Chapter 478

Chapter 478

The Righteous Alliance martial artists were caught by Asura Scripture just as they were running.

The sharp Asura Scripture whirled and sliced the entire space to pieces.

The martial artists struggled like moths caught in a spider web.

On faces, bodies, limbs… blood lines were drawn.

The blood seeping from the blood lines turned into pus and flowed. The pus melted bodies and dripped down. Bodies that were already cut could no longer stay together and rolled down separated into dozens of pieces. The swords and sabers they held were also sharply cut and fell in chunks.

In an instant, the forms of over twenty people lost the original form humans possessed and collapsed.

And in the place where they stood, masses of blood and pus were created.

“U-aaaagh!”

The Righteous Alliance martial artists following behind stopped their steps hastily in shock. Jin Ja-gang flicked Asura Scripture once more without mercy.

The Asura Scripture that had been flying like a whip stretched straight in a line and flew a longer distance. The Righteous Alliance martial artists marked and penetrated by the tip of Asura Scripture at first only felt a slight sting, but soon felt terrible pain as the marked area went numb. Poison entered and circulated through the blood, filling the organs with pus.

“Uaaaaaagh!”

When Jin Ja-gang pulled his arm to retrieve Asura Scripture, there was no one standing before Jin Ja-gang. Only those struck by poison struggling on the ground while melting away and the weapons they dropped remained.

“Po-Poison Dragon!”

Against Jin Ja-gang who uses poison and Asura Scripture, martial artists of mediocre skill were of no help.

Jin Ja-gang swung a single strand of Asura Scripture forcefully.

Shaaak!

A long line was drawn before the Righteous Alliance martial artists.

Jin Ja-gang spoke in a cold voice.

“I have no grudge with you, but if you cross the line, I will consider it as having a grudge.”

A death line.

A line of death was drawn.

With killing intent mixed at the end of Jin Ja-gang’s words, the Righteous Alliance martial artists flinched and trembled. There were hundreds before Jin Ja-gang, and hundreds more coming down the ridges left and right.

Yet they couldn’t recklessly cross the line Jin Ja-gang drew. Before it, pools of toxic liquid were created, bubbling and boiling as if showing off.

“Move aside!”

Five experts leaped over the heads of ordinary martial artists and stood before the line.

At the very front was a Zhuge Family expert with a long beard flowing down to his chest.

The Zhuge Family’s supreme expert and family head, Zhuge Mun.

“I have a grudge against you, so I need not care about the death line. Is that not so!”

Including Zhuge Yeon, Zhuge Ming, Zhuge Son-gi, and even numerous first-rate warriors. Even the Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation called an absolute formation was broken, causing the Zhuge Family’s standing in the martial world to greatly narrow.

Jin Ja-gang was no different from the family’s mortal enemy!

“Will you acknowledge this old man’s revenge!”

Jin Ja-gang lowered his head slightly in acknowledgment.

“I acknowledge it.”

Zhuge Mun crossed the death line as if he had been waiting. Walking carefully while avoiding the pools where toxic liquid boiled in front, he drew up internal energy greatly and deployed protective energy.

Then he put his hands into both sleeves and pulled them out. When they went in, they were bare hands, but when they came out, black gloves were fitted.

Zhuge Mun’s alias was Forest Spirit Divine Hands.

An expert of palm techniques.

Behind Zhuge Mun were two more retainer warriors of the same age as Zhuge Mun. They were Zhuge Mun’s shadows who had served him since childhood. They could even throw away their lives for Zhuge Mun.

Moreover, one held a spear and one held a saber. Those two would complement Zhuge Mun’s weakness of distance.

Not only that, two experts from Zhongnan Sect followed the three from the Zhuge Family.

The two experts of Zhongnan Sect, Left Mottle Sword and Right Frost Sword.

Left Mottle Sword uses left-handed swordsmanship and has a black spot on his left eyelid, while Right Frost Sword uses right-handed swordsmanship and only his right hair is white.

They were brother experts called the Twin Swords of Zhongnan.

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan revealed killing intent toward Jin Ja-gang and shouted.

