Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 31

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Chapter 31: Demonic Path (4)

 

 

Kwa-kwa-kwang!

A large crater formed in the plains where thick moss had been spread.

Cheon Woo-jin’s Black Lightning Descent Strike had exploded, even changing the terrain.

 

However, Yu Gi-ryeong remained intact.

A blue barrier protecting his entire body was shielding Yu Gi-ryeong.

 

‘A defensive magical tool!’

 

Unlike Cheon Woo-jin’s Silver Spirit Steel Defense which was used as a shield, this seemed to be a magical tool that automatically defended against attacks.

It had detected the incoming lightning energy and automatically deployed a barrier.

 

However, it wasn’t completely without damage.

 

“Kugh…!”

 

Crash!

With a sound like breaking glass, the protective barrier shattered.

At the same time, one of the bracelets Yu Gi-ryeong wore on his wrist broke into pieces.

Unable to withstand the power of Black Lightning Descent Strike, the defensive magical tool had been destroyed.

 

“You bastard, how can a Qi Condensation body…!”

 

Yu Gi-ryeong glared at Cheon Woo-jin while gritting his teeth.

At that moment, Cheon Woo-jin felt an ominous sensation and left that spot.

 

Then a bang sound came from where Cheon Woo-jin had been standing just moments before.

Yu Gi-ryeong had launched an invisible attack. That was how Cheon Woo-jin analyzed it.

 

‘It’s probably not an ability that can attack opponents just by looking at them like Instant Death Heaven Eye.’

 

Cheon Woo-jin spread fine spiritual power like a spider web while maintaining distance.

Then he could grasp what kind of attack Yu Gi-ryeong was using.

 

‘Wind attribute magic arts… Is he firing transparent projectiles by shooting compressed air!’

 

Wind attribute magic arts often appear blue because they use Wood Spirit Energy.

However, wind and air are originally colorless.

Depending on how one manipulates spiritual power, colorless and transparent attacks are possible.

 

Of course, to cultivators above a certain level, this is merely a simple deception.

Still, Qi Condensation cultivators who lack sufficient skill are easily fooled by such deception.

Cheon Woo-jin had almost fallen for it as well.

 

‘Expand your senses.’

 

He spread spiritual power in all directions.

Each strand composing the spider web had to be utilized like sensory cells.

 

‘I can’t miss anything.’

 

Swoosh.

He detected an attack penetrating through the spider web.

He could sense it was a different attack from before.

 

It was a blade of wind.

The sword qi that Dan Mok-ryeong of the Poison Sword Sect had launched was blue, but this was colorless and transparent.

Moreover, he was mixing and launching over ten large and small blades.

 

An ordinary Qi Condensation cultivator would never be able to respond.

Even if they blocked several, the small blades penetrating from blind spots would pierce their body.

 

Even Cheon Woo-jin couldn’t block all of that using only Silver Spirit Steel Defense.

Silver Spirit Steel Defense only forms a hemispherical barrier.

It cannot block blades that curve around and penetrate from behind.

 

Therefore, Cheon Woo-jin drew up his spiritual power.

From the spiritual domain of his Manifest True Life Body, he created over ten black sword qi and scattered them in all directions.

The trajectories of the incoming wind blades could be detected through the spider web spread in all directions.

He just needed to thrust sword qi into their paths.

 

Pa-pa-pa-pat!

The invisible blades collided with the black sword qi and scattered.

The blades Yu Gi-ryeong created prioritized stealth, so they weren’t very solid. That’s why Cheon Woo-jin’s sword qi could destroy them.

 

“…!”

 

Beyond the countless collisions, Yu Gi-ryeong could be seen widening his eyes.

 

This was different from the Qi Condensation small fries he had massacred like killing insects until now.

Realizing this, tension appeared in Yu Gi-ryeong’s eyes.

 

“You bastard, are you really at Qi Condensation?”

 

Yu Gi-ryeong asked in a stiff voice.

 

“Don’t tell me you’re also like me, disguising your realm with Scatter Retreat Secret Submersion Technique…”

 

Cheon Woo-jin didn’t respond.

Instead of correcting Yu Gi-ryeong’s misunderstanding, he continuously created sword qi and poured them toward Yu Gi-ryeong.

 

“Scatter Retreat Secret Submersion Technique is a method that exists only in the Demonic Path! Where the hell did you learn Scatter Retreat Secret Submersion Technique!”

 

Yu Gi-ryeong shouted without hiding his bewilderment.

 

“Are you perhaps from the Blood World Demon Sect? Are you someone dispatched from another faction trying to keep Lord Jeok Ya-wol in check…!”

