Chapter 58: 14th Floor: Union
Translator: RaidenTL
Chapter 58: 14th Floor: Union
Hearing that the Blood Demon had appeared, the Abbot shot to his feet.
"W-Wait, wait, hold on!! Why am I..."
A golden aura flared out and bound me to the Abbot.
Our bodies remained locked together, his cock inside my pussy, in a position that looked like I was being fucked while held aloft.
And just like that, with us still connected, the Abbot—
BOOM!!!
- smashed through the roof and soared into the sky.
"Kyaaah...!! A-Are you crazy... What is this... Kyaa!"
I was flying through the air with a cock wedged firmly inside my pussy.
The cold wind whipped through my hair, and the crimson moon filled my vision.
This is insane! Why isn't he letting me down?!
The mad Abbot was flying through the air, wearing me like a suit of armor.
With no other choice, I wrapped my arms and legs tightly around him and looked back.
From high above, I could see the state of the battle around the Shaolin Temple, and it wasn't good.
Nearly seventy to eighty percent of the temple's elite forces were either dead or incapacitated by the Blood Jiangshi and the Dispersing Qi Poison.
Outside the temple walls, the Blood Cult's jiangshi were swarming in.
An army with no end in sight.
Blood Jiangshi, Iron Jiangshi, Sura Jiangshi, and Asura Blood Jiangshi.
The Blood Demon had brought the entire might of the Blood Cult to the Shaolin Temple.
The forces stationed outside were being swept away by the jiangshi offensive like a tidal wave.
I had succeeded in restoring the Abbot, but the situation was still hopeless.
Is this trial even possible to clear...?
Why in the world would they place a trial of such insane difficulty on the 14th floor?
Just as I was lamenting the desperate odds, the Abbot's golden aura erupted, shooting toward the heavens.
What...?
The golden energy parted the sky.
His gleaming head connected with the heavens, and golden hands, each hundreds of meters long, descended through the darkness.
The giant, self-illuminating golden palms slammed down on the areas where the jiangshi were gathered.
KWAGWAGWANG!!!
The jiangshi didn't even have a chance to resist.
He swept them away as easily as a person crushing ants with their hand.
It didn't matter if they were Iron Jiangshi or Asura Blood Jiangshi.
Just as an ordinary ant and a soldier ant are both crushed equally under a human foot, they were all flattened into nothingness.
A divine punishment.
As if the heavens themselves were smiting the blasphemous, the giant golden hands passed judgment on the jiangshi.
Holy shit, what is this...
My body trembled uncontrollably at the overwhelming scale of it all.
And it wasn't just one hand.
108 Buddha's Palm
One hundred and eight hands, each hundreds of meters long, descended from the sky, wiping out all the jiangshi.
A shiver ran down my spine.
The energy I had felt earlier was no illusion.
This was a level bordering on demigodhood.
In the terms of this martial world, it was likely the highest realm: the realm of Life and Death.
With a single yin-yang union with me, the Abbot had broken through the wall to the realm of Life and Death.
Was he originally a master of the Hyeongyeong realm, not Hwagyeong...? Or did he skip two entire realms?
But the Buddha's Palm wasn't all.
The Abbot brought his hands together behind my back.
"W-Wai—!"
An immense amount of energy gathered, and at the same time, I could feel my divine power traveling from my pussy, through his cock, and into him.
Don't tell me he brought me along as a living qi potion?
Before I could even process that shocking realization, a deafening roar made me cling to his body even tighter.
KUGUGUGUGU...!
Vajra Roaring Wave
A beam of golden light shot toward the crimson moon.
It seemed he intended to physically destroy the red moon itself, the source of all this strangeness.
The red moon wasn't far away like the actual moon, but an object floating just above the mountains.
However, someone from the red moon intercepted the Vajra Roaring Wave.
A woman...?
She had black hair and blood-red eyes.
Clad in a thin, translucent dress that hid nothing, she drew a stream of crimson energy from the red moon.
Then, she conjured a massive, dark-red barrier in front of the Vajra Roaring Wave.
KWAGWAGWAGWANG!!!
They collided.
The clash of opposing energies shook the heavens and the earth.
The dark, blood-red sky began to shine brilliantly.
A moment later, the collision of immense energies unleashed a powerful shockwave that spread out in all directions, collapsing buildings and sending objects, jiangshi, and people flying.
"She's alive, isn't she?"
"It would seem so."
As the dust settled, the Blood Demon came into view.
Even after taking the Abbot's ultimate attack, she stood unharmed before the red moon.
"This is as far as I take you. It's impossible to fight while protecting you."
His internal energy stirred.
"Huh...?"
