Chapter 86

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“Ka-hat!”

Along with a bizarre cry, he faced us with bloodshot eyes.

The one who walks the day.

The Daywalkers were those in charge of the Dawn Sky Blood Cult branches existing in Guizhou.

Having had no chance of encountering him since those like Immortal Mang-won or the branch leader Yan Song-hwa had dealt with them while destroying the branches, this guy was trying to flee after breaking through the encirclement.

‘They said that the one who bounced off Heroine Yan’s Heaven-Pressing Axe was also a Daywalker.’

It was a monstrous creature whose victory or defeat even the core experts of the Seven Great Families could not easily guarantee.

Jjeong—!

Senior Brother Myeong-jin’s blade of the Soft Sword Wrapped Around Fingers swayed as if it would break. Internal power surged like waves toward the tip of his sword-gesture finger supporting the blade, filling and sustaining the sword, but.

‘He was being pushed back.’

The routine of the Soft Sword Wrapped Around Fingers collapsed in an instant, and he dodged the Daywalker’s hand gestures with the sidestep of the Flowing Cloud Movement Skill.

His fingertips were sharp as if ripping the air. He was on a completely different dimension from ordinary blood ghouls.

‘Martial arts?!’

Although blood ghouls who had learned martial arts were occasionally seen, the majority of blood ghouls put instinctive movements first. So there were aspects where they were easier to deal with, but this time was different.

Just as the blood pouches displayed martial arts based on their essence blood, red blood qi was shimmering atop his nails that were like hundred-refined refined steel.

Clang! Clang!

The sword of Senior Brother Myeong-jin, who was at the highest level among the disciples of the True Martial Pavilion, was pushed back. In addition to his ability as a blood ghoul, he even had martial arts. They said that blood ghouls lived long lives. The essence of unorthodox martial arts, on a completely different level from the blood ghouls encountered while destroying the branches so far, was manifesting through the monstrous creature’s body.

“Hap!”

Along with a shout of spirit, Senior Brother Myeong-jin’s movements of pushing away and cleaving followed like a picture, but.

The blood ghoul twisted his upper body, lowering his shoulder and presenting his back. At the same time, silk reeling force was condensed along the twisting movement of his lower body.

‘The leaning method!’

Following claw methods, he even showcased the leaning method.

Clang!

Despite the sharp qi of the compressed internal power atop the sword edge, it was bounced off heavily, and Senior Brother Myeong-jin retreated three steps due to the recoil force.

It was an appearance as if he had collided with a monster of Vajra Indestructible Body.

Through the torn hem of the clothing in the shoulder area hit by the sword edge, the scattering haze of light dazzled the eyes.

“You are quite something. You young mortals.”

Senior Brother Myeong-jin’s age was close to forty.

Though it was not an age that could be called young.

‘They said blood ghouls live long lives, indeed.’

If he was a Daywalker who could roam under the daylight, it was easily knowable that his years would be high. Both I and Senior Brother Myeong-jin could equally look like young children to him.

Glancing at us briefly, the Daywalker took steps forward once again. This time, it was toward my and Senior Brother Myeong-hun’s side.

For a moment, the force wave of Senior Brother Myeong-hun’s Four Symbols Flowing Sword qi surged in like a wave, but the net of true qi was torn by a single form of a claw method, and the ripples dispersed.

“You mortals with humble blood. Open the way.”

In the echoing voice as he approached, a feeling as if I must not disobey arose naturally from my middle dantian.

In an instant, I realized it.

‘It is an evil spell.’

It was the black magic of a blood ghoul that coveted human blood.

Circulating the internal power of my elixir, I draped the force field of the Primal Chaos Tai Chi Art around my body.

Thanks to the force field’s body protective wave that offset the ripples of demonic qi, my head became clear.

Blocking his path, I drew my sword.

However, because I hesitated for a quarter of a breath, it was not easy to deploy sword forms.

Although my Upper Dantian was still heated up, in real combat, a moment where one must display one’s full skill even if one is not fully prepared is bound to come.

Diffusely reflecting light atop the extending back of his hand, he dazzled my eyes. It was a subtle application that obscured the routine.

The blade of internal power compressed to fill the sword edge collided with the first form of the blood ghoul’s claw method.

Along with a cracking sound, it left a thin scar on the opponent’s forearm. The single sword strike that would sever the arm and neck of an ordinary Vajra Bloodline blood ghoul only left a mere flesh wound on the Daywalker.

“Hmph.”

Just by lightly sweeping his arm, he pushed my sword away and created space.

At the same time his scar was repaired in an instant, he swung his arm heavily. It was an ordinary Sweeping a Thousand Soldiers, but the distance was too close.

‘I cannot block it with my sword.’

Twisting my upper body with a variation of the Tai Chi Chuan’s Parting the Wild Horse’s Mane and applying the Three-Section Brocade body protective qi, I shed the single strike of the blood-qi-filled Sweeping a Thousand Soldiers.

