Almighty God of War - Chapter 63

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Guyang Cheongang dismissed Akasha’s warning.

The altar where the Blood Spirit Demon stood was now within arm’s reach.

Guyang Cheongang quickly pulled out a Premium Yang Dragon Pill from his chest and swallowed it.

Since he had already taken one while training at the Guyang Family Estate, there was no effect on improving his martial prowess, but the healing and vitality recovery effects were still excellent.

His boiling meridians stabilized, and the depleted internal energy in his dantian slowly began to fill.

Though it couldn’t compare to his perfect condition, even this much was a blessing.

“Kahahaha!”

Behind the Blood Spirit Demon’s mask, his bloodshot eyes gleamed with madness as burst blood vessels turned them red.

Even though his guards had been annihilated by Guyang Cheongang’s hands, his eyes were filled with greed instead of fear.

“Excellent, excellent! Your soul and body will become the perfect sacrifice to offer to the Blood God!”

As he spread both arms, crimson mist swirled like a phantom above the altar.

A nauseating stench of blood covered the forest, and Blood Energy Flow writhed like snakes flowing from his palms.

He shouted in a grotesque voice.

“Come forth, sacrifice!”

Guyang Cheongang stood tall on the altar, looking straight into the eyes of the Blood Spirit Demon who was looking down at him, and spoke to Akasha.

‘I’m finishing off that madman. Akasha, support me!’

[Sigh… Understood, Doctor.]

Guyang Cheongang’s body became blurred.

Swoosh!

Flash Step unfolded, and the five-zhang distance between him and the Blood Spirit Demon disappeared in an instant.

Simultaneously,

Kwakwakwakwakwa-

The Seventy-Two Palms of Gale Chain Palm unfolded like beads on a string, flying toward the Blood Spirit Demon’s head and chest.

The demon didn’t dodge and fiercely swung both palms.

Mighty palm force wrapped in Blood Energy Flow met the Gale Chain Palm.

Kwakwakwakwakwang!

With an explosive sound, the Blood Spirit Demon’s feet dug about two inches into the stone altar he was standing on, and everything within a two-zhang radius was swept up in a storm of blade-like energy.

The corpses scattered around were sliced into pieces like finely cut jerky.

Guyang Cheongang’s body, struck by the impact, bounced about one zhang into the air.

Staggering as he landed, he charged at the Blood Spirit Demon again.

[The Blood Spirit Demon’s internal energy is similar to yours, Doctor. But right now, you’ve consumed thirty percent of your internal energy from consecutive battles, putting you at a disadvantage. I don’t recommend direct confrontation.]

At that moment, the Blood Spirit Demon’s palm force flew at him again.

Shwaaaaaaak-

The speed of the palm force was chillingly fast.

Even Guyang Cheongang, with his dynamic vision maximized through Maximum Combat Mode, could barely follow it with his naked eyes.

Thud!

Even after consecutively deploying Nine Palace Maze Step and Flash Step, the Blood Energy Flow grazed his body.

Instantly, a blue nanobot defense shield spread like ripples over his skin.

[Impact absorption rate 84%. Accumulated internal injuries 30%.]

Even so, the shock resonated to his bones, and the corner of Guyang Cheongang’s mouth trembled slightly from the pain.

The cold energy of Nine Yin Severed Meridians that he had suppressed began creeping up from deep in his chest.

‘If I’m pushed back like this, I’ll never recover my momentum.’

Guyang Cheongang’s eyes became frighteningly intense.

He broke through the whirlwind of Blood Energy Flow head-on, pouring storm-like Gale Chain Palm strikes at the Blood Spirit Demon.

Thudthudthudthud!

His palm techniques and the Blood Energy Flow clashed, producing tremendous roars without pause, and the altar crumbled as stone dust rose like mist.

“Kahahaha! Despair and despair again! He will be pleased!”

The Blood Spirit Demon seemed to have taken considerable damage from the continuous collisions, as fine cracks appeared in his mask.

