novelraw Chapter 163 : Chapter 163
Chapter 163 : Chapter 163
Chapter 163 The Red Sky (6)
“Huff. Huff.”
The bearded man repeatedly wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve. Jaun’s party, having run at a tremendous speed, had already reached the entrance to the Sichuan region.
Jaun, who was spreading his energy wide to survey the surroundings, slightly furrowed his brow.
“Let's push a little harder. It seems the situation hasn't unfolded as planned.”
At Jaun’s words, the rest of the party nodded. They closely followed behind Jaun as he kicked off the ground and ran.
After crossing the mountain at an incredible speed, Jaun’s party soon spotted the Tang family members gathered at the summit and quickly approached them.
“Y-Youngest!”
Baek-myo, who had just laid the Poison King’s body on the ground, spotted Jaun and shouted loudly. Baek-myo’s face was deathly pale.
“The Vice Squad Leader and Hyeon-dam……!”
At Baek-myo’s words, Jaun spread his energy once more to assess the situation and spoke quickly.
“The rest of you, please evacuate the people here to the rear. The Tang family’s manor has already fallen. Demonic Beings are coming up the mountainside, and an innumerable amount of demonic energy is approaching behind them. Our numbers are too few to fend them off without casualties.”
At Jaun’s words, a look of bewilderment crossed the faces of the gathered people.
“Is-is that really true? More Demonic Beings are coming?”
“Yes. It seems…… we have no choice but to give up on Sichuan. You must evacuate to the Murim Alliance immediately and plan for the future.”
At Jaun’s words, Tang Hun stepped forward with a troubled expression.
“The Tang family…… cannot go to the Murim Alliance.”
At Tang Hun’s words, Jaun was about to open his mouth with a frustrated expression but then let out a sigh.
“Haa…… there’s no time to persuade you. Since that is the will of the Tang family, Miss Pan, please take the people here with the Five Evils to the Sado Alliance. I will deal with the Demonic Beings on the mountainside and join you immediately.”
After a moment of contemplation, the Ice Rakshasa nodded, and Jaun turned his head to look at the fierce waves of energy rising from the mountainside.
“I’ll go first.”
“I’ll go too.”
“Let’s go together.”
At Jaun’s words, Tang Il-bi and Baek-myo stepped forward.
Behind Jaun, who nodded, Chu Myeong-hwa revealed herself.
“I still have internal energy to spare. I would like to lend a hand.”
“I’d appreciate it.”
Jaun glanced at Chu Myeong-hwa and nodded.
“Let’s go. There’s no time.”
Jaun, Baek-myo, Tang Il-bi, and Chu Myeong-hwa began to run toward the mountainside.
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─ KWA-AAAAANG!
Once again, a fierce wave of energy spread in all directions. At the same time, Hyeon-dam and Yeon Seung-il’s bodies were thrown back, rolling on the ground.
“……Cough.”
Hyeon-dam pushed himself up and struggled to calm his boiling internal energy.
As soon as Yeomhon Yagwi and Sahon Sikma joined, the tide of the battle had completely turned.
“Heh heh. You all go ahead and catch those Tang family bastards. We’ll play with these guys a little longer before we go.”
At Yeomhon Yagwi’s words, the Demonic Beings who were watching the situation from the surroundings all moved past the clearing.
“……Damn it.”
Yeon Seung-il and Hyeon-dam bit their lips and watched the Demonic Beings who had spread out and begun to run up the mountain.
There was no way to stop those Demonic Beings without defeating these two.
“HAAAAAP!”
Hyeon-dam, who had confirmed the Demonic Beings climbing the mountain, clenched his teeth once more and threw a punch.
─ POOOOF!
Sahon Sikma opened his mouth wide and swallowed Hyeon-dam’s energy, which flew out with a huge explosion.
“Hehehehehe.”
As Sahon Sikma laughed and patted his stomach, Yeon Seung-il raised his sword with a stern expression.
─ SWOOOSH
At the same time as Yeon Seung-il raised his sword, Yeomhon Yagwi’s flexible sword flew over and wrapped around Yeon Seung-il’s sword. He tried to pull his tightly bound sword with all his might, but it was not an easy task to extract his sword from the freely moving and coiling flexible sword.
In the gap created when Yeon Seung-il pulled his sword again to free it, Sahon Sikma’s palm force was shot at him.
─ KWA-AAAAANG!
Hyeon-dam, who had quickly thrown his body from the side, barely managed to take Sahon Sikma’s palm force in his place, but in the end, he could not handle the boiling energy and coughed up blood.
“Damn it…… what in the world are we supposed to do.”
Hyeon-dam clenched his fists and looked back at the two Demonic Leaders.
