The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59.
The assassins’ momentum showed no signs of abating.
They pressed forward without fear, trampling over the corpses of their fallen comrades as they bore down on Bu Eunseol.
‘This is not good.’
Bu Eunseol bit her lip as she watched Woo Mun Hwang unleash torrents of palm force at the vanguard.
The manner of death inflicted by the palm strikes was changing with each passing moment.
The assassins’ bodies, which had previously borne no visible marks, now began to show signs of blunt trauma and crushing wounds.
Woo Mun Hwang was now employing fierce, violent palm techniques to shatter the bones and sinews of his attackers.
‘He is reaching his limits.’
Wielding subtle, refined palm force required far greater difficulty and precision in inner energy control than simply unleashing raw power.
Moreover, he had expanded the scope of his palm formation excessively to protect So Yok. At this rate, even Woo Mun Hwang would face self-destruction.
‘More are coming.’
Bu Eunseol, her gaze fixed upon the night sky, spoke to So Yok.
“Do not move a single step from this position.”
Before her words had even finished, her form flickered and launched skyward into the void.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!
Blade light flashed through the darkness as she swiftly struck the vital points of the assassins descending from above.
It was a killing blade that combined two martial arts—the Heavenly Blade Extreme Form to disrupt their stance, merged seamlessly with the practical sword techniques she had learned from Sa Woo.
Though she could not immediately fuse two martial arts, she employed Je Woon’s Divided Mind Technique to manifest both simultaneously.
“Ahhhhh!”
As the blade moved with a will of its own, each strike proved fatal, and the assassins’ screams never ceased.
Shing!
Having severed all the assassins who rushed at her in mid-air, Bu Eunseol sheathed her long sword with a metallic click.
Patter, patter, patter.
Then crimson blood began to rain down like droplets upon the heads of Bu Eunseol and So Yok.
“Take Yok and escape first…”
At that moment, Woo Mun Hwang, having unleashed successive waves of palm force to drive back the assassins, spoke toward Bu Eunseol.
“I alone shall hold them back. You must leave this place at once.”
“It is futile.”
Bu Eunseol shook her head.
“They have already deployed massive forces to establish a comprehensive encirclement from all directions. It is better to fight together here than to scatter our strength.”
“Within an hour or so, the masters from headquarters will arrive.”
Boom!
Woo Mun Hwang, having once more driven back the assassins with a fierce palm strike, continued.
“We need only endure until then. So I ask of you…please protect Yok.”
His expression bore the weight of bitter regret.
He had ignored Bu Eunseol’s counsel and overestimated his own strength. As a result, he had fallen into an inescapable danger.
Tssss, tssss, tssss.
Meanwhile, the vast manor interior was completely saturated with darkness.
Assassins clad in black garments poured in like an endless swarm of insects, pressing deeper within.
“Understood.”
“No, I can’t. I can’t leave my uncle alone like this….”
I cut off So Yok’s words decisively.
“I’m straining myself because I’m expanding the range of my force field to protect Miss So Yok.”
“For my sake….”
“Yes. But if I were alone, no matter how many assassins there are, I could still protect myself.”
“Hehehehe. You understand well.”
Woo Mun Hwang, laughing heartily, drew up his inner energy and unleashed a powerful strike.
Boom!
With a thunderous roar, the formation of assassins rushing forward scattered in an instant.
“I’ll open the path! Go now!”
Nodding, I quickly scooped So Yok into my arms.
Seeing this, Woo Mun Hwang spoke with earnest expression.
“Please… take care of Yok.”
Whoooosh.
Instead of answering, I drew my inner energy to its maximum.
As I lowered my body to unfold my movement technique, an intense wave of power rippled from my form unlike ever before.
I was gathering my vital energy to dash forward at extreme speed while suppressing the mysterious footwork inherent in the Extreme Speed Shadowless technique.
Boom!
The sound of thunder and lightning crashing echoed across heaven and earth.
Like a falling meteor drawing a white arc, I carrying So Yok cut through the night sky as a single beam of light.
“Seize them!”
The assassins who spotted my shadow tearing through the night sky began to pursue.
‘One hour….’
My eyes gleamed with blade-like brilliance as I dashed forward, even splitting the wind.
‘To endure one hour against such a massive force, there’s only one place.’
I bit my lip and doubled my power.
Bursting from Dan Ga Jang with a movement technique like a violent gale, I passed through Market Street and entered a secluded alley.
Thud.
Finally stopping my movement technique, I arrived at my destination.
It was none other than the Hoehyeon Old Book Store.
“Welcome….”
Sang Ryang, who had been sitting leisurely at a table inside the bookstore, opened his mouth wide upon seeing me and So Yok drenched in blood.
