Who threatened Cheonma Hara with a knife - Chapter 441



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Episode 441: The Wonder (3)

Ilmok closed his eyes again and started to relax.

This time, instead of relying on the power of the Soo-Ma-Gong, I absorbed the inner strength of the Tal-Hon-Mu-Jeong-Geom and filled my lower abdomen, which was more than half empty.

It was to make sure everything was ready.

Because I couldn’t tell what was in the middle of that lake.

After eating the morning meal for half an hour, Ilmok opened his eyes with a start as his lower abdomen filled up.

Ichimoku, who had been sitting cross-legged, opened his mouth.

“I’ll go over there for a bit.”

The group looked at Ilmok with puzzled expressions.

Because his finger was pointing far away, towards a place where nothing but water could be seen.

“Is there something over there?”

When Jin Ha-yeon asked as a representative, Ilmok nodded and gave a brief explanation.

“I don’t know exactly, but I have a feeling something is bothering me.”

“I will let the girl join us.”

“Just in case, Lady Jin, please wait here. Those Myeol-a-geol guys might be wandering around nearby.”

After giving brief instructions, Ichimoku quickly headed toward the lake.

Among the light-hearted techniques, he used the technique of climbing over water (登萍渡水), which is quite an ascending technique, and ran across the lake as if it were flat ground.

From Ichimoku’s perspective, who was already capable of walking in the air, it was nothing special, but James and O’Hallac just looked at the scene with blank expressions.

‘Oh, is that really a person?’

Meanwhile, Ichimoku, who was quickly running across the water, was soon able to reach the center of the lake.

The figures of the group were small, so it seemed like they had run at least a ri.

‘It’s below.’

The density of the energy waves felt through the senses has become thicker.

As Ichimoku took a deep breath and stopped using his internal energy, his body was naturally sucked under the water.

In that state, Ichimoku rotated his body so that his head went down, and then used his internal energy again.

He unfolded the secret of the Gyeongsin method in reverse, made his body heavy with a thousand-pound weight, and moved his limbs roughly by filling them with internal energy.

Then his body began to dive at incredible speed.

As I quickly sank to the bottom of the lake, I caught sight of fish swimming around.

‘Are those freshwater fish or saltwater fish?’

While I was thinking of useless thoughts, I dived down at a fast speed, and my ears became blocked even though my body had become much stronger after a complete transformation.

After that, he went down even deeper for a while. When he was starting to feel pain beyond the feeling of being hungry, something caught his eye.

Fortunately or unfortunately, it wasn’t something like an elixir or a herb.

At the bottom of the water, where it touched the ground, there was a huge snake coiled up there.

It looked too small to be called a snake, but it was too big to be called a snake.

‘It’s that guy.’

A strong negative energy was flowing out from the giant snake.

How many decades, no, how many hundreds of years would it have taken me to grow to that size and build up my strength?

‘It may have been possible because this lake was salt water.’

I thought that because the water was undrinkable for humans, nomads did not settle near the lake, and that is why it grew steadily for hundreds of years.

The reason why the spirits of the Central Plains dried up was because the martial artists who had their eyes on internal energy used light energy to clear out all the deep valleys of the mountains that were difficult for humans to reach.

While Ilmok was examining the giant snake.

As if he had sensed Ilmok’s presence, the snake that had been resting with its coiled body raised its huge head and looked at Ilmok.

As the bastard opened his mouth, a ‘kkieeeek’ scream was heard in Ichimoku’s ears even though he was underwater.

At the same time, the bastard released his body that had been coiled like a dragonfly and lunged at Il-mok in an instant, shoving his mouth open.

The snake’s teeth, revealed through its gaping mouth, each looked at least a foot long.

Ichimoku swung his sword at the snake that seemed to be trying to chew up his entire body, and a metallic sound echoed as the Ascension Sword clashed with the snake’s teeth.

The teeth of the guy who was touching the Sword of Ascension, which was filled with energy, began to crack, but Ichimoku was actually frowning.

