Chapter 157

“Kiyaho!”
A low but excited voice.
“Enjoy yourselves, you bastards!”
“You can grease your bellies all you want!”
“You got it, boss, kya-kya-kya-kya!”
“The sissies are all mine!”
The men who had just emerged from the Great Wall had already ravaged Yunnan. The demons of the Great Wall were all hungry.
The harsh environment was unbearable, the heat sealing their pores and forcing them to breathe hard.
The heat was so intense that the golden stones melted and flowed, and it was called “flowing gold stone,” meaning iron flows and stones melt.
If there is a North Sea facing the northern wind and snow, Daemak is said to be a southern wind heat.
Seeing this, the leader of the demons of the Great Wall clicked his tongue.
“……Such a one has set foot in a place of splendor.”
Shangguan Xiong shook his head in disbelief, but he did as he was told by the King of the Great Wall. A capricious man, he did as he pleased, but at least he was generous to his subjects.
If the king told him to do something, he would do it.
“But the boss!”
“Not the boss, the captain.”
“That’s not it! He’s a boss. That’s why women don’t follow him!”
“Giggle, giggle, giggle!”
The bossy, fast-talking man, leading a group of what must have been hundreds of people, if not more, to be called simply the Demon Cult of the Great Wall, held his stomach and chuckled.
“What a bunch of bugs.”
I hate to use such a derogatory term, but it was indeed a swarm of locusts.
Just as a swarm of locusts can sweep through a place and leave nothing behind, so Yunnan had already been swept away.
All the small and medium-sized sects in Yunnan had been swept away. All the women were terrified. Those who dared to fight more than necessary were beheaded and hung on the city walls.
But then came the guan soldiers. The sight of them stopped them in their tracks like a swarm of yellow worms. They knew they were in trouble if they messed with the guards. The unspoken rule was the rule of all worlds.
It was a pitifully sympathetic statement. How could those thoughtless bastards stop doing their job?
I couldn’t let that happen now that I was their boss.
So I said.
“It’s okay, just wipe them out.”
“……? Boss?”
“Oh, you’re the boss again.”
The correlative’s irrelevant remark echoed, causing the demons to look dumbfounded.
“Fools, have you forgotten where our king is? The king has given his instructions. Do as we say, not as we do.”
The demons’ eyes begin to glow at his words. What a delightful phrase.
I’ll be able to tear apart the Guan Army at will, and I’ll be able to hold women in my arms like they were my own, not the rough and tumble women I’ve always had to deal with, but the women I’ve grown like plants in a greenhouse.
“Pinch!”
“Waaaaaaaah!”
And so it was that, passing through Yunnan, they encountered the horde of demons that had begun to rampage in Guangxi, and it was they who had decided to ignore everything else and concentrate on stopping them, and they emerged with ragged breaths.
* * *
Kwaang!
Puck! Puck! Puff!
It was none other than the demons of the Great Wall. The legs of the horses, which were skillfully moving with their trained feet even in the desert sand, were swept away and they fell.
At the same time, the flashes above them, the bundles of sword qi that pierced through the simultaneous flashes, pierced through the demons’ stomachs.
Hiying! Heeeee!
Quadruple.
Especially.
“Sweep!”
A man stepped forward, his top ripped off, his muscles thick and copper-colored, as if every inch of it were alive.
“The Wall Force will come and wipe them all out!”
At the same time, the roar of a man with fists the size of pot lids echoed in all directions.
Boom!
With a roar, his sixteen fists crushed the heads of the demons. As the corpses of the women lay scattered around the horde of demons, Qin Tiankai pounded out a fist worthy of his star.
“You should stay down, not crawl out and rampage.”
If a swarm of demons were to be described as a swarm of hornets.
Huang Bozhong literally moved like a fish out of water in beating the demons to death.
In effect, he was performing a one-two punch, causing hundreds of demons to stop in their tracks.
“The famous ones have arrived.”
An even worse man stepped forward, none other than Shangguan Xianxian. He scanned the area with an air of annoyance. He was annoyed that he had interrupted their fun so soon after arriving, and that he had beaten thirty people to a bloody pulp in one fell swoop.
“You shouldn’t be punching these poor guys like that.”
“Poor. They deserve to die for what they did.”
“Tsk, the strong have no compassion for the weak.”
Huang Bozhong, sensing that his thought circuit was faulty, realized there was no point in arguing. He shook his fist at Shangguan Shixiong and opened his mouth.
“For me, entertainment is to crush your heads, so come here.”
“Huang Bose, Huang Bose, next to you is Nan Gongxue, right, you’ve become a dog of the Nan Gongxue family. I heard that you’ve been trying to surpass Nan Gongxue for a long time, but in the end, you’ve managed to squeeze your head in. What a shame. Kick.”
With those words, despite the deaths of more than thirty demons, the remaining hordes of demons burst into laughter. Huang Bozhong’s face contorted as giggles and laughter echoed all around him.
Then.
Clang!
A resounding rumbling sound sliced through the group of laughing demons.
