The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 349

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Chapter 349.
“Damn it.”
So Ok Rim’s eyes remained hazy, and a faint trace of blood lingered at the corner of her mouth.
“Even after striking my face like that, I couldn’t completely shatter the Heart Sealing Technique.”
She had inflicted pain upon herself to regain consciousness, yet her body remained trapped within the grip of the Heart Sealing Technique.
This was why she couldn’t properly channel her martial power.
“Ptui.”
So Ok Rim spat out a blood clot the size of a pebble.
“Get lost.”
Sa Ok Cheong unfolded the Yin-Yang Binding Technique once more.
Boom, boom!
With another deafening crash, So Ok Rim’s body was forced backward six full steps.
“You get lost!”
So Ok Rim unleashed the Dual Eun Ha Technique with every ounce of remaining power.
“Ugh.”
But the martial force wouldn’t flow.
Ultimately, the Dual Eun Ha Technique was cut short, and only a fierce wind erupted, pushing Sa Ok Cheong back dozens of paces.
Whoosh.
In that instant, Bu Eunseol pressed the Shengyin acupoint again, restoring her vision.
“Why did you interfere?”
She spoke as if unable to comprehend.
“That wasn’t an attack I couldn’t block.”
“You could have blocked it, sure.”
So Ok Rim let out a scoff.
“But you would have sustained injuries in the process. If that had happened, you’d have fought that perverted old man at less than full strength.”
So Ok Rim had intercepted the Yin-Yang Binding Technique so that Bu Eunseol could face the battle with an intact body.
“There’s no need to be overly moved.”
So Ok Rim wiped the blood from her mouth with the back of her hand, gritting her teeth.
“I yielded the fight because you seemed more capable of properly handling that bastard than I am.”
Thump.
Before she could finish speaking, So Ok Rim simply collapsed where she stood.
“Can you… defeat that perverted old man?”
“Of course.”
“Good.”
And she gazed at Bu Eunseol with infinite trust shining in her eyes.
“I believe in you.”
So Ok Rim had come to believe as well.
No matter how dire the circumstances, no matter what trials lay ahead—Bu Eunseol would shatter them all.
And because she believed this, she could surrender to unconsciousness with peace of mind.
“After this is over, I’ll need to enter seclusion. These creatures consistently shatter the spirit…”
As So Ok Rim, who had been murmuring softly, lost consciousness,
A deep hum resonated.
A faint glow and a wave of inner force emanated from her body.
Her body had begun circulating energy on its own to heal her injuries.
The martial arts of Seong Hwang.
The heart method created by the mysterious grand master who dominated the Murim four hundred years ago transcended the realm of martial arts consciousness, and even in a state of lost awareness,
it possessed the function of generating inner force independently and deploying the technique of internal healing.
“Lucky to have survived.”
Sa Ok Cheong, who had been watching Bu Eunseol, curved his lips upward.
“Now, how shall I kill her next?”
He wore a delighted smile.
Bu Eunseol was already under the influence of the soul-stealing technique.
Even in a direct clash of inner force, he could win, and even in close combat, she would ultimately be unable to defend.
But Sa Ok Cheong chose the safer method.
He recalled that Bu Eunseol was one of the Four Gods Seven Kings, and had remained undefeated all this time.
“Safety is always best.”
A sharp resonance rang out.
Spheres of light erupted from both his palms.
He had condensed the hand force created through the Yin-Yang Heart Method into spherical energy orbs.
“Energy orbs created through the Yin-Yang Heart Method will be completely different from sword orbs. Rather than piercing the body upon contact, the flesh itself will explode.”
With a smile, Sa Ok Cheong deployed a cloud-like movement technique and circled around Bu Eunseol’s body in spiraling patterns.
Then he unleashed a barrage of hand force at her.
Clang! Clang!
Bu Eunseol, utilizing the subtleties of the Two Heavens Reversal Force, deflected the incoming energy orbs with her silent sword.
But she could not fully withstand the overwhelming force contained within them.
Blood trickled down.
Fresh blood was streaming from the corner of Bu Eunseol’s mouth.
Her inner force had been reduced by over eighty percent due to Sa Ok Cheong’s soul-stealing technique. No matter how much she drew upon her power, only about one cycle’s worth of true energy remained in her body.
Boom! Boom!
Each time the silent sword clashed with the energy orbs, deafening explosions erupted.
Even if she had not been afflicted by the soul-stealing technique, even if her body were in perfect condition—Sa Ok Cheong was a master she could not easily contend with.
Yet in such a disadvantageous situation, as he unleashed a torrent of energy orbs and suppressed her with overwhelming force, she had no choice but to endure helplessly.
