Ascension of the Heavenly Demon - Chapter 292

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Chapter 292

“What about these people?”

“Damn it, it’s the Blood Sect’s Soul Control Technique. A method that dominates and controls the souls of the living.”

“What?”

“Stay alert. They’re coming.”

Zhuge Munhyeon frowned and raised his Silver Cold Staff, aiming it forward.

Perhaps displeased by the eerie ghostly energy, the Silver Cold Staff began emitting a much stronger light than usual.

But Jin Yalim, who had been watching the enemies approaching while growling like beasts, stepped forward with a sneer.

He was still bewildered by the conversation between Zhuge Munhyeon and the old man just moments ago.

Demonic Sect, Blood Sect, human sacrifice, and whatnot…

But was there really a need to understand it all?

Whatever the hell these bastards were doing, since they faced him as enemies, he just needed to tear them all apart.

“Young Master, why are you so tense?”

“Huh?”

“These are just lowly scum who got dominated. I’ll handle them.”

“Hey, wait a minute…”

“Tsk tsk, this is why orthodox sects are no good. To hesitate out of pity for those being controlled against their will.”

He seemed to have some major misunderstanding.

And if I hadn’t protected you, you would have been dominated by the Soul Control Technique just now too, wouldn’t you?

Anyway, that wasn’t the problem right now.

He was taking the Blood Sect’s Soul Control Technique too lightly.

“Yalim, those people are…”

“Hmph! Didn’t you say the leader shouldn’t step forward first? Then just watch leisurely from behind and deal with that skeleton old man. I’ll tear apart all these small fry!”

Jin Yalim brushed off Zhuge Munhyeon’s hand and stepped forward with murderous eyes.

Ah, that idiot…

Small fry?

Fine, go ahead and get a taste of it.

There’s a reason for the saying that seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times, isn’t there?

As Zhuge Munhyeon let out a sigh, perhaps sensing Jin Yalim’s killing intent, the movement of the enemies he called ‘small fry’ quickened.

“Kuhehe, I’ll show you what kind of person I am!”

He wanted to show them.

Since he had been defeated so pathetically, he hadn’t had a proper chance to demonstrate until now.

That he was the successor of Green Forest, bore the name Heavenly River Star, and was a martial artist who wouldn’t fall short anywhere!

His Wood Pulse Submerged Flow surged to its limit.

Brilliant light poured from both his eyes with terrifying internal energy, and the explosively spreading aura created winds that wrapped around his body and extended in all directions.

The Gang Qi condensed in each finger was fierce enough to tear apart everything visible.

Behold.

This is who I am.

“I am! Green Forest’s Heavenly River Star, Jin Yalim!”

The moment his foot, which had dug deep into the ground, lifted off, Jin Yalim became a ferocious wolf flying toward those whose souls had been stolen.

Blood Wolf Fang, Heaven-Breaking Mad Wolf.

He was like a sudden gust of wind.

His clawing hands tore and ripped the enemies’ flesh.

Crack!

Crash!

Under his attacks imbued with Gang Qi, the enemies charging from the front were violently sent flying.

Having collapsed the front line in an instant, Jin Yalim rampaged even more ferociously.

“Kahaha! All of you, just die!”

Bursting into wild laughter as if greatly excited, he poured out tremendous Gang Qi.

Whatever his hands caught.

Whatever they touched.

He separated limbs and crushed bone joints into pieces.

‘Hehehe, did you see that? This is my level!’

And as if seeking recognition for his strength, he glanced at Zhuge Munhyeon.

But… what, a sigh?

That bastard!

His face contorted with anger at Zhuge Munhyeon’s reaction.

He wasn’t expecting praise, but at least he could have shown a reassured expression.

But… though he couldn’t hear the voice due to the noise of enemies howling like beasts and Gang Qi exploding all around, Zhuge Munhyeon’s lip movement said ‘be careful.’

‘Why?’

At that moment of puzzlement, Jin Yalim felt his spine chill. His instincts were warning him that something dangerous was approaching.

“Gasp!”

Jin Yalim quickly turned around, crossed both arms, and wrapped them with Gang Qi.

