Invitation to the Chatroom of the Gods - Chapter 100



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Episode 100 – Do or Die (1)

A blue cloud sword that flew in with a sudden change of momentum.

The Murim Grand Prince hurriedly drew his sword and responded.

The shock that came with a “Kwaang!” made the Murim Grand Prince take two steps back. The shock that shook his entire body shook even the Murim Grand Prince’s mind for a moment.

‘what······.’

A look of surprise appeared in the eyes of the Murim Grand Prince. It was true that he was quite flustered when Cheongwoon suddenly rushed at him like a madman.

However, he was not directly hit by the shock. He clearly let the shock escape. Nevertheless, the Murim Grand Prince suffered light ‘internal injuries’.

The heaviness contained in Cheongun’s one sword.

It was as if he had not been able to fully bear the sword that contained the weight of the sky.

Then, a slash! A sound of air being torn apart was heard. The sharp Cheongun sword aimed for the nape of the Murim Grand Prince’s neck.

The Murim Grand Prince’s eyebrows suddenly twitched.

······It’s an invitation to kill.

Cheongun······ No, that crazy guy was ‘serious’ about this fight. He wasn’t thinking of fighting casually, he was risking his life.

That is why this fight was not a contest of martial arts between the two.

A life-or-death decision that puts each other’s lives on the line.

Of course, the Grand Prince of Murim had no such intentions. But that crazy guy also seemed to have no such intentions for another reason.

The Great King of Martial Arts?? He raised his sword diagonally. The sword of Cheongun, which was flying towards the nape of his neck, collided with him with a “Kwaang!”

The Murim Grand Prince hesitated again and took a step back. This time, he clearly felt the shock, but his hands were numb. He was paralyzed and couldn’t feel anything properly.

······As expected, Cheongun is sincere.

“Why on earth do you have to do this!”

“No one believes me!!”

Cheongwoon ran again, screaming like a madman. The movement of flying into the arms of the Murim Grand Prince was truly something that could only be described as crazy.

The flying blue cloud sword suddenly swept across the four directions.

At first glance, it looked like a random sword swing, but each and every one of those sword swings was an invitation to kill.

If he were to allow even one blow, it would lead to certain death. The sword of the Murim Grand Prince swung quickly.

Block, kick out, spill, stab, retreat, and move forward.

Boom! Boom! Kwak bang!

A series of explosive sounds erupted from the continuous strikes. The arm muscles of the martial arts master twitched under the pressure of the sword.

I felt an endless fighting spirit from Cheongun when I met him up close.

Cheongun’s eyes, with their incomparable determination, were those of a warrior prepared to die.

······There really is no such thing as a crazy person.

“Don’t you know that doing this now is just hastening your fate!!”

The Grand Prince of Murim counterattacked and swung his sword. Suddenly, in a fit of anger, the Grand Prince of Murim unconsciously mixed in a killing spell.

The ten best swordsmen in the world. There are few in the world who can handle it, but Cheongwoon was able to handle the swordsmanship of the great martial arts master.

“This is not someone else’s but the Emperor himself who has spoken! This means it is the Emperor’s decree!!”

“That’s what I mean!”

Cheongwoon shouted with an evil expression on his face, as if he too was going crazy and jumping for joy.

“Whether I die this way or that, it’s all the same! Wouldn’t it be better to die or be crushed?”

Seriously······ I wondered what that meant. That’s why even the martial arts master was going crazy and jumping around, but he really had nothing to say.

To be exact, it didn’t seem like anyone would listen to anything I said.

Hekkadak, the eyes of Cheongwoon who returned did not even consider the great seniors of the martial arts world, Nabal, or Yeombyeong.

By any chance, could it be that I am possessed by a demon that is possessed by running fire?

If that had been the case, I could have understood it. But unfortunately(?) that wasn’t the case. Cheongwoon only blinked his eyes, but his heart and emotions were calm.

then······.

“If I’m going to die anyway, I’ll do it with a vengeance!”

It all came to mean madness that came from ‘sane’······.

For the time being, the Murim Grand Prince could not understand what was going on.

