The God of Death and the God of War - Chapter 22

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Evil Hegemon Martial God

Chapter 22

Which came first, the chicken?

Or the egg?

The martial world has a similar conundrum.

Which came first, the weapon?

Or the martial arts?

While people of the world each claim according to their own thoughts that either the chicken or the egg came first.

The stance of martial artists regarding weapons and martial arts is clear.

Without a doubt, it’s martial arts.

Martial arts are, without exaggeration, the foundation that allows a martial artist to exist as a martial artist.

Therefore, martial arts are valued more highly than weapons, and weapons are often disparaged as mere external objects.

However.

Just as there are no ‘absolutes’ in this world.

Occasionally, there existed weapons that surpassed even martial arts.

These were divine weapons and sharp instruments.

They were commonly called divine artifacts.

* * *

Jeok-un’s seven weapons, which the world’s connoisseurs called the ‘Paegunjichinggi,’ were divine artifacts beyond divine artifacts.

The first among them was a pair of swords that possessed their own will and chose their masters.

One piece of that pair is the Il-cheon that Jeok-un now holds.

This sword’s criterion for choosing a master is singular.

It has nothing to do with the master’s good or evil nature.

Only.

‘Does one possess the spirit to overturn the world?’

Indeed, if one were to learn of Il-cheon’s past masters, they would naturally nod in understanding.

Among those who wielded Il-cheon was even Dong Zhuo from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

Il-cheon helped Dong Zhuo rise to become the ruler of the Xiliang lands.

But from a certain point, Il-cheon stopped helping Dong Zhuo.

It was probably from the moment Dong Zhuo was defeated by Cao Cao and others and became focused on self-preservation.

The reason was clear.

Dong Zhuo no longer possessed the spirit to overturn the world.

But now Jeok-un possessed the spirit to burn down the Demonic Cult and Cheonma and seize the world.

‘Kill them all, Il-cheon.’

Whoooosh…!

The power that Il-cheon contained was the power of the sun.

The sun is originally warm and gentle, watching over all things on earth.

But when it becomes angry and reveals its might.

It becomes an absolute existence that burns everything to death.

‘Wh-what is this…!’

Just by looking, Noh Hwang-mun’s subordinates lost their fighting spirit.

It was because of the fierce aura emanating from Il-cheon.

It was truly overwhelming.

Though it’s an impossible expression, it was like a scorching tsunami.

Just as the four subordinates didn’t know what to do.

‘What ridiculous nonsense…!’

Only Noh Hwang-mun didn’t believe it.

At first glance, it seemed like tremendous energy.

But he didn’t believe that the brat before him could emit such an aura.

Some nobody he’d never heard of.

Wielding energy that even he couldn’t generate or control?

‘It’s all fake!’

Like the previous Tanji technique, this too was surely nothing but an illusion.

Like how a reflection in water reflects everything, but crumbles completely at the touch of a single finger.

“Die!!”

As soon as his axe blade clashed with it, that bastard’s deception would be immediately exposed.

Noh Hwang-mun was convinced of this as he gave the command.

Thud!

Following that command, the remaining members of the Gold Moon Division moved simultaneously.

Watching the enemies charging at him, Jeok-un slowly raised his sword.

As Noh Hwang-mun had boasted, petty tricks are useless before overwhelming power.

‘That’s not wrong.’

Jeok-un brought Il-cheon straight down.

Slash-!!

Crash!

Following the trajectory drawn by the sword, a sword wind flew toward Noh Hwang-mun.

Whoosh!

“?!”

‘What??’

Then, surprisingly, Jeok-un turned around as if he had finished his task and immediately launched himself toward the four subordinates.

Crazy bastard!

Noh Hwang-mun snorted at that absurd sight.

Showing your back to an opponent during battle?

And it wasn’t even sword energy, just sword wind.

‘He keeps repeating these petty tricks to the end!’

