Poison Dragon: The Legend of an Asura — Chapter 150

Chapter 150

The characteristic of sickle techniques is different from generally cutting with a blade from outside to inside.

Baek Li-gwon struck down at the side of the sickle, then stopped his hand. This was because the sickle was glowing red-hot.

Baek Li-gwon bent his waist backward. Jin Ja-gang turned his body while consecutively slashing with the sickle. Two red lines formed a semicircle in the air.

Moon-Severing Sickle Blade’s Double Moon Slash Attack!

For the first time, Baek Li-gwon was pushed from offense to defense. However, the internal energy Jin Ja-gang was using only circulated through his right side. His left attacks weren’t as fierce as his right.

Whoosh! Bang!

Baek Li-gwon shook his upper body and pulled his body away the moment the gap between the first and second semicircles widened.

Jin Ja-gang struck the ground with his heel to stop abruptly while following Baek Li-gwon. He lowered his posture and repeatedly struck at Baek Li-gwon’s thigh.

Baek Li-gwon didn’t dodge but rather kicked Jin Ja-gang’s wrist with his foot to deflect it. At the same time, he tried to grab Jin Ja-gang’s nape with his left hand.

However, Baek Li-gwon’s left arm stopped rising. Due to being poisoned and then belatedly blocking it with internal energy, his left arm’s movement was delayed.

Baek Li-gwon turned his body and kicked Jin Ja-gang’s chest with his back foot. Jin Ja-gang leaped into the air by kicking off the ground with his right foot infused with internal energy. Then he crouched his body and blocked Baek Li-gwon’s foot with both soles.

Bang!

Jin Ja-gang floated in the air and his body spun. However, he used that rotational force to swing his sickle.

Slash! Baek Li-gwon’s front lapel was caught by the sickle tip and torn.

‘He’s gotten faster than before?’

Baek Li-gwon frowned.

Jin Ja-gang turned his shoulder backward and slashed with the sickle as if striking behind him.

Whiiing!

A sound of cutting through air that hadn’t been heard before could be heard. A faint, barely visible sword energy was formed on the sickle. Even Baek Li-gwon couldn’t disregard that.

Baek Li-gwon used footwork to dodge the sickle techniques.

Slash! Slash! Slaaash!

Jin Ja-gang spun his body and swung the sickle to the point where even he was dizzy. Countless lines were drawn in the air and multiple circles were created. Each time Jin Ja-gang spun round and round while swinging the sickle, the circles were scattered along their respective orbits.

Accordingly, Baek Li-gwon’s movements also became more precise. Baek Li-gwon moved here and there, dodging the sickle in directions Jin Ja-gang never expected.

Because he held twin sickles, Jin Ja-gang’s attacks continued without rest. Baek Li-gwon couldn’t easily find an opening to penetrate.

Slice, slash.

Very finely, the ends of Baek Li-gwon’s clothing began to be cut.

Jin Ja-gang’s movements were getting faster.

Jin Ja-gang felt like his breath would burst. This was because he was holding his breath using the breath-stopping technique to prevent the internal energy spinning madly inside his body from exploding outward.

However, something much more intense than the pain of blood vessels bursting and tearing and the agony of suffocation was sweeping through Jin Ja-gang’s entire body.

It was the small ecstasy that could be obtained when risking one’s life and exerting full power to unfold one’s martial arts to the extreme. Something that couldn’t be known when carefully practicing movements at the inn, the refreshing feeling that could only be felt when freely unleashing techniques in actual combat.

Jin Ja-gang shuddered at the rushing pleasure. He could realize that he had surpassed his limits by one level.

But the moment he lost focus in his hazy state.

Baek Li-gwon’s foot kicked Jin Ja-gang’s stomach.

Thud!

Jin Ja-gang was pushed backward and fell on his bottom.

But this time Baek Li-gwon also staggered. He was pushed back by the repulsive force of the internal energy spinning madly inside Jin Ja-gang’s body.

Baek Li-gwon’s leg was scraped by the sickle, so his clothing was torn long from calf to knee. The flesh scraped by the heated sickle blade was seared by fire, so no blood came out.

“Huff… huff…”

Baek Li-gwon caught his breath. The poison that had erupted early on was continuously gnawing at Baek Li-gwon’s stamina.

Jin Ja-gang wiped the blood flowing into his eyes and stood up. The internal energy circulating inside his body was swirling so greatly that it was difficult to control. His body began to shake and tremble.

Rumble. Rumble.

Small grains of sand began to bounce under Jin Ja-gang’s right foot due to the vibration of internal energy.

Chatter chatter.

Even his teeth clattered finely.

The wheel’s rotation had reached maximum speed. Because of the external shock Baek Li-gwon had applied, the wheel became much more unstable. It was on the verge of exploding.

