The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 623

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Chapter 623.
One of Seok Chi Haeng’s eyebrows twitched.
“Let’s see how much longer you can endure.”
Whoosh.
He unleashed another barrage of fist force.
But Bu Eunseol, who had spread the Night Demon Technique across her entire body, recognized that the fist force erupting from the front was merely a feint.
The true assault came from invisible fist force pouring in from both sides.
Boom!
As Bu Eunseol leaped into the air once more, the invisible fist force moved with her body as if it had been waiting for this moment.
Whoosh.
But her shadow in mid-air split into three strands, and in an instant, she redirected the fist force away.
It was the exquisite application of the Ultimate Speed Shadowless technique—the ability to constantly shift her position and orientation even while suspended in place.
“Your movement technique is quite remarkable.”
Seok Chi Haeng realized that Bu Eunseol’s movement technique had reached the realm of astonishing mastery, and he unleashed fist force in rapid succession.
Bang! Bang!
Each time his left hand swayed lightly, the trees and boulders around them were pulverized into dust with thunderous explosions.
But Bu Eunseol deployed the Ultimate Speed Shadowless technique and evaded the attacks flawlessly.
Click.
The moment Bu Eunseol grasped the Muk Hon Sword after evading all of Gwon Wang’s techniques,
Screech!
From the Muk Hon Sword, which revealed its dark blade with a low metallic ring, brilliant cross-shaped streaks of light poured forth.
She had deployed the Crescent Moon Reflection technique consecutively.
Flash!
The sword energy that erupted toward Seok Chi Haeng was so devastatingly swift that it felt as though it had already pierced through his body.
Boom!
Seok Chi Haeng did not dodge the sword energy. Instead, he twisted his left hand again and extended it directly forward.
With a sharp cracking sound, a keen fist force pierced through the cross-shaped sword energy and poured toward Bu Eunseol’s face.
He had shattered the Crescent Moon Reflection technique’s sword energy with such ease.
Swish!
Bu Eunseol quickly twisted her body to evade, but the fist energy that grazed her shoulder reduced her clothing to dust that scattered into the wind.
Whoosh!
Seok Chi Haeng, who had deployed fist techniques in rapid succession, sealed off Bu Eunseol’s retreat and created a vast field of force.
It was merely wind that had brushed past,
Yet her skin tore open, and sharp strands of inner force burrowed into her meridians.
‘He still hasn’t used his true void technique.’
Bu Eunseol stopped evading the fist force and instead began deflecting the fist wind using the subtle principles of Reverse Force.
Swish! Crack!
As she continuously split the pouring fist force like boulders, Seok Chi Haeng halted his movements and furrowed his brow.
“Are you a disciple of Geom Joon?”
“I’ve crossed paths with him a few times on the road.”
“Hmph, so you’ve stolen a sword technique.”
Seok Chi Haeng spoke with an arrogant expression.
“Even if you are a disciple of Geom Joon, you cannot defeat No Bu.”
Until now, he hadn’t even used his right hand.
In other words, he was displaying remarkable martial prowess without even deploying his true power.
“Let us test ourselves once more.”
Swish, swish, swish!
Bu Eunseol unleashed three successive sword strikes in rapid succession, ensnaring Seok Chi Haeng’s escape route.
Then, using the Nong Jo Yeon Woon technique, she created an enormous sword aura and poured it toward his body slowly and deliberately.
She employed a subtle tactic to deliberately provoke a collision.
Whoosh!
As Seok Chi Haeng waved his left hand lightly,
Saaaa!
Suddenly, a terrifying fist wind surged forward like a massive wave, colliding head-on with Bu Eunseol’s sword aura.
Boom!
As the sword aura and fist force collided, a deafening explosion erupted, and the shockwave of inner energy rippled outward in all directions.
Dust scattered everywhere as the two stood facing each other at a distance where their faces were clearly visible.
Bu Eunseol remained motionless, as if she had become a stone monument.
But Seok Chi Haeng had retreated one step backward.
‘My inner power is superior, but his mastery of martial technique surpasses mine.’
Judging from the recoil of the fist force, Seok Chi Haeng’s inner strength was at the three-hundred-fifty-year level. Normally, he should have retreated at least three steps.
But because he had layered the subtleties of martial technique into that single punch, he had overcome the difference in inner power to a considerable degree.
“Impressive. At this level, your inner strength must far exceed four hundred years.”
