Almighty God of War - Chapter 196

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196

Endless darkness pouring down beneath his feet.

Whiiiiiiing-

As Guyang Cheongang drew closer, the Thousand Cold Bone-Cutting Wind roared even more ferociously, trying to tear his entire body apart.

His clothes fluttered as if they would rip, and the cold energy piercing his skin brought a bone-chilling coldness that reached his very marrow.

However, not a trace of fear showed on Guyang Cheongang’s face.

Thick iron chains hung on the walls of the Bottomless Pit.

They seemed to be what Gyo Myosangin had used to descend, but Guyang Cheongang didn’t even glance at them.

[Doctor, I will assist you. You may begin your descent.]

Guyang Cheongang stepped forward into midair just as he was.

It was an elegant yet resolute step that seemed to defy the laws of gravity.

Watching his form being swallowed into the pitch-black darkness, Neungnam Gwang clenched his fists tightly while Gyo Myosangin harbored a bitter smile at the corner of his mouth.

However, both men’s eyes widened to the point of tearing at the scene that unfolded before them.

Guyang Cheongang did not descend immediately.

He stopped and stood in midair above the maw of the Bottomless Pit where the cutting wind whirled.

Simultaneously,

Chiiiiik-!

Silver-white radiance exploded upward from beneath his feet.

Tens of thousands of nanobots scattered in midair began to converge in unison like magnetized particles.

The microscopic particles compressed to ultra-high density in an instant, constructing a single massive form.

It was a sword.

A massive greatsword imbued with a deep blue light darker than the abyss revealed itself beneath Guyang Cheongang’s feet.

A greatsword reaching five ja in length and one and a half ja in width.

It was the result of seventy-two Flying Star Cloud Swords, which had existed separately, fusing into a single giant sword under Akasha’s control.

Guyang Cheongang lightly placed both feet on that massive blade.

It was a perfectly steady step without the slightest tremor.

He naturally stood on the sword and looked down into the abyss.

His appearance was like that of a sword immortal from legends and myths or ancient murals, riding a sword and cutting through clouds.

The bearing of an immortal had descended into reality within the pitch-black darkness of the Bottomless Pit.

“Wh-what in the world is that…?”

Neungnam Gwang muttered in a daze.

Though he was seasoned in Gangho, the scene unfolding before his eyes transcended the common sense of martial studies by far.

Sword riding flight.

This divine power of directly mounting a sword and traversing the heavens, beyond sword control techniques that sent swords flying with qi, was considered the realm of immortals that only mythical figures could reach.

The sword light began to slowly descend along with Guyang Cheongang, cutting through the darkness.

The sight of blue light trailing behind as it disappeared into the abyss was as brilliant as a meteor crossing the night sky.

Gyo Myosangin trembled like an aspen leaf as he watched the scene.

The shadow of despair fell thickly over his pale face.

‘How can that man achieve sword riding flight… It’s a supreme technique only possible upon reaching the Void Spirit Realm…’

He had believed for fifty years that the monster of the Bottomless Pit that had blocked him was his only hope for salvation.

But the transcendent realm of Guyang Cheongang he now witnessed shook that solid belief to its roots.

One who rides a sword and glides through the void like a sword immortal.

Could the monster truly kill such a being?

Hope and certainty began to slowly fade from Gyo Myosangin’s heart.

The premonition that he would never escape the eternal shackles of servitude the moment Guyang Cheongang returned alive from mortal danger consumed him.

The blue light beam carrying Guyang Cheongang was now completely submerged in darkness.

Only the chilling cold wind rising from the abyss whirled around those remaining on the surface.

The massive flying sword carrying Guyang Cheongang smoothly glided into the maw of the abyss.

Under Akasha’s precise output control, the descent speed was perfectly regulated.

And the radiance unique to the Flying Star Cloud Sword emanating from the blade revealed every detail of the Bottomless Pit’s interior that had been shrouded in darkness.

The exposed walls of the Bottomless Pit were amazingly smooth.

The rock face, carved away by fierce winds over countless ages, was polished smooth as glass, showing not even a gap where a finger could catch hold.

Guyang Cheongang took out two pieces of Ten Thousand Year Warm Jade shaped like laughing Buddha figures from his bosom and held one in each hand.

As the gentle warmth spread throughout his body, the fierce momentum of the Thousand Cold Bone-Cutting Wind that had been cutting to the bone was somewhat subdued.

Here he drew up the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art and circulated it throughout his body.

This divine art was a martial technique that sublimated the extreme yin energy of Nine Yin Severed Meridians into internal energy.

Therefore, it possessed perfect resistance to yin energy, and he had reached the highest realm in controlling and assimilating with this energy.

Chiiiiik-!

Brilliant silver-white protective body energy extended one ja beyond his body, forming a perfect circular barrier.

The sword energy forged with the solid internal energy of mid-level Transformation Realm showed no wavering even in the rushing yin wind.

He descended leisurely into the abyss.

Thirty zhang, fifty zhang, then seventy zhang…

The deeper he went into the abyss, the more ferociously the Thousand Cold Bone-Cutting Wind roared and thundered.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom-

The wind pushing with the pressure of tens of thousands of geun desperately tried to destroy the intruder’s balance and make him fall.

However, Guyang Cheongang’s sword energy perfectly blocked the wind like a solid, thick fortress wall.

How far had he descended?

When he had come down over several hundred zhang, Guyang Cheongang felt a massive energy of unknown identity rising on the wind.

Damp killing intent and overwhelming pressure.

