Chapter 422 First Realm (4)

“That’s not the real one.”

‘!?’

At Mok Gyeong-un’s cold words, the pupils of Kang Yeom from the First Realm of the Secret Society shook slightly.

However, he quickly concealed this and said:

“Haa… Haa… What are you talking about?”

“What am I talking about? Are you playing dumb?”

“…Judging by your attitude, it seems you don’t particularly want to save that human woman.”

At Kang Yeom’s words, Mok Gyeong-un snorted.

Then he spoke to the masked individual holding a dagger to the throat of the unconscious Wi So-yeon, the youngest disciple of the Heaven and Earth Society Leader:

“Kill her.”

“What?”

The masked individual couldn’t hide their bewilderment for a moment.

What is this guy thinking?

Not trying to save the hostage, but ordering to kill her?

“Mok Gyeong-un!”

At that moment, the Bright Blade King Son Yun called out his name loudly and pressed him.

He doubted his own ears when he heard what Mok Gyeong-un was saying to the masked individuals.

How could he say to kill the young miss without any hesitation?

“How can you…”

“It’s fake.”

“What?”

“It’s exactly as I said.”

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, the Bright Blade King Son Yun’s expression twisted terribly.

He knew why the guy was saying such things.

He too had thought that these people were deliberately stalling for time despite having enough capacity to flee.

They clearly had some ulterior motive.

However, separate from this, he had been there the moment Wi So-yeon was kidnapped by them and had witnessed it with his own eyes.

“Stop provoking them. If anything happens to the young miss’s life, even slightly…”

“I told you it’s fake.”

“Mok Gyeong-un… That is undoubtedly the young miss. Everyone here knows this fact, even if you didn’t see it. How can you take such a reckless…”

“I don’t care when it was switched.”

“Ha!”

The Bright Blade King Son Yun became frustrated.

If this guy keeps being stubborn like this and the provoked enemies do something irreversible to the young miss in desperation, everything will be beyond recovery.

Son Yun glared at Mok Gyeong-un and said in a low voice:

“…Don’t tell me you want the young miss to die?”

“Of course not.”

“Then why…”

“If it were real, we couldn’t kill her more.”

“You…”

“They sent this level of force and went to great lengths to kidnap Wi So-yeon, yet thinking they would easily kill her is even more naive.”

“……”

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, the Bright Blade King Son Yun closed his mouth.

There was some logic to what he said.

However, because the intention behind their delay was unclear, he still thought they should refrain from provoking them, in case the reason they kidnapped Wi So-yeon was merely to disperse the Heaven and Earth Society’s forces and divide their attention.

“Mok Gyeong-un, your words certainly…”

It was then.

“If you can’t kill her, I will.”

-Seuk!

Mok Gyeong-un extended his sword finger.

Then, about ten swords lying on the ground rose simultaneously and flew towards the two masked individuals and the unconscious Wi So-yeon.

“Mok Gyeong-un!”

The Bright Blade King Son Yun hastily launched his body to block this.

However, the Sword Demon Ji-oe blocked his path.

“I can’t let you interfere with my lord.”

‘This guy!’

Although Ji-oe was tired, he was still a supreme expert who had reached the Transformation Realm, surpassing the wall.

Even the Bright Blade King Son Yun, one of the Five Kings of the Heaven and Earth Society, had no chance of facing him one-on-one.

-Pa-pa-pa-pak!

After clashing for a few exchanges with sword fingers and hand blades without weapons, Son Yun was pushed back about five steps.

-Chwa-reu-reu-reu!

Meanwhile, the swords Mok Gyeong-un had sent flying had already reached the masked individuals, and those who had been aiming daggers at her neck finally moved to block them.

-Cha-cha-cha-cha-chang!

These individuals were also quite skilled, managing to deal with two or three of the flying swords.

However, with the swords that followed,

-Pu-puk!

“Kek!”

“Keuk!”

They had no choice but to breathe their last as their vital points were pierced.

And the swords they failed to block all flew towards the unconscious Wi So-yeon,

“Young miss!”

Gi Ok-ryeon and the society members following Wi So-yeon also hastily launched their bodies to try and block this, but the swords had already reached her.

But the moment the swords touched her,

-Cha-cha-cha-cha-cha-chang!

All the swords that touched Wi So-yeon’s body shattered into pieces.

‘!?’

At this sight, the eyes of the Bright Blade King Son Yun and the surviving society members under Wi So-yeon widened.

What is happened just happened?

As they were wondering, Wi So-yeon finally revealed stark white eyeballs.

Where the swords had struck her body, her clothes were torn, revealing her skin, which was covered in bizarre blue scales.

‘This… can’t be?’

That wasn’t Wi So-yeon.

Was Mok Gyeong-un’s prediction really correct?

A regretful sigh escaped from Kang Yeom’s mouth at the sight of the fake Wi So-yeon whose non-human identity was revealed.

“Ahhh.”

If Mok Gyeong-un or anyone else had been deceived and approached the fake Wi So-yeon, they would have lost their lives as the price for that carelessness.

But though it was regrettable, it couldn’t be helped.

It seemed they would have to be satisfied with having bought time without being noticed while taking away the real Wi So-yeon.

It was then.

“Release that person! Kuaaaaa!”

The fake Wi So-yeon, whose identity was revealed, bared her sharp teeth and charged towards Mok Gyeong-un at tremendous speed.

