Chapter 507 – Desolate Great War (7)

When an unexpected situation arises, both masters and novices alike fall silent—this is no different.

A brief silence flowed.

Thud.

The masters of Dream Human Moon stood stock still under the sunlight that poured down noisily. Simultaneously, the clear sound of liquor sloshing in the gourd bottles hanging from their waists rang out clearly.

Obeying Heaven Wing Hall.

The stronghold of the military force that served as the vanguard for Desolate Fortress’s wartime operations alongside Divine Sword Group’s Radiant Demon Wing.

Since it was truly the right wing of the Divine Sword Group, it was positioned at the eastern end.

Naturally, it had no choice but to be the first to greet enemies plotting against the right side of the main castle, and now it had been neutralized by Dream Human Moon, which brought along an absolute master dressed as a beggar.

“……”

The young nameless disciples of Obeying Heaven Wing who lay prostrate, having failed while rushing to step on the inner courtyard’s wooden floor.

Shin Bin-bin, Radiant Demon Wing Shin So-bin’s older sister and a white warrior of Obeying Heaven Wing, was the same.

Only her appearance was different—kneeling on one knee with her head deeply bowed, having pierced her left hand with her own sword in an attempt to overcome sleep somehow.

The sight of red blood flowing silently down the white blade of the Desolate Sword from her calloused palm.

Thus the warriors of Obeying Heaven Wing each lay like Dream Human Moon’s carpet in similar yet different poses and positions.

The masters from other military forces who had come as reinforcements were no different.

Many were those who had fallen unconscious while stepping on rooftops, and some who had landed in Obeying Heaven Wing’s training ground bore traces of leg techniques that had caved in their sides and died with their breath cut off.

For many jianghu people, there could be no more valuable spectacle than this.

Even though Dream Human Moon’s masters had crossed Obeying Heaven Wing Hall as if it were nothing, that scene was certainly a great feast created by Yu Ling.

Yet the atmosphere was strange.

At this moment, the white roof of Obeying Heaven Wing Hall was exceptionally white.

This was because the man made entirely of gold was reflecting all the winter sunlight, and his snoring was exceptionally loud.

“…Should we go around? They say even dogs don’t disturb someone taking a nap.”

Zhao Quan-yi, known as Magic Phantom Divine Killer, a youth who had joined Dream Human Moon twenty years ago thinking it was the Beggar Sect, whispered.

It was a voice with weaker resonance than most sound transmission energy waves.

“I don’t know who he is, but he’s clearly in deep sleep… It wouldn’t be proper etiquette to wake him just to ask directions upon first meeting.”

Zhao Quan-yi carefully concluded his words. While slightly trembling the mole at the corner of his eye.

Dream Human Moon’s Magic Phantom Divine Killer.

He became famous by killing one hundred orthodox masters in a single day in the far southern lands.

Like a Dream Human Moon master whom no one could properly recognize faces, he had no particular facial features, but still, in Guangxi lands he was counted as one of the Five Dark Brilliances.

It was due to his voice that sounded young to anyone who heard it.

Then.

The giant man behind Zhao Quan-yi drew out a liquor bottle. Simultaneously, sound transmission energy wave ripples spread hazily like gentle waves.

—Pathetic. How can someone who stood shoulder to shoulder with even Desolate Day Extinction and Invincible have such small courage?

“Then why is Lord Feng suddenly speaking through sound transmission?”

The giant man with exceptionally long legs, Nine Provinces Dream Fiend Zhu Wei-che did not answer Zhao Quan-yi’s whisper.

He simply moved his steps leisurely to the side and took a sip of liquor, and the sound of the Three Flower Wine going down his throat with its clear honey fragrance had long been established as a terror of Guangxi’s jianghu.

Meanwhile, Zhao Quan-yi, who glanced at him, opened his mouth rapidly in shock.

“Are you crazy? You’ve been making only me and the disciples fight all this time, and suddenly you’re preparing to make a move here…? Even after seeing that?”

—You fool, that’s why I’m preparing.

That’s when it happened.

Scrape.