“Since you killed our Zhongnan’s person, we also have a grudge against you! You should die as a public enemy of the martial world. So do not call our combined attack cowardly!”

Jin Ja-gang was already a supreme expert who killed Thunder Emperor and Demon Lord. Even if Zhuge Mun was the Zhuge Family’s supreme expert, attacking separately with Zhongnan Sect, they couldn’t win.

But Jin Ja-gang suddenly asked.

“Who is the person you say I killed?”

“Benevolent Hero Bulgi!”

Jin Ja-gang answered.

“I fought him, but I didn’t kill him.”

“What?”

“Master Bul-gi’s end was by Master Beom-mong’s Hundred Step Divine Fist.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan flinched and looked at each other’s faces, then shouted.

“Didn’t you also kill our sect’s disciple Pyo Sang-guk!”

“That’s correct. And if we’re weighing favors and grudges…”

Jin Ja-gang said.

“Previously, I once recovered the corpses of Zhongnan Sect members who fell to Shaolin Temple.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan hesitated. Recovering corpses so they don’t become food for wild beasts is a very great favor among favors.

The two closed their mouths. Since Jin Ja-gang’s words were true, they had nothing to say.

However, they couldn’t back down. Then they would look even more foolish.

Therefore, the killing intent toward Jin Ja-gang didn’t diminish.

Jin Ja-gang smiled coldly.

“If you have nothing to say, just shut up and attack. Don’t be humiliated trying to find a justification that doesn’t exist.”

“You bastard! Your arrogance pierces the heavens!”

Forest Spirit Divine Hands Zhuge Mun advised the two experts of Zhongnan Sect.

“Twin Swords of Zhongnan. Don’t fall for his schemes and prepare. What good is finding justification after coming to this place?”

“Hmph.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan gritted their teeth in humiliation and gripped swords in their left and right hands respectively.

Zhuge Mun loosened his hands by clenching and unclenching his gloved fists.

“His mind is exceptional, so if we carelessly drag out time, we might fall for vile tricks, so we should settle it early on.”

“Understood.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan crossed the death line following Zhuge Mun.

Zhuge Mun signaled with his eyes left and right. The two retainer warriors rushed at Jin Ja-gang first.

The spear wielder’s thrust split into three branches, targeting Jin Ja-gang’s brow, chest, and abdomen.

Jin Ja-gang extended both hands to launch Asura Scripture and planted explosive force. Asura Scripture whirled greatly as if exploding and covered the approaching spear wielder and saber wielder.

The spear wielder swept his spear to wind up Asura Scripture, and the saber wielder also released saber energy to strike away Asura Scripture.

Kaaang! Kaaaang!

The spear wielder’s spear and saber wielder’s saber vibrated greatly.

Grrrrrng!

The saber wielder gripped the blade with both hands and held on. His palms tore and blood spurted. However, Asura Scripture couldn’t sever the saber. The skill of the retainer warriors serving the family head was at the level of the Zhuge Family’s upper-tier experts, and the weapons they held were not ordinary either.

The remainder of Asura Scripture still wavered and attacked the spear wielder and saber wielder.

Zhuge Mun backed up the saber wielder. Zhuge Mun extended twin palms to receive Asura Scripture’s threads with his palms.

Thwack!

The internal energy contained in Asura Scripture was absorbed by Zhuge Mun’s gloves and rapidly lost power.

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan split left and right.

Woosh! A cluster of stars appeared at the tips of the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s swords. The Twin Swords of Zhongnan struck away the remaining Asura Scripture. Asura Scripture wasn’t cut but bounced away.

Jin Ja-gang immediately retrieved Asura Scripture. The Twin Swords of Zhongnan swung sword force from left and right.

Jin Ja-gang spun his body like a top and bent at the waist. The stream of sword force that Left Mottle Sword unleashed passed before his nose, giving off a burning smell. The sword force passing behind his neck was what Right Frost Sword swung, cutting a chunk of Jin Ja-gang’s hair with a snip as it grazed by.

Jin Ja-gang immediately split his legs to lower his body while flicking his wrists. From between his fingers with Heaven Earth Eight Defeats, poison needles shot out and flew simultaneously.

