The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 116

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Chapter 116.
As Jeong Cheon entered the office, he exhaled deeply upon seeing Dam Yoo Yeon.
“I came upon hearing that three hundred thousand taels of designated funds had been processed… so something like this occurred.”
With his exceptional hearing, he seemed to have caught every word of the conversation from beyond the door.
“Senior Seol, my apologies.”
Jeong Cheon clasped his hands respectfully toward Bu Eunseol.
“The Master of Su Gyeong Jeon made a grave error. Allow me to apologize in his stead.”
“Apologies are unnecessary.”
“As expected.”
Jeong Cheon nodded with a smile.
“Very well. Shall we step outside then?”
“Elder brother Cheon!”
Dam Yoo Yeon moved to block his path.
“Hyun Ui instructed you not to use martial arts for three years! If you forcefully draw upon your inner energy again…”
“Master… no, Yeon.”
Jeong Cheon gazed at her with a gentle smile playing at his lips.
“Your elder brother will not suffer another episode. Rest assured.”
‘An episode?’
As Bu Eunseol’s eyes gleamed with curiosity, Jeong Cheon laughed and gestured toward the door outside.
“Then, shall we test ourselves against one another?”
Near the southeastern region of Jeok Cheon Mak Ji.
The reeds reflected in the crimson sunset appeared as though drenched in blood.
After a desolate wind swept through the Reed Field, Bu Eunseol and Jeong Cheon stood facing each other.
“You are truly remarkable.”
Jeong Cheon, who had been running his outstretched hand through the approaching breeze, slowly spoke.
“Even in an age like this, there exists a martial artist such as yourself.”
When Bu Eunseol’s expression showed bewilderment, he chuckled softly.
“One who burns themselves without hesitation, like a flame.”
Jeong Cheon smiled broadly.
“Flames are beautiful, yet they do not endure. Only that brilliant light lingers briefly in memory.”
“Each person pursues different paths.”
Bu Eunseol shook her head.
“There are those who spend their entire lives burning with that brilliant radiance.”
“That may be true. But I could never live that way.”
With his spine perfectly straight, Jeong Cheon gazed down at Bu Eunseol with an expression of admiration.
“You have advanced another level. Your martial foundation has become far more refined than when I first saw you.”
Likely, this was due to the confrontation with Ja Mo Chang.
Even grasping a single minor principle of martial technique could become the catalyst for a breakthrough in martial cultivation.
With a soft whisper, he drew his long sword from his waist.
Jeong Cheon drew the long sword fastened at his waist.
Jeong Cheon was not only exceptionally tall but possessed limbs of considerable length. The sword he drew was equally slender and extended.
‘It appears to be about a foot longer than Seo Mun Gyeong’s curved blade.’
Jeong Cheon’s sword bore striking resemblance to the one Seo Mun Gyeong had wielded at the Jeong Mu Dae Hoe. Yet the aura emanating from his body was entirely different.
Where Seo Mun Gyeong seemed poised to sever everything within reach, Jeong Cheon appeared ready to draw all things around him into darkness.
“Are you prepared?”
Jeong Cheon spoke with an untroubled expression, his sword resting casually against the ground.
“You may strike first.”
Bu Eunseol accepted without hesitation, drawing her ink-black blade.
Jeong Cheon was a master of the upper echelon who permitted not even a moment’s carelessness.
A soft whisper of steel.
As I infused the drawn blade with inner force, the rust coating flaked away, revealing an ethereal dark luminescence that bloomed outward.
Upon seeing the ink-black blade, Jeong Cheon gave a slight nod.
“A fine weapon indeed.”
“Beware!”
A brilliant flash.
The ink-black blade found itself pressed against Jeong Cheon’s throat.
“An exquisite opening move.”
Yet Jeong Cheon withdrew swiftly, as though he had anticipated the technique.
Simultaneously, a chilling sword aura erupted from his blade, and the surrounding reeds were cleaved asunder with a rustling sound.
A sharp whistle.
A thin ribbon of light grazed past, and crimson blood began to flow from Bu Eunseol’s cheek.
Since entering the Murim, this was the first time I had suffered a wound from an opponent’s technique.
A piercing hiss.
Before Bu Eunseol could even counterattack, Jeong Cheon’s blade spun through the air, thrusting toward her throat once more.
Bu Eunseol evaded with ease, yet Jeong Cheon’s sword pursued like a phantom.
“Kuh!”
As Bu Eunseol shifted her body leftward, Jeong Cheon’s keen blade suddenly erupted forth, as though he had been waiting for precisely that evasion.
It was as though the sword transcended spatial constraints, materializing from empty air itself.