The Dream Human Moon Lord, who had been quietly looking up at the golden strange man for a moment, slowly clasped her hands behind her back and began moving her feet again.

Still with movements where balance swayed this way and that, stepping slightly to the side so as not to disturb the deep sleep of the sleeping golden man. It was somewhat kind conduct.

“You sleep well too. I won’t wake you.”

She whispered.

Instantly, the snoring that had been leaking from the strange man became off-beat and misaligned. As if he had encountered something bewildering in his dream.

But Dream Human Moon’s masters pretended not to hear it and moved their steps. Along with extremely muffled murmurings.

“Where did such a monster come from?”

—The jianghu is vast, and the multitude living on this land is truly of all forms and shapes. How could there be just one or two shining stones on a sandy beach?

“Earlier, an insanely powerful energy arose from the south, didn’t it? They said the Desolate Fortress Lord and current Divine Sword Group Leader aren’t here, so it must be Desolate Day Extinction, right?”

—It would be so.

“They say purple ranks are all lone generals without the ability to mobilize reinforcements or anything?”

—Shut up now. We need to hurry our steps.

Thirteen Evil Sects’ Dream Human Moon.

Unlike other major factions that are perceived as powerful noble families or local warlords, they have no stronghold.

The place where they set foot is Dream Human Moon’s main group, and the place where they lay their heads is immediately their nest. They simply have their activity area in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Their territory is inevitably vast and they possess sensitive energy sense. Even their intuition was quite extraordinary. Enough to naturally line up and pass by the strange man who had suddenly appeared at this moment.

Magic Phantom Divine Killer Zhao Quan-yi still cautiously let out whispers.

“Whether reinforcements or whatever, they’re on Desolate Fortress’s side. Well, originally everyone sleeps together during naps.”

A thick liquor scent wafted from his exhalation. It was the wine fragrance of Three Flower Wine he had drunk earlier when crossing over Desolate Fortress’s eastern castle wall.

“Indeed, only bad people get up early and wake others from their sweet dreams. If you have sense, even if you wake up, you should pretend not to have woken and quietly wait to wake up together.”

Moderate drunkenness with half-hearted reason, and random chatter.

But the Dream Human Moon masters who carried liquor scent all over their bodies like Zhao Quan-yi agreed with those words in silence.

“……”

The eyelids of the golden strange man that had been lowered quietly trembled minutely as if gauging the reactions of the Desolate Fortress warriors scattered around.

As if those words seemed right, his head tilted minutely to the side.

Simultaneously, the murmurings of the masters who had passed the golden youth scattered hazily like mist.

“Fortunate, how fortunate.” 

“Honestly, even our sect leader didn’t notice in time. If we had faced something like that, we would all die first and only our sect leader would survive, right?”

Those who had learned Dream Human Moon’s strange martial arts.

They were literally strange people. Naturally, they didn’t find it odd to encounter a person removed from worldly common sense.

They would plausibly accept whatever martial arts, thoughts, thinking, and character existed in the vast world.

That’s why it ended there.

Dream Human Moon passed the golden youth with conduct and bearing like drunkards, and seeped toward the shadows cast over the edge of the hall complex.

Into the shadows of the jianghu that were unusually dark, as dark as the white rooftops.

Thus.

Nothing happened.

And transparent sunlight poured roughly and endlessly onto the bodies of the Desolate Fortress warriors who had each laid their consciousness in reality or the River of Three Crossings.

They were bright.

* * *

A total of forty-four Dream Human Moon masters crossed straight through Obeying Heaven Wing Hall, but they couldn’t advance a few more steps from there.

There was a group blocking their way, each having drawn swords that emitted brilliant light.

About thirty Desolate Fortress warriors in mixed blue and white martial robes. They had woven their energy waves invisibly with each other while raising powerful internal energy wave fluctuations.

Wuuuuung!

Azure Sky Squad’s Azure Mist Wide Sword Formation.

In the silence, the sound transmission energy waves that Azure Sky Squad masters emitted rippled hazily.

—A supreme master…! That person seems to be Magic Phantom Divine Killer Zhao Quan-yi!

