Ice Dragon of Namgung - Chapter 80

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Chapter 80
Shrill—!
Namgung Geom did not flinch at the sound of the Signal Whistle piercing through the mountains.
He already knew that members of the Black Killing Sect were hidden in various places throughout the forest.
Though their concealment was meticulous, it could not escape his Qi Sense.
As his Cultivation Realm rose, his Qi Sense grew sharper and its range expanded.
It was not difficult for him to penetrate their hiding places.
Yet Namgung Geom did not attack them. He left them be.
Killing them would not be hard.
But Namgung Min was in the hands of the Black Killing Sect Leader.
There was nothing to gain by needlessly provoking him.
The Black Killing Sect Leader might lose his temper and kill Namgung Min.
Namgung Geom had come here alone to rescue Namgung Min.
It was best not to create any danger for him.
From the moment Namgung Geom entered deeper into Palgong Mountain, he had deployed the Ice White Thousand Net.
As his Cultivation Realm rose, he could unfold the Ice White Thousand Net far more smoothly than before.
The consumption of Inner Power and the strain on his body had diminished, and the range of the Ice White Thousand Net had expanded considerably.
Namgung Geom walked deeper into the mountains, vigilant through the Ice White Thousand Net.
And at last he arrived at the place where Namgung Min was bound.
Confirming that Namgung Min was alive, Namgung Geom exhaled in relief and surveyed his surroundings.
The Black Killing Sect Leader was nowhere to be seen.
He was clearly concealed somewhere.
There was no heat signature caught by the Ice White Thousand Net.
Namgung Geom expanded the range of the Ice White Thousand Net from ten paces to fifteen, and called out.
“Black Killing Sect Leader! If you are truly a martial master, why not show yourself and duel me fairly and squarely?”
There was no answer to Namgung Geom’s cry.
“And yet you are the leader of an entire sect. It seems you lack the confidence to fight fairly against one mere youth.”
Namgung Geom deliberately spoke with mockery to provoke the Black Killing Sect Leader.
He had doubted whether it would work, but it did.
The Black Killing Sect Leader, who had been lurking just barely outside the range of the Ice White Thousand Net, dropped his concealment and stepped forward.
“Fine. I shall take your bait.”
“Still, you have some pride befitting a sect leader, it seems.”
Namgung Geom withdrew the Ice White Thousand Net and spoke.
Now that the Black Killing Sect Leader had revealed himself, there was no need to maintain the Ice White Thousand Net.
“Yes. You are a dead man regardless, so speak freely.”
The Black Killing Sect Leader said this with contempt.
“We shall see who dies, in the end.”
Hearing this, the Black Killing Sect Leader let out a cold laugh.
“What? Do you think you can win once I show myself?”
“If I had no confidence in victory, I would not have come here.”
At Namgung Geom’s answer, the Black Killing Sect Leader’s brow furrowed.
His confidence was too absolute to be mere bluster.
‘Does he truly believe he can defeat me?’
Now that he thought about it, the aura surrounding Namgung Geom seemed different.
The Black Killing Sect Leader examined Namgung Geom’s aura carefully.
‘What is this!’
His eyes widened as he studied Namgung Geom’s aura.
His power had grown noticeably stronger than when they last met.
It was not merely that his Inner Power had increased.
His Cultivation Realm itself had risen.
Was such a thing even possible?
The last encounter was only a few days ago.
And in that brief span, his Cultivation Realm had advanced.
If Namgung Geom’s Cultivation Realm had been low, it might be conceivable, but his realm was already absurd.
Yet it had risen further—it was staggering.
From the True Martial Realm onward, advancing one’s Cultivation Realm requires enlightenment.
It is not something that can be achieved merely by consuming Elixirs to increase one’s Inner Power.
‘What in heaven is this man?’
No matter how great a martial genius Namgung Geom might be, this transcended all reason.
The Black Killing Sect Leader became certain that Namgung Geom harbored some hidden secret.
