Chapter 241
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 241
Chapter Title: Heavenly Demon Divine Art
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This is ridiculous!
Dokgo Juns eyes widened.
The young man who had burst in out of nowhere, calling himself an instructor, and helped him.
He had healed Dokgo Juns broken body in an instant and then engaged the bastard who had done this to him in battle. But the fist technique the young man was unleashing felt incredibly familiar.
Thats the fist technique I created?
The fist technique he had obsessively trained to reach a realm beyond even the Heavenly Demon.
Before entering closed-door training, he had hidden his identity and visited the martial world twice to dominate it.
That was how he earned the moniker Myeongwang.
It was a nickname he gained by demonstrating his incomplete fist technique.
What a ridiculous moniker it was.
So how could this young man wield the fist technique he himself had created?
And at a level not far off from the one he had reached during his closed-door training.
Still, its impossible.
Dokgo Jun had already clashed with Byulrang once.
He had felt the vast gap in their levels firsthand.
No matter what ability he used, the Heavenly Demon Divine Art had been useless, and his body, ascended to the Heavenly Demon Divine Body, couldnt withstand the attacks.
This guys nothing special either.
Byulrang swung his sickle with a bored expression.
Three red cards appeared in front of him, spinning rapidly.
Danger!
Those cards had the effect of absorbing damage and unconditionally reflecting it back.
Jeong Hoon retracted his swinging fist and pulled away from Byulrang.
Hoh, quick on the uptake?
I dont go down easy.
Jeong Hoon grinned.
To activate his red card ability, he needs to mark his target.
Those cards were his main ability.
The red ones absorbed damage and forcibly reflected it.
The green ones absorbed damage and strengthened himself by that amount for a set time.
To fully activate the red ones, he needed a markwhich Jeong Hoon had figured out through Dokgo Jun.
The mark etched on Dokgo Juns forehead.
That was why Jeong Hoon had activated top-tier healing along with Holy Orb of Glory.
Holy Orb of Glory purified everything on a designated target, and fortunately, it worked to remove the mark too.
Keuk, is that so?
Byulrang smirked and swung his sickle again.
Three blue cards appeared in front of him, spinning rapidly.
What does blue do?
Jeong Hoon narrowed his eyes and heightened his senses to the max.
At that moment, the surrounding mana began seeping into the cards.
The cards grew in size, stopped moving all at once, and shot toward Jeong Hoon.
Shrrrrk.
They even scattered into multiple sheets, whipping up a storm that enveloped him.
My manas draining!
Caught in the storm, Jeong Hoon felt the mana in his body being sucked out and hurriedly tried to control it.
But he couldnt control it at all.
At this rate, all his mana would be drained.
The problem was that his life force was starting to dwindle too.
Impressive.
As expected of a Demon King rank.
Unlike apostles, he couldnt even read the abilities Byulrang used.
But Jeong Hoon had encountered a similar ability before his regression.
Not as powerful, but he had fought an apostle-rank transcendent who used a very similar one.
Theres a weakness.
Jeong Hoon grasped the flow of his draining mana and unleashed the Myeongwang Fist Technique.
Using Formless Fist.
He thrust out his fist, activating Formless Fist to destroy the blue cards one by one.
The order couldnt be wrong.
The cards didnt absorb his mana and life force all at oncethey took it randomly.
The only way to remove them was to strike while they were absorbing mana or life force.
Touching a different one would trigger them all at once, making it impossible to handle.
Jeong Hoon focused and targeted only the cards draining his mana and life force.
Pzzt.
Pzzzt.
Byulrangs eyes widened as the cards vanished.
This is ridiculous!
The blue cards were Plunder.
They plundered mana and life force to strangle the designated target to death.
Hundreds of cards swirled around, nibbling away at the targets mana and life force bit by bit.
If he tried to touch them to escape, all the cards would activate simultaneously, killing him in under a second.
A rat in a trap.
Yet this guy wasnt panickinghe was destroying the cards with his fists.
That meant he knew how to counter it.
Then take this!
Byulrang swung his sickle again.
A large yellow card formed on the ground.
Rumble.
The earth shook, drawing groans from Jeong Hoon and Dokgo Jun.
A gravity-manipulation card.
Hup!
Using Barrier of Light.
Jeong Hoon activated Barrier of Light.
A Legendary-grade Barrier of Light.
It wouldnt hold long, but it freed up his movements for now.
Using Formless Fist.
Jeong Hoon hurriedly destroyed the card.
Once he judged enough cards were gone, he reached out toward Byulrang.
Using Grasp of the Ruler.
Grasp of the Ruler wasnt just a buff ability.
It could also actively pull in a designated target.
The ability activated, dragging Byulrang toward Jeong Hoon.
You bastard!
Byulrang swung his sickle with a panicked expression.
A red card appeared in front of him.
Touching that card would mark him.
But unlike before, Jeong Hoon didnt hesitate to swing his fist.
Hup!
Hoh.
Byulrang narrowed his eyes.
He knew about the mark, so why?
At that instant, the red cards forced reflection activated.
Even so, Jeong Hoon thrust his fist at Byulrang without a care.
Of course, the red card blocked all those attacks, absorbing them.
Bingo.
Jeong Hoon grinned.
Byulrangs waist suddenly bent in half.
Gahk!
A groan escaped Byulrangs lips.
Rune of Counterattack activates.