But as if finding pleasure in pain, he gleamed with mad eyes and unleashed even more powerful Blood Palms.

[Warning! Doctor, the cold energy of Nine Yin Severed Meridians is trying to reverse flow!]

Akasha’s voice, filled with worry, rang through Guyang Cheongang’s mind.

But his eyes, burning with rage, didn’t waver in the slightest.

At that moment, the Blood Spirit Demon absorbed the Blood Energy Flow rising from the altar into his body.

And massive crimson palm shadows formed in both his hands.

It was such a bizarre martial art that it seemed to be condensed from the altar’s bloody stench and resentment.

“I shall make your soul a sacrifice! Blood Demon Descent!”

With the Blood Spirit Demon’s cruel shout, a crimson palm shadow that seemed to condense all the blood and resentment on the altar shot toward Guyang Cheongang.

Kwarrrrrrrr-!

With an Air-Splitting Sound like thunder, the crimson palm shadow blocked all possible escape routes and struck Guyang Cheongang with terrifying force.

[Evasion impossible! Impact calculation results: 99.8% probability of death!]

‘If I can neither dodge nor block it…!’

Guyang Cheongang didn’t run away.

His eyes shone colder than ever before.

‘There’s only one way!’

Akasha’s urgent voice followed.

[Doctor, that attack’s energy wave has fundamentally the same yin properties as your Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art. Though extremely corrupted and destructive, absorption is possible!]

‘Then… I have no choice. Akasha, absorb it!’

[Understood.]

It was a life-or-death gamble, but Guyang Cheongang had no other choice.

He deployed Gale Chain Palm head-on toward the crimson wave of death rushing at him.

Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa-

In an instant, a storm of palm shadows with Seventy-Two Palms overlapped five times collided head-on with the crimson Blood Demon Descent.

Thudthudthudthudthudthudthudthudthudthud-

The scene of clashing palm forces resembled endless waves crashing against a massive iron wall.

Though it seemed like a single moment, Gale Chain Palm collided with the Blood Palm three hundred sixty times.

With each collision, Guyang Cheongang’s palm force was pushed back little by little.

However, he wasn’t just helplessly pushed back.

Gale Chain Palm chipped away at the Blood Palm’s momentum with each collision.

And this wouldn’t have been possible without the Absorption Formula of Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art.

The Blood Spirit Demon’s internal energy absorbed into Guyang Cheongang’s body was purified in real time by nanobots, which was then added to Guyang Cheongang’s internal energy.

But the burden his body endured in this process was beyond imagination.

His meridians alternated between burning hot and freezing cold.

At some point, all the crimson Blood Energy Flow that had covered the altar disappeared.

Dark red blood clots poured from the mouth of Guyang Cheongang, who was buried waist-deep in the ground after breaking through the altar’s stones.

“Cough…!”

His body was in tatters.

In the process of forcibly absorbing and purifying the opponent’s evil energy, his meridians experienced pain as if being torn to shreds.

The Blood Spirit Demon, who had been shocked that his ultimate technique had vanished futilely, soon grasped the situation upon seeing Guyang Cheongang’s miserable state buried in the ground and coughing up blood.

“You bastard… you forcibly swallowed my blood energy?”

Though his voice carried a tone of disbelief, it quickly disappeared.

Because he saw Guyang Cheongang’s state, unable to even breathe properly.

The Blood Spirit Demon burst into triumphant laughter.

“Kahahaha! You seem to have learned some strange demonic art, but in the end, your vessel couldn’t handle it. Good, very good! I’ll tear your limbs off while you’re still alive and offer them as sacrifice to the Blood God!”

Confident of victory, he slowly raised his hand to end the intruder’s life.

But at that very moment, Guyang Cheongang, who had been hanging his head and coughing up blood, suddenly raised his head.

His two eyes were still burning with flames of rage that hadn’t been extinguished—no, rather seemed ready to burn everything to ashes.

