Sword God Reborn

Chapter 266 : The Man Who Hates

Kwaang!

Cheon Mubaeck looked at the corpse of the Fourteen-Star.

A low admiration came out at the power he had unleashed.

Taegeuk was a martial art of Wudang.

However, it was not exclusively Wudang's.

Since the creation of all things, the principle of Taegeuk had existed even before the founding of Wudang.

Yin and Yang.

The harmony of two opposing energies. It was a kind of martial principle that had existed even before Wudang had completed it as a martial art.

A Dao that numerous sages had unknowingly realized.

Cheon Mubaeck had contained that principle in his fingertips.

'The shock was greater than expected.'

Although the Gwigok Gwang-ae was a steel wall that neutralized external attacks, the Ghost Demon's continuous attacks were a great shock that was difficult to withstand.

Because it was a violent destructive power that would have killed anyone else long ago.

Moreover, it was a situation where he had used the Hevean Shaking Soul Art to the extreme to chase the King of Assassins.

The saber qi of the Ghost Demon, who was among the strongest opponents he had met so far, was fatal.

Because the upper dantian could no longer hold on and was shaking, and the demon-subduing qi was gradually collapsing.

'That won't do.'

The demon-subduing qi was the most vicious weapon in dealing with the demonic path. If the demon-subduing qi were to be neutralized, it would be difficult to kill the Ghost Demon right away.

So Cheon Mubaeck had racked his brain.

It was not an easy task to face the Ghost Demon with just ice techniques. In the first place, it was not particularly good in terms of compatibility.

'But what if it is used only as a supplement to the demon-subduing qi?'

So what he had thought of was Taegeuk.

Originally, Taegeuk was yin and yang.

Although the extreme yin qi was yin, it was difficult to see the demon-subduing qi as yang.

However, if you thought about it from the point of view of burning demonic qi, it might be a yang qi that had reached its extreme.

So he had created Taegeuk.

He had harmoniously drawn the two energies.

How was that possible?

'Divine energy.'

Cheon Mubaeck's eyes flashed. If the extreme yin qi and the demon-subduing qi had drawn a circle, what had filled that circle was the divine energy.

The effect was enormous.

Although it was a demon-subduing qi that had lost some of its power due to various shocks, when the three energies were combined, even a master who was on the verge of the divine realm, like the Fourteen-Star, had his body cut in a single stroke.

Cheon Mubaeck looked at the Ghost Demon's face, where his intense emotions were clearly revealed.

"Thank you. Thanks to you, I have realized a new method. This is why you can't stop fighting in the martial world."

Cheon Mubaeck was truly pleased.

Even after obtaining the divine energy of the middle dantian, in fact, it was no different from using the three energies separately. Of course, that alone had a tremendous destructive power, but if you were to be picky, the hassle of making Cheon Mubaeck's hands busier and more complicated was greater.

The Taegeuk he had just created had made the three energies one.

Cheon Mubaeck had sublimated an enlightenment into a martial art in an unexpected situation.

If a great demonic master like the Ghost Demon had not given a shock that made him feel a threat, Cheon Mubaeck would not have even thought of it.

The Ghost Demon's eyes, who had received such thanks, contorted.

'This son of a bitch...'

To think he had gained enlightenment after being attacked by him.

And to immediately apply that enlightenment to his martial arts?

Was that even possible?

What kind of head was he born with, what kind of body, that such a thing was possible?

Although he was resentful and resentful, the Ghost Demon regained his composure.

In a short moment. The Ghost Demon, whose various thoughts had crossed his mind, suddenly shouted.

"Kill him!"

At that, the Ghost Demon's subordinates rushed at Cheon Mubaeck without hesitation.

Cheon Mubaeck reacted as if he had expected it.

There was no way a person like the Ghost Demon would come a long way with just one Fourteen-Star. Moreover, since Cheon Mubaeck's qi sense had already felt the hidden presences, Cheon Mubaeck did not panic and responded.

But there was one thing that was flustering, and that was that the Ghost Demon, who had given the order to his subordinates, had turned his body without hesitation and had started to flee.

A hollow laugh came out of Cheon Mubaeck.

Good heavens. A person of that level is running away without even fighting properly?

It was quite refreshing.

"He's gotten old, but his senses have gotten damn sharp."

