Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 254

KWA-AAAAANG!

The once-calm East Sea suddenly erupted, its surface exploding upwards.

It was a bizarre phenomenon, like a waterspout, causing the nearby seawater to rush away. Sea creatures who were training stopped to watch, wondering what was happening, and gathered quickly.

“What on earth is going on?”

“If I knew, would I be here?”

At first, they thought it was a massive explosion, but it wasn’t. The waterspout subsided, revealing something else.

A pillar of purple lightning shot up through the gathering clouds.

“Wh, what is… Ugh!”

One of the sea creatures, who had been staring blankly, suddenly vomited blood and trembled violently.

“Poison! Everyone, get away!”

The low-ranking Sea Demons inhaled once and perished, falling into the sea, while those of higher cultivation barely managed to fly away to safety.

Soon after.

Huge objects began to surface in the East Sea, large and long like small islands.

They were the corpses of Sea Dragons.

Most were over two hundred yards long, numbering in the hundreds, staining one side of the East Sea with blood and piling up like mountains.

On top of their corpses stood a man, gripping a woman’s neck. He was none other than the one who had caused this situation.

It was the Mountain Lord, the head of the White Mountain Sect.

“Why are you so surprised?

As your brother said, I and the Sea Dragon Clan have had an irreconcilable grudge for 600 years.

Six hundred years have passed, and now I am merely settling that grudge and determining the victor. Why do you wear such an unfair expression, as if you are the victim? It makes me feel like the bad guy.”

Gisole, her neck gripped by the Mountain Lord, glared and said with difficulty,

“You’ll… regret it.”

“What regret are you talking about? Your entire clan has died by my hand. Regret is for you, not me.

Or are you perhaps waiting for the Sea Overlord?”

“You may act arrogant now, but… when the Sea Overlord arrives, he will surely kill you and avenge our clan’s grudge!”

“Is that all you can say?

I don’t know if you still can’t tell what’s going on or if you’re just ignoring it.”

He looked deeply disappointed, and Gisole frowned.

“Attacking White Mountain with the Yoo Clan was commendable, even though you were my enemy. You weakened my forces considerably and planned to kill even me when I returned to the Human Realm.”

It wasn’t a bad plan.

“Somehow, you managed to severely injure the avatar I created, greatly reducing White Mountain’s power. The war you waged in that state, combined with the strategies of various factions, was not bad.”

If he hadn’t ascended to Eternity and was still in the Eternal Realm, it would have been a major setback.

No matter how strong he was, infiltrating the enemy camp and slaughtering them as he was now would have been a life-threatening endeavor.

“Do you remember?”

“Remember what?”

“About six hundred years ago, when I saved you after your body was taken. You knew I possessed the Heavenly Treasure [a powerful artifact] and tried to invite me to the Sea Dragon Clan’s Dragon Palace.”

Gisole’s eyes narrowed.

She didn’t expect him to bring up that story.

“What about it now?”

“It’s nothing much, just saying it now that the Dragon Palace where you would invite me is gone.”

Crack.

Gisole gritted her teeth at his mocking tone.

She glared at the Mountain Lord for a long time before suddenly raising the corner of her lips.

“Even if you kill me, you won’t be able to prevent the destruction of White Mountain.”

“Why is that?”

“You may have stopped our troops in the east, but you won’t be able to stop the Bangok bastards in the north.”

So that’s what she was talking about.

“Even if you return now, they, with the fourteen flying ships of the Sea Dragons, will have already captured White Mountain.

By the time you return, it will all be destroyed, leaving only ashes behind!!”

The Mountain Lord smirked at her fierce words.

She didn’t know anything.

Choa, armed with the Heavenly Treasure, had flown to the north long ago.

‘I’m a little worried, but…’

He had taken precautions in case of an emergency, so the worrying situation would not occur.

“And even if you kill me, you won’t be able to escape from the East Sea.”

Then, the Mountain Lord turned his gaze from her to one side of the coastline.

There, three enormous presences were flying towards them at great speed.

“The Three Kings of the East Sea, are they?”

They certainly had a purer energy than those he had faced so far.

“Even if you killed my brother and the elders, it would still be worth it if we could kill a great enemy like you!”

As she finished speaking.

Thud! Streaks of light fell from the sky like shooting stars, landing on the Sea Dragon corpses where the Mountain Lord was.

‘The Three Kings of the East Sea….’

He had heard of them so often that his ears were calloused.

The king of the Sea Dragon Clan was called the Sea Overlord, the king of the Gyo Clan was called the Gyo Overlord, and the Doguk Clan was called the Do Overlord. These three were revered as the Three Kings of the East Sea.

Therefore, not only the Taoists of the land but also the spiritual beasts were terrified of the Three Kings of the East Sea, and many admired their divine powers.

“Father!! This is the one! This is the great enemy of the Sea Dragon Clan who slaughtered us and killed all my brothers!”

Gisole shouted excitedly.

She already seemed to see the miserable end of the White Mountain Sect’s leader.

Her dying face was filled with vitality, and her cheeks flushed with excitement.

The Mountain Lord silently released her neck and turned to face them.

The Mountain Lord, standing before the Three Kings of the East Sea, looked at them with an expressionless face.

They also silently stared at the Mountain Lord, and the silence continued.

Just as Gisole, unable to bear the frustration, was about to shout at her father,

“Quickly… Ah, Father!!”

Thud.

The Sea Overlord knelt.

“What! What are you doing! He’s a wretch who deserves to be torn to pieces! Get up and punish him!!”

“Shut up!! Who do you think you’re talking to with such insolence!!”

Slap!!

Gisole, suddenly slapped by her father, stared blankly at him with a dazed look. She couldn’t understand why he was doing this.

