Chapter 288: Preparation Complete (2)
“Huu.”
The young man breathed heavily.
“Definitely, crossing rivers and mountains is the best for movement technique training. What I only learned and wasn’t proficient in has already stuck to my body.”
Of course, this too was only limited to lightness techniques, and it was different again in actual combat. Knowing how to mix and use sword techniques and lightfoot techniques in a timely manner was the way to increase combat efficiency.
‘Older Brother is probably capable of all this.’
The young man recalled his blood relative.
The hidden dragon waiting for the time to roar toward the world.
Since clearing up the somewhat creaky relationship during their childhood, his older brother became a completely different person.
Until just a few years ago, the young man could look at his older brother’s development with eyes endlessly full of admiration. In a certain sense, he also felt relieved. His older brother being far more outstanding than himself could rather be seen as a relief between brothers with an uncommon history.
However, only now was the young man able to set his own mind straight.
His older brother’s development, he genuinely rejoiced at the great name of the number one rising star under heaven who broke through the Wall of the Martial Arts’ End at the age of his early twenties, but at the same time, he acutely realized that he must not smear his older brother’s reputation.
His older brother was an unparalleled genius in the world. To such an older brother, he could not show the appearance of a foolish younger brother.
Like that, at the end of every single day of pouring blood and scraping bones.
The young man was finally able to have certainty in his own strength, in his realm.
The certainty that it was enough to not smear the reputation of his father and older brother.
“Now, I’ve rested moderately so shall I run again.”
In that short moment, he completely returned his disrupted breathing to normal.
It was an astonishingly fast recovery speed. Leaving aside the quality and quantity of internal energy, if he hadn’t trained his physical stamina to the extreme, he wouldn’t have been able to return his breathing this quickly.
The young man kicked the ground.
Paang!
He advances truly as fast as a fired arrow.
An incredible speed, just the speed of the movement technique was a realm worthy of looking down upon most peak experts. Even in that short moment, the slightly awkward movements and breathing were finding their place at a terrifying speed.
A genius.
It was truly a heaven-sent talent. It was not the kind of talent of analyzing and accepting with the head, but his innate sense itself was different, a rare martial bone where the body remembers before the head.
Paaang! Paaaaang!
The speed of the movement technique, which was already fast, became faster as time passed.
The distribution of breathing is gradually adjusted toward perfection. The movements of his arms and legs gradually became one, useless breathing decreased, and naturally, internal energy consumption was also gradually slowing down.
It was as if a noble scholar was flying riding a crane. This was exactly the true appearance of the Green Mountain Yeon Clan’s best movement technique, the Heaven-Sent Moving Flight.
Like that, how far had he advanced.
‘……?!’
The young man’s eyes became sharp.
‘It’s the sound of iron.’
Chiiing. Jjeoeeong.
From somewhere far away, an intense sound of iron was heard.
It was the sound of weapons clashing with weapons. Furthermore, behind that intense collision sound, flame-like murderous intent and a desperate bloody stench were swaying like waves.
‘If it’s this direction, it’s definitely where Older Brother and his group are going…….’
It was then.
Hwaaaaak!
The young man’s eyes widened.
Amidst all kinds of bloody momentum and bloody stench, one energy that was too familiar yet heterogeneous made the young man’s heart tremble.
Hwareureureureuk!
It was a splendid energy like fire that he felt for the first time in his life. No, in reality, a fire qi that was hard to compare to anything else was swaying as if it would completely burn the world.
And what was supporting that fire qi was a divine art that was close to the realm of near perfection.
‘Jade Gauze True Formula!’
Sword-Limit Thought Qi exploded.
Peoeoeeong!
The young man’s body became a streak of light and shot out.
* * *
Crack! Puhwaaaak!
The bloody water embroidering the empty air looked like pitch-black ink even though it received the bright moonlight.
Chwareureureureuk! Thwack!
The teeth of the Flood Dragon encompassing a wide range completely tore off the necks of the men in black rushing in without question.
Yeon Ho-jeong shouted.
“Commander Murong!”
“I know!”
Paaang!
Murong Yu, who entered the left attack path in a single breath, stepped a strong stomping step.
Kwang!
The earth shook.
It was a stomping step of strength. It was weaker in power than the stomping step Yeon Ho-jeong struck down, but instead, the vibration that spread further out spoke of Murong Yu’s martial arts characteristics.
‘Heaven and Earth.’
Murong Yu’s Demon-Sweeping Great Sword moved like a ray of light.
Jjeoeeoeeong! Seogeok! Jjeoeeoeeoeeong! Seogeok!
Every time the heavy sword blade crossed the empty air, the narrow-bladed swords and Mother-Son Mandarin Duck Axes of the men in black shattered to pieces and scattered.
