Chapter 523

Flash!

Falling Sun Sword passed through Jin Ja-gang like a ray of light. Blood splattered from Jin Ja-gang’s side. Falling Sun Sword’s neck was broken and he tumbled far away.

The masters focused with heightened nerves.

Did it work?

For a man-and-sword-unity attack risking his life, the damage Jin Ja-gang suffered was insignificant. Just a bit of flesh fell off and blood splattered, but his internal organs weren’t damaged at all.

Jin Ja-gang said.

“The value of a life seems less than expected. Who’s next?”

Someone among them muttered.

“A monster. A tremendous monster.”

The masters’ eyes rather became sharper.

The fact that it took that much to barely inflict one wound seemed to make all remaining lingering attachments disappear.

“But we just learned that attacks do work on that monster.”

“One person, one time. With fifty, sixty attacks like just now, even the monster will become tattered like a rag.”

Jin Ja-gang responded casually.

“Didn’t I tell you to try it? But most of you won’t know whether you can succeed until the end.”

Because you’ll die the moment you attack.

The desert wind blew carrying the thick scent of blood. Jin Ja-gang’s momentum was fierce enough to freeze even the mouths of ordinary people.

The masters weren’t greatly shaken. However, Jin Ja-gang’s every word and action grated on them, making them very uncomfortable.

A middle-aged master with bushy beard said.

“Including myself, everyone here has rolled through jianghu enough and experienced enough. Your wicked psychological warfare is very excellent, but won’t easily work.”

Jin Ja-gang looked intently at him and spat out words.

“Mount Yuelo.”

At that moment, the middle-aged master flinched. His body trembled unknowingly and he almost stepped back.

Jin Ja-gang nodded.

“I remember you. Weren’t you one of the warriors from the Righteousness Alliance who came to interfere with the Sword King’s duel?”

“What! That, that…”

When the middle-aged master was too shocked to respond immediately, Jin Ja-gang smiled.

“I remember you were wearing the attire of a common warrior. You were well hidden mixed in there.”

There were over hundreds and it was during a bloody battle. How could he remember him among them!

The middle-aged master shook his head left and right.

“No, you probably remembered a similar face and roughly guessed. Do you think you can shake me with that!”

“I was just glad to see a familiar face, I don’t particularly have thoughts of shaking you.”

Jin Ja-gang gestured to the middle-aged master.

“I don’t want to remember you until next time, so let’s finish this time.”

Though he said he wouldn’t fall for Jin Ja-gang’s psychological warfare, the middle-aged master’s face was already turning red and blue.

How could every word be so infuriating!

“You bastard!”

The middle-aged master rushed out and explosively struck with his blade. Blade qi as tall as a person burst out and split where Jin Ja-gang stood in half.

Bang! Not only split in half, the sand on the ground burst out. Jin Ja-gang appeared above the middle-aged master’s head using Reverse Afterimage Soul Movement Technique.

“I knew it!”

The middle-aged master bent his knee and lifted his blade to the sky. The blade made a piercing wind sound and spun above his head. The blade qi became denser and blue energy spread in circles like concentric circles.

Great Force Circling Kill.

It was the killing technique the middle-aged master, Great Force Blade, had hidden. The sand and air caught by the blade spinning above his head, everything was cut. Jin Ja-gang’s afterimage was also torn apart instantly by Great Force Circling Kill.

Great Force Blade bared his teeth and raised his eyes. Jin Ja-gang rose from within the sand on the ground right in front of Great Force Blade, at his feet.

Swish swish swish. Having dug into and come out of the sand, countless sand grains poured from Jin Ja-gang’s body.

Great Force Blade was greatly startled and his hands became confused. His hands tangled at the moment of withdrawing the blade. Jin Ja-gang’s fingers touched Great Force Blade’s lower abdomen. Great Force Blade covered his lower abdomen with his hand instead of the blade. Jin Ja-gang’s fingers pushed straight through Great Force Blade’s back of hand.

