The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 340

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Chapter 340.
‘So she truly is injured!’
Dong Yu Gak possessed a naturally suspicious disposition.
Had Bu Eunseol shown even the slightest trace of fabricating her wounds, he would never have revealed himself.
Yet clear blood flowed from the wound near Bu Eunseol’s chest, and her complexion had turned a sickly pallor.
The fatal sword wound was unmistakable, and judging by her ashen face, she had clearly been struck by Bing Han Poong’s Han Bing Thunder Palm.
‘Hehehehe.’
Dong Yu Gak suppressed the urge to dance with joy as he approached Bu Eunseol.
Thud, thud.
As he drew near with measured steps, Bu Eunseol, who had been crouching, forced her eyes open with great effort.
“You.”
Upon seeing Dong Yu Gak’s face, Bu Eunseol gasped in shock and struggled to rise to her feet.
But there was no escape route.
If there were one, she would have to soar up that impossibly distant rocky cliff—unless she could sprout wings and fly into the heavens, there was no way to flee.
“Surrender yourself quietly.”
At Dong Yu Gak’s words,
Shing.
Bu Eunseol drew her sword.
Yet from the blood loss, her gaze had grown dim, and her breathing came in short, labored gasps.
“Did you truly believe you could face the Family Lord in such a state?”
Dong Yu Gak stared intently at Bu Eunseol before suddenly unleashing the Seol Family’s supreme technique—the Snow Yin Palm.
To confirm whether Bu Eunseol’s injuries were genuine, he launched the Snow Yin Palm from a distance without drawing closer.
Whoooosh!
As the palm force, laden with frigid energy that could freeze the very heavens, erupted forth, Bu Eunseol swiftly dodged.
Shiver.
Yet unable to fully escape the palm’s range, her body trembled lightly.
‘It is true!’
Trembling at the frigid energy of the Snow Yin Palm—
Such a physiological response could never be feigned, and it proved she lacked the inner strength to withstand the cold.
“Hahahaha!”
At last, all doubt dispelled, Dong Yu Gak closed the distance and unleashed his full power in a torrent of palm force.
Boom! Booooom!
Evading the relentless Snow Yin Palms, Bu Eunseol struggled to deploy her sword technique.
Her sword strikes were exceptionally sharp, yet unable to channel her inner strength properly, their power fell far short.
‘But this too could be a trap.’
Dong Yu Gak was not only cautious but extraordinarily suspicious.
He judged that Bu Eunseol might possess some hidden, devastating sword strike, and he prepared yet another stratagem.
“Fall!”
At last seizing an opening, Dong Yu Gak launched a tremendous palm strike directly at Bu Eunseol’s crown.
Thwack.
Bu Eunseol swiftly evaded and seized the moment to counterattack,
Whoooosh!
He swelled his palm force enormously with both hands, pressing down upon her head.
Confident that Bu Eunseol suffered grave internal injuries, he sought to neutralize her safely through a contest of inner energy rather than palm techniques.
‘I shall rupture your meridians!’
Dong Yu Gak, wearing a smile of conviction, poured forth his full power in a torrent of inner energy.
Bu Eunseol’s complexion grew even more pallid. As the Extreme Yin True Qi invaded her body, her meridians froze ever deeper.
‘So this is the successor of the Demon Palace. Formidable inner energy indeed.’
Remarkably, even with her meridians frozen solid, she was effortlessly withstanding the three decades of inner power he unleashed.
‘This level of strength while gravely wounded?’
A chill crept through Dong Yu Gak’s chest.
Had she been uninjured, she would be an opponent he could never defeat.
‘Why do they not arrive swiftly?’
Considerable time had passed, yet his subordinates who should have pursued him remained nowhere to be seen.
Moreover, despite her injuries, she tenaciously endured, unleashing three decades of inner power that rivaled his own.
At this rate, even should he subdue her, he would suffer grave internal injuries himself.
‘There is no choice.’
He could not simply wait for his subordinates indefinitely.
Having resolved upon something, Dong Yu Gak activated a particular cultivation method.
Whooom!
