The Supreme Who Rules the Boundless Sky - Chapter 204

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Spear Heaven Martial Emperor Episode 204

“The, the Red-Faced Black Demon has been defeated!”

“What in the world…”

The demon cult members fell into chaos.

It was only natural since the commanding officer who gave orders had disappeared.

However, Namgung Hyeok did not wait for them to calm down.

He plunged into the enemy camp like a wild beast leaping into a flock of sheep.

Swish!

The blood of those who first tried to block him was scattered.

“Kragh!”

“Kyaaaagh!”

Those who tried somehow to stop Namgung Hyeok’s advance screamed. They looked at Namgung Hyeok with eyes soaked in fear.

“Da, damn it!”

“Block him! Block him somehow!”

Although the demon cult members had been maintaining an offensive until now, they couldn’t do so in front of Namgung Hyeok.

They stopped attacking the Seonchang Faction and hastily took a defensive stance.

But it wasn’t very useful.

Because Namgung Hyeok easily broke through their defensive formation, which hadn’t even been properly arranged, as easily as cutting radish.

Eventually.

“Run away!”

“Waaaaah!”

The formation of those who had tried somehow to block him collapsed.

The demon cult members, soaked in terror, forgot their duties and scattered in all directions.

A few brave ones remained to try to fight somehow, but they were outnumbered.

“You, you damn bastards! Where are you going!”

Seeing this, Baekgol Magoon shouted angrily.

But no one listened to his cry as he was covered in blood and half-dead. Meanwhile.

Thwack!

“Kugh!”

So Geomlip’s spear, fighting from afar, pierced through Blood Wind Demon Army’s chest.

Blood Wind Demon Army tried to pull out the spear as if he couldn’t believe it, but his struggle was useless.

“This, can’t be…”

Eventually, he could no longer resist and died.

So Geomlip pushed aside his fallen corpse and helped Namgung Hyeok.

“Now only you remain?”

A chilling voice struck Baekgol Magoon’s entire body. Light flashed and Yeo Hui’s slashing strike cut various parts of Baekgol Magoon’s body.

Swish!

Serious wounds that exposed bone. But Baekgol Magoon had no capacity to tend to his injuries.

He bit his lips tightly and steeled his resolve.

Soon.

“Waaaaaaaah!”

Baekgol Magoon’s double palm strike rushed toward Yeo Hui with tremendous force.

A strike that was clearly not ordinary.

Yeo Hui judged that if she faced it head-on, she wouldn’t be unharmed either.

Baekgol Magoon was using a mutual destruction technique.

“Tsk.”

She clicked her tongue lightly and dodged the incoming attack.

Crash!

From the aftermath of the double palm strike, several trees behind were shattered to pieces. Yeo Hui tried to immediately counterattack but couldn’t.

“Damn!”

“Iron Blood Magoon Yeo Hui! I will not forget this grudge!”

Because Baekgol Magoon had fled immediately after unleashing his double palm strike and was already outside her attack range.

It was light body technique executed with full sincerity by a high-ranking Magoon-level person.

Even she couldn’t easily catch him.

“Damn…”

“Don’t be too disappointed. You couldn’t have finished him anyway, with those injuries he’ll need to recuperate for several years.”

Namgung Hyeok said with a bright smile to her frustration.

Yeo Hui scratched her head vigorously and muttered regretfully.

“I’m the only one who couldn’t catch mine.”

“But we still won. Look around.”

The battlefield had already ended fighting and entered a lull.

It meant that those who would flee had mostly fled, and only prisoners or corpses remained.

Compared to the enemy’s condition, the allied forces’ damage was extremely minimal.

It was an unbelievable great victory for fighting against six times the troops.

Perhaps because of this, the faces of the Seonchang Faction people looked very bright.

“Sect Master! We won! We won!”

“There’s no need to be so excited.”

“This is all thanks to the activities of you three, including Sect Master. Plus, the defensive formation you taught us was tremendously helpful.”

That statement was true.

Because if they hadn’t fought as Namgung Hyeok taught them, it would have become chaotic battle and who knows how much damage would have increased.

At least a third of the Seonchang Faction’s warriors would have died, wouldn’t they?

But achieving such an overwhelming victory meant his formation had worked properly.

Even the Seonchang Faction people who fought directly looked dumbfounded, not knowing it would be this successful.

“Is this truly the ability of Seonghwa Gate Master…”

“We had almost no time to learn, yet it was this effective.”

“How strong would we become if we entered Seonghwa Sect and received direct training?”

Strong reverence dwelt in their eyes as they looked at Namgung Hyeok.

If until now there had been some doubt mixed in about whether going under Seonghwa Sect was right, now they had completely cast aside such thoughts.

‘It’s a good change.’

If this happened, adaptation to Seonghwa Sect would also be faster.

From Namgung Hyeok’s standpoint, there was no reason to refuse.

“Let’s rest briefly and tend to the wounded. First, let’s return and practice qi circulation and breathing…”

It was when the group was trying to reorganize themselves.

“…!”

Suddenly Namgung Hyeok and So Geomlip stared somewhere.

“Se, Sect Master? What’s wrong?”

“A group of warriors is approaching.”

“What? Are they enemies?”

“I don’t know. The number seems to be about a hundred…”

At Namgung Hyeok’s words, everyone tensely raised their weapons.

About a hundred suspicious warriors.

It was fewer than the three hundred they faced earlier, but not few enough to ignore.

Depending on their training level, they might be more troublesome than those they fought earlier.

It was when the group was maintaining tension.

“Everyone halt!”

The unidentified group that had come close enough to be visible stopped.

Namgung Hyeok’s eyes showed interest. Because seeing them all wearing martial robes and emanating pure energy, he could guess the enemies’ identity.