The Sea Overlord she remembered was a man of dignity and spirit befitting a king, with great ambition, not one to be suppressed by others, a man who fit the description of being unyielding.

In her life of over a thousand years, she had never seen her father kneel.

That was why she couldn’t believe it and didn’t want to face the truth.

“Why are you kneeling?”

When the Mountain Lord asked, the Sea Overlord, as well as all Three Kings of the East Sea, knelt and bowed their heads.

“How can we not feel reverence and pay our respects to one whose divine powers reach the heavens and who awaits the day of ascension? It is only natural.”

Then, the Mountain Lord’s expression subtly twisted, and Gisole was shocked.

“A, ascension… How can you speak of ascension to such a person!”

“You foolish girl! You are still intoxicated with arrogance and cannot see the seriousness of the situation! Do you know who this person is that you speak so carelessly!

He is an Eternal Immortal [a being who has achieved immortality] whom we cannot treat lightly!!”

* * *

Meanwhile.

“Hmm….”

The man leisurely reading a letter frowned and clicked his tongue.

“It’s faster than expected.”

The letter he was reading briefly described the war situation, stating the defeat of Bangok.

The strength of the flying ships was so great that they could destroy Dongguk [ancient Korean kingdom].

They had driven a dozen of those flying ships to the north and distracted the east to disperse their forces, yet they were defeated.

“Considering that I made his avatar half-dead, to see this happen….”

It was unlikely that a passing Earthly Immortal [a powerful being] from White Mountain would have saved him, so surely.

He must have returned.

“With all sorts of powerful divine powers and even the Heavenly Treasure….”

It was possible.

He had secretly hoped that he would be trapped in the Golden Ring Incense Burner, but that was not the case.

The man.

No, Yoo-jung pondered and rose, looking at his arm covered in various talismans [magical charms] with a worried expression.

“The time has come to see the end.”

As he rose from his seat, the man beside him also rose, a Demonic Immortal [an immortal being who cultivates demonic energy] exuding demonic energy from his entire body.

“You have made a good choice. The Demonic Path is not necessarily a bad path.

It is also a path, so there is no need to make such a face.”

“Then I ask for your favor, Ye-un.”

“I understand. Everything will be as you wish.”

Yoo-jung, watching Ye-un slowly disappear, sighed.

“An evil fate is an evil fate. A truly tenacious evil fate. Now, either you die or I die, one of us must die to end it.”

Clicking his tongue, he looked at his arm with a bitter face before disappearing like smoke.

* * *

At the same time.

“N, no way. Th, there’s no way… There’s no way….”

She denied reality as if she couldn’t believe it.

The Sea Overlord said so, apologizing for his lack of virtue in not raising his daughter properly.

“You have no dignity. Even though I am killing your clan and your daughter, how can someone called the Three Kings of the East Sea have such light knees?”

His taking such an attitude was a little different from what he had expected.

The Mountain Lord clicked his tongue, dissatisfied with his attitude, and sneered.

But even so, the Sea Overlord silently lowered his head.

The other East Sea Kings, the Gyo Overlord and the Do Overlord, were also a little surprised.

‘He’s usually a fiery person….’

Even though his own flesh and blood were dying and his clan was being slaughtered, he steadfastly endured and knelt.

‘Well, he is in front of the Eternal One….’

What could he do, even if he was angry and resentful?

Harboring murderous intent would only be for the moment.

He would soon be killed by him.

They were secretly concealing their energy, but they were not unaware of his unique sense of incongruity.

The Three Kings of the East Sea had met the Earthly Immortal of Goseon before, so they could barely recognize him.

If they had not met the Earthly Immortal of Goseon, they would surely have been killed by him.

Like the elders of the Sea Dragon Clan who had been crushed to death under his feet!

“No matter how much the clan has been slaughtered, how can we dare to show our teeth to the Eternal Immortal?”

Isn’t the realm that the Three Kings of the East Sea yearn for the very Eternity?

They had lived for over three thousand years, dreaming of Eternity and Ascension, but what was still uncertain was Eternity and Ascension.

Therefore, it was only right to pay respect to him who had achieved Eternity and was qualified to be called a true Immortal.

“How boring.”

However, the Mountain Lord shook his head as if he had lost his energy.

Originally, he had intended to kill all the bastards living in the East Sea on this occasion.

Since all the Sea Demons of the East Sea had joined forces to attack White Mountain, it was only right to repay them.

The Mountain Lord was so angry and had the ability to do so.

‘But since they’re coming out like this….’

He couldn’t just do that.

The one who had reached the end of the Human Realm was not only the Mountain Lord.

There were currently three Earthly Immortals in Goseon, and although there were less than ten, he had heard that Earthly Immortals were hiding in various parts of the world.

If there was a legitimate reason, it wouldn’t matter, but arbitrarily engaging in slaughter was no different from asking them to kill him, so he had to refrain.

“I was deliberately hiding my energy, but you noticed it well.”

“I had received help from the Earthly Immortal of Goseon before. That’s why I was able to recognize you.”

“Is that so.”

In addition to that, he hadn’t properly concealed it with all his heart.

If he had put his mind to it, they wouldn’t have even known he was there, so it could be said that he was careless.

“I originally intended to exterminate all three tribes of the East Sea, but since you knelt on your own, I can’t bring myself to do that.”

It was time to worry about the accumulation of killing intent.

If killing intent accumulated, he would have to undergo a tribulation to eliminate or neutralize it, which would be a great loss of time.

If he left it alone, the killing intent would erupt and cause him to commit slaughter, so thinking about it from any angle, it was right to do so.

‘But if I leave it like this, that won’t do either.’

Many disciples of White Mountain had died in the war with those bastards.

For the sake of those who had protected White Mountain in his absence, he could not allow it to pass like this.