* * *

······Why are you doing that?

To be honest, Dang So-hyang couldn’t shake off the thought, ‘What on earth is he doing?’

None other than Cheongun and the Grand Prince of Murim.

To be exact, I couldn’t understand what Cheongun was doing, so I had no idea why they were fighting.

At first, I thought there must be a reason why Cheongun had been so insistent.

Dang So-hyang could believe and follow whatever Cheong-un said, so she didn’t even have any doubts.

So, even when the officials of the royal inspectorate pressured her to confess everything, Dang So-hyang kept her mouth shut.

Even as the encirclement of Cheonrajiwangsal (Heavenly Net of the Earth) was closing in, it was Tang So-hyang who opened up a path for Cheong-un to escape.

I risked my life to rebel against the will of the royal family, but what the heck? As I found out later, it was all a misunderstanding.

I was able to hear the inside story that the royal family came to capture Cheongun not to harm him, but to reward him.

Dang So-hyang was relieved and relieved to learn that it all stemmed from a ‘misunderstanding.’

So, I ran in a hurry to tell Cheongwoon that it was all a misunderstanding······.

“to······?”

The first sight that Tang So-hyang encountered was the sight of the two of them throwing salcho (殺招) at each other. No, was it the sight of only Cheong-un throwing salcho?

I’m not sure, but anyway, it looked like the two were fighting.

The two swords thus touched each other.

Suddenly, Cheongwoon quickly took a step back. The Murim Grand Prince jumped forward so as not to lose Cheongwoon.

Kwakwakwakwa-!

The force of the impact completely tore away the landscape of the mountains. The ground cracked and cracked like a rice paddy in an early drought, and the broken trees and rocks were shattered into tiny pieces.

A sure life and death decision.

It was a fight that seemed like it would end only if one of them died.

“Ah, no······.”

Tang So-hyang really wondered why she was like that.

I felt like I had to stop them somehow, but even if I wanted to, the fight between those two wasn’t something I could do.

The power of the two that shook the heavens and earth only rendered all of Tang So-hyang’s poisonous techniques and magic techniques useless.

A fight between masters was nothing short of a disaster in itself…

“Huh······?”

Dang So-hyang could only watch the fight between the two with a stupid face, and it was at that very moment.

“I didn’t know it would go this far······.”

Suddenly, a man’s voice was heard next to Tang So-hyang. When she turned her gaze, she saw a handsome imperial official standing at an appropriate distance from Tang So-hyang.

He was the official who explained the previous situation to Dang So-hyang. Was his position the Deputy Inspector of the Office of the Inspector General? I don’t know the details, but he was an extremely high-ranking official.

And the name is······. Oh, yeah.

It was clearly introduced as ‘Ju Gwan Cheon’.

Ju Gwan-cheon quietly watched the fight between Cheong-un and the Murim Grand Prince.

And Ju Gwan-cheon also didn’t seem to understand the fight between the two······ No, rather than not understanding, he seemed to have not ‘expected’ it.

After a while, Ju Gwan-cheon nodded with a look of approval.

“You’ve grown up.”

······I wondered what this meant.

So, I didn’t understand at all what they meant when they said they grew up seeing something.

“But if you continue like this, your defeat is certain. What are you going to do, Cheongun?”

Ju Gwan-cheon muttered softly. And it wasn’t a mistake.

As he said, Cheongun was being pushed back by the Great Army of Murim.

First of all, the opponent in the form of the Grand Prince of Murim was not very good, and Cheongwoon’s condition was not very good either.

Cheongwoon woke up from fainting not long ago. No, not just not long ago, he woke up today.

However, the fact that he was able to fight the Great King of Murim to that extent was beyond surprising; it was ‘astonishing’, but there was still a limit.

And didn’t Cheongun know that fact?

“Hahahaha! Is that your last number?”

Suddenly, Ju Gwan-cheon burst out laughing. As if it was indeed Cheong-un, Ju Gwan-cheon’s expression was boiling with excitement.

I was wondering why it was suddenly like that······.

Kwaaaaaaaah-!

