Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 41

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Chapter 41: Subjugation War (4)

 

 

“What the…!”

 

Jeok Ya-wol was shocked.

 

The magic arts displayed by Cheon Woo-jin, who was merely a Qi Condensation Cultivator, had surprised him.

 

“You bastard, how did you…!”

 

Right now, Cheon Woo-jin had imitated Jeok Ya-wol’s magic arts.

 

The realm that Jeok Ya-wol had reached through cultivating Demonic Cultivation Methods for over 300 years.

The ultimate technique for maximizing the power of the Floating Shadow Black Soul Body.

He had copied it on the spot.

 

Of course, Jeok Ya-wol was not in a normal state right now.

The connection to his Law Domain had suddenly been severed, causing a massive shock to his Spiritual Domain.

Because of this, he was experiencing severe headaches, and the completeness of his techniques had greatly deteriorated.

 

Moreover, since his left side had been damaged by Taesa Ryang’s earlier attack, there was a major obstacle in his spiritual power circulation.

When arms and legs are completely blown off, the twelve meridians that circulate through the limbs don’t function, and since Jeok Ya-wol had been operating his spiritual power using both sets of twelve meridians, the impact was severe.

 

So the power had greatly diminished and the speed of the magic arts themselves had slowed down. That was an undeniable fact.

 

However, even so.

It was impossible for a mere Qi Condensation Cultivator to see through it at a glance and imitate it.

 

“This is impossible…!”

 

Jeok Ya-wol drew up more spiritual power.

Blood spurted from where his left side had been blown away. But he didn’t care and activated his spiritual power to the maximum.

 

Jeok Ya-wol’s spiritual power was like a vengeful spirit filled with resentment.

It was the energy of death that would not tolerate the living.

Releasing it like flames to annihilate enemies was the specialty of Jeok Ya-wol, the Mad Spirit Pavilion Master of the Blood World Demon Sect.

 

A mere Qi Condensation Cultivator struggling before his eyes could be killed in an instant.

However…

 

“Uurgh…!”

 

Hundreds of streams of black flames poured down as if to melt the entire underground cave.

Scattering them to pieces, Cheon Woo-jin’s black lightning energy danced madly.

 

At this very moment, Cheon Woo-jin’s power was clearly surpassing Jeok Ya-wol’s.

 

“You bastard, don’t tell me you’re absorbing the energy scattered around…!”

 

The power of a Qi Condensation Cultivator has limits.

There are limits to the maximum amount of spiritual power one can possess, and limits to the instantaneous output one can release at once.

 

Cheon Woo-jin had clearly exceeded those limits.

This was because he was drawing upon and using the energies spread around the area.

 

The energy of the Law Domain that could no longer be supplied to Jeok Ya-wol and had scattered in all directions.

The energy that Jeok Ya-wol had released to deploy his magic arts.

He was drawing all of it and inputting it into his own magic arts.

 

This was something only possible if one possessed innately special qualities or had cultivated techniques specialized in such methods.

 

“Just what the hell are you…!”

 

Jeok Ya-wol desperately drew up his spiritual power.

Originally, the power of the Qi Condensation stage cannot harm a Core Formation Cultivator, but if he was drawing upon external power like this, the story was different.

 

Moreover, Jeok Ya-wol had lost his left side in the fight with Taesa Ryang.

There was a risk that even his Golden Core might suffer damage if he wasn’t careful.

 

Wooooong!

The black flames writhed violently.

A storm containing the sinister principles of death swept through, as if to devour everything in this world and return it to nothingness.

 

He would definitely kill him.

The black flames reflecting his intense will generated a roar like a beast howling.

 

“…”

 

Cheon Woo-jin watched the scene while maintaining his composure.

Each time Jeok Ya-wol desperately raised the power of his attacks, their structure was revealed more nakedly.

 

This gave Cheon Woo-jin intense stimulation.

It felt as if overwhelming inspiration was being hammered directly into his mind.

Surrendering his body to that flood of inspiration, Cheon Woo-jin newly constructed his technique.

 

Even now, Cheon Woo-jin’s attacks held the advantage against Jeok Ya-wol, but it wasn’t enough to properly settle the match.

To destroy Jeok Ya-wol’s Golden Core and cut off his breath, a more advanced technique was needed.

 

Kukukukung!

While scattering Jeok Ya-wol’s fierce assault, Cheon Woo-jin concentrated his mind.

