Chapter 143

The martial arts world is a madhouse of grudges, but a sword fight with no grudges, no grudges, is exhilarating and relaxing in its own right.
There was no need for emotional bending,
no need to care about the emotional lines of happiness and sadness.
So there was no need for the sword to contain anger, and there was no need for the sword to be drawn out of sadness.
There was no need for any other reason for the sword to meet the sword. It was just you and me, me and you, here and now, to settle the score.
I smiled inwardly at the victorious battle. I had thought that there could be no afterglow after I had unsheathed my sword, but for once, I felt that it was possible.
His thoughts were not much different from mine, and he had no limits to his sword thrusts, and the act of thrusting seemed to be pleasing to him as well.
Kwagagagagagagang!
With a flash of light, a bolt of thunder struck the lapis lazuli. In the next instant, the bluestone floor is crushed, and even though I thought I was changing the terrain, my body was thrown backwards as my body shook. An intangible energy had hit me.
It took me a few steps to regain my footing, using the Heavenly Wind Divine Technique to center myself, before I was able to get back on my feet.
Tsk tsk.
The intangible energy flying towards me tried to push me away like a palm, but I swung my sword without delay.
With a square, cutting sound, the intangible stem was sliced apart, sending the emperor sword’s energy flying and scraping across the blue granite floor.
That’s it!
The instant it was scraped off, the blue granite floor instantly split in two. A crack and a split,
“Someone must be rich. He’s got a lot of money in his body.”
“It’s …… not the right thing to say, and if anyone else hears it, they’ll misunderstand. I haven’t gotten anything for nothing.”
From the moment the bluestone floor cracked, the moment we stepped on the bluestone floor, the moment we bumped into the air gradually increased.
Kwang! Kwao!
Dozens of thunderbolt stalks stabbed at Fang Xiu, and Fang Xiu used his Qingyun Red River Sword to split them apart, while simultaneously shooting out tension toward me with his left hand. The black aura was definitely a strange one.
“You’re not using your heart?”
I stiffened my expression. Then Kwangseung’s face fell and he shouted.
“You’re crazy, you bastard! You think I’d use something so crude!”
That was it. Or so it was. For I had harpooned Yeogon with the Supreme Heart, and I had trembled at the wickedness of the Supreme Heart.
Kwang-Seung angrily yelled at me, reminding me that he would never use the same tension as the Supreme Heart.
Or so I thought.
I kicked out a wave of blue sword steel from the Speargun Martial Art toward the tension.
And in that moment,
I realized that Jiang Chen was trying to distract me.
“Bastard, get a grip. You don’t know where the river is.”
The figure I was looking down at blurred into an afterimage, and the voice was coming from behind me.
My eyes had been tricked and moved.
“You can’t say you’ve gotten used to seeing the grain until you’ve seen all the tricks of the lead.”
I gritted my teeth as an intangible energy pressed against my shoulders and back. A fatal mistake, I thought. A momentary lapse would prove fatal when facing a master like Kwangseung.
The intangible energy that had been lingering over the unarmored man had scattered and dissipated, and it seemed to me that he was able to do more within the space he controlled, and limit his opponent.
Otherwise, there was no way I wouldn’t have noticed his movements. Now that I could see the kinks, I would have to either stop seeing them and not feel them, or I would have to become more keen to see them. It felt like a new battle had opened up.
“……It’s not over yet.”
I shouted back at the crushing force, and the invisible victor snorted. Perhaps the moment he turns his head, the energy he’ll unleash on me will be too much for him to handle.
It was impossible for him to give up this opportunity so easily, but neither could I.
“Knowing what you lack makes it worthwhile to grow something else.”
“Don’t talk nonsense, you’ll scare me away.”
“I’ll show you.”
I don’t want to be caught in the spider’s web of intangible energy that wraps around my shoulders, my back, and my entire body, turning me into a prey that will never escape. I drew on the Martial Great Extreme Stretching Technique to increase my thunder energy. At the same time, I unleash the Heavenly Wind Divine Technique.
Thunder is the essence of the thunder and lightning I use.
If I add it to the Heavenly Wind Divine Technique, I can summon it into lightning-like movements, and I will become a thunderbolt.
An intangible aura unfolds, followed by a flash of lightning.
Quang!
* * *
“This won’t be easy.”
Fang Gak clicked his tongue as he crossed his arms. In Fang Gak’s eyes, it was clear that he really meant business, and he wasn’t going to let a single trick slip through his fingers.
“…….”
“To say the least, you’re a sincere wu nai sibzon.”
Pangak shook his head in disbelief.
“Of course he should.”
An Baek spoke up.
“……?”
“It is as it should be,” he replied.
