Chapter 511

The Bright Demon God chased after the female monks, randomly reaching out his hands. The limbs of the female monks caught in his hands were torn apart.

“Kyaaaah!”

“Ahhh!”

In an instant, the Bright Demon God was drenched in blood.

The Emei Sect’s female monks resisted, but swords didn’t work and fists and feet didn’t penetrate. Sword energy could inflict some damage, but not many could use sword energy.

Abbess In-eun shouted.

“Hundred Flowers formation!”

Dozens of Emei Sect female monks gathered with robes fluttering. They surrounded the Bright Demon God in several layers of circles. Each circle turned in the opposite direction, disorienting the Bright Demon God’s eyes. The sword energy spewing from dozens of swords was enough to make even the Bright Demon God close his eyes slightly and apply force.

“Deploy sword formation!”

All the female monks forming the circles simultaneously thrust their swords and stabbed the Bright Demon God. Dozens of sword energies pierced the Bright Demon God’s entire body.

Clink clink clink!

The Bright Demon God’s body was densely wrapped in sword energy like a hedgehog. Even aside from just sword energy, it was extraordinary as it was the force of dozens of martial artists pressing down.

The Bright Demon God’s massive body shrank as if crumpling.

Crack snap. His joints resisted, making rough sounds. The Bright Demon God rolled his eyes wide and shook both arms with force.

“Kyaaaah!”

Dozens of Emei Sect female monks were flung away at once.

“Waaah!”

“Ahhh!”

The female monks tangled with each other and rolled around, unable to maintain their center.

The Bright Demon God became completely excited and trampled the fallen female monks to death. Then Abbess In-eun attacked the Bright Demon God. A white sword stabbed at both of the Bright Demon God’s eyes. The Bright Demon God moved his head left and right to dodge the sword and threw a punch. Abbess In-eun received the Bright Demon God’s fist with her palm.

Bang! The Bright Demon God’s upper body staggered, and Abbess In-eun was blown back one zhang. The Bright Demon God raised one foot high then stomped the ground, put his head forward, and instantly shot toward Abbess In-eun. Abbess In-eun extended her palm as if to receive the Iron Head Skill head-on, then pushed the Bright Demon God’s head away with the technique of Grafting Branches to Plum Trees. The Bright Demon God’s flying direction twisted. The Bright Demon God flew toward Tiewa Palace’s roof.

Crash! The iron tiles crumpled and the Bright Demon God’s head embedded in the roof. The Bright Demon God struggled.

The female monks prepared to leap up to attack the Bright Demon God.

However, the female monks in prison escaped through the collapsed wall and blocked the Bright Demon God. Nang Ryeong took the lead in protecting the Bright Demon God.

“Traitors!”

The female monks ground their teeth. However, those who participated in the rebellion were also at a crossroads of life or death. They had no choice but to fight risking death.

Abbess In-eun coldly surveyed the arena. The number of female monks who started the rebellion wasn’t small either. From the Emei Sect’s standpoint, the Bright Demon God’s appearance was like a bolt from the blue.

The sect was being shaken by an unexpected madman’s visit.

The Bright Demon God still struggled, unable to pull out his head. He randomly punched the roof, crumpling the iron tiles and making his head even more tightly stuck. However, it wouldn’t take long to pull out his head.

Moreover, the traitors in front…

Abbess In-eun judged further fighting was meaningless.

“Everyone descend the mountain.”

The female monks shouted in surprise.

“Sect leader!”

“There’s no need to deal with both a madman and traitors. Didn’t Qingcheng Sect already show us? We can return anytime.”

The damage from the previous rebellion was already substantial. Taking more damage here could make reconstruction impossibly collapse.

“Since the Great Buddha was defeated by Poison Dragon, the martial world’s landscape will be overturned. Our Emei Sect still has much work left to do.”

They couldn’t be held back by taking serious damage here.

Under Abbess In-eun’s leadership, all the female monks prepared to withdraw.

The Bright Demon God roared with his head still embedded.

“Where are you running!”

Abbess In-eun put her sword behind her and regulated her breathing. Then she raised one hand and gathered palm force. Golden light shone from her long slanted eyes.