Yeon Seung-il and Hyeon-dam had no idea how to deal with the martial arts of those Demonic Leaders, which were considered strange arts even in the Demonic Cult.
─ SHRRRRING
In that moment, Yeomhon Yagwi’s flexible sword, which was wrapped around Yeon Seung-il’s sword, rotated rapidly and then slashed across Yeon Seung-il’s shoulder.
─ SLICE
Blood spurted from Yeon Seung-il’s shoulder.
As if toying with a mouse caught in a trap, the two Demonic Leaders attacked, adjusting their strength, and Yeon Seung-il and Hyeon-dam’s bodies were already covered in wounds.
Yeomhon Yagwi, who saw despair slowly creeping into the eyes of the two, looked back at Sahon Sikma.
“Tsk. I’m getting tired of this. Shall we finish up and go up as well?”
At Yeomhon Yagwi’s words, Sahon Sikma nodded.
“Let’s. The fun is over. I’ll spend the rest of my time listening to the screams of the fleeing Tang family bastards.”
As the two Demonic Leaders began to earnestly raise their energy, a shadow fell over Yeon Seung-il and Hyeon-dam’s faces.
“……This really, might be the end.”
Yeon Seung-il could not give any answer to Hyeon-dam’s words.
It was fortunate that the two Demonic Leaders had not launched a proper attack under the pretext of warming up; otherwise, the two of them would have already been lying on the ground as cold corpses, such was the difference in their levels.
‘……Is this it?’
A deep sigh escaped Yeon Seung-il’s lips, who in the end could not find a way to deal with the two Demonic Leaders.
‘I have to save this guy somehow.’
Yeon Seung-il turned his head and looked at Hyeon-dam.
Just as he was raising his energy to somehow let Hyeon-dam escape, even if it meant sacrificing himself,
─ KWA-AAAAANG!
Suddenly, a huge explosion erupted from behind, and a strong wind rushed in.
“What is it?”
Yeomhon Yagwi and Sahon Sikma turned their heads.
─ KWA-AAAAANG!
With another explosion, dozens of Demonic Beings were thrown over Yeon Seung-il and Hyeon-dam’s heads, rolling on the ground.
“Hmm?”
The two Demonic Leaders looked at each other as if they couldn’t understand.
A familiar energy was felt in Yeon Seung-il’s senses as he turned his head to the back.
“The youngest…… has returned.”
Yeon Seung-il’s face lit up.
“Hehehehe.”
Yeon Seung-il, who had burst out laughing without realizing it, raised the last of his strength that he had saved to let Hyeon-dam escape.
─ WHOOOSH
The martial arts uniform Yeon Seung-il was wearing flapped violently.
Hyeon-dam also recognized Jaun’s energy and smiled brightly.
“You insect-like Demonic Beings, the Supreme Ruler of Ten Thousand Demons is here, so now you just prepare to meet Guanyin Bodhisattva.”
With a loud shout, Hyeon-dam also began to explosively raise the energy he had saved.
Above the heads of the Demonic Leaders, who were looking at the two who had suddenly changed their attitude, Demonic Beings were thrown once more.
“KAAAAAK!”
The two Demonic Leaders, who were looking at the Demonic Beings flying over their heads with narrowed eyes, spat on the ground.
“It seems reinforcements have arrived. But to think that this situation will change because of that……”
Before Yeomhon Yagwi could finish his words, Jaun appeared over Hyeon-dam and Yeon Seung-il’s heads.
─ KWAANG!
Jaun stomped the ground hard and rushed forward. Jaun’s figure, which came running with his Demon Dragon Robe fluttering, was already standing in front of Yeomhon Yagwi.
A thick demonic energy erupted from Jaun’s body as he gripped the Mangru Blood Sword at his waist.
─ KIIIIING
Yeomhon Yagwi’s eyes widened as he confirmed the red sword flying toward him, emitting a hum while containing a rough demonic energy.
“……Demonic energy?”
While Yeomhon Yagwi hesitated for a moment, unable to understand the situation, Jaun swung his sword horizontally.
The huge demonic energy shot from Jaun’s sword instantly reached Yeomhon Yagwi’s eyes.
“Eek!”
Yeomhon Yagwi hurriedly raised his energy and extended his flexible sword toward Jaun’s energy.
─ SHRRRRING
The thin flexible sword extended at lightning speed, leaving a brilliant afterimage as it wrapped around Jaun’s energy.
The flexible sword, which had instantly wrapped around Jaun’s energy, began to tighten on Jaun’s energy trapped inside.
“How dare you confront this old man with demonic arts! You’ve chosen your opponent poorly, very poorly……!”
The smile on Yeomhon Yagwi’s face, who was pushing his energy into the flexible sword, disappeared.
