CCTnovel Chapter 464
Chapter 464
Unhwi's eyes narrowed.His sword moved.
He cut through the first blade aura.
Blocked the second.
Redirected the third.
The fourth.
Slash.
His left forearm split open.
The fifth.
He twisted his body.
Dodged.
But his robe tore apart. Blood seeped from his side.
He retreated.
Seok Junseo pressed after him.
He never let up.
His blade traced a circle.
A tremendous force of suction erupted.
Stronger than before.
It wasn't even comparable.
Leaves were ripped from the surrounding trees and sucked inward. Stones lifted from the ground. Small trees were uprooted whole.
The very air became a raging vortex.
Unhwi's body was dragged toward it.
He drove his sword into the earth.
Held his ground.
It was useless.
The ground itself was pulled apart beneath him.
Dragged together with him.
At the center of the vortex, Seok Junseo's blade came crashing down.
Tyrant King Blood Blade
Fourth Chapter: Blood Wheel Devours Heaven
Unhwi's eyes flashed.
His feet kicked off empty air before slamming against the ground.
Heavenly Phantom Steps.
His body twisted in an instant.
Defying the overwhelming pull, he slid sideways.
BOOOOM—!!
The blade split the earth.
No—
It split the land itself.
A fissure stretched nearly two hundred feet.
Its depth was impossible to measure.
The bottom could not be seen.
Unhwi landed lightly.
His breathing came rough.
Heavy.
This was on an entirely different level from Seok Cheonung.
This...
...was the power of a late-stage Harmony realm master.
Seok Junseo moved again.
His blade rose toward the heavens.
Crimson energy climbed along the blade.
Higher.
Higher still.
Toward the moon.
Blade aura exploded.
Then rained down from the sky.
Like rain.
Like crimson rain.
Dozens of blade auras poured downward.
Tyrant King Blood Blade
Fifth Chapter: Blood Rain Descends from Heaven
There was nowhere to evade.
Unhwi raised his sword.
Void-Origin Energy wrapped around the blade.
Heavenly Snow Secret Sword.
A blizzard of white snow erupted from his sword.
The crimson rain collided with the white storm.
BOOOOOM—!!!
Explosions detonated one after another.
Dust billowed upward.
Smoke swallowed the battlefield.
Through it—
Seok Junseo broke in.
His blade swung.
CLANG—!!
Blocked.
It came again.
CLANG—!!
Blocked.
Again.
Blocked.
Blocked.
Blocked.
CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! CLANG—!!
Ten exchanges.
Twenty.
Thirty.
There was no mistaking it anymore.
Unhwi was being driven back.
Slice.
Cut.
Slash.
The wounds kept multiplying.
His face.
Shoulder.
Chest.
Thigh.
Blood poured from every injury.
Seok Junseo had not emerged untouched.
A cut marred his cheek.
Blood dripped from the back of his hand.
There was no question.
Unhwi was fighting a life-and-death duel against a true Harmony realm master.
The problem...
...was the exchange.
Every wound he inflicted cost him three.
No—
Four in return.
The Ten-Thousand-Year Ice Crystal was still healing his injuries at an extraordinary pace.
But as time dragged on and the number of exchanges continued to rise...
...that advantage steadily lost its meaning.
By the fiftieth exchange, Unhwi's breathing had grown ragged.
He's stronger than I expected.
The enlightenment Seok Junseo had gained during his closed-door training appeared far greater than anticipated.
Compared to Unhwi...
Seok Junseo remained unchanged.
Late-stage Harmony realm.
The depth of his internal energy simply could not be compared to someone in the Unity of Heaven and Man realm.
Seok Junseo finally stopped.
"...Impressive enough."
"..."
"But is this truly all you've got?"
"..."
"I can already see your end."
His eyes narrowed.
"Can you?"
Unhwi did not answer.
He simply continued drawing breath.
Seok Junseo slowly raised his blade.
"I'll acknowledge it."
"..."
"You are extraordinary."
"..."
"A monster like you should never have appeared in the martial world. If you've already reached this level at your age..."
His voice turned cold.
