Fist Demon of Mount Hua ( Novel ) - Chapter 260
Chapter 260 – Time Changes Many Things (1)
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Silver Family Castle’s merchant caravan raced quickly down the main road. Fortunately there were no major problems as the road to Mount Hua’s entrance was well-paved.
Just a bit more and they would reach Mount Hua’s entrance.
“We’re almost there.”
Just as Jeok Yong-cheon was about to sigh in relief.
Neigh!
Suddenly the horses running in front collapsed forward with rough cries. The impact caused the wagons they were pulling to overturn and block the road.
“Stop!”
The carriages following behind quickly halted their horses seeing this sight.
“What happened?”
Jeok Yong-cheon quickly dismounted and approached the front. He saw horses struggling on the ground and overturned carriage wreckage. Most prominently visible was thick wire tied across the road.
The galloping horses had clearly tripped on the thick wire and collapsed.
“This is? Everyone be alert.”
Jeok Yong-cheon drew his sword while shouting a warning.
Pat pat!
At that moment, a group jumped out from the bushes on both sides of the road. It was about a hundred warriors wearing yellow, red, blue, black and white clothes.
“Who are you?”
Jeok Yong-cheon glared at them and shouted. But instead of answering, the attackers attacked.
Clang clang clang!
“Kuh! Block them!”
“You b*st*rds…”
The sounds of clashing weapons and curses rang out everywhere.
The attackers were the Five Elements Destruction Squad. They ruthlessly attacked Silver Family Castle’s merchant caravan.
“Argh!”
“Save me!”
The scene instantly became a battlefield. People’s screams filled the air and metallic sounds rang chaotically.
Eun So-cheong stuck her head out the carriage window.
“What’s happening?”
“We’re under attack, Young Lady.”
“Attack?”
“Stay inside and don’t come out.”
“But… alright.”
Eun So-cheong bit her lip and nodded.
Though Eun So-cheong had excellent business skills, her martial arts weren’t very good. In the current situation, it would be fortunate if she didn’t become a burden let alone help.
Moreover, Silver Sword Ghost Hand Jong Ri-su who usually guarded her wasn’t by her side now. It was truly the worst situation.
Eun So-cheong thought of Eum Yu-kyung.
‘Was this why she apologized?’
These were clearly pursuers following Eum Yu-kyung.
Even then, the battle was heading toward its peak.
The situation wasn’t good. Most of those falling with screams were merchant caravan warriors. It was truly an overwhelming difference in strength.
The Five Elements Destruction Squad was truly terrifying. Like mutes, they swung their weapons without saying a word.
Jeok Yong-cheon trembled seeing this sight.
“These ones are human butchers.”
One can understand the intent behind martial arts by seeing their form. The martial arts unleashed by the Five Elements Destruction Squad were designed to kill humans as efficiently as possible. They contained no way or meaning. They were truly the ultimate in simplicity – a butcher’s martial arts.
Five Five Elements Destruction Squad members attached themselves to Jeok Yong-cheon.
Clang clang clang!
Their attacks continued without pause like wagon wheels. So Jeok Yong-cheon had to continuously swing his sword to block their attacks.
His back was already soaked with sweat.
The force contained in the enemies’ attacks was very intense. Though Jeok Yong-cheon was a supreme master, their reckless wave attacks made chills run down his spine.
“Kuhk!”
“Ugh!”
Even then, the merchant caravan warriors fell with screams until less than half remained.
That’s when it happened. His eyes caught Five Elements Destruction Squad members approaching the carriage.
“Stop!”
Jeok Yong-cheon tried to run toward them, but the Five Elements Destruction Squad members attached to him persistently held him back.
Meanwhile, the Five Elements Destruction Squad members who approached the carriage raised their swords. They were going to stab into the carriage to kill Eun So-cheong inside.
Jeok Yong-cheon’s face turned pale white seeing this sight.
“N-no!”
Just as his desperate cry rang out.
“How dare you commit slaughter at Mount Hua.”
Along with a cold voice, over ten warriors jumped into the battlefield.
“They must be demon cultists.”
“Cut down all the demons.”
The warriors who jumped into the battlefield swept away the Five Elements Destruction Squad attacking the merchant caravan with terrifying momentum.
Swoosh!
Sharp sounds of splitting air cut through.
The Five Elements Destruction Squad who had been butchering the merchant caravan were pushed back by the momentum of the newly arrived warriors.
“What in the…”
Jeok Yong-cheon watched that sight with an unbelieving expression.
The newly appeared ones were Taoist priests wearing ordinary Taoist robes. But the momentum they emanated was by no means ordinary.
Like plum blossoms growing through harsh winter cold, noble yet cold energy swirled around them. Each time they swung their swords, it was as if plum blossoms bloomed in the air.
“P-Plum Blossom Sword?”
Jeok Yong-cheon instantly recognized the martial arts they were using. He couldn’t not recognize it.
The Twenty-Four Forms Plum Blossom Sword they unleashed was one of Mount Hua Sect’s most famous martial arts. And only Mount Hua Sect’s elite Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen could learn the Twenty-Four Forms Plum Blossom Sword.
“B-but the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen should all be dead.”
Jeok Yong-cheon muttered blankly, forgetting he was under joint attack.
No one in the martial world didn’t know that when Mount Hua Sect suffered great catastrophe three years ago, most first and second generation disciples including the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen lost their lives.
People in the martial world thought Mount Hua could never regain its former glory since its core first generation disciples and supporting second generation disciples who acted as its backbone were completely wiped out.
