Chapter 31

Chop! Chop!
“Haat!”
KANG!
The last of the halberds flew out of Wang Zhengqi’s hands and into the sky.
“It’s over.”
Ma Jintian muttered, dropping his sword and approaching Wang Zhengqi, who was lying on the ground.
His demeanor was overflowing with relaxation.
Ji Yun, Ji Yun, Ji Yun.
Ma Jintian dragged his sword across the ground and stood in front of Wang Zhengqi.
“It wasn’t fun, but it was still worth it to taste the salsamas and poison. Farewell.”
The sword slashed down to strike Wang Zhengqi.
Wang Zhengqi raised his trembling head.
“Hahaha.”
Wang Zhengqi’s hand lifted quickly, and something flew from his sleeve dance toward Ma Jintian’s throat.
Ma Jintian’s face hardened.
‘It’s dangerous…….’
Time slowed down.
The world seemed to have come to a standstill.
From Wang Zhengqi raising his hand to the sleeve dance to the flying of the Yu Leaf Sword.
Everything was clear in the slowed-down world.
Qi was drained from the top battle.
The intangible energy that escaped from the top of the formation flew at a high speed, arriving at the Yu Leaf Sword as it flew towards Ma Zhen Tian’s neck.
“Grab it.
The intangible energy caught the slow flying Yu Leaf Sword.
But my intangible energy, telekinesis, was weaker than the energy contained in the scroll that Wang Zhengqi had thrown with all his might.
‘Then change the direction to…….’
But I had the ability to change direction.
I fiercely attacked the blade.
Bang!
The tip of the blade gradually changed direction.
It was aimed precisely at Ma Jintian’s neck, but due to the collision with my intangibility, the blade grazed Ma Jintian’s neck.
Blood spurted from his neck.
But it wasn’t enough to kill him instantly.
Wang Zhengqi’s huge face was covered by a blue sword shadow.
When it disappeared, Wang Zhengqi muttered with a stern face.
“Uh……that…….”
A face of madness.
“Kaaah!”
A vein started from Wang Zhengqi’s crown and ran between his legs.
The vein split Wang Zhengqi’s body in two.
Chaaaah!
The entrails spilled out, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
It was a brutal sight, but I watched it without turning away.
This is what I should see in my life as an unattended person.
And this is the end of the man I did not kill, but I should have killed, and I helped to kill.
The weight of the soul.
It’s not like when I killed the Masked One.
When I felt it after the fight was over, I felt the weight of killing anew.
The soul of Wang Zhengqi burrowed into my chest and crushed my heart.
From now on, whenever I kill a person, my heart will always feel this heavy.
They had a life, something they wanted to do.
I will struggle with the guilt of having destroyed it, of having broken it.
But you have to get over it.
You don’t turn a blind eye.
I don’t ignore the weight of their souls, I don’t walk past them.
These are all things I must live with and bear.
I take in the weight of the monarch’s soul with my heart.
It seemed to ease his mind a little.
Ma Jinchen grabbed him by the throat and held him down.
“Ugh…… was it poisoned…….”
Ma Jintian approached the bisected body of Wang Zhengqi and took something out of his bosom.
“Here’s the antidote …….”
The red dumplings that Wang Zhengqi had eaten when he was sprayed with acetic acid.
Ma Jintian took a bite and ate it, and then took a Yun Qi breakfast.
After a while, the red poison came out of his pores.
Qiqi, qiqi, qiqi!
The poison was so powerful that it could melt the earth.
“Huh…… That was dangerous.”
Ma Jintian muttered as he released his hold and stood up.
“I shouldn’t relax until the last minute…… So that’s what you meant.”
With a smirk, Ma Jintian approached the royal scepter and my sword.
He cut the salsamsa tied to the hilt and tossed the sword to me.
“Take it.”
“Eh!”
I caught the sword and sheathed it in the scabbard at my waist.
“This is my sword, the one I used when I was recruited by the royal government as an unarmed man. He was an enemy, and a vicious one at that, but I’ll give him this much courtesy.”
Ma Jintian approached Wang Zhengqi’s limp, bifurcated body and stuck the two scythes into his left and right sides.
“Farewell.”
As if he had no regrets anymore, Ma Jintian coolly turned his back and walked away.
“Come on, let’s go.”
He turned and walked out of Nokcheng Mountain.
It was already dawn when they arrived at the checkpoint.
The main gate was guarded by the head gatekeeper and the gatekeepers.
“We shouldn’t go through the main gate, right?”
“Of course not. The elders have told us not to go outside the gate, right?”
“Haha, then I guess the only answer is to climb over the fence.”
Sasasak!
The sound of grass crunching underfoot came loudly.
It must have been the silence of the gatekeepers, she thought, as she could hear only their quiet chatter.
He leaped from under the fence and was about to climb the wall once more when Mazin Tian shouted.
“Danger!”
As he climbed up the wall, he used his strength to kick the wall and crouch down.
On top of the wall, a cloaked figure in black was thrusting his sword down.
Evil!
A dark, charcoal-colored sword that seemed to blend into the darkness of the cloaked figure’s charcoal painted cheek.