Shangguan Xianxuan’s head turned, and thirty or so demons split diagonally and collapsed. Shangguan Xian’s expression hardened as he watched their bodies separate from their laughing faces.
“The Huang Bo family is the Southern Palace’s walking companion and lifelong friend. Not just Huang Bo, but all of us in the Martial Sect are friends who walk the same path.”
With the tip of his sword glowing blue, the Southern Palace’s Mu Bai stepped forward and spoke in a fierce voice to Shangguan Xianxuan and the other demons.
Then, with a sweeping motion, the sword Qi took the form of a crescent moon and flew out once more.
Shangguan Xuan gritted his teeth at the sight of the tangible sword energy. No matter how much he wanted to, the words of Wu Nanxiong were different.
He has reached the same level as the king they trust and follow.
One of the ten people in the world.
Then.
Quang!
Shangguan Xian’s outstretched hands fell to the hunchbacked man in front of him, who could see them clearly.
“Trouble. Why are you trying to kill all those innocent children? This is the first fun I’ve had in a while, and you’re interrupting it.”
Another.
“Gakchu.”
Another madman appeared.
“Come, I am Gopchu. I am the King of the Great Curtain.”
The great tyrant, Guo Qiu, revealed himself.
* * *
Despite my cries, what would eventually happen did happen.
A fierce battle broke out with the Aggies. Three hundred Aggidan desperately raise their spears to block the way, while seven hundred Aggidan thoroughly exploit the gaps.
They know each other better than anyone else. They have stood shoulder to shoulder on the battlefield, and now they strive to stab each other. Their piercing blades are unnatural, and the more unnatural they are, the more fierce they are.
“This is why it’s important to follow a good commander.”
The monkfish leader’s expression twisted at the sound of his voice. An uncomfortable truth, the moment you realize it, a lot of things flashed through your mind.
He could see why Song Linzheng had come to this place, and why he had drawn his dagger on himself.
To the very end.
To the very end of the end.
He never showed himself, hid himself, until the right moment, and then he revealed his ambition, but how could it be called simple, for it was no mere ambition, but a truth so great that it would lead the Aggies to his side.
He simply uncovered the truth that the Netherworld had covered up, and he put the name of his ambition over it.
“You bastard!”
In the blink of an eye, the refined blade of the crushed Huang Tian Lake slashed through space, striking down at Song Linzheng.
Kagagagagak!
A scraping noise echoed through his eardrums, as if he had heard an uncomfortable truth.
“I didn’t know, I knew all along, but I didn’t let it go because I wanted to.”
Song Linzheng didn’t back down as he faced Huang Tianhu’s blade.
“That’s why the other members of the Monkfish Clan felt betrayed and followed me. Otherwise, they would have followed their leader, Huang Tianhou. You, the great and honorable warlord.”
Each of these words was a stinging blow. Huang Tianhou could feel the eyes of countless members of the Monkfish Corps on him, pointing their spears at him.
“Look. Everyone is blaming you.”
“……Don’t assume that all inconvenient truths are true. There are some truths you don’t need to know.”
Now that he’s reached this point, the pieces of the puzzle have come together, and there are many things he’s only now realizing.
But how can I explain it all?
For Hwang, who has spent his life in a position of leadership and with a sense of mission and responsibility to lead others, to explain it to himself would be to deny the life he has lived.
So he decides to take it upon himself.
Digging!
Kwaang!
A thunderbolt landed between Song Linzheng and Huang Tianhou, and in an instant, the thunderbolt began to chase after the retreating Song Linzheng.
“Profit!”
“Don’t say pierced mouth. You’re the leader of the Monkfish Sect, and if it weren’t for that man Huang Tianhu, you would have been destroyed in no time.”
“What bullshit……!”
The one who dropped the thunderbolt opened his mouth, and Song Linzheng closed it as if he was speechless.
Kwajik!
Song Linzheng flexed her spear and blocked the stem of the thunderbolt that rose up, dodging the two monkfish members. At the same time, the other three members of the Monkey Clan simultaneously stretched out their sharp spear tips, emitting a brilliant red light as they stretched towards the Southern Palace.
The surging red aura, reminiscent of the infernal fires that the monsters were named after, met the thunderbolt.
Several blue bolts of lightning struck through the annihilating aura. The power of the thunderbolts increased with each passing moment.
Dig in!
With thunderous lightning in his eyes, Nangong Ban surrounded the Thunderbolt Powerhouse and swung his sword with a fierce thunderbolt aura.
As soon as the facing monkfish members encountered the Thunderbolt Powerhouse, their entire bodies trembled, and they finally spat out the breath in their mouths, causing black smoke to burst into the air and disperse.
The countless cultivated members of the Monkfish Sect, once Thirty-Nine had fallen, blocked Song Linzheng’s path again. And facing him, Namgungban opens his mouth.
“Think about who was truly for you. At the very least, no one who truly cares about you would have you pointing spears at each other like this.”
The Thunder Sword God is the Southern Palace’s half-brother,
His words echoed through the air as he took on the form of a thunder god.
Song Linzheng shuddered at the sight of him.