks to that, all the soldiers belonging to the Evil-Annihilating Army gained a treasure-like experience as true masters.
To them, Yeon Ho-jeong was a truly commander-like commander.
Such a commander was being chased to be killed by bizarre guys who rolled in from who knows where. It was natural that they couldn’t hold back their anger.
Peng Man-ho shouted.
“I will crush you all!”
Giant sabers and spears, the whirling force swept the Dead Soul Group.
Kwareureureung! Kwaaang!
Certainly, the Dead Soul Group was not ordinary either.
Even if they were scattered and couldn’t exert their proper strength, they were one of the elites under the Black Dragon Manor. Even if he hadn’t emitted the Four Gods Qi with determination, they were the ones whom even the Yeon Ho-jeong of the world couldn’t annihilate even after half a Shijin passed.
“Kill them! Kill!”
“Don’t be pushed back! Hold out!”
“What are you doing?! Aim for the horses!”
It was an unexpected close combat. The Dead Soul Group was also a unit of death moving under Yang Cheon’s orders. They wouldn’t be pushed back easily.
At that time, Muk Bi’s Red Lotus Bow spat out threatening flames.
Puuuuck! Smack!
In such a chaotic battle, the power emitted by an archer of Muk Bi’s level was enough to tilt the scale of victory.
Careful strikes, with just strikes, she had already blown off the heads of five Dead Soul Group members.
Since it was such a fast and sharp attack, there wasn’t even time to smash the force. Perhaps for the Dead Soul Group, the master more difficult to face than Yeon Ho-jeong might be Muk Bi.
It was then.
“This bitch!”
Huk!
Muk Bi’s eyes flashed.
At some point, Gyeong-san had approached right in front of her nose. Whether he had unfolded a stealth technique, she didn’t feel his presence until he came this close.
“Die!”
In an instant, Muk Bi’s body moved splendidly.
Bang!
“Keuk!”
Gyeong-san stepped back as many as five steps.
Holding the reins with one hand and the horse’s head with the other, she had executed a kick technique. To execute a kick technique of this power on top of a swaying warhorse, it was hard to believe even when seeing it.
Soon Muk Bi pulled the bowstring.
Tatatatatang!
Five formless arrows exploded the ground and trees.
Gyeong-san was not a leader for nothing either. Dodging all of Muk Bi’s formless arrows and approaching, his movement technique was exquisite enough to automatically bring out admiration.
Huk!
Gyeong-san, who approached again, aimed for Muk Bi’s leg.
Muk Bi’s eyes spewed fire.
Jjeoeoeoeoong!
Gyeong-san’s eyes widened.
The narrow-blade sword that should have pierced right through Muk Bi’s thigh was blocked by something and bounced back.
‘An arrow?’
No. This was not an arrow.
Gyeong-san, who hurriedly checked Muk Bi’s hand, opened his mouth wide.
‘A spear!!’
That’s right.
At some point, a short spear was held in the hand of Muk Bi, who had slung the Red Lotus Bow on her back.
It wasn’t a long spear wielded by the Emei Sect spearmen. The four-foot-long short spear seemed too short at first glance, but it was correspondingly light and elastic.
Muk Bi spoke in a cold voice.
“Did you think there would be an opening if you approached closely?”
“……This bitch!”
Muk Bi forcefully thrust the short spear.
Huk! Jjeoeoeoeong!
Gyeong-san gritted his teeth.
‘What kind of internal energy is this?!’
The penetrating internal energy was exorbitant.
Smashing the force wasn’t working properly. Looking only at the internal energy, no, the skill itself was tricky as if facing a peak master.
Muk Bi shouted furiously.
“Don’t do useless things and kill them all! You didn’t come to vent your anger!”
At her dignified shout, the eyes of the entire Evil-Annihilating Army flashed.
Kwaaaang!
The Evil-Annihilating Army, making up their minds differently and focusing on annihilation within the shortest time.
As they pushed the Dead Soul Group with an incredibly splendid charge, the momentum of the Dead Soul Group, which had started responding properly albeit late, became precarious in an instant like being swept away by a wave.
Smack! Puuuuck! Slash!
Dead Soul Group members lost their lives and collapsed one by one.
In the end, Gyeong-san had to make a judgment.
That order he absolutely didn’t want to give, he had no choice but to give it now.
“Everyone retrea……!”
At that time, a chilling voice was heard.
“That won’t do.”
Chwareureureureureuk! Puuuuck!
The iron chain that flew in at a tremendous speed pierced straight through Gyeong-san’s lower belly.
“Keuheok!”
In front of Gyeong-san, who kneeled with a groan, a young man carrying a giant axe on his shoulder revealed himself.
Evil-Annihilating Army Commander, Four Gods Martial General.
The general of death, who suited that bloody title much better than the name Yeon Ho-jeong, had finally regained his true power.
“Since you have seen my face, I cannot let you go alive.”
Muk Bi threw her short spear immediately.
Puuuck!
The short spear embedded itself into Gyeong-san’s chest.