Chapter 325

Meanwhile, Woon-jeong was very comfortably subduing multiple opponents due to the nature of sound techniques.

Clang!

“The Heavenly Venerate has spoken. The Way should be done with sincerity and truthfulness, silently without putting forth words, keeping and continuing gently with softness.”

The hooded men knelt covering their ears in pain, and when the words ended, they tried to jump up.

Clang. Clang.

When Woon-jeong rang the ritual bell, the hooded men trembled and knelt again.

“Sound is what people make between heaven and earth. When it becomes the fifth day of the spring equinox, thunder speaks and can be heard from a hundred li away, shaking the nine heavens and nine lands, startling the four seas.”

The wide deck of the ship with nothing to block it.

Woon-jeong’s sound techniques displayed there were truly effective. Even Jin Ja-gang couldn’t endure these sound techniques at first. Thanks to this, the hooded men had been listening to unwanted sutra recitation from earlier.

Then,

Crash crash crash… Due to Beom-mong’s Hundred Step Divine Fist, a large hole was punched in the second floor and wooden planks broke and poured down.

Woon-jeong was startled and stopped his sound technique. The hooded men rushed toward Woon-jeong with bloodshot eyes.

“Ahh!”

When Woon-jeong hastily tried to shake the ritual bell, the hooded men desperately threw daggers to interfere. Woon-jeong used movement techniques to dodge. The daggers embedded in the wall where Woon-jeong had been standing.

The hooded men even lifted and threw coffins. Heavy coffins flew toward Woon-jeong.

Boom! Boom!

From Woon-jeong’s perspective, it was almost like being attacked by catapults throwing stones.

Though Woon-jeong dodged here and there, the nineteen hooded men weren’t low-skilled martial artists either. Woon-jeong was backing away when he bumped into a coffin blocking his escape route.

It was a coffin standing with its lid open. Having seen how Jeong Dae-su died earlier, Woon-jeong struggled. A hooded man forcefully closed the lid. Woon-jeong blocked and resisted with his feet. Two hooded men clung to it and forcefully pushed the lid closed.

“Ahhhhh!”

Woon-jeong couldn’t resist and was trapped in the coffin. Sharp daggers stabbed and entered through the coffin door. Woon-jeong quickly lowered his body to the floor and crouched. Being so small in stature, he could almost stick to the bottom of the standing coffin.

Dagger blades moved in and out above his head.

Then it suddenly became quiet and the daggers stopped moving while embedded.

Suddenly the top became empty and the entire coffin was cut diagonally from above.

Thud!

The head part of the coffin fell making a heavy sound. Woon-jeong poked his head above the coffin that had been cut in half at the waist.

Like the coffin, hooded men who had lost their heads were spurting blood and falling over.

Swish.

Soul Seizing Thread flew through the air. Woon-jeong’s hair stood on end. Jin Ja-gang had cut the coffin and sliced the hooded men with Soul Seizing Thread.

“What if you had cut my head too!”

Woon-jeong shouted, but Jin Ja-gang had no leisure to answer. Blown out through the window, he was being surrounded and attacked by hooded men. In the midst of that, he had helped Woon-jeong.

One hooded man swung a black coffin lid toward Jin Ja-gang.

Whoooom! Judging by the sound, it wasn’t ordinary wood but solid metal. Jin Ja-gang bent his waist to avoid it.

Crash!

The coffin lid smashed through the wooden wall of the house and embedded itself. It was like swinging an iron mace.

Though the coffins looked identical, they seemed to be mixed with different materials.

Jin Ja-gang rushed at the hooded man who had swung the coffin lid, grabbed his head, and kicked his nose with his knee. The hooded man raised both arms to block.

Crack! His wrists broke. Jin Ja-gang didn’t stop and kicked up his knee again. The hooded man who had endured his wrists breaking once couldn’t endure the second and third times and screamed.

“Ahhhhh!”

The moment his arms dropped because he couldn’t bear the pain, Jin Ja-gang twisted the hooded man’s neck.

Black Death God leaped down from above toward Jin Ja-gang. A flying blade flashed in Black Death God’s hand. Jin Ja-gang grabbed the coffin lid embedded in the side wall and did a handstand upside down.

