Chapter 159
Chapter 159
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 46
>Chapter Title: Compulsion (4)
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-Crack!
“Hup.”
The wrist of the eldest young master, Na Yul-ryang, twisted and snapped clean in half.
Na Yul-ryang hurriedly tried to shake off his broken hand.
But,
-Kwaaak!
‘This bastard?’
He couldn’t move his wrist at all.
Not even when he channeled ten stars of internal energy with his right hand.
Mok Kyung-un spoke to him.
“What’s wrong? Having trouble pulling your hand free?”
‘!?’
Na Yul-ryang’s eyes sharpened.
His wrist bones were shattered, which should have been excruciating, but instead, he glared at Mok Kyung-un with eyes full of disbelief.
The bastard’s internal energy was inferior to his own, so there was no way he could have broken his wrist.
Yet something bizarre had happened.
Suddenly, the bastard’s internal energy had surged to double what it was moments ago.
As he wondered what the hell was going on, the veins on Mok Kyung-un’s right hand, which gripped his wrist, bulged grotesquely, turning black and sinister.
‘What the hell?’
Through his Piercing Eye technique, Na Yul-ryang could see it.
A freakish amount of energy was surging into Mok Kyung-un’s right hand.
This was not normal energy.
‘This bastard has mastered some monstrous sorcery.’
How he had learned it didn’t matter right now.
The point was, limited to his right hand, Mok Kyung-un’s internal energy now surpassed his own.
In response,
-Woooong!
Na Yul-ryang formed a blade of blue sword aura with the sword formula of his left hand.
With it, he swung to decapitate Mok Kyung-un in one stroke.
He was too dangerous to let live another moment.
-Shwick! Crackle!
But in that instant, before Na Yul-ryang’s sword aura could even touch Mok Kyung-un’s neck, it halted.
The one who blocked it was none other than,
“Island Poison King!”
Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha.
Without any poison aura, he had generated sword energy with his bare hand and blocked Na Yul-ryang’s sword aura in a split second.
Baek Sa-ha said to the eldest young master Na Yul-ryang.
“Are you trying to kill this old man’s disciple right in front of him?”
“......”
At Baek Sa-ha’s words, Na Yul-ryang’s eyes grew icy.
The bastard calling him his disciple was the one who had broken his wrist and still held it gripped tight, yet he was trying to protect him?
Na Yul-ryang warned in a low voice.
“Are you really going to make an enemy of this young master over a mere disciple? Do you think that will benefit the Baek family?”
“......Are you threatening this old man right now?”
At Na Yul-ryang’s aggressive words, anger crept into Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha’s voice.
No matter that he was the leader’s disciple close to being successor, Baek Sa-ha was one of the Five Kings, a top executive of the Heaven-Earth Society.
In rank, he was actually superior.
Arrogant as he was, did he dare provoke him like this?
“I can see exactly what you think of this old man and the Baek family. Then allow me to warn you in turn. If you don’t back off right now, I will do everything in my power to stop you from becoming successor.”
“What?”
Na Yul-ryang’s face darkened further at the warning thrown back at him.
All his focus had been on somehow killing Mok Kyung-un, but this old man kept interfering, fueling his rage even more.
“Didn’t I say it? If you don’t back off, I will make sure you never become successor.”
“Island Poison King!”
-Gooooh!
As Na Yul-ryang’s voice rose, his aura surged ferociously.
The wind whipped around, flapping his robes wildly.
In kind, Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha began emitting poison aura from his entire body, refusing to yield in presence.
-Gooooh!
Violet poison mist rose, exuding an ominous aura.
Having reached the eighth layer of the Wave Demon Poison Scripture and fully become a Poison Person, his poison aura was incomparable to before.
As Baek Sa-ha took one step forward,
-Sizzle!
Part of the floor oxidized.
In an instant, the tension peaked.
It wouldn’t be strange if the two erupted into a life-or-death clash right then.
But since it meant full confrontation, Baek Sa-ha remained cautious, and Na Yul-ryang couldn’t move freely with one wrist still gripped by Mok Kyung-un. Neither made the first move.
