Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 143
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Chapter 143: Great Chaos (6)
“Kgh, kghh…”
The Gongui Family Head grabbed his throat with his hands and staggered backward.
But the blade had already penetrated deeply.
He was in a state where even making a sound was impossible.
Still, being a Qi Condensation Cultivator, his breath hadn’t completely stopped yet.
Cheon Woo-jin stared at the other people who had been beside Gongui.
They were people from the Bright Light Sect and Jongli Family. There were four of them, but he could see status windows for only three.
[Yu Mu-gi ]
* Race: Human Race
* Age: 777 years
* Realm: Nascent Soul Realm Mid-stage
* Constitution: Wood Spirit Root
* Faction: Orthodox Sect
* Affiliation: Bright Light Sect
* Heavenly Mandate: Authority
[Jongli Cheol ]
* Race: Human Race
* Age: 701 years
* Realm: Nascent Soul Realm Mid-stage
* Constitution: Metal Spirit Root
* Faction: Orthodox Sect
* Affiliation: Jongli Family
* Heavenly Mandate: Family Governance
[Lee Yul ]
* Race: Human Race
* Age: 384 years
* Realm: Core Formation Realm Great Perfection
* Constitution: Metal-Water Spirit Root
* Faction: Orthodox Sect
* Affiliation: Bright Light Sect
* Heavenly Mandate: Loyalty
They were all familiar faces.
Yu Mu-gi was the Sect Master of the Bright Light Sect, and Jongli Cheol was the Supreme Family Head of the Jongli Family.
Lee Yul, an elder of the Gwangmyeong Sect, was someone he had seen passing by on Pyeonghwang Island not long ago.
The other person also didn’t show a status window, but it was a face he had seen in the game.
It was the Sword King, a Hwagyeong master who pledged loyalty to the Jongli Family.
‘It seems the rest fell victim to the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon.’
At that moment, Yu Mugi urgently reached out his hand, trying to save Gong Uise.
As long as the neck wasn’t completely severed, Yu Mugi could save him with his abilities.
However, even when Yu Mugi used healing magic arts, there was no effect.
Even when Jongli Cheol and Lee Yul rushed over, blood continued to gush from Gong Uise’s neck.
“What’s going on here?”
“The wound won’t heal…!”
“Ugh, urgh…”
Yu Mugi urgently raised his head and looked at Cheon Woo-jin.
“You, you bastard, what the hell is that sword!”
As expected of a sect master of a major sect.
He immediately realized that the problem was the sword Cheon Woo-jin was holding.
“What kind of sword is it that wounds won’t heal…!”
Cheon Woo-jin didn’t answer.
There was no need to reveal that he possessed the Palgung Nakswaedo, the magical treasure that the founding Emperor of Wei Jin Kingdom had received from the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.
‘Black Spirit Sword Emperor, this is exactly the power of the Palgung Nakswaedo you were curious about.’
Even the Black Spirit Sword Emperor Gwan Hwangdo only knew that such a magical treasure existed, but didn’t know what power it possessed.
The Wei Jin Kingdom’s imperial family had also just kept it stored in their treasury for a thousand years, so they knew nothing about it.
At this point, Cheon Woo-jin was the only person who knew the true power of the Palgung Nakswaedo.
‘The Palgung Nakswaedo has two functions. One of them is… the power to inflict unhealable wounds.’
Wounds cut by the Palgung Nakswaedo do not heal.
This was because the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace had imbued the blade with such a spell formation.
It cannot be healed by magic arts or elixirs. Even the tiniest scratch won’t heal and blood continues to flow.
‘The founding Emperor of Wei Jin Kingdom was someone who made a name for himself in the martial world with his fierce sword techniques. The Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace must have focused on that aspect when they created and gifted him this sword.’
The way to deal with this wound is to manipulate space or time to ‘restore it to its original state’.
Yu Mu-gi and Jong Ri-cheol were in the middle stage of Nascent Soul, so they could handle it with spatial manipulation, but they seemed to have not thought of that part yet.
“Kugh…”
“Gong Ui-se…!”
In the end, Gong Ui-se collapsed limply.