‘Could this be the energy of the monster that frustrated Gyo Myosangin…?’

Guyang Cheongang’s eyes grew coldly calm.

When he had descended another hundred and fifty zhang, a strange change began to occur.

The momentum of the Thousand Cold Bone-Cutting Wind that had been whirling ferociously and scraping his nerves raw was noticeably subsiding.

At first he thought the air current had simply become somewhat gentler, but upon reaching the hundred and eighty zhang point, he could notice a clear change.

The terrible yin energy that had been cutting to the bone was growing faint.

‘What could be the cause? Has the environment of the lower levels changed?’

Just as Guyang Cheongang harbored doubt, Akasha’s clear voice was heard.

[Doctor, I have detected the source of the anomaly. An energy flow reversal phenomenon is occurring at your wrist.]

‘My wrist?’

Guyang Cheongang rolled up his sleeve.

There was the mysterious bracelet embedded with seven orbs that he had obtained while passing through the Seven Great Gates of Pungnimgok.

Among them, the white orb that had formed when he overcame the trial of Absolute Ice Valley was emitting a strange radiance.

The white orb vibrated minutely as if alive, creating a terrifying vortex of attraction within itself.

Shuuuuu-!

Like one parched with thirst drinking water, the orb greedily sucked in the yin energy of the Thousand Cold Bone-Cutting Wind that filled the surroundings.

As the extreme yin energy condensed over tens of thousands of years swirled and rushed madly into the bracelet, the white light of the orb became increasingly transparent and luminous.

It was an artifact he had left alone since leaving Pungnimgok, unable to know its purpose or identity.

But now, in this space of terrible yin wind, it was revealing one aspect of its secrets.

‘Interesting. I knew it wasn’t just decoration, but to think it would show this level of energy absorption rate.’

Guyang Cheongang pulled down his sleeve again to cover the bracelet.

The mystery of this object was not something his current self could solve.

Nor was this the place for it.

Thanks to the orb serving as a shield, the descent became much easier.

With the pressure of yin energy gone, the flying sword’s propulsion became even smoother, and Guyang Cheongang rode that flow to dramatically increase his descent speed.

Shooting down like an arrow toward the end of darkness for several minutes.

Finally, the true bottom of the Bottomless Pit revealed its massive and damp reality.

Guyang Cheongang’s eyes grew cold.

Eight caves grotesquely pierced in the wall about thirty zhang above ground level were captured in his field of vision.

Whiiiiing-!

Those openings, from which terrifying cold winds blew forth, were like massive breathing holes in the earth.

This was the very source of that vicious Thousand Cold Bone-Piercing Wind that had tormented him.

The sinister wind erupting from the pitch-black darkness within the caves roared as it swirled around the lower section of the Bottomless Pit.

Guyang Cheongang stood motionless in midair on his flying sword, gazing at the caves while lost in thought.

‘These aren’t naturally formed caves.’

The arrangement of caves that met his eyes was astoundingly precise.

The entrances split into eight directions formed the shape of the Eight Trigrams.

And the intensity and angle of the winds blowing from those openings forcibly created whirlpools in the lower air currents, constructing the barrier of a massive formation.

‘Cheongi Jinjun… So this is what they call the essence of mechanical formation studies.’

A massive cooling system that perfectly blocked the heat from the surface and circulated only extreme yin cold energy to freeze the qi and blood of intruders.

He could understand why martial artists like Gyo Myosangin had despaired in this place. To them, this would have been a realm of martial arts to overcome, but to Guyang Cheongang, this was merely an object to be dismantled.

Guyang Cheongang turned his gaze away from the caves where sinister winds swirled and began descending again.

As the blue radiance of his flying sword swept downward past the caves, a pale form gradually came into view at the end of what had been nothing but dark abyss.

The floor of the Bottomless Pit, covered in ice and snow of unimaginable thickness, was stained an ominous white.

The walls too had formed ice walls as transparent as crystal, reaching one zhang in thickness due to the murderous cold energy.

When the sword-blue light emanating from Guyang Cheongang’s flying sword touched the ice walls, they created a brilliant spectacle like thousands of gems exploding.

It was a frozen land that bloomed in the heart of hell, viciously beautiful and fantastical.

Crunch-

Guyang Cheongang stepped down from his flying sword and placed his first step on the ice and snow.

What spread out beneath the vertical shaft of over a thousand zhang was an underground plaza more than a hundred zhang wide in all directions.

Massive ice fragments that had fallen from the ice walls were piled up here and there like mountain ranges, forming bizarre terrain.

Whiiiiik-!

Then, suddenly, a fierce blizzard struck.

It was strange.

With the sky blocked, there was no reason for snow to fall.

The ice and snow that whirled in defiance of physical laws seemed to block his vision and reject the intruder.

Guyang Cheongang drew up the energy from his dantian.

Chiiiiik-!

Silver-white protective body energy expanded fiercely, pushing away the raging blizzard in all directions.

As his blurred vision cleared, the northern wall of the plaza revealed its true form.

There, a massive cave entrance gaped open.

The perfectly circular hole, three zhang in both diameter and height, was something that could never have been created by natural weathering.

Above the entrance, four ancient oracle bone script characters were carved.

Heavenly Mechanism Cave Mansion.

The sacred ground of mechanical formation studies that had been passed down only in legends.

Cheongi Jinjun’s secret hideout had revealed its true form before Guyang Cheongang’s eyes.

However, Guyang Cheongang’s gaze as he looked upon it was hardened with tension.

The monster that Gyo Myosangin had mentioned had yet to show itself.

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