If it continued a little longer, the internal energy might completely collapse Jin Ja-gang’s body!

Baek Li-gwon’s eyes looking at Jin Ja-gang contorted.

“You’ve learned evil techniques.”

At first he hadn’t used internal energy, but from the moment he began using internal energy, he started getting faster and faster. Jin Ja-gang was becoming stronger as the fight continued.

And now that strength seemed to have reached almost its peak.

“You’re more foolish than I thought. Such methods can only harm your own body.”

Jin Ja-gang couldn’t even answer. The moment he opened his mouth, it felt like his head would explode.

“Having learned evil techniques. That alone is sufficient reason for you to die.”

Baek Li-gwon traced the blood flowing from his chest with his finger, then smeared that blood on his silver ornamental knife.

Then he cherished that small silver knife as if it were precious, then gripped the handle with his right hand and let his arm hang down.

Instantly, a cool energy formed on the blade of the silver knife and a transparent stream extended about two spans.

“Huff huff.”

Baek Li-gwon caught his breath and drew up his energy once more.

“Hiyaaah!”

A clear light was again applied over the transparent energy of the blade energy.

Like clear sky reflected in a clear lake, that brilliance was even beautiful to behold.

Heavenly Human Divine Sword.

Jin Ja-gang could wait no longer. If he didn’t exert force, his body felt like it would be torn to shreds.

Jin Ja-gang charged at Baek Li-gwon with all his might.

Baek Li-gwon drew the silver knife diagonally. Jin Ja-gang blocked the silver knife’s blade energy with his sickle.

Clang!

Sparks flew as the sickle blade and the silver knife’s blade energy collided. Jin Ja-gang hooked the sickle on the blade energy and pushed it up, as he did when facing other swords.

Scraaape!

In the time it took to push up barely one span, the sickle blade was half chipped. The difference in blade energy strength was clearly revealed. When Baek Li-gwon put strength into his arm and raised it, the sickle broke in two without fail. Jin Ja-gang threw the sickle at Baek Li-gwon and simultaneously transferred the sickle he held in his left hand to his right hand. While rotating his body, he slashed greatly once more with Double Moon Slash Attack.

Baek Li-gwon struck several times with the silver knife’s blade energy to greatly reduce Jin Ja-gang’s momentum.

Tat tat tat.

The sickle was chipped and nicked here and there, its blade split. However, Baek Li-gwon’s blade energy didn’t diminish at all.

Stab!

The silver knife’s blade energy pierced through Jin Ja-gang’s left shoulder. The blade energy protruded through his back.

Jin Ja-gang held the sickle in reverse and thrust upward from below. It seemed like he intended to strike Baek Li-gwon’s jaw and pierce through to his brain.

“Bold, but.”

Baek Li-gwon pulled out the silver knife from Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder while striking Jin Ja-gang’s temple with his left elbow.

Thud! Jin Ja-gang’s pupils shook and he collapsed forward. Even so, Jin Ja-gang tried to strike Baek Li-gwon’s instep with the sickle until the end.

“Rough and.”

Baek Li-gwon kicked up Jin Ja-gang’s stomach with his knee. Jin Ja-gang’s body lifted off the ground. Blood and saliva leaked through his teeth.

Baek Li-gwon grabbed Jin Ja-gang’s belt behind his back with his left hand, lifted him with all his might, then pressed him down to the floor.

“Crude.”

Bang!

Jin Ja-gang crashed into the floor face down. But at the last moment, he let go of the sickle and supported himself with both hands on the floor, hitting the ground with his knees and enduring. Gritting his teeth and enduring the pain as if his wrists and knees would shatter, he kicked off the ground and bounced his body up.

He rammed into Baek Li-gwon with his body, adding the weight of his entire body plus the force of internal energy. Baek Li-gwon pressed down on Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder with his left hand.

Jin Ja-gang lowered his pressed shoulder and turned to the side, striking Baek Li-gwon’s solar plexus with his elbow.

However, even though he struck Baek Li-gwon’s solar plexus, there was almost no impact.

Whoosh…

Baek Li-gwon relaxed his body and became light as a feather, being pushed back as gently as he was struck. Unlike before when he had been hard as a wall. Baek Li-gwon swung the silver knife without any impact at all.

Slash slash.

Jin Ja-gang’s chest was split in a cross shape.

Gush!

Blood spurted out explosively.

Jin Ja-gang’s eyes opened wide. His pupils contracted extremely and shrank to points.

Even so, he gritted his teeth and didn’t make a single groan.

Jin Ja-gang stretched out his arm to the end and grabbed Baek Li-gwon’s forearm as if clutching it.

“Petty actions.”

Despite Baek Li-gwon’s mockery, Jin Ja-gang gave his all.

