In the past, he would never have thought of breaking the barrier and clashing with the Heavenly Emperor.
Because even when he joined forces with So Okrim, they were unable to block a single half-move of his and almost died.
But now, his martial prowess had risen incomparably compared to then.
Above all, the madness covering the Heavenly Emperor seemed to have faded significantly now.
Perhaps this time.
A faint expectation sprouted that he might be able to converse with him without fighting.
But at that moment,
Trickle.
Suddenly, a faint stream of blood flowed from the corner of Bu Eunseol's mouth, and the power of Harmony he had painstakingly gathered slowly disappeared.
Quadruple Overlap was still an unknown territory.
To unleash it with full power.
Not only did he have to overlap power, but he also had to gather his mental energy into one.
'I must discard all distracting thoughts.'
Clench.
Bu Eunseol closed his eyes and gripped the Silent Tiger Soul Sword once more.
And he began to overlap Harmony once again.
As he concentrated his mind, all the noise of the world evaporated in an instant.
In absolute silence, an intense storm was raging inside his body.
From the internal energy he had built up over his entire life to the power of Mother Nature, the Three Divine Energies.
Originally, these heterogeneous powers would have repelled and collided with each other, blowing up his body.
But due to the profound principles of martial arts.
They were frantically rotating around the elixir field, aligning little by little.
Crack.
His blood vessels squirmed and popped up like snakes, and the terrible sound of joints dislocating rang out.
His muscles felt as if they were being torn to shreds and then forcibly reattached repeatedly.
His body trembled on its own from unbearable pain. At this rate, his body would be shattered before he could unleash Harmony.
But there was no other way.
Until he obtained all Four Divine Energies.
Just as throwing all kinds of metals into a blast furnace and forcibly melting them, he had to unleash all his powers in a mixed state.
One, two, three…… finally, as the powers overlapped four times,
Ziiiing.
The force of the Prajna Great Power condensed all the chaos into a single point.
Flash!
When he finally opened his eyes.
The Silent Tiger Soul Sword grasped in his hand was slowly vibrating, imbued with five-colored light.
Harmony of Quadruple Overlap.
He was ready to unleash an unknown power that he had never unleashed even once until now.
"Hahp!"
Along with a resonant shout, a ray of light radiated from the Silent Tiger Soul Sword.
That was a light that erased all existence.
Even the laws of the world momentarily lost their power.
The power of Heaven-Breaking Desolation that issued an absolute command to return solely to nothingness poured out.
Clang!
As Harmony spread out, a part of the barrier began to break.
However, it was not perfectly destroyed, and was merely a faint crack that was just visible to the eye.
Cough.
Bu Eunseol vomited blood from his mouth once again.
As he poured out the powers that were maintaining balance within his body all at once to execute the Quadruple Overlap.
An instantaneous vacuum of power occurred, inflicting deep internal injuries upon him.
'Are you saying even Quadruple Overlap won't work?'
But at that moment,
Ziiiing, ziiiing.
As a crack appeared in the barrier, the entire secret storehouse fluctuated and emitted a transparent light.
It was as if the pillars supporting the secret storehouse had collapsed, sounding a warning alarm.
Rumble.
Soon, the interior began to shake like an earthquake, and that violent tremor did not stop for a while.
How much time had passed?
Swoosh.
In an instant, figures wearing pure white clothing from head to toe appeared opposite Bu Eunseol.
They didn't walk out from somewhere, but appeared in a flash as if they had torn space like a sheet of paper.
"……."
Their spotless skin seemed to emit a faint light on its own, and not even the flow of blood vessels could be seen.
Their long, flowing hair was so incredibly white, as if spun from silver threads, holding a mysterious luster as it caught the surrounding light.
Their pupils were golden, slit vertically like those of a dragon.
Rather than living humans, they looked like statues sculpted from an alien white metal.
The moment they appeared.
A strange sense of awe spread out, along with the illusion that the air in the whole world was freezing.
They did not walk, but glided elegantly as if on water, approaching Bu Eunseol.
'Are they the Baekri?'
He could intuit it.
Those people were not like the ones he had encountered so far.
Rather than people of the detached branches and separate families, they must be true people of the Baekri Family.
Crack.
But suddenly, the sound of bones cracking flowed from the back of Bu Eunseol's neck.
At the same time, a desperate cry was heard from the abyss of his spirit.
