A Baby Cat Who Commands the Dog Clan - Chapter 243

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Chapter 243
Color bloomed across Hong Seol’s face.
‘All I need to do is lure the Heavenly Demon into Changnyeong Mountain Valley.’
If I could manage that… that place would become the Heavenly Demon’s tomb.
Soon, a dragon would awaken to devour the Heavenly Demon.
Along with torrential rains, thunder, and lightning!
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‘We’re finally here!’
The moment that thought crossed Hong Seol’s mind.
Whoooosh!
With a bone-chilling sound, dozens of razor-sharp, invisible wind blades came rushing forward.
“Ah!”
She evaded using the Heavenly Wind Divine Method, but several strands of energy pursued her relentlessly.
“…!”
Hong Seol gritted her teeth and swiftly swung her sleeves to deflect the energy.
Her delicate wedding robes were instantly shredded to tatters.
But it was not Hong Seol who took the full brunt of the Heavenly Demon’s attack.
“Yi Woon Elder Brother, are you alright?”
Hong Seol cried out sharply.
“D-Thousand Flowers Rain without any preparation…!”
The words tumbled from Dang Yi Woon’s ashen lips.
Having taken the wind-based Thousand Flowers Rain technique full-force across his entire body, there was barely an inch of him left unscathed.
Fortunately, he had managed to summon his protective inner energy in time, avoiding a fatal wound.
The Heavenly Demon’s mouth split into a dark grin.
“Surprised, you worm of the Dang Family? There exists no martial art in this world that I do not know.”
“That, that can’t be…!”
“We’re in the middle of battle! Why are you spacing out like that!”
At Nam Goong Baek’s shout, Dang Yi Woon snapped back to attention.
“S-Sorry!”
“Oho, so it’s the young master of the Nam Goong Family. Impressive momentum indeed.”
The Heavenly Demon’s gaze now turned toward Nam Goong Baek.
Nam Goong Baek had drawn upon every ounce of his Changcheon energy.
The sharp, brilliant aura he radiated made the very heavens and earth seem to tremble.
Yet even this posed no true threat to the Heavenly Demon.
“The Spear-Bow Great Flame Sword Technique, I see.”
As if greeting an old friend, the Heavenly Demon spoke with a nostalgic tone.
“Then this should be fitting when facing you.”
The Heavenly Demon drew a sword from his back.
Merely grasping the blade exuded tremendous oppressive force.
Nam Goong Baek, recognizing the stance the Heavenly Demon had assumed, drew in a sharp breath.
“The Emperor Sword Technique…!”
A secret martial art passed down only to the head of the Nam Goong Family.
The Heavenly Demon standing before me was displaying that very Emperor Sword Technique.
“But this is no ordinary Emperor Sword Technique.”
The Heavenly Demon’s mouth split into a grin.
“Changcheon Sword Master Nam Goong Wi Yo—a martial genius who would never emerge from Nam Goong again. I shall show you the Emperor Sword Technique he once wielded.”
Whoooosh!
As the Heavenly Demon drew up his energy, the hem of his wedding robes fluttered wildly.
Simultaneously, the Heavenly Demon’s hair and eyebrows began to flutter against the force of his power.
‘Wait.’
In that instant, I caught sight of something strange.
‘Faint cracks appeared on the Heavenly Demon’s cheeks…?’
But there was no time to dwell on it.
Boom!
A pressure as though the heavens themselves were collapsing poured down upon my head.
Clang!
“Elder Brother!”
Nam Goong Baek valiantly blocked the Heavenly Demon’s sword strike with his own blade, meeting the storm of attacks.
What he blocked was no mere sword.
The aura of an emperor.
The sword qi of an absolute being gazing down upon the world.
Cracks spiderwebbed across the stone beneath Nam Goong Baek’s feet.
‘The Emperor Sword Technique was… this… powerful!’
His inner energy recoiled, flushing his forehead crimson, yet Nam Goong Baek gritted his teeth and held firm.
“I will never let you harm Seol!”
Clang!
With those words, Nam Goong Baek clenched his jaw and deflected the Heavenly Demon’s blade upward.
Though his attack was parried, the Heavenly Demon laughed as though it were nothing.
“Oho, your spirit is admirable.”
Meanwhile, Nam Goong Baek swayed, breathing heavily as if dizzy.
The Heavenly Demon looked down at Nam Goong Baek and spoke.
“Then I shall crush you with overwhelming power.”
“Wait!”
Thud.
Dang Yi Woon stepped forward.
His crimson eyes, having overcome the shock from moments before, shone with particular intensity.
A deep blue energy writhed like a serpent beneath the hem of Dang Yi Woon’s robes.
Dark blue veins surged and rose across the back of his hand.
“Let me show you properly. What the Sichuan Tang Family truly is.”
As those words fell.
In an instant, the void felt as though it were being violently compressed.
“Step back, Baek Elder Brother!”
Hong Seol swiftly supported Nam Goong Baek and retreated backward.
A verdant aura bloomed and spread across Dang Yi Woon’s back.
It was a poison so virulent that a single misdirected breath would dissolve one’s lungs.
Dang Yi Woon spoke with deliberate emphasis, as though etching the words into memory.
“Green Mist Soul Dispersal.”
The reason why Dang Yi Mu and Dang Yi Woon’s eyes burned crimson.
It was precisely because of this poison.
Whoosh!
The mist that moved along Dang Yi Woon’s fingertips rose like a living serpent, striking its head and engulfing the Heavenly Demon.
“A poison technique.”
The Heavenly Demon regarded it without concern, then exhaled lightly, drawing the air in with a soft breath.
The deep green poison mist was instantly sucked into the Heavenly Demon’s body.
Yet no matter how long one waited, the Heavenly Demon’s breathing remained perfectly steady.
