Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 243

Nine heads loomed through the dark, misty space.

Seeing them contorted Bong’s face in a way never seen before.

“Why you…”

This couldn’t be happening.

It shouldn’t have been.

‘How did that fool Guryoung…’

He could break it, but he wasn’t the type to bother.

He was like a bull in a china shop, but he had learned his lesson in the past and avoided making unnecessary trouble.

For such a guy to break the barrier he created, there must be a reason.

‘Is it because of that guy?’

Bong narrowed his eyes and saw someone standing next to Guryoung. A man with two swords crossed on his back.

The Sword Slave’s swords, hunting the Mountain Lord.

It was Dang Chun.

‘I see…’

He never imagined that Dang Chun would coax Guryoung.

Originally, Guryoung wouldn’t have listened to a merchant’s words, but…

‘He used me as bait.’

Guryoung was trapped here partly because of Bong’s main body, so he must have held a grudge.

Why didn’t he think of that?

He didn’t expect someone like Guryoung to listen to a merchant’s words.

Could it be that his personality changed after being trapped here?

He couldn’t know for sure, but the current situation was definitely not good.

Even if that weren’t the case, Bongak Cheonsujo’s [Bongak, a mythical phoenix; Cheonsujo, Heavenly Ancestor] divided soul would be a tempting bait…

‘This isn’t good.’

The situation was bad.

Bong couldn’t stop Guryoung.

How could he, a divided soul, stop a monster like Guryoung?

If his original power returned, there would be no problem, but that was just a pipe dream for now, so he couldn’t help but be discouraged.

Moreover, the Mountain Lord was undergoing a Wood Calamity as a True Name Tree.

It was difficult to escape.

‘Guryoung’s target is me, so there’s no need to worry about the tiger.’

But conversely, Bong was in danger. How could he not be when Guryoung was showing off his nine heads and licking his lips?

And it wasn’t just that.

[I’m first, you tiger-faced bastard!]

[No, I’m the head closest to the flank that was hurt by that guy! So it’s better for me to taste it myself!]

How could he not be when they were fighting over who would taste him first?

Bong looked at Guryoung with a nervous expression, then looked at Dang Chun, who was rummaging around.

He didn’t seem interested in what Guryoung and Bong were saying.

He seemed to be looking for someone, and it was obvious who that was.

‘Is there still a chance?’

Considering that guy’s personality.

There might still be a chance.

“Guryoung.”

[What is it, Bongak? No, that divided soul.]

“I know you want to devour me. Unfortunately, I don’t have the power to stop you right now.”

Guryoung’s lips curled up.

[You’re stating the obvious.]

“But I can’t die in peace because I’m worried about my beloved disciple, who is like family.”

[Disciple?]

“A disciple undergoing a Wood Calamity.”

Guryoung gave a strange look at the word ‘disciple.’

Bong gestured towards the huge tree as if responding to that look.

A strangely shaped, giant tree soaring high into the sky within the Yumu Gap [a dangerous, mystical space].

Guryoung narrowed his eyes.

He seemed to be checking whether it was true or not.

“Tsk.”

At the same time, Dang Chun clicked his tongue as if he had roughly grasped the situation. He had found this place through the Heavenly Calamity, but he couldn’t forcibly take him away because he was undergoing a Wood Calamity.

[Hoo… a disciple…]

Guryoung’s face became strange.

The heads looked at each other and chuckled as if they had come up with something interesting.

[What does it matter if he’s a disciple or not?]

[Yeah, we can chew on that guy’s bones now, what are you hesitating for!]

[No, doesn’t the humiliation we suffered from that guy still throb?]

[So we should kill him right away!]

The heads’ opinions were divided.

This was all according to plan.

But it was still not enough.

He had to buy time.

It might seem meaningless, but it wasn’t. If the Mountain Lord properly completed the Wood Calamity, Bong had already prepared to teleport out of the Yumu Gap to another location.

Guryoung was bound to this place by the laws of that place.

If he just escaped the Yumu Gap, Guryoung would never be able to chase him.

