Single-Instant Blade

Chapter 98 : Seori (3)

They had an unfamiliar meal with a stranger.

Three people were eating, but no one was talking. They all silently emptied the rice bowls in front of them.

“When did our master take you in?”

When they had almost finished eating, Seori Gaheon asked.

“When he was alive.”

Ah Geol said calmly.

“Did you see our master’s death?”

“It’s a memory I don’t really want to recall.”

“You must have ground your teeth at the enemy who murdered our master.”

“Not really. Even though he was my master, I met him briefly when I was very young, so I don’t even remember his face well. But…”

“But?”

“The sect has to be sorted out in some way.”

“…You little brat, you’re speaking informally.”

“Although we’re senior and junior brothers, are we related by blood, or by affection? Since we’re only entangled by resentment, my tone isn’t polite. Understand.”

“Kukuk! Isn’t it funny?”

Seori Gaheon said, looking at Seori Hyeonggae.

Seori Hyeonggae twisted his lips and smirked silently, as if there was no need to say anything.

“Well! It seems we’ve eaten enough, shall we get up?”

Seori Gaheon dusted off his hands.

“I have something to ask.”

Ah Geol looked at Seori Gaheon.

“I’m curious why you raised your blade against our master, but not against the Duke.”

“This guy, this guy… he’s poking at a sore spot.”

“It’s been almost fifteen years since then. If you haven’t been able to raise your blade until now, it seems you’ll have to stay crushed forever. Are you satisfied with just crushing the Ten Lesser Swords?”

“Do you know what happens when a cat attacks a wolf?”

“A cat?”

“Do you want to say that you betrayed our master with a blade that was only a cat? Or do you want to sneer and say, ‘So you were just a cat. I knew it’?”

“Well, think as you please.”

“That’s what I’m saying. Think as you please. You seem to think you’re a tiger, but wouldn’t it be embarrassing if a tiger were eaten by a cat? Hahaha!”

Seori Gaheon laughed and stood up and went out.

He was not angered by the rough words. He was calm even after hearing the sneering words.

“Let me tell you one thing.”

Seori Hyeonggae said, placing a coin on the table.

“They call my senior brother’s blade the One Shot Ten Blades, and it applies perfectly to you. While you use your blade once, my senior brother can use it ten times. Try to win. I’ve only seen my senior brother kneel once, and it was so long ago that it’s hazy. I’d like to see it again after a long time.”

Seori Hyeonggae also stood up.

Swoosh!

Ah Geol, who had stood up from his seat, raised the half-iron blade and aimed it at Seori Gaheon.

He would use all his strength from the beginning. If he hesitated even a little, he would be defeated immediately!

Swoosh!

Seori Gaheon spread his stance wide.

He stepped into a horse stance and held his blade horizontally in front of his chest. The tip of the blade was aimed at Ah Geol.

‘How can he do that from there?’

Ah Geol was momentarily confused.

Seori Gaheon’s posture was suited for defense. If his purpose was to attack, he should not have stepped into a horse stance from the beginning.

What on earth did it mean?

To execute a fast blade art like the One Shot Ten Blades, you had to narrow your stance somehow. He was worried about how to reduce his actions and increase his speed, but he couldn’t understand why he was deliberately widening his stance.

Swoosh!

Ah Geol hesitated for a moment.

Although he had to execute the Bow and Arrow Blade, Seori Gaheon’s appearance was so strange that he was reluctant to use his blade. At that time,

Shyut!

Suddenly, a flash of lightning flashed in front of his eyes.

‘Danger!’

Ah Geol immediately jumped back. But,

Jjiiik!

The sound of clothes tearing was heard.

A blade that had approached at some point had torn his clothes. It had torn a long gash from his chest to his waist.

“This is the expected result.”

Seori Gaheon laughed, spinning his blade.

It wasn’t that he had only torn his clothes because he couldn’t cut Ah Geol. He had deliberately torn his clothes to raise his vigilance.

‘Prediction!’

Ah Geol’s mind cleared.

Seori Gaheon’s words were right. He had only seen the horse stance and had predicted that it would be difficult for Seori Gaheon to execute a fast sword. But Seori Gaheon had executed a fast blade like a lightning bolt from a horse stance.

