Monochrome Sovereign (Novel) - Chapter 157 - Completion of the Four Gods (1)
Chapter 157 – Completion of the Four Gods (1)
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Translated by Heavenly Cat
Edited by Celestial Knight
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The rear garden or the empty lot in front of the entrance of the Army-Destroying Pavilion was wide enough to be utilized as a training ground or sparring ground.
However, Yeon Wi dragged Yeon Ho-jeong and headed toward the inner castle square.
To Yeon Ho-jeong who asked why he was doing so, Yeon Wi answered like this.
“I want to see all of you.”
With that single word, Yeon Ho-jeong understood his father’s thoughts.
Not to mention his father, even just his current self, if he poured in his full power, the aftermath could become quite large. If they made a mistake, the lodgings could also be damaged.
Until now, he had never brought out everything to the bottom in a match with his father.
He was strangely excited.
“Around here should be fine.”
Yeon Ho-jeong looked around his surroundings.
It was an outdoor training ground dedicated to the Murim Alliance, at a fair distance from the place where he sparred with Murong Jun.
Naturally, there were a considerable number of people coming and going. If the collision became fierce, many people would flock over.
“Why? Are you embarrassed?”
To Yeon Wi’s playful provocation, Yeon Ho-jeong answered with a smile.
“As if that would be possible.”
“Now then, shall we start?”
“Good.”
Kung!
At the strong earth-shaking stomp, people’s gazes headed to the training ground.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes flashed.
“I will go like actual combat.”
“There is no need to purposely say such words. Come.”
It was a remark where infinite confidence was felt. As his stage of martial arts rose, he possessed a composure different from before.
Wuuuuung.
The blue true qi established a foundation for Yeon Ho-jeong to stably command his martial arts.
It was the Jade Gauze True Qi that calmly led everything such as the physical body, internal energy operation, and concentration. The Jade Gauze True Qi Yeon Ho-jeong learned thoroughly made his center solid according to his own training method.
Yeon Wi’s eyes sparkled.
‘As expected.’
The Jade Gauze True Formula has crossed the ninth star and is right before aspiring for the tenth star.
Surprisingly, his son developed the Jade Gauze True Formula purely as a foundation. Rather than implementing martial arts through the Jade Gauze True Formula, he focused solely on stabilizing the entire body, minimizing the burden the body received.
‘So that was your choice.’
It was marvelous creativity. The very idea of laying down the Jade Gauze True Formula, a divine art under heaven, as a foundation was surprising. For him to have actually implemented it, as expected, whatever is different is different.
Huu-ung.
The gaze of Yeon Ho-jeong, who raised the Crazy Dragon Axe to the middle level, suddenly changed.
‘He’s coming.’
Kwa-ang!
The first blow was, as expected, a charging strike accompanied by an explosive earth-shaking stomp. Yeon Ho-jeong, who closed the distance in an instant, immediately struck down the Crazy Dragon Axe.
It was a simple attack of cutting in two with one stroke, but it was a speed and power that could not be ignored. This bloodthirstiness wasn’t something that should come out in a spar between father and son.
At that time, Yeon Wi’s right hand brushed past his waist sash and went up.
Jjeo-eo-eo-eong!
Yeon Ho-jeong’s body bounced off just like that.
The Crazy Dragon Axe weighing over eighty geun, the first move of the White Tiger Art which received strength based on the Jade Gauze True Formula collapsed in vain.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes deepened.
‘He’s strong.’
The hand gripping the spear shaft of the Crazy Dragon Axe trembled faintly. It felt as if the aftermath of the shock from the sword strike flowed riding the hand and was transmitted to the entire body.
‘The elasticity is different from before.’
So this is Father’s grown martial arts.
Yeon Ho-jeong admired anew, and stepped forward one step again.
Pabababak!
It’s light and nimble.
While stepping the earth-shaking stomp of strength, the White Tiger’s Sovereign Step, he revived a lightness different from before. Yet, the power pulled out from the earth did not decrease at all.
He advances by tying the two principles that do not match at all, heaviness and lightness, together.
Yeon Ho-jeong’s Crazy Dragon Axe moved like a storm.
Jjeojeojeojeojeong!
It was an amazing defense.
He wielded the Crazy Dragon Axe gripped with both hands at a tremendous speed, yet Yeon Wi was deflecting all those attacks with a single ordinary longsword gripped in his right hand.
It was a defensive stance that reached a supreme stage. It was an invincible defense where not a single inch of opening was seen.
Instantly, Yeon Ho-jeong’s eyes shone.
Kureureureung.