Clang clang! Black Death God’s flying blade caught on the coffin lid as sparks flew. As Black Death God shifted his gaze to follow Jin Ja-gang who had risen upward.

“Demon Subduing Ritual Double Tablet Clapping!”

Clap!

Woon-jeong struck his double tablets together to make sound. Black Death God’s head shook from the sound technique that suddenly penetrated his ears. Unable to find balance, he staggered and tried to fall forward.

Jin Ja-gang, who had been doing a handstand on the coffin lid, flipped around like doing acrobatics and stamped Black Death God’s back with his heel.

Crack!

Black Death God was hit on the back and sprawled like a frog.

Woon-jeong shouted.

“Good…!”

At that moment, Bulgi burst through the wall and kicked Jin Ja-gang, sending him flying. Jin Ja-gang flew away and rolled several times on the deck. The hooded men lined up on the deck struck Jin Ja-gang with coffins as if it was an opportunity.

Bang bang!

Crack crack!

“…Oh.”

Woon-jeong was flustered.

Jin Ja-gang could only crouch and defend. The wooden coffins broke apart, but Jin Ja-gang had to take damage from the metal coffins too.

Beom-mong dropped down from above.

“Here we go.”

Beom-mong’s fist was pulled back like a bowstring then shot forward.

Crash!

Both Jin Ja-gang and the hooded men attacking him were all caught up in Hundred Step Divine Fist.

Crack!

The necks of hooded men caught in the fist wind of Hundred Step Divine Fist above broke and snapped. Waists twisted to turn more than half around, and limbs became so entangled they were severed.

The timber covering the ship’s deck was very thick and solid, and even toughened by being soaked with tar. However, it inevitably collapsed under Hundred Step Divine Fist like the second floor of the house.

Crash!

Jin Ja-gang fell and was embedded inside the ship.

“Kugh!”

Broken coffins and corpses of dead hooded men fell together to the side.

“Keke keke!”

Bulgi attacked Beom-mong who was standing in front of the large hole in the deck laughing. Bulgi lifted the metal coffin lid that had been embedded in the wall and struck Beom-mong.

The metal lid collided with Iron Silk that Beom-mong was wearing.

Claaaang!

An ear-splitting metallic sound rang out like sound technique. Everyone covered their ears and frowned.

Beom-mong was hit by the metal lid and bounced away. As Beom-mong flew across the deck, he tried to grab the thick rope connecting the sail to the deck to stop.

But one step faster, Black Death God from below launched his body and cut the rope with a flying blade.

Thunk! The rope thick as a child’s arm was severed and flew into the air whipping the deck like a whip. One hooded man whose foot got caught in the rope was ridiculously easily dragged into the air and thrown into the distant river.

The same happened to Beom-mong. Though he hastily reached out his hand, he couldn’t grab the bouncing rope and fell off the ship into the river.

Splash!

The spray created by Beom-mong falling behind the ship cutting through the current grew distant.

Woon-jeong couldn’t close his mouth at what had happened in such a short time.

‘What a mess!’

Benevolent Hero Bulgi had an obsessive personality of never letting go once he bit down, and Beom-mong was a militant monk of the Breaking Sect who practiced righteous law with violent force.

Though it started as a probing battle, since neither had any intention of backing down even an inch, the situation had eventually come to this point.

But the situation wasn’t over yet.

While Black Death God was crouching unable to straighten his back properly due to back pain, Bulgi ran over and cut off Black Death God’s leg.

Thunk!

Black Death God’s right leg was severed at the shin along with the deck. Black Death God rolled his eyes back, gritted his teeth, turned his body and threw a flying blade at Bulgi.

Unlike poison needles, flying blades had large motions and couldn’t build up speed at close range, making it difficult to expect great power.

Bulgi lightly struck away the flying blade and raised Taiyi Earth Sword.

Then, clap! the double tablets rang.

Though Bulgi wasn’t greatly shocked, his body flinched. Fortunately, the flying blade grazed past Bulgi’s cheek.