Abbess In-eun extended her thumb and index finger while bending the other fingers and released one palm with full force. Palm force containing tremendous energy enough to make one’s throat shrink just watching spewed out.

Annihilation, Demon Subduing Great Mudra.

The female monks who participated in the rebellion couldn’t bear to block Abbess In-eun’s Demon Subduing Great Mudra and dodged to the side. Abbess In-eun’s Demon Subduing Great Mudra crushed Tiewa Palace’s support beam.

Rumble!

Tiewa Palace’s roof collapsed and the Bright Demon God whose head was stuck fell and was buried.

“Everyone scatter!”

Following Abbess In-eun’s command, Emei Sect’s female monks fled in all directions.

The Bright Demon God who belatedly burst out from the collapsed Tiewa Palace looked around like a dog that lost the chicken it was chasing, wondering whom to chase.

Abbess In-eun shouted.

“First generation disciples!”

The older disciples stopped fleeing and immediately turned around. They realized the duty given to them. With expressions of determination ready to die, they faced the Bright Demon God.

No one cursed Abbess In-eun who commanded their sacrifice.

Young disciples couldn’t handle even one move from the Bright Demon God. Only disciples who could at least make the Bright Demon God use one more hand by sacrificing their lives could let others escape.

“Hiyaaaa!”

The Bright Demon God’s face brightened when the female monks who were annoyingly fleeing turned around.

Like moths to flame, the Emei Sect’s first generation disciples rushed at the Bright Demon God.

* * *

Wind rushed fiercely past Jin Ja-gang’s ears. Scenery passed by swiftly one after another.

His entire body became dikes and dantian, deepening his internal energy. Internal energy didn’t dry up. He could run without rest even without conserving internal energy.

When hungry, he picked fruits and chewed poisonous plants. Previously he could endure and persevere without eating for a long time. Eating was about maintaining physical body and furthermore balance in nature. Hunger was also a natural phenomenon of nature. Therefore, not suppressing hunger while not being consumed by hunger was also an important act within Unity.

The subtle boundary between indulgence and natural non-action, the precarious balance between sloth and unity of self and object.

That was the power maintaining Unity and the source that Jade Void Nine Lights Five Thunders Toad Art drew out.

Jin Ja-gang chewed poisonous plants and continued rushing toward Sichuan.

In his mind, he carefully ruminated over the clues obtained so far.

Was Beom-bon the Hungry Ghost King or not?

He wouldn’t open his mouth himself. Drawing clues about him from Beom-bon was also extremely difficult.

So Jin Ja-gang focused more on breaking down not only Beom-bon’s martial arts but his mind. And Beom-bon eventually revealed the existence of his “master.” If left alone, Beom-bon would have contacted his master somehow.

However, contrary to Jin Ja-gang’s thoughts, instead of the broken Beom-bon going to find his master, the master’s shadow came to find Beom-bon and finished things.

By pulling Baek Li-jung in as Jin Ja-gang’s opponent, the Hungry Ghost King decided to erase Beom-bon’s existence.

Nevertheless, Jin Ja-gang’s harvest wasn’t completely empty. In that brief moment, he obtained several clues.

Beom-bon mistook the Nameless Slave for his master, but the Nameless Slave called Beom-bon by his childhood name. In other words, the Hungry Ghost King was Beom-bon’s master from childhood before he entered Shaolin Temple.

Also, after Beom-bon died, the Nameless Slave’s subordinate reported.

“The Great Buddha sent the Bright Demon God to Sichuan. Should I follow and handle it?”

“Our stepping forward in this matter was exceptional. Elder brother dislikes us directly intervening in jianghu affairs.”

“The Bright Demon God is the only person who knows the Great Buddha’s origins besides the deceased abbot.”

“Sichuan is closed off, so there are many watching eyes. If we forcibly lay hands on the Bright Demon God, we’ll be caught by the tail.”

The Nameless Slave’s subordinate spoke indignantly.

“Not completely finishing the King of Hell is holding us back like this. That bastard stirred up Sichuan so much we had to withdraw all our people…”

Tsk, the Nameless Slave clicked his tongue.

