Chapter 96 : Chapter 96

Chapter 96. Ghost (5)

The moment I saw the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass in my junior sister's hand.

I was able to realize how the Poison Immortal had hunted that monster.

"Just as Miss Baek said! Poison and yang energy are polar opposites! If you feed the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass to that thing, it will surely weaken!"

It was just as Dang Sopyeong, who had arrived late to the party, had said.

The Poison Immortal must have also hunted the Human-faced spider using a yang-energy-infused herb or pill.

But one problem remained.

"Kieeeek!"

The Human-faced spider had already closed in on me again and was swinging its legs like crazy.

If I led this thing towards the party, there was a risk that they would get caught up in it as well.

The moment I was contemplating what to do about this.

I heard my junior sister's shout again.

"Young Master Dang! Give me the iron needle!"

"Why are you looking for the iron needle?"

"There's no time to explain!"

It was a very frosty voice, unlike her usual self.

Soon after, there was a clattering sound from behind, and then I heard my junior sister's voice again.

"Please throw this to Senior Brother!"

"Th, this, you mean?"

"You've been practicing hidden weapon arts all this time, haven't you! Hurry!"

What on earth was happening?

But I had no time to look back.

- H, help meeee!!

While my leg was injured, I was busy just blocking or dodging the damn monster's swinging legs.

"Hey!! I'm throwing an iron needle your way, so catch it well!"

The Tang Clan guy's sudden shout.

Followed by a stealthy sound of something cutting through the air.

Swiiiiiish.

After watching the trajectory of the spider's swinging legs for a moment.

Clang!!!

After clashing the Restoring Name Sword with the leg it swung.

I deliberately threw my body back in the direction from which the sound of something cutting through the air had come.

While twisting my body in the air using the subtleties of my movement arts.

I saw an iron needle flying through the air.

And also the sight of the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass attached to it.

I quickly reached out and snatched the iron needle.

Only then did I realize.

What they had been doing behind me.

The Human-faced spider's web attached to Nam Geon's body.

They had rubbed the iron needle on it and then stuck the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass to it.

"Thank you. Junior Sister!!"

Shouting so, I turned my body again.

Towards the Human-faced spider.

The Human-faced spider was screaming and charging at me.

Perhaps because I had found the key to turning the tables.

- H, help meee!

Its shout, which had sounded like it was just teasing me before, this time sounded genuine.

Grin.

The corners of my mouth rising on their own.

I slapped my own cheek.

Slap.

It's not over yet.

I have to shove this into its mouth.

The future Poison Immortal would probably have used his hidden weapon arts to shove it into its mouth.

That must have been the reason why Dang Sopyeong and my junior sister had handed this to me.

No matter how outstanding the Tang Clan guy's talent was, it had only been seven days and nights since he had started learning hidden weapon arts.

It was still not easy for him to shove a hidden weapon into that monster's mouth.

But unfortunately, it was the same for me, as hidden weapons were not my specialty.

I was better than the Tang Clan guy, but it wasn't easy to accurately shove this into the mouth of that ridiculously fast creature.

In that case, there was only one solution.

Phat!

Somehow, I get close to its mouth.

Can I do it?

It would be a different story if my body were fine.

But in this state, with poison qi invading my whole body and my right leg slowly becoming crippled?

It was a truly useless worry.

Just because it's difficult, I should just give up?

I would attempt a mutual destruction, but giving up was an impossibility.

Tears flow from resisting the poison qi.

Beyond my blurred vision, I see the approaching face of the Human-faced spider.

"This is rather good."

A bitter arc formed on my lips.

My leg was already bothering me, but it was a truly joyous thing that it was approaching on its own.

Waiting for it to come within reach, I willingly closed my eyes.

I also withdrew all the internal energy that I had spread throughout my body to resist the poison qi.

Right.

Just once was enough.

If I were to scatter my energy ambiguously by trying to resist the poison qi, the situation would become neither here nor there anyway.

Rather than dying foolishly by dragging it out, I had to bet everything on a single moment.

Perhaps because the resisting energy had disappeared.

The poison qi invaded my insides even more violently.

