Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 104

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Chapter 104: Flame Emperor Gate (5)

“This is… impossible…”

Crackle!

Watching his own body being ground away by the black sphere, Guyang Hu muttered blankly.

Not only his limbs but even his torso had already been completely ground away.

Even his Golden Core, which contained nearly 400 years of accumulated Spiritual Power, had now scattered as ash-like black debris.

“Sect Master, please be careful…”

The black sphere completely devoured Guyang Hu, who had been muttering with only his head remaining.

The Flame Emperor Gate, counted among the prestigious sects of the Orthodox Sect.

Elder Guyang Hu, who had been its second-in-command, met such a miserable death.

‘I’ve dealt with him.’

Confirming that Guyang Hu had completely perished, Cheon Woo-jin nodded with satisfaction.

Pure offensive power and pure defensive power.

He was an opponent who overwhelmed Cheon Woo-jin in both aspects.

Opponents who were purely strong like this, without any special tricks, were the most difficult.

But Cheon Woo-jin had defeated even such an existence.

The Six Extremes Heaven Strength Divine Art, the technique of Destruction, understanding of the Ice Attribute, the Thunder Wheel Formation, the Nine Dragons Mountain Crushing Shield, the Heaven Penetrating Ring, and more… It was a result achieved because of everything he had continuously accumulated since ascending to the 6th Floor.

‘The things built up one by one lead to such fruition.’

Cheon Woo-jin sealed the Soul Devouring Spirit Flame Sword again with the Silver Radiance Cloth and put it into his Storage Bag.

Right after that, urgent voices could be heard from afar.

“Fellow Daoist Cheon!”

“Are you safe?!”

It was Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so.

Perhaps due to their bloody battle with the Flame Emperor Gate’s disciples, they were injured here and there.

“Tremendous energy waves reached all the way to where we were… What happened?”

“Where did Guyang Hu go?”

“I defeated him.”

Cheon Woo-jin answered in a cold voice.

“There’s no corpse left, so there’s no way to show you proof.”

“…!”

Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so opened their mouths simultaneously.

Looking at Cheon Woo-jin who didn’t have any particular wounds, they muttered as if they couldn’t believe it.

“You defeated him this quickly?”

“Unlike when you defeated Gi Sin-ryeo of the Ten Thousand Poison Six Evil Sect, this was completely a one-on-one fight…”

In front of the two bewildered men, Cheon Woo-jin took out an elixir and ate it to replenish his Spiritual Power.

“How did things go on your side?”

“Ah, we dealt with most of the decent ones on our side. Honestly, Na Chwi-ryang took down almost all of them.”

“Na Chwi-ryang is having a final confrontation with the one with the best skills among them. Honestly, it didn’t seem like a level we could interfere with, so we just withdrew.”

Among the disciples Guyang Hu had brought, there was even a late Core Formation Realm cultivator.

No matter how skilled Na Chwi-ryang was, it would be difficult to subdue a cultivator of his own level in one go.

“Let’s move to the promised meeting place. Na Chwi-ryang will come there too once he settles things.”

“Understood.”

Cheon Woo-jin moved to the place where he had previously burned down Jangrim Stronghold.

Since he had burned it with Samadhi True Fire, traces still remained in that area.

“Fellow Daoist Cheon, why is this place like this?”

“Could it be that Fellow Daoist Cheon made it like this…”

“Well, I don’t know.”

The fact that Cheon Woo-jin burned down Jangrim Stronghold was a secret.

Since he had used the Red Sea True Fire Spear talisman treasure, he couldn’t reveal it to others.

“Hey, are you all alive?”

After waiting for a while, Na Chwi-ryang appeared dragging someone along.

“It seems you’ve dealt with Guyang Hu.”

What Na Chwi-ryang had dragged along was a late Core Formation Realm cultivator from the Flame Emperor Gate.

Though he was hanging limply with his head grabbed, he was still breathing.

“Did you capture him alive?”

“We need to get some information.”

Replying like that, Na Chwi-ryang threw the prisoner toward Cheon Woo-jin.

“You interrogate the prisoner.”

“You say you won’t listen to my orders, yet you try to give me orders.”

“Wouldn’t it be better for someone who’s perfectly fine without a single wound to do it?”

In fact, Na Chwi-ryang was also in a state of considerable injury.

“Tsk, those Flame Emperor Gate bastards were stronger than I thought.”

Na Chwi-ryang grumbled while applying ointment to the burns on his face.

“It seems the rumors about their pure offensive power being comparable to the Taeul Yeokri Sect were true.”

“Hmm, well they are a sect that specializes in fire attribute cultivation methods after all…”

Jang Ryang stroked his chin as he spoke.

“If we had faced them head-on today, we would have suffered great damage. It would have been difficult to withstand multiple people forming formations and simultaneously breathing flames at us.”