His massive qi flowed into my body, sucking out every last drop of my power.
"Ack?"
And then, he gently tossed me, now an empty vessel of divine power, away.
"Aaat...! You crazy damn monk!! My divine power!!"
At that same moment, a crimson aura engulfed the Abbot.
Asura Blood-Shattering Ray
As if returning the previous attack, a massive torrent of blood-red energy rushed toward the Abbot.
Vajra Indestructible Divine Art
The Abbot's body glowed like gold, perfectly defending against the attack.
"Blood Demon, is this all you have?"
"You crazy monk... You've broken a taboo. And you still call yourself a spiritual practitioner!"
"To hear such words from one who has already taken countless lives... I am at a loss for words!"
The Abbot and the Blood Demon clashed in mid-air.
The red and golden auras collided everywhere at a speed my eyes could barely follow.
The shockwaves from their clashes alone were enough to send the remaining buildings and debris flying as if hit by bombs.
I, too, barely managed to land on the ground, naked, only to be repeatedly swept away and knocked over.
"Ugyaaak!! Egek!"
That damn monk. He could have at least dropped me somewhere farther away...
His golden aura had cushioned my fall, but of all places, he had to drop me right below the spot where the world's strongest were clashing...
A cold chill ran down my spine as a masterless sword flew past, grazing the side of my neck.
Their fight showed no signs of ending.
With no divine power and my muscles completely relaxed after sex, I was like a candle in the wind, caught between two transcendent beings, staggering this way and that.
"Sister! Why are you dancing naked out here!"
Fortunately, Jang Sam, who was passing by, saw me and came to my rescue.
"What, you're alive?"
"Who do you think I am? I lived my life being looked down on for only training my physical body, but that very training is what saved me! Hahaha!!"
Leaning on Jang Sam, I began to retreat from the battlefield.
The survivors slowly started to gather around the perimeter of their battle.
It was a decisive battle that no one dared to interfere with.
Red rain fell from the sky, and golden flames bloomed.
The very geography of the Shaolin Temple was changing.
Buildings that boasted hundreds of years of history were being destroyed.
Mountains were carved away, and plains rose up.
Hoo... I used to be able to fight at that level back in the day...
Though I was now sprawled out like a washed-up whore, watching them somehow rekindled my fighting spirit.
And a short while later,
"Keoheuk..."
The Blood Demon coughed up blood and fell from the sky.
The power contained within the Shaolin's martial arts was the power of exorcism.
To begin with, assuming they were at the same level of mastery and skill, the Blood Demon could never beat the Abbot due to their elemental incompatibility.
"Is it... over?"
The Abbot descended to the ground and approached the Blood Demon, who was struggling to her feet, her legs trembling.
The sight of them both, naked and clad only in their auras, was strangely erotic. An onlooker might have misunderstood the scene as a muscular man about to pounce on a slender woman.
"For the sin of bringing chaos to the martial world and taking so many lives!! Accept your punishment!!!"
The Abbot's final Thunderclap Palm pierced through the Blood Demon's chest.
PWAK!!
The Blood Demon's small chest was punctured, and her upper body split apart. Her body was severed into three pieces: her head, her left arm, and the rest of her torso.
And the Blood Demon...
...was smiling as she fell.
What the... Why is she like that?
Don't tell me this damn trial has a mid-boss, a final boss, and a true final boss.
Nah, no way... Wouldn't that be too shameless?
Suddenly, my eyes met the Blood Demon's.
Her face, now just a severed head, was still smiling.
That's a really bad sign.
"Abbot! Destroy her head, too!"
Just then, the mouth of the severed head opened.
"Lord Zo Agdra!! Devour me and descend!!!"
Her cry echoed thunderously throughout the entire Shaolin Temple.
No, for real...? A true final boss...?
Why...?
Come to think of it, the red moon still hadn't disappeared.
As her voice rang out, the red moon began to vibrate.
All the blood and souls spilled at the Shaolin Temple were sucked toward the red moon.
The blood and souls of the dead high monks and common soldiers were absorbed, along with what was left of the Blood Demon.
"Keuk... Dammit, Abbot!!"
"Ah... It's already too late."
I'm going crazy...
Of course, I wasn't the only one.
"Uwaaaaaaah!!!"
"Ah, die! Die! I have to die!!"
"Keoheok!!"
The people who looked at the red moon began to truly lose their minds.
The minds of those with lower levels of mastery became corrupted, causing them to suddenly attack the person next to them or harm themselves.
"Everyone, do not look at the moon! Lower your eyes!!"
The Abbot's clear shout, imbued with his internal energy, echoed out, and thankfully, most people snapped back to their senses.