The lives of the men in black holding the weapons were also shattering to pieces alike. Since Yeon Ho-jeong was not the only one angry at the sudden attack, Murong Yu was also rarely spewing out murderous intent and cutting down the enemies.
Thwack! Chiririririring!
Smashing a head with the back of the sword, and grabbing hold of seven short spears and narrow-bladed swords by swinging one sword.
It was a linking technique of a sword method as smooth as flowing water. It didn’t have the power of a one-hit certain kill, but its flow was incomparably majestic like the water current of the Yangtze River.
Murong Yu twisted the Demon-Sweeping Sword.
Pakang!
The weapons caught by the sword all completely shattered.
At the same time, his left hand spewed fire.
Thwack!
Seven men in black hit by the soft palm force collapsed vomiting blood from their seven apertures.
It was a cruel killer move. It was the moment the Murong Clan’s secret hand arts, the Desolate Wind Palm, revealed its power to the world.
Crack! Seogeok! Puhwaaaak!
Murong Yu’s sword method was amazing.
He had entrusted the majority of battles to Yeon Ho-jeong until now, but in truth, Murong Yu’s skill was also at a level contending for the top among those his age.
Furthermore, he had talent. A talent that Yeon Ho-jeong didn’t have, that only he was born with even in the Murong Clan.
‘Five.’
Murong Yu closed his eyes.
On the other hand, his sword created a majestic flow and coiled around the men in black who soared high into the sky.
In an instant, the internal energy of the Heaven and Earth Eight Extremes Cultivation Method sharply stood on end.
Puhwaaaaak!
A rain of blood poured down from the sky.
After ensnaring the targets with formless sword qi, he pulled them and cut them down in a single breath. It was a technique not in the Heaven and Earth One Hundred Eight Sword Sea, a sword qi art implemented on the spot after seeing the movement of the Flood Dragon Chain.
That was a truly amazing thing.
Even if one gained enlightenment in an instant, implementing it immediately in actual combat was a completely different problem. Because trying to unleash unfamiliar enlightenment in a life-or-death battle was not going to work properly.
However, it did not apply to Murong Yu. He unleashed what he saw and felt exactly as it is into a sword formula in an extreme situation, and there was no sense of incongruity as if he had trained it hundreds of times.
That was exactly Murong Yu’s talent.
A talent different from Yeon Ji-pyeong, who sucked in everything with his senses. It was exactly accelerating the learning speed itself.
It was not that his actual combat ability was excellent, but he could immediately unfold any martial arts skillfully once he learned them. The speed at which he attached the enlightenment gained through extreme analytical power to his body was incomprehensibly fast.
‘This is it.’
Chwaaaaaak!
Fresh blood scattering in all directions covered the moonlight.
‘This is exactly my Martial Arts!’
While drawing a majestic sword form, there was no disconnection at all. He was currently unfolding for certain his martial arts, which he had realized through his conversation with Yeon Ho-jeong the other day, at this moment.
At that time, a massive net spread over the heads of Yeon Ho-jeong and Murong Yu.
Murong Yu’s eyes shook.
‘This is hard.’
The number of enemies flocking in was too many to cut that net. His sword method was at its limit just by tying the feet of the enemies.
It was then.
Buaaaaaang! Peoeoeeoeng!
One iron arrow, containing power like a cannon, no, more than a cannon, entirely smashed the net and pushed it back.
‘Vice Commander Muk!’
Muk Bi, who had not intervened in the front line until now, entered the battle at exactly the appropriate moment.
‘As expected!’
It was a splendid strike. Murong Yu admired Muk Bi’s timely participation in the battle, not the power of the arrow.
There was no need to vainly consume arrows trying to help while correcting internal injuries. It was enough just to unfold archery the moment an opening was revealed in the iron wall-like offense and defense of the two people, Yeon Ho-jeong and Murong Yu.
Because of that, Muk Bi was able to reserve her strength, and even if a rare case happened, she would be able to increase the survival rate of the allies.
Yeon Ho-jeong shouted.
“Commander Murong! It’s not the time to take your eyes off!”
“Ah, I’m sorry!”
Chwareureureureuk! Thwack!
The tip of the Flood Dragon Chain pierced the torsos of the men in black as sharply as a blade.
It was a reckless martial art encompassing all directions. On top of that, every time the eighty-geun Crazy Dragon Axe was swung, the bodies of the men in black burst making popping sounds as if hit by fire bombs.
When it reached this level, no matter how much of a tough one they were, they were bound to be frightened. The men in black hesitated and retreated backward to form a formation.