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan increased the power of their sword force to make the star clusters even denser and cut down Jin Ja-gang along with the poison needles. The ridiculously powerful internal energy melted the flying poison needles and the poison itself. Jin Ja-gang struck the ground with his palm to float his body vertically and avoided the sword force.

With his body tilted sideways, he drew both feet back fully then extended them forcefully to kick. As the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s sword force missed and Jin Ja-gang’s feet flew at them, they tilted their bodies back slightly then charged forward. The two rammed Jin Ja-gang from both sides with their shoulders. Jin Ja-gang was caught by the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s shoulders as if sandwiched between front and back.

Pok! With pain as if his spine was being crushed, his intestines made sounds as if pushed and about to burst. The Twin Swords of Zhongnan swung sword force from above and below to split Jin Ja-gang into three parts. Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth and clapped his hands together, then extended both hands left and right to press on the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s heads.

Scorching Twin Phosphor Palm!

Whoosh! Fire caught on the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s heads.

“Hut!”

“Uh-oh?”

While the Twin Swords of Zhongnan were flustered putting out the fire on their hair, Jin Ja-gang pushed them with his feet and rolled backward. As soon as he got up, a spear flew and stabbed into the ground.

Pook, pook pook. Jin Ja-gang continued rolling on the ground to avoid the spear. The tip of the spear that had been driving Jin Ja-gang several times bent unnaturally, drew a crooked circle, then flew to the back side of Jin Ja-gang and stuck in to block the path. The spear shaft stuck in the ground caught Jin Ja-gang’s side.

Thunk.

The moment Jin Ja-gang stopped rolling, the Zhuge Family’s saber wielder brought down his saber from above.

“Die!”

Jin Ja-gang firmly pressed the flat of the falling saber from left and right with fingers containing explosive force.

Chulung!

The vibration caused by the explosive force went upward. It was the same principle as planting explosive force in Asura Scripture.

The blade swayed greatly left and right, and the vibration traveled up to the saber wielder’s hands.

Kwadreudeuk!

Fingers twisted and the wrist dislocated. With a pop, the elbow bone came out, and the shoulder was dislocated, with bone pushing through skin and protruding.

“Uaaagh!”

The saber wielder was pushed away with his ruined arm. Jin Ja-gang struck the ground with his elbow to raise his body and chased the pushed saber wielder. He tried to kick and crush the saber wielder’s chin. The spear wielder hastily struck Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder with the spear shaft.

Jin Ja-gang was hit on the shoulder and staggered, but still threw a poison needle at the saber wielder. A poison needle lodged in the saber wielder’s brow. In the saber wielder’s widened eyes, red gradually began spreading.

Whoooosh!

Jin Ja-gang’s side darkened.

The shadow of the palm Zhuge Mun launched filled Jin Ja-gang’s side.

Jin Ja-gang met the palm shadow with the internal energy of Scorching Twin Phosphor Palm.

Pop pop pok… pok…

Zhuge Mun’s palm technique had something unique, so each time palms met, internal energy lost power. Scorching Twin Phosphor Palm couldn’t exert power and disappeared along with the palm shadow it collided with.

“…!”

Zhuge Mun rapidly swung his arms to add dozens of palm shadows on top of the existing palm shadow. And adding a breath of true energy, he overlaid another palm shadow on top of that.

Groooong!

Jin Ja-gang was crushed by the weight of hundreds of palm shadows pressing down.

It was as if a massive boulder of ten thousand geun was placed on his shoulders.

Jin Ja-gang drew a palm needle with Heaven Earth Eight Defeats and set it protruding between his fingers. He stabbed the palm needle into Zhuge Mun’s palm shadow.

However, the palm needle couldn’t pierce the gloves Zhuge Mun wore. The palm needle bent under the internal energy contained in the palm shadow.

Thunk!

Eventually, Jin Ja-gang was pressed down by the endlessly pouring palm shadows and knelt. Zhuge Mun’s arms still created palm shadows too fast to even see.

Zhuge Mun looked down at Jin Ja-gang and continued to fiercely strike with palms.

“Die, Poison Dragon!”

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The Righteous Alliance martial artists were caught by Asura Scripture just as they were running.

