novelraw Chapter 164 : The Easiest Way to Eat the Blood Cult (6)
Chapter 164 : The Easiest Way to Eat the Blood Cult (6)
The beginning of the Blood Demon Divine Art originated from the heart that was defeated by the Divine Cult in the past.
A collection of revenge and obsession to surpass the Divine Cult by any means necessary.
Perhaps because of that, its power is superior to any other mind art, but one side effect has occurred.
It has the nature of eating the caster.
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Abyss Boundary.
The enlightenment that the Blood Demon had reached at the end of causality.
All living things face death.
From the moment one learns the Blood Demon Divine Art, the caster plays a tug-of-war with the Blood Demon Divine Art with their life as collateral.
If one fails even a little in this tug-of-war, one's life, that is, all of one's essence, is taken away by the Blood Demon Divine Art, and one faces death.
The Abyss Boundary, simply put, was an expansion of the domain of the Blood Demon Divine Art.
Originally, the snatching of essence due to the Blood Demon Divine Art was only applied to the person who had learned the Blood Demon Divine Art. But by spreading the boundary, it became possible to apply it to the opponent as well.
"How long can you endure?"
The essence of the Blood Cult's hundreds of years of history woven together solely to catch the Heavenly Demon!
No matter how much of a genius or an outstanding being one is, it is difficult to experience something for the first time.
The Blood Demon was sure that anyone who experienced the tug-of-war with the Blood Demon Divine Art for the first time would surely fail.
Swish.
The Blood Demon ran. The opponent, the sheep mask, was staggering. The sheep mask must be in the middle of a tug-of-war with the Blood Demon Divine Art in the Abyss Boundary right now.
His flustered eyes represented his feelings of not knowing what to do now.
The law applied to the Abyss Boundary is largely one.
10% of essence is exchanged for 5% of internal energy.
In other words, if you use your internal energy as usual, you will lose all your essence and face death.
On the contrary, if you use too little internal energy, you will face death from your opponent.
The Blood Demon put only 10% of his internal energy into his fist. At that moment, he felt the unpleasant feeling of 20% of his essence draining away.
Crack.
The Blood Demon's fist accurately hit the sheep mask's face. The sheep mask flew and was buried in the ground.
He, as if he were angry at being hit just now, staggered up and screamed.
"Aaaargh!"
From his body, internal energy that was not there until just now was being emitted continuously.
"Hehe. There's no other fool."
The Blood Demon laughed, seeing that.
Because he knew that with that amount, at least 50% or more of his essence would be drained.
The sheep mask, as if to repay what he had just been hit with, approached the Blood Demon without delay. And he drew his sword and swung it as it was.
The Blood Demon chose to avoid that attack rather than face it head-on. But from the perspective of the Blood Demon, who was using less internal energy, it was impossible to avoid all the attacks. His body was cut by the sword. Blood gushed up into the air. Pain rose from the wound on his body. But this one-zhang-long wound was much more profitable than using 30% of his internal energy and consuming 60% of his essence to completely block that attack.
And so, the Blood Demon, by getting a long cut on his upper body.
"Hah, hah, hah!"
He was able to make the opponent consume at least 50% or more of his essence.
"Hehe. Are you in pain?"
"Don't be so arrogant. The one who was wounded is you."
"That's right. But why does your expression look more painful?"
"Interesting. I'll say it again. Don't be so arrogant. If you have a trump card, I have one too."
"Yes, yes. Show me. Let's appreciate it. Hehe."
To the sheep mask, the Blood Cult was the one who had taken away his future.
The sheep mask was just one of the many experimental subjects used to defeat the Divine Cult.
If the Blood Cult had developed the Blood Demon Divine Art for many years to defeat the Divine Cult, the sheep mask had spent his entire life to take revenge on the Blood Cult.
Give back as much as you received.
The sheep mask's promise that he had made since he had set his mind to take revenge on the Blood Cult.
In a four-character idiom, it is 'yi yi zhi yi'.
It means to control the barbarians with the barbarians.
The sheep mask knew that the Blood Demon would surely do something to his body.
Because that was their way.
And something happened.
He didn't know exactly what had happened, no! He didn't need to know. What was important was that he had done something.
"Hehehe."
"You're laughing? Are you really crazy?"
"You should experience it too."
The sheep mask did not know exactly what the principle of the Abyss Boundary spread by the Blood Demon was. But he could know one thing.
That as much as the internal energy used, some damage is done to the body.
The sheep mask raised twice as much internal energy as before, and ugh! A shock that was incomparable to before washed over his body.
"Hehehe. There's no other fool! Is suicide your hobby?"
The sheep mask grinned at the laughing Blood Demon. Because soon, the one who would feel this pain would be you.
This technique is the only legacy left by the Dragon God Lord.
The sheep mask decided to use all this to kill the Blood Demon.
The sheep mask hugged the Blood Demon as it was. The Blood Demon's rough hands tried to tear the sheep mask off. At that moment, the sheep mask whispered so thinly that only the Blood Demon could hear.
"Great Reversal of Heaven Art."
At that moment, the souls of the sheep mask and the Blood Demon were swapped.
The sheep mask's soul in the Blood Demon's body.
The Blood Demon's soul was trapped in the sheep mask's body.
"Hehehe."
The lowly laughing Blood Demon looked somewhat different from usual.
"W-What is this!"
The flustered sheep mask staggered and then sat down, gasping for breath.
"It's the reversal of heaven. A technique that swaps each other's souls."
The Blood Demon approached the sheep mask.
The sheep mask crumpled his face and looked at the Blood Demon, his original self.
"How does it feel to have your position reversed?"
The sheep mask, who had figured out the situation, laughed dejectedly and opened his mouth.
