novelraw Chapter 220 : Chapter 220
Chapter 220 : Chapter 220
Chapter 220. We go to hell
Tuk, de-gu-reu-reu…….
Gal Mu-wi’s head rolled on the ground.
Gal Mu-wi’s two eyes were wide open with shock and astonishment as if he couldn't believe it at all.
No matter if the opponent is the Unrivaled New Demon Jin Cheon, he seemed unable to believe at all that he, who reached the Mysterious Realm in his own way, had his head fly off without even becoming an enemy of thirty moves.
Pu-hwa-aaaaak!
Teol-sseok!
Gal Mu-wi’s body that lost the head poured out blood like a fountain and crumbled.
“Since you said you pursue only individual profit and practical benefits, you won't care even if your three-character name remains as a disgrace in history.”
Jin Cheon looked down at Gal Mu-wi’s corpse and spoke coldly.
“So I will make sure to leave your name in the history books. In the future, your name will remain as a pronoun for trash who played the role of a devil’s dog and practiced human sacrifice.”
Jin Cheon spoke so and sheathed the Heavenly Demon Sword in the scabbard.
Seu-reung!
The Heavenly Demon Sword rang a creepy sword cry and hid its traces.
“……!”
People were so surprised seeing that spectacle that they couldn't continue words.
That was a common reaction of everyone located here in Jiangpu, not distinguishing enemy and ally.
To think the Fortress Lord of the Hegemon Fortress, who was called Hegemon Emperor and led the Unorthodox Murim, would have his head fly off, deng-geong, by the Unrivaled New Demon…….
And that before even forty techniques?
They thought at least a fierce close battle would occur for about one sijin, but Jin Cheon’s martial prowess was far beyond the level everyone imagined.
“Heo-heo.”
Would even Sword Immortal have burst into hollow laughter as if despondent.
“I, I greet the Unrivaled New Demon Great Hero!”
Someone ran quickly to Jin Cheon, lay flat, and shouted.
He was a person who also had acquaintance with Jin Cheon.
The person who attended Gal Mu-wi by his side when Gal Mu-wi, who chased Jin Cheon previously, became a dog chasing a chicken.
Hell Yama, the Captain of the Hegemon Yama Squad, the second-in-command of the Hegemon Fortress following Gal Mu-wi and the Hegemon Fortress' most elite military group.
“Was it…… Hell Yama?”
Jin Cheon looked at Hell Yama with a cold gaze.
“Yes, Great Hero.”
“What do you have to say to run to me like this?”
“It is merely to beg forgiveness from Great Hero and seek mercy.”
“Forgiveness and mercy you say…… Keuk.”
Jin Cheon smiled a creepy smile.
“Very cunning. Since the number one Gal Mu-wi died, you want to take the position using this chance?”
“Absolutely not!”
Hell Yama denied Jin Cheon’s words strongly.
“I only think of settling the subordinates who might be confused due to the death of the former Fortress Lord.”
“Is that so?”
“Is there any question?”
Hell Yama made a desperate expression and spoke.
“If Great Hero forgives the errors committed by the Hegemon Fortress, we will withdraw without complaint like this. I implore you to please show mercy. I beg like this.”
Hell Yama, saying so, peo-eok, smashed his head on the ground.
He smashed it so hard that blood flowed profusely from the broken head.
“If I forgive and show mercy, what will you bastards do?”
“We will withdraw like this and not hinder Great Hero’s event.”
“Not hinder you say…… Keuk! Indeed words like an Unorthodox Faction bastard.”
“W, why do you say so…….”
“In other words, doesn't it mean you bastards will slip back and stick to the winning side?”
“N, no! Absolutely no…….”
“How dare you spout such obvious bullshit in front of me.”
Jin Cheon smiled a sneer and cut off Hell Yama’s words.
“But since you seek mercy while smashing even your head, although it's a bit annoying, there is nothing I can't grant.”
“I, is that true?”
“Of course.”
Jin Cheon nodded readily, then smiled, ssi-ik.
“If you offer the heads of you bastard and all members of the Hegemon Yama Squad, I will forgive the remaining bastards.”
“T, that is!”
“Why, can't you offer your life for the subordinates?”
“Not that…….”
“To gain one, you must know to lose one. Not enough with taking the number one position of the Hegemon Fortress, you won't pay the sacrifice? You wouldn't not know that this is a fight staking the fate of the world?”
“…….”