But,

-Seuk!

Mok Gyeong-un made a gesture of slicing with his sword finger towards her.

Then,

-Chwak!

The fake Wi So-yeon’s body was suddenly decapitated by an utterly transparent formless sword that appeared.

The severed head rolled on the ground as blue blood spurted like a fountain.

‘!!!!!’

Kang Yeom’s eyes widened even more at this sight.

He had definitely heard about that transparent form of sword before.

He had heard that only those who had reached the realm of Sword Extreme, beyond the Profound Realm called the highest realm, could shape a sword with energy.

Does that mean this guy hasn’t been using his full power against him at all until now…

-Chu-reu-reu-reuk!

At that moment, as Kang Yeom’s severed body parts tried to recover, Mok Gyeong-un cut those parts off again with his sword.

-Chwa-chwa-chwa-chwak!

“Keuup!”

Looking down at the suffering Kang Yeom, Mok Gyeong-un opened his mouth.

“If you answer three things, I’ll show mercy and let you keep your life.”

“Three things?”

“The location of the real Wi So-yeon, the reason for taking her, and where Three Eyes’s main body is.”

At Mok Gyeong-un’s words, Kang Yeom sneered as if dumbfounded even in his suffering.

“Kukuk… Kuhuhuhuhuu.”

“……”

“Did you really think I would answer your questions? If you hoped for that…”

-Puk!

Before he could finish speaking, Mok Gyeong-un’s demonic sword Evil Commandment Sword pierced through his lower back.

As Mok Gyeong-un added rotation to the sword,

-Chwa-reu-reu-reuk!

“Keugagaaaak!”

All the internal organs in his body twisted and were ground up.

The pain of having his body cut off was agonizing enough, but when the internal organs in his body were ground up by the whirlwind of sword energy, Kang Yeom was in so much pain that he sincerely wished for death.

However, having succeeded in absorbing the blood of a spirit beast by breaking through the enormous odds of absolute incompatibility, he couldn’t die easily thanks to his tremendous regenerative ability.

“Kuuuu.”

“Speak. The real Wi So-yeon… Where did you take her?”

“Th-that person…”

“……”

“You… You and the humans… will be eradicated. Enjoy what’s left of your life until then. Kuhuhuhuhuu.”

Kang Yeom forcefully sneered with a face distorted by pain, revealing teeth stained with blue blood.

At this, Mok Gyeong-un smirked and said as he pulled the demonic sword Evil Commandment Sword out of his back:

“There’s no helping it. Your will is quite strong, so it’ll be difficult to make you open your mouth.”

Is he giving up?

A glint appeared in Kang Yeom’s eyes.

He didn’t seem like the type to give up so easily over something like this.

-Tak!

Then Mok Gyeong-un bent down and placed his palm on his chest.

As Kang Yeom was wondering what this was about, Mok Gyeong-un raised the corner of his mouth slyly and said:

“But you know what? Do you think there’s no one else who can answer even if you don’t?”

“……”

Kang Yeom snorted.

Among those deployed here, there was no one who knew important information about their Secret Society.

Even in the Secret Society, those who knew the exact flow of the grand plan were as rare as to be called extremely few, except for the First Realm, who could be considered the highest executives.

But then,

“When the half-white-haired woman with demonic energy similar to yours self-destructed with Three Eyes’s replicated eye, she surrendered without hesitation.”

‘Chunchu?’

At those words, Kang Yeom frowned.

When he mentioned the half-white-haired woman, he immediately understood who it was.

Although she had a somewhat difficult-to-control temperament, he thought she would never betray them because she knew that person’s fearsomeness.

But that woman surrendered without hesitation?

It was hard to believe.

“I’ll find out through her. And from you…”

-Shu-u-u-u!

“Huheuk!”

At that moment, Kang Yeom’s expression twisted.

This was because demonic energy was being sucked in through Mok Gyeong-un’s palm that was placed on his chest.

‘Wh-what is this?’

The being before his eyes was undoubtedly human.

But how could he absorb his demonic energy?

This was happening due to the Ritual of Binding, one of the subtleties of the Eight Thought-Shattering Techniques.

Moreover, Mok Gyeong-un’s true qi wasn’t the energy of yang life.

It was demonic energy formed by combining the energy of the dead, extreme yin energy, and demonic energy absorbed from Imaemangnyang.

Given its fundamental nature, there was no reason for it to have any resistance to absorbing demonic energy.

-Shu-u-u-u!

He had been suffering from constant pain due to his regenerative ability, but Kang Yeom couldn’t help but be bewildered as Mok Gyeong-un absorbed the demonic energy he had accumulated until now.

“Kueoeoeo. St-stop!”

Of course, there was no way Mok Gyeong-un would even pretend to hear such cries.

-Hwa-reu-reu-reuk!

A glint appeared in Mok Gyeong-un’s eyes as he absorbed Kang Yeom’s demonic energy.

Unlike the demonic energy he had absorbed from Imaemangnyang until now, there was some unique energy coexisting.

This hot energy, which was of even higher purity than the Fiery Yang Energy, was closer to natural energy.

But as he tried to absorb this energy, Kang Yeom, who had seemed unlikely to ever betray Three Eyes, hastily shouted at him:

“Th-that human woman, if she’s there, they said they could revive the sealed vengeful spirit!”

‘!?’

At that moment, Mok Gyeong-un stopped absorbing his demonic energy.