At that moment, Seo Jinha sent a sound transmission.
[That person instantly analyzes and mimics martial arts just like a disciple of Nangyang Pavilion. We must eliminate him without dragging out time.]
Bu Eunseol, who was staring at Mujingaek with a cold gaze, drew the Silent Tiger Soul Sword.
Kieeee!
Along with a mourning cry, black sword qi soared.
The Seven Blood Tear Forms unfolded.
Flash!
The heavenly saber art, which bestows death upon all things.
Unless one attains mastery over its mental core, it is impossible to even mimic it no matter how well one knows the saber movements. Avoiding it might be a different story, but once it strikes hard, one can absolutely never hope for a stroke of luck.
As the saber qi of the Seven Blood Tear Forms poured down at an unavoidable angle, Mujingaek crossed his two hands and crouched down.
Sizzle!
Black flames burst from the forearm struck by the saber qi, and his massive body was pushed back dozens of zhang.
Even with the saber qi of the Seven Blood Tear Forms, Bu Eunseol could not sever that forearm.
Throb throb.
However, the aftermath seemed considerable.
Mujingaek's forearm turned red-hot, and even white smoke rose up.
'It does not matter.'
The dread of the Seven Blood Tear Forms was not its sharp saber movements, but its saber qi which brings an end to all existing living organisms. As long as it strikes hard, whether the arm is cut off or not, one has no choice but to reach death.
But an unexpected thing happened.
Boom!
Mujingaek, who had been crouching, sprang out like a cannonball to close the distance, and poured a terrifying fist power toward Bu Eunseol's face.
This single move was so rapid and dug into a blind spot that there was no time to even evade.
However, Bu Eunseol's pupils had sunk boundlessly cold.
Bu Eunseol, who drew a circle with the Silent Tiger Soul Sword, used the subtle principles of Half Above, Half Below, Shifting Heaven’s Force, and Grafting Flowers onto Jade simultaneously.
He obliquely deflected the pouring massive fist power.
Whoosh.
As the fist power, which was akin to a storm, brushed past, it instantly turned the rugged ground into a flat land.
It was a terrifying fist power that could truly be compared to the Seven Fist Demon Forms.
'To think the Seven Blood Tear Forms does not work...'
It was not that surprising that Mujingaek possessed a forearm as solid as the Heavenly Steel Body.
But the fact that the Seven Blood Tear Forms did not work… did it not mean that that person was not a living being?
Of course, if one used corpse manipulation techniques or the mysterious gates escaping armor technique, one could control a dead person or make them into a puppet with bizarre abilities. However, even if such things possessed a solid physical body, they could absolutely never display powerful martial prowess. That which has no life cannot think, and the inability to think means it cannot unfold high-reaching martial arts.
"Amusing."
Bu Eunseol conversely brought a smile filled with killing intent to his face. If the enemy was strong, he himself can become even stronger.
In the meantime, Mujingaek rushed forward again and unfolded a fist technique.
Rumble!
Along with the sound of thunder, a circular fist barrier surrounded Bu Eunseol as if enveloping him.
It was an exquisite move that sealed off any counterattack.
'To think a demonic creature without even life can unfold the martial arts of the absolute strongest under heaven.'
High-reaching martial arts are not simple techniques.
They contain the secret of operating properly according to the timing and situation, and can only be properly unfolded when supported by outstanding comprehension and wisdom.
Yet that puppet of a person was able to pierce through and acquire the essence of high-reaching martial arts?
This was an unprecedented event even in the history of the martial world.
Rumble! Flash!
Mujingaek incessantly poured attacks.
It was a fierce onslaught that seemed to compress and pour out the essence of the martial arts of each faction under heaven.
A physical body that seemed as if made of twisted iron and a transcendent recovery ability.
Movements that tenaciously grasped and responded to the opponent's essence.
Did not all of that look as if the majestic appearance of the individual whom Bu Eunseol deeply respected was transplanted exactly as it was?
The Pavilion Lord.
That person must have been modeled after the Human Demon, Ak Muryeong.
