The God of Death and the God of War - Chapter 26
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Evil Hegemon Martial God
Chapter 26
A feast of blue stars embroidering the red sky.
Dokgo Cheon watched the stars falling like a meteor shower and couldn’t help but admire them.
‘Ah…!’
Was it because he created a meteor shower with sword threads and embroidered it across the sky?
Or was it because his spatial control was so excellent that it could dye the heavens?
Neither.
‘It’s deep.’
The trajectory drawn by a warrior’s sword contains the traces of life.
Whether one uses a sword, blade, or spear, halberd, whip, staff – whatever weapon it may be.
The essence of a warrior is the same.
A being who stands on two feet on the ground and carries out their will with two hands.
Therefore, a warrior’s movements inevitably contain the history of their life.
Abandoned by family and relatives, wandering the bottom as the most lowly person.
Rising up with only empty hands, desperately building up martial arts.
Finally reaching the Heukcheon Paegyeon.
How deep must be the history and traces that Jeok-un carries?
Though the power itself could never inflict meaningful damage on him due to the opponent’s limited internal energy.
The essence of enlightenment contained within was absolutely not inferior to his own.
Dokgo Cheon couldn’t help but admire it.
And was that all?
‘Too similar.’
Jeok-un’s sword was like looking at the opposite side reflected in a mirror.
That’s right. The Crimson Heaven Galaxy Sword was too similar to his own Lion Heaven-Rending Blade.
The forms deployed were different, but the intent contained was the same.
If the essence was this similar, it could only mean they learned martial arts from the same source.
But that was impossible.
‘The Lion Heaven-Rending Blade is a technique I created alone.’
He had no master.
It was a divine art he created himself over decades, repeating life-and-death battles, crossing the boundary between life and death.
But the opponent before him was a young brat not even twenty.
Faced with this incomprehensible contradiction, Dokgo Cheon decided.
‘I’ll just check to the very bottom.’
With that thought, Dokgo Cheon watched Nak-u until the very end.
In an instant, truly dangerous enough that even half a breath’s deviation could cost a life.
And only at the very last moment.
Swish!
He swung his blade.
Lion Heaven-Rending Blade
Second Form
Lion’s Heavenly Roar
It was a simple diagonal slash.
Kwarrrrung!
But that single move shook the entire area.
Like the king of beasts roaring toward heaven, the wave created by the blade technique charged straight ahead.
Naturally, Nak-u was shooting toward Dokgo Cheon head-on.
A collision between these two supreme techniques was inevitable.
Pazijik-!
Steam-like shockwaves rose with fierce sparks.
And Jeok-un’s offensive weakened by that much.
Lion’s Heavenly Roar had devoured Nak-u.
Pazzzz!
Kwarrr!
The falling meteors resisted violently as if unwilling to give up their lives easily.
Swish!
But in the end, they disappeared without a trace.
It had to be so.
Even if he momentarily possessed transcendent-level internal energy.
Dokgo Cheon was a master of the Transformation Realm beyond the Transcendent level, and even the Manifestation Realm that toyed with the Transformation Realm.
And.
Kuooooo-!!
The aftershock arrived.
Nak-u was a technique unleashed with transcendent-level internal energy, and Dokgo Cheon had forcibly torn it apart and devoured it.
The destabilized atmosphere scattered in all directions, and the resulting fierce whirlwind swept through the spectator stands.
“Ugh…!”
“Wh-what?!”
Naturally, the executives watching were greatly alarmed.
They coughed continuously, choking on the swirling sand and dust.
“What happened?”
“Can’t you see! That bastard pulled some pathetic trick, but the Heavenly Lord dealt with it all.”
“I-is that so…? But from what I saw, that bastard’s sword…”
Though the amazing divine prowess of the two was displayed, quite a few executives couldn’t properly discern the truth.
They couldn’t understand that Jeok-un had deployed the first form of the Crimson Heaven Galaxy Sword.
Nor that Dokgo Cheon had savored and admired that first form.
They also couldn’t comprehend the process of Lion’s Heavenly Roar tearing apart the first form, Nak-u.
But it was natural.
This was the world of extremes.
Even transcendent-level masters couldn’t perceive it without proper skill.
‘Jegal Jeokun…!’
‘That bastard is definitely not ordinary!’
But those who could see were shocked beyond measure.
As wonder appeared in the eyes of the executives with supreme cultivation, including the Vice Heavenly Lord.
Dokgo Cheon was organizing the enlightenment he gained through Jeok-un.
‘Is the depth of accumulated enlightenment unrelated to a warrior’s realm?’
The sword strike shown by the peak warrior contained an interpretation of martial principles that matched his own.
And that gave him a clue to a new domain.
A full ten years.
That was how long Dokgo Cheon had stagnated after reaching the peak of the Manifestation Realm.
For ten years, Dokgo Cheon hadn’t advanced even a single step from here.
But now, at this moment.
‘I pursued freedom, but the very thought of pursuing freedom had become another shackle.’
Through Jeok-un’s truly free sword, he had gained enlightenment for one step toward the unknown realm, the Life-Death.
Finally, having organized all his enlightenment, Dokgo Cheon slowly opened his mouth.
“…You bastard.”
“Tch, I only did good for others.”
