The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 669

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Chapter 669.
But Bu Eunseol did not wait for Hyeol Hwang to prepare his counterattack.
“In the end, you were nothing but a puppet on strings.”
With a brief sigh, Bu Eunseol brought down the Taishan Pressure Strike vertically upon Hyeol Hwang’s head.
“Huh!”
Hyeol Hwang spun both hands in circles, generating an intense torrent of qi energy.
But Bu Eunseol’s swordplay transformed once more.
The overwhelming sword technique that seemed to shatter mountains instantly shifted into a supple, whip-like blade aura.
It pierced through the energy current Hyeol Hwang unleashed, cutting sharply into his body.
This time, she had infused her blade aura with inner force.
Thwack, thwack!
Unable to defend against the blade aura, Hyeol Hwang flailed his hands wildly and retreated three paces.
Roaaah!
Realizing that Bu Eunseol was again employing inner force to execute her swordplay,
Hyeol Hwang spread his blood qi once more, attempting to provoke a collision of forces.
But this was Hyeol Hwang’s miscalculation.
“Huh…?”
The sword technique unleashed this time was not executed with inner force, but rather amplified through the profound mysteries of martial arts itself.
Flash!
As Bu Eunseol extended the Muk Hon Sword forward, a barrage of blade aura erupted.
Hyeol Hwang unleashed his blood qi once more.
Yet in truth, it was not blade aura at all—it was a sword shadow created by Bu Eunseol executing her techniques at blinding speed.
“Hrrgh!”
Hyeol Hwang let out a furious roar.
One moment she seemed to channel inner force, the next she executed an ordinary sword strike.
When he attempted to suppress her with power, Bu Eunseol would either employ inner force or unleash bizarre blade illusions.
Slash!
In that instant, a crescent-shaped blade aura cut sharply into Hyeol Hwang’s neck and waist.
It was the Dragon Sound Sword Technique, once the most distinctive swordplay of Je Woon, the commander of Changsin Squad.
Boom!
Unable to discern what method Bu Eunseol had employed, Hyeol Hwang did not engage directly and instead leaped into the air.
As if she had been waiting,
Slash!
Bu Eunseol swung the Muk Hon Sword, unleashing a rain of blade aura that poured down from the sky.
The Dragon Sound Sword Technique she had just displayed
was a preliminary technique designed to further confuse Hyeol Hwang’s judgment and ultimately lure him into leaping skyward.
A form of deception.
Patter, patter, patter, patter!
The rain of blade aura concentrated upon Hyeol Hwang’s body, leaving countless wounds across his flesh.
“Ugh!”
Enraged, Hyeol Hwang shifted his technique once more.
From this moment forward, he resolved to spread the Hyeol Hwang Qi regardless of what methods Bu Eunseol employed.
After all, attacks without inner force might be sharp, but they could never shatter the formidable protective aura of mysterious energy that enveloped his body.
“Hahahaha!”
Hyeol Hwang forcibly pierced through the sword energy Bu Eunseol had created and unleashed a torrent of tension infused with Hyeol Hwang Qi.
Whoooosh.
As Bu Eunseol retreated, he raised both arms to create a wall of crimson mist around himself.
He unfurled the Blood Wall Mist at close range to completely seal off her escape route, intending to evaporate her blood in an instant.
But this was a grave miscalculation on Hyeol Hwang’s part.
“I knew you would do that.”
A smile played at the corners of Bu Eunseol’s lips.
Screeeech!
The Muk Hon Sword spun at high velocity, unleashing terrifying sword energy.
Remarkably, even though she was surrounded by the Blood Wall Mist, she poured forth devastating sword energy.
And began severing the massive body of Hyeol Hwang who had drawn near.
Within the principles of martial arts, there existed
a subtle truth: the ability to unleash tremendous power through technique alone, without inner force.
However, such miraculous techniques could only be wielded by supreme masters who had mastered all martial arts, like Mu Jon or In Ma Ak Moo Ryung.
Indeed, had not Mu Jon driven a wooden sword so deep into stone that it seemed it would shatter merely from his touch?
Of course, Bu Eunseol had not yet reached such a realm.
But in her confrontation with Hyeol Hwang, she had temporarily grasped the subtleties of the Nangya Heart Eye, unleashing power of that caliber.
Flash! Flash!
