novelraw Chapter 86 : Chapter 86
Chapter 86 : Chapter 86
Chapter 86 Life-and-Death Tournament (9)
WHOOOOOSH!
Jaun watched the path of the Black Blood Ghost Whip shooting toward him and pulled up his Demonic Energy, gathering it in both arms.
Drawing up the thick Demonic Energy, Jaun shot the chain he was holding forward.
The thin chain Jaun stretched out flew head-on toward the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
Faced with the Black Blood Ghost Whip, which shot in violently like a massive snake, Jaun’s chain looked far too fragile and pathetic.
“Aha. That’s not enough. Tsk tsk.”
“Is this the end for the Heartless Soul Stealer? As expected, one cannot face the Five Evils by learning martial arts at the Demon Study Hall in such a superficial way.”
“He should have brought out a sword. What on earth does he plan to do with such a crude chain?”
The spectators watching the duel between the two shook their heads from side to side.
No matter how much Demonic Energy was contained within it, there was too large a power gap between the two energies.
The Black Blood Ghost Whip, which shot in with a storm-like momentum, swallowed Jaun’s chain.
CLATTER
At that moment, Jaun’s chain began to burrow between the joints of the thick Black Blood Ghost Whip.
Jaun’s chain did not oppose the chain of the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
It simply wedged its own body between the joints of the Black Blood Ghost Whip at high speed.
‘In this kind of situation…… the Mad Demon’s martial arts are perfect.’
Jaun, who had tied his chain between the links of the Black Blood Ghost Whip, intended to take away the Black Blood Ghost Whip by force.
Therefore, the martial art Jaun needed right now was this.
[Mad Demon Rotation Scripture]
In an instant, a rough Demonic Energy began to erupt from Jaun’s body as if exploding.
As the massive energy filled his entire body, Jaun’s muscles grew in size like a balloon inflating.
Jaun, who applied full strength to both arms that had become massive with Demonic Energy, wound the end of the chain around both hands and gripped it firmly.
Black Demonic Energy was smoldering in Jaun’s eyes.
“Hwaaaaaaap!”
Jaun, who gathered his energy to the maximum, grabbed the chain and rotated his body once.
CRUNCH
The blue steel stone Jaun was stepping on shattered and flew upward.
The chain entangled with the Black Blood Ghost Whip began to draw a circle, pulled by Jaun’s strength, and the trajectory of the Black Blood Ghost Whip also began to shift slightly, led by the chain.
“Uh, huh? Is, is that possible?”
“He was hiding that kind of strength?”
“Impressive. As much as the range increased, the area Jin Cheol-myeong must control also lengthened. It seems he is aiming for the gap where the strength is dispersed due to that.”
The spectators focused their eyes on Jaun’s actions with anticipation.
RATTLE
Capillaries in Jaun’s arms began to burst.
However, Jaun did not care; he stepped firmly on the ground once more, put his center of gravity as far back as possible, and rotated his body.
WHIIIIING
The energies of the two collided roughly in the air.
Jaun’s Demonic Energy, pulled up through the Mad Demon Rotation Scripture, began to gradually twist the trajectory of the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
“Haaaaap!”
The distance between the shooting Black Blood Ghost Whip and Jaun’s body was now within a hair’s breadth.
Finally, Jaun, who pulled up his energy with focus, gritted his teeth and rotated his body broadly.
POOF!
In an instant, a loud explosion rang out between the two energies.
Simultaneously with the collision sound, the end of the Black Blood Ghost Whip escaped Jin Cheol-myeong’s control for a very brief moment.
Without missing that gap, Jaun pulled the arm wrapped in the chain with force.
RATTLE
Finally, the Black Blood Ghost Whip that had been aiming for Jaun’s body lost its direction.
As the Black Blood Ghost Whip bypassed his side by a precarious margin, Jaun wound the chain around his shoulder and spun in place.
Led by Jaun’s rotation, the head of the Black Blood Ghost Whip, which drew a semicircle, headed toward Jin Cheol-myeong.
Jaun imbued his energy into the Black Blood Ghost Whip and shot it toward Jin Cheol-myeong.
[If you rely too much on a divine weapon, your appearance becomes too pathetic when you lose that divine weapon.]
Jaun’s low telepathic message flowed into Jin Cheol-myeong’s ears.
Jin Cheol-myeong, who gritted his teeth, looked at the Black Blood Ghost Whip flying toward him.
‘To think he would snatch control of the Black Blood Ghost Whip in this manner……!’
Contrary to the expectation that he would naturally strike away the Black Blood Ghost Whip, Jaun had instead thrown the chain back at him by utilizing the force of the incoming Black Blood Ghost Whip.
Jin Cheol-myeong also knew that the control would inevitably weaken because he had shot the Black Blood Ghost Whip far away.
Even so, he had thought that the direction of the force, which combined his own power, internal energy, and the weight of the Black Blood Ghost Whip, could not be changed with that thin chain.
‘To think he could thread through the gaps of the chain flying at immense speed with massive energy all at once in that situation?’
