Chapter 333: Sichuan’s Upheaval (6)

Mok Gyeong-un had an extraordinary memory and embodiment ability compared to ordinary people.

Thus, he could remember what he had seen once without a single mistake and had the ability to imitate it exactly.

This ability of Mok Gyeong-un was further maximized after he opened his ghost eyes and obtained the supernatural power of the three eyes, allowing him to embody not only ordinary movements but also the forms consisting of energy and gestures.

Of course, that didn’t mean he could flawlessly steal everything.

Things that couldn’t be performed without the support of profound internal energy or special mind techniques, where the gestures were not only formed by energy but also reached the level of mental imagery, were impossible for him to embody no matter what.

One of the martial arts of this type was the True Chasing and Turning Sword, one of the sword techniques of the Thousand-men Commander So Yerin.

‘Can it only be manifested with innate true energy?’

He had suffered a defeat because of this technique, so he had observed it with interest.

However, it was particularly difficult to manifest this sword technique.

It seemed that the unique energy of innate true energy was necessary to fully utilize the technique.

And it seemed like it would continue to be that way, but the situation changed.

Having surpassed the peak of peaks, his understanding of energy had completely changed, and although it was difficult to do it flawlessly, he had reached a level where he could imitate and manifest even the circulation method of innate true energy.

And this was the result.

-Bam!

Mok Gyeong-un stomped his foot strongly on the ground.

Then, pulling the blade, he thrust the sword forward.

With that, a whirlwind of qi surged from the tip of the sword, rushing towards Yoo Moo-jin’s abdomen with a storm-like momentum.

[True Chasing and Turning Sword]

The True Chasing and Turning Sword manifested by Mok Gyeong-un’s hand was not a widely spreading whirlwind but was formed in a fixed shape.

It struck Yoo Moo-jin’s abdomen precisely.

-Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The whirlwind of qi fiercely swept through as if piercing his abdomen.

Even if the range was reduced, the power had increased instead.

However,

-Clang clang clang clang clang clang!

One of Mok Gyeong-un’s eyebrows, who was unleashing the sword technique, rose upward.

It was as if he had unleashed the sword technique against a solid iron wall, and blue sparks flew from the abdomen, accompanied by a sound similar to metal ringing.

‘No way?’

“It’s sturdy, right?”

‘!?’

Mok Gyeong-un was dumbfounded.

The strength of Yoo Moo-jin’s reddened abdominal muscles was no exaggeration to call it indestructible, not receiving any damage from the sword technique.

Rather,

-Tak!

He was taking a step forward, nullifying the power of the sword technique.

And not only that,

-Whoosh!

Yoo Moo-jin threw a punch towards the center of the whirling True Chasing and Turning Sword.

The punch he threw created a tremendous wind pressure, and the sword technique that had been creating the whirlwind of qi was completely destroyed.

In that instant, Yoo Moo-jin grabbed the blade of the demonic sword Evil Commandment Sword with his left hand.

-Clang!

‘If I break the sword blade, it will become a state of bare-handed combat, and he will weaken, right?’

Gripping the blade of Evil Commandment Sword with his hand, Yoo Moo-jin tried to break it.

It didn’t matter whether it was a treasured sword or anything else.

He was confident that he could crush even diamond with his grip strength alone.

But at that moment,

-Swish!

‘Huh?’

His hand holding the sword slipped and lost its grip on it.

Yoo Moo-jin couldn’t hide his confusion.

He was definitely gripping the sword tightly, but due to a force strongly pushing it out, the sword forcibly slipped out of his hand.

This was the Ritual of Repulsion, one of the Eight Thought-Shattering Techniques.

-Swish!

In sync with drawing out the sword, Mok Gyeong-un swung a palm strike towards Yoo Moo-jin’s chest.

Trusting in the strength of his muscles, Yoo Moo-jin didn’t dodge it at all.

Rather, at that moment, he simultaneously swung his fist towards Mok Gyeong-un’s chest, with his biceps and forearm muscles swelling.

-Boom! Bang!

Mok Gyeong-un’s figure, hit by the fist, was sent flying like a cannonball.

He was sent flying nearly twenty jang (approx. 66 meters).

Was he overpowered by Yoo Moo-jin in a clash of strength?

However,

“Cough! Cough cough cough!”

Yoo Moo-jin clutched his abdomen and staggered backward, eventually kneeling on one knee.

-Thud!

‘What?’

Yoo Moo-jin’s eyes widened.

Mok Gyeong-un’s palm strike was not the type that inflicted external damage.

