Free Web NovelSmoke flowed from his entire body.
The final form of the Heaven-Defying Vast Azure Sword.
This was a form the current Unhwi could not unleash, but as long as he had the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Crystal, he could use it at least twice.
The number of Chaotic Heaven Ones remaining was in the hundreds.
There were no more Chaotic Heaven Ones coming.
That was the last of them.
The only thing moving in this space was Unhwi alone.
Everyone else had stopped where they stood.
Because all of them were stunned by the sight of Unhwi.
They could not help but be.
Unhwi swung his sword again.
He swung it again.
And he kept swinging.
In the realm of Unity of Heaven and Man.
For a brief moment.
As a Martial Divinity.
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How much time had passed?
The monstrous screams stopped.
They could no longer be heard.
Unhwi withdrew his sword.
Slowly.
He looked around.
Corpses.
Endless corpses.
The corpses of Chaotic Heaven Ones filled the space.
Tens of thousands.
No.
Even more.
All were dead.
Nothing moved anymore.
Unhwi exhaled deeply.
The temporary false dantian he had created was gone.
All his dantians had completely merged into one, and energy overflowed through his body. freewёbnoνel.com
Above all, the Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Crystal still remained in his dantian.
The amount left was roughly one third.
Perhaps even less than that, but what mattered was that it remained.
Huu.
He breathed out once more.
His body bore not a single wound, but mental fatigue could not be helped. Yet now that he had become one with the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, Unhwi was connected to an endless source of energy, and within that flow, everything was recovering quickly.
Chief Seong approached.
He was panting.
“Young Master...... is it...... over......?”
Unhwi looked around once more.
“It seems so.”
Ju Soa also approached.
She was drenched in sweat.
“......That was incredible. Truly.”
Unhwi gave a faint laugh and spoke briefly.
“The incredible ones are not me, but you and those people.”
Unhwi’s gaze turned toward Namgung Wonyang, Gong Yeongheo, and Juchae.
Every one of them was exhausted.
They had many wounds, but none were fatal.
Because before such a wound could form, Unhwi had killed everything.
Like a ghost, whenever the others were in danger, Unhwi had slaughtered the Chaotic Heaven Ones there, again and again.
His movements were elusive as a phantom, and his figure was truly like that of a Martial Divinity.
Juchae looked at Unhwi.
“......Hyun Seollin, sir.”
“Yes.”
“......Unless I sensed it wrong, you clearly seem to have raised your realm by another level...... Is that correct?”
After a brief silence, Unhwi nodded.
“......To Unity of Heaven and Man.”
“Yes.”
Juchae’s mouth fell open as if he had lost the ability to speak.
He had guessed it from Unhwi’s appearance. But was this not somewhat too much?
“Your age this year...... is not even twenty, is it?”
“That is more or less the case.”
“......You are extraordinary. Truly extraordinary.”
He had already been certain before, but not to this degree.
To put it bluntly, the name the martial world used for Unhwi was “the future greatest under heaven.”
Juchae’s thoughts on that had not changed.
Of course, there had been differences of opinion among many people over when he would become the greatest under heaven, but now Juchae did not think such thoughts at all.
As Juchae saw it.
Unhwi was not someone to be measured by whether he became the greatest under heaven, but whether he would become the greatest of all ages.
That was right. Anyone who had seen that sight would think as Juchae did.
Gong Yeongheo, who had only heard rumors and the name of the man called Seol Unhwi, thought the same as Juchae.
This.
Was this truly a sight a martial artist of that age could show?
It made no sense.
That was not a person.
He truly had to be seen as a different kind of being.
Just as Unhwi saw the Heavenly Wayfarer as a genius, others already saw Unhwi as something beyond a genius.
At the center of them, Unhwi slowly turned.
The collapsed chair.
Submerged beneath blood and corpses, its shape could not even be seen, and even Zhuge Xian’s corpse, which should have been within it, was not visible.
But not anymore.
Unhwi waved his hand.
Then piles of corpses floated upward.
From among them, one relatively intact corpse of a Chaotic Heaven One rose.
It was Zhuge Xian.
After laying his corpse down in a relatively intact place, Unhwi flicked his finger.
Samadhi True Fire.
Tremendous flames covered Zhuge Xian’s body.
In an instant, they turned it to ash, and lastly, Unhwi briefly cupped his fist.
A figure from nearly a thousand years in the past.
And a true martial artist who had guarded this place for five hundred years.
He was paying respect to him.
At the sight of Unhwi doing so, the rest of the group also cupped their fists, and when Unhwi lowered his hands, they followed.
Unhwi turned.
A brief silence flowed.
“Let us go now.”
“Yes.”
The six walked toward the exit.
Slowly, through the corpses of the Chaotic Heaven Ones.
This could not be helped because none of their bodies were in normal condition, but suddenly, the space began to shake.
Kuuuuung.
Chief Seong looked startled.
“What is this......”
Unhwi furrowed his brow.
“It is collapsing.”
This place was not a hidden realm, but it had taken the form of one.
Then naturally, now that everything inside had ended, it was right for it to disappear.
“Let us hurry.”
At Unhwi’s words, everyone nodded.
“Draw up all your remaining internal energy.”
The instant Unhwi kicked off the ground, everyone else kicked off in the same way.
There were two who fell slightly behind.
Namgung Wonyang and Ju Soa.
Unhwi quickly approached the two of them and placed a hand on each of their backs. Unhwi’s energy entered their bodies.
Their empty dantians rapidly filled with internal energy.
The two women widened their eyes.
“Hurry.”
They nodded and kicked off at full strength.
The space shook more and more violently, and something began falling from the ceiling.
They were not stones. They were fragments of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The very origin composing this space was collapsing.