An incredible amount of power was bursting out from Cheongun. Tang So-hyang was startled and jumped up from her seat.

That would be the case, since he had only just woken up… No, if he had just woken up today and had squeezed out all his energy like that, his life would have been in danger.

Fortunately, I didn’t use innate energy.

However, no matter how much internal energy you have, if you squeeze it out like that, it will definitely cause damage to your danjeon.

But Cheongun did not hesitate.

He was exploding all his internal energy as if squeezing his danjeon.

A determination to even give up one’s life.

In Cheongun, the will to live is death, and to die is life is life.

Seriously······.

“Eh, eh?!”

······Why are you doing that?

* * *

A blue cloud that is so cloudy that it looks like it is possessed by a magic wand.

The obsession of that unknown being was so strong that even the great martial arts commander was disgusted.

However, Cheongun was still sane, but suddenly, he felt his internal energy swirling and reacting from deep within Cheongun’s danjeon.

“······!”

And it was at that moment that the eyes of the Grand Prince of Murim opened wide. Among the ten best masters in the world, there was no one who could surpass the internal energy of the Grand Prince of Murim.

Forty-five Gapja (四十五甲子).

It was the result of being armed with the wealth and treasures of the imperial family for the past 30 years. If the effectiveness of the elixir had not decreased rapidly with each consuming, he would have been a martial arts great general with internal energy hundreds of times greater than he has now.

In other words, if we only consider the amount of internal energy, it can be said that he is by far the ‘best in the world.’

Of course, the unmanned realm could not be judged simply by the amount of internal energy, but even so, the amount of internal energy was a powerful force that could give one an absolute advantage in battle.

But now, the power of internal energy is felt from Cheongun’s danjeon.

······Never lost to the martial arts world.

In fact, the amount of internal energy currently being used by Cheongun was not that much. Cheongun’s dantian was quite empty, perhaps due to the aftereffects of the fight with the Blood Heavenly Goddess still remaining.

Therefore, although the absolute amount of internal energy was overwhelmingly superior to that of the Grand Prince of Murim, in terms of ‘purity’ and ‘density’, the Grand Prince of Murim was overwhelmingly inferior.

“How······!”

A surprised voice came out of the mouth of the Murim Grand Prince. What kind of mental method did he learn to possess such pure internal energy?

A feeling of resentment towards the Emperor briefly crossed the mind of the Grand Prince of Murim.

That would be the case, since it was something the Emperor himself had asked the Grand Prince of Murim to do.

-Can you capture Cheongun and bring him to me?

······How irresponsible are these words?

That monster with its eyes wide open, flipping over and running wild in all directions······ No, that crazy guy was seriously out of his mind.

The torrent of internal energy rising from Cheongun’s dantian swept across the four directions, and Cheongun’s eyes, burning like flames, were like those of an ‘evil spirit’ that did not fear death.

Even the life of the Great King of Murim could be in danger if he was not careful. ‘That thing’, which had nothing visible, was a living being, a scapegoat, and a plague, and it was not an opponent that could be fought while keeping such things in mind.

What’s more, that crazy guy was not afraid of life and death······.

Suddenly.

The tip of Cheongun’s sword splits. Cheongun’s sword, which curves as if dancing, distracts the sight of the martial arts master.

It’s an illusion. The Grand Prince of Murim blocked his vision at the same time as his thoughts.

Don’t rely on sight. Abandon sight.

The Grand Prince of Murim raised his spirit. The sword of Cheongun, which was splitting into several thousand branches, split into several thousand branches.

Taeeulseon martial arts sword.

Third call.

Taehwayeonhwan (太花聯幻).

Thousands of sword strikes pour down in all directions like fluttering flower petals. It seems as if it contains the illusion of a volcano······ No, it is the essence of an illusion sword that surpasses it.

The thousands of sword strikes that split it apart contain reality within emptiness, and emptiness within reality. With this, even the spirit of the martial arts master is bewitched.

It is a perfect understanding and unfolding of the mystery of reality and emptiness.

That is, it means that Cheongun has achieved the true meaning of illusion… Does that make sense?

