Ziiiing.
The moment Bu Eunseol finished speaking.
All the power within their bodies vanished, leaving only about two sixty-year cycles' worth of internal force.
What if one reached the perfect Void Extreme Realm?
The range of the Realm of Destruction and Extinction, currently limited to about twenty jang, would expand beyond imagination.
And not just internal force, but all forms of power would perfectly disappear.
"......."
The middle-aged man, having calculated his remaining internal force.
He could not hide his astonishment, his eyes wide open as sweat poured down his forehead.
The Soul Demon Dharma Energy is unaffected by any power other than the Profound Divine Technique Qi.
Yet all his power had vanished in an instant? What on earth was going on?
"What is this?"
Forgetting his dignity, the middle-aged man bellowed.
"What exactly have you done!"
His voice was a mixture of anger and bewilderment, looking as though he were a child throwing a tantrum.
Bu Eunseol let out a snort.
"Even if I ask nicely, you won't answer obediently anyway."
Then, holding the Silent Tiger Soul Sword upright, he spoke coldly.
"Let's subdue you first and talk later."
Pat, pat, pat, pat!
As soon as he finished speaking, points of light scattered toward the middle-aged man like a rain shower.
"This is."
As Bu Eunseol unfolded his sword art and shot out sword aura.
The tense middle-aged man recovered his pale complexion and made a strange expression.
He realized that not only his own power, but Bu Eunseol's power had also disappeared.
"You're doing bizarre things!"
Regaining his composure, the middle-aged man quickly swung his dagger and accurately struck the pouring points of light.
Clang, clang, clang!
The light-like sword aura instantly vanished.
Not only could he use the Soul Demon Dharma Energy, but he was also a master who had reached an outstanding level of martial prowess.
Crash, clink clink!
As their weapons tangled and clashed.
Along with the ceaseless metallic sounds, things like fragments of light crumbled in the air.
As the offense and defense grew fiercer.
The figures of the two men disappeared, buried in the blinding flashes of light.
Swoosh! Paaat.
At that moment, catching an opening, the middle-aged man leapt into the storm of sword auras that Bu Eunseol was pouring out.
Using his dagger swiftly, he was preemptively keeping the sword moves of the Supreme Heavenly Flow that Bu Eunseol was about to unfold in check.
'It wasn't much after all.'
The middle-aged man cheered inwardly.
Bu Eunseol might have unfolded some bizarre method that suppressed supernatural powers.
But human abilities naturally have limits.
In contrast, the middle-aged man, unlike ordinary martial artists, had transcended even physical limits.
It did not matter how great a sword art one unfolded.
Before senses that surpassed human limits and a transcendent speed, arguing the superiority of martial learning was itself meaningless.
"You dare to face this Law Envoy head-on just because you eliminated power?"
Bu Eunseol's eyebrows twitched upwards.
Since he used the Soul Demon Dharma Energy, Bu Eunseol naturally thought he was a master of the True Demon Palace, but a Law Envoy?
'Are you saying you're a person of the Sacred Domain?'
So the Sacred Domain was not the only place that held posts like Heavenly Mechanism Law Envoy or Heavenly Mechanism Law Lord?
'Or perhaps the True Demon Palace also has Law Envoys.'
Instantly, Bu Eunseol's eyes deepened.
He was intently analyzing and grasping the middle-aged man's bodily responses.
Swish!
Although his mental power was only slightly distracted, the middle-aged man's sharp dagger had already brushed past under Bu Eunseol's chin.
It was as if he were a master of palm arts.
He was pouring out brilliant sword moves that constantly changed at close range.
Halt.
However, the middle-aged man suddenly stopped his movements.
Even though he had clearly seized the chance for victory, and held the upper hand in the exchange of moves......
Strangely enough, didn't he feel a terrible sense of defeat?
"Wait."
Upon seeing Bu Eunseol's calm posture and gaze, the middle-aged man realized what he was doing right now.
"You were practicing martial arts against this Law Envoy?"
Bu Eunseol had realized long ago that the subtleties of the Supreme Heavenly Flow he had created were unable to overcome their limits.
Thus, he added the subtlety of transcendence to overcome the limit and increase its power once again.