—He’s Dream Human Moon’s head disciple. Keep close watch.

—Keep breathing short and pay attention to energy sense! All whites fall back and focus on boosting the sword formation’s energy waves!

But Dream Human Moon masters’ interests were tilted toward a completely different place.

Especially the young disciples including Zhao Quan-yi openly turned their heads toward the main castle’s main gate direction.

“Now they’re resting with each other. Well, even if I were a supreme master, it would be difficult to immediately make a move after directly seeing such things. But how much longer will that standoff situation last?”

“I don’t know. Anyway, rumors couldn’t keep up with the truth. He’s an absurd monster.”

“My goodness… To do such impossible techniques twice with two Thirteen Evil Sect Leaders…”

“His epithet was Desolate Day Extinction, but I guess his eyes rolled all the way to the back of his head? I absolutely don’t want to encounter him. I’d prefer if things ended at the main gate if possible.”

Young masters walk fearlessly toward Azure Sky Squad while mentioning Jeong Yeon-shin.

They clearly had leisure.

Unlike Gang of Demons Green Forest, which could fill its ranks anytime from the old Green Forest, or Myriad Upper Road Stronghold, whose leader dominated the jianghu alone because his subordinates were exceptionally skilled, they were different.

Rare elites under heaven.

All the forces of Thirteen Evil Sects’ Dream Human Moon had entered Desolate Fortress. They couldn’t lose with such sporadic battles, and indeed today they had never lost once.

It was the same now.

The moment Dream Human Moon Lord lightly wiped her chin stained with soot and blew out faint breath, the sword formation energy waves of Azure Sky Squad that had been slightly distorting the air shattered like glass fragments with a crack.

The bodies of Dream Human Moon masters who had been walking slowly also became hazy in place simultaneously.

Crack! Whoooosh!

The bodies of Azure Sky Squad masters spun and flew away or were embedded head-first into the ground with a thud.

The bodies of Dream Human Moon masters who had closed distance in an instant and each swung their legs carried thick wine fragrance, and Azure Sky Squad’s formation, which had faced enemies with not a single black rank, was crushed inward in an instant.

Magic Phantom Divine Killer Zhao Quan-yi was at the forefront.

“Don’t look at my face, absolutely don’t look… Whether it’s Desolate Day Extinction or whatever, forget about me first…”

No one listened earnestly to his desperate muttering.

Even Nine Provinces Dream Fiend, Dream Human Moon’s Lord Protector standing beside the sect leader, only looked far toward the main castle’s main gate direction and discussed Desolate Day Extinction’s current state.

“As long as he’s human, he can’t recklessly use wide-area techniques like earlier. Naturally, he must be paying a very great price. Whether it’s upper dantian overheating, tremendous true energy consumption, or his entire body’s acupoints receiving the recoil of excessive internal energy operation, or else drinking with congenial companions in a sunny place…”

Nine Provinces Dream Fiend muttered nonsense mixed in. While pushing the rising drunkenness up to his upper dantian.

“Well, it might be all of that.”

He entrusted his body to the drunkenness and pitied the Desolate Fortress side’s leader of the current factional great war.

Desolate Day Extinction Jeong Yeon-shin. Though he possessed martial prowess and influence befitting that reputation, as well as unexpectedly shocking personal connections, perhaps due to his young age, his finishing wasn’t clean.

It would be correct to say he had misjudged people.

In terms of capability, he was far below Yu Ling Leader.

“To properly use extraordinary people, the methods must also be extraordinary… Isn’t that right?”

Nine Provinces Dream Fiend asked while looking down at his sect leader from the side.

Dream Human Moon Lord nodded slightly without even bothering to look back.

Still with a vacant expression toward the inner castle of the Desolate Fortress Lord in the distance. Simultaneously, hazy words leaked from her lips.

“Let’s hurry. It’s there.”

“The trunk of World Tree… Yes.”

Nine Provinces Dream Fiend’s answer was swallowed by vibrating sounds that suddenly rang out loudly.

