The Great Heavenly Demon Sovereign - Chapter 839

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Chapter 839.
A faint hum resonated through the air.
The transparent barrier that had been blocking his entry was dissolving, fading away like mist.
At the same moment, the intricate patterns engraved upon the blade of the Muk Hon Sword vanished in an instant.
“What? It wasn’t just an ordinary iron sword?”
So Ok Rim stared at the Muk Hon Sword, her mouth falling open.
No matter how closely she examined it, it appeared to be nothing more than a common longsword, yet it possessed such power?
“This is…”
Bu Eunseol, who had hesitated for a moment, spoke honestly.
“A kind of God-Slaying Instrument. Judging by how the Muk Hon Sword responded… it seems something was unfolded not by the Absolute Boundary, but by the power of the Black Divine Instrument.”
“A God-Slaying Instrument? Such a thing exists?”
“I gave it that name myself. This sword can shatter the Black Divine Instrument, after all.”
“What exactly is a Black Divine Instrument?”
“You don’t know?”
“No.”
When So Ok Rim blinked her eyes with innocent nonchalance, Bu Eunseol furrowed her brow.
She was the successor to Jeong Hwa Sam Gye in Sae Oe.
Though she had devoted herself to martial cultivation without knowing the true origins of her sect, there was still far too much she remained ignorant of.
“It is beyond my comprehension.”
It was an honest sentiment.
No matter how much Jeong Hwa Sam Gye inherited the will of the Baek Ri Family and focused on restoring the power they had transmitted,
they had failed to explain even the Black Divine Instrument that could shake the very foundations of Murim?
“I told you already. The Youngest Grandfather’s life was cut short midway, so he couldn’t pass down all his knowledge.”
So Ok Rim lowered her head with a melancholic expression.
“The Grandfathers wanted me to focus solely on martial cultivation without concerning myself with other matters. Perhaps… they hoped that a situation would continue where I wouldn’t need to know such things.”
Sorrow clouded So Ok Rim’s large, luminous eyes.
“Our sect’s purpose was always to restore the origins of that martial art, after all.”
In a sense, her circumstances were similar to Bu Eunseol’s.
The elders of Jeong Hwa Sam Gye had given So Ok Rim only their love, and surely hoped she would remain ignorant of the filthy affairs of Murim.
But fate, in the end, had led her down the harsh path of vengeance.
“I see.”
Bu Eunseol wore an apologetic expression.
“I spoke carelessly. My apologies.”
“It’s fine. To be honest, I still can’t believe that our sect is a branch of Sam Gye.”
So Ok Rim had consistently fought alongside Bu Eunseol to thwart Sam Gye’s conspiracies.
Yet the sanctuary she had always believed to be the Hyun Mun Sect had actually sprouted from the roots of Sam Gye…
It was bewilderingly disorienting.
As the atmosphere grew heavy, Bu Eunseol quickly changed the subject.
“Ah, so regarding the Black Divine Instrument—”
And she calmly began to explain what the Black Divine Instrument was.
“Really? Such things exist in this world?”
After hearing the entire story, she wiped her nose and laughed brightly.
“Those grandfathers were truly indifferent. They should have told me about this long ago.”
So Ok Rim and Bu Eunseol’s circumstances were similar, but their mindsets were entirely different.
Bu Eunseol pursued the martial way with sorrow and indignation as her driving force.
In contrast, So Ok Rim was building formidable martial prowess through her carefree nature.
One was like the moon emitting mysterious light in the deep night, while the other was like the intense midday sun.
Despite possessing such completely different qualities and inner worlds, their spirits aligned so perfectly… this was no ordinary fate.
“In any case, since we have a weapon to counter the Black Divine Technique, we can rest assured.”
So Ok Rim waved her hand dismissively and stepped inside.
“Now let’s go in and see what’s there.”
The two entered the circular building.
The interior of the massive circular structure with no ceiling was completely empty.
And at the center of the ground, a colossal tree grew, absorbing the light descending from the sky.
“It seems as though life force is being granted only to this place, purely to nurture this tree.”
So Ok Rim gasped in wonder, her mouth falling open like a child’s.
