The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 24

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Chapter 24
“Hoo.”
The first group to arrive consisted entirely of youths wielding broad swords.
Afterward, groups carrying an assortment of weapons arrived in succession.
‘So it was him.’
Bu Eunseol’s eyes narrowed as she observed the factions scattered in all directions.
At first glance, one might mistake him for a demure girl—his features were that delicate and refined.
Yet his physique was as taut as twisted steel, and his expression remained utterly serene, betraying not a shred of concern.
It was the very boy who had visited Bu Eunseol’s cave and proposed forming an organization.
‘He believes I won’t recognize him.’
The profession of a poison master demands one observe the body more keenly than the face.
No matter how thoroughly the Masked Assassin concealed himself beneath a mask and oversized robes, Bu Eunseol had memorized his physique as if seeing through the fabric itself.
And among the gathered youths, this fair-faced boy matched perfectly with the frame she had committed to memory.
“Does rice cook itself simply because one gazes at it?”
A boy bearing a long blade among the group spoke with irritation.
“Rather than eyeing each other like this, why don’t we kill those two first?”
“Agreed.”
As one of the group nodded in assent,
“That one is Bu Eunseol.”
A boy suddenly wearing an iron sword pointed at Bu Eunseol and shouted.
“She’s mastered the Beast Blade of Nangya Sect. Quite formidable.”
Then a girl wielding the White Horse Whip let out a soft chuckle as she pointed at Seo Jin Ha.
“My, it seems those two have already formed an organization?”
A crescent-eyed boy standing empty-handed then pointed at Seo Jin Ha.
“That one is Seo Jin Ha. Don’t underestimate him. His swordsmanship is considerable, and he’s even conducted background investigations on the trainees beforehand.”
The groups possessed detailed knowledge of Seo Jin Ha’s background as well.
“With those two joining forces, this hunt will prove quite challenging.”
At that moment, a boy with abnormally developed forearms flexed his fists.
“Why waste time on such talk? Why not attack simultaneously instead?”
Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha naturally lowered their stances, their backs pressed together.
No matter how formidable the two of them were, facing twenty masters at once would be difficult.
“….”
“…!”
Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha locked eyes simultaneously.
As their gazes met, they seemed to share an understanding, nodding lightly in unison.
“Intoxicating Powder!”
Suddenly Seo Jin Ha bellowed, scattering fine powder from a leather pouch in all directions as he charged forward.
“The Intoxicating Powder of Hell Blood Sect?”
The groups, their faces drained of color, covered their mouths in alarm.
Hell Blood Sect’s Intoxicating Powder was a rare toxin that rendered one utterly intoxicated from merely a single dose.
Tap-tap-tap.
In that moment, Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha slipped free from the forest.
But a girl staring at the powder scattered across the ground cried out.
“This isn’t Spirit Seizing Powder—it’s the antidote to Galmmi Poison!”
At her cry, the others’ faces twisted in disbelief.
“Damn it! Where did that leather pouch come from? We’ve been completely duped!”
“Catch them, quickly!”
The organization members swiftly gave chase after Bu Eunseol.
Meanwhile, Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha, having escaped the forest, ran toward a single destination as if bound by an unspoken pact.
That destination was none other than Stone Mountain, where the trainees made their dwellings.
By entering a narrow cave, they could prevent their pursuers from launching a coordinated assault.
‘But…’
Seo Jin Ha bit his lip.
Most caves had wide entrances with spacious interiors—hardly ideal for holding back a multitude of enemies.
‘I need to find the right cave and enter it immediately.’
The one thing Seo Jin Ha had deliberately avoided observing was the trainees’ quarters.
Had he scrutinized such a place too carefully, he might have been marked as suspicious from the very beginning.
“I know the way.”
Bu Eunseol, reading Seo Jin Ha’s thoughts, spoke up.
“My cave has a narrow entrance, and there’s a long passage deeper inside. That place will do.”
Bu Eunseol’s cave was a natural fortress that multiple enemies could not easily penetrate.
“Your lightness skill is pathetic!”
A boy who had suddenly appeared behind them, riding a gale wind, pressed close on Seo Jin Ha’s heels.
“Did you want to show off your martial prowess?”
In that instant, Seo Jin Ha spun his body and unleashed a brilliant flash of light.
Flash!
Blood erupted from the boy’s neck alongside the radiant brilliance.