Crash!

He was roughly pushed back by the impact of someone ramming into him with their entire body.

Not only did he feel throbbing pain in his forearms, but he even felt nauseous.

Such an impact.

It felt like he had clashed with the same level of Gang Qi.

Swoosh.

Jin Yalim, who had been pushed back while creating furrows in the ground, barely managed to steady himself.

“Ugh.”

Letting out a deep groan, he couldn’t hide his surprise at the scene before his eyes.

The enemies were fine.

Even though their flesh had been torn to shreds by his hands and some had lost limbs.

Meanwhile, these guys’ energy was…

Their killing intent had grown thicker.

The aura he felt from them was much stronger than before.

“Really, charging in recklessly like that… The Soul Control Technique isn’t just about stealing souls, but a method that makes them drain all remaining life force and true essence in an instant.”

“…What?”

“Although they’ll crumble like withered dead trees when that power is exhausted, until the moment they die, they possess strength equivalent to Gang Qi.”

“…”

At Zhuge Munhyeon’s words, Jin Yalim opened his mouth wide with an expression of bewilderment.

Equivalent to Gang Qi?

Well, the force of the guy who rammed into him with his body was indeed at that level.

But why are you only telling me this now…

“Tsk, I was trying to tell you, but you uselessly jumped in first. Really, young people can’t control their hot blood and act recklessly, causing big trouble. That’s exactly how you end up dying a miserable death.”

At those words, Jin Yalim thought to himself.

Damn it.

Must be nice knowing so much.

But if I’m a young punk, then are you a toddling baby?

Of course, he only thought it.

“…Then what do we do? Gang Qi doesn’t work on them, and they’re fine even with limbs blown off. Moreover, if all of them are at a level similar to Gang Qi…”

“We need to buy time or kill the caster.”

“What?”

“The time they can be controlled by the Soul Control Technique isn’t very long. Also, the time they can maintain that power is short.”

“Ah… I see. But it doesn’t seem like we can buy time?”

Jin Yalim frowned at the sight of enemies approaching while forming an encirclement.

They were inside the cave.

The enemies were approaching while forming an arc-shaped encirclement.

The only way to buy time was to retreat back through the underground passage they had come from.

But with only one entrance, if the passage were to collapse even by chance, they would be buried alive.

“Of course I can’t drag this out. We might lose that bastard leader if we hesitate.”

Saying this, Zhuge Munhyeon glared at the old man.

Right now he couldn’t move since he was using the Ghost Spirit Technique.

If he disappeared, the subordinates being controlled by the Ghost Spirit Technique would lose control and collapse.

In any case, it was fortunate.

He must think he could kill him with those whose souls were stolen by the Ghost Spirit Technique.

“Um, so what do we do? You have a method, right?”

“Of course I do.”

“As expected! What is it? How can we kill those bastards?”

“We just have to fight.”

“What?”

Jin Yalim asked back with a dumbfounded expression.

Whack!

Getting hit on the head had become familiar by now.

“Aah! Damn it! Why are you hitting me? At such an urgent moment!”

“Because you look so stupid.”

“What’s wrong with what I said?”

“This bastard!”

“….”

When he raised the Silver Cold Staff again, Jin Yalim hurriedly shrank his neck.

“You bastard, did you already forget what I taught you?”

“….”

“They’re guys whose three souls and seven spirits have been suppressed, losing their reason and unable to feel pain. Even if their limbs are torn off and their flesh is ripped, as long as they can maintain their form, they’ll never fall.”

That’s why he was asking.

How do you fight such ruthless bastards?

“Then? You just have to chop them up more finely.”

“What?”

“Could guys chopped up into pieces of flesh get back up?”

“Well, that’s true, but….”

They were guys who had taken hits from Blood Wolf Fang and still stood up fine. Gang Qi didn’t work on them.

So chopping them into pieces of flesh….

“Recall the memory. How you first created the Steel Net. Don’t think of swinging Gang Qi like a club, but condense it and condense it again to make it like thin silver thread. If you layer that over and over to make it like a net… you should be able to slice up those kinds of things.”