If he had not put mercy in his blade, it would have been instant death.

Seori Gaheon said, “A blade that’s too bland is no fun. I’m bored, so will you play with me a little more interestingly?”

“Taat!”

Ah Geol immediately kicked the ground and shot out.

The Bow and Arrow Blade! It would pierce Seori Gaheon’s chest.

Seori Gaheon stepped aside.

The Revolving Blade! He spun his body and swept his blade. He followed Seori Gaheon closely.

Seori Gaheon took a step back.

The blade grazed Seori Gaheon’s waist. He immediately twisted his wrist and swung it up. The Ten Thousand Wrist Blade!

Seori Gaheon took another step back.

He changed the direction of his blade with the Ten Thousand Wrist Blade. He struck down with all his might. The Heavenly Strength Blade!

“It’s no fun.”

A voice that drained his strength rang in his ears.

At the same time, the Heavenly Strength Blade, which had contained the strength of a thousand pounds, slipped to the side as if it had struck oil.

‘Ah!’

Before Ah Geol could even let out a sigh, a blade had slipped in through the gap that the Heavenly Strength Blade had created.

“Hmph!”

Ah Geol was startled and was about to retreat. But,

Papat! Papat!

The blade created ten changes in front of his eyes. The One Shot Ten Blades, ten blades had dug into his entire body at once.

Swoosh! Seok! Pyut!

His flesh was cut. A piece of his flesh fell off.

He had lost his strength after being hit by one blade. His feet had been frozen by two blades. He had foreseen his death with three blades, and had lost his mind with four blades.

Seori Gaheon did not allow Ah Geol to dodge.

Ten blades had swept in at once.

“Hmph!”

Ah Geol smirked.

Although his entire body was being beaten by the blade, he couldn’t move. He couldn’t even dodge. There was nothing he could do but stand there stupidly. His feet were already frozen.

Ah Geol dropped the half-iron blade and collapsed roughly.

“That’s not like a senior brother.”

Seori Hyeonggae laughed coldly.

Seori Gaheon frowned and looked at the fallen Ah Geol.

At the last moment, he had withdrawn his blade. Although he had intended to cut off his breath, he had chosen to spare his life.

“Did you see it?”

“Is that why you spared him?”

“…”

Seori Gaheon did not answer and just stared at Ah Geol.

When the ten blades had exploded, Ah Geol had counterattacked. To be precise, when the One Shot Ten Blades had pierced through the Heavenly Strength Blade, the counterattack had exploded.

The counterattack was fast and accurate.

There was no sign that the half-iron blade had moved. Only the striking blade, the Heavenly Strength Blade, was visible.

When the blade had entered, Ah Geol had twitched.

A faint tremor? Fear that he could not dodge the One Shot Ten Blades? Or an instinctive sense of danger? A tremor similar to that had occurred. And his movement technique had changed.

The Heavenly Strength Blade had twisted its direction and had struck Seori Gaheon’s wrist.

The first blade of the One Shot Ten Blades had been aimed at his heart, but it had slightly missed and had grazed his chest.

It had not torn his flesh, but had flowed to the side.

Fortunately, it had hit his leg with the second blade. The third blade that had been swung up had cut from his lower abdomen to his chest, and the fourth blade had grazed his head.

Seori Gaheon’s change of form was very fast. It was so fast that it had surpassed Ah Geol’s counterattack. And yet, he had been injured in his wrist. The half-iron blade had torn about a finger’s worth of flesh and had passed by.

There were only two people who had put a weapon into Seori Gaheon’s body.

Duke Heo Dogi and his master.

Now, Ah Geol had become the third.

Although he had not been able to gain an absolute advantage like the two before him, he had torn his flesh with a blade and had made him bleed.

Ah Geol had even sent the One Shot Ten Blades flowing.

If he fought more, if he became a more fierce demon, he was a demon who would even eat up the One Shot Ten Blades.

So he had not killed him.

Seori Gaheon said, sheathing his blade, “Take him and treat him.”

