Almighty God of War - Chapter 181

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Guyang Cheongang set Baek Muok down on the ground and opened his mouth while respectfully offering a cupped fist salute toward the giant man.

“Senior, as the day grows late, I was searching for a place to spend the night when I discovered this place. Though it may be presumptuous, I humbly request that you allow us to stay here for one night.”

The giant man did not answer and stared at Guyang Cheongang with eyes that gleamed fiercely like those of a wild beast.

A heavy, tension-filled silence flowed.

When a cool breeze passed through, brushing against the grass in the clearing, the man opened his mouth.

“Are you Guyang Cheongang?”

It was a low, heavy voice that seemed to rumble up from beneath the earth.

Even though this strange person he was seeing for the first time had spoken his name, Guyang Cheongang’s expression remained as calm as a lake.

Since he was already monitoring within a radius of five hundred zhang in real-time through Akasha, there was no way he wouldn’t know the man was here.

Yet he had still entered because he instinctively knew that this journey home was not something that could be resolved simply by avoiding it.

“That is correct.”

The man slowly raised his seated body.

“To see this old man and not change expression even slightly, what an interesting fellow.”

Baek Muok swallowed nervously as he looked up at the man.

The man was not eight feet tall, but a giant approaching nine feet.

That overwhelming form standing with darkness at his back seemed like a massive rocky mountain rising up, and beyond his long robe lit by firelight, muscles like iron masses undulated magnificently.

The man looked down at Guyang Cheongang with a faint smile.

“Heh heh heh, I heard your liver had swollen with arrogance, and it wasn’t just empty rumors.”

Guyang Cheongang answered calmly.

“This junior doesn’t startle even at seeing ghosts, so how could I make a fuss over seeing a fellow human like you, Senior?”

“Hmph! Foolish boy. You still don’t know that in this Gangho, humans are more frightening than ghosts.”

Guyang Cheongang let that threat go in one ear and out the other as he added.

“This junior is tired from traveling a long distance and simply wishes to rest. If Senior will not permit us this place, I will leave without regret.”

The man stared piercingly at Guyang Cheongang as if looking at some wondrous treasure, then suddenly burst into laughter that could shake the forest.

“Kahahahahaha!”

At the gale-like laughter, leaves fell rustling down and the birds of the forest screamed as they flew up.

“What a peculiar fellow! It’s been truly long since I’ve met someone who doesn’t cower in fear when facing this old man.”

The man clenched his fist, as large as Baek Muok’s head, with a grinding sound as he continued speaking.

“Good. Very good. If you can withstand this old man’s three punches, I’ll gladly yield this place to you.”

Guyang Cheongang gestured for Baek Muok to retreat to the edge of the clearing, then replied to the man in an indifferent tone.

“Taking three punches from Senior Paekkwon Neung in exchange for just a place to stay is too cheap. Please share some of that meat beside you as well.”

A terrifyingly intense divine light exploded from the man’s eyes.

Because Guyang Cheongang’s words contained not the slightest consideration of defeat or injury, but rather an arrogant confidence that he would naturally withstand them.

The man asked in a chilling tone.

“Did you already know who this old man is?”

“I have not heard of any other martial artist under heaven with a more imposing bearing than Senior Neung.”

The man—Paekkwon Neungnamgwang, one of the Five Eccentrics among the Four Kings, Five Eccentrics, Six Oddities, and Seven Absolutes—clicked his tongue with an expression of disbelief.

“I thought you had great boldness, but you’re just a fool who doesn’t know his place.”

The fierce fighting spirit bursting from Neungnamgwang’s body violently shook the campfire in the clearing.

Without replying, Guyang Cheongang lightly flicked his sleeve and raised his right fist.

It was a movement as smooth as flowing water without any technique mixed in, yet it contained a momentum like a storm.

“Uhahahaha!”

Neungnamgwang’s mad laughter once again violently shook the forest.

“Let’s see if you still have breath left after taking this old man’s Great Strength Overlord Fist three times!”