“If I take your head, I won’t need to resort to blood drinking anymore!”
An absurd statement.
Where exactly did he intend to take the head that would eliminate the need for blood drinking?
But Bu Eunseol was fully committed to her sword technique, leaving her no time to discern or contemplate his meaning.
A sharp whistle cut through the air.
Finally, an energy orb grazed near Bu Eunseol’s neck.
Though she defended perfectly, her dulled body responded half a beat too late, and her sword form unfolded tardily.
An explosion erupted.
The skin around her neck suddenly burst open, and blood gushed forth.
Fortunately, it wasn’t near the carotid artery, but blood continued to flow relentlessly.
Thud!
Bu Eunseol immediately sealed the Blood Sealing Point on her neck.
Yet even after sealing the point, the bleeding didn’t stop completely.
If the battle continued, Bu Eunseol would eventually bleed out and perish.
“Hahaha!”
Sa Ok Cheong, pausing his assault momentarily, burst into laughter and spoke.
“I can see your death approaching.”
Drip, drip.
Bu Eunseol’s eyes darkened as she watched the blood trickling from her neck.
Just as Sa Ok Cheong said, she had drawn one step closer to death.
‘Death itself.’
At the thought of that word, the Demonic Path technique of Chil Ji Ma Do Bu Chanyang came to mind—Blood Sealing Seven Forms.
A technique imbued with the despair and sorrow of an absolute being, one who had always survived by the skin of his teeth, yet ultimately yearned for death itself.
Evil.
Then, the cold river force of the Yin-Cold Water Technique grazed Bu Eunseol’s cheek once more.
As the frigid water force carrying the essence of yin-cold touched her skin, a flash of insight pierced through her mind.
‘I had forgotten.’
Another weapon she had possessed all along but overlooked.
The Northern Sea’s supreme ice technique—Eternal Glacier Torrent.
Not only could it freeze all enemies who stood against it, but it could also solidify her own body—a harmonious ice technique of both offense and defense.
‘If I use Eternal Glacier Torrent, could I not unleash the Second Form of Blood Sealing Seven Forms?’
—Second Form: Seeking Life Within Death.
From a situation where death was inevitable, she had found a single thread of survival.
Blood Sealing Seven Forms.
It was not merely a technique, but one that required mastering the heart method suited to each circumstance to achieve perfect completion.
Having reached the brink of death and finally found that thread of survival, Bu Eunseol had grasped the subtle method to unfold the Second Form of Blood Sealing Seven Forms.
‘Only one chance.’
A piercing chill blazed forth from Bu Eunseol’s eyes.
Simultaneously, she lunged directly toward Sa Ok Cheong, who was unleashing hundreds of water force strands.
“Hahaha! So the only answer you could devise is mutual destruction?”
Sa Ok Cheong smiled coldly as Bu Eunseol recklessly threw caution aside and charged forward.
“Now, die.”
As Bu Eunseol closed to point-blank range, Sa Ok Cheong raised both arms.
Screech!
Instantly, a net-like torrent of water force poured from both sides, engulfing Bu Eunseol’s body.
Not merely grazing strikes, but extended water force meant to slice her into hundreds of pieces.
Whoosh!
In that instant, an intense chill erupted from Bu Eunseol’s left hand.
Glacial Heavenly Current Technique.
The supreme secret art of Buk Hae Bing Gung, capable of freezing even the heavens when cultivated to its extreme, poured forth from Sa Ok Cheong’s body.
Thud.
Though it was frigid energy unleashed from a full decade of cultivation, the icy true qi froze Sa Ok Cheong’s movements in an instant.
In that same breath, the razor-sharp water force that had been coiling around Bu Eunseol’s body halted momentarily in the void.
That instant was but a fleeting moment, yet to Bu Eunseol’s eyes, it stretched like an eternity—vast and immeasurable.
Flash!
At that very instant, the Silent Sword in my grip erupted with obsidian radiance, and my body became a streak of light that engulfed Sa Ok Cheong’s form.
“Impossible!”
Greatly alarmed, Sa Ok Cheong bellowed and retreated, evading the black radiance.
Yet the black radiance Bu Eunseol unleashed had been waiting all along for him to retreat, its dark maw gaping wide.
Blood Sealing Seven Forms, Second Stroke, Four-Layered Bow.
This blade technique does not cut with sword force, but rather pierces the enemy’s vulnerabilities at close range as if in mutual destruction.
To evade it, in the moment the enemy retreats backward—
Tens of millions of blade qi pour forth in the wake, annihilating the very space of retreat itself.
