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Chapter 192 : Chapter 192
Chapter 192. Grudge (4)
Gung Seola. She was watching the life and death fight with a complicated expression.
Her tightly clasped hands looked as if she was praying to a Buddha statue.
‘Please.’
Funnily enough, she was cheering for Nam Geon.
Her fiancé, Danmok Cheong, who looked weak and like a womanizer.
Who did he resemble? Naturally, he resembled his father, Danmok Hwan.
Even looking at the situation she was in, she did not feel much affection. Even though he was her future father-in-law.
Furthermore, the story was also shocking.
That he played with a maid working in the clan and threw her away.
From a woman’s perspective, he was the worst kind of man.
Of course, it could be a lie, but the feeling was not very good.
Because she knew Danmok Cheong’s conduct.
The thought that he was indeed his father’s son came to mind naturally.
Also, there was one more reason why Gung Seola believed Nam Geon’s story.
It was precisely the rumor about the Adamant Sword.
Adamant Sword and Sword Phoenix.
They were young heroes famous for punishing villains while traveling all over the Jianghu.
She did not know why Cold Flower, who was said to travel together, was not visible, but that was not an important issue right now.
Only the fact that someone famous as a Chivalrous Hero had no reason to tell such a lie was important.
Rather, she was grateful that the person called a Chivalrous Hero was preventing her unfortunate wedding.
However, that Chivalrous Hero was currently driven into a crisis.
No matter how she looked at it, the flow of the battle was one-sided.
Metallic sounds rang out repeatedly.
It was the sound of Danmok Hwan’s sword striking the Adamant Sword’s body.
He had achieved the Diamond Indestructible Body as rumored.
However, occasionally Danmok Hwan’s sword flew in aiming for the Adamant Sword’s seven orifices.
The Adamant Sword was dodging it narrowly, but every time that happened, Gung Seola’s expression became more desperate.
When the boundary between villain and saint is ambiguous, anyone tends to cheer for the weak rather than the strong.
Due to these complex emotions, Gung Seola desperately prayed for Nam Geon’s victory.
Her father, who was watching this scene from the side, opened his mouth to reassure her.
“Do not worry. Seola. The person who will become your father-in-law is the Young Master of the Great Danmok Clan.”
Her father was greatly misunderstanding her prayer.
“Yes? Ah, yes…….”
Instead of opening her mouth needlessly, she just nodded her head and continued her prayer.
CLANG!
At the noise of Danmok Hwan’s sword striking Nam Geon’s eye socket, she unknowingly let out a shrill scream, “Hiiik.”
Meanwhile.
In the process of retrieving the sword again after striking Nam Geon’s eye socket, Danmok Hwan felt an unpleasantness.
It was because of Nam Geon’s eyes.
Even in the midst of his eye almost being pierced, there was not a shred of fear in those eyes.
Rather, eyes filled with certainty.
Just what was he believing in to have such eyes.
Such incongruity, no, an unknown unpleasantness began to bloom in his mind creepily.
He moved his mouth roughly as if trying to push away that ominousness.
“I heard you were famous with the alias Adamant Sword, but is this all you could come up with? Did you think I wouldn’t know that you intend to endure until this Young Master’s internal energy runs out? Good! Try enduring until the end!”
Nam Geon swung his sword silently regardless of what Danmok Hwan babbled.
He was waiting for an opportunity.
However, unlike Danmok Hwan’s expectation, he was not waiting for the internal energy to run out.
What he was aiming for was the opportunity Jin Yuseong advised him on.
***
The night before. Jin Yuseong asked Nam Geon.
“Nam Geon. Do you want to settle the score with Danmok Hwan with your own hands?”
“O, of course! M, mom’s revenge, I will do it with my own hands!”
When Nam Geon answered with a tone full of determination, Jin Yuseong proposed to his colleagues.
In a way to induce a life and death duel if possible before turning the Danmok Clan into a wasteland.
“And if the life and death duel is established, Nam Geon, you fight with the Heavenly Wind Sword Art sealed.”
“Huh, huh? Wh, what does that mean, Hyung-ah?”
“The Heavenly Wind Sword Art is a technique that becomes stronger and fiercer as the sword strikes continue. Conversely, the fact that it gradually becomes stronger and faster is bound to be revealed to the eyes. If it reaches a level where Danmok Hwan finds it hard to endure, the Danmok Clan bastards will surely try to interfere.”
The Young Master was in danger. If they were hypocrite bastards, there was no way they would just watch.
“So you must kill Danmok Hwan before the bastards even have a gap to intervene.”
“Ho, how do I do that? I, I heard Danmok Hwan is a master. I, I can’t chase a master at once.”
