I Possessed a Cultivator Destined to Die at the Hands of the Protagonist - Chapter 14

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14.
You think we came here to die?
Neither Eun Hui-gyeom nor I came with any intention of perishing!
Azure Serenity Technique – Penglai Breath Lotus Seal!
The lotus flowers began connecting with one another, their power swelling exponentially.
“Cough!”
The Lotus Seal had been a gamble from the start, and far more spiritual energy drained from me than I’d anticipated.
Even drawing upon the heavenly and earthly spiritual essence around me proved futile—there was simply too little energy in this desolate place.
I gritted my teeth and poured strength into my lower body.
A crushing gravitational force bore down upon me with such ferocity that the earth itself began to crack.
In that instant, another hand erupted from the undulating black void.
Wind-Moon Technique – Bi-Liu Flowing Wind!
Pap-pap-pap-pat.
Massive wind blades slashed and drove back the approaching hand.
“Little one!”
At Kang Jin-heon’s cry, Eun Hui-gyeom rushed toward me.
Eun Hui-gyeom walked the path of both the monastery and the martial warrior.
Seven-Star Meteor Sword.
As he brought the blade down in a sweeping arc, sword energy cascaded like meteors, driving the arm back.
“Nuuuuum!”
Struggling to hold the arm at bay, Eun Hui-gyeom stretched his hand toward me.
I too had reached my limit and moved to reach back toward him.
I hesitated.
‘No.’
What would happen if I grasped Eun Hui-gyeom’s hand here?
‘By now, Master should have sensed something and be on his way.’
Just a few seconds would suffice.
‘This isn’t a ghost-spirit of the highest tier!’
If I could buy just a few seconds against Gui-hon, both Eun Hui-gyeom and I could survive.
“Keep holding it back!”
“Wait, what are you doing! Damn it!!”
I turned away from the hand I’d been about to grasp and stared directly at Gui-hon, struggling to escape the black shadow.
Having ascended to the Third Tier earlier than expected, I was actually standing at the threshold of the Fourth.
‘I’ll perform the advancement ceremony right here and now!’
Doing so would temporarily restore my spiritual energy and buy me precious time.
I immediately formed the hand seal and focused my consciousness.
Baek Un-jin had always praised me for this one thing alone.
“In the void I count seven stars; the breath of heaven and earth becomes my own respiration; yin and yang unite as one, flowing through my meridians. Crimson radiance condenses within me, and all things return to the true law. Spirit essence, be inscribed upon the source of my eternity!”
Fortunately, I knew how to perform the advancement ceremony for the Fourth Tier of the Breath Technique.
The heavenly and earthly spiritual essence twisted violently, and clouds surged forth in an instant, shrouding the sky.
A hole tore open in the sky, and a brilliant beam of white light cascaded down upon my head.
The moment the light touched me, the spiritual energy that had seemed to abandon me surged back with tremendous force.
[You… the one who bears… a false…]
Wait—did I just hear something?
Something was said, but it was too indistinct, my mind too scattered to make out the words clearly.
Azure Serenity Technique—Penglai Breath Lotus Seal!
I hastily formed the hand seal in abbreviated fashion and rapidly deployed the Azure Serenity Technique’s Lotus Seal.
‘Damn it! Even this won’t hold?!’
Despite pouring my four-star spiritual energy to its maximum, I felt myself being pushed back.
‘All I can do is endure…’
Was I truly going to die so helplessly?
I stretched my hands further, reinforcing the connections of the Lotus Seal with greater intensity.
A deafening boom shattered the air.
In that instant, another beam of light descended from the heavens, piercing cleanly through Gui-hon’s hand.
‘Heavenly Tribulation?!’
“Sister!”
Eun Hui-gyeom, unleashing the Great Heavenly River Sword Technique with all his might, seized my arm and pulled me backward through the opening created by the Tribulation.
Together, we tumbled across the ground.
Kang Jin-heon used the wind to barely prevent Eun Hui-gyeom and me from plummeting over the Cliff.
“Ugh…!”
The impact seemed to have knocked me unconscious for a moment.
When I came to, I immediately cradled Eun Hui-gyeom, who lay collapsed beside me.
“Hui-gyeom! You can’t die! Hui-gyeom!!”
“Cough, agh! It hurts! I’m… I’m not dead…!”
Eun Hui-gyeom coughed blood, his eyes unfocused as he looked at me.