Seok Chi Haeng showed little surprise at Bu Eunseol’s inner power level and sneered coldly.
“Or did you consume that artificial inner elixir or whatever it is?”
‘He knows well about the Three Realms.’
Bu Eunseol furrowed her brow and asked.
“I ask once more. What exactly is this place?”
“You’re a funny one.”
“I am not a person of the Three Realms.”
“Right, that’s true. You said you were from the Murim Alliance.”
Seok Chi Haeng spoke while grooming his right hand.
“A young Lord of the Murim Alliance who stands equal to No Bu.”
Bu Eunseol had nothing to say.
Though the Murim Alliance was said to be filled with outstanding talents, there existed no Lords comparable to the Four Gods Seven Kings.
Click.
Seok Chi Haeng finally extended his right hand slowly and clenched his fist.
The back of his fist, clenched like stone, was densely covered with spider-web-like scars.
Zing.
At the same moment, his right hand began to glow red with heat.
‘I should have come under my true identity instead.’
I understood Seok Chi Haeng’s suspicion.
My current martial prowess had surpassed even Baek Mu Sung, known as the finest of the Orthodox Sects’ new generation masters.
Even if they died and were reborn, they wouldn’t believe I was a Lord of the Murim Alliance.
‘Since I’ve already come under the identity of Seon Woo Jin, revealing myself as Muk Hon Ryeong Ju now would only expose my double identity.’
In the end, this was no longer a casual opportunity to gauge my abilities—I had to fight with true martial force, risking my life.
“Very well. Let us have a satisfying battle.”
I drew upon my inner energy.
Yet I did not strike first, standing firm as I carefully observed Seok Chi Haeng’s movements.
Seok Chi Haeng was a natural martial genius, blessed with a physique that allowed him to accumulate inner power at an extraordinary pace.
Moreover, his abnormally massive right fist contained
innate divine strength, capable of pulverizing stone to dust without even employing martial techniques.
If such a fist were wielded by a master known as Gwon Wang, its destructive power would transcend imagination.
Before engaging in fierce combat, I sought to observe Gwon Wang’s martial techniques first.
A deep, resonant sound echoed forth.
Suddenly, Seok Chi Haeng’s right fist emitted a strange noise as if drawing in the very air itself,
and a torrential wave of fist force crashed down like a tidal surge, attempting to confine my body.
That fist force engulfed all directions in an instant, leaving me no escape.
In that moment, transparent light-infused black qi erupted from me, wrapping around my body.
I had formed a protective barrier using the Yeui True Seal.
With a thunderous impact, my legs sank half a foot into the earth.
The tremendous fist pressure bore down upon my head, driving my body slightly into the ground.
‘The Fist Demon Seven Forms?’
My eyes widened.
The fist technique Seok Chi Haeng had just employed—
was it not a variation of the Nangya Pavilion’s secret fist art, the Fist Demon Seven Forms, which allows one to freely manipulate fist force?
‘This is impossible.’
The Fist Demon Seven Forms was something Do Myeong, once a disciple of Nangya Pavilion, had secretly transmitted to me as a forbidden technique.
And even that transmission was incomplete and damaged.
So how could Seok Chi Haeng possibly use the Fist Demon Seven Forms?
‘Yet the principle of manipulating fist force is exactly the same.’
The terrifying aspect of the Fist Demon Seven Forms lies in its ability to freely manipulate intangible fist force.
And that secret employs the subtlety of Hand-Guided Sword—the principle of Intent Directing Qi.
And the fist technique Gwon Wang had just displayed—
unfolding the form through intent and moving the form through qi—did it not precisely align with the subtlety of the Fist Demon Seven Forms?
‘Did he earn the title Gwon Wang through mastering the Fist Demon Seven Forms?’
“What are you thinking about?”
Doesn’t this precisely align with the subtlety of the Gwonma Chilsik, where intention unfolds the initial move and genuine energy activates it?
“Are you saying he earned the alias Gwon Wang through the Seven Fists of Power?”
“What are you thinking about?”
Boom!
A subtle rumble of thunder echoed through the air as a terrifying wave of fist force crashed down once more.
In that instant, a crimson energy vortex erupted from Bu Eunseol’s left hand.
The third form of the Fist Demon Seven Techniques.
The annihilating fist form that obliterates all things—Forgotten Self Shatters Together—unfolded.