It was right then.
-Chill!
An enormous killing intent surged.
At the sudden killing intent, as if it were a signal flare, Na Yul-ryang and Baek Sa-ha reflexively released their clashing hands and unleashed lethal strikes at each other.
-Papapak!
In a flash, their hands clashed four times over the short distance.
A clash of simplified forms.
-Sss! Slash!
As poison aura and sharp energy collided, the surrounding floor corroded and cracked.
But their duel didn’t continue.
The reason was,
‘This bastard?’
Mok Kyung-un, who had been gripping Na Yul-ryang’s wrist, now pulled him into a tight embrace while keeping the hold.
Na Yul-ryang was stunned for a moment.
Was this bastard insane, pulling a stunt like this in the heat of battle?
“Let go right now!”
“I can’t do that. Master! Grab the eldest young master’s left hand!”
“What?”
-Pak!
At Mok Kyung-un’s words, Baek Sa-ha unwittingly seized Na Yul-ryang’s left hand, which had been clashing with his technique.
Now Na Yul-ryang couldn’t move either hand.
Na Yul-ryang clicked his tongue in disbelief.
“You insolent fools!”
Na Yul-ryang channeled energy throughout his body, emitting razor-sharp sword energy from his entire form.
-Shshshshsh!
To a master of his sword caliber, his whole body was no different from a lethal weapon.
Yet even as this razor-sharp energy pierced into him, Mok Kyung-un didn’t budge an inch. Instead, he hugged tighter.
-Kwaaaak!
‘The energy in this bastard’s left hand?’
Na Yul-ryang frowned.
The energy in Mok Kyung-un’s left hand wrapped around his waist was no ordinary thing.
From this, Na Yul-ryang realized.
‘Not just one hand?’
Mok Kyung-un could deploy that bizarre technique with both hands.
As Mok Kyung-un tightened his left hand around his waist, Na Yul-ryang felt his upper body compress.
His eyes went fully mad.
“You filthy dog!”
Already teetering on madness, with fury boiling over, he channeled ten stars of energy, jerked his head sideways, and headbutted fiercely.
-Bam! Crack!
“Hup.”
Mok Kyung-un’s head snapped back from the headbutt.
Seizing the moment, Na Yul-ryang headbutted again.
-Bam!
“Kuh!”
Blood burst from Mok Kyung-un’s forehead from the hit.
Na Yul-ryang let out a mad laugh at the bleeding Mok Kyung-un and headbutted once more.
“Kraahaha! Keep holding on if you dare.”
-Bam! Bam! Bam!
After about three headbutts.
Suddenly, veins bulged on Mok Kyung-un’s forehead, turning black.
Then, just like Na Yul-ryang, he jerked his head back and delivered a headbutt.
-Kwaaang!
“Guh!”
“Hup!”
Both heads snapped back simultaneously from the mutual headbutt.
The force was enough to send them flying apart, but Mok Kyung-un’s tight embrace kept them locked.
Yet both their faces were a bloody mess, enough to make anyone wince.
“Ha......”
That was Baek Sa-ha’s expression right now.
He had unwittingly helped at Mok Kyung-un’s request, but this hardly qualified as a martial arts duel.
He had no idea how things had come to this.
Then, the eldest young master Na Yul-ryang’s eyes snapped open wildly, gleaming with madness.
“I’ll kill you!”
He seemed intent on murdering Mok Kyung-un, who had dragged him into this dogfight, to vent his rage.
With that, Na Yul-ryang executed the Capturing Hand technique to stealthily free his left hand from Baek Sa-ha’s grip.
-Papak!
“Huh?”
But right then.
‘!?’
-Ssssss!
The body parts in contact with the bastard burned with agonizing pain.
The reason was the dark red poison aura rising from Mok Kyung-un’s entire body as he embraced him.
Na Yul-ryang’s face twisted at the tangible dark red poison aura.
This was none other than,
“Poison Person?”
Only those who had reached the Poison Person realm could emit poison aura from their entire body.
‘No way?’
Even Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha couldn’t hide his shock at the sight.