Though alive, his body was covered in wounds, blood streaming from multiple places.
Relief at Eun Hui-gyeom’s survival was short-lived—Gui-hon’s hand, scorched by the Heavenly Tribulation, was approaching once more.
Kang Jin-heon, recognizing this was untenable, shouted to us.
“Run!!”
I held Eun Hui-gyeom tightly and squeezed my eyes shut.
‘No…’
Eun Hui-gyeom felt impossibly small in my embrace.
Gui-hon’s hand drew ever closer.
A dark shadow engulfed my head, and a bone-chilling cold penetrated to my very marrow.
‘Is this how I die?’
If I die here, then Eun Hui-gyeom, Kang Jin-heon, and I…
‘Master.’
In that moment of crisis, the name that surfaced in my mind was Baek Un-jin’s.
No—anyone would do. Please…
A brilliant explosion of light erupted.
A tremendous sound of splitting air erupted between Eun Hui-gyeom, Gui-hon, and myself, and the force sent Gui-hon reeling backward.
【Grrrrr】
Gui-hon, now completely freed from the seal, darkened everything around us.
It was an overwhelming aura of death that could not be compared to mere ghosts.
I felt foolish for ever thinking I could fight something like that—the terror was absolute.
Gui-hon pierced through the air’s resistance and reached out again.
This time, both of Gui-hon’s massive arms were severed clean off.
【Slash】
Grass blades trembled, and Baek Un-jin emerged from within them.
“Master…”
“…”
The moment I saw the cold fury burning in Baek Un-jin’s eyes, I flinched.
I had never seen him angry like this before.
Baek Un-jin approached me and bent down slightly.
“Are you hurt?”
When his large hand touched my head, sudden relief washed over me.
“No. Both Hui-gyeom and I are unharmed.”
“So it seems.”
Baek Un-jin nodded, his gaze turning toward Eun Hui-gyeom.
As he examined our conditions, Gui-hon’s severed arms regenerated completely.
【Pap pap pat】
Other monks emerged from the shadows.
The monks who saw Gui-hon were startled.
“That… that’s Gui-hon! Why is Gui-hon here…!”
“Elder Baek!”
“I will handle this. Protect my disciples.”
“Facing Gui-hon alone is far too dangerous! It would be better to wait until the other elders arrive…”
“If even the smallest wound appears on my disciples’ bodies, I will take your lives first.”
Baek Un-jin drew the Ja-ha Sword from his waist and fixed the monks with a deadly stare.
The trembling monks hurriedly gathered around Eun Hui-gyeom and me.
【Grrrrgh】
An eerie, unsettling sound echoed through the air.
Baek Un-jin, sword drawn, appeared behind Gui-hon.
[Lotus Annihilation Blade]
【Pap pap pap pap pat】
Dozens of blade currents split Gui-hon’s body to shreds.
The scattered energy converged around Baek Un-jin.
【Thud】
Baek Un-jin stepped on empty air, leaping high into the sky before descending with his blade and landing on the ground.
【Boom】
The force was so tremendous that the colossal Gui-hon was crushed in an instant, leaving a crater in the ground.
But Gui-hon’s form merely blurred for a moment before it reappeared on the opposite side.
Hundreds of eyes sprouted from Gui-hon’s body, glaring at Baek Un-jin.
As he raised his sword lightly, the eyes burst forth all at once.
“I will make you regret laying hands on my disciples.”
Baek Un-jin gripped the Ja-ha Sword in one hand while weaving a hand seal with the other.
Hyeon-bing Jin-su Seal.
Immediately, tremendous sprays of water erupted from all directions.
The celestial energy twisted, and water surged upward with Baek Un-jin at its center.
As Baek Un-jin raised the Ja-ha Sword, it absorbed the water, becoming one with it.
Whoooosh.
As the sword moved, a sight like crashing waves unfolded before my eyes.
‘This is….’
I stared at Baek Un-jin as though entranced by something.
I had heard that exceptional cultivators could freely manipulate even the natural environment around them, but honestly, I never expected it to be this overwhelming.
Violent waves crashed down upon Gui-hon, shattering it once more into fragments.
Yet Gui-hon could not be killed by such attacks alone.
I was beginning to worry whether continuing these meaningless assaults was the right approach.
Baek Un-jin, who had been swinging his sword in place, suddenly vanished, reappearing from above.

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