Hyeonjilmusin - Chapter 125



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125. Land of the Blind (4)

As expected of the Black Swords, there was no advance warning. The swords flew in from seven directions in an instant.

I tightened my grip on the sword. Mist rose from the sword and seven blades suddenly emerged from it.

“You said you were a merchant, but you were learning martial arts!”

Certainly, the talents I recently acquired were working hard. Originally, even if I scattered them as fast as possible, I could only pull out five blades from the fog, but now I could pull out seven. Perhaps the intermediate sword talent was having an effect.

“Cover them all!”

With those words, my vision darkened. When I looked up, I saw dozens of black swordsmen rushing towards me, covering me. The weapons they held in their hands were inconsistent and varied, as expected of black swordsmen.

In the darkness, the fog emitted by the Yuun Sword Technique spread out eerily. Perhaps because of the use of the Honwonjigi, it was thick with murderous intent, like a fog hiding a murderous spirit.

“Eww!”

The groans of the people were covered with screams, and a red aura floated like blood mixed with the fog.

From now on, it was completely a matter of instinct. When I cut a black sword with my sword, another black sword would come running behind me with its sword raised. And when I cut that black sword, there was another black sword.

In the meantime, the blind people only came out at first and did not intervene in the attack. All the people attacking now were people with their eyes open.

This is probably what is called wheel warfare. It is a so-called power-saving tactic where you keep changing the wheels and roll them all the way to the end.

When my strength runs out, the blind men with their arms folded over there will step forward.

At that moment, a sickle flew out from somewhere outside my senses. I instinctively turned my body, but the sickle slashed at my waist. Blood gushed out. I immediately touched a nearby acupoint to stop the bleeding.

“Hehehe. Isn’t it time for you to start losing strength?”

The one swinging the sickle round and round was the blind man who had guided me from the inn to here. The blind were certainly much stronger than the sighted.

“I am the Ghostly Double-Clawed Sword. Even if you are an ignorant merchant, you must have heard of it, right?”

“No. This is the first time I’ve heard of it.”

“Huh. You’re a hard of hearing guy.”

Looking closely at the Gwisanggyeom, it was holding two sickles with chains connecting the handles. So it seemed like it could attack by throwing and retrieving them.

“Cover them!”

At Gwisanggyeom’s words, the black swordsmen rushed at me again. I continued to cut down the black swordsmen.

My feet clanked with every step I took. Blood seeped in between my shoes, making my feet slosh unpleasantly with every move I made.

“Ugh!”

Once again, the sickle of the pair of swords flew towards me. This time, fortunately, I was on guard and it didn’t cut as deeply as before.

Blocking and cutting down the swords of the dirty black swords wasn’t a big problem, but the sickles flying from the pair of Gwisanggyeom were definitely a threat.

“How did a merchant acquire such power?”

The man who was called Marahyeolbul looked at me and made a voice that seemed to be amazed.

Certainly, I am now beyond the category of a common merchant. I am not yet on par with the Golden Sword Na Han-geol, one of the five greatest swordsmen in the world, but I am a mutant of that caliber.

Sweat and blood dripped down my chin. It had been quite some time since I had been breathing until my chin was full, and my arms and legs barely creaked when I had to tell them to move. It was because the sickle of the pair of swords that came in exquisitely while cutting down the black swords had left many wounds on my body.

“Phew.”

The hair that had been tied back was now disheveled, as if the string had been cut by a blind sword.

“You fought quite well. It looks like you used up all your strength.”

The Marahyeolbul who had been watching until now spoke. The black people retreated in response and the blind people surrounded me. Although their numbers were small, the sense of oppression was incomparable.

“You have caused me great harm. Your life alone is not enough. I will have to tell my men to cut off the heads of that brat and that bastard.”

“Then I must quickly kill you guys and go find you.”

“Kill me? You, the piece of shit you are?”

Objectively speaking, my condition was definitely not good. My muscles were screaming and my spirit was at rock bottom.

But I didn’t come here without any plan.

“Bloodfire. I brought you here, so I will take care of it.”

Without even knowing what I was thinking, they were already discussing how to cook me.

Naturally, it was Gwisanggyeom who took the initiative. The other blind people were furious.

“Just because you seasoned it doesn’t mean it’s yours.”

“I came to my area, so how come it’s not mine?”

For some reason, the blind people seemed to have a sense of competition. Marahyeolbul laughed heartily, looking satisfied.

“But since he’s a friend that Gwisanggyeom worked hard for, I want to give him a chance first.”

“I will follow the words of the Blood Fire.”

The noisy conflict among the blind was resolved with a single word: Marahyeolbul. The hierarchy was so clear that it reminded me of the imperial army.

The other blind men followed Marahyeolbul’s words and fell back, leaving only Gwisanggyeom. Gwisanggyeom comically threw a lottery ticket at me. Anyone who saw it could tell that it was full of mockery.

“Thank you. You make me stronger.”

“Getting stronger?”

“You don’t have to know. Ah-ha-ya.”

Gwisanggyeom kicked the ground and ran towards me. Two sickles flew towards me, aiming for my left shoulder and right waist at the same time.

That’s when the fog stopped on my sword. All the fog here is my energy. All that energy was sucked into the sword.

Fog gathered and swirled over the sword. The blind people flinched. They were more sensitive to the sense of smell because they could not see.

