Fist Demon of Mount Hua ( Novel ) - Chapter 253
Chapter 253 – Mount Hua Has Fist Demon (3)
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Bang!
The first to fly away as bloody pulp was a Mad Demon Hall warrior. His face and upper body were crushed beyond recognition as he rolled on the ground, as if hit by a massive rock.
There was no scream, no resistance. Dam-ho leaped over his mashed corpse.
Boom!
Another explosion rang out. This time three or four Mad Demon Hall warriors flew in all directions.
Their speed flying back was twice as fast as their charging speed.
There wasn’t even time to understand what had happened. With each explosion, Mad Demon Hall warriors flew away without even screaming.
It was like a massive storm sweeping through. Those caught in the storm lost their lives regardless of martial arts level.
Whoosh!
An energy current swirled around Dam-ho’s body. It was the Violent Demon Energy with explosive force.
With the Violent Demon Energy wrapped around him, Dam-ho threw his body at the enemies. Everything touched by his Violent Demon Energy exploded.
The sight of human bodies exploding like firecrackers instilled terrible fear in the Demon Cult warriors.
“Ahhh!”
“Such a monster…”
Eventually some warriors appeared who threw away their weapons and fled. Dam-ho paid them no attention and threw his body straight ahead.
His target was Sang Han-cheon.
Instinct told him. Taking down Sang Han-cheon would end today’s war.
“Hyah! Soul-Chasing Cross Energy!”
Dan Ho-sang blocked Dam-ho’s path. Dan Ho-sang’s spear released energy.
Swish swish swish!
At that moment Dam-ho’s body wavered like a candle flame. Though charging in a straight line, he swayed just his upper body to completely avoid Dan Ho-sang’s spear strikes.
“Huh!”
By the time Dan Ho-sang widened his eyes, Dam-ho had already reached point-blank range.
Dam-ho unleashed the Five Finger Dark Breaking Energy. Just before his five fingers could attach to the chest, Dan Ho-sang barely managed to block with his spear shaft.
Bang!
“Kuhk!”
Dan Ho-sang flew back with his spear. Dam-ho pursued Dan Ho-sang at terrifying speed.
Flying black hair, emotionless eyes flashing between. And Dan Ho-sang’s shocked face reflected in those eyes.
At that moment, a completely irrelevant thought entered Dan Ho-sang’s mind.
‘Wasn’t he definitely limp? How can a limp person move like this?’
Dam-ho’s imperfect left leg planted into the ground. Using his left foot as an axis, his right leg flew in a straight line.
Swoosh!
It was a kicking technique with a completely different trajectory from the Blood Sky Kick or Crushing Devil Kick he usually used. So Dan Ho-sang couldn’t respond in time. All he could do was concentrate internal energy in his abdomen.
Dan Ho-sang didn’t know. That was his greatest mistake.
Crack!
Dam-ho’s leg pierced through Dan Ho-sang’s abdomen. The internal energy concentrated in his abdomen was useless.
“Guh!”
Dan Ho-sang’s mouth gaped at the shocking pain from his abdomen.
It was the Charging Kick.
It was the evolved and completed form of the Charging Step. The Charging Step that could break castle walls, the Charging Kick was a kicking technique that concentrated that powerful force to a single point.
It was Dam-ho’s unique kicking technique different from the Crushing Devil Kick or Blood Heaven Kick he often used. The Charging Kick was the result that had made Dam-ho spend countless sleepless nights.
Dan Ho-sang’s body collapsed like a sand castle. In his eyes as the light of life faded, doubt still remained unresolved.
‘How?’
Until his last breath, Dan Ho-sang couldn’t understand how he was dying.
Dam-ho charged past Dan Ho-sang. Darkness wavered in his pupils.
“How… can this be!”
An urgent look appeared on Sang Han-cheon’s face.
After Hwang Yeol, now Dan Ho-sang too. Even the Mad Demon Hall warriors couldn’t hold Dam-ho back.
