Ascension of the Heavenly Demon - Chapter 308

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Chapter 308

The pillars shattered and the entire roof collapsed.

Thick clouds of dust billowed up.

And from within those ruins emerged a human figure—no, a man closer to a beast.

“Do, Dochang!”

Unyoo, who had been finishing his patrol around the Immortal Medicine Hall and preparing to change shifts, immediately recognized him.

But something was strange.

Grrrrr…

Though his low growling appearance was that of the friend he knew, it seemed like something else entirely was inside him.

“Senior Brother!”

“…”

“Senior Brother!”

At the alarmed calls of his junior brothers who were warily calling out, Unyoo suddenly snapped to his senses.

“That’s not Senior Brother Dochang.”

“What?”

“Look.”

At his junior brother’s words, Unyoo could finally sense it.

The dark aura rising from his friend’s body like darkness itself, and the chilling presence of killing intent.

Even through the thick dust, the glowing whites of his eyes didn’t look human either.

Why?

Why on earth was his friend in such a state?

“We must report this quickly. Hurry!”

At his junior brother’s words, Unyoo grimaced and gritted his teeth.

The bastard who was supposed to leave the temple grounds tomorrow…

“Unyeon, activate the alert immediately. I’ll hold off Dochang.”

“By yourself?”

“Yes.”

“Senior Brother! But the aura we’re sensing…”

“I know. I know. But it’s Dochang. He’s my friend.”

“…”

How could they not know?

Even without the anguish evident in his distorted expression, they could fully understand his feelings.

He had been his closest peer.

Though he hadn’t received a Taoist name, wasn’t he the one who had felt sorry for his lacking talent as if it were his own problem, caring for him more attentively than anyone?

But he couldn’t do it alone.

The aura being transmitted was far from ordinary.

Even from a distance, the killing intent Dochang was emitting made all the hair on their bodies stand on end, and their bodies were stiffening as if heavy stones had been placed on their shoulders.

Letting Unyoo handle it alone would be no different from pushing him into a death trap.

“We’ll deploy the Three Talents Sword Formation to help. We should be able to hold out at least until the leaders arrive.”

The Three Talents Sword Formation was a basic sword formation of the Huashan Sect based on the harmony of Heaven, Earth, and Man.

Though they had learned and mastered formations with greater power, among those that the few patrol members could deploy, this was the only one capable of simultaneously performing attack, defense, and suppression.

“Let’s do that. Deploy the Small Three Talents. But don’t draw your swords. Please.”

“Understood.”

As the order was given, the Taoists of the patrol formed a triangular formation with Unyoo at the front and emanated pressure.

Grrrrr.

Was such behavior irritating to him?

Dochang’s waist sank lower than before, his face grimacing with displeasure.

He looked like a beast preparing to attack.

Thud!

And immediately he kicked off the ground and leaped toward the formation.

“He’s coming! I’ll take the first strike!”

Unyoo quickly raised his sword, still in its scabbard, straight up toward the charging Dochang and thrust.

The position corresponding to the Heaven Sword.

But he put no killing intent into it.

The purpose was to obscure vision and break the flow with a straight thrust.

Whoosh!

At the sword strike that cut through the air with a deep thrust, Dochang twisted his head while maintaining his charging posture.

The sword grazed thinly past his ear.

“The Human Swords, suppress left and right!”

“Yes!”

The two Taoists who spread out like wings unfurling swung their swords low toward Dochang’s legs.

Also with scabbards attached.

Since the purpose was suppression, they intended to strike his legs to slow his movement.

“Earth Sword, press down!”

At Unyoo’s instruction, the Taoist in the rear leaped high, drawing a parabolic arc.

The moment Dochang’s center was disrupted by the leg strikes, he would press down and pin him.

Thwack!

The scabbards struck both legs hard.

The moment he lost his center, the Taoist in the Earth Sword position would press down on his body and suppress him…

“Huh?”

Dochang didn’t lose his center.

Despite being struck in the legs, as if he hadn’t taken any impact at all, he spread wide the two arms he had crossed together.

Whoooosh!

The Taoists in the Human Sword positions were struck by his fists and sent flying.

Thud! Crash!

The falling Taoist was caught by Dochang’s hand and slammed into the ground.

Graaaah!

Then like a beast, he opened his mouth wide, aiming for the nape of the neck.

He’s going to bite?

Startled, Unyoo instinctively drew his sword.

He had tried not to inflict wounds, but his junior brother’s life was about to be lost.

Swish! Slash!

The sword that created a swift change wounded Dochang’s shoulder blade, sending blood spurting up.

Thwack!

At the same time, Unyoo’s foot struck Dochang’s face hard.

It wasn’t very strong.

But Dochang, who should have fallen and then some, only had his body pushed back slightly without taking any other impact.

Screech!

In the midst of it all, he even clawed with fingers raised like beast claws.

“Damn!”

Startled, Unyoo quickly deployed the Five Elements Plum Blossom Steps and retreated.

Riiip!

His chest was torn by the hand he couldn’t completely avoid.

It stung.

A wound had formed from grazing against the fingernails.

If he hadn’t dodged in time…

“Damn it.”

Unyoo, who had retreated, urgently checked on his junior brothers’ safety.

“Are you all alright?”

“Yes.”

It was fortunate.

Though he had taken a shock, there seemed to be no hindrance to his movement.

“Senior Brother, the scabbard won’t be enough.”

“Hmm….”

He had seen it too.

Dochang showed no signs of being shocked at all, and rather seemed even angrier as his aura grew stronger.

It was completely incomprehensible.

How could Dochang, who had never learned martial arts at all, so easily break through the Three Talents Sword Formation deployed by the second-generation disciples?

Even if it wasn’t deployed in earnest….

