I Will Become a Phoenix More Noble Than the Emperor - Chapter 84

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84.

 

 

 

 

When Cheong-eum’s eyes snapped open at that energy, he witnessed an unbelievable scene.

 

In an instant, some man who had rushed past Cheong-eum snatched Seon-o from the demon’s grasp and plummeted into the lake together with him.

 

“Huk…!”

 

Seon-o’s eyes also widened at the unexpected intruder’s intervention, as he had been barely holding on.

 

‘No!’

 

Soon the man surfaced above the lake, holding Seon-o’s waist tightly.

 

Puha! The voice exhaling was rough.

 

Seon-o also spat out the water he had suddenly swallowed and turned to look at the man.

 

It was Wi Gong-un.

 

“Stop…!”

 

Chweo…

 

Seon-o tried to stop his next action, but it was already too late. Wi Gong-un, who was tightly embracing Seon-o’s waist, had instantly killed the demon that had just been trying to kill Seon-o.

 

As the Mud Demon’s face melted away, soaked in deadly poison, the demon in the lake also had its throat cut off as the deadly poison was driven into its mouth.

 

Ah… no…, the futile words couldn’t escape Seon-o’s lips and settled down into his throat instead.

 

With his throat completely blocked, Seon-o looked at Wi Gong-un with disbelieving eyes.

 

“Were you conspiring with the High Priest?”

 

When the soaked man asked while holding arsenic in his mouth, Seon-o’s vision became dizzy.

 

It was the moment when Cheong-eum was about to explain on her behalf. The terrifyingly calm lake water suddenly erupted like an explosion and began spinning around Seon-o and Wi Gong-un, making Cheong-eum’s eyes harden.

 

Wi Gong-un, who couldn’t know the severity of the situation, furrowed his brow and tried to escape the lake with Seon-o. But Seon-o knew. They were already caught in a trap and couldn’t escape.

 

When Cheong-eum, unable to endure any longer, tried to come over to this side, Seon-o shouted loudly.

 

“Don’t move!”

 

At those words, not only Cheong-eum but also Wi Gong-un hesitated and turned to look at Seon-o.

 

“Absolutely, absolutely don’t move! Do you understand? Stay right there!”

 

With those words, Seon-o’s voice was cut off.

 

The lake water that had been spinning around them terrifyingly swallowed both Seon-o and Wi Gong-un.

 

“Master Kang!”

 

With Cheong-eum’s panicked voice as the last thing they heard, Seon-o and Wi Gong-un’s vision went dark. They felt a muffled sensation filling their ears for a moment, as if trapped underwater.

 

“Argh…!”

 

Under the heavy gravity pressing down on his face, Seon-o squeezed his eyes shut. When he opened them again, the two were trapped in some space.

 

The dark space was so cramped it was difficult to even stand up.

 

Ah…

 

Seon-o’s face turned deathly pale as he realized the identity of the place where they were trapped.

 

“What is this?”

 

Only Wi Gong-un, who hadn’t grasped the severity of the situation, was still wearing a sneer as he pounded on the walls that confined them.

 

Seon-o looked at him in a daze.

 

Wi Gong-un shouldn’t have been here. In the original story, he wasn’t here.

 

“Do you… know… what you’ve… just done…?”

 

It was so absurd that he could barely speak properly.

 

It was Wi Gong-un again.

 

Once again, he had ruined everything because of Wi Gong-un.

 

No, saying “ruined” wasn’t an appropriate expression. The two of them were trapped in the depths of this labyrinth. In a space-time that had been horribly twisted after thousands of years.

 

There was no escape method mentioned even in the original story.

 

Time would twist terrifyingly here, and the two of them would die inside this place.

 

“I saved you when you were about to die.”

 

When Wi Gong-un answered shamelessly, a hollow laugh escaped from Seon-o’s mouth.

 

This crazy…

 

Seon-o, who had been trembling his shoulders like a madman for a moment, suddenly grabbed Wi Gong-un’s collar like lightning. The hand that gripped his collar trembled terribly.

 

“You crazy bastard… you ruined everything because of you. Everything…”

 

At the choked voice, Gong-un also panicked and frowned.

 

“I, ruined it…”

 

In Seon-o’s eyes was a despair he had never seen before. Gong-un’s heart sank with a thud as he faced him.

 

I, ruined everything?

 

“…”

 

Yes, I don’t know what it was, but I had finally ruined Seon-o’s plan.

