Almighty God of War - Chapter 64

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Jupyo emerged from the shadows of the forest.

His face was filled with worry as he gazed in the direction where Guyang Cheongang and over five hundred pirates had disappeared.

But this was no time to be swept away by emotions.

He had work to do.

Using his Light Body Technique, Jupyo approached the wooden prison beside the altar like the wind.

“Urgh…”

“…Huu.”

The children trapped inside screamed in terror at his sudden appearance and hugged each other tightly.

To them, Jupyo, whose identity was unknown, appeared to be just another evil spirit.

Crack!

Jupyo broke the sturdy wooden bars with his bare hands as if snapping dry twigs.

Then he spoke to the children in the gentlest voice possible.

“Children, it’s alright. This old man is not here to harm you.”

His gaze turned to a boy who, even in his fear, was embracing his younger siblings and was the only one looking directly at him.

“You seem to be the oldest. What is your name?”

“…Du Jinseong.”

The boy answered with a trembling voice.

The moment he heard that name, Jupyo’s eyes flashed.

“Are you a descendant of the Du Family?”

“…Yes.”

“How fortunate. Your grandfather Du Jeongkwang and I are sworn brothers.”

Jupyo’s following words carried strength.

“He is waiting for you at the bay right now. Can you lead your younger siblings well and follow this old man?”

The boy, Du Jinseong, who had found hope in his fear, read sincere truth in his eyes.

He bit his trembling lips and nodded vigorously.

“Yes.”

After entrusting the children to Du Jinseong, Jupyo approached about twenty women who were sitting half-dazed around the altar.

He silently removed his outer garment and covered the naked body of the woman closest to him.

“Pull yourself together. It’s alright now. Quickly get up and follow me.”

At his solemn voice, the women began to support each other one by one and struggled to their feet.

Jupyo led the terrified children and deeply wounded women, leaving the horrific altar behind as he began to exit the forest toward the promised bay.

* * *

Guyang Cheongang ran with all his might, utilizing Blood Pearl Island’s treacherous terrain.

[Doctor, swampland at 3 o’clock. Go to the rocky area on the left!]

Following Akasha’s warning-filled guidance, he narrowly avoided the putrid-smelling swamp.

Behind him, the footsteps and shouts of hundreds of pirates pursued him like an army from hell.

* * *

Jupyo led thirty children and twenty women toward the dock where the ships were moored.

Thanks to Guyang Cheongang luring away the pirates, there was no one blocking their path, but it was too early to feel relieved.

No one could know how the situation might change.

Jupyo constantly comforted the children and women while picking up the pace.

Du Jinseong followed behind him, supporting the boys and girls who were about to collapse from exhaustion and encouraging the women.

Jupyo would occasionally glance back at him, and admiration would flash across his eyes.

* * *

[Doctor, by now Master Jupyo should have arrived at the bay with the children.]

At Akasha’s report, Guyang Cheongang stopped running.

He stood atop a sheer cliff forty zhang high.

There was no longer any reason to flee, nor strength left to escape.

His internal energy had hit rock bottom, and the cold energy of Nine Yin Severed Meridians froze his entire body.

Ten zhang ahead, the pirates looking at him had anger, killing intent, and madness blazing in their eyes.

Cheongang muttered as he looked at them.

‘Akasha, I’m going to the sea. Protect me.’

[I will do my best, Doctor.]

Without hesitation, he leaped off the cliff dozens of zhang below.

Whoosh!

The pirates watched him helplessly, like dogs that had lost the chicken they were chasing.

* * *

An ominous silence flowed through the northern bay of Blood Pearl Island, at the pirates’ harbor.

There, a single ship that Du Jeongkwang had seized with Golden King waited quietly in the darkness for departure.

Golden King, who had been watching the den, cried softly.

Kieee-

Jupyo and about fifty people in haggard condition were running toward them.

Du Jeongkwang urgently helped them board the ship.

“Grandfather!”

When Du Jinseong recognized his grandfather and ran to him, Du Jeongkwang shed tears and embraced him.

“Seong! You’re safe, what a relief…”

Everyone had boarded and departure preparations were complete, but Jupyo only anxiously looked back and forth between the dark forest where Guyang Cheongang had disappeared and the sea.

“The Young Master is still…”

Du Jeongkwang also couldn’t bring himself to depart.

Just then, Golden King at the bow made a sharp sound and pointed toward the seawater near the ship.

Kieeeeik!

Everyone’s gaze turned in that direction.

The black waves seemed to ripple, then Guyang Cheongang’s head emerged from the water with difficulty.

The human skin face mask had been torn off at some point, revealing his original face, which was not just pale but deathly white.

Moreover, his body was covered with a layer of frost, making his appearance grotesquely bizarre.

Guyang Cheongang seemed to lack even the strength to leap onto the ship, breathing heavily as he barely stayed afloat.

“Young Master!”

The moment Jupyo cried out in shock, there was someone who moved even faster than him.

It was Golden King.

The creature became a streak of golden light and leaped into the cold water without hesitation.

Then it bit Guyang Cheongang’s collar with its mouth and, displaying incredible strength unbelievable for its small body, dragged him up onto the deck.

Jupyo supported the soaking wet Guyang Cheongang as he lay there.

“…I am glad to see the Young Master alive again. Thank you for keeping your promise.”

Guyang Cheongang leaned against his support and spoke with a weak smile.

“Quickly… set sail…”

With those words, he lost consciousness.

“Raise the anchor! We depart immediately!”

Du Jeongkwang urgently shouted to the boys.

He, along with Jupyo and over ten boys in their mid-teens, immediately grabbed the oars and began rowing.

Children raised in Payang families, no matter how noble their lineage from great houses, learn swimming and boat handling as basics from childhood.