Cheon Mubaeck looked at the rushing demonic people and swung his sword down from above.

A sword scar was engraved in the air.

A trace of the demon-subduing qi, which was burning like a faint smoke, and the frozen dew mixed together.

That was right.

It was a new sword qi mixed with the demon-subduing qi and the extreme yin qi.

The sword qi split the figure of one person vertically in an instant, and without stopping there, it tore the chest of the guy behind him.

Poo-ak!

In a single strike, two demonic people met their end.

Although Cheon Mubaeck didn't know, Cheon Mubaeck, who had killed two masters who were in the top 30 of the Blood Demon Valley, did not stop and moved.

He soared into the air and walked.

The Geongon Chang-eungbo was a peerless divine art that allowed one to freely step on footwork as if stepping on the ground even in the air.

It was different from the commonly called levitation.

Most masters could fight in the air. It was not that difficult to jump around by stepping on all sorts of debris floating in the air.

The Geongon Chang-eungbo was a martial art that originated from that.

There's nothing to step on in the sky?

Then you just have to make it. It had started from that thought.

A high-level study of creating a thin qi membrane in the air and stepping on it.

At the same time as the operation of the internal energy that had reached its extreme, an immense concentration that required various actions to be done together.

"......!"

Bewilderment spread on the faces of the demonic people who were throwing their bodies at the Ghost Demon's order. Most of them had not experienced the Righteous-Demonic War. Although they had heard a lot about the Azure Sky Sword God, it was the first time they had actually witnessed his martial arts.

That brief moment of bewilderment was fatal to them.

Because Cheon Mubaeck's sword had cut off their necks like a farmer harvesting in an instant.

It was in an instant.

All five demonic people, whom the Ghost Demon had ordered to buy time, were dead.

Cheon Mubaeck spread his qi sense wide.

"There are no more."

Cheon Mubaeck, who had simply come to a conclusion, immediately turned his gaze.

As he rose into the air and stepped on his footwork, he could see the back of the fleeing Ghost Demon in the distance.

Cheon Mubaeck unfolded his lightness skill without hesitation. Somehow, it was human psychology to want to chase a fleeing opponent.

"Ghost Demon. Ghost Demon. You ugly and dirty old monster. You look extremely ugly, and your fleeing appearance is more shabby than a mouse, Ghost Demon. Do you know that?"

Cheon Mubaeck, who had cut down all the subordinates who had thrown their bodies at him in an instant, increased the speed of his lightness skill.

His stretched-out figure leaped through the space like a ray of light.

Although the Ghost Demon's speed was also considerable, Cheon Mubaeck's lightness skill was even more so.

The absolute realm.

The fact that he was using all the internal energy of the upper, middle, and lower dantians mixed as one was in itself a huge development in the operation of qi.

Because the things that had been used separately as 1 to 1 to 1 in terms of just the total amount of internal energy had been perfectly combined as one and were now displaying a power of 3, or even more.

Moreover, while concentrating on his lightness skill, Cheon Mubaeck continuously provoked his opponent.

"You're an old man who has lived long enough, so there's nothing you don't know, right? Huh? You've long passed the age of knowing the will of heaven, right? It's not the age of knowing the will of heaven. You're almost on the verge of dying, so if there's nothing you don't know, your head must be a stone head."

"..."

"You bastard. You ugly old monster. You're worse than Neung-heo. You're uglier than Neung-heo. You're older than Neung-heo. You're slower than Neung-heo. You're a bastard who has nothing better than Neung-heo."

Cheon Mubaeck's tone was peculiar. Although it seemed indifferent, there was something strange that scratched a person's nerves.

It was as if he were materializing an emotion and pricking it with a needle.

Perhaps it was a natural thing.

Because Cheon Mubaeck was just spewing out the most hateful expressions that came to his mind.

Cheon Mubaeck was sincerely hating. There was nothing that came more earnestly than sincerity in the world.

"A guy dumber than Neung-heo, a guy with worse sleeping habits than Neung-heo, a guy who smells worse than Neung-heo, a guy who eats more than Neung-heo, a guy dirtier than Neung-heo! Anyway, a guy who is worse than Neung-heo in every way!"

"What kind of guy is Neung-heo that you're making such a fuss!"

