Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 359

Koo-errrrrr-!

The cry echoed within the cave.

At first, it was just…

Kukuku…

A small tremor, something only martial artists with keen senses could perceive as a subtle vibration.

But the tremor gradually grew.

Koo-errrrrr-!

It transformed into a massive roar, echoing through the space.

“Kuh-uk!”

“Kuh-uhk!”

The Taegeuk Gate disciples were the first to fall.

They clutched their heads and collapsed.

“Keok!”

Next was Hang Yeo-il, the leader of the Taegeuk Gate.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he struggled to keep from kneeling, veins bulging on his face and body.

“Hah… Hah…”

His vision blurred as he gasped for breath.

His heart was pounding as if it would burst.

“Kkyaaaak!”

Eventually, his inner energy went berserk, surging through his meridians.

‘No!’

Hang Yeo-il desperately tried to regain his senses.

‘Nooo!’

What was happening was the most terrifying thing for a martial artist.

‘Inner energy deviation.’

It was a sign of inner energy deviation. [A dangerous state where one’s internal energy goes out of control]

If this continued for even a little longer, the rampaging inner energy would reach his Baihui point [the crown of the head], causing a massive shock and shattering his mind.

If he was in this state, his disciples couldn’t be any better.

“I…”

Hang Yeo-il barely managed to turn his head toward his disciples.

Whoosh!

But as a strange energy enveloped his body, the rampaging inner energy gradually began to stabilize.

Thud.

Hang Yeo-il collapsed, his bloodshot eyes returning to normal, and the bulging veins subsided.

The dangerous moment had passed.

And only then did Hang Yeo-il realize how he had recovered.

“Hyuh… Ma…”

Yi Rown was looking at them with languid eyes.

“What on earth… happened?”

Hang Yeo-il asked.

“Is it some kind of… sonic attack?”

He barely regained his composure and sat down to catch his breath.

If a sinister sonic attack had such power, it would be believable.

That cry.

Those things.

“Something like that.”

Yi Rown seemed to know everything.

“If you hear the cry directly, your mind will collapse, and ordinary people or those with weak minds will become insane.”

Yi Rown seemed to be observing something, waiting for Hang Yeo-il and the others to stand up.

“No, even if you are a high-level martial artist, if you can’t resist, you’ll be affected.”

“……”

“Fortunately, the heart method the Taegeuk Gate learned has the energy of subjugation.”

Subjugation.

In the case of Taoist and Buddhist sects, their heart methods naturally accumulated pure inner energy and possessed the energy of subjugation. [The power to suppress evil or demonic forces]

The same was true for Wudang. [A famous Taoist martial arts sect]

If it were the heart method of the main sect, it would have had a greater ability to subjugate, but the Taegeuk Heart Method of the secular sect, the Taegeuk Gate, only had a certain degree of subjugation.

“Is there such a powerful demonic entity here?”

At Hang Yeo-il’s words, Yi Rown quietly looked beyond and said.

“The only thing that can counter this…”

One.

“Exorcism.”

Not resisting the demonic, but the power to destroy it.

It was only possible with the energy of exorcism.

“I know what’s behind the Nine Dragons Gate.”

“Could you please tell us what exactly is here?”

Yi Rown’s languid eyes looked down at Hang Yeo-il.

At that moment.

Whoosh.

Hang Yeo-il felt like he was being sucked into a distant, dizzying place.

When he regained his senses, Hang Yeo-il could see.

Yi Rown’s red eyes had turned pitch black.

“A demon.”

Yi Rown replied.

* * *

Invasion of worlds.

Three worlds opened their doors and invaded this Earth.

The world of martial arts, Eun, where martial artists were the main force.

The magical world of Ainhardt, where magic, knights, and dragons lived.

And the last one.

-Gehenna.

Also known as the demon realm, Gehenna, the land of beings called demons or the demon race.

Thus, three worlds invaded Earth.

However, unlike Eun and Ainhardt, which immediately revealed their presence and interfered with Earth.

‘Gehenna rarely showed its face.’

Gehenna only occasionally revealed itself, letting them know of their existence.

But every time, the impression Gehenna gave was extraordinary.

-Power.

They were beings of immense power, incomparable to Ainhardt or Eun.

Each one was a quasi-disaster or disaster-level entity, and countless lives were lost when they appeared.

Eventually, when many demons of Gehenna appeared, Ainhardt and Eun joined forces to fight against them in a war.

‘My masters were the same.’

The Martial King, the Sword King, the Demon King.

-Learn the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and the Blood Demon Divine Art from me, complete the Blood Heaven Divine Art, and become a Divine Demon.

The Martial King’s teachings.

-Learn the Ring of the Emperor and learn how to communicate with the outside world, not just the body, and reach the pinnacle of the sword.

The Sword King’s teachings.

-I will make all of that yours. Forever.

The Demon King’s teachings.

Yi Rown had seen it once.

-I’m bored, shall we have a spar after a long time?

-Not a bad idea.

Yi Rown, who had been training non-stop for over a month.

When he finally fell asleep in his exhausted body, his masters were having a small banquet.

He clearly remembered the scene he had accidentally witnessed when he woke up.

-Today won’t be easy.

-Agreed.

The Martial King and the Sword King, who usually never cooperated on anything, stood side by side.

-Do as you please.

Facing the Demon King.

At that time, he couldn’t see his masters’ sparring clearly.

But he remembered.

In the end.

-It’s the same again.

-Again?

It was the Demon King who was standing.

That’s why Yi Rown paid a lot of attention to Gehenna when he returned to Earth.

