Instant-Death Cultivation: Surviving in an Immortal World with Instant Kill - Chapter 74

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Chapter 74: Battle for Supremacy (2)

 

 

Jongli Un couldn’t hide his bewilderment.

 

Just moments ago, the curse spirit that Jongli Un had created with his Ghost Soul Banner had collapsed.

It hadn’t been neutralized by a powerful attack, nor had it been purified by sacred energy.

 

He had simply formed the pitch-black Black Shadow Energy into a sword-like shape and pierced it into the curse spirit.

From Jongli Un’s perspective, it was still insignificant spiritual power, estimated to be at most at the Foundation Establishment level.

Yet with just that alone, the curse spirit had completely crumbled.

 

It was utterly incomprehensible.

 

“This is… impossible…!”

 

Jongli Un lost his composure and shouted.

 

“This is a Ghost Soul Banner completed by offering all my family members as sacrifices…!”

 

Originally, the Ghost Soul Banner displays more powerful force the deeper the resentment of the souls used as sacrifices.

That’s why he had killed all his family members, including his wife and biological children.

He believed that a Ghost Soul Banner made by sacrificing his family would be able to display power beyond the limits of the Core Formation Realm.

 

“It’s a Ghost Soul Banner that can truly display Nascent Soul-level power…!”

 

And yet.

It had crumbled far too easily.

To someone who seemed to possess only Foundation Establishment-level spiritual energy at best.

 

“You bastard, how did you break my spell formation…!”

 

Destruction.

To shatter and tear apart.

 

Commonly, when one counters an opponent’s attack to neutralize it, it’s said that the attack was broken.

But strictly speaking, that’s not true destruction.

 

True destruction in its real sense must completely destroy and nullify the opponent’s spell formation like this.

 

“How could someone like you destroy my Nascent Soul-level curse spirit…!”

“It didn’t seem to be Nascent Soul-level though.”

 

Right then.

Cheon Woo-jin spoke in a cold voice.

 

“It certainly contained powerful cursed energy. But the spiritual structure of the spell formation was simple and had many vulnerable points.”

“What…!”

“Because it was such Magic Arts, I was able to break it.”

 

Jongli Un fell into even greater confusion.

 

It was true that the curse spirit’s spiritual structure had been simple. There were certainly vulnerable points as well.

But how could a mere Foundation Establishment Cultivator see through that?

 

It would be impossible unless one was truly a genius.

 

“If only.”

 

Right then.

Cheon Woo-jin extended his hand forward as he spoke.

 

“If the spell formation had been constructed like this, it wouldn’t have been broken.”

“What…”

 

Immediately after.

Pitch-black mist emerged from Cheon Woo-jin’s palm.

The mist spread out instantly, filling the surrounding area.

 

“This is…!”

 

Jongli Un swallowed hard.

 

The dark mist spreading now was definitely cursed energy.

Moreover, it was created by applying the same principle as the curse spirit that Jongli Un had just made with his Ghost Soul Banner.

 

Of course, compared to the curse spirit made with the Ghost Soul Banner, its power as a curse technique was far inferior.

Its killing power was almost nonexistent – even if Jongli Un absorbed this curse with his entire body, it would only cause dizziness at most.

 

“This is impossible…”

 

But Jongli Un couldn’t help but be shocked.

 

Despite being such an insignificant curse, the completeness of the spell formation was overwhelming.

Even though it was based on the same principle as the previous curse spirit, it created a complex structure that made it difficult to see through easily.

Since the parts vulnerable to external interference had been thoroughly eliminated, it would be difficult to break the spell formation even if one understood it.

 

Unless a Nascent Soul cultivator came and crushed it with pure Spiritual Power, breaking this cursed mist would be impossible.

 

“And.”

 

To the shocked Jongli Un, Cheon Woo-jin’s calm voice reached him.

 

“By doing it this way, it can take a much more practical form.”

 

At that moment.

The cursed energy that had been like pitch-black mist suddenly disappeared.

All the widely spread mist vanished and the field of vision brightened.

 

What exactly was he trying to do?

When Jongli Un was just blinking his eyes, unable to understand what was happening.

 

In the shadow stretching long across the floor, something flashed.

 

[Black Shadow Curse Kill]

 

Stab!

A blade that shot out from the shadow pierced Jongli Un.

 

There was no pain. It wasn’t a technique that made physical attacks.

But the moment his body was pierced, he felt an eerie sensation as if stung by a poison needle.

 

The cursed energy was injected directly into his body.

The moment he understood this fact, Jongli Un felt intense dizziness.

 

“Urgh…!”

 

He couldn’t properly control his spiritual power.

Originally, he could have endured this level of curse with just his bare body, but having the curse injected directly into his body through his skin was fatal.

