Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 147
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Chapter 147: Victor (4)
“Yu, Yuhui, listen carefully to what I’m saying.”
Song Muyeol spoke with a trembling voice.
“I don’t know what your uncle did to you. But there must have been some misunderstanding.”
“A misunderstanding?”
Song Yuhui tilted her head to the side.
“What kind of misunderstanding are you talking about?”
“That is…”
Song Yuhui smiled in front of Song Muyeol, who was at a loss for words.
“Father, I’ve done well following orders until now, haven’t I?”
“What?”
“For one hundred and fifty years from when I was nine years old until now… I’ve done well following what Father ordered, right?”
“…”
Certainly, Song Yuhui had done as she was told all this time.
Even though there were times when she said strange things that made him uncomfortable, she had never refused an order.
“This time too, I did as Father ordered. I stopped my cultivation and immediately rushed to the Imperial Capital. And I ran here and there, fighting hard for the Taeul Yeokri Sect.”
“Yes, I’m grateful for that…”
“But you know what.”
Song Yuhui interrupted Song Muyeol’s words again.
“When we first met, that person said something.”
“That person?”
“He asked why I bother obeying orders.”
“What…”
“He said that with that level of power, I could live as I please…”
As soon as he heard those words.
Song Muyeol shouted.
“Did that bastard Shin Hyeok say such things to you…!”
Without a doubt.
From the beginning, Shin Hyeok had approached Song Yu-hui with dark intentions and infiltrated the Taeul Yeokri Sect.
“Song Yu-hui! You are being deceived by that bastard right now!”
“Father.”
“That bastard infiltrated our Taeul Yeokri Sect from the beginning to cause us harm! He’s an utterly vicious Evil Cultivator! Just now, I too was because of that bastard who should be torn to death…”
Swoosh.
Suddenly, green energy that rose from the floor pierced through Song Mu-yeol’s Nascent Soul.
It might have been coincidence, but that attack was similar to what he had suffered from Shin Hyeok earlier.
“I would appreciate it if you didn’t speak badly of that person, Father.”
“You, what on earth are you…”
Song Mu-yeol couldn’t understand.
It hadn’t even been a month since Song Yu-hui met that man.
If you counted only the time they actually spent acting together, it was less than ten days.
He couldn’t understand how Song Yu-hui had been so swayed by that man in such a short time.
“Su, surely, you haven’t fallen for him…?”
“Pardon?”
“I’m asking if you’ve developed romantic feelings for that bastard…!”
When Song Mu-yeol pressed her, Song Yu-hui covered her mouth with her sleeve and laughed elegantly.
“Father, you really are a pathetic person. Can you only think such vulgar thoughts?”
“What, what did you say?”
“If I had to define the feelings I have for that person, it would be closer to admiration.”
“Ad, admiration?”
“Yes, I wanted to become like that person.”
Song Yu-hui said while covering her mouth with her sleeve.
“A life unbound by anything, freely roaming the world and living boldly… that looked so wonderful to me.”
“What…”
“So I came to want to live like that too. Like that person.”
“…”
What exactly was so wonderful about it?
Song Mu-yeol absolutely couldn’t understand.
“But for me to live like that person, I would have to abandon the Taeul Yeokri Sect.”
Song Yuhee let out a small sigh and spoke.
“I have my own sense of shame, you know. I’ve received so much help from the Taeul Yeokri Sect all this time, so if I just ignored that and left, I’d be too disloyal of a person.”
“Y-yes, so that’s why…”
“However.”
Song Yuhee lowered the sleeve that had been covering her mouth.
On her lips… a cold smile had appeared.
“But when I looked into it, I found out that the Taeul Yeokri Sect was also trying to betray me and use me as a scapegoat?”
“W-wait a moment, that’s…!”
Puook!
Once again, the rising green energy pierced through Song Muyeol’s Nascent Soul.
“So I decided that I don’t need to show loyalty to the Taeul Yeokri Sect either.”
“…”
There was no point in making more excuses.
Song Yuhee had already completely seen through Song Muyeol’s intentions.
Continuing to lie and try to appease her would only backfire.
“Song Yuhee… think again.”
Song Muyeol decided to try persuading Song Yuhee in a different way.
“If you act like this, the Elder Ancestor won’t stand for it. All this time, how much has the Taeul Yeokri Sect done for you alone…”
“The Elder Ancestor? Huhu.”
Song Yuhee laughed and shook her head.
“The Elder Ancestor isn’t interested in such trivial matters. He doesn’t even know that we’re here right now, does he?”
“Urk…”
“Unless the Taeul Yeokri Sect completely disappears from the Ground and the annual ceremonies are cut off… there’s no way the Elder Ancestor would show interest just because one person like me disappears.”
Just when had she become so clever?
Song Muyeol felt chills running down his spine.
If he had been in physical form rather than as a Nascent Soul, he would have broken out in cold sweat.
“Even if father and the leadership of the Taeul Yeokri Sect disappeared, it would be the same.”