However, no matter how many outstanding experts are gathered under Chu So's command, it was impossible to collect and research the martial arts of an individual like the Human Demon, Ak Muryeong, who was an absolute powerhouse who dominated heaven and earth.
'If so.'
Bu Eunseol finally realized.
'He’s been unearthing every single trace of all the experts of Nangyang Pavilion over a long period of time.'
Chu So must have collected and analyzed all the martial traces of the Nangyang Pavilion experts who had been active in the martial world. The completed form of Nangyang Pavilion's martial arts was said to be none other than the Nangyang Pavilion Lord, the Human Demon, Ak Muryeong.
'The fact that he has been executing a grand plan for such a long time...'
Finding the traces of martial arts left in the martial world and researching their ultimate meanings truly requires a span of several decades and astronomical costs. In other words, Chu So had planned such a thing since his childhood, and finally fashioned a creation that was difficult to even imagine.
Rumble! Flash!
Even while deeply immersed in thought, Bu Eunseol blocked Mujingaek's attacks and immediately counterattacked.
But it was useless.
He was receiving all attacks using that solid forearm that surpassed the Diamond Indestructible Body.
'An invincible physical body possessed by a young Pavilion Lord, is it.'
Bu Eunseol showed an excited look in his eyes.
In the end, wasn’t the bamboo hat man before his eyes a young Ak Muryeong who wandered the martial world alone, striking down absolute powerhouses with his bare hands and chilling the hearts of the heroes under heaven?
Flash!
Bu Eunseol, who retreated backward, sheathed the Silent Tiger Soul Sword.
"You used a fist technique."
In an instant, a dark red killing intent rose like a haze from his pupils.
"Then I shall face you with only a fist technique."
The Seven Fist Demon Forms.
He intended to unsparingly unfold the essence of transcendent fist studies, which had been briefly severed in the history of Nangyang Pavilion.
Boom!
Suddenly, along with a roaring sound, the ground where Bu Eunseol was standing cracked like a spiderweb.
Mujingaek, who moved at ultra-high speed, poured a fist pressure that felt as if uprooting an entire mountain toward Bu Eunseol.
It was truly a strike of ultimate killing that could neither be seen with the eyes nor heard with the ears.
Thud!
Bu Eunseol did not evade and raised his arm to block it.
Veeeing.
In an instant, a numbing pain that shook his bones spread through his entire body.
But the attacks continued without a moment to rest.
As Mujingaek's hand-blade sliced through space, a sharp blade of vacuum sprang up, and his heel turned into a battering ram to aim for Bu Eunseol's lower body. Every single movement was a strike capable of severing life in one breath.
Bu Eunseol, who confronted him, was like a solitary rock standing before a massive wave. Remaining firmly in his spot, he struck back or deflected the attacks.
If Mujingaek's fierce onslaught was like a storm, Bu Eunseol's defense was as soft as a flexible stream of water.
At that moment, a flash soared from Bu Eunseol's pupils as he captured an opportunity to counterattack.
Goooooo!
As he thrust one fist forward, dark red killing intent began to condense at the tip of his fist.
Simultaneously, an energy of blood-colored infernal fire whipped around as if a demon of hell had opened its mouth to swallow everything.
He had unfolded the Heavenly Hand Void Wave Form, which displays the strongest power as a single initial technique.
Flash!
Mujingaek also lowered his posture and thrust his palm out. A wave as black as ink whipped around.
It was the Black Sand Hell Rain, a supreme ultimate technique of Nangyang Pavilion that had been severed long ago.
As the two supreme ultimate techniques clashed in the empty air, the surroundings for dozens of li shook entirely, and rocks turned into powder and scattered in the wind.
Whoosh.
As the soil dust cleared, the appearance of Bu Eunseol standing firmly with one hand placed behind his waist was revealed.
Mujingaek also maintained his posture while emitting a powerful energy.
"As expected."
Bu Eunseol could not help but acknowledge it.
