Chapter 524

Even amidst this, several flew at Jin Ja-gang with sword qi leading.

Man and sword united!

A light faster and stronger than before pierced through Jin Ja-gang’s chest. Jin Ja-gang narrowly twisted his body to dodge and hooked the Asura Scripture around the neck of the one who passed. The one who flew with man-and-sword-unity had his neck cut by the Asura Scripture through his own power. At that moment, another flew from above as if stabbing down. Jin Ja-gang turned his body to dodge but the end of his ribs was scraped long and torn away. Without even time to counterattack, a chunk of the opposite shoulder flew off. In the blink of an eye, three man-and-sword-unity attacks came in.

Then a blade qi of Mount Tai’s crushing pressure dropped above Jin Ja-gang’s head.

Jin Ja-gang wrapped the Asura Scripture around his left hand and struck up at the blade qi with his palm. The Primordial Unity internal energy flowing through his whole body became tremendous palm force and burst out.

Claaang!

As the blade qi and Asura Scripture collided, they vibrated simultaneously with a sound like a broken bell ringing.

However, only the hand remained on the blade’s handle. The upper body of the master who swung the blade was swept away by Jin Ja-gang’s tremendous palm force and disappeared. The blade that was emitting blade qi lost its master and spun in the air.

Stab! A skewer burst out from beneath the sand and stabbed Jin Ja-gang’s sole.

He thought he’d cleared everyone out, but it seemed one still remained. Jin Ja-gang withdrew backward. The skewer kept protruding sharply and followed Jin Ja-gang. Sharp finger wind flew toward his head. Rip! The side of his eye corner was torn by the finger wind. Meanwhile, the skewer pierced through Jin Ja-gang’s sole. Jin Ja-gang snatched the blade floating in the air with the Asura Scripture and thrust it into the sandy ground. Kack! Along with the sound of urgently swallowing breath, blood seeped out from the sandy ground in clumps.

Screech, screech! With a sound like a rat crying, fierce finger wind poured from the air. Simultaneously from below, an old man with white beard fluttering rushed and struck Jin Ja-gang with double palms. Jin Ja-gang fully received the old man’s double palms with his chest while striking the old man’s head with his elbow.

The old man’s head bent sideways, and Jin Ja-gang was also knocked backward by the palm force. Jin Ja-gang hooked the Asura Scripture around the old man’s neck while being knocked back. While doing so, he threw poison needles at the master who shot finger wind. With one hand he simultaneously executed Flash Severance and Flying Knives Twelve Branches. The master shooting finger wind deflected some poison needles with finger wind but couldn’t block the needles that returned with Flying Knives Twelve Branches. The poison needle entered the master’s right ear hole and protruded from the left ear hole. The old man caught by the Asura Scripture had his neck severed.

Jin Ja-gang felt killing intent flying from behind. But at the moment he felt the killing intent, his back already stung. Two thin and sharp blades that flew secretly were embedded in his back. They were the cruel hidden weapons Silver Butterfly Daggers that immediately shatter if you try to grab or press them to pull them out, causing sharp fragments to move around inside the body. Jin Ja-gang jumped into the air and rapidly rotated his body. The embedded Silver Butterfly Daggers came out from the rotational force, and the dozens of Silver Butterfly Daggers flying afterward also shattered into pieces by the Asura Scripture and scattered.

Jin Ja-gang threw the Asura Scripture to wrap around the body of the one who threw the hidden weapons. He pulled him to roll on the ground where broken Silver Butterfly Daggers had fallen in abundance.

“Aaaagh!”

Countless fragments embedded in his body. Each time he rolled, the embedded Silver Butterfly Daggers shattered and became sharp and keen fragments, digging deeper inside. Blood oozed steadily through wounds created by Silver Butterfly Dagger fragments all over his body. He writhed in agony, but the more he did, the more the Silver Butterfly Daggers shattered and made holes inside his body. Jin Ja-gang wrapped the Asura Scripture around his head and ended the pain in an instant.

Whoom!

A huge wind blew and a long shadow appeared above Jin Ja-gang’s head.

The Nameless Slave jumped over Jin Ja-gang’s head from back to front, their eyes meeting upside down.

With the prepared masters reduced to less than half, and then half of that number reduced, he finally moved.

The Nameless Slave bent his hard and strong fingers like hooks and gripped Jin Ja-gang’s throat. When Jin Ja-gang pulled his head back, he pressed and grabbed the collarbone from below with his fingers upside down.

Snap!

Even though Jin Ja-gang hadn’t separately learned protective body qi, the bone broke far too easily.

It was the Nameless Slave’s killing technique, Hell Ten Fingers.