However, that too meant little against the masters of the Limitless Realm, or against masters who possessed tremendous supernatural powers and the Soul Demon Dharma Energy.
To them it had become a conventional attack, no longer of much use.
But upon reaching the Void Extreme Realm and being able to fight purely with martial learning.
For the first time, he was trying a method to change only the subtleties of the sword learning he had mastered so far, rather than power.
"How dare you!"
The enraged middle-aged man unfolded a fierce sword art once again.
Whirl!
In an instant, Bu Eunseol spun the Silent Tiger Soul Sword a full circle in the air and rapidly struck the dagger digging into his vital points.
It was an application of the method used by the Returning to One Realm Lord in the past.
Clang!
Intense sparks flew up as their weapons collided in the air.
Ping!
But out of those countless sparks, one popped out and suddenly dug toward the middle-aged man's adam's apple?
"Whoa!"
Greatly startled by the unexpected move, the middle-aged man threw his body backward.
At first glance, it didn't seem fast at all.
But that sharp spark dug in so swiftly that it seemed it would pierce his neck in the blink of an eye.
Clatter!
In the end, the middle-aged man threw his body to the ground and rolled over and over six times.
To think that a Law Envoy of the great True Demon Palace.......
That he should barely preserve his life with the Lazy Donkey Roll, a move said to be used only by third-rate martial artists?
However, Bu Eunseol did not move.
He did not bother attacking the rolling middle-aged man, and observed him at his leisure.
Tremble, tremble.
The middle-aged man, who barely managed to get up, stood with his mouth open in humiliation, his body trembling.
"You baaaastard......!"
Currently, the development of martial learning had stopped before the absolute wall of the Limitless Realm, and even that flow was being controlled by the Baekri Family and the True Demon Palace.
But reaching the present generation.
Unpredictable, monster-like masters, like the Three Demons and Three Venerables, began to reveal themselves one by one.
And the young fellow before his eyes right now.
He intuited that he was no different from them.
"To think something like this would happen just because we missed the time to cull them once?"
As the middle-aged man muttered.
"Enough."
Clap.
At that moment, Bu Eunseol clapped his hands and spoke with a bored expression.
"That's enough talking, so show me your new martial learning."
The middle-aged man was so dumbfounded he was about to burst into laughter.
He had commanded the martial world until now.
And to think he would be brought back to his senses by the sound of a handclap, like a child?
Moreover, wasn't that bastard sending him an encouraging look, like a martial arts instructor teaching a disciple?
"Fine......."
The middle-aged man clenched his molars tightly.
He must not get excited.
Having regained his coolness, he.
As if he still had leeway, swung his dagger rapidly, tenaciously slashing and stabbing.
However, regardless of what the middle-aged man prattled about, Bu Eunseol was studying his sword art in a state of selfless absorption.
'Should I just subdue him quickly?'
He had to subdue this middle-aged man first.
Only then could he swiftly obtain the information about the Empress Dowager that had gone unknown until now, and steer the fights ahead to his advantage.
'But his sword art is very unique, so I want to keep watching.'
The Void Extreme Realm is still in its beginning stage.
In order to face the masters of the Baekri Family and the True Demon Palace in the future, it wouldn't be bad to observe that man's sword art a little more.
Pat!
Bu Eunseol intentionally brought his cheek close to the sword aura.
The moment the sharp sword aura flowing from the dagger brushed past his cheek and splattered blood, the sword move slightly loosened.
'His martial arts are high, but he hasn't fought many martial learning battles, it seems.'
Martial artists with little combat experience.
When a move they pour out lands even slightly on the enemy, their mind instantly becomes conceited.
To confirm that, Bu Eunseol intentionally allowed a wound on his cheek.
Such an attempt was an act only seen in fights among immortals in folktales.
But to him, who had survived countless fierce battles until now, it was nothing.
"Die!"
Thinking he had found Bu Eunseol's opening, the middle-aged man closed the distance with all his might and aimed for his lower abdomen.
Swoosh!
At that moment, a sword aura that was neither strong nor soft suddenly poured toward his face?
