Chapter 506

Beom-bon wiped his nosebleed with his hand to confirm with his eyes.

Not a nosebleed from typical external impact but pus-blood flowing out from internal damage…

He had unconsciously inhaled countless poison powders while being slammed to the floor. Moreover, Jin Ja-gang’s blood poison had also flowed in through the wounds on his body and was eroding his acupoints.

That was making his body, which had been Vajra Indestructible Body until just a while ago, collapse even faster.

Ugh…!

Beom-bon dry heaved then vomited clumped blood with a hack! Yellow pus mixed with the blood clot came out.

Jin Ja-gang is a master of poison techniques and sets up plans very meticulously. He had to be careful of even the smallest things. It wasn’t that he didn’t know, as he already knew through various channels of information. Even if Vajra Indestructible Body broke, he could have avoided poison invasion if he had been careful.

However, after becoming Vajra Indestructible Body, Beom-bon had never feared poison. After confirming early on that Jin Ja-gang’s poison didn’t work, he ignored poison.

As the price for that… Beom-bon was now even suffering from the pain of poisoning. It felt like tens of thousands of ants had filled his entire body, the acupoints inside his body.

Crunch crunch. Crunch crunch.

It seemed like he could hear the sound of ants gnawing at his internal organs by his ears.

Beom-bon writhed from the itchiness then gritted his teeth.

“Is this humble monk’s thought to save the world… wrong?”

Jin Ja-gang stared at Beom-bon.

Beom-bon asked again.

“Ignorant sentient beings… selfish sentient beings who don’t move unless it benefits them even when earnestly preached to… threatening with the sword and coaxing with gold… is this humble monk’s thought to save them that way… wrong?”

“Why do you try to persuade me with words? You have neither Embracing Sect nor Breaking Sect. For such reasons, you are the one who suppressed Breaking Sect with force.”

At Jin Ja-gang’s answer, Beom-bon’s face contorted.

Beom-bon raised his bloody hand with the Ladle River Divine Sword embedded and made a fist. Since the blade was stuck in, his palm began tearing more severely. He gave up midway through making a fist. His hand trembled from the pain.

Beom-bon’s bald head was completely covered in cold sweat.

Huff huff!

Beom-bon breathed roughly and gritted his teeth. He grimaced. Then he clenched his fist with force.

The fist clenched. However, with the sound of bone grinding, the Ladle River Divine Sword tore through between Beom-bon’s fingers, popped out, and fell to the floor.

Beom-bon clenched and opened his fist with trembling hands. Blood flowed from the torn wound, gradually swelling and mixing with pus.

Beom-bon spoke painfully while biting his teeth.

“It didn’t come to today by thinking overnight and deciding in a moment. This humble monk has not lived so carelessly. I agonized and anguished through countless nights to reach today’s conclusion. But… but!”

Then he vigorously stamped his foot with the broken big toe.

Crack! The broken big toe bent under the force of the true angle.

Beom-bon opened his mouth and screamed silently from the pain.

His legs trembled as if he would collapse any moment, then he stamped the true angle like mad.

Bang bang bang!

The big toe was roughly torn off.

“…!”

Beom-bon’s knees bent and he nearly came to kneeling. However, he endured with all his might. His legs trembled violently.

Beom-bon endured with his face completely covered in sweat.

Then he suddenly opened his eyes and shouted.

“But! How dare!”

Beom-bon stamped his foot again with a face completely distorted from pain and shot out at Jin Ja-gang.

Crash!

“Do you think this humble monk will fall to a nobody who appeared from who knows where!”

Beom-bon spread his fingers and unfolded Tathagata Divine Palm. A huge palm struck down at Jin Ja-gang. Jin Ja-gang kicked the ground with one foot and retreated, but Tathagata Divine Palm’s hand stretched out long and chased Jin Ja-gang. Jin Ja-gang struck the pillar behind with his forearm and turned to the side.

Crack! The top and bottom of the pillar bent greatly as Tathagata Divine Palm blew away the entire middle of the pillar.

Rumble… the pavilion shook violently as if about to collapse.

Jin Ja-gang spun in the air and kicked the side of the flying Beom-bon with his back foot.

Beom-bon, slammed into the broken floor, knelt on one knee and stood up awkwardly. Sweat dripped from his face from the pain throughout his body.

Beom-bon knelt and ground his teeth to pieces, then formed a mudra. One hand with thumb and index finger, the other with thumb and middle finger folded in the Dharmachakra mudra. He formed the Dharmachakra mudra with palms facing up and down. Air swirled greatly in the middle of the Dharmachakra mudra. Beom-bon stretched the Dharmachakra mudra straight forward.

Circularly swirling palm force poured at Jin Ja-gang, cutting through the air in waves.

Crackle! Everything in its way shattered. Whether pillar debris or tables and objects, they were finely chopped and scattered.

Where the Dharmachakra mudra passed was hollowed out like where Hundred Step Divine Fist had passed. Fine dust rose thick like sea fog.

Beom-bon rubbed his eyes filled with blood. Jin Ja-gang wasn’t visible. His energy sense was still being interfered with, so he couldn’t find Jin Ja-gang without relying on eyes and ears.

Jin Ja-gang… slowly raised his head and stood up from the pit in the broken floor through the dust. He simply dodged the Dharmachakra mudra by ducking into the pit.

Tremble.

Beom-bon looked down at his trembling hands. The hole in the back of the hand with the Ladle River Divine Sword embedded kept getting bigger, and the fingertip where the poison needle was embedded had flesh melting and rotting, exposing bone.

Like grains leaking from a sack of grain gnawed by rats, bloody pus flowed ceaselessly from the wounds all over Beom-bon’s body. While standing briefly, a puddle of bloody pus had formed at his feet.