‘It’s frustrating.’

The original goal was to stick the Ascension Sword through the gaping maw, but the body’s movements were slower than expected.

Simply going into the water tends to make the human body dull. On top of that, perhaps because he had dived more than twenty meters deep, he was unable to move his body as he wished, even though he was using his internal energy to move.

After blocking the snake’s first attack, Ichimoku swung his sword again.

The Ascension Sword advanced through the waves with a slower movement than when swinging it on the ground, and the snake easily avoided the sword strike by twisting its massive body this way and that like a fingernail.

It seems that, thanks to the experience of clashing teeth with that sword, he realized that it was dangerous to directly hit that sword.

Perhaps because it was a spirit, it moved quite nimbly.

Using his flexible body, he moved around Ichimoku in the water, and thanks to his flexible movements, Ichimoku’s Ascension Sword had a hard time reaching the creature’s body.

Even as the bastard hovered around, the cold aura that was slowly spreading from his body grew stronger and began to slowly freeze his surroundings.

As the already cold lake water became even colder, Ichimoku had to quickly raise his internal energy to fight against the cold.

‘It won’t work in the water.’

The problem was that my already dull body was becoming even duller, but the biggest problem was my breathing.

Even if I just stayed still, it would be difficult to endure the pain, but as I continued to move my body in sync with the snake’s movements, the oxygen in my lungs was gradually running out.

Realizing that it would be dangerous if he delayed any longer, Ichimoku quickly swam toward the surface, waving his arms and legs as if he were performing a magic trick.

However, the snake was faster in the water, and as Ilmok started to run away, the snake that had been circling around once again thrust its mouth out and attacked Ilmok.

Ichimoku swung his right hand toward the snake.

visor!

Once again, the fierce Ascension Sword clashed with the snake’s teeth, creating a metallic sound, and one of the snake’s teeth ended up breaking off.

Kieeeek!

Perhaps regretting its hasty action, the snake looked as if it was about to stick its mouth out, blocking Il-mok’s escape.

Every time, Ichimoku had to swing his sword at the snake’s mouth, so his escape time was inevitably delayed.

‘Still, just a little more and it’ll be over!’

As my breath caught in my throat, I saw the water surface with sunlight breaking through it before my eyes.

That moment filled with hope that you can finally breathe again.

I felt a strong gust of air under my feet.

I turned my head slightly and looked down. The snake had its huge mouth wide open, and the water of the lake was being sucked into it in a swirling manner.

‘No way? No way?’

As if to shatter Ilmok’s hopes, the snake roared again like a lion’s roar, and the water that had been sucked through its mouth poured out towards Ilmok, carrying with it an enormous amount of negative energy.

The water stream that shot out, cutting through the lake’s current, turned into ice in real time and flew in, perhaps because of the cold air it contained.

It looked like a giant ice rink.

‘crazy.’

Ilmok swallowed his swear words and quickly turned his body and swung the Sword of Ascension.

The strong energy that had been surging from the Ascension Sword spread widely, forming a strong energy barrier, and immediately after, the dragon’s breath struck the strong energy barrier.

bang!!

A huge explosion rang out, and the impact pushed Ichimoku’s body out of the water.

* * *

The group at the lakeside were looking at the center of the lake with half-dazed eyes.

This was because Ilmok, who had run to the center of the lake through Deungpyeongdo Waterway, suddenly dived into the bottom of the lake.

Those who were blankly staring at the place, wondering what on earth Ichimoku was trying to do, saw an unimaginable sight.

bang!!

There was a huge explosion and a splash of water, and then a pillar of ice burst through the water.

And the piece of wood that was pushed by the ice pillar was flying through the sea surface and into the air.

For a moment, everyone was dumbfounded by the bizarre sight.

Kkieeeek!

Their faces turned pale in an instant.

This was because a huge creature burst out of the water and thrust its maw at the floating figure.

“Left handed!!”

