Chapter 121. Demon Eyes (2/2)
He was walking forward at an unbelievable speed.
No Jin Nyung widened his eyes.
“Heavenly Demon Steps?”
Was that not similar to the Heavenly Demon Steps that he was practicing?
Something was off about it, though.
Cho Ryu Hyang’s version seemed a lot more stable.
After looking dumbly for a moment, No Jin Nyung came to his senses and began to chase after Cho Ryu Hyang.
He needed to ask what had happened.
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‘I was one step late.’
Cho Ryu Hyang frowned after reaching the place where Maksu had released his energy.
He couldn’t find the rabbit.
Instead, he found someone completely unexpected.
Sunwu Cho Rin.
“What happened?”
Sunwu Cho Rin looked at Cho Ryu Hyang strangely.
She had recognized it as well.
Cho Ryu Hyang was using the Heavenly Demon Steps.
‘This kid learned the Heavenly Demon Technique?’
The Heavenly Demon Technique was an incomplete martial art.
The art was famous for having numerous side effects, but the heir was managing to learn the Heavenly Demon Technique.
Sunwu Cho Rin stopped thinking about such things the moment No Jin Nyung appeared.
“I felt something strange where his Holiness used to be, so I came immediately.”
Cho Ryu Hyang’s face stiffened.
His master was here?
“Master was… here? Did you happen to see a white rabbit as well?”
“Yes, I did.”
“…Damn it!”
How did he miss it?
Cho Ryu Hyang tried thinking of his teacher’s encounter with Maksu.
No matter how much he thought, he couldn’t see their exchange going the right way.
‘I need to hurry.’
Even his teacher would have a problem with Maksu’s power.
Maksu was a monster, after all.
There was no way to beat the thing with pure strength.
Cho Ryu Hyang looked around in agitation.
He could feel the ghosts around him stare at him silently.
Cho Ryu Hyang bit his lips.
‘Now’s not the time to think about these.’
Cho Ryu Hyang activated his Demon Eye.
The eyes that were redder than ever before flew up high into the sky.
The ghosts around him began to react strongly to this red light.
They immediately rushed towards Cho Ryu Hyang.
Uoooh-!
The stains began to stick to Cho Ryu Hyang’s body.
Cho Ryu Hyang didn’t dodge them.
Rather, he couldn’t dodge them.
Stick-
Ghosts began to stick to Cho Ryu Hyang’s body.
Cho Ryu Hyang shuddered at the disgusting feeling and raised the eye ever higher.
His body began to tremble.
He could feel ghosts trying to dig into him.
But Cho Ryu Hyang endured.
‘Now’s the important part.’
He had never tried to lift the Demon Eye this high up before.
Around the time when Cho Ryu Hyang’s face turned pale.
He could see.
An eye similar to his that was spewing out red light.
The moment his eye met with those of his master’s.
Cho Ryu Hyang canceled his Demon Eye and fell on the ground.
The strength in his body had left him completely.
“Hah, hah…”
“Are you alright?”
When Sunwu Cho Rin tried to support him,
Cho Ryu Hyang waved her away and stood up by himself.
The annoying things stuck to his body dissipated.
‘What the?’
Sunwu Cho Rin watched as Cho Ryu Hyang brushed his body.
She couldn’t see the ghosts, making the entire scene extremely strange.
No Jin Nyung opened his mouth.
“Are you alright?”
“……”
Cho Ryu Hyang nodded silently.
No Jin Nyung opened his mouth.
“If I wasn’t wrong, what you have just shown me was the completed form of the Heavenly Demon Steps.”
Cho Ryu Hyang turned to look at No Jin Nyung.
He could see a flame burning in the man’s eyes.
‘Desire.’
Cho Ryu Hyang nodded.
“You’re right. This is the completed form.”
The completed form of the Heavenly Demon Steps?
Didn’t this mean that Cho Ryu Hyang learned the completed Heavenly Demon Technique?
‘Is that even possible?’
When Sunwu Cho Rin made a suspicious face,
No Jin Nyung grabbed onto Cho Ryu Hyang’s hands desperately.
“W-would you teach it to me?”
Sunwu Cho Rin looked at No Jin Nyung as if she was looking at a crazy person.
It was the unspoken rule of the martial world to not ask others to teach them their techniques.
‘How does he not even know of something so basic?’
Sunwu Cho Rin didn’t know if Cho Ryu Hyang knew the completed form of the Heavenly Demon Technique.
But regardless of that, asking a person to teach was just wrong.
Cho Ryu Hyang thought for a bit, then opened his mouth.
“I’ll teach you. But before that, I must go somewhere.”
No Jin Nyung nodded.
“I’ll wait.”
He could wait as long as Cho Ryu Hyang wanted.
As long as he could learn the completed form of the Heavenly Demon Technique, he could wait.
Cho Ryu Hyang moved away, leaving the dumbfounded Sunwu Cho Rin behind.
His body was lighter than ever before.
He needed to save his teacher.