Noh Hwang-mun fiercely swung his great axe wrapped in axe threads toward the sword wind.

Whoosh!

Sword wind was a shabby trick inferior even to sword energy.

To Noh Hwang-mun, who skillfully wielded axe threads, the symbol of supreme mastery, sword wind was nothing.

Rip!

Look, as expected, that bastard’s sword wind was being torn to shreds like wet paper…

Flare!

‘…Huh?’

There was one problem Noh Hwang-mun hadn’t realized.

Flicker!

That tremendous heat energy was mixed into that sword wind.

“Aaaahhh!!”

At the terrible pain of heat that instantly penetrated to his skin, Noh Hwang-mun screamed.

Swoosh!

Finally, Jeok-un arrived before the remaining Gold Moon Division members.

The Gold Moon Division members’ minds went blank with the fear of death they were experiencing for the first time, but they struggled desperately to survive.

“Die!!”

“Aaaahhh!”

All four frantically swung their weapons at Jeok-un.

Each was a final strike pouring out all the internal energy from their cores.

Slash!

Jeok-un simply drew Il-cheon horizontally.

Without any emotion, without any tremor, very calmly.

Slice!

It was like a butcher dismembering meat hung on a hook.

Slash!

Before that merciless, mechanical hand movement.

…Thud!

All four members transformed into headless corpses.

But the smell of blood did not reverberate.

Sizzle!

The powerful solar energy that Il-cheon emitted seared the cut surfaces as it sliced through them.

However, due to the terrible heat and even more terrible stench, this place was like hell.

And Jeok-un was like a Divine General guarding that place.

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“Urgh…”

Meanwhile, Noh Hwang-mun could only recover his complexion after drawing his full internal energy to counter the heat.

Because of that, Noh Hwang-mun’s grasp of the situation came a step too late.

“…!”

The first thing he saw were the corpses of his subordinates lying miserably dead.

In their wide-open eyes that no one would close, fear and resentment were clearly visible.

‘Was the last hidden card a demonic sword…!’

Noh Hwang-mun gripped his axe handle tightly.

Whoosh!

Then, as if there had been no disadvantageous situation, he kicked off the ground and charged confidently.

‘No matter how it looks, it’s just a weapon! It will eventually kneel before superior martial arts!’

Whooom!

Graaaah!

His beloved weapon, the Wind-Cutting Axe, let out a cry.

Noh Hwang-mun fiercely spun the massive great axe above his head.

Whirrrr!

It was as if a storm had descended upon the great axe.

It was the moment his true martial art, the Eight Desolations Heaven-Opposing Axe, manifested.

The Eight Desolations Heaven-Opposing Axe was a martial art once used by a master of the Green Forest, a supreme technique he had received support for from Heukpaesong.

It was a high-level martial art recognized even in Sapa, said to reach the Transformation Realm when mastered.

Whoosh!

The energy raised according to its principles spread throughout his limbs and body.

The circulating energy called forth dormant energy, and the amount increased madly.

It was an amount of energy unthinkable for a typical martial artist at the beginning of the Transcendent level.

He had received so many elixirs from Heukpaesong over the years.

The more he felt the surging massive energy, the more confidence rose that he absolutely could not lose.

Whirrrr!

The Wind-Cutting Axe sharply cut through the air.

A destructive strike crashed down toward Jeok-un before his eyes.

Eight Desolations Heaven-Opposing Axe

Secret Technique

Yellow Springs Direct Break

Truly the manifestation of a secret technique like a storm that sweeps away everything.

All the Transcendent-level insights he had accumulated so far were contained within it.

However…

Clang-!

“!?”

Jeok-un deflected the Wind-Cutting Axe all too easily with his slightly raised sword tip.

His brow was deeply furrowed.

“Ugh, what a piece of trash strike.”

“…!!”

Along with the harsh words that trampled on a martial artist’s pride.

‘No way!’

Noh Hwang-mun absolutely could not accept this situation.

