My Father Is the Number One Under Heaven - Chapter 131

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Chapter 131. Eternal Imprisonment
The masked man who had just arrived, Yeo Un-hwi, cast his gaze across the village that had become hell itself.
The innocent dead lay scattered everywhere—far too many of them.
He caught sight of a small child, tears streaking their face, being protected by the Dang Clan’s warriors.
For some reason, the child’s face overlapped with Yul-i’s in his mind.
Rage rose unbidden in Yeo Un-hwi’s chest.
“You there… who are you?”
Dang Jin-u, his complexion ashen, posed the question to Yeo Un-hwi.
He didn’t appear to be an enemy, no matter how he looked at it.
If he were, he couldn’t have saved him just moments before.
But instead of answering, Yeo Un-hwi released an Earth Wind, putting Dang Jin-u to sleep.
As Dang Jin-u slumped to the ground, the Dang Clan’s warriors began to step forward in alarm, but Dang Mu-jun held them back and spoke.
“What is the meaning of this?”
Dang Mu-jun, who already knew the masked man was Yeo Un-hwi, looked utterly bewildered.
At that, Yeo Un-hwi let out a soft laugh.
“Well? I can’t very well let your father watch his son die before his eyes now, can I? Even if that son is the most unfilial creature under heaven. Wouldn’t you agree?”
……
Dang Mu-jun made no reply, his lips pressed tightly shut.
He felt there was truth in Yeo Un-hwi’s words.
No matter how determined Dang Jin-u had been to kill Dang Gu-hwi with his own hands, witnessing one’s son die at another’s hand was an altogether different matter.
Yeo Un-hwi was certainly bearing a wholly different air from when they had met as the husband of Peng Seo-yeon.
Yet how could he possibly overcome the elder brother, whom even their father, one of the Ten Great Masters, had failed to capture?
In the meantime, Yeo Un-hwi was reproaching himself.
Before the Regression, it was at Dang Mu-jun’s request that he had spared Dang Gu-hwi’s life.
He had thought it a mercy to leave the man to spend the rest of his days conscious yet helpless, tasting eternal torment—yet his choice had ultimately proven wrong.
Had he foreseen this calamity, he should have slain Dang Gu-hwi, even if it meant becoming mortal enemies with the Sichuan Dang Clan. But regret now was worthless.
At the sight of the corpse-strewn village, Yeo Un-hwi ground his teeth.
Grit-grit.
It is my fault.
Yeo Un-hwi made a vow.
Never again would he make such a mistake.
And he would bear responsibility for this.
By annihilating Dang Gu-hwi, the root cause of all that had come to pass.
“Ha—so you do owe me a great debt.”
As Yeo Un-hwi approached slowly, Dang Gu-hwi lifted one corner of his mouth in a smile.
Like a puppet’s.
“So you remember me.”
“Tsk, tsk. That voice. I could never forget it. The same man from that night.”
The man who had come to Qinghua Tower one night, struck down the Black-White Twin Demons, and reduced him to a cripple.
He had introduced himself as Peng Seo-yeon’s husband, but Dang Gu-hwi had taken it for a lie.
Dang Gu-hwi had completely forgotten the Golden Sword Energy that had been fired at him moments before, and he laughed with perfect confidence.
“I was planning to wipe out the Sichuan Dang Clan and hunt you down myself. Yet here you are, walking straight into my hands. How convenient. How foolish you are, how foolish! Kehehe!”
“A cripple who tasted hell has become a Murderer, a beast mad with slaughter. Is that what you’d call yourself?”
“What did you say?”
“Don’t concern yourself. It is you who will die here today.”
“Nonsense! You’re not reading the room properly. I am not who I was then. Do you truly believe that simply defeating the Black-White Twin Demons makes you my match? Dang Jin-u, one of the Ten Great Masters himself, has fallen to my hand!”
Dang Jin-u—it was almost amusing.
Dang Gu-hwi spoke of his own father as though the man were a stranger.
As Yeo Un-hwi inwardly scoffed, Dang Gu-hwi continued.
“And you—a mere lackey serving Dang Mu-jun—dare to stand before me?”
“Lackey? What nonsense is this?”
“Stop pretending! I know full well that you attacked me that night on Dang Mu-jun’s orders!”
“What?”
At the absurdity spilling from Dang Gu-hwi’s mouth, Yeo Un-hwi let out a hollow laugh.
The man had gotten it spectacularly wrong.
“Fine!”
Watching Yeo Un-hwi feign ignorance, Dang Gu-hwi snorted derisively.
It no longer mattered.
“There’s no point in further talk. You will taste the most terrible suffering this day has to offer!”
With that, Dang Gu-hwi unleashed a torrent of dark energy, even more violent than before.
With a thunderous boom, Dang Gu-hwi hurtled toward Yeo Un-hwi at tremendous speed, wielding his fist with all the black energy he could muster.
Yeo Un-hwi dodged the attack with ease, but that was only the beginning.
Dang Gu-hwi’s assault never relented.