“It’s not… over yet, you bastard!”

Bang!

The pile of stones from the altar that had been burying him exploded outward.

And his shadow shot up like lightning.

Ignoring both Akasha’s warnings and his body’s pain, he squeezed out every last drop of his remaining internal energy.

Unfolding Flash Step, he kicked off the ground and charged forward, unleashing the Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer with all his remaining power!

The supreme technique, which could be called the absolute best in Gangho for speed and pinpoint strikes, flew toward the Blood Spirit Demon’s chest with terrifying momentum.

“You, you bastard…!”

The Blood Spirit Demon’s eyes widened in shock at the strike that had charged right up to him in an instant.

His complexion changed drastically as he desperately tried to gather his power.

Only seventy percent of his internal energy had gathered.

Only then did it occur to him that Guyang Cheongang had stolen his internal energy.

The problem was that because of this, he had no strength left to dodge the Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer.

“Huk!”

The Blood Spirit Demon’s face behind the mask turned pale yellow.

At that moment, the Explosive Thunder Flame King Hammer struck the Blood Spirit Demon’s heart precisely, and a spray of blood erupted thickly from his body with a large hole in his chest.

Bang!

Pshh!

The Blood Spirit Demon couldn’t even scream, just looked down at his pierced chest with disbelieving eyes and fell backward.

It was instant death.

[Internal energy remaining 0.8%. Nine Yin Severed Meridians backflow critical. Immediate treatment required.]

Guyang Cheongang’s vision blurred.

The cold energy of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians froze his entire body and choked his breath.

But he couldn’t collapse now.

Because the fight wasn’t over yet.

Turning his head, he saw over five hundred pirates rising from their seats.

The frenzied festival that had been surrounding the altar had stopped as if by magic.

In place of the terrible screams and greedy laughter, only suffocating silence descended along with the sound of burning torches.

Hundreds of pirates looked at Guyang Cheongang standing alone on the altar with disbelieving eyes.

At that very moment, Guyang Cheongang noticed a strange light seeping out from within the Blood Spirit Demon’s tattered corpse.

Guyang Cheongang approached the object emitting the strange light cautiously without lowering his guard.

Where the Blood Spirit Demon’s heart should have been, a black bone fragment the size of a fingernail was pulsating with an ominous purple light.

Thump… thump…

On the bone’s surface, bizarre patterns that seemed like writhing earthworms were densely carved.

‘Akasha, what is that?’

[Doctor, the object is emitting high concentrations of negative psychic energy and biological contamination waves. Never touch it with your bare hands!]

Akasha’s urgent warning rang through his mind.

‘So it’s not just simple evil energy?’

[No. This appears to be a kind of ‘crystallization of evil energy’ or ‘amplifier’ created by using the pain and resentment of countless life forms as sacrifice and condensing them. The ritual being performed at the altar was presumably to supply energy to this bone.]

Guyang Cheongang tore the Blood Spirit Demon’s blood-stained robe and carefully wrapped the bone before picking it up.

Madness flashed in the pirates’ eyes as they saw this.

“Kill that bastard!”

“Retrieve the divine object!”

“That bastard murdered our Sect Leader!”

With bloodthirsty shouts, over five hundred pirates charged at him, swinging their swords.

Guyang Cheongang glanced at the tree where Jupyo was hiding, forcibly swallowed the blood clot filling his mouth, and shouted mockingly.

“Your divine object is mine now!”

He gathered his remaining internal energy and unfolded the Heavenly Meteor Movement Technique, racing southward.

Whiiish-

A flying blade thrown by someone grazed his ear, and cursing shouts struck his ears.

“Catch that bastard!”

Though the cold energy of the Nine Yin Severed Meridians seemed to freeze his eight extraordinary meridians, Guyang Cheongang gritted his teeth and kicked off the ground.

When all the pirates disappeared, chasing after him like madmen, silence came to the hellish clearing.

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