Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 386

The Three Kings’ Disciple

It was something I couldn’t find in the past.

Back then, I had just returned, and I was desperately trying to restore my wretched body.

Though I had the teachings of the Three Kings, my body couldn’t keep up. It was only when I absorbed the corpse of the Four Dragons that I had the basics.

The Ring of the Emperor was something I couldn’t even think about back then.

That’s why.

Whirring.

Now, I could find it quickly.

Thud!

Where Yi Rown reached out, corpses began to explode and burst.

In this bottomless pit, there were several mountains of corpses where the unhandled bodies had flowed in and piled up.

Yi Rown had once absorbed the evil energy and poison from those corpses, but he hadn’t absorbed all of it.

Thud!

Corpses exploded again.

And then.

“I found it.”

A wall appeared.

At first glance, it looked like an ordinary cave wall.

However, to Yi Rown and the others, that wall seemed like a special place that was shimmering.

“It was disguised with corpses.”

It was something they hadn’t discovered because of the piled-up monster corpses.

Ha Se-min rushed towards the wall without hesitation.

Meanwhile, the undead that had risen from the exploded corpses glared at Ha Se-min.

Zap!

The lightning that bloomed from Ha Se-min’s fist burned away the undead’s evil energy and bodies.

Zzzap!

The lightning pulsed.

He glanced at Yi Rown and nodded, asking for permission.

Ha Se-min, receiving silent approval from Yi Rown.

Boom!

He unleashed an even denser lightning.

And the next moment.

Clang!

Ha Se-min’s lightning struck the revealed wall.

The lightning from just now was nearly thirty percent of Ha Se-min’s power.

Ha Se-min’s intention was to break the unusual-looking wall instantly, not expecting any resistance.

In the dusty haze, the wall that he thought would have been broken.

Ding!

It only made a bell-like sound and remained firm.

“… !”

Ha Se-min, flustered, stepped back.

Again.

Zap!

The lightning bloomed.

As if his pride was hurt, Ha Se-min lowered his eyes and clenched his fists with a serious expression.

Zzzzzap!

A larger current flowed, and lightning struck.

He minimized the noise and maximized the destructive power, using fifty percent of his power.

The next moment, Ha Se-min became one with the lightning and collided with the wall.

Crack!

A different sound than before was heard.

The dusty haze.

And when it subsided.

“…”

A slightly scratched wall was visible.

“It’s Millennium Iron.”

Ha Se-min, grimacing at Yi Rown’s voice, nodded.

If there was something that couldn’t be broken by his lightning, it would have to be Millennium Iron, one of the materials for Yi Rown’s sword of rage.

Iron, a metal known to be close to perfection in itself.

Millennium Iron was iron that had absorbed yin energy in the snowy mountains for ten thousand years, making it incomparably hard.

It absorbed internal energy even better, and its strength was considered equivalent to Ainhardt’s Orichalcum, a rare treasure [a mythical metal known for its extreme durability].

“Are you saying this entire wall is made of Millennium Iron?”

Even a piece the size of a fist would be hard to value.

Thump!

Millennium Iron was filling the entire wall.

Even the Black Market would have a hard time doing such a crazy thing.

Not because they lacked money, but because they wouldn’t be able to find Millennium Iron.

“Indeed…”

It was Lee Yong-jin.

“It seems you’ve found it well.”

Millennium Iron filling the wall, that was enough to make sense.

-One who knows the secrets of the world.

That there was something important here.

“Move aside.”

At Yi Rown’s voice, Ha Se-min stepped back.

Swish.

The blood that filled the floor began to rise, defying gravity.

The rising drops of blood swirled and gathered into Yi Rown’s hand.

The more amazing thing about iron was that its strength varied depending on its size.

The more it was attached, filled with yin energy, the stronger it became, and the larger its size, the stronger it became.

The wall in front of them now would have a strength that wouldn’t collapse even if a nuclear bomb was detonated several times in the past.

The blood-red sword was now in Yi Rown’s hand.

Swoosh.

Yi Rown slashed it horizontally.

A line, containing immense power.

Clang!

When the blood-red line was drawn on the wall.

Swoosh.

Yi Rown swung his sword again.

And finally.

Crack!

A tiny crack appeared in the wall.

That was enough.

Rumble!

That small crack began to collapse the entire wall.

The problem was.

“It wasn’t just the wall.”

That the wall wasn’t the only thing made of Millennium Iron.

And the cracks that followed.

Crack!

Were spreading to the floor as well.

Thud!

The immense energy and evil energy from the iron began to surge and erupt.

A green vortex, like the breath of the Four Dragons, enveloped everyone and began to press down.

“This is… !”

Those who lost control of their bodies.

Even Yi Rown was momentarily thrown off balance, engulfed by the energy and poison that had accumulated for decades.

Thud!

The bottomless pit, called the underground, where even the depth of the corpse disposal site of the volcano was unknown.

They fell into the underground of that bottomless pit.

* * *

What I felt as I fell was that there was a flow.

I could have resisted that flow, but I didn’t.

If I resisted the flow, it seemed like I would have to wander even more.

“…”

Red eyes.

It was Yi Rown who stood up from the collapsed debris.

Thud.

As he moved his internal energy, the dust and debris that filled his body fell off.

Yi Rown stood there and scanned his surroundings.

