Chapter 136 – Net of Heaven and Earth (4)

His figure standing among the shattered monsters looked like a giant boar standing on two legs.

“What are these monsters. On top of that, you lot are being fooled by illusions and causing a fuss.”

All surviving Demon Cult members were standing at attention with heads bowed before the giant.

Among them were Demon Cult members with serious injuries, but all alike stood in rigid posture with pale faces.

“And why is the air here like this too. There’s nothing decent here.”

He snorted then looked at the distant mountain peak with narrowed eyes.

“On top of that, no matter how different affiliations we may be, calling someone then not even showing your face. If the matter wasn’t urgent, I would have taken care of you lot first.”

[We also want to personally guide you, senior, but we can’t move because we must supervise the formation. Please understand.]

Though it wasn’t a close distance, the sound transmission traveled through the formation and reached his ears. Hearing the transmission, he raised his thick finger and roughly scratched his ear.

“Playing around. The Net of Heaven and Earth is already broken. Where’s the remaining formation. Supervising this and that. Anyway, let’s see after I go and come back. I need to check you lot’s fishy smell.”

[Then, please.]

He roughly kicked several Demon Cult members standing at attention while looking at the direction where the righteous faction people disappeared in the distance.

“Are even righteous faction bastards now sticking together and eating with evil faction trash? Using sorcery in front of our Fire Cult, damn it.”

Soon after, his giant body over 2 meters rushed forward shaking the ground.

It was like a giant boar charging across the field. He who crossed the low mountain in an instant stopped walking as he descended the mountain.

Before the giant stood one man alone wearing strange clothes.

It was Sun-woo.

“Huh? What are you? Are you also playing that game the righteous faction bastards are good at, ‘sacrificing myself to save everyone’?”

Sun-woo shook his head at his words.

“No, I have something I wanted to confirm…”

At his words, the man tilted his head.

“Hearing your voice, you don’t just look young from youthful appearance? Top absolute level at that age, are you some kind of righteous faction secret weapon?”

At the man’s words, Sun-woo scratched his head. Certainly his growth was excessive.

At Sun-woo’s nonchalant appearance, the man scrunched up his boar-like face greatly.

“Then you should have quietly hidden and built up your skill. Why are you showing off? Did you jump out from desire for fame?”

“Well, let’s say that.”

His words weren’t wrong either. It might have been more comfortable to flee with the party like this and fight together. But Sun-woo wanted to confirm his skills.

Whether that was desire for fame or for some other reason, he didn’t know, but he definitely wanted to confirm it once.

The giant noticed something in Sun-woo’s expression.

“Ah! Could you be at the threshold? Haha, aren’t the righteous faction bastards crazy? Letting someone who reached the super absolute threshold wander around like this? This is a heaven-sent opportunity. To end a righteous faction’s reserve super absolute master here.”

Giant.

Fire Cult’s super master and one of the Dharma Protectors, Scorpion Emperor Ma Sun-gwak smiled lewdly toward Sun-woo.

In his view, the young brat before his eyes didn’t understand his situation.

It was a phenomenon occurring in the process of reorganizing one’s martial arts right before super absolute, something all super absolute masters went through once.

The occasional dojo breaking or challenges to masters were incidents caused by warriors right before super absolute who couldn’t learn from proper sects, driven by instinct to check their martial arts.

And most of them lost their lives in that process.

“Like right now.”

Scorpion Emperor Ma Sun-gwak fully released the qi throughout his body. With tasty prey present, he had to properly savor it.

The target kept fleeing, but this side was even more interesting.

And he was confident he could catch up sufficiently before they fled. No matter how much of a prodigy who reached right before super absolute at that age, the difference between super absolute and below wasn’t just a wall’s difference.

Sun-woo, who wasn’t actually a prodigy, fully drew up internal energy to counter the opponent’s momentum that felt tingling.

Of course, he had experienced a super absolute master once through the fight with Spear Master.

But back then he fought together with other people, and moreover Spear Master was at a point just being contaminated so couldn’t show a proper super absolute master’s appearance.

Thanks to that, though this was the first proper fight, even while feeling the momentum Sun-woo wasn’t afraid at all.

“It’ll be troublesome if you stall for time and give an opening, so let’s die first then talk.”

Ma Sun-gwak’s body emitting qi looked even bigger than before. The giant body over 2 meters wrapped in muscles shot toward Sun-woo like a shell.

He wanted to confirm super absolute martial arts with the giant’s ability, but the abilities Sun-woo possessed weren’t just martial arts.

When Sun-woo stomped his foot, countless earth walls rose before the enemy charging like a shell.

Kwa-kwa-kwang!

The earth walls shattered before touching his body due to the body-protecting strong qi emitted by the super absolute master, but it was enough to stop the master’s reckless advance.

“What is this! What sorcery!”

When he came out breaking the last wall shouting in anger, Sun-woo’s sword was being swung toward his neck emitting radiance.

“Damn it! Do you think stalling time with sorcery will change anything!”

A super absolute master’s reflexes were on another level. Though the sword had already approached his eyes, at some point he raised his arm and blocked the sword.

Clang!

The sword hit bare flesh but a sound like sword clashing with sword was heard.

Sun-woo who frowned kept swinging his sword.

Using the rebound to swing oppositely, riding the blocking arm to slash the entire arm, but his sword was all blocked by the opponent’s arm.

Sun-woo finally swung his sword covered even with strong qi, but it just bounced back blocked by the opponent’s arm.

Sun-woo who was pushed back for a while shook his wrist to release the muscles stiffened from shock.