Operating energy so exquisitely was impossible for him, no matter how much he thought about it.
But that brat from the Murim Alliance had accomplished that impossible task.
As a result, the situation was that all the power he had squeezed out to perfectly suppress the fellow was now aiming for his own neck.
Jin Cheol-myeong gritted his teeth and tried to control the Black Blood Ghost Whip by pulling up his energy again, but it was not enough to change the movement of the chain, which was returning with the same force it had when it was shot.
‘I’ve been struck once.’
The Black Blood Ghost Whip was unraveling from his body at high speed, and its opposite end was shooting toward him.
Jin Cheol-myeong, who ground his teeth, finally decided to give up on the Black Blood Ghost Whip for a moment.
He quickly pulled his body out from the remaining Black Blood Ghost Whip, gritted his teeth, and threw himself to the side.
BOOM!
The Black Blood Ghost Whip thrown by Jaun struck exactly where Jin Cheol-myeong had been standing.
A thick cloud of dust rose in all directions.
Jaun, who shot in along with the Black Blood Ghost Whip while holding the end of the chain, stepped on the dust-filled floor and flew after Jin Cheol-myeong, who had rolled to the side.
The rotation scripture of the Mad Demon enveloped Jaun’s arm like a whirlwind.
Simultaneously with Jin Cheol-myeong rising from his spot, Jaun’s massively enlarged right fist flew toward him.
BANG!
“……Urgh.”
The complexion of Jin Cheol-myeong, who received Jaun’s energy with both arms, turned pale.
He had put considerable effort into developing his physical strength to properly use the Black Blood Ghost Whip, but the level of internal energy application was far too different.
Jin Cheol-myeong, who painfully shook off the Demonic Energy burrowing into his whole body, picked up a large piece of blue steel stone lying on the floor and threw it straight at Jaun.
WHOOSH
The moment Jaun twisted his body to avoid the stone fragment, Jin Cheol-myeong’s figure pulled back straight.
Jin Cheol-myeong, who ran with all his might, snatched the end of the Black Blood Ghost Whip rolling on the floor again.
“I’ve got it! Now you are finished……!”
Jaun’s fist, which had approached at some point, burrowed once again into the side of Jin Cheol-myeong, who was about to lift the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
CRACK!
A gruesome noise was heard from Jin Cheol-myeong’s side.
“Urgh!”
Jin Cheol-myeong, who gritted his teeth in pain, barely pushed Jaun away.
He, who had widened the distance by staggering backward, rose while gripping the Black Blood Ghost Whip firmly with one hand.
“Pant. Pant.”
Terrible pain rose from the side where he was struck by Jaun.
He had barely succeeded in regaining the Black Blood Ghost Whip, but moving his entire body was not easy due to the attacks he had allowed during that process.
The Demonic Energy remaining in his body kept breaking the flow of his energy.
“How foolish. Rather than regaining the Black Blood Ghost Whip, you should have tried to suppress me by using that physical strength instead.”
Jaun opened his mouth as he looked at Jin Cheol-myeong, who had picked up the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
Jin Cheol-myeong, whose pride was hurt, shouted loudly.
“Shut up! What do you know about this Black Blood Ghost Whip! I will show you clearly from now on why the ghost whip is called the ghost whip!”
When Jin Cheol-myeong grabbed one end and rotated the Black Blood Ghost Whip at high speed, a massive black screen appeared in the air.
Jin Cheol-myeong, who was rotating the Black Blood Ghost Whip while sweating profusely and enduring the pain, let out a massive battle cry.
“Aaaaaaa!”
The end of the rapidly rotating Black Blood Ghost Whip bunched up into a round shape like a flail.
The iron chains bunched in the air squirmed as if they were snakes clustered together.
Soon after, Jin Cheol-myeong’s Black Blood Ghost Whip shot toward Jaun.
A strike with all his remaining strength.
The Black Blood Ghost Whip, bunched like a single iron ball, flew toward Jaun at an immense speed.
The moment Jaun pulled up his energy to the maximum to strike away the Black Blood Ghost Whip, Jin Cheol-myeong twisted and pulled the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
Then, the bunched Black Blood Ghost Whip instantly spread in all directions and flew toward Jaun’s entire body like a net.
The Black Blood Ghost Whip, squirming like a living snake and spreading like a net, covered Jaun’s body.
‘The artistry is alive until the end.’
Since his basics were so solid, he was perfectly performing a technique full of variations even in this situation.
At this rate, it was a situation where he would inevitably be crushed by the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
Jaun quickly scanned the left and right of the Black Blood Ghost Whip.
‘But, you couldn't help it with your current physical condition.’
The problem was that he had performed too large a technique while his body was not perfect.
Jaun, who confirmed that the ends of the technique were not connecting intermittently, wrapped the rotation scripture fully around his arm.
PING
As Jaun’s arm, filled with the rotation scripture, passed through the gaps of the Black Blood Ghost Whip, the Black Blood Ghost Whip began to wind tightly around Jaun’s arm following the energy of the rotation scripture.
