Chapter 140 – Snow Cat (2)

“Danger!”

Snow Cat’s movement rushing toward Dan Pyeong by stepping on Tang Samin’s shoulder who stood one step behind was completely different from an ordinary animal.

Tang Samin whose tension released could only offer his shoulder with delayed reaction.

Zhuge Hyeon whose martial arts were weak didn’t even notice Snow Cat’s movement.

Dan Pyeong swung his left hand backward like lightning.

Chik!

Snow Cat avoided Dan Pyeong’s hand with mysterious movement in midair, but couldn’t advance further forward.

Snow Cat that grazed past his hand rolled on the floor rigidly hardened.

Part of Snow Cat’s white fur that rolled beside Zhuge Hyeon had turned blue-green.

“Poison!”

Chaeng!

Warriors standing on both sides of Zhuge Hyeon drew swords like lightning and protected Zhuge Hyeon.

Dan Pyeong’s hand that swung at Snow Cat was dyed green.

It was Green Hand, the poisonous hand that Dan Pyeong boasted of.

Bringing out Tang Clan poison before one’s face was the same situation as a warrior drawing a blade. It was natural Zhuge Hyeon’s guard warriors blocked him.

Moreover, Dan Pyeong’s Green Hand was martial arts impossible to activate instantaneously.

That meant he already activated poisonous hand in advance.

“Why suddenly poisonous hand?”

Tang Samin threw a question at Dan Pyeong with a bewildered expression, but Dan Pyeong didn’t answer his nephew’s words.

He only sighed and muttered.

“Can’t be helped. It’s unfortunate to end life here.”

Along with his mutter, skin changed entirely to green from hands to arms to shoulders. He who changed as if his entire body was dyed green liquid, even his clothes began melting turning green.

“Everyone get away! He’s turning into Poison Person!”

Tang Samin’s face turned white seeing that appearance and shouted to people.

At Tang Samin’s words, all party members started fleeing in all directions surprised.

Zhuge Hyeon also retreated backward with one guard warrior.

The other guard warrior stayed standing at that spot blocking Dan Pyeong, but lost his life to Dan Pyeong’s hand that approached at some point.

Whether the guard warrior was also almost absolute level warrior, he succeeded in blocking Dan Pyeong’s swinging hand with his sword.

Dan Pyeong’s hand took no damage to the sword at all, and rather the sword touching the hand instantly turned green so even the guard warrior holding the sword became poisoned.

The main hall instantly turned into carnage. Everyone knew Tang Clan’s Poison Person well.

Poison Person.

A secret technique where warriors with absolute level or above poison arts make their entire body into poison by rampaging internal energy with Tang Clan’s secret method, which made everyone terrified from its first appearance.

In the past, over a hundred years ago.

When the Demon Cult at that time struck Tang Clan to annihilate them, it appeared for the first and last time.

That Poison Person melted one Demon Cult Outer Hall and one Dharma Protector making the Demon Cult retreat.

However, Poison Person was too dangerous martial arts.

When this story spread, Tang Clan immediately faced crisis of becoming the martial world’s public enemy.

Eventually, Tang Clan escaped other sects’ vigilance by themselves destroying the martial arts manual making Poison Person, yet that martial art appeared at this place now.

Indeed Poison Person’s might was tremendous.

Where he stood was dyed green even to the floor, and the first hit guard warrior was already melting limply.

Among fleeing people, those without or with weak martial arts collapsed hit by poison spreading through the air.

People who could somewhat block poison already couldn’t move resisting the poison that pushed in.

Dan Pyeong thrust strong qi forward knocking down Zhuge Hyeon and the guard warrior who were fleeing.

Though the guard warrior blocked strong qi with his body saving Zhuge Hyeon, Zhuge Hyeon with weak martial arts collapsed on the floor poisoned by the aftermath of strong qi bundled with poison.

Dan Pyeong clicked his tongue seeing Sun-woo already retreated with the white cat that attacked him.

However, he was already in poor condition so handling Sun-woo too was unreasonable.

[You were lucky. Youngster.]