“Senior Brother, at this rate it will be difficult to hold out until reinforcements arrive. You must make a decision.”

“….”

He had to draw his sword.

Since striking with the scabbard to subdue him seemed wrong.

‘Damn it. Dochang, how did you end up like this?’

Unyoo, his face grimacing, had to steel his heart.

For reasons unknown, Dochang was now beyond a level that could be dealt with carelessly.

If a fellow disciple were to fall victim to his hands, Dochang would commit an unforgivable sin against the sect.

The crime of killing a fellow disciple was punished more severely than anything else.

That much had to be prevented.

Even if it meant injuring him.

“Unyoo, fall back and recover, the rest form the True Three Talents formation.”

At Unyoo’s ruthless command, the Three Talents Sword Formation began to reveal its true power.

A triangular formation surrounded Dochang.

“Draw your swords.”

The drawn swords scattered sword aura from three directions, pressuring Dochang, and immediately attacks began for his subjugation.

Under the alternating, continuous attacks, Dochang’s movements became frantic.

But even as his wounds increased, he did not fall.

The more they tried to suppress him, the stronger his demonic gaze became, and his power was also doubling.

“Heaven and Earth form One Line!”

Power gathered into one.

As the Taoists’ attacks flew consecutively toward his center, Dochang began to step backward.

“Three Talents enter Reincarnation!”

Like fallen petals swirling around, the triangular formation rotated in a circle centered on Dochang.

The moment the plum blossoms drawn by the three swords overlapped into one.

The trajectory of the swords became one and fell down.

Kraaaak!

But in an instant, along with Dochang’s roar, intense aura burst out in all directions.

Thud! Thud thud!

The Three Talents could not contain him.

“Kugh!”

The Taoists, bounced away by the merciless rebound, crashed into the ground and rolled.

“Urgh!”

They collapsed from internal injuries and spat out blood.

Grrrrr.

Dochang was unharmed.

Though he was wounded and bleeding, far from weakening, his aura had grown even stronger.

It was a moment of crisis.

Even Unyoo, the strongest of the three, had his movements dulled.

Someone’s death had become unavoidable.

“Damn it, Dochang….”

As if he had lost his reason, like a hungry beast that had found prey and was swallowing its saliva.

Dochang approached like that.

But there was no law saying they had to die.

“Deploy the Ten Thousand Flowers Heaven Sword Formation to contain the culprit and save our fellow disciples!”

Reinforcements led by Hyeonmun, the leader of the patrol and a first-generation disciple, had arrived.

However, unfortunately, the Ten Thousand Flowers Heaven Sword was a killing formation with no mercy in its blade, so Unyoo’s heart grew heavy.

There was no way to save Dochang.

“Unyoo, are you alright?”

“Master Uncle, that fellow is….”

“I know. How could I not know Dochang.”

“Please show mercy.”

“I will try my best.”

“Thank you.”

“You fall back and tend to your body first. I will handle the rest.”

“…Yes.”

Unyoo retreated with a troubled heart and looked at the Ten Thousand Flowers Formation deployed against Dochang.

But the atmosphere was strange.

Thwang!

One of the Taoists forming the sword formation was sent flying.

Turning his gaze with widened eyes, Dochang was attacking a fellow disciple even while sword blades were embedded in his body.

“How, how can this be!”

Both Unyoo and Hyeonmun could not contain their shock.

Dochang seemed to feel no fear of the swords themselves and appeared to feel no pain.

Regardless of what happened to his own life, he blindly charged at the fellow disciples he considered enemies.

Like a moth flying into fire.

The problem was that his aura was growing stronger as time passed.

At some point, the energy he emitted began to overwhelm the Ten Thousand Flowers Sword Formation.

Meanwhile, as the disciples forming the sword formation collapsed and the axis crumbled….

“The formation is collapsing?”

At the moment when Hyeonmun’s eyes grew wider at the situation that was hard to believe even seeing it.

“You harbor a vile aura.”

“…?”

A voice came from the sky.

Hyeonmuk, who raised his head, unconsciously gaped at the sight that went beyond surprise.

An old man was standing there.

In the air.

The moment the old man leisurely raised his hand, countless swords of light appeared in the sky.

Sword Ancestor of Taeudon.

And it was the Immortal Spirit Heaven Sword he deployed.

“Die. You who became a monster, intoxicated by greed.”

The moment his hand turned over with a low voice, the swords in the sky poured down toward Dochang.

Both Hyeonmun and Unyoo could only stare blankly at that sight, which was even wondrous.

It felt like seeing something beyond human, a scene that exceeded the range of understanding.

But that was the moment.

Thung!

A streak of light flew in.

It was Zhuge Munhyeon who had arrived late.

The Silver Cold Staff in his hand emitted brilliant light as it was swung, smashing all the falling swords of light.

Crack crack crack crack!

The swords, shattered without missing a single one, broke into pieces and scattered overhead.

They were like fragments of stars shattered into pieces.

“Huff, huff. Damn fast. I almost arrived too late.”

Zhuge Munhyeon, who had landed on the ground, grumbled while catching his ragged breath.

“You bastard! What is the meaning of this! You must know what that thing is!”

The Sword Ancestor seemed extremely angry.

There was no way Zhuge Munhyeon couldn’t read the energy contained within Dochang’s body.

However, Zhuge Munhyeon waved his hand and said.

“I know, I know… Just wait a moment.”

“What?”

“There’s something I need to check. That fellow doesn’t seem unrelated to me somehow.”

“Not unrelated? What do you mean by that?”

“I’ll have to find out what that means starting now.”

Zhuge Munhyeon, who had already steadied his breathing, frowned as he looked at Dochang.

Somehow uneasily.

It seemed like that fellow had consumed the elixir that was entrusted to Mount Hua for investigation.

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