What in the world is happening...
I looked up and saw blood dripping from the red moon.
Thick, viscous blood flowed down from the moon, submerging the Shaolin Temple.
Something is wrong...
Kwaddeudeuk...! Kwajik!
The center of the red moon began to crack open, and something started to become visible within.
A giant eye.
As it glared down, the heads of the weaker martial artists exploded, killing them instantly.
POP-POP-POP-POP-POP!!!
Fountains of blood erupted from all directions.
Insane...
[𐎁𐐒𐑈 𝕴𝖑𝖎𝖆𝖘 𝖙𝖊𝖐 𝖗𝖆’𝖔𝖙𝖍 𝖛𝖊𝖓]
The incomprehensible voice of the Outer God, trying to break out of the red moon's fragments, pierced my mind.
My whole body trembled reflexively, and a sense of powerlessness that made me want to give up on life washed over me. In fact, people who had been perfectly fine just moments ago began to suffer mental breakdowns upon hearing the Outer God's voice and witnessing a part of it with their own eyes.
Once again, a festival of blood began.
"Hey, Jang Sam, you bastard, snap out of it!"
I barely managed to stop Jang Sam as he drew his sword to stab himself in the neck.
"Heok, what was I doing..."
That's a god... an unidentified Outer God...!
This wasn't the realm of a demigod.
It was the aura of a perfect god, albeit an incomplete one.
If that thing descends... it's over.
It wouldn't just be a problem for the martial world; the entire world would end.
The Abbot was here, but he had already expended a great deal of his internal energy. As if he knew he couldn't do anything about it either, he was staring at the red moon with a look of despair.
"Is this the end..."
The end of the world was approaching right before my eyes.
And yet, there was nothing I could do.
Just as everyone was frozen in utter despair,
A mysterious man wearing a black bamboo hat and black robes appeared out of nowhere.
What... I didn't even sense his presence.
"Hey, Abbot. What are you doing?"
He walked up next to the Abbot and spoke to him in a familiar tone.
"You!! Weren't you dead...?"
"You've changed completely since I last saw you. Do you have any techniques you can still use?"
"Maybe one more time..."
"Alright, I'll match you. Pour every last bit of your internal energy into it, Abbot. Our only chance is now, before that thing fully forms its true body."
What... Who in the world is he?
The Abbot and the mysterious man stood side by side, facing the red moon.
There was something reassuring about the sight of their two backs.
The Abbot squeezed out all of his remaining internal energy.
"Uwaaaaaaah!!"
He even wrung out his innate life force, his primordial qi, to fire one last Vajra Roaring Wave at the red moon.
And at the same time, the man in black gathered a dark energy and fired it alongside the Abbot's.
"Heavenly Demon's World-Ending Light"
Heavenly Demon...? Don't tell me, was this a trial where the Heavenly Demon was supposed to show up as support if you just held out?
The Abbot's pure golden qi and the Heavenly Demon's ferocious black qi twisted around each other like a braid, shooting toward the red moon.
The golden light that saves the world and the black light that destroys it became one, creating a sight like a painting of two dragons ascending to the heavens.
That... will work...
It was a harmony that surpassed yin and yang, a harmony of good and evil.
A harmony of the Righteous and the Demonic.
No, it was simply the harmony of human and human.
Twin Dragons Ascending
The ultimate, final techniques of this martial world's strongest masters had merged into one.
An attack carrying humanity's will to not be destroyed by some Outer God scored a direct hit.
The clashing, incompatible energies exploded upon impact with the red moon.
The two disparate auras met, repelled each other, and set off a chain reaction of explosions. The force of the blast was dozens, even hundreds of times greater than the sum of their parts.
KWAGWAGWAGWAGWAGWANG!!!
An explosion that shook the heavens and the earth erupted, and the entire world flashed white. A blinding white light and its shadow engulfed the world.
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The horrific scream of the Outer God writhing in agony echoed in my head.
Crack...! CRACK!!!
The shell of the red moon shattered, and finally,
PAAAAAAANG!!!!
A massive explosion, like a nuclear bomb, detonated, destroying the red moon.
A tremendous aftershock blasted through the area, blowing away all the remaining Shaolin Temple buildings. Jang Sam and I were sent flying far into the distance.
Ah... we won.
As I flew through the air, I saw them.
The shattered fragments of the red moon, falling from the sky.
A beautiful night sky, embroidered with twinkling stars and the Milky Way.
And two dragons, streaking across the heavens.
[Ding~]
[You have cleared the 14th-floor trial...]
My mentally and physically exhausted body relaxed at the sight of the clear message, and my eyes drifted shut.