Dan Pyeong lightly tossed strong qi toward Sun-woo then started walking slowly toward Zhuge Hyeon.

Pung!

Hwareureuk!

Strong qi that flew toward Sun-woo disappeared caught in flames on Sun-woo’s sword leaving no poison.

After eliminating the strong qi, Sun-woo put down Snow Cat he held in his arms on the floor.

Fortunately Snow Cat’s 〈Modified Recovery Technique〉 seemed to work sufficiently even on poison.

Fur that turned blue-green all returned to original color, and Snow Cat’s breath also became steady.

Though Snow Cat still couldn’t move, it seemed unnecessary to worry.

Many people who couldn’t flee in time remained in the main hall.

Part of the transport team warriors and the rising stars.

And even Nanseol who tried to save Zhuge Hyeon.

Nanseol also inhaled poison, sitting on the floor near where Strategist Zhuge collapsed, working to expel poison with energy circulation.

Nanseol and people with high martial arts or far away blocked poison by circulating internal energy. Those who couldn’t collapsed on the floor gradually getting poisoned.

Outside the main hall was chaos with fleeing people and swarming people. However, inside the main hall poison energy already spread making even first-rate level warriors hard to enter.

However, only Sun-woo and Tang Samin were standing fine at this place.

Tang Samin as a fellow Tang Clan warrior had sufficient resistance to poison arts.

While enduring poison energy, he just blankly watched surroundings unable to accept the current situation at all.

Sun-woo seemed able to sufficiently block poison energy with 〈Body Enhancement〉 too, but just in case used 〈Water System Magic〉 to surround his entire body with thin water film blocking poison energy.

‘Is there some method?’

Of course since air didn’t circulate he couldn’t endure long, but absolute level warriors could fight for several minutes even without air.

Though blocking poison with water system magic, going near Dan Pyeong was unreasonable.

Near Dan Pyeong already, green energy with form was undulating showing how strong the poison energy was.

Regrettably, the main hall’s ground was solid granite making using Earth Spirit hard too.

Magic was too slow against absolute level experts, and illusion technique was hard to deploy due to poison energy.

Eventually now was the time to use martial arts.

Sun-woo raised the burning sword, 〈Revolving Divine Sword〉.

This sword was a relic with long history passed down through 〈Revolving Divine Demon Art〉 successors from very long ago.

A relic that came down similar time as the armguard on the opposite arm.

[Did you look for me? Can I speak now? Is it okay?]

‘No, still not okay. Be quiet.’

[Yes….]

Thoughts briefly flowed to the armguard so the armguard’s ego tried to chatter excitedly. After immediately putting the armguard to sleep, Sun-woo continued thoughts.

Spending a long time, if the armguard became an ego, this sword also connected with Revolving Divine Demon Art successors for a long time sharing qi with each other.

Though it didn’t become an ego, one still couldn’t say the sword didn’t gain spirituality.

Moreover, Sun-woo could feel 〈Revolving Divine Sword〉’s spirit at some point while conversing with the armguard’s ego in his head.

As a kind of story like the sword cries or the sword emits heat, Sun-woo could feel sensations connecting to himself from the sword wrapped in his hand.

Fortunately Dan Pyeong was still walking toward Zhuge Hyeon.

Sun-woo thought a long time passed, but the actually passed time was extremely short.

An opportunity to save Zhuge Hyeon still remained.

Sun-woo threw the sword toward Dan Pyeong while feeling becoming one with the sword.

Sswaek!

The sword wrapped in flames made with fire magic shot toward Dan Pyeong piercing poison energy.

Though it was a sword that advanced toward Dan Pyeong accurately at fast speed, there was a limit with just the sword.

‘Where did such shallow tricks’

Dan Pyeong noticed before the sword arrived.

Realizing blocking the flying fire sword was hard with strong qi or poison, he threw his body sideways.

The fire sword flew past where Dan Pyeong was.

Dan Pyeong who realized he was too relaxed extended his hand toward collapsed Zhuge Hyeon.

He now planned to finish with poison strong qi.

Shuuuk!

However, strong qi didn’t fire from Dan Pyeong’s hand.