Whoooosh!
As the ferociously rotating fist force collided with Gwon Wang’s power, instead of a violent explosion, the fist winds coalesced and vanished into the night sky.
“This bastard?”
Seok Chi Haeng was greatly startled and unleashed a barrage of fist techniques once more.
This time, five strands of fist force—sharp as an axe blade yet supple as a whip—descended upon Bu Eunseol in a spiraling pattern.
‘Extreme Lightning Chaos?’
Wasn’t this move from Gwon Wang remarkably similar to the Extreme Lightning Chaos form of the Fist Demon Seven Techniques?
Boom!
In that moment, five sharp strands of fist force surged forth from Bu Eunseol’s left hand as well.
The identical Extreme Lightning Chaos form unleashed.
Whoooosh!
Once again, the fierce fist winds clashed from both sides before dissipating into the night sky.
“How are you…?”
As Bu Eunseol continuously unleashed the same technique, Seok Chi Haeng could not hide his astonishment and questioned him.
“How can you possibly imitate the Azure Heaven Seven Forms?”
Bu Eunseol’s eyes widened.
‘Azure Heaven Seven Forms?’
So that meant Seok Chi Haeng’s fist technique also consisted of seven forms.
Moreover, if a master of Gwon Wang’s caliber mistook his own technique for an imitation…
‘They share a common root.’
Bu Eunseol’s eyes gleamed with insight.
The Fist Demon Seven Techniques and the Azure Heaven Seven Forms clearly branched from the same origin.
‘Masters from Jeong Sa Yang Do must have expressed a single fist technique in different ways.’
In that moment, a peculiar realization dawned upon him.
Powerful masters from both the Orthodox and Demonic sects had simultaneously discovered the ancient secret fist manuals, gaining different insights from them.
The fist form obtained by the Demonic Path master became the Fist Demon Seven Techniques, while what the Orthodox Sect master comprehended became the Azure Heaven Seven Forms.
‘Then couldn’t I comprehend the final three forms of the Fist Demon Seven Techniques through Gwon Wang’s Azure Heaven Seven Forms?’
If the Azure Heaven Seven Forms were complete, he could apply them to deduce the remaining forms of the Fist Demon Seven Techniques.
Click.
Bu Eunseol, having sheathed the Muk Hon Sword at his waist once more, took a deep breath.
He had realized that to uncover this secret, he would need to engage Gwon Wang in a fist technique duel.
“Come at me.”
As Bu Eunseol raised both fists, Seok Chi Haeng could barely contain his laughter at the absurdity.
“You madman. You dare challenge No Bu to a fist technique duel?”
“Just because everyone calls me Gwon Wang doesn’t mean I’ve actually become royalty.”
Seok Chi Haeng’s pride was deeply wounded, and thick veins bulged across his forehead.
“If I cannot beat you to death, I shall change my name!”
Whiiiing.
Blue light once again flowed from his massive right fist.
With his inner force fully mobilized, Seok Chi Haeng suddenly struck the ground with tremendous force.
An enormous fist wind enveloped Bu Eunseol’s entire body.
‘A feint technique?’
When deploying an initial move of such devastating power, sometimes a large preparatory motion—a feint—was necessary.
Yet Bu Eunseol’s Beast Path Technique sounded an alarm.
Within the cascading fist wind, it detected an extremely subtle force.
It resembled the Fist Demon Initial Form that Bu Eunseol favored, executed in a yin-soft manner.
Boom!
In an instant, Bu Eunseol’s body shot upward by a body’s length, then performed a swallow flip to land.
Tremendous fist force suddenly erupted from the ground, attempting to strike his jaw.
‘Had it not been for the Beast Path Technique, my jaw would have shattered.’
“You blocked the Water Flow Cloud Empty Form?”
Seok Chi Haeng was greatly shocked.
The motion of striking the ground was merely a feint.
In reality, with his right hand, he unleashed fist force like a swallow in low flight, surging upward in one breath to strike the jaw—the true technique.
Until now, only the mightiest masters renowned throughout Tianxia had evaded the Water Flow Cloud Empty Form. All others had their jaws shattered and perished without exception.
This young man had dodged it so effortlessly?
“Excellent!”
Seok Chi Haeng unleashed a barrage of fist techniques.
Yet his movements and the fist force that erupted were completely different.