At Zhuge Munhyeon’s words, Jin Yalim’s eyes flashed.

When he first entered Gongdong, he had definitely glimpsed such a level.

“Take on about two of them.”

“Two, two of them?”

“Even that much will be overwhelming for you right now. Give it your all.”

“But the rest… there are over thirty of them.”

“I’ll naturally have to handle those.”

“What? By yourself…?”

“Yes.”

Zhuge Munhyeon had an unbelievably confident expression.

While saying even two would be overwhelming for him….

“What are you doing? Earlier you said you’d somehow handle things until we reached the leader. Have you already lost confidence?”

“….”

The corner of his eye twitched.

At those words that thoroughly scratched his pride, Jin Yalim’s face contorted as he charged toward the enemies again.

Let’s see about this.

Just how well that show-off performs.

That was his mindset.

Bang!

When he unleashed Blood Wolf Fang, the two in front were pushed back, but soon straightened themselves.

They were still moving even with their ribcages completely exposed.

It meant it was still insufficient.

‘Without paying attention to the other guys, even thinner and sharper….’

Jin Yalim concentrated only on the enemy before his eyes while refining his Gang Qi.

Soon his internal energy hit its limit.

Making only the form smaller and thinner while maintaining the size of the power required an enormous amount of internal energy.

But after gritting his teeth and making the effort, the size of the Gang Qi held in his hand gradually decreased.

Eventually it became as thin as thread, transforming like silver thread hanging from his fingertips.

And it layered.

The Gang Qi forming a grid covered the enemy like a net.

Shaaaack!

Two.

They couldn’t get back up.

Though he couldn’t slice them like dried meat, it was at least to the degree of cutting them into neat squares.

The enemies divided into dozens of pieces fell down with thuds.

Ecstasy filled his entire body.

One stage of growth.

But that was his limit.

“Huff, huff, huff….”

He hadn’t noticed while concentrating, but it felt like all his internal energy had drained out in an instant, and his lungs felt like they would tear from his ragged breathing.

‘No good… there are still many enemies left. I need to quickly recover my strength and help.’

When he turned his head while barely standing on legs that kept losing strength.

Boooooom!

“….”

Jin Yalim could only stare blankly at the scene unfolding before his eyes.

Zhuge Munhyeon, who had somehow leaped into the midst of the enemies, was cheerfully swinging his gleaming iron club.

The enemies were… exploding.

Like firecrackers.

In the midst of it all, as if some mysterious power dwelt in the iron club, the ghostly energy disappeared from the eyes of those who fell after being struck hard.

“Kuaaaah!”

As soon as they regained their reason, they writhed while crying out in pain.

He was left speechless.

He had said he would handle all the rest.

‘…It was real.’

Suddenly he felt all his strength drain away.

He had been happy about achieving something, but watching Zhuge Munhyeon made him feel too insignificant.

What kind of human is that….

It didn’t seem like he needed to help at all.

‘Let’s rest, rest.’

He should worry about humans worth worrying about.

Jin Yalim, who had released his tension, sat down heavily with a tired expression.

Though it wouldn’t be strange if he collapsed and fell asleep right away, he somehow felt refreshed.

But unlike Jin Yalim, the old man from the Blood Sect couldn’t help but be shocked.

‘Wh-what the hell is this guy?’

Until he used the Ghost Spirit Technique, he had thought to capture him and find out various things.

But it didn’t work.

Not only was he defeating his subordinates whose souls had been suppressed, but he was destroying the Ghost Spirit Technique itself.

‘Krgh….’

Above all, ghost spirit techniques require the caster’s enormous mental strength as collateral.

Each time a technique was broken, shock accumulated within his body.

But this power….

‘Could it be? The same power as the Sect Leader?’

He had to flee.

Once all the subordinates he commanded fell, there wouldn’t even be an opportunity.

The old man slowly moved toward the common exit.

The moment he got close enough, he tried to cut off the ghost spirit technique and launch his body toward the door.

However.

Zhuge Munhyeon, who had already seen through that intention, leaped over the old man’s subordinates and swung his Silver Cold Staff.

“Who said I’d let you escape?”

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