“Uuuuurk…!”
At that moment.
Song Muyeol’s Nascent Soul, which had been pierced by the green energy, scattered.
It wasn’t that his Nascent Soul had reached its limit. Song Muyeol had been waiting for a chance to counterattack from earlier.
[Thunder Sound Lightning Flash]
Song Muyeol’s scattered Nascent Soul gathered into one and became a streak of lightning.
It was Song Muyeol’s secret technique that he usually kept hidden, transforming his Nascent Soul itself into lightning to pierce through his opponent.
No matter how skilled Song Yuhui was, she wouldn’t be able to respond to this attack.
However, at that moment.
Song Muyeol felt that the surrounding scenery had changed.
‘Huh…?’
At first, he thought night had fallen.
Because everything around him had suddenly become dark.
But when he looked around, he couldn’t see the collapsed pavilions.
There was only one thing visible.
A pitch-black tree of bizarre shape, standing tall without a single leaf…
‘Th-this is the Void Divine Elixir Domain…!’
It was Song Yuhui’s pseudo-domain.
But it was more complete than what Song Muyeol had understood.
‘This girl, when did she gain power approaching a true domain…’
Whiiish!
Tree branches and roots extended out in an instant.
They bound Song Muyeol’s Nascent Soul that had transformed into a streak of lightning, then began absorbing its power.
‘St-stop! This is power that should be used against the Guardian Imperial Dragon God! Not on me…!’
Song Muyeol tried to send a telepathic message to Song Yuhui.
But Song Muyeol’s thoughts weren’t transmitted anywhere.
He was only being sucked into the tree of the Void Divine Elixir Domain along with his Nascent Soul.
‘Th-this can’t be happening!’
Feeling his Nascent Soul being drained of all its power and shrinking, Song Muyeol screamed inwardly.
‘I am Song Mu-yeol! I am the sect leader who leads the Taeul Yeokri Sect, one of the three major forces of Wei Jin Kingdom and the leader of the Orthodox Sect! I cannot be annihilated in a place like this!’
But no one listened to that desperate cry.
Even Song Yu-hee, visible through the gaps in the tree roots, had an indifferent expression as if she was no longer interested.
‘Why did it turn out like this? Was accepting that bastard Shin Hyeok a mistake? Did it all go wrong from there?’
Right at that moment.
Suddenly, he remembered the technique that Shin Hyeok had displayed earlier.
That technique that poured out waves of pitch-black lightning was definitely the Black Lightning of the Five Thunder Method.
But hadn’t he heard somewhere about someone who used such techniques?
‘A lightning technique user presumed to have Water Spirit Root… who ravages everything with black lightning…’
The bastard who killed Jin Si-hyeok of the Flame Emperor Sect, Song Mu-yeol’s other child.
The bastard who stole the Heavenly Silkworm Shadow Cloak and completely ruined the Taeul Yeokri Sect’s plans.
He remembered that name.
‘Cheon Woo-jin…?’
The reason Song Mu-yeol had initially taken interest in Shin Hyeok was because he heard he was someone worth deploying to kill Cheon Woo-jin.
After this matter ended, he had planned to dispatch Shin Hyeok to Ghost Head City to have him kill Cheon Woo-jin.
But… what if Shin Hyeok and Cheon Woo-jin were the same person?
‘Then, all of us have been in that bastard’s palm from before this whole thing even started…’
Song Mu-yeol could no longer think of anything.
Gripped by fear of a being beyond comprehension, he completely withered and vanished within the Great Void Divine Elixir Reversal.
It was the miserable end of a man who had tried to seize Wei Jin Kingdom and lead the Taeul Yeokri Sect to Sect Ascension.
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“…”
After confirming that Song Mu-yeol’s Nascent Soul had completely vanished.
Song Yu-hee checked the energy absorbed into her body.
What she could completely make her own was only a portion, but even so, this much was sufficient to challenge the middle stage of Won Yeong-gyeong.
“So Woo, now I am free.”
Looking around, all the cultivators of the Taeul Yeokri Sect were dead.
While Song Yuhui was ravaging Song Mujin and Song Muyeol, they had been swept up in the Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army’s attack and died.
“Now nothing can bind me. Not father, not the Taeul Yeokri Sect, not anyone….”
Song Yuhui spread both arms wide and took a deep breath.
Feeling a sense of liberation she had never experienced before, Song Yuhui whispered alone toward the empty air.
“Now I can finally travel together with you, Sowoo.”
From the beginning, Song Yuhui had intended to do just that.
To abandon the Taeul Yeokri Sect and travel the continent freely with that man, living as she pleased.
“But….”
Song Yuhui looked around frantically.
But no matter how much she looked around, all she could see were the corpses of Taeul Yeokri Sect members.
The man Song Yuhui wanted to meet right now was nowhere to be found.
“Sowoo, where on earth did you go?”
Behind Song Yuhui as she spoke to herself, the fully awakened Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army soared up toward the sky.