Jjieek!

In the midst of shedding it, the hem of the clothing in my shoulder area was torn away.

I realized the blood qi was at a degree that could tear through even the Three-Section Brocade body protective qi.

A stinging pain surged in belatedly.

The skin on my shoulder was torn and blood flowed.

“Junior brother!”

Senior Brother Myeong-hun stepped forward holding his sword.

The sword form of the Four Symbols Flowing Sword’s Supreme White Mysterious Light narrowly brushed past the Daywalker’s claw method.

Upon the exposed skin of the Daywalker’s forearm where all the clothing had been torn away, not a single scratch was made on the hardened outer skin that diffusely reflected light.

That sight kept catching my eye.

However, I did not have the luxury to prolong my thoughts.

Underneath the hardened outer skin that looked like a transparent polyhedron, the blood vessels and muscles were faintly visible, so.

The trajectory and speed of the blood ghoul’s claw method were naturally drawn in my head. The Upper Dantian’s foresight ability, which increased as the internal power loaded on the sword form became sharper, was speaking.

‘He will die.’

I immediately struck with my sword to block the Daywalker’s hand aiming for Senior Brother Myeong-hun’s head. At the same time, Senior Brother Myeong-jin’s sword fell from behind his back.

It was a sword strike aiming for the neck, but.

Puhwak!

Although blood burst out.

‘He failed to sever it.’

He had failed to completely sever it down to the bone.

Although it was a wound from which an ordinary person would die instantly.

“Ka-hat!”

To the Daywalker, it was not even as good as a flesh wound.

While he swung the hardened back of his hand behind him, the sword wound that had cut half of his neck was repaired.

It was hard to even inflict wounds, and even if one did, if the heart or neck area could not be severed all at once, he recovered with his regenerative ability.

The word impregnable naturally came to mind.

It was so even though he was a Daywalker and not a blood lord, who was the leader of the Blood Cult’s blood ghouls.

I felt anew that the incomplete power of the blood lord whom I had faced at Ado in the past was not a lie.

‘They said that a single one of the Six Great Evils overwhelms a single one of the Nine Sects.’

They said that two of the Nine Sects must link up to face one of the Six Great Evils. Looking at the martial prowess the Daywalker displayed now, it was no empty boast.

Even if a hundred disciples of the Yang generation of the Prince Slope clashed, it seemed it would be meaningless in front of this guy.

If such a blood ghoul escaped, it was hard to imagine how much of a threat to the world’s people it would be.

‘First, I will buy time.’

It was not only to hold out until reinforcements arrived.

Because it seemed I would need at least a breath of leisure to think of a way to pierce the opponent’s outer skin and cut through him in a single blow.

In an instant, we exchanged over fifty stances.

In the meantime, three long scars were left on Senior Brother Myeong-hun’s chest, and Senior Brother Myeong-jin’s left arm hung loosely after being hit by the leaning method.

The blood ghoul was safe.

Although there were six sword strikes that hit the blood ghoul’s body, none of them pierced the neck or heart.

It was the Daywalker who had received more severe wounds, but not even a speck of a scar remained on his body.

It was unreasonable.

While the Daywalker’s outer skin, which transparently showed and scattered light, was bothersome to the eye, I thought that the name Vajra Bloodline suited him.

‘Wait. The name Vajra Bloodline suits him?’

Lightning raged over the micro-universe of my Upper Dantian.

It was that at the end of splitting a single breath into fifty and breathing it out, a piece of inspiration formed a bolt of lightning.

Diamond.

Vajra Bloodline.

And even the smooth yet angled skin tissue like the surface of a polyhedron.

Following that flashing intuition just like that.

I drove the sword I was holding into the ground.

As if a thunderbolt tore the ground.

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Even at their junior brother’s sudden action, Myeong-hun and Myeong-jin were not flustered. Instead, they were certain.

– Buy time.

– I will go first.

The fellow senior and junior brothers were of one mind.

A swordsman driving his sword into the ground.

It was a ridiculous thing meaning he would not use the sword, but they accepted it.

Because it was Yeon Baek-jung, that was why.

Because he trusted him, Myeong-hun immediately advanced.

Would it be possible for two to maintain the precarious balance that three had maintained while facing one? It had to be possible.

“Hap!”

Steel-hardening their will with a shout of spirit, they deployed sword forms.

The Four Symbols Flowing Sword forms, completed as their junior brother modified them and added the subtlety of real combat, were displayed from Myeong-hun’s fingertips.

‘Make the internal power operation of the Shaoshang acupoint at the tip of the thumb and the Shaoze acupoint of the ring finger more solid.’

The teachings that the genius of the Namgung Clan had passed to Wudang Sect’s Bringer of Chaos were reproduced in Myeong-hun’s hand.