“Have you forgotten that I am immune to all poisons?”
He continued smiling.
“Save for the one poison your ancestors infected me with long ago.”
A deep emerald aura began to rise from the Heavenly Demon’s form.
Psshhh.
In an instant, it evaporated and vanished into the air.
“…!”
Dang Yi Woon’s crimson eyes flooded with despair.
“How tedious. Shall I end this now?”
The moment the Heavenly Demon took a step toward Dang Yi Woon.
“Haaah!”
Hong Seol launched herself forward.
Moving with lightning-swift footwork, Hong Seol drove a vicious punch into the Heavenly Demon’s flank.
Boom!
Hong Seol had now fully mastered the Nam Goong Family’s Nine Wall Divine Fist.
The Heavenly Demon blocked her weighty strike with a single finger.
“Impossible!”
The Nine Wall Divine Fist delivers nine successive strikes once unleashed.
Her opening move had been sealed before it could even land properly.
Screech!
Nam Goong Baek, gritting his teeth, brought his blade down vertically, a shimmering sword aura rippling through the motion.
Crash!
Yet the Heavenly Demon simply raised his idle left hand, intercepting Nam Goong Baek’s sword force.
“So the renowned late-stage masters of the Central Plains amount to nothing more than this.”
The smile playing at the Heavenly Demon’s lips was utterly composed.
“Ugh!”
“Hgh!”
The Heavenly Demon shook off Hong Seol and Nam Goong Baek simultaneously with the smallest of movements.
That wasn’t all.
A sharp whistle cut through the air!
He caught the hidden blade that Dang Yi Woon had thrown with both hands and hurled it back.
Ting! Ting!
Dang Yi Woon managed to deflect the returning blade lightly enough.
“You dared to parry my throwing blade…!”
It was the moment when Dang Yi Woon’s pride as a master of hidden weapons crumbled.
A low growl escaped.
The three of them locked eyes and simultaneously clenched their teeth before charging at the Heavenly Demon again.
What followed was chaos.
“Haaah!”
“Take this!”
“Your guard is open!”
Even while facing all three at once, the Heavenly Demon remained composed.
“Haha! Is that all you have!”
Hong Seol couldn’t believe what she was witnessing.
It felt like fighting a monster with three heads and ten limbs.
‘…I need help!’
The moment Hong Seol turned to call for assistance.
A brutal kick landed!
The Heavenly Demon swept at the back of Hong Seol’s knee.
Her leg buckled. She collapsed.
Without hesitation, he raised his foot to kick at her face.
“Not so fast!”
Nam Goong Baek’s hand shot forward, twisting the Heavenly Demon’s joint in that instant.
Or so it seemed.
The Heavenly Demon, who had escaped Nam Goong Baek’s Nineteenth Form, had already retreated several paces and regrouped.
Nam Goong Baek and Dang Yi Woon staggered toward Hong Seol, gathering around her.
“Haa, haa….”
All three were already battered and broken.
‘If only someone would come to help….’
Hong Seol gazed painfully toward the valley.
Above and below, countless figures were entangled in desperate combat, fighting for their lives.
“Today we shall uproot the Demonic Cult!”
Nam Goong Ho and the warriors of Seo Gwang Ryun gnashed their teeth and displayed brilliant martial prowess.
“The Demonic Way’s dominion over the realm draws near!”
“Do not yield to the momentum of those Central Plains dogs!”
The Demonic Cult members found themselves equally unable to retreat.
Blood sprayed and flesh scattered across the battlefield.
Witnessing this, Hong Seol bit her lip.
‘We have to endure this on our own, no matter what!’
Crash!
The moment she steeled her resolve, the Heavenly Demon’s palm strike slammed into Hong Seol’s body.
“Ugh!”
Feeling blood rise from her solar plexus, Hong Seol collapsed helplessly to the ground.
“Seol Ah!”
“Seol!”
The voices of Nam Goong Baek and Dang Yi Woon, both bearing their own wounds, reached her ears as if muffled underwater.
She had no strength left to endure.
The moment Hong Seol, lying on the ground, closed her eyes.
Patter, pitter-patter.
Raindrops began to tap gently against Hong Seol’s delicate forehead, one after another.
Whoooosh—
Rain falls.
The rain she had waited for so desperately.
Rumble!
At the sound of thunder filling her ears, Hong Seol grasped the hands of Nam Goong Baek and Dang Yi Woon and summoned her strength to rise.
Hope kindled in Hong Seol’s eyes.
“It’s here, it’s finally here! The dragon will awaken soon…!”
Hong Seol concentrated every ounce of her remaining strength into her hearing.
Undulation.
From somewhere beneath the earth, a faint sound echoes.
A sound as if something immensely vast were swimming through deep waters.
‘It’s the dragon!’
Conviction seized Hong Seol as she assumed a stance to charge toward the Heavenly Demon.
“How foolish—you know not the meaning of surrender.”
The Heavenly Demon clicked his tongue disapprovingly.
“Does my bride not realize that I have shown her mercy throughout this entire battle?”
“Don’t show me mercy.”
“What did you say?”
“I said don’t show me mercy.”
“Among all those who have spoken thus to me, none have lived to tell of it.”
Hong Seol pretended to heed the Heavenly Demon’s words while continuing to sharpen her hearing.
Still, something moved slowly through the waters below.
Its speed gradually quickened.
Sensing that presence, Hong Seol met the Heavenly Demon’s crimson gaze with unwavering confidence.
“Then go ahead—try to take my life.”
The Heavenly Demon’s crimson eyes flashed with lethal intent.
“Die!”
A cry tore from his throat, blood rising with the shout.
Flash!
A dagger plunged deep into the Heavenly Demon’s chest.

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