Bu Eunseol had unfolded the Caged Bird Yearning for Clouds form, aiming for the great acupoints on the middle-aged man's chest and his brow.
"Nngh."
He immediately counterattacked to dissolve the sword move, but it was a feint.
Swoosh.
In the meantime, Bu Eunseol created a round sword aura and covered the middle-aged man's wrist.
Ziiiing.
The middle-aged man felt an irresistible internal force power go straight through the tip of the blade and dig into the meridians of his forearm.
"Not a chance......!"
He tried to launch a counterattack again, but.
He felt the internal force power that had just been injected spread throughout the meridians of his entire body.
"Nngh."
The middle-aged man opened his eyes wide in astonishment.
He had merely brushed against the power contained in the sword move.
Yet he felt a suffocating pressure, as if he were trapped in a well so narrow his shoulders scraped both sides?
"Hyaaah!"
Forcing a battle cry, the middle-aged man roused his internal force greatly and gathered it in his chest.
First protecting his heart meridian, he would wait for a chance to counterattack again.
"Good! Open your eyes wide and watch closely. I will show you what a sword art is!"
Streeetch.
From the middle-aged man's dagger, a sword aura spanning more than three ja soared, then suddenly began to bend greatly like a whip.
Whirl.
He had unsparingly deployed the secret art of the True Demon Palace, which vastly transcended the martial learning scattered throughout the martial world.
"No matter what great martial arts you've accumulated, you will never be able to block this!"
The middle-aged man roared and swung his dagger like a madman.
After about ten exchanges, the wounds on Bu Eunseol's body gradually began to increase.
In the sword aura he created.
Even though it was pure internal force, it contained a wicked energy.
And his movements split time again and again, perfectly blocking Bu Eunseol's movements.
Spurrrrt!
Finally, the middle-aged man cut deeply into Bu Eunseol's shoulder.
Slice.
However, at the same time he perfectly succeeded, he felt a chilling sensation.
'Oh no.'
As the middle-aged man glanced at his own shoulder.
Wasn't he injured in a spot exactly identical to the spot he had struck?
'This bastard has already stolen the subtleties of my sword art.'
The real combat martial learning of Nangyang Pavilion began seven hundred years ago.
It was not a martial learning subtlety created by the two great factions.
It was a creative martial art that arose independently, since they did not hinder the development of martial learning.
Moreover, the tenacious and bizarre real combat martial learning that stole the enemy's martial learning subtleties even at the risk of one's life.
If they couldn't cut off their breath at once, it would inevitably become a form that helped the enemy's development.
"This thief!"
The middle-aged man realized that Bu Eunseol had intentionally taken a defensive stance to steal the subtleties of his sword learning.
He closed the distance once again and unfolded a mad flurry of sword strikes.
However, Bu Eunseol had already predicted such an attack, and his kick, driving in from the side, blocked the path of the sword.
Whip!
At the same time, a sharp hidden weapon dug into his brow.
The moment he unfolded the kick art.
Bu Eunseol secretly swept the ground, kicking a pebble toward his brow.
'Damn it!'
The pebble had been shot the moment the path of the sword was blocked.
It was released at an inescapable angle, and there was absolutely no sign of it beforehand.
How was he supposed to dodge this?
He hastily withdrew his attack, twisted his body at an angle, and spun fiercely.
Whirl!
Fortunately, the pebble missed his brow.
But Bu Eunseol, catching the opening in the meantime, accurately pierced his spinning flank.
Clang!
A ringing metallic sound echoed.
The middle-aged man had guessed that this attack could not be avoided.
He unfolded the Soul Demon Shell-Refining Body Technique, which produced a similar effect to the Diamond Invincible Body Technique.
Boom!
Like a kite with a broken string, he flew and smashed into a giant tree on the opposite side.
Tap.
He immediately stood up and took a stance, but a thin stream of blood flowed from his mouth.
He suffered internal injuries because even the Soul Demon Shell-Refining Body Technique couldn't perfectly block that force.
"You......."
The middle-aged man muttered as if he couldn't believe it.
"Are you saying you're stronger than Ak Muryeong?"
Frowning slightly, Bu Eunseol asked back.
"Have you fought with the Pavilion Master?"