Bu Eunseol deployed her sword techniques without pause.
Though she used no inner force, sharp sword energy materialized, steadily dismantling Hyeol Hwang’s formidable protective aura.
“Ugh!”
Hyeol Hwang finally abandoned his strategy of pouring out Hyeol Hwang Qi to evaporate Bu Eunseol’s blood.
Instead, he switched to using the Hyeol Hwang Secret Fusion Qi to receive her attacks and destroy her body.
But Bu Eunseol’s methods had already transcended all limitations.
The Nangya Heart Eye, manifested through extreme concentration, completely freed itself from the constraints of a single long sword.
She wielded the mysteries and variations of all weapons as if by sorcery.
No matter how Hyeol Hwang altered his combat approach, he could not overcome Bu Eunseol.
Slash! Slash!
Each time the Muk Hon Sword cut through the air, Hyeol Hwang’s massive frame was driven backward.
This was not because of overwhelming force, but because she struck his vital points with perfect precision, matching his every movement.
Was this the phenomenon of Ten Thousand Streams Returning to One Source?
The sword techniques Bu Eunseol unleashed through the Nangya Heart Eye
bore striking resemblance to the Third Technique of the Blood Dew Seven Techniques—the Half-Offense, Half-Defense Form that breaks defense by adapting to the enemy’s movements.
In truth, Bu Chanyang had mastered the principles of all martial arts.
Thus, he could create the Blood Dew Seven Techniques, which possessed power transcending the boundaries of martial arts itself.
And Bu Eunseol, with the Nangya Heart Eye activated, unknowingly
By leveraging the profound mysteries contained within the Blood Dew Seven Techniques, I was instantly creating and wielding a terrifying sword art.
“Huff!”
Screech.
Hyeol Hwang’s body was relentlessly driven backward, unable to withstand Bu Eunseol’s sword techniques that poured down like a downpour.
Hyeol Hwang.
Among the Eight Emperors and Three Stars, he was known for wielding the most bizarre martial arts.
He had devised secrets that transcended the boundaries of his martial art called Hyeol Hwang Qi and eliminated countless formidable opponents, but…
In the end, he had become trapped within Hyeol Hwang Qi and never reached the pinnacle of martial mastery.
“Is Hyeol Hwang merely Hyeol Hwang?”
No matter how magnificent and wondrous a martial art might be, once it is analyzed and broken down,
it feels as though it is nothing special.
“I thought he was on par with the Three Supremes… but he was merely wielding a blood-draining dark technique.”
Bu Eunseol, whose eyes flickered with a yellowish light, muttered as if disappointed.
Through the function of the Nangya Heart Eye.
Four hundred years ago, I had perfectly analyzed Hyeol Hwang’s martial techniques and grasped all of his weaknesses and limitations.
“Perhaps Hyeol Hwang Qi was merely a shortcut to escape the tedious training of martial arts.”
Hyeol Hwang’s Hyeol Hwang Qi, as perceived through the Nangya Heart Eye,
felt like a simple method to quickly dispose of opponents stronger than myself.
“Now, let this end.”
Crash!
Bu Eunseol began rotating the Muk Hon Sword fiercely, unfolding her sword technique.
It was not merely the subtlety of swordsmanship, but the very essence of the Nangya Sect’s practical sword art.
Splurt, splurt!
Each time the Muk Hon Sword passed by, blood fountained from Hyeol Hwang’s body to a height of several feet.
I was severing all of his limbs and meridians, leaving him unable to even resist.
Crack.
Pale sinews burst out like branches above the deep wound.
But Bu Eunseol did not stop her sword; instead, she continued unfolding her techniques with a smile playing at her lips.
“Huff!”
Hyeol Hwang, staring at the sinews bursting from his body, let out a cry of agony.
Only then did Bu Eunseol snap to her senses, and a chill ran down her spine.
‘Have I truly resorted to such cruel methods…?’
The Nangya Heart Eye.
It could be said to be the culmination of the Nangya Sect’s martial arts, capable of instantly perceiving or breaking through the mysteries of any martial technique… but
if one becomes consumed by this power,
one could become a complete demon, losing all sense of self and destroying everything.
‘Gak Ju is truly remarkable.’
Bu Eunseol felt a newfound respect for Ak Moo Ryung.
The world says that In Ma is the most ruthless and cruel demon in all of Tianxia.