It seemed as if dark clouds were gathering from the northern sky.
It was an instant for the aggressive white true qi to change into a heavy and hard black true qi.
Yeon Wi’s eyes shone.
‘Heavy?’
Yeon Ho-jeong covered his upper body with the Crazy Dragon Axe and lunged to the front.
Kwang!
Yeon Wi’s body heaved.
It was not an attack that could be blocked with a sword. It was not a matter of power but a matter of distance.
‘A body slam?’
Furthermore, it didn’t end with one time.
Kwang! Kwang! Kwang!
The floor of the training ground split crack crack at Yeon Ho-jeong’s strong earth-shaking stomps.
He pushed Yeon Wi by striking in three times in succession. Even the world-renowned Yeon Wi could not suppress his surprise at this attack.
‘It’s definitely a defensive move. But he’s using a defensive move as an attack.’
It was a martial art that transcended the common sense of offense and defense. The repulsive force was so fierce that his posture naturally lowered.
Yeon Wi, who admired his son’s outstanding wit, swung his left hand not holding the sword.
Peopeopeong!
‘Heok!’
At the magnificent palm force, Yeon Ho-jeong’s body was pushed back smoothly to the end of the training ground.
It was a pushing strike, not a striking hit. There was no shock remaining in his body, but thanks to that, Yeon Wi obtained freedom.
‘Reverse Dragon Palm!’
It was the arrangement of the character Bae of the Reverse Dragon Palm. He also had used this attack against a guy named Pyeong San brought by the Yin Death Room Leader.
‘It’s completely different.’
It shows a capability on a different dimension in power and depth.
This wasn’t a difference in stage but a difference in learned martial studies. The Reverse Dragon Palm had the best compatibility with the Sword-Limit Thought Qi or Dragon Robe Qi among the Five Great Divine Arts of the Yeon Clan.
Flash!
Yeon Wi charged.
He seemed to run with his waist straightened stiffly, and then he was already right before his nose. A speed hard to chase with the naked eye, the true Heaven-Sent Moving Flight.
‘He’s coming!’
Yeon Wi’s sword moved like a ray of light.
Jjeojeojeojeojeojeong!
It was a bloodthirsty sword strike pouncing like a net.
Heavenly Net, the net of heaven. The harmony of the extreme speed Fast Sword and the sticky Illusion Sword surrounded Yeon Ho-jeong like an inescapable prison.
‘Damn it!’
He deflected the central attack with the axe body of the Crazy Dragon Axe, and scattered the remaining attacks with the palm form of the Northern Heaven Twelve Walls.
Chiririring!
Thread-like sword qi broke, scattered, and extinguished. He was somehow blocking the Heavenly Net Sword Form.
A small smile hovered on Yeon Wi’s face.
‘Amazing.’
It was a breathtaking response. As soon as a rough and terrifying attack comes in, the body responds on its own.
It was like that in the past too, but it seemed his senses had become a layer sharper while smashing the Black Path sects. It’s difficult for such agile responses to come out unless one is a veteran of a hundred battles.
‘However.’
Yeon Wi’s eye light spewed fire.
‘What will you do if it’s like this.’
Slice!
Blood burst out from Yeon Ho-jeong’s body.
‘It got faster.’
Jjeojeojeojeong! Slice! Puhwa-ak!
The net of swords cut past his shoulder, collarbone, and thigh.
It was so fast he couldn’t block it. Although not deep, sword strikes that caused sufficient bleeding; he had never even imagined his father would command such a rough and fast sword method.
‘As expected.’
He is an amazing person.
A master of a hundred swords and ten thousand martial arts, his unbiased Middle Path martial arts bloomed fully, emitting the majesty of a Heaven Sword that could freely command any technique.
‘Truly an avatar of the Sword!’
A person who can implement not only Fast Sword, Strong Sword, Soft Sword, Heavy Sword, Light Sword, Illusion Sword, and Still Sword, but even Living Sword and Dead Sword.
The true martial arts of the Judge Sword Yeon Wi, the number one swordsman in Jiangdong who deserved to receive the love of all swords under heaven, was right here.
Pabababak!
The amount of blood spreading into the empty air gradually increased.
He adjusted his true qi the moment he was cut to stop the bleeding, but if he went on in this state, he would end up collapsing from excessive bleeding.
It was needed. A breakthrough.
In a situation where counterattacking as well as evasion were impossible, a single move capable of reversing the momentum was needed.
Flash!
Yeon Ho-jeong’s pupils spewed out deep red flames.
Kwang!
Yeon Wi was greatly surprised.
‘My foot?’