“Chet, you let your guard down.”
Ten masked men jumped down from the fence.
“Did you think we got away?”
“Of course. For a dog so loyal as to abandon his master and run away, I expected nothing less.”
The masked man in the center flinched at Ma Jinchen’s sarcastic insult.
“It’s only been half a day, and you’re not even provoked. It seems you’ve developed some intelligence.”
Unable to resist this time, the masked man on the far right drew his sword and lunged.
“I guess not, stupid.”
He took a step forward and thrust his sword at the masked figure charging toward him.
Whirr!
The masked man flipped and dodged, but it wasn’t enough.
Puck! Pow!
He brought his sword up to block, then used his unarmored hand to punch the masked man in the face, and then struck him in the chest with a kick.
The masked man went flying and landed in front of the nine masked men.
His eyes rolled back in his head, unable to lift a finger.
It’s a little over the top, but it’s still better than nothing.
For them…….
“What…….”
Swoosh!
The masked man standing in front of the flying masked man raised his sword and brought it down.
Blood soaked the ground, separating the head from the torso.
“Again…….”
My blood boils.
What the hell does this fellow know…….
Ma Jinchen stepped forward and said.
“He could have been alive, why did you kill him?”
“A defeated man is not worth living. Judging from the fact that you guys arrived safely at the checkpoint, I’m guessing that Wang Zhengqing is also dead.”
“Hmph, he was my master, can you call him that?”
“I thought I told you that a defeated man is not worthy of being alive. He does not deserve to be called our master.”
“Doesn’t running away count as defeat?”
“There is no shame in knowing one’s limits and fleeing without a fight.”
“Good self-consolation.”
Ma Jintian sneered.
The masked man stood still, unmoved.
“But what if we had fled from the royal family?”
“That’s not likely.”
“I see. Then you don’t think we who killed Wang Zhengqi can defeat you?”
“Ten of us, or even nine of us together, could not defeat Wang Zhengqi. It’s no wonder we can’t defeat you.”
“Then why did you block our way?”
“Because I wanted to give you a little something…….”
The nine masked men reached into their bosoms and pulled out something.
“Tumang? And…….”
“Kukkuk. It’s a wall pellet.”
“You mean the wall bolts of the Wall Magic Master?”
“Of course it is. Here, take it.”
Phew!
The nine masked figures instantly surrounded them and threw them.
“Oh no!”
The speed at which the javelins flew was fast.
It was better to cut the bat and run away than to try to slip through the masked men.
BANG!
“Is this……?”
With a loud bang, Tumang deflected the sword.
In the blink of an eye, Tumang covered Mazin Tian and me.
“What is this…….?”
Tumang’s sword was unusually hard.
It felt as if I was hitting a diamond.
“It’s called a diamond chain net. It’s an item that was carefully crafted by the company.”
Qi Yun
The masked men lit the wicks of the wall bombs.
“Goodbye. Kahaha!”
The masked man tossed the smoke bomb at us with a big smile and quickly left the room.
Kwaaang!
With a blinding flash and a sound like thunder, the wall bomb exploded.
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The masked man threw the wall bomb.
Everything slowed down as if time had stopped.
Nine wall bombs flew by.
I unleashed my chi through the top battle activated by the fight with Wang Zhengyu.
Telekinesis.
The chi released from the top battle split into three directions and surrounded the three wall bombs.
When I imagined holding them in my hands and pressing down, the burning wicks of the bombs were extinguished.
However, the power of the shot remained the same.
If the wick is left out, it won’t explode, but if the other bombs explode, they will explode together.
‘Oh no…….’
I had to fight my way through the masked men to escape.
I risked my life by making the wrong decision.
On the battlefield, one wrong decision can cost you your life.
It’s a good lesson, but it’s useless if you’re going to be killed by a wallop.
Unless a miracle happens…….
Ma Jintian drew his sword and rushed forward.
A white, hair-raising bright light enveloped the sword.
“Is that sword qi?
It wasn’t.
It wasn’t the unstable sword qi he’d seen from the masked men.
It was a completely tangible, single-colored and shaped qi.
A powerful concentration of chi.
‘No, that’s…….’
Sword.
The Sword River is said to be unstoppable, cutting through sword qi like nothing else.
It was manifested by Ma Jintian.
It emits an aura that seems to cut just by looking at it.
It sliced through the golden chain as if it were nothing, and cut through the three flying wall bombs.
Ma Jintian turned his head slightly and looked at me.
He seemed to be telling me to follow him.
I was so focused on the sword that I forgot that we had to escape.
I cursed myself inwardly and gathered all my qi into my legs and channeled it through my dragon blood.
Descending from the dantian, the qi released through the dragon blood exploded as it hit the ground, giving him a momentary boost of momentum.
In an instant, he caught up to Ma Jintian and broke free of the Diamond Chain Net.
However, only a tiny bit of the wick remained, enough to burn away in the blink of an eye.
Even if he ran, the aftermath of the explosion would tear his back.
His eyes met with Ma Jinchen’s.
They exchanged a glance, and he stopped in his tracks.
No, there was no time for a flag ceremony.
In an instant, he deployed the final blade.