There was extreme pain enough to make his eyes pop out, but Jin Ja-gang didn’t stop at all and struck the falling Nameless Slave’s face with his fist.

Crack! The Nameless Slave’s nose broke and twisted. The Nameless Slave rolled to the ground and extended his hand like lightning toward Jin Ja-gang’s groin. Jin Ja-gang pulled his foot back, but the joints of each segment of the Nameless Slave’s fingers dislocated and the fingers stretched slightly. Instead of the testicles, Jin Ja-gang’s thigh was caught in the Nameless Slave’s hand.

When the Nameless Slave tightly gripped his fingers and pulled, part of the thigh flesh came off. But at that moment, Jin Ja-gang hooked the Asura Scripture around the Nameless Slave’s fingers and pulled.

Jin Ja-gang and the Nameless Slave’s eyes met. Jin Ja-gang bared his canines and pulled the Asura Scripture.

Scraaape!

The sound of stone scraping against a blade rang out. The Nameless Slave endured by pouring in loads of internal energy. His fingers withstood the Asura Scripture.

Jin Ja-gang kicked the Nameless Slave’s crotch. The Nameless Slave drew his legs together and blocked with his knees. Jin Ja-gang pulled the Asura Scripture to draw the Nameless Slave forward, then received the Nameless Slave’s chin with his forehead.

The Nameless Slave pulled his head to press his chin tightly against his neck. Jin Ja-gang headbutted but the impact greatly decreased. The Nameless Slave stabbed and gripped Jin Ja-gang’s abdomen with the hand not bound by the Asura Scripture. The Nameless Slave’s fingers dug into Jin Ja-gang’s solid muscles. The Nameless Slave looked at Jin Ja-gang and smiled. Jin Ja-gang tilted his head back then headbutted the Nameless Slave’s face again.

Crack! The nose that had broken from the fist was completely crushed and blood splattered on the Nameless Slave’s face. The Nameless Slave put strength in his fingers and pulled. Jin Ja-gang’s abdominal muscles tore and tried to come off.

At that moment, Jin Ja-gang once again kicked the Nameless Slave’s groin.

Squish.

Blue veins rose on the Nameless Slave’s face and he made an expression as if he’d seen hell.

Jin Ja-gang pulled the Asura Scripture.

Strength left the Nameless Slave’s body and the fingers couldn’t endure and came off. The Nameless Slave even let go of Jin Ja-gang’s abdomen and almost knelt and fell forward, then stabbed Jin Ja-gang’s eyes with his severed fingers. Jin Ja-gang grabbed the Nameless Slave’s wrist and twisted while striking the elbow up with his knee. The Nameless Slave dislocated his shoulder joint himself, then struck Jin Ja-gang’s head with the opposite hand. Jin Ja-gang pushed the Nameless Slave’s abdomen with his foot while pulling and ripping out the dislocated arm. Blood spurted like a fountain from the Nameless Slave’s torn shoulder. The Nameless Slave rotated his body and jumped into the air, kicking Jin Ja-gang’s head in a roundhouse. Jin Ja-gang turned his head in the same direction as the flying foot. The foot missed but some of Jin Ja-gang’s hair was torn out by the wind pressure and his flesh ripped. The eye corner wound that had torn earlier opened wider and Jin Ja-gang’s face was soaked in blood. Jin Ja-gang rotated his body together in the direction he turned his head and pressed down the Nameless Slave’s back with his foot as if stamping from above to below.

Bang! The Nameless Slave plummeted to the ground. Even in that situation, the Nameless Slave stabbed Jin Ja-gang’s instep with his fingers.

Jin Ja-gang gave up his instep. Instead, he hooked the Asura Scripture around the Nameless Slave’s neck. The Nameless Slave gave up stabbing Jin Ja-gang’s instep and did a handstand with his forearm, pounding Jin Ja-gang’s face with his rear feet.

Bam bam bam! Jin Ja-gang blocked all the rear feet with one hand while kicking the head of the Nameless Slave below.

Bang! The Nameless Slave’s head tilted back and his body spun once in the air. Jin Ja-gang touched the Nameless Slave’s abdomen with his fingers.

Swoosh! A fierce wind rose in the empty space. The Nameless Slave forcefully twisted his body to dodge the One Inch Force, then stabbed and kicked Jin Ja-gang’s shoulder.

Blood burst out from the shoulder that already had a chunk of flesh torn off when struck by the heel. The leg on the struck shoulder side bent. Jin Ja-gang rather lowered his body more, placed the Nameless Slave’s both legs on his shoulder and turned his body opposite. Grabbing the ankles with powerful grip strength, he swung his arms forcefully and slammed the Nameless Slave to the ground.

Crash!