That Namgung Geom, the eldest grandson of the Namgung Clan, had suddenly taken up the Ice Technique made no sense whatsoever.
The Black Killing Sect Leader felt an inexplicable unease.
Namgung Geom’s cultivation realm still lay beneath his own.
By realm alone, the Black Killing Sect Leader held a clear advantage.
But in a martial contest, cultivation realm was not everything.
Realm mattered, certainly, yet so did the martial techniques one had mastered and the heights one had reached in their pursuit.
Namgung Geom had taken up an Ice Technique whose origins remained obscure.
The Namgung Clan’s swordsmanship was formidable enough, but this mysterious Ice Technique wielded a power even the Black Killing Sect Leader found difficult to parse.
And there was every possibility that Namgung Geom was concealing something further.
Now that he thought of it, the fact that the Pae Ryong-gak Master had sent Namgung Geom alone troubled him deeply.
Would the Pae Ryong-gak Master truly have sent Namgung Geom into what should have been certain death, unaccompanied?
Absolutely inconceivable.
No matter how stubbornly Namgung Geom had insisted, the Pae Ryong-gak Master would never have consented.
Yet the fact that he had sent Namgung Geom alone meant one thing: he was certain the boy would not die.
‘If I’d known this would happen, I would have pressed the ambush from hiding.’
The Black Killing Sect Leader regretted shedding his concealment and revealing himself—pride had made him reckless.
“You regret abandoning your hiding place, I see,” Namgung Geom said.
The boy had read the Black Killing Sect Leader’s thoughts from his expression alone, as if peering into a ghost’s heart.
“Regret?” The Black Killing Sect Leader’s voice dripped with contempt. “Killing you is hardly worth my concern.”
He hurled the words like a challenge and launched himself at Namgung Geom.
His form blurred, and in a heartbeat he closed the distance.
Flash!
Light erupted from his blade as Shadowless Sword Qi streaked toward his opponent.
Namgung Geom raised his sword without hesitation to meet it.
Ice Thunder Sword Qi surged upward, colliding with the incoming attack.
Boom!
Both men recoiled from the impact simultaneously.
The Black Killing Sect Leader’s face twisted.
Namgung Geom’s cultivation realm was undoubtedly inferior to his own.
Yet the power behind that blade was not lacking in the slightest.
‘This damnable cold Qi—it’s genuine.’
The chill woven into the sword technique was something even he struggled to withstand.
The Black Killing Sect Leader hastily gathered his Inner Power, using it as a barrier against the cold Qi riding the blade.
Then he unfurled the Black Killing Shadowless Body, driving into Namgung Geom’s blind spots.
Moving aggressively while still recovering from the collision brought violent backlash through his body.
But such recoil meant nothing to him.
He struck first at Namgung Geom’s flank, his blade boring toward the boy’s ribs.
Swoosh!
Namgung Geom kicked off the ground, his body snapping away to the opposite side.
The distance opened in an instant.
The Black Killing Sect Leader surged forward, reclosing the gap.
As the space between them shrank, his blade released Shadowless Sword Qi once more.
In the moment this created, Namgung Geom swiftly brought his own sword around.
Ice Thunder Sword Qi erupted from his blade, crashing against the Shadowless Sword Qi.
Boom!
Namgung Geom’s form snapped backward from the force of the collision.
The Black Killing Sect Leader moved to press his advantage.
But Namgung Geom’s figure suddenly sank and vanished from sight.
The Black Killing Sect Leader did not panic. He spun, whipping his blade outward.
Boom!
Namgung Geom’s sword, coming from the left, clashed with his own, releasing a sharp crack.
As if choreographed, both men rocketed backward from each other.
Crack!
The Black Killing Sect Leader summoned his Inner Power, shaking off the cold Qi that climbed along his blade.
His expression had grown grimly set.
He had believed he could hold the upper hand, even if not decisively overcome his opponent.
But the reality of their exchange was altogether different.