The third prince who had harbored the ambition to become Wei Jin Kingdom’s first cultivator Emperor met his death like that.
“This can’t be…”
Yu Mu-gi and Jong Ri-cheol had expressions of utter bewilderment.
Who could have known that Gong Ui-se would die in front of the Emperor’s bedchamber like this?
“How could this happen…”
“Twenty years of planning ending so futilely…”
“Masters, this is not the time for this.”
Then the Sword King spoke up.
He drew his sword even though he knew what was before him was a water clone.
“Since things have come to this, don’t we have no choice but to truly usurp Wei Jin Kingdom?”
“What…!”
He was saying that even if not Gong Ui-se, someone else should become Emperor and take over the country.
Of course, this was a statement that reflected the Sword King’s own ambition.
If one of the people here had to become Emperor, the Sword King himself would be the most suitable.
The Sword King was a martial artist who had made a name for himself in Wei Jin Kingdom for a long time.
Since Wei Jin Kingdom’s founding Emperor was also from the renowned martial family of Gong Ui-se, it wouldn’t be particularly strange for a martial artist to become the new Emperor.
Anyway, people from the Cultivation World like Yu Mu-gi, Jong Ri-cheol, and Yi Yul couldn’t sit on the Emperor’s throne, so the only suitable person was the Sword King.
“Yes, then…”
“It can’t be helped…”
Things would become much more complicated, but it was better than retreating here.
Having made their decision, Yu Mu-gi and Jong Ri-cheol glared at Cheon Woo-jin.
“You bastard, where exactly did you come from?”
“You just said you were a rootless mercenary, is that really true?”
They were Nascent Soul Realm Daoists who were far stronger than Cheon Woo-jin.
In a formal fight, Cheon Woo-jin had no chance of winning.
However.
Cheon Woo-jin had no intention of running away.
He knew that an opportunity would come soon.
“Hm?”
“This is….”
Wooooooooong!
Suddenly, an intense roaring sound echoed inside their heads.
Unable to withstand the shock, Yu Mugi, Jongli Cheol, and Yi Yul staggered.
Meanwhile, the Sword King appeared perfectly fine and only blinked his eyes.
“Masters, what’s wrong with you?”
The Sword King wouldn’t know.
This was a power that only affected cultivators who had learned cultivation methods.
“Th-this is from the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace…!”
“Why is the Soul Stealing Descent Formation here…!”
Soul Stealing Descent Formation.
It was a special formation created by the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.
It absorbed cultivators’ spiritual power and suppressed the function of their spiritual meridians, preventing them from displaying their original strength.
Even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators with tremendous power would have their strength suppressed to the Core Formation Realm level within this Soul Stealing Descent Formation.
Of course, this wasn’t the real Soul Stealing Descent Formation.
It was simply the Guardian Imperial Dragon God awakening from its slumber underground and manifesting its divine authority.
The pseudo Soul Stealing Descent Formation that the founding Emperor had received from the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace because he wanted to prevent the Cultivation World from destroying the Wei Jin Kingdom.
That power coincidentally activated just as the Bright Light Sect and Jongli Family decided to usurp the throne.
“B-but….”
Yu Mugi placed his hand against the wall and struggled to lift his head.
“Why are you perfectly fine…?”
“….”
As he pointed out, Cheon Woo-jin was indeed perfectly fine.
He didn’t stagger like the others, nor was his strength weakened to the Foundation Establishment level.
‘It’s because of the second function of the Eight Desolation Chain Blade.’
To be precise, it couldn’t be called a function of the Eight Desolation Chain Blade itself.
It would be more accurate to say it was a function of the magical treasure created by the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.
Formation arrays like the Escape Origin Steel Boundary Formation include spell formations that prevent allies from being caught up in them.
It would be meaningless if allies as well as enemies had their power weakened.
However, if you carry a magical treasure from the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace, you’re automatically recognized as an ally of the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.
The magical treasure serves as a kind of identification.
This also applies to the authority of the Nation-Protecting Imperial Dragon Divine Army.
The Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace gifted the founding Emperor with the power to weaken cultivators, but they excluded themselves from that target.
So as long as Cheon Woo-jin carries the Eight Desolation Chain Blade, the authority of the Nation-Protecting Imperial Dragon Divine Army is nullified.
‘This should be enough.’
After confirming that Yu Mu-gi and Jong Ri-cheol’s power had been sufficiently weakened.
Cheon Woo-jin finally moved.
[Lightning Flash]
Crack!
He moved at ultra-high speed using lightning energy.
His first target was neither Yu Mu-gi nor Jong Ri-cheol.
It was Elder Yi Yul of the Bright Light Sect, who still hadn’t regained his senses.
“Huk…!”
Originally, Cheon Woo-jin hadn’t learned sword techniques.
However, he had memorized a few movements from his previous fight with Gwan Hwang.
He reproduced those movements that remained strongly in his mind, strengthening his entire body with the Six Extremes Heaven Steel Divine Art.
“Keuak…!”
Thunk!
The Eight Desolation Chain Blade pierced Yi Yul’s lower abdomen.
A distinct sensation was felt at his fingertips, and Yi Yul’s face was colored with despair.
It was the moment when a Core Formation Realm Elder’s golden core was pierced through with a single thrust.
“You bastard, how dare you do this to this Elder…!”
Yu Mu-gi raised his voice.
White light surged from his body.
It was the light of the Radiant Great Five Method that the Radiant Sect prided itself on.
However, its power was far from impressive.
Due to the pseudo-Nascent Soul Suppression Formation rising from beneath the Imperial Palace, he had been weakened to the Core Formation Realm level.
“Kugh!”
Papapat!
Yu Mu-gi fired a pure white beam.
If it had been his usual strength, Cheon Woo-jin wouldn’t have been able to react properly and would have been pierced through.
[Thunder Flash]
However, Cheon Woo-jin dodged the beam by a hair’s breadth and approached Yu Mu-gi.
Seeing Cheon Woo-jin raise his sword, Yu Mu-gi hastily deployed a protective barrier in front.
But that was a mistake.
[Black Shadow Curse Kill]
Puuk!
A black awl that shot up from the ground pierced through Yu Mu-gi’s sole.
And it injected cursed power into his body.
Originally, this power wouldn’t work on a Nascent Soul cultivator of Yu Mu-gi’s level, but in his weakened state, it had a decent effect.
“Ugh…!”
His reaction slowed slightly.
Targeting that moment, Cheon Woo-jin moved as if brushing past Yu Mu-gi’s side and swung the Eight Desolations Falling Chain Blade.
Chwaak!
Yu Mu-gi’s right arm fell off.
Originally, this level of injury would be nothing to a Nascent Soul cultivator, but the current situation was different.
“How dare you…!”
At that moment, Jongli Cheol came to provide support.
His body was surrounded by golden light.
It was the Golden Path Formula, the Jongli Family’s own Cultivation Method.
However, the light wasn’t as brilliant as Jongli Yeon’s had been when she attacked Cheon Woo-jin and Song Yu-hee last time.
He should be shining more brilliantly than Zhong Li-yan, who was his junior by far.
“Are you that skilled with the sword? Let’s have a match…!”
Zhong Li-chul was a Sword Cultivator.
He charged at Cheon Woo-jin wielding a golden sword-shaped Dharma Artifact.
However, Cheon Woo-jin did not engage in swordplay.
He deployed the Taeul Protection Talisman to form a barrier and blocked Zhong Li-chul’s attack.
“Urgh…!”
Zhong Li-chul tried desperately to break through the barrier, but his Sword Qi output was unstable.
Watching him struggle, Cheon Woo-jin drew yang energy from his Golden Core.
[True Fire Burning Bell]
Whoosh!
A small True Fire, optimized to burn just one person, engulfed Zhong Li-chul.
“Arghhhh…!”
Zhong Li-chul screamed and staggered backward.
The flames of True Fire instantly burned Zhong Li-chul’s body.
“You bastard, so you’re the True Fire practitioner who joined the Taeul Yeokri Sect!”
At that moment, Yu Wu-gi charged again.
