Chapter 194

His entire body trembled. He’d never faced such a great power before.
It was more ferocious than the white light I had awakened to,
and sharper than Sapphire’s blade.
I can feel its power wrapping around my entire body, capable of tearing me apart at a moment’s notice without leaving a scrap of flesh.
“Big.”
But I can’t help but think.
This fire was going to start a chain reaction. Once the wall bomb explodes, the wall bombs behind it will surely explode as well.
If that happened, they would all be wiped out, just as Zhuge Liang had said. We couldn’t let that happen.
The only saving grace was that the Erlings were not like the Gold Councilors in that they would not put their loyalty to the cause above their own lives.
As such, they were left behind, flailing their legs and denying their fate as best they could.
If only they could stop the flames from erupting in front of them, at least they wouldn’t die right then and there.
But.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh …
As if mocking my thoughts, the flames burst forth,
As if to mock my thoughts, the flames erupted, and as I drew on my sleep just to hold it together, they set themselves ablaze once more, unleashing a storm of fire.
I drew on my entire body’s latent power and used my dragon to ward off the incoming flames. Kwang Seung and Huang Bozhong were at my back, drawing on their own auras to energize me, but it was only for a short time.
…Yun Hao Reverse Reasoning (Reincarnation Reverse Reasoning Array).
The words spoken by Jie Gal Zhu Hu.
And it was the best we could do.
Knowing that even if we were to force this fiery power out of the imperial palace, it would wipe out an entire region in an instant, Jie Gal Zhuhu unleashed his own technique and charged forward, intent on sending Tai Muze, the Golden Weapon, and the Golden Weapon together.
The moment I came face to face with Tai Mu, I almost lost sight of the energy that was pulling the flames.
It’s none other than the nape of his neck.
And the moment I see his face, I recognize it.
The face of a woman who once terrorized the Zheng Clan.
At the same time, the story he shared with Princess Joo flashes through his mind.
“My aunt is gone, my uncle is gone. My brother hasn’t been seen for some time now, and I don’t know why.”
“You mean they disappeared?”
“Yes. They disappeared, overnight.”
“And the Emperor is not curious about that fact?”
“……I think I heard something unintelligible.”
“Unintelligible.”
“Yes. I’ve heard that there is only one person in the entire world with the Zhu family name, and that it is the only one with the blood of the current empire and imperial family.”
Why did that memory come back to me?
Because.
“The moment I first learned that the only people in the world who could use the Zhu family name were those with imperial blood, I was stunned.
Sima, a Zhu Yuan Yuan.
She, too, wore the Zhu surname. ”
Shima, Zhu Wenyuan,
Her presence, and the words she left behind.
“Do you think this will be the end?”
“The bloodshed you saw in your previous life will happen. Because of that madman, Dojin. Ho ho ho.”
“A blood demon will appear who is no match for me. You’ll regret it, and before you know it, you’ll be taken over.”
In my previous life, there was only one Shishan Blood Sea that I saw.
The madness of Emperor Dao Jin.
And there is only one person who is worthy of the name Blood Demon.
Everything says it all.
Tai Mu said.
“……Blood Demon!”
Taemu is a blood demon.
What burst out of my mouth was the shout of a blood demon that I had been harboring deep inside.
It was Kwangseung who shouted at me when I almost lost my senses.
“Get your shit together. You’ve come this far, and you’re not going to let go.”
With those words, I raised my energy and took a step forward, closing the distance between the Emperor and his wife, while Zhuge Liang spoke to Guangxiang, Huang Bozhong, and Gu Man, who had followed Guangxiang.
“You will help the Sword King, you will help Ho Tao to bring the author to the emperor, and you, Jiang Jiangyong, will bind their feet so that they cannot move.”
The order was immediate,
the judgment swift,
and the action was even more fierce.
Guang Shuang grabbed the Sword King by the hindquarters and sent him flying toward the striking platform; Huang Bozhong threw the charging Gold Weapon Commander Yi Yun with the power of the Wall Force Heavenly Power and carried him toward Tai Mu; and Gu Man swept the floor of the Unworld Road with his Unworld Road to immobilize Tai Mu.
If it weren’t for the Wu Nai Fifty Zones, he wouldn’t have been able to evade the movements of the golden councilors trying to sabotage him.
Boom!
It happened in a flash,
I instinctively condensed the flames into a single energy that I had never seen before.
The flames transformed into a single sphere, and it landed right in front of Tai Mu’s nose. At the same time, four jade stones sparkled from Jie Gal Zhu Hu’s bosom.
The jade stones were named the Divine Qi Stones.
They were the treasures of the Jie Clan, and they contained ethereal powers.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
It scattered and settled in the four directions, and the aura of the four divine stones trembled.
