Fist Demon of Mount Hua ( Novel ) - Chapter 261
Chapter 261 – Time Changes Many Things (2)
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“Huff huff!”
Harsh groans escaped Eum Yu-kyung’s lips. Her gray martial clothes were stained red with blood in many places.
The Five Elements Demon Children were not easy opponents. They were quintuplets born at the same time. They communicated almost at the level of spiritual resonance.
With just a glance or gesture they perfectly understood each other’s intentions and attacked together without openings. When they unleashed the Five Elements Heaven Shaking Formation containing soul-capturing principles, their power doubled.
“Holy Maiden? You b*tch who sleeps with dogs. Just give up now. Then these elders will show you paradise.”
“Why don’t you untie your skirt strings yourself? Once you taste this elder’s jade stalk you’ll never want to leave.”
They unleashed martial arts while spewing vulgar obscenities that were hard to even speak.
“Mmm!”
As time passed, Eum Yu-kyung’s complexion grew paler.
‘The internal injuries are flaring up again.’
Before coming here, she had to cross many death lines. The price was considerable internal injuries.
She had suppressed them well until now but they were flaring up in the fierce battle with the Five Elements Demon Children. Her internal organs were jolted and nausea rose.
Eum Yu-kyung barely suppressed the rising urge to vomit. But the Five Elements Heaven Shaking Formation kept worsening her condition.
“Hehe! Seems you’ve reached your limit.”
The Five Elements Demon Children didn’t miss that opening and rushed in.
Rumble!
Powerful palm energy shot forth.
Just as Eum Yu-kyung unleashed an upper-level move of the Falling Moon Divine Sword to neutralize the palm energy.
“Woman!”
Whoosh!
Along with a sharp voice, White Moon Demon Child shot hidden weapons. The microscopic hidden weapons too small to see rode the wind and flew at Eum Yu-kyung’s back.
By the time Eum Yu-kyung sensed the hidden weapons it was already too late.
Stab!
“Huk!”
The hidden weapons pierced the back of her hand. From the impact Eum Yu-kyung lost grip of her sword.
It was a golden opportunity for the Five Elements Demon Children.
“Yah!”
They tightened their encirclement and simultaneously shot palm energy. With thunderous sounds, powerful energy struck at Eum Yu-kyung.
Eum Yu-kyung tried to launch her body into the air to avoid the Five Elements Demon Children’s attack. But at the critical moment her internal energy flow was cut off. Additionally the pulling force of the Five Elements Heaven Shaking Formation was exerted.
In the end Eum Yu-kyung couldn’t escape the Five Elements Heaven Shaking Formation and fell. And terrifying palm energy bearing down.
‘Sacrifice flesh to take bone.’
Eum Yu-kyung bit her lip.
She planned to sacrifice at least one arm. Though sacrificing an arm was hard to bear as a woman, she had no choice.
Black Moon Demon Child sneered seeing this.
“Hehe! The Holy Maiden isn’t much after all. Kuhk!”
Grab!
Suddenly Black Moon Demon Child couldn’t continue speaking and struggled.
The clear world suddenly went dark. All that could be seen was pitch black darkness.
“W-what?”
Black Moon Demon Child struggled.
Like pulling radishes from a field, his body was pulled up into the air. His short legs flailed helplessly in the air unable to find footing.
“Elder Brother?”
“What?”
Only then did the other Five Elements Demon Children notice something wrong and look at Black Moon Demon Child.
Black Moon Demon Child was struggling in the air with his head grabbed by someone’s hand.
“W-what?”
“Who are you?”
Behind Black Moon Demon Child’s small body darkness was visible. No, it was a man cloaked in darkness. He stood holding Black Moon Demon Child’s head in his large hand.
At that moment the air in the scene turned cold.
Chills ran up the Five Elements Demon Children’s spines. Their bodies that had heated up fighting Eum Yu-kyung instantly turned cold.
Black Moon Demon Child struggled and shouted:
“L-let go! You! I absolutely won’t… Kek!”
Crack!
At that moment the man’s hand tightened and Black Moon Demon Child’s head shattered like a cracker.