The tree, as if brimming with the life force bestowed by the heavens, possessed a mysterious and beautiful appearance as though it were about to bear fruit.
Whoong.
Then the Muk Hon Sword’s blade resonated once more.
Simultaneously, intricate patterns formed again on the scabbard.
“What? Does that mean this tree is also the Black Divine Technique?”
To So Ok Rim’s question, Bu Eunseol shook her head.
“I’m not certain.”
Strange power did flow through the entire tree, but it felt distinctly different from the function emanating from the Black Divine Technique.
Moreover, the light flowing from the Muk Hon Sword had faded, yet there was no particular reaction.
“Hmm.”
After standing blankly with her arms crossed for a while, So Ok Rim gazed at the Muk Hon Sword and spoke.
“What if we test it slightly on that branch over there?”
At So Ok Rim’s suggestion, Bu Eunseol pondered briefly before nodding.
“Very well.”
The Muk Hon Sword had certainly reacted, and that tree still stood alone, absorbing the heavens’ light.
Testing the Muk Hon Sword to unravel its secret was not a bad idea.
Flash!
Bu Eunseol infused her power and sliced the tree’s tip like lightning.
Ching.
Yet only a clear metallic ring echoed forth.
The branch didn’t budge in the slightest.
“It’s this hard?”
She had drawn upon the power of the Four Supremes, so the inner force contained in the Muk Hon Sword alone was at the level of forty times.
Moreover, the sharpness of the Muk Hon Sword surpassed that of any divine blade in Tianxia.
A mere branch stopped it?
Boom. Boom.
Yet the response came from an unexpected place.
Suddenly, a tremor that shook the earth itself reverberated through the air.
The vibration emanating from deep underground seemed as though something were about to burst upward, growing steadily closer.
“What is this? Is the tree angry?”
“No, it sounds like it’s coming from beneath the ground.”
Just as Bu Eunseol said, the tremors rising from the earth were spreading outward from the base of the colossal tree.
Boom. Boom.
The vibrations grew increasingly intense,
Crack.
Suddenly, the massive tree split into two halves, and from within, a Black Shadow Being slowly revealed itself.
In that instant, the light descending from the sky seemed to vanish.
Bu Eunseol and So Ok Rim’s eyes widened in shock. An utterly grotesque form had materialized before them.
“That is…”
What had split the tree and surged from the earth was, quite literally, a black shadow.
No clothing, no face—nothing but a pitch-black silhouette.
The aura flowing from its entire form seemed to evaporate the very air, radiating a terrifying pressure.
“Uuugh…”
The shadow-form Strange Being,
upon meeting Bu Eunseol’s gaze, suddenly clutched its head and let out a groan.
The hazy black form then became sharper and more defined, transforming into a shape like a human drenched in ink.
“What? Is it human?”
As So Ok Rim moved closer,
“Do not approach.”
Bu Eunseol immediately seized her arm.
Screech.
At that same moment, a crimson radiance that seemed to split heaven and earth blazed across the ground beneath So Ok Rim’s feet.
Had she carelessly approached the Strange Being?
She would have been cleaved in two from head to toe and perished in an instant.
“Are you insane?”
So Ok Rim shouted at the Strange Being with fierce anger.
“I was trying to help you out of goodwill, and you want to kill me?”
When the Strange Being did not respond, So Ok Rim amplified her inner energy and cried out loudly.
“Answer me!”
“Krrrrgh…”
The Strange Being then writhed in greater agony, clutching at its head.
Though her outburst seemed simple, in truth it was a thunderous proclamation infused with the power of Pasha—the force that breaks evil—akin to the Lion’s Roar of Bulmun.
Boom!
Unable to endure the torment, the Strange Being collapsed and struck the ground with its fists.
Crack, crack, crack.
As if an earthquake had struck, cracks spanning dozens of meters began spreading outward.
“Ugh…”
After writhing in agony for some time, the Strange Being glared at So Ok Rim, his eyes blazing crimson.
A murderous intent so fierce it seemed he would kill her on the spot radiated from him.
“Ha.”
Faced with that savage gaze, So Ok Rim wiped the sweat from her brow and looked toward Bu Eunseol.
