Almighty God of War - Chapter 173
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173
Jegal Ryong turned his head away.
He had no desire to watch any further.
He decided to focus solely on the dharma inscribed on the stone stele and pretend ignorance of whatever was about to unfold.
A silence on the verge of explosion settled over the valley.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang had already decided to coordinate their attack.
The two didn’t even look at each other.
There was no exchange of glances, yet their coordination was perfect.
Masters of their caliber would typically prefer one-on-one duels, but they had no such pride.
O Gwangnyeo knew well that if he suggested going first, Yu Garyang would refuse.
Yu Garyang felt the same way.
Whoever went first might suffer serious injuries in a one-on-one fight with Guyang Cheongang, allowing the other to reap the benefits.
Neither wanted such a situation.
They were the type who would never do anything that might result in a loss.
So moving simultaneously was the best option.
Red sword energy exploded from O Gwangnyeo’s blade. Gray hand energy swirled from Yu Garyang’s palm.
Though killing intent soared to the heavens, neither could move carelessly.
While Guyang Cheongang’s martial arts being at the Transformation Realm was confirmed by his ability to deploy protective body energy, they couldn’t determine his exact level.
Was he early-stage Transformation Realm? Or middle-stage? Could he possibly have reached advanced stage?
Judging by his age, even at the highest estimate, he should be early-stage Transformation Realm.
However, he had passed through Hongnyeom-ro and Absolute Ice Valley, and was the only one to comprehend the stone stele’s dharma, making it difficult to be certain of his martial arts level.
The waves of tension grew ever higher.
Guyang Cheongang appeared calm, but inwardly he was tense.
‘Judging by the size of their materialized energy, they’re early-stage Transformation Realm masters.’
The only Transformation Realm master he had faced was the Necromantic Demon Lord.
Thinking back now, the Necromantic Demon Lord was an early-stage Transformation Realm demon.
At that time, Guyang Cheongang’s martial arts were at the boundary between peak and transcendent levels.
His ability to sever the Necromantic Demon Lord’s bone-armored arm was only possible thanks to Akasha’s help and good fortune.
If he hadn’t been able to dissolve one of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians’ major acupoints then, he would have died.
The demon had been that strong.
Having combat experience with the Necromantic Demon Lord, Guyang Cheongang couldn’t be confident of certain victory against two early-stage Transformation Realm masters simultaneously.
Of course, he didn’t think he would lose either.
Guyang Cheongang took a deep breath and focused his consciousness on his dantian.
The Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art activated.
Whooom whooom whooom whooom!
The Taiji Mixed Origin Energy composed of yin and yang swirled in his dantian with tremendous force, rising explosively.
Black and white, cold and heat, yin and yang rotated in perfect balance, and infinite power poured forth from their center.
His five senses sharpened and his cognitive acceleration ability automatically activated.
His dynamic vision was extremely enhanced and the world began to slow down.
Dust in the air floated slowly, the red energy emanating from O Gwangnyeo’s blade was visible strand by strand, and he could feel the killing intent in Yu Garyang’s eyes transmitting like waves.
Simultaneously, the nanobots outside entered combat mode.
Hundreds of millions of ultramicroscopic particles were spread within a hundred zhang radius, and they switched to combat-optimized mode, perfectly controlling the battlefield.
Air currents, temperature changes, vibration patterns, the direction of killing intent.
All information was transmitted to Guyang Cheongang in real time.
Maximum combat mode was no longer simple mechanical assistance but had perfectly merged with the incantations of the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art.
Internal energy and nanobots, mind and technology, martial arts and science became one.
A terrifying aura exploded from Guyang Cheongang’s entire body.
Kwaaa kwaaa kwaaa kwaaa kwaaa kwaaa-!
Invisible pressure burst forth in all directions.
Dust rose as if caught in a typhoon, the surrounding grass lay flat in unison, and the air distorted heavily.
The overwhelming presence of a middle-stage Transformation Realm master was not mere aura but power with substance.
The entire valley was crushed under that force.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s faces turned pale in an instant.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s eyes widened.
They instinctively realized that Guyang Cheongang was stronger than them.
‘Middle-stage Transformation Realm…?’
The same thought flashed through both their minds.
No matter how heaven-sent a genius, to reach middle-stage Transformation Realm at that age.
But they couldn’t deny it.
The force crushing the valley was no lie.
The difference between early and middle-stage Transformation Realm was vast.
Even within the same Transformation Realm, middle-stage could overwhelm early-stage.
The depth of internal energy, intensity of aura, completeness of martial arts – all were on a different dimension.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s eyes met.
In that moment, they realized how wise their decision to coordinate had been.
If either had gone first alone, they would have died on the spot.