‘The Fire Rain Wall Thunder Sword.’
Like Bu Eunseol, Seo Jin Ha had also adapted the Fire Rain Wall Thunder Sword into a combat variation.
Whoosh!
A streak of light suddenly shot toward Seo Jin Ha’s back.
‘A projectile that travels such a distance?’
Seo Jin Ha’s eyes widened in alarm, but it was already too late to evade the projectile launched from behind.
Clang!
Before the projectile could pierce his back, a loud metallic ring echoed out.
Bu Eunseol, moving with lightning speed, had deflected the projectile with her black blade.
“Don’t lower your guard just because you’ve killed an enemy.”
“Right.”
Seo Jin Ha, having nothing to say, nodded and resumed running.
Whoooosh.
By the time Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha arrived near Stone Mountain side by side,
a sudden wind swept down from the distant sky, and the surroundings grew dim as if twilight had fallen.
‘Surely not!’
In that instant, Bu Eunseol felt an overwhelmingly unpleasant premonition wash over her.
And indeed,
Hiiiiiii!
An eerie sound began to reverberate across all directions.
Stone Mountain itself had become a restricted zone.
“Damn it! The moment we fled this way, they immediately established a restricted zone!”
Seo Jin Ha stopped running, his expression one of utter dismay.
Shhhhhhh.
At that moment, a heat shimmer rose from the ground before Stone Mountain in the distance, and several shadows began to materialize one by one.
They were Killing Ghosts clad in gray assassin’s garb.
“Damn it!”
Seo Jin Ha, who had stopped in his tracks, cried out in exasperation.
Stone Mountain loomed directly before them, yet they could not enter!
“If we must fight anyway, it is not entirely unfavorable.”
“What?”
At that moment, Bu Eunseol’s eyes gleamed as she spoke.
“The Killing Ghosts cannot move beyond their designated territory. In other words, where they stand is the boundary line.”
Seo Jin Ha’s pupils dilated in an instant.
Where the Killing Ghosts stood was the restricted zone.
In other words, if they positioned themselves with their backs to that line, it would be as if they stood in a cave with no exit behind them.
“But since we cannot defeat them individually… it makes no difference in the end.”
To Seo Jin Ha’s words, Bu Eunseol replied calmly.
“We won’t know who is stronger until we test it.”
Whoosh. Swish.
In that interval, the Organization members pursuing Bu Eunseol arrived in succession.
“They’re proving more troublesome than expected.”
One of the youths who arrived first glanced at the Killing Ghosts behind them, a cruel smile playing at his lips.
“Now there’s nowhere left to run. Hehehehe.”
Then the broad-shouldered youth spoke loudly.
“No point wasting time—let’s strike all at once!”
Clang, screech.
Simultaneously, Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha drew their black and iron blades.
With the Killing Ghosts at their backs, they prepared to collide with their enemies at full strength.
‘At last, the final act arrives.’
Feeling the end draw near at last, Bu Eunseol’s eyes flashed with crimson light as she spoke.
“Come.”
A battle of nineteen against two.
It was a brutal blood battle so fierce that one could not bear to watch with open eyes, each moment a fleeting instant that separated life from death.
Whoosh.
As the Hell Blood Sect’s poison techniques and dark energy flew toward the face, a technique that could split mountains crashed down from behind—the Blood Flame Sect’s devastating art.
Desperately evading and blocking the attacks, the Flame Sword came, and between those moments, the White Horse Whip and the Demonic Spirit Spear cut through the air.
Thud, thud, thud.
From Bu Eunseol and Seo Jin Ha’s bodies, covered in countless large and small wounds, crimson blood flowed without ceasing.
“Damn it.”
Seo Jin Ha, holding his sword vertically at the center, gasped for breath.
Some among the Organization weren’t even attacking aggressively. They moved as if leisurely preparing a meal.
“Am I going to die here?”
With a spitting sound, Seo Jin Ha expelled the blood pooling at the corners of his mouth and bared his teeth.
“Either way, I have no regrets. I’ve poured everything I had into this.”
‘No regrets?’
Bu Eunseol slowly gazed down at her own two arms.
There, she could almost see the warm touch of her grandfather, Bu Chanyang’s hands. But in the next instant, those arms transformed into two arms severed in a horrific manner.
“I cannot….”
From Bu Eunseol’s eyes, gripping the black sword, a volcanic inferno of flames erupted.
“I cannot die in a place like this!”
