I Possessed a Cultivator Destined to Die at the Hands of the Protagonist - Chapter 64

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64.
“The seven fortresses of the Big Dipper open heaven’s gate, driving down a pillar of azure light.”
While I chanted the incantation in place, Yang Ja-han deflected every incoming attack.
Undeterred by the surrounding assaults, I continued weaving hand seals.
Sealing arts—when not abbreviated—shatter if the flow breaks even once.
Moreover, my Seven Star Seal was still immature, and the time required for completion was considerable.
Sa Do-myeong, well aware of this, unleashed a torrent of demonic energy toward me.
“How dare you obstruct me to the very end!”
Sa Do-myeong shifted his hand seals.
Black demonic energy surged from his body, hardening into razor-sharp thorns that descended upon me.
[Demonic Extreme Heavenly Technique]
Yang Ja-han evaded the incoming attacks while wielding his blade.
The thorns that nearly reached me were cleaved in half, then dissipated in an instant.
‘Insane.’
Even as I formed the seals, I had flinched at the thought of being struck, yet I could only be bewildered by Yang Ja-han’s movements.
He had grown so formidable that one could believe he was an entirely different person from when we last met.
Yang Ja-han drew his blade long and swept it toward Sa Do-myeong.
The moment the sword cleaved the air, Sa Do-myeong condensed his demonic energy like a shield to block it.
Sa Do-myeong absorbed the blade’s force with his demonic energy, then detonated it in reverse.
The shockwave erupted in all directions, pushing back not only Yang Ja-han but also the monks nearby who were casting spells.
A portion of the demonic energy that had been targeting Yang Ja-han abruptly changed course and hurtled toward me.
“Damn!”
Yang Ja-han dissipated the demonic energy aimed at him and turned back.
The distance was too great.
‘I cannot stop!’
Resolved to endure some pain, I continued chanting the incantation.
The demonic energy approached right before my eyes.
Whoosh.
In that instant, blue ripples undulated and blocked the demonic energy.
[Hyun Cheon Wi Hundred Technique]
It was Eun Hui-gyeom’s spell.
The azure barrier collided head-on with the demonic energy.
Yet the impact was so violent that Eun Hui-gyeom’s feet were pushed backward, and the ground carved deeply beneath him.
“Ugh.”
Eun Hui-gyeom steadied his stance and restored the barrier of the Hyun Cheon Wi Hundred Technique.
There was no time to ask why he had come.
With Eun Hui-gyeom behind me, I continued forming the seals.
Spiritual force began to take shape at my fingertips.
Seven luminous points, shining like stars, revealed themselves one by one in the void.
Sa Do-myeong’s white eyes fixed upon me.
“How dare you!”
He ignored Yang Ja-han and attempted to pour all his demonic energy directly at me.
Yang Ja-han leaped even higher than Sa Do-myeong, weaving a hand seal.
[Void Severance Art]
The moment his hand holding the sword seal cut through empty space, a line materialized in the air, and the demonic energy twisted, its flow severed.
Fragments of demonic energy that couldn’t be fully blocked scattered in all directions.
Sa Do-myeong remained frantically occupied, attacking the Monastery practitioners who seized every opening to target the Bright Soul Orb.
“How dare these vermin monks attempt to seal me!”
Sa Do-myeong’s demonic energy exploded outward in a violent surge.
Boom.
The entire Cave Chamber trembled, and dust cascaded from the ceiling.
The barrier of the Hundred Heavens Suspension Art cracked and reformed repeatedly.
“You have no right to speak.”
Yang Ja-han, gritting his teeth, swiftly deployed the Void Annihilation Art.
His body bore numerous wounds, and his spiritual power had been considerably depleted.
The demonic energy and Void Annihilation Art collided, exploding as debris scattered everywhere.
‘Just a little longer!’
Eun Hui-gyeom’s Hundred Heavens Suspension Art crumbled, and demonic energy surged toward my face.
Yang Ja-han rushed toward me with desperate speed.
Slash.
The sharpened demonic energy tore across his chest and arm.
His robe split open, and his arm fell away with a spray of blood.
I squeezed my eyes shut and chanted the final incantation.
“You who have defied the principles of all things, sleep eternally beneath the weight of the Celestial Stars.”
[Seven Star Sealing]
The seven stars suspended in the void transformed into the formation of the Big Dipper, then shot toward Sa Do-myeong in unison.
The stars began embedding themselves into Sa Do-myeong’s body one by one.
The demonic energy enveloping Sa Do-myeong was forcibly suppressed.
As the stars connected, the sealing power intensified further.
Of course, Sa Do-myeong did not remain idle.
‘Tremendous power!’
I extended my hand toward the void, maintaining my spiritual power while concentrating on suppressing Sa Do-myeong’s movements.
My fingertips trembled, and sweat streamed down my entire body.
