Chapter 488
Chapter 488
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 126
>Chapter Title: The Peerless Sword (1)
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-Kraaaack!
As the dark clouds split apart, a blinding radiance illuminated the earth, drawing every gaze toward it in an instant.
It was as if the Heavenly Emperor himself had descended.
A being with curly golden hair and resplendent golden wings unfurled magnificently, slowly descending from the heavens.
"Ahh!"
Gasps of awe escaped the lips of all who beheld it.
Simply looking upon the golden-haired entity filled one with awe at its overwhelming beauty, holiness, and majesty.
But the shock went beyond mere appearance.
Warriors with even the slightest sensitivity to energy were utterly stunned.
"What kind of aura is that......"
"This is......."
Even when the Six Demons had appeared, their demonic power enveloping everything had brought utter despair.
Yet this holy being's energy blanketed the very sky.
It was hard to believe, but it truly seemed like a divine existence.
-Kaboom!
So overwhelming was its presence that even the Great Power King U Ma-wang, locked in fierce combat with the Hundred Face King Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox, spared it a sidelong glance.
"......What the hell is that?"
The Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes sharpened.
She, hailed as the strongest of the Six Demons and unmatched in raw power, had shown no tension while clashing with the Great Power King.
But the moment this entity appeared, her heart pounded fiercely.
How could such a thing exist in this world?
"Elder.......that thing......."
It wasn't just the Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox who sensed it.
Jin Ye-rin, battling the Satan King, found her focus shattered by the bizarre energy squeezing her heart.
The same went for Moon Peak Sword Sa Ma-chok.
"Dangerous."
Sa Ma-chok was the most experienced among those present.
He had lived through the Human-Demon War against the蛟 Demon King that threatened the Central Plains martial world centuries ago, and the great calamity that divided the ancient and modern martial worlds.
Even he tensed to the extreme at this entity's arrival.
-Whoooosh!
"You know."
"I see it too."
Yu Mu-jin, leading the Yu family clan, couldn't tear his eyes from the entity emerging between the parted dark clouds.
-Rumble rumble rumble!
Since its appearance, the energies of the entire region refused to circulate properly. They gathered around those golden wings, forming a vortex.
It was a sacred spectacle, yet the coalescing power felt like it could obliterate the entire Ten Thousand Great Mountains at any moment—utterly ominous.
The fragile spark of hope they'd barely kindled now flickered perilously once more.
-Clench!
"So you finally reveal yourself. Golden Heavenly King."
Mok Gan bit his lower lip hard.
He alone knew exactly what this entity was.
The Heavenly clan, eternal foes of the Demon clan.
And this one, emanating such immense pressure, was their leader—the Golden Heavenly King.
"Of all times, why now!"
He had believed it wouldn't show itself until he fulfilled his assigned role.
It viewed humans as insignificant insects.
Yet this arrogant being, who considered itself lord of all creation, had appeared now—because of him?
Mok Gan's three pupils turned toward Mok Kyung-un.
The incarnation stared at the Golden Heavenly King as well.
It didn't look at him.
That sight echoed the Golden Heavenly King's words in Mok Gan's mind repeatedly.
[Your role ends here.]
-Grind! Grind!
Blood vessels bulged and twisted across the third pupil on Mok Gan's forehead.
Indeed, to him, he was nothing more than a chess piece.
He had been born for that purpose.
The Heavenly King's eye.
That was his entire reason for existence—to gaze upon all things in its stead.
Thus, he should accept that his role was complete.
-Ugh!
But then, a voice resounded in Mok Gan's mind.
"In the end, we weren't the protagonists."
-Tremble tremble!
The light in the pupil on his forehead wavered against his suppressed will.
The "eye" fed on madness and desire.
"I.......I......."
Born to absorb the madness and desires of thousands upon tens of thousands for his role, Mok Gan gradually developed his own will and ego.
And that vast desire birthed a longing to break free from his predestined role.
A desire to become not a puppet, but the master.
It hadn't taken long.
He found madness and desire suited to severing the puppet strings.
That was Pyo Bi-seon.
True madness beyond his role allowed Mok Gan to escape the chains he'd so desperately wished to break.
-Smirk!
Mok Gan's lips twisted into a chilling grin reaching his ears.
"Yes. Companion. We can't be led by 'roles' forever. We must be the protagonists of it all."
-Swish!
Mok Gan raised the crimson jade staff upward.
In that instant, the crimson jade glowed red and began to resonate.
-Wooooong!
But then, the Golden Heavenly King, descending slowly from the sky, turned its gaze toward the Hundred Face King Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox and Great Power King U Ma-wang, locked in their earth-shattering battle.
-Kaboom!
The Golden Heavenly King's lips twitched as it observed them intently.
-Useful.
With those words, the Golden Heavenly King extended a hand, pointing at the Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox.
In that moment,
-Wooooong!
A brilliant light coalesced at the point it indicated, instantly becoming a pure white beam.