"There was no fighting or whatsoever. Because back then, he hadn't even entered the Limitless Realm."
Though he had the appearance of a middle-aged man, his actual age was well over a hundred.
He had seen the Human Demon in his younger days, and judged that Ak Muryeong would at best reach the Limitless Realm.
"So you haven't seen him recently."
Ak Muryeong had long ago stepped out of the boundaries of the Limitless Realm, and had now even created the new Infinite Reversal Power.
Bu Eunseol let out a snort and said.
"If it were the Pavilion Master, he would have cut off your head within three moves."
"Nonsense."
The middle-aged man was about to sneer.
But he closed his mouth upon meeting Bu Eunseol's clear and calm eyes, which were like a well reflecting the autumn sky.
He intuited that those words were the truth.
Tremble.
The corners of his eyes twitched.
How could the martial learning of the martial world develop this much in this short time?
Pat!
Suddenly, blood splattered on the middle-aged man's cheek, and a red bloody line was drawn.
Without realizing, Bu Eunseol had sprinkled a sword move like a ray of light.
"Let's stop the chatting now."
Bu Eunseol spoke calmly.
"I will face you seriously from now on, so show me the essence of the True Demon Palace's martial learning."
The middle-aged man finally realized.
Martial Soul Command Lord Bu Eunseol.
That he was an absolute master comparable to the Three Demons and Three Venerables, and the biggest obstacle that would ruin the Empress Dowager's grand design.
That if left alive, he would become endless future trouble.
"Hehehe, good."
The middle-aged man suddenly burst into laughter and began pouring out sword moves indiscriminately.
Pat, pat!
And taking the sword moves Bu Eunseol poured out with his body, he began to close the distance.
Sizzle.
Without realizing, white smoke was spreading from his body, as if he were burning hotly.
"I'll admit it. I admit it. That you are stronger than me."
The middle-aged man muttered like a madman.
"But being strong does not necessarily mean winning."
In the martial world, mutual-destruction techniques like the Powerful Dragon Pulse-Destroying Soul are scattered about, and their root is none other than the Annihilation Demonic Learning of the True Demon Palace.
All mutual-destruction techniques trigger life force to produce multiples of power to self-destruct.
Others blow up the body to inflict fatal injuries.
However, the mutual-destruction technique of the True Demon Palace is completely different.
In order to surely kill the enemy, it collapses the space, that is, the realm.
It doesn't simply mean dying together.
It is a method that drags the enemy and oneself into the identical space of destruction, erasing their very existence.
Swiiiish.
Without realizing, the middle-aged man's body began to stick to Bu Eunseol like a magnet.
Bu Eunseol cut his body with the Silent Tiger Soul Sword.
As the sharp sword aura dug into the middle-aged man's shoulder, flesh tore and blood erupted like a fountain.
But as if the middle-aged man didn't feel pain.
No, as if he felt it but didn't care at all, he kept approaching.
"Hehehe!"
As the middle-aged man let out a madness-filled laugh, Bu Eunseol changed his sword move and deeply slashed his abdomen.
It was a fatal wound that almost made his internal organs pop out, but the middle-aged man's body didn't stop.
Rather, he stuck to Bu Eunseol even faster and more tenaciously.
Crackle! Crackle-crack!
A strange energy soared from the middle-aged man's body.
A light mixed with black and red colors began wriggling like a living creature, starting to surround Bu Eunseol.
He tried to cut it away with the Silent Tiger Soul Sword, but it was of no use, as if slashing through empty air.
In the meantime, the middle-aged man rapidly closed the distance.
Three jang, two jang, one jang......
Finally, the moment he got so close that their noses almost touched.
Booooom!
A heaven-shaking explosion erupted.
The world was dyed white, all colors and sounds vanished, and shapes disappeared.
Rumble, rumble, rumble......
A massive vibration shook the earth.
The shockwave spreading from the center of the explosion swallowed everything around it.
Trees were uprooted and blown away, rocks were crushed into dust and scattered, and the ground was gouged and carved out.
There was nothing left in that spot.
A circular clearing spanning over a hundred jang in diameter, without a single tree, rock, or blade of grass, had been created.