"A guy more handsome than you! A guy younger than you! A guy who has a wife, unlike you! A guy who has a daughter, unlike you! Wow. Saying it like this, you really have no answer. You're that old and you have no wife and no children? Even Neung-heo has them? You have a worse life than Neung-heo? You're just unconditionally loyal to the demonic path? Did you lose your mind after being beaten so badly during the Righteous-Demonic War? Huh? Did your head go crazy?"

"......!"

Although he was about to burst with anger, the Ghost Demon bit his lip and did not stop his escape.

There was no way that he, who was experienced, would not know that it was a stratagem to provoke him.

To be honest, the Ghost Demon's whole body was trembling.

When Cheon Mubaeck had killed the Fourteen-Star in a single move with his Taegeuk, he had been shamefully dominated by the emotion of fear.

It was as if he had witnessed the past Azure Sky Sword God head-on.

'I can't win with my skills.'

A master like the Ghost Demon knew how to objectively evaluate himself.

That he could not win against the current Cheon Mubaeck.

Although it was truly shameful, it was better than dying like this.

If he, the second-in-command of the Blood Demon Valley, were to die at the hands of Cheon Mubaeck, the Orthodox path would be getting a new Azure Sky Sword God.

Could there be a more fatal thing for the demonic path?

The moment they thought that a new Azure Sky Sword God was on their side, the Orthodox path would no longer fear the demonic path.

That couldn't happen.

So the Ghost Demon had chosen to flee.

But what was more terrifying was that Cheon Mubaeck's lightness skill was far superior to what he had thought.

But fortunately, the gap was maintained, but not narrowed.

The Ghost Demon had also raised the speed of his lightness skill to the limit with the feeling of a life-or-death struggle.

'I can't stop by reacting to that guy for a moment!'

With that thought, the Ghost Demon endured Cheon Mubaeck's ridicule and provocation.

But even if he endured, he could not become as transcendent as a Buddha.

"Ghost Demon. Ghost Demon. How many years have you practiced your lightness skill? Have you practiced for about 80 years? Do you know that? I've practiced my lightness skill for over 800 years. Do you think you can escape?"

"Shut up! I said shut up!"

"Is there a problem with me saying it with my own mouth? If you're pissed, you say it too. You bastard."

"Ugh..."

"That's how the world works. Ghost Demon. Don't you know what you shouldn't do when you meet a bear or a tiger in the mountains? Even Neung-heo would know that. You're just an old idiot."

"..."

"Even Neung-heo knows that you shouldn't turn your back and run away when you meet a bear or a tiger. You bastard."

What kind of guy was Neung-heo that he was making such a fuss?

But somehow, the Ghost Demon felt very bad at the fact that he didn't know what even Neung-heo knew.

It was a truly admirable and cunning skill.

'He's a bastard who could be called the number one in the world just with his words!'

"I guess I have to tell you why you shouldn't run away. I forgot that you're a bastard who doesn't know what even Neung-heo knows. The sages of old said that it's not a shameful thing to not know. Yes, then I have to tell you."

The Ghost Demon's face was gradually turning red.

Although he had repeatedly engraved the character for 'patience' (忍), his patience had also reached its limit at Cheon Mubaeck's words that followed.

"If you show your back, even a full tiger, a desire will suddenly squirm. Ah, that's my prey. The prey is running away? Then I have to catch it? It's very stimulating. So you shouldn't show your back."

Hearing that, the Ghost Demon decided.

At this rate, this gap would be maintained until the end of hell, and he would continue to hear such unpleasant ridicule.

'Let's just hit him with one saber qi and run!'

No matter how much of a Cheon Mubaeck he was, he could not deflect the Ghost Demon's saber qi.

Recalling how he had steadfastly endured with his Gwigok Gwang-ae, Cheon Mubaeck would have no choice but to stop his lightness skill for a moment.

In that gap, he would widen the distance and flee.

With that thought, the Ghost Demon fiercely raised his internal energy and spun his body around.

In an instant, the Ghost Demon's eyes widened as if they would tear.

A cold breath that made his bones ache touched his ear.

"I should have told you this first."

"..."

The white face of Cheon Mubaeck, who he had thought was far away, filled his vision.

A faint smile, but cold eyes without a hint of laughter.

"That a prey that has shown its back can never escape from a beast."

His pure white teeth were revealed.

Cheon Mubaeck was a beast.

(End of Chapter)