Ranker Who Shatters Myths - Chapter 183

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The Broken Ranker

Devours Myths

 

 

Chapter 183

 

Bull Demon King (2)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Kekekek! Of course, even such a great Bull Demon King would still be no match for my senior brother, who stood shoulder to shoulder with Bull Demon King and even obtained the Buddha’s throne.”

 

A smile mixed into Sha Wujing’s expression.

 

Indeed, Son Wukong was displaying overwhelming prowess compared to the Bull Demon King.

 

It was filled with such humiliating imagery that one might wonder if this was really the same Bull Demon King that Lee Hyeon had faced before.

 

But Sha Wujing, did his breathing suddenly seem easier?

 

Suddenly, Sha Wujing slowly rose from his seat and lightly stretched his body.

 

Crack, crack-

 

“Are you… alright?”

 

“Kekek. It seems I’ve only caused our friend here to worry! You don’t need to worry. My lungs and heart were just pierced for a very brief moment. A few curses will heal something like this right up. Kekekekek!”

 

“……”

 

Isn’t that a serious injury?

 

Lee Hyeon let out a hollow laugh seeing that Sha Wujing’s aura, which had been unstable until just moments ago, had truly become peaceful again.

 

“Kekek. But it seems senior brother is quite angry, what should we do? In that state, he won’t be able to correct the Bull Demon King’s corrupted mind.”

 

Just as Sha Wujing was scratching his cheek with his index finger as if troubled,

 

Whoooosh!

 

Roooar-

 

“……!?”

 

Suddenly, a sinister storm of demonic energy swept out from inside where Son Wukong and the Bull Demon King were fighting.

 

‘What? Who…?’

 

He wondered if the Bull Demon King had perhaps completely released his seal, but it wasn’t the Bull Demon King.

 

It was something much deeper and darker than that……

 

Yet somehow it felt familiar to Lee Hyeon as well. While also being alien.

 

Despite it being demonic energy he was seeing for the first time.

 

‘Could it be?’

 

Right at that moment,

 

“Oh my. It seems there was a reason the Bull Demon King became so thoroughly stained with demonic nature.”

 

Sha Wujing muttered in a voice that had lost its laughter for the first time.

 

“Do you know the owner of that demonic energy, Sha Wujing?”

 

“Know him? How could I not know him.”

 

Sha Wujing’s eyes sank deeply.

 

“It’s Bull Demon King.”

 

“……!!”

 

 

 

* * *

 

 

 

Peng Demon King watched the fight that he couldn’t possibly find an opening to join and thought.

 

‘What exactly is this fight?’

 

A struggle for hierarchy among the old demon kings?

 

A clash of ancient divine beings that occurred on the Surface?

 

No.

 

It was far from such grandiose terms.

 

‘Just bullying second brother?’

 

Yes. This seemed right.

 

The clash between Son Wukong and the Bull Demon King was that one-sided.

 

Crash crash crash crash-

 

Just then, iron chains wildly tore through the walls of the sealed area and struck where Son Wukong had been.

 

But Son Wukong was already no longer in that spot.

 

“What? Why are you so slow like a slug?”

 

Son Wukong’s scolding flew from a place far away.

 

“Try to be a bit more quick about it, will you?”

 

“……”

 

“A slug wants to greet big brother. Oh, I know a friendly slug, should I introduce you? Want to exchange greetings while we’re at it?”

 

“……”

 

“Or, I recently became friends with a gentleman called Minister Turtle who lives in the East Sea, how about him? No wait. Minister Turtle was fast in the sea too, so that would be a loss for you.”

 

“……”

 

“If not that, then,”

 

“Shut uuuuup!”

 

As the scolding continued, the Bull Demon King, who had been trying to ignore it, shouted with a thoroughly enraged face.

 

Even an intense storm of demonic energy swept in, but,

 

“Shut uuuuup.”

 

“……”

 

“Puhahaha! What’s that? It’s not even the sound of air escaping from a balloon. Are you also one of those… what do they call it… aegyo guys?”

 

“……”

 

“Ah, you don’t know what I’m talking about, do you? Well of course, you’ve been holed up gloomily in here like a shut-in hikikomori for decades, how would you know how the world works?”

 

The teasing continued.

 

“……Shut up.”

 

“People need to get some fresh air from time to time, you know. If you don’t get sunlight like this, you’ll keep getting depressed, you know? Get some vitamin D, vitamin D. That’s how people can radiate positive energy and all, you know?”

 

“I said shut up, pleeease!!! My ears feel like they’re going to bleed, so shut up! Focus on the fight!”

 

“I’m winning even without focusing, so that’s why I’m doing this, man. You can’t even land a single hit. So listen to what I’m saying. Stop living like you’re digging tunnels, okay? Back in my day, even when it was full of hardships and adversity, I never let go of hope……!”

 

By this point, the Bull Demon King felt like his soul was half escaping from his face.

 

‘Maybe Wukong just wanted to vent all the things he’d been holding in against Master Sa here?’