Energy that suddenly pushed down semi-transparently from the air swept the young drunkards like waves and pushed them back to Obeying Heaven Wing Hall again.

Eternal Blossom Fist Technique, Flame River.

Kwaaaaaaa!

The well-swept earth floor was hugely overturned, and they were endlessly pushed away in the appearance of being struck by a raging flood.

“What!”

“Air! Air…!”

“On a bright moonlit day, fierce waves come to my bedding!”

It pressed the young masters’ skin along with their protective strong energy and pushed them more than twenty zhang in an instant, and the human shadow that had suddenly dropped the rippling tension also flipped his body in the air and flew toward Obeying Heaven Wing Hall.

Flutter!

Following his movement, jet-black sleeve hems fluttered long. He was a Desolate Fortress black rank master.

The battle situation of factional great wars always changes rapidly like this.

Naturally, the remaining Dream Human Moon group also followed them, tearing through the air as they moved. Soliloquies that might flow out while drunk followed dozens of footsteps.

Azure Sky Squad’s blue and white swordsmen began pursuing from behind, but they were not in their consideration… Because there was no one to face their sect leader. Dream Human Moon in Desolate Fortress’s eastern side was invincible.

“The eunuch came again.”

“At this point, Ma Family Head’s stamina is admirable.”

“What was it, they say Jeong Family Dynamic Technique is good for the body…”

“It would be good for hangovers too? Let’s stop by the Fortress Lord’s residence and if there’s time left, let’s visit the Ma Family too.”

By the time the last words ended, they had entered Obeying Heaven Wing Hall complex again.

A place where the back of the elf clan youth who unchangingly glittered golden stood out.

Also, Ma Family Head Ma Jin was charging toward him.

As if he needed to wake up the person emitting exceptionally clear wood energy like forest wind first. At this moment, a white swallow was flapping its wings above Ma Jin’s head, flying together with him.

“That won’t do.”

Whoooooosh!

Nine Provinces Dream Fiend, who muttered low, extended both hands toward Ma Jin’s back, and the Azure Sky Squad blue master who saw that sight quickly cried out through sound transmission.

—Right flank! The energy wave completion speed is at the level of spirit-energy-divine unity! Nine Provinces Dream Fiend! Dream Human Moon’s Lord Protector…!

The movements of supreme masters were much faster than his voice. Nine Provinces Dream Fiend was a supreme master difficult to find opponents for in Guangxi.

The air distorted around both hands extended toward Ma Jin. It meant the palm technique energy waves’ preparation was not only complete but already advancing forward.

He was the supreme master who could deploy techniques fastest besides Dream Human Moon Lord, who had to maintain energy concealment.

Whoooooosh!

At that moment, Ma Jin’s both arms struck the instant in different directions.

His left hand gripping the reverse blade behind his back and drawing it up, his right hand extended backward toward Nine Provinces Dream Fiend’s palm force.

For a brief moment, Nine Provinces Dream Fiend’s eyebrows curved.

Unless one had learned Wudang’s Dual-intent Mind Technique, a human body couldn’t move so precisely in different directions.

Bang! Whoooooosh!

Ma Jin’s left hand made of metal embedded the blade at the golden strange man’s feet, while his intact right hand had its skin torn by Nine Provinces Dream Fiend’s palm force, revealing bright red flesh.

Meanwhile.

Crackle!

At this moment, the blade extending spider web-like cracks into the ground was like a sundial. From Ma Jin’s throat, a thick cry burst combining Harmonious Flower Divine Technique and Jeong Family Dynamic Technique.

“I heard from my father! There was an old man who lost his mind to World Tree!”

Simultaneously.

The elf clan youth who had suddenly raised his head moved of his own accord and opened his eyes wide as if shocked at the fact he had moved, and naturally strange vibrating sounds spread from his body.

Along with concentric circular ripples that intermittently flickered golden.

“Ominous dream…?!”

Zzzzzzzing!

Before such a scream that swept through the air could even end.

“…!”

More than half of Dream Human Moon collapsed to the ground like a lie in that spot.

There wasn’t even a thumping sound.

It was instant death.