 

A snicker escaped him.

At first, Yu Gi-ryeong had reasoned well, but now that something beyond his common sense was happening, he was endlessly barking up the wrong tree.

 

But Cheon Woo-jin had no intention of correcting him.

He needed to fill his head with wrong judgments.

That way, he would make even more mistakes.

 

“Urgh…!”

 

Swoosh!

A black blade that erupted from the ground aimed for Yu Gi-ryeong.

By continuously launching Sword Qi to make Yu Gi-ryeong focus only on the front, he had tried to ambush him from a blind spot using the Black Shadow Technique.

 

But as expected, a Foundation Establishment cultivator was still a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Yu Gi-ryeong defended against the Black Shadow Technique by creating a wind shield with just a gesture.

 

“Kugh…!”

 

Finally, Yu Gi-ryeong retreated backward.

Was he trying to reorganize his stance? He took a defensive posture while deploying large wind shields in both hands.

 

Seeing that sight, Cheon Woo-jin shot up into the sky.

After constructing a technique with the spiritual power in his body, he made the yang energy of the sky and the yin energy of the earth respond to each other to bring down lightning.

 

[Black Lightning Descent Strike]

 

Crack crack boom!

Black Lightning Energy darker than the dark sky was generated, swallowing even the clouds as it fell down.

The lightning strike aimed precisely at the top of Yu Gi-ryeong’s head.

Since his defensive magical tool had been destroyed earlier, a defensive barrier wouldn’t automatically deploy this time.

 

But Yu Gi-ryeong was a Foundation Establishment agent.

He wasn’t so easy to deal with.

Yu Gi-ryeong layered the wind shields he had prepared in advance and defended against the lightning falling from above his head.

 

“Uuugh!”

 

Crack crack bang!

With explosive sounds, the Black Lightning Energy scattered in all directions.

Although the wind shields were all shattered, Yu Gi-ryeong succeeded in blocking the Black Lightning Descent Strike.

Despite his defensive magical tool being destroyed, he had defended purely with his own power alone.

 

“You bastard…!”

 

Yu Gi-ryeong shouted.

 

“You’re not Foundation Establishment! You were just drawing out power higher than your actual realm through the power of magical tools!”

 

Intense energy waves burst from Yu Gi-ryeong, who had belatedly realized the truth.

 

“But with a Qi Refining body launching such attacks repeatedly, your spiritual power must be depleted…!”

 

Swish swish swish swish swoosh!

Countless blades appeared around Yu Gi-ryeong.

They were no longer colorless and transparent blades. They were blue wind blades visible to the naked eye.

 

Colorless and transparent attacks didn’t work on Cheon Woo-jin anyway.

If the opponent was merely Qi Refining and had consumed much spiritual power, it was best to just push through with force.

 

“With the power you have left, you won’t be able to block or dodge…!”

 

This would settle it.

With that determination, Yu Gi-ryeong tried to unleash an all-out attack, mobilizing all the spiritual meridians in his body.

 

But Yu Gi-ryeong didn’t know.

That Cheon Woo-jin, who had shot high into the sky, was taking out a talisman from his Storage Pouch and infusing it with spiritual power.

 

It wasn’t an ordinary talisman.

It was a Talisman Treasure that sealed the power of the Magical Treasure Red Sea True Fire Spear… that Cheon Woo-jin had been saving for this very moment.

 

Unable to block or dodge?

That applies to you.

 

Cheon Woo-jin thrust his hand forcefully toward the ground.

The principle of Samadhi True Fire was manifested from the Talisman Treasure in his grasp, and red flames that seemed to cover the world erupted.

 

“…!”

 

On the ground, Yu Gi-ryeong had already deployed wind blades on a large scale.

Lethal blades with concentrated sharp wind power.

If it had been ordinary flames, he might have been able to scatter them with wind power instead.

 

But, as the old saying goes.

True Fire becomes vigorous when it meets wind.

And it becomes more vigorous the more one tries to extinguish it.

 

Far from being scattered by the wind, the Samadhi True Fire devoured the wind and became even larger.

 

“Ah.”

 

Yu Gi-ryeong on the ground was swept up in the red flames.

 

If he had been wary of Cheon Woo-jin’s attack and paid attention to defense as well, he could have somehow endured and escaped.

Even though it used the power of a Magical Treasure, it was bound to be less powerful than the original Magical Treasure.

If he had defended with the power of a Foundation Establishment agent while desperately fleeing, he could have saved his life.

 

But currently, Yu Gi-ryeong was in a state of disregarding defense and pouring all his strength only into attack.

