Chapter 330

Woon-jeong shouted.

“Poison Dragon!”

Beom-mong’s words weren’t empty boasting.

This was the internal energy raised with full power by one of Shaolin Temple’s former Twelve Diamond Warriors. If this large ship was already shaking this much, there would be an attack afterward that could almost completely destroy the ship.

They had to escape before that. For Jin Ja-gang, who couldn’t swim, if he got swept away and lost consciousness, it would be the end.

Beom-mong let out a battle cry with tremendous force.

“Ooooooh!”

Beom-mong pulled his right hand far back.

The skin of his entire body tightened, the muscles of his chest and abdomen were pulled taut, and bulging tendons extended from his shoulder to his right hand.

Splash splash splash! Water droplets bounced more roughly than before from the whirling water surface under Beom-mong’s feet. They were almost exploding as if boiling.

Jin Ja-gang hastily threw Soul Seizing Thread up through the hole above. Woon-jeong caught the loop of Soul Seizing Thread.

“Hurry!”

Woon-jeong grabbed Soul Seizing Thread and pulled Jin Ja-gang up. Jin Ja-gang also wound Soul Seizing Thread and quickly climbed upward.

Yeong Hyeon-sa let out a great roar and bent backward.

“You cannot escape!”

Yeong Hyeon-sa, whose lower body had been submerged in water, kicked the water several times while standing to leap above the water surface, then ran across the water toward Jin Ja-gang. No, Jin Ja-gang wasn’t his target.

As Yeong Hyeon-sa ran, he scratched the ceiling with his fingers – precisely with his protruding finger bones. Five green streaks drew long arcs, tearing apart the deck ceiling. Woon-jeong’s eyes opened wide. His own soles were in danger of being torn along with it. Yeong Hyeon-sa’s corpse poison wasn’t at a level Woon-jeong could endure!

Simultaneously, Yeong Hyeon-sa also attacked Beom-mong. He scraped upward from below with his opposite hand.

Whoooosh! Cutting through the current, green poison energy flew like sword energy.

Beom-mong had no choice but to use Hundred Step Divine Fist to block it.

If Woon-jeong let go of Jin Ja-gang, Jin Ja-gang would fall and take a direct hit from Hundred Step Divine Fist, but if he didn’t let go, Woon-jeong would suffer.

It was truly an exquisite move.

So Woon-jeong agonized, but Beom-mong didn’t agonize.

“Iyeop!”

Beom-mong’s right arm swung.

Crash!

A massive waterway opened in front of Beom-mong.

The water that had been filled up to waist height split left and right, pushed to the walls, and through the center swept a house-sized mass of fist wind.

Woon-jeong pulled Soul Seizing Thread up with all his might, almost crying.

“Ahhhhh!”

The fist wind of Hundred Step Divine Fist barely passed Jin Ja-gang.

But not only the poison energy sent toward Beom-mong, but also the poison energy flying toward Woon-jeong on the deck was instantly swept away by the fist wind. There was a reason Beom-mong didn’t agonize!

The mass of fist wind was so enormous that as it passed, all the wooden pegs embedded between the planks were blown out.

Pop pop pop!

Even the deck planks forming the ceiling of the cargo hold all split along the grain and pieces flew off with cracks.

Even Yeong Hyeon-sa seemed not to have anticipated Hundred Step Divine Fist’s power to this extent.

Yeong Hyeon-sa was instantly swept up by Hundred Step Divine Fist.

Bang! Crash! Bang bang bang!

As Yeong Hyeon-sa was blown away, all the cargo and bulkheads stacked behind were completely shattered.

Breaking through one bulkhead to the back, and again to the back.

In a brief moment, traces of destruction like a large circular cave appeared. The traces formed in a spiral mountain shape. Hundred Step Divine Fist had crushed and twisted everything that was in the way. Yeong Hyeon-sa was embedded in debris that had been pushed almost to the stern and couldn’t even be seen.

Splash splash splash.

The waters that had split left and right found their places again, and river water poured through the planks whose joints were all twisted.

Woon-jeong was so shocked he sat back and gasped for breath.

“Huff huff huff!”

Even Jin Ja-gang, who had climbed onto the deck, couldn’t close his mouth at such a sight. Shaolin Temple had eleven, or perhaps even more, such former Diamond Warriors.

“Poison Dragon! Let’s run quickly!”