However, he couldn’t easily find their traces anywhere.

The order to find their traces in Russia, at the Northern Sea Ice Palace.

“But.”

Yi Rown said with a calm gaze.

“I never thought I’d find traces here.”

The Nine Dragons Gate.

There was a demon beneath it.

And that too…

‘It’s weakened.’

It was weakened, incomparable to its original power.

As Yi Rown took a step forward.

Poong.

A ripple began to form in the empty air.

He concentrated the inner energy in his lower dantian [energy center] to the extreme and released it in an instant.

The result was.

Saaaaa-!

It was now appearing.

“There are writings on the wall…?”

In this massive cave.

The walls were covered with writings.

Each one contained inner energy, so they were usually invisible, but with such a wave, they would reveal their true form.

“……”

The writings spread out with a blue light.

Hang Yeo-il and the Taegeuk Gate disciples were overwhelmed and speechless.

“A formation…?”

Was it a formation?

“It’s not something like that. This entire cave is…”

Yi Rown clicked his tongue and said.

“A single scripture.”

Also.

“A seal.”

“……!”

This massive cave, where they couldn’t even grasp the center, was covered with such things?

Who on earth could do this?

And how could they do this?

“What on earth is the Nine Dragons Gate…”

What was it?

Such questions and even fear entered Hang Yeo-il’s mind.

Koo-errrrrr-!

The cry was still echoing.

Hang Yeo-il and the others, who did not have strong subjugation or exorcism energy, were enduring thanks to Yi Rown’s protection.

‘Is it because he’s a Blood Demon that he can resist the demonic?’

Hang Yeo-il thought as he looked at Yi Rown.

Was it because Yi Rown was a minion of the demonic that this cry sounded like a lullaby to him?

No, the truth was.

‘It’s wailing.’

With pain and sorrow.

And…

“It’s calling.”

For its comrades.

The demon in this cave.

“It’s fighting.”

It was fighting something and wailing.

After walking for a long time.

Yi Rown stopped.

Clang…

A shockwave was echoing from somewhere.

Clang!

The shockwave was gradually growing louder.

“There’s a fight going on ahead.”

Listening closely, it seemed like people’s voices were also mixed in with the cry.

As Hang Yeo-il gasped for breath with a tense expression.

Thud.

At the sound of footsteps, he quickly turned around and drew his sword.

He had been on high alert, so he reacted instantly.

However, at the sight before him, Hang Yeo-il quietly sheathed his sword.

“You’ve come to the right place.”

Yi Rown said slowly, turning around.

There.

“What on earth… is going on here?”

Ha Se-min stood there, shocked.

* * *

Ha Se-min, Wi Jin-cheol, Oh Jin-kyung, and Choi Ye-seul.

The reason they could come here was.

“The Nine Dragons Gate officially has only eight assault teams.”

In fact, even that was a lot.

An assault team was a name given only to a group large enough to take down an A-class gate alone. [A high-level dungeon or portal]

Also, although it varied from gate to gate, most A-class gates accommodated a maximum of…

‘One hundred.’

They were created to match the number one hundred.

The number of assault teams in a medium-sized sect was one to three.

The number of assault teams in a large sect or guild was five to six.

It was common for a super-large sect like the Nine Great Sects to have nine to ten assault teams.

So, the fact that the Nine Dragons Gate maintained and possessed eight assault teams was proof of the Nine Dragons Gate’s position and size.

“The Nine Dragons Gate is a guild made up of martial artists, and all eight assault team members are martial artists.”

There was nothing unusual.

It was rather strange that there were no players doing odd jobs or acting as shields.

“But there’s a small rumor within the Nine Dragons Gate.”

“I’ve heard of it.”

At Wi Jin-cheol’s words, Hang Yeo-il also joined in.

“The ninth assault team.”

“You’re talking about the Nine Dragons Team.”

The Nine Dragons Team.

It was said that there was a secret, unofficial ninth assault team.

“I’ve never seen it even while being in the Nine Dragons Gate.”

A secret that even Wi Jin-cheol, who was part of the Nine Dragons Gate and held a high-ranking position, and Hang Yeo-il, who was close to the Nine Dragons Gate, had not confirmed.

“But…”

Wi Jin-cheol said.

“It was a player.”

Today, Wi Jin-cheol had stepped into a place he would never have set foot in for Yi Rown.

While hiding and moving carefully with Ha Se-min’s ability, they followed suspicious activities and saw something they would never have seen otherwise.

A player. [A person from another world or dimension]

“There are no players in the Nine Dragons Gate.”

It meant that an unauthorized person had entered the Nine Dragons Gate.

“Was it an Unknown?”

At Yi Rown’s words, Choi Ye-seul shook her head.

“It wasn’t someone from our side. But…”

She said.

“They were as strong as we are.”

A strong person on the level of an Unknown. [A powerful individual with mysterious origins]

And that player was here?

“It seems there was a reason why the Nine Dragons Gate was controlling outside access due to some issue.”

And because of that reason, something that would never have been discovered was discovered.

Wi Jin-cheol, who was recognized for his position in the Nine Dragons Gate.

He had a shocked expression on his face.

“I never thought there would be a place like this in the Nine Dragons Gate…”

He had followed the player and arrived here.

It became even clearer.

This was the secret of the Nine Dragons Gate.

And in Yi Rown’s opinion.

“The writings on this wall, Kunlun must have carved them.”

The Nine Dragons Gate, a demon, a player.

And…

-Kunlun. [A legendary mountain range in Chinese mythology]

All of that was.

“There’s no other way but to see it with our own eyes.”

It was time to reveal its true nature.