This was because the flexible sword, which had been roughly wrapping and tightening around Jaun’s energy, had for some reason quickly lost its strength and fallen to the ground.
‘The one who has met the wrong opponent is you.’
Jaun’s energy, which had shaken off the flexible sword, poured down on Yeomhon Yagwi.
─ KWA-AAAAANG!
Yeomhon Yagwi’s body, which was struck by Jaun’s huge energy, was pushed back helplessly.
“Th-this bastard!”
Yeomhon Yagwi once again extended his flexible sword forward, but the flexible sword that touched Jaun’s sword only lost its strength again and fell down.
“Huh?”
Jaun pushed aside the flexible sword that had lost its strength and swung his sword strongly toward Yeomhon Yagwi.
─ SWOOOOOSH
The energy emitted from Jaun’s sword flew straight toward Yeomhon Yagwi. The bewildered Yeomhon Yagwi extended his left hand toward Jaun’s energy.
─ THWACK!
Yeomhon Yagwi’s hand, which met Jaun’s energy, was bent at a strange angle.
“KAAAAAK!”
Jaun’s energy shot into Yeomhon Yagwi again as he retreated, clutching his left hand.
─ PIIING
The flexible sword was deflected to the side again, and the huge energy shot by Jaun was embedded in Yeomhon Yagwi’s body.
─ KWA-DA-DANG
Yeomhon Yagwi’s figure, which had taken Jaun’s energy with his entire body, was thrown back.
The thrown Yeomhon Yagwi’s body stopped only after rolling on the ground several times. His chest, which had been struck by Jaun’s sword energy, was dented in a long shape.
Jaun, who glanced at the sprawled and dazed Yeomhon Yagwi, then turned to Sahon Sikma.
Sahon Sikma, who felt that Jaun’s momentum was not ordinary, leaped back with a stern expression, creating distance, and took a deep breath.
“Youngest! Be careful! Sahon Sikma’s strange art can absorb energy and spit it back out!”
At the same time as Yeon Seung-il’s shout, Sahon Sikma took a deep breath.
“WHOOOOK!”
Sahon Sikma’s entire body swelled up like a balloon, and his mouth opened wide, facing Jaun.
“KAAAAAAAK!”
At the same time, the Poison King’s poison energy flowed out thickly from Sahon Sikma’s mouth.
As the thick green energy spread, the surrounding plants began to wither and die in an instant.
‘This is…… the Poison King’s energy?’
Jaun, who tilted his head, slightly bent his waist and just broke through the shot poison energy with his body. The energy spat out by Sahon Sikma had no effect on Jaun, who had already received the Poison King’s energy and was also wearing the Demon Dragon Robe.
“Hiek!?”
Sahon Sikma, surprised by Jaun who had so easily broken through the Poison King’s poison energy, hastily extended his thick hand forward and raised his energy.
─ SLICE
Jaun’s sword slashed across Sahon Sikma’s arm. Jaun, who approached Sahon Sikma as he retreated, clutching his arm from which blood was gushing, stabbed his sword in.
─ STAB!
Jaun’s sword pierced through Sahon Sikma’s thick belly and dug inside.
“……Gurgle.”
Sahon Sikma, who was foaming at the mouth with blood, opened his mouth wide again.
“HAAAAAK!”
Sahon Sikma’s mouth shone with a bright light. The energy he spewed out this time was Hyeon-dam’s pure and clear energy.
─ SIZZLE
The spewed out clear energy met Jaun’s demonic energy, creating a hazy smoke.
Jaun, who quickly wrapped his Demon Dragon Robe around his body to block the spewed out clear energy, swung his sword horizontally once more.
─ SPLAT!
Bright red blood burst out from the place where the sword had deeply cut across Sahon Sikma’s belly.
─ KWAANG!
Next, Jaun’s fist, which had stomped the ground hard, struck Sahon Sikma’s face.
─ CRACK!
An eerie sound was heard from Sahon Sikma’s jaw. Jaun’s foot, which drew a large semi-circle, was planted in the body of Sahon Sikma, who had been lifted high into the air by Jaun’s fist.
─ THWACK!
Sahon Sikma, who flew away while spitting blood, collided with a huge rock and then fell to the ground.
Yeon Seung-il and Hyeon-dam’s jaws dropped as they watched Jaun subdue the two Demonic Leaders in the blink of an eye.
“The Demonic Leaders of the previous generation of the Demonic Cult……”
“……He’s playing with them like they’re children.”
Yeon Seung-il finished Hyeon-dam’s sentence. The two Demonic Leaders, whom they had been facing with a life-or-death resolve just moments ago, Jaun had put on the ground before even ten breaths had passed.
Hyeon-dam burst out laughing as if in disbelief.