But in reality, he is merely tyrannical; he maintains an extremely meticulous and cold-headed temperament.
Reaching the pinnacle of Nangya Pavilion’s Heart Technique and maintaining such a spiritual state was never an easy feat.
“Uuugh…”
Hyeol Hwang trembled violently, unable to move his body.
Though he had obtained the body and power of the Great Patriarch from four hundred years past, who had advanced Murim martial arts to a higher level transcending time itself.
In the end, he had not gained the Great Patriarch’s enlightenment from four hundred years ago, and had merely unfolded dead martial arts with no progress whatsoever.
The Nangya Pavilion martial arts that changed and evolved endlessly like a living organism.
Could not penetrate Bu Eunseol, who had completely accepted its profound mysteries.
“Even if you are not the true Hyeol Hwang… you could be called his predecessor.”
Click.
Bu Eunseol returned the Muk Hon Sword to its sheath with a solemn expression.
Since death was now imminent, she would offer at least this minimal courtesy.
“May you find eternal rest.”
Whoosh.
In that moment, crimson heat shimmer began rising from Bu Eunseol’s entire body.
Screech.
As a sword cry like a dragon’s roar echoed in all directions, the entire world seemed to freeze in time.
Simultaneously, the Muk Hon Sword, glowing red-hot from its sheath, revealed itself.
A supreme killing technique that grasped the perfect instant and severed the enemy’s life in one breath.
The Tal Yeo Seong Chu Wol Technique unfolded.
Scrape.
With a sharp cutting sound, a crimson line was drawn across Hyeol Hwang’s thick neck.
“…”
Hyeol Hwang gazed down at Bu Eunseol without emotion.
In his eyes lay not pain or rage, but peace.
As if grateful to be able to find eternal rest once more.
Thud.
The massive frame, eight feet tall, collapsed as it was.
Thus, the phantom of Hyeol Hwang, reborn by Gui Il Gae, vanished by Bu Eunseol’s hand.
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“Kaaaah!”
The boys who burst from the coffins let out strange battle cries toward So Ok Rim.
Originally, when one became a Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In, the joints would stiffen and normal thought would become impossible.
Even if they had mastered superior martial arts, they could not properly execute them.
But the children with soft bones and joints had become Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In, and they had their host commander, Cheon Woong, leading them.
Therefore, the children could unfold martial arts as if masters of the martial way were displaying the techniques they had cultivated in life.
With movements both natural and perfect.
Moreover, utilizing their small frames, they displayed agile and exquisite movements.
Even an expert like So Ok Rim could not easily predict their actions.
Boom boom boom!
Each time the boys unfolded their martial arts, explosive sounds erupted, and So Ok Rim’s body was pushed backward.
Originally, she had resolved to kill them quickly and liberate them from this cruel shackle.
But facing them directly, it was not so simple.
These were all children I had cared for like younger siblings for years.
Pure souls who had always opened their arms to embrace me, smiling as they rubbed their plump cheeks against mine.
They had become puppets of Sam Gye.
They had become weapons of Sam Gye.
How could I shatter those delicate fern-like hands, those soft and slender bodies, to pieces with my own hands?
Screeeech!
In the meantime, the children unleashed bizarre demonic arts, pressing in from all sides around So Ok Rim.
The power contained within could tear apart even a Golden Copper Man in a single breath.
So Ok Rim defended ceaselessly, yet the children threw themselves at her without regard for their own lives.
In the end, only wounds accumulated upon her body.
“Hahaha.”
From the coffin chamber where Cheon Woong commanded the children, a strange laugh erupted.
As if his humanity had already been obliterated, he laughed with amusement even as So Ok Rim could not counterattack, her expression twisted in anguish.
He simply laughed as if it were entertaining.
Whiiing.
At some point, a faint light gathered in So Ok Rim’s two hands.
She was attempting to unleash the Heaven-Shattering Strike, said to collapse the very sky itself.
Uuung.
But in the end, she could not attack and lowered her hands.
‘I cannot.’
Though So Ok Rim seemed like she would be the most reckless and carefree in all Tianxia, she possessed an unexpectedly tender heart.
The constant harshness and vicious tone and demeanor she maintained were actually actions to conceal her gentle nature.
Shwik!
In that moment, a sharp claw dug into So Ok Rim’s throat.