Darkness without a single point of light, but Yi Rown could see clearly in that darkness.

Whirring!

As Yi Rown’s eyes turned gold, a wave occurred.

‘They seem fine.’

It seemed that Ha Se-min and Lee Yong-jin had not been neglecting their training, as they seemed unharmed even in the dangerous situation just now.

However.

“It’ll be hard to find them right away.”

Judging by the long waves, it seemed like he couldn’t rush to join them.

The waves that were bouncing off.

The entire place was…

“They’re crazy.”

It was Millennium Iron.

And Millennium Iron filled with evil energy and power.

What on earth were they storing?

No.

What on earth were they…

“Imprisoning.”

Were they imprisoning?

This was a prison.

A prison that wouldn’t have even a small crack for a long time if Yi Rown hadn’t broken it just now.

A prison that no trickery would work on, a prison that could only be broken by force.

Step.

The moment Yi Rown took a step in question.

Thump.

A very small, subtle noise was heard in his maximized senses.

Thump!

The moment something hit the blood sphere that Yi Rown had created and bounced off.

Thump thump thump thump thump thump!

The same sound began to repeat countless times.

Thud.

One of them fell at Yi Rown’s feet.

In the darkness, what came into clear view was an arrow with a unique tip.

It was made with a spiral to maximize its rotational force, and it seemed to be made with a unique method. It was made entirely of Millennium Iron.

Yi Rown could immediately recognize what these were.

“Is it a Mechanical Formation?”

There were two types of formations in the Silver Unit [a group of martial artists].

The first was a formation that used the flow of energy and nature, such as the Seven Stars Formation of the Wudang Sect or the Demon Subduing Formation of the Kunlun Sect [famous martial arts sects].

It was a kind of magic circle that exerted supernatural power.

These were the basic and fundamental formations of the Silver Unit.

And the second, a formation treated as heretical, existed.

That was the Mechanical Formation.

A formation created by borrowing the power of mechanical devices while minimizing the use of the flow of nature or energy.

At first glance, it might seem that the Mechanical Formation was inferior to the general formations that used supernatural power.

Bang!

That was a misconception.

Again, something’s trigger was activated, and this time, the sky and the ground began to move simultaneously.

Clank!

The walls that were trying to trap Yi Rown and prevent him from moving.

Through that gap.

Whoosh!

Arrows, iron balls, and weapons poured in.

This was the horror of the Mechanical Formation.

Energy, nature, everything has a will.

A highly trained martial artist could sense the premonition and killing intent, and could sense the energy to break the formation.

However, the Mechanical Formation did not contain any will.

Just as a stone rolling on the street has no will or intention, so did the things that made up the Mechanical Formation.

Now, in the darkness where you couldn’t see an inch ahead.

Thud!

The Mechanical Formation was a killer made to kill martial artists.

Swish.

Dozens of traps were activated simultaneously, seemingly bringing certain death to Yi Rown.

However.

Whirr.

Yi Rown was standing unharmed inside the rotating blood barrier.

The amazing thing was that some of these arrows and traps, which were very efficient, had penetrated the blood barrier.

Swoosh!

The rotating blood barrier disappeared and fell to Yi Rown’s feet.

“It’s getting more and more exciting.”

Now, the traps were no longer activated.

But of course, there would be even more traps ahead.

“What’s here.”

In the darkness, Yi Rown’s red eyes were flickering.

* * *

The first was the Mechanical Formation.

Mechanical Formations that were so high-level that they couldn’t be described as sharp.

Compared to general formations, it was a Mechanical Formation that was at the level of a Heavenly Grade or higher.

The walls, the ground, and even the sky moved, as if trying to pronounce certain death.

The sharpness and precision were so great that it even scratched Yi Rown’s skin.

But the Mechanical Formation continued endlessly.

“Interesting.”

Its viciousness was increasing.

Even though it was a Mechanical Formation without will, the precision and sharpness became familiar and felt over time.

The Mechanical Formation was something that had been abandoned in the past because its limitations were clear.

However.

Whoosh!

The Mechanical Formation here compensated for even those shortcomings.

A moving skeleton quickly attacked Yi Rown.

It was a fast and sharp movement that couldn’t be thought of as a low-level undead.

The problem was that there was not just one of them.

Also, the types of undead were diverse.

Clatter, clatter.

The sound of the skeleton’s skull clattering.

Groan…

The strange groans of the zombies.

Bang!

The fierce attacks of the Dullahan [a headless undead] continued.

In the meantime.

Whoosh!

The Mechanical Formation was activated by their movements.

The arrows that flew hit the blood sphere and bounced off.

But the next moment.

Bang!

The arrow that pierced through the zombie’s head.

Clench.

It was caught in Yi Rown’s grasp and was still spinning fiercely.

The strange tip and body of the arrow were sucking up the internal energy that covered Yi Rown’s hand, increasing its rotational force even more.

If Yi Rown’s body itself had not been protected by the Heavenly Demon Divine Art [a powerful martial art], Yi Rown might have been torn to pieces and become a meal for the undead at this moment.

The Mechanical Formation’s inherent problems were compensated for by the undead.

Moreover, the undead here were so powerful that they were incomparable to ordinary undead, perhaps because they had been exposed to the dense evil energy for a long time.

What was even more amazing was.

“To be able to handle the undead like this.”

That these undead were not being controlled by necromancy.