The Heavenly Emperor and the Immortal,
Daoist of the golden crown, conductor Yi.
And a storm of flames swept over them in one fell swoop, spreading out in all directions, while the Reincarnation Reversal Jin that had been activated engulfed them all.
Just like that, they vanished.
I stopped dead in my tracks as the flame aura vanished with the two of them.
I shook myself.
My fingertips trembled from the bitter recoil that drew on my entire body’s latent power. I was still reeling from the aftermath of all the energy I’d expended to restrain the fire’s power.
But what of the power I’ve released?
If I’ve saved everyone, that’s enough.
What if I’ve lost my strength?
If I’ve saved everyone, that’s enough.
With that, I looked up at the ceiling and closed my eyes.
* * *
Shishan Blood Sea.
I held my sword. It was all over.
When I opened my eyes, I was horrified to see the tip of a spear thrusting toward my uvula. Nevertheless, I instinctively swung my sword.
Kaang!
“Captain!”
The voice calling out for the captain belonged to Heintai.
Heintai is the aide-de-camp at my side as the Captain of the Heavenly People.
I gritted my teeth and swung my sword again, feeling nothing but the aura of the great master. I have only the Iron Sword Sixty-Six left.
In the midst of the battlefield, Heintai, the one person I could trust with my back, was smiling as we swung our swords together.
Looking at him, I had to keep a smile on my face despite the fierce battle.
In the distance, I can see the figure of Hwang Cheon-ho, the monkfish commander in charge of the army and the general in charge of the entire army.
It’s familiar.
The air was so familiar that I swung my sword without tiring.
The Hongjian enemies in front of me were cut down one after another, their blood soaking my body. They give me a look of fear in their eyes.
They were right.
I am a killing spirit, a sword spirit, and a nachal to them.
I slashed the body of the Red Devil in two,
“Ah, you thought you could kill me, you must wallow in eternal despair. ”
I heard the cursing voice of the woman I had cut to pieces in the past hour.
From the moment I turned my head, I could see Heintai, the soldiers, and the Huang Tian Lake moving away from me. Once again, everyone was moving away from me, just as they had been before.
“Yes, blame and blame and blame. ”
They were actually leaving me behind, which was impossible.
“Doubt, doubt, doubt. No one would sacrifice themselves for you.”
The moment when we had just stood back to back and clashed swords is gone.
“Pant and pant and pant on the bloody battlefield until your souls are broken, splintered, and scattered, for that is all you can do.”
I didn’t want to die. No, I couldn’t.
Her voice sounded like thunder, and I gritted my teeth against the sea of red. How could I die here, after all I’ve sacrificed?
How many things have I given up to get to this point?
Why is there no one here?
Unable to believe it, I clutched the sword in my hand and slashed, slashed, slashed. I stretched my legs and moved, facing the enmity of the Reds, facing murder.
And then.
“Don’t struggle,” said a voice, ”you’ll only prolong the moment of your own death. ”
Her cursed words thundered like thunder. My energy is cold and drained.
Heintai in the distance, and Hwang Cheon Ho on horseback, commanding the entire army.
A great army of warriors clashing against each other, and the red armor of the Red Turbans rushing about.
I see, they do not see me.
In my helplessness, I thought,
“What’s the point of realizing now? Even if you do, the abyss that lies within you will not disappear. You should know.”
I realized something with her laughter, for it reminded me of someone very much like her, very much like her.
Very unpleasant.
So unpleasant.
The laughter of a man whose scheming and maneuvering had nearly led to the downfall of all of the Middle Kingdom.
A familiar scent wafted through his scattered mind, projected into his clouded memory. I hear a voice in the distance that I recognize as belonging to Heintai, the man who could have my back.
“……!”
I can barely hear what he’s saying.
“Mr. ……!”
Say it again. He’s speaking in Korean.
“……Captain!”
He’s calling out for me. It was screaming at the top of its lungs.
My eyes widened at the sound of his voice.
“What are you doing here, Captain? Go back! This is no place for you!”
With those words, I understood.
This was Shima’s place of illusion,
“You can’t kill me. No one can. Not the heavenly horses, not the blood horses. Not even you. ”
“Do you think this will be the end of it?”
True to her word, she died, but the spells and curses she left behind did not.
The only way to break them is for me, Namgungban, to break them myself.
A flash.
I blinked open my eyes to see everyone bleeding and falling to the ground, and there stood the South Palace God and the South Palace Lady, both covered in blood, holding a man back.
“……Ohora. You’ve already woken up. My sister’s words were not untrue.”
The man stood there, his hair matted, his skin scorched and oozing with gore that peeked through his tattered clothes.
He was smiling as he looked at me.
It was a blood demon.