novelraw Chapter 178 : Chapter 178
Chapter 178 : Chapter 178
Chapter 178. Monkey. Bastard. Know your place. How dare you.
“A mere trivial creature! Do you think you can face this Flame Monkey Great Sage just because you absorbed the essence of Fire!”
The Flame Monkey Great Sage shouted thunderously and responded to Jin Cheon’s offensive.
Woosh!
The Flame Monkey Great Sage’s giant fist aimed for Jin Cheon.
‘Let’s crash.’
Jin Cheon did not dodge.
This was not simply a fight of strength versus strength.
Fire versus fire.
This fight was to determine whose flames were more powerful.
So there was no reason to dodge.
Roooooaaaaaaar!
Flames burned furiously, becoming tangible Powerful Qi and wrapping around Jin Cheon’s fist.
Boom!
A roar rang out as Jin Cheon’s fist and the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s fist collided head-on.
Baaaaang!
A huge explosion occurred as if a firebomb had burst, and splendid sparks flew in all directions.
Paang!
An immense shockwave arose, making the flames inside the Scorching Hell burn even more fiercely.
The result of the collision was... Jin Cheon’s decision victory.
Woosh!
Thud!
The Flame Monkey Great Sage flew several yards and was embedded in the ground.
Considering that massive bulk, it was truly a surprising event.
Conversely, Jin Cheon was perfectly fine.
“...It stings.”
He was caressing the back of his hand as if it was tingling, but that was all.
Recalling that before absorbing the Fire Qi of the Scorching Heat Spring, his chest had caved in and his heart had stopped from a single punch of the Flame Monkey Great Sage, it was truly a massive change.
“Kieeeek!”
The Flame Monkey Great Sage screamed while clutching its fist.
The Flame Monkey Great Sage’s fist, which had collided with Jin Cheon’s fist, was bizarrely crushed.
“Why, does it hurt?”
Jin Cheon grinned and approached the Flame Monkey Great Sage.
“For a monkey bastard, did you think you became a human just because you absorbed some Fire Qi from the Scorching Heat Spring? Shall I guess your true nature?”
Jin Cheon’s Demonic God Eyes shone black beyond purple.
“At best, you were at the level of a spiritual creature. You weren't a cultivator either. You were just born as a fire monkey and were used to Fire Qi. Then, by chance, you entered the Scorching Hell, found out about the Scorching Heat Spring, and while absorbing Fire Qi, you started chattering nonsense about being the self-proclaimed Flame Monkey Great Sage or whatever. After that, you must have tried to reach the heavens as a cultivator in your own way while absorbing Fire Qi for hundreds of years, but it seems it didn't go well? Indeed. Because you are nothing more than a mere monkey bastard.”
“Eee... Eeee...!!!”
“Do you think a monkey like you can reach the heavens no matter how many days you absorb Fire Qi?”
“I will... kill you.”
Perhaps genuinely enraged by Jin Cheon’s mockery, a truly chilling voice flowed from the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s mouth.
“I will tear you to shreds and chew you up thoroughly!!!”
Wrapped in furiously burning flames, the Flame Monkey Great Sage leaped toward Jin Cheon.
“Oh my.”
Jin Cheon did not blink an eye.
“You seem to have a temper, at least. For a monkey bastard.”
Fwoosh, fwooosh!
The flames spewing from Jin Cheon became fiercer, and soon formed a shape.
It was the manifestation of a Demon.
The flames wrapping Jin Cheon formed a shape just like the face of a Demonic God.
Was that all?
Sssss, sizzle!
Jin Cheon’s body was dyed orange from head to toe.
The appearance was just like metal heated to the limit.
Scorching Fire Demonic God.
An Extreme Yang Demonic Body recorded in the Heavenly Demon Scripture.
It was not an exaggeration to say it was practically the highest peak of Yang attributes martial arts among all demonic arts under the heavens.
By absorbing the Fire Qi of the Scorching Heat Spring, Jin Cheon realized the Scorching Fire Demonic God and became able to wield it.
“Right, come.”
Jin Cheon smirked at the Flame Monkey Great Sage falling toward him with a thud!.
He had no intention of dodging this time either.
He would just face it with even stronger fire.
Boom!
Craaaash!
