Call Of The Spear [EN]: Chapter 428

She resembled her.

But something was different.

I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but as I looked closer, I understood.

“No… it’s not the Madam.”

She looked startlingly similar, but it wasn’t her.

“Who are you?”

In response to my question, she sneered.

Then, instead of answering, she snapped her fingers.

Snap.

That was the moment.

“Hmph!”

Phew, phew, phew!

Needles connected to threads shot up from the floor.

There were about twenty needles launched, and their speed and power were extraordinary.

Gayeon dodged six, but holes were pierced through her arms and legs.

Yeona deflected all but one of the needles with her sword. However, the needles pierced through the blade, immobilizing her.

“I am Baek Mu of the White Yo Tribe, also known as Baekjeolsamu.”

“Baekjeolsamu!”

Baekjeolsamu (百絶師武) [meaning ‘Hundred Severing Master of Martial Arts’].

A transcendent being with a clean technique, whose title implies that a hundred techniques are rendered meaningless.

She had disarmed them with a single move, leaving no doubt about Baekjeolsamu’s level and skill.

Gayeon didn’t know her well, but Yeona had certainly heard of this alias, and her face instantly turned pale.

A Great Immortal among the Heavenly Palace’s Fragrant Immortals, with only a handful capable of standing against her.

“Why are you doing this to us!”

“The woman with the blue bow over there is the Heavenly Maiden of the Heavenly Palace, the sworn enemy of the Seon Palace, so this is a natural measure. And you are traveling with those frozen here, so it is also natural.”

Traveling together makes it a natural measure!

“We are envoys of the Water Realm! Attacking us is as good as declaring war on the Water Realm!”

However, Baekjeolsamu scoffed and replied.

“That’s a story from a hundred years ago. Surely you don’t think that someone who comes as an envoy of the Water Realm can become a Slayer of Immortals in the Seon Realm and harm immortals, and that old line will still work?”

“!”

Gayeon was speechless at her retort, like a mute who had swallowed honey [meaning she was unable to speak due to being stunned].

She had realized everything in advance and attacked the Moon-Moo Immortals and herself.

“Then why…”

“Why am I not killing you? Even so, I cannot execute envoys of the Water Realm on my own authority. If they have committed a crime, it is only right that they receive a fair trial, and the punishment should be carried out afterward. The same goes for the Heavenly Maiden, who I don’t know why she is with you.”

It was the same for her.

Gayeon wore a grim expression, as if it was the end of the line.

Even if they came as envoys, the number of lives taken by Chunbeom, their representative, as a Slayer of Immortals was enormous.

He had roamed dozens of battlefields, committing massacres, so even if they came as envoys, they couldn’t simply get away with it.

‘Why did we have to get caught by such a master…’

They were caught. It would be impossible to escape no matter what they did.

To make matters worse, the parts where Baekjeolsamu’s needles had pierced were slowly freezing over, making it impossible to move.

“Is that so? It seems to me that you have other intentions.”

But the Heavenly Maiden of the Heavenly Palace,

Yeona, seemed to think differently.

She suddenly raised the corners of her lips and said.

“Other intentions?”

“Yes, isn’t it strange? Although it is my first time seeing Baekjeolsamu, I have been through many battlefields as a Heavenly Maiden of the Heavenly Palace.”

Therefore, she had heard many stories about the White Yo Tribe and Baekjeolsamu.

“Baekjeolsamu is known for her cruel methods. And yet, she sees me, the Heavenly Maiden of the Heavenly Palace, and chooses to spare me first? That doesn’t make sense. I can understand sparing these envoys of the Water Realm, but to spare me as well, to put me on trial as an example? That’s absurd. Normally, she would tear me apart as soon as she recognized my identity.”

Gayeon wondered if this woman was crazy for a moment. If she said that, wouldn’t Baekjeolsamu say, ‘Very well, I’ll tear you apart as you wish’?

She should never say such things unless she was desperate to die.

She wanted to shout at her to quickly apologize and beg for forgiveness, saying that she was too blindly trusting rumors.

But then, Gayeon also tilted her head at Baekjeolsamu’s attitude.

Because she was narrowing her brows and looking at Yeona with a displeased expression!

“So you’re the woman called the Heavenly Maiden of the Heavenly Palace. You have a lot of nerve. But you can’t be saying that based on mere rumors. Why are you so sure?”

“First, you hid your presence and appeared as if you were waiting for us.”

Come to think of it, that was true.

With Baekjeolsamu’s skills, she could have easily subdued them in one strike without hiding.

Why did she hide her presence at first?

“It means you needed to hide.”

“Me? Why?”

“Normally, a Great Immortal like Baekjeolsamu wouldn’t hide her presence no matter who came. But you hid your presence.”

Why did she do that?

Was there a reason why she had to?

“The envoy group from the Water Realm also included a Fragrant Immortal named Tamlang. No matter how skilled you are, you couldn’t have subdued him so easily. Gayeon, take a close look at Tamlang’s feet.”

“…It’s true.”

There were several places on the floor around his feet that looked like they had been cut by a knife.

“So what if that’s the case? Do you really think that just because of that, I don’t have the power to kill you? How arrogant. Even if I’m injured, it’s not difficult to kill one or two Upper Immortals.”