CRUNCH
Soon, Jaun, who snatched the opposite end of the Black Blood Ghost Whip, pulled the Black Blood Ghost Whip vigorously.
In the end, the Black Blood Ghost Whip was drawn into Jaun’s hand so easily that it was almost disappointing.
The weight of the Black Blood Ghost Whip was far too heavy for Jin Cheol-myeong, who had already exhausted his strength, to handle.
Jaun, who had snatched control of the Black Blood Ghost Whip again, threw the Black Blood Ghost Whip onto the ground and ran straight at Jin Cheol-myeong.
Blood flowed down from the tightly shut lips of Jin Cheol-myeong as he watched Jaun running toward him.
‘To think I lost the Black Blood Ghost Whip twice.’
It was a perfect defeat with nothing to be resentful about.
Jin Cheol-myeong, who had been staring blankly at the Black Blood Ghost Whip that had fallen powerlessly onto the floor, tightly closed his eyes upon confirming Jaun running toward him.
BANG
Jaun’s hand, which had shot in like a flash of lightning, stopped accurately at the tip of Jin Cheol-myeong’s throat.
Jaun, who looked at the pale Jin Cheol-myeong, slowly lowered his hand.
“You still have a long way to go. Devote yourself more.”
Jaun, who gave Jin Cheol-myeong’s arm a light tap, slowly turned his body.
The supervisors, who had been dazed by the massive battle, opened their mouths late.
“Vi, victory for Han Jaun of the Murim Alliance!”
In an instant, an explosive cheer erupted in the venue.
“Whoa…… I thought my breath had stopped.”
“This is such a perfect defeat. I never thought it would flow this way.”
“What on earth is that demonic art that neutralized the Black Blood Ghost Whip?”
“Honestly, it’s tempting. To think there is a demonic art that can suddenly enlarge muscles like that and allow one to use massive strength?”
Continuous cheers surged from among the murmuring spectators.
Jaun turned his head to look at Jin Cheol-myeong.
Jin Cheol-myeong was sitting heavily on the floor, looking down with a sorrowful expression.
‘You should be able to overcome this. Overcome it, grow more, and become a solid shield that never collapses again.’
Jaun looked at Jin Cheol-myeong, who was sitting on the tournament ground, for a while without moving.
****
“Whoa…… he really lost this.”
Neung Hwa-yeong looked up at the tournament ground with a dejected face.
Neung Hwa-yeong, who looked at the tournament ground with eyes mixed with half curiosity and half disappointment, scratched her head.
“Should I be embarrassed by this, or should I worry about myself?”
Yu Ha-rin came and stood beside Neung Hwa-yeong, who was scratching her head. She looked clean, unlike someone who had just finished a match.
“I heard Cheol-myeong lost?”
“Yeah. It ended more helplessly than expected. Two of the Five Evils have already been defeated.”
“Not two, but three. Look over there.”
Following Yu Ha-rin’s hand, Neung Hwa-yeong turned her head toward the second tournament ground in the center.
A small boy was seen banging on the tournament ground as if it were unfair, while kneeling.
The black hood wrapped around his mouth and neck fluttered in all directions.
“Han-jun lost too? Who was the opponent?”
“He was unlucky. Stealth Ambush is Han-jun’s specialty, but his opponent happened to be a guy who uses a Great Saber.”
“Great Saber? Then…… could it be that dimwit Geum Wang-tae of the Patrol Squad? He lost to that middle-aged man?”
“His appearance and behavior are a bit dull, but his saber technique was solid. I was surprised.”
Yu Ha-rin, who lightly tapped her shoulder, sat heavily on a chair and finished loosening her stiff neck.
Meanwhile, Neung Hwa-yeong, who was looking at the discouraged appearance of Jin Cheol-myeong, shook her head from side to side.
“Sigh. This Life-and-Death Tournament is not easy. I thought the Five Evils would mostly advance with total victories.”
Yu Ha-rin, looking at the somber expression of Neung Hwa-yeong, pointed toward Jaun with her chin.
“That child’s next opponent is you, right?”
Neung Hwa-yeong nodded her head at Yu Ha-rin’s words.
“Yeah. I must properly avenge Cheol-myeong. Seeing him today, he uses a martial art that is tricky for Cheol-myeong to handle. It is a miscalculation if he thinks that will work on me as well. I’ll crush him completely.”
“He brought out a sword for the first match, body combat for the second, and a chain for tying carriages for the third. That child is hiding his skills and acting leisurely right now.”
Neung Hwa-yeong gritted her teeth at Yu Ha-rin’s words.
“To think he dares to be so bold in front of the Five Evils? Just you wait. I’ll beat him like a dog.”
Neung Hwa-yeong picked up her staff and struck it down onto the ground with a thud.
Yu Ha-rin, looking at Neung Hwa-yeong with a mysterious expression, turned her gaze toward Jaun, who was standing on the tournament ground.
‘It can’t be helped.’
Yu Ha-rin let out a small sigh as she watched Jaun’s back as he walked toward his companions.