Woon-jeong urged. But Jin Ja-gang, looking down below, couldn’t readily lift his feet.

“Wait just a moment.”

In the dark cabin’s cargo hold below deck, Beom-mong could be glimpsed still not relaxing his posture.

Beom-mong was pulling back even his left hand. Ready to use fist wind at any time.

Yeong Hyeon-sa was alive even after taking that Hundred Step Divine Fist?

Splash splash – the poured waters rose to the legs of Beom-mong standing on the cargo.

Beom-mong glared at the underwater with fierce eyes. And soon he saw pale green light twinkling underwater.

Yeong Hyeon-sa was swimming underwater like a shark, approaching Beom-mong.

As if he’d been waiting, Beom-mong pulled back his left hand then swung it forcefully like throwing. No, he tried to swing it.

“…!”

Beom-mong’s eyes opened wide.

A blade was embedded in Beom-mong’s foot submerged underwater.

Bulgi slowly raised his head above the water surface. His disheveled hair and blood-red eyes remained the same.

“I… told you not to mess with me…”

Bulgi had consumed a lot of corpse poison underwater and his entire body had turned black. He could die at any moment. Yet he had ultimately harmed Beom-mong to the end.

Moreover, what he held in his hand was the broken Taiyi Earth Sword.

Beom-mong, who had been looking at Bulgi with an incredulous face for a moment, laughed.

“Keke keke!”

“Laughing? Ah, that’s possible. That’s possible. But I’m in a very bad mood!”

Bulgi twisted the blade embedded in Beom-mong’s foot sideways and tore at it. It couldn’t not hurt. Beom-mong’s head turned bright red and blood vessels bulged. Blood was spurting and staining the water.

But Beom-mong didn’t stop laughing.

“Truly pitiful. You originally didn’t come targeting Poison Dragon either.”

Bulgi, overcome with rage, but he too laughed as if insane and shouted.

“Don’t forget even in hell. Me, Bulgi!”

Anyway, Bulgi couldn’t hear since his ears were deaf, so words didn’t get through.

Beom-mong slowly erased his smile.

“Even if you’re deaf, you’ll remember what this old monk said.”

Killing intent circled his eyes.

“This old monk already said I hate those who show off their strength in front of me!”

Whoooosh!

Yeong Hyeon-sa, who had somehow approached closely, burst out of the water and covered Beom-mong from above like a shadow. Yeong Hyeon-sa’s body was almost naked. His clothes were all torn to shreds and his skin was also torn as if clawed.

But he had endured Hundred Step Divine Fist once.

Even in the midst of this, Bulgi pulled out the blade and stabbed and stabbed again at Beom-mong’s exposed ribs.

“Die! Die!”

His ribs were gouged to the point of being tattered and blood spurted.

Yeong Hyeon-sa struck Beom-mong with his finger bones. Beom-mong, whose face had become extremely contorted, used Iron Head technique to ram Yeong Hyeon-sa’s hand.

Clang clang clang clang!

The finger bones and Iron Head technique collided, creating bizarre noise and friction. The finger bones pushed back the scalp and gradually penetrated Beom-mong’s head bit by bit.

Dark red blood vessels that formed from the stabbed spot gradually darkened and began covering Beom-mong’s head like a spider web.

Blood vessels bulged in Beom-mong’s jaw and neck. The eye sockets that had been circled with yellow golden light were also gradually stained with blood. Bulgi continued grasping Beom-mong’s pants and gouging his ribs.

The number of Red Extinction Flowers on his upper body increased with tremendous momentum.

Beom-mong swung his left arm with his last strength.

Yeong Hyeon-sa noticed Hundred Step Divine Fist and blocked Beom-mong’s left arm with his opposite hand.

Thunk!

Yeong Hyeon-sa’s finger bones embedded in Beom-mong’s left fist.

Tremble tremble, Beom-mong’s left shoulder and Yeong Hyeon-sa’s right arm shook in a contest of strength.

Crack, crack. Joint rupture sounds that couldn’t be identified as coming from whose body were heard.

Yeong Hyeon-sa was also using all his strength. He couldn’t take Hundred Step Divine Fist again right in front of his face.

Beom-mong’s eyes flashed open even wider.

“Iyeo- eo- eop!”

Beom-mong’s Hundred Step Divine Fist exploded from top to bottom.

Both Yeong Hyeon-sa’s right arm and Bulgi who had been clinging to Beom-mong were swept away at once.