······No matter how much I think about it, this isn’t someone to whom the word ‘moderate’ applies.

The Grand Prince of Murim exploded with the internal energy of his danjeon. The Grand Prince of Murim’s internal energy, which amounted to forty-five years, surged forward at once, blowing away the thousands of sword strikes that were flying around.

Kwaaaaaaaah-!

Cheong-un’s illusions were completely shattered by the torrent of internal energy pouring down. Cheong-un’s eyes opened wide in surprise.

Although the level of a realm is not simply determined by the amount of internal energy, having an advantage in internal energy in a fight has such an overwhelming advantage.

As if tearing through the air, the Murim Grand Prince shot forward. He aimed to confuse Cheongwoon. However, Cheongwoon had already taken a step back. Did he manage to overcome his confusion in that short time? Even a man who has been through countless battlefields cannot maintain that level of composure.

How can you tell that he’s only a twenty-two-year-old unmanned person?

The blue cloud that had lost the count of the Murim Grand Army suddenly came rushing down again. There was no illusion. It was a monotonous sword. Was he going to fight back with force this time? The Murim Grand Army did not dodge.

Take a step forward. Sword meets sword. Internal energy clashes with internal energy. Thus, force clashes with force.

Kwaaaaang!

An explosion that felt like the world was collapsing. The Murim Grand Prince opened his eyes wide at the feeling of resistance in both hands.

‘what······?’

The sensation was······ incredibly strange. There may have been a clear difference in the purity and density of the internal energy, but in terms of quantity, the Murim Grand Prince had an absolute advantage.

Moreover, Cheongwoon’s internal energy was not perfect. In a showdown of strength, the Great General of Murim had to overpower Cheongwoon.

But I wasn’t able to overwhelm them at all. I was only able to gain a very slight advantage.

No, can I really say that I gained the upper hand? My palms are still tingling from the impact of the strong slap to my palms.

It wasn’t just internal energy, but the power of something else. It was as if the sword of Cheongun itself was imbued with a strong energy.

But is that possible?

Even if he was a rookie, something like that wasn’t possible.

The sword currently being used by the Murim Grand Army was a new weapon among new soldiers.

The black iron sword was made by the best blacksmiths in the imperial court by refining the fallen metal, Yuncheol (隕鐵), from the sky.

The dark iron sword, forged from metals bestowed by the heavens, was able to contain the power of internal energy with the utmost efficiency.

Thus, it was a divine weapon among divine weapons that could change the sword energy into strong energy, but it did not contain strong energy itself.

It only contains the internal energy with the greatest efficiency, and does not create something out of nothing.

However, the sword of Cheongun itself had a strong energy, as if it was creating something from nothing.

······In this case, I couldn’t overwhelm Cheongun with my internal energy.

That’s why I had no choice but to admit it.

To be honest, I have no ‘confidence’.

It never occurred to me that I could subdue and capture Cheongun. However, since the Emperor had personally requested it, there was only one way.

As a master of the ten best martial arts in the world and a great senior in the martial arts world, it was a very hurtful thing to my pride······.

‘I guess we have no choice but to join forces with the Golden Guard.’

That monster… no, that crazy guy had to be captured by force.

“Everyone gather here!”

The Grand Prince of Murim called together the warriors of the Golden Guard who had formed a wide encirclement with the voice of the Six Harmonious Calls.

* * *

The tremors of a gigantic explosion that shook heaven and earth.

The explosion that seemed to collapse the sky and the earth crumbled brought the leader of the Jang Gang Hyeop Gang, Gu Cheol-san, to his senses.

And right then.

“Everyone gather here!”

A deep voice came to Gucheolsan’s ears. It was not the voice of the Great King. However, this anxiety rose from deep in his heart.

“Surely, something has happened to the King?” shouted Gucheolsan.

“Everyone, follow me!!”

Gu Cheol-san ran to the scene with the warriors of the Hyeopgaekdan.

It was fairly close, and since there wasn’t much chaos there, finding the location wasn’t that difficult.

and.

“maharaja······?”

The King was fighting with someone······?