‘That guy is different, though.’

There was no reason for Dang Chun to object.

He also didn’t have the ability to take the Mountain Lord, who had turned into a tree.

“A final request! Before I die, just let me see my disciple finish his ordeal! Grant me the grace to see that sight before my life ends!!”

Guryoung’s heads fell silent for a moment at his words.

Then, they looked at Bong with sharp eyes and replied.

[Alright.]

[That’s not difficult.]

Dang Chun’s eyebrows shot up.

It was an unexpected reaction. But Bong praised his generous decision, as if he knew it would be like this.

“As expected of the Yumu Gap’s great monster. Even though you’re trapped here, you haven’t forgotten righteousness and chivalry.”

[Of course.]

He smirked.

Guryoung chuckled inwardly as he looked at Bong’s impressed expression.

‘He’s changed after taking in a disciple.’

To think he would bow his head to him!

And who knew he would trust his words so foolishly!

He couldn’t help but laugh at whether he was really the Phoenix called the Bongak of the World.

No matter how much of a divided soul he was, how could he be so foolish!

‘Was his brainpower only transmitted by a speck as a divided soul?’

Guryoung smiled with satisfaction inwardly.

Waiting for his disciple?

Then, the moment that disciple he was waiting for finished his ordeal and returned.

‘I’ll devour them all.’

He was already curious about what the face of Bongak Cheonsujo, who had lost his disciple, would look like.

For his sake, a few hundred or thousand years would just be like blinking.

Couldn’t he endure even that much?

It was a dreamlike opportunity to repay the tens of thousands of years of resentment to the phoenix, one of the guys who made him like this.

It wasn’t an indefinite wait, so that much was very easy for Guryoung.

And that was the same for Bong.

‘As expected.’

He knew that the arrogant and ill-tempered Guryoung would fall for it.

A beloved disciple.

A request before death.

He expected him to come out like that if he said that. If it was Guryoung, who had a terrible and cruel nature, he would want the divided soul of his enemy to despair even more.

‘Just like he did.’

Anyway, he bought time.

He had nine heads, but he wouldn’t easily go back on his word.

He was a guy who deviated from expectations in strange ways, but this was enough.

‘If only the tiger returns to his place soon…’

He was ready to escape.

Now, all he had to do was wait.

At that moment, when he was relieved.

[But waiting idly is too boring for guys like us.]

Then, a strand of Guryoung’s beard stretched out and snatched something behind the True Name Tree.

“Kyaa!”

“Oh no!”

The Mountain Lord’s companion, who had been hiding with their appearance.

It was Choa.

[This girl doesn’t seem to be a disciple. I can feel Bongak’s energy from that True Name Tree, but from this girl of the lower realm…]

Guryoung tilted his head slightly as he carefully examined Choa.

[This smell…]

A sweet smell.

The body odor could be like that, but it was fundamentally a little different.

The source of this scent was blood.

It was the smell of blood.

[Could it be a mixed-blood with the bloodline of Baekyo Boreon (白搖寶蓮) [White Jade Treasure Lotus Clan]?]

Guryoung said with a slightly surprised look, and his eyes changed.

“Baekyo Boreon!!”

Bong was calm, but Dang Chun shouted in surprise.

“How can a being from the lower realm have that blood…”

He looked surprised as if it couldn’t be.

“The Baekyo Boreons are famous for strictly managing and cherishing their blood, they are cruel people, but how can a cultivator from the lower realm have…”

It was a question of how she had that blood.

It was natural since the Baekyo Boreons of the Upper Realm were the most powerful and cruel among the forces in the Mixed Realm [a realm where different worlds intersect].

To the point where even the demons of the Collapsed Realm [a destroyed or chaotic realm] were reluctant to face them, so there was no need to say more.

Wasn’t it to the point where it hurt to say it three times?

Blood that was no different from treasure.

The blood of Baekyo Boreon was a treasure of the horizon (天涯) [a rare and invaluable treasure] that would never leak out.

