Chapter 58 : Blade Teeth (3)

Swoosh! Swish! Swish!

The air shook very faintly. And from the ground, ghosts suddenly shot up.

They had been lying flat on the ground. Then, when they stood up, it felt as if they had suddenly shot up from the ground. It was impossible to grasp their movements, so it looked as if ghosts had appeared.

They had only stood up, they did not move.

After raising their bodies, they stood still like a village guardian post and looked only ahead.

Swoosh!

A person appeared belatedly.

He calmly approached the place where the ghosts were standing. And he saw what the ghosts were looking at.

Corpses!

“Hmm!”

He let out a low groan.

He first approached the corpse whose head was half split.

“He’s not the type to be hit like this.”

He muttered and drew his blade. And he pushed the blade into the corpse’s split head.

He was not cutting the cut head again. He was trying to find out how deep the blade had gone, and how he had been attacked.

“The depth of this is strange?”

He tilted his head.

“Stand him up.”

He stepped back with the blade stuck in the corpse’s head.

Then, two of the ghosts lined up around came out and grabbed the corpse’s armpits.

Swoosh!

The corpse stood up again.

“A little to the left.”

The ghosts moved the corpse little by little.

“No. This isn’t it. If his two feet had been on the ground, his neck bone would have been struck the moment he was hit by the blade. This is slightly crushed… it was in the air. He was hit in the air. Lift him up. The blade this guy used well was the Flying Tip Blade… so close his two feet, and raise his arms up.”

The ghosts adjusted the corpse as he had instructed.

They lifted the corpse up into the air. They bent one foot with one hand, and raised an arm with the other.

They held the feet on both sides and lifted the corpse, but the corpse did not shake at all.

The ghosts’ internal energy was unusual.

“…That’s right. This is it.”

He stared intently at his blade stuck in the corpse’s head. Then he suddenly muttered, “Falling, Falling Flower Blade!”

The Falling Flower Blade was a blade that fell from the sky. It was not a blade that fell like a thunderbolt, but it fell while fluttering like a falling flower petal. Of course, the one being attacked did not know any sign.

Suddenly, when a strong impact was felt on the head and a fire flared up, the Falling Flower Blade was already over.

The Falling Flower Blade was the martial art of the twenty-first Single-Instant Sect Master.

“H-How can the Falling Flower Blade!”

He’s eyes widened. His expression was full of disbelief, even as he spoke.

He didn’t care about the corpse held up in the air and ran to the other corpses.

Shwiiit!

He used a movement technique even while moving a short distance. He was in such a hurry that he had to run at full speed.

The place he ran to had two corpses lying side by side.

One had been struck in the stomach, and the other had been hit with a fatal blow to the chest. The blow that had cut the stomach had split the internal organs. The one whose chest had been cut had his heart cleanly severed.

Both had died instantly.

“Find the footprints!”

He said, looking at the corpses.

The ghosts immediately moved. They were trying to find where the corpses had been standing before they had collapsed.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The ghosts each took their positions and stood.

The ghosts did not speak. Instead, they expressed what they wanted to say with gestures, with actions.

“Hmm! So you were thinking of a joint attack. Soaked in despair and fear. Then you should have rushed in with a ‘you die, I die’ attitude. You! The blade to the chest. You have to block the attack. You, counterattack immediately. A rising blade. Lower stance!”

The ghosts held their blades as he had said.

One held his blade to his chest and took a firm defensive stance. The other immediately finished preparing to strike up with his blade.

“So you’re saying you’ll cut this. That guy cut the stomach, and then that guy’s chest… is this possible?”

He tilted his head.

For the blade that had come out of the stomach to hit the chest, it had to be raised up. But the one whose chest had been cut had not been hit by a rising blade. He had been hit by a falling blade.

It wasn’t that he had cut the stomach and then the chest.

He had also thought of cutting the chest and then the stomach, but the angle at which the blade entered was not right.