“Gongdong Faction?”

“That’s correct.”

At Namgung Hyeok’s murmur, the leader-like man in front nodded his head.

He respectfully performed a cupped fist salute and spoke.

“Cheon Dorang, the chief disciple of the Gongdong Faction, pays his respects to the Seonghwa Sect Master.”

“…!”

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The circumstances that led to the Gongdong Faction warriors appearing at this place were simple.

They had received a report.

They said that a few days ago, they received anonymous tips that demon cult members were planning an operation to capture Seonghwa Sect Master Namgung Hyeok.

They came out like this to verify the information they had obtained.

“Anonymous informants… I wonder who they could be?”

“Most likely it’s the work of other factions hostile to the Second Young Master’s faction.”

“…!”

Sa Gong Yeon Hwa showed a surprised expression at Namgung Hyeok’s answer.

Her expression showed she never expected fellow cult members would go so far as to report each other to cause interference.

However, this was a natural occurrence.

Dragging opponents down to ruin in order to grasp power was basic among basics.

‘Especially those belonging to the Demon Cult. They would naturally possess that level of vicious intent.’

Namgung Hyeok thought this way and looked at Cheon Dorang.

His face contained a smile.

“In any case, thank you for coming. Thanks to you, I was able to feel relieved.”

“Not at all. Rather, I’d like to apologize for arriving late when such an incident occurred.”

“Apology? There’s no need for that. We were also lucky to be able to repel them easily, but under normal circumstances, you would have joined during the battle.”

“Thank you for saying that.”

“Haha, instead, please take good care of the prisoners. It doesn’t seem right to just release them, and we don’t have the capacity to take them to Seonghwa Sect.”

“How could there be any question? We will properly handle the demon cult members you captured.”

Of course, this didn’t simply mean killing them, but rather taking them away to cut their limb tendons, destroy their dantians, or imprison them in Thunder Prison according to the Gongdong Faction’s methods.

It would be cruel treatment for the prisoners, but Namgung Hyeok didn’t care.

After all, if the Gongdong Faction people hadn’t come, he had been thinking of killing them all anyway.

“However, Sect Master, will it be alright? That woman is from the Magoon ranks…”

Cheon Dorang cautiously brought up the topic.

At the end of his gaze was former Iron Blood Magoon Yeo Hui.

“No matter if she’s from the Magoon ranks, she is someone who has entrusted herself to our Seonghwa Sect. I’ll take responsibility, so it’s fine.”

“But… wouldn’t it be dangerous to accept a Magoon under your command?”

“There are many people at the main gate who can subdue her if necessary, so it’s fine. Besides, Yeo Hui has never committed any notably evil acts, has she?”

Although Yeo Hui belonged to the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult and was called the Iron Blood Magoon, that was a nickname she earned for cruelly annihilating evil faction sects that picked fights with her, and she had no major grudges with the orthodox faction.

‘Of course, it’s possible she killed everyone related to her so they couldn’t hold grudges.’

In any case, it meant there were no known evil deeds.

She pursued personal achievement and strength rather than the greater cause of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.

So while other Magoons would have terrified the Gongdong Faction warriors, they were approaching this cautiously.

‘Also, some of them probably feel burdened about overturning my choice.’

Although the opponent was also the chief disciple of the Gongdong Faction, which was by no means a low position, he himself had built up even greater fame.

If it had been someone other than Seonghwa Sect Master Namgung Hyeok in this place, such stubbornness wouldn’t have been accepted.

However, the Gongdong Faction people had complaints but couldn’t express them strongly.

Since Namgung Hyeok was guaranteeing her, they had nothing to say.

“Sigh, understood. However, please always be careful.”

“I have no intention of just standing around stupidly and getting stabbed in the back. Thank you for your concern.”

“Not at all. Then we’ll take our leave with the prisoners.”

Cheon Dorang confirmed that Namgung Hyeok’s group was safe and gathered the prisoners.

Normally, they would have stuck around under the pretext of providing escort…

They changed their minds after hearing that they had repelled three Magoon-level forces and six times as many troops without any significant damage.

Having achieved such a great victory, the Gongdong Faction’s escort was unnecessary.

So they were just trying to take the practical benefit of the demon cult prisoners and return.

“Take care. Thank you for coming this time.”

“Not at all. Please return safely.”

Cheon Dorang, who left polite farewells, departed leading the Gongdong Faction warriors.

Namgung Hyeok inspected the supplies he had received from them.

These were provisions and drinking water that could sustain this number of people for over ten days, things he had requested instead of an escort.

“Was it really okay to refuse the Gongdong Faction’s escort?”

“Wasn’t it good for you? They would have been burdensome.”

“That’s true for me. But not for you.”

Yeo Hui looked at Namgung Hyeok with a curious expression.

Namgung Hyeok chuckled and answered her question.

“Anyway, since we’ve crushed the Second Young Master’s faction, other warriors from the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult won’t target us. They wouldn’t want to end up the same way.”

“That’s certainly true.”

“Besides, we’re almost at Shaanxi now, right? Once we reach Shaanxi, even the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult can’t project the same level of influence as now. There’s no worry about pursuit.”

From then on, it would be a region where orthodox faction forces were stronger.

Of course, there would be secret branches of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult there too, but they wouldn’t waste them on attacking Namgung Hyeok.

“Most importantly, there’s no reason to owe the Gongdong Faction a debt over something unnecessary, right? That’s why I sent them back.”

“I see…”

Yeo Hui nodded as if she understood.

Namgung Hyeok looked at his companions, who seemed to have completely recovered from the battle, and spoke.

“Then let’s slowly set off again.”

The destination was Jiangsu Province.

It was where Seonghwa Sect was located.

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