Death approaches.

His eyes also severely damaged and became dim. Beom-bon didn’t even know what to do anymore.

“…do it.”

Beom-bon said.

“End it now… But you will never break this humble monk’s conviction.”

Jin Ja-gang answered quietly.

“What use is breaking the great master’s conviction? Just hand over that body.”

Beom-bon found himself absurd for being bothered by Jin Ja-gang’s sharp tone even in this situation.

“You want this humble monk’s body… for alms? But even that, you cannot do.”

“Not me.”

Jin Ja-gang spoke to someone.

“Vajra Indestructible Body is broken. Can you do it?”

“What are you doing? Who are you talking to?”

Jin Ja-gang pointed up. Beom-bon blinked his blood-filled eyes and raised his head.

An Ryeong dropped from the hole in the ceiling. With the blade tucked under her armpit and the blade’s back pressed with her forearm, holding the handle with broken fingers, she split Beom-bon’s head with the force of falling.

However, whether lacking strength, she couldn’t split the head. The blade drew a line down the spine from the back of the head. Beom-bon’s back split open.

Beom-bon’s body stiffened.

He clearly learned what it feels like to be sharply cut.

When Jin Ja-gang tore with the broken sword, it stung and hurt, but now it was a bit different. At first it was nothing, then it became unbearably hot, and the cut wound became entirely numb.

“Namo Amitabha… Avalokitesvara…”

An Ryeong, meaning she didn’t want to hear even Beom-bon’s Buddhist invocation, writhed and kicked Beom-bon.

Beom-bon’s huge body tilted and fell forward.

Thud…!

Beom-bon’s body convulsed ceaselessly.

An Ryeong shed tears and gritted her teeth. She wanted to completely finish off Beom-bon but couldn’t move anymore.

Jin Ja-gang, who watched An Ryeong for a moment, shouted with internal energy.

“Yeong-gwi!”

Yellow Crane Tower with numerous damaged pillars shook, pouring dirt dust as if about to collapse any moment.

Whoosh!

“Yeong-gwi!”

* * *

Yeong-gwi and Son-bi separated after learning what the Arhat monks were looking for.

Son-bi lured the Arhat monks as far away from Yellow Crane Tower as possible. She knew that was the most helpful thing for Jin Ja-gang. While the Arhat monks chased Son-bi, Yeong-gwi hid and dealt with them one by one.

But.

While dealing with an Arhat monk, suddenly she got chills!

Tremendous killing intent was felt.

It wasn’t coming from Yellow Crane Tower but killing intent spewing from the opposite direction.

It was such tremendous presence that it was doubtful whether another third party other than the Great Buddha and Jin Ja-gang could radiate this level of killing intent.

Something… was approaching!

While radiating terrifying killing intent enough to overturn this entire area!

Approaching this way without hiding its presence meant its intention was clear.

Dangerous.

Yeong-gwi immediately came down to Yellow Crane Tower.

Even from a distance, one could tell how fierce the fight at Yellow Crane Tower was. The entire Yellow Crane Tower kept shaking and roof tiles were falling.

Yeong-gwi watched for an opportunity to enter.

“Yeong-gwi!”

Just then Jin Ja-gang’s voice was heard.

Yeong-gwi jumped into the first floor without hesitation. As soon as he entered, poison energy rushed in.

She covered her mouth and immediately checked the situation inside.

The first floor was completely devastated and pillars were broken, one step away from collapsing.

In the middle of that, Beom-bon lay collapsed, and Jin Ja-gang looked down at Beom-bon while leaning against a pillar.

“I’ll escort you!”

Yeong-gwi ran to Jin Ja-gang. Jin Ja-gang’s condition was very serious even at a glance.

However, Jin Ja-gang turned his head and directed his gaze to the side.

There was An Ryeong sprawled on the floor barely clinging to life. Her bones severely broken and even poisoned, she didn’t look like she could survive.

Yeong-gwi looked at Jin Ja-gang with a “surely not” expression. Jin Ja-gang nodded.

“She can be saved.”

“No.”

“She’ll know the way to fix it. She can be saved.”

“Something is coming! We must flee quickly!”

“I know.”

Jin Ja-gang’s detection ability is very keen. There’s no way Jin Ja-gang doesn’t know what Yeong-gwi caught.

“And I know what it is.”

“If you know, then why? Both have major injuries. You can’t run away with both of them!”

“Yeong-gwi. Listen carefully to what I say.”

Jin Ja-gang told Yeong-gwi what to do. Yeong-gwi bit his lower lip hard.

“Why are you always…”

“We’ve almost arrived now. If we retreat here, we have to go from the beginning again.”

Yeong-gwi wanted to ask why he always invites danger. However, Jin Ja-gang is originally that kind of person. That’s why he’s a strong person.

Yeong-gwi nodded that he would follow Jin Ja-gang’s words.

* * *

A shadow jumped out of Yellow Crane Tower.

The two Arhat monks guarding nearby couldn’t chase the shadow. Five of nine went after Son-bi and two of four were killed by Yeong-gwi. And the remaining two also felt the massive killing intent approaching.

They couldn’t help but worry about the sect leader inside Yellow Crane Tower, but they couldn’t enter carelessly. Even when spreading energy sense to the maximum, it was difficult to sense energy inside Yellow Crane Tower as if being interfered with by something. They couldn’t even know what was happening.

While pondering, the killing intent came closer and closer.

The two Arhat monks looked at each other and decided to first guard the entrance.

The killing intent approached faster and faster, finally reaching in front of Yellow Crane Tower.

Unexpectedly.

What appeared before them was a huge carriage.