Chapter 38. The Last Lesson (1/2)

Chapter 38. The Last Lesson

Cho Ryu Hyang dreamed. In the dream, he had become a small butterfly.

‘What’s this?’

It was a strange dream. He remembered becoming unconscious after touching the purple orb, but to think that it would make him have such a strange dream…… While Cho Ryu Hyang was complaining quietly in his mind, what he was seeing in front of him changed drastically.

He was a small butterfly with white wings. Cho Ryu Hyang flapped his wings, and looked around. This was a place filled with a lot of people. And he could see some familiar faces in their midst.

‘Teacher!’

Gongson Chun Gi. The Pope of the Heavenly Demon Church came in his sight first. Even in a crowd of people like this, it was impossible to hide the man’s presence.

Cho Ryu Hyang. He flapped his white wings in joy and tried to approach his teacher, then stopped midway.

‘Teacher…….’

His teacher was furious.

‘Hey……. old man.’

Gongson Chun Gi slowly turned his head, and looked at Baek Mu Ryang.

“Was this what you really wanted?”

One clash. Just one clash between the two sides already caused tens of people to die. The blood of the young martial artists ran down the battlefield.

The whole place was filled with the sounds of their screams and ceaseless fighting. They were in a situation that Gongson Chun Gi desperately wanted to avoid.

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“Answer me!”

Baek Mu Ryang’s serious face didn’t change one bit. He prepared himself for the final attack, and opened his mouth.

“Sacrifice is inevitable in order to get rid of evil. And the people here were already prepared to die from the start.”

“What? Evil?”

“The Heavenly Demon Church is like a poisonous snake. We are prepared to sacrifice anything in order to get rid of you people from the world.”

Gongson Chun Gi smiled. The two sides of his lips twisted upwards to form a smile. But his eyes were not smiling at all.

“Did you just call us a poisonous snake?”

“Yes. The Heavenly Demon Church is something that must be erased for the good of the world. Don’t you know that?”

Gongson Chun Gi smiled. That guy truly believed that the church was something evil. It was nonsensical. That man’s logic made no sense at all, which made this all too funny.

“Ku, kuku, kuhahaha!”

Gongson Chun Gi laughed. He looked up towards the sky, and laughed. After a while, he abruptly stopped laughing, and opened his mouth.

“To think that there was a person as stubborn as my teacher. It’s funny.”

Gongson Chun Gi’s body began to release a completely different aura than before. It was a blood-red aura, a very dense and violent one, at that.

“I don’t have time, so I’ll show you my real power. You should be honored to see this.”

Gongson Chun Gi fondled his black bracelet on his right arm as he spoke. He slowly took off the bracelet, and talked.

“I wouldn’t have time to restrain myself after this……. So if I were you, I’d run right now.”

“That’s quite insulting.”

“It’s an advice, you idiot.”

Psha–

Baek Mu Ryang jumped backwards, as he got assaulted by his enemy’s violent aura. He gripped his swords tightly, and looked forward. What he saw, surprised him greatly.

‘T, this…….’

It made Baek Mu Ryang feel unnerved. Gongson Chun Gi’s gray hairs slowly began to turn black again. That wasn’t all. Gongson Son Chun Gi’s body, which was full of wrinkles, began to expand, making him look young and powerful again.

Crack, snap–

The muscles rapidly reconstructed itself. Bones were being put in place again. Gongson Chun Gi was changing at a frightening pace.

‘This isn’t possible!’

Wasn’t this the legendary Rejuvenation effect (返老還童)?

“Hehe…….”

Gongson Chun Gi, ignoring his opponent right beside him, exhaled, then grinned.

“This doesn’t feel so bad.”

He hadn’t felt this way in a long time. Just how much did he suffer from suppressing his power in all the time? When he let his power out like this, it felt heavenly. Within moments, his body was bursting with immeasurable power.

“You said we were evil, right? Fine. I’ll show you what a real demon is like.”

“……..”

Baek Mu Ryang grit his teeth. Come to think of it, he heard of something a long time ago. The reason why the Heavenly Demon Church did not fall, even with everyone on the continent persecuting them. A power unrelated to neither religion nor devotion. The power that stood above everything else.

‘Shura Environment!’

It was a martial art that only the Pope could learn. Everything happening to the Pope right now had to do with that.

“First, a single blow.”

Gongson Chun Gi grinned. He then made a relaxed fist with his hand, and lightly punched towards Baek Mu Ryang. A very relaxed movement. The end result, however, wasn’t light at all.

Bang–!

A highly pressurized blast of air came at Baek Mu Ryang.

‘Shit!’

Baek Mu Ryang swung his sword towards the blast coming towards him. A white cloud of energy came from the sword, and formed a wall in front of Baek Mu Ryang. It was the strongest technique of the Alliance, the Absolute Dao Sword Technique. He used that. The blast and the white sword energy met each other head-on.

Kukukuakuang–!

There was a blast! An explosion as the earth torn apart. Something that flew away like a rag doll. Surprisingly, the one that was blasted away was Baek Mu Ryang.

“……..He’s unlucky.”

Gongson Chun Gi glanced at Baek Mu Ryang, who had thrown up blood and fainted, then looked back at the battlefield. Everyone was still fighting.

“Damn it.”

Seeing blood made his body go crazy. An immense, uncontrollable power. It was currently making his whole body crave blood. It felt like he was about to go crazy.

‘You think I’d lose?’

Pshh–

The bloody aura around Gongson Chun Gi began to get lighter. He was desperately keeping his power at bay. Otherwise, if he lost control here, things would get extremely bad.