The sharp Asura Scripture whirled and sliced the entire space to pieces.

The martial artists struggled like moths caught in a spider web.

On faces, bodies, limbs… blood lines were drawn.

The blood seeping from the blood lines turned into pus and flowed. The pus melted bodies and dripped down. Bodies that were already cut could no longer stay together and rolled down separated into dozens of pieces. The swords and sabers they held were also sharply cut and fell in chunks.

In an instant, the forms of over twenty people lost the original form humans possessed and collapsed.

And in the place where they stood, masses of blood and pus were created.

“U-aaaagh!”

The Righteous Alliance martial artists following behind stopped their steps hastily in shock. Jin Ja-gang flicked Asura Scripture once more without mercy.

The Asura Scripture that had been flying like a whip stretched straight in a line and flew a longer distance. The Righteous Alliance martial artists marked and penetrated by the tip of Asura Scripture at first only felt a slight sting, but soon felt terrible pain as the marked area went numb. Poison entered and circulated through the blood, filling the organs with pus.

“Uaaaaaagh!”

When Jin Ja-gang pulled his arm to retrieve Asura Scripture, there was no one standing before Jin Ja-gang. Only those struck by poison struggling on the ground while melting away and the weapons they dropped remained.

“Po-Poison Dragon!”

Against Jin Ja-gang who uses poison and Asura Scripture, martial artists of mediocre skill were of no help.

Jin Ja-gang swung a single strand of Asura Scripture forcefully.

Shaaak!

A long line was drawn before the Righteous Alliance martial artists.

Jin Ja-gang spoke in a cold voice.

“I have no grudge with you, but if you cross the line, I will consider it as having a grudge.”

A death line.

A line of death was drawn.

With killing intent mixed at the end of Jin Ja-gang’s words, the Righteous Alliance martial artists flinched and trembled. There were hundreds before Jin Ja-gang, and hundreds more coming down the ridges left and right.

Yet they couldn’t recklessly cross the line Jin Ja-gang drew. Before it, pools of toxic liquid were created, bubbling and boiling as if showing off.

“Move aside!”

Five experts leaped over the heads of ordinary martial artists and stood before the line.

At the very front was a Zhuge Family expert with a long beard flowing down to his chest.

The Zhuge Family’s supreme expert and family head, Zhuge Mun.

“I have a grudge against you, so I need not care about the death line. Is that not so!”

Including Zhuge Yeon, Zhuge Ming, Zhuge Son-gi, and even numerous first-rate warriors. Even the Nine Palace Eight Trigrams Formation called an absolute formation was broken, causing the Zhuge Family’s standing in the martial world to greatly narrow.

Jin Ja-gang was no different from the family’s mortal enemy!

“Will you acknowledge this old man’s revenge!”

Jin Ja-gang lowered his head slightly in acknowledgment.

“I acknowledge it.”

Zhuge Mun crossed the death line as if he had been waiting. Walking carefully while avoiding the pools where toxic liquid boiled in front, he drew up internal energy greatly and deployed protective energy.

Then he put his hands into both sleeves and pulled them out. When they went in, they were bare hands, but when they came out, black gloves were fitted.

Zhuge Mun’s alias was Forest Spirit Divine Hands.

An expert of palm techniques.

Behind Zhuge Mun were two more retainer warriors of the same age as Zhuge Mun. They were Zhuge Mun’s shadows who had served him since childhood. They could even throw away their lives for Zhuge Mun.

Moreover, one held a spear and one held a saber. Those two would complement Zhuge Mun’s weakness of distance.

Not only that, two experts from Zhongnan Sect followed the three from the Zhuge Family.

The two experts of Zhongnan Sect, Left Mottle Sword and Right Frost Sword.

Left Mottle Sword uses left-handed swordsmanship and has a black spot on his left eyelid, while Right Frost Sword uses right-handed swordsmanship and only his right hair is white.

They were brother experts called the Twin Swords of Zhongnan.

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan revealed killing intent toward Jin Ja-gang and shouted.

“Since you killed our Zhongnan’s person, we also have a grudge against you! You should die as a public enemy of the martial world. So do not call our combined attack cowardly!”