He raised his left arm and unleashed Magic Arts at Cheon Woo-jin, and taking advantage of that gap, Zhong Li-chul’s Nascent Soul escaped from his body.
“How dare you destroy my body…!”
Zhong Li-chul formed Hand Seals in his Nascent Soul state.
Then dozens of golden blades manifested in the air.
However, half of them failed to maintain their form properly and scattered.
It was due to the authority of the Guardian Dragon God. Even in his Nascent Soul state after leaving his body, his power was being suppressed.
“Damn it…!”
Cursing, Zhong Li-chul unleashed the remaining blades, and Yu Wu-gi also fired his beam.
[Lightning Flash]
[Lightning Flash]
Crash!
After dodging all the attacks, Cheon Woo-jin charged toward Yu Mu-gi.
Then he unleashed all the Lightning Energy he had deployed throughout his body forward at once.
[Lightning Flash Pierce]
Crash crash boom!
The spear of Lightning Energy pierced through Yu Mu-gi’s torso.
As his Golden Core was destroyed, Yu Mu-gi also hastily escaped from his physical body.
The Nascent Souls of Yu Mu-gi and Jong Ri-cheol both glared at Cheon Woo-jin with blazing eyes.
“I can’t understand the current situation at all, but…”
“For now, I’ll definitely kill you here!”
This wasn’t a situation where they could afford the luxury of capturing him alive to obtain information.
Having reached that conclusion belatedly, they deployed their Magic Arts with full power.
Yu Mu-gi created a spider web-like net of light, while Jong Ri-cheol deployed over a hundred golden Sword Qi.
Though they were in a significantly weakened state, such large-scale Magic Arts would be enough to tear Cheon Woo-jin to pieces.
However, Cheon Woo-jin had already completed his own Magic Arts as well.
[White Night Piercing Heaven]
Whoooosh!
A white storm erupted.
According to Cheon Woo-jin’s mental image, absolute cold was manifested, devouring the Magic Arts that the two Nascent Souls had deployed.
Cheon Woo-jin’s unique Magic Arts that had instantly frozen even the flame giant created by Jin Si-hyeok of the Flame Emperor Sect.
It spread out in an instant, targeting the two Nascent Souls.
“This cold energy is…?!”
“How can a True Fire practitioner…!”
Yu Mu-gi and Jong Ri-cheol tried to flee from the cold energy.
However, the authority of the Guardian Dragon God suppressed even the speed at which the Nascent Souls could escape.
In the end, they became caught up in the storm of White Night Piercing Heaven.
“Ahhh!”
“Arghhhh!”
White Night Piercing Heaven freezes and stops everything with the power of pure yin.
If they were in a state where they could properly display their original power it might be different, but in the current situation, even Nascent Souls had no choice but to freeze.
Currently, they were being affected even more greatly by the Protective Imperial Dragon God’s divine power because they had abandoned their physical bodies, the material vessels.
As their Nascent Souls were placed in an unstable state, even the original durability of their Nascent Souls was deteriorating.
“Ah, no!”
“How could this…!”
And then an astonishing phenomenon occurred.
Cracks began to form in the Nascent Souls that had hardened white.
It looked like cracks forming in pieces of ice.
“Ah, I’m sorry, Elder Ancestor…!”
Yu Mugi cried out in anguish, calling upon the Elder Ancestor of the Gwangmyeong Sect.
“You gave me the mission to break the Taeul Yeokri Sect and make the Gwangmyeong Sect the foremost Orthodox Sect… but this worthless junior has failed!”
Crack!
Finally, Yu Mugi’s Nascent Soul shattered apart.
“I’m sorry, my descendants…!”
Meanwhile, Jongli Cheol, the Supreme Family Head of the Jongli Family, called out to his descendants.
“The dream of seizing Wei Jin Kingdom and making the Jongli Family leap forward anew… it ends here…!”
Shatter!
Jongli Cheol’s Nascent Soul likewise broke into pieces.
Originally, they possessed the power to crush someone like Cheon Woo-jin even by themselves.
But due to the Protective Imperial Dragon God’s divine power, they couldn’t properly display their strength and met a futile death.
