Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 19

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Chapter 19: Assault (4)

 

 

“Why is the Taeul Yeokri Sect interfering in this matter!”

 

Dan Mok-ryeong shouted.

 

“According to the old agreement, the Taeul Yeokri Sect cannot interfere in Ghost Head City’s internal affairs! So why…!”

 

Dan Mok-ryeong’s once-refined features twisted hideously.

Due to his misunderstanding that Cheon Woo-jin belonged to the Taeul Yeokri Sect, he was showing an incomparably more emotional reaction than when he had only fought Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so.

 

He had no choice but to react this way.

The Taeul Yeokri Sect was a much more powerful sect than the Solitary Sword Sect, which was merely a minor force within the Dark Gate.

If the Taeul Yeokri Sect decided to act seriously, they could crush something like the Solitary Sword Sect in an instant.

 

Within the Dark Gate, only the Thirteen Alliances Under the Moon, the largest force, could stand against the Taeul Yeokri Sect.

But even the Thirteen Alliances Under the Moon would try to avoid direct confrontation with the Taeul Yeokri Sect in Ghost Head City as much as possible.

The Thirteen Alliances Under the Moon were also bound by the old agreement.

 

In any case, if the Taeul Yeokri Sect was involved, it wouldn’t be easy for a minor force like the Solitary Sword Sect to resist.

Knowing this, Dan Mok-ryeong was greatly shaken at the moment.

 

And.

Thanks to that agitation, an opening was created for Cheon Woo-jin to exploit.

 

[Taeul Mysterious Sword Art Ultimate Technique]

[Chaotic Sword Encirclement]

 

Papapapat!

Cheon Woo-jin’s Sword Qi shot up, each drawing irregular trajectories.

A wild dance of Sword Qi rushing toward its prey like living serpents.

Twelve black blades surrounded Dan Mok-ryeong from all directions like a tightening noose.

 

At that moment, Dan Mok-ryeong’s eyes became bloodshot.

The Wood Spirit Energy injected into the Five Thunder Heaven-Shaking Sword dyed the entire blade blue and made the air vibrate.

 

“How dare you…!”

 

Dan Mok-ryeong’s lips convulsed and twisted.

With eyes that said he would shoot down everything, he unleashed blue Sword Qi from the Five Thunder Heaven-Shaking Sword.

Dan Mok-ryeong’s Sword Qi, being that of a Qi Accumulation stage Sword Cultivation practitioner, should be able to deflect all of Cheon Woo-jin’s Sword Qi.

 

However, just then.

Dan Mok-ryeong’s movements suddenly slowed down.

As if heavy lead weights had been attached to his limbs.

 

“You bastard…!”

 

Before he knew it, Jang Ryang was deploying Magic Arts with both hands clasped together.

The Magic Arts he had prepared while Dan Mok-ryeong was wary of Cheon Woo-jin had been activated.

 

Jang Ryang had a single earth attribute spiritual root.

He was skilled in auxiliary Magic Arts rather than direct attacks.

The earth attribute was especially specialized in techniques that created fields within a certain range, like formation methods.

Right now, Jang Ryang was creating a gravity field centered on Dan Mok-ryeong to slow down his movements.

 

“Flame!”

 

Won Pil-so also began pouring out Fire Magic, timing it for the moment Jang Ryang’s Magic Arts were completed.

Though inferior to his senior Jang Ryang, Won Pil-so was also a Qi Accumulation stage cultivator.

His firepower was sufficiently threatening.

 

The situation where he was receiving concentrated attacks from Cheon Woo-jin’s Sword Qi and Won Pil-so’s flames within Jang Ryang’s gravity field.

Even Dan Mok-ryeong had no choice but to hesitate.

 

“Press the attack!”

 

Jang Ryang shouted, encouraging Cheon Woo-jin and Won Pil-so.

His voice carried the expectation that they could achieve a comeback victory.