His extended hand was cut off by the sword and soared to the sky, and from his remaining arm his blood changed red-green color spurted forward instead.

“Keuak!”

Dan Pyeong whose arm was cut off screamed yet turned his head chasing the sword that cut his arm.

In his eyes appeared the sword flying through the sky.

That sword was the flaming sword he just avoided.

It looked as if the sword flew through the sky by itself.

‘Beautiful.’

Like salmon cutting waterways, like swallows cutting the sky, the flying fire sword changed direction greatly again and shot toward Dan Pyeong.

Dan Pyeong who fell into admiration seeing the sword could gather his mind seeing the flying sword.

“Su-surely, Qi Manipulation Sword!”

Dan Pyeong desperately threw his body while gripping the spurting wrist, but the sword smoothly changed direction toward where he avoided.

Seogeuк!

Eventually, the 〈Revolving Divine Sword〉 flying through the sky blew away Dan Pyeong’s neck, and circled greatly above the main hall again landing before Sun-woo.

Puk.

The sword stopped embedded in the main hall before Sun-woo, and Sun-woo who watched that appearance for a moment pulled out the sword.

‘I did it!’

Sun-woo looked at the sword where flames disappeared with an extremely moved expression.

He finally came to use Qi Manipulation Sword that only super absolute masters could use.

It wasn’t yet perfect Qi Manipulation Sword.

Though it was forcibly achieved through spiritual connection between 〈Revolving Divine Sword〉 and the successor, plus a shortcut with weight reduction magic on the sword, he succeeded in moving the sword with qi anyway.

Though he didn’t yet rise to super absolute, he clearly passed one crisis now.

Then, vibration started ringing on Sun-woo’s phone.

〈Earth Spirit. Grade 7〉

〈Illusion Technique. Grade 5〉

〈Revolving Divine Demon Art. 10 Stars〉 – Increased

〈Revolving Sword Technique. 10 Stars〉 – Increased

〈Revolving Movement Technique. 8 Stars〉

〈Body Enhancement. 3 Stars〉

〈Water System Magic. 4th Circle〉

〈Fire System Magic. 2nd Circle〉

〈Flowing Time. Grade 6〉

〈Barrier Magic 2nd Circle〉

〈Summoning Magic 2nd Circle〉

〈Phantom Pain Grade 2〉

When Sun-woo checked his phone, both Revolving Divine Demon Art and Revolving Sword Technique changed to 10 stars. The skill window also acknowledged Sun-woo’s success.

However, now wasn’t the time to rejoice.

Sun-woo hastily spread both hands spitting fire into the air and spraying water on the floor starting to eliminate poison.

He also burned Dan Pyeong who became Poison Person, and helped people blocking poison with internal energy starting to push out poison one by one.

After causing commotion like that for a while, people could enter from outside.

They carried people with severe poison to the medical center, and remaining people barely finished work by burning poison with internal energy.

Tang Samin did his best to help people hit by poison, but couldn’t avoid confinement.

“There’s much to ask. You don’t have to answer, but Tang Clan will have to answer.”

Before Strategist Zhuge who spoke with face white after expelling poison, Tang Samin only bowed his head with face black with death.

Strategist Zhuge thought what Dan Pyeong did was because of brainwashing, but couldn’t miss this good opportunity to pressure Tang Clan.

Moreover, since he even used forbidden martial arts, with this opportunity it seemed possible to break the sky-high Tang Clan’s pride.

After Tang Samin left under warriors’ vigilance, Sun-woo and Nanseol had a separate private meeting with Strategist Zhuge.

It was under the pretext of separately meeting heroes who saved the strategist’s and people’s lives.

“Let’s do thanks later, and first finish the mission?”

Strategist Zhuge started opening the box placed before him. It was what was at the very inside among tribute the transport team party brought here.

Shortly after, in the opened box was placed one large orb.

〈Iron Dragon’s Cintamani: The lost divine object of Fire Cult

Only after checking the orb with his phone could Sun-woo know why Fire Cult and contaminated summoners chased the tribute.

Fire Cult’s divine object and a spirit beast’s inner dan were inside the tribute.