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Episode 246. Mancheonhwawoo (1)
Jeez, jeez, jeez!
In an instant, the qi (罡氣) collided dozens of times, scattering shards like sparks. Even if it was just a fragment, the qi contained the owner’s strong intentions, so even a brush with it could be fatal. However, even in the midst of a melee where shards of qi were flying so much that they obscured vision, no one fell. This was because they were all wearing the peerless armor of internal energy known as the Self-Defense qi.
The majority of the energy was dark red or dark blue in color. This was because it was a magical energy that was created based on the magical energy accumulated through the retrograde breathing method.
What was blocking the black-colored energies rushing in from all directions was a single ray of dark green flame that was burning fiercely and advancing and retreating.
‘It’s not disadvantageous.’
The owner of the deep green sword, the owner of the Sacheondangga, the owner of the Sogaju, thought quickly while moving his hands. He struck the sword forward once with a strong sword strike, and then used the recoil to kick away the weapons that had come up to his left face in one breath. Then, he used the kicking motion to turn his body as if flipping over, and even avoided the attacks aimed at his lower body. He didn’t stop there, but stomped on the true angle with his foot and used the recoil to strike again with the sword strike.
A series of scenes unfold that are difficult to see unless your swordsmanship has reached the level of a divine being.
To someone who didn’t know, it might have felt like a moment of crisis where a small mistake could lead to immediate death, but in reality, it was a situation where he had a lot of leeway. It would have been impossible to neutralize all the attacks with smooth, flowing movements without such leeway.
‘It was a good decision to reduce the number.’
The number of jiangshi attacking now was twenty-six in total━ Even though he had poured a lot of his mental and physical strength into it in a short period of time, if he had not reduced their numbers in advance, it would have been difficult to completely block them even with his swordsmanship that had reached the level of a swordsman. There is a reason why the saying “a small number cannot fight a large number” exists. Even if he lacked cool-headed reason, the jiangshi’s endless stream of demonic energy was threatening in itself.
‘I wish I could just stall for time like this… … .’
Dang-myeong glanced at the direction where the Demon Lord was. It seemed that he had used some additional trick in addition to suppressing the food spirit’s hearing with sorcery. Through the psychic, he could feel that the hearing was suffering from extreme pain. He also felt frustrated and resentful.
‘There’s nothing I can do about it right now.’
Dang-myeong didn’t care about hearing anymore. He didn’t have any knowledge of magic anyway. He could destroy formations and magic with his swordsmanship at the level of a master, but he had no time to retreat now. The leader of the Demonic Cult seemed to be threatening his hearing, but he didn’t worry too much. This was because Lee Mae-mang-ryang, who had become a food spirit, knew that he could never disobey the master who held his psychic power, and that he could never threaten or attack his master no matter what happened.
From what I’ve heard so far, I thought the Demon Lord was aiming for the level of hearing, but that was also a matter that couldn’t be helped at the moment.
At this moment, there was only one thing that Dang-myeong was worried about: the situation where the Demon Lord Yeonmu-yeol would abandon Cheonggyeong and join the jiangshi.
‘… … It was called lightning.’
As soon as they met, Yeonmuyeol remembered the lightning caused by burning the Gohwangji talisman. It was already busy repelling the jiangshi’s magic energy, so if such a spell were to be used again, it would not be easy to destroy it like before. The Balgyeong Geomcho, which destroys the spell with the ability to scatter the gods, is momentary but requires a high level of concentration. The swordsmanship that was naturally repelling the jiangshi’s attacks pouring in now would inevitably be cut off.
In fact, the fact that the battle with the Extreme Demonic Spirit Law dwarves was turning into a battle of attrition of internal energy was not a bad thing for Tangible Name.
The corpses were not breathing at all, as befitting the dead, which meant that they were going into battle without even being able to replenish some of their lost internal energy by turning their mind methods. Although it may differ depending on the level of ignorance, the internal energy consumed in manifesting the strength was enormous. It was obvious that those who could not replenish their true energy through breathing and only used it up would lose their internal energy more quickly.
On the other hand, Dang-myeong still had more than four meridian points of internal energy left, which was more than the amount of internal energy that a Hwa-gyeong master who had not yet mastered techniques like the Pye-maek-eun-chui usually had. The amount of internal energy that he occasionally supplemented by breathing with the Dok-yo-cheong-gwang-sim method was also by no means small.
In other words, if you wear a sword that reduces internal energy consumption to the extreme and focus only on defense, there is a high chance that the zombies will fall first.
However, this was only when the joining of the Demonic Cult was not taken into consideration.
If he joins, he will be driven into a corner in an instant━ This sense of crisis made Dang-myeong look for another way.
‘… … Unless you have a sword with enough power to wipe out all the guys at once, there’s no need to use it recklessly in a situation like this.’
It was obvious. In a situation where it had already entered a battle of attrition, it was not that difficult to repel attacks, so it was foolish to use a sword technique that consumed a lot of internal energy in order to reduce the number of people by one or two. Even if one or two, or even three or four, of the Jiangshi were reduced, it was not like they could clearly gain the upper hand.
Above all, the only sword that could neutralize them all at once was the Wave Pattern, but it was a burden because it required a huge amount of internal energy. If it didn’t work, a desperate situation would have awaited me.
‘We should also rule out methods that use poison or venom. Unless it’s poison, it’s hard to think it would be effective against the dead.’
They are dead bodies that can’t even breathe. Unlike living people who have a beating heart, blood flowing, and pain, aren’t they just moving based on sorcery and murderous intent? It was easy to guess that even the most deadly poison like the Danjangyeoljidok in their arms would be useless.
The natural course of thought in finding a way naturally led to the next stage.
‘Then what about the secret weapon…?’
