Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 132

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

 

 

 

The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

Chapter 132

Operation ‘Crevasse’ (2)

 

 

 

Screeeech-

The Peng Demon King flew swiftly along the ceiling through the corridor.

Son Wukong was on her torso, while Sha Wujing hung from her feet.

It was a cute sight of baby animals moving together, but the three demon kings were actually very serious.

The closer they got to the Yu Tamarin King, the more ominous the feeling grew.

Then Son Wukong saw him in the distance.

‘That bastard must be Xu Changyou.’

Even though this was definitely their first meeting, the aura felt very familiar.

The Jade Emperor.

The energy of that bastard who deserved to be torn apart and killed was emanating from him…

He wanted nothing more than to manifest right now, smash that head, and drag down the Jade Emperor connected through the pineal gland,

but Son Wukong endured with superhuman patience.

As promised, that bastard belonged to his one and only disciple.

‘…Disciple.’

Pfft.

Son Wukong let out a hollow laugh at himself for now accepting Lee Hyeon as such without hesitation.

However, he didn’t feel bad about it.

That guy had become an indispensable existence to him as well.

And,

‘Thanks to that guy, I can continue finding opportunities to save my brothers while avoiding their eyes. There’s no need to spoil his entertainment.’

Son Wukong decided to postpone his fight with the Jade Emperor for later.

Not all of his power had returned yet, and fighting the entire along with the Jade Emperor would be burdensome right now.

Even if he somehow blocked , bastards like or would come rushing in lines afterward.

Devil bastards like or giant bastards like would surely gather and pester them to join forces.

So it wasn’t time to act so aggressively yet.

Not yet…

But when he regained all his power. And when all preparations were complete.

Then,

‘It will be different from now.’

Son Wukong made that firm resolution.

So,

‘For now, shall I just lightly stir things up and leave?’

One corner of Son Wukong’s mouth twisted.

 

* * *

 

“Hmm?”

“What’s wrong, Captain?”

“Nothing. It’s nothing.”

Xu Changyou seemed to sense something and lifted his head slightly, but soon shook it.

This place was thoroughly isolated from the outside.

It was a kind of dungeon.

 

[You have passed through the Gate.]

[‘Item: Heavenly Jade’ is activating. You are separated from the external environment and absolutely undetectable.]

 

[You have entered the Dungeon, ‘Present World Kunlun’!]

 

“This place feels strange every time I come here. Truly unpleasant.”

Xu Changyou twisted his lips as he looked at the scenic beauty spread before him.

A stream flowed gently, and a refreshing breeze blew.

Beyond the hills, mountains with beautiful scenery surrounded the area.

It was like seeing the paradise of Chinese mythology, the Peach Blossom Spring.

And,

Below the steep mountainside that stood upright.

There were ancient buildings of tremendous scale boasting an elegant style.

Xuantian Jade Palace.

It was a palace built in imitation of the palace where the Queen Mother of the West, a great god of , was said to reside.

The research facility where they imprisoned and experimented on the Yu Tamarin King was located right there.

“Well, there’s no place more splendid than this to serve as the tomb of a dying god.”

At the entrance leading from the central base to the research facility, a sacred relic called Heavenly Jade was installed.

A treasure cherished by the Queen Mother of the West, a great deity of .

It had the characteristic of being an entrance that transcended dimensions.

Thanks to this, the research facility could be thoroughly separated from the outside, and if the base was attacked, all entrances and passages would automatically be blocked, making external intrusion absolutely impossible.

‘After that, only with a resolution from the Committee executives can the Dungeon Gate connecting to the outside be opened again. Since all gates have been closed since Blue Thunder’s attack, there’s no way Lee Hyeon could discover this place.’

That was no exception even for Xu Changyou himself.

He was merely visiting during a brief opportunity given to him.

Once he obtained what he wanted, he planned to leave again.

Then he wouldn’t be able to return without the Committee’s permission.

“The outside seems quite chaotic… Is it okay for the person in charge to flee to a place like this?”

At that moment, there was a woman who emerged from Xuantian Jade Palace and quietly landed in front of Xu Changyou.

She wore a white gown and distinctive glasses. Her red lips were particularly seductive.

It was Research Director Yao Lan.

She was also an executive of the Central Hero Committee with the Queen Mother of the West as her inheritance.

“I have something to collect.”

“Something to collect?”

Yao Lan tilted her head in confusion at Xu Changyou’s words,

but Xu Changyou silently passed by her and entered deep into Xuantian Jade Palace.

“Hey!”

Yao Lan couldn’t stop Xu Changyou as he pushed his way in recklessly.

The moment she tried to grab his shoulder, she felt her fingertips burning.

‘What the hell…!’

Yao Lan’s eyes widened.