The moment when some people screamed in desperation and tried to throw themselves towards the lake.

Ichimoku, who had turned around in the air, easily blocked the snake’s mouth.

At that sight, O’Hallack and James’ mouths fell open.

‘What, it’s not like it’s some kind of monster war.’

‘Fighting a dragon living in a lake! Just like a warrior from a legend! Wait? Is the Heavenly Demon Sect the Demon King?’

Then, there was a series of flashes of light, and the head and body of the giant snake split open, and blood poured down like rain onto the lake.

‘… The left-handed man was a worse monster than that monster.’

* * *

As soon as he was thrown out, Ichimoku took a deep breath and swung his sword madly at the snake that had dared to come out of the water.

If it was underwater, then it might be different. But outside, the snake was no match for him.

In an instant, the snake’s entire body was torn apart. It barely managed to avoid having its head split in two. Only then did it realize this and quickly dove into the water.

Ilmok quickly leapt into the air, flew up, and swung his Ascension Sword at the snake.

Crunch!

Deep scars appeared again on the bastard’s body, but unfortunately, it was not split in two.

Eventually, the snake hid itself under the water again, and Ichimoku looked down at the lake while floating on the surface.

Even though I was covered in wounds, fighting that guy in the water was burdensome in many ways.

Above all, the inability to breathe was excruciating.

‘Then if you don’t go in, that’s the end of it.’

After making his decision, Ichimoku quickly threw the Sword of Ascension towards the lake below.

Then, with his eyes closed, he began to control the Ascension Sword with his sword.

Since the sound of the sound was constantly flowing out from the huge body of the bastard, I was able to confirm all of its movements through the senses.

Since the Ascension Sword was also connected to Ichimoku through the Igi Geomjutsu, the scenery under the lake was naturally drawn in Ichimoku’s mind when he closed his eyes.

The giant snake, covered in wounds, struggled to somehow get back to its nest below, and Ichimoku’s Ascension Sword cut through the waves here and there, stabbing the snake’s body all over.

It was the complete opposite of when Ichimoku first ran away.

As the snake struggled to survive, its wounds became more severe and more blood flowed from its body, turning the lake’s surface increasingly red.

And the moment the snake’s movements became dull as the bleeding reached its limit.

Kwajik!

The ascending sword wrapped around a sword ring pierced the snake’s head.

Only then did Ichimoku open his eyes, take a deep breath, and dive into the lake.

As befitting the body of a giant snake, a huge amount of blood flowed out, and naturally, the surrounding area was dyed blood red.

‘It might be difficult to take all of this with you.’

Ilmok used his senses to examine the snake’s corpse.

After the snake died, the negative aura that had been spreading throughout its body disappeared.

But there was just one place. Rather, there was a part where condensed negative energy flowed out.

Crunch!

A smile soon appeared on Ichimoku’s lips as he carefully swung the Sword of Ascension towards that area.

‘It was worth the effort.’

Beyond the severed snake’s skin, something that looked like a bead was revealed.

It was Naedan.

* * *

A few hours later.

Somewhere in the northern grasslands where the Myeol-Ageul tribe has established its base.

“So, you’re saying you just ran away?”

Namguru answered Kagan’s question, seemingly indifferent, by hitting his forehead on the floor.

“I’m sorry, your lord!”

Kagan raised one corner of his mouth and swept his chin with his left hand, seemingly uninterested in Namguru’s apology.

“It looks like they never intended to give us military rations in the first place.”

“Your Majesty, what do you plan to do?”

Khagan burst into hearty laughter at the question posed by one of those who were with him in the ger.

“Hahaha. You’re asking the obvious.”

But his eyes weren’t smiling at all.

“Gather all the tribes that are subordinate to our Myeol-a-geol. It is time to collect the military rations that that Jong-ri-chu or whatever guy promised with our own hands.”

After saying this, Khagan rose from his throne and gave an order.

“Since you broke your promise, you will receive double the price. Along with their blood.”