Chapter 303
Chapter 303
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Translator: MadScientist
Chapter: 303
Chapter Title: Shattered Divine Demon Wall
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The leisure that had always lingered on the Undying Heaven Cult Leader's face, no matter the situation, was gone.
It was only natural.
It was none other than the Divine Demon Wall.
This was the pinnacle of martial arts he had devised by overlaying and fusing the Demonic Cult's techniques—polished over decades in the Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Art—in his own way.
As the pure essence of the evil path's heretical arts, personally perfected by him, it was utterly different in texture from any ordinary protective aura.
A peerless protective aura blending offense and defense.
The layered Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Qi of the Divine Demon Wall carried repulsive force, inevitably crushing those who dared to attack.
How many had mistaken it for a mere protective aura, lunged in to strike, and lost their lives to the backlash?
Their number reached into the hundreds.
Thus, he had believed that no one aside from those individuals could ever pierce this Divine Demon Wall...
Yet it had collapsed in ruins.
Both the Divine Demon Wall and his pride.
By the hand of an opponent he had never even dreamed of.
He barely collected his wits and glared at the jeering young man before him.
Plum Blossom Divine Hero, Cheonhwi.
The young monster of Mount Hua—who had recently unleashed massive turmoil across the martial world—had torn the Divine Demon Wall to shreds.
Does Mount Hua possess such a domineering technique?
For a fleeting moment, the doubt crossed his mind.
Wasn't the Mount Hua Sect renowned for its flashy sword arts, emphasizing illusory and variant swords over brute domination?
As he fixed his gaze on Cheonhwi, the Undying Heaven Cult Leader suddenly narrowed his eyes.
His vision was wavering.
The shock from the Divine Demon Wall's collapse had twisted his qi and blood as he forcibly circulated his internal energy.
His sleeve fluttered for an instant.
The golden threads on the quivering sleeve seemed to scatter radiant light, and as the amplified Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Qi stabilized his flow...
Step.
Suddenly, footsteps echoed.
It was Cheonhwi.
In a single instant, he had entered the Undying Heaven Cult Leader's domain and shook out his left hand.
Boom!
The ground erupted, cratering deeply.
Cheonhwi casually shook off the lingering shockwave of the Divine Demon Wall from his grip—like flicking away an insect—before his leather shoe pressed into the earth.
Internal energy surged into his sole.
From the tip of his planted foot, shockwaves rippled outward in concentric waves.
The very moment the ground quaked in response...
Whoosh!
Cheonhwi's torso abruptly twisted.
The muscles of his sleeveless arm swelled massively, whipping out in a grand diagonal sweep.
A draw with no prelude.
A single streak of crimson light trailed belatedly.
Screeeeech—
Space shivered for a split second.
And at its terminus...
A gorgeous blood flower bloomed.
Splatter—
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader, who had birthed that crimson bloom, staggered backward.
A diagonal red line scarred his chest, weeping blood.
The mark of the sword path Cheonhwi had unleashed.
"Blood... is it."
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader's eyes thinned.
It burned hot. It stung fiercely.
A wound arisen after far too long awakened the forgotten sensation of pain.
Swipe—
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader moved his left hand.
His fingertips grazed the gash.
Fortunately, it wasn't deep.
He had instinctively retreated half a step the instant he glimpsed the sword's arc.
"Quick reactions. Dodging it like that."
Cheonhwi tossed the words curtly.
The demeanor of one addressing a lesser.
At that attitude, the Undying Heaven Cult Leader...
"Heh heh heh."
Laughed.
His chest heaved, blood spurting freer still.
Yet he did not cease, and in that moment, he channeled internal energy into the left hand that had traced the wound.
Woooong—
The air trembled.
Simultaneously, the golden threads in his sleeve quivered, casting brilliant glows.
When he lifted the hand from the wound...
The bleeding halted.
A mystical spectacle.
"A sensation felt after ages."
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader murmured, straightening his spine taut.
In that instant, his presence ballooned massively.
His impassive eyes slanted downward coldly, emanating a bone-chilling momentum.
Swish—
Black aura dispersed from his entire form, surging skyward.
A pitch-black pillar linking to the heavens.
The unleashing of overwhelming prowess.
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader, erupting with wondrous energy, closed his eyes slowly... then opened them.