The Nameless Slave was slammed spread-eagled on the ground. Sand burst up explosively. Jin Ja-gang placed the Nameless Slave’s legs on his shoulder and turned his body opposite again to lift and slam.

Bang! Bang!

As Jin Ja-gang slammed him to the ground three times, the Nameless Slave received shock as if his back would shatter. Blood droplets burst from his open mouth. But on the fourth time, before Jin Ja-gang turned his body, he raised his upper body and gripped Jin Ja-gang’s neck with his fingers. Jin Ja-gang leaned his waist back and extended his foot between the legs of the Nameless Slave he was holding, kicking the Nameless Slave’s chest.

The Nameless Slave fell flat.

Both the Nameless Slave and Jin Ja-gang became lying backward. Masters rushed from all directions and stabbed the fallen Jin Ja-gang with swords. Jin Ja-gang flipped his legs back while lying down and got up. With the index and middle fingers of his right hand, he pressed down the blade surface of a sword flying toward his eyes and pushed it down. All the flying swords got tangled caught on that sword.

Suddenly a crack formed in the overlapped blade surfaces and a hole was punched through. The Nameless Slave’s fingers smashed through the swords and flew to Jin Ja-gang’s face. The Nameless Slave’s strong grip strength grabbed and crushed Jin Ja-gang’s face. The forehead, cheekbones, and cheeks sank in making cracking sounds.

“Die!”

The Nameless Slave shouted.

Jin Ja-gang smiled while his face was gripped.

“You’re smiling?”

Fire lit in the Nameless Slave’s eyes. At that moment, the Asura Scripture wrapped around the Nameless Slave’s wrist.

Jin Ja-gang didn’t miss the slight gap when the true qi scattered as the Nameless Slave spoke.

Riiip!

The base of the Nameless Slave’s wrist separated and slid from the palm.

The shocked masters tried to stab Jin Ja-gang with broken and shattered swords to protect the Nameless Slave.

Jin Ja-gang pushed in with his body whether stabbed by swords or not, grabbed the Nameless Slave’s head with both hands. Then he pressed the head down while striking up with his knee.

Crack!

The knee embedded in the Nameless Slave’s head. The Nameless Slave couldn’t move and trembled with his waist bent.

Jin Ja-gang said while still pressing down the Nameless Slave’s head.

“Don’t exchange words. Those are your own words.”

But the Nameless Slave’s face was in no condition to answer. Even in that situation, the Nameless Slave extended his hand to the end trying to grab Jin Ja-gang, but Jin Ja-gang twisted the Nameless Slave’s neck.

The Nameless Slave fell with his neck turned. Meanwhile, other masters slashed Jin Ja-gang’s back. Jin Ja-gang stood without budging, then slowly turned his head to look at the masters.

The masters were engulfed in terror and horror, unable to attack Jin Ja-gang anymore and froze as they were.

Jin Ja-gang stared intently at them and raised his hand.

Gently.

The threads of the Asura Scripture laid on the ground and began slowly rising.

Jin Ja-gang murmured while emitting killing intent in streams.

“Asura Annihilation Soul.”

* * *

Wang Yan sat inside the estate’s interior, in a splendid great hall with a huge curtain drawn behind his back.

An attendant reported with a pale complexion.

“So, someone killed all the wagons and horses… even the coachmen. Even the horses at the inn…!”

Wang Yan already guessed who did it.

“Leave it be and bring tea and snacks.”

Children brought tea and snacks before Wang Yan. Wang Yan picked up his favorite snack. Rice cakes crisply fried with red bean paste filling.

Crunch.

Chew chew.

Wang Yan waited.

It didn’t take long. Before even a moment passed.

Screeech.

With an ear-grating sound, the entrance of the great hall split diagonally and slid.

Ruuumble.

Stone and wood were cleanly cut and toppled.

And through there, a blood-soaked person entered.

The blood person walked straight toward Wang Yan sitting in the great hall. Then picked up a chair beside him, placed it in front of Wang Yan, and plopped down on it.

So much blood covered him that blood droplets dripped below the chair.

When did she appear…behind the blood person stood Yeong-hwi glaring at Wang Yan.

Wang Yan chewed the fried rice cake while moving his mouth.

Crunch. Crunch.

The blood person lifted his chin and looked at Wang Yan with an arrogant expression. Wang Yan also glared at the blood person with sharp eyes while gripping another fried rice cake to put in his mouth. However, the rice cake thrown into his mouth disappeared without a trace.

Crunch.

The sound of crunching crispy rice cake came from the mouth of the blood person sitting in front.

The blood person, Jin Ja-gang, asked Wang Yan.

“Do you have the house deed with you?”