As if a carriage wheel turned, the soft sword path corresponded with the flow of natural qi.

As the flow led the sword path and the sword path led the flow, drawing each other forward, the wave of the softly shimmering sword qi force wave pressed down on the Daywalker’s upper arm for a brief moment.

It was the Light Shadow Eclipsing the Moon.

As if a shadow of light eclipsed the moon, the gravity of the sword qi force wave fundamentally blocked the enemy’s routine.

However, the Daywalker’s arms were two.

“You guy!”

Instead of the left hand blocked by the Light Shadow Eclipsing the Moon, he deployed a claw method with his right hand. Immediately, Myeong-jin’s sword flew in, harboring sword qi that could even cleave the Vajra Bloodline Daywalker’s outer skin.

Puhwak!

The gushing blood became a bridge and connected with the severed arm.

“How foolish!”

True to that shout, the arm that had been severed by the sword strike was reattached in an instant, and he tore at Myeong-jin’s shoulder that was exposed while deploying the sword form.

Along with a grinding sound, a handful of flesh from Myeong-jin’s shoulder was torn out. Blood splattered and drenched the blood ghoul’s face, and the guy licked his lips as he savored Myeong-jin’s blood.

With an even more excited face, he tore through the Light Shadow Eclipsing the Moon sword qi force wave that had been restraining his left arm, and Myeong-hun’s body was sent bouncing away.

Keo-heok!

The moment the Daywalker’s hand chased Myeong-hun’s figure.

Two figures crossed.

Myeong-hun flying backward and Yeon Baek-jung stepping forward.

Crossing each other, Myeong-hun captured the image of Yeon Baek-jung in his eyes.

Above the palms of both hands, the long tails of the energy of gale and fierce thunder, which had been overlapped and overlapped repeatedly, seemed to wave their hands toward him.

Until the last moment, Myeong-jin captured his junior brother’s routine in his eyes.

The palm force extending while leaving a long tail collided with the hand of the Daywalker, who had faced the three of them on equal terms.

Rumble—!

Along with the sound of a bursting thunderbolt, the true qi force wave exploded.

The vision was obscured by a huge cloud of dust, and then, the moment Myeong-hun’s body touched the ground, his junior brother’s figure was revealed.

Along with his tattered upper garment, the appearance of his junior brother, who had been pushed back for a long way and was somehow standing next to the sword he had driven into the ground, caught his eye.

In addition, far over there.

The Daywalker, whose skin was merely blackened by soot while the blood qi in his pupils was vivid, was still standing firm.

‘Junior brother…’

Had been pushed back.

The ultimate skill of Zhang Sanfeng.

Even after using the Four Symbols Wind and Thunder Palm.

Just before losing consciousness as his body collided with the ground like that.

His junior brother pulled out the sword he had driven into the ground.

A substance formed when a monoatom of carbon covalently bonds in a face-centered cubic lattice with homogeneous symmetry.

**

We call this diamond.

Thanks to its transparent crystallinity and property of reflecting light, it was famous as a rare gemstone, and at the same time, it was a substance rarely seen under heaven for its hardness.

In addition, what happens if high heat is applied to this substance?

The structure changes.

Instead of a face-centered cubic lattice, into a two-dimensional lattice structure.

Between the layers of the two-dimensional lattice, a force far falling short of the strength of covalent bonds acts.

In addition, its physical property changes.

From a form that reflected light into a form that absorbed all light and dyed it black.

‘Skin blackened by soot.’

Caught my eye.

The change in the outer skin that occurred across the Daywalker’s entire upper body.

Guess turned into certainty.

Because the structure of a substance could be estimated through its manifested traits.

‘I can cut it.’

I picked up the sword driven next to me.

Woo-oo-ong—!

As if asking why I had only come now, the sword hum urged me.

The function of the Upper Dantian’s Tai Chi Diagram Exposition knocked once again on the Upper Dantian that seemed about to melt.

Following my heightened concentration, I filled the sword blade with true qi and pressed it flat.

And I advanced.

Toward the impregnable Daywalker.

‘Evasion is not in the guy’s head.’

It was a tendency confirmed while exchanging over fifty stances.

True to that guess.

The guy, as if it was laughable, stretched out his soot-blackened arm.

Although blood qi was shimmering.

‘I will cut.’

Even by the time the sword blade approached, the conviction dwelling in the Daywalker’s eyes was firm.

An arrogant gaze that seemed to tell me to try attacking and a firmly established defensive stance blocked my front.

The sword edge cleaved the soot-blackened arm.

The diamond-like outer skin crumbled.

In an instant, his conviction vanished and was dyed with astonishment.

Locking eyes with the guy, I pushed the sword path all the way in.

Cleanly cleaving his firmly established arm, and even down to the guy’s soot-blackened neck area.

Crack—!

Along with the sound of a cross-section splitting.

The Daywalker’s head flew into the sky.