Thud! Great Force Blade’s hand disappeared and a hole larger than a human head was punched below his navel.

“Kgh…”

Jin Ja-gang grabbed the neck of Great Force Blade who was falling forward. Great Force Blade looked at Jin Ja-gang with bewildered eyes.

“This is as far as I remember you.”

Crack crack!

Jin Ja-gang broke Great Force Blade’s neck to completely finish it.

The masters had seen Jin Ja-gang thoroughly kill his opponents from earlier. Even if they suffered fatal wounds and would soon die if left alone, he deliberately took time and effort to kill them.

“Terrible bastard.”

The masters shuddered.

Jin Ja-gang looked at the masters.

“This time he didn’t land one cut. Is your plan okay like this?”

The masters frowned.

They felt strange for no reason. Just now they were thinking they’d win if they landed one cut and died, but watching what Jin Ja-gang did, they felt suspicious again.

Someone couldn’t stand it and shouted.

“Are you worried about us!”

The Nameless Slave ground his teeth with an irritated voice.

“I told you not to exchange words with him.”

The Nameless Slave grimaced deeply.

Jin Ja-gang’s ability to control the atmosphere of the battle was extraordinary. From earlier, whenever this side was about to build momentum, he cut it off, and whenever they were about to build it, he cut it and took it as his own. He kept making this side’s masters hesitate.

Look.

The killing intent their masters boldly emitted at the start of the battle earlier was drawn into Jin Ja-gang, continued rippling, then lost flow and was pushed back. Only Jin Ja-gang’s killing intent dominated the entire battlefield.

Jin Ja-gang provoked again.

“Don’t you have urgent business? If you don’t want to fight, just scram. I’ll find each one later and kill them all.”

It was a chilling statement.

If someone else said they’d remember dozens of people here, find them all and kill them, they’d laugh it off as nonsense, but when Jin Ja-gang said it, it didn’t seem false. It was chilling.

The masters gritted their teeth in frustration. They just saw him remember Great Force Blade, and earlier he also told Wang Yan he’d remember his face.

Jin Ja-gang tore off his upper garment and revealed his pale upper body, then raised his hand.

“If you don’t like that, come quickly while you have even a bit of chance. I’ll kill you one by one.”

At that moment, the masters realized.

One by one?

One at a time?

Perhaps Jin Ja-gang was subtly revealing that it’s more comfortable for him to face them one at a time!

Looking back, even when fighting Ghost Hand, he very much disliked when others intervened.

Originally, masters like to explore and analyze opponents before seriously making their move. Moreover, since they’re all masters and can draw out sword qi as long as their height, it’s uncomfortable for many to attack in coordination. It’s also difficult to exert maximum power.

However, if Jin Ja-gang says one-on-one fighting is comfortable, naturally they should act oppositely. Even without drawing out sword qi, there were many of them so they would exert sufficient power.

The masters exchanged glances.

‘We must go all at once to win!’

Jin Ja-gang’s upper body was fully exposed. Unlike masters of various poison sects, he couldn’t hide anything in sleeves and didn’t seem to have any hidden techniques.

The masters who exchanged glances surrounded Jin Ja-gang in a circle. Then gradually narrowing the circle, they simultaneously raised their weapons and attacked Jin Ja-gang.

Dozens of masters simultaneously attacked Jin Ja-gang alone. Dozens of blades poured out densely, each containing blue blade qi and sword qi.

“Die!”

At that moment, Jin Ja-gang dropped both arms.

Suddenly, the masters were swept by anxiety. Jin Ja-gang was too calm!

Wooooo.

Air current rose from beneath Jin Ja-gang’s feet.

As if time had stopped, everywhere became quiet.

Every inch, no, every brief moment that passed, the masters’ weapons approached toward Jin Ja-gang, and paradoxically, their anxiety also amplified that much.

Jin Ja-gang stomped his foot.

Ting. A pair of rings popped up from his ankle. Jin Ja-gang pushed both wrists into the floating rings. The rings fitted onto his wrists.