He thought he had simply made a mistake and desperately denied this moment.

“Uaaaah!!”

Whirrrr!

Noh Hwang-mun reproduced the Yellow Springs Direct Break once again.

This time he poured out all the internal energy he possessed.

This absolutely cannot be blocked…!

Swish!

…What?

Noh Hwang-mun’s thoughts temporarily stopped.

Suddenly Jeok-un’s figure blurred before his eyes and disappeared.

He never dreamed.

That speed beyond perception would appear like that.

‘The great text is like a shadow-.’

Jeok-un, who had opened the great text, reached one step in front of the enemy in a single stride.

Shadows disappear when the sun shines on them.

But that is not disappearing.

It is merely permeating into the sun.

Flare!

According to Jeok-un’s will.

Il-cheon’s solar energy and the great text’s Heaven-Defying Divine Energy combined into one.

Jeok-un swung Il-cheon toward the falling axe.

It was not any particular technique.

It was just a simple slash.

Clang!

Crash!!

And the Wind-Cutting Axe shattered into pieces.

Unable to withstand the contained energy, fragments broken into hundreds of pieces scattered through the air.

Thunk!

Thunk thunk!

‘Gugh?!’

With terrible sounds, fragments of the Wind-Cutting Axe embedded themselves throughout Noh Hwang-mun’s body.

He felt like his eyes would roll back from pain too great to even scream about,

But Jeok-un mocked such a Noh Hwang-mun.

Slash-!

He cleanly cut off Noh Hwang-mun’s left arm.

“Kyaaaah!!”

“You idiot, if you do the same thing that was already blocked, did you think it would work?”

Jeok-un clicked his tongue and said.

Then he walked toward the guy who was clutching his severed forearm and backing away in terror.

“Uh, uhh! D, don’t come!”

“I guess you thought you’d become an absolute master by learning martial arts that Heukpaesong casually threw at you.”

Slash!

Kyaaaah!

The sound of cutting and screaming harmonized.

Jeok-un kindly provided enlightenment as he continued his sword strikes. This time he slashed across the face with Il-cheon.

Due to the heat contained in Il-cheon, the skin melted away as soon as the wound was created.

“The elixirs hadn’t even fully dissolved, yet you forced yourself to consume them, so naturally your internal energy became filled with impurities like this. How utterly pathetic you are.”

Slash!

Kyaaaak!!

This time, Noh Hwang-mun’s body collapsed to the ground with a thud.

It was impossible for him to stand up.

Because one of his ankles had been severed.

In an instant, he had become both one-armed and one-legged.

“Huh, huuuuh.”

The pain was so severe that tears involuntarily flowed from his eyes.

That was a mistake. They didn’t flow.

Since his tear ducts had been burned away by Il-cheon, how could tears possibly come out?

‘I, I need to escape. If I flee into the fortress, I can survive.’

Noh Hwang-mun desperately tried to figure out a way to escape, but.

“Look at those eyes rolling around.”

He was subdued by Jeok-un before he could even attempt anything.

Slash!

He severed Noh Hwang-mun’s remaining ankle as well.

“Kyaaaaaaak!!!”

Noh Hwang-mun’s sanity snapped.

His mind completely crumbled under the pain that transcended common sense.

He pitifully begged Jeok-un for his life with desperate pleas.

“Kugh, kuuuh. Please, spare… Please… spare me…”

“Hm? I am going to spare you.”

Stab!

Thud!

Jeok-un destroyed his dantian.

“For now, that is.”

“…Keek!”

Shudder.

Noh Hwang-mun began trembling convulsively all over from the extreme pain of his dantian being destroyed.

Then he foamed at the mouth and lost consciousness.

Whoosh.

As silence descended upon the surroundings.

“Well then, shall we go finish this up now.”

Jeok-un moved his steps toward his next destination.

That place was none other than.

Sadocheon Fortress, where the initiation ceremony was being held.

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