“Everyone, farewell!”

Rumble… Like a volcano just before spewing lava, a heavy low sound condensed. The ship vibrated finely.

Jin Ja-gang and Woon-jeong on the deck looked at each other.

Dangerous!

Both ran toward the stern.

Simultaneously, from the cargo hold at the ship’s bow where the three masters had been fighting, a tremendous water column dozens of zhang high shot up.

Crash!

“Wahhhhhh!”

Then the entire ship also rose up.

Jin Ja-gang was also blown and sent flying through the air. He flipped his body to get into position and looked down to see the cracked ship floating in midair and below it the Yangtze River with a huge cavity formed on the water surface.

Even fish were flopping in midair.

Whooooom.

The cavity closed creating fierce whirlpools, and the ship with its bow broken off was falling toward it.

Before he could even admire the tremendous power, he had to grab onto something and hold on. If the ship fell onto the whirlpool like this, it would be smashed to pieces.

Jin Ja-gang hastily extended Soul Seizing Thread to tie the mast and pulled to move. He quickly turned his head to look for Woon-jeong but couldn’t see him.

Jin Ja-gang had no choice but to tie his body to the mast with Soul Seizing Thread.

The ship crashed.

Crash!

Jin Ja-gang hit the water surface with his ribs, feeling like he had rammed into a stone floor. Even though he had tied his body to the mast, he swayed greatly while receiving the shock of being pulled downward and simultaneously being bounced upward.

Crash!

The ship, whose durability had already weakened to the limit, was mercilessly destroyed.

The amount of water that poured upward after the ship fell was so tremendous that there was enough shock to be swept away once more. The mast also broke in half and spun around.

Jin Ja-gang was on the broken side of the mast, but thanks to being fixed with Soul Seizing Thread, he could barely hold on while half-submerged in water.

“Taoist Woon-jeong!”

Jin Ja-gang shouted to call Woon-jeong. His ribs ached. The part hit by Beom-mong seemed to have broken again from the renewed shock.

“He, here! Cough cough.”

Fortunately, Woon-jeong’s voice was heard.

When Jin Ja-gang wiped away the water flowing into his eyes and looked up, he saw all sorts of debris and the half-destroyed stern floating on the river. Woon-jeong was by the overturned stern.

Jin Ja-gang released Soul Seizing Thread and climbed onto the broken mast to leap to the stern where Woon-jeong was.

But then, didn’t a pitch-black shadow and bright will-o’-the-wisps glowing with phosphorus emerge from behind Woon-jeong!

“Behind you!”

Woon-jeong hastily turned around. Yeong Hyeon-sa had climbed up toward the stern.

Yeong Hyeon-sa’s right arm was so twisted that it had turned around to his shoulder blade, and below his right elbow was not just twisted but torn and fallen off. Broken wood pieces were embedded throughout his body and flesh was torn exposing muscles.

Anyone could see it was a serious condition. But his eyes alone remained eerie.

“Ah…, uhh…”

Woon-jeong was so surprised he couldn’t continue speaking and hastily searched his belongings trying to take out his ritual bell and double tablets. But they were gone, perhaps lost in the chaos. Only the life-lock Beom-mong had given him came out in his hand.

“There’s a blade next to you!”

Next to where Woon-jeong was sitting, a broken blade was embedded. Woon-jeong barely got up and pulled out the blade. However, the blade tip trembled.

Yeong Hyeon-sa struck away the blade with his left hand as if brushing away something bothersome. Woon-jeong helplessly lost grip of the blade. The blade flew far away and splashed into the river.

“Die.”

At Yeong Hyeon-sa’s words, Woon-jeong was frightened and fell on his bottom.

Yeong Hyeon-sa was right in front of Woon-jeong, and Jin Ja-gang was at the end of the overturned stern. It was more than ten steps away.

Yeong Hyeon-sa raised his hand, revealing finger bones emitting green light toward Woon-jeong.

“Hand over the life-lock!”

At Yeong Hyeon-sa’s shout, Woon-jeong clutched it tightly to his chest, not wanting to lose it. Jin Ja-gang and Qingcheng Sect’s fates hung on the life-lock.

“I, I’m done for. I’m sorry. Sorry… wahhh. But I won’t give this up.”

Woon-jeong cried.

“No. Don’t cry. Just stay as you are.”

Jin Ja-gang took a long deep breath and took out a needle.