“Could it be, Adamantine Indestructibility?”

A realm where one can block blades with bare body if reaching the end of external martial arts, seeing his sword covered with strong qi being blocked, it had to be Adamantine Indestructibility.

“A spear flying through the sky, now a body where even strong qi doesn’t penetrate. When becoming super absolute, something definitely becomes different from ordinary warriors.”

While Sun-woo contemplated about super absolute, Ma Sun-gwak was checking his arm with a completely distorted face.

“Damn it! What is that sword again! Drawing lines on my arm that’s fine even against strong qi!”

As he said, the arm revealed between split clothes had several red lines drawn on it, and among those red lines were places where thin blood flowed.

“Wasn’t it Adamantine Indestructibility? Or is it this sword’s power?”

Sun-woo glanced down at his sword.

Revolving Divine Sword.

The explanation shown in the phone camera said it was one of Divine Cult’s Ten Great Treasures, but until now he knew it only as an extremely sturdy sword and was using it that way.

Of course he was sufficiently satisfied with just being sturdy, but if what the Demon Cult member before his eyes said was true, it seemed he finally found this sword’s usefulness.

“Don’t tell me, you were also the one who summoned monsters and turned the formation into chaos with illusions? Are you like some evil faction absolute master’s disciple?”

‘Or learned from books in a cave.’

But he who just received Sun-woo’s swordsmanship with his body swallowed the rest of his words into his mouth.

The opponent’s swordsmanship wasn’t such a formal sword. It was proper practical swordsmanship polished through countless real battles.

‘But it’s martial arts I’ve seen somewhere. Or heard of.’

While he paused briefly at the tickling feeling in his head, Sun-woo who released his hand’s numbness moved first.

Anyway, the blade wasn’t completely ineffective. But with just the blade alone, this opponent wouldn’t yield.

Then, just face him using all abilities he had.

Sun-woo fully drew up internal energy then changed it to mana and started making a magic circle in the air with his other hand, while sending a strand of internal energy to his head and starting to expand mental power.

“Wait! Something is about to come to mind!”

He raised his hand toward Sun-woo rushing over, but as he said, there was no way Sun-woo would stop.

“Why should I listen to you!”

Sun-woo’s sword was swung toward him again and he had no choice but to swing his arm again to block Sun-woo’s sword.

“You damn brat, I told you to wait a bit but you can’t endure that time. Uwah! Damn, I forgot it all.”

While grumbling and blocking the sword, he was suddenly startled by the fireball flying at his eyes and hastily dodged.

“Really, fighting dirty. Ugh, really annoying!”

Ma Sun-gwak swung his fist toward Sun-woo attacking again. Though it was a fist swung at empty air, Sun-woo threw his body sideways hastily at the unfamiliar qi caught by detection magic.

Kwa-ang!

The place where Sun-woo was burst like a shell exploding.

“My goodness, you dodged this too? Your sense is really good.”

Ma Sun-gwak became a surprised expression again, but even while speaking he kept swinging his arm toward Sun-woo.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

As he swung his arm, the places where Sun-woo had been kept bursting.

‘I almost became roasted.’

This martial art was the Dark Bullet that Ma Sun-gwak boasted of. Countless masters lost their lives without even knowing why from the Dark Bullet, a strong qi bullet that couldn’t be seen, heard, or felt flying silently.

But thanks to detection magic placed around in advance, Sun-woo could notice the Dark Bullets.

Sun-woo dodged all the flying strong qi bullets with detection magic and could stick close to Ma Sun-gwak again.

“I acknowledge you’re really amazing, there was no one like you among absolute masters I’ve seen. You’re really someone who shouldn’t be left alive.”

Ma Sun-gwak praised Sun-woo while swinging his arm at the approaching Sun-woo.

His swinging hand was clenched with such strong qi that even to outward appearance a bright light hovered.

It was a fist that looked like one hit would be fatal and a fist technique showing tremendous speed and movement, but Sun-woo’s movement facing it became even more mysterious.

At first Sun-woo barely blocked with his sword and his face darkened with shock, but as time passed the number of arm hits on the sword decreased, and moreover red lines were drawn not just on his arm but his entire body.

As time passed, Ma Sun-gwak’s expression distorted.

“What the hell are you! How do you know my martial arts? No, you definitely didn’t know until just a moment ago!”

His expression clearly showed shock at Sun-woo’s appearance understanding his fist technique while fighting then probing the weaknesses afterward.

“Could it be, are you also the kind like the cult leader who understands martial arts just by seeing them!”

Sun-woo was inwardly surprised at the opponent’s words. There were definitely monster-like geniuses in the world.

He was using abilities to check the opponent’s past and learning martial arts and weaknesses, but Fire Cult’s cult leader really seemed to understand after seeing the opponent’s martial arts.

Though Sun-woo was also doing the crazy thing of using abilities to view the past and confirm martial arts and weaknesses while fighting, he didn’t recognize that he was amazing.

Because it was work he always did while playing games.

Sun-woo who fought like that for a while suddenly stepped back.

“Complete.”

Ma Sun-gwak was bewildered by Sun-woo’s appearance stepping back with a satisfied face. He would know that widening distance was advantageous to himself, yet throwing away the winning momentum and stepping back.

Anyway, this was an opportunity.

Though he was flustered at the situation different from expectations, he was a super absolute master.

He fully gathered qi in both hands and tried to thrust both hands toward Sun-woo.

At that moment, a giant magic circle under his feet emitted light.

“Barrier magic activation start.”