An opponent strong enough to make bile rise.

To think they called Heavenly Commander Yeo the weakest among the Blood Immortal Ten Heavenly Commanders – what an utter bullshit.

Is this the kind of enemy the Wudang’s Fist Emperor faced back then?

A mountain that seemed distant when viewed from afar proved terrifying when encountered as an enemy.

Sama Hyeon glanced at his brother before flashing a smile.

“Well~ I am from the Hao Sect, aren’t I? I might know something, or I might not. Why? Curious?”

Sama Hyeon smiled brightly while raising his middle finger.

The finger insult works well in both modern times and the Central Plains.

Even those who didn’t know its meaning interpreted the raised middle finger perfectly well.

Moreover.

Is there truly a traitor among us?

A Blood Immortal Sect executive couldn’t tolerate even a single doubt, and knowing this, Sama Hyeon ran his mouth without changing his expression.

“Hmm. In that case… shall I deal with you first?”

“Go ahead and try~ Heavenly Commander Yeo, sorcerer and evil arts practitioner?”

Sama Hyeon gently provoked him. Heavenly Commander Yeo responded by swinging his left arm wide.

Swoosh!

Black-Horned Serpent shot out from his sleeve like lightning.

In that moment, the clever hawk began its snake hunt.

Thud!

Noe-jin unleashed his power with blue lightning.

Rumble-!

The power of the Heavenly Thunder Hawk struck the Black-Horned Serpent with lightning.

The Black-Horned Serpent trembled and tumbled from the roof.

But Noe-jin wouldn’t miss such a chance.

Wasn’t the hawk a specialist in snake hunting!

He dove straight down with talons extended toward the falling Black-Horned Serpent.

However, the Black-Horned Serpent was the most spiritual among Heavenly Commander Yeo’s long-nurtured spiritual beasts!

Though struck by lightning, it seemed not seriously wounded as it changed position mid-fall and launched itself at Noe-jin.

Slash-!

In that moment when the two spiritual beasts entangled.

Sama Hyeon charged at Heavenly Commander Yeo once again.

His two hands twisted at bizarre angles and multiplied into dozens!

Thousand Changes Ten Thousand Inspection Art[1].

One Step Ten Changes[2]–!

Originally an art for changing facial masks, now it moved precisely to tear apart Heavenly Commander Yeo’s body.

Hands like Guanyin statues of Buddhism, yet each contained death.

Their number was eighteen.

Though containing the mysteries of Buddhism’s Eighteen Realms, they held the opposite meaning.

The six sense organs, six sense objects, and six consciousnesses.

Buddhist principles of human cognition inverted as they took root in Sama Hyeon.

It was the form of a malevolent buddha praising death.

As the malevolent buddha’s mysteries filled his hands, Sama Hyeon’s face began changing into dozens of expressions.

An angry face. A smiling face. A sorrowful face. An emotionless face.

Beyond bizarre, it was alien and grotesque enough to shake the minds of those who witnessed it.

Thousand Changes Ten Thousand Inspection Art.

Joy, Anger, Sorrow, Pleasure.

Though it could be called a type of soul-controlling technique, it contained mysterious skills that shook cognition, affecting the opponent’s mind.

Heavenly Commander Yeo faced a fear like encountering an ancient evil spirit after a long time.

This…!?

Heavenly Commander Yeo’s body froze for a moment.

A gap as brief as an eye blink.

Yet in a blood battle between masters, that instant was more precious than gold.

Riding that moment, Sama Hyeon’s attack nearly reached Heavenly Commander Yeo’s face.

Just about to tear off Heavenly Commander Yeo’s skull!

Clang Clang Clang!

Finally, Sama Hyeon’s attack struck Heavenly Commander Yeo directly.

However, it was Sama Hyeon who retreated with a frustrated expression.

A long gash ran across Sama Hyeon’s right arm, with acrid poisonous smoke rising from the wound.

Sama Hyeon grinned.

“Wow, the Blood Immortal Sect’s wearing some interesting stuff these days~?”

“As interesting as those gloves on your hands?”

Heavenly Commander Yeo replied with a leisurely voice.

Though his Daoist robe was completely torn to rags, what was revealed underneath was truly shocking.

Scale armor made of snake skin.

Protective energy swirled around the entire garment.

When Sama Hyeon tried to tear off his head, Heavenly Commander Yeo immediately twisted his body to take the attack with his own body.

Not that this gave Sama Hyeon any reason to stop attacking.

If he could tear out this guy’s internal organs, that would be to his advantage.

However, the scale armor beautifully blocked the attack.

“Wow… look at that equipment advantage on both of them~ This is why I joined the Golden Blood Chamber, brother. Even bastards and idiots know their bodies are precious, so they burn money to buy gear to wear? Without equipment, my head would’ve been flying~”

Thus spoke the future Golden King and father of chain stores.

“Hahaha, you’re the first to talk such nonsense after seeing my armor. Then… shall we stop playing around?”

Thud!

“Kugh!”

When Heavenly Commander Yeo exploded his energy, Jin Cheonhee, who had been locked in an internal energy battle, was pushed back.

Though Jin Cheonhee tried to counterattack immediately, Heavenly Commander Yeo used that brief moment to launch himself at Sama Hyeon.

“The more we fight, the less I understand you, so you’ll have to die first.”