His skin gradually shifted to blue across half his body.
The Murim possessed techniques such as Divided Mind Dual Protection, yet no secret art existed that could split an inner energy cultivation method into two simultaneous applications.
But if one possessed a cultivation method capable of wielding both yin and yang true qi?
One could temporarily unleash different true energies simultaneously.
Shiiiiick!
Dong Yu Gak swiftly extended his left palm, where he had secretly gathered his power.
Blue-tinged lightning bolts instantly engulfed Bu Eunseol’s body.
Crackle, crackle, crack.
In that same instant, her body transformed into a solid block of ice.
The Extreme Yin Freezing Art that froze a person whole in a single strike—the Han Bing Thunder Palm, a technique only the Palace Lord of Buk Hae Bing Gung could employ.
“Hehehehe… hahahaha!”
Dong Yu Gak burst into exultant laughter.
With Bu Eunseol captured, the next Palace Lord would surely emerge from the Dong Family.
When that came to pass, the world he had long desired would finally unfold before him.
“I must dispose of her quickly.”
Should the family lords or subordinates who followed discover traces of the Han Bing Thunder Palm?
They would instantly recognize him as the culprit behind Han Ja Wook’s death.
“Farewell.”
Dong Yu Gak gazed upon Bu Eunseol and drew forth the Seol Eum Palm.
He would shatter her frozen body in a single, decisive strike.
“So it was true.”
At that moment, an angry voice echoed down from atop the Rocky Cliff.
“Who goes there!”
Dong Yu Gak, startled, looked up,
and a figure descended slowly through the air.
A middle-aged man in white robes descended leisurely from the void.
It was Bing Han Poong, the Palace Lord of Buk Hae Bing Gung, who should have been bedridden.
“Palace Lord, how is this possible?”
Just as Dong Yu Gak opened his mouth,
four more shadows materialized behind Bing Han Poong.
They were the family heads of the four families of Buk Hae Bing Gung, excluding the Bing Family.
“You as well….”
Dong Yu Gak rubbed his eyes.
This was impossible.
How could the family heads who had been pursuing alongside him already be here, waiting?
“The entire pursuit was a trap from the beginning.”
Han Woo Sang regarded Dong Yu Gak with eyes burning with hatred.
Before him stood Hyung Su, who had not only crippled his own son but had torn Buk Hae Bing Gung asunder for so long.
“Though it appeared you each pursued in different directions, you were actually gathered here all along. We knew you would follow the trail to this place.”
In an instant, Dong Yu Gak’s face hardened.
In other words, both Bing Han Poong’s assassination attempt and Bu Eunseol’s escape were orchestrated.
“Yet I cannot comprehend this.”
Bing Han Poong’s injury was certainly not fabricated.
Moreover, Bu Eunseol, the heir of the Demon Palace, was frozen solid in the Han Bing Wu Lei Chamber, her breath already gone, was she not?
How could such a thing be called a scheme?
“You sacrificed the Demon Palace’s heir just to capture me? Did this Palace wish to invite the Demon Palace’s annihilation?”
As Dong Yu Gak cried out in disbelief, Han Woo Sang’s lips curled into a cold smile.
“Do you truly believe you alone can manipulate the balance of yin and yang in this world?”
The moment those words ended,
a faint crack appeared in the ice enveloping Bu Eunseol’s body,
and with a tremendous explosion, all the solid ice covering her shattered.
White vapor billowed forth from Bu Eunseol’s form.
She was drawing forth intense yang true qi in a single breath, shattering the ice and restoring her frozen meridians.
A brilliant light flashed!
As Bu Eunseol’s eyes opened, the crimson light pooling in her pupils blazed like the sun itself.
“You… you were never injured at all!”
Drawing up an intense heat, it breaks through the ice in one breath and restores the frozen blood vessels.
Flash!
When Bu Eunseol opened her eyes again, the crimson light that gathered in her pupils blazed like the sun.
“Yes, you! So you weren’t injured in the first place!”
At Dong Yu Gak’s outcry, Bu Eunseol shook her head.
“Did you not witness it yourself?”