At Nam Geon’s words, Jin Yuseong answered in a tone as if it was nothing.
“Do not worry. You just have to utilize that thing you are training recently.”
***
And right this moment. No, since the life and death duel first started.
Nam Geon was continuously attempting that thing Jin Yuseong advised.
“Haaaat!”
Every time he exhales and inhales while thrusting the Mother’s Affection Sword, the energy in the air is sucked into his acupoints through breathing.
And that energy harmonized with Nam Geon’s energy and circulated his whole body’s acupoints continuously.
It was a strange thing.
The energy continued to circulate and increase its size and speed, but Nam Geon’s movements did not become faster or fiercer at all.
It was merely repeating circulation and amplification.
Exactly according to the principle of the Sun Moon Infinite Sword First Form, Crimson Lotus Ascends to Heaven.
Jin Yuseong, who returned to the Jianghu, joined his colleagues and began teaching the Sun Moon Infinite Sword and Life and Death Blood Steps to them.
Several months had passed since he went to Yunnan and Tibet and returned to the Central Plains to reach here.
Baek Hyang was already training the Fifth Form, Illusionary Sun Myriad Changes.
Choyeon had not yet opened the Gate of Life and Death, so she could not unfold it freely, but she understood the principle to some extent, and she was in a state where she had melted the Life and Death Blood Steps into all the footwork she learned.
Dang Sopyeong also learned some techniques, but Nam Geon practiced only Crimson Lotus Ascends to Heaven repeatedly.
No, Jin Yuseong did not bother to teach other techniques to Nam Geon.
‘Keep in mind, Nam Geon. Even if you master only Crimson Lotus Ascends to Heaven perfectly, there will be few people in the Jianghu who can receive your single sword strike.’
Nam Geon trusted and followed Jin Yuseong’s advice as usual.
Even at that moment when Danmok Hwan’s sword flew in aiming for his eyes, he continued to operate internal energy according to the principle of Crimson Lotus Ascends to Heaven.
He only circulated the internal energy and was not using it at all.
Until now, Nam Geon had been swinging his sword and unfolding footwork using only brute strength.
Thanks to that, he was able to induce the enemies’ carelessness.
Because Nam Geon was being pushed back one-sidedly, and because he was constantly exposed to the crisis of his seven orifices being pierced, the Danmok Clan martial artists were not bothering to intervene.
And now.
At this moment when the flow of energy flowing through the acupoints reached the extreme.
That huge and rough energy began to rush toward his whole body’s acupoints all at once.
According to the movement he had practiced tens of thousands of times. No, hundreds of thousands of times.
The Mighty Sword Art First Form, Mountain Collapsing Strike, which he learned first from Jin Yuseong.
It was neither Slash, nor Flash, nor Sever.
Even though it was a technique unfolded holding a sword, it was Collapse and Strike.
The Mother’s Affection Sword lifted wide as if having no interest in defense.
Powered by the internal energy that burst out explosively, the Mother’s Affection Sword strikes down with speed like a ray of light.
It was a movement he had practiced and unfolded hundreds of thousands of times, but it was a speed of a different dimension from until now.
Suffering from intense friction, the surface of the giant sword glowed red.
For a brief moment, to Danmok Hwan’s eyes, that greatsword looked like a meteor.
Like a meteor falling to collapse a mountain.
Startled, Danmok Hwan lifted his sword hurriedly.
A strike of a speed incomparable to before. There was no composure even to step with footwork to dodge.
CLANG!!
Danmok Hwan’s sword and the Mother’s Affection Sword clash.
The sword qi wrapped around Danmok Hwan’s sword began to tear apart the blade of the Mother’s Affection Sword.
But it was meaningless.
Even if the fallen meteor breaks, the mountain that collided with the meteor was bound to collapse altogether.
CRACK!!!
Danmok Hwan’s sword, which blocked the Mother’s Affection Sword, shattered into pieces with a refreshing sound.
Soon, a gruesome noise rang out.
SQUELCH!!
Along with the shoulder blade, Danmok Hwan’s right arm was crushed and torn off entirely.
The noise of the hideously crushed right arm falling to the floor was heard, and blood poured out riding on Danmok Hwan’s shoulder blade.
Thud.
Only then did Danmok Hwan scream in pain.
“Aaaaargh!!”
It meant he barely saved his life thanks to throwing his body hurriedly the moment the sword broke.
Just as Nam Geon was about to swing the second strike towards Danmok Hwan who was screaming. Someone intervened in the fight.
CLANG!!
The Danmok Clan martial artists who were ready to intervene at any time. Among them, those who were close intervened.