A pain as if dozens of ants were digging into me surged from the wound where the poison qi had seeped in.

I ignored it.

Blood surged from my internal organs.

I ignored it.

I just focused my mind.

Beyond the wracking pain that enveloped my whole body, I heard the approaching footsteps of the Human-faced spider.

Although it had been approaching rapidly until I closed my eyes, for some reason, the sound seemed to come very slowly.

"Se-ni-or-bro-ther-!"

"He-y! Y-o-u! C-r-a-z-y! Ba-s-t-a-r-d-!!!"

The shouts of my junior sister and the Tang Clan guy also came very slowly.

And the moment its presence reached within a hair's breadth.

I opened my closed eyes with a flash.

I had to end it before tears welled up again.

Beyond my momentarily sharpened vision, several trajectories were embroidered in the air.

In a world that had slowed down to a crawl.

I was able to find a single opening to approach its face.

I willingly took a step forward with my right foot.

Perhaps because of the wound it had inflicted on me, a terrible pain washed over me.

One of its lower legs flies in, aiming for my lower body.

At the same time, as if to block my escape route, its four upper legs were also flying in, aiming for different directions.

At the moment the lower leg got closer, I used my right foot to launch my body into the air and stepped out with my left foot.

Towards the lower leg that it had thrust out.

Phat!

I felt the sensation of the hard hair growing on its leg digging into the sole of my foot.

Ignoring the surging pain, I use its leg as a support and soar into the air once more.

Another one of its legs flying in from above rapidly gets closer.

I had launched myself aiming for this leg in the first place.

I unleash the Crimson Lotus Ascends to Heaven that I had been preparing since I closed my eyes and swing it towards its leg.

Following the trajectory visible to my eyes.

Clang!!

Thanks to swinging the sword with perfect accuracy, my body was thrown in the direction I wanted.

Piercing through the gaps in the trajectories created by its many legs, towards its face.

A world slowed to the extreme.

Its face slowly gets closer.

But there was one unexpected problem left.

Its mouth was shut very tightly.

Unlike before, when it had been chattering, mimicking humans and spewing poison smoke.

Its face, which seemed to be frozen.

Its eyes, which mimicked a human's, curved like a waning moon.

As if it were mocking me.

Should I give up this time and aim for the next opportunity?

Or should I just aim for one of its eyes and move on?

No.

I can clearly feel the poison qi invading my whole body.

There was no next time.

In that case, there was only one way.

Forcibly pry open its tightly shut mouth.

I drew up the remaining internal energy in my dantian as much as I could.

Perhaps because the flow of the world had slowed down, I could clearly feel the scream that each meridian let out every time the massive internal energy passed through it.

Whether my body screamed or not, I continued to guide the flow of my internal energy.

Recalling what I had trained so far.

The moment I was about to imitate the technique Qingliang Xueshang had used to thrust his Judge's Pen.

For some reason, the contents written in the secret manual of the Sun Moon Infinite Sword came to mind.

- Oh, practitioner. Have you ever experienced the sun hanging in the midday sky on a summer day?

A passage that I had read dozens, hundreds of times, thinking that although I couldn't understand it, the day would come when I would learn it.

- That scorching sun is bound to emit a light that can blind you just by daring to look at it.

A passage that was now completely engraved in my mind.

- But that dazzling light is not one. No matter how intense it is, how can a single light illuminate the entire world at the same time?

A passage that had seemed like utter nonsense.

Suddenly, the insight of Azure Heaven's Hidden Smile that I had gained in the last chaotic battle came to mind.

Ah.

So that's what it was.

I regulate the internal energy that is running through me as if it would tear my meridians apart.

I divide the huge, single lump into as many fine strands as possible according to the insight of Azure Heaven's Hidden Smile.

I wanted to divide it into dozens, hundreds of strands, but as expected, it was impossible with my shallow talent.

But I had no time for frustration.

Even in a slowed world, the world was slowly flowing by.

Its face was already close enough to reach if I swung my sword.

A single trajectory to rip its mouth apart is embroidered in the air.

I thrust the Restoring Name Sword along that trajectory.