He had suspected Mok Kyung-un’s martial prowess had risen freakishly fast, but this was unbelievable.
He hadn’t properly taught Mok Kyung-un the Wave Demon Poison Scripture yet.
He had only shown him the manual once.
Yet now Mok Kyung-un was displaying the Poison Body, achievable only at the eighth layer of the Wave Demon Poison Scripture.
‘How is this possible?’
How could a kid who had seen the manual just once accomplish this?
Did that mean he had somehow?
‘Broken through the wall?’
A chill ran through Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha’s body.
He wasn’t one to be easily startled, but this left him aghast.
Was this even possible?
As he stood stunned.
-Siiiiz!
“Gaaaaah!”
For the first time, a scream of agony tore from Na Yul-ryang’s mouth.
Embraced and turned into a Poison Body emitting poison aura everywhere, no profound realm master could block all the infiltrating poison.
That was the terror of a Poison Person—becoming poison itself.
Merely touching it was lethal.
“Guhhhh!”
Enduring the excruciating pain, Na Yul-ryang formed sword aura on the sword formula of his freed left hand with the Capturing Hand.
-Woooong!
‘You... filthy... dog......’
He then thrust it toward Mok Kyung-un’s left ear to pierce his head.
But in that instant,
-Pak!
Someone smashed down hard on Na Yul-ryang’s occiput.
It was Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha.
Even a profound realm master like Na Yul-ryang couldn’t avoid disorientation and disrupted energy from this ambush.
Seizing the chance, Baek Sa-ha struck his acupoints.
-Tatatatatak!
With his acupoints sealed, Na Yul-ryang’s head drooped.
Baek Sa-ha hurriedly restrained Mok Kyung-un.
“Stop! That’s enough!”
Mok Kyung-un shook his head at his words.
“We have to kill him.”
“I don’t know the details, but killing the eldest young master now means the leader kills us. Is that what you want?”
“......”
-Sss.
After hesitating briefly at his words, Mok Kyung-un released the Poison Body.
He withdrew his arms from Na Yul-ryang’s body.
-Thud!
The unconscious Na Yul-ryang collapsed limply to the floor.
Mok Kyung-un glanced at the fallen Na Yul-ryang once, then turned to Baek Sa-ha and said.
“As troublesome as it is, the eldest young master makes a better enemy than the leader.”
“Heh.”
Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha clicked his tongue at Mok Kyung-un’s words.
It seemed he hadn’t fully grasped this kid’s true nature.
Baek Sa-ha pulled something from his bosom.
It was a red cloth bundle.
Inside was a golden pill emitting a faint fragrance.
“What’s that?”
“Blood Poison Pearl.”
“Blood Poison Pearl?”
“A consumable Blood Poison Pearl that neutralizes most poisons.”
“Most poisons?”
“Yes.”
The Blood Poison Pearl was the ultimate antidote pill.
Its ingredients alone cost a fortune, and crafting it took over a decade, making it exceedingly rare even in the Baek family.
But now was not the time to spare it.
Letting the eldest young master die would make an enemy of the leader.
-Crush!
Baek Sa-ha crushed the Blood Poison Pearl, mixed it with another drug from his waist pouch, pried open Na Yul-ryang’s mouth, and shoved it down his throat.
‘I have no idea how it came to this.’
Just an hour ago, he had achieved great merit with the eldest young master and basked in supreme joy.
Now, everything was utter chaos.
Mok Kyung-un’s explosive martial progress, and these two trying to kill each other.
Then, suddenly, Mok Kyung-un approached.
“What is it?”
“Apologies, but even if we don’t kill him, I think we need to take this.”
“What?”
Without delay, Mok Kyung-un plunged his index finger into the right eye of the acupoint-sealed, unconscious Na Yul-ryang.
He then gouged,
-Kwa-duk!
And ripped out Na Yul-ryang’s right eyeball entirely.
‘!!!!!!!!!’
At Mok Kyung-un’s sudden outburst, Island Poison King Baek Sa-ha was speechless.
Holding up the extracted eyeball, Mok Kyung-un grinned eerily through his blood-smeared face and said.
“This thing is a real pain.”