Namgoong the Sword Ghost - Chapter 108

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Chapter 108. Sword Demon and Demonic General Battle
Crack!
Jin Heuk Cheon, hurled skyward, skidded to a halt and carved deep furrows in the earth with his feet.
When he lifted his head, a man in a blue martial robe already stood blocking his path.
“Who are you?”
“The proprietor of a loach soup restaurant.”
“What?”
“A mudfish. I’ll slice you into pieces.”
Whoosh!
Namgung Ho Yeon drew the Heukya Tae Geom, and Jin Heuk Cheon laughed as if he found the remark absurd.
“Ha. This is the first time I’ve met anyone treating me as an ingredient.”
“Then I’ll be your first and last. You’re dying today.”
“Child. Do you have the skill to match that glib tongue?”
“My mouth runs faster than my hands could ever keep up.”
Hehehehe!
Jin Heuk Cheon looked up at the sun.
He continued speaking.
“Time’s growing short. About thirty minutes left?”
“Similar to me.”
“What did you say?”
“This side has about twenty-four minutes.”
Crash!
Namgung Ho Yeon swung the Heukya Tae Geom, and with a flowing black arc, he severed twenty-four bamboo stalks beside him.
Whoooosh!
Suddenly, thick mist appeared from nowhere and blanketed the surroundings.
―The Sealing Gate, activated through the Water Qi of the Kan Palace, had completely blocked the sight of the people beyond.
“Good.”
“Child. Are you trying to throw your life away? Choosing to isolate yourself alone just to detain me?”
Jin Heuk Cheon’s lips curled up in a grin.
Was he trying to buy time by sacrificing himself?
Reckless—yet appetizing nonetheless.
“The one who’s isolated isn’t me. It’s you.”
“……?”
“How does it feel to be left alone with a Sword Demon?”
“What?”
Click!
In response to Jin Heuk Cheon’s question, Namgung Ho Yeon formed a Sword Seal with his left hand instead of answering.
Uuuuummmmm!
His Upper Dantian activated, and the space between his brows burned with heat.
‘Going all out!’
The opponent was a true Wall Transcender.
To drag that creature down below the wall, he would have to use the Uigi Yeondong as a platform to ascend just as high.
‘My current Spirit Power is at the level of the Seventy-Seven Swords.’
This meant he could control seventy-seven swords for an hour.
‘Half an hour remains. With Spirit Power consumed during the journey, it’ll be tight—but possible.’
Whoosh!
Namgung Ho Yeon swung the Sword Seal.
Then something extraordinary happened.
Swish-swish-swish-swish!
Thud-thud-thud-thud!
A hundred swords pierced through the mist and embedded themselves in the ground.
Click!
Immediately after, Namgung Ho Yeon thrust the Sword Seal skyward.
The swords were wrenched free all at once, standing in loyal salute with their blades held high toward the heavens.
Clang-clang-clang-clang―!
“Th-this is……!”
At the sight of such majesty, Jin Heuk Cheon’s eyes widened.
Having tasted all the bittersweet flavors of the world, he thought nothing could amaze him anymore.
Yet now, for the first time in decades, he felt genuine astonishment.
“The Uigi Yeondong!”
It was a legend from three hundred years past, never witnessed even once in living memory.
Yet that silhouette was so distinctive that no other martial art or spiritual ability could even approximate it.
Jin Heuk Cheon recognized it at once—this was the Peerless Spiritual Ability, the Uigi Yeondong.
At the sight of a hundred swords suspended in the air as if gripped by spirits, a passage from the Sword Demon Legend flashed through Jin Heuk Cheon’s mind.
Ten Swords Destroy One Sect—
ten blades had annihilated an entire martial school.
Hundred Swords Erase One Village—
a hundred swords had wiped a village from the earth.
Thousand Swords Battle Zhongyuan—
a thousand swords had fought Zhongyuan alone.
Ten Thousand Swords War Nation—
ten thousand swords could wage war against a nation itself.
“A Sword Demon?!”
“I’ll cut you into a hundred pieces, you loach!”
Boom!
Ho Yeon’s thighs swelled explosively, and in an instant he closed the distance to Jin Heuk Cheon.
Whoosh!
The Heukya Tae Geom now radiated an Azure Heaven Qi that shone brighter than the sky itself, forming a barrier of power.
“You!”
Crash!
Jin Heuk Cheon gripped the Food Soul Blade and drew forth his Scorching Black Food Demon Qi.
Though startled by the Uigi Yeondong, the cunning mind of Jin Heuk Cheon had already finished its calculations.
‘He himself has not transcended the Wall. He cannot withstand my technique’s power!’
No matter how renowned the Sword Demon was for supreme killing intent, he had never heard tell of one capturing a Wall Transcender even at their peak.
Which meant that even the greatest Sword Demon of all could not achieve killing intent against a Wall Transcender through Uigi Yeondong alone.