Bulgi opened his bloodshot eyes wide and glared at Woon-jeong.

“You brat…!”

Woon-jeong was startled and carefully backed away.

“No, well, you see…”

Shreeeeek!

An ear-splitting sharp whistle sound rang out. This time even Bulgi couldn’t endure it and hunched his shoulders crouching. All the hair on his body stood on end and his head shook so much it was hard to stand properly.

Jin Ja-gang had climbed up from the hole and attacked Bulgi with a chilling sound.

“How dare!”

Bulgi’s bloodshot eyes became redder. The right side where blood vessels had already burst was stained more severely with blood, looking like an evil spirit.

Woon-jeong decided “the heck with it” and put the ritual bell in his mouth to shake it while clapping double souls to make two sounds simultaneously.

“Demon Subduing Ritual! Demon Suppressing Sound!”

This was the maximum sound technique Woon-jeong could perform. Bulgi’s eardrums, weakened from continuous sound technique attacks, couldn’t endure anymore and burst.

Pop!

Thick blood flowed from both of Bulgi’s ears.

At the same time, Black Death God got up and desperately embedded a flying blade in the back of Bulgi’s right hand.

The enraged Bulgi raised Taiyi Earth Sword and stabbed Black Death God’s heart. Though Black Death God tried to extend his hand to block, Taiyi Earth Sword pierced through his palm and penetrated to his heart.

Bulgi glared at Woon-jeong and Jin Ja-gang with bloodshot eyes.

With Black Death God dead, the hooded men lost sight of everything. Disregarding life and death, they shouldered coffins to swing and attacked. Bulgi raised his lips grinding his teeth while cutting down the hooded men along with coffins.

Slash!

Bulgi even cut through coffins made of metal. He cut metal and split hooded men’s chests wide open.

A hooded man from behind struck Bulgi’s head with a wooden coffin. Bulgi raised his fist.

Crack!

The coffin broke and wooden planks burst out. Bulgi raised Taiyi Earth Sword and vertically cut the hooded man’s crown.

Thud.

But Taiyi Earth Sword, which seemed like it would quickly split the head, stopped embedded after going down to the brow. Bulgi had lost grip of Taiyi Earth Sword.

The back of his hand where the flying blade had been embedded was swollen and his fingers were bent.

Bulgi gritted his teeth.

As the hooded man with Taiyi Earth Sword embedded in his head fell backward and died, he extended his left hand toward the corpse.

The suction power of Energy Grasping drew Taiyi Earth Sword into his hand. Without hesitation, Bulgi severed his right arm below the elbow.

The severed forearm fell to the floor. Bloody pus flowed from the cut surface.

Muscles bulged on Bulgi’s forehead and chin. His left hand gripping Taiyi Earth Sword trembled from applying too much force.

“These bastards… I’ll kill them all.”

Terrible killing intent covered the deck.

The sailors and merchants were already nowhere to be seen on the ship.

What remained were a few hooded men, Jin Ja-gang, Woon-jeong, and…

Splash! Splooosh!

Water spray shooting up from the stern!

Splash splash splash!

Beom-mong was flying over the river water while striking fist wind at the water surface. Beom-mong soon caught up with the ship and leaped onto the deck. Water spray poured down above Beom-mong.

It was tremendous internal energy.

When Beom-mong infused Iron Silk into his soaked robes, moisture seeped out and the floor became wet in an instant.

Flop.

A carp called Water Tiger that had somehow been brought along flopped in front of Beom-mong.

Beom-mong picked up the carp and threw it outside the ship. The carp instantly dove into the river water and disappeared.

Beom-mong clasped his hands.

“Namo Amitabha Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva.”

Seeing this, Jin Ja-gang briefly sneered.

“Acting like a pathetic monk now?”

Beom-mong raised the corner of his mouth and smiled.

“Still arrogant as ever. Even if this old monk greatly opens the killing precept today, I must practice righteous law.”

Beom-mong’s gaze reached Bulgi. Bulgi was smirking while waving his severed arm and emitting bloody light from his eyes.

“Whether monk or Taoist, anyone who gets in my hands today dies.”