Unhwi took the True Fire Heavenly Spirit Sword from his storage pouch and swung it hard.
A wave spread in a fan shape, then blew apart every collapsing fragment of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Rumble—!!
“Go!”
At Unhwi’s shout, the others ran again.
Toward the Chaotic Heaven Gate.
Kwaaaaaang—!!
An explosive roar sounded behind them.
The space was collapsing.
Neither Unhwi nor any of the others stopped.
They kept running.
Light appeared ahead.
The exit of the Chaotic Heaven Gate.
They ran toward it.
Faster.
And then.
They leapt into the light.
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Windwall.
In front of the Chaotic Heaven Gate.
Martial artists stood tensely.
Ma Suhyeok.
Man Seokcheong.
And hundreds of martial artists.
All of them were staring at the Chaotic Heaven Gate.
It had already been a full three double-hours since the Chaotic Heaven Ones entering inside had disappeared.
They did not know just how many they had killed.
At least thousands.
More than that.
It was fair to say they had killed nearly every Chaotic Heaven One in Windwall.
But the most important thing was that there had been no word from the people who had gone inside.
That time had already exceeded five double-hours.
Man Seokcheong furrowed his brow.
“......This is taking too long.”
Ma Suhyeok also looked anxious.
He did not dare speak, but—
“Could it be...... everyone who went inside......”
It was then.
The Chaotic Heaven Gate shook.
Everyone grew tense. Naturally, they raised their weapons. Blood dripped from the bloodstained blades.
Afterward.
People burst out of the Chaotic Heaven Gate.
Six of them.
Chief Seong, Ju Soa, Namgung Wonyang, Juchae, Gong Yeongheo.
And finally, Unhwi.
They looked heavily wounded, but all were safe.
At that very instant.
Kwaaaaaaaang—!!
The Chaotic Heaven Gate exploded.
No.
It collapsed.
The black light vanished, the hole at the center of the clearing closed, and nothing remained anymore.
There was only an ordinary snowfield.
Unhwi lifted his hand.
A white sphere formed above his palm.
No longer.
Did it burst.
The twisted spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
The strange phenomenon that affected Void-Origin Energy.
It was gone.
Silence flowed.
Ma Suhyeok was the first to speak.
“......Hyun Seollin, sir!”
He ran over.
Man Seokcheong followed.
All the other martial artists surged in as well.
They surrounded Unhwi.
“Are you all right?”
“What happened?”
“What happened to the Chaotic Heaven Ones?”
Questions poured out.
Unhwi raised his hand.
Quietly.
Everyone shut their mouths.
Unhwi slowly opened his mouth.
“The Chaotic Heaven Ones have all been dealt with.”
“Ah......!”
“And the Chaotic Heaven Gate has also disappeared.”
Ma Suhyeok and Man Seokcheong widened their eyes.
“By disappeared, you mean......”
“Exactly as I said. The Chaotic Heaven Gate will no longer open.”
Man Seokcheong looked as if he could not believe it.
“That...... is that true?”
“Yes.”
Unhwi looked at the clearing.
The blood of the Snow Mountain that had been shed while guarding this place was beyond anything that could be put into words.
But all of that was now over.
Unhwi looked around and spoke firmly.
“Windwall is safe now.”
Silence settled once more.
And then.
Cheers erupted.
“Oooooh!”
“Hurrah!”
“Long live Hyun Seollin, sir!”
The martial artists shouted.
Cries of joy.
The war they had fought for five hundred years had ended.
The Chaotic Heaven Gate had disappeared.
They no longer had to fight the Chaotic Heaven Ones.
Ma Suhyeok even began shedding tears, overcome with emotion.
He knelt on the spot.
“......Thank you, Hyun Seollin, sir.”
Unhwi shook his head.
“This was not something I did alone.”
He turned his head and looked at Man Seokcheong.
“It was thanks to the efforts of Manor Lord Man and Commander General Ma. And it is the result achieved by the martial artists here, the martial artists of the past, and all those people guarding this place together.”
Hearing those words, Man Seokcheong felt small.
He turned his head and looked at Chief Seong beside Unhwi.
The words he had spoken circled in his mind.
For whom had the blood of the Snow Mountain been shed?
Man Seokcheong had judged that it was to protect a value.
And that value had been the “many” who shed blood together in this place.
It was simply a difference in position.
The difference between one who commanded and one who did not.
In the end, protecting Unhwi was the same as protecting the value of the Snow Mountain.
This simple fact struck him, strangely, as a tremendous shock.
That man.
Just what was he?
Just then, his eyes met Unhwi’s.
“I understand your position, Manor Lord Man.”
“......Mm.”
“I am not disappointed, nor do I resent you. Rather, you did well.”
“......I did?”
“Because you killed all the Chaotic Heaven Ones here, the number of Chaotic Heaven Ones entering inside decreased sharply. I cannot deny that it was thanks to you, Manor Lord Man.”
“......”
“Thank you.”
Man Seokcheong shut his eyes tightly.
He was free to blame himself.
And he was free to have appraised Unhwi’s value too low.
He was also free to make judgments.
However, at this moment, the scale of heart Unhwi showed shook Man Seokcheong greatly.
In the end.
He acted.
He knelt on the spot.
Unhwi’s eyes widened.
Man Seokcheong did not speak at length.
“Thank you for protecting the weight of the blood shed in Windwall, and its value.”
Following him, all the martial artists also knelt.
Their number was nearly a thousand, so it was truly a magnificent sight among magnificent sights.
Unhwi looked at them.
Then.
He nodded.
“Everyone, rise.”
The martial artists stood.
Their expressions were still filled with excitement.
“You have all worked hard.”
Cheers burst out once more.
The Chaotic Heaven Gate—
Was over.