Heavenly Commander Yeo’s instincts clearly told him that Sama Hyeon was still hiding his cards.

Therefore. It would be best to kill such a being as early as possible!

Fuck! The provocation worked too well!

Jin Cheonhee immediately raised his internal energy and swung up his sword.

However.

In that critical moment.

A hand and a blade suddenly thrust out through the fog.

Unified attack and defense martial arts appearing simultaneously from left and right!

While blocking Heavenly Commander Yeo’s killing strike, they launched a lethal counter-attack.

Clang!

The fist and sword collided with Heavenly Commander Yeo’s killing strike creating a great explosion and.

In the three steps Heavenly Commander Yeo retreated.

The owners of the fist and sword stepped onto the roof.

There stood Yeo Ha-ryoon and Jin Cheon Woo wearing masks, looking down at Heavenly Commander Yeo.

“Seems our youngest is having trouble. Then shouldn’t you quit being a brother?”

To those words, Yeo Ha-ryoon added.

“If it’s too much, you can stop being our brother right now. Weak ones would just get in the way.”

Yeo Ha-ryoon and Cheon Woo.

Jin Cheonhee’s other two brothers had thus invaded, targeting the enemy’s blind spots.

***

“I really don’t know how our people handle their work. We had no information about these guys existing.”

Heavenly Commander Yeo clicked his tongue softly.

The Blood Immortal Sect operates as a secret organization, moving in the shadows through cell structures.

For such an organization, information is their lifeline.

Thus, the Blood Immortal Sect’s information network was quite extensive, with their tentacles even reaching into parts of the demonic cult.

However.

No information about these masked people had yet reached Heavenly Commander Yeo’s hands.

If only their faces were visible, it would be easier to identify them right away.

“Seems I’ll need to do some housekeeping when I return to the sect. Others might be fooled, but not my eyes. Crossing swords, he definitely seems like he has the Heavenly-Killing Star, but the fact this information hasn’t reached my ears means our dogs have grown lazy, doesn’t it?”

Watching Heavenly Commander Yeo grumble, Jin Cheonhee quietly clicked his tongue.

Originally, the plan was for two people to ambush and inflict heavy damage from hiding.

However, Heavenly Commander Yeo’s bizarre abilities had increased the difficulty of an ambush.

Thus, judging it more important to preserve strength than attempt an ambush, they had saved Sama Hyeon.

Because of that, Sama Hyeon seems slightly annoyed.

Though smiling, his irritation was palpable.

In this situation, saying he could have saved himself and continued coordinating with his brother without them would just look bad.

Suddenly… Jin Cheonhee realized.

Perhaps those two saved Sama Hyeon to establish hierarchy since it came to this?

The surprise attack being ruined made this situation too crazy to have done it just for that.

However, Yeo Ha-ryoon didn’t seem to care about such things.

“If you’re thinking of buying time, abandon that thought.”

One step.

Yeo Ha-ryoon took the first step forward.

Along with this, terrifying energy began pouring from him, pressing down on the surroundings.

Rumble-

Heavenly Demon Sovereign Steps.

A divine art that handles formless energy.

It constricted Heavenly Commander Yeo’s entire body, interfering with his movements.

“You die here.”

Yes. This was his personality.

Yeo Ha-ryoon.

Rather than ambush from behind, he preferred smashing faces from the front.

Even when brother signaled for an ambush, he probably preferred striking head-on.

But that was fine.

Jin Cheonhee didn’t doubt Yeo Ha-ryoon’s choice.

He has the Heavenly-Killing Star, and he’s the protagonist.

The martial arts novel reader deeply trusted that if the protagonist chose this, there must be a reason.

Yeo Ha-ryoon’s hands turned black.

His hands, wrapped in Heavenly Demon True Qi, extended straight out containing destructive power.

Heavenly Demon Divine Arts: Ultimate Technique – Sun Moon Destruction Dance.

Combination.

Sun Moon Rupture Fist[3].

It was the ultimate technique of the Heavenly Demon Divine Arts he had used when fighting Jin Cheonhee before.

A destructive martial art that shredded everything in its path like a blender.

In the blink of an eye.

It reached Heavenly Commander Yeo’s front.

And something unbelievable happened.

Clang!

The Sun Moon Rupture Fist suddenly collided with something that flew in, exploding and scattering.

Rumble.

They were countless pieces of snake corpses.

At some point, snakes had densely approached from all around.

“Die? Me? Ahahahaha!”

Heavenly Commander Yeo burst into maniacal laughter.

Simultaneously, countless wind sounds began around them.

Sheek. Sheesheek. Sheeshisheek.

They were snake tongues. And at some point, uncountable snakes had been crawling around them.

“I never thought I’d be so underestimated just because I haven’t shown myself in the martial world? Let me introduce myself again. I am Heavenly Commander Yeo, who received sorcery from the Blood Immortals. Practitioner of evil arts and sorcery. And your grim reaper!”

Slither!

Three flames appeared and flickered around Heavenly Commander Yeo’s body.

Though floating fireballs in mid-air was certainly surprising, everyone watched calmly.

“Now then, resist! You’ll all end up crushed under my feet anyway!”

The flames rushed toward the three except Jin Cheonhee, while snakes bared their fangs and attacked from all directions.

Amidst the fog and snakes, flames and madness, Jin Cheonhee and his sworn brothers began unleashing their martial arts at full power.