Chapter 33. Nanman Beast Gate (2/2)
No, there was no way he’d know it in the first place. What’d he know about a Reversed Scale, when this was the first time even seeing an Imugi in his life?
[Only a dragon can possess a Reversed Scale. And at the same time, a dragon’s only weakness is its Reversed Scale. In short, if you handle the scale without care, this guy might die.]
Cho Ryu Hyang frowned unconsciously.
Why? Why would the old man say this, especially when he just became prepared? Cho Ryu Hyang put on a complicated face.
Then, Zhuge Liang spoke to him with a low voice.
[Since that guy is determined to do this, I’m telling you to do the same, greenhorn.]
Determination…….
Cho Ryu Hyang lifted his head, and took a look at the Imugi.
However, he immediately turned away, as he made eye contact with the Imugi.
‘This is…….’
Cho Ryu hyang felt that he was suddenly burdened with an immense task.
[I trust you, human. If anything goes wrong, it would be my fate, and not your mistake, so you don’t have anything to worry about.]
Cho Ryu Hyang swallowed his spit.
To be determined. He could really feel what that phrase meant.
The Imugi in front of him was prepared to die. Since Cho Ryu Hyang felt that determination of the Imugi in full force, he felt that he couldn’t really back down now.
[I stayed alive as a monstrosity that wasn’t either a dragon or an Imugi. I want to see an end to this now.]
Cho Ryu Hyang stayed quiet. He closed his eyes, and began to breath slowly.
‘As I thought, nothing is free in this world.’
Yes. Nothing in this world was free.
As he received something from Zhuge Liang, he had to give something back. Equivalent Exchange (等價交換). This was exactly that.
Cho Ryu Hyang forcefully calmed down his anxious heart, and grit his teeth.
His hands slowly took on a watery sheen. He was beginning to use the Seizing Conversion Technique.
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“It’s quite a sight, brother.”
“Indeed.”
“It’s the Moon Edge Blade Technique, alright. To think that it could make the people of the mainland this active……. This really is a rare sight.”
The two men with coppery skin. The one who seemed to be the older one, the man with an arrogant face, opened his mouth while looking down from the hill.
“We got lucky. We managed to reel in some really big guys. Thanks to that, we got to see a giant battle like this.”
“Big guys…… you mean the Dao Emperor and the Demon Emperor?”
“Yes.”
“Does brother really believe that these people are as strong as the rumors say?”
The two men. They weren’t from the central regions. They were from the far south. They were from the mysterious clan that was located in the region of Nanman.
Nanman Beast Gate (南蠻野獸門). They came from that clan.
“I don’t believe in rumors. I only believe what I see with my eyes.”
The man with an arrogant face. He, the one known to have the most talent in the history of the clan, was the heir to the Nanman Beast Gate.
Gu Hui (嶇輝).
He spoke with a small smile on his face.
“I don’t know about the others, but these two are the real deal. I don’t think that even father could win easily against them.”
“Are they really…….”
“They really are that strong. I can’t even measure their power with my eyes. This really got interesting.”
Gu Hui’s younger brother, Gu Mun Ha (嶇紊夏), closed his mouth.
To him, his father was a living god. The living legend of Nanman who was regarded as a god. The man who was treated equally to his father, was his older brother.
Gu Hui.
The man destined to be the strongest of the world in the next generation.
Since a man like that was the one to say this statement, he could only believe it.
“I will……. confirm it with my own eyes.”
“That will be for the best.”
Gu Hui looked upon the Alliance and the Heavenly Demon Church from afar, and laughed on the inside. The one to find the Moon Edge Blade Technique was neither the Alliance, not the Heavenly Demon Church.
Gu Hui is Nanman Beast Gate. The one who wasn’t even from the central regions, was the one to find traces of the legendary technique.
He even jumped into the formation on the tomb, fully aware of what dangers might lie inside.
‘Well, I managed to see something unbelievable, thanks to that…….’
He managed to go inside after struggling through the formation. The fact that he studied formations quite a bit helped him a lot. But the thing he saw inside was something that really was unbelievable.
‘Should I call it a dragon?’
Gu Hui was used to meeting nonhuman creatures. Thanks to that, he was able to look at the giant being without flinching.
He could see then. That thing wasn’t a holy being like a dragon. It was just an Imugi that failed to ascend. He could remember the conversation he had with the Imugi that time.
[How unfortunate. You lack talent…….]
The thing truly became sad when it looked at Gu Hui.
He was lacking? Gu Hui scowled.
[You were not chosen. And therefore, you do not have the right to be here. Leave.]
Gu Hui stared at the thing with a straight face, and spoke.
“You say that I am lacking?”
[Yes. A little.]
“Then, do you believe that there is a human more talented than I?”
The thing laughed. It seemed to find all this amusing.
[Of course, arrogant human.]
He was destined to be an emperor since the day he was born. Even a person like he was lacking?
Since this kind of a thing was new to Gu Hui, he just stood there looking at the Imugi. He soon laughed.
“How unfortunate.”
He thought about killing the Imugi, but that’s not how he worked. Then he thought of a more amusing idea.
“I hope you meet the one you want to meet.”
[I will. Soon.]
Gu Hui began to think after coming out of the formation. And the end result was this.
The Alliance-Demon war.
The reason for everything that was going on here, was the Nanman Beast Gate. The ones who had been hidden in the shadows for so long were finally baring their fangs.