At Jin Cheon’s sharp remark, Hell Yama became mute as if having eaten honey and couldn't say any words.
“The sins committed by the Hegemon Fortress, I will receive with the heads of you bastard and the Hegemon Yama Squad.”
“G, Great Hero! Please, that alone…….”
Hell Yama held onto Jin Cheon’s trousers and begged, but it was useless.
“Blood Sword Commander.”
“Yes, I am here.”
At Jin Cheon’s call, the Blood Sword Commander knelt on one knee.
“Kill the Hegemon Yama Squad bastards. All of them without leaving a single one.”
“I obey the command.”
As soon as the Blood Sword Commander received Jin Cheon’s order, the Asura Blood Sword Unit members threw their bodies all at once and rushed towards the Hegemon Yama Squad members.
“D, damn it!”
“Damn!”
The Hegemon Yama Squad members fled in all directions like a startled swarm of cockroaches.
However, even if it is the Hegemon Yama Squad called the Unorthodox Faction’s number one military group, fleeing from the Asura Blood Sword Unit was impossible.
The Asura Blood Sword Unit was a group of sword ghosts composed of super experts where individuals were close to Extreme Demon.
Since the level difference in not only martial arts level but also movement arts was clear, it was not an exaggeration to say the probability of the Hegemon Yama Squad fleeing safely was virtually nonexistent.
Actually, it was so.
“Ack!”
“Euaaack!”
Screams of the Hegemon Yama Squad members rang out everywhere.
The current Hegemon Yama Squad was prey, not predator.
Although it was the Hegemon Yama Squad that reigned like a synonym for fear in the Zhejiang Province area as the Hegemon Fortress' most elite military group, in front of the Asura Blood Sword Unit, they were nothing more than a status of being hunted unilaterally.
If allies helped, the story might have been different, but regrettably, they were groups walking the Black Way.
Unorthodox Murim people had neither loyalty nor courage to help the Hegemon Yama Squad against the Asura Blood Sword Unit.
That was a phenomenon proven historically as well.
Black Way people were prone to turning into a disorderly mob the moment they lost a strong pivot.
“Such f…….”
Hell Yama couldn't finish the curse he was spitting out.
Peo-eok!
Hell Yama’s head, hit by the Heavenly Thunderclap Palm, burst into pieces like a watermelon bursting.
It was the price for daring to wag a cunning tongue against Jin Cheon.
“Hegemon Fortress bastards listen.”
Jin Cheon’s voice carried with demonic qi rang out resonantly.
“If you don't get lost from this area right now, I will make you exactly like the bastards who died earlier. So choose. Will you get lost obediently, or will you die by my hands.”
As soon as Jin Cheon’s words ended, not only martial artists belonging to the Hegemon Fortress but also Unorthodox Murim people began to run away competitively.
To them, only their own profit and life were important, and they had no interest in the Great Cause even as much as a booger.
* * *
Slaughter ended with that.
Since the core figures of the Hegemon Fortress such as Gal Mu-wi, Hell Yama, and the Hegemon Yama Squad were executed, it was not an exaggeration to say there was no one to stop the Divine Demon Alliance’s separate detachment.
Thanks to that, Jin Cheon and the Divine Demon Alliance’s separate detachment quickly left Jiangpu and headed for the Imperial Capital.
“Amitabha, Amitabha.”
Great Monk Gongheo looked at Nanjing visible in the distance and chanted the Buddha’s name repeatedly.
“How great a sin does he intend to receive to commit even such deeds. Namu Amitabha Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.”
Great Monk Gongheo’s chanting was close to grief.
It was understandable, as the appearance of the Empire’s capital Nanjing was terrible beyond compare even looking from afar.
Go-oooooo!
In the sky of Nanjing filled with jet-black dark clouds, demonic qi harboring evil energy was swirling.
Thanks to that, Nanjing looked no different from a world of darkness.
Because the dark clouds were so thick, not a single ray of sunlight entered even though it was broad daylight.
Also, the things roaming Nanjing were existences that could not be seen as human anymore.
Due to the plague Dokgo Seong spread, most of those residing in Nanjing had become devils.
In other words, Nanjing where the Hell Realization Great Art unfolded was no different from a living hell in itself.
Recalling that Nanjing was once the Imperial Capital of the vast Central Plains under Heaven and where the Imperial Palace was located, it was to the point of doubting whether the scene visible to the two eyes was reality.
“……Just what are you doing.”
