Almighty God of War - Chapter 195

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195

Akasha’s quiet voice echoed in Guyang Cheongang’s mind.

[Doctor, terrain scan results show a bewildering formation inducing hallucinations spread across the cliff three zhang ahead and above. A massive cavern is detected beyond it. Presumed to be the Elder Demon Gyo Myosangin’s hideout.]

Gyo Myosangin hurriedly swept his sleeve wide toward where Guyang Cheongang’s gaze had settled.

The air vibrated faintly and rippled, then the cliff’s illusion lifted to reveal a pitch-black cave entrance.

“Please enter. This is this old man’s humble dwelling, the Mysterious Cavern Dwelling.”

As Gyo Myosangin entered first with a servile smile, Guyang Cheongang walked forward without hesitation.

Neungnam Gwang, Baek Muok, and Lady Bloodrose followed behind.

The entrance passage was unbearably narrow.

It was impossible for even two adults to walk side by side, and the low ceiling forced them to bow their heads deeply.

Cold water drops continuously fell from the moisture-laden walls, wetting the moss on the floor.

However, after pushing through about a hundred zhang, the space exploded outward in all directions.

What spread before their eyes was a massive hall built underground.

The ceiling soared ten zhang high, giving a majestic sense of oppression, and luminous stones were embedded in the walls surrounding the interior of dozens of zhang, emitting a subtle and mysterious blue-white light.

The interior was strangely luxurious.

Antique furniture was arranged in orderly fashion, and red silk curtains hung from the ceiling, fully proving the traces of an owner who had maintained this place for decades.

However, Guyang Cheongang showed not a single point of interest in those splendid decorations.

His gaze remained coldly sunken.

“Where is the Bottomless Pit?”

“…Over there.”

Gyo Myosangin pointed to a dark corner at the back of the cave.

There was another passage there, but a massive stone gate completely blocked the way.

The surface of the heavy rock door, three ja thick, was polished smooth as a mirror, and mysterious oracle bone scripts flickered faintly along with geometric patterns.

Guyang Cheongang turned his head to look at Lady Bloodrose.

“Bloodrose.”

“Yes, Master. Please command me.”

Lady Bloodrose bowed her head as she answered.

“You remain here and guard Muwok. If even the slightest misfortune befalls him, you will learn what agony of a burning soul means.”

Lady Bloodrose’s shoulders trembled slightly.

“I will keep it in mind. I will stake my life to assist Young Master and prevent any threat from approaching.”

Baek Muok, who had been watching from the side, pressed his lips tightly together.

Normally he would have stubbornly insisted on accompanying his master, but he instinctively realized that following would only be a burden to his master.

“Master, please be careful. I will wait here.”

Baek Muok obediently accepted Guyang Cheongang’s decision.

Guyang Cheongang nodded lightly, seemingly satisfied with his disciple’s mature attitude.

“Gyo Myo, guide us.”

Gyo Myosangin carefully approached the stone gate and placed both hands on locations carved with specific patterns.

Soon, powerful internal energy rushed in like a waterfall through his fingertips.

Rumble rumble rumble-!

The entire stone gate began to cry out with low screams.

Vibrations transmitted to the floor caused dust from the ceiling to scatter, and the bizarre seal that had been sleeping for so long slowly began to unravel.

Craaaack-!

Heavy friction sounds amplified along the cave walls.

The massive boulder three ja thick slid aside surprisingly smoothly by precisely designed ancient mechanical arts.

Finally, when the door opened completely, terrifyingly deep darkness poured out from beyond.

A descending passage with no visible end.

That path, steeply inclined in a spiral downward, was immersed in eerie silence like stairs leading to hell’s abyss.

At that moment, like an illusion, Guyang Cheongang heard faint pulsing sounds coming from beyond the darkness.

“Be careful, Master. From here on is no longer the realm of the living.”

Along with Gyo Myosangin’s words, stone steps carved like sheer cliffs revealed themselves underfoot.

The incline was nearly vertical, and the width was merely about three cheok.

One side was rough rock wall laden with moisture, but the other side was endless void—a precipice.

Guyang Cheongang took his first step.

The texture of stone transmitted through his shoe soles was cold as ice and soaked with clammy moisture.

The stairs curved in spirals and continued endlessly.

Ten zhang, thirty zhang, then fifty zhang…

The deeper they sank underground, the colder the air became, enough to freeze even one’s breath.

The humidity seeping into their lungs rose to suffocating levels.

When they passed the seventy zhang point, even the residual glow of luminous stones decorating the walls disappeared like smoke.

Complete darkness.

Primordial darkness where light did not exist engulfed the party.

Hiss-!

When Guyang Cheongang raised his index finger, silver-white Samadhi True Fire bloomed from his fingertip.

Gentle light tore through the surrounding gloomy scenery and carved a path.

Neungnam Gwang also circulated his internal energy to create a subtle radiance in his palm.

One hundred zhang, one hundred twenty zhang…

It was impossible to gauge how much further they had descended.

Memories of the surface grew dim, and suffocating oppression squeezed their hearts.

When they had descended over three hundred zhang, the seemingly endless stairs stopped and flat ground appeared.

And ahead of that, an unimaginably massive presence overwhelmed the party.

The Samadhi True Fire blooming from Guyang Cheongang’s fingertip grew stronger.

Hissss-!

Silver-white dawn light spread like waves, revealing the true nature of what lay ahead.

The Bottomless Pit.

What gaped open in the ground was like a hole where the earth itself screamed.

A perfectly circular pit five zhang in width.