The Flame Monkey Great Sage fell upon Jin Cheon.
However...
Grip!
Jin Cheon’s grasp snatched the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s neck before anyone knew it.
“Gag, cough!”
The Flame Monkey Great Sage gagged as if suffocating.
“Monkey.”
Slap!
Jin Cheon’s slap struck the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s cheek.
“Bastard.”
Slap!
“Know your place.”
Slap!
“How dare you.”
Slap!
“Defy.”
Slap!
“A human.”
The last one was a fist.
Baaang!
Jin Cheon’s fist landed on the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s face.
“Kyaaaaaaaaak!”
A scream filled with pain burst out from the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s mouth.
The monkey’s characteristically low nose was crushed flat, and the sharp canines broke and scattered in all directions.
Thud!
Boom!
The giant body of the Flame Monkey Great Sage fell like a rotten old tree.
Jin Cheon did not stop there.
Grab!
Jin Cheon, mounting the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s upper body, swung his two fists indiscriminately.
Bang, baang! Baaaang!
Pummel!
Every time Jin Cheon’s fist landed on the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s face, an explosion occurred and sparks scattered in all directions.
“S-Stop... Kyak! Stoooop... Cough!”
The Flame Monkey Great Sage couldn't withstand Jin Cheon’s punching and begged.
However, as if his anger was not appeased at all, Jin Cheon continued to strike the Flame Monkey Great Sage, inflicting indiscriminate violence.
That was neither martial arts nor anything else.
It was primal killing intent swung only with the intention to kill the opponent, like an ancient fight from a long time ago when the concept of martial arts didn't even exist.
In fact, deep red fire light was spewing from Jin Cheon’s Demonic God Eyes, which were dyed with rage and madness...
The result.
Splat!
The Flame Monkey Great Sage’s huge head exploded into pieces.
Thus, the Flame Monkey Great Sage put a period to its life of hundreds of years.
It had said it would pound Jin Cheon into dust, but in the end, it died with its own head exploding.
* * *
Bang, baang!
Nevertheless, Jin Cheon did not stop punching as if his anger was not appeased.
He had momentarily lost his reason and run wild due to the boiling Fire Qi and demonic qi.
“Phew.”
Jin Cheon regained his reason and exhaled as if refreshed.
He had swung his fists so madly that not only his grasp but his arms were tingling.
“Ugh.”
Jin Cheon shuddered recalling the situation that happened before he absorbed the heat of the Scorching Heat Spring.
Hadn't he almost died at the hands of the Flame Monkey Great Sage, nothing more than a mere monkey, let alone obtaining the essence of Fire due to a slight mistake?
It was so bad that Master Azure Heaven Divine Warrior came out to meet him at the threshold of the netherworld.
“It was worth it for the Master coming out. Even though he is someone who should rest in peace.”
Jin Cheon muttered to himself and thought of Master Azure Heaven Divine Warrior.
Of course, Jin Cheon couldn't be sure if that was truly his Master or just an illusion created by his subconscious.
Since it was natural to see a flashing lantern of memories or illusions when life and death intersected.
However, Jin Cheon could be sure of one thing.
‘Master has taught me everything.’
Recalling Master Azure Heaven Divine Warrior reminding him of the teachings from when he was alive, Jin Cheon realized that the Iron-Blooded Demonic God’s words were correct.
Didn't the Iron-Blooded Demonic God also say so?
— He probably already taught everything. He is never a lax person. There probably weren't many people in the world whose outside and inside were as different as him.
Since Master Azure Heaven Divine Warrior was a person even the Best in Ancient and Modern Times acknowledged, his teachings were no different from truth...
“Thank you, Master. This unworthy disciple offers a bow.”
Jin Cheon bowed flat toward the direction where he guessed the backyard of the Cult Leader’s Hall, that is, where Master Azure Heaven Divine Warrior’s spirit tablet would be enshrined.
Indeed, a Master was a Master.
To personally come to the threshold of death and give teachings for his unworthy disciple...
‘Seems there's nothing to take from this monkey bastard.’
Jin Cheon glanced at the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s corpse and immediately moved his steps.
Looking with the Demonic God Eyes, he couldn't find anything like an Inner Core in the Flame Monkey Great Sage’s corpse, so he thought there was no need to search the body.