Pop pop, blood vessels in his right side burst and blood leaked. Even his eyeballs were dyed bright red.

Capturing Dragon Strike!

Jin Ja-gang’s fingertips pushed into Baek Li-gwon’s forearm flesh as if they would penetrate. However, though he pierced the skin, he couldn’t get into the muscle. Baek Li-gwon’s forearm hardened like stone.

Jin Ja-gang’s fingernails broke and flipped backward. Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth until they might shatter, but his fingers couldn’t penetrate further.

“Are you done now?”

Baek Li-gwon’s voice, cold enough to make one shudder, was heard.

Some emptiness appeared in Jin Ja-gang’s eyes, which rarely gave up.

His opponent was too strong. Like a massive iron gate that wouldn’t budge.

Conversely, his own blood vessels were already completely ruined.

His chest had deep wounds with continuous bleeding.

His fingers were mangled at the tips.

This person had learned properly from childhood, following the orthodox path. He wasn’t an opponent Jin Ja-gang could defeat with the martial arts he had roughly learned.

However, Jin Ja-gang drew out his strength one more time. He raised his final internal energy with one breath.

There was impact as blood vessels burst inside his body.

‘Strength!’

Jin Ja-gang poured out internal energy while loading all his remaining poison energy.

“Uaaaah!”

Parting Hand Arrow Shot!

While gripping Baek Li-gwon’s forearm, he flicked his thumb to shoot finger wind. Baek Li-gwon’s eyes bulged. He never thought Jin Ja-gang could shoot finger wind in such a completely ruined state.

Baek Li-gwon moved his head to dodge. The poison finger flying toward his eye barely hit above his right eyebrow.

Thud!

Baek Li-gwon angrily raised his arm. Jin Ja-gang was dragged up with it.

Baek Li-gwon swung his arm with all his might and flung Jin Ja-gang away.

Jin Ja-gang, who had already used all his strength, sprawled like a scarecrow.

“So this was it. The trace of poison finger remaining on Sister Yan’s body.”

Grind grind grind.

Baek Li-gwon ground his teeth. He grabbed Jin Ja-gang’s neck, lifted him into the air again, then flung him down.

Crash!

Jin Ja-gang no longer had the energy to resist.

“Cough!”

Blood flowing from his chest quickly began pooling on the floor.

Seeing Jin Ja-gang writhing in the pool of blood, Baek Li-gwon showed a contemptuous expression.

Jin Ja-gang’s hair was half burned, his entire body’s skin was covered with burn blisters, and blood was leaking from various burst blood vessels due to the side effects of using evil techniques.

Truly a terrible and miserable sight.

But to Baek Li-gwon, he looked utterly ugly. It was the natural end for one who used evil techniques.

“Ugly. You cruelly massacred many people, yet you yourself struggle so hard to survive.”

Baek Li-gwon raised the silver knife to slash Jin Ja-gang’s throat.

“Die.”

But Baek Li-gwon hesitated. The pupils of his left and right eyes were different sizes. His focus wasn’t properly aligned.

Being hit by poison finger above his eye had caused problems with his vision. The poison finger wasn’t toxic enough to bring down Baek Li-gwon, but the location was bad.

Baek Li-gwon was suppressing the poison energy with internal energy, but because he had been continuously fighting, he couldn’t block it perfectly.

Baek Li-gwon shook his head vigorously, then took out oil paper from his chest. He took out a pill from inside and held it in his mouth.

Jin Ja-gang was looking up at Baek Li-gwon with his head buried in the floor. Though his life force was clearly fading, his eyes were still clear.

Baek Li-gwon breathed deeply for a while to compose himself, then looked at Jin Ja-gang. Seeing Jin Ja-gang’s eyes, Baek Li-gwon temporarily abandoned his intention to kill and asked.

“Do you remember the faces and names of those you killed?”

Jin Ja-gang was momentarily puzzled by the unexpected question.

He hadn’t expected to receive such a question.

Because it was like a question one would throw at a murderer who went around killing people indiscriminately.

Then Jin Ja-gang realized… Ah, to them, he must be no different from a murderer.

That’s how they saw him.

Jin Ja-gang closed his eyes and opened them. Thick killing intent appeared in Jin Ja-gang’s bloodshot eyes.

“At least… I’ll remember… you.”

Baek Li-gwon laughed incredulously.

“In that state, still putting on airs.”

However, Jin Ja-gang also smiled back.

While baring his blood-stained fangs.

It was like a tiger baring its fangs, as if it would bite and not let go of Baek Li-gwon until the moment of death.

“I guarantee that I’ll live longer… than you.”

Jin Ja-gang was already seeing the blue energy circling under Baek Li-gwon’s eyes.

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