Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 103

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Chapter 103: Flame Emperor Gate (4)

Five orbs embedded in the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword.

Each one is a storage device capable of containing the spiritual energy of the Five Elements.

This was a function created when the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword absorbed Sima Moon’s Five Element Spirit Roots.

Thanks to this, Cheon Woo-jin can unleash powerful magic arts of other attributes despite having only a Water Attribute single spirit root.

While he can’t fire them recklessly in rapid succession, he can unleash one powerful magic art capable of turning the tide of battle.

However, to turn the tide of battle, it must be an equally effective magic art.

Since Cheon Woo-jin is still only at the Foundation Establishment stage, when facing enemies at higher realms, he’s bound to be overwhelmed in a contest of raw power.

He must unleash magic arts that can strike at the opponent’s weakness or hold an advantage in compatibility.

Then what magic art should he unleash in this current situation?

Guyang Hu’s Blood Flame White Guard Robe boasts such tremendous defensive power that it can even block Azure Thunder specialized in penetration.

What magic art would be suitable to pierce through that?

‘It’s not about piercing through.’

The white orb embedded in the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword, the Metal Spirit Orb.

As he released the white Metal Spirit Energy stored within it, Cheon Woo-jin formed a spell formation.

‘I need to cut through it.’

Crackle!

White lightning energy settled in Cheon Woo-jin’s hand.

It didn’t extend in a single line like the Azure Thunder of Wood, nor did it spread widely like the Crimson Thunder of Fire.

It didn’t go anywhere, but rather converged in one place.

Like a weapon shaped from lightning that the Thunder God in paintings would hold.

The Metal element of the Five Elements represents the power that converges in one place.

It doesn’t extend somewhere or spread widely, but gathers in one place and compresses solidly.

Just like metal.

Using that power, he unleashes the final lightning energy among the Five Thunder Methods.

‘I’ve used Azure Thunder, Crimson Thunder, Yellow Thunder, and Black Lightning, but… this one was difficult.’

Among the five Five Thunder Methods, this was the most difficult.

However, through his experiences so far, he was able to grasp the feeling.

There were two experiences that helped him the most.

The first was mastering Ice Attribute Magic Arts.

This is because creating ice also utilizes this convergent action of Metal.

The second was mastering the Six Extremes Heaven Steel Divine Art.

The steel energy of the Six Extremes Heaven Steel Divine Art is a technique that compresses energy to make it solid, which fits perfectly.

Through these experiences, Cheon Woo-jin was finally able to succeed with the final Five Thunder Method.

“You, you bastard, what did you just do?”

Guyang Hu’s gaze, having had his Flame Dragon Purgatory Grass destroyed, turned toward Cheon Woo-jin’s fingertips.

“Isn’t that Sword Energy used by martial artists?”

Sword Energy.

A martial art that compresses large amounts of sword qi to make it solid.

Right now, Cheon Woo-jin was holding a sword of lightning energy that looked like Sword Energy.

Though he wasn’t holding a physical sword in his hands like martial artists do.

Cheon Woo-jin had countless times shaped lightning energy into the form of a sword.

But that was only sword qi to the end.

He had only read the secret manual of the Taeul Mysterious Sword Art and was utilizing it after grasping the principles of sword qi.

He had never created a blade compressed to the extreme like Sword Energy.

“Why would a cultivator create Sword Energy like martial artists…”

Why did he create a blade like Sword Energy?

Because what’s needed to destroy the Blood Flame White Guard Robe isn’t penetrating power.

The Blood Flame White Guard Robe implements its defensive power by rapidly circulating massive energy on the surface like the body’s protective qi.

On the outside it just looks like a thin membrane, but in reality, large amounts of energy are constantly circulating on the body’s surface.

Cheon Woo-jin had been continuously pouring attacks not because he expected the Blood Flame White Guard Robe’s defensive effect to break.

It was to understand what principle this dharma artifact used to implement its defensive power.

As a result, Cheon Woo-jin also realized what was needed to destroy that principle.

To neutralize the Blood Flame White Guard Robe’s defensive effect, penetrating power won’t work.

Cutting power that can sever the flow of spiritual energy.

That is the answer.

“…!”

Guyang Hu flinched in surprise and stepped back.

He had realized what intention Cheon Woo-jin had in compressing the lightning energy like Sword Energy.

If what was in front of him had been a martial artist, he would have just snorted whether they used Sword Energy or not, but his opponent wasn’t a martial artist but a cultivator.

Though still a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, considering that potential, there was a need to be cautious.

So Guyang Hu used magic arts to quickly retreat.

Since it was essentially the same as Sword Energy anyway, he thought it would be fine as long as he didn’t allow close approach.

“Urk?!”

Ouyang Hou, who had been trying to create as much distance as possible, hesitated in mid-air.

Nine streams of energy that suddenly extended from the ground bound Ouyang Hou’s limbs.

It was the Nine Dragon Mountain Breaker Formation that Cheon Woo-jin had embedded in the ground while running around earlier.

He had applied a delayed spell formation to activate when something passed overhead, and Ouyang Hou had fallen into that trap.

“This trivial…!”

Ouyang Hou tried to shake off the Nine Dragon Mountain Breaker Formation.

With Ouyang Hou’s power as a Core Formation Realm master, he could escape from the Nine Dragon Mountain Breaker Formation.

It was entirely possible to break free before Cheon Woo-jin could approach.

But even that was a useless effort.

Because Cheon Woo-jin had no intention of approaching from the start.

‘I’m neither a martial artist nor a cultivator who specializes in close combat like Na Chwi-ryang.’

Lightning energy Sword Energy extended long from Cheon Woo-jin’s hand.