On the way leaving the Scorching Hell.
— ...!
He encountered Fire Ghosts, but they dared not touch Jin Cheon.
Against Jin Cheon, who had absorbed the Fire Qi of the Scorching Heat Spring and achieved the Scorching Fire Demonic God, mere fire ghosts could do absolutely nothing.
‘I should take this.’
Jin Cheon decided to take the carcass of the Blaze Fire Red Scale Divine Python down with him while he was at it.
The reason was that he didn't think he would dare come back to the Scorching Hell if he didn't take it now.
‘Damn heavy.’
Jin Cheon grabbed the tail of the Blaze Fire Red Scale Divine Python and left the Scorching Hell, descending from the middle of Sky Mountain.
Carrying the heavy carcass of the Imugi and going down the mountain was quite an arduous task, but it wasn't something he couldn't do.
Was he going to suffer for just a day or two...?
“Liege!”
From afar, Danmok Cheong discovered Jin Cheon and started running over with the Seventh Divine Demon Squad.
A smile spread across Jin Cheon’s lips.
* * *
Danmok Cheong and the Seventh Divine Demon Squad, who were waiting halfway up Sky Mountain, discovered Jin Cheon’s figure in the distance and hurriedly unfolded their movement arts.
“I, I greet the Liege... Gasp!”
Danmok Cheong was startled and stopped mid-bow toward Jin Cheon.
It wasn't just Danmok Cheong.
“L-Liege!”
“No... way.”
The members of the Seventh Divine Demon Squad were also equally surprised seeing Jin Cheon.
After all, Jin Cheon’s current appearance was not something they could believe even seeing with their two eyes.
Dragging the carcass of a truly gigantic Imugi was not that big of a deal.
The problem was Jin Cheon’s appearance.
Fwoosh, fwooosh!
Deep red flames were constantly spewing out from Jin Cheon’s body, which was dyed bright orange.
Was that all?
Flames were soaring behind Jin Cheon’s footsteps.
It was to the point that the vegetation around Jin Cheon burned completely to black ash or withered and died.
Current Jin Cheon was in a state no different from a living incarnation of fire because Fire Qi was constantly spewing out since he had achieved the Scorching Fire Demonic God.
And Jin Cheon also felt it.
“Ugh!”
Jin Cheon collapsed in pain.
“L-Liege!”
Danmok Cheong dared not approach Jin Cheon.
Because the heat Jin Cheon emitted was so intense that it seemed he would burn to death if he approached even a little.
“This... the Fire Qi is... too strong...?”
Jin Cheon spoke in pain.
The Fire Qi absorbed from the Scorching Hell was rampaging like an explosion.
The problem was that no matter how much he tried to manage it, he couldn't control the Fire Qi at all.
He tried to control it by operating the Heavenly Demon Divine Qi, but no answer came out.
‘A-At this rate, won't I burn to death?’
Jin Cheon suddenly became afraid.
He thought that if this continued, he might spontaneously combust due to the boiling Fire Qi.
To suppress excessively excessive Fire Qi, some other energy to balance it was needed...
“Ah!”
An exclamation burst out from Jin Cheon’s mouth.
He felt he knew what to do.
He finally understood why the Iron-Blooded Demonic God told him to go to the Scorching Hell first among the Five Great Forbidden Lands, and why she told him to go to the Eternal Island after that.
“First... Kuegh!”
Jin Cheon opened his mouth with difficulty.
“I will go... to the Eternal Island... so do not worry about me.”
The place Jin Cheon had to go now was none other than the Eternal Island, one of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult’s Five Great Forbidden Lands.
To silence this crazily rampaging Fire Qi, he had to go to the Eternal Island as soon as possible and absorb the essence of Water there.
Otherwise, just as Jin Cheon imagined, an unfortunate event might occur where he failed to control the Fire Qi and burned himself to death.
“Then... I go.”
Leaving those words, Jin Cheon immediately unfolded the Heavenly Demon Fighting Soul Martial Art Ghost Soul Dance and sprinted in the direction of the Eternal Island.
Roooooaaaaaaar!
Deep red flames soared in the spot Jin Cheon passed.
“L-Liege! Liege!”
Danmok Cheong called out at the top of his lungs, but Jin Cheon had already disappeared without a trace.