[Those bastards.]
It was none other than Baekri Geomha's voice.
[They are traitors!]
He was bursting with unprecedented rage, pounding at Bu Eunseol's spirit.
[We have to eliminate those bastards!]
Thump, thump.
[Quickly!]
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Shockwaves like iron chunks striking echoed continuously in his ears.
Baekri Geomha was going frantic deep within the abyss.
[Can't you hear me? What are you doing!]
'Calm down!'
He tried to calm Baekri Geomha using the dharma method of Illusion Upon Illusion, but he paid no attention and ran wild like crazy.
[If you don't eliminate them, I will!]
Crack.
An astonishing thing occurred.
The personality of Baekri Geomha, which should have been asleep in the abyss, was forcibly encroaching upon Bu Eunseol's physical body.
Vwooong.
In an instant, a black light flowed from Bu Eunseol's body. Baekri Geomha was forcibly exerting his power.
Crack, crackle.
Then, an unexpected situation occurred once again.
As Baekri Geomha's power activated.
The crack in the barrier where the Heavenly Emperor was trapped grew even deeper,
Wasn't the energy exerted by Baekri Geomha being sucked into that place?
"……!"
The white-clad figures watching the sight stretched out both arms as if greatly surprised. Then, light flowed out and the barrier was reconstructed.
[You can't…… stop me!]
The energy exerted by Baekri Geomha also became even more intense.
As the uncontrollable black energy continuously spread out,
Flash!
The white-clad figures emitted an intense light towards Bu Eunseol.
Boom!
As the black energy spreading from Bu Eunseol's body clashed with their energy,
Boooooooom!
A storm of true qi raged along with a massive explosion.
"Uuuu…… Khaaaaa!"
As if finally recognizing Baekri Geomha's black radiance.
The Heavenly Emperor looked at Bu Eunseol and let out a roar that seemed to tear the sky.
He looked like a beast whose possession had been taken, demanding it back.
"……!"
Sensing that something was wrong, the white-clad figures exchanged glances with stiff faces.
And this time, not towards Bu Eunseol.
They began to pour a bizarre power towards the Heavenly Emperor.
"Huuuuu."
Then, the Heavenly Emperor's body, which had displayed invincible majesty by handling the giant dragons until now, trembled.
Wasn't the madness gleaming in his eyes slowly dying out?
"Huuuu. Khaaaaaa!"
However, the Heavenly Emperor exploded with madness once again,
"Khaaaaaa!"
He let out a strange sound and began striking the transparent barrier.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Just as the barrier was gradually about to break, at that precise moment.
Baekri Geomha in the abyss also began to fiercely exert his black energy once again.
Catching sight of that, the white-clad figures.
Reached out their hands once more towards Bu Eunseol, no, Baekri Geomha.
Boom!
Baekri Geomha, who was trying to draw up his power, was blown back tens of jang away.
So intense was that power.
The floor of the secret storehouse, which seemed like it would never break, was deeply gouged out, and his body was firmly embedded within it.
Trickle.
Bu Eunseol, with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth, slowly raised his body from that crater.
Perhaps the shock he received was great, for Baekri Geomha's voice, which had been wildly raging in his spirit, was no longer heard.
"Why are you attacking me."
At Bu Eunseol's question, the white-clad figures abruptly reached out their hands once again.
Bang!
Bu Eunseol, who was smashed tens of jang away once again,
Rumble.
Was getting up from the rubble, his red eyes flashing.
"I don't know what's going on, but."
Pat! Paaat!
A five-colored radiance and waves of true qi spread out tens of jang wide from his body.
"I won't just sit back and take it anymore."
The Endless Heavenly Light Art, containing transcendent internal energy and the Three Divine Energies. And the power of the Poison Saint, the Prajna Great Power, etc.
He drew up all the power within his body.
Whooooosh.
As he drew the Silent Tiger Soul Sword, intense energy spread in all directions.
Previously, even though he was with So Okrim, he was defeated in half a move by the Heavenly Emperor using the Emperor of Death's martial arts.
But in the meantime, Bu Eunseol's martial arts had developed dazzlingly, to the point where he wouldn't retreat even against the strong of the abyss.
And his grandfather's blade arts, the Seven Blood Tear Forms.
To the Heaven-Breaking Desolation blade art that brought an end to all living things, bringing even the caster into a state of death.
