The Battle for the Heavenly Sword - Chapter 110

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110
Woo Geom-san Seeks Supremacy
“…….”
A suffocating silence followed the explosion.
The martial artists who had been attacking Woo Geom-san were all lying on the ground, their limbs bent at grotesque angles or their bodies marred by deep lacerations.
Among them was Mok Gyeong-han, the Deputy Squad Leader of Jacheongi.
As the Deputy Squad Leader of Jacheongi, he possessed martial prowess that surpassed the first-class tier. Yet even a man of his caliber was lying on the ground, spitting up blood from a massive wound on his chest.
His sword had been shattered into pieces and scattered all around.
The condition of the Jacheongi martial artists was so wretched that it was a miracle they were still breathing.
“How can this be?”
“My goodness!”
The faces of Nam Seung-pyo and Yun Jin-myeong froze hard.
They never imagined that all thirty men of Jacheongi would be incapacitated by a single strike from Woo Geom-san.
Yun Jin-myeong’s face, in particular, was twisted into an ugly grimace.
“That’s the third son of the Woo Family Manor?”
The absurdity and sense of crisis he felt could not even be compared to Nam Seung-pyo’s.
The Shipping Rights were what the Yunyo Bang so desperately desired and wanted to seize.
Of the seven Shipping Rights, the one owned by the Woo Family Manor was the prime choice.
If they could just drive out the Woo Family Manor and secure those Shipping Rights, they could instantly control the waterways of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal.
The reason the Yunyo Bang could freely plot to steal the Woo Family Manor’s Shipping Rights was because there was no expert terrifying enough to pose a threat.
The foundation of the Woo Family Manor was certainly solid.
They had many experts, and their business enterprises were all highly lucrative.
However, a single Peak Expert was far more fearsome and terrifying than a hundred first-class experts.
The Woo Family Manor lacked such an expert.
The Woo Family Manor’s family martial arts, the Lingguang Twelve Forms, and the underlying Piaoyin Mind Method were undoubtedly unique arts of the Jianghu, but much of their essence had vanished over the years.
Because of that, at some point, the Woo Family Manor stopped producing experts who could command the Jianghu.
If there had been a terrifying expert in the Woo Family Manor, the Yunyo Bang’s plans would have been heavily modified.
Yet now, such an expert had appeared.
Thirty experts were lying on the ground groaning from a single sword strike he had lightly swung.
Yun Jin-myeong glared at Woo Geom-san with a heavy expression.
“Where did you learn such martial arts?”
Woo Geom-san raised his head and looked at Yun Jin-myeong.
“I have no reason to tell you.”
“You’ve grown arrogant just because you learned some high-level martial arts.”
“You are the one who should speak about what kind of conspiracy you were plotting.”
“Ha! Threatening me now? The Woo Family Manor is supposed to be an orthodox, prestigious family, yet its descendant has learned nothing but filthy tricks. If the ancestors of the Woo Family Manor knew, they would wail from beneath the earth.”
“Your face resembles a human’s, but you possess the tongue of a snake. Even at this moment, you try to distort the truth and deceive with lies.”
“How dare you insult me?”
“I am merely stating the facts.”
Instantly, Yun Jin-myeong’s face distorted like a malevolent deity.
Clang!
Yun Jin-myeong drew his sword and shouted.
“I will cut out your tongue and restore the laws of this land.”
“I do not know what connection my tongue has with the laws of this land, but I am merely grateful that you hold it in such high regard.”
“You wretch!”
Unable to contain the anger rising to the top of his head, Yun Jin-myeong drew his sword.
“Brother?”
Before Nam Seung-pyo could even stop him, he unleashed his signature ultimate move, the Seven Winds Severing Sword, toward Woo Geom-san.
Swoosh!
The Sword Qi sliced through the wind, aiming for Woo Geom-san’s life.
Yun Jin-myeong’s sword was as swift and venomous as a viper.
It persistently aimed only for Woo Geom-san’s acupoints.
The Sword Qi, which bent arbitrarily in midair, was extremely tricky to block. However, Woo Geom-san saw through his entire path of the sword with just a single glance.
Thud! Thud!
By lightly swinging his sword and blocking the path of the sword, he deflected all of Yun Jin-myeong’s strikes.
The moment it collided with Woo Geom-san’s sword, Yun Jin-myeong felt a pain as if his tiger’s mouth were tearing apart.
An immense force was hidden within the lightly swung sword. However, Yun Jin-myeong was not weak enough to succumb to just this level of pain.
His Seven Winds Severing Sword was a unique art of the Jianghu that could not be brought to grand completion without bone-breaking bitter training.
