Chapter 489
Chapter 489
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 126
>Chapter Title: The Peerless Sword (2)
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“All of them have shown themselves, so now we can get serious.”
‘!?’
Get serious?
What nonsense is this bastard spouting...
-Swish!
As Mok Kyung-un ran his fingers along the blade of the demon sword Akjjeok using his sword formula,
-Sssrrrrrr!
The blade was completely dyed black.
-Flinch!
‘This is...’
The Great Power King and Mok Gan, now fused as one, instinctively sensed an ominous chill from the abyss-like darkness emanating from the sword. He opened his mouth and unleashed a roaring gale.
-Kraaaaaaargh!
-Kaboom! Kaboom! Kaboom!
The demonic energy pressure spewing from his mouth whipped up a gale that surged toward Mok Kyung-un.
The leaders of the three major factions and their warriors, gathered behind him, panicked at the oncoming gale, unsure of what to do.
At that moment, Mok Kyung-un swung his sword toward the gale.
-Slash!
A sharpness that cleaved through space itself.
Soon, a black line appeared in the air, splitting the gale in two.
‘!!!!!!!!’
The experts of the three major factions watching from behind let out gasps of astonishment, speechless.
“Aaaah!”
What in the world was that strike just now?
Every swordsmith who hones their blade dreams of a perfect sword.
And Mok Kyung-un’s strike had been just that—flawless, impeccable.
‘This guy...’
The red glow in the third eye of Mok Gan, fused with the Great Power King and Horse Demon King, flickered like a candle in the wind.
He had unleashed that hastily gathered demonic gale out of a sense of foreboding from the enemy, yet it was sliced apart in an instant by that sword.
Even his gigantic formless sword had struggled to block the gale.
Did that mean he hadn’t even been using his full power until now?
Mok Gan’s mind grew chaotic in that instant.
The fact that he hadn’t bared his fangs even when there was no room to conserve energy meant his true aim wasn’t finding this lord at all, but...
-Swish!
Mok Gan’s eyes turned toward the golden Heavenly King floating in the sky.
His eyes shook even more as he gazed at the Heavenly King.
That was because the Heavenly King’s lips were now curved upward.
This being, who looked down on all creation including his own followers without showing emotion, was now wearing an expression of ecstatic joy.
Did this single strike not evoke even the slightest sense of unease or wariness in him?
Mok Gan’s guess was spot on.
The golden Heavenly King felt no wariness toward Mok Kyung-un’s sword.
On the contrary,
-Throb! Throb!
It reminded him of the pain from the core.
The one existence that had inflicted pain upon him, an absolute god whom all things should revere.
He hadn’t believed that being had lost all power and vanished from the mortal realm.
That was why he had spent time searching for him through his eyes.
And his judgment had been correct.
The bastard was indeed alive.
-Hahahahahahahahahaha!
The golden Heavenly King soon burst into laughter.
His eyes overflowed with mockery as he threw his head back in amusement.
Of course he would be alive, he had thought.
But the reason he hadn’t been found until now was because he had become a mere human?
“The only being who could match this king in power has become a pathetic mortal, barely clinging to life. What greater entertainment is there than this? Hahahahaha!”
He even found his own prior worries over the slightest possibility laughable.
Searching for a being struggling desperately to survive just to eliminate future threats now seemed utterly pointless.
The laughter faded completely from the golden Heavenly King’s face after a long while.
His eyes turned dull and disinterested as he raised his hand.
In that instant,
-Woooooom!
The ornate golden bracelet on his right wrist floated up on its own, expanding into a large golden ring.
Mok Kyung-un, watching this, shouted urgently at the top of his lungs.
“Close your eyes!!!”
His roar was like that of a lion.
But the golden Heavenly King smirked as if it was too late.
Soon, an intensely brilliant, multicolored light poured forth from the massive golden ring—dazzling beyond measure, captivating anyone who saw it.
Then,
-Kraaaaaaargh!
-Koooooo!
-Kekekekekeke!
The fiends exposed to the light bellowed savagely as if entranced.
It wouldn’t have been a problem if it was just roaring, but their bodies began to swell, transforming into even more ferocious forms.
-Crack! Crunch crunch crunch!
-Blob blob!
It looked like evolution.
Growing larger, their claws sharpening and thickening, the fiends became far more dangerous.
This phenomenon wasn’t limited to the lesser fiends.
One of the Six Demons, Sata King, sprouted a mane sharp as a blade mountain, his muscles bulging as his body expanded.
-Kraaaaaang!
Likewise, White Peng Demon King, another of the Six Demons, had his pure white wings dyed blood-red in an eerie transformation, his demonic energy surging dramatically.
-Kukukukukuku!
Though they hadn’t coordinated beforehand, the warriors who had been holding the Six Demons at bay through superb teamwork were forced to retreat in confusion at this sudden change.
But it didn’t end there.
-Crack! Crunch crunch!
“Grrrrr!”
“Kaaaaah!”
Among the warriors of the three major factions in formation, some here and there screamed as if afflicted by qi deviation, their eyes turning bloodshot as bizarre changes overtook them.
“W-What?”
“Why all of a sudden?”
“Hey! Snap out of it!”
Their veins blackened and bulged grotesquely across their bodies, resembling Mok Yu-cheon unleashing his Reverse Blood Evil Art.
The difference was that they didn’t just rampage—they completely lost their reason and humanity.
They had become savage beasts in every sense.
“Grrrrr.”
“Kekekekeke!”
-Stab!
“Gahk!”
-Chomp!
“W-What are you doing? Kyaaak!”
“Let go! Let me go!”
Screams and shouts erupted everywhere as the formation crumbled.
Those who had lost their minds and turned ferocious were suddenly attacking the unharmed warriors.