Jin Ja-gang was already a supreme expert who killed Thunder Emperor and Demon Lord. Even if Zhuge Mun was the Zhuge Family’s supreme expert, attacking separately with Zhongnan Sect, they couldn’t win.

But Jin Ja-gang suddenly asked.

“Who is the person you say I killed?”

“Benevolent Hero Bulgi!”

Jin Ja-gang answered.

“I fought him, but I didn’t kill him.”

“What?”

“Master Bul-gi’s end was by Master Beom-mong’s Hundred Step Divine Fist.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan flinched and looked at each other’s faces, then shouted.

“Didn’t you also kill our sect’s disciple Pyo Sang-guk!”

“That’s correct. And if we’re weighing favors and grudges…”

Jin Ja-gang said.

“Previously, I once recovered the corpses of Zhongnan Sect members who fell to Shaolin Temple.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan hesitated. Recovering corpses so they don’t become food for wild beasts is a very great favor among favors.

The two closed their mouths. Since Jin Ja-gang’s words were true, they had nothing to say.

However, they couldn’t back down. Then they would look even more foolish.

Therefore, the killing intent toward Jin Ja-gang didn’t diminish.

Jin Ja-gang smiled coldly.

“If you have nothing to say, just shut up and attack. Don’t be humiliated trying to find a justification that doesn’t exist.”

“You bastard! Your arrogance pierces the heavens!”

Forest Spirit Divine Hands Zhuge Mun advised the two experts of Zhongnan Sect.

“Twin Swords of Zhongnan. Don’t fall for his schemes and prepare. What good is finding justification after coming to this place?”

“Hmph.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan gritted their teeth in humiliation and gripped swords in their left and right hands respectively.

Zhuge Mun loosened his hands by clenching and unclenching his gloved fists.

“His mind is exceptional, so if we carelessly drag out time, we might fall for vile tricks, so we should settle it early on.”

“Understood.”

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan crossed the death line following Zhuge Mun.

Zhuge Mun signaled with his eyes left and right. The two retainer warriors rushed at Jin Ja-gang first.

The spear wielder’s thrust split into three branches, targeting Jin Ja-gang’s brow, chest, and abdomen.

Jin Ja-gang extended both hands to launch Asura Scripture and planted explosive force. Asura Scripture whirled greatly as if exploding and covered the approaching spear wielder and saber wielder.

The spear wielder swept his spear to wind up Asura Scripture, and the saber wielder also released saber energy to strike away Asura Scripture.

Kaaang! Kaaaang!

The spear wielder’s spear and saber wielder’s saber vibrated greatly.

Grrrrrng!

The saber wielder gripped the blade with both hands and held on. His palms tore and blood spurted. However, Asura Scripture couldn’t sever the saber. The skill of the retainer warriors serving the family head was at the level of the Zhuge Family’s upper-tier experts, and the weapons they held were not ordinary either.

The remainder of Asura Scripture still wavered and attacked the spear wielder and saber wielder.

Zhuge Mun backed up the saber wielder. Zhuge Mun extended twin palms to receive Asura Scripture’s threads with his palms.

Thwack!

The internal energy contained in Asura Scripture was absorbed by Zhuge Mun’s gloves and rapidly lost power.

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan split left and right.

Woosh! A cluster of stars appeared at the tips of the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s swords. The Twin Swords of Zhongnan struck away the remaining Asura Scripture. Asura Scripture wasn’t cut but bounced away.

Jin Ja-gang immediately retrieved Asura Scripture. The Twin Swords of Zhongnan swung sword force from left and right.

Jin Ja-gang spun his body like a top and bent at the waist. The stream of sword force that Left Mottle Sword unleashed passed before his nose, giving off a burning smell. The sword force passing behind his neck was what Right Frost Sword swung, cutting a chunk of Jin Ja-gang’s hair with a snip as it grazed by.

Jin Ja-gang immediately split his legs to lower his body while flicking his wrists. From between his fingers with Heaven Earth Eight Defeats, poison needles shot out and flew simultaneously.

