Chapter 453

Yelu Huan felt a killing intent stabbing at the back of his head and looked back.

And he was shocked.

Jin Ja-gang was following him!

Chills ran down his spine.

The fact that he was chasing to the end despite having suffered considerable internal injuries was shocking.

“Tenacious bastard.”

He could just ignore him and leave. His steps seemed too slow to catch up to him anyway.

But…

A sight he couldn’t just ignore came into view.

Jin Ja-gang’s smile as he looked at him.

When their eyes met, Jin Ja-gang shouted loudly.

“Are you running away?”

Yelu Huan deliberately ignored him.

“Haha! The Zoroastrian Cult Leader is running away. If you’re going to do that, apologize before leaving.”

Urgh!

Yelu Huan’s anger surged.

“Brat! Who said I’m fleeing!”

“If that’s not running away with your tail between your legs, what is it?”

Yelu Huan snorted.

“No matter how you try to provoke me, it’s useless. I’m fine with barely any injuries while blood is pouring from your side. Who’s running away from whom?”

“Why run away when you’re winning? Others won’t see it that way.”

For a moment, Yelu Huan thought that could be true.

To anyone watching, wasn’t this him fleeing from Jin Ja-gang?

Yelu Huan spun around to face Jin Ja-gang.

“Persistent. Do you want to die that badly?”

“I’ve never let anyone live who said they’d settle things another day.”

Yelu Huan’s lips twisted. He gathered internal energy in his palm and prepared to release palm force.

“Then I’ll kill you as you wish.”

“I expected as much. When cornered, you speak from both sides of your mouth.”

Grr!

Yelu Huan had just said he wouldn’t fight today.

But if he fought Jin Ja-gang, he would truly be speaking from both sides of his mouth. Blood vessels bulged on Yelu Huan’s brow.

“You… are constantly pushing me to act that way!”

“You’re the one who made a promise you couldn’t keep, so why blame others? If I were you, I’d rather cleanly apologize and leave.”

Yelu Huan’s frustration boiled over.

“You’ve been obsessed with an apology since earlier, but would an apology change anything!”

“It’s too late now.”

Urgh!

Anger surged to the top of his head. He was so angry his whole body felt hot.

However, separate from that, his head cooled down.

Because he realized that the apology was just a pretext anyway, and that Jin Ja-gang was determined to settle things with him regardless.

Slowly, his emotions cooled.

Jin Ja-gang’s gaze also turned cold.

“It seems you’re finally ready to fight.”

“I understand why you’re chasing me to death even in that condition.”

Yelu Huan spoke in a much calmer voice.

“If you don’t overcome me today, the Calamity Slaying Demon Spirit inside you will become a complete coward. When you meet me afterward, no matter how you harm yourself, it will never appear again.”

Jin Ja-gang didn’t deny it.

“You know well.”

“So…”

The corners of Yelu Huan’s mouth rose.

“I won’t fight you today.”

Jin Ja-gang nodded.

“Do as you please. However far you run, I’ll follow you to the end. So the people of the world will clearly remember the sight of the Zoroastrian Cult Leader fleeing.”

“That will never happen. Not now, not in the future, not ever.”

Yelu Huan blew a long whistle filled with internal energy.

***

Wheee! Wheee!

After blowing the whistle and waiting a moment, Yelu Huan looked at Jin Ja-gang and smiled.

Jin Ja-gang’s eyebrow twitched.

People began gathering from afar. There appeared to be several hundred.

All were followers of the Zoroastrian Cult.

Followers of all ages and genders came running, filled the path ahead, and prostrated themselves completely.

“What are you doing?”

“I don’t flee. I am not running from you, but you simply cannot follow me.”

Yelu Huan turned his back on Jin Ja-gang and began walking slowly through the followers. Not quick steps. Steps that seemed almost leisurely.

“You good spirits will gain eternal life for a thousand years in the new world.”

Each time Yelu Huan passed the prostrated followers, they sprang up.

“Long live the Zoroastrian Cult, long live!”

The followers who stood up in turn each took up weapons and rushed toward Jin Ja-gang.

The tip of Jin Ja-gang’s eyebrow rose.

Jin Ja-gang had forced Yelu Huan to contradict his own words, and now Yelu Huan was forcing Jin Ja-gang into the path of a murderer.

Jin Ja-gang didn’t hesitate. Looking at the followers rushing with sincere eyes, he murmured.

“Even if you truly can be saved in a new world, that world will never be a good one.”

Jin Ja-gang drew the Severing Sickle Blade from his back. When he struck the ends of the poles together, sharp sickle blades popped out.

Clang!

The followers had already resolved to die. No matter who the opponent was.

Jin Ja-gang walked forward holding the Severing Sickle Blade.

He struck down like lightning on the head of the foremost charging follower and pulled it out.

Spurt! Blood shot up.

Jin Ja-gang pulled out the Severing Sickle Blade and slashed the throat of a follower charging from the side with a sword. The follower dropped his sword and staggered back, then bumped into another follower pushing from behind, fell, and was trampled.

“Eyaaaah!”

“Long life!”

The followers continued standing up and rushing toward Jin Ja-gang. Among them were large-bodied ones who simply threw their bodies at Jin Ja-gang. Jin Ja-gang spun quickly twice and swung his sickle.

Double Moon Severing Strike. The large body wasn’t completely cut, but the neck and belly were split. Jin Ja-gang didn’t dodge but continued walking at the same speed while swinging the sickle, covered in blood.

He struck and slashed.

Each time he struck and pulled out the Severing Sickle Blade, blood shot up in reverse, and each time he cut flesh, blood and entrails flowed like a waterfall after rain.