Namgung Geom was far stronger than he had anticipated.
The Black Killing Sect Leader could not fathom how a youth barely into his twenties could command such formidable technique.
“You truly are twenty years old?” he demanded.
“I’m stronger than most for my age, I’ll admit.”
Namgung Geom shrugged in reply.
“I grant that your martial skill is formidable. Yet there is no doubt—today you will die.”
“Anyone can talk a good game.”
“Then let my sword speak, not my tongue.”
The Black Killing Sect Leader released all of his Inner Power.
Whoosh!
A violent wave of Qi erupted from his entire body, his robes fluttering as though they might tear.
Even Namgung Geom’s expression grew tense at the force he unleashed.
Swoosh!
The Black Killing Sect Leader’s form blurred and surged toward Namgung Geom.
His speed was like lightning striking stone.
Namgung Geom drew his sword in haste.
Crash!
The Shadowless Sword Qi struck at Namgung Geom’s blade as though to shatter it.
Namgung Geom was hurled violently backward.
The Black Killing Sect Leader’s form pursuing him suddenly split in two, diving at Namgung Geom from both left and right.
It was the supreme Black Shadow Twin Illusion Art.
The Sect Leader’s true body and his phantom were so identical that even a master of the Absolute Realm would struggle to tell them apart.
Yet Namgung Geom did not hesitate—he thrust his sword straight at the phantom on his left.
The Black Killing Sect Leader’s eyes widened in surprise as their blades collided.
Crash!
Namgung Geom staggered backward under the force.
The Black Killing Sect Leader’s sword, wielded at full strength, was undeniably formidable.
But it was not enough to overwhelm Namgung Geom.
The Black Killing Sect Leader deployed the Black Shadow Twin Illusion Art again, attacking once more.
Again, Namgung Geom found the true body without error.
At first, the Sect Leader thought it mere chance.
But Namgung Geom’s response betrayed not the slightest hesitation.
Such a response was impossible without knowing the true body’s location beforehand.
He deployed the Black Shadow Twin Illusion Art again and again, yet the result remained the same.
The Black Killing Sect Leader was certain now.
Namgung Geom was seeing through the Black Shadow Twin Illusion Art.
“What are you? How in the world can you find the true body of the Black Shadow Twin Illusion Art?”
The Black Killing Sect Leader asked, his voice trembling with disbelief.
“How? It’s simple—I can just see it.”
Namgung Geom spoke as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
The Black Killing Sect Leader’s face twisted.
He felt mocked by Namgung Geom’s casual dismissal.
“Then try blocking this.”
Black Killing Qi poured from the Sect Leader’s body, and darkness engulfed everything around him.
The darkness spread rapidly, swallowing the space where Namgung Geom stood.
Shadowless Dark Realm.
It was a technique that used Black Killing Qi to form a space of absolute darkness where light and sound were utterly severed.
One trapped within could see nothing and hear nothing.
They would be locked in a world of perfect silence.
A supreme secret art known only to the Masters of the Black Killing Sect.
The darkness of the Shadowless Dark Realm consumed Namgung Geom.
The moment Namgung Geom fell into the Shadowless Dark Realm, all of his senses vanished.
Namgung Geom was truly startled.
He had never heard that the Black Killing Sect possessed such a secret art.
And that was only natural.
All who had ever witnessed the Shadowless Dark Realm were dead.
And the dead cannot speak.
With the Shadowless Dark Realm unveiled, the Black Killing Sect Leader did not hesitate—he unleashed a killing strike at Namgung Geom.
The Shadowless Sword Qi that burst from his blade traced a black line, piercing toward Namgung Geom’s heart.
‘Now, die.’
The Black Killing Sect Leader was certain that the Shadowless Sword Qi would pierce through Namgung Geom’s heart.
But in that very instant—
Namgung Geom’s Ice Dragon Sword moved, and Ice Heaven opened.
Namgung Ice Dragon
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