 

Peng Demon King shook his head back and forth, thinking it couldn’t be helped.

 

Actually, he could clearly read what the Bull Demon King’s scheme was.

 

He was probably thinking of landing just one hit on Son Wukong with his chains.

 

The constant chattering and annoying teasing from Son Wukong would be irritating, but

 

more than that, it was to substitute him as the target of the seal.

 

‘The sealing device that Archangel Raphael created to seal second brother…… the Ampulla of Light. He’s trying to trap Wukong in there.’

 

 

 

[Ampulla of Light (Ampulla Lucis)]

 

A light sealing vessel originating from the ‘ampulla’ that held holy oil in medieval Christianity.

 

It can contain all the evils of the world and heal them with light.

 

-Origin: Scripture ‘Book of Enoch’

 

 

 

Of course, Son Wukong had also noticed such a scheme early on, so he wasn’t being caught so easily.

 

‘What exactly is Wukong planning to do with second brother?’

 

The Bull Demon King’s mental corruption was in a very serious state.

 

If left like this, it wouldn’t be strange if he transformed into a completely different personality.

 

But Son Wukong was only relentlessly pressing the Bull Demon King.

 

For Peng Demon King, who was only thinking that they should immediately tear open the sealing device and drag the Bull Demon King out to treat him even if it meant forcibly knocking him unconscious, it was just frustrating.

 

What should I say?

 

It was like he was trying to dig something out…….

 

‘Wait a minute. Dig something out?’

 

Just as Bull Demon King’s eyes sank deeply,

 

“Aaaaah! Aaaaaaaah!! Stop running away like a rat! If you’re going to fight, fight properly! If you’re going to kill me, then kill me properly!!”

 

Flood Demon King was now raging to the point where he seemed half-insane.

 

A terrifying madness.

 

He was already spouting illogical words, and his thoughts showed no refinement, with the intentions in his words being inconsistent.

 

Evidence that his ego was unstable.

 

However,

 

Thud!

 

Son Wukong appeared in front of Flood Demon King with his arms crossed and arrogantly lifted his chin.

 

“If I decide to kill you, big brother,”

 

One corner of his mouth twisted.

 

“Can you handle it?”

 

“…….”

 

“If you can’t handle it, then quit it. Stop whining like a child.”

 

Creak!

 

Flood Demon King found his situation, where he couldn’t possibly retort, to be miserable.

 

‘What a monster!!’

 

Both people and demons say the same thing.

 

That Great Sage Overturning the Sea, Flood Demon King, is a monster.

 

Since he was a being formed by hundreds and thousands of sea creatures tangled together as one, he differed from common sense.

 

However,

 

To Flood Demon King, the real monster was the youngest, Great Sage Equal to Heaven Son Wukong.

 

Because that guy transcends all common sense and prejudice.

 

And because he achieves what he sets out to do.

 

It was the same now.

 

He had returned alive from an environment where survival seemed impossible.

 

While countless Main Gods were searching for him with burning eyes, he was leisurely preparing for his revival again.

 

Was this even remotely reasonable?

 

Son Wukong always creates miracles. He was always such an inexplicable guy.

 

Flood Demon King was jealous of that.

 

“What exactly are you after? What do you want from me……!”

 

Flood Demon King was shouting angrily but suddenly stopped speaking.

 

Son Wukong smiled.

 

But his eyes weren’t smiling.

 

“Are you finally coming to your senses? Your mind was half-gone, and it seems your intelligence flew away with it too, our big brother?”

 

“……In the end. So that’s what it was. Right. You were always the one to lay many stones even when making a single move.”

 

Flood Demon King asked with coldly cooled eyes.

 

“Are you curious about my backer?”

 

“There’s someone who left after only half-releasing your seal like this, right?”

 

Son Wukong’s Golden Eyes of Truth flashed sharply.

 

“I think that person might be our eldest brother. Am I wrong?”

 

“…….”

 

“You’re not saying anything. Or can’t you say anything?”

 

Pfft.

 

Son Wukong let out a light chuckle while clenching his fist.

 

“Well, whatever. I’ve already found out everything I wanted to know anyway.”

 

‘If it’s going to be like this……!’

 

Flood Demon King bit his teeth hard and swung the sealing sphere in a different direction.

 

His target was Bull Demon King. Since Son Wukong wouldn’t work, he was trying to substitute her for his position.

 

However,

 

Whoosh!

 

Son Wukong read even that too easily and appeared in front of Bull Demon King,

 

“This is getting tiresome. Really. Won’t you stop now?”

 

He roughly threw a Fist Strike at the iron chain that had reached right in front of him.

 

Kwaang!!

 

Clang clang clang!

 

Then came the roughly sweeping fist wind.

 

The iron chains and restraints shattered all at once.

 

“……!!”

 

Such an amazing miracle that even seeing it directly left him speechless.

 

Flood Demon King’s eyes stiffened.

 

Because Raphael’s seal wasn’t something that could be severed so easily.

 

 

 

[All sealing formulas ‘Vessels of Light’ that were sealing Great Sage Overturning the Sea, Flood Demon King, have been broken!]