“… … Sword exchange?”

When Marahyeolbul noticed it, it was already too late. Compared to Cheongui’s sword ring, it was insignificant, but on top of my sword, it clearly had a spherical shape.

And then it was carried by a gust of wind and shot out towards Gwisanggyeom’s torso.

“Huh?”

Gwisanggyeom didn’t seem to know what had happened to him. Among them, only Marahyeolbul had reached the level of Geomhwan.

On the sword, it was a very small sphere, but a hole the size of a human head was pierced through Gwisanggyeom’s chest. Naturally, the scythe that had been rushing at me lost its strength and fell miserably in front of my body.

I grabbed Gwisanggyeom’s head with one hand before his body hit the ground.

“what?”

Even though they couldn’t see it, the blind seemed to sense what I was doing. Even though I didn’t have any intention of absorbing it, the magic energy of Gwisanggyeom was sucked into my hand. The magic energy that lost its master was looking for a new, more overwhelming master.

Even though they couldn’t see it, they must have felt the flow of energy. The faces of the blind people, including Marahyeolbul, turned pale.

“The Great Law of Absorbing Stars?”

Those words came out of someone’s mouth. It couldn’t help but feel that way to them.

But to be exact, I wasn’t being forcibly absorbed. The magic energy of Gwisanggyeom followed me on its own.

“……iced coffee.”

At that moment, Marahyeolbul let out a weak groan.

“That is not some low-level martial art like the Absorption Technique. The sect leader has appeared. The sect leader… … .”

“Blood, blood fire?”

Marahyeolbul suddenly got down on both knees and crawled on all fours toward me. Then he licked the tips of my shoes soaked in blood.

“Ah, Your Majesty. Why have you come so late?”

I watched him quietly. Tears began to well up in his white eyes as he looked up at me.

“I have created many servants for the lord.”

“Yeah. You’ve had a hard time.”

I just said something like that, even though those blind people weren’t my subordinates.

However, Marahyeolbul trembled as if he was in great ecstasy at my words.

Marahyeolbul felt around my body and finally found my hand. Then he lifted my hand and placed it on his head.

Through the Baekhoe blood, the demonic energy of Marahyeolbul was sucked into me. Unlike Guisanggyeom, Marahyeolbul had a lot of demonic energy and it was pure. Marahyeolbul’s skin shrank and his breathing became slow, but his expression brightened. It seemed bizarre to me that his expression would brighten as he died, which was completely against my common sense.

The blood of the Marahyeol flames twisted like a wooden horse, turned the color of dirt, and fell to the ground. On the other hand, my body, which had been struggling until just now, was surprisingly full of strength.

“hmm.”

I grabbed his shoulder and turned his arm. My plan was to recharge my stamina with the magic of the blind, but I didn’t expect one of them to crawl toward me and sacrifice its life. Anyway, the result was the same, so I didn’t really care.

“Joe, Jongju?”

“Is the return of the lord that the Blood Fire spoke of real?”

On the other hand, the blind people became noisy. Perhaps only Marahyeolbul was the real remnant of the Demonic Cult, and the others were just like the black people who had been here for a long time.

The Mara Blood Flame was the strongest, and it seemed that they were controlled by magic that made them stronger in the short term.

What that meant was that other blind people wouldn’t be as loyal to me as Marahyeolbul.

“Kill him!”

The blind men all rushed toward me, perhaps feeling an instinctive threat. Their movements were certainly threatening. If Marahyeolbul had really rushed at me, I think I would have had a hard time.

However, I can say that my physical condition right now is the best it has been since my regression, and it is also the strongest because my danjeon is filled with explosive magical energy.

I felt waves of energy pouring in from all directions. I felt like I was seeing a glimpse of what blind people see. It was like I could see the flow of energy in waves.

Right now, my dantian’s spiritual energy was completely depleted, and all I had was the demonic energy I had brought from Marahyeolbul and Gwisanggyeom. The martial arts I could use at this time were set.

“Guyusura Sword?”

They must have been very seasoned Sapas, judging by the fact that they could guess what kind of martial arts it was even though they couldn’t see.

“Why is the season of Ilgumsura here… …!”

The Guyusura sword dyed my Songmungo sword a crimson color. The magical energy dripping down the sword’s spine looked like blood.

The murderous intent of the Guyusura Sword, unleashed with pure magic, was so terrifying that even I, the one unleashing it, felt chills. To the blind who were directly facing that murderous intent, it would have felt almost like a blade being held to their neck.

“Eww!”

Blind people, terrified of life, ran towards me, screaming.

In this situation, it seemed that even the cool-headed blind could win, but they were excited and scared and were no match for me.

In less than a moment, all the blind men were lying on the ground in hideous forms. The bodies of the blind men who had been struck by the Guyusura sword were not cut by sharp swords, but were torn into rough sections as if they had been bitten by wild beasts.

“Phew.”

I exhaled and looked around. The sight reflected under the small night sky was a picture of hell.

“If you die here, you won’t even need a coffin.”

I drew the blood on the sword into the air and shook it off, then put the sword away.

I wiped the blood off my face with my forearm and pushed my disheveled hair back.

Finally, I looked back as I left the square. The corpses that had been vivid were now covered in darkness. The reason was simple. It was because I had a small night light in my arms that illuminated the hall.

Now it was time to go find Myeongil and Yeohongyang.