In fact, it could be said they brought it upon themselves.
The Soul-Crushing Blood Demon had awakened the Protective Imperial Dragon God, and it was none other than them who had brought the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon to the imperial palace.
“Ah, ahhh…”
Then a frightened voice reached Cheon Woo-jin’s ears.
“M-Master.”
The Sword King was kneeling with his hands clasped, begging for his life.
The sword he had drawn before Cheon Woo-jin earlier was already rolling on the ground.
Unlike just moments ago when he had revealed his ambition to become Emperor in place of Gong Uise, his appearance was utterly servile.
“This humble one has reached the Fire Realm and is called the Sword King in the martial world. If you would take me in, I would burn this body for Master’s sake…”
The Sword King couldn’t finish his words.
Because Cheon Woo-jin’s lightly swung sword had severed the Sword King’s neck.
No matter how much of a warrior who had reached the Fire Realm he was, there was an overwhelming difference compared to a Core Formation Realm cultivator who had mastered body transformation techniques.
Having created four corpses like that, Cheon Woo-jin slowly turned around.
“Your Majesty the Emperor.”
Behind Cheon Woo-jin.
There, Emperor Gong Uiryun was sitting up in bed with his upper body raised, eyes wide open.
After having everyone else leave, only Gong Uiryun remained to witness this scene.
“Are you satisfied?”
“It was exhilarating.”
Tears were flowing from Gong Uiryun’s eyes.
Gong Uise, who had tried to forcibly seize the throne despite sharing no blood relation.
The Guangming Sect and Jongli Family, who had humiliated him by having a concubine bear Gong Uise’s child.
He was moved by their miserable end.
“This seems to be as much as I can show you directly.”
“I understand. I entrust the rest to you.”
Gong Uiryun had entrusted everything to Cheon Woo-jin.
Punishing those who had humiliated him.
Stopping the Blood World Demon Sect’s conspiracy.
Deciding which prince would inherit the throne.
He had decided to trust and entrust everything to Cheon Woo-jin, whom he had met for the first time today.
Because in this world, Cheon Woo-jin was the only person who had promised to resolve Gong Uiryun’s resentment.
In a life where he had only been used and deceived, Cheon Woo-jin was the only one who had promised to take action for Gong Uiryun’s sake.
‘Then…’
Before leaving, he needed to collect the spoils of war.
Cheon Woo-jin first took Iryul’s Storage Bag.
The Nascent Soul cultivators Yu Mu-gi and Jongli Cheol didn’t have storage bags since they used Spatial Storage. So they only had to gather the emergency elixirs from their robes.
Next, Cheon Woo-jin took out the Blood Life Bead from his storage bag.
He needed to extract vital blood from Yu Mu-gi’s body.
While it was difficult to extract intact vital blood from Jongli Cheol, whose body was covered in True Fire, he could obtain a sufficient amount of vital blood from Yu Mu-gi.
‘Following Master Gukro, now Yu Mu-gi too… With this, I’ve secured vital blood from two Nascent Soul cultivators.’
Having gathered what he needed, Cheon Woo-jin burned all the corpses.
He also burned the places where traces of the White Night Heaven Ability remained.
Someone might investigate the traces at the scene later.
As for Gong Ui-ryun, the only witness… he seemed about to leave this world soon, so it was fine.
“But I heard that the Taeul Yeokri Sect consists of those with much stronger power. Will you be alright?”
To Gong Ui-ryun’s quiet question, Cheon Woo-jin answered calmly.
“You don’t need to worry.”
Certainly, the Taeul Yeokri Sect was strong.
Moreover, unlike the Bright Light Sect and Jongli Family who had lost most of their subordinates to the Soul-Shattering Blood Demon, they would have sufficient forces with them.
However.
Cheon Woo-jin had already completed his preparations.
“They will meet an even more miserable end than the Bright Light Sect and Jongli Family.”
After giving his final farewell to the satisfied-looking Gong Ui-ryun, Cheon Woo-jin left the bedchamber.
Now it was time to destroy the Taeul Yeokri Sect.
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