He combined all the power in his body and intended to pour it onto the white-clad figures.
But an unexpected situation occurred.
Crack! Rumble!
The Heavenly Emperor eventually shattered the barrier and began attacking the white-clad figures.
When the Heavenly Emperor pounced, the white-clad figures were greatly flustered, and the radiance surrounding their bodies also slowly began to disappear.
Screeech!
In the end, they created transparent astral qi and were resisting the Heavenly Emperor's attacks.
With the situation turning out like this, Bu Eunseol's position became ambiguous.
Attacking the white-clad figures together with the Heavenly Emperor felt cowardly.
But just watching idly made it feel like he was missing a golden opportunity.
[Now's the time!]
At that moment, Baekri Geomha, who had been crouching in his spirit, started going wild again.
[We must kill those bastards right now!]
Anger surged within Bu Eunseol.
'Who are they. Why do you say we have to kill them.'
[I told you there's no time to explain!]
Crackle.
Baekri Geomha forcibly moved Bu Eunseol's body and began swinging the Silent Tiger Soul Sword.
Screeeeech!
Eventually, the Seven Blood Tear Forms were activated along with the sound of wailing ghosts.
However, because he hadn't completely taken over the physical body, Baekri Geomha could not properly execute the blade forms.
[Damn it! Move!]
Screeeeeeeeech!
As Baekri Geomha wildly moved the physical body, the Seven Blood Tear Forms were eventually fully unleashed.
But this was Baekri Geomha's fatal mistake.
The Seven Blood Tear Forms can only be properly unleashed if they perfectly align with the blade method created by Bu Zhanyang.
But as Baekri Geomha, going beyond anger and showing madness, haphazardly poured out blade forms.
Rather, the recoil caused Bu Eunseol to suffer deep internal injuries once again.
Not only that, a destructive blade art that did not fit the original blade method of the Seven Blood Tear Forms was unfolded.
Rumble! Paaat!
Ultimately, the blade qi of madness began pouring onto both the white-clad figures and the Heavenly Emperor.
Then, an unexpected thing happened.
Unlike the white-clad figures, wasn't the Heavenly Emperor intensely absorbing that energy instead?
Rumble.
As if a dragon were sucking in river water, all the energy of the Seven Blood Tear Forms was absorbed as the Heavenly Emperor's power.
And the demonic energy spreading through his body began to amplify uncontrollably.
'Has the Heavenly Emperor also mastered the Seven Blood Tear Forms?'
Even if it was unleashed in a strange form by Baekri Geomha, the Seven Blood Tear Forms were the Seven Blood Tear Forms.
Unless one had mastered the complete blade method or possessed his grandfather's blade, Journey.
One could not absorb that power of death with their body.
But to absorb the blade qi of the Seven Blood Tear Forms, which had transformed into a blade art of madness and destruction, all at once?
Crackle!
Intuiting that the situation was rushing towards the worst, the white-clad figures formed hand seals like Dharma Masters.
Then, white lightning struck from their bodies, and their physical bodies began to change massively.
Dragon Transformation Manifestation.
They were about to exert the power of the Primeval Dragon, which enforces the laws of the world, and the power of the Baekri Family that can sever cause and effect.
"Hehehe. Hahaha!"
But suddenly, the Heavenly Emperor, having absorbed the blade qi of the Seven Blood Tear Forms,
"Khaaaaaaa―――!"
Let out a long, drawn-out howl so immense it was unimaginable to have burst from a human's mouth.
Crack.
At the same time, the muscles all over his body bulged, and black blood vessels and golden veins squirmed like snakes over his skin, engraving bizarre patterns.
An unmanageable torrent of power seemed to churn his entire body, circulating inside.
'That is.'
Bu Eunseol's eyes shot wide open.
'It's not the power of martial arts.'
What the Heavenly Emperor was trying to exert wasn't a simple attack.
He intuited that it was a transcendent authority that would thoroughly annihilate not just this secret storehouse, but everything.
[I'm sorry. I ruined everything.]
At that time, grasping the whole situation.
Baekri Geomha, who had regained his senses, spoke in a low voice.
[This is my fault so…….]
Ziiiing.
In an instant, an intense power surged from Bu Eunseol's body, and a black sphere began to envelop him.