Then!

Click…

As the rings released, transparent threads fluttered and unraveled.

He hadn’t come out from the Tang Family without any preparation!

Jin Ja-gang murmured.

“Asura…”

Annihilation Soul.

New Asura Scripture, Twenty-Four Death Strings.

The Asura Scripture, doubled in number from before, violently twanged and swept through the air.

Swoooosh!

It scraped blade qi, scraped sword qi, and sliced palm force into dozens of strands. Behind them were people made of blood and flesh. People were swept away the same. Countless blood bubbles formed in the air. Limbs flew around.

Completely drawing them in, he killed dozens in an instant. He couldn’t even count how many died. What flew around were broken weapons, chunks of flesh, and blood.

With sword qi, they couldn’t block the Asura Scripture, Jin Ja-gang’s even deeper internal energy. The front of the encirclement surrounding Jin Ja-gang collapsed in an instant.

“Aaaaagh!”

Only those at the rear could barely survive by emitting sword qi to strike away the Asura Scripture.

The masters were horrified. They were deceived. Did he deliberately unfold bare-handed combat for this one move! Did he induce them not to use sword qi and draw them in!

Jin Ja-gang didn’t miss the opportunity while the warriors in front fell into complete chaos, turned his body and faced warriors rushing from the opposite side. He lowered his hand to his waist then raised it. Needles protruded sharply between his fingers. Jin Ja-gang pulled both arms back fully then spread them, scattering poison needles four times consecutively.

Swoooosh!

The masters were too close together, making it difficult to deflect with swords or dodge. Some deflected or received with palms, but even allies were hit by deflected poison needles.

The poison needles Jin Ja-gang threw stuck into the masters’ bodies like porcupines. The front masters collapsed as if shot down, vomiting blood.

Jin Ja-gang didn’t stop there. He immediately twisted his body, planted the Asura Scripture in the ground, and began running along the edge of the spring.

Scraaatch!

The Asura Scripture dug deep into the sandy ground and scraped. Sand rose like a mountain. Black shadows were mixed among it. Jin Ja-gang also sprayed the Asura Scripture toward Crescent Moon Spring.

The water surface rippled madly and shadows burst out.

This was the reason the Hungry Ghost King could calmly stroll around the spring with Jin Ja-gang.

The shadows stepped on water droplets and bouncing sand, floated in the air, and drew their swords.

The swords they held shone brightly with halos of light.

And among the remaining ones, masters who had withdrawn somewhat to the rear also followed Jin Ja-gang.

They too lowered their weapons and raised their internal energy to the extreme.

Swoosh! Swoosh! Bright clusters of light continuously radiated here and there. Masters who could use sword qi were emitting sword qi. Like lighting candles in turn, bright sword qi burst out everywhere, burning the sand on the ground.

Jin Ja-gang turned his body and threw poison needles.

The masters who raised sword qi burned the poison needles with sword qi and dodged the rest. If anything was fortunate, it was that with people greatly reduced, there was ample space to dodge.

A group of masters struck away the Asura Scripture with sword qi and approached Jin Ja-gang. Jin Ja-gang plunged both hands into the ground.

Asura Scripture burst out from beneath the masters’ feet. One or two were caught by the Asura String, but the rest struck the Asura Scripture with sword qi and jumped up with the repulsive force. Remarkably, some with excellent lightness skills even jumped up by stepping on the Asura String.

Though it seemed they kept being hit by Jin Ja-gang, they were masters the Hungry Ghost King had planted in various sects. If Jin Ja-gang hadn’t continuously shaken their psychology from the start, Jin Ja-gang would have had to fight a very grueling battle.

Jin Ja-gang extended the Asura Scripture left and right. The extended Asura Scripture wrapped around the masters’ bodies, changed direction, and flew to others. Like a go board, warp and weft crossed through space. As if strung in a row in the air, several masters were pierced and caught by the Asura String.