“Ugh.”
With a strangled gasp, Sa Ok Cheong’s eyes dimmed.
Though his body appeared intact, dozens of razor-sharp blade forces had pierced through him completely.
“A self-destructive blade art that kills the caster if the enemy does not retreat… a Technique of Mutual Annihilation….”
Sa Ok Cheong had instantly grasped both that Bu Eunseol’s unfolded blade technique was actually a sword art, and its profound essence.
If the enemy did not retreat, all the blade techniques unleashed would rebound upon the caster, bringing death—a destructive art of mutual ruin.
“There is only one such mad blade art in this world.”
He muttered in a voice mixed with turbid breath.
“You were a disciple of Chil Ji Ma Do!”
Remarkably, Sa Ok Cheong had pierced through the truth—that the blade technique Bu Eunseol unfolded with the Silent Sword was the Absolute Blade Form of Chil Ji Ma Do.
“Since he raised you… you could only be this formidable.”
“Do you know of Chil Ji Ma Do?”
“Know of him? Hehehehe!”
To Bu Eunseol’s question, Sa Ok Cheong burst into laughter and spoke nonsense.
“I never believed the rumors of his death from the start. So he was secretly raising a disciple after all!”
Malevolent light gleamed in Sa Ok Cheong’s eyes as he glared at Bu Eunseol.
“But no matter how hard you try, you will never find that child.”
“Child?”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes flashed.
“What child are you speaking of?”
“Hahahaha!”
Sa Ok Cheong’s shrill voice, blood trickling from the corner of his mouth, echoed across the night sky.
“I handed that child directly to their hands! Hahahaha!”
Had death robbed him of his senses?
He laughed like a madman, uttering incomprehensible words.
“You will face the same fate regardless!”
“Sa Ok Cheong!”
Bu Eunseol swiftly deployed her divine technique and struck at Sa Ok Cheong’s vital points.
If he died like this, I would lose a crucial clue in an instant.
Thud, thud!
Yet even as the wind technique struck him, his vital points remained unsealed.
His meridians and internal organs were completely severed by the initial strike of the Four-Layered Nine-Revolutions technique.
From the moment he was exposed to the Blade of the Seven Blood Seals, his body had been shattered beyond any possibility of recovery.
A hollow sound.
Bu Eunseol had no choice but to inject counter-extreme true energy into Sa Ok Cheong’s life gate.
Yet his body was so devastated that even true energy could not be infused into it.
“If I kill you… I could return there… again.”
As Sa Ok Cheong murmured softly, Bu Eunseol asked.
“Return where?”
“Nothingness…”
Sa Ok Cheong stretched his right hand toward the distant sky with dimming eyes,
“Infinity…”
Then his arm fell, and he breathed his last.
Born as a yin-yang person—a fate that could be called a heavenly curse—the Phantom King Sa Ok Cheong, who had dominated an era with his formidable mystical arts and martial prowess, had exhaled his final breath in this nameless forest.
That extraordinary master had breathed his last in this obscure woodland.
“Mu Goong?”
Bu Eunseol narrowed her eyes.
Mu Goong. It meant infinity—without end. Could that be the name of the faction he belonged to?
―No matter how hard you try, you will never find that child. I placed her directly into their hands!
But more than the name Mu Goong, Sa Ok Cheong’s cryptic words echoed ceaselessly through my mind.
Those words clearly meant that Chil Ji Ma Do Bu Janyeong had a successor.
‘Chil Ji Ma Do was my grandfather, was he not?’
Grandfather Bu Chanyang was a disciple of Shaolin. Even if he had left the monastic life, he could not have been unaware that he had a child.
And had he not stated firmly with his own mouth that he had never married?
Yet if he had a successor, it meant one of two things.
Either grandfather had a successor he himself did not know of, or Chil Ji Ma Do Bu Janyeong and grandfather Bu Chanyang were different people.
A soft sound.
At that moment, something half-melted dripped from the mouth of the deceased Sa Ok Cheong.
A hissing sound.
It then evaporated in an instant, releasing white smoke.
‘So he had concealed all manner of poisons within.’
Bu Eunseol assumed it was a toxin the Phantom King had secretly hidden in his mouth.
But that it was an object that would soon shake the entire Murim to its core… and that the Sa Ok Cheong who had long remained hidden
had appeared in Murim and caused people to be killed was something I would not realize until somewhat later.
“Ugh. Seol, the great swordmaster.”
At that moment, Yu Cheong Rim cried out with a groan.
“Please, save me.”
Sa Ok Cheong had died and Yu Cheong Rim had awakened from the death-sealing soul-binding technique, but the lingering poison of the Huanhuan Yiqu toxin left his body unable to move properly.