The followers slipped and fell on the floor drenched in blood. While swinging weapons, they got tangled and stabbed or slashed each other.

“Aaaah!”

“Kyaaa!”

Screams ran rampant as much as spurting blood.

Jin Ja-gang maintained a constant walking speed as he chased Yelu Huan. Because he didn’t dodge the followers’ attacks but met them head-on or killed them and passed through, he allowed a few blind strikes.

Slash!

A thin blade grazed Jin Ja-gang’s neck and cheek. Jin Ja-gang hooked the neck of the one who grazed his cheek with his sickle and pulled.

In the meantime, his shoulder was struck by a pitchfork. The hairy man who struck with the pitchfork had his waist severed when Jin Ja-gang reversed his grip on the Severing Sickle Blade and pulled.

An old man fell while running and stabbed Jin Ja-gang’s foot with a short sword. Before his foot was stabbed, Jin Ja-gang lifted his foot and stepped on the old man’s back.

A young woman clung to Jin Ja-gang’s back and tried to slash his neck with a sickle. Jin Ja-gang grabbed the woman’s hair, threw her forward, and broke her neck.

The farther forward he walked, the more wounds accumulated on Jin Ja-gang’s body one by one. Still, Jin Ja-gang’s speed didn’t decrease.

Rather, the blade of the craftsman-made Severing Sickle Blade was damaged first. Blood and fat clung to it, dulling the blade.

Crack!

He thrust the Severing Sickle Blade into the chest of one who rushed from the front and pulled, but it caught on bone and wouldn’t come out. The man grabbed Jin Ja-gang’s arm and bit it with his teeth. Jin Ja-gang struck the back of his neck with the other Severing Sickle Blade.

The followers continued pushing in.

Jin Ja-gang let go of the Severing Sickle Blade.

Click.

Asura Scripture was released. At the same time, he concentrated his internal energy and flicked Asura Scripture forward. Asura Scripture whipped about chaotically.

Asura World-Destroying Soul!

***

Kyaaaaa!

Kyaaaaa!

***

The bodies of followers caught by Asura Scripture were cut down without exception.

Whether cut down or even slightly grazed to be poisoned by Asura Blood, death was the same either way.

In an instant, the path ahead of Jin Ja-gang became clear.

No people remained.

Instead, blood…

The blood of over ten people that exploded… surged up.

With each step Jin Ja-gang walked, a spray of slaughter’s blood arose.

Great Crimson Lotus.

As bright red lotuses bloom splendidly, bloody lotuses were scattered eerily beautifully.

However, those were death lotuses. The blood sprayed in the air became poison mist as it fell to the ground, becoming hell’s lotuses.

Jin Ja-gang silently walked the path of Great Crimson Lotus.

Blood spray ahead.

Poison mist behind.

This was the path Jin Ja-gang was walking.

The number of followers Jin Ja-gang killed had already exceeded two hundred. No one could know the exact number. What remained on the path he passed was no longer people but only bloody pus melted by poison mist.

Nevertheless, still on the path ahead of Jin Ja-gang… half the prostrated followers remained.

However… one young man among them stopped rushing at Jin Ja-gang, fell backward, and threw away his sword.

“P-p-please spare me! Please spare me!”

When Jin Ja-gang didn’t stop walking, the young man frantically backed away on his buttocks without fully standing up.

“Please spare me! I’ve done nothing wrong! I just did what I was told. I don’t want to die!”

“You’ve done nothing wrong?”

Jin Ja-gang stopped walking for the first time.

Jin Ja-gang looked at the young man with a disgusted expression.

“You tried to kill others seeking your own fortune and say you’ve done nothing wrong!”

Jin Ja-gang struck a poison palm at the young man’s face.

Thwack! The young man’s face was wrapped in poison mist.

“Aaaah!”

The young man struggled painfully, then his blood boiled and melted as he died.

In an instant, the movements rushing toward Jin Ja-gang stopped.

Yelu Huan also stopped walking.

Yelu Huan saw one middle-aged female follower beside him who remained prostrated, trembling without standing up.

“Are you afraid?”

The female follower couldn’t answer rashly.

“N-no…!”

“Pick up your sword and stand.”

The female follower stood up holding a kitchen knife.

“Go.”

“…”

The female follower gripped the kitchen knife tightly with trembling hands and shouted like a scream.

“Aaaah! Long live, long live for ten thousand years!”

The female follower rushed at Jin Ja-gang. Jin Ja-gang’s Asura Scripture instantly sent the female follower’s head flying.

Without turning his body, Yelu Huan turned his head slightly to look at Jin Ja-gang from the corner of his eye and asked.

“You’ve killed hundreds yet still have no hesitation in your fingertips.”

Jin Ja-gang caught his breath slightly and answered.

“You’re the ones staking your lives on your beliefs and attacking, so why should I worry about your lives? Take care of your own lives. If you don’t want to die, don’t raise your heads.”

Those words were addressed to Yelu Huan and at the same time a warning to the other followers.

He assured them that blocking Jin Ja-gang’s path was utterly useless.

Yelu Huan glared at Jin Ja-gang with the whites of his eyes, then walked again.

“Aaaah!”

Followers with gritted teeth stood up again.

However, this time not everyone stood up.

Some were enduring without raising their heads!

Therefore, even those who stood up flinched and didn’t rashly attack Jin Ja-gang.

Jin Ja-gang retrieved Asura Scripture and wiped one white silk thread with his clothes. Then he sprayed Asura Scripture at those who had stood up.

Poison mist no longer rose. People didn’t disappear leaving only blood clumps. However, instead, all those who had been standing were completely shredded.