“Looking at the distance between these guys, you have to cut two guys in one move. There’s no time to breathe. Then… pararararak?”

He spun his fingers like a pinwheel.

The blade spins like a pinwheel. He knew. How could he not know? His master’s master, his grandmaster’s martial art was the Revolving Wheel Blade. He didn’t know about the generations above that because they were too far back, but he knew what the martial art of the thirty-fifth Single-Instant Sect Master was.

“The Revolving Wheel Blade!”

He cuts the stomach using the Revolving Wheel Blade. The blade comes out. The Revolving Wheel Blade is a blade that floats in the air. Even if you don’t hold the hilt, the blade cuts the stomach on its own.

The hand is already at the place where the blade will come out. And it catches the blade that comes out. Catches, twists, and cuts. Catches the blade, twists the wrist up, and cuts the chest in one blow.

A blade that creates all sorts of changes by maximizing the movement of the wrist, the Ten Thousand Wrist Blade!

It was the blade of the fifteenth Single-Instant Sect Master.

“Look at this guy?”

Seori Hyeonggae twisted his lips and smiled.

In this place alone, the guy had executed the martial arts of three Single-Instant Sect Masters.

If he could execute the martial arts of three, it had to be assumed that he could execute the martial arts of all thirty-six.

There was one more corpse to check. Four had died, and he had found the cause of death for three of them. But Seori Hyeonggae had not looked at the other corpse.

“Find him!”

Seori Hyeonggae ordered the ghosts.

* * *

The ghosts stopped in front of the mountain shrine.

“What is it?”

A ghost raised one finger. And he pointed in one direction.

The Drunken Flower Garden assassins were gathered in a group, and one of them had gone off on a different path.

“Is it Ah Geol?”

The ghost shook his head.

Although he could find the traces, it was impossible to find out the level of their martial arts. It was also impossible to distinguish whether the fleeing person was a man or a woman. In a mountain chase, there were not many clues to be found.

“Hmm!”

Seori Hyeonggae pondered.

Many were moving in the other direction. Only one was going on a different path.

“You guys continue to pursue. You and I will go this way.”

Seori Hyeonggae ordered, looking at the seven men who had the Ghost Register Seven Traces, the ghost register.

Six would continue to follow the traces. One would go with him to find the one who had gone off alone.

Seori Hyeonggae thought that the one who had gone off alone would be Ah Geol.

* * *

Tuk!

The Drunken Flower Garden master leaned her back against a rock.

There was a fierce beast nearby. A starved fierce beast was prowling around, looking for an opportunity to attack.

The Drunken Flower Garden master instinctively felt the crisis.

The one who had attacked the Drunken Flower Garden was a subordinate of the reverse blade who had betrayed the Single-Instant Sect and had murdered his master.

The reverse blade had not come himself, but his subordinate had rushed in, and she had not been able to move. If Ah Geol had not come in time, they would all have been annihilated.

If such people came again… there was no hope.

‘Am I unlucky? I was going to master the Fall of Life and Death to the tenth level, but you’re not giving me a chance?’

The Drunken Flower Garden master looked around with gloomy eyes.

There was no sign of anyone chasing her. She had not seen anything, nor had she heard any presence. It was just that she had a vague feeling that a fierce beast was chasing her.

She pricked up her ears and looked behind her.

She could not hear any sound. Occasionally, the wind would pass by and throw a tantrum, but there was no sound made by a person.

‘Am I just being overly sensitive?’

The Drunken Flower Garden master tilted her head.

Since the Drunken Flower Garden was on the verge of extinction, her nerves might have become sensitive. She also felt a great sense of self-reproach, as if she had driven the garden disciples to their deaths because of her own mistake.

The garden master shook her head and composed herself. At that moment,

Swoosh!

Something flashed in front of her eyes.

The Drunken Flower Garden master gripped her sword tightly and glared ahead.

As expected, a person!

He was a man with a very pale complexion. He had no blood, so his face looked as if it had been powdered. And he was also expressionless. He did not show any emotion, so he looked like a corpse.