She growled, and Yeona smiled slyly.

“I didn’t say a word about Baekjeolsamu being injured.”

She flinched.

Then her eyes turned fierce.

And Yeona shifted her gaze to where Chunbeom was.

“Second, it’s about the presence of that person.”

The woman next to Chunbeom.

It was Hwaran.

“Why did you come to find the Slayer of Immortals, but you haven’t sealed or killed him yet? Or rather, you couldn’t.”

Yeona said with conviction.

She must have come to kill or seal the Slayer of Immortals.

But the fact that Chunbeom, the Slayer of Immortals, was still there, and that Hwaran was by his side, meant that she couldn’t do anything to him.

There was a clear difference between not doing it and not being able to do it.

“Baekjeolsamu must have entered this place and subdued the entire envoy group despite being injured. And since the Slayer of Immortals, Master, is tied up, you must have tried to seal him. If you could have the Slayer of Immortals completely under your control, you could have used him quite usefully.”

But she failed.

The reason was obvious.

Because Hwaran was there.

Whoosh!

Just then, a needle shot out by Baekjeolsamu rushed towards Yeona.

The energy and sharpness it contained were clearly not as strong as before.

Clang!

The needle was deflected by Yeona’s sword.

“Cough!”

Suddenly, Baekjeolsamu spat out blood.

She covered her mouth and coughed up blood, and the color of the blood was black and smelled foul.

When her blood dripped onto the floor, it hissed and smoke rose.

It was poison!

“You’ve been poisoned.”

“Elder!”

The White Yo Tribe Immortals rushed over to support Baekjeolsamu.

Then, a subtle mist cleared, and the space here was clearly revealed.

As the parts that had been obscured by the illusion were revealed, Yeona and Gayeon couldn’t help but be startled.

The space where Chunbeom was tied up was littered with corpses, and there were many bones that had weathered over time. Moreover, Baekjeolsamu looked pale, as if she was about to die.

The other Immortals of the White Yo Tribe were the same.

Some were so poisoned that they couldn’t move properly.

Baekjeolsamu covered her mouth with her sleeve and continued to vomit blood.

She was being supported by the White Yo Tribe Immortals, but their once white faces had turned black under their eyes and looked pale, like people who were about to die.

It seemed like they had been poisoned for a long time.

“I see. You’ve been poisoned…”

The expression ‘dying’ would be more accurate.

She didn’t know why they had been poisoned, but it was probably closely related to Chunbeom.

“Don’t be so happy.”

“It’s not scary at all when someone who’s about to die says that.”

Her illusion was broken.

Gayeon and Yeona were freezing all over, but they weren’t afraid.

Baekjeolsamu’s condition was worse than expected, and she seemed to have difficulty moving, so there was hope.

Even if she was Baekjeolsamu, called a Great Immortal, if she was poisoned and had difficulty moving properly, it was worth a try!

The tide had turned.

Gyunchun Ogwang [a powerful energy or aura] began to shine brilliantly from Yeona’s body.

“If I die, do you think I’ll die alone? I’ll definitely take you with me, if no one else. But not yet. I’m not going to die.”

“You’re dying right now, aren’t you?”

Yeona said mockingly.

Shwaaa. As she said that, hundreds of swords unfolded beside Yeona.

They looked fierce, as if they would pierce through the White Yo Tribe and Baekjeolsamu at any moment.

But Baekjeolsamu wasn’t afraid.

“I admit that I’ve never experienced such a potent poison in my life. But do you really think that I, Baekjeolsamu, will die from being poisoned!”

Baekjeolsamu muttered to herself as if she was talking to herself, saying that she would never die.

Then, as if she had made a decision, she sat in meditation and began to form hand seals.

And then suddenly.

Stab! Stab, stab!

She stabbed her own body with her fingers.

As her fingers pierced into her skin by about two knuckles, black blood stained her pure white palace dress black.

But strangely enough, as she moved her lips, the black blood flowed to the floor and turned pure white!

“What are you trying to do!”

“If you’re going to die, die nicely!”

“It’s faster for the poison to spread throughout my body than for me to detoxify it now. Even if I’m stopping the poison from spreading, this is such a terrible poison that it’s my first time experiencing it, so I’ll probably die. But with my secret technique, Jangseodanse, even the flowing time will pass by this crisis.”

Kugugugung!!

The maze trembled, and Baekjeolsamu’s eyes began to turn pure white.

“Jangseodanse!”

“What is that!?”

Yeona seemed to know.

“It’s a type of spatial law that freezes the space itself, freezing the enemy to death and allowing oneself to recover strength like a hibernating beast! It’s the ultimate technique of the White Yo Tribe!”

But she had heard that the secret technique would cut away half of one’s cultivation, and once it was frozen, it wouldn’t thaw again for at least a thousand years.

Well, she was about to die anyway, so what was the point of regretting the cultivation she had accumulated over the years?

Thanks to that, it was Yeona and Gayeon who were in big trouble.

“I’m using Jangseodanse because I’m poisoned and can’t use much strength right now, but in a thousand years, I’ll tear you all apart. You, standing there at the end of my head, and the Slayer of Immortals you serve, will also meet death at my hands!”

Soon, a blizzard raged in the maze, and everything froze over.