Almighty God of War - Chapter 141
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141
On the same day as the battle between Guyang Cheongang and the Baekgyeong Bang fleet at sea, atop a wild mountain summit ten li away from Dongryeong Salt Field.
Chae Mungyeong, who had been watching the salt field through a precious telescope, lowered his hand.
As the bamboo hat figure behind him received the telescope, he shook his head and spoke with a long sigh.
“Even with Im Bang leading them, Baekgyeong Bang was annihilated… Even seeing it with my own eyes, it’s hard to believe such an absurd result.”
The bamboo hat figure stood silently like a wooden post.
Chae Mungyeong turned his head toward him.
“On Pyo.”
“Yes, Stronghold Leader.”
The bamboo hat figure On Pyo’s voice was low and hoarse, giving an ear-scratching feeling.
“Could you do it too?”
On Pyo easily understood what Chae Mungyeong was asking.
“I could do it.”
“But there’s something bothering you?”
“Yes.”
“What is it?”
“Time.”
“Time?”
“Yes. I could also annihilate Baekgyeong Bang’s fleet single-handedly, but finishing it in the same time as that Jang Woomyeong fellow would be difficult.”
“It would take more time?”
“Yes.”
“How much?”
“It would take a full day.”
“Jang Woomyeong finished it in an hour and a half?”
“That’s correct.”
“So facing that bastard alone would be suicide?”
“Yes.”
It was a question that would be difficult for any martial artist to acknowledge due to pride alone. But On Pyo’s voice was completely indifferent.
After a moment of silence, Chae Mungyeong asked.
“Jang Woomyeong… What do you think the chances are that he’s Hahou Gang in disguise?”
“Ten out of ten.”
“That’s certainty then. What’s your basis?”
“That man said Guyang Cheongang sent him when he first met the Jagang Corps.”
“I know that.”
“Guyang Family head Guyang Baek is quite capable, and it’s true the family has been developing rapidly recently. But I haven’t heard of them recruiting such a master.”
On Pyo continued in an indifferent tone.
“Recruiting a Transformation Realm level master or one close to it isn’t easy even for prominent Murim families.”
Chae Mungyeong nodded in agreement.
“It’s not an easy thing to do.”
“Among those connected to the Guyang Family, the greatest master is Hahou Gang. The possibility they recruited another peerless master like Jang Woomyeong after him is almost zero.”
“Hmm… So they’re the same person?”
“Yes. Hahou Gang is a genius at the highest level of his generation, not just in martial arts but in medical arts. For someone like him, obtaining a human skin mask would be nothing.”
Chae Mungyeong frowned deeply.
“Whether Jang Woomyeong is Hahou Gang’s transformation is a problem, and if he’s not, that’s also a problem.”
He continued with a sigh.
“If that bastard is the same person as Hahou Gang… we’ve been completely played until now. Using a human skin mask to avoid our surveillance network and calmly operating in completely different places. This means information and stealth are more frightening than force.”
On Pyo nodded.
If they were the same person, it meant Golden Tower Manor’s encirclement was completely neutralized.
It meant he could escape with a different face at any time, no matter how tight the dragnet.
Ultimately, Golden Tower Manor would be like chasing an invisible ghost.
If they were different people, the problem was even greater than if they were the same person.
One variable could be controlled, but if there were two or more unpredictable variables, all existing strategies could become meaningless.
Chae Mungyeong muttered with a hardened expression.
“Recently, nothing involving the Guyang Family goes as planned… I don’t like it…”
“What do you plan to do about Dongryeong Salt Field?”
“We can’t leave them be.”
Chae Mungyeong’s eyes turned cold.
* * *
While waiting for Do Namjong’s return and training the Jagang Corps and Baek Muok, time flowed like water.
Whenever Guyang Cheongang had time, he shut himself in the training room.
The sixth major acupoint of Nine Yin Severed Meridians.
Though it was the last fortress of already broken remnant soldiers, its solidity remained unchanged.
The number of times Guyang Cheongang closed the training room door increased.
When the promised day with Do Namjong was three days away, the wave of internal energy he had built up finally exceeded the critical point.
Kwaaaaaa-!
The sound of something bursting deep in his chest could be heard.
The suppressed extreme yin energy burst forth like a collapsing glacier.
But at that very moment, something neither Guyang Cheongang nor Akasha had anticipated occurred.
The fragments of Bongsin blood pieces he kept in the wooden box in his chest began resonating all at once, spewing out an aura more dense and evil than blood-red.
The invisible evil energy rushed into Guyang Cheongang’s meridians like a tsunami, attacking as if to feed on the released extreme yin energy.
Akasha’s sharp voice rang through his mind.
[Doctor, high-density evil energy reactions are being emitted from the Bongsin blood pieces. They are attempting forced fusion with the extreme yin energy of the currently opened sixth major acupoint!]
Guyang Cheongang’s complexion turned pale.
[If left alone, your entire meridian system will be eroded by evil energy. In the worst case, all of Doctor’s energy could be dominated by evil energy!]
‘Kugh… What the hell is happening?’
[Fatal energy collision detected! Meridian rupture critical threshold exceeded 70%!]
With the warning, Akasha began full intervention.
[Activating physical protection protocol. I will forcibly strengthen the entire meridian system using nanobots.]
Nanobots flowing like silver waves wrapped around the meridians on the verge of rupture, forming protective barriers.
They served as the final bulwark of a body about to collapse from the battle between extreme yin energy and the evil energy emitted by the Bongsin blood pieces.
Guyang Cheongang gritted his teeth.
While Akasha desperately held together the ‘vessel’ of his body to prevent it from breaking, he operated the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art to its limits to control the two monsters rampaging inside him.