Her fingertips were burning black.

It was terrible cold and poison.

‘What did he receive from Director Liu? That person shouldn’t have such abilities!?’

Liu Chen’s inheritance was the Flame Emperor Shennong.

He was a great deity who invented agriculture and medicine.

He had no divine authority to harm others so carelessly.

Then it must be a technique he developed himself, but to the point where it would damage his own magic power?

Yaoran felt uneasy and hurriedly chased after Xu Changyou.

Xu Changyou had already entered the deepest part of the Xuantian Secret Palace, all the way to the research lab where the Macaque King was located.

“D-Director!”

“Move aside.”

The researchers were stamping their feet anxiously while waiting for Yaoran.

Yaoran tried to push through them to enter the research lab, but a fierce blizzard blocked her entry.

“……!!”

Even the Ping Xin agents who had followed him were blocking the entrance.

As if telling her not to interfere.

And…….

Xu Changyou was staring at the Macaque King trapped in a glass chamber connected vertically to the ceiling.

The form of a long-armed monkey so emaciated that its skin clung to its bones like a skeleton.

However, due to the side effects of various experiments, it was missing limbs one by one, and its body was covered with scars both large and small.

Nevertheless, its massive frame well over 6 meters tall gave a sense of how powerful it must have been when alive.

“I’ve come because I need your help, Macaque King. I’ll be borrowing this.”

Xu Changyou smiled coldly as he extracted something from a hose connected to the glass chamber.

It was a gem glowing red.

 

[Essence of Immortality]

A fragment of divinity that might barely yield a single drop even if you forcibly squeezed a dead god.

It can also be used as a material to create elixirs of eternal life and immortality like the elixir of life or nectar.

-Type: Material Item.

 

A treasure that the Xuantian Secret Palace barely completed after astronomical amounts of money and long-term support from the Central Hero Committee.

Originally, this treasure should have been delivered to high-ranking party officials with little time left to live, or to the Committee’s High Rankers……!

“I’ll use it well and return it to you.”

“Wait! Stop!!”

Yaoran frantically tried to break through the snowfall and rush toward Xu Changyou, but,

Whoooosh!

An even fiercer blizzard swirled up, and soon disappeared taking Xu Changyou and all his subordinates with it.

“That crazy bastard!!”

Yaoran let out a shrill scream as she tried to chase after Xu Changyou.

If this fact became known to the party, they would be finished.

However,

 

『So our brother was in such a shabby place.』

 

“……!?”

Suddenly, she couldn’t move rashly due to a tremendous echo that thundered from the sky like thunder.

An enormous pressure crushed the surroundings.

“……!”

“……!”

“……!!”

A tremendous intimidation that might occur when a god descends to the mortal world.

The moment Yaoran and the researchers looked up at the ceiling with pale faces,

Craaaaaash!!

Three rough lightning bolts appeared, smashing through the roof of the Xuantian Secret Palace.

 

[Divine beings are descending!]

 

* * *

 

Thud!

Craaaaaash-

Rumble……!!

“Kyaaaah!”

“Gah!”

“Uaaaah……!”

A tremendous gale swept through the entire Xuantian Secret Palace.

Such tremendous vibrations that one might think the dungeon was collapsing.

Hissssss…….

Yaoran, who barely managed to save her life by using her divine authority, hurriedly raised her head.

‘What the hell is this……!!’

From Xu Changyou fleeing with the Essence of Immortality to the unidentified intrusion, and even the collapse of the Xuantian Secret Palace.

With only chaotic situations occurring consecutively, she was in no state to collect her thoughts.

Yaoran forcibly raised her head in her dust-covered state.

It seemed all the other researchers had already died, crushed by the gale or the intimidation.

Then, when she focused on what was in front of her, her eyes widened.

Three beautiful men and women standing in front of the glass chamber where the Macaque King was trapped.

Two of them had faces very familiar to Yaoran.

‘Sha Wujing! Bull Demon King!!’

Sha Wujing was laughing with a clear voice while wearing prayer beads made of connected human skulls around his neck,

And the Bull Demon King was approaching this way with his red hair flowing long.

“It’s been a while, Yaoran? You seem to have been doing very well?”

“……How are you……!”

Yaoran was the general manager of the project that had been researching the Bull Demon King and Macaque King for a long time.

Naturally, there was no way she wouldn’t recognize the Bull Demon King.

The problem was that the Bull Demon King she knew felt too different from the Bull Demon King standing before her eyes now.

He was a god.

Though it might be nothing compared to his prime days,

Still, compared to mortals like humans, he was already as good as complete—a god.

Only then could Yaoran recall the news that Zhang Baiyan had recently tried to retrieve the Bull Demon King from Korea’s Ulleungdo, but failed due to interference from Jet and the Thunder Unit.