Reviving lost secret techniques was nearly impossible. Above all, warriors like Mount Hua’s Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen couldn’t be raised with just secret manuals.
Warriors like the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen could only barely be raised with the previous generation’s experience and teachings, plus the sect’s full support. So everyone thought Mount Hua had ended.
The martial world’s consensus was it would take over several decades to regain its former glory. And that was only if heavenly fortune was on their side.
However, as if mocking the martial world’s consensus, Taoist priests unleashing the Twenty-Four Forms Plum Blossom Sword appeared now. This was impossible without being Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen.
Swoosh!
“Kugh!”
“Kuh!”
Their swords were truly terrifying. They were cutting down those demons who had been butchering the merchant caravan without hesitation. The sight seemed so surreal it didn’t feel real.
“Good heavens! The Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen.”
Not just Jeok Yong-cheon but the entire merchant caravan was shocked by their overwhelming martial might.
Swoosh!
Their swords cut through the air.
They didn’t even form sword energy that warriors of that level commonly unleashed. They just maximized the sword’s principles without wastefully expending energy.
The Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen were unstoppable.
Each time they swung their swords, one Five Elements Destruction Squad member definitely lost their life. Like farmers harvesting in autumn, they were reaping the lives of the Five Elements Destruction Squad.
“Kuhk!”
“Kuh!”
Screams rang out everywhere.
The merchant caravan warriors didn’t dare join the fight and just blankly watched that sight while retreating.
“Good heavens! Are they really Mount Hua Sect’s priests?”
“Hadn’t Mount Hua already fallen? How could they have such strength…”
“The world was wrong. Mount Hua never fell. How could a sect possessing such warriors have fallen?”
They watched the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen fighting with blank expressions.
The swords unleashed by the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen were extremely efficient. Like branches with all twigs cut off, they flew the shortest distance to reap enemy lives.
It was different from the original Twenty-Four Forms Plum Blossom Sword.
Though the essence was the same, it seemed modified into the optimal form for taking human lives.
“You b*st*rds!”
Finally Ya Hon, leader of the Five Elements Destruction Squad, burst out angrily.
He couldn’t believe the sight of just over ten Plum Blossom Swordsmen overwhelming the Five Elements Destruction Squad he led.
“Impossible… Hadn’t Mount Hua lost all its spirit?”
“Indeed it had.”
One of the Plum Blossom Swordsmen approached Ya Hon and spoke coldly.
Ya Hon asked:
“Are you really the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen?”
“That’s right. We are indeed the Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen.”
“But? Surely you were all wiped out three years ago.”
“Indeed. The previous Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen were massacred by you lot. We are the new Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen who inherited their will.”
“New… Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen?”
“That’s right.”
The priest Won Myeong answered coldly.
Won Myeong was Mount Hua’s third generation disciple.
When the great catastrophe occurred three years ago, he barely saved his life by hiding in the secret cave with other third generation disciples.
His master who taught him died, and his master’s master died. And many others died.
He had never cried so much in his life. He cried and cried until no more tears would come.
At that time only despair remained. He thought Mount Hua was finished since all the sect’s elders were killed.
But Mount Hua didn’t end. Mount Hua’s potential wasn’t just what was known to the world.
Mount Hua started again from ruins. They raised warriors again from completely burned ground, created something from nothing.
The result was the new Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen.
Not even all Thirty-Six Plum Blossom Swordsmen had come, just some. Yet their strength was overwhelming the Five Elements Destruction Squad.
Won Myeong burst out angrily.
“How dare you set your filthy feet on Mount Hua. We will never forgive this.”
“Kugh!”
Won Myeong charged at Ya Hon.
Swoosh!
His sword cut through the air targeting Ya Hon’s neck. Ya Hon barely deflected Won Myeong’s sword by unleashing a defensive technique.
Clang!
Won Myeong’s sword was deflected. But the sword instantly drew a gentle arc and targeted Ya Hon’s neck again.
Powerful yet elegant, gentle yet fierce.
Ya Hon gritted his teeth and deflected Won Myeong’s sword again. But Won Myeong’s sword shot back at Ya Hon like a magnet after being deflected.
As lines overlapped lines, afterimages formed in the air. What the numerous straight lines overlapping created was a single plum blossom.
It was Plum Blossom Blood Storm Wind, the ultimate move of the Twenty-Four Forms Plum Blossom Sword.
The plum blossom Won Myeong created in the air scattered chaotically in the blood wind. Ya Hon gritted his teeth and unleashed Black Spirit Void, the strongest ultimate move he knew.
Dazzling sword energy rose from his sword and struck at the plum blossom Won Myeong created.
The plum blossom and sword energy clashed.
Boom!
The sword energy Ya Hon created was extinguished helplessly like a candle in the knife wind brought by the plum blossom.
“Kyak!”
Ya Hon fell with a desperate scream as knife wind wrapped around his entire body. His entire body was covered in blood.
He muttered while kneeling.
“H-how could mere Plum Blossom Swordsmen have such might?”
Even the previous generation’s Plum Blossom Swordsmen didn’t possess this level of martial power. Though Plum Blossom Swordsmen were among Mount Hua’s finest warriors, they weren’t enough to overwhelm him, leader of the Five Elements Destruction Squad, like this.
The young Plum Blossom Swordsman before him possessed overwhelming martial power surpassing the previous Plum Blossom Swordsmen. Ya Hon couldn’t understand this fact at all.
“H-how?”
“You wouldn’t know. What hell we went through. We fight life-and-death battles with him every day.”
“Him?”
“Yes! Mount Hua’s Fist Demon. We fight every day to survive against him.”
Deep killing intent filled Won Myeong’s eyes.