 

It would have been better if he had actually been stabbed by a real sword and had a hole pierced through his body.

Even if he had been poisoned by powerful venom and his organs were melting away, it would have been better than now.

 

Because the power of the curse that directly affected not his flesh but his soul had been injected, Jongli Un was now in a state where it was difficult to use even simple magic arts.

 

“H-how could this be…”

 

Jongli Un couldn’t endure the dizziness and fell to his knees on the spot.

 

“T-this is ridiculous. For me, who has reached the late Core Formation Realm, to suffer such humiliation from a brat who only seems to be at the Qi Accumulation Stage…”

“…”

 

Then Cheon Woo-jin reached out his hand toward Jongli Un again.

It looked like he was trying to finish off the neutralized Jongli Un.

 

“S-stop…!”

 

Jongli Un urgently raised his voice.

 

“I-I have something to do! I have something I must do with the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner…!”

“Something you must do.”

 

Cheon Woo-jin asked in a cold voice.

 

“What is that?”

“The-the Jongli Family…”

 

The Jongli Family.

Speaking the name of the family he belonged to, Jongli Un vomited out the emotions that had been building up all this time.

 

“Destroying the main house of the Jongli Family, that’s my life’s goal…!”

 

Jongli Un was a branch family head who pledged loyalty to the main house of the Jongli Family.

Jongli Un’s duty was to offer up to the main house the resources and information he obtained while operating in Ghost Head City.

 

At some point, Jongli Un began to dream of rebelling against the main house and becoming independent.

He planned to monopolize all the resources obtained from Ghost Head City and use that as a foundation to ascend to the Nascent Soul stage.

 

But one day, a Nascent Soul elder from the main house came to visit.

The Jongli Family, the greatest cultivation family in Wei Jin Kingdom, had several Nascent Soul elders, and this was the elder in charge of surveillance.

 

That elder had come to punish him, knowing that Jongli Un dreamed of rebellion.

Someone from the branch family had reported Jongli Un’s ambitions.

 

Jongli Un was punished by that elder.

It was a punishment that gave pain worse than death by gouging out his soul.

He screamed many times asking to just be killed, but they wouldn’t listen.

The elder mocked Jongli Un while inflicting greater pain, telling him not to have foolish thoughts in the future, then left Ghost Head City.

 

But it had the opposite effect.

Jongli Un came to harbor great resentment toward the main house of the Jongli Family.

He came to think of taking revenge not only on the elder who tormented him, but on the Jongli Family itself.

 

“I will completely annihilate the Jongli Family that gave me humiliating pain from this world! With my own hands…!”

 

Massacring his family members to create the Ghost Soul Banner.

Stealing the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner.

All of it was for that goal.

 

However, even after hearing Jongli Un’s goal, Cheon Woo-jin showed no change in expression.

 

“I wondered what grand ambition you had to commit such acts… so it was just something like that.”

“What…!”

“If your goal was to take revenge on the Jongli Family, you could have joined a sect that was hostile to the Jongli Family and worked hard. You insisted on taking revenge with your own hands and caused this chaos while even sacrificing your family members.”

 

Cheon Woo-jin spoke in a cold voice.

 

“In the end, it was nothing more than emotional behavior to vent your resentment. You’ve lived for nearly 400 years yet have such a childish personality.”

“You bastard, just because you have a mouth… Kyaaaah!”

 

Crack!

Cheon Woo-jin placed his hand on Jongli Un’s shoulder and injected lightning energy.

Feeling his organs bursting, Jongli Un screamed.

 

His golden core wasn’t damaged so he was still breathing, but in this state, even if the curse’s influence was lifted, he couldn’t offer any resistance.

 

“Urgh, urghh…”

 

Cheon Woo-jin stuck his hand into the chest of Jongli Un, who had collapsed limply in a dying state.

Then he pulled out the storage bag and began rummaging through its contents.

 

However, he soon stopped moving and looked at Jongli Un.

 

“You thought I would be carrying the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner directly on me…”

 

Seeing Cheon Woo-jin unable to find what he wanted, Jongli Un grinned wickedly.

 

“Did you hide it somewhere else?”

“That’s right….”

Since it’s impossible to perfectly hide its aura even when thoroughly sealed, he had hidden it elsewhere to avoid pursuit.

 

“I’ve hidden the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner in a place you bastards will never find. You’ll never get your hands on the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner…!”

 

Jongli Un squeezed out his last strength to move his arm.

Jong Riyun mustered his last bit of strength to move his arm.

Then she thrust her hand into her lower abdomen and directly ruptured her own dantian.

If that was the case, he would end his life here so that no one could get their hands on the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner.

 

Just as Jongli Un, who had destroyed his Golden Core with such thoughts, was about to close his eyes with a satisfied expression.

