Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 469

Nangseon Gihwandam – Part 2, Episode 178

“What is going on…?”

“…I’ve been to Gonggakchun many times, but this is a first. Where did all these centipedes suddenly come from?”

Ha Seonja and Ja Suseon were astonished.

They had quietly set up a formation, waiting for Cheonbeom, who was being chased by the Four Great Insect Beasts, but instead of him, a swarm of centipedes began pouring out.

There were countless centipedes.

They weren’t ordinary-looking; these jet-black centipedes poured out of the forest in droves, and the forest was decaying due to the poison they emitted.

Kkuuuuu!

Thud.

One of the Insect Beasts, completely buried in centipedes, collapsed and died.

Centipedes covered its entire body, devouring it and melting even the bones.

“This doesn’t seem like a normal situation.”

“What should we do?”

“For now… let’s observe.”

Whir.

Swish!

Ha Seonja created a hand blade and struck the centipedes, but it was only for a moment.

The dead centipedes disappeared without a sound, and again, countless more poured out.

It was then.

Kkeueeeee!

A giant Insect Beast roared.

Startled, they floated into the sky.

“Wolya Stone Beast!!”

The Wolya Stone Beast was being attacked by countless centipedes and was in agony.

Kwaaaang!

The Wolya Stone Beast tried to burrow into the ground and struggled to shake off the centipedes, but it was only for a moment.

So many centipedes were rushing in, disregarding their lives, that there was nothing it could do.

Moreover, they were emitting a terrible poison, so the more it struggled, the more it became poisoned and its movements slowed.

Ha Seonja watched the astonishing scene with an indescribable look. One of the Four Great Insect Beasts, which she had spent so long preparing for, was being taken down so easily, and a sense of futility washed over her.

“Ha Seonja, what should we do?”

“We’ve been preempted, but we can’t just go back like this, can we?”

Ha Seonja scattered yellow energy on one of the centipedes.

The yellow energy ensnared the centipede and brought it to her. Simultaneously, she created several magic circles to observe what it was.

“It’s a physical entity, but not really. It’s a clone of some Insect Beast….”

“A clone? There are tens of thousands, no, hundreds of millions of centipedes in my sight right now.”

It was an absurd number.

“But this is flowing out from the place where the Great Catastrophe Tree is.”

“Are you referring to the Insect Beast King?”

“I’m just guessing.”

“But the Insect Beast King isn’t a centipede. It clearly absorbed all divine powers in the form of a slug and can’t be killed even if you kill it….”

“That’s right. It was something born from chaos, or a being whose existence reached the heavens, a creature of mischief.”

But the important thing wasn’t what the Insect Beast King was doing, but the reality of the centipedes that were trying to fill Gonggakchun.

“Before all our hard work goes down the drain, we have to do something. If we lose all the Four Great Insect Beasts to these centipedes, everything we’ve done will be meaningless!”

Swish.

Ha Seonja burst the centipede and gnashed her teeth in anger.

“Now that it’s come to this, we should use these guys instead.”

“Understood!”

Whoosh.

The flow of the atmosphere changed.

Ha Seonja and Ja Suseon simultaneously formed hand seals and began to deploy a formation.

The formation drawn beneath the ground emitted a mysterious tricolor light, and the movements of the centipedes on the ground seemed to slow down, then gradually began to harden.

The centipedes, which had turned into hard stone, slowly spread like an epidemic.

The black forest, which had been rotting and swallowing the Insect Beasts, turned gray as the centipedes turned to stone.

“It’s working!”

“Not yet.”

Ha Seonja, still forming hand seals, poured energy into the formation and glared at the Wolya Stone Beast.

The formation’s influence began to reach the place where it was, and its movements gradually slowed and began to petrify.

Kuuuuung.

The centipedes attached to the Wolya Stone Beast fell off, and only then did the exhausted giant body of the Four Great Insect Beasts collapse.

“Now!”

Ja Suseon flicked out small jade pieces carved into the shape of swords from his wooden box one by one.

As he flicked out a total of twelve jade sword pieces, the jade sword pieces absorbed Ja Suseon’s Collapse Demonic Energy and turned into ominous demonic swords, falling onto the Wolya Stone Beast’s body.

Thud! Thud thud thud!

As a total of twelve swords were embedded in various parts of its body, Ja Suseon immediately began to move his lips, and thick black flames began to burn from the tips of the swords as the demonic swords resonated with each other.

Kkeueeeeeeee!!

The Wolya Stone Beast screamed in agony, and blue blood began to pour from its body.

“Wolya Water!”

Ja Suseon’s face lit up as he saw the Wolya Water flowing out.

There were endless things he could do with that, which was full of Wolun energy [energy of the moon], so he felt good just looking at it.

Insect Beasts that grew by receiving the energy of the moon were very rare and hard to come by.

Just capturing the Wolya Stone Beast would be enough to ensure he wouldn’t have to worry about money for the rest of his life, so it was only natural.

Ha Seonja nodded and operated the formation further to prevent the centipedes from getting close, and Ja Suseon resonated the demonic swords embedded in the Wolya Stone Beast’s body to gradually paralyze its reason.

‘Just a little more and it will be done,’ he thought.

If he continued the spell a little longer, the Wolya Stone Beast would completely surrender.

Shhh!

Thud!

“Huh!!”

Suddenly, a great sword that appeared from somewhere flew like a ray of light and pierced the Wolya Stone Beast.