* * *
“Kahahaha…!”
Laughter burst out from the back of the neck of the soaring imperial dragon.
There, a stain-like red liquid was smeared.
“Those Taeul Yeokri Sect bastards, to think they’d self-destruct while fighting among themselves! I was worried they might display their hidden strength and stop the Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army, but things worked out well!”
The identity was the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon of the Blood World Demon Sect.
He was the one who pretended to be defeated by Yu Mugi and Jong Richeol, then went underground in blood body state and forcibly awakened the sleeping Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army.
Of course, the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon’s blood body was swept up and destroyed when the Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army awakened.
What was now attached to the back of the Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army’s neck was the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon’s Nascent Soul that had been secretly waiting near Nakryeong Island.
Currently, the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon had embedded part of his Nascent Soul into the back of the Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army’s head.
By sending signals into its mind, he could roughly control the direction the Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army flew.
“Guardian Imperial Dragon God Army! Let’s first sweep away Gongryeong Island and Pyeonghwang Island!”
Currently, there are many cultivators gathered on the Hwangryeol Archipelago to participate in the Great Chaos.
In the process of hunting them, innocent ordinary people would also be massacred.
Though this went against the original intentions of the founding emperor, the current Guardian Imperial Dragon Divine Army was nothing more than a monster that couldn’t distinguish such things.
The Soul-Crushing Blood Demon planned to turn the Hwangryeol Archipelago into a sea of blood first, then cross the True Imperial Sea to ravage all parts of the Wei Jin Kingdom.
“By creating such a Blood World… I will achieve the long-cherished wish of the Blood World Demon Sect!”
Kwa-kwa-kwang!
As if responding to the Soul-Crushing Blood Demon’s cry, enormous waves surged up from the True Imperial Sea.
The waves tried to swallow the Guardian Imperial Dragon Divine Army, but the golden radiance emanating from the Guardian Imperial Dragon Divine Army scattered the waves into pieces.
“Magnificent…!”
The Soul-Crushing Blood Demon was amazed at that sight.
Originally, the True Imperial Sea was a place that even Nascent Soul stage cultivators couldn’t cross with their bare bodies, but riding on the Guardian Imperial Dragon Divine Army, there was nothing to worry about.
“Good! Now toward Gongryeong Island…”
Just as he was about to signal the Guardian Imperial Dragon Divine Army to charge toward Gongryeong Island.
The Soul-Crushing Blood Demon sensed a strange presence.
“…?”
When he checked behind him, something was approaching from the direction of Nakhyeong Island.
It was a wooden ship shaped like a crescent moon, as if carved from a large tree.
It was flying through the sky above the True Imperial Sea, approaching them.
“A flying magical treasure? A magical treasure capable of crossing the True Imperial Sea?”
The Soul-Crushing Blood Demon observed that flying vessel closely.
Complex patterns were carved on its surface, very delicate and beautiful.
“Wait, could that be… the Ghost Wood Vessel, the prototype of the sea-crossing ships?”
The Ghost Wood Vessel was a flying magical treasure said to be made by the Yin Soul Ghost Bone Palace.
It was said to be able to freely traverse any treacherous terrain.
The sea-crossing ships were created by referencing this Ghost Wood Vessel.
“But why is no one riding it?”
If cultivators like those from the Taeul Yeokri Sect had been riding it, he would have immediately moved the Guardian Imperial Dragon Divine Army to intercept them.
But no one was riding the Ghost Wood Vessel. It was just flying through the sky and approaching on its own.
“Oh my, how strange. Why on earth…”
The Ghost Tree finally approached near the back of the Imperial Dragon’s neck where the Soul-Shattering Blood Demon was located.
Even from close up, there was no one riding on the Ghost Tree.
“Shall I take a closer look…?”
He couldn’t pretend not to know about such a precious treasure.
A human head emerged from the Nascent Soul of the Soul-Shattering Blood Demon that had been staining the Imperial Dragon’s neck like a blotch.
The Soul-Shattering Blood Demon stretched his head out as it was, trying to examine the inside of the Ghost Tree.
But right at that moment.
A fluttering sound was heard, as if something was being thrown off.
“Urgh…!”
Slash!
A blade that suddenly flew in split the Soul-Shattering Blood Demon’s head.
“H-how…”
The Soul-Shattering Blood Demon looked around with his head split in half.
And he witnessed a man who had been nowhere to be seen suddenly appear, holding a sword.
He was in the middle of throwing off the robe that had been covering his entire body.
The Soul-Shattering Blood Demon could recognize at a glance what that robe was.
“Th-Thousand Silkworm Shadow Robe?”
The supreme concealment Dharma Artifact that was said to have been in Ghost Head City.
The Taeul Yeokri Sect had once tried to secure it through the Flame Emperor Gate, but ultimately failed to obtain it.
According to rumors, the one who currently possessed the Thousand Silkworm Shadow Robe was…
Merciless blades surged forth once more toward the soul-crushing blood demon, who screamed in bewilderment at what was happening.
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