“You….”
The monster spoke as if in disbelief.
“What are you?”
Yi Rown, stepping on the monster, grabbed his face.
“Your master.”
Kwaang!
The monster’s body crashed through the floor made of eternal cold iron, creating a deafening sound.
Kwaaaah!
The blood demon energy emanating from Yi Rown’s hand engulfed the monster, intensifying its heat.
“That can’t, that can’t be possible.”
The monster muttered more frantically.
“That can’t be.”
In an instant, the monster’s body swelled.
And a fist shot out, striking Yi Rown directly on his right cheek.
Yi Rown, thrown back, stepped into the air, regained his balance, and landed.
Goooh!
Energy surged from the monster’s entire body.
‘Chaos.’
It