Kkeoeoeoeoeoeoeoe-

Kuuuuung!

Ha Seonja and Ja Suseon, who were dismayed to see the Wolya Stone Beast’s life cut off in an instant, looked in the direction the great sword had flown from and were greatly enraged.

“What is the meaning of this!!”

There stood Cheonbeom, who had gone to lure the Four Great Insect Beasts earlier.

Whirr.

The Nine Ringed Blade, Rakshasa, which Cheonbeom had thrown, cut off the Wolya Stone Beast’s breath and emitted Ghostly Mist, instantly covering the area.

As the black Ghostly Mist filled the surroundings, Ja Suseon and Ha Seonja, who were about to lose their minds in anger, calmed down.

“Yu Suseon! What is the meaning of this! You disappeared somewhere and didn’t show up, and then suddenly you kill the Wolya Stone Beast we were trying to tame and hide your appearance!”

“That’s right. But since it’s already dead, wouldn’t it be better to divide the Wolya Stone Beast’s materials?”

But the only thing they heard was an eerie laughter, and the eyes of the two Demonic Immortals gradually narrowed.

Clang, clang.

The clear sound of metal rang ominously, slowly pressuring them.

Pitch black where nothing could be seen.

The only thing they could hear was the clanging of metal.

The consistent sound created a strange tension.

Ha Seonja dropped yellow beads one by one onto the floor from her chest.

“Why are you doing this to us? We’re not beasts. If there’s been a misunderstanding, we can talk it out. I don’t understand why you need to show such hostility.”

She spoke with a troubled expression, as if she really didn’t understand.

[Pretending not to know won’t change my mind.]

Cheonbeom’s voice was heard from within the Ghostly Mist.

Ha Seonja looked at Ja Suseon and nodded.

Ja Suseon quietly moved his lips, hid his hands, and formed hand seals.

It was to pinpoint his location.

“What are you talking about!”

[Didn’t you use me as bait?]

“That’s a misunderstanding! Use you as bait? Why would I do such a thing! How could I turn my sword against a fellow Immortal in Gonggakchun, where dangerous Insect Beasts lurk? There’s no reason for me to do that!”

[Is that so?]

“Of course!”

Then she said.

“I’m disappointed! I thought Yu Suseon and I were on the same wavelength, but I guess that was just my delusion….”

She had a shy look.

It was an expression that showed shyness, resentment, and a longing for love.

Ha Seonja’s appearance wasn’t bad at all, and many men would be momentarily fooled by her expression and tone.

“Really?”

He suddenly appeared from within the Ghostly Mist.

Seeing Cheonbeom’s expression as if he had really misunderstood, Ha Seonja gave an even brighter smile.

“Why would I do that? We need to work together. An odd centipede is already poisoning Gonggakchun with its venom. Well, come here quickly. Even as we’re doing this, Gonggakchun is being poisoned. I don’t know what it is, but there’s nothing to lose by leaving after catching the Wolya Stone Beast. Come on.”

Ha Seonja reached out her hand to him.

Her flushed face was like that of a woman in love.

Cheonbeom slowly took one step at a time towards her.

When he came within reach of Ha Seonja’s hand.

Cheonbeom’s lips curled up in a smirk.

“I guess it wasn’t a misunderstanding.”

Swish!!

“Kkeuaaaaaaaak!!”

“What…!!”

As soon as Cheonbeom finished speaking, one of Ja Suseon’s arms was cut off.

Before long, eerie wails echoed within the Ghostly Mist, and countless ghosts began to rush in like demons.

“Kill them.”

As if Cheonbeom’s command was a trigger, the ghosts surged towards the Demonic Immortals.

“Yujeoooooooong!!”

Ha Seonja burst into anger, but Cheonbeom simply smiled.

“Go.”

At Beom’s command, Rakshasa revealed itself and controlled the ghosts.

It transformed them into tentacles or made them into thorns to attack.

“I’ll kill you!! I’ll kill you!!”

But Ha Seonja was not an easy Demonic Immortal.

“Was it a Nascent Soul [a spiritual being residing within a cultivator]?”

Ha Seonja grabbed Ja Suseon, chanted a spell, and deployed a barrier, then instantly devoured him.

It would be right to say that he was sucked into her mouth.

Beom probably guessed that Ja Suseon was her Nascent Soul.

Kuaaaa!! Ha Seonja’s beautiful appearance began to change like a demon.

Yellow thorns began to sprout from her entire body, and soon she transformed into a demon with two heads and four arms.

The four arms were long enough to drag on the ground, and thorns sprouted all over her body, making her truly hideous.

She was so hideous that Cheonbeom frowned, but the power of the demon transformation was definitely strong.

Kwaaaang!!

“Do you think someone like you can kill me, who has reached the peak of Hyangseon [a high level of cultivation]!!”

As Ha Seonja, who had turned into a demon, swung her four arms, all of Rakshasa’s tentacles were shattered. The ghosts that clung to her turned to stone and could not use their power once they were enveloped in the yellow energy she emitted.

“It’s been a while since I’ve had a proper fight.”

She was a strong opponent.

Her explosive Collapse Demonic Energy, as if to say that anyone could not become Hyangseon, made even Cheonbeom a little nervous.

Not only had her physical strength increased, but her divine power had also become stronger, and several yellow pillars of light soared from within the Ghostly Mist.

The yellow beads that had been scattered in advance had begun to dominate the space.

Then an anomaly occurred.

Thud thud thud!!

The ghosts began to petrify.