Chapter 702
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Shuuaaak!
A straight, extended hand blade sliced through the wind as it plunged down.
A slender, snow-white hand, as if it had never been touched by even a drop of water.
But Jin Taekyung knew.
How much blood had flowed from that hand.
What darkness lurked behind the Southern Demon Empress’s dazzling smile.
‘Monster.’
The word surfaced again.
Just as the blood-red qi, falling like a meteor, was about to pierce the crown of Jin Taekyung’s head, the legs that had been frozen as if nailed to the ground finally moved.
Rustle!
The earth split like tofu. Jin Taekyung narrowly avoided the Force Energy and thrust his spear out like lightning.
Shuwhack!
A strike of terrifying speed and power. The spearhead shot toward a single point with chilling precision.
Even a martial artist who had honed fist techniques to the peak would never dare face it head-on.
But the Southern Demon Empress was different.
No.
At least, the Southern Demon Empress of today had the power—and the right—to do so.
Kwaddeudeuk!
Empty-hand weapon capture.
Between the Southern Demon Empress’s hands, clasped together as if in prayer, the spearhead wreathed in Karmic fire trembled.
Hands that should have turned to ash long ago were instead packed with immense energy.
Her lips, taut and flawless, lifted slightly.
“Is that all you’ve got…?”
The ridicule had barely left her mouth when—
Her expression froze.
A heartbeat later, pain registered, and a certain man’s sheepish smile entered her vision.
“Oh. I forgot to mention. This is Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron.”
“What did you say?”
Her beautiful brow furrowed. Jin Taekyung released the spear shaft and spread his arms.
Palm Energy?
The Southern Demon Empress’s guess was pleasantly off the mark.
Shwishwik!
Two throwing knives snapped toward her neck and chest. The distance was too close to dodge cleanly.
With no choice, the Southern Demon Empress released the spearhead and whipped her sleeves.
Pyeong-bok!
A blast of wind erupted from her voluminous sleeves, knocking the throwing knives away.
In that moment, Jin Taekyung’s foot hooked the end of White Flame’s spear shaft, which was slowly tipping.
No—he kicked it.
“…What?”
He kicked it?
A divine weapon that should have been the most useful thing in this situation?
Along with that shock of a thought, something flashed toward the Southern Demon Empress’s face.
Swaeaeaeek! Chwaak!
It happened in an instant. Worse, it was so unconventional it was nearly impossible to avoid completely.
The Southern Demon Empress tilted her head on instinct, felt pain bloom along her earlobe, and widened her eyes.
“How dare you!”
If only her earring had been broken, she wouldn’t have been this furious. She liked it, yes, but she could always get another.
But her earlobe had been torn.
And her hair had been cut.
Her abundant, lustrous hair—her pride—had been sheared away by nearly half.
“Die!”
Kwaaaaaaa!
The unprecedented energy that had hesitated for a fraction surged through her slender body.
A pressure that felt capable of crushing even a giant boulder in an instant.
But the Southern Demon Empress didn’t realize it.
That the young—no, the very young—enemy before her had once climbed sheer cliffs while hanging iron balls weighing well over a thousand pounds from his body.
Kwajik. Woodeudeuk!
The ground caved in under a pressure that crushed everything within a ten-yard radius. The limbs of struggling humans and beasts snapped.
Keureuk, keureureuk!
“Kkeuaaaaaak!”
In a space overflowing with blood and dying screams, Jin Taekyung endured the pressure and stomped.
Kwang!
Flames surged up along his toes as he shot forward.
At the same time, a spear—one he’d somehow snatched up mid-motion—split space like lightning from the end of his fierce swing.
Swaeaeaeek! Kwang!
Force Energy exploded with a roar and shook the world. A tremendous power surged from the Southern Demon Empress’s hand as it precisely caught the side of the spearhead.
Kwajik!
Even the Scorching Yang Energy coating the spearhead—and steel tempered more than a hundred times—crumbled like tofu.
A murderous smile formed on the Southern Demon Empress’s lips.
‘You fool.’
Jin Taekyung had abandoned the peerless Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron divine weapon with his own hands.
Now, she would make the young man pay.
For daring to injure her beautiful body.
For cutting her precious hair.
‘I intended to take him as intact as possible. That won’t work anymore.’
At first, she’d planned to capture him and offer him as a loyal servant to the Heavenly Lord, because the dignified Heavenly Lord had shown interest in Jin Taekyung.
But her mind had changed.
The Jin Taekyung she saw now wasn’t some spiteful cat.
He was a proper beast.
Young, yes—but with fangs and claws as sharp as a great tiger’s.
A weapon capable of carving even deeper wounds into her beautiful body.
The Southern Demon Empress’s red Eye Light reflected Jin Taekyung rushing in like lightning.
‘You’ll have to endure losing an arm or two. I can reattach them later anyway.’
She muttered inwardly and snapped both sleeves.
Papatpat!
The shattered fragments of the spearhead split into dozens—hundreds—and filled the air.
Facing the wave of hidden weapons, each packed with Force Energy, Jin Taekyung threw a punch without hesitation.
Kwaaaaa!
Flame Extinguishing Divine Fist.
A Fire Dragon burst from the end of his calloused fist and swallowed hundreds of fragments.
Reddened by searing heat, the fragments melted into molten iron and drenched the ground.
Chiijijijik.
But beneath the shower of molten iron, what awaited Jin Taekyung as he tore through the space was the Southern Demon Empress’s slender hand.