‘This is Cho Geom Rang’s true swordsmanship in actual combat.’
Had Bu Eunseol not mastered the Beast Blade technique, her throat would have been pierced in this single move.
‘If I merely continue to evade, I will perish.’
Rotating her body diagonally to slip past the assault, Bu Eunseol’s ink-black blade released a streak of sword aura.
A resonant clash.
As the ink-black and pale blades collided, a bone-chilling sword aura rippled outward in all directions.
The moment the blades met, the inner force infused within each weapon adhered like magnets, and a contest of strength commenced.
“…!”
In that instant, Jeong Cheon’s eyes widened slightly.
Astonishingly, Bu Eunseol’s inner force matched his own perfectly, neither yielding an inch.
“Your inner force is formidable as well.”
Jeong Cheon, uttering his admiration, pushed the ink-black blade back and resumed his sword technique.
With just a single sword strike extended, three zhang around Bu Eunseol became saturated with formidable sword auras.
The speed was so incomprehensible that there was no opportunity to evade.
Clang!
The dark sword and white sword clashed once more.
Sparks erupted, and this time Bu Eunseol retreated a step backward. The counter-force embedded in the white sword had grown even more formidable than before.
‘Powerful.’
Every time the swords collided, the fine hairs across my entire body stood on end.
Jeong Cheon was truly formidable.
Even if I poured everything into this, victory was beyond my grasp.
Whoosh!
A brilliant white radiance poured forth from Jeong Cheon’s white sword.
The sword auras that extended like graceful dancing wrapped around Bu Eunseol from all directions.
Screech!
But as Bu Eunseol rotated the dark sword behind her body and raised its edge, the cascading sword auras scattered in all directions.
With only the flow of energy at the sword’s tip and her stance, she had executed the Heavenly Sect Sword Extreme Form—a technique that disrupted the enemy’s sword technique and inner force.
“A sword extreme form.”
Jeong Cheon, who had chuckled softly, swung the white sword again.
“But such techniques suffer at the initial stage.”
Jeong Cheon, who had easily brushed aside the pressure of the Heavenly Sect Sword Extreme Form, unleashed twenty-five sword auras in one breath.
Glittering white flashes spun in circles, encircling the surroundings, so Bu Eunseol thrust the dark sword forward with all her might.
Flash!
A dazzling radiance poured forth as a mass of light erupting from the dark sword instantly annihilated Jeong Cheon’s sword auras.
She had used Cheon Woon Gwang’s Heavenly Thunder Unmatched Form.
“A formidable killing sword indeed.”
Jeong Cheon smiled faintly, then dragged the white sword down to the ground once more.
“Now, how about we try the real thing?”
He already knew.
That Bu Eunseol was concealing her true strength while deliberately taking a defensive stance, observing his swordsmanship.
“I’ve been wanting to see your swordsmanship as well.”
“Very well.”
A brilliant sword aura poured forth from Bu Eunseol’s dark sword.
She had executed the Formless Heavenly Stream—a technique containing the essence of all the swordsmanship she had mastered thus far.
Whoosh!
The dark sword, drawing in the surrounding air powerfully, extended a single streak of radiance.
Clang!
A bluish flame erupted in the void, and Jeong Cheon’s body was pushed back three zhang.
“It seems like a combination of swift and heavy sword techniques.”
Jeong Cheon’s brief exclamation could not continue.
Tremor.
The tip of the dark sword, rebounding from the void, trembled as a black radiance rose like a whirlwind, enveloping Jeong Cheon’s body.
Whoosh!
Jeong Cheon’s collar was shredded like rags by the wind mixed with black light, and he was driven back three paces once more.
Drip.
This time, crimson blood streamed from Jeong Cheon’s cheek.
Bu Eunseol could have cut his chest and ribs, but instead she aimed for his cheek as if to repay the wound he had inflicted earlier.
“Hehehehe.”
Jeong Cheon let out a low laugh as he gazed at the blood flowing from his cheek.
At the same time, a dark crimson shimmer bloomed in his previously serene eyes.
“I can’t remember the last time this happened.”
Jeong Cheon straightened his posture, slung his longsword over his shoulder, and smiled with his fangs bared.
“Unleashing my swordsmanship with full power!”
With a single battle cry, Jeong Cheon’s form became a crimson cloud that descended upon Bu Eunseol.
Whoooosh!
Sword qi spread out like an open fan, surrounding Bu Eunseol’s body.
The speed was so overwhelming that Bu Eunseol found no opening to evade and began meeting the blades head-on.
Clang clang clang clang!
The silent sword and longsword collided, sending sparks scattering in all directions.