“What on earth happened to make you look like that….”
Setting down So Yok, I pointed toward the back and spoke.
“Guide her to the secret chamber.”
“Her?”
Sang Ryang jumped back in shock upon seeing So Yok covered in blood.
“Uh, uh-huh.”
As Sang Ryang recoiled in great surprise, I took So Yok’s hand directly and entered the inner bookshelves where the secret chamber lay.
Thud.
As I manipulated the bookshelf to open the door, the thick wall flipped inward, revealing a hidden chamber.
“Huh?”
Just as Ma Woon emerged from the chamber and was about to greet me, he noticed Bu Eunseol—
“What brings you here at this hour… Ugh!”
The moment he caught sight of So Yok’s face, he staggered backward as if struck in the stomach, his mouth hanging open.
“There’s no time.”
I spoke, looking between Sang Ryang and Ma Woon.
“The two of you must patrol the area around the Old Bookstore and cut down any assassins approaching from that direction.”
“Assassins?”
“Indeed. Their numbers are so vast that our defenses will inevitably crumble, but that delay will buy us precious time.”
“What in the world is happening? What exactly is going on…?”
“A massive force of assassins has descended to eliminate her, and they’ve already encircled the entire vicinity.”
“What?!”
As Sang Ryang cried out, I continued.
“Reinforcements will arrive within two hours. You need only hold until then. The two of you are more than capable.”
From the moment I arrived at the Ak Yang Branch, I had already assessed that these two were formidable masters.
“Where are these assassins from? How many? What formation have they established?”
As Ma Woon demanded detailed information, I replied.
“You don’t grasp the situation, do you? Did I not tell you that your very lives depend on this?”
I spoke with conviction, looking down at Sang Ryang and Ma Woon.
“Since your necks are on the line, stake your lives on this moment.”
The situation was already fully understood.
At my words, Sang Ryang’s eyes blazed with intensity.
“Let’s go, brother!”
As if awakening a dormant spirit, he drew forth a judge’s brush hidden within his robes and cried out with fervor.
“By your logic, we must preserve our own necks ourselves, must we not? Hahahaha!”
“Well then, let’s do this!”
Ma Woon emerged from the armory within the chamber, wielding two sickles with gleaming blue blades.
“It’s been far too long since Death’s Scythe has drunk its fill of blood.”
“Ah, Miss. My apologies for the late introduction.”
Sang Ryang bowed deeply to So Yok and spoke.
“I am Sang Ryang, who oversees the Ak Yang Branch. You may not know us, but we have known of you for a very long time…”
“I remember. You two were known by the epithet Gongssi Ssangma.”
At So Yok’s words, Sang Ryang grinned widely and clasped his hands together.
“You remember us, then.”
Sang Ryang glanced at me before turning back to So Yok, clasping his hands again.
“Though it may be presumptuous… if this matter is resolved successfully, we humbly beg your favor.”
“What do you mean…?”
“We made some mistakes, you see, and were demoted from the Demon Hall to this place… Hehe.”
Sang Ryang subtly rubbed his hands together, and So Yok nodded with a smile.
“I understand. I’ll speak to Father about it.”
“Truly? Thank you so much!”
Upon hearing her response, Sang Ryang and Ma Woon exchanged glances as if everything had been resolved.
“Miss, please hide yourself here for now!”
The two men, brimming with confidence, clasped their hands together and bowed deeply.
“We shall fortify this place thoroughly and eliminate every assassin who dares enter!”
Then they unleashed swift lightness techniques, soaring into the night sky.
Bu Eunseol, watching their retreating figures as they deployed their martial methods, nodded quietly to herself.
‘So those were Gongssi Ssangma.’
Gongssi Ssangma—Gong Sang Ryang and Gong Ma Woon.
The two who once dominated the Yangguang Murim held the prestigious position of Hyangju within the Demon Hall.
But years ago in Gyerim, they had quarreled with members of the Orthodox Sects and killed them on the spot. However, those men happened to be spies engaged in crucial missions for the Demon Hall.
For this crime, they were stripped of their positions and were about to be imprisoned in the Demon Hall’s deepest dungeons.
Yet when members of the Guusal Unit’s Ak Yang Branch began dying in succession, the Demon Hall entrusted them with command of the branch, allowing them to serve out their sentence through this assignment.
A sharp whistling sound cut through the air.
In the distance, the sound of dozens of people tearing through the air reached them.
Clearly, assassins who had discovered Bu Eunseol and So Yok’s traces were approaching.
“If things go wrong, this place will become our grave.”
So Yok joked with a faint smile even in this life-or-death situation.
“Save such talk for when you’re dying.”