“You’re thinking of sending this guy to the Duke.”

“Is there anyone else besides this guy who is fighting with the Sacred Sword Sect? But why should I kill this guy and make someone else happy? I have to make the stage bigger so that this guy can continue to cause a scene.”

“Alright.”

Seori Hyeonggae nodded his head.

He had read his senior brother’s intentions.

His senior brother thought that the opportunity to strike Duke Heo Dogi had come. If he incited Ah Geol and shook the Sacred Sword Sect greatly, the Duke would have no choice but to come out.

For that, Ah Geol had to become stronger.

He was unstable now. If the Ten Lesser Swords rushed in with a plan like the other day, he would be defeated.

This was his thought… there was no need to say his own thoughts. It was his senior brother’s idea to send Ah Geol to the Sacred Sword Sect.

Seori Gaheon said, “Throw that guy to the Ten Lesser Swords.”

“With this guy’s current martial arts, he can’t get out of the Ten Lesser Swords, but you’re still going to throw him?”

“Why are you like this? As if you don’t know.”

“Huhu!”

Seori Hyeonggae laughed.

Ah Geol had chosen a very rough method to obtain the Single-Instant Blade.

In the Single-Instant Sect, it was called the Single-Instant Death Blade, but it was also called the Single-Instant Evil Blade.

It was not the orthodox path, but the evil path. It was not a normal training, but an evil training. Even in the Single-Instant Sect, it was expressed as an evil blade.

There was no one who had obtained the Single-Instant Blade in this way.

If this method had worked, Dongbak, who had been struggling because he had not obtained the Single-Instant Blade, would have tried it immediately.

To obtain the Single-Instant Evil Blade, an environment like a battlefield was needed.

You had to kill people endlessly. In addition, the practitioner also had to be constantly exposed to death.

Was it easy to create such an environment in the martial world?

Even if you were an evil demon that everyone ground their teeth at, killing twenty or thirty people was the most you could do.

But Ah Geol had chosen the latter.

He had fought roughly against the Great Mountain Gang. He had killed over four hundred people.

When the fight had started, he had not known that Ah Geol had chosen the Single-Instant Evil Blade. Later, as he had watched the fight, he had known when the Single-Instant Blade had popped out.

So he had also fought the Ten Lesser Swords, even though he knew he was no match for them.

The Single-Instant Evil Blade had to be dominated by the senses.

It wasn’t that you trained the forms and attached them to your body, but that the energy that arose from your bones had to dominate your body. And the practitioner had to realize what his body was doing a step later.

If you realized it and made it into a form, the Single-Instant Blade would be completed, and if you didn’t realize it, it would become a strange martial art that you couldn’t use at will when you wanted to.

If ten Single-Instant Sect disciples challenged the Single-Instant Evil Blade, all ten would fail.

They could not change the process of the senses dominating the body into a form.

Dongbak had also thought of the Single-Instant Evil Blade. Since he had not obtained the Single-Instant Blade, he had tried to use another method.

But in the end, he had given up on the Single-Instant Evil Blade.

Making the senses into a form was only possible with a group. In reality, it required more than human ability.

Since Ah Geol had chosen the Single-Instant Evil Blade, he had to continue to fight.

The more he clashed with the strong, the better. He had to be continuously pushed to the brink of death.

“Alright. I’ll throw him as soon as his wounds heal.”

“And let’s use the Ghost Gate.”

“The Ghost Gate…?”

“Why? Are you going to say you don’t know? Are you really going to be like this to me? The Ghost Gate Master, Ma Guyeong.”

“…”

Seori Hyeonggae frowned.

He had thought that his senior brother knew about the martial artists he was raising in Jeongdong. But he had not known that he even knew about the Ghost Gate. Then, did that mean that he had been watching everything he did?

“Did you spy on me?”

“Hahaha! Hahahaha!”

Seori Gaheon held his stomach and laughed. After laughing for a long time, he looked at Seori Hyeonggae with a still laughing face and said, “I know, and the Duke knows. Did you think that you had fooled everyone just because you had fooled the Ten Lesser Swords? Tsk! Hahahaha!”

(End of Chapter)