Baekri Geomha had exerted all his power to create protective astral energy containing supernatural power.
[……I will take responsibility.]
Baekri Geomha's voice slowly faded away.
His power had already run dry from the moment he tried to control Bu Eunseol's physical body in his stead.
Since he had even given up his last ounce of energy to protect him, there was no way to maintain his existence.
Flash!
At the same time, a massive sun was created inside the secret storehouse.
Booooooooom―!
All the sounds of the world disappeared for a moment, and then a massive explosion followed.
Space screamed, and the floor crumpled and twisted like a sheet of paper.
The pillar of fire that shot out from the center of the explosion, with dark red and golden light intertwined.
Completely collapsed the entire secret storehouse.
A place barely touched by human footsteps.
One of the highest peaks of the mountain range had disappeared in an instant.
Sizzle.
The peak on the opposite side.
There, a shadow lay collapsed, emitting white smoke.
It was none other than Bu Eunseol.
Though there were no external injuries on his body, white smoke was continuously billowing from his whole body.
Due to the power exerted by the Heavenly Emperor, the secret storehouse completely vanished.
And Bu Eunseol was blown to the opposite peak by the aftermath of that explosion.
What if Bu Eunseol didn't possess the powers of both great families in his body?
What if it weren't for the protective astral energy containing all of Baekri Geomha's power?
He wouldn't have just been blown to the opposite peak, his body would have completely melted away.
"Baekri Geomha."
Bu Eunseol, who managed to open his eyes with difficulty, muttered lowly.
Baekri Geomha.
That personality, which should have been asleep in his spirit, had completely vanished.
"Why on earth did you do that."
He couldn't understand it.
Why did Baekri Geomha call the white-clad figures, assumed to be people of the Baekri Family, traitors?
Why did it feel like his personality had completely vanished because of this explosion?
Rumble.
Bu Eunseol's body, rising from the rubble, was covered in blood.
Cough.
A clump of black blood popped out of his mouth on its own.
Due to this explosion…… he had suffered a fatal internal injury that couldn't be recovered from.
"Baekri Geomha."
He mumbled low, but there was no response.
Using the dharma method of Illusion Upon Illusion, Bu Eunseol descended deep into the abyss of his spirit.
"Why did you call the white-clad figures traitors."
But there was no answer.
Even deep within the abyss of his spirit, Baekri Geomha's presence could not be felt.
As if he had vanished cleanly.
"Baekri Geomha!"
Bu Eunseol shouted.
"Answer me!"
No matter if he was an artificial personality holding all his darkness.
He was his childhood self, who grew up receiving love at the Saha Manor.
For him to have disappeared meant.
His happy memories, the truths he had been hiding.
It was the same as them having vanished.
Trickle.
As his heart collapsed, his internal injuries flared up even more and his blood and qi twisted.
His vision blurred, and the whole world seemed to spin.
Eventually, the power in his body flowed backward.
Snap, snap.
With the sound of thick ropes snapping, Bu Eunseol lost consciousness and collapsed.
How much time had passed?
The world was covered in silence.
Only the breath exhaled by the unconscious Bu Eunseol was faintly spreading.
When only the moonlight quietly soaked the ground where he collapsed in silver,
The flow of the moon pouring silver dust twisted for a moment, and like a feather defying gravity.
A small meteor was parting the veil of the night and quietly descending to the ground.
The shadow that finally touched the ground slowly took on a form.
It was none other than a woman with long hair reaching below her waist.
With her back to the moon, the woman was entirely submerged in darkness, but her presence alone overwhelmed the space.
The line of her neck and jaw, revealed through the black hair faintly fluttering in the wind, was pale like an exquisitely crafted white porcelain.
Step, step.
She approached the collapsed Bu Eunseol.
And she was looking down at him with a void expression, as if all emotions in the world had evaporated.
Pasun, no, Dali.
She, who was called the existence closest to the True Demon among the Three Attendants, had appeared once again.
Clench.
Her void eyes suddenly grew cold as a glacier, and soon held a warmth like sunlight reflected on a river.
It was likely because her emotions were constantly changing in that short moment.
"Why are you still wandering this dusty world…… instead of leaving the martial world."
With deeply sunken eyes, she looked at the unconscious Bu Eunseol,
Swoosh.
Using internal energy, she floated him into the empty air.
And in an instant, she flew up into the distant sky.
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