Enigmatic demonic essence swirled in his jet-black pupils, encompassing every inch of his field of vision.
He shook his sleeve.
The golden threads flickered mysteriously.
He had infused the power of the Eternal Life Immortal Formation—embroidered into his sleeve—into the Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Art.
His singular heretical absolute art laid bare.
"Ah, how tragic indeed. Under my guidance, you possess the talent to seize the world."
He spoke with apparent regret.
Sincere regret.
The foe before him harbored transcendent aptitude.
Even they likely lacked such gifts.
"The world?"
Cheonhwi scoffed, tilting his chin up.
"I wouldn't take it even if offered."
With those words, he eyed the Undying Heaven Cult Leader.
To grasp the world?
Ridiculous drivel.
In his past life, hadn't it been his to claim at any moment—yet one he had personally forsaken?
Cheonhwi sneered.
"I despise hassle."
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader knit his brows.
An answer beyond imagination.
Rejecting the world out of laziness?
Who could harbor such notions?
"And speak properly."
Cheonhwi spoke, his eyes half-lidded.
His gaze—laden with Plum Blossom Divine Art's power—gleamed with arcane luster, radiating sharp intent.
His presence swelled in that instant.
The majesty of the absolute sovereign who had once commanded a hundred thousand Demonic Cult disciples in his prior life emerged instinctively.
"If you crave the world, should it not be you learning from me, rather than the reverse?"
"You overstep your station."
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader's rare fury ignited.
His refined features twisted for the first time as ferocious killing intent raged.
Whooooosh—
Darkness enshrouded his form anew, eerie aura coiling into both palms.
The moment his hands stirred to motion...
Flash!
Cheonhwi's silhouette warped.
The peerless Flying Heaven Steps unfolded.
His body hazed in an instant—lightness unmatched in the demonic path, nay, the entire world.
Arriving before the Undying Heaven Cult Leader in a blink, Hwamwol swung indifferently from his grasp.
Screeeeech!
Hwamwol, sheathed in faint crimson sword-gang, fractured into myriad strands, encircling him from every angle.
The landscape crumpled.
Beholding the onslaught from all sides, azure-black thunder crashed from the Undying Heaven Cult Leader's eyes.
His upper dantian had unlocked.
Heaven, Earth, and Man unified, roiling the Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Qi violently.
His sleeve billowed promptly.
"Heaven-Exterminating Seal."
With Six Harmonies Battle Form, cataclysmic palm-force erupted from his palm-heart.
Claaaaang!
A colossal roar engulfed the vicinity.
The nearby earth split and upended instantly.
Unable to endure their collision.
Heaven and earth remade.
Cheonhwi retracted Hwamwol, halted by the Heaven-Exterminating Seal, twisting his airborne form.
While swinging Hwamwol.
The seamless follow-up assault.
Hwamwol—swathed in colorless gang—rent space, tracing a merciless arc.
Toward the Undying Heaven Cult Leader's midsection.
Swift beyond even absolute perception.
Slash!
Hwamwol grazed his flank, blood erupting in all directions.
For him, the mercy lay in its shallowness.
He had summoned the Divine Demon Wall upon sensing Hwamwol's swing.
Yet in mortal combat 'twixt supreme masters, such scratches proved lethal.
Thud!
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader betrayed no unease, composure etched upon his face, as he advanced with a stamping step.
The trod earth rippled.
Crack-rack-crack!
The erstwhile upheaved ground now hollowed profoundly; his robes surged heavenward.
His visage ballooned abruptly in Cheonhwi's sight.
Phantom Form Swap had pierced the guard, invading the bosom whence Hwamwol swung.
Ripples bloomed forthwith in his palm-heart.
Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Hand.
Counterstrike in a heartbeat.
A lure?
Cheonhwi's eyes iced over.
Exceedingly swift response.
Verily, flesh yielded to claim bone—a Flesh Sacrifice Bone Rend.
Cheonhwi thrust his left palm posthaste.
Claaaaang!
Impact surged through his palm, coursing onward.
Hm?
Cheonhwi's brow twitched.
The fierce power's aftershock invaded his palm, contorting his channels.
An exotic penetration art.
A meridian-shattering method...?