Wan Wan, who had always eaten the most among the children, had seized the opening and unleashed the Demonic Master’s Seizing Claw Technique.
“Ugh.”
So Ok Rim, lost in deep contemplation, had no chance to evade that attack.
The only method was to create a fist aura and strike back with equal force, but doing so risked injuring Wan Wan.
“Yah!”
Then a thunderous shout erupted, and a silver shadow descended before So Ok Rim.
Clang clang!
The silver shadow—when had it been drawn?—was now blocking the Demonic Master’s Seizing Claw Technique that had been boring into So Ok Rim’s side with a short blade.
It was Yu Cheong Rim.
“Have you lost your mind, So Heroine?”
Bang!
Yu Cheong Rim, having forcefully pushed back Wan Wan’s claws with his short blade, spoke in a loud voice.
“What are you standing there doing now?”
“Then you’re telling me to kill these adorable children with my own hands?”
“These children were not kidnapped and turned into Shil Hoon In!”
Yu Cheong Rim spoke the same words that the young boy from Gwi Il Gye had said.
“This orphanage itself is a den of malevolent spirits they created!”
He attempted to subdue the Gwi Il Gye members who had been in the carriage, but they all managed to escape.
Left with no choice, he rushed about to evacuate the children from within the orphanage.
After evacuating all the children, he tried to leave but sensed something amiss in the orphanage’s facilities.
Using his special talents, he discovered secret documents hidden within the orphanage.
And the very reason this orphanage was established was…
A facility for disposing of children who had been test subjects of the Infinite Realm.
“The children from Seyangwon that the female hero So supported are no different! They were monsters from the start!”
“Be quiet!”
“What? You already knew?”
As Yu Cheong Rim stood bewildered, So Ok Rim clenched her teeth and spoke.
“Whether the children were test subjects or not, they were like my own siblings to me!”
“So you’re saying we should just let them roam Gangho in that state?”
Thwack!
In that moment, an arrow-like projectile shot by the children pierced through her shoulder.
Drip.
Yet So Ok Rim merely furrowed her brow and did not counterattack.
Unable to bear it any longer, Yu Cheong Rim stepped forward again.
Clang clang clang!
Wielding short blades in both hands, Yu Cheong Rim continuously blocked the relentless attacks of the children.
Terrifying strikes that could sever his neck in an instant poured down upon him.
Yet he could not blame So Ok Rim for standing there like a fool.
He could sense how much pain she was enduring.
Her face, which always wore a fierce expression, had transformed into that of a child holding back tears.
“I know too.”
So Ok Rim gazed at Yu Cheong Rim as he defended against the attacks, her expression vacant as she murmured.
“I already know we can’t just leave them be….”
So Ok Rim’s heart was tender.
But her intellect and composure were not lacking.
It was simply that she could not bring herself to destroy with her own hands the children she had watched over for so long. Thus she hesitated, again and again.
“That’s why I was waiting for Bu Eunseol, that woman….”
So Ok Rim wiped away the tears that had begun to form and took a deep breath.
“But now it’s time.”
“Female hero So!”
Yu Cheong Rim, who had been fighting desperately, cried out loudly as So Ok Rim seemed to have made her resolve.
“If you’ve come to your senses, please help quickly! I can’t hold on much longer!”
“…Now that you’re here.”
“What?”
A white flash of light burst from So Ok Rim’s eyes as she spread both arms wide.
At that same moment, a strange force began surging within Yu Cheong Rim’s body as he struggled desperately.
“What? What…?”
As Yu Cheong Rim felt his body about to burst, he looked toward So Ok Rim.
Without even touching him.
He realized she was infusing him with tremendous inner power through a technique similar to energy transmission.
Zing!
As the overwhelming inner force surged within him.
A terrifying blade aura three feet tall erupted from the short sword Yu Cheong Rim was gripping.
“Ugh! Aaah!”
But agonized screams tore from Yu Cheong Rim’s mouth.
As the tremendous inner power flooded his body, he couldn’t control it, and his movements became clumsy instead.
Whoosh!
The panicked Yu Cheong Rim shot upward into the air.
Crash!
But what should have been a light leap soared nearly twenty feet high, and his head smashed against the ceiling.
“Lady So! You’ve infused too much power!”
As Yu Cheong Rim cried out, So Ok Rim spread both arms again with a helpless expression.