It was the same technique that martial arts masters used to extend the length of their Sword Energy.

Cheon Woo-jin extended it even longer than what martial artists did.

Doing so reduced destructive power and durability, but what mattered to Cheon Woo-jin was cutting power anyway.

Even if it became a blade thinner than a sheet of paper, there would be no problem as long as it maintained the sharpness to cut the flow of spiritual energy running through the Blood Flame Hundred Guard Robe.

“Ah…!”

Swish!

A white flash crossed through the air, drawing a chilling trajectory.

And its end reached the body of Ouyang Hou, who had not yet escaped from the Nine Dragon Mountain Breaker Formation.

Last time, the Azure Thunder and others were deflected by the energy circulating in the Blood Flame Hundred Guard Robe, but this time was different.

The lightning energy blade, sharpened to its limit, cut through the flow and nullified the defensive effect.

Because it was lightning energy Sword Energy that wasn’t bound by material elements like physical swords, it could achieve sharpness surpassing that of martial artists’ Sword Energy.

‘This is… White Lightning.’

Crackle!

Each time Cheon Woo-jin’s fingertips moved, sword cuts were carved into the Blood Flame Hundred Guard Robe.

In the brief time before Ouyang Hou escaped from the Nine Dragon Mountain Breaker Formation, he was able to leave wounds as if a master of swift swordsmanship had unleashed a series of consecutive attacks in an instant.

This was also possible because he had learned the Six Extremes Heaven Steel Divine Art, a high-level Soft Body Technique.

All the experience Cheon Woo-jin had accumulated since coming to the 6th Floor was creating this very moment.

“Ah…”

As Cheon Woo-jin withdrew the White Lightning, Ouyang Hou looked down at his body with a dazed expression.

At first, it looked like only his clothes had been torn.

But immediately, dark red blood gushed out like a fountain.

Because the tip of the White Lightning that cut through the Blood Flame Hundred Guard Robe had also wounded Ouyang Hou’s bare body.

Those wounds were opening up, causing massive bleeding.

“You said it was dyed with the blood of a hundred disciples who offered their bodies willingly.”

Watching that sight, Cheon Woo-jin murmured.

“Now it’s dyed with the blood of just one person – you.”

Grind.

Ouyang Hou ground his teeth in humiliation.

Cheon Woo-jin’s cold words hurt Ouyang Hou more than the wounds all over his body that were bleeding profusely.

To suffer such humiliation from a Qi Accumulation Stage Mercenary he had been looking down on until now.

For Ouyang Hou, who took pride in serving as a pillar of the Orthodox Sect’s prestigious family, this was absolutely unbearable.

“How dare a rootless Mercenary…!”

Whoosh!

Crimson flames erupted from Ouyang Hou’s entire body.

It was explosive fire that seemed like materialized intense rage.

In fact, this level of injury was nothing to Ouyang Hou.

As a Core Formation Realm master, Ouyang Hou could come back to life even after losing all his blood.

Ouyang Hou gritted his teeth and drew up massive amounts of spiritual power, generating heat so intense that even the blood that had flowed out dried up instantly.

“I’ll kill you as painfully as possible!”

Boom!

Ouyang Hou charged forward with flames wrapped around his entire body.

It was momentum surpassing the Flame Dragon Purgatory Grass.

Cheon Woo-jin had no means to defend against an attack of that level of power.

Because Ouyang Hou was continuously releasing massive amounts of spiritual power while amplifying the flames, it was also difficult to break through by discerning the structure of the spell formation.

However, if the opponent was charging forward so straightforwardly, there was a method.

When he first launched a surprise attack, it didn’t work at all because of the Blood Flame Hundred Guard Robe, but now that the Blood Flame Hundred Guard Robe was torn to shreds and could no longer provide defensive effects, it would work.

In the Five Elements, water overcomes fire anyway.

Black Lightning unleashed with the power of Water Spirit Energy would have an elemental advantage against Ouyang Hou’s flames.

[Water Spirit Orb Liberation]

Black Water Spirit Energy was liberated from the last orb of the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword.

It combined with Cheon Woo-jin’s innate Water Spirit Energy, generating tremendous spiritual power.

He converted that to lightning energy and then amplified it using the Thunder Wheel System.

An intense load occurred that felt like all the spiritual meridians in his body would burst, but because it was a body strengthened by the Six Extremes Heaven Steel Divine Art, he could endure it.

And so.

The most vicious magic art drawn from Cheon Woo-jin’s mind was manifested.

[Black Thunder Spirit Sealing]

Kuwoong.

With a low rumble that shook heaven and earth, a massive amount of black lightning energy gathered in one place.

What was created as a result was a gigantic black sphere.

Despite being condensed to its limit, it became a sphere the size of a house.

This was because the black lightning generated by Cheon Woo-jin was too powerful.

He hurled that black sphere forward as if throwing a ball.

Since it didn’t have the property to instantly pierce through enemies or sweep the surroundings, he had no choice but to throw it directly at the enemy like this.

Because it was a magic art that embodied only the pure power of annihilation, it had no other functions.

Gu Yang-hu, who had been charging recklessly due to his rage toward Cheon Woo-jin, collided head-on with that black sphere.

The massive flames that Gu Yang-hu had deployed vanished futilely like fire meeting water and being extinguished instantly, and his body, no longer protected by the Blood Flame White Guard Robe, made contact with the black sphere.

“Ah…”

Kwajijik!

What meaning could there be in the time spent cultivating while trampling countless people for nearly 400 years?

The black sphere ground up Gu Yang-hu’s body while producing an intense sound, turning his Core Formation Realm body, forged over long years, into nothing but worthless ash.

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