 

“You entrusted it to Yu Gwi-hun, it seems.”

 

Yu Gwi-hun.

Yu Gwi-hoon.

“Only Yu Gwi-hun can perfectly hide a magical treasure like the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner.”

 

Yu Gwi-hun was a cultivator who had once been active in the Ghost Head City Upper Section but returned to the 6th Floor after realizing his limitations.

Since he possessed the Ten Thousand Treasures Map, a storage magical treasure obtained from the Ghost Head City Upper Section, he could perfectly hide any item.

 

“Seeing that expression, it seems my guess was correct.”

He runs several shops in the busy commercial district, and separately from that, he also operates a business storing valuable items.

This is because he possesses the Manbodo (Ten Thousand Treasures Map), a twilight-grade treasure obtained from the upper levels of Demon Castle, which can perfectly conceal any object.

He had been defeated by this bastard in every aspect, not just in magical arts skill.

“Judging by that expression, it looks like my guess was right.”

“Ah….”

Jong Riyun was consumed by extreme self-loathing.

I was defeated by this bastard not only in magical skills but in every aspect.

Feeling his body, destroyed by the severed energy channels, growing cold, Jong Riwoon trembled with humiliation until his very last moment.

At first, she had intended to assist Cheon Woo-jin, but seeing him overwhelm Jongli Un, she had simply stepped back.

 

“I’ve sent a signal to the Corpse Ghost Nation Jade Gate side to deal with the Shadow Scale Sunken Sect bastards. So we can go straight up to the ground.”

“But it’s surprising that you even knew about Yu Gwi-hun. Did you hear about him from Seo Seol-ryeong too?”

 

Cheon Woo-jin didn’t reply and went up to the ground through the hole in the ceiling.

 

The surroundings were a commercial district with various shops clustered together.

“The Eumrinyeongchim guys sent a signal to the Sigui-guk-ok-mun side to handle it. So we can go straight up to the surface.”

“I understand.”

“But I’m surprised you even knew about Yu Gwi-hun. Did you hear about that from Seo Seol-ryeong too?”

It was a talisman he used when carrying out assassination requests to show proof that he had properly killed the target.

The surrounding area was a commercial district with various shops clustered together.

It happened to be close to the stores that Yu Gui-hun managed.

‘Yu Gwi-hun is a person who keeps his mouth shut. But if he finds out that Jong Ri-un is dead, he’ll cooperate.’

Cheon Woo-jin was now holding a marriage certificate in his hands.

A talisman used to provide proof that the target was properly killed when carrying out assassination contracts.

Over the rooftops of the tall buildings, he could see a group wearing white Daoist robes running.

 

“It’s the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace!”

 

One corner of the three great powers of the 6th Floor.

“Look over there!”

“It appears so.”

 

They were a force that had dominated the 6th Floor for a long time.

“It’s the Ten Thousand Year Ice Palace!”

“It doesn’t matter?”

One corner of the three major powers of the 6th layer.

The Manya Ice Palace of the snowy mountain region was rushing toward where Yu Gwihun’s shop was located.

It was just a difference between fighting before securing the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner or fighting after securing it.

 

Repel all three great sects of the 6th Floor and secure the Ghost Spirit Summoning Banner.

They are a force that has dominated the 6th floor for a long time.

It was only natural that they excelled in information gathering.

Then he deployed magic arts toward the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace cultivators who were running across the rooftops.

“It doesn’t matter?”

“The collision would have been unavoidable anyway.”

Even if Cheon Woo-jin had moved earlier and secured the Ghost Spirit Station, he would have been attacked by the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace afterward.

It’s simply a matter of whether to fight before securing the Gwireung Station area or after securing it.

Defeat all three major sects of the 6th layer and secure the Ghost Spirit Fortress.

That was what Cheon Woojin had to do.

[Thunder Walk]

Cheon Woojin surged upward, his entire body wreathed in lightning energy.

And he unleashed his magic arts toward the Manyabinggung investigators who were leaping across the rooftops.

 

[Black Lightning Descent Strike]

 

Crack! Boom!

Black lightning that fell from the sky struck the cultivators of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace directly.

Caught off guard by the sudden surprise attack, they tumbled down below the rooftops like autumn leaves in the wind.

 

However, this didn’t subdue all the cultivators of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace.

 

There were cultivators in white daoist robes moving at even faster speeds ahead.

What Cheon Woo-jin had just subdued were all Foundation Establishment cultivators, but the cultivators currently advancing ahead were all in the Core Formation Realm.

 

‘I need to catch up.’

 

Cheon Woo-jin increased his speed even more.

And beyond the cultivators of the Ten Thousand Night Ice Palace, he could see the back of the cloth-blindfolded woman.

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