 

Won Pil-so’s flames danced madly. The black Sword Qi also poured down on Dan Mok-ryeong all at once.

The surrounding area collapsed with a thunderous roar that seemed like it would burst their eardrums.

 

“Did we get him?!”

 

Won Pil-so panted and stuck his head out.

Just then, a blue wind whirled through the thick dust.

 

“…!”

 

Dan Mok-ryeong was gripping the Five Thunder Heaven-Shaking Sword tightly with both hands, his eyes closed.

His body was completely protected by a blue barrier.

He had concentrated all his Spiritual Power on defense at the moment the concentrated attack poured down.

 

Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so hesitated, not having expected him to withstand that much.

At that moment, Dan Mok-ryeong opened his eyes wide and raised the Five Thunder Heaven-Shaking Sword.

 

Boom!

Blue lightning exploded in an instant.

Lightning Energy that burst out in all directions tore through space itself.

It was powerful enough to bring down even the Temporary Quarters.

 

“Urgh!”

“S-Senior Brother…!”

 

Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so rolled on the ground, coughing up red blood.

Originally, their calculation was that the two of them working together could sufficiently subdue Dan Mok-ryeong.

But they had failed to consider the performance of the Dharma Artifact Dan Mok-ryeong had brought.

 

“Vermin-like bastards.”

 

Dan Mok-ryeong gritted his teeth.

Blood vessels bulged on the hand gripping the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword.

 

The surrounding area had been completely devastated by the lightning from moments before.

The low-ranking disciples of the Solitary Sword Sect who had remained in the Temporary Quarters had likely lost their lives caught up in the attack.

But Dan Mok-ryeong paid no attention to such matters.

 

Looking around, he only confirmed that all the bastards who had charged at him were lying collapsed.

 

“Damn it…!”

 

Whoosh!

Won Pil-so raised only his arm in a final desperate struggle and released flames.

Dan Mok-ryeong sneered as he raised his left hand and generated a blue barrier.

While blocking the flames, he gathered Spiritual Power again in the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword in his right hand.

 

He would condense his Spiritual Power and completely cut off his breath this time.

Revealing this intention directly, Dan Mok-ryeong wore a leisurely smile. It was an expression that contrasted with Won Pil-so’s distorted face.

 

And right after Dan Mok-ryeong raised the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword infused with sufficient Spiritual Power.

 

“…!”

 

Blood spurted.

But it wasn’t Won Pil-so’s blood.

It was Dan Mok-ryeong’s blood.

 

Just moments before, Dan Mok-ryeong had confirmed that all his enemies were sprawled on the ground.

He had clearly seen the cultivator who had been using the Taeul Mysterious Sword Art collapsed and unable to even move.

So he had tried to deal with Won Pil-so first, who still seemed to have some strength left.

 

Because of this situation.

He failed to detect in advance that Cheon Woo-jin’s shadow was stealthily extending toward his feet.

 

He didn’t notice at all until the shadow blade that rose silently severed his right wrist.

 

“Ah…!”

 

When Dan Mok-ryeong let out a short groan.

Cheon Woo-jin, who had been pretending to be collapsed, had already risen and was circulating his Spiritual Energy.

 

Cheon Woo-jin was gradually becoming certain.

That his talent far exceeded that of ordinary cultivators.

 

In the real world, Cheon Woo-jin had played Immortal Path Chronicles and indirectly experienced the lives of hundreds of cultivators.

He had experienced not only the Qi Accumulation stage but also unfathomably high realms.

Of course, these had been nothing more than simple game knowledge until now.

 

But now that he had reached the Spiritual Energy stage and could consciously utilize the Spiritual Domain of the Manifest True Life Body, the meaning had changed.

 

The ‘Ming’ in Manifest True Life Body means the pitch-black sea that accepts everything.

Cheon Woo-jin dissolved all his memories into that sea.

What had been mere game knowledge was absorbed into the Spiritual Domain of the Manifest True Life Body and sublimated into cultivator’s enlightenment.