In order to obtain that blood, one had to be at odds with Baekyo Boreon, so it was a precious blood (寶血) [precious bloodline] that could not be obtained even if one tried to obtain it.

[Even though she is a cultivator from the lower realm, it is true that the blood of Baekyo flows in her. It’s not very necessary for me, but I can’t just pass by a treasure that has rolled in whole.]

As he licked his tongue, Choa’s face turned as white as paper.

She was overwhelmed just by looking at the huge body that was hard to fit in her eyes.

She couldn’t move at all, overwhelmed by the heavy legs and arms and the nine heads looking at her.

Her jaw and tongue, which had been moving so well, didn’t move at all, as if even screaming wasn’t allowed.

The fact that nothing moved as she wanted created a greater sense of fear than the monster in front of her.

Bong also couldn’t decide what to do.

Even if he called her his daughter or his disciple, that guy would kill her.

It was different from the Mountain Lord.

The Mountain Lord, who was bound by the Heavenly Law and undergoing an ordeal, was reluctant for Guryoung to touch.

But she was different.

A TaeSeon [Great Immortal] of the Lower Realm.

A mixed-blood with the blood of Baekyo Boreon.

Their relationship.

There was no reason for Guryoung to save her.

Creak.

One of Guryoung’s heads slowly opened its mouth.

With a nauseating smell, hideous teeth and a huge tongue were visible.

Choa closed her eyes tightly.

The only person who came to her mind at the moment of death.

It was then.

Guryoung’s movement stopped.

Crackling!!

[Hmm… ?]

The sound of something hard cracking.

Everyone’s eyes were drawn to the giant tree standing in the center.

Crackling crackling crackling!!

Kwaaaang!!

Blue flames burst out from inside the cracks that went from the roots to the end.

The hard tree bark disappeared and pure blue flames blazed dazzlingly.

At that sight, Choa shed tears and Bong exclaimed.

As the giant tree burned in flames and scattered blue flames, it was as if blue fireflies were drenching the world.

Cooong.

Bang!!

At the same time, a powerful energy spread out in a ring like a powerful shockwave.

Creating a powerful wind pressure and the aura of hegemony that pressed down on the surroundings.

As the True Name Tree burned, Oryongin Tamhwa, who had been sitting in front of it, also slowly got up. Tamhwa, who hadn’t even blinked at what was happening in front of him, raised his head as if welcoming someone.

Whooooooooosh!!

The intense storm was soon sucked into the burning and disappearing True Name Tree, and someone’s figure was reflected in the pillar of fire.

A pair of wings faintly visible.

A man with a pair of horns.

It was the man they had been waiting for, trapped in the True Name Tree.

It was the Mountain Lord.

‘Thank goodness. Thank goodness!!’

He came out at just the right time.

Bong let out a sigh of relief and prepared a large-scale space teleportation technique.

As soon as he made a hand seal and stomped his feet, the hidden magic circle was drawn automatically.

But then.

“Ugh!”

Whirrrrr! Whirrrrr!

He couldn’t open his eyes due to the intense gale and the extremely hot heat.

‘To think he has this much Hwasintong [divine fire power]…’

A huge amount of Heavenly Energy gathered behind his back, and a blue ring floated up.

“The sun…?”

Within the blue ring, a dazzling light source gathered a large amount of Heavenly Energy and floated up, illuminating the Yumu Gap in blue.

It burned the atmosphere in an instant.

Hwaaaaaaaak!!

“How can this be… I’m sure he has the energy of eternity, but how can he use the laws!!”

No one answered Dang Chun’s question, who was dumbfounded.

The blue ring gradually increased in size.

A blue sun, which had never risen in tens of thousands of years, rose in the Yumu Gap, emitting light as if it were recreating the world.

Kwajajajajak!!

The ground was broken and floated up by the powerful divine power, and purple lightning circled around the sun like lightning dragons.

The man with four pairs of wings spread wide in the center looked down at them with eerily cold eyes.

It was truly the reincarnation of a god (神聖).