Chapter 168

The first of the two, the first of the three, is the first of the three.
It is,
“…… wall balls.”
It was an anti-personnel shell. It was called a wall-powered shell because it seemed to be accompanied by thunder, just like the two characters in its name.
An Baek’s face darkened. He realized what the weapon was.
What human power, or manpower, cannot do anything about is natural disasters. But it was in the hands of the Red Dragon.
“Is it true, Black Tiger?”
“I would never lie to you, would I?”
“I don’t believe it.”
Overhearing their conversation, Master Hyun-Young of the Tiger Sword Dragon Sect finally speaks up.
“Mu Liangshui. What are you so afraid of, Grandmaster An? I’ve heard that artillery shells are unfit for use. I don’t understand why you’re so afraid of shells, which are meant to be used only on the battlefields of civilization and great causes.”
An Baek looked at Master Hyun Young with wide-eyed wonder, and seeing the curiosity in the eyes of many of his companions beyond Hyun Young, he finally spoke up.
“I can’t explain it in detail, but……. have any of you ever heard of the Wall Masters?”
“When you say Wall Calendar, do you mean that crazy guy?”
It was Bing Tian Sword Bu Feng who asked again. Bupyeong’s reason for asking was obvious.
He was a man who had terrorized not only the Jianghu, but also the middle and outer martial realms more than forty years ago.
Zheng, Sha, Ma.
A madman who can tear down and destroy as he pleases, across the three powers.
“The Magi, the Four Sects, and those of us who disagree with our political factions have had to make countless sacrifices to capture him.”
Everyone had been shocked when a single wall bolt had turned six or seven dozen people into handfuls of blood and raindrops of blood.
“The power of the shells.”
Self-defense was useless,
and even the transcendent divine laws and light arts were unable to approach it.
“What kind of spell did he use, it was unbelievable. It’s enough to kill dozens of Peak Adepts in an instant, and it’s enough to destroy an entire city wall. If it was an ordinary shell as you say, we wouldn’t have to fear so much.”
The super-peak masters who had surpassed the peak of the peak of the peak were capable of performing such extraordinary cultivation techniques that they were not afraid of even artillery shells, so if they were forced to, they would somehow survive.
“It is not the shells that are loaded and fired, but the shells themselves that become weapons in the hands of the strong. In the hands of the strong, they become weapons of mass destruction.”
But the wall pellets refused.
“……and those who captured him.”
“He was a terror I hoped would go away, but now I see. It was the Hongjian.”
The reason Hong Kun’er had been able to stand against Daemyung for so long and exert his power was the Wall Gun, and Daemyung knew it, and the members of the Sect had apparently decided that joining forces with Hong Kun’er, who possessed the Wall Gun, would be the next step.
“And yet, this is the product of his own labor. I never thought that his legacy would end up in the hands of Hong Qian Enemy and Yue Tianxue.”
Ironblood’s expression hardened at An Baek’s words. If something so dangerous is in the hands of the Heavenly Heavenly Council, he must retrieve it as soon as possible.
“……Black Tiger.”
“Yes.”
“Tell us the details of its location, and you go find Mr. Tian Qi.”
“An Da Hai.”
“Tsu’ep, Ironblood City.”
“Iron Blood Lord, it’s not just the Hongqian who guard the Walled City, everyone in the killing fields is guarding it.”
“……Even the specialty killers?”
“Two dozen. And there are probably more than a hundred first-class assassins with them.”
Even though the black tombs and black spheres are gone, there are still plenty of first-class killers. Fighting in the sunshine, they’re not half as powerful as they should be, but that’s not the case when they’re aiming for iron blood.
With only thirty or so men, they would be fighting the whole world.
But.
“That’s the kind of thing that deserves the name Iron Blood.”
An Bai could only smile.
* * *
“……Yes, you did, you betrayed the Sal Clan to the last, Black Tiger.”
King Haepyo’s expression turned sour. He had run all the way here, breathing heavily.
There is only one reason he had to come here, only one reason he had to come this far.
“I’m here to kill you.”
A self-deprecating laugh erupts from where he stands. In the dark shadows, the faint glow of blood gleams like diamond bloodstone.
“Tightly twisted, tightly twisted, how did it happen?”
Hai Pyo smiled weakly, his entire body covered in seven layers of blood.
“You’re the one who made me look so ridiculous.”
“…….”
Hae-pyo looked as if he couldn’t comprehend how one person could have turned his once solid world upside down, and the memorization raining down from the ceiling and the explosion of insults from the walls was unrelenting.
“You killed Yeon-ah and tried to harm my daughter. What more do I need to say?”
“Salsu, what kind of family does a man like you need, who makes his living killing and dying. I taught you to be a machine.”