At that time, Yeon Ho-jeong’s sound transmission shot out to Murong Yu and Muk Bi.
[These guys, their attacks are not consistent. It’s not one organization, but multiple organizations mixed together.]
The two people agreed with Yeon Ho-jeong’s thought.
The enemies’ attacks looked fierce at first glance, yet they were somehow unorganized. Of course, the numbers and murderous intent alone were a great threat, but they were creating useless sacrifices by moving ahead of and behind each other.
[Those guys are falling back! They are trying to form a formation and deal with us calmly! We must not give these guys time to think!]
In an instant, deep red fire qi swayed from Yeon Ho-jeong’s entire body.
Murong Yu and Muk Bi’s eyes widened.
Kwang!
Yeon Ho-jeong, who entered the middle of the enemy camp at a speed three times faster than the speed the men in black were retreating, swung the Crazy Dragon Axe.
Thwack!
“Th, this!”
“Scatter in all directions!”
Screams finally burst out of the mouths of the men in black who had been attacking consistently in silence.
Murong Yu shouted.
“Commander Yeon!”
Yeon Ho-jeong raised the Crazy Dragon Axe above his head.
Kwang! Kwang! Kwang!
It was reckless axing.
He directly struck down the axe raised high into the sky and split the enemies, and that speed was crazily fast. It felt like even firewood couldn’t be chopped that fast.
Kwaang!
The Red Flame Six Killing Art unfolding along with a strong stomping step.
Not the Sovereign Tiger’s Nine Thunderclaps, a martial art of strength and advance, but the Six Killing Art of Initial Killing that coveted the enemy’s blood and burned corpses.
Thwack! Kwang! Kwang! Rumble!
It is truly no exaggeration to call it a one-man show.
He swung the axe like a crazy murderer toward enemies whose hands and feet already didn’t match, and a much more fierce attack than usual continued as if he would catch everything he could catch.
Seogeok! Puhwaaaak!
However, no matter how strong Yeon Ho-jeong was, the number of enemies was too many.
Due to narrow-bladed swords and harpoons, Mother-Son Mandarin Duck Axes and various hidden weapons, wounds increased one by one on Yeon Ho-jeong’s body.
It was a situation where even the internal injuries he suffered while smashing the cannons were not fully healed. Yeon Ho-jeong’s complexion gradually turned pale.
Murong Yu’s face distorted seeing that appearance.
“Commander Yeon!”
It was when he was about to unconsciously shout and run out.
‘……?!’
It was felt that an unknown powerful aura was surging in from the rear.
Murong Yu and Muk Bi were startled.
‘An expert?!’
It was an intense aura.
An urgency was also somehow felt, but the problem was that the speed of the approaching person was truly immense.
And a blade-like aura matching that speed was disturbing the surroundings like a storm. Even if he was not an opponent for Yeon Ho-jeong or Murong Yu, the moment such an enemy participated in the battle, the story would change.
Murong Yu shouted.
“Vice Commander Muk!”
“I know!”
Since it had come to this, Muk Bi could not just be reserving her strength either.
Kkadeudeudeudeuk!
Muk Bi’s eyes, drawing the bowstring of the Red Lotus Bow, captured a young man approaching at a terrifying speed.
‘A swordsman! And he’s fast! He must also have an amazing reaction speed…… Huh?’
In an instant, Muk Bi blinked her eyes.
Why was it? Somehow the opponent’s aura was familiar. And the face of the opponent approaching at a terrifying speed also seemed like she had seen it somewhere before.
While Muk Bi hesitated like that going’Uh, uh.’
The young man, who had been approaching raising a gust of wind, kicked the ground from his spot and leaped up.
Peoeoeeoeeong!
The young man’s body movements soaring high into the sky were truly like a great Peng roaming the blue sky.
Murong Yu, who was about to shout at Muk Bi, looked at the young man without realizing it himself. The young man who had flown up had already approached the sky above the enemy camp before he knew it.
‘Beautiful.’
Astonishingly fast, and body movements so beautiful as to lose one’s soul for an instant.
However, the moment that young man drew his sword, the aura that made the viewer hazy completely reversed in a single breath.
Chaaaaaang!
The sword draw of advance.
The powerful sword qi spewing out like a net as if to cut down everything in all directions concentrated the gazes of everyone regardless of friend or foe.
A gaze that had become unrecognizably mature and astonishingly strong.
The two strong eyes of the young man, Yeon Ji-pyeong, spewed out a terrifying sword light in an instant.
“Older Brother!”
Surprise arose on Yeon Ho-jeong’s face.
“Pyeong-ah!”
Yeon Ji-pyeong’s sword power encompassed all directions and coiled around the wrists of the enemy thieves.
Puhwaaaak!