His roar was mixed with naked anger.

Because he had read an arrogance even greater than his own in Guyang Cheongang’s composed attitude.

“First strike!”

Neungnamgwang slowly extended his fist.

It seemed to swim leisurely through space, but that was a terrible optical illusion.

That fist, incredibly fast for such a massive frame, contained terrifying fist strength that could tear iron plates two fingers thick like paper and turn ten-thousand-pound boulders to powder.

It was the first form of Great Strength Overlord Fist: Overlord Slays Dragon.

Puh-puh-puh-puh-PUNG-!

Before the fist even reached, compressed air screamed as it caused continuous explosions.

Beneath his bamboo hat, Guyang Cheongang’s eyes sank with caution.

‘Heavy…’

The overwhelming sense of weight contained in the fist strength, like swinging an entire mountain range, was at a level even he couldn’t take lightly.

He immediately drew the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art to its peak.

Taiji Mixed Origin Qi explosively surged from his dantian, and the energies of yin and yang rotated in the form of a great taiji, filling his entire body.

Guyang Cheongang thrust his fist straight forward to meet it.

In his fist, the continuous striking principle of Gale Chain Palm with one hundred and eight overlapping layers and the single-point concentrated destructive power of Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer were fused with bizarre perfection in that instant.

Kuuuuung-!

The moment the two fists collided, a thunderous roar like lightning striking the earth shook the clearing.

From the shockwave that burst in all directions, the ground within five zhang of the two men sank a full foot.

Pulverized grass leaves scattered in midair, and dust swirled madly, obscuring vision.

Baek Muok, who had been hiding behind a tree watching the confrontation, hastily covered his mouth to block the scream that was about to burst out.

“Kuhuk…!”

The boy was nearly blown away by the raging air pressure, but desperately circulated his meager internal energy to embrace the tree and endure.

The thick dust cloud tore away as it cleared, revealing the forms of the two men.

Like thousand-year-old trees, Guyang Cheongang and Neungnamgwang stood glaring at each other without retreating even an inch from their positions.

Neungnamgwang’s eyelids trembled minutely.

Even in over sixty years, those who could take his straight punch head-on and still stand calmly could be counted on one hand.

However, his shock was momentary.

The madness and exhilaration befitting one of the Five Eccentrics made his pupils gleam.

“Good! Now this is getting interesting!”

Neungnamgwang’s entire body shook as he roared once more.

“Uhahahaha! Brat, take this! Second punch!”

Kugugugugugu-!

The sound of atmosphere being crushed could be heard.

Centered on Neungnamgwang’s fist, a bizarre pressure formed as if space itself was being distorted.

The air within a radius of over ten zhang became heavy as stone, pressing down to bind Guyang Cheongang’s limbs.

The second form of Great Strength Overlord Fist: Overlord Collapses Mountain.

A killing strike that literally collapsed mountains poured down upon Guyang Cheongang.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-

The crushed air burst forth with an air-splitting sound that seemed to tear eardrums.

But even before that storm, Guyang Cheongang’s eyes sank even more coldly and deeply.

‘Heavy, heavier.’

He compressed the destructive power of Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer drawn from his dantian to the extreme.

Red and blue fist strength appeared like phantoms over his fist as the form of Taiji Flame King Cannon was completed.

Guyang Cheongang thrust his fist without hesitation.

Kwauuuuung-!

Neungnamgwang’s tyrannical fist realm and his straight punch condensed with the power of yin and yang collided in midair.

A brief stillness as if time had stopped. And then,

Kwaaaaaaaang-!!

A thunderous roar as if heaven was collapsing shook heaven and earth.

From the aftermath of the two forces clashing, the ground within seven zhang was crushed like tofu and instantly sank three feet.

Dust and shockwaves that erupted like an explosion spread in all directions.

“Kueuk!”

Even Baek Muok, who had been watching from far away, couldn’t endure the murderous energy rushing toward him and hurriedly retreated another thirty zhang into the forest.