“Bear the pain.”
Bu Eunseol infused powerful anti-extreme true energy into his Dachu acupoint.
With a sharp hissing sound, the Huanhuan Yiqu toxin that had been absorbed into his body dissipated in an instant.
“Ugh…”
The moment Yu Cheong Rim was detoxified, he rolled on the ground with an agonized expression.
The pain of anti-extreme true energy piercing through his meridians felt as though his blood vessels were burning and his bones were being cut.
Meanwhile, So Ok Rim appeared to be in the final stages of cultivation, steam rising from her forehead like a steamer.
“Phew.”
Finally completing her cultivation, So Ok Rim opened her eyes with an exclamation.
“Damn. I nearly died.”
Rising to her feet, she looked down at Sa Ok Cheong’s corpse and shook her head.
“I never imagined the Poison King’s martial arts were this formidable.”
So Ok Rim had always prided herself on being able to escape unscathed from any battle, even if she wasn’t invincible under heaven.
But after facing the Poison King, Sa Ok Cheong, she realized how gravely mistaken that belief had been.
‘I must cultivate my mental core to the extreme.’
To stand against the masters who dominated the realm, mental fortitude must be prioritized above all else.
Because the supreme experts who ruled the world could destroy both body and spirit with invisible force.
Ultimately, she needed to reach the same state as Bu Eunseol—capable of protecting her spirit firmly under any circumstance.
‘Until now, I thought merely raising my martial cultivation level would suffice.’
So Ok Rim clenched her fists.
If her goal until now had been completing the Dual Extreme Galaxy technique,
then from now on, she must master Seong Hwang’s Ultimate Mental Core to its absolute limit and prevent such situations from occurring again.
“Bu Eunseol.”
She spoke with firm resolve.
“It seems I must leave for a while.”
Bu Eunseol nodded.
So Ok Rim’s martial prowess was comparable to her own, but her mental core cultivation was not at the same level.
If she were to search for the descendants of the Eight Emperors and Three Stars in such a state, certain defeat would await.
She was recognizing her own shortcomings and intended to undergo closed-door cultivation.
“Go and do well.”
Bu Eunseol spoke briefly.
Yet unlike before, her voice carried a thin layer of trust.
Though it was for the sake of victory, So Ok Rim had risked her life to protect her. The mere fact that she had taken such action meant Bu Eunseol could regard her as a true ally.
While the Murim had many exceptional masters, it was difficult to find someone worthy of entrusting your back to.
The only regret was that her personality was somewhat of a mess.
“Right.”
So Ok Rim wiped her nose and approached the dazed Yu Cheong Rim, patting his shoulder.
“Hey, you’ve been through a lot too. Thanks to you, we managed to catch her. Right?”
In that moment, Yu Cheong Rim nearly burst into tears.
Hardship. How could all that had transpired be dismissed with a single word?
‘The suffering I’ve endured throughout my life was nothing compared to this.’
Though young in years, Yu Cheong Rim had always prided himself on having tasted both the bitter and sweet of the world.
From childhood, before his bones had even fully hardened, he had been beaten mercilessly, dragged to the Underground Prison, and tortured countless times.
Born an orphan and trained in thievery, his life had been nothing but an unending succession of trials.
Yet compared to the time spent with So Ok Rim, all those hardships felt like a mere leisurely outing.
“Truly, truly… it was exhausting.”
“Yes, yes. You’ve suffered greatly.”
As Yu Cheong Rim shed tears, So Ok Rim patted his shoulder and spoke.
“If you ever face hardship again, come find me anytime. I’ll help you with all my strength.”
“Then I have one request.”
“Now?”
“Yes.”
“Tell me.”
Yu Cheong Rim clasped his hands together and spoke earnestly.
“I hope I never have to see the female knight again.”
“Hahahaha!”
So Ok Rim seized his shoulder once more and shook him back and forth with laughter.
“You’re quite the jester, aren’t you?”
“No, that’s not it—I’m being sincere…”
“Sure, sure. Let’s meet again next time.”
She dismissed his words lightly, turned her body, and vanished instantly into the distant sky.
Yu Cheong Rim watched her departure with a look of despair.
An ominous premonition gripped him that they would indeed meet again.
‘I really must give up thievery…’
All because he had carelessly displayed his pickpocketing skills on the street, he had encountered this calamitous fiend So Ok Rim and suffered tremendously.
Yu Cheong Rim resolved never to steal again, lest he invite such catastrophe upon himself.
“You’ve endured much.”