Once Hapyeo’s left arm, it was Hapyeo who had harmed his family, and now, disgusted with himself, he took advantage of Hapyeo’s disappearance to disrupt the family and leave.
“I wish I had just left and forgotten about it.”
“……No.”
Black Lake stares at the moonlight shining through the front window.
“There is someone who believes in me, someone who is with me. I give my all for Him. He is the one who loves my family more than I do.”
“……He is the one. I wonder if he is the Thunder Sword God.”
“…….”
“That must be it, Wen.”
Happo shook his head in disbelief. His ears perked up, and his eyes glowed with blood.
“It’s kind of lonely, being trapped in here, thinking about dying.”
Gui Qi rises from Black Tiger’s dagger. The chilling life force was so intense that even his countless cultivations were helpless against it.
If he didn’t resist it with his aura, he would die without being able to do anything about it.
“Thunder Sword Saint. I envy you for being such a follower, all the more so.”
Hai Pyo’s new form disappeared with a dull thud. Despite the countless memorizations and secrets that chased after his new form, his new form stretched out like a pointer finger, piercing through space in an instant and landing right in front of Black Ho’s nose.
“I must kill you, and keep you by my side forever.”
Madness, and obsession.
He lived as the king of the killing fields, rising to the top of the heap.
A man who trusted no one and could trust no one, a man whose life was marked by distrust.
Perhaps he was jealous of the Thunderbolt Sword Lord’s loyalty and felt compelled to kill Black Tiger.
Perhaps his years of eternal solitude were all that sustained him.
And knowing that, he raised his dagger to meet Hae Pyo’s dagger as it rushed toward him, ignoring everything else.
Kang Ho realized that Eunwon was all connected.
Here, he would cut through the circle of silver that bound him, and here, he would cut through the circle of all silver.
* * *
“……khuhuhuh.”
Kwaaang! Kwaang! Kwah!
A shockwave so massive that space crumbles around you. The vast expanses of grass and lush flower gardens were reduced to a patchwork of wormwood, never to be the same again.
With each flick of his white mane, five waves of power swept through the air, and each greatsword sliced through the air eight times.
And then came the cloud of the young man’s feet, the wielder of the bursting emperor sword.
Emperor Sword Form. First eclipse.
Emperor Limbo.
Kurrrrrr!
The ground shakes, and the Emperor’s step crashes down on the white light.
Taking a step back, Bai Xiaochuang leaps to his feet and crosses his arms, tearing through the air as he faces the energy flying at him.
Crack!
The two clashing auras intertwined, shaking the earth as if a shell had exploded on the ground.
“Whoosh, whoosh.”
My breathing was ragged, but I was relieved. No more monkfish, no more Southern Palace, no more princess.
I could no longer feel the chill.
“Am I overconfident in the Aguidan and their leader? Or do you trust the Southern Palace’s people behind them?”
Baekwang reads my mind in an instant and opens his mouth. His nonchalant expression is unmistakable. Something about it bothers me, but what can I do?
There’s nothing I can do here and now.
“I believe.”
I believe. In response, Baekwang nods.
“Good, but that’s going to be a problem.”
A problem.
“This blindness you speak of is a sham, a mere belief, an invisible trust, and with that you bind yourselves.”
“I see what you mean.”
“I’m saying that it’s empty. That you can’t move starving, hungry children with that.”
As he finished speaking, I felt a cold sweat break out down my spine.
Tookaaaaaaaah!
A vaguely distant distance,
far enough away to be unrecognizable,
That’s where the princess, Agidan, and the men of the Southern Palace had gone.
The roar that erupted from that place was unheard of, even by me, who had fought on battlefields all my life.
“Khahahahahaha. Kkh, kkh, kkh.”
Bai Xiaochun’s roar of laughter erupted. I could feel my expression harden as I felt his laughter echoing away.
“It’s already started, isn’t it? I told them to take it slow, but they couldn’t stand it. Five wall bombs would have blown half the monkeys away, and I should have seen that.”
A white glow forms on my retinas. A wallop.
I’ve heard of it before. It’s one of those taboo shells that I knew from my previous life, one of those things that someone wanted to use.
Perhaps if you are hit by one, you should be prepared for the damage, as Bai Guang said.
There is the princess, Aguidan, my stepbrother, Aguidan’s leader, Huang Tianhu, and my uncle, Namgungshin, and the Emperor and Master Namgungyoul, who have come to assist me.
“Hahahahaha! Yes, rage. Rage, rage, rage. Blame your weakness.”
Bai Guang’s face lit up with laughter at my appearance. What is so amusing.
“……I told you before, I believe you.”
Just as my ten fingers can’t cover the sky, my one body can’t protect hundreds or thousands, but I believe.
The blazing thunderbolt at the tip of my sword slowly rises into the air. Seeing this, Bai Guang’s smile deepens.