The edges were smoothly carved as if cut by machine, blatantly revealing this was not a natural product but an artificial creation.

Guyang Cheongang tried to illuminate below with the light of Samadhi True Fire, but the light beam was merely devoured by darkness without revealing the bottom.

Pure darkness extending endlessly.

It seemed as if the concept of a bottom truly did not exist there.

Whooooosh-!

Then, a strange wind flowed back up from the abyss of the pit.

It carried extreme cold that scraped bones and tore flesh.

Whoosh-!

As the wind grew fiercer, clothing fluttered roughly and hair scattered.

Mixed within the cold air were indescribable resentment and sorrow.

Auditory hallucinations like tens of thousands of vengeful spirits simultaneously wailing from within the pit struck people’s ears.

It seemed to warn that this place was a gateway to hell, a forbidden zone where the living should never set foot.

The complexion of Guyang Cheongang, who had maintained his composure, changed subtly for the first time.

Stern tension arose in his cold eyes, and his entire body’s internal energy immediately switched to combat readiness.

Neungnam Gwang standing beside him showed an even more miserable reaction.

His complexion became pale as paper, and thick cold sweat beaded on his forehead.

He unconsciously stepped back half a step and muttered in a trembling voice.

“This is… isn’t this the Thousand Cold Bone-Scraping Wind!”

Neungnam Gwang’s eyes were filled with shock and terror.

The Thousand Cold Bone-Scraping Wind was a wind that could only be generated when extreme yin energy was trapped and condensed in earth veins for tens of thousands of years.

It was said that merely brushing against it would freeze one’s bone marrow and scrape away joints.

Guyang Cheongang looked back at Gyo Myosangin with indifferent eyes.

“Is it because of this wind that you couldn’t descend?”

“No, Master.”

Gyo Myosangin shook his head.

His complexion was also pale, but a cunning glint flashed through his eyes.

“This much can be somewhat offset by the Protective Body Energy deployed with Transformation Realm internal energy. The real problem lies below. About a hundred zhang down…”

His following voice sank deeply.

“There is a monster there. I could not break through it.”

Silence descended.

From the Bottomless Pit, eerie winds continuously burst forth, and fear filled the air like a sticky swamp.

The darkness writhed like a living creature, rejecting the group’s vision.

But Guyang Cheongang stared directly into that abyss.

The unfathomable depth and the unknown existence waiting within.

To him, it was not fear, but merely a challenge that must be conquered.

A cold sneer appeared at the corner of Guyang Cheongang’s mouth.

He turned his head and stared intently at Gyo Myosangin.

“Gyo Myo, you are deceiving me right now.”

Instantly, Gyo Myosangin’s complexion turned white as a sheet of paper.

He hurriedly bowed his waist and waved his hands.

“M-Master! What do you mean… I absolutely have no such disloyal intentions!”

“This cold wind is not something that can be blocked by mere Protective Body Energy. Yet you tried to falsely push me into a death trap.”

As soon as the words ended, a desperate scream burst from Gyo Myosangin’s mouth.

“Aaaahhh-!”

Guyang Cheongang had activated the prohibition of the Divine Physician Hwata’s Technique.

As the nanobots ravaged Gyo Myosangin’s nervous system with electrical stimulation, blood trickled down from his seven orifices.

His meridians twisted as if being torn apart, and his internal organs burned as if he had swallowed a ball of fire.

“M-Master… please… spare me… please spare my life…!”

The pain miraculously disappeared from Gyo Myosangin’s body, who had been rolling on the ground screaming, exactly after counting to five.

It was only a few seconds, but to Gyo Myosangin it felt like an eternity.

He bowed his head while trembling, soaked in sweat and blood.

Guyang Cheongang asked again in a calm tone, which made it even more chilling.

“I’ll ask again. How did you penetrate this Bone-Chilling Wind and go down?”

Gyo Myosangin, gripped by the fear that the pain might strike again, immediately answered.

“I have… a piece of Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade. With its heat, I could offset the cold wind and endure for about half a hour.”

He took out a small jade box from his bosom and carefully opened it.

Inside was a red stone the size of a thumbnail, emanating warm and brilliant energy strong enough to push away the surrounding yin energy.

“This is that Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade. I will gladly offer this to Master! Please spare my life…!”

But Guyang Cheongang looked at the jade and lightly shook his head.

“I am not a master who covets his servant’s trivial possessions. Keep that for yourself.”

Gyo Myosangin looked at Guyang Cheongang with a dumbfounded expression.

To dismiss as ‘trivial’ a treasure that would make any Gangho person’s eyes roll back!

How could he know?

The fact that in Guyang Cheongang’s bosom were stored two pieces of Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade several times larger and purer than that.

Those were the artifacts that had provided Guyang Cheongang with the foundation for the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art.

To such a person, Gyo Myosangin’s treasure was no better than a pebble rolling on the roadside.

Guyang Cheongang turned his body as if having made up his mind and looked at Neungnam Gwang.

“Elder Brother.”

“Speak.”

Neungnam Gwang answered with a thoroughly tense expression.

Whether due to the cold energy of the Bone-Chilling Wind or worry about Guyang Cheongang jumping into danger, his eyes were dark.

“Please take care of Muwok.”

“Understood. Don’t worry.”

Neungnam Gwang nodded with a heavy tone.

With his skills, even if Gyo Myosangin or Lady Bloodrose broke through the prohibition and rebelled, he had the ability to protect Baek Muok.

“I’ll be back.”

Guyang Cheongang approached the edge of the Bottomless Pit.

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