Hwoong!
Five fingers approached, erasing the wind.
The moment the claw-like hand swung for his right arm, Jin Taekyung twisted his body—as if he’d expected it all along.
It wasn’t an evasive move meant to save his arm.
It was a suicidal move.
He offered his own neck.
And at the same time, it was a fatal strike aimed straight at her blind spot.
‘This crazy…!’
A scream echoed in the Southern Demon Empress’s mind.
As long as the dignified Heavenly Lord had interest, Jin Taekyung was someone she could not allow to die.
The reason she wanted him alive was loyalty. If Jin Taekyung died by her hand before any specific order, the Heavenly Lord’s wrath might fall on her alone.
‘No!’
The cry never left her mouth, but she hurriedly pulled back the surging Internal Energy.
At once, the muscles and blood vessels throughout her body twisted as the backlash surged through her.
Uleok!
“Kueeeeek!”
A spear of blood erupted from the Southern Demon Empress’s lips.
At the last instant, the Force Energy at her fingertips—barely redirected—grazed Jin Taekyung’s neck.
Swiswik! Pipit!
Knife-like wind shaved away skin.
But Jin Taekyung didn’t waver in the slightest.
There was no reason to.
‘Because I’ve been waiting for this moment.’
His mind, chilled to absolute calm, had already finished the calculations.
Jin Taekyung judged the Southern Demon Empress’s martial prowess to be at least Ten Kings. Perhaps even comparable to Three Stars.
Her techniques might be equal to—or even inferior to—the Heavenly Demon Army’s, but her overwhelming Internal Energy made up the gap.
And against a master of this level, there was only one way.
A single opening.
Jin Taekyung wagered his life and seized the first—and last—chance.
And…
‘I’ll risk it one more time.’
[Inventory Open. Summon.]
With the command ringing through his mind, he shot his hand out like lightning.
Seogeok!
At the same moment the slender wrist—unbelievable for such a monster—was cleanly severed, a scream exploded.
“Aaaaaaaack!!”
Louder than any creature in the Southern Barbarian Water Palace drowning in demonic energy.
No—the loudest, most pain-filled scream Jin Taekyung had ever heard.
In a way, it was only natural.
People are forgetful animals, and the strong who grow used to inflicting pain tend to forget their own.
Even so, this was the Southern Demon Empress.
“Jin Taekyung—!”
Shwishwik!
A shape shot toward him with a tearing cry.
Facing the Southern Demon Empress’s blood-red Eye Light mixed with turbid darkness, Jin Taekyung realized at once.
This time, he couldn’t completely avoid it.
He couldn’t fully block it.
Her posture was disheveled from massive internal injuries, and the Internal Energy she forced up through vomiting blood was wildly rough.
Which made it even more dangerous.
But what was truly dangerous was the killing intent pouring off her now.
“How dare you! How dare someone like you!”
Luck only came once.
A monster consumed by rage and pain—and now even forgetting her loyalty—threw out a palm wrapped in violent power.
The world slowed.
Force Energy, thick with darkness and blood-red turbulence, erased the space as it surged in.
Kwaaaaaaa!
An overwhelming pressure, as if the sea and Mount Tai were rising together to crush him.
Fear made the hair on Jin Taekyung’s body stand on end, but he knew.
If he stepped back even once, everything ended.
Even if it meant throwing away his life, he had to go forward.
‘Come.’
He didn’t even know what he was calling to, but the mutter rose from his heart as his toes pressed into blood-soaked earth.
Kwaduk.
The ground sank beneath a step weighted as heavily as life itself, then exploded with heat.
Kwang!
Lowered close to the ground, his body shot forward like a cannonball.
A snow-white palm carrying an inhuman amount of power filled his vision.
And between blood-red flashes, the face of a certain person—twisted like a demon.
“Die!”
Right then.
[Inventory Open. Summon.]
Jin Taekyung’s open hand snapped shut.
A cool spear shaft filled his empty grip, and the long spearhead erased the gap between them.
And…
Swaeaeaeek! Shwik!
The spearhead barely grazed his neck with a rough tearing sound.
At the same time, faint joy rose in the Southern Demon Empress’s eyes.
‘I read it. Perfectly.’
The skill Jin Taekyung used was certainly dangerous.
But in the chaos of battle, the Southern Demon Empress believed she had predicted it all.
No—she was convinced she had.
Just as she was about to blow Jin Taekyung’s neck away, she felt it.
A cool wind from behind.
Shwi—
“……”
A subtle tearing sound drilled into her ears.
Something icy and impossibly sharp grazed past her side as she instinctively rotated.
Seogeok!
Blood burst like a fountain. Muscles and blood vessels were cut, and blood and energy tangled together.
‘This… this is…’
Backflow.
A second backflow before she could even settle the earlier internal injuries.
And more fatal than any wound she had ever suffered.
‘From the beginning… this was what he was aiming for.’
Realization brushed across her whitening vision.
Swallowing down the blood pouring out, the Southern Demon Empress turned—and finally saw it.
Goooooong.
Blue-white flames swirled from the end of a transparent spearhead that had answered its master’s call.
Beneath deeply sunken eyes, silent lips completed two words.
One Annihilation.
The moment the Southern Demon Empress’s eyes widened—
– Human!
Someone’s urgent Telepathy suddenly rang out.
And a huge vortex, unlike anything the Southern Barbarians had ever witnessed, erupted.
Kwaaaaaaa!
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