Up until now, I have created various types of memorized martial arts. From the memorized repetitive martial arts, such as the rotating chaotic dancing drums, the ox-hair needle rain, and the ox-hair needle wheel, to the iron piece flying drums, created by obtaining images from the family’s secret secrets.
‘Now that I think about it, it was a completely different martial arts.’
Suddenly, I think of Mancheonhwawoo (滿天花雨). The unique martial arts of Muyeonggaek, the founder of Sacheondangga – I once created the Iron Plane Chart based on the imagery of the description when it was spread out. It is a secret martial art that releases energy waves containing the secrets of scattering and breaking in all directions, and the iron plane whirlwind tears apart the enemy.
Of course, even at that time, Mancheonhwawoo, the strongest secret martial artist in the family, had guessed that it wasn’t just a technique that was created by mixing a few tricks into the Balsan Kipa. Didn’t he even consider applying the Eogumsul (馭劍術) technique?
But now I clearly knew what kind of scholar Mancheonhwawoo was.
It’s all thanks to the god of hearing.
Including Tanju, thousands of Yi Mae-Mang-Ryang were destroyed by the wave pattern of the sword of Dang-Myeong, and a huge amount of power remained within the Reverse Bong-Ryong-Jin. In order to obtain it, Cheong-Gyeong tried to negotiate by giving Man-Cheon-Hwa-Woo’s Gu-Gyeol and Yo-Gyeol, but Dang-Myeong flatly refused. He said that memorization and martial arts were not that important to him.
In the end, it seems that he could not give up his rank, so Cheonggyeong gave in first, and only then did Yuanming allow Cheonggyeong’s incarnation to manifest. After taking on the enormous rank, Cheonggyeong transformed from a white snake to a black snake, and while Yuanming was resting in Goiteuk, he taught him the nine and eleven secrets of Mancheonhwawoo.
━[Your ancestor, Muyeonggaek, was from Salsu. As you have probably noticed, all of his martial arts are extremely secretive and have excellent killing power. However, the most important of these are the mind method of accumulating the energy of Dokyo (毒要) and the eye method of observing the flow. This is because these two are the key to unfolding Mancheonhwawoo.]
The secret martial arts of the Muyeonggaek, Mancheonhwawoo, were said to consume enormous amounts of not only mental power but also internal energy. After hearing the explanation of the hearing, it felt natural. It was a martial arts of strong energy that extracted refined strong energy (罡氣) from the heart, fragmented it into hundreds of pieces, and then used them as secret energy.
Even if the opponent is not killed in one move, he said that he can continuously extract the strong energy from his long heart and increase both the number of fragments and the killing power. If he can support his internal energy, he can increase the number of strong energy fragments to thousands or tens of thousands and greatly expand the area. The amount of internal energy was absolutely important. This was the reason why he had to understand the principle of poison before entering. Although he had to prepare a source of internal energy such as hearing.
also.
Mancheonhwawoo was not a martial artist who relied on things like qi waves like iron plates. Even if you put qi fragments on the vortex created by qi waves, you wouldn’t get enough killing power to deal with martial artists above a certain level. It was the same with the turo. If the qi fragments that were split into hundreds or thousands of pieces moved in the same flow, they wouldn’t pose much of a threat to martial artists who could handle qi.
━[That’s why it’s important to know how to see the flow. Each piece of strong energy can follow a different path. Think about it. How many paths could that idiot, who has practiced dark techniques his entire life, see… … Once the Mancheonhwawoo is unleashed, most people can’t even properly display their honed skills and just die after getting stabbed by the fragments. Even those who have reached a mature state of fire were only able to see for a moment.]
As soon as he heard the story of hearing, he realized that there was a blind spot. Of course, the eye method of seeing the flow – Shiryuan (視流眼) is clearly an ignorant study of ascending, but because of that, the achievement and function vary greatly depending on the qualities, experience, and intellect of the person who learns it.
Would it be possible for a later person to see in the same way as a swordsman who had learned and practiced all kinds of dark techniques as a swordsman?
‘That can’t be true.’
It seemed that he knew why the strongest secret technique of the family, Mancheonhwawoo, was not properly passed down. It was a separate issue from the difficulty of reaching Hwagyeong, which handles strong energy. Even if he had learned Shiryuan, the way later generations could see it would have been different from that of Muyeonggaek. Naturally, there would have been fewer people who learned Shiryuan, and the power of Mancheonhwawoo would not have been properly displayed.
That must be why there were so many missing parts when first introduced to Shiryu-an. As time went by, the number of people who focused on poison rather than memorization was also increasing along the same lines, and the reason why the killing power was increased by modifying the memorization itself rather than developing the memorization technique itself was also probably for the same reason.
Even if it is viewed as a matter of course, it will not be the same as that of Muyeonggaek.
The reason is that the ‘flow’ that Dang-myung wanted to see was the ‘trajectory’ of the sword that was swung countless times in a previous life.
Dali Geomro (Sword Road)━ I wanted to see the tens of thousands of ‘paths’ that can be extended to the extent that one’s field of vision, without being bound by the metal object called the sword, or by the means, or even by the limitations of distance.
Jeez, jeez, jeez!
There was another loud noise as the steel plates clashed, but Deungmyung couldn’t hear it.
“… … .”
Without realizing it, he had fallen into a state called anatomy or egolessness. Fortunately, perhaps it was his instinct as a swordsman, but he did not let his energy go out and continued to pour out his sword strikes like flowing water.
While I was thinking of a way to wipe out all the zombies at once, I came across Mancheonhwawoo, and this is what happened while I was thinking about the secret.
Forget yourself and immerse yourself in the world of imagination.━
The sunken eyes became even deeper, and the once dark green eyes were now mixed with blue lightning… … !
That was right, a sign of enlightenment.