Chapter 102. Nightmare (1/2)
Chapter 102. Nightmare
ED:Chrysanthemum
Koom- Kugugugung-!
The surrounding area fell apart with a loud noise.
At the same time, the floor shook dangerously.
Pian Mu blinked.
Cho Ryu Hyang’s Formless Formation was finally beginning to make it’s move.
But Pian Mu wasn’t surprised or confused at all.
He simply smiled casually as he slowly observed the changes.
He was trying to find something.
He then walked over the the center of the formation where the most amount of energy was condensed and sat down comfortably.
“Kuhehe, this elder will personally teach you how weak your attacks are in front of me.”
“…….”
Cho Ryu hyang didn’t respond.
No, he couldn’t respond.
In order to create a formation inside a formation, he needed to create an extremely complicated equation.
An equation that couldn’t logically be handled by a human being.
He had to do the impossible.
As he continuously drew several strange shapes on the floor, he ceaselessly solved something in his head.
Then, in the middle of wandering in the mountain of equations, Cho Ryu Hyang paused.
His eyes widened.
Someone had suddenly come into his mind.
‘Teacher……’
The first man who managed to create a formation inside a formation, with his own body at that, was Cho Ryu Hyang’s teacher, Jo Gi Chun.
Cho Ryu Hyang’s body trembled at the thought of his teacher.
He looked down at the equations he had created on the ground with a huge frown.
That frown soon turned to amazement the more he looked at the floor.
And… a different feeling arose apart from his amazement.
It was sadness.
“Ha…… haha.”
Cho Ryu Hyang looked down for a second and laughed tiredly.
He had just realized how great of a person Jo Gi Chun was.
‘You were able to solve such an equation in such an urgent time?’
The equation that Jo Gi Chun used for his last formation.
When Cho Ryu Hyang looked over that equation, he had trembled from awe.
Jo Gi Chun was prepared to die from the very beginning.
He was trying his best to protect his disciple from the very beginning.
A formation within a formation wasn’t something that could ever be created by a human.
A human would die when trying to create one.
“What the hell? Kid, did you go crazy or something?”
Pian Mu became confused when Cho Ryu Hyang suddenly began to laugh.
He didn’t know why Cho Ryu Hyang had suddenly turned weird.
“Should I punch you awake or something before we start?”
Cho Ryu Hyang flinched at Pian Mu’s voice, and smiled.
“…….Ah, I had forgotten about you. Don’t worry. Everything’s going according to plan.”
Cho Ryu Hyang lifted his head. His eyes had turned red.
At the same time, cold air blew in.
“…….Hoh?”
It was intense killing intent that caused one’s skin to crawl.
The amount of rage that emanated from Cho Ryu Hyang caused Pian Mu to smile.
He was very familiar with this kind of rage.
“A painful memory, huh?”
Cho Ryu Hyang slowly nodded and shot out several words.
“Thanks to you.”
“Hehe. Good. Very good. This will be fun.”
Pian Mu’s eyes got filled with intense joy.
“You see. I’m not a person who can’t get his hands tied over here by the likes of you. Last warning: stop here.”
Pian Mu’s lips twitched several times, then he burst into a laughing fit.
“Kuhahaha! Just how could humans be this arrogant? You still have something to show me? Sure, show it to me then. I’ll take anything you throw at me.”
“I’ll give you just that.”
Chuaa-
Cho Ryu Hyang erased all the equations that he previously drew on the floor.
He then tied his hair into a ponytail and smiled bitterly.
“This is a life I attained due to the sacrifice of my teacher. I cannot waste such a thing here.”
“Kekeke, a human’s life is like those of a bug anyway. Do you honestly think your life is worth anything?”
“You’ll see.”
Cho Ryu Hyang became enraged at himself as he spoke.
He had complained to himself how much his life was worth all the time, but it seemed he was actually being proud of it.
He had just gotten this life thanks to the sacrifice of others, didn’t he?
Even his teacher, Jo Gi Chun, died for him.
For him, who had no talents nor strength, his teacher had to sacrifice himself.
‘I have to live.’
Cho Ryu Hyang realized why he had to try to survive.
‘My life is worth literal tonnes of gold.’
Cho Ryu Hyang, now that he realized the worth of his life, put his hands to.
“Do you know the last thing my teacher had taught me?”
“Who knows? Does it relate to whatever you’re doing now?”
“Of course it does. This is my teacher’s formation, after all.”
A formation within a formation.
If one wanted to create that, one would have to have a very strong nucleus for the formation.
Something that wouldn’t break under any amount of pressure.
‘My teacher used his life as the nucleus, but……’
He couldn’t afford to do that.
Because of that, he decided to take a different approach.
After all, he had something that his teacher did not have at the time right now.
Cho Ryu Hyang took a deep breath and cleared his head.
‘I cannot die.’
Cho Ryu Hyang was planning on adding a new formation that was completely different from the current one right now.
Right then.
Kururu-
With a strange sound, the earth split apart, and hot steam began to blow out from it.
A smell of sulfur came from the steam.
Pian Mu looked down at the floor with a smile.
“Kuhahaha! Do you think you can get out of this alive, boy?”
“You should worry about yourself.”
A ball of light began to gather between Cho Ryu Hyang’s hands.
He was combining the powers of the Moon Edge Blade Technique and the Shura Environment.
Pian Mu’s eyes shone when he saw that ball of light.
It was something that had injured him before.
It would be a lie to say that he wasn’t interested in it.
‘As expected……’