 

Seon-o’s plan to despicably collude with the High Priest and win the Phoenix Competition by grasping that obviously suspicious grass blade.

 

I had noticed that Seon-o, who had returned to Myeonggyeong, secretly went to meet the High Priest, witnessed them meeting, and followed them as they departed somewhere. Since I had caught a clear clue, there was no reason to hesitate. Seon-o was suspicious just as I had expected.

 

When the two crossed the river full of yin energy and entered the ruins that looked like a labyrinth, there was no choice left. I had to catch Kang Seon-o and that sinister High Priest in the act of collusion and drag them both down. Perhaps that power to suppress and brainwash superhumans was originating from those two.

 

Yes, because she was a woman with such power, she kept making me strange like this.

 

So much against my will, she kept making me…

 

Gong-un, who had been looking at Seon-o as if feeling wronged, tried hard to pull himself together.

 

“…”

 

But now it was all over. The two had been caught with their secret exposed to me, and Seon-o would be eliminated.

 

It was what I had wanted. Eliminating Seon-o. Eliminating all candidates except I-ryeong.

 

But why…

 

Suppressing the unpleasant feeling that was quietly boiling up from within, Gong-un tried to force himself to sneer at Seon-o. But that was the moment. Something transparent that had been floating like a snake in the damp space rushed toward Gong-un.

 

“!”

 

As something like smoke pierced through the gap in Gong-un’s lips and burrowed into his throat, his eyes opened wide. Seon-o also witnessed this strange phenomenon and hardened his brow.

 

What is that…

 

At that moment, Gong-un’s waist buckled and blood spewed from his mouth.

 

“Uurgh!”

 

As an enormous amount of blood soaked Gong-un’s front garment red, Seon-o’s eyes widened. Seon-o forgot about his anger from just moments before and crouched down following the collapsed Gong-un, grabbing hold of him.

 

“Wi Gong-un!”

 

Gong-un, who vomited blood once more with a retch, frowned and looked at Seon-o. The yin energy within him was flowing backward. It was an impossible occurrence.

 

“Huh, ugh… Yin, power is…”

 

Gong-un couldn’t finish his words, but Seon-o also recognized his symptoms. Whatever had just penetrated Gong-un’s mouth was causing his Yin Power to flow backward.

 

Since the original On Gang had never been trapped in this space, Seon-o didn’t know what it was.

 

Gong-un vomited blood once more and collapsed forward. What he spewed this time was a large clot of blood.

 

Seon-o looked at the collapsed Gong-un with hardened eyes. His blood-soaked lips were rapidly drying and sticking together. In this incomprehensible situation, his already hardened mind seemed to become rigidly paralyzed.

 

Yin Power flowing backward. Then would Gong-un also fall into a coma like Ji-woon?

 

No, such fortune would not occur.

 

Gong-un would die. He was dying. The blood that had soaked his entire front garment was telling the story.

 

But why only Gong-un? No, how could a Super-Deity of Gong-un’s level be taken down so easily?

 

Amidst the questions that turned his mind upside down, Seon-o realized the instinctive answer.

 

‘Because he’s a Super-Deity.’

 

This trap was set to catch Super-Deities.

 

So this… was a trap aimed at Cheong-eum!

 

Someone knew that Cheong-eum, whose Dragon Transformation was blocked, would seek a Divine Oracle… and even knew that the oracle would demand Moonlight Grass.

 

However, unexpectedly, Gong-un had fallen into the trap. A trap set to activate when a Super-Deity entered.

 

The moment Seon-o realized this breathtaking truth, Gong-un also understood an important fact.

 

That what was causing his Yin Power to flow backward was the power that suppressed superhumans that Seon-o had discovered at Maehwagak. That this power desired the downfall of Super-Deities.

 

And that Seon-o was merely pursuing the source of that power.

 

So I had completely barked up the wrong tree.

 

“Ha…”

 

Upon realizing this, a strange relief washed over him along with emptiness so profound that all strength drained from his body. Gong-un vomited another handful of blood, then struggled with all his might to raise his body.

 

Groping to find the transparent wall surface, he bit his teeth and concentrated yin energy at his fingertips, and something unbelievable happened. The transparent space began to writhe and melt away under his Poison Power.

 

“!”

 

At the tremendous Yin Power, Seon-o’s breath caught. Even though he was dying, Gong-un was still a Super-Deity. Gong-un was pouring all of his Yin Power into his fingertips.

 

As faint light barely seeped through the opened gap, Gong-un panted and murmured.

 

“My lord, please… leave this place…”

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