Chapter 96. Maksu’s Identity (2/2)
There was a red moon floating there.
When he looked at this moon, he began to get calmer.
After taking a look at the moon for a moment, Cho Ryu Hyang looked at Pian Mu for a bit, and then he opened his mouth.
“Do anything?”
Pian Mu nodded as he stretched out his hand and took back his pestle.
“Yeah. There must’ve been some things you wanted to do, right? Things you were unable to do because of your underdeveloped body. Here, you are able to do all that.”
Cho Ryu Hyang immediately thought of the heartfelt thought. He had been doing it since a while back. (TL Note: Heartfelt thought appears in chapter 88. Basically it’s a form of training where you can perform all kinds of moves w/o restriction in your brain.)
When he thought of this, he smiled.
He had just realized why he was so unafraid of Pian Mu.
“Maksu…… no, Pian Mu, was it?”
“Right. That’s my name.”
“It seems you made a huge mistake today.”
If he was able to do whatever he wanted like he did in his heartfelt thought training, he was completely unafraid of any enemies.
Everything that Cho Ryu Hyang possessed were extremely powerful, after all.
Cho Ryu Hyang grinned.
He needed to confirm something before they started.
“Anything within my imagination, you say?”
“As long as it’s not something that exceeds your inborn talent.”
Cho Ryu Hyang nodded and stepped forward.
There was something he needed to do before they started.
The moment he thought that, his body quickly began to change.
Crack-!
He began to get much taller, and his body got thicker.
Muscles began to grow from his limbs, and at the same time, his bones became extremely hard.
Pian Mu simply smiled when he saw this.
“You heightened your growth rate? You wouldn’t be able to get used to your new body.”
“No, I did that a long time ago already.”
Cho Ryu Hyang looked down at his new body and smiled.
It was the perfect body to create formations, and at the same time, make full use of the Shura Environment and the Moon Edge Blade Technique.
‘This is good.’
He wasn’t as muscular as Gongson Chun Gi at his height of power, but instead, he was thin and well-balanced.
It was the body he wanted to have when he grew up.
‘Seven years…… no, the me in eight years.’
Cho Ryu Hyang looked down at his hands.
He could then feel something extremely powerful surge inside him.
It was the power of the Shura Environment and the Moon Edge Blade Technique.
“……You say I needed to survive till the moon sets?”
“Right. Child, can you do it?”
Cho Ryu Hyang smiled.
“I told you that you made a mistake, right?”
“Yeah.”
“I’ll show you why.”
Cho Ryu Hyang made a simple punching motion.
It seemed like a simple, harmless move.
But when Cho Ryu Hyang did this, Pian Mu made a blocking motion with his pestle.
Baang-!
With a giant sound, the ground around Pian Mu broke to pieces, and the air trembled.
Pian Mu began to complain when he felt a throbbing pain on his wrist.
“Humans can have this much power? No way, this doesn’t make sense.”
Cho Ryu Hyang smiled.
He really was able to do anything he wanted here.
“Surprised already? That’s not good. See, my teacher’s even more of a monster than me.”
The punch from before seemed simply, but in truth, it was the single most powerful punch in the world.
It was the same technique Gongson Chun Gi used on Baek Mu Ryang in the past.
The technique that took down Baek Mu Ryang in an instant.
‘Dominating Shura Fist.’
One would expect the technique to be extremely weak due to the simple action performed by its user, but that would be a huge mistake.
The Dominating Shura Fist was one of the more powerful moves in the Shura Environment. The action from before concentrated an immense amount of energy and made it explode.
But of course, something like this didn’t work on Pian Mu.
Cho Ryu Hyang began to focus his power on his leg this time.
‘This time…….’
He needed something stronger.
Cho Ryu Hyang pulled out the power of the Moon Edge Blade Technique.
He then condensed it all into one part of his body.
His leg shot out with extreme speed and struck the air.
Kuaaa-!
Air condensed into a giant lump and shot out towards Pian Mu’s stomach.
They were 30 meters away, but distance didn’t really matter between them.
Pian Mu calmly looked at the lump of energy that came towards him, then struck it with his fist.
“How annoying.”
The invisible lump of energy and Pian Mu’s fist struck each other.
Bang-!
Energy dissipated along with an ear-splitting sound.
Pian Mu’s arm trembled.
The pain on his arm showed him just how strong Cho Ryu Hyang’s kick just now was.
How can a human even have this much power?
Pian Mu was extremely irritated inside, but he acted fine on the outside.
“What the hell? You were so confident with just this? Or are you just trying to test me?”
The child really was quite amazing.
But that was it.
He was only amazing among humans.
The child still lacked something. He didn’t meet Pian Mu’s expectations.
Cho Ryu Hyang shook his head.
Although he knew that he didn’t damage Pian Mu much, he had a smile on his face.
Unlike what Pian Mu expected, Cho Ryu Hyang was actually enjoying his situation very much.
“I didn’t test you. I tested myself, and I managed to get a satisfactory result from that test.”
“Hoh? What was your result?”
“Doable.”
Cho Ryu Hyang had calculated the power difference between him and Pian Mu.
He repositioned his glasses and grinned.
Surprisingly enough, this grin resembled Gongson Chun Gi’s evil grin very much.
“I’ll be going all out now.”
The Shura Environment and the Moon Edge Blade Technique.
They were two forms of martial arts that dominated the heavens.
However, they would not be able to beat Pian Mu by themselves.
That was Cho Ryu Hyang’s conclusion.
‘But if I manage to mix the two?’
The answer he got after much thought.
He was about to try out his newfound solution.