The strange man had attained the essence of Nangyang Pavilion's real-combat martial arts, and his level was not inferior to his own. Furthermore, he had still not found a method to break that invincible forearm.
"I shall show you my full power."
Bu Eunseol's body, from whose right pupil a blue radiance rose, floated into the empty air. At the same time, his fist rotated fiercely and poured out dozens of fist shadows.
The Infinite Beginning, Infinite End, the fifth form of the Seven Fist Demon Forms which had reached its peak, unfolded.
Whoosh!
The tornado-shaped fist power pouring from the empty air poured down with a momentum like a red black dragon wielding its tail to overturn the earth.
Flash!
Mujingaek leaped into the air and struck down a blow containing merciless energy, as if trying to drag the red dragon down to the ground.
Ruuumble!
The spot where they collided was engraved with a trace like a massive crater, and the two individuals became covered in wounds.
Defense was meaningless.
The present Bu Eunseol.
The past Ak Muryeong.
As the two experts who attained the essence of Nangyang Pavilion's martial arts collided head-on, the terrain of this entire area was being transformed.
Bu Eunseol, who completed the Seven Fist Demon Forms, unfolded an ultimate fist study possessing a destructive power incomparable to before, while Mujingaek showed the essence of real-combat martial arts capable of severing the enemy's breath while simultaneously acquiring the subtle martial principles of the enemy.
Bam! Rumble! Bang!
The surrounding air distorted and the earth wailed.
Due to the energy condensed within the hands of the two experts, the sky lost its color and the earth opened its black throat.
As the fight reached its peak, a smile was drawn at the corner of Bu Eunseol's mouth.
Because an ultimate joy was blooming, as if he had met the nemesis of his lifetime.
'The Pavilion Lord of his youth...'
As Bu Eunseol crouched his body, the red killing intent that had been covering his entire body completely disappeared into his body in an instant.
"I will definitely surpass you!"
Boom!
As he burst the three qis condensed through the Endless Heavenly Light Art, a torrent of five lines of explosive waves poured toward Mujingaek.
Slap!
Mujingaek, as if he could resolve the fist movement, conversely threw his body to enter inside the core of the fist power.
Because although its might was strong, it was clearly a simple wave of power.
But that was a regretful mistake.
'Now.'
Until now, Bu Eunseol used a technique that condensed all power into a single strike to detonate it. At the fleeting moment that strike ended, a minute vacuum existed where all power became empty like the center of a storm.
And Mujingaek broke Bu Eunseol's fist movement using that fleeting blind spot.
But this time was different.
In an instant, Mujingaek's massive body shook like a leaf entrusting itself to a massive wave.
Because within the Infinite Beginning, Infinite End, which seemed to have poured out a simply strong strike, all the variations of the Seven Fist Demon Forms that Bu Eunseol had trained until now were contained.
Flash!
Although his body merely shook for a fleeting moment, Bu Eunseol did not miss that gap.
With a swift movement like a hungry lion pouncing on its prey, he dug into Mujingaek's waist.
Mujingaek urgently tried to retreat, but like a red dragon wrapping around and biting a lion, Bu Eunseol tenaciously clung to him. His fist drew circles and incessantly poured down, and hundreds of fist shadows battered Mujingaek like a rainstorm.
In the end, Mujingaek, who failed to block that storm-like fist momentum, crossed his two arms once again. Once again with that invincible forearm, he intended to receive Bu Eunseol's fist technique which possessed a might capable of splitting a mountain.
"Haaap!"
But that was another mistake.
The seventh form of the Seven Fist Demon Forms.
The massive wave torrent of the Remove the Old, Establish the New Form was poured unreservedly upon Mujingaek.
In an instant, all sounds of the world vanished and the sky was dyed entirely red. Soon, in the open space where the red light vanished, the two individuals stood without a single movement.
Unlike Bu Eunseol's orderly appearance, Mujingaek's clothes were torn, his bamboo hat had flown away, and he was incessantly spilling viscous blood from his mouth.
Bu Eunseol's Seven Fist Demon Forms had overwhelmed Mujingaek's martial arts.