"I've been had. But, do you think you can handle the Blood Demon Divine Art?"
The Abyss Boundary was still spread here.
What was most important in spreading a boundary was not the caster, but the enlightenment that the caster possessed.
In other words, even though the bodies were swapped, the initiative of this Abyss Boundary was still held by the Blood Demon's soul.
The second law of the Abyss Boundary.
The Blood Demon Divine Art was nothing more than a tool to destroy the Divine Cult.
What if the Heavenly Demon, although it's unlikely, adapts to the Blood Demon Divine Art?
What should I do next? Just watch with a blank expression? No! A thousand times no! A million times no!
Even if I can't win, I won't lose.
The second law of the Abyss Boundary was a self-destruct technique.
Just once! It was possible to apply one's own restriction to others.
It didn't matter if the body was changed or not.
For the Blood Demon, the fight was always a choice between either he died or the other died.
"Complete release of internal energy. Welcome death."
And the Blood Demon had one insurance. If this worked out well, he would be able to survive after this fight was over.
The essence in the Blood Demon's body drained away, and he shriveled up in an instant.
And that was the same for the opponent.
"You scoundrel! Blood Demon!"
"Hehehe. Who told you to take someone else's body? You die, I die."
Even though the souls were swapped, it was someone else's body. What was in this body was the foundation that someone else had built with their entire life.
If there had been some time, he don't know, but for now, there was nothing he could do with a new body. Just to wait for the impending death.
"Hehehe. I don't die alone."
"You!"
The sheep mask had no choice but to return to his own body. At this rate, there was no other choice but death.
The sheep mask, who had returned to his original body by performing the Great Reversal of Heaven Art again, quickly blocked the draining essence. It was possible because he had come to understand to some extent what principle this Abyss Boundary was made of while he was in the Blood Demon's body.
'If only the essence is consumed, I can just recover.'
And because he had the Great Reversal of Heaven Art.
There were bodies that he could take over right away all over the place.
On the contrary, it seemed impossible for the Blood Demon to survive because he had already consumed more than the limit of his essence.
"I've won this fight!"
The sheep mask said so and quickly ran away. And he glanced at Yoo Jae-ha with regret.
A complete being who was born with the vessel of the Dragon God Lord in a human body.
If only he could occupy that body, it would have been possible to destroy the world where the harmony was broken.
'Just wait a little. I'll eat you up too!'
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The Blood Demon's body was drying up.
"Blood Demon, are you dying?"
"Hehe. Do you think I'll die so easily!"
"Yeah! You look like you're about to die right now!"
"Ahem! That's true. But if it goes as I thought, I won't die, so watch carefully."
"You really look like you're going to die!"
"Ahem!"
After a while, the Blood Demon was able to stand up on his own two feet. Such a Blood Demon's body was a little shabby.
"For now, it seems the theory has succeeded."
Yoo Soo-ah could tell at once what the Blood Demon had done.
"You've turned your own body into a jiangshi with the jiangshi art."
"Oh. As expected of a child of the Divine Cult. You're smart. Yes, I have become a living jiangshi myself. As a result, I don't have to lose any more essence, but it seems it will be difficult to expect any further development in my martial arts."
Even in Yoo Soo-ah's view, the Blood Demon was now at a level where it was a miracle that he was alive, nothing more, nothing less.
He had become a jiangshi himself and had barely managed to save his life.
His internal energy was close to third-rate, and his dry body seemed as if it would break if he were to be hit somewhere.
However, if the jiangshi-fication had proceeded completely, the strength of that skinny body would be able to withstand at least a sword qi.
But that was the Blood Demon's maximum.
"Fortunately, it seems the assumption was correct."
Seeing the former Heavenly Demon's appearance, the Blood Demon had made one assumption.
Why was the former Heavenly Demon able to maintain his mind without losing it like the other jiangshi?
Simply because he had reached the Transcending Demon?
The Blood Demon, when his body was swapped with the sheep mask, had come up with one hypothesis, seeing that the boundary was still being maintained.
That the boundary follows not the body, but the enlightenment, that is, the mind.
If he trapped his mind in a boundary, wouldn't he be able to maintain his mind as it was even if his body became a jiangshi?
And that was exactly right.
Well, he would have to live as a jiangshi for the rest of his life, but it was better than dying. And he had also already discovered a new way to escape from the body of a jiangshi.
'The Great Reversal of Heaven Art. It's worth researching anew.'
Because he had nothing but time from now on.
Just then, Hyuk Won-sang said.
"What should we do about the one who ran away? Should we chase him and kill him?"
He had judged that it would not be very difficult to kill him, who had been weakened by the fight.
"Hehehe. That guy is already a dead man.
"He's dead?"
"Yes."
The Blood Demon, while crossing over to his original body, had left something in the other body.
Perhaps by now, that would have been activated.
The sheep mask, who had been running for a long time, suddenly felt his body stiffen.
Flop.
He, who had fallen on the mountainside, rolled down.
"W-What?"
His legs wouldn't move, as if they had turned to stone. Soon, it spread to his whole body, and his body stiffened as it was.
If he had completely preserved his mind in his own boundary like the Blood Demon, he would have become a living jiangshi.
But he couldn't, and his mind also completely stiffened, and he became just another jiangshi.
Whoosh!
At the sound of a whistle from somewhere, the sheep mask, who had become a jiangshi, moved quickly.
The Blood Demon, seeing the sheep mask who had arrived in front of him, said.
"I told you, right? You don't have to chase him."
"By the way."
Yoo Jae-ha, who had recovered some of his energy, opened his mouth.
"Now who becomes the Blood Demon?”
(End of Chapter)