It was a force emission that transmitted internal energy to strike the internal organs.

Of course, it wasn’t just a simple force emission.

Mok Gyeong-un, who had opened the supernatural power of the three eyes, judged that not only the strength of the muscles but also the internal resistance of Yoo Moo-jin was completely different from ordinary people.

Therefore, he infused the extreme yin cold energy of the Thousand Yin Meridian Severing into the force emission.

As a result, the penetrating cold energy caused the internal organs to become stiff, and at the same time, the force emission inflicted damage, causing internal injuries.

“Cough cough cough…”

Crystals of blood that had turned into frost-like particles splattered from Yoo Moo-jin’s mouth as he coughed.

Seeing this, the corners of Yoo Moo-jin’s mouth twitched and rose.

It was the first time.

It was the first time he had bled in his life.

-Bulge!

Yoo Moo-jin exerted force on the muscles throughout his body, circulating his blood even faster.

Then, the steam became thicker, and the cold energy flowing out of his mouth gradually turned into steam, and his body became hot again.

“Hah…”

On the other hand, Mok Gyeong-un, who had been sent flying like a cannonball, was also protecting his body with his qi, but the tremendous impact that penetrated through it, ignoring it, caused his heart to stop for a moment.

As a result, his body stiffened, and he spat out a mouthful of blood.

If he hadn’t inflicted damage on the guy, if the attack had come right away, he would have suffered a defeat.

‘…He’s strong.’

He was a different type of strong opponent from the numerous adversaries he had encountered so far.

No, should he say that this type of strength was completely new?

The body itself, with extremely developed muscles and natural energy dwelling within it, was invincible without internal energy.

The innate strength was to this extent.

He couldn’t help but click his tongue.

Then, Yoo Moo-jin grinned at Mok Gyeong-un, revealing his blood-stained teeth, and said,

“This is a first. No one has ever injured me outside the house, not even my father.”

“You must have had a comfortable life.”

“Comfortable? Well, I wonder. If you knew what my family does, you wouldn’t say such a thing. We serve almost everyone, you know.”

“Serve?”

“I don’t need to tell an outsider that much, but subduing you with four stages is not enough. I’ll go all out now.”

With those words, Yoo Moo-jin tried to bring his hand to the golden bracelet on his right arm.

The name of the golden bracelet was the Force Suppressing Bracelet.

It was an object that suppressed his muscles and strength.

This Force Suppressing Bracelet had a lock with a total of 10 stages, and the lower the number, the more the restriction on his strength was released.

‘I’ll have to go straight to stage three.’

Stage three of the Force Suppressing Bracelet was the last stage Yoo Moo-jin could unlock.

He had heard that the ancestor called the progenitor in the distant past could unlock it up to stage one, but no one had reached stage one except for the progenitor in later generations.

Even his father, who was said to have the best physique and muscle quality for generations, only reached the point of unlocking stage two.

Of course, even that was said to be the first time in many generations.

Anyway, Yoo Moo-jin, who had acknowledged Mok Gyeong-un as an opponent, tried to maximize the release of his suppressed strength through the Force Suppressing Bracelet.

‘I didn’t expect him to be able to unlock up to stage three.’

Even if he wasn’t like the progenitor or his father, he took pride in being the best with just stage three.

[Unless they are the top experts who can be counted on one hand in the martial arts world, there will be no need to unlock up to stage three.]

Those were the words his father had said to him.

How long would he be able to endure when he unlocked stage three?

-Swish!

‘!?’

At that moment, Mok Gyeong-un appeared right in front of him.

-Flinch!

Before he could even turn the Force Suppressing Bracelet, Mok Gyeong-un suddenly appeared in front of him, and he was about to be caught off guard, but suddenly, a sense of foreboding that stimulated his five senses, unlike before, rose.

With this, Yoo Moo-jin kicked his foot, trying to escape from Mok Gyeong-un’s range.

However,

-Swish!

At that moment, a black line slashed through the air, and Yoo Moo-jin’s body soared upward.

-Boom!

‘!!!!!!’

Yoo Moo-jin’s eyes widened as he floated upward.

He could clearly feel it.

In an instant, Mok Gyeong-un’s power gathered into a single point and penetrated his abdomen, which was no different from being indestructible.

The pain of something penetrating his body was something he felt for the first time, so Yoo Moo-jin’s expression distorted.

-Whoosh!

At that moment, Mok Gyeong-un, who had brushed past Yoo Moo-jin’s body, kicked the ground and changed direction.

He had no intention of ending it here.

‘I can’t give him a chance to turn it.’