'It means I have caught up, then.'
Bu Eunseol harbored a satisfying smile.
With his two fists alone, he had struck down Mujingaek, who could be called the Ak Muryeong of his youth.
Thud.
Yet Mujingaek, who had been crouching all along, thrust out his two arms conversely as if he had won.
Even with the Seven Fist Demon Forms that overwhelms heaven and earth, his two arms could not be shattered.
The martial arts were defeated, but Mujingaek was not defeated.
"Indeed, the Pavilion Lord did not have such arms."
Bu Eunseol nodded his head.
"Chu So must also have created the invincible arms keeping the deficiencies in mind."
Step, step.
Mujingaek slowly approached Bu Eunseol, as if saying, 'Your fist technique is useless.'
Thud.
Bu Eunseol suddenly thrust out his left arm.
A surprising thing happened.
Mujingaek, who had not suffered damage from any attack, began to stagger his body.
"Hmm?"
Seo Jinha and the Supreme Corps members, who had been watching the entire scene all along with sweaty hands, tilted their heads.
He had merely stretched out his hand.
Why was Mujingaek, who possesses those two invincible arms, suffering so much?
Sssss.
The reason was quickly revealed.
White smoke emitted from Mujingaek's entire body, and the clothing near his forearm began to melt away.
The Poison Saint.
Even though he perfectly attained the essence of Nangyang Pavilion's martial arts in his two invincible arms capable of blocking everything, because he did not possess the ability to block a poison that reaches the Poison Saint.
The dread of the Human Demon, Ak Muryeong, was not simply because he was completely well-versed in the martial arts under heaven, nor because he completed the soul-binding secret art called the Illusion Return Sovereign.
It was the development speed of his martial arts which increased day by day, the enhancement of his martial prowess whose end could not be known.
"The Pavilion Lord at that time would not have been able to perfectly block the poison of the Poison Saint."
While competing in fist techniques, Bu Eunseol grasped that Mujingaek's skill was stopped precisely at the martial arts level of Ak Muryeong's youth. Thereafter, every time their fist powers collided, he injected various poisons, and finally grasping his physical characteristics using the power of the Ancient Sword Forest, he created a poison that shatters that solid forearm comparable to the Heavenly Steel Body.
Wong wong wong.
A faint radiance was spreading from Bu Eunseol's body, which was emitting poison qi.
Step, step.
Mujingaek was slowly approaching without paying any heed, even though his forearm was melting away.
'It was not that he’s a puppet devoid of emotions, but that his emotions were forcibly eradicated through a special grand method.'
If he had died while fighting a strong person, there would have been no regret at all.
Mujingaek, who was created modeled after Ak Muryeong, resembled even his personality and temperament, so unable to even resist the power of the Poison Saint which was like an invincible authority, unable to accept kneeling down, he was approaching while feeling resentment.
Thud.
Before anyone knew it, Mujingaek stopped his steps.
As if all power had been condensed in his two solid arms, as his forearm melted soft, the power of his entire body drained out along with it.
"If he can nurture a martial person who attained the ultimate meaning of Nangyang Pavilion's martial arts..."
Bu Eunseol murmured low while looking at Mujingaek.
"Before long, he will be able to create a martial artist of the Poison Saint as well."
Chu So had created a martial artist who attained the culmination of Nangyang Pavilion's martial arts. If so, he could also nurture a martial person who reached a realm like the Poison Saint.
'It is a good thing I included the research on poison in my grand plan.'
He himself had risen to the realm of the Poison Saint, but his subordinates had not. Bu Eunseol, preparing for a case where a terrifying poison man appears before long, was doing research with Medicine King Pavilion Lord Gyo Junghak to create a medicine capable of detoxifying any kind of extreme poison.
—To succeed, all attributes of poison scattered under heaven are needed. It means it is virtually an impossible task.
At Gyo Jung-hak's words, Bu Eunseol held out over a hundred kinds of poisons he had made in advance.