“It seems to have backfired.”
Boom!
An explosive sound erupted as a transparent barrier of inner force materialized across So Ok Rim’s entire body.
The Strange Being had unleashed a lightning-swift strike without warning, and So Ok Rim, sensing it, had deployed her formidable defensive energy.
Screech.
Pushed back three steps, So Ok Rim furrowed her brow as if she’d swallowed bitter medicine.
The Strange Being’s fist power was so overwhelming that despite deploying her defensive energy, she had sustained a subtle internal injury.
“The Profound Sound Heart-Cleansing Laugh doesn’t work on him?”
What So Ok Rim had unleashed was the Profound Sound Heart-Cleansing Laugh—a Daoist technique known as the Lion’s Roar, said to dispel all delusions the moment one hears it.
But it seemed to have produced the opposite effect, actually worsening the Strange Being’s madness.
“Kaaah!”
With a battle cry, the Strange Being hurled another punch at So Ok Rim.
But she, having already anticipated his attack, immediately deployed her movement technique to evade.
“Listen here! You struck first, so don’t regret what comes next!”
Completely forgetting that she herself had initiated the Profound Sound Heart-Cleansing Laugh, So Ok Rim unleashed a terrifying punch.
Whoosh!
Yet her punch sailed through empty air.
Boom!
Another explosive sound rang out as So Ok Rim was driven back five meters.
The Strange Being had unleashed another lightning-swift strike.
“He’s incredibly strong.”
So Ok Rim’s mouth fell open.
She couldn’t even properly see what technique the Strange Being had used.
“Stop this fighting.”
Bu Eunseol stepped forward in front of So Ok Rim.
“We have no intention of battling you.”
Though the Strange Being’s mind was clouded, he had entered the Secret Library of the Baek Ri Family, which no ordinary person could access.
And he had destroyed in a single blow the massive tree that even the Muk Hon Sword could not scratch.
This meant he possessed tremendous inner power.
Perhaps he was even someone from the Baek Ri Family, who had completely vanished from the world.
Whoosh.
As Bu Eunseol stepped forward, the Strange Being’s gaze grew hazy.
But soon a blazing crimson light began to kindle in his eyes…
With merely a glance, the Strange Being unleashed a pressure so overwhelming it seemed capable of shattering the entire world.
‘Formidable.’
Bu Eunseol swallowed hard and clasped her hands together.
“I am Bu Eunseol, a disciple of the Nangya Pavilion. You appear to be an esteemed elder of the Murim, though I cannot quite place you….”
Crash!
Her words died unfinished.
A tremendous force had swept past mere inches from Bu Eunseol’s cheek.
Sizzle.
White smoke rose from the Strange Being’s left hand.
It had unleashed a punch of such incredible power and blinding speed that it defied belief.
“…It seems his mind is not entirely sound.”
“Ugh.”
As the Strange Being clutched his head,
Zing. Zing.
A faint light flickered once more from his fists.
His unsettled mind caused him to repeatedly gather and release his inner energy in his hands.
Boom!
Yet ultimately, the Strange Being unleashed another punch toward Bu Eunseol.
‘There’s no choice.’
Bu Eunseol had no option but to summon her own power.
Whether his mind was sound or not mattered little.
Since he displayed hostility, only offense and defense remained.
“I shall handle this. Do not intervene, Sect Leader So.”
Both Bu Eunseol and So Ok Rim were young, yet they were grandmasters of the Murim.
No matter how formidable their martial arts might be,
it would wound their pride to join forces against an opponent of unknown origin whose mind was not even intact.
“Ah, then I’ll take this one.”
So Ok Rim cracked her knuckles and stepped forward.
“I was attacked first, so it’s only fair I go first.”
“…Very well.”
Crash crash crash!
The battle between So Ok Rim and the Strange Being commenced.
Slam!
Yet within mere seconds, So Ok Rim was rolling across the ground in a pitiful display.
The Strange Being’s martial prowess was extraordinary, and with his casual, formless strikes alone,
he toyed with the renowned So Ok Rim as though she were a mere child.
“This dark bastard!”
So Ok Rim sprang to her feet, wiping the crimson blood flowing down her forehead.
