Almighty God of War - Chapter 208
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208
Elder Geumjong, who had flown down beside Jin Hoe and Bu Gyeom, spoke in a rough voice like scraping metal.
“Child, come with this elder to the Gunma Alliance. If you do so, I’ll ensure your corpse remains intact for a proper funeral. This is the greatest mercy this elder can bestow.”
A sneer appeared at the corner of Guyang Cheongang’s mouth.
“This is the first time I’ve heard mercy used in such a context.”
His retort was short and clear.
It revealed his unwavering will to never yield, even if his opponent was a legendary giant.
He continued speaking.
“If you thought such threats would work on me, you’re nothing but a fool who hasn’t earned his years.”
Elder Geumjong’s complexion darkened.
“So you’re one who won’t listen to words.”
As he lightly flicked his sleeve, a small bell the size of a palm floated up into midair.
It was barely five inches tall, and its surface, which glowed with a subtle golden light, was chaotically engraved with strange ancient patterns.
The aura emanating from that small object was terrifyingly oppressive.
Guyang Cheongang’s face hardened.
In an instant, Neungnam Gwang’s voice pierced his eardrums.
[Brother! You must give it your all!]
His voice was clearly tense.
[In the past decades, fewer than five people in Gangho have endured three bell tolls from that Mara Golden Bell! Even those who endured it, those who remained sane were…!]
Neungnam Gwang couldn’t finish his words.
Because Elder Geumjong slowly swung his hand.
Clang-
It wasn’t a simple bell sound, but a terrifying sound wave that instantly annihilated all energy in the atmosphere.
An invisible wave that tore through the air burst forth and struck directly at Guyang Cheongang.
He felt a terrifying pressure as if the entire sky above was collapsing, and it seemed like thousands of invisible swords were slashing through space, rushing like a storm.
Guyang Cheongang’s entire body tensed like a bowstring.
“Hup!”
He raised the Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art to its twelve-star extreme limit.
The Taiji Mixed Origin Energy swirled as the Taiji Flame King Palm exploded from his hands.
Swoooooosh-!
The rushing sound waves and palm force condensed with sword energy collided head-on.
The atmosphere at the collision point screamed and exploded.
Bang-!
An eardrum-splitting explosion shook the entire shrine.
The shrine’s pillars, unable to withstand that terrifying impact, crumbled to dust and scattered, while the roof tiles poured down like a meteor shower and shattered.
The scattered bricks also flew in all directions like fallen leaves swept by a storm, and dust billowed like massive waves.
At the center of that chaos, Guyang Cheongang’s body was pushed backward.
One step, two steps…
Three deep, clear footprints were carved into the ground where he stepped.
From just one bell toll, he had been pushed back three steps.
The staggering Guyang Cheongang came to a stop.
His complexion had turned pale as a corpse.
He had clearly suffered a loss.
From the darkness across from him, Elder Geumjong’s mad laughter burst forth.
“Kekekeke-! To think you can still stand upright after taking my first strike head-on.”
The sinister laughter carried the arrogant confidence that only the strong could possess.
“I heard you’re barely of age, yet you truly have heaven-sent talent. It’s a pity, but having met this elder today, your brilliant talent ends here.”
Elder Geumjong raised his sleeve again.
The Mara Golden Bell floating in midair emitted a subtle golden light, heralding the next toll.
The Elder in Black Robe’s gaze toward Guyang Cheongang had now sunk colder than frozen earth’s frost.
At that moment,
Space distorted and a brilliantly dazzling flash burst forth.
Seventy-two flying swords wreathed in dark blue sword energy appeared like phantoms in midair, forming the Flying Star Heaven Net Sword Formation.
The flying swords drew precise trajectories as they surrounded Elder Geumjong in layers.
The terrifying pressure of the Thousand Weight Formation rushed toward Elder Geumjong’s entire body like a tsunami.
As the invisible pressure became suffocatingly strong, surprise flashed in the old demon’s eyes.
“You’re deploying sword techniques at the intermediate Transformation Realm level that only advanced masters can perform?”
Bewilderment seeped into his voice.
“And seventy-two swords at that? This is impossible…”
However, his shock didn’t last long.
A bitter sneer soon appeared at the old demon’s lips.
“It’s just flying sword techniques borrowing the shell of sword techniques. Quite a peculiar skill indeed.”
Then a contemptuous snort burst forth.
“Hmph!”
It was just a single nasal sound, but terrifying internal energy was condensed within it.
The Flying Star Heaven Net Sword Formation trembled as if about to collapse, the swords’ trajectories twisted chaotically, and the formation constraining Elder Geumjong began to rapidly crumble.
Guyang Cheongang’s gaze sank coldly.
In that instant, Elder Geumjong swung his sleeve again.
Clang-!
It was the second toll of the Mara Golden Bell.
Just before the sound wave burst forth, Guyang Cheongang was already executing one supreme technique he had created.
While restricting the enemy’s range of movement with the sword formation, the Heaven-Splitting Roar burst from his mouth.
“Wooooo-!”
The pressure of the flying swords, the sound waves of the Mara Golden Bell, and the lion’s roar of the Heaven-Splitting Roar collided at a single point in space.
Crash crash crash crash bang-!
With explosions shaking all directions, the remains of the collapsed shrine scattered as dust.
From the center where dust rose like a storm, Guyang Cheongang’s body was pushed back once again.
The rebound force was much greater than the first collision.
He retreated a full seven more steps, and a stream of fresh blood flowed from his pale lips.
Elder Geumjong’s eyes flashed with intense killing intent.
“The third toll.”
His hand rose indifferently once more.
Just then.
Two black shadows burst into the battlefield at lightning speed.
It was Gyo Myosangin and Lady Bloodrose wearing human skin masks. Elder Geumjong looked them over and smiled coldly.