Yun Jin-myeong believed in the power of the Seven Winds Severing Sword.
“Cha! Three Heavens Severing Wind.”
The Sword Qi, split into three strands, aimed for Woo Geom-san’s head, chest, and abdomen.
Woo Geom-san shifted one step to the side. At that, the three strands of Sword Qi missed by a hair’s breadth.
At that exact moment, Woo Geom-san deployed the Smooth Flow and closed in on Yun Jin-myeong.
“Ah!”
Surprised, Yun Jin-myeong withdrew his sword and unfolded a Sword Net.
A net of Qi created by the sword tightly enveloped him.
However, Woo Geom-san’s palm penetrated through the Sword Net, where not even a single needle could seemingly enter, and blasted into Yun Jin-myeong’s chest.
Thump!
“Kugh!”
With a sound like a leather drum bursting, Yun Jin-myeong’s body was pushed backward.
Yun Jin-myeong’s face distorted fiercely from the pain that felt as if his internal organs were being crushed.
“You wretch!”
Enduring the pain, Yun Jin-myeong once again unleashed an ultimate move of the Seven Winds Severing Sword.
Thud!
However, before the stance could even manifest, Woo Geom-san’s sword struck his blade.
The short but intense impact shook his internal Qi, and the counter-force battered his internal organs.
“Groan!”
Yun Jin-myeong let out a groan in spite of himself.
His face had turned deathly pale.
The face of Nam Seung-pyo, who was watching the fight nearby, was not much different from Yun Jin-myeong’s.
He knew Yun Jin-myeong’s martial arts skills better than anyone else.
Backed by the massive support of the Yunyo Bang, Yun Jin-myeong’s martial arts skills were known to surpass the first-class tier and approach the Peak Realm.
In fact, Yun Jin-myeong had gained fame by defeating several well-known experts of the Jianghu.
Yet that very Yunyo Bang was proving to be no match at all.
He was being toyed with by Woo Geom-san, just like a fight between an adult and a young child.
Every ultimate move of the Seven Winds Severing Sword was shattered the moment it was unleashed.
It was as if the path of the Seven Winds Severing Sword was fully visible to Woo Geom-san’s eyes.
‘Just how strong are his martial arts for this to happen…’
Nam Seung-pyo was also an expert in martial arts.
As the eldest son of Nam Tae-ha, the Chief of the Tianjin Escort Agency, he had entered the martial arts path since childhood and trained his entire life. Thus, he had reached a considerably high realm for his age.
Of course, this was only possible because of the full support of the Tianjin Escort Agency.
With his current level alone, it was difficult to find a rival among his peers.
So everyone assumed that he would become the next chief of the Tianjin Escort Agency. However, Nam Seung-pyo himself was feeling anxious.
Because even as his age approached thirty, his father had not officially appointed him as the Young Bureau Chief.
He was merely the eldest son of Nam Tae-ha, the Chief of the Tianjin Escort Agency, and in reality, he held no official title whatsoever.
The one who broke through at that time was his younger sister, Nam Su-hyang.
Nam Su-hyang had been on bad terms with Nam Seung-pyo since they were young.
On top of her outstanding beauty, she was highly capable and revealed her ambition to become the escort agency chief.
While Nam Seung-pyo was desperately wishing for his father’s recognition to become the Young Bureau Chief, Nam Su-hyang ran around on her own feet and produced numerous achievements.
The most decisive one was her recent signing of a contract for Cloud Tea, which was notoriously difficult to obtain.
Nam Tae-ha was highly pleased with Nam Su-hyang’s achievement and praised her greatly in front of everyone.
An ordinary person would have unconditionally passed down everything to their eldest son, but Nam Tae-ha was no ordinary man.
He believed it was right for the most outstanding person to inherit the Tianjin Escort Agency.
At the gathering where he praised Nam Su-hyang, he implicitly revealed his thoughts.
As things turned out this way, several chiefs of the Twelve Branches turned to her side.
Because the possibility had arisen for even a woman, Nam Su-hyang, to become the chief.
This was also the reason Nam Seung-pyo went to extremes to hold hands with Yun Jin-myeong.
He wanted to produce achievements and gain his father’s recognition.
However, he never imagined that an existence like Woo Geom-san would suddenly pop up in this place.
“Damn it!”
It was just when he was at a loss for what to do.
Boom!
“Argh!”
Kicked by Woo Geom-san’s foot, Yun Jin-myeong flew backward.
He managed to balance himself without falling, but a look of sheer dismay was evident on his face.
The blood trickling from the corner of his mouth seemed to speak of how massive an impact he had received.
Woo Geom-san approached to subdue him for good.