Jin Cheon looked at Nanjing and mumbled to himself without realizing.
The gaze of Jin Cheon, who had the Heavenly Demon’s Physique, was different from that of ordinary people.
To others’ eyes, Nanjing might just look like a living hell, but not to Jin Cheon.
Something unusual was happening in the Imperial Palace visible in the distance.
That felt like the gestation of truly immense Evil to Jin Cheon.
It was to the point of thinking that even the Hell Realization Great Art that turned Nanjing into a living hell was nothing more than child's play compared to what was happening in the Imperial Palace right now.
The problem was that even looking back at the passages of the Heavenly Demon Scripture, he couldn't even guess about what was happening in the Imperial Palace right now.
This would mean either a sorcery not even recorded in the Heavenly Demon Scripture exists, or he created a new sorcery.
‘To usurp the throne possessing an Imperial Prince of all things. It is the worst.’
Jin Cheon honestly had to admit that Dokgo Seong selected the target to possess well.
If Dokgo Seong wanted to prevent the collapse of the body and use cursed sorceries, human sacrifice was essential.
But if he is on the throne, supplying humans, the sacrifices needed for human sacrifice immediately, would be easier than eating cold porridge, so it would be possible to accumulate power at a speed transcending imagination.
Furthermore, just looking at putting a leash on the Heavenly Dao Alliance using the Emperor’s authority and mobilizing Imperial troops to oppress martial artists, possessing an Imperial Prince was worthy of being evaluated as a move of god.
Thanks to that, didn't he succeed in not only recovering power in such a short time but also deploying the cursed sorcery called Hell Realization Great Art to make the Imperial Capital Nanjing as well as the Imperial Palace into an impregnable fortress.
“W, we must stop him.”
Seop So-yeon, who was by Jin Cheon’s side, said with a trembling voice.
“There is no time. We must go quickly.”
“Why?”
“The Heavenly Gate is opening.”
“Heavenly Gate……?”
Jin Cheon frowned.
Gate of the sky.
He understood the word, but Jin Cheon could not know its true meaning.
“The gate of the sky is…… one passage connecting the human world and the Divine World.”
“Divine World……?”
“Where do you think those who reached Ascending to Immortality go?”
“I don't know. Nor am I interested.”
Jin Cheon was one who lived only in the Human World, reality.
Things like Ascending to Immortality or sky were like grasping floating clouds to Jin Cheon.
“The world is never one. Infinite worlds exist in this vast universe.”
“So?”
“There is a world where those born as insignificant creatures go when they reach the sky. The Heavenly Gate is the path leading to that world.”
“Surely you mean Dokgo Seong is on the verge of Ascending to Immortality?”
“Probably. Of course, I don't know the exact intention either. However, the certain thing is that the Heavenly Gate opening is never a good thing for the human world.”
“Then…….”
“We must hurry.”
Seop So-yeon urged Jin Cheon.
“If the Heavenly Gate opens, then we really might not be able to stop him. We must go even a moment sooner and stop him.”
“Don't worry. I intended to do so anyway.”
Jin Cheon could not understand all of Seop So-yeon’s meaning, but clearly recognized the fact that he must hurry.
Because it was immediately after he instinctively felt that something terrible and terrifying was happening in the Imperial Palace anyway.
“Could you pay attention for a moment?”
Jin Cheon looked back at the separate detachment composed of about five hundred people.
“Before entering Nanjing, I will say just one short word to the comrades here, no, battle comrades.”
Everyone paid attention to Jin Cheon.
“They say even brushing collars is fate, so if we crawl into hell together like this, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say it is a truly special fate.”
“Hahaha!”
Laughter burst out.
Final decisive battle.
Even though it was just before going to fight against the greatest evil in history, the martial artists belonging to the separate detachment did not lose their laughter.
It wasn't just because of the light joke Jin Cheon threw.
That was nothing more than an excuse.
Those gathered in this place right now were people who willingly sacrificed themselves to protect the world from a great catastrophe.
To such people, death was just a process of life, and could never be an object of fear.
“It is an honor to be with everyone here on the road to hell. I pray that as many as possible survive and a day comes to recall today’s events and tilt wine cups in the future. Please, I implore you, fight with all your might and survive to the end. That is all.”
“Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!”
Shouts burst out.
It was a shout containing the wish for victory.
“Then, let’s go.”
As Jin Cheon moved his steps, everyone followed him.
The time was ten days before the Double Ninth Festival.