“Do not lie! Then how is this possible!”
Rather than answer, Bu Eunseol raised both hands.
Sizzzzz!
From her left hand erupted scorching Yang True Qi,
Whoooosh!
While her right hand manifested Han Bing True Qi.
The Opposing Extremes Heart Method was the supreme technique of nature itself, encompassing both yin and yang energies.
Once I mastered the Bing Palace techniques transmitted by Bing Han Poong, I could perfectly separate and deploy the glacial extreme yin true qi and the opposing extremes true qi.
“With one flame still burning within, I can instantly melt the Han Bing True Qi and rapidly recover even from severe internal injuries.”
This was why I learned the martial arts of Buk Hae Bing Gung, and it was the second trap I had set to capture him.
“Dong Yu Gak!”
Before Bu Eunseol could finish, Han Woo Sang stepped forward and spoke in a voice tinged with blood.
“Though the six families of the Northern Sea are not always harmonious, we have united our strength across generations. How could you commit such a cruel act!”
“Cruel?”
From Dong Yu Gak’s eyes blazed a crimson resentment.
“Nonsense! I should have become Palace Lord long ago! Was it not merely Bing Han Poong’s fortune that made him Palace Lord!”
“What did you say?”
“And when your son dared to claim the position of next Palace Lord, I had no choice but to cripple him.”
“Dong Yu Gak. Have you lost your mind?”
“Lost my mind?”
Dong Yu Gak cried out with a bitter expression.
“Bing Han Poong took advantage of the moment when I shattered the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace’s first vanguard, and he severed the Palace Lord’s head. And through that merit, he became Palace Lord.”
At that time, Buk Hae Bing Gung was engaged in a total war for survival against the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace.
And all the family heads of the six families who would become the next Palace Lord achieved tremendous merit.
In particular, Bing Han Poong of the Bing Family took the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace Lord’s head, while Dong Yu Gak of the Dong Family shattered the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace’s first vanguard, creating the foundation for a great victory.
Bing Han Poong and Dong Yu Gak.
Both had achieved great merit, yet the Palace Lord position naturally fell to Bing Han Poong.
Because he had fought the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace Lord in single combat and severed his head.
Moreover, to treat Bing Han Poong’s severe internal injuries, the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Essence was required. In other words, his becoming Palace Lord was like destiny itself.
“They gave the Palace Lord position to one who suffered injuries!”
Dong Yu Gak trembled as he shouted.
“How could such a thing be permitted!”
“Was that not the obvious choice?”
Unable to bear it any longer, Seol Se Geuk, the family head of the Seol Family, cried out.
“Family Head Dong. Did you alone shatter the first vanguard? Was it not possible only because our Seol Family guarded your rear?”
“So what?”
“So what? The Bing Palace Lord fought the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace Lord in single combat and took his head, did he not?”
“Nonsense!”
Dong Yu Gak cried out, his voice trembling with rage.
“It was I, and the Dong Family alone, who annihilated the first division of the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace! That is why this Palace could claim victory! I have achieved the greater merit!”
He pointed his finger at Bing Han Poong.
“But that cunning wretch Bing Han Poong—he severed the head of the Northern Heavenly Demon Palace Lord while I was sweeping away the first division!”
As they watched Dong Yu Gak thrash about in desperation, the five Family Lords shook their heads in bewilderment.
Dong Yu Gak.
He had harbored such resentment for so long that he was now distorting even the memories of the past to suit his delusions.
“Lord Dong. It is time to release that grudge.”
Bing Han Poong spoke in a melancholy voice.
“Is it not all finished now?”
“Hehehehe. Finished, you say?”
But instead of bowing his head in anguish as they expected, Dong Yu Gak suddenly broke into a sinister smile.
“Bing Han Poong, did I appear so careless to you?”
“….”
“Did you truly believe that capturing me alone would unravel this elaborate scheme?”
He suddenly withdrew a signal flare from his robes.
Shriek!
As the flare painted the white sky crimson, the assembled cultivators felt a chill of foreboding.
“External forces have already infiltrated deep within the Main House, positioned long ago.”