“Relax your body.”
“What?”
“Relax your body, I said!”
Swoosh!
At that moment, dozens of thin iron wires poured forth from So Ok Rim’s hands.
Thunk, thunk, thunk.
The wires pierced Yu Cheong Rim’s major joints.
“Argh!”
Yu Cheong Rim screamed at the agony of his joints being torn apart.
“Lady So! Your aim was off!”
But something strange happened.
As So Ok Rim, gripping the wires, moved her fingers.
Suddenly, like a puppet.
Yu Cheong Rim’s body began moving against his will.
Living Mirror Wooden Puppet.
One of Seong Hwang’s secret techniques.
A secret art that uses thin strings to control another person’s body like a second self.
In the past, Seong Hwang single-handedly destroyed Hotian Bang.
It is said that using this Living Mirror Wooden Puppet technique, he alone swept away eight thousand soldiers.
And now, across four hundred years of time, So Ok Rim controlled Yu Cheong Rim’s body with iron wires instead of strings.
“Lady So! Are you… are you listening to me?”
Whether Yu Cheong Rim screamed or not, So Ok Rim controlled his body to face the children who had become Gyeol Ma Yeon Ok In.
Whoosh! Crash!
As So Ok Rim’s fingers danced in a frenzy, Yu Cheong Rim found himself locked in a cycle of lightning-fast movement and sudden stops.
Had he not been a master of lightness martial arts who had mastered the Great Hall Extreme Island Shadow technique, he would have already lost consciousness from that single move.
“Miss, Miss! Miss!”
At that moment, a young boy, having caught up to Yu Cheong Rim’s ghostlike movements, was attempting to sever both his legs.
“The legs! The legs!”
Whoosh! Crack!
But So Ok Rim launched Yu Cheong Rim skyward once more, evading the attack.
Yet there was no time to breathe easy.
The other children surrounded him in a circle, relentlessly stabbing at Yu Cheong Rim’s vital points.
“Miss! I’m going to die!”
“I know!”
So Ok Rim moved her hands frantically, channeling her martial power through Yu Cheong Rim’s body.
“Ahhh! Ahhhhh!”
Even though Yu Cheong Rim was caught in the Living Corpse Technique, he thrashed about wildly, screaming in panic.
This caused his movements to deviate from what So Ok Rim intended, preventing her from fully unleashing the profound mysteries of her martial arts.
“Hold still for a moment!”
“Save me! Please save me!”
“Be quiet! Relax your body and stay still.”
“How can I relax looking at that? Aaahhh!”
While Yu Cheong Rim was panicking, a young boy leaped into the air and raked his claws across his neck.
The move was perfectly timed and executed with blinding speed—no matter how So Ok Rim tried to adjust,
it seemed inevitable that Yu Cheong Rim’s head would be severed.
“Tsk!”
So Ok Rim let out a low growl,
Crack!
and suddenly launched Yu Cheong Rim forward at maximum velocity.
“What? Ahhh!”
Yu Cheong Rim screamed.
At this rate, wouldn’t their bodies collide and result in mutual destruction?
“Arghhhh!”
At that same moment, Yu Cheong Rim’s body shot forward like an arrow, colliding with the right arm of the attacking boy.
Splat!
Blood sprayed in all directions,
and the boy’s right arm flew into the air.
Yet Yu Cheong Rim’s body remained unscathed.
Thanks to So Ok Rim having infused all of her martial power into him through the Body Collision Technique,
his body had momentarily transformed into something as indestructible as diamond.
“Ugh.”
Though his life was spared, Yu Cheong Rim retched.
Because his arms had burst open, spraying bodily fluids and viscera across her entire face.
“Yes, body technique is your specialty.”
So Ok Rim nodded as if she had grasped something.
Yu Cheong Rim was a master of lightness kung fu, counted among the finest in Murim.
Perhaps that was why—when she manipulated him as a puppet, his body launched forward with far greater force than she could have generated alone.
What if she exploited this principle through the subtleties of martial arts?
What if she used Yu Cheong Rim’s body itself as a catapult?
She could unleash devastating power far beyond what any ordinary technique could achieve.
“So… So Female Swordmaster?”
In that instant, Yu Cheong Rim’s eyes widened in terror, the pupils trembling with dread.
He had realized what So Ok Rim was about to do.

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