“Hahahaha!”
Jeong Cheon swung his blade rapidly, shaking the very ground.
His usual gentle demeanor had vanished entirely, replaced by a crimson-burning demonic energy wielding the sword like a madman.
‘So fast!’
Bu Eunseol drew upon her full power and unfolded her swordsmanship once more.
Tap tap tap!
The tip of her silent sword struck down precisely at the incoming tip of the longsword, neutralizing the sword momentum.
In that instant, unable to fully dissipate the sword momentum, Bu Eunseol applied a technique from the Hwan Gwi Bon Ju’s methods to counter the sword momentum.
“Got you!”
The moment the silent sword flicked away the sword momentum, Jeong Cheon closed the distance until their faces nearly touched.
Shwish shwish shwish shwish!
Simultaneously, Jeong Cheon’s long blade compressed sharply, unleashing countless sword qi in all directions.
‘Chaotic Sword?’
Now I realized that Jeong Cheon’s true technique was a swordsmanship that sealed both the enemy’s escape routes and attacks at close range—the Chaotic Sword.
‘Completely unexpected swordsmanship!’
Bu Eunseol bit her lip as the sharp Chaotic Sword crashed down like a tidal wave.
Since Jeong Cheon wielded such a lengthy longsword, I had never anticipated he would employ the Chaotic Sword.
Shiver!
Jeong Cheon’s blade condensed further, and the sword momentum accelerated. Now the distance between them had narrowed to less than six paces.
Moreover, Jeong Cheon’s gentle eyes were now burning like smoldering coals.
“Quite the resilience!”
His bloodshot whites and crimson pupils brimming with killing intent gave him the appearance of a wild beast.
Whoosh!
Bu Eunseol’s robes were torn to shreds like rags, and blood splattered across them.
No matter how hard I tried to deploy the Musang Cheonryu, Jeong Cheon’s Nanjeon gave no opening, wrapping around all directions of heaven and earth.
Moreover, his blade seemed intent solely on severing my life, unleashing only cruel killing intent with each strike.
―Don’t worry. I won’t have any more outbursts.
Only then did I finally understand what Jeong Cheon had meant when he spoke those words to Dam Yoo Yeon.
‘He’s detonating his latent killing intent to amplify the power of his Nanjeon.’
Jeong Cheon was wielding a unique Nanjeon that pushed his physical abilities to their absolute limits by channeling killing intent.
And such a technique, if mishandled, could transform one into a madman devoid of reason.
‘Then!’
Biting my lip, I suddenly released the hand gripping my dark blade and closed my eyes.
Clang clang clang!
The dark blade began leaping about frantically, unraveling Jeong Cheon’s killing strikes one by one that had seemed impossible to block. The Neunghyeong Eojeon—a mystical sword technique that responds to killing intent—had been activated.
Crash!
As Jeong Cheon’s Nanjeon, which had been cleaving through my body with unstoppable momentum, was blocked consecutively, even denser killing intent poured from his form.
“You dare block this sect’s Nanjeon!”
Jeong Cheon’s eyes had rolled back white as he swung his blade, killing intent dripping from him.
His face, cloaked in that killing intent, bore no resemblance to his former self.
Clang clang clang clang!
I deployed the Neunghyeong Eojeon with all my strength.
One careless mistake, and this body of flesh and blood would be shattered to pieces by his Nanjeon.
“Khahaha!”
In the meantime, Jeong Cheon’s killing intent amplified further, and his blade strikes accelerated.
Yet with each passing moment, my eyes grew colder and more composed.
The faster Jeong Cheon’s Nanjeon became, the more powerful it grew—I perceived that he could no longer control it properly, and the precision of his strikes was gradually deteriorating.
This insight came from the understanding I had gained facing Ja Mo Chang.
‘At this pace, I can see it.’
As the Nanjeon strikes, which had always contained subtlety, shifted to pure speed, their finesse vanished and the blade path became visible.
Neunghyeong Eojeon.
This technique, which allowed me to endure the attacks of a superior opponent, had created a sliver of opportunity.
‘Now I go!’
Drawing my true power while deploying the Neunghyeong Eojeon, I unleashed the Musang Cheonryu once more.
And I deployed a sword technique I had not yet revealed, with all my strength.
‘Manjeon Gwi Jong—Ten Thousand Swords Return to Origin!’
The fifth form of Musang Cheonryu.
A practical martial technique that mimics the blade strikes of others—I had unleashed Manjeon Gwi Jong.
Whoosh!
Hundreds of sword auras spread from my dark blade, scattering in all directions and colliding with Jeong Cheon’s Nanjeon.

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