-Zing!
The beam was pure light itself.
In the blink of an eye, it shot forth and pierced the Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox's back.
-Krunch!
-Guh!
Her massive body staggered forward from the beam's impact.
So enormous was she that the mere stagger shook the ground.
-Rumble rumble rumble! Roooar!
-Kraaaargh!
Seizing the moment, Great Power King U Ma-wang seized her neck with both hands in a brutal grip and slammed her toward the earth.
-Kabooooom!
But that wasn't the end.
Great Power King U Ma-wang opened his maw toward the crashed Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox, spewing flames like molten lava.
-Kaboom kaboom kaboom!
The pitch-black lava poured onto her face,
-Sizzle! Fwoooosh!
sending flames and smoke billowing up.
The Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox writhed in agony, but U Ma-wang's strength was unparalleled among the Six Demons, driving her body deeper into the ground instead.
-Krrrrunch!
The earth quaked, the ground cracked, and her body sank further underground.
Intent on finishing it, U Ma-wang's hands morphed into lava, burning the neck he gripped.
Then,
-Bam kaboom!
Her nine tails, buried underground, burst through the earth, coiling around U Ma-wang's arms and torso.
From those tails emanated extreme cold.
-Kraaaack!
She sought to repel him with opposing force.
Yet U Ma-wang, prepared for sacrifice, refused to release his lava hands despite his shoulders and body freezing over.
Heat and cold clashed, filling the surroundings with yellowish steam.
-Hiss hiss hiss!
Thorns erupted within, suggesting her desperate push against him, but it seemed far from easy.
"Damn beast! Sealed away for so long, yet this much power......"
The light in the Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox's golden pupils began to fade.
Her demonic power blocked the heat from melting her face, but the stranglehold choked her breath, clouding her mind.
Without that interruption midway, this wouldn't have happened—infuriating.
What was that entity?
Even U Ma-wang's power hadn't pierced her fur infused with demonic energy, yet it sliced through effortlessly.
-Swish swish swish!
She couldn't hold out much longer.
If she blacked out now, U Ma-wang would rip off and melt her head.
Death itself didn't frighten her.
But the prophecy left unfulfilled like this......
-Pffft pfft!
It was then.
Three massive, transparent formless swords plunged into U Ma-wang's torso where her tails bound him.
Normally impenetrable, but possible now due to the frozen sections.
Instantly, U Ma-wang's lava grip loosened.
'Heavenly Demon!'
This power could only be his.
The Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox's eyes flashed open, golden light surging.
Her remaining tails sharpened into spears, stabbing the same spot.
-Pffft pfft pfft!
-Krooooar!
U Ma-wang roared in pain, staggering backward.
She rose and lunged to bite his neck, but
"My body......."
Weakened by prolonged choking and heat, it refused to obey.
Just as she thought she'd missed the golden chance,
-Krooooar!
U Ma-wang clutched his forehead, writhing in torment.
Why? A red glow emanated from his forehead, slowly splitting open.
-Kraaaack!
From the split, blood vessels intertwined, gradually forming a sphere.
The Golden Heavenly King, watching from above, showed intrigue in its eyes.
The sphere solidified into an eye.
U Ma-wang reached for the moving pupil, trying to rip it out forcibly, but
-Krunch! Krunch!
His forehead bulged grotesquely, his hand frozen in place.
Finally, U Ma-wang ceased trembling and lowered his hand.
The third pupil, glowing red with madness, filled with ecstasy.
Then,
-Kuhahaha! Hahahahaha!
Laughter—not a roar—burst from U Ma-wang's mouth.
'Success.'
A new will had entered U Ma-wang's mind.
It was the third Mok Gan.
Having mastered soul manipulation alchemy, he had schemed endlessly to transfer himself into the weakened demon after long sealing.
And now, it bore fruit.
No one had ever infiltrated Yi Mae-mang-ryang, concentrations of yin energy beyond humans or beasts—but he succeeded.
He had merged with the strongest, Great Power King U Ma-wang of the Six Demons.
'No longer a puppet.'
He'd anticipated it, but the thrill was electric.
With this overflowing demonic power united to his own, no one could oppose him.
Not even the Demon King or Golden Heavenly King.
-Kuhahahahaha!
The laughing, unified Mok Gan turned toward the incarnation.
Watch as this lord effortlessly eradicates the entity you've sought so long.
And proves I'm no longer bound to you......
-Flinch!
The pupil on U Ma-wang's forehead trembled.
What was this?
The surrounding energies surged.
Had the Golden Heavenly King deemed him a threat and intervened? No.
The source was the incarnation—Mok Kyung-un.
'How can this bastard's energy......'
Exhausted from unleashing thousands of Sword Gang earlier, yet peerless power surged from him now.
-Rooooar!
So intense it churned the ambient energies.
Then Mok Kyung-un spoke.
"Now that everyone's revealed themselves, we can get serious."
[Chapter 126: The Peerless Sword (1)] End