This is because all the family’s businesses are related to waterways.

The boat glided toward Poyang Lake, leaving behind Blood Pearl Island that had been like hell itself.

In the distance, pirates who belatedly realized the group’s escape began shouting and boarding ships to start their pursuit.

Fear appeared again on the faces of the rescued women and children.

However, Du Jeongkwang looked at them and smiled leisurely.

“Everyone can rest assured. Those bastards won’t be able to chase us.”

As soon as his words ended, dozens of pirate ships trying to set sail began tilting strangely to one side, then started sinking helplessly.

The harbor instantly turned into pandemonium.

The effect of Du Jeongkwang and Golden King having drilled holes in all the bottoms of their ships was now showing.

* * *

Three days later, at the Du Family Head’s Annex.

The cool air of a midwinter morning circulated through the Main Hall.

Du Jeongkwang gazed at the desolate winter garden with his hands clasped behind his back.

His eyes held a mixture of anxiety and restlessness.

Beside him, his son Du Weiping kept his lips tightly sealed and clenched and unclenched his fists as if his father’s anxiety had infected him.

Unlike them, Jupyo sat like a rock with his eyes closed, completely motionless.

Heavy silence pressed down on the room.

Du Jeongkwang spoke with a cracked voice.

“Elder Brother… when do you think Young Master will awaken from his comatose state? He single-handedly faced five hundred pirates on Blood Pearl Island and rescued children from that hellish island, yet he hasn’t awakened for so long. Is he really alright…?”

He couldn’t continue his words.

Jupyo opened his eyes.

His eyes showed not the slightest waver.

“Don’t worry too much. Young Master will surely recover and rise. He’s not someone who would fall from something like this.”

Du Jeongkwang found momentary comfort in Jupyo’s confidence, but still looked anxiously toward the door where Guyang Cheongang lay sleeping.

“Still… if something unexpected happens, our branch family won’t be able to show our faces to the Guyang Family Estate.”

“Stop with the useless talk and wait. Young Master will definitely rise.”

However, contrary to Jupyo’s confidence, Guyang Cheongang’s condition was not good.

In fact, he should have died normally.

The internal injuries from his final exchange with the Blood Spirit Demon had dealt fatal damage to his five organs and six bowels.

But more terrifying than that was the extreme yin energy of Nine Yin Severed Meridians, which began rampaging like an unbridled colt when his internal energy was depleted.

The terrifyingly cold energy of the severed meridians was twisting all his meridians.

Yet the reason he was still breathing was thanks to a single strand of Tiger Heart True Energy thinner than a hair.

Paradoxically, Tiger Heart True Energy was internal energy absorbed and purified from the Blood Spirit Demon that had tried to kill him.

It remained weakly dormant between his meridians, not yet fully integrated into Guyang Cheongang’s internal energy.

Then, when its master stood at death’s threshold, it moved on its own, desperately preventing his heart meridian from being completely blocked by cold energy.

Akasha mobilized all her computational power to protect Guyang Cheongang’s last spark of life.

[Complete meridian system shutdown imminent. Life support system reaching critical point.]

The analysis was desperate, but she didn’t give up.

[Searching for new breakthrough. Possibility of utilizing pure yang energy from the Eternal Warm Jade in Doctor’s possession as power source: 1.3%.]

The probability was slim, but it was the only path.

[Executing emergency protocol ‘Yang Energy Synchronization.’]

Akasha desperately used the last remaining Tiger Heart True Energy to send all available nanobots to the Eternal Warm Jade Buddha statue in Guyang Cheongang’s possession.

The nanobots attached to the jade’s surface and began drawing out the yang energy sleeping within.

[Yang energy extraction successful. Now directly supplying this energy to Doctor’s Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art constant circulation system to forcibly reactivate the stopped qi flow.]

Akasha took control of the body in place of the unconscious Guyang Cheongang.

The warm energy of Eternal Warm Jade carried by nanobots flowed into his coldly frozen dantian.

It served as an ignition device to restart the engine called Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art that had nearly stopped.

How much time had passed?

Whooooom-!

Like new embers thrown into a dying brazier, the energy of Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art began circulating again in Guyang Cheongang’s dantian, albeit as weakly as a thread.

Akasha didn’t miss this opportunity.

She used the purified internal energy absorbed from the Blood Spirit Demon and lying dormant as a catalyst, sharpening the newly moving true energy flow like a spear.

Then she carefully advanced that spear toward the massive ice gate that was the third major acupoint of Nine Yin Severed Meridians, which had firmly blocked Guyang Cheongang’s meridians.

Kwaaaaaaaaang-!

Inside Guyang Cheongang’s body, a thunderous roar echoed as if an invisible massive dam was collapsing.

His unconscious body jerked once greatly on the bed.

The spear of true energy and the firmly closed gate of cold energy collided violently.

After a long battle between the two energies repeatedly expanding and contracting, hairline cracks finally began forming in the ice gate.

Akasha poured all movable energy into one point of the major acupoint.

Kwaddddddeuk-!

Finally, the firmly closed third major acupoint burst open with a thunderous roar like a bursting dam.

It was a miracle created by Akasha’s precise true energy control and the Eternal Warm Jade’s assistance.

The cold energy that had been flowing backward like an unbridled colt began flowing like a great river along the newly opened path.

The flow of Transcendent Impermanence Divine Art became much more powerful than before, pushing back the territory occupied by Nine Yin Severed Meridians’ cold energy and perfectly controlling the true energy flow.

A warm flush very slowly began returning to Guyang Cheongang’s pale face.

He had overcome the crisis of death.

Golden King remained by his bedside for days without eating, drinking, or moving at all.

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