Everything he had believed in was crumbling.
Dam-ho was approaching with unstoppable momentum. Sang Han-cheon wasn’t someone who wouldn’t know he was the target.
“St-stop him!”
An urgent voice burst out without him realizing.
Though normally more cold-headed than anyone, at this moment he couldn’t be.
A military advisor like Sang Han-cheon categorizes and predicts all humans by type. Understanding a person based on martial power, personality, and various data to establish countermeasures.
Until now, Sang Han-cheon’s methods had never failed. So he was blind to his methods.
But now for the first time, a being appeared that denied his common sense. The human called Dam-ho didn’t fit within his defined methods and calculations.
The very existence of Dam-ho completely shook his common sense. That’s why he couldn’t help but be terrified.
Dam-ho launched his body high into the air. What goes up must come down. As his body fell, Dam-ho used the Thousand-Jin Drop.
Swoosh!
With a tremendous sound of splitting air, Dam-ho’s body drove straight down toward Sang Han-cheon.
“Danger!”
At the critical moment, Il-mong hugged Sang Han-cheon and quickly moved away. Dam-ho’s form drove straight down where Sang Han-cheon had been.
Bang!
With an earth-shaking explosion, terrifying shockwaves swept through the area. Rising dust blocked people’s vision.
After a moment, wind blew away the dust revealing a truly horrific sight.
Like a meteor had fallen, there was a huge crater about five zhang wide, and dozens of corpses were scattered around it. They were all Military Department warriors who had been guarding Sang Han-cheon.
The corpses of those who died as if hit by a thunderbolt were beyond horrific.
“Ugh!”
Sang Han-cheon let out a pained groan at the unbelievable sight.
Until now, Sang Han-cheon had controlled the Demon Cult with just his superior intellect. The number of people who had lost their lives at his word easily exceeded hundreds. But no death was more horrific than the sight before his eyes.
Dam-ho stood up.
His entire body was creaking. Though he had raised his vitality with the Life-Saving Poison Pill, that didn’t mean he had completely returned to normal. It was just a temporary effect. Forcing such a body made his entire body scream.
Still Dam-ho moved. Because the enemy was before his eyes.
“Uwaaah!”
“A-a demon!”
The Demon Cult warriors in the area fled in panic.
Just one fist-sized hole was enough to break a massive dam. Dam-ho had thrown his entire body to make that hole.
“Take them down!”
“Die!”
Mount Hua Sect warriors and heroes rushed through the hole Dam-ho had made.
The warriors who had only been pushed back until now gained courage and charged, and turning back a tilted scale was never easy.
Dam-ho’s overwhelming presence dominated the battlefield. The blood scent flowing from his body was enough to paralyze people’s reason.
A single master completely reversed the tilted situation. At this unbelievable sight, Sang Han-cheon lost his mind.
“This can’t be!”
“We must retreat!”
Il-mong pulled Sang Han-cheon’s hand. Even while being pulled by Il-mong, Sang Han-cheon couldn’t take his eyes off Dam-ho.
“Fist…Demon.”
Focus gradually returned to his turbid eyes.
Sang Han-cheon bit his lip until it bled.
‘Mount Hua’s core wasn’t Hyeon-cheon or Hyeon-geom. It was Fist Demon. That one is Mount Hua, and Mount Hua is that one. Predicting Mount Hua without considering him was my greatest mistake.’
A cold wind blew in his heart.
Even now, Dam-ho was walking toward Sang Han-cheon.
Though limping, he didn’t stop for a moment. His appearance was truly terrifying. Enough to plant fear in the heart of Sang Han-cheon who had lived without knowing the emotion of fear.
Sang Han-cheon looked around.
Smoke was rising from all over Mount Hua. And many had died. Most of the important Mount Hua figures targeted had lost their lives. Just that much had achieved their primary objective.
Sang Han-cheon turned and said:
“Retreat.”