“Interesting. Are these rats planning to cooperate?”
His tone overflowed with leisure.
He was freely mocking those who struggled knowing they couldn’t block his bell toll.
Gyo Myosangin and Lady Bloodrose gritted their teeth.
They had risked their lives to leap into battle not out of loyalty, but because of the golden restriction.
The moment Guyang Cheongang’s heart stopped, their lifelines would be severed as well.
Whether they liked it or not, they now faced the fate of burial companions who had to prevent their master’s death.
Fengmafeng spun with storm-like momentum in Gyo Myosangin’s hand. In an instant, dozens of rotational forces overlapped, and the air was torn to shreds by those vibrations.
Whooooom-!
Simultaneously, Lady Bloodrose flicked her fingers.
Swish- Swish- Swish-!
Five blood plum needles charged like arrows, imbued with red killing intent.
The hidden weapons meticulously surrounded Elder Geumjong from three sides.
The momentum of these intermediate and advanced Transformation Realm masters was remarkable.
A look of surprise appeared in Elder Geumjong’s eyes.
“The Gyo Myosangin brat and the Bloodrose wench? I don’t know why you’re traveling with this bastard, but… Kekakakakaka! Interesting, very interesting!”
Bursting into wild laughter, he swung his hand once more.
Clang- Clang-!
Two bell sounds erupted in rapid succession without pause.
From the golden bell, invisible sound waves filled with terrifying power poured out like a tsunami.
The sound waves, leaving even longer resonance than before, devoured all sounds in the atmosphere and emitted eerie screams.
The first to collide with the sound waves were the seventy-two flying swords.
Kwaaaaang-!
The pressure of the Heaven Heavy Formation was torn apart like paper tigers, and the solid sword formation itself completely collapsed.
Guyang Cheongang didn’t hesitate and struck down with a heavy palm strike overlapped with nine layers of pressure.
Kwauuuuu-!
A palm shadow made of sword energy five feet in size rushed to meet the sound waves with terrifying momentum.
It was the Gale Nine Tribulations Technique.
At the same time, Gyo Myosangin’s Pungma Peak, rotating like a whirlwind, struck the side of the sound waves.
Following that, Lady Bloodrose’s five blood plum needles, infused with all her internal energy, flew toward the sound waves.
However, the power of the Mara Golden Bell overwhelmed all their attacks.
Bang-!
The Pungma Peak was helplessly knocked from Gyo Myosangin’s hands.
Excruciating pain as if his shoulder blade was being crushed penetrated his entire body, and he staggered back a great distance.
The sound waves even turned Lady Bloodrose’s blood plum needles to powder and struck her frail form.
Thud thud thud thud-!
Her body spun like a wheel in midair before flying five zhang away and rolling pitifully on the ground.
Fresh blood seeped from her seven orifices and her pupils were unfocused and hazy.
Being the lowest in martial arts among the three, she had suffered a fatal blow.
Guyang Cheongang also couldn’t withstand the shock and flew back more than ten steps.
Urgh-
Before he could even land, thick streams of blood burst from his mouth, and the pain of his internal organs twisting tormented his entire body.
Elder Geumjong’s eyes grew sinister.
“To withstand four strikes of the golden bell, you truly surprise this old master.”
At that moment,
Crack crack crack crack-
With the sound of bones twisting, Neungnam Gwang transformed into a nine-foot giant.
He had unleashed his original power that he had suppressed while using the Giant Spirit Divine Art.
Seeing this, Elder Geumjong’s eyes widened.
“Aren’t you that crazy bastard from the Neung family?”
Turning his gaze to Guyang Cheongang, an expression of disbelief appeared on the old demon’s face.
“Guyang boy, your connections even make this old master admire you. But!”
He raised the Mara Golden Bell high again.
“Believing you can preserve your life with a few such worthless beings is nothing but a vain dream!”
Elder Geumjong’s hand began moving toward the fifth bell strike.
Guyang Cheongang forcibly swallowed the continuously flowing blood and gritted his teeth.
His entire body was screaming.
An intuition flashed through his mind that if he faced the fifth bell sound like this, he could no longer hope for what came next.
He had to find a way.
In Guyang Cheongang’s mind, the overwhelming assault of Hyeonmu that he had witnessed in the Cheongi Dungeon rose like a phantom.
As if reading his intention, Akasha’s urgent voice roughly shook his consciousness.
[Doctor, not the Hyeonmu Descent Great Law! I absolutely cannot allow it!]
This was the first time Akasha had shown such intense emotion.
[It will cause internal organ rupture, complete reversal of qi and blood, and irreversible paralysis of the nervous system! This is suicide!]
It was a terrifying warning.
However, Elder Geumjong’s finger was already accelerating toward the bell’s surface.
Guyang Cheongang’s eyes sank as transparently and coldly as northern wind and snow.
‘Akasha, what is the consumption rate of the Hyeonmu Descent Great Law?’
[The consumption of extreme yin energy is immeasurable. Doctor, please…!]
Akasha’s voice trembled faintly.
Guyang Cheongang replied in a bitter tone.
‘Akasha, do I have any other choice left now?’
Heavy silence flowed.
Akasha also knew what the only remaining card was to escape this deadly situation.
[…I will prepare, Doctor.]
Her voice, now free of trembling, carried a desperate atmosphere.
[Forcing computational process overclock. I will be by your side, Doctor. Until the end.]
Guyang Cheongang’s hand slipped into his chest.
He took out one Dragon Nourishing Pill and threw it into his mouth without hesitation.
The powerful medicinal power that went down his esophagus forcibly shook awake the inner core of his dying dantian.
The inner core that had been dimly losing its light once again emitted fierce radiance.
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