At the same time, Danmok Hocheong shouted like a scream.
“What are you doing!! Kill those bastards right now!!”
Then the remaining martial artists also rushed towards Nam Geon and the colleagues all at once.
Jin Yuseong, who grabbed the Master’s Blade along with its scabbard, spoke indifferently.
“There must be innocent ones mixed in, so suppress them alive for now.”
“Yes. Senior Brother!”
“Ho. To think you are sparing people for once?”
Ignoring Dang Sopyeong’s words, Jin Yuseong stepped forward and swung the Master’s Blade.
THUD!
As he struck the martial artists with the scabbard, the martial artists fell with dull noises.
“Aaaagh!!”
He said to suppress them alive, but it did not mean suppressing them gently.
Among those hit by the scabbard, there were often those whose bones were broken.
Jin Yuseong, who advanced while knocking down the martial artists in an instant, soon reached Nam Geon’s side.
“You did well. Nam Geon.”
“I, I didn’t finish the fight. M, mom’s revenge, didn’t do it.”
“You won the life and death duel. You can finish that guy off after the fight ends.”
Beyond the rushing martial artists. Danmok Hwan, screaming while hurriedly stopping the bleeding of his wound, was visible.
“Di, did I win? Hyung-ah?”
“Yes. You succeeded in revenge, so don’t worry. We will finish the aftermath.”
“I, I can fight more too!”
Because he used internal energy recklessly, Nam Geon’s qi center was completely empty.
However, he could recover internal energy with Dynamic Cultivation anyway.
Jin Yuseong, who laughed at Nam Geon’s shout, took a step.
“Right. Help the Tang Clan bastard or something a little.”
He intended to visit the Black Heart Ghost Claw soon.
Even for that day, Dang Sopyeong needed to save his poison qi a little.
THUD!
After striking martial artists with the scabbard a few times. Jin Yuseong threw his body surprisingly.
Whoosh!
Jin Yuseong, who soared into the air unfolding Controlling Qi to Soar, was falling exactly where Danmok Hwan was treating his arm.
“Father!!”
Beside that Danmok Hwan, Danmok Cheong stood with a pale face.
Suddenly a shadow cast over the sky.
Danmok Cheong, who was looking down at Danmok Hwan, lifted his head hurriedly.
Jin Yuseong was falling above his head.
“Hiiik?!”
Danmok Cheong lifted his sword hurriedly with a startled face.
The trajectory was clearly visible to Jin Yuseong’s eyes. Even the flow of internal energy flowing through Danmok Cheong’s body.
It was a change that occurred after reaching the Heavenly Ladder Realm.
Now, he could see it just by wanting to, even without heightening his concentration to the extreme.
Matching the moment Danmok Cheong’s sword flew in, Jin Yuseong moved his legs.
Jin Yuseong’s toe touched the tip of Danmok Cheong’s sword.
Surprisingly, Jin Yuseong’s foot was not pierced by the sword tip.
He lightly climbed onto Danmok Cheong’s sword as if unfolding Flying on Grass.
Recalling the events of his past life, Jin Yuseong offered a greeting.
“Long time no see.”
For Danmok Cheong, he could not understand the meaning contained in that greeting.
No. He could not even understand how that guy climbed onto his sword.
Flustered, Danmok Cheong swung his sword hurriedly to shake Jin Yuseong off.
Matching that moment, Jin Yuseong, who threw his body lightly, swung the Master’s Blade.
The bone of Danmok Cheong’s right arm, which swung the sword, shattered into pieces.
CRACK!!
“Aaaaargh!!”
It was not revenge for the past life.
It was breaking the arm as a preventive measure so that the hypocrite bastard could not do trashy things behind the scenes anymore.
While Jin Yuseong looked at Danmok Cheong’s shattered arm with a satisfied expression. Sword qi flew towards Jin Yuseong along with a creepy presence.
CLANG!
After striking it away lightly by swinging the scabbard holding the Master’s Blade, Jin Yuseong turned his head.
“You bastard!!”
Danmok Hocheong, whose face had turned red, was rushing in while shouting.
The relaxed look from earlier was nowhere to be found.
Following the eldest son, even the eldest grandson became a cripple with a broken arm.
Even if he killed all those scoundrels now, he could not turn back the arms of his eldest son and eldest grandson.
Furthermore, the Danmok Clan was a martial family.
It meant they suffered damage close to the lineage being cut off.
“I will tear all your limbs apart!!!”
Jin Yuseong, who watched Danmok Hocheong rushing in with a face like an evil ghost rakshasa, nodded his head.
“Hmm. Doesn’t look like there’s a need to pull out the sword particularly.”