The son who was blocking the Heavenly Net Sword Form commanded an earth-shaking stomp aiming for the top of his foot.
If he hadn’t instinctively pulled his foot back, his bone would have been broken just like that. If that happened, one leg would have been sealed, so his sword power would have also decreased drastically.
‘Unique.’
It was an attack that inflicted physical and psychological burdens simultaneously. It was a combat method of actual combat, not the martial arts of the Righteous Path.
Kwang! Kwang!
He aims for the top of his foot while blocking the Heavenly Net Sword Form until the end.
It was unknown how he pulled out such a powerful earth-shaking stomp in that posture and during that defense. The flexibility of his physical body transcended imagination.
That wasn’t the end.
Hwareureureuk!
Red fire qi surged within the dense sword forms.
Jjeojeojeojeojeojeong! Slice!
The one who was cut this time wasn’t Yeon Ho-jeong.
‘My sleeve……?’
The terrifying axe blade of the Crazy Dragon Axe cleanly split the hem of his sleeve in half.
It was a bloodthirsty slashing attack to the point where his muscles would have almost ruptured if he hadn’t protected his forearm with the Sword-Limit Thought Qi.
‘A strike overflowing with killing intent! Is this also the Four Gods Martial Arts.’
It was at that time.
Kwa-ah-ang!
Yeon Wi’s eyes widened.
‘Heok!’
The sword qi net of the Heavenly Net Sword Form scattered at a terrifying speed.
The reason was one. Because Yeon Wi’s posture was disturbed by Yeon Ho-jeong’s single shot of earth-shaking stomp.
‘This is?!’
Yeon Wi, who quickly retrieved the Heavenly Net Sword and retreated three steps back, clicked his tongue while looking at the place he had been standing.
“Could it be you were not aiming for the top of my foot, but for the purpose of destroying the ground of the training ground?”
Flash!
Yeon Ho-jeong, who approached with the Blood Wing Sweeping Heavens, the fastest footwork of the Four Gods Martial Arts, struck upwards with the Crazy Dragon Axe.
“It is both.”
Kwareureung!
The bloodthirsty slashing attack that pierced through the Iron Sword Great Extension gave a strong shock to Yeon Wi’s upper body.
‘Killing Art.’
It was the Absolute Killing Art of the Vermilion Bird Art, the Red Flame Six Killing Art.
His posture was shaken, so the proper power didn’t come out. Even so, the hem of Yeon Wi’s sleeve was cut into dozens of pieces and scattered.
Yeon Wi looked at Yeon Ho-jeong.
“Huu.”
Hwareureureuk!
Yeon Ho-jeong, who knelt on one knee and breathed heavily with the Crazy Dragon Axe resting on it.
A deep red aura was burning like fireworks from his body. Unlike before when he stably commanded it together with the Jade Gauze True Formula, White Tiger Qi, and Black Tortoise Qi, he only spread the Vermilion Bird Qi throughout his entire body.
Kugugugung!
The floor of the training ground split once again at the terrifying pressure.
The Emperor of the Southern Heaven, the descent of the Sun God. The body of Yeon Ho-jeong blazing with terrifying killing intent and explosive fighting spirit looked like seeing gunpowder right before exploding.
It was the son’s declaration of war that he would go with true killing intent. The quality itself of the qi wave spewing out was different from before.
‘Good.’
A wonderful smile cast on the face of Yeon Wi, who looked at such a son.
‘Are you finally acknowledging this father.’
He said he would come like actual combat?
It was actual combat only in words; until now, his son had never poured out a ‘true’ killing move against him even once. It was because he left a shred of leniency afraid his father might get hurt by any chance.
He does not do that anymore.
Yeon Ho-jeong was certain that Yeon Wi’s martial arts could truly receive everything of his. Not doing his utmost with all his might now was rather no different from an insult to his father.
That certainty, fighting spirit, and gaze were like the highest praise to Yeon Wi.
‘Do not worry and come.’
He is not pushed back by young people yet.
The son who had greatly grown without him realizing after leaving his father’s hands, returned and acknowledged his father’s power.
It was an intersection of trust.
As a martial artist, as an inhabitant of Jianghu, the relationship was completed only at this moment right now. Among the people living with martial arts embraced in their chests, there would be no other father and son who showed such trust as this.
Yeon Ho-jeong spoke with red eyes and simultaneously an expression full of a reassuring smile.
“I’m truly coming.”
Yeon Wi spoke with light green eyes and simultaneously an expression full of an abundant smile.
“I have waited twenty years.”
Kkwa-ang!
The weapons of the two people clashed and flipped the floor of the training ground.