In response, the massive internal energy, divided into a mere four strands, runs through my meridians.

The four strands of energy finally reached my right hand holding the Restoring Name Sword, and were emitted through the four acupoints located in my fingers and palm.

Unlike before, when I had always emitted it using the center of my palm.

The four strands of energy that flowed out through different acupoints surged up the sword hilt and wrapped around the blade of the Restoring Name Sword.

Sword Silk.

But if I were to just spread it out haphazardly, I wouldn't be able to open its mouth.

- Remember. The scorching sun may be one, but it is tens of thousands of rays of light that illuminate the world.

Just as you would twist four strands of thread to make a rope, I twist the four strands of sword qi to weave them into a single form.

[ Sun Moon Infinite Sword: Third Form: One Sun, Ten Thousand Lights ]

The four intertwined strands of sword qi and the monster's mouth clashed.

In the slowed world.

I could see the area around its mouth being slowly ground away by the Sword Silk.

Kadeudeudeudeudeuk!!

Perhaps because it wasn't a perfect One Sun, Ten Thousand Lights.

I couldn't rip its mouth apart in one go.

It didn't matter.

If I could have ripped its hide in one go, I would have aimed for its neck from the beginning.

I press the Restoring Name Sword, which is caught in its mouth, downwards with all my might.

Kadeudeudeudeuk!!

Pushed back by the power of the half-formed, no, not even half-formed One Sun, Ten Thousand Lights, its jaw slowly opens downwards.

The moment its jaw finally opened wide enough for a fist to enter.

Just as I had taught the Tang Clan guy, I moved only my left hand as stealthily as possible and threw the iron needle.

Beyond its half-open mouth, precisely towards the inside of its throat.

The sight of the iron needle, with the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass stuck to it, flying through the air is engraved very slowly in my pupils.

A slowly heard sound of something cutting through the air.

Swiiiiiish.

The iron needle penetrates the inside of its slowly closing mouth.

Soon after, a sound of the iron needle clashing with the flesh inside its throat echoed, and at the same time, its mouth shut tight.

Ting!

No.

Not long after it closed, it opened again.

- Kieeeeeeeek!!

With the monster's terrible scream, filled with pain.

Thud.

A terrible pain surged from all over my body as it rolled on the ground.

"Cough……."

As I let out a cough that I couldn't hold back, a handful of dark red blood spurted out.

I didn't know if it was because of the neglected poison qi, or because I had forcefully unfolded an incomplete One Sun, Ten Thousand Lights.

It wasn't particularly important either.

I staggered to my feet.

- Kieeeeeeeek!

The Human-faced spider was screaming and thrashing about.

I could have died by being caught in the aftermath of its thrashing.

But my steps were not backwards, but forwards.

Thanks to my second eye, which had not yet closed, I could see clearly.

The war that was happening inside it.

Unfortunately, the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass did not go down to its stomach.

The huge, blackish-green poison qi and the yang qi of the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass clashed violently, centered on its throat.

If I left it like this, it might eventually spit out the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass.

I moved my two legs and approached it.

My left sole, pierced by its hair, and my right thigh, cut by its leg, throbbed.

It didn't matter.

Tears well up from resisting the poison qi.

My vision blurs.

I boldly close my eyes and use my movement arts.

And at the moment the distance between us closes, I open my eyes.

I can see the trajectories drawn indiscriminately by its eight thrashing legs.

Perhaps because it was swinging wildly, it wasn't difficult to find an opening.

Phat!

Aiming for that gap, I launch my body into the air.

Its neck rapidly gets closer.

I draw up my internal energy.

Perhaps because I had already reached my limit.

It was impossible to unfold One Sun, Ten Thousand Lights again.

It didn't matter.

I saw a single line.

Along its neck where the two opposing energies were clashing.

The place where the poison qi had melted away due to the energy of the Hundred Yang Ten-Knot Grass.

A line that even I, in my dying state, could cut, unprotected by its poison qi.

I swing the Restoring Name Sword, wrapped in Crimson Lotus Ascends to Heaven, towards that line.

A very clean cutting sound that awakens my fading consciousness echoes.

Slice!

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