"Then in one year... no, in only six months... you'll become something even more terrifying."
"I'll kill you."
"For the sake of the world."
Unhwi remained silent.
Once more, Tyrant Heaven Energy surged from Seok Junseo.
The atmosphere sank beneath its pressure.
Even breathing became difficult.
A low chant escaped Seok Junseo's lips.
Heaven and earth become a sea of blood, and the Tyrant King descends.
His blade shone.
Not crimson.
Dark crimson.
Black and red.
Like coagulated blood.
Like a clot that had aged for a thousand years.
I shall cut down all things and leave not a single one behind.
The blade descended.
The world split apart.
No—
It merely looked that way.
An immense blade aura erupted outward.
Thirty yards high.
No—
Even higher.
It covered the heavens.
It eclipsed the moon.
A black-crimson moon.
As though a blood moon itself had fallen from the sky.
Tyrant King Blood Blade
Ultimate Technique: Tyrant Descends Upon the Sea of Blood
Unhwi looked up at it.
...This.
Every instinct screamed the same warning.
You can't block it.
You have to evade.
But there was nowhere to go.
Its range was simply too vast.
He raised his sword.
Void-Origin Energy surged upward.
Everything.
Every last remaining trace of strength.
His sword descended.
A brilliant flash erupted.
KRAAAAAAAASH—!!!
The entire world turned white.
The shockwave swept outward like a hurricane.
Trees snapped—
No.
They didn't break.
They vanished.
Erased from the roots upward.
The earth itself caved in.
More than thirty feet deep.
The dust slowly settled.
Unhwi remained kneeling on one knee.
Using his sword to keep himself from collapsing.
He was drenched in blood.
Blood poured endlessly from every part of his body.
Drip.
Drip.
His left arm hung limply.
It looked broken.
Blood flowed continuously from his mouth.
It refused to stop.
"Cough...!"
He vomited blood.
Dark crimson splattered across the ground.
Seok Junseo approached.
His blade resting across one shoulder.
Compared to Unhwi...
He looked almost untouched.
His breathing was heavy.
Sweat covered him.
But not a single wound remained.
"It's over."
His voice was quiet.
Unhwi said nothing.
"When word spreads..."
"..."
"They'll say you begged me for your life."
"They'll say that's how you died."
Unhwi slowly lifted his head.
"That is how the martial world will remember it."
"..."
"A pity."
"The end of a genius."
"But remember..."
"You brought this upon yourself."
He raised his blade.
"And when you arrive in the underworld..."
"Beg forgiveness from my children."
The blade descended.
Toward Unhwi's neck.
At that instant—
The haze in Unhwi's eyes vanished.
No.
They became deeper.
Brilliant light suddenly cascaded through his hair.
Pure white.
Seok Junseo felt it instantly.
Something...
...was wrong.
BOOOOM—!!
His descending blade was violently knocked skyward.
Still gripping the hilt, Seok Junseo clearly felt it.
The force within Unhwi's sword...
...had risen to an entirely different level.
...A final desperate struggle?
As he instinctively retreated—
A voice drifted from Unhwi's lips.
Low.
Almost like a quiet recitation.
Heaven and earth stretch into endless vastness, yet I walk alone.
The aura changed.
Transparent energy flowed from Unhwi's body.
Void-Origin Energy.
No.
Its true essence.
Void.
Nothing.
Absolute emptiness.
Containing nothing.
Yet embracing everything.
Seok Junseo's eyes widened.
"...What is this...?!"
Unhwi continued.
I ask neither righteousness nor evil. I ask only the heart.
He slowly stood.
His grip tightened around the sword.
Slowly.
Surely.
Then—
Light flowed from the blade.
Transparent light.
Containing nothing.
Containing everything.
Where does this lonely road lead?
Radiance exploded from Unhwi's body.
White brilliance engulfed the clearing.
The moonlight vanished.
No—
His radiance outshone the moon itself.
Unhwi had become light.
Seok Junseo stepped backward.
Instinct.
Danger.
That... is dangerous.
He raised his blade.
Tyrant Heaven Energy surged to its absolute limit.
He poured everything into a single strike.