Return absorbed attacks.
It absorbed all incoming attacks for 15 seconds and returned them as-is.
He had successfully turned the forced reflection against Byulrang.
Myeongwang Fist Technique at 6th Star.
He had deliberately avoided the mark at first because it was only 1st Star.
To deal any real damage, he needed to raise its level.
And by rapidly destroying hundreds of cards, he had shot the Myeongwang Fist Technique up to 6th Star in one go.
Hows the taste?
Jeong Hoon grinned as he cleared the remaining cards.
Keuk, youre one fun bastard, huh?
But Byulrang didnt fallinstead, he looked at Jeong Hoon with a delighted expression.
So even this isnt enough, huh.
Still, it was sufficient.
10 minutes have passed.
He had succeeded in protecting Dokgo Jun for 10 minutes.
You look pleasedmustve been pretty spicy, eh?
This is bad. Now I really wanna go all out.
Byulrang swung his sickle.
A rainbow-colored card appeared in front of him.
Thats dangerous.
Red: reflection.
Yellow: gravity.
Blue: plunder.
Green: absorption.
Every one was a dangerous ability, so a rainbow one would unleash something incomparable.
But the card never activated.
Byulrangs form began to fade.
Jeong Hoon inwardly sighed in relief and taunted him.
Looks like your intervention times up?
Damn it. Got distracted by you
Byulrang ground his teeth.
Shouldve checked the time.
The ploy had worked perfectly.
By countering the blue cards and using Rune of Counterattack to draw his attention, the 10 minutes had slipped by uneventfully.
I look forward to seeing you again. Next time, Ill snap your neck for sure.
With those words, Byulrang vanished completely.
Whew we survived.
Even fully buffed, victory wasnt guaranteed against this foe.
If the quest had been to kill him instead of just surviving 10 minutes, it wouldve been a 100 failure.
Jeong Hoon turned and approached Dokgo Jun.
Dokgo Jun stared at him with a dazed expression.
Is that really the Heavenly Demon?
The heaven above heavens.
The absolute one.
It was jarring to see someone with such titles wearing a dumbstruck look.
An exclamation mark blinked above Dokgo Juns head.
You have completed the quest.
You may now learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
Completing the quest had brought the chance to learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
If I learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art, does that mean the Myeongwang Fist Technique evolves?
If asked for flaws in the Myeongwang Fist Technique, hed say without hesitation there were none.
It was that perfect a fist technique, but it couldnt stay stuck at Legendary grade.
So, from Myeongwang Dokgo Jun.
No, Heavenly Demon Dokgo Junhe needed to learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art to elevate the Myeongwang Fist Technique beyond its current grade.
The Ultimate Path quest makes sense now.
Ultimate Path (1).
That implied multiple paths, and Sol had specifically given these coordinates because evolving the Myeongwang Fist Technique first would help with the later Ultimate Path quests.
Strange guy. Howd he know I learned the Myeongwang Fist Technique?
Coordinates he couldnt have provided without seeing right through him.
Curiosity stirred, but first things firstthe Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
You, where did you learn that fist technique?
With the yellow card gone, gravity returned to normal.
Dokgo Jun straightened his knees and asked.
Would you believe me if I told you the truth?
Try me.
I come from another dimension.
Another dimension?
Yes. Theyre playing this damn game there too.
I see.
The biggest reason Dokgo Jun had entered closed-door training.
Not just to dominate the martial world, but to completely eradicate the demonic beasts.
After the Heavenly Demon entered closed-door training, the Heavenly Demon God Cult rapidly declined.
What?!
Dokgo Juns eyes bulged.
When he had handed things over to the vice leader, the cult had still been strong.
Portals spawning demonic beasts have multiplied beyond imagination.
Damn it. So the penalties kept stacking up.
Dokgo Jun pressed his forehead.
He had completely cut off the outside during training, so he had no idea how things were going.
To be honest, this dimensions lifespan is pretty much over.
.
Probably from failing to close the portals one after another.
What of Kwonwang Nak Jin-cheon? Was Nak Jin-cheon just standing by? What about the other experts in the martial world?! What the hell were they doing?!
Kwonwang Nak Jin-cheon.
He had lost to Dokgo Jun in fist techniques, but was no less worthy of the Fist King title.
He had been so impressed that he learned Dokgo Juns real name.
No idea about that.
Whew.
Anyway, I need power.
Power? You were already wielding my created fist technique perfectly.
No. I want to perfectly learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
The Heavenly Demon Divine Art?
Yes.
Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
A demonic art completely different from the fist technique it birthed, though similar in vein.
Said to be wieldable only by the Heavenly Demon.
That was what Jeong Hoon desired.
Pointless. Even the Heavenly Demon Divine Art couldnt take down that one guy.
He meant Byulrang.
But we cant just sit on our asses.
Then promise me one thing.
What?
Completely eradicate the demonic beasts.
This dimensions a lost cause.
It had already been destroyed.
That was why it was being used as a special dungeon.
Dokgo Jun shook his head.
I know. I felt it in my bones fighting him.
That his power couldnt do a thing.
Then?
Protect your world. And carry on the Heavenly Demon Divine Art.
If the dimension fell, the Heavenly Demon Divine Arts lineage would end.
But if passed to Jeong Hoon, it wouldnt.
Jeong Hoon nodded.
Deal.