Black energy cascaded down upon Yeo Un-hwi, destroying the surrounding terrain in all directions, yet not a single blow had found its mark.
In that moment, Yeo Un-hwi felt a profound shock rising within him.
The power radiating from Dang Gu-hwi now was no weaker than that of Youling Shenjun, whom Yeo Un-hwi had vanquished long ago.
In fact, if anything, it was considerably stronger.
So then, even Dang Jin-u the Poison Sovereign…
How could such a thing be possible?
The Dang Gu-hwi of old could not have held his own against even the weakest of the Ten Great Masters, let alone Dang Mu-jun the Dragon Lord.
Yet something had changed him entirely.
Yeo Un-hwi took a large step back, then moved with speed that surpassed even Dang Gu-hwi’s, drawing his blade across his opponent’s form.
Whoosh!
In an instant, countless blade marks scored Dang Gu-hwi’s entire body, and blood drenched him from head to toe.
And yet—
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick.
His wounds were regenerating before Yeo Un-hwi’s eyes.
It was utterly unbelievable.
This was a regenerative capacity that had already transcended the realm of humanity.
Yeo Un-hwi’s brow furrowed.
“You’ve become a monster.”
“Khahaha! Only now do you understand? I am not the pathetic wretch you once crushed beneath your heel. I cannot be killed by anything—anything! Yes, I have been chosen! Those foolish humans could never comprehend it, but I can feel it!”
“Is that so? Then let me test that claim.”
Yeo Un-hwi smiled coldly and channeled his energy into his blade.
His sword spirit blazed with golden light.
Shing!
Golden Sword Energy erupted from Yeo Un-hwi’s blade, streaking toward Dang Gu-hwi.
“Hmph! Useless! Such attacks mean nothing!”
But—
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick.
“What—what is this!”
Dang Gu-hwi’s eyes snapped open wide.
The wounds carved by the golden energy would not heal; instead, they began to burn.
“Aaagh! N-no! No, no, no, no!”
Unbearable agony flooded through the burning sections of his body.
The pain that spread across his entire form left him unable to move.
Yet if he remained still, the wound would spread like wildfire, consuming his entire body in flames.
“Argh!”
Dang Gu-hwi gritted his teeth and violently severed the burning portions.
Only then could he stop the burning from consuming his entire frame.
Gasp, gasp!
Dang Gu-hwi breathed heavily, his eyes bloodshot and wild.
He understood now.
Whatever that had been, it was gravely dangerous.
The once-confident Dang Gu-hwi now stared at Yeo Un-hwi with a haggard, drawn face.
“What are you, exactly!”
Dang Gu-hwi cried out, but Yeo Un-hwi did not answer. Instead, he spoke of other things.
“I would gladly spare myself the sight of your revolting face, but to send you to oblivion so swiftly would be a dishonor to the countless souls you have slaughtered. So here, in this place, I shall have you taste a hell far worse than what they endured before you die.”
Yeo Un-hwi’s eyes blazed with golden radiance.
At that gaze, Dang Gu-hwi’s entire body went rigid.
He could feel it in his bones.
If he had a natural predator in this world, it was this man standing before him.
As Yeo Un-hwi approached slowly, Dang Gu-hwi felt like a wild cat frozen in fear before a golden lion.
“Damn! Cursed! Die, die, die, die, die!”
Dang Gu-hwi began to thrash desperately.
He gathered every ounce of energy he possessed and threw himself at Yeo Un-hwi in a frenzied assault.
With all his might.
“Yes, come on! Struggle as much as you wish!”
Yeo Un-hwi sidestepped Dang Gu-hwi’s extended fist and slipped inside his guard, his eyes flashing with lethal intent.
Then, with dizzying speed, Golden Sword Energy began to shred Dang Gu-hwi’s entire body.
“I’ll tear everything from you! I’ll strip away even your hope of being reborn into this world!”
“Khuaaaa! You… you monster!”
Dang Gu-hwi thrust both arms upward.
Black energy coalesced across his limbs, twisting into two enormous blade-forms of dark mirage that hurtled toward Yeo Un-hwi.
But as Yeo Un-hwi’s blade flashed once more, the towering black swords shattered into fragments before they could reach him.
And then,
Slice. Slice.
Both of Dang Gu-hwi’s arms fell away.
But unlike before, they did not regenerate.
The golden light clinging to Yeo Un-hwi’s blade was burning them from within.
“Khaaaaa!”
Yeo Un-hwi drove his blade down through Dang Gu-hwi’s feet.
At that, Dang Gu-hwi could no longer move from where he stood.
“I’ll pulverize your entire body!”
Demon Annihilation Fist.
Golden light erupted from Yeo Un-hwi’s fists.
Boom! Crash! Boom-boom! Crash! Boom! Crash!
His knuckles drove into Dang Gu-hwi’s frame with thunderous force.
“Khuaaaa!”
Dang Gu-hwi shrieked.
A torment so savage that death itself would have been mercy now engulfed every fiber of his being.
Yet there was no surrendering to this — not for Dang Gu-hwi.