“Senior Brother, I think so too. It was only because our surprise attack worked well, otherwise we could have been in serious trouble.”

Won Pil-so, who specialized in fire attribute magic arts, let out a sigh.

“I had confidence in my flame magic arts, but their skills were clearly superior.”

“Right, they’re definitely on a different level from the Changhwa Gate where we used to be.”

Watching the people speaking like this, Cheon Woo-jin opened his mouth.

“The people who came this time are just the advance team. Soon the main force including sect leader Jin Si-hyeok will arrive, and they’ll be stronger than this advance team.”

“Ah…”

“If you find it burdensome, you can all withdraw.”

Cheon Woo-jin said this while looking at Na Chwi-ryang.

“Just hand over the Heavenly Silkworm Shadow Robe to me and I’ll handle the rest from my end.”

“Hah, how ridiculous.”

Na Chwi-ryang snorted while applying ointment to the burn on his chest.

“Since it’s come to this, I’m going to the end. Na Chwi-ryang of the Shadow Scale Sunken Sect isn’t cowardly enough to back out here.”

“I had forgotten what kind of person Na Chwi-ryang is.”

After nodding his head, Cheon Woo-jin turned his gaze to Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so.

“What will you two do?”

“Hmm…”

“Well…”

The two people hesitated for a moment, looking at each other, but eventually spoke with determined expressions.

“We’re people with our own dreams and ambitions too. If we retreat here, we won’t be able to rise any higher.”

“If we want to play in the big leagues in the future, we need to do big things. We’ll also see it through to the end.”

Hearing the two people’s answers, Cheon Woo-jin nodded.

“That works out perfectly.”

“Hm?”

“I was worried the items I brought as payment might become useless.”

Cheon Woo-jin took out two manuals from his storage pouch and handed them to Jang Ryang.

“These are books about talismans – the Divine Incantation Treasure Scripture and the Daoist Canon Response Chapter. They don’t seem to suit me well, so I’d like to pass them on.”

“Wh-what?”

Jang Ryang’s eyes widened.

“Wh-where on earth did you obtain these precious books?”

“I happened to acquire them by chance before.”

In truth, they were secret manuals that had been lying around in the Eastern Section of Sima Gate.

While they would have been useless books to Sima, who was at the Won Yeong-gyeong level, they would be of great help to Jang Ryang, who was still at the Foundation Establishment stage.

“And I’d like to give this to Fellow Daoist Won.”

“To-to me too?”

Cheon Woo-jin handed Won Pil-so a book and a treasured sword.

“This is a secret manual of the Extreme Yang Divine Thunder Art, which deals with fire attribute lightning energy. It should be helpful to Fellow Daoist Won, who enjoys using flame magic arts. And this sword… is the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword I used to wield. It’s a magic artifact I don’t use these days, so take it.”

“Good heavens…!”

The Extreme Yang Divine Thunder Art was a book that Taesa Ryang of the Sacred Horn Unity Gate had kept in his cave dwelling.

Taesa Ryang possessed magic artifacts that discharged lightning energy, and he had collected several cultivation manuals related to lightning energy, perhaps to reference when utilizing them.

Among them, the most valuable was the Thunder Spirit Great Evolution Art that Cheon Woo-jin currently used, but the next best cultivation method was precisely the Extreme Yang Divine Thunder Art.

If Cheon Woo-jin had fire spiritual roots, he might have considered cultivating the Extreme Yang Divine Thunder Art instead of the Thunder Spirit Great Evolution Art.

And the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword was a high-grade magic artifact that Cheon Woo-jin had used as his main weapon before, but now that he had the supreme-grade magic artifact Thunder Wheel Blade and the magic treasure Soul-Seeking Spirit Sword, he no longer had use for it.

Both items were useless to Cheon Woo-jin but would be of great help to Won Pil-so, so he decided to just pass them on.

“H-hey, Fellow Daoist Cheon, isn’t this too generous? And we already agreed to receive spirit stones as payment…”

“This is work that risks our lives, so you should receive at least this much.”

Moreover, this was also an investment for Cheon Woo-jin himself.

If Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so’s skills improved, it would help Cheon Woo-jin too.

This wasn’t limited to just helping in direct combat.

If Jang Ryang read many books and deepened his knowledge of talisman arts, and Won Pil-so’s skills improved so he could gather better materials, then in the future he would be able to obtain more powerful talismans from their talisman shop.

Cheon Woo-jin planned to settle the two people on the 6th Floor and have them make custom talismans for himself.

So this could be called an investment for the future.

“Fellow Daoist Cheon, I’m truly grateful. I will never forget this kindness.”

“Being indebted like this, I’ll have no choice but to truly risk my life to help Fellow Daoist Cheon from now on.”

Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so clasped their hands together to express their gratitude.

In truth, these were great treasures that could change the lives of ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivators.

It was natural for the two people to be so moved.

“Hey, what about me?”

Just then, Na Chwi-ryang stretched out his hand from the side and asked.

“Don’t I get anything?”

Looking at that palm, Cheon Woo-jin tilted his head to the side.

“Was I in a position of being hired by you?”

Na Chwiryang, who had been lost in thought for a moment, turned his head and spat out a curse.

“Rather, I think you’re in a position where you should give me something.”

This whole affair had started when Na Chwi-ryang suggested robbing the Heavenly Silkworm Shadow Cloak.

This incident began when Na Chwiryang suggested stealing the Thousand Silkworm Shadow Robe.

So if anything, Na Chwiryang should have been the one paying Cheon Woojin for his trouble.

“Come to think of it, there was something that bothered me a bit today. Could you take a look at it?”

“I taught you the soft body technique! That’s all there is to it!”

“Come to think of it, there was something that’s been bothering me today. Could you take a look at it for me?”

“Damn it… just this once.”

“Mm, we should.”

“Then let’s go back to the 6th floor for now. We need to interrogate the prisoners too.”

And he found an underground cave hidden among the giant trees.

“This is one of the tower entrances leading up to the 6th Floor. It’ll be quick if we go this way.”

In front of the weary Jang Ryang and Won Pilso, Cheon Ujin headed toward a place he had scouted out before.

And they discovered an underground cave hidden among the giant trees.

Places burned by Samadhi True Fire would leave traces for quite a while.

“Kuhaha, so there was a reason you chose this as our meeting place.”

Na Chwi-ryang laughed and patted Cheon Woo-jin’s shoulder.

“Good, let’s all proudly go up to the 6th Floor together!”

Puffing out their chests like triumphant generals returning from war.

Na Chwiryang smiled and patted Cheon Ujin’s shoulder.

“Alright, let’s all boldly advance to the 6th floor together!”

Especially the story that Cheon Woo-jin had single-handedly defeated Ouyang Hou surprised many people.

“Wasn’t Ouyang Hou said to be a Core Formation Realm master? But he defeated him alone?”

“I just can’t understand it. What kind of special technique did he learn? He’s truly remarkable.”

The rumors spread not only on the 6th Floor but also to the lower floors.

In particular, the story that Cheon Woo-jin single-handedly defeated Guyang Hu shocked many people.

“Didn’t they say Guyang-hu was a member of the Gyeoldan-gyeong? But you took him down all by yourself?”

“Didn’t he even defeat the White God General of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace? It’s surprising, but not impossible.”

“That wasn’t my intention.”

The rumors spread not only to the 6th floor but also to the floors below.

Inside the box were several Cloud Spirit Stones worth more than one hundred thousand ordinary Spirit Stones.

“This is a reward the Sect Master is sending to Fellow Daoist Cheon. If you don’t like the term ‘reward,’ you can think of it as encouragement money.”

“Thank you for helping our Geumsijong resolve his grudge.”

“That wasn’t my intention.”

“Still, thanks to Cheon Do-woo, we all feel like a weight has been lifted off our chests. The sect leader said he wants to express his gratitude to Cheon Do-woo as well.”

Only Cloud Spirit Stones, which contained nature’s spiritual energy compressed at high density, could be used to proceed with the Core Formation ritual.

Kwak Kyung-in handed the box to Cheon Woo-jin.

Inside the box were several운영석 stones, each worth more than one hundred thousand regular spirit stones.

He also helped Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so settle on the 6th Floor.

And about two weeks after defeating Ouyang Hou.

Cheon Woojin obediently accepted the meteorite.

When challenging the Decisive Realm, you must use operational stones rather than regular spirit stones.

Thinking this, Cheon Woo-jin listened to Seo Seol-ryeong’s words.

“Jin Si-hyeok of Flame Emperor Gate has reached Ghost Head City 1st Floor with his subordinates. They say he’s been looking for Cheon Woo-jin since the moment he arrived.”

The Sect Master of Flame Emperor Gate, Jin Si-hyeok.

And about two weeks after defeating Guyang Hou.

Seo Seolryeong spoke to Cheon Woojin, who had come to the store, in a cold voice.

“Cheon Dou, this is breaking news.”

What was bound to happen has finally come.

With that thought, Cheon Woo-jin listened to Seo Seol-ryeong’s words.

“Jin Sihyeok from the Yeomje Clan has arrived at the first floor of Gwisu Castle with his subordinates. They say he’s been looking for Cheon Ujin ever since he entered.”

Jin Sihyeok, the sect leader of the Yeomje Sect.

He came to catch Cheon Woo-jin.

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