Though he assumed the posture of the Tiger Crane Dual Form Fist, the fist force inexplicably burrowed into Bu Eunseol’s ribs.
When he scattered fist force chaotically toward the sky, fist force rained down upon the back of Bu Eunseol’s head.
‘The Fist Demon Initial Form can be used in such ways too.’
Until now, Bu Eunseol had regarded the Fist Demon Initial Form merely as a technique to freely move fist force or to freely draw curves like sword energy.
But if used with feints in this manner, one could execute entirely unexpected, complex, and wondrous techniques.
“Well done.”
Bu Eunseol, struggling to evade the fist techniques, unleashed a barrage of fist strikes in return.
“Now receive my technique!”
Seok Chi Haeng furrowed his brow.
Bu Eunseol was standing motionless while claiming to unleash an attack?
“You waste time with pointless feints….”
Boom!
At that moment, tremendous fist wind blew forth, burrowing into both his temples.
Bu Eunseol had adapted Seok Chi Haeng’s Water Flow Cloud Empty Form and deployed a new Fist Demon Initial Form.
“You bastard!”
Seok Chi Haeng was greatly startled and quickly leaned his body backward.
However, Bu Eunseol had already positioned her fist energy along Seok Chi Haeng’s escape route, releasing it in waves with precise timing.
Boom!
Seok Chi Haeng’s back took the full brunt of the impact.
Though he spun rapidly to dissipate most of the fist energy, the skin where the shockwave grazed him burned with searing pain.
“Let me see you perform your tricks once more!”
Enraged, Seok Chi Haeng unleashed nine consecutive waves of fist energy.
Resembling the Nine Walls Divine Fist that shook Tianxia, they descended slowly and deliberately.
But the moment they touched Bu Eunseol’s body, they suddenly spun with ferocious intensity like a raging whirlwind!
‘She doesn’t initiate the rotation from the beginning—she triggers it the instant the fist energy contacts her body.’
Boom!
Though she grasped the principle, Bu Eunseol’s body was sent flying three zhang away.
To master the profound secrets of fist techniques, she was deliberately meeting each of Gwon Wang’s strikes head-on.
“Ptui.”
As Bu Eunseol spat out blood, Seok Chi Haeng’s eyes widened in shock.
How could she rise unscathed after taking a strike that could pulverize flesh with merely a graze?
“This woman… has she cultivated the Indestructible Diamond Body Technique?”
Seok Chi Haeng asked, his eyes trembling.
“Could you be a disciple of Blood Shaolin?”
“Impossible.”
“Then who are you?”
“I already told you. I am a Lord of the Murim Alliance.”
Simultaneously, Bu Eunseol crossed her fists in a chaotic pattern.
Five waves of fist energy erupted precisely toward Seok Chi Haeng’s head and limbs.
“Hmph, a crude technique.”
Seok Chi Haeng released fist energy with lightning speed at chest height.
Clearly, he anticipated she would replicate his method.
Knowing she would rotate the five waves, he unleashed a supreme technique combining defense and offense simultaneously.
But something unexpected occurred.
The five streams of fist energy from Bu Eunseol did not rotate—instead, the points of impact kept shifting!
“Ugh!”
Seok Chi Haeng had no choice but to rapidly deploy his fist technique to counter each of Bu Eunseol’s strikes individually.
Boom! Boom!
As fist energy collided with fist energy, Seok Chi Haeng’s body was pushed backward.
With their fist techniques now comparable, the gap in true inner energy cultivation could not be bridged.
“How is this possible?”
Seok Chi Haeng’s gaze wavered.
He had spent his entire life perfecting his fist technique, and none had ever easily defended against his strikes.
Yet this young upstart matched him in fist technique?
It was nothing short of an insult to him.
“Do you have no other techniques? This is far too monotonous.”
Bu Eunseol’s low murmur drew a fierce blaze from Seok Chi Haeng’s eyes.
“Insolent wretch!”
A sharp whistle cut through the air.
In an instant, Seok Chi Haeng closed the distance and unleashed a torrent of fist techniques from point-blank range.
Crack! Crackle!
Though he threw only a single punch, dozens of fist shadows rippled outward from it.
It was the Third Form of the Changcheon Seven Techniques—Shadow and Form Following as One.
At such close quarters, even a master could not afford carelessness; victory hinged solely on speed and power.
Seok Chi Haeng had unleashed his swift punch with such precision that he created dozens of shadows, adding an exquisite subtlety to the assault.