—If it is insufficient, just say the word. I will give you any kind of poison.
Gyo Junghak opened his mouth wide.
Only then did he realize that Bu Eunseol had reached the legendary realm of the Poison Saint—no, even beyond it.
—Whether awake or asleep, you research and ponder for the safety of your subordinates.
The position of Medicine King Pavilion Lord is quite busy, and its status is extremely high. Originally, there was no need to accept Bu Eunseol's command, but Gyo Junghak, who had taken a liking to him since his days as one of the Ten Demon Warriors, willingly accepted his request.
In the end, Mujingaek passed away with his face plunged into the ground.
Watching that spectacle, the Supreme Corps members swallowed their dry saliva without realizing it.
They already knew that Bu Eunseol had risen to the realm of the Poison Saint, but this was the first time they saw him emitting poison qi.
As Mujingaek, who displayed a truly invincible majesty under heaven, turned into a handful of blood water, they realized anew how terrifying the power possessed by the Poison Saint was.
"She fled."
At that time, Seo Jinha urgently approached and said.
"As soon as the bamboo hat man fell, she emerged from the black space and disappeared in an instant."
Nariya, who watched Mujingaek's death, realized that everything was ruined, withdrew the barrier, and fled.
"It is fine."
Bu Eunseol said leisurely.
"Because she will collapse before going far."
Seo Jinha opened his mouth wide as he realized something.
"Don't tell me... did you use poison on her too?"
Bu Eunseol nodded.
Nariya was allied with Chu So.
Not only did she grasp the tracks of Seo Jinha and the Supreme Corps members in one breath, but she also completely wiped out the surrounding information organizations in the vicinity.
In other words, an individual who knows Chu So's stronghold, who must absolutely never be missed.
From the very beginning when she appeared, to ensure her whereabouts would never be lost, he had secretly poisoned her with a poison whose symptoms cannot be felt at all.
"It seems we were insufficient and put the Lord and the Captain in danger."
When Tae Muryong approached and spoke, Bu Eunseol shook his head side to side.
"Not at all, I was too complacent in the first place."
'Since there is the Death Spirit Corps in the Demonic Path, the Supreme Corps in the Orthodox Faction, and also a power between orthodox and demonic called the Martial Soul Society, I thought it would suffice to simply integrate the information network.'
Bu Eunseol made a heavy expression while looking at Seo Jinha and the Supreme Corps members.
"To ensure such a thing never happens again, I will reorganize the system once more."
Even if the organizational system and the identities of its members and information agents were exposed to others, to be annihilated all at once like this meant there was still a fatal weakness in the system.
"In what way?"
At Tae Muryong's question, Bu Eunseol spoke of the things he had been thinking about during that time.
"In the future, without relying on a branch or a single information system, I plan to create a system that can perfectly distinguish their identities independently while simultaneously hiding the identities of not only the corps members but also the information agents."
Until now, to maintain security, they maintained only minimal contact and extreme caution, keeping the secret externally.
From now on, even if all information systems are exposed, to ensure it does not affect the information corps members, information must absolutely be encrypted through multiple stages, and he intended to create a system capable of cleanly erasing its traces.
"And endure just a little bit."
Bu Eunseol spoke toward the corps members.
"Before long, we will soon leave the Azure Heaven Alliance and organize an independent Supreme Corps."
"No."
At that time, the corps members said.
"For us, it suffices as long as we serve the Alliance Leader and the Captain."
In the past, they felt a somewhat regretful mind, but now it was not like that at all.
Since Seo Jinha, who firmly connects the bond with Bu Eunseol, is together with them, and they possess a sense of belonging as a family no matter where they are.
At that moment, hundreds of martial artists began to rush toward this place.
They were martial artists who rushed over after receiving the emergency signal activated by Bu Eunseol.
As the troop to protect the Supreme Corps arrived,
"Return together with the corps members."
Leaving that single phrase to Seo Jinha, he deployed his qinggong without delay.
Chu So.
To dig out the whereabouts of that villainous person, he intended to capture Nariya alive.
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