“No, but if you’re a man of Wu’s age, who can blame you if you make a few concessions?”
An Baek shook his head as he looked at the young man on the bluestone floor, facing off against the giant of the sect called Guangxiang.
“Do you think he’s had an easy road? Think of it as incense, not him up there. For the sake of the incense, will you ask the monk to be gentle?”
“…….”
“You have endured everything, never doubting yourself for a single moment, walking the path that is not a shortcut, and that is why you are where you are. That’s how he was made. Concession, that’s a word for something unacceptable. It would be an insult to him.”
It’s a statement that can only be made by someone who has watched the unarmed young man for a long time. It’s an assessment only he can make.
“Well, Governor, now that I think about it, I’m beginning to feel differently.”
Pangak quickly corrects himself and looks down at his hands. His hands are trembling subtly, as if he’s suffering from a form of epilepsy.
He shudders, remembering the unarmed young man on top of him only moments ago.
“Hagiya, that sword I clashed with the other day was a killer. When did you raise such a monster?”
“Bred. I grew it myself.”
“Then it makes even less sense.”
Then, in the reflection of their retinas, they saw the figure of the Berserker behind the young man,
“Aah.”
“Off, that’s it.”
“Hah……. Bummer.”
The crowd’s murmur of disappointment is echoed around the room. The inability to move easily is a sign of danger, and the crowd has already decided that the moment is over.
But the two men know differently. The moment they see the flashes of light emanating from the young man’s body, they know he’s really starting to come into his own.
“Let’s see.”
“He won’t lose.”
Pangak looks surprised at that.
“Is that really how you see it? Sure, he’s grown and improved at a ridiculous rate, but is he really that good? You don’t know the skills of a champion, do you?”
“……Yes. I do indeed see it that way.”
There was a flash, and an intangible tension filled the unarmed man’s body as it crashed down upon him in countless bursts, a tension that could only be seen in a trance-like state.
A feast of grains hidden in countless tensions.
And with each burst of blue light, the young man’s new silver dodged the tensions as they flashed by. Even a mudfish wouldn’t be able to escape this easily.
“He’s always been a miracle worker.”
* * *
If there was anyone in the Zheng Sect who could face a thousand horses, a demonic beast comparable to them, and a demonic beast two hundred years old, and fight it alone, it would be Kwang Seung Wo. And I saw it with my own eyes. With his Qingyun Red River Sword, which hadn’t even reached its peak yet, he was facing Sima head-on.
A few days ago, I had fought An Baek, Fang Gak, Nangong Yue, and many others, but I had never been under as much pressure as he was.
So I did.
I couldn’t even touch a single hair of the indefatigable Kwangseung. It must still be too much.
I saw the grain, realized the Great Extended Stretching Technique, and performed the Emperor Sword Form.
I had achieved so much that I wondered if I could grow any further, and then I touched the invisible world of the Vast Winner.
“It’s still not easy.”
I had to admit it, he was a giant of the Zheng Sect, the closest thing to a supreme being in existence.
The Divine Monk Hui Yan, the Celestial Qi, and the Celestial Divine Sword Namgung Mu Bai.
Seeing a man who is overwhelmingly stronger than all three of them, I can say categorically.
“It shouldn’t be …… easy. When was it ever easy to get here?”
“Of course not, it never was.”
“Then why do you say that?”
“How is it that there is not a single shortcut along the way?”
The Madman laughs in disbelief.
“Do you know how old you are now, and do you not realize that your accomplishments already make no sense now, because you act and think like an old man?”
“Age is a great enemy, and you speak as if you know how old I am.”
When you add up your past lives, you’re already close to Kwangseung’s age. So you can speak with confidence.
“What is it you want to say?”
“What is it.”
“Are you going to give up like this? If so, it’s good for me. I’ll take the championship of the Fengyun Branch.”
I shook my head at the giggling winner’s words.
“Though.”
“Huh?”
“Even if it’s a difficult path, I’ve never given up. Do you know why?”
I looked at Nangong Mubai, and then at An Bai, who was watching me. At the same time, I looked at Namgung Wall, Namgung Hyuk, and Namgung Gal, who were cheering me on from afar, and finally, I locked eyes with Mrs. Bai.
“Desperation. That’s what sustains me, and that’s why I’m standing here, to set right what has been gathered under the name of Namgung.”
“I promised the Namgung class in my previous life,
I promised my mother in my previous life.
I vowed to return to this life and protect the walls of the Southern Palace, Mrs. Baek, and my mother.
Now that I have forgiven my father, I can walk side by side with my brothers.
I can finally live a normal life. The only thing that sustains me is my desperation.
So even if there is an insurmountable wall in front of you.
You must climb it and overcome it.