“Yes sir!”
Il-mong conveyed Sang Han-cheon’s order to the Demon Cult warriors.
War drums announcing retreat rang out everywhere. The Demon Cult warriors withdrew like the ebbing tide. While doing so, they didn’t forget to block Dam-ho and Mount Hua Sect warriors’ pursuit.
The Military Department warriors threw their bodies to block Dam-ho.
“You shall never harm the Military Advisor!”
Even while falling to Dam-ho’s fists, the Military Department warriors clung to him until the end.
If one wasn’t enough then two, if two weren’t enough then four, thus dozens, hundreds blocked Dam-ho’s path.
While they blocked Dam-ho, Sang Han-cheon descended Mount Hua with Il-mong’s protection.
‘Though I leave now, I will surely repay this humiliation.’
Sang Han-cheon’s eyes shone colder than ever before.
Dam-ho’s steps stopped.
Swish!
The body of the warrior who had clung to him until the end collapsed. Where Dam-ho had passed, corpses of warriors who had blocked him lay in rows. It was truly an unprecedented horrific sight.
Dam-ho’s cold eyes sank even deeper.
There was no meaning in chasing Sang Han-cheon further. He would have already left Mount Hua with Demon Cult warriors’ protection.
“Cheon Kyung.”
“Senior Uncle!”
The surviving Mount Hua warriors gathered around Dam-ho.
The number of survivors was barely a few dozen. The Hyeon generation elders were completely wiped out, and over half of the Kyung generation first disciples were dead or injured. The damage to the second generation disciples with weaker martial arts went without saying.
Fortunately thanks to Sage Hyeon-cheon’s quick judgment, Myung Kyung and Han So-yu had safely protected the third generation disciples, but their martial arts were still extremely weak.
Thus Mount Hua’s spirit and strength were greatly damaged. It would take several decades for Mount Hua Sect to regain its former glory.
Mount Hua Sect disciples wept. More than Mount Hua’s fall, what made them sad was the death of their masters and martial siblings.
They had no leisure to worry about Mount Hua’s tomorrow. They wept holding their masters’ corpses and calling their senior brothers’ names. But Woon-kyung alone couldn’t do so.
The responsibility left to him was too great to simply let everything go and cry.
Mount Hua was everything to him. With Mount Hua’s complete fall, he alone had to keep his mind clear and face reality.
Mount Hua needed a core now.
‘Cheon Kyung.’
Woon-kyung’s gaze turned to Dam-ho.
***
On the day Mount Hua was attacked, the murim alliance headquarters in Yueyang by Dongting Lake was also ambushed.
Two of the Seven Great Demon Masters, Storm Divine Fist Yi Seon-chang and Iron Killing Divine Whip Yun Gwang, led several hundred elites in a surprise attack. They had received separate orders from Sang Han-cheon and inflicted great damage by ambushing the murim alliance headquarters.
It was a catastrophe that occurred while the murim alliance’s Military Advisor Namgung Chang had left with the main forces dispatched to Shaolin Temple. Fortunately Alliance Chief Nam Cheon-san and Vice Chief Jo Ui-myeong came out to repel the Demon Cult’s surprise attack, but this greatly lowered the murim alliance’s morale.
Zhongnan had fallen, and Mount Hua had suffered great damage. On top of that, the murim alliance headquarters was struck. It was truly a devastating defeat that would go down in history.
Because of this, the righteous sects’ momentum was greatly broken. But even amid this, there was one ray of hope.
Fist Demon Dam-ho.
His overwhelming martial might shown at Mount Hua was made known to the world through the righteous heroes who were there.
A man who alone saved Mount Hua from the brink of extinction.
He alone killed four of the Seven Great Demon Masters, and by killing numerous Demon Cult warriors made them withdraw from Mount Hua.
In a dark age where no hope could be seen, he alone shone brightly.
Thus the legend of Fist Demon shook the world.