Chapter 493
Chapter 493
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 126
>Chapter Title: The Supreme Sword (6)
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-Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-boom!
The Six Demons' Great Power King, continuously slammed into the ground by gravity.
The force trying to escape was far outweighed by the intensifying gravity, crushing even his sturdy body to the point of deformation.
-Kraaaaargh!
It was in that moment, as he faced the worst crisis under the crushing pressure.
!?
The gravity vanished in an instant.
With the crushing pressure gone, the Great Power King's deformed body, blood bursting from various spots, began to rapidly regenerate.
The restoration wasn't limited to his flesh.
-Crackle-crackle-crack!
A crack appeared in the Crimson Jade Staff lying not far away.
As the fissure spread, the red glow gradually faded, and the red light in the Great Power King's eyes shifted to a crimson hue.
-Shwaaaaa!
Along with the changing glow, memories flashed through the Great Power King's mind like a lantern show.
As they filled his head, his eyes blazed like flames.
'How dare you!'
A pathetic thing had infiltrated his weakened mind while it was sealed?
From ancient times, he had battled countless powerful foes—the Three Pure Ones' immortals, renowned sages, the Stone Monkey born from the Wall Jade Stone embodying heaven and earth's energies, the nine-tailed fox that toyed with the world—but this humiliation was a first.
'A mere parasitic wretch that can only survive by borrowing another's body dares to toy with this Great Sage?'
Unforgivable.
The fact that a lowly being had tried to dominate him filled the Great Power King with rage to the top of his head.
-Kwaaaaaang!
The Great Power King reached upward and pulled the ground toward him.
His massive body shot up, gradually shrinking as it rose.
His form dwindled to nearly human size.
-Shoooooo!
It seemed to fully take human shape, but his head remained unchanged from its gigantic state.
Still in the form of a bull.
The difference was the imperial dragon robe draped over him, lending an air of majesty, and his fierce visage exuded tremendous pressure.
The only flaws in that ferocity were one broken horn and damaged eyes.
"Damn it!"
The Great Power King grimaced horribly as he fiddled with his unhealed broken horn and eye.
Though manipulated by that bastard Mok Gan, it was utterly unpleasant.
Had that fox bitch done this to his horn and eye?
Her ominous fox energy was interfering with his body's restoration.
How many kingdoms had she destroyed while he was sealed, amassing human fear and terror to elevate her fox energy to such heights?
In terms of fox energy alone, she had surpassed even him at his peak.
'Infuriating.'
Not the Stone Monkey, and now even a fox trying to overstep?
Now that he was free from the seal, he would clean them all up.
Starting with that bastard first.
The one who had occupied his body...
-Hic!
At that moment, the Great Power King furrowed his brow.
What was this? These tremendous auras from above?
-Shoooooo!
He hadn't sensed it while buried deep underground by gravity, but as he ascended, bizarre energies beyond imagination became vividly clear.
One was too alien to be of this world, and the other even stranger.
As the Great Power King reached the surface, his eyes caught two beings floating in the air.
'What are those?'
-Ugh!
In that instant, memories of being controlled flooded his mind one after another.
Recalling them, the Great Power King's gaze turned grave.
What in the world were they?
They took human forms, yet both emanated immeasurable presences as if from ancient times.
Instinctively, the Great Power King deemed them extremely dangerous.
'......I shouldn't have dealt with that parasitic eye first.'
Those two were far more perilous.
Handling one would be tough enough; if they combined forces, it would be quite troublesome.
-Swish!
As the Great Power King extended his hand, something emerged from his ear.
-Fwaaaaa!
It instantly expanded into a massive fan shaped like a banana leaf, adorned with gold and red patterns.
-Clack!
'Spirit Demon Great Treasure—Plantain Fan.'
Among the ancient spirit beasts bordering on divine creatures, a few who reached Demon Immortal status possessed divine artifacts called Great Treasures.
He himself was one, and this Spirit Demon Great Treasure amplified his fox energy while granting power over storms and lava.
'This is my only chance.'
If he struck while they were focused on each other, the Lava Storm from the Plantain Fan could obliterate them.
It was just as the Great Power King began channeling fox energy into the Plantain Fan.
"Hey. Ox."
"What?"
At the familiar voice, the Great Power King instinctively turned his head.
In that instant, a dazzling five-colored radiance struck his sole remaining eye, and as he winced, his body rapidly began to harden.
'What is this?'
The Great Power King couldn't hide his bewilderment.
His body was petrifying.
Thanks to ancient memories, he instantly recognized the cause.
'Spirit Demon Great Treasure—Fox God Pearl!'
-Pak!
The Great Power King hastily turned toward the five-colored light, swinging the Plantain Fan.
But the immense fox energy pouring from the radiance accelerated the petrification, turning eighty percent of his body to stone, save his head.
-Crackle-crackle-crackle!
"Damn fox bitch!"
"Cool your head for a few thousand years."
"To think a wretch like you would seal this Flat Heaven Great Sage, Bull Demon King..."
-Crackle-crackle-crackle!
Before he could finish, the Great Power King fully turned to stone.