And now,

Outside , Jet and the Thunder Unit had arrived…….

“How, you ask. I arrived well. I’ve been missing you terribly all this time.”

Red warning lights went off in Yaoran’s head.

She had to somehow call back Xu Changyou who had left first, but,

Grab!

“Gah!”

Before she could do so, Yaoran found herself floating in the air with her neck grabbed by invisible hands.

Flash-

Before she knew it, the Bull Demon King was gripping her by the collar with a bewitching smile.

Yaoran’s eyes shook uncontrollably.

Though she too was one of the High Rankers the Committee was proud of.

She was absolutely not at a level to handle the person in front of her.

“It’s already too late if you’re trying to call outsiders. This dungeon has already been completely seized by the three of us, making it unreadable even from the Heavenly Realm.”

“……!!”

“This is the result of you people constantly shouting about security, security. How is it? This situation where the positions are completely reversed from a few years ago? Isn’t it surprising?”

 

-Isn’t it amazing?

 

For a moment, words Yaoran had said to the Peng Demon King long ago flashed through her mind.

The arrogant words she had spat out while grabbing the hair of the woman who was about to collapse from exhaustion.

“You who pretended to be a god have now become a little rat.”

 

-You who arrogantly pretended to be a god have now become a lab rat.

 

“Even if your limbs are torn off one by one, I wonder if you can still act the same way?”

 

-Even if I pluck off these pretty limbs one by one, can you still act like before? I’m curious.

 

The Peng Demon King smiled, but her eyes weren’t smiling. Rather, her pupils were blazing as if they held hellfire.

Yaoran saw her own pale face reflected in those eyes and desperately shouted.

Since a while ago, not only her Mana Circuit but even her Myth Summoning wasn’t working properly.

 

[Myth Summoning cannot be used!]

[Myth Summoning cannot be used!]

[This Dungeon has already been designated as the domain of the three demon kings. Please leave this domain to use Myth Summoning.]

 

“Wa, wait a moment please! I, I’ll answer anything you ask! Please spare my life…! I’ll tell you all the information we’ve discovered, no, no, I’ll even tell you where the other brothers are, please…!!”

“We don’t need that. There are many other ways to find out where our brothers might be.”

The Peng Demon King’s smile deepened.

“We have him with us.”

Him?

Suddenly, Yaoran’s vision caught sight of a white-haired man beyond the Peng Demon King and Sha Wujing.

Standing in front of the Macaque King, he somehow looked lonely, or perhaps decadent yet sharp.

Only then did she realize.

Why the Peng Demon King had been able to regain her power so quickly.

And why Sha Wujing, who had always been hiding, had decided to come out into the world again.

It was because the one who was the center of their sworn brothers and sisters had appeared in the world again.

As long as that person was there, they had always been invincible.

Even the Heavenly Realm had to eventually kneel.

The one that the Central Hero Committee and various forces had tried so hard to find for so long…

“Wai-“

Just as Yaoran was about to say something, her head was ripped out along with her spine and she died instantly.

Swoosh!!

The Peng Demon King threw the corpse carelessly on the floor with a face devoid of any emotion.

Though she had been an enemy who tormented her for a long time, now she felt no excitement from her at all.

Instead, the Peng Demon King lightly dusted off her hands and approached where Son Wukong was.

“How’s our older brother? Is he okay?”

Son Wukong was carefully catching the Macaque King while releasing all the spells connected to the Glass Chamber.

Sha Wujing hurriedly mobilized all his Curse Incantations to provide emergency treatment, but,

“No. It’s not good.”

Son Wukong shook his head.

His Golden Eyes of Truth were deeply sunken.

“His body has already been taken by someone else.”

“…!?”

The moment the Peng Demon King’s eyes widened,

Flash!!

The Macaque King’s drooping eyes opened.

And,

Whirrrrr!!

Suddenly a round band appeared above the Macaque King’s head and began spinning white-hot.

“Golden Headband!!”

As Sha Wujing cried out in surprise,

“No. It looks like the Golden Headband, but this is a Golden Hoop. The same kind that once captured Red Boy and Black Wind Monster.”

At Son Wukong’s calm answer, the only composed one among the three, the Macaque King smiled brightly.

“Son Wukong. So it really was you. I knew you would come looking someday, but actually meeting you makes me very excited and happy.”

But that voice wasn’t the Macaque King’s.

It wasn’t the Jade Emperor’s either.

Son Wukong brightened his Golden Eyes of Truth even more and asked.

“Who are you? Who are you that you can smell so strongly of Tripitaka?”

“You must have heard this humble person’s name at least once, Wukong.”

The Macaque King smiled.

“I am called Feng Jinghao.”

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————