The Twin Swords of Zhongnan increased the power of their sword force to make the star clusters even denser and cut down Jin Ja-gang along with the poison needles. The ridiculously powerful internal energy melted the flying poison needles and the poison itself. Jin Ja-gang struck the ground with his palm to float his body vertically and avoided the sword force.

With his body tilted sideways, he drew both feet back fully then extended them forcefully to kick. As the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s sword force missed and Jin Ja-gang’s feet flew at them, they tilted their bodies back slightly then charged forward. The two rammed Jin Ja-gang from both sides with their shoulders. Jin Ja-gang was caught by the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s shoulders as if sandwiched between front and back.

Pok! With pain as if his spine was being crushed, his intestines made sounds as if pushed and about to burst. The Twin Swords of Zhongnan swung sword force from above and below to split Jin Ja-gang into three parts. Jin Ja-gang gritted his teeth and clapped his hands together, then extended both hands left and right to press on the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s heads.

Scorching Twin Phosphor Palm!

Whoosh! Fire caught on the Twin Swords of Zhongnan’s heads.

“Hut!”

“Uh-oh?”

While the Twin Swords of Zhongnan were flustered putting out the fire on their hair, Jin Ja-gang pushed them with his feet and rolled backward. As soon as he got up, a spear flew and stabbed into the ground.

Pook, pook pook. Jin Ja-gang continued rolling on the ground to avoid the spear. The tip of the spear that had been driving Jin Ja-gang several times bent unnaturally, drew a crooked circle, then flew to the back side of Jin Ja-gang and stuck in to block the path. The spear shaft stuck in the ground caught Jin Ja-gang’s side.

Thunk.

The moment Jin Ja-gang stopped rolling, the Zhuge Family’s saber wielder brought down his saber from above.

“Die!”

Jin Ja-gang firmly pressed the flat of the falling saber from left and right with fingers containing explosive force.

Chulung!

The vibration caused by the explosive force went upward. It was the same principle as planting explosive force in Asura Scripture.

The blade swayed greatly left and right, and the vibration traveled up to the saber wielder’s hands.

Kwadreudeuk!

Fingers twisted and the wrist dislocated. With a pop, the elbow bone came out, and the shoulder was dislocated, with bone pushing through skin and protruding.

“Uaaagh!”

The saber wielder was pushed away with his ruined arm. Jin Ja-gang struck the ground with his elbow to raise his body and chased the pushed saber wielder. He tried to kick and crush the saber wielder’s chin. The spear wielder hastily struck Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder with the spear shaft.

Jin Ja-gang was hit on the shoulder and staggered, but still threw a poison needle at the saber wielder. A poison needle lodged in the saber wielder’s brow. In the saber wielder’s widened eyes, red gradually began spreading.

Whoooosh!

Jin Ja-gang’s side darkened.

The shadow of the palm Zhuge Mun launched filled Jin Ja-gang’s side.

Jin Ja-gang met the palm shadow with the internal energy of Scorching Twin Phosphor Palm.

Pop pop pok… pok…

Zhuge Mun’s palm technique had something unique, so each time palms met, internal energy lost power. Scorching Twin Phosphor Palm couldn’t exert power and disappeared along with the palm shadow it collided with.

“…!”

Zhuge Mun rapidly swung his arms to add dozens of palm shadows on top of the existing palm shadow. And adding a breath of true energy, he overlaid another palm shadow on top of that.

Groooong!

Jin Ja-gang was crushed by the weight of hundreds of palm shadows pressing down.

It was as if a massive boulder of ten thousand geun was placed on his shoulders.

Jin Ja-gang drew a palm needle with Heaven Earth Eight Defeats and set it protruding between his fingers. He stabbed the palm needle into Zhuge Mun’s palm shadow.

However, the palm needle couldn’t pierce the gloves Zhuge Mun wore. The palm needle bent under the internal energy contained in the palm shadow.

Thunk!

Eventually, Jin Ja-gang was pressed down by the endlessly pouring palm shadows and knelt. Zhuge Mun’s arms still created palm shadows too fast to even see.

Zhuge Mun looked down at Jin Ja-gang and continued to fiercely strike with palms.

“Die, Poison Dragon!”

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