“Yong-yi deliberately didn’t eliminate his elder martial brother the Bright Demon God to use him as his shadow when needed. As Shaolin Temple’s abbot, there are limits to direct activities, so he probably intended to keep the Bright Demon God in the shadows and give him a role like mine. However, because of that, he disobeyed elder brother’s words to leave no clue whatsoever. That’s why Yong-yi fell out of elder brother’s favor.”

“Then…”

The Nameless Slave said.

“Leave it. The Bright Demon God is a madman anyway. No one will take his words to heart. Who would try to find traces of us from the Bright Demon God?”

“I will.”

Jin Ja-gang murmured.

“I will find them.”

Jin Ja-gang’s form rapidly sprinted forward.

* * *

The Bright Demon God was drenched in the female monks’ blood and became a blood person.

Then he ran straight to the Tang Family Great Estate. Carrying the injured Arhat monk on his shoulder, he picked up speed regardless of whether his wounds festered or not.

The Arhat monk suffered in pain carried on the Bright Demon God’s shoulder and bit his teeth.

Cursing him as a madman would only make himself suffer.

“I haven’t eaten…! Just rest a little…”

“No!”

The Bright Demon God growled.

“I must kill the woman before the warm blood cools!”

The female monks’ blood he was drenched in had long hardened into scabs. What the Bright Demon God felt as warm was the blood pouring from the Arhat monk. However, the Arhat monk couldn’t possibly speak about that.

“J-just a little gentler…!”

“One more word and I’ll only bring your head!”

From Mount Emei to the Tang Family Great Estate was seven to eight hundred li following the road. However, in a straight line it was less than five hundred li. The Bright Demon God smashed blocking trees with his head, climbed up and down cliffs, and leaped over rivers.

Finally, the Tang Family Great Estate appeared before the Bright Demon God’s eyes.

“Look! I arrived before the blood cooled!”

“…”

However, the Arhat monk didn’t answer.

Except for the leg the Bright Demon God held carried on his shoulder, the Arhat monk’s upper body draped on his back had become a rag from hitting all sorts of places. He threatened to only bring the head, but ended up only bringing the leg.

The Bright Demon God carefully laid the Arhat monk’s corpse stiffened in death on a rock.

“Oh dear… you were very tired. I’ll be right back, so don’t die and wait.”

The Bright Demon God rushed toward the Tang Family Great Estate like a shooting arrow. The Tang Family Great Estate had no walls, having torn down the outer walls that were symbols of exclusivity. Instead, warriors stood guard watching the outer wall area.

The Bright Demon God ran and shouted.

“Bring out the woman!”

* * *

The bell urgently rang announcing the Bright Demon God’s appearance.

“The Bright Demon God has invaded the outer compound! He’s smashing everything in front!”

“Ordinary warriors cannot stop the Bright Demon God!”

The Tang Family elders’ expressions darkened.

The Tang Family’s situation was no different from the Emei Sect. It wasn’t a time when people overflowed like before. Countless masters and the warriors supporting them died from Shaolin Temple’s attack and successive rebellions. It was a time when every talent was precious. They had just gathered people, and taking more damage here would greatly delay recovery.

The leaders of the Poison Cliques participating in the meeting to prepare for the Bright Demon God’s attack exchanged glances. Additionally, Sword King Namgung Rak and Sword Empress Im Yi-eon also rose with bodies not yet healed from injuries.

“It seems the time has come for us freeloaders who only ate meals to finally earn our keep.”

* * *

Bang!

The Bright Demon God rammed into the wall blocking his path. Earth and stone broke and the iron reinforcement added inside the wall to strengthen support bent. The Bright Demon God became annoyed at the wall that didn’t collapse in one hit even with Iron Head Skill and got angry.

He spread his fingers wide and opened his hand fully, striking the half-broken wall again with his palm.

Tathagata Divine Palm!

Crash! The iron pieces broke and the wall burst open, creating a hole.

The Bright Demon God panted and shouted.

“Bring out the woman! If you drag time and that guy dies, another one of you will have to go to Shaolin with me!”