‘Akasha, hold on!’
[The aftermath of the two energies’ collision is tremendous, but I’ll do my best. So please don’t give up either, Doctor.]
Akasha’s urgent voice proved how precarious the life-and-death struggle he was experiencing was.
‘Giving up isn’t in my dictionary!’
In Guyang Cheongang’s mental world, a sun in the form of a majestically circulating taiji rose.
The sun’s light simultaneously devoured both the cold darkness of extreme yin energy and the red chaos of the Bongsin blood pieces without discrimination.
And within the single furnace of the circulating taiji, it began forcibly fusing them.
‘Kaaaaaaaaaah!’
Pain like ice and fire meeting and evaporating, light and darkness mixing and returning to chaos, squeezed Guyang Cheongang’s soul.
Inside his body, all energies unified into one and exploded with tremendous force.
Simultaneously, his consciousness was ejected from his body and flung somewhere.
His vision went black, and all senses disappeared.
When he opened his eyes again, he was there.
An endless void where up and down, front and back could not be distinguished.
It was an infinite space filled with ambiguous gray light, neither darkness nor light, like the moment when dawn and twilight meet eternally.
In that void where neither heaven nor earth existed, doors stretched endlessly like the shelves of a massive library.
Hundreds of millions, no, countless doors beyond counting.
The doors were moving.
Like digital code made of 0s and 1s flowing down in green light, countless doors became streams of light in every color, filling the void completely.
Beyond each door, different worlds and different destinies would be waiting.
And those countless possibilities formed one massive flow, filling the space like a giant tapestry woven by the hands of a god.
Guyang Cheongang was mesmerized.
This was certainly the ‘Dimensional Rift’ where he had stayed just before falling into this world.
‘Akasha… what’s going on? This is that place, isn’t it?’
[Doctor, this is the immaterial space we passed through during our first dimensional transfer. It has already been confirmed that physical laws do not apply in this realm.]
Akasha’s voice was calm, but underneath lay a heavy tension different from usual.
Having instantly escaped the confusion, she clearly recognized the strangeness of this situation.
‘Hmm…’
When Guyang Cheongang tried to look around the space, an irresistible tremendous force pushed him out of the rift.
“Hup!”
Guyang Cheongang opened his eyes, breathing heavily.
He had returned to reality.
Cold sweat ran down his spine after experiencing something unimaginable.
Taking a long deep breath, he asked.
‘Akasha, did you figure out what happened?’
[It is presumed that the opening of the sixth major acupoint of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians and the evil energy of the Divine Sealing Blood Fragment acted as a catalyst that pulled us back into that rift. However, the exact reason is unknown. What just occurred is a variable beyond my computational range.]
Guyang Cheongang was confused.
It was true that the energy released when the major acupoints of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians were destroyed and the power contained in the evil energy of the Divine Sealing Blood Fragment were great.
But the idea that this could shake the physical laws of reality and break through dimensional barriers made no sense logically.
Surely some other variable he didn’t know about had intervened, but there was no way to know what it was.
Since even Akasha couldn’t give a definitive answer, he felt at a loss.
‘…I must find out why this happened.’
[I agree, Doctor. Uncontrollable variables must be eliminated. If this phenomenon recurs during the next major acupoint opening, there’s no telling what unpredictable dangers might arise.]
At Akasha’s words, Guyang Cheongang smiled bitterly.
‘Right, you’re correct. This isn’t a place where the common sense of the world I knew applies.’
[This is Another Dimensional World governed by different physical laws, Doctor. We must approach with all possibilities open.]
‘Akasha, wouldn’t it be possible to return to the laboratory by going through that place?’
[Finding the door that leads to Earth would be key, but it seems possible.]
A smile appeared on Guyang Cheongang’s lips.
‘Now there’s one more reason why I can’t give up researching that place.’
Guyang Cheongang pushed the problem aside for now and slowly closed his eyes, opening his mental image.
There were far too many changes to confirm right now to keep clinging to a problem with no answer.
His consciousness sank deeply, heading into his dantian.
In the center of his dantian, vast like a lake.
There floated an inner core the size of a walnut. But its appearance was completely different from before.
‘This is…’
The surface of the inner core was transparent like crystal, yet countless stars were twinkling within it.
The light gently emanating from there was softly coloring his entire dantian.
The size didn’t seem to have changed, but the density of power condensed within was incomparably greater.
‘The density of internal energy to this extent…’
Guyang Cheongang couldn’t hide his amazement.
It was as if something that had been a stone had transformed into a diamond.
Emerging from his mental image, he circulated the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art.
Powerful internal energy flowed smoothly along his meridians.
Swiiiiish!
Blue sword energy rose from the tip of his right index finger.
It was as thick as two fingers combined, and reached an impressive length of two ja.
Guyang Cheongang’s eyes deepened.
By Jianghu’s common sense, the proof of truly reaching the early Transformation Realm was forming sword energy, and freely drawing out sword energy three ja long meant intermediate level.
The sword energy he had just drawn was two ja long.
It was proof that he had surpassed the pinnacle and definitely reached the Transformation Realm.
‘Transformation Realm… it took almost two years to get here. That took too long.’
Saying something that would make Murim practitioners immediately start cursing as if it were nothing, Guyang Cheongang smiled.
‘If my internal energy has increased this much… other abilities must have been upgraded too, right?’
Anticipation appeared in Guyang Cheongang’s eyes.
Breaking through the sixth major acupoint of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians didn’t simply mean an increase in internal energy.
It was a qualitative change where all systems in his body rose by one level.
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