“I, reduced to such trivial sorcery?! How dare you, how dare you!”
Sa Do-myeong twisted his wrist, attempting to weave a hand seal.
Yang Ja-han, his severed arm regenerated, stood before Sa Do-myeong.
He clenched his empty hand firmly.
As though a sword rested within it.
Yang Ja-han murmured a brief incantation.
“The void unfolds toward the ten-thousand-weight heavens.”
[Void Form Sword]
An indescribable pressure poured forth from the tips of Yang Ja-han’s fingers.
“Grraahhh!!”
The heavy, suffocating air crushed down upon Sa Do-myeong.
Sa Do-myeong’s suspended form was driven downward toward the ground.
Sa Do-myeong unfurled his demonic energy in defense, but it proved useless.
Whoooosh.
The ground cracked beneath the pressure, collapsing inward in a circular depression.
The Seven Star Immortal Seal restricted Sa Do-myeong’s movements, while the Void Form Sword pressed him down relentlessly.
“Officer Kang! Now!”
Jin Seok-jun, who had been watching the situation intently, seized the moment without hesitation.
As if he had been waiting for this signal, Kang Jin-heon unfurled his steel threads and kicked off the ground.
[Limitless Wind Thunder Line]
A razor-sharp gust of wind shot in a straight line toward the last remaining Soul Essence Crystal.
The moment the wind touched the crystal’s defensive barrier, a crack appeared.
Kang Jin-heon closed the distance and formed hand seals once more.
[Thunder Wind Severing Strike]
Lightning burrowed into the interior of the Soul Essence Crystal’s defensive barrier.
An explosion erupted from within as the barrier shattered.
The remaining electrical force suppressed the barrier’s attempt to regenerate.
Jin Seok-jun charged toward the final Soul Essence Crystal.
Extending his hand forward, he concentrated his spiritual power and formed hand seals.
[Heavenly Calamity Earth Explosion]
Massive boulders fell from the sky while the ground erupted from below simultaneously.
The Soul Essence Crystal was struck from above and below at once, crumpling under the dual impact.
Craaaaaash.
Cracks spread across its surface before the final Soul Essence Crystal burst apart.
Fragments of the crystal scattered in all directions.
As the Soul Essence Crystals shattered, the incantations of the Annihilation Vein Grand Formation carved into the floor began to fade.
The lines dimmed one by one, then slowly erased themselves.
Simultaneously, the connection to Sa Do-myeong began to sever.
“The formation is collapsing!”
“All the Soul Essence Crystals have been destroyed!”
“At last…!”
As the demonic energy supplied through the Annihilation Vein Grand Formation was cut off, Sa Do-myeong’s body began to wither like a mummy.
Within the confines of the Seven Star Immortal Seal, his demonic energy reversed its flow, and he coughed up black blood.
“This body… here…”
Sa Do-myeong’s form crumbled as his voice fractured.
“Paecheonmun’s grand ambition…. Aah, centuries of will….”
“It’s all over.”
The Seven-Star Seal vanished, yet Sa Do-myeong’s collapse did not cease.
With only his face remaining, he rolled his eyes back and gazed up at me as I approached.
“Heh, hehehehe. Not yet, not yet… the end….”
A soft crumbling sound.
Even the remaining face fractured and crumbled into dust, disappearing entirely.
“….”
“….”
With Sa Do-myeong gone, Im So-ha and her companions defeated the sorcerers of the Hyun Cheon Wi.
The remaining sorcerers lost their will to fight upon witnessing the defeat of Sa Do-myeong and the Hyun Cheon Wi.
It was over.
Truly, it was finished.
Everyone believed as much in that moment.
A deep, resonant hum.
Vibrations erupted from beneath my feet.
‘An aftershock? No, something….’
Something was amiss.
I spun around, scanning the surroundings frantically.
From where the Annihilation Vein Formation had vanished, something was rising through the earth.
“Everyone, take cover!!”
“What, what is it!”
“Aaaahhhhh!”
The ground shattered as blade-like winds erupted upward, tearing through the monks of the Monastery.
Unable to withstand the overwhelming force of the tempest, the monks scattered helplessly through the air.
“Sister!”
Eun Hui-gyeom planted the Hyun Su Nak Wol Sword into the ground, bracing himself as he extended his hand toward me.
The end of the Yu Eun Eun Ha Reung coiled around Eun Hui-gyeom’s wrist, barely holding fast.
The relentless winds gradually subsided.
A figure suspended in the air pointed downward.
“Look, look there!”
“Who is that?”
At the center of the wind’s devastation stood a being clad in a black long robe.
Snow-white hair cascaded down to touch the ground, and the face was pale—deathly pale, as though belonging to a corpse.
‘That creature…!’
As confusion gripped everyone at the ominous presence, Yang Ja-han was the first to cry out.
“Chil Myeol-hu!”

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