With thousands of allies rampaging, the chaos was inevitable.
‘I saw it.’
Mok Kyung-un let out a faint breath amid their frenzy.
The golden Heavenly King possessed five absolute divine artifacts known as the treasures of the Heavenly Clan.
That golden ring on his arm was Arden’s Ring, a perilous item that corrupted vital energy—the source of life—forcing victims into a frenzy until death.
Once used, it couldn’t be activated again for over a century until recharged, and it required direct visual exposure, but it was undoubtedly the worst divine artifact for sowing chaos on the battlefield.
“Grrrrr.”
“Bright Sword King! Snap out of it!”
It wasn’t just ordinary warriors exposed to the light.
Among the faction leaders and sect heads, some hadn’t closed their eyes despite Mok Kyung-un’s shout, and their rampages went beyond mere disruption,
-Crack!
-Slash!
“Kyaaak!”
“Grab the sect head!”
“Song Clan Leader, snap out of it! Please... Gahk!”
The higher the expert, the stronger they became in frenzy, causing massive casualties.
Island Venom King Baek Saha and Dark Sect Sovereign Hwan Ya-seon, beside Bright Sword King Son Yun, struggled to restrain him,
-Boom!
But his rampaging energy was so overwhelming that he shook them off effortlessly.
Not content with that, Son Yun’s grotesquely transformed hand nearly tore off Baek Saha’s thigh.
-Chomp!
“Eek!”
Even as his thigh was ripped away, Baek Saha countered with lightning-fast poison palm to subdue him, but,
-Thud!
‘What?’
-Booooom!
Struck by the poison palm, Son Yun didn’t budge and swung his greatsword instead, forcing Baek Saha back.
“Stop him!”
Realizing it was dire, even Axe King Ho Tae-gang stepped forward.
He swung his massive axe to block Bright Sword King Son Yun’s greatsword.
-Clang!
Normally, with their difference in realm, half his power would suffice, but instead, Ho Tae-gang’s axe was repelled.
‘What power?’
As Ho Tae-gang hurriedly surged his energy to respond,
-Pak!
Someone struck the back of Bright Sword King Son Yun’s neck. The one who seemed unstoppable suddenly rolled his eyes back and collapsed unconscious.
It was none other than Mok Kyung-un who had struck his neck.
“My lord!”
At this sight, Axe King Ho Tae-gang inwardly clicked his tongue in amazement.
He knew his lord’s strength had reached another realm, but to fell Son Yun—who was outputting transcendent realm power in frenzy—with a single casual strike was awe-inspiring.
But then, the ring floating in the sky vibrated, emitting a strange resonance.
-Woooooom!
As the sound spread, the rampaging warriors of the three major factions who had been attacking allies suddenly charged toward Mok Kyung-un in unison.
It wasn’t just the warriors.
-Thud thud thud thud!!!
Countless fiends also rushed toward Mok Kyung-un’s position.
Sata King and White Peng Demon King were held back by their opponents, but the fiends were unstoppable.
“Kekekekeke!”
“Die! Die!”
“Protect the lord!”
“Block them!”
Mok Kyung-un’s subordinates and warriors tried to block the oncoming rampagers, but their numbers were overwhelming, and the frenzied foes’ ferocity didn’t halt even under attack.
They felt no pain; wounds meant nothing.
At this sight, the golden Heavenly King sneered.
“You became a mortal to save them, yet in the end, you’ll die by their hands or be forced to kill them.”
They say you loved humanity so much you became human?
Then show us the contradiction of eradicating those humans with your own hands.
I shall enjoy watching that spectacle...
-Flinch!
It was right then.
Mok Kyung-un drew his knee up to his chest.
An unparalleled force concentrated, making all surrounding energies surge.
‘!?’
What was he planning?
-Kabooooom!
As Mok Kyung-un stomped down toward the ground,
-Craaaack!
-Rumble rumble rumble!
Beyond just cracking the earth where his foot landed, the ground within hundreds of feet trembled like an earthquake.
With it, the three major faction warriors charging at him in frenzy rolled their eyes back, foamed at the mouth, clutched their chests, and collapsed.
-Thud! Thud! Thud!
“T-This can’t be...”
“No way... This is the Heavenly Demon Supremacy Step!”
Gasps of shock rose from everywhere.
They had all heard the rumors.
The Supremacy Step, said to have shattered Shaolin’s 108 Nahantjin formations with a single stomp.
In the martial world, it was called the Heavenly Demon Supremacy Step, and now it unfolded before their eyes.
Thousands—no, over ten thousand rampagers felled by one stomp.
‘Monster... A true monster.’
Beggar Clan Leader Hong Won-seok stepped back in terror.
They too had moved to block the rampagers targeting him, but it all felt futile against such overwhelming might.
It didn’t end there.
-Boom!
Mok Kyung-un, who had felled them all at once, leaped into the air and soared straight over the uncountable fiends charging toward him—over the Ten Thousand Great Mountains themselves—
‘Ten Thousand Swords Crimson Lotus!’
-Goooooo!
He raised the black-dyed demon sword Akjjeok high, then plunged it down into the midst of the fiend horde.
-Stab!
Right then.
-Shwaaaaaaaa!!!
From the point where Mok Kyung-un stabbed his sword, black sword gangs erupted from the ground like blooming crimson lotus buds, splitting into dozens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of strands that spread outward like waves.
-Kekekeke gahk!
-Kaaaaak!
The rising sword gangs pierced and shredded the fiends, staining the surroundings with their multicolored blood in a riot of colors.
‘!!!!!!!!!’
Beyond spectacular, the unbelievable spectacle left every warrior of the three major factions wide-eyed, mouths agape.
[End of Chapter 126: The Peerless Sword (2)]