“I’m bleeding!”
Boom!
At the sight of blood, So Ok Rim’s hair bristled skyward.
“So you really want to do this!”
Finally unleashing her true power, So Ok Rim moved with lightning-swift ferocity, a far cry from before.
Whoosh!
The Strange Being’s attacks began to miss one after another.
By channeling true power.
I could now evade the Strange Being’s fists—attacks I couldn’t even see or sense before.
Whirrrrr.
In that moment, brilliant light began to gather in both of my fists.
I was about to fully unleash Seong Hwang’s martial arts.
“Take this….”
Just as I was pouring all my strength into my technique, I had to stop and open my eyes wide.
“What? What what what?”
The fists I thought I had completely evaded.
Had somehow surrounded my body without a single gap.
‘I’m going to die!’
Sensing the threat to her life, she began unleashing all the secret techniques of the Eight Emperors and Three Stars that she had mastered in the Secret Library.
As she, possessing unparalleled skill even among the younger generation of great masters, poured out her martial arts with all her might.
Boom! Rumble!
The power was as if the heavens were collapsing and the earth was splitting apart.
Crash!
With a thunderous explosion, dust billowed in all directions.
“Cough!”
So Ok Rim staggered backward, letting out a turbid groan.
In the end, the Strange Being’s single fist had pierced through all of her defenses.
“Damn it.”
Her expression turned bitter.
The Strange Being’s martial prowess was truly beyond all measure.
Not only could it dissolve any attack in an instant, but it could unleash endless fists that could not be evaded.
“Ugh.”
So Ok Rim was furious to the tips of her hair.
She had trained so hard in martial arts for the sake of revenge.
Yet she couldn’t even block a single fist from this mysterious Strange Being?
“Who exactly are you?”
She cried out toward Bu Eunseol.
“Is that person Ma Cheon Je?”
The Strange Being’s martial prowess was so formidable that So Ok Rim’s outcry was hardly unreasonable.
“No.”
“He could be hiding his identity. Check his eyes once.”
Bu Eunseol spoke with certainty.
“He is not Ma Cheon Je.”
In truth, Bu Eunseol found herself equally astonished.
She had encountered the Sammasamjon long ago, those who claimed to have reached the Mujik Gyeong realm.
In their previous clash, she had even defeated the Incheon faction members who stood alongside them, single-handedly.
Yet the Strange Being’s martial prowess… far surpassed that of the Sammasamjon by an immeasurable distance.
For the power the Strange Being unleashed now was not martial technique at all.
Rather, it was movement born purely from instinct, executed without reason or consciousness.
If he were to deploy true martial arts with a clear mind?
So Ok Rim would not have lasted even a few exchanges before crashing to the ground.
“I must go all out.”
In that instant, white radiance poured forth from So Ok Rim’s entire body as her hair began to rise and surge.
“Since he lacks his senses… I won’t kill him, but!”
As the power to destroy all creation gathered in both her palms, they became suffused with white light.
Not the Severing Dual Galaxy technique.
Rather, the Seong Hwang’s exclusive forbidden art—the Stellar Radiance Meteor technique—which, though somewhat less devastating, perfectly sealed the opponent’s every movement.
“Cha-ap!”
Suspended in mid-air, So Ok Rim thrust both hands forward toward the Strange Being with a thunderous shout.
“Taste this!”
Kwang!
A pristine white tempest swept across heaven and earth as meteors of pure white cascaded upon the Strange Being’s form.
Kwaaaah!
The meteors, falling like rain, transformed into a white dragon that engulfed the Strange Being’s body in an instant.
Yet something extraordinary occurred.
As the Strange Being spread one arm wide,
Shuu…
The power of the Stellar Radiance Meteor technique halted before his palm—it could not advance further.
However, as the overwhelming Stellar Radiance Meteor technique burrowed into his palm,
Crack, crack, crack.
Fissures spread across the Strange Being’s dark forearm, revealing a pristine white arm hidden beneath.
But that was all.
Even with the Seong Hwang’s martial arts that could overturn the heavens, she had merely driven away the darkness shrouding the Strange Being’s forearm.
Thud.