“Uoooooo!”
Dang Gu-hwi wrenched his feet free from the blade embedded in them.
In place of his severed arms, black mirage surged forth in an instant, coalescing into the shape of two swords.
“Die dieeeee!”
Dang Gu-hwi swung the blades sprouted from his limbs in rapid succession, charging toward Yeo Un-hwi.
Innumerable black sword energies — beyond counting.
Dang Gu-hwi’s lips twisted into a grin.
He was certain.
That this, at least, could not be evaded.
And yet,
“Useless.”
Yeo Un-hwi’s cold voice fell like a blade, and all those sword energies shattered into dust before ever touching him.
“That’s… that’s impossible…!”
As Dang Gu-hwi reeled in shock,
Heavenly Martial Killing Strike.
The Absolute Demon’s killing technique was reborn in Yeo Un-hwi’s hands — renewed and vastly more powerful — and shot forth.
Crack! Crash! Crack-crack-crack!
Yeo Un-hwi’s attacks, too swift for the eye to follow, rained down across Dang Gu-hwi’s entire body.
“Kugh… ugh…!”
Then Dang Gu-hwi’s movements ceased.
“Hgh… hgh… Stop. Please… stop.”
His wavering knees buckled, collapsing against the earth.
From the lips of one so confident moments before came now a broken plea.
The figure before him, stripped of all momentum and force, was too wretched even to look upon directly.
Armless, his body still burning in a dozen places, Dang Gu-hwi spoke in the voice of one already half-dead.
“I… I was wrong. Whatever punishment you decree, I will accept it without complaint. Hgh… hgh….”
Yeo Un-hwi looked down at him in silence, his expression glacial.
Dang Gu-hwi hung his head.
As if surrendering to all things.
Yeo Un-hwi then walked slowly toward him.
And just as he reached the spot directly before Dang Gu-hwi,
Suddenly Dang Gu-hwi’s eyes flared alive.
“Do you think… think I end like this?! Dieeeeee!”
It was over in an instant.
He rocketed up from the ground, jaw gaping wide as if to tear into Yeo Un-hwi’s face.
Like an enraged wolf hurling itself forward.
Yet Yeo Un-hwi sidestepped the assault with contemptuous ease.
“…Kuh!”
“Yes. That bestial face suits you perfectly indeed.”
“Ah, wait—please, just wait!”
The moment Dang Gu-hwi’s eyes widened, Yeo Un-hwi’s fist smashed into his jaw.
Crack. Boom!
The sound of bones shattering—his entire skeleton seemed to crumble, jaw included.
“Urrgh…….”
“So you remain a coward to the very end. There is but one punishment permitted you: to die drowning in hellish agony. Nothing else awaits you now.”
Yeo Un-hwi seized Dang Gu-hwi by the hair and wrenched him up from the ground.
Then he pressed his palm against Dang Gu-hwi’s forehead.
“Even in death, you will find no escape from that torment.”
Yeo Un-hwi’s eyes ignited once more with brilliant golden radiance.
Dang Gu-hwi felt that glow with a terror so profound it seemed to stop his heart—a fear that cut deeper than death itself.
His instinct, transformed from that of a common man into something wholly other, trembled.
“Unaware you are even dead, you will be trapped forever in an endless cycle of that same agony.”
“Uh… uhh…….”
One of the Illusion Arts that the Heavenly Martial God Technique possessed.
Eternal Imprisonment.
This was an illusion art meant to imprison a soul in hell’s dungeon, condemning it to writhe eternally in unspeakable torment—a technique forged against the Heavenly Martial God’s ancient enemies.
Though Yeo Un-hwi had inherited the full measure of the Heavenly Martial God Technique and learned to wield its power and knowledge with freedom, somehow he had not recalled this particular art until now.
It was more accurate to say he had never known it existed at all.
Yet as his eyes fell upon Dang Gu-hwi, the knowledge surfaced unbidden.
Whether the moment had come, or whether something had stirred its remembrance, he could not say.
“You will be too lost in agony even to conceive of rebirth.”
Watching the fear-stricken eyes of Dang Gu-hwi, Yeo Un-hwi smiled coldly.
“You will shriek and flail in hell’s depths forever.”
“Uhhgh…….”
“Then go well, Dang Gu-hwi. To hell.”
“Aaaaaaaaah!”
Like a final convulsion, Dang Gu-hwi screamed, his eyes bloodshot and wild.
But then—
Burst!
His head exploded, and with it, Dang Gu-hwi breathed his last.
Whoosh!
Golden radiance erupted from Yeo Un-hwi’s body, drawing a small formation around Dang Gu-hwi’s corpse.
It slowly faded, then vanished entirely.
Dang Gu-hwi—the Crown Prince of the Sichuan Dang Clan, the Murderer who had claimed Peng Seo-yeon’s life before the Regression—had finally met his death.
His soul had just plummeted into the eternal abyss of hell.
In that moment, the thread of a karma so tenacious it had seemed unbreakable was severed at last.

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