It was a sight as if a giant's hand had pressed the ground flat.
Whoosh.
The dust scattered in the wind and slowly settled.
And when the dust completely cleared.
Crackle, crackle! Crackle-crack!
Five-colored brilliant sparks flew up.
Gold, silver, red, blue, black.
The energies of five colors tangled chaotically, distorting the space.
In the center of those sparks, something shaped like a round aura shield was seen.
Inside the transparent shield, the shadow of a man was slowly revealed.
It was none other than Bu Eunseol.
"Was there no other way."
He dropped his head with an expression as if he had lost.
In the end, unable to block the middle-aged man's mutual-destruction technique, he released the Void Extreme Realm.
And with all his might, he created a protective astral shield to protect his body within that explosion.
―'Couldn't you just release the Void Extreme Realm only when necessary?'
Someone might think this way.
However, a martial learning realm is a path, like a conviction and a will.
Bu Eunseol chose the Void Extreme Realm, and faced the enemy with it.
Yet, failing to perfectly subdue the martial learning of the True Demon Palace, and eventually releasing it......
Through this incident, he once again realized that the Void Extreme Realm was not yet complete.
―'What, this crazy bastard.......'
If a master of the Baekri Family or the True Demon Palace, or someone with comparable skill had watched this sight.
They would have spat out curses, unable to hide their absurdity.
To easily strike down a master of the True Demon Palace like treating a child, and yet blame himself for not being perfect?
'It's fine.'
Bu Eunseol was organizing his thoughts.
He had just entered it, the beginning stage.
He would fight countless strong enemies in the future, and as he did, the Void Extreme Realm would become complete.
If that happened.
He might be able to reach the Heaven's Will Realm, an imaginary realm that no one had ever reached in the future.
Thud.
At that moment, something round fell from the air to the ground.
It was exactly the middle-aged man who had unfolded the mutual-destruction technique.
"That power is......."
Surprisingly, the middle-aged man, with only his head remaining, opened his eyes, glared at Bu Eunseol, and spoke.
"You...... are Baekri Muha."
Bu Eunseol opened his eyes wide.
"What are you talking about."
Could it be that his father, Baekri Muha, was alive?
"But it's already too late."
The middle-aged man raised the corners of his mouth.
"Because you will absolutely never be able to make a contract with the Primeval Dragon."
Craaack. Cr-cr-cr-crack.
Spiderweb-like cracks suddenly spread across the middle-aged man's face,
Paaaaat!
Once again, a mysterious radiance poured toward Bu Eunseol.
The mutual-destruction technique of the True Demon Palace is incredibly bizarre.
It leaves a final secret technique just in case the enemy survives until the very end.
Swoop!
Bu Eunseol unfolded the Land Flight Technique and leapt up dozens of jang in a single breath.
He predicted that he could die if he underestimated that small head.
Bang!
Along with the sound of an explosion, a purple mist spread over the spot where Bu Eunseol had been standing.
Not only a terrifying explosion.
But a poison that instantly melted the enemy's body through the power of the Soul Demon Dharma Energy had been sprayed.
Rummmmble.
Bu Eunseol's gaze, looking down at the purple mist scattering in the air, was infinitely sunken.
"Does it mean he mistook me for my father."
The middle-aged man's eyes were blurry, not looking like he was in his right mind.
Moreover, it was said that his father attempted the Primeval Dragon's contract since he went out into the martial world in his youth.
So in the moment of death, his consciousness fading, he could have mistaken him for his father.
"What is certain is that the Empress Dowager is a person of the True Demon Palace."
Swoooosh.
Having descended to the ground again, Bu Eunseol's eyes deepened.
Because he caught the sound of tearing air coming from far away.
Flutter.
In the darkness-draped plains, a shadow slowly appeared before Bu Eunseol.
He wore a pitch-black official uniform, seemingly specially made for secret missions.
It was a man with movements as agile and flexible as a well-sharpened dagger.
'That person is?'
Bu Eunseol opened his eyes wide.
Wasn't it the very person who had boasted earlier that he would escort him as the Imperial Son-in-law.
The Embroidered Uniform Guard Chiliarch, Na Baekhu?
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