Bu Eunseol wiped away the blood flowing from her head and face, then turned her body.
“Go inside at once.”
“That is…”
At that moment, So Yok stepped closer, gazing at Bu Eunseol’s face.
“Is this Teacher Ho’s true face?”
The Face-Changing Bone Technique consumed a considerable amount of inner energy to maintain.
As continuous combat forced her to expend all her vital force, Bu Eunseol’s concealed true face was finally revealed.
“It is.”
Bu Eunseol nodded as if resigned to the situation.
Though covered in blood and sweat, her complexion was extraordinarily pale, and her eyes were long and noble like those of a phoenix.
She resembled a mysterious dragon playing among the clouds, having descended into the mortal realm in human form.
“Go inside now. And do not emerge under any circumstances until I open the door.”
As Bu Eunseol moved to close the door, So Yok, regaining her senses, hesitated and stepped forward.
“Actually, my surname is not So—it’s Dan.”
She whispered, her cheeks flushed crimson.
“My true name is Dan So Yok. I wonder if Teacher Ho will remember my name.”
‘Dan So Yok…’
Bu Eunseol’s eyes wavered for a moment.
In the martial world, there was only one person who bore the name Dan So Yok.
The jewel in the palm of the Demon Hall’s Chief Administrator—Bi Woon, a rare talent unable to cultivate martial arts due to the congenital curse of Hyeoneum Jeol Maek, yet marked by the Elder Council as the next Chief Inspector of the Demon Hall solely because of her extraordinary intellect.
That person was none other than So Yok, the beloved daughter of the Chief Administrator.
“The young lady of the Chief Administrator, I see.”
Before her stood one of the most powerful figures in the Demon Hall, yet Bu Eunseol’s gaze remained unmoved.
“Please, go inside.”
“I haven’t received an answer.”
Bu Eunseol nodded reluctantly.
“I will remember it.”
“Then please tell me Teacher Ho’s real name as well.”
“Later.”
“I might die here, you know.”
Her eyes gleamed with longing.
“I want to know Teacher Ho’s true name before I die.”
Seeing those eyes burning with intensity, Bu Eunseol found no suitable response.
“You won’t die.”
Bu Eunseol, averting her gaze, grasped the door of the secret chamber.
“I’ll tell you once everything is over.”
“Really?”
Though it was merely a casual remark, So Yok—or rather, Dan So Yok—was overjoyed.
Boom. Crack!
After closing the secret chamber’s door, Bu Eunseol destroyed the mechanism that controlled the bookshelf.
This way, unless the girl inside opened the door herself, it would be extremely difficult for the assassins to enter the secret chamber.
Fssssssss.
At that moment, a strange sound echoed through the Old Bookstore.
It was an eerie noise, as if thousands of insects were scattering in all directions.
‘They’ve broken through.’
Though Sang Ryang and Ma Woon had frantically dealt with assassins around the Old Bookstore, they ultimately could not stop their overwhelming numbers.
Shing.
Bu Eunseol, who had been staring into the void, drew the long sword at her waist.
There was no need to activate the Night Beast Blade to sense the enemies’ presence. The interior of the Old Bookstore was already saturated with the killing intent emanating from the assassins.
“If you run now, you can live.”
A sinister assassin’s voice echoed from the darkness.
“You seem young still. There’s no need to throw away your life.”
Rustle rustle.
Along with the sound of clustered insects dispersing, those in hiding revealed themselves all at once.
It was as if hundreds of pitch-black demons risen from hell had surrounded the area.
Even a martial artist with the stoutest nerve could not help but feel fear in such a situation.
“How amusing.”
But unfortunately, their opponent was Bu Eunseol.
One who savored the deaths of others daily, whose fear had long since withered away….
“Are you afraid?”
“What?”
“An assassin opens their mouth for only one reason.”
“And what’s that?”
Bu Eunseol’s lips curved upward as she spoke with icy precision.
“When victory cannot be guaranteed.”
The assassin’s pupils trembled momentarily, struck by the truth of her words.
Just as he had said, sensing the extraordinary momentum radiating from Bu Eunseol, he had subtly suggested retreat.
“Your confidence is remarkable.”
Shing.
The assassins simultaneously drew their blackened blades.
“I’ll erase you—every trace that you ever existed in this world.”
Whoooosh!
With a low vibration, the ground trembled, and the books on the shelves surrounding Bu Eunseol began to scatter into the air.
The assassins had already deployed a formation, pouring overwhelming pressure upon her.
Without a word, Bu Eunseol raised her long blade, and a crimson gleam ignited in her eyes.
One hour.
At last, a life-or-death duel spanning one hour was beginning.

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