It shouldn’t be a blazing flame-like attack as Jeok Ya-wol was doing now.

With conviction that there was a more efficient form, Cheon Woo-jin refined his technique.

 

Here, new inspiration suddenly surged forth.

It originated from the enlightenment of the Taeul Mysterious Sword Art that Cheon Woo-jin had savored while reading countless cultivation manuals.

Following where that inspiration led, Cheon Woo-jin refined his black lightning energy.

 

Black lightning energy forged solid and smooth like a single sword.

Not even a trace of spiritual energy flowed out from it.

 

The black lightning sword created this way… poured down from Cheon Woo-jin like a storm.

 

“…!”

 

Jeok Ya-wol swallowed his breath.

 

Hundreds of black lightning energy blades.

He saw them all unfold simultaneously.

 

[Black Lightning Annihilation]

 

The lightning swords swept wildly.

They completely erased all the black flame streams that Jeok Ya-wol had deployed, scattering black light throughout the underground space.

 

The principles both were manifesting were similar.

Among the Five Elements, the power of death and annihilation corresponding to Water, the principle of black energy.

However, Cheon Woo-jin’s attack, which reflected the theories of Thunder Method and Sword Qi and elevated them to a higher realm, clearly surpassed Jeok Ya-wol’s.

 

“Ah…!”

 

Jeok Ya-wol screamed.

The enlightenment he had finally obtained after cultivating for over 300 years.

A feat that surpassed it was being manifested before his eyes.

Unable to accept this fact, Jeok Ya-wol desperately squeezed out everything he had.

 

As a result, even his body collapsed.

He sublimated his skin, muscles, meridians, bone marrow, qi and blood, and bodily fluids into spiritual power and erupted them as black flames.

 

But it was useless.

 

Kwakwakwakwakwa!

Piercing through the black flames that had burned even his life, the pitch-black shining lightning swords filled Jeok Ya-wol’s vision.

 

And with overwhelming majesty, they devoured Jeok Ya-wol’s remains, thoroughly annihilating his existence until not even a speck of dust remained.

 

* * *

 

The surroundings became quiet.

Just moments ago, deafening roars had been echoing, but now there was only silence.

 

Jeok Ya-wol, who had been screaming while pouring out tremendous power, was now nowhere to be found.

He had vanished without leaving even a fragment of his Golden Core.

 

This was the power of Black Lightning Annihilation, the ultimate technique that Cheon Woo-jin had completed by gaining inspiration from Jeok Ya-wol’s techniques.

 

‘The harvest was great.’

 

While he had clashed with Core Formation cultivators several times before, this was the first time he had faced one head-on.

Thanks to this, he could directly experience the power of Core Formation and gain great enlightenment from the inspiration of that stimulus.

 

‘The Manifest True Life Body is an endless abyssal sea that accepts everything… That’s why I could directly accept the essence of the Water-attribute magic arts that Jeok Ya-wol deployed.’

 

Cheon Woo-jin felt deep satisfaction and closed his eyes.

 

His mind was light, but his body was heavy.

This was because he had exerted power that exceeded the limits of a Qi Condensation cultivator.

 

‘In the end, my spiritual power was depleted.’

 

He felt as if his body had been completely emptied.

Although he had borrowed external power, Cheon Woo-jin had to draw out all of his own spiritual power as well.

Even now, when Cheon Woo-jin tried to circulate spiritual energy in his meridians, there was no proper response.

It seemed like only a tiny amount of energy, less than a chick’s tears, was flowing within his meridians.

 

Cheon Woo-jin first took out an elixir from his chest and consumed it.

But this wouldn’t restore him instantly like in a game.

He began Qi Circulation Cultivation while accepting as much energy as possible from the surroundings.

It would take time for his spiritual power to recover.

 

‘The Law Domain… seems like it will be completely dispelled soon.’

 

The underground cave was gradually collapsing.

It was trying to return to the appearance of Black Secluded Valley.

This was probably because Jeok Ya-wol, who had been the focal point, was dead.

 

‘With this, the subjugation of Mad World Yin Spirit Sect is complete.’

 

Of course, he hadn’t eliminated all the Demonic Cultivators who had joined Mad World Yin Spirit Sect.

There would be survivors somewhere in this place as well.

But hunting them down one by one and executing them wasn’t Cheon Woo-jin’s job.

Sacred Horn Unity Gate would handle it themselves.