“…!!”
Did you see that?
The opponent had clearly noticed that he had gained fragments of enlightenment.
‘Yes, now I understand.’
Dokgo Cheon finally discovered Jeok-un’s true nature.
A genius or monster with earth-shaking talent.
There would be no other way to explain it.
Dokgo Cheon spoke quietly.
“I should return what I’ve received.”
Those watching misunderstood it as a judgment meaning he would make him pay for his crimes, but it was not judgment but an expression of gratitude.
Only Jeok-un caught the meaning and smiled mischievously as he said.
“But no matter how I look at it, it won’t even be worth half the price?”
In that moment, the look in Dokgo Cheon’s eyes as he gazed at Jeok-un changed.
Not the anger of looking at an insolent brat from before standing on the training ground.
Nor the interest in an existence that seemed to possess some special talent or power.
It was ‘respect’ that he only showed to warriors of equal standing whom he acknowledged.
Swoosh!
Dokgo Cheon gathered his energy and answered.
“Behold, the ultimate technique I have reached.”
With those words, Dokgo Cheon charged forward.
With a tapping sound, Jeok-un also responded.
In a world of speed that ordinary people could not fathom.
The vision of both men changed.
Lion Breaking Heaven Blade
Secret Technique
Heavenly Lion Breaking Heaven
* * *
Breaking Heaven, to shatter the sky.
While Sapa’s martial arts and techniques often have grandiose and exaggerated aspects, one would think the name ‘shatter the sky’ is definitely excessive.
But watching the Heavenly Lion Breaking Heaven that Dokgo Cheon now displayed, that thought would disappear.
Kwaruru!
Kwagagaga!
A tremendous force befitting the name of shattering the sky came crashing down like a tsunami, like an avalanche.
‘Good!’
Jeok-un cheered while watching the Heavenly Lion Breaking Heaven.
He had wanted this moment.
The moment where life and death overlapped.
This was where he belonged.
Therefore, Jeok-un rushed toward the Heavenly Lion Breaking Heaven without delay, gripping Wol-ha tightly.
“Haha!”
He should have trembled before the literally tsunami-like internal energy.
One might think he could do so by absorbing the power of Heavenly Lion Breaking Heaven with Wol-ha.
Crack!
Bang!
Not at all.
The internal energy already absorbed by Wol-ha had exceeded its limits.
His energy channels had long since become tattered like rags, and his blood vessels were on the verge of bursting.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say death was right before his eyes.
Yet the reason Jeok-un could enjoy this situation was.
‘Wind!’
If he was a star, then his opponent was wind.
Like a tsunami, like an avalanche.
Even while scratching, breaking, and trampling everything.
Through the gentle breeze that licked between his palms.
‘Could the path of supremacy also embrace gentleness!’
It was because he too was gaining enlightenment.
Jeok-un thought this and felt a burning thirst.
‘Once, just once more…’
He wanted to see it once more.
The essence that Dokgo Cheon possessed.
If he could see that secret technique once more.
He could make it completely his own…
* * *
New air filled the space broken by the violent energy waves.
As if comforting those wounds, a gently blowing wind scattered the lightly risen dust.
Whoooong…!
Finally, the state of the training ground was revealed.
It looked as if clawed by a giant monster.
Compared to the original power of Heavenly Lion Breaking Heaven, this was less than one percent of the aftermath.
But it had to be so.
If he had used full power, Sadocheon Fortress would have collapsed, and all the innocent people outside the fortress would have been swept up and injured.
This was the ultimate strike that contained all enlightenment but controlled power to the extreme limit.
However, surprisingly.
‘What, what?!’
‘That bastard…!’
Jeok-un was standing perfectly fine.
No, to be precise, not ‘perfectly fine.’
His martial robes were torn and tattered, and he was a mess from the explosion’s dust.
But clearly Jeok-un was still gripping his twin swords, glaring at Dokgo Cheon.
At this unexpected situation, a cold silence fell over the arena.
“I see.”
Step.
Dokgo Cheon slowly began walking toward Jeok-un.
Tenacious bastard.
Dokgo Cheon clicked his tongue inwardly.
Jeok-un was not fine.
The light had disappeared from Jeok-un’s eyes.
‘Fainting while standing.’
It was an ending that showed his stubborn nature of not wanting to fall to the ground disgracefully.
Exclamations burst out from various places.
The executives had also belatedly noticed Jeok-un’s condition.
Then, Dokgo Cheon looked at his subordinates and commanded.
“Lock him in Noe-ok.”
“Yes, yes sir!!”
At Dokgo Cheon’s word, the waiting Sadocheon personnel hurriedly climbed onto the training ground.
Damn vermin!
We’ll torture him until he can’t use his limbs!
Their eyes glaring at Jeok-un were filled with murderous intent, but.
Dokgo Cheon’s following command was completely different from expectations.
“And after treating him perfectly, bring him before me again.”
“Pardon…?”
Whoosh!
Dokgo Cheon left only those words and departed.
While all the Sadocheon executives were bewildered.
‘…A black cow gives birth to a white calf. Misfortune and fortune are chaotically intertwined. Indeed, how will this end?’
A subtle smile appeared on Dokgo Cheon’s lips as he turned away.
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