Mok Gyeong-un, who had opened the supernatural power of the three eyes and was aware that the golden bracelet was suppressing strength, had been waiting for the moment when he would release it.

‘One more time!’

If it was now, he could use this unified force sword a few more times.

There was no need to hold back just because it was his qi.

The most rational way to deal with an enemy was to thoroughly trample them when they showed a slight opening.

-Swish!

Mok Gyeong-un’s figure disappeared, and a black line appeared in the air.

The line connected to where Yoo Moo-jin’s body had soared into the air, and his body was hit by the impact and bounced away in midair.

“Cough cough cough.”

Yoo Moo-jin had a pained expression.

Although he couldn’t see it because it was too fast the first time the power was unified, he could immediately recognize what the second one was aiming for.

It was the heart.

He crossed his hands to somehow reduce this unified force.

Of course, as a result, holes were made in both of his hands.

‘Stage three…’

Although his body was spinning and being bounced away, Yoo Moo-jin somehow concentrated his mind and brought his hand to the lock of the Force Suppressing Bracelet on his right wrist.

However,

-Boom!

Mok Gyeong-un, who had kicked the air, changed direction and unleashed a unified force sword strike towards Yoo Moo-jin.

The speed was at a level that surpassed even the category of ultra-high-speed movement, so even with Yoo Moo-jin’s eyes, he could barely recognize that it was approaching.

Yoo Moo-jin could tell that this sword strike was aiming for his glabella this time.

-Grit!

‘Three times is not possible.’

Yoo Moo-jin gritted his teeth and twisted his head back in an instant.

-Swish!

The black line passed by his eyes dangerously close.

Along with that, the shockwave from being hit by the unified force sword strike twice was reduced, and his body fell towards the ground.

As he fell, Yoo Moo-jin couldn’t take his eyes off Mok Gyeong-un with a tense gaze.

If another sword strike followed here, it would be difficult to block it.

However,

-Tak!

Mok Gyeong-un’s right hand, which had landed on the ground, was trembling violently.

‘Consecutive strikes are impossible.’

Even though he had surpassed the peak of peaks, the unified force sword put a tremendous strain on his entire body just by unleashing it once.

But when he unleashed it three times in a row, his entire body ached as if his muscles were being torn apart.

When he tried to unleash it a fourth time, even his heart was causing intense pain, so he had no choice but to stop.

“Haa… haa…”

Even though his abdomen was penetrated and both hands were penetrated, it wasn’t the end.

-Clench!

As the pain in his heart subsided a little, Mok Gyeong-un gripped the sword handle tightly, calmed his breathing, and tried to gather his power one last time.

Right at that moment,

-Flinch!

With a feeling of the air twisting for a moment, the surrounding energy became overwhelming.

Mok Gyeong-un turned his head with sharp eyes at the strange sensation that even affected the surroundings.

-Bulge! Bulge bulge!

Yoo Moo-jin’s entire body muscles, which had been swollen and reddened, shrank as if compressed, and his skin turned not just red but black.

It seemed that he had finally failed to stop him from releasing the restriction of that object.

‘…It became more troublesome.’

The surroundings were trembling to the extent that the natural energy was being affected.

With this, he thought he had no choice but to take action before Yoo Moo-jin completely transformed, and he was about to launch himself towards him,

-Boom!

At that moment, Yoo Moo-jin threw a punch towards Mok Gyeong-un.

It looked like a very simple punch, but,

-Boom boom boom boom boom boom!

In the direction he threw the punch, with a tremendous wind pressure and a long explosive sound, everything that existed in a fan-shaped area of nearly twenty jang (approx. 66 meters) was completely devastated.

“Hah… hah…”

Yoo Moo-jin clicked his tongue, exhaling rough breaths.

It seemed like it was really the first time he had struggled to turn the lock and release the Force Suppressing Bracelet.

If he had known this would happen, he should have gone all out from the beginning.

Then he wouldn’t have gotten injured like this.

-Drip drip drip!

Blood slowly flowed from his perforated fist and abdomen.

Normally, when he released the Force Suppressing Bracelet, his body would recover quickly, but it was strangely slow.

It felt like that guy’s strange energy was interfering with it.

Still, he had finished it off with a near-full-powered punch after releasing stage three, so no more…

‘!?’

Yoo Moo-jin’s eyes narrowed.

The dust hadn’t completely settled yet due to the aftermath of the punch, but something could be seen through it.

‘What?’

-Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Two black qi-controlled sword energies were rotating rapidly in a crossed pattern, creating a thick curtain of sword energy around Mok Gyeong-un.