Tyrant King Blood Blade
Final Chapter: Tyrant King's Blood Heaven
His blade descended.
The heavens split apart.
Dark crimson blade aura engulfed the world.
The strongest strike of the Tyrant Blade Sect.
Facing it—
Unhwi slowly raised his sword.
The world slowed.
The black-crimson blade aura advanced in agonizing slow motion.
But...
For Unhwi...
It was enough.
The final verse flowed from his lips.
The Defiant Sword cleaves open the road through heaven and earth.
His sword fell.
At that instant—
His eyes flashed.
Heaven-Defying Vast Azure Sword
Fifth Song: The Lonely Road
Light erupted.
The world turned white.
No—
Not white.
Transparent.
Everything disappeared.
Color disappeared.
Sound disappeared.
Space disappeared.
Time disappeared.
Void.
Nothingness.
Emptiness.
A world utterly empty.
Within it—
A single sword drew a line.
Curving.
Winding.
Like a road.
Like the lonely road of one who walks alone.
It was neither the righteous path...
...nor the demonic path.
Only his own.
The path of defiance.
Defying heaven.
Defying earth.
Defying fate.
Defying death.
That road stretched toward Seok Junseo.
He watched.
His blade aura vanished.
The black-crimson radiance faded away.
Existence itself crumbling before Nothingness.
Then—
It came for him.
A road.
A white road.
A transparent road.
It reached toward his chest.
He raised his blade.
Tried to block it.
It meant nothing.
His [N O V E L I G H T] blade met Unhwi's sword.
It clearly made contact.
Yet passed straight through.
No.
That wasn't it.
It had...
...simply transcended it.
It could not be stopped.
How could one block Nothingness?
How could one stop that which did not exist?
The road pierced straight through Seok Junseo's chest.
The world returned.
Color returned.
Sound returned.
Moonlight returned.
Unhwi stood silently.
His sword lowered.
His eyes closed.
Before him...
Seok Junseo remained standing.
Blade still in hand.
Unable to do anything.
He simply...
...stopped.
Blood trickled down his chest.
A hole.
One that pierced directly through his heart.
His blade slipped from his grasp.
Clang.
His knees buckled.
Thud.
His massive body crashed to the ground.
"Gh... hhk..."
He clutched at his chest.
Blood streamed between his fingers.
Unhwi slowly opened his eyes.
Then quietly looked down at him.
He said nothing.
Only watched.
Seok Junseo could not believe what had happened.
"You..."
"...madman..."
"You suddenly started singing..."
"...and then used a sword art that shouldn't even exist..."
Something beyond dreams.
No—
Something impossible even in dreams.
A martial art that belonged to the absolute pinnacle.
"W-What..."
"...what was..."
"...that sword...?"
Unhwi answered calmly.
"The fifth song of the Heaven-Defying Vast Azure Sword."
Seok Junseo murmured,
"...Heaven..."
"...Defying..."
"The sword..."
"...that defies heaven..."
His eyes slowly lost their focus.
"...Ha..."
"No wonder..."
"...you were destined to win..."
"..."
"...How could a man consumed by revenge..."
He coughed blood.
"...ever defeat someone..."
"...who defies heaven itself...?"
More blood spilled from his lips.
Unhwi remained unexpectedly calm.
"...Say..."
"...something..."
Still...
Unhwi said nothing.
Seok Junseo's eyes closed.
His breathing ceased.
His body lay motionless upon the ground.
Almost simultaneously—
Unhwi staggered.
It wasn't that he had chosen silence.
He simply could not speak.
He had drawn upon a power his current realm was never meant to wield.
The power of the realm he had once reached in his previous life.
To manifest that transcendent sword art with his present body...
...was no different from forcing enlightenment itself into physical form.
There was always going to be a price.
It had been inevitable.
Unhwi had entered this battle fully prepared to perish alongside his opponent.
He had won.
But the backlash was unavoidable.
Thud.
He collapsed beside Seok Junseo.
Face-first onto the ground.
Unable to move.
Blood flowing from Seok Junseo's body slowly soaked into him.
Slowly...
Unhwi's eyes closed.