That this man was a user of Uigi Yeondong appearing for the first time in three hundred years was startling, but there was no way he could accomplish what even the Sword Demon could not.
“A flavor most unexpected!”
Clang!
Boom-crack!
As the Food Soul Blade and Heukya Tae Geom collided, shards of power scattered in all directions.
“Hmm?”
Sharpsharpsharp!
Tick-tick-tick!
In that moment, even as the azure barrier wavered perilously, Jin Heuk Cheon witnessed the demonic qi being repelled and thrust outward.
Thunk! Boom!
As Jin Heuk Cheon deployed his footwork, Ho Yeon raised the Heukya’s blade edge to block the assault.
“A most peculiar aura.”
“A truly exceptional power.”
Whoooosh!
Ho Yeon smiled as he restored his damaged barrier.
Less ornate than the Cheonrae Gi, yet the Azure Heaven Qi was the proud secret technique of the Namgung Clan—the Azure Heaven Great Evolution Divine Technique.
The Azure Heaven Great Evolution Divine Technique bore the nature of Heaven, which was to expand broadly and embrace all things.
Yet broad expansion did not necessarily mean true embrace.
Anything at the expanding edge would inevitably be pushed away.
“The Azure Heaven Qi has long been renowned as the Azure Expel Demonic, a power of Demon Extermination.”
“Blue qi that drives out demons? I see. So you are Namgung Ho Yeon.”
Jin Heuk Cheon’s eyes widened as he comprehended his opponent’s identity.
He had heard that Namgung Ho Yeon was only eighteen years old.
“Truly Peerless Talent!”
“And you’re a son of a bitch!”
Whoosh!
As Ho Yeon swung the Sword Seal, the hundred swords began to move.
And they did not move without pattern.
Each ten swords formed a pair, creating ten diamond formations.
This was the array configuration of the Iron Sound Invincible Sword Formation.
“Iron Sound Amplification!”
Ring! Clang-clang-clang-clang-clang!
With Ho Yeon’s cry, Metal Collision Sounds erupted from the mist in a torrent.
Counter-Force settled into the hundred swords, and ten Iron Sound Invincible Sword Formations bore down upon Jin Heuk Cheon as one.
“Still, they are only Iron Swords!”
Whish! Whish!
Crack-crack-crack!
To meet the advancing Sword Army, Jin Heuk Cheon swung his Food Soul Blade in swift arcs.
“Thin Slice Aroma Taste!”
Slash-slash-slash-cut!
True to the Thousand Cuts Ten Thousand Pieces Planar Art’s thin cutting method, gossamer threads of Demonic Qi lashed out in all directions.
Crunch!
Crack-shatter-bang!
Dozens of blades shattered outright.
Whip!
When Namgung Ho Yeon pointed downward with his Sword Seal, the blade fragments became an iron rain that poured down upon Jin Heuk Cheon.
Hiss!
But the scorching heat of the Defensive Qi Barrier, forged from Scorching Black Food Demon Qi, melted every iron shard before they could draw near.
Tap!
This time Namgung Ho Yeon rushed at Jin Heuk Cheon directly.
Ring! Blade-scrape-scrape-clash!
In the midst of it all, the Sword Army channeled their accumulated Counter-Force to Namgung Ho Yeon.
The Heukya Tae Geom trembled finely, and more than that, each minute particle of the Azure Heaven Thread that formed the Qi Barrier vibrated rapidly, creating friction.
Buzz-whine—!
The blue Qi Barrier erupted in super-vibration, exhaling a sound like tens of millions of bees taking flight in unison.
Namgung Ho Yeon, gripping the blade condensed with the extremity of counter-strength, deployed Iron Soul Unified One—the final technique of the Iron Sword Ten Techniques.
The Heukya Tae Geom held high and Namgung Ho Yeon became one, and he unleashed the strongest blow.
Crack!
Violent burst!
“Done!”
“Ghh—!”
Jin Heuk Cheon’s eyes snapped wide.
He had thought of course he would block it, but the Food Soul Blade in his left hand split clean in half, and worse still, it left a long wound across his left flank.
‘How did he cut through the Defensive Qi Barrier…!’
It was unthinkable.
It was merely Qi Aura.
How could he have severed Qi Barrier?
Ring! Blade-scrape-scrape-scrape-clash!
Even as this unfolded, behind him the Iron Swords continued generating Counter-Force, and Namgung Ho Yeon, receiving that counter-strength, unleashed his second marked period without giving an instant’s respite.
It was a continuous sword technique beginning with Heavenly Wind Rising Beginning—the Heavenly Wind Sword Technique.
Whistling whirlwind!
A sharp blue Heavenly Wind came sweeping through.
Countless sword winds pouring from the Heukya Tae Geom scattered the mist around them, raising sharp claws skyward.
The sword winds were not the problem. What defied understanding was the unknown force clinging to the icy blue blade.
Crack! Crack-crunch!