Until now, he could only memorize and reproduce what was written in cultivation manuals, but now he could challenge even the unknown realms beyond that.

 

This was talent sufficient to be called a genius by others.

 

“…!”

 

He used the shadow blade like a hook to pull Dan Mok-ryeong’s right hand toward him.

The wrist dripping with blood came into Cheon Woo-jin’s grasp.

 

Of course, what Cheon Woo-jin wanted wasn’t Dan Mok-ryeong’s hand.

It was the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword gripped tightly in that hand.

 

“You bastard…!”

 

Hearing Dan Mok-ryeong’s scream, Cheon Woo-jin held the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword and sank into his Spiritual Domain.

Even if he used the Sword Qi of the Taeul Mysterious Sword Art with this, he couldn’t deal a fatal blow to Dan Mok-ryeong, who was at the Qi Accumulation stage.

He needed a new power.

 

‘I need to use the power of the lightning attribute.’

 

Lightning attribute.

This was an attribute whose setting changed in every immortal cultivation story.

Because it didn’t fit neatly into the Five Elements of Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.

 

In some works, the lightning attribute is assigned to the Wood Element.

Because lightning is ‘Zhen’ in the Eight Trigrams, which corresponds to Wood in the Five Elements.

 

In some works, the lightning attribute is assigned to the Fire Element.

By interpreting lightning as the power of extreme Yang and placing it on the same level as flames.

 

Immortal Path Chronicles took a different perspective.

It was set as a superior attribute that transcended the Five Elements… primordial energy generated when Yin and Yang forces collided.

 

This was a setting that referenced the Thunder Method that actually existed in Taoism.

The Thunder Method was a cultivation practice that borrowed the power of lightning to drive away evil spirits and purify the world, established much later than methods utilizing the Five Elements.

Therefore, it had the characteristic of possessing considerably more sophisticated theories compared to primitive Talisman Arts or alchemy.

 

Incidentally, this Thunder Method also greatly influenced Joseon.

The ‘Jade Pivot Scripture’ that shamans recite when driving away ghosts is precisely the scripture of the Thunder Method.

Having worked at a publishing company that produced Eastern classics, Cheon Woo-jin possessed knowledge beyond others in such areas.

 

Therefore.

The moment he grasped the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword, he could easily understand what he needed to do and how.

 

‘The Imperial Heaven builds the Thunder City, establishes the Thunder Prison, sets up Thunder Officials, divides Thunder Governance, spreads Thunder Transformation, shows Thunder Punishment, commands Thunder Gods, leads Thunder Soldiers, displays Thunder Might, and moves Thunder Instruments…’

 

‘If used in the Yin Realm, it shall Seal Mountains Break Caves and Slay Demons Behead Poison, if used in the Yang Path, it shall Remove Misfortune Punish Rebellion and Punish Treachery Slaughter Cruelty…’

 

‘Without Heaven’s Thunder, what could show the law, correct stubbornness, and remedy foolishness…’

 

The fundamental theory contained within the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword was absorbed into the spiritual domain of the Manifest True Life Body.

The truth engraved by the Artifact Refiner who created this dharma artifact melted into Cheon Woo-jin’s inner being. As naturally as if he had known it from the beginning.

 

This Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword was a dharma artifact created to deploy the Five Thunder Method.

The Five Thunder Method, as its name suggests, is a Thunder Method that uses the lightning energy of the Five Elements or Five Directions.

It is the power to imbue lightning energy with the properties of the Five Elements, sublimating it from simple lightning into a thoroughly controlled magic art.

 

Earlier, Dan Mok-ryeong had held the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword and generated blue lightning.

That was because Dan Mok-ryeong was a Wood Spirit Root cultivator who drew spiritual power from Wood Spirit Energy.

 

Cheon Woo-jin, being a Water Spirit Root, had to create lightning with Water Spirit Energy.