At that moment, Bu Eunseol handed Yu Cheong Rim a small token.
“Should you face difficulty, show this to any nearby Station. It will prove useful.”
Bu Eunseol was meticulous in settling debts of gratitude.
Though she had been drawn into this affair at So Ok Rim’s behest, the greatest contribution to capturing the Black-White Witch belonged to him.
There was no denying that Yu Cheong Rim’s merit was undeniable.
“This is…”
Yu Cheong Rim gazed at the token engraved with a crimson spider for a long while.
It was a Blood Spider Token, a command badge of the Guusal Unit that allowed immediate contact with Guusal Unit branch commanders scattered throughout Zhong Yuan.
But Yu Cheong Rim, ignorant of this fact, could only blink his eyes.
‘So the female knight also operates a personal organization somewhere.’
Among elite wanderers, it is not uncommon for individuals to operate their own intelligence networks or organizations.
Yu Cheong Rim simply assumed that Bu Eunseol commanded a rather capable organization, and accepted the token.
“Thank you. Oh, but!”
As if remembering only then, he pointed toward Ah Yeon lying collapsed in the distance.
“We must save her.”
Had Ah Yeon not been there, I would have already been wandering Gu Cheon, my life drained away by the Black-White Witch’s blood-sucking technique.
Bu Eunseol now gazed at Ah Yeon, who lay collapsed in the forest far from the Open Ground, her eyes tightly shut as if in deep slumber.
Caught up in the fierce battle where lives hung in the balance, I too had forgotten that she had collapsed.
‘Something is amiss.’
Bu Eunseol felt a sense of unease.
Ah Yeon was not only skilled in swordsmanship but also possessed exceptional internal cultivation.
She had suffered no serious injuries, and the sealing technique had been released, yet despite all this time passing, she still had not awakened?
“Come to your senses….”
As Bu Eunseol examined Ah Yeon’s condition more closely, my eyes widened.
Ah Yeon’s cheeks were flushed crimson, and her forehead burned like a ball of fire.
Cold sweat flowed ceaselessly down her forehead, and her lips were cracked like a parched desert.
Immediately checking her pulse to assess her condition, Bu Eunseol’s gaze deepened.
‘This scorching energy seems capable of melting even her meridians.’
Ah Yeon remained unconscious, lost in profound slumber, while an unknown scorching energy continuously raised her body temperature.
If left alone like this, Ah Yeon’s organs would be completely cooked before she drew her final breath.
‘There is no method.’
There was no way to treat or immediately stop this bizarre phenomenon.
After careful deliberation, Bu Eunseol immediately drew upon her power and deployed the Glacier Stream Formation.
The opposing-pole true energy instantly converted into glacial true energy, colder than ice itself.
Whoosh.
As the glacial true energy was infused, a thin layer of frost formed around her body.
By deploying the Glacier Stream Formation to gently freeze her body, I prevented the symptoms from worsening.
Drawing upon the opposing-pole heart method once more, Bu Eunseol infused opposing-pole true energy into Ah Yeon’s Dachu point.
Yet her condition showed no improvement whatsoever.
“Is she gravely injured?”
Yu Cheong Rim asked with a worried expression, and Bu Eunseol shook her head.
“An unknown scorching energy is spreading through her body. It seems she likely misused her power while trapped in a hallucination.”
“Then shouldn’t we seek treatment immediately?”
“This is a matter of internal cultivation. No matter how renowned a physician we find, they cannot treat it.”
“Then there is no solution?”
Bu Eunseol stroked her chin.
“However, if there is someone who understands her true energy circulation, they could take appropriate measures to alleviate the symptoms.”
Bu Eunseol spoke with a deep sigh.
“She is a member of Geom Gak… so we should go to Geom Gak.”
“Geom Gak.”
Yu Cheong Rim’s gaunt face trembled as his body shook.
“Even if it costs me my life, I cannot go.”
Thud.
Anticipating this, he knelt once more and bowed his head.
“Lady Eunseol. If a thief like me sets foot in Geom Gak, they’ll sever both my hands on the spot.”
Ever since meeting So Ok Rim, his knees seemed to bend far more often than a cripple’s.
“Do not worry. I must go myself.”
“Pardon?”
“After all, I need to continue infusing the Han Bing Jin Gi.”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes gazing toward the distant sky were filled with a profound and fathomless light.
To save Ah Yeon, I must journey to Geom Gak myself.
The journey across thousands of miles would certainly be arduous, yet this opportunity might allow me to finally gather intelligence on the Shinbi Mun Pa, which has remained hidden all this time.
It could also become a chance to obtain information about Geom Gak.

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