Whoosh. Crack!
At that moment, the Blood Flame Sect’s technique and the White Horse Whip flew toward Bu Eunseol from both sides.
The two attacks possessed such exquisite speed and coordination that even the reflexes of a beast-path warrior could not possibly evade them.
‘This cannot happen!’
In that instant, a light that seemed to devour everything poured forth from Bu Eunseol’s pupils.
Flash!
Simultaneously, black lightning flickered from the black sword, and fountains of blood sprayed from the necks of the two people on either side.
“Ahhhhh!”
The screams of the two youths meeting sudden death were so harrowing that they chilled the very marrow.
It was the reappearance of Cheon Woon Gwang’s killing sword technique, the Unparalleled Thunder Strike—a technique said to rival the Flame Sword itself.
“That bastard!”
“What kind of sword technique is that!”
“Kill that one first, quickly!”
Along with voices filled with shock and fury, three members of the Organization suddenly burst forward to attack Bu Eunseol.
“Leave this to us!”
They were the most skilled in coordinated combat among all the Organization’s members.
Crash! Screech! Whoosh!
The Flame Sword, the Blood Flame Sect’s technique, and the Demonic Spirit Spear poured down with the momentum of a thousand thunderbolts.
A fan-shaped barrier of light sealed off all directions before Bu Eunseol—front and both sides. They displayed exquisite coordination as if they had trained together for decades.
“…!”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes widened like a child seeing something new.
In truth, she had never learned the strength or martial techniques necessary to withstand such coordinated attacks.
Whoosh.
Just as the three weapons transformed into the Reaper’s claws and reached for my throat,
Shhhhk.
The black blade in my hand began moving of its own accord.
Faced with death, the beast’s instinct and a surfacing memory drew me to another realm entirely.
―Have you not already mastered this old master’s swordsmanship?
Back then, I had endured relentless strikes from a single technique for fifteen days without rest.
The practical combat swordsmanship of Sa Woo, the secret pavilion master of Nangya Sect and one who had reached the pinnacle of martial mastery.
Clang, ring! Crash!
Clear metallic notes rang out as my black blade struck the tips of the three incoming weapons.
Sa Woo’s practical combat swordsmanship was being recreated through my hands.
“….”
As my swordplay erupted, the three youths who had launched the attack wore expressions as if caught in a nightmare.
It was a transcendent technique—a swordsmanship that could not be blocked no matter how much power they poured forth, no matter what martial arts they had learned.
Swish, thud.
Not even a scream.
The three attackers collapsed to the ground like snowmen melting away.
“Bu Eunseol!”
At that moment, Seo Jin Ha’s shout pierced the air.
A youth had crept close and struck my chest with a vicious blow.
“Ugh.”
I instinctively raised my black blade into a defensive stance.
Crash!
But the black blade shattered like glass upon contact,
Boom!
With a thunderous explosion, I was sent flying backward like a cannonball.
Thump, thump.
Collapsed on the ground with blood trickling from my lips, I slowly pushed myself upright.
All my strength had drained away, my very soul seeming to dissolve. My vision blurred, yet I rose again like a roly-poly doll.
“Bu Eunseol! Run! Now!”
Seo Jin Ha cried out urgently, watching my struggle.
“The Killing Ghosts are right behind you!”
Knocked backward by that punch, I had collapsed directly beneath where the Killing Ghosts stood.
Flash!
In an instant, a piercing light exploded from the Killing Ghosts’ eyes.
No matter how gravely wounded a trespasser was, there were no exceptions within the restricted zone.
Thump, thump.
The Killing Ghost approached slowly, extending its sharp claws toward me.
Zing!
Then, a massive gong sound shook Hell Island itself.
At the same moment, a cry like the roar of a lion shook the heavens.
“S-t-o-p!”
As the earth-shattering command reverberated through the air, Sal Gwi’s hand, which had been cleaving through the atmosphere, froze mid-strike.
A thin trickle of blood began to flow.
From Bu Eunseol’s neck, crimson rivulets streamed downward.
Though his hand had not made contact, the razor-sharp aura had already lacerated her skin.
A silence as profound as death descended upon the void.
A blur of movement.
A shadow descended the slopes of Stone Mountain, unfolding a graceful movement technique as fluid as a bird recoiling and taking flight.
“That is enough!”
It was none other than the Sect Leader, Hyuk Ryeon Eung.

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