Wooo!
Right then, a Lion’s Roar suddenly resonated through the air.
In an instant, a look of delight returned to Yun Jin-myeong’s face.
Because he recognized the owner of the Lion’s Roar.
“Elder Jong!”
At that moment, an old man in shabby clothing appeared in midair.
“Retreat!”
The old man swung a long object he was holding toward Woo Geom-san.
Swoosh!
With a fierce tearing sound, something invisible flew toward Woo Geom-san’s neck.
Woo Geom-san recognized the true identity of the flying object with his superhuman eyesight.
‘A fishing line?’
The object, so fine that it was invisible to the eye, was precisely a fishing line used by fishermen to catch fish.
The hook attached to a fishing line extending tens of Zhang became a terrifying weapon, aiming for Woo Geom-san’s throat.
Clang!
The fishing line, which bounced far away upon colliding with the sword, changed direction in midair and flew back toward Woo Geom-san.
Swish, swish, swish!
The sound of the wind splitting could be heard eerily.
Woo Geom-san dared not underestimate it and deployed the Cheonryugyeol to counter it.
Thud!
The fishing hook collided with the sword and flew back to the old man.
In an instant, the old man fluidly moved his wrist to adjust the direction of the string.
The fishing line, having changed direction in midair, wound around Yun Jin-myeong as it was and hoisted him up into the air.
Having snatched Yun Jin-myeong up in an instant and hoisted him onto his shoulder, the old man chose to flee.
Only then did Woo Geom-san realize that the old man’s objective from the very beginning was to rescue Yun Jin-myeong.
“Halt.”
Woo Geom-san launched his body into the air and pursued the old man.
At that exact moment, the old man swung his fishing rod again.
Whirrrr!
The fishing line instantly lengthened by fifty Zhang.
The place the hook attached to the fishing line aimed for was not Woo Geom-san, but the ship of the Hongjo Bang.
To be precise, it was aiming for Ning Yunxiao, who was standing on the deck of the ship.
“Oh no!”
Ning Yunxiao did not even know that the fishing hook was aiming for him.
Woo Geom-san shuddered at the opponent’s venomous mind, targeting a young child just to shake him off.
“Cha!”
With a shout, Woo Geom-san threw the Refined Steel Sword he was holding toward the old man.
Swoooosh!
The sword flew like a meteor.
If he continued to swing the fishing rod like this, he could kill Ning Yunxiao. However, if he did that, he would have to take Woo Geom-san’s sword entirely.
At the decisive moment, the old man’s choice was to protect himself and Yun Jin-myeong.
He swung the fishing rod like a windmill, blocking Woo Geom-san’s attack. Along with that, the fishing line and hook that were aiming for Ning Yunxiao’s life were retracted into the fishing rod.
Immediately after, Woo Geom-san’s sword struck the fishing rod.
Boom!
With a explosive sound, the old man’s body shook violently in midair and fell.
Just before crashing into the water’s surface, the old man swung his fishing rod toward the opposite side of Cheongmul Island.
The fishing line stretched out dozens of Zhang and wrapped around a tree on the far side.
The old man pulled his arm just like that and launched his body.
Pulled by the fishing line, the old man and Yun Jin-myeong vanished from sight in an instant.
Woo Geom-san launched his body to follow the old man. However, far from getting closer, the distance only grew wider.
Every time his speed dropped, the old man threw the fishing line to wrap around a tree dozens of Zhang away, then pulled his and Yun Jin-myeong’s bodies.
Each time, the old man’s body flew to a distant place like an arrow.
The old man’s skill in utilizing the fishing line was truly magnificent, widening the distance between him and Woo Geom-san in an instant.
In the end, Woo Geom-san had no choice but to give up the pursuit and stop.
“Magnificent.”
Woo Geom-san realized anew just how many eccentrics and experts there were in the Jianghu.
“Just what is his identity that he uses a fishing rod so freely?”
If he pursued to the bitter end, there was nothing he couldn’t do, but it seemed it would take at least two to three Shijin or more. That was how peerless the old man’s Lightness Skill using the fishing rod was.
In the end, Woo Geom-san shook his head from side to side and returned to Cheongmul Island.
“Have you returned?”
When he arrived at Cheongmul Island, Ha Baek-jin welcomed him.
Woo Geom-san looked around.
Not to mention the elites of the Yunyo Bang who had been struck down by him, even the martial artists of the Tianjin Escort Agency were nowhere to be seen.
Ha Baek-jin let out a sigh and said.
“No sooner had that old man rescued Yun Jin-myeong than they gathered the wounded and all departed. There was no room to stop them.”

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