Facing a middle-stage Transformation Realm master one-on-one was suicide.
But they also gained another realization.
Unless they killed Guyang Cheongang with everything they had, they wouldn’t leave Pungnimgok alive today.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang moved simultaneously.
From O Gwangnyeo’s sword, red sword energy poured forth like a storm with a terrifying sound of rending air.
Shaaaaaaak-
The sword energy wasn’t simply sharp but had light condensed within it, covering Guyang Cheongang’s entire body and exploding with a thunderous roar.
Boom boom boom boom boom bang!
Each time fragments of sword energy exploded, blinding flashes like dozens of suns rising simultaneously filled the sky above the valley.
This was O Gwangnyeo’s signature technique, the Storm Light Demon Sword.
The Twenty-Four Second Storm Light Demon Sword was a demonic ascending sword technique that paralyzed vision and concealed fragments of sword energy within flashes to kill enemies.
Simultaneously, Yu Garyang extended his hand.
Hundreds of grayish-white hand energies rose like a mountain, targeting the vital points all over Guyang Cheongang’s body and flying like lightning.
Even before the offensive arrived, a sinister energy that penetrated to the bone struck first.
This was one of Yu Garyang’s two great techniques, the Soul-Stealing Mountain Demon Hand, known as a pinnacle demonic martial art with transformations reaching the extreme.
Guyang Cheongang didn’t draw his sword.
The Supreme Sword was a martial art to be drawn only when facing a life-or-death crisis.
He didn’t sense that level of threat from the enemies before him.
Instead, he deployed the Dual Mind Divine Art.
Palm shadows poured from Guyang Cheongang’s right hand like a typhoon.
It was the Gale Chain Palm.
One hundred and eight palm strikes unleashed in an instant connected as one, forming a powerful whirlwind that met the flashes of the Storm Light Demon Sword.
Kwaaa kwaaa kwaaa kwang!
Sword energy and palm energy collided head-on.
Simultaneously, Guyang Cheongang’s left hand moved.
The fist energy of the Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer, reminiscent of a massive meteor hammer, collided with the Soul-Stealing Mountain Demon Hand, producing thunder-like sounds.
Kwaaa kwaaa kwaaa kwang!
Ear-splitting explosions erupted continuously, shaking the earth.
Simultaneously, intense flashes and shockwaves spread in all directions.
Grass within ten zhang was uprooted, and great clouds of dust rose.
Guyang Cheongang had been pushed back half a step.
That was all.
His robes fluttered but weren’t torn, his face was serene, and his breathing remained steady.
O Gwangnyeo’s complexion grew even heavier.
His offensive containing ten percent of his internal energy had only managed to push his opponent back half a step…
Yu Garyang’s eyes sank even colder.
‘Strong…’
While the two men grew tense, Guyang Cheongang gained confidence.
‘I can handle them sufficiently.’
Currently his martial arts were divided into two major branches.
The Guyang Family Estate’s secret martial arts and the martial arts he had created himself.
What he was displaying now were the family’s martial arts.
The Gale Chain Palm and Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer were the supreme techniques that had created the Guyang Family Estate’s golden age.
Though they couldn’t compare to the martial arts he had created, the Guyang Family Estate had stood shoulder to shoulder with the Six Great Families during the Great War of Orthodox and Demonic with these techniques, making their name known throughout All Under Heaven.
Even while his mind grew complicated, O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s hands did not stop.
Red sword energy split the air and exploded, while hundreds of hand strikes filled the space.
Swiiiiish-
Boom boom boom boom boom!
Guyang Cheongang’s form became hazy and disappeared from that spot like a ghost.
He slipped through O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s offensive like swimming.
Maintaining a distance where the sword energy and hand strikes seemed to touch but didn’t, they brushed past his sides.
His movement was as natural as a fish swimming through water, and the two men’s offensive futilely split the air.
What Guyang Cheongang was displaying was the Thousand Miles Single Step he had obtained from the stone stele’s teachings.
O Gwangnyeo ground his teeth.
“This slippery bastard!”
He swung his blade like a madman, and sword energy swept through the valley like a storm.
But Guyang Cheongang evaded all those attacks.
The Thousand Miles Single Step became even more natural.
The movements that had been slightly awkward at first quickly became familiar to his body, and after a certain point, he even gained composure.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang began to feel fear.
‘This bastard… does he know our martial arts inside and out?’
Guyang Cheongang appeared precisely in positions where attacks wouldn’t reach, and evaded perfectly without giving any opportunity for counterattack.
Realizing the situation was turning unfavorable, the fear disappeared from O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s eyes as terrifying killing intent filled them.
They were masters of the demonic and evil paths who had spent their years in slaughter and battle, so the more disadvantaged they became, the stronger their killing intent grew.