As So Ok Rim descended back to the ground, her mouth fell open in disbelief.
“He blocked the Stellar Radiance Meteor technique with a single hand? Is that even human?”
“Allow me to attempt it.”
“You… you will?”
As So Ok Rim stepped back without hesitation, Bu Eunseol drew upon her power and advanced.
“Be careful!”
From her fist erupted a fierce tempest of true energy.
Since the Strange Being had consistently employed fist techniques, she too deployed the Fist Demon Seven Techniques.
Boom! Boom!
Yet the outcome remained the same.
Each time the Strange Being casually waved his hand, the power of the Gwon Ma Seven Techniques melted away like snow.
With every collision of force, Bu Eunseol’s body was gradually pushed backward.
Though she hadn’t expended all of her true energy,
the Gwon Ma Seven Techniques—the supreme fist art of Murim that could even break Gwon In—proved utterly ineffective against the Strange Being.
‘This is impossible.’
Startled, Bu Eunseol refocused her mind.
She activated the Nangya Heart Eye.
She sought to discern how the Strange Being deflected her attacks, how his power scattered each time he swung his arms.
‘Nothing?’
But it was futile.
The Strange Being moved like a new form of life fallen from the heavens—employing no martial techniques whatsoever.
She couldn’t even begin to fathom what method he was using.
Crash! Boom boom boom!
In the end, Bu Eunseol was helplessly driven back by the Strange Being’s power, retreating five zhang once more.
“Kaaah!”
Unsatisfied, the Strange Being charged at Bu Eunseol with a murky battle cry.
This was strange.
When So Ok Rim retreated, the Strange Being would cease his assault.
Yet Bu Eunseol had fallen back, and still he didn’t stop—he continued pouring forth his power relentlessly.
Crackle crackle crackle! Snap snap!
In panic, Bu Eunseol unleashed the Extreme Speed Shadowless Movement at full force, and the Thunder Divine Technique automatically activated, creating hundreds of phantom images.
The Strange Being seemed momentarily startled as Bu Eunseol perfectly evaded his attack,
then suddenly
a whip-like force curved in at a sharp angle.
For the first time, this was no instinctive assault.
He was attacking Bu Eunseol using the subtleties of martial technique.
“Excellent!”
At last, as the Strange Being employed martial arts, Bu Eunseol finally drew the Muk Hon Sword.
Whoosh.
With a resonant blade cry that shook heaven and earth, an icy sword aura bloomed from the Muk Hon Sword.
Screech! Screech!
With each flourish of her swordplay, tens of zhang-high waves of frigid sword aura swept across the heavens and earth.
Yet the Strange Being showed no fear, instead tearing through the sword aura with both hands and closing the distance.
The two clashed sometimes close enough for their noses to touch, sometimes moving in opposite directions,
engaging in endless exchanges of offense and defense.
Whoosh.
Eventually, Bu Eunseol had no choice but to retreat sharply, creating distance between them.
The Strange Being’s two hands were sharper than divine blades, and even his simplest attacks condensed dozens of martial technique subtleties within them.
In close combat, even Cho Soo Gong Bang’s techniques were beyond what Bu Eunseol could withstand.
Crash!
Finally, Bu Eunseol unleashed the Yeouui Jingyeol.
In an instant, a sharp net-like sword aura spanning a dozen paces enveloped the Strange Being’s body. Or rather, it should have.
Thud.
Something extraordinary occurred.
The Strange Being instantly perceived the weakness of the Yeouui Jingyeol, and prevented Bu Eunseol from materializing her true energy.
Instead, it unleashed an otherworldly wave of force.
‘This is no mere exploitation of a weakness.’
The wave the Strange Being was unleashing was not born from improvisation.
It was a new martial art, created long ago by combining mysterious techniques to counter the Yeouui Jingyeol.
‘This being has faced Ma Cheon Je directly.’
Bu Eunseol could be certain of this.
This Strange Being must have engaged Ma Cheon Je in single combat, which is how it could devise a method to counter the Yeouui Jingyeol.
But an absolute master who survived Ma Cheon Je’s hands, aside from Sammasamjon itself?
In all of Murim, there could be only one such person, could there not?

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