 

[The seal has been released.]

 

 

 

[Great Sage Overturning the Sea, Flood Demon King has regained his existence. He can now go outside.]

 

 

 

Hiss—

 

All the broken restraints and iron chains turned to ash and disappeared.

 

Even until then, Flood Demon King was blankly watching the scene.

 

“You still haven’t come to your senses. You’re scared of eldest brother, but you’re not scared of getting beaten to death by me? Huh? Should I really fold your limbs backward one by one? Huh?”

 

Flood Demon King gritted his molars.

 

Such a wicked rebuke that the words ‘terrible personality’ naturally came to mind.

 

His face was full of humiliation.

 

“……Were you doing this while having noticed everything?”

 

“What did I notice? That eldest brother was trying to use you as bait to devour all the gods and angels rushing to this place? Or that he was trying to drive you completely insane to cause great chaos in the mortal world while strengthening his power base underwater?”

 

“…….”

 

“Or maybe that he was trying to make your mind and will incomplete so you’d be designed to be subordinate to him?”

 

The more Son Wukong’s mockery continued, the more rigidly Flood Demon King’s complexion hardened.

 

At that moment, Bull Demon King moved.

 

Whoosh!

 

“What the hell are you talking about, Wukong!? That eldest brother was trying to use second brother as bait?”

 

Bull Demon King couldn’t properly understand the meaning of Son Wukong’s words.

 

However,

 

“It’s exactly what you heard.”

 

“……What?”

 

“It seems like eldest brother has become someone other than the eldest brother we thought he was. Though I don’t know if there are other reasons.”

 

Son Wukong’s gaze turned toward the ceiling.

 

“Isn’t that right, eldest brother? I know you’ve been watching everything. Stop peeping around gloomily and show your face already.”

 

Just as Bull Demon King was about to say something, unable to follow Son Wukong’s thinking,

 

Whoooosh!

 

“……!?”

 

Suddenly, a massive magic circle began drawing itself along the ceiling and walls of the sealed area.

 

Hundreds of large and small circular magic circles began meshing together like gears, rotating and starting to emit darkness.

 

 

 

[The flames of Gehenna are arriving!]

 

 

 

“Gehenna’s hellfire? Wait, why is this suddenly…!”

 

Flames made of terrible demonic energy.

 

No, beyond the level of demonic energy, flames filled with the terrible stench and malice of pure evil spread everywhere,

 

Kiiiiaaaaaak!

 

Kikikikikik-

 

Horrific wails that sounded like the ghosts of sinners who fell to hell, or children who couldn’t close their eyes peacefully even in death, echoed in all directions.

 

 

 

[Gehenna]

 

A place where the kings of the southern kingdom of Judah, fallen into idol worship, offered young children as human sacrifices to the great demons ‘Molech’, ‘Baal’, ‘Tanit’, and others.

 

A sanctuary symbolizing the burning hell, or the world of evil. It was also called Tophet.

 

-Origin: Scripture ‘Second Kings’

 

 

 

The Peng Demon King belatedly remembered.

 

Information he had obtained while barely escaping from China and tracking his brothers’ traces.

 

‘…Come to think of it, certainly,’

 

And even the contents of the note Feng Jinghao had left.

 

 

 

―Great Sage Equaling Heaven Bull Demon King: Status unconfirmed. Various organizations tracked his movements but failed to capture him alive. Currently believed to be building strength somewhere. There are theories that he has joined the demon faction….

 

 

 

‘If that clue is true.’

 

Gehenna is a dwelling place where countless demons reside.

 

It was also a place where beings like Molech and Baal, who were once gods but fell to become demons according to faith, lived.

 

A place that wouldn’t be strange at all for the Bull Demon King to stay.

 

If he had decided to build his strength there.

 

And,

 

If he was gathering former gods or demons like himself who would challenge heaven…!

 

Paaaaaa!!

 

The moment hot winds blew along with Gehenna’s flames,

 

“Ryo.”

 

The Peng Demon King’s trembling gaze turned to Son Wukong.

 

“Take second brother and get out of here first. I’ll talk with big brother for now.”

 

“Who says I’m going anywhere… Kuk!”

 

The Jiao Demon King tried to say something, but before that, the Peng Demon King struck the back of his neck with her hand blade from behind.

 

His energy had already hit rock bottom from facing Son Wukong.

 

The Peng Demon King supported him as he collapsed and nodded heavily.

 

“…Got it. Be careful.”

 

She spread her red wings wide behind her back and left the area.

 

And then….

 

Hwaaaak!!

 

The hellfire gathered into one in mid-air and two eyes appeared.

 

Both pupils and whites were completely black, like jet-black orbs embedded there.

 

“It’s been a while, big brother?”

 

The moment Son Wukong spoke to those eyes in a cocky posture,

 

 

 

『Yes. It has been a while, youngest. Have you been well?』

 

 

 

The two eyes curved slightly like crescents.

 

It was the Bull Demon King’s appearance.

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