O Gwangnyeo’s eyes were dyed blood-red, and gray evil energy surged up from Yu Garyang’s body like a geyser.
The moment they drew up their true essence, the entire valley was crushed under terrifying killing intent.
A tense look also appeared in Guyang Cheongang’s eyes.
Swiiiiish-
The moment he tried to evade the Skull Mountain Demon Hand, Yu Garyang’s eyes dyed gray-white and filled with death met Guyang Cheongang’s eyes.
Instantly, the world twisted and Guyang Cheongang’s vision distorted.
Guyang Cheongang’s feet stopped and his upper body froze.
Dozens of Yu Garyangs overlapped in his vision, and blood-stained hands approached his neck with an ominous appearance.
This was the result of the Skull Eye being deployed, one of Yu Garyang’s two supreme techniques along with the Skull Mountain Demon Hand.
It was a terrifying evil technique that directly interfered with the opponent’s mind through the eyes, and even Transformation Realm masters couldn’t escape within ten seconds when caught by it.
People feared Yu Garyang because of this evil technique.
Because even a moment’s confusion in mind and vision during battle would inevitably lead to fatal results.
But for Guyang Cheongang, that moment lasted only an instant.
[Activating neural blocking!]
The nanobots directly connected to Guyang Cheongang’s brain all activated at once.
They blocked the evil thoughts coming from outside and neutralized the signals causing hallucinations.
His distorted vision became clear again and the light returned to Guyang Cheongang’s eyes.
Yu Garyang’s sinister face hardened like stone when he realized his opponent had escaped the Skull Eye.
‘How on earth…?’
Guyang Cheongang had seemed caught by the Skull Eye, but escaped immediately.
Not even ten seconds, he had regained his senses in the blink of an eye.
This had never happened before.
Guyang Cheongang deployed the Thousand Miles Single Step.
Whoosh!
His form became hazy and retreated one zhang like lightning.
O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s attacks split the air.
Guyang Cheongang’s eyes sank deeply.
‘There’s nothing more to see.’
He had grasped everything about the Storm Mad Demon Sword, Skull Mountain Demon Hand, and Skull Eye.
Naturally, he had also discovered their weaknesses.
As his martial arts reached the middle stage of Transformation Realm, Akasha’s abilities had also improved dramatically.
70% activation rate.
The nanobots’ computational speed increased exponentially, data processing capability rose explosively, and pattern recognition accuracy approached perfection.
As a result, his ability to grasp opponents’ martial arts had reached a completely different dimension, and he no longer needed to see the full deployment of sword forms.
Akasha could now predict the middle and later parts just by seeing a few initial sword forms.
Any martial art was bound to have a certain format.
No matter how varied, there were limits to human body structure and internal energy operation methods, and optimized movements existed within those limits.
Muscle movements, internal energy flow, center shifts, breathing patterns.
Everything was data.
And Akasha analyzed it perfectly.
The longer the battle continued, the more precise Guyang Cheongang’s evasion became.
Naturally, the longer the battle continued, the less threatening O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang’s attacks became.
Guyang Cheongang had completely seen through their martial arts, predicted all their attacks, and evaded perfectly.
His eyes emitted a frighteningly intense light.
‘Now I end this.’
Then, O Gwangnyeo, driven to desperation, ground his teeth and shouted.
“Die!”
Sword energy exploded and hand strikes covered the sky as they flew toward Guyang Cheongang.
Guyang Cheongang swung both hands with an expressionless face.
Chain palm force pouring out like a gale met the two men’s offensive.
Boom boom boom boom bang!
A tremendous explosion erupted and red flashes swallowed the valley.
When O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang realized they hadn’t gained an advantage and tried to change their sword forms,
A three-inch dagger shot straight toward the two men like a salmon swimming upstream against the waves, piercing through the explosion’s aftermath and cutting through the curtain of flashes.
There was no presence or light whatsoever.
The ultimate hidden weapon combining nanobots and internal energy, the Invisible Sword, had been launched.
Though invisible, O Gwangnyeo and Yu Garyang felt something coming.
The instincts of peerless masters who had reached Transformation Realm screamed.
They raised their sword and hand to block it, but it was too late.
Faster than sound.
The Invisible Sword that pierced their foreheads penetrated their brains and exited through the back of their heads.
At that moment.
Crash!
The shockwave created as the Invisible Sword broke the sound barrier exploded in front of the two men and sent their corpses flying.
They flew backward over ten zhang, flailing their limbs like scarecrows.
Blood traced arcs through the air behind them.
Thud- Thud-
The two men fell to the ground almost simultaneously, raising dust.
Silence flowed.
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