It forced its way through the Defensive Qi Barrier.
Again and again.
Again and again!
“Ahhhhh!”
Rumble-crack!
When Jin Heuk Cheon roared, the Food Demon curled within his Qi Sea Acupoint opened its eyes.
“Burst Sea Tide!”
True to its frying nature, the Scorching Black Food Demon Qi bubbled and boiled violently, summoning a scalding tidal wave across the area.
Crack-crack-crack!
Dozens of Iron Swords melted, and Namgung Ho Yeon too could not hold his ground, stepping back swiftly to evade.
Crack!
“Phew—so you’ve become something, catfish?”
“Tch, you bastard! You shouldn’t have been able to cross that wall!”
Jin Heuk Cheon’s body was covered in gashes where the Heavenly Wind had clawed past.
His entire frame burned with heat, and from the torn wounds seeped tears of blood.
Pain? Did he call that pain?
How long had it been since he felt such a base sensation?
“Ha-ha-ha! Told you! I told you I could do it!”
Watching Namgung Ho Yeon shout at someone, Jin Heuk Cheon ground his teeth.
Creak!
“You bastard! What sorcery is this?”
“Technique, you dog.”
“What?”
“Strong Vibration Transcendent Movement! I’ve compensated for the warp lines I was lacking with this!”
Strong Vibration Transcendent Movement.
To transcend and move through sheer vibration.
This was one of the techniques Ho Yeon had studied and refined over the past two years, alongside the Qi Barrier Tribulation and others.
When progress on the Life-Death Gate Passage breakthrough stalled, Ho Yeon changed course—auditing and advancing the weapons already in his arsenal.
It was a habit born from his days as a Sword Demon: he had always fought opponents stronger than himself, so he cultivated the instinct to try anything.
‘Staring only at becoming a Wall Transcender, waiting endlessly—that doesn’t suit my nature. What matters isn’t the height of one’s realm. In the end, whoever kills wins.’
So Ho Yeon spent his days thinking—always thinking—of how to kill a Wall Transcender while still beneath the wall.
After creating the Layered Cloud Myriad Tribulation Formation and deriving the Qi Barrier Tribulation from its mystery,
his attention turned to the Iron Sword Ten Techniques.
‘The Iron Sword Ten Techniques are a strong-swordsman’s art—absorbing the counter-force as one’s blade clashes with an opponent’s, wielding the power of reverse-strength.’
It was a battlefield swordplay created five hundred years ago by Namgung Il Hon, who wandered as a ronin.
The more one fought, the stronger one became with each weapon-strike; it was a martial art achievable through Will and Qi self-creation.
“When you smash over a hundred swords against each other, interesting things happen.”
Ho Yeon smiled, speaking to Jin Heuk Cheon, whose expression had hardened into stone.
“Beyond the swords themselves, each particle of Qi begins ultra-vibrating, filling the gaps in the sparse warp lines and achieving power that rivals strong Qi.”
In truth, it might be more accurate to call it a grindstone than a sword.
The sand-grain-small particles of Qi friction-dance against one another, grinding rather than cutting.
In short, the Strong Vibration Transcendent Movement maximizes cutting and grinding properties combined.
Ho Yeon had succeeded not merely in merging technique with technique, but in fusing Spiritual Ability with martial art itself.
Whishhh!
Clang-clang-clang!
As Ho Yeon flicked his Sword Seal, fresh blades replenished the ones that had shattered and melted away.
Ching! Clash-clash-clash!
Jin Heuk Cheon’s dark pupils narrowed as he watched the Iron Sword swarm ignite fresh sparks, amplifying the counter-force with each strike.
“…Yes. You are undeniably extraordinary.”
Jin Heuk Cheon conceded.
To pierce through strong Qi with Qi Barrier alone.
He couldn’t grasp the exact principle, but one thing was clear—a new method, one that had never existed in this world until now, had been created.
A genius.
“Krhkh! Krhkhkhkh!”
“What are you grinning about?”
“Puahahaha!”
Jin Heuk Cheon trembled throughout his entire body with delight.
Before him stood a unique, singular Special Flavor he had never tasted in his life.
A genius wielding Will and Qi. A small monster who, given time, might become a being like the Sword Demon of three hundred years past.
Before he reaches his Mature Form, while still in his Juvenile Form—he must be devoured now.
Gulp-gulp-gulp!
“I’m changing my priorities!”
“Hm?!”
The martial presence radiating from Jin Heuk Cheon shifted, and in that same instant, Ho Yeon’s brow furrowed.
Crack! Crackle-crack!
His skin split like a parched rice paddy, losing all elasticity.
“I will devour you here without fail! I will use any means, any method!”
Boom-boom-boom—!
Demonic Qi of a density wholly different from before erupted from Jin Heuk Cheon’s Dantian.
Jin Heuk Cheon’s eyes gleamed as he exhaled a scorching breath.
“Vitality Combustion!”

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