“What?”
As Han Woo Sang’s brow furrowed, Dong Yu Gak’s sinister smile widened.
“If we seize only the young lords of the Five Families, would they not make suitable hostages?”
The Family Lords’ eyes widened simultaneously.
They themselves had grown old. The future of Buk Hae Bing Gung now rested upon the young lords of each Family.
But if external forces took the young lords of the Five Families as hostages?
Even if they possessed the martial power to annihilate such forces, they could never resist.
“Dong Yu Gak! Do you not feel shame as a Family of the Northern Sea?”
At the cry of the Baek Family Lord, Dong Yu Gak chuckled softly.
“Baek Jin Yu. Do you possess the right to speak such words?”
“What?”
“You, who exploited a despondent Palace Lord and have prospered until now, and who made contact with external forces of Sae Oe, seeking to devour this Palace? You dare invoke the honor of the Northern Sea?”
In that instant, Baek Jin Yu’s face flushed crimson.
“Speak no lies! Do you have proof?”
“Hmph. This Palace will soon be mine regardless.”
He gazed at Bing Han Poong as he spoke.
“Bing Han Poong. If you surrender the Eternal Ice Seal now without resistance, I will spare the young lords.”
“There is no need to heed his words.”
It was then that Bu Eunseol stepped forward calmly.
“That place will be fine.”
“How so?”
“I had the young lords of the Seol Family evacuated to Bing Jeong Gak in case something like this happened, and I’ve arranged for their protection.”
Dong Yu Gak had been orchestrating the collapse of Buk Hae Bing Gung for a long time, so he must have planted internal forces ready to respond.
The forces of the Eight Emperors and Three Stars were also positioned inside, and it was certain they would seize the young lords of the Five Families as hostages.
“Then…”
“With Yu Woon Ryong and her here, we should be able to hold out for some time.”
With those words, Bu Eunseol unleashed the Extreme Speed Shadowless Movement in one fluid motion.
Whoosh!
Her form traced a sacred arc across the distant sky before vanishing,
“Let’s go!”
Bing Han Poong likewise launched himself into the air, pursuing Bu Eunseol.
Crack!
The two of them unfolded their movement techniques in unison, flying toward the direction where Buk Hae Bing Gung lay.
Whoooosh!
What Bing Han Poong had deployed was Buk Hae Bing Gung’s supreme movement art—the Glacial Lightning Shadow.
Yet even so, he could not catch up to Bu Eunseol’s form shooting forward.
“Let’s go!”
Unable to catch up, Bing Han Poong cried out, and Bu Eunseol glanced back over her shoulder.
“Palace Lord, you must quickly join the family heads and command the troops to repel the forces that have entered the palace. There is no need for you to follow me!”
“Understood!”
Boom!
In the meantime, Bu Eunseol had arrived at the interior of Buk Hae Bing Gung.
Clang! Clang!
As expected, the gates of Buk Hae Bing Gung stood wide open, and martial artists clad in gleaming crimson robes were pouring in rapidly.
The forces hidden within the Dong Family had opened the gates in coordination with the outside forces.
However, the number of martial artists entering was merely a thousand. In truth, compared to Buk Hae Bing Gung’s military strength, it was a negligible force.
But their martial prowess was exceptional, and with the Dong Family’s troops responding from within, the masters of the remaining Five Families were thrown into disarray.
“All Five Families except the Dong Family, listen!”
Bing Han Poong, who had entered in Bu Eunseol’s wake, called out loudly.
“The Eom Family and Seol Family, block the forces entering the palace! And the remaining three families, suppress the Dong Family’s troops who have betrayed this palace by colluding with outside forces!”
As the Palace Lord’s solemn command fell, the disciples of Buk Hae Bing Gung finally moved in perfect unison.
Especially once it became clear that the enemies wreaking havoc within were from the Dong Family, the troops of the remaining families moved with organization, subduing them systematically.
“Yu Woon Ryong!”
Bu Eunseol spotted Yu Woon Ryong and So Ok Rim locked in fierce combat before Bing Jeong Gak, where the Palace Lord resided.