The scene revealed after the storm swept through was devastating.

Two men stood within a massive crater.

But this time, it was different from the beginning.

Guyang Cheongang and Neungnam Gwang had each stepped back one pace.

“Huh…”

A beast-like growling sound flowed from Neungnam Gwang’s mouth.

He was shocked to see someone who had withstood his fist strike infused with Seven Star internal energy.

However, that emotion was soon covered by crimson madness.

“Good, very good! Only someone of this level has the right to throw away such trivial concerns!”

Crack crack- Snap!

With eerie tearing sounds, Neungnam Gwang’s upper garment was shredded to pieces.

His joints dislocated and realigned, while the muscles throughout his body swelled grotesquely.

In an instant, his body transformed into a giant frame reaching one jang and two cheok, with blue veins writhing like earthworms across his surface.

This transformation indicated that he had pushed his unique supreme technique, the Giant Spirit Divine Art, to its Twelve Star limit.

“You bastard, take my third fist as well!”

Whoooosh-

Dark blue fist energy erupted five cheok from Neungnam Gwang’s fist, and a terrifying will of destruction covered the clearing.

Great Strength Conquering King Fist Third Form, Conquering King Collapses Heaven.

True to its arrogant name of collapsing heaven itself, a terrible pressure that seemed to distort space itself devoured the entire fifteen jang area.

It was an absolute tsunami of violence with nowhere to flee or hide.

Before that overwhelming power of destruction, Guyang Cheongang’s time flowed very slowly.

‘This man is stronger than me.’

Neungnam Gwang was undoubtedly the greatest master among all the martial artists he had encountered since entering Gangho.

O Gwangnyeo, Yu Garyang, and the Necromantic Demon Lord were incomparable to this man.

But the gap between them wasn’t as vast as heaven and earth.

The problem was that in battles between masters of their level, even the smallest difference acted as an insurmountable wall.

Because of that small difference, he could die.

Guyang Cheongang’s eyes flashed with fearsome divine light.

He had not even the slightest thought of fleeing because his opponent was strong.

His temperament was the epitome of gentle exterior, strong interior – when opponents came at him forcefully, his resistance amplified just as fiercely.

Guyang Cheongang deployed the Dual Mind Divine Art, pushing two Transcendent Impermanence Divine Arts to their Twelve Star limits.

Whoooosh!

From his right hand surged red rainbow-shaped fist energy that seemed capable of piercing everything on earth.

Simultaneously, from his left hand, infinite mass overlapped nine times, forming dark-light fist energy.

It was Poknyeogwanhongchu and Gale Nine Tribulations Technique.

The spear of certain death and sword energy condensed with extreme gravity created a terrifying whirlwind as they flew toward Neungnam Gwang’s tsunami of fist energy.

After a silence so profound that even time seemed frozen.

CRAAAAAASH-!!!

The earth within a fifteen jang radius around the two men rippled like massive waves and completely overturned.

Dozens of great trees surrounding the clearing were uprooted or scattered as dust.

Tremendous shockwaves spread in all directions, completely changing the topography of the area.

After a moment, two shadows were revealed through the slowly clearing dust clouds.

Blood mist rose from Neungnam Gwang’s entire body as he stepped back one pace, showing how fierce this battle had been.

And Guyang Cheongang had stepped back two paces.

A stream of fresh blood slid down his chin revealed beneath the bamboo hat.

Neungnam Gwang looked back and forth between his massive fist and Guyang Cheongang in disbelief.

Instead of traces of fierce battle, deep emptiness was cast across his face.

Crack…

His magnificent physique that had reached one jang contracted, making dull sounds as his joints returned to place.

As the violent energy that had pushed his body beyond its limits scattered into the void, his giant frame returned to its original eight cheok form.

Neungnam Gwang muttered in dejection.

“Damn it, they say the Yangtze River’s rear waves push the front waves forward… Finally, someone who broke through the wall of time has appeared.”

His voice, suddenly aged, carried indescribable lonely sorrow.

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