“What is it?”

He did not waver at all at the Drunken Flower Garden master’s roar.

He did not seem to have any intention of fighting. Although he was carrying a weapon, he had no intention of drawing it. He did not seem to have any intention of fighting at all. Not only that, he even stepped back.

‘What is it?’

She didn’t know who the opponent was. But she felt very bad. It was best to get out of this place quickly.

Swoosh!

The Drunken Flower Garden master moved her body to the side, glaring at the man.

The man did not follow her even when she moved. He just stared blankly.

‘Death energy!’

The Drunken Flower Garden master figured out why the man was showing such an appearance.

The man’s body was in a state of death.

He had deliberately lowered the function of his body to a very low level by operating his true energy.

Why had he done that? To enhance other functions.

A pale appearance like a corpse… it was because he had no blood. This state had occurred because he had suppressed the circulation of his blood as much as possible. Instead of suppressing the blood flow, he had raised his sense of qi to the maximum.

Instead of losing movement, he had raised his senses to the highest level.

In the world of killing, this kind of qigong was called ‘Death Energy Sinking Flow Art’. In short, it was also said that he had trained in death energy.

The first side effect that came when you trained in death energy was that you lost your language. You became unable to speak. Next, you lost your lust. You became unable to function as a man or a woman. You became a block of wood. The last was the worst, you would have a short life.

It was known that if you trained in death energy, you would die before you reached forty.

“Hoo!”

The Drunken Flower Garden master let out a long breath.

A person who had trained in the Death Energy Sinking Flow Art did not go alone. Because they were just a guide for someone.

The premonition that a fierce beast was chasing her was right.

“Who are you?”

The Drunken Flower Garden master ignored the man and looked around.

“Huhu!”

A laugh was heard from the left forest. And a tall, slender man walked out.

The garden master narrowed her eyes and glared at the opponent.

He was a stranger. She had not even heard that there was such a person in the martial world. But the man… was just a blade. There was no need to talk about blade energy or anything. His entire body was a blade.

So such a man also existed!

The garden master suddenly thought of Ah Geol. She also remembered that Ah Geol had killed his senior brother, Dongbak.

“A Single-Instant Sect disciple.”

“Huhuhu!”

The man did not deny it.

“Are you Seori Gaheon, or Seori Hyeonggae?”

“You even know our names. That Ah Geol guy has a loose mouth. I thought his blade was just clumsy, but he’s a guy who has a lot more to learn.”

Sreung!

The man drew his blade.

The Drunken Flower Garden master thought of the end. There was no way to defeat this person. But she would do her best. Since the fight would end in one move, she would not spare her true energy. She would not cling to her life either. Yes, it would be good to execute a mutual destruction. Let’s die together.

Swoosh!

She raised her sword and raised her true energy.

The Fall of Life and Death unfolds. The garden master’s form becomes as faint as a ghost.

In that instant, the man started to run. At first slowly, but then faster and faster… Ah! It was so fast that she couldn’t grasp his form. What kind of movement technique was this fast… Peok!

The Drunken Flower Garden master had executed the Fall of Life and Death with all her might. But the man’s blade had already passed through her body.

“Kuk! Too… fast!”

“Huhu! It’s called the Three Blades One Kill. I’ve only been defeated once. By my master.”

The man pulled up his clothes and showed his stomach.

A long blade scar was engraved on his stomach. Someone had cut his stomach long.

“It’s a wound from a single defeat. Since then, I only cut the stomach.”

“Kuk!”

The Drunken Flower Garden master let out another groan and collapsed.

Although she had only been hit by the blade once, the pain came continuously. As if she had been hit by the blade several times.

“Ah Geol, he’s lucky. Thanks to my wasted trip, his time to go to the afterlife has been extended by a day. Let’s go.”

Seori Hyeonggae glanced at the Drunken Flower Garden master, who had died with her stomach cut open, and then shot his body forward.