Cheonhwi traced the invading energy's path through his meridians, summoning Plum Blossom Divine Art forthwith.
Gathering the intrusion, he pulverized it outright.
Splat!
Even his left sleeve shredded.
Despite swift dissipation, the permitted breach left his forearm throbbing.
Cunning. Insidious.
Yet it persisted not there.
Divine Demon Wall cloaking his form, he spiraled Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Qi 'round his palm and thrust anew.
All unseen arts heretofore.
Lightning lanced his mind abruptly.
Thought whirled lightning-quick.
In the absolute domain mortals unknow, time crawled languid.
Fleeting stretched eternal.
Cheonhwi locked eyes with the Undying Heaven Cult Leader—palm thrusting, gaze fixed.
Gazes clashed briefly.
Therewith, Cheonhwi curled his lips.
Three centuries elapsed.
That epoch birthed novelties unknown to him, thrusting them upon his path.
Yes. This I craved.
Cheonhwi's eyes blazed radiant, then he snapped a kick upward.
Thwack!
Drum-thunder resounded; the Divine Demon Wall quaked violently.
Transient tremor.
Regaining poise, the Undying Heaven Cult Leader stomped grandly once more.
Earth rent asunder; he hurtled forth.
Cheonhwi, beholding, slammed his kicking foot down fiercely.
Arrow-straight they charged, clashing midair.
Craaaash! Boom!
Air detonated ponderously.
Aloft, neither yielded movement's grasp, trading blows ceaseless.
Each form, lethal absolute.
Plum blossoms bloomed; shadows cloaked.
Crimson arcs entwined obsidian paths, colliding fierce.
Clash-energies rampaged, detonating ambient.
Exchanges ballooned blink-fast.
Dozens surged hundreds.
Instants wrought targeting absolutes, wounds accruing.
Slash! Splatter!
Raiment rent asunder, vivid gore thick-staining.
As fray peaked...
"Time to conclude."
The Undying Heaven Cult Leader ascended lightly.
Ten zhang skyborne, he peered down upon Cheonhwi, unfurling bone-white palms wide.
Fwoooosh!
Behind, darkness thickened, birthing utter void-sphere.
As if sol made tenebrous.
Demonic arts consummating Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Art's realm flung wide, eyes lowered upon Cheonhwi...
Woooong!
Air warped; quakes arose.
Peerless Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Qi enthralled space, convulsing.
"Peaceful repose I grant thee."
Six Harmonies Battle Form thrummed resonant.
Forthwith, from back-sphere, demonic bolts plummeted.
Kwaaaarumble!
Dark orb plummeted earthward.
World-exterminating art.
Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Hand's ultimate.
Heaven-Exterminating Tribulation manifest.
Cheonhwi-centric, earth pulverized, dispersed. Overwhelmed by Tribulation-force, annihilate.
"Fascinating. Supreme arts apexing sublime mimic sorcery, aye—but fusing spell and style seamless? Unforeseen."
Smiling faintly amid murmur, Cheonhwi hefted Hwamwol.
As foe proclaimed, finale beckoned.
Fwoooosh!
Grasped Hwamwol birthed indescribable flux, tenderly enfolding Cheonhwi and surrounds.
Embracing all.
Thereupon, Hwamwol surged low-to-high 'gainst descending Tribulation.
Seven Ultimate Plum Blossom Sword, Seventh Stance.
Eternal Tribulation Heaven-and-Earth Myriad-Ri Fragrance.
BOOOOOOM!
Ear-numbing thunderclap erupted.
Tribulation-bound sword-strike etched lone sword-mark, then vanished.
Phantasmic.
Enthralling plum-scent whirled.
Mingled blood-odor too.
Cheonhwi eyed his chest, droplets beading, plummeting.
"Wound this grave? Ages past."
Gaping gash wept crimson, drenching garb, dripping low.
Then.
"Guh."
Aloft groan resounded.
Midair form convulsed violently, crumbling gradual.
Divine Demon Wall splintered; enveloping Heaven-Exterminating Divine Demon Qi dissipated.
Belatedly, waist bore blood-etch.
Eternal Tribulation Heaven-and-Earth Myriad-Ri Fragrance had bisected it.
Thereafter, he plummeted unresisting.
Thud!
Dull thud reverberated.
Enshrouding hush amplified it thunderous.