 

‘My work is all done, so now I just need to receive my compensation.’

 

Thinking this, Cheon Woo-jin slowly opened his eyes.

In the gradually collapsing cave, Taesa Ryang was approaching.

 

* * *

 

Currently, Taesa Ryang had recovered about 90% of his condition.

 

While fighting Jeok Ya-wol, he had sustained many injuries and consumed spiritual power severely, but since there was no damage to his Golden Core, he could recover by taking elixirs and practicing Qi Circulation Cultivation.

 

While recovering his body this way… he closely observed the fight between Cheon Woo-jin and Jeok Ya-wol.

 

‘It wasn’t thanks to a Dharma Artifact after all.’

 

Originally, Taesa Ryang had thought that Cheon Woo-jin must be hiding a powerful Dharma Artifact.

But that wasn’t the case.

 

The reason Cheon Woo-jin possessed abilities incomparable to ordinary Qi Refining cultivators was due to something else entirely.

 

‘You were truly hiding an incredible secret.’

 

Taesa Ryang gazed at Cheon Woo-jin standing there blankly and smiled.

 

‘You bastard, were you a Manifest True Life Body?’

 

The sight of him absorbing the surrounding energy to unleash attacks.

This was the conclusion he had reached after thoroughly analyzing it.

 

‘The Manifest True Life Body is a constitution like an endless black sea… an abyss that accepts and devours everything. If one maximizes that power, they could absorb external energy in such a manner.’

 

The reason Taesa Ryang knew about the Manifest True Life Body was because he had recently heard that the Black Mist Dragon had disappeared from Goeyu Mountain.

The Black Mist Dragon was a Yuan Ying stage dragon born with the Manifest True Life Body, but one day it suddenly vanished, leaving only bloodstains behind.

 

The Taeul Yeokri Sect was conducting an investigation to find out which faction was responsible, but with no results, they suspected it might be the work of internal forces within Ghost Head City.

So that information was also passed to Sacred Horn Unity Gate, and Taesa Ryang had taken interest as well.

 

‘He’s probably in league with those who killed the Black Mist Dragon.’

 

The faction behind Cheon Woo-jin must have killed the Black Mist Dragon and taken its corpse.

And they certainly implanted the Manifest True Life Body into Cheon Woo-jin through some method.

There was no way Cheon Woo-jin could have killed the Black Mist Dragon himself, so this had to be the answer.

 

‘Could it be that your coming to Ghost Head City was to test-run the Manifest True Life Body? Away from prying eyes?’

 

In any case, this was a golden opportunity sent from heaven.

 

If he captured Cheon Woo-jin, he could uncover the truth that many factions including the Taeul Yeokri Sect were curious about.

Doing so might earn him great rewards from Sacred Horn Unity Gate.

 

‘No… it would be better for me to keep this to myself rather than hand it over to Sacred Horn Unity Gate.’

 

That was a research subject of great value.

Perhaps he could extract the power of the Manifest True Life Body and make it his own.

If he could do that, it would be of tremendous help when challenging Yuan Ying stage in the future.

 

Or he could simply turn Cheon Woo-jin into an elixir and consume him.

A human with a special constitution like the Manifest True Life Body was no different from a precious Spirit Pill in itself.

 

Of course, this was an act the Orthodox Sect would not tolerate.

If it became known to the world, he would be condemned as doing what only Demonic Path scum would do and be expelled.

 

But if he wasn’t caught, there would be no problem.

 

Anyway, the Upper Levels of Sacred Horn Unity Gate were also secretly carrying out dirty deeds.

Taesa Ryang’s master was also someone who had built his power by violating all sorts of taboos since his Outer Sect Disciple days.

 

In the end, in the Cultivation World, only those who didn’t discriminate between means and methods could rise to the top.

 

‘I too will crawl over mountains of countless corpses like my seniors and head for higher places! Even if my entire body becomes stained with blood, I won’t care!’

 

With such resolve, Taesa Ryang approached Cheon Woo-jin.

 

Anyway, Cheon Woo-jin had exhausted all his strength fighting Jeok Ya-wol.

If he approached while hiding his true intentions and launched a surprise attack, subduing him would be easier than flipping his palm.

 

But just then.

Cheon Woo-jin, who had been standing there blankly, gazed at Taesa Ryang and opened his mouth.

 

“I have one question.”

 

In that instant, an ominous light flickered in those eyes.

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