Cheon Woo-jin drew up all the Water Spirit Energy stored in his body.

 

His opponent was a Qi Condensation cultivator, a being of higher rank than himself.

He could not afford to conserve his strength.

 

[Black Lightning]

 

Crackle!

Pitch-black lightning energy that seemed to devour even the darkness of dawn erupted.

The lightning that shot forth at ultra-high speed raced forward, annihilating everything in its path.

A wooden pillar that had fallen nearby turned to powder without a sound, and the smell of burning spread through the air.

 

If Dan Mok-ryeong had been properly prepared, he might have been able to block it.

But right now, Dan Mok-ryeong had lost his dharma artifact and even his right hand had been severed.

Moreover, his attention was divided as Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so were squeezing out their last strength to cast magic arts.

 

“Ah…!”

 

The black lightning energy was sucked into Dan Mok-ryeong’s body.

 

The Black Lightning that Cheon Woo-jin unleashed had a different nature from the blue lightning energy that Dan Mok-ryeong had deployed moments before.

It was the lightning of death, which devoured and annihilated existence itself.

 

“Kuaaaak…!”

 

The black lightning energy that was sucked into his body instantly spread throughout Dan Mok-ryeong’s entire form.

It turned the body of the Qi Condensation cultivator into a handful of ash.

 

* * *

 

“Th-this can’t be…”

 

Jang Ryang muttered as if he couldn’t believe it.

Won Pil-so also stood with his mouth agape, unable to say anything.

Cheon Woo-jin, whom they had estimated to be around the level of a Qi Refining stage cultivator, had annihilated Dan Mok-ryeong, a Qi Condensation cultivator, in a single strike.

By their common sense, it was an achievement that was hard to believe.

 

Naturally, this was only possible because various factors had aligned perfectly.

If even one of them had been lacking, Cheon Woo-jin would not have been able to subdue Dan Mok-ryeong.

Of course, even in such a situation, Cheon Woo-jin had a trump card.

If he had used the Instant Death Heaven Eye, he could have ended Dan Mok-ryeong’s life without much difficulty.

 

However, Cheon Woo-jin did not use the Instant Death Heaven Eye against Dan Mok-ryeong.

Not only were Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so watching… but he had been feeling an ominous premonition since earlier.

 

“Listen, you…”

 

Jang Ryang cautiously addressed Cheon Woo-jin.

It was right then that the sound of footsteps could be heard.

 

“…!”

 

Footsteps could be heard from the direction of the Poison Sword Sect’s Temporary Prison that had completely collapsed.

Someone was approaching with leisurely steps.

 

Even though he should have been inside the building that had crumbled down, there wasn’t a single wound on his body.

No, there wasn’t even a speck of dust on him.

 

“Hmm.”

 

Unlike Dan Mok-ryeong who had handsome features, this was a man with a fierce appearance.

The moment their eyes met, he felt a chill run through his bones.

It was exactly like the gaze of a viper watching its prey.

 

But the most terrifying thing was his presence as a cultivator.

Perhaps because he had released the aura he had been concealing, just his appearance alone generated an extreme sense of intimidation.

In fact, Jang Ryang and Won Pil-so were already trembling in their legs.

 

“That was excellent Black Lightning that seemed to materialize the concept of death itself. You have talent that is more than sufficient to wield the Five Thunder Heaven Piercing Sword.”

 

Watching him speak with a heavily resonating voice.

Cheon Woo-jin confirmed that his premonition had not been wrong.

 

[Guyang Gyeol]

* Race: Human Race

* Age: 345 years

* Realm: Core Formation Middle Stage

* Constitution: Water Spirit Root

* Faction: Dark Gate

* Affiliation: Thirteen Alliances Under the Moon

* Heavenly Mandate: Harsh Taxation

 

A Core Formation cultivator from the Three Great Sects’ Thirteen Alliances Under the Moon.

The true powerhouse who had been visiting for coordination with the Poison Sword Sect revealed himself.

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