‘Which one is real?’
Bu Eunseol had no choice but to defend against every fist shadow Seok Chi Haeng threw at him.
Boom! Boom boom boom!
But among them were feints woven in.
As Bu Eunseol responded to each shadow individually, Seok Chi Haeng immediately identified the opening.
Thud!
Bu Eunseol took a fist strike to the chest and was driven backward.
“Cough.”
Bu Eunseol spat out another mouthful of blood.
This time, even his protective inner energy could not fully block the fist force; his complexion turned ashen, and the blood he coughed was bright red.
“Draw your sword.”
Seok Chi Haeng spoke, his gaze fixed on Bu Eunseol.
“Do not indulge in such frivolous restraint and regret it in Hell.”
“I will draw it when the time comes.”
Seok Chi Haeng furrowed his brow.
He knew that Bu Eunseol’s swordsmanship was extraordinarily high, and if unleashed at full strength, the outcome would be impossible to predict.
Then why did he stubbornly cling to fist techniques and stake his life on them?
Could it be that he was gambling his life on mocking him?
‘What would I know.’
Seok Chi Haeng, channeling all his power into his right arm, cried out in exasperation.
“I will beat you to death as you wish.”
A sharp hum resonated.
As transparent energy flowed from Seok Chi Haeng’s body, he assumed the Heaven and Earth Splitting Strike stance—one hand reaching toward the sky, the other toward the earth.
‘A technique resembling the Thousand Hands Shattering Style.’
Bu Eunseol felt a pang of regret.
To employ a technique resembling the Thousand Hands Shattering Style as a final trump card meant…
Was this not proof that the latter three forms of Seok Chi Haeng’s Changcheon Seven Techniques had been lost?
“This ends it!”
A sharp hum pierced the air.
In that same instant, a tremendous current of energy began to gather in the space between his spread palms.
It was an energy far more intense—many times over—than the Thousand Hands Shattering Style.
Even though I hadn’t been struck yet.
My internal organs twisted and blood surged up my throat.
‘But deploying my technique before the enemy was a mistake.’
I struck first, raising my power with a tremendous surge of energy before unleashing the Cheonsu Gongpa Technique in an instant.
Boom!
The massive crimson energy current became a blood dragon, devouring Seok Chi Haeng’s body.
Whoosh.
But then something strange occurred.
The tremendous energy current of the Cheonsu Gongpa Technique was drawn into the space where Seok Chi Haeng had spread both arms wide.
And it dissolved like melting snow.
“This is the Changcheon Chilsik, the Fourth Form.”
At that moment, a cold, murderous light blazed in Seok Chi Haeng’s eyes.
“Dokbo Geonkun!”
Crash!
Simultaneously, my body was flung backward like a severed kite, tumbling over a dozen zhang away.
Dokbo Geonkun.
The very posture of Heaven and Earth Division.
It was the ultimate defensive form that could annihilate any attack from an enemy, and simultaneously a counter-technique that returned all incoming attacks in one breath.
Sizzle.
White smoke rose from my fallen body.
The overwhelmingly potent yang energy had engulfed my entire body, causing my meridians to burn and die.
But something bizarre happened.
I, who had collapsed as if dead, was slowly rising to my feet with an expressionless face.
“A corpse demon?”
Seok Chi Haeng was so shocked that his mouth fell open as he pointed at me.
“What exactly are you? Are you a corpse demon?”
I looked down at my body, from which white smoke continued to rise.
In truth, I was equally bewildered that my body remained intact.
‘So that’s what it was.’
After examining my body for a long while, I could discern why this phenomenon had occurred.
The Gwonma Chilsik Fourth Form, the Cheonsu Gongpa Technique, was merely a devastating martial art that displayed Pa Cheon Hwang’s power.
But the initial form of Gwon Wang’s Dokbo Geonkun was different.
It deliberately deployed a grandiose technique to lure the enemy’s attack.
Then it accumulated the incoming assault in a sweeping current and returned it all as a counter-attack.
However, my Cheonsu Gongpa Technique was merely a wave of amplified inner energy.
And my counter inner energy contained the mysteries of nature itself.
It could damage an enemy, but could not harm my own body.
Ultimately, since the Dokbo Geonkun counter-attack returned the enemy’s assault,
I, exposed only to my own inner energy, did not have my body torn apart and was able to survive.

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