Then, the five-colored light gradually receded, revealing a golden-haired peerless beauty holding a fist-sized radiant orb in both hands.
She was the White-Faced King, Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox.
"Haa...... haa......"
The exhausted Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox, breathing raggedly, approached the stone Great Power King and pressed the orb to his forehead.
-Cling! Ku-ku-ku-ku-ku!
The orb burrowed into his forehead and embedded itself.
Fully embedded, it lost its glow, changing to a rough stone texture.
Watching this, the Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox clicked her tongue.
"This isn't worth the cost."
She hadn't expected to use the Fox Pearl, containing millennia of her fox energy, to seal the Great Power King.
Without superior fox energy for the seal, even this would have been impossible.
The loss was immense.
Creating a new Fox Pearl would take just as much time.
-Tap-tap!
Lightly tapping the stone Great Power King with her finger, the Golden Fur Nine-Tailed Fox smirked.
Her finger shimmered with purple poison energy where it touched the stone.
The Fox Pearl symbolized transformation.
Originally for self-protection, it granted petrification and poison energy.
Thus, those turned to stone by the Fox Pearl were called Killing Stones.
A Killing Stone made with this level of fox energy would remain untouched for thousands of years.
-Thud!
Having exhausted her fox energy, she collapsed to the ground.
Gazing at Mok Kyung-un and the golden Heavenly King in the sky, she muttered.
"I've done my part. It's up to you now, Heavenly Demon."
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"You're the root of all this, aren't you?"
A chilling intent born of intense murderous will.
It was an emotion absent from the past Demon King.
This was unmistakable fury.
After incalculable eons of opposition, this being, once filled only with emptiness even in endless battles, now showed fierce hostility.
The golden Heavenly King's lips slowly parted as Mok Kyung-un's fury-laden murderous will chilled him to the bone.
-Sheerik!
The corners of his mouth tore up to his ears.
His face alight with ecstasy, the golden Heavenly King spoke to Mok Kyung-un with a ghastly expression.
-Have you only just realized?
-Shwaaaaa!
At those words, Mok Kyung-un's murderous will exploded outward.
The golden Heavenly King made no effort to hide his overt joy at the sight.
He even went further, provoking him.
-Watching you get stomped by your subordinate over a mere human woman, fall to the mortal world to escape this king's gaze, and scramble about as a human was truly delightful.
-Chaeng-aaaaang!
In that instant, the sword clashing against his surging power and murderous will was repelled.
Mok Kyung-un repelled Aden's sword and thrust into his chest.
The demon sword Evil Instant pierced through.
Yet,
-Puk!
The blade of the demon sword Evil Instant protruded not from the Heavenly King, but from Mok Kyung-un's back.
As if pierced through, Mok Kyung-un's chest clothing stained red with blood.
Blood even trickled from his mouth.
Seeing this, the golden Heavenly King curled his lips slyly and sneered.
"Ah. You couldn't see it because of the holy vestment, I suppose."
With those words, the golden Heavenly King tore off his upper garment.
Revealing a sacred-looking silver armor on his chest, engraved with ornate patterns.
The armor's surface was so smooth it reflected everything around it.
Mok Kyung-un quietly opened his mouth.
"Mirror Face."
-Hoo. Even as a human, you haven't forgotten the alternate name of this Aden Armor.
The golden Heavenly King's five Aden divine artifacts each held unique divine powers.
Among them, Aden's armor was also called the Mirror Face Armor, possessing the power to completely reflect all attacks back at the attacker.
-Pak!
Grabbing Mok Kyung-un's shoulder, the golden Heavenly King said.
-Foolish. Why become human? Just a chest pierce, and your face is already paling? Choosing such a frail body that even breathing is hard. Utterly stupid.
-Kwaaak!
His grip tightened, Mok Kyung-un's fingers digging into his shoulder.
"Why not stay hidden? Without core or divine artifact, relying solely on willpower-born power to challenge this king..."
-Tak!
In that moment, Mok Kyung-un's palm touched the golden Heavenly King's armor.
Seeing this, the golden Heavenly King scoffed.
-What will you do? Spitting at the sky only dirties your own face. You...
Before he could finish.
-Pa-aaang!
-Guh!
The golden Heavenly King's chest jerked back, blood spraying from his mouth.
A bizarre pain invading his body left him with eyes of utter incomprehension.
To him, Mok Kyung-un said in a low voice.
"Penetrating Force."
"What?"
Penetrating Force.
A type of Force Emission that directly generated force internally, bypassing the surface.
Thus, the force penetrating the Mirror Face left the golden Heavenly King bewildered.
'The armor doesn't work?'
-Swish!
As Mok Kyung-un reached out again, the golden Heavenly King tried to create distance with a flap of his wings.
Unsure of the technique, but if the armor's Mirror Face power failed, direct contact must be avoided.
Yet, something massive blocked his path.
It was,
-Woo-woo-woo-woong!
A massive formless sword over thirty feet long.
'What is this?'
But the formless sword was not just one.
Before he knew it, enormous formless swords appeared in every direction the golden Heavenly King looked, forming a barrier like a siege to trap him.
[Chapter 126: The Supreme Sword (6)] End