In such a state, he couldn’t block or dodge.

 

“Aah.”

 

From the beginning, Cheon Woo-jin had aimed for this situation.

He had tried to create a moment when Yu Gi-ryeong would neglect his defense while being certain of victory.

He had let Yu Gi-ryeong misunderstand him as being at the Qi Accumulation stage because he expected that when the misunderstanding was cleared up, Yu Gi-ryeong would become even more careless.

 

The Red Sea True Fire Spear’s Talisman Treasure was certainly a powerful means of attack, but there was a possibility that a cultivator at the Great Perfection of Qi Accumulation stage could respond to that attack.

At the very least, he could have blocked the attack by simply blowing off Cheon Woo-jin’s wrist the moment he pulled out the talisman.

 

So Cheon Woo-jin had carefully guided Yu Gi-ryeong’s psychology.

To create a situation where he could definitively drive the Demonic Cultivator at the Great Perfection of Qi Accumulation stage to death.

 

“Ahhhhh…!”

 

Yu Gi-ryeong’s screams echoed from within the red flames.

The fact that he wasn’t dying instantly but enduring showed that Yu Gi-ryeong was a high-level cultivator.

But it would have been better for him to die instantly.

He must be feeling the agony of being thrown alive into a crematorium.

 

“P-please spare me…”

 

Finally, he even made a pathetic plea for his life, unbefitting of a Demonic Cultivator.

Compared to how one of Yu Gi-ryeong’s subordinates had tried to self-destruct for mutual destruction at the last moment, this was truly a disgraceful sight.

 

But that voice didn’t continue to the end.

The flames reached their peak as if trying to burn even his voice.

 

And when the fierce flames of Samadhi True Fire subsided.

No trace of Yu Gi-ryeong remained anywhere.

 

* * *

 

In a corner of the field that had turned completely to ash, Cheon Woo-jin caught his breath while leaning against a nearby rock.

As Yu Gi-ryeong had pointed out earlier, Cheon Woo-jin had also reached his limit.

 

He took out an elixir to replenish his spiritual power, chewed and swallowed it, then immediately began Qi Circulation Cultivation.

In games, when you take medicine, whether it’s health or spiritual power, it recovers immediately, but that’s just a gaming convenience.

In reality, you had to go through the process of melting and circulating the elixir’s energy within your body.

 

‘With this, I’ve completely annihilated five Demonic Cultivators from the Mad World Yin Spirit Sect.’

 

However, it didn’t seem like the fight with the Mad World Yin Spirit Sect would end here.

 

Currently, the Mad World Yin Spirit Sect was trying to advance into Ghost Head City.

Since it was a branch faction organized for advancing into Ghost Head City, they wouldn’t give up just because they lost a few subordinates.

 

Moreover, he had to consider the possibility that the Mad World Yin Spirit Sect would show interest in Cheon Woo-jin.

If the Mad World Yin Spirit Sect and Dragon Domination Society were completely annihilated while only the Six Merchant House Four Brothers and Cheon Woo-jin survived… they would inevitably find Cheon Woo-jin suspicious.

The Doyomun Sect Master who had surrendered to the Mad World Yin Spirit Sect had even witnessed Cheon Woo-jin entering the Secret Realm.

 

‘I need to prepare countermeasures in advance.’

 

While Cheon Woo-jin was organizing his thoughts and practicing Qi Circulation Cultivation.

He felt a change in the flow of spiritual energy around him.

He could sense some powerful existence approaching.

 

“…”

 

Cheon Woo-jin stopped his Qi Circulation Cultivation and moved his head.

He could see an existence approaching from far away, crossing over a hill.

 

It was a giant centipede.

Its body length reached dozens of zhang, and its over one hundred segments were covered with ominously glowing dark purple carapace.

A massive jaw protruded from its head, and from the jaw legs extending behind it, pitch-black poison liquid dripped steadily.

 

It had probably sensed Cheon Woo-jin and Yu Gi-ryeong’s large-scale battle and awakened from deep sleep.

Thinking there was prey suitable for it to devour.

 

[Dark Dew Great King Centipede]

* Race: Insect

* Age: 1025 years

* Realm: Core Formation Stage Early Phase

* Constitution: Water Spirit Root

* Alignment: Neutral Path

* Affiliation: Dark Soul Secret Realm

* Destiny: Gluttony

 

A demonic insect of the Core Formation stage.

The hidden boss of the Dark Soul Secret Realm, which couldn’t be conquered through conventional methods, charged toward Cheon Woo-jin while shaking the earth.

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