In truth, it was Yu Woon Ryong who had sensed the signs of rebellion first.
While Bu Eunseol handled various matters, he had continuously monitored the Dong Family’s movements and gathered intelligence from many disciples.
And having already ascertained that the Dong Family was assembling outside forces within Buk Hae Bing Gung, he had informed Bu Eunseol of this.
“Bu Eunseol! We must deal with these people first!”
Yu Woon Ryong pointed to the martial artists pressing toward Bing Jeong Gak.
“Make way!”
Hearing those words, Bu Eunseol drew her blade and leaped into the center of two hundred martial artists.
Clang!
Yet when the dark blade touched their bodies, a dull sound rang out alongside a burst of sparks.
It turned out they wore a peculiar armor beneath their garments—armor capable of withstanding divine blades.
‘They equipped so many soldiers with armor that can block divine blades?’
Bu Eunseol’s eyebrows shot upward.
The martial artists who had flooded into Bing Jeong Gak numbered well over two hundred.
Not only were they all exceptionally skilled, but every one of them wore this peculiar armor across their entire bodies.
‘So that’s why we’ve been struggling.’
So Ok Rim and Yu Woon Ryong could easily repel five hundred soldiers, let alone two hundred.
But when martial artists clad in armor that rendered weapons useless deployed their unique tactics, even they found themselves pressed.
“Impossible!”
As their assault intensified, Yu Woon Ryong altered his technique with the Ten-Segment Staff.
Whoosh!
The whip-like Ten-Segment Staff writhed through the gaps in their armor, striking vital points with precision.
“Damn! These bastards are infuriating!”
So Ok Rim likewise shifted her approach, deploying the Shattering Mountain Palm technique against the armored warriors.
Boom! Boom!
With each bizarre tremor, her fist force pierced through the armor and struck directly at their internal organs.
―Deploy the Severing Force Repelling Turtle Formation!
As Yu Woon Ryong and So Ok Rim’s techniques grew more intricate, the warriors huddled their bodies close together.
With their inner energy elevated, they began advancing toward Bing Jeong Gak step by step, deflecting the relentless barrage of attacks.
Their formation resembled an enormous tortoise moving with deliberate slowness.
“Damn! They’re pulling out all the stops!”
So Ok Rim unleashed her fist technique, but whether due to the formation’s influence
or because they had mastered martial arts like Iron Skin Technique, her attacks no longer penetrated.
“Fine!”
Enraged, she stretched both arms toward heaven and earth, drawing upon her inner reserves.
She unleashed the most devastating extinction technique in Tianxia—the Dual Severance Galaxy Palm.
Boom!
As the colossal fist force finally struck them, the armor that had withstood divine blades shattered into fragments.
Twenty martial artists advancing ahead scattered as debris in all directions.
“That’s all?”
Witnessing this, So Ok Rim’s eyes widened.
With the Dual Severance Galaxy Palm—said to reduce even mountains to dust—she had eliminated merely twenty opponents?
Yet she had overlooked something: the enemies’ martial prowess was far from negligible.
Moreover, they wore armor, had mastered external defensive techniques, and deployed a bizarre formation that repelled force.
That she had obliterated twenty warriors despite all this meant her fist technique had truly reached the pinnacle of Murim.
Step. Step.
Even after Yu Woon Ryong and So Ok Rim unleashed successive palm strikes, the warriors advanced like tortoises, one deliberate step at a time.
“Damn!”
Both the Dual Extremes Eun Ha Style and Yu Woon Ryong’s Ten Severing Cudgel Method consumed vast reserves of martial power.
If they charged forward with the resolve to sacrifice their lives, they could eventually breach Bing Jeong Gak.
Thud.
At that moment, Bu Eunseol positioned herself before the martial artists rushing toward Bing Jeong Gak.
As she drew her power upward with fierce intensity, her hair began to turn white.
Crackle.
Simultaneously, Bu Eunseol’s entire body became engulfed in a white, frigid aura.
She had unleashed the supreme martial art of Bing Ha Dae Je—the Glacial Heavenly Flow Scripture.

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