Blood and brain matter sprayed everywhere and flowed down the man’s hand. The man threw Black Moon Demon Child’s corpse like throwing away trash.
“E-Elder Brother?”
“This can’t be!”
The remaining Five Elements Demon Children widened their eyes at the surreal sight. The sight of Black Moon Demon Child who they had been breathing and attacking together until now lying on the ground with his head shattered was unreal like a dream. It was unbelievable.
“You b*st*rd!”
“We’ll never forgive you.”
The Five Elements Demon Children lost their reason and charged at the man.
Eum Yu-kyung blankly watched that sight forgetting she had been hit by hidden weapons.
The man moved.
Thud!
The moment his foot stepped on the ground, a boom rang out as if an earthquake had occurred.
The earth’s cry transmitted to Eum Yu-kyung through her feet.
Eum Yu-kyung thought the earth was crying.
That’s when it happened.
The man launched a strike at the Five Elements Demon Children.
Bang!
Eum Yu-kyung saw an illusion of a volcano exploding before her eyes. The volcano that burst from the man’s fist swallowed the Five Elements Demon Children whole.
“Kek!”
“Kyaak!”
Two of the Five Elements Demon Children who had persistently tormented Eum Yu-kyung flew away crushed like meat paste.
“Heek!”
“What?”
White Moon Demon Child and Yellow Moon Demon Child who barely saved their lives screamed metallically in terror. They had no time to grieve their brothers’ deaths and retreated backward. But before they could even take one step back the man’s body rushed in like a storm.
The massive storm struck their tiny bodies.
Bang!
Another explosion rang out.
White Moon Demon Child and Yellow Moon Demon Child died without even screaming. Their bodies flying away were crushed like meat paste and could no longer be called human.
“Ah!”
Eum Yu-kyung blankly watched all of that.
From the man’s appearance to the Five Elements Demon Children’s annihilation happened in the blink of an eye. It felt like a dream because it was so surreal.
Eum Yu-kyung blankly looked at the man.
The man was approaching while limping. His shoulder dipping slightly each time he moved his left leg.
A man giving an iron wall-like pressure despite his unbalanced body. There was only one man in the world with such an overwhelming presence.
“You are… Dam…ho.”
The man who instantly took down the Five Elements Demon Children was Dam-ho.
Even before Dam-ho was called a monster. But now after three years he was so far beyond her limits she didn’t know what to call him.
‘This man has become even more terrifying.’
Suddenly she felt chills…. Finally Dam-ho stood before Eum Yu-kyung. He silently looked at Eum Yu-kyung.
Eum Yu-kyung spoke first.
“It’s been a while.”
“Indeed.”
An awkward silence briefly flowed between the two.
It was a meeting after three years.
Though a short time, the gap felt large enough to feel long for people who had lived different lives.
Dam-ho spoke first.
“What brings you here?”
“I have something to tell you.”
Dam-ho stared at Eum Yu-kyung’s face.
“You look tired. Let’s go up to Mount Hua.”
“Thank you.”
Only when Dam-ho’s permission fell did Eum Yu-kyung finally breathe a sigh of relief. She had achieved her primary purpose in coming here.
Dam-ho turned around.
The Five Elements Demon Children’s corpses were scattered around but they gave him no emotion.
Suddenly Dam-ho’s gaze stopped at bushes to the left.
“What’s wrong?”
“Nothing.”
Dam-ho shook his head at Eum Yu-kyung’s question and walked.
Dam-ho was still limping on one foot, but his steps were unbelievably fast. It was a speed that even Eum Yu-kyung using lightness skills found difficult.
Eum Yu-kyung looked at Dam-ho’s back with overwhelmed eyes.
Three years ago his only weakness was one thing. That his lightness skills were weak because he limped. But during the unseen time Dam-ho seemed to have found a way to compensate for his lightness skills.
Dam-ho’s body instantly disappeared into Mount Hua’s lush forest. Eum Yu-kyung increased her speed not wanting to fall behind.
After the two disappeared into Mount Hua and quite some time passed, with rustling sounds two people crawled out from the bushes.
“Good heavens!”
“Just what has happened to Mount Hua Sect?”
The two people looking around with blank expressions were Moon Su-gyeol and Jo Won-myeong.
They had secretly followed Silver Family Castle’s merchant caravan here. And witnessed unbelievable sights.
The unbelievable sights of about ten Mount Hua Sect Plum Blossom Swordsmen sweeping away over a hundred Five Elements Destruction Squad members, and Dam-ho instantly annihilating the Five Elements Demon Children.
Shiver!
They were still trembling from how shocked they were.
Jo Won-myeong rubbed his shoulders with his palms while looking around.
The Five Elements Demon Children who had shown such terrifying martial might against Eum Yu-kyung were rolling on the ground in miserable states.
“Just who was that woman?”
Jo Won-myeong and Moon Su-gyeol didn’t know Eum Yu-kyung’s name. They had watched hidden only after Eum Yu-kyung and the Five Elements Demon Children’s fight.
Eum Yu-kyung and the Five Elements Demon Children’s fight exceeded their imagination in ferocity. Even Moon Su-gyeol who prided himself on experiencing everything as Dark Cloud’s team leader had never seen such a vicious fight. If Moon Su-gyeol was like that, Jo Won-myeong went without saying.
He was feeling extreme fear now. Especially the martial might Dam-ho showed at the last moment gave him terror beyond shock.
“Now I understand why everyone fears Fist Demon so much. When he looked at the bushes where we were hiding at the end, I really thought I would wet myself.”
Jo Won-myeong shuddered recalling that scene. He really thought he would die then.
He had heard Dam-ho’s eyes were scary, but actually facing them he felt extreme terror like facing a great tiger while naked. It was Jo Won-myeong’s most frightening moment since learning martial arts.
“We’re really fortunate. That he passed by without discovering us.”
“Did he really not see?”
“What? Are you saying he pretended not to know despite knowing about us?”
“I somehow think so.”
“That…”
Jo Won-myeong lost words. He wanted to refute something, but Moon Su-gyeol’s guess felt more plausible.
“Why would he pretend not to know about us?”
“Who knows! Perhaps because in his eyes we weren’t threatening beings at all.”
“Hmm!”
“Anyway this is bad. Things seemed quiet for about three years but now the Demon Cult has resumed activities.”
Moon Su-gyeol’s expression couldn’t be darker.
Anyone could see the Five Elements Destruction Squad and Five Elements Demon Children were clearly Demon Cult elites.
When Mount Hua Sect suffered great catastrophe three years ago, people thought the Demon Cult would launch a full-scale invasion. But for some reason after Mount Hua Sect’s catastrophe the Demon Cult rather restrained external activities.
At first they thought the Demon Cult was simply taking time to reorganize forces. The damage they suffered attacking Mount Hua Sect was by no means small. But one year, two years passed and the Demon Cult didn’t show large-scale movements like before.
The Martial Alliance felt relief but didn’t loosen vigilance.
Taking advantage of the Demon Cult’s temporarily loosened activities, they replenished forces and increased intelligence activities.
Though conflicts with the Demon Cult occurred occasionally, those were only small-scale battles. This was the first time such large-scale Demon Cult warriors had appeared. So it was more worrying.
Mount Hua Sect that everyone thought had fallen unexpectedly possessed remarkable fighting power. Even setting aside Dam-ho, the martial might shown by the Plum Blossom Swordsmen was enough to make their hearts shudder.
Jo Won-myeong looked at Moon Su-gyeol.
“Uncle.”
“This seems beyond our capacity.”
“Then?”
“Let’s report to the Alliance and wait for instructions. Rather than getting entangled with Fist Demon and suffering misfortune.”
“Yes!”
Moon Su-gyeol was someone who feared almost nothing in the world. But he feared Dam-ho. That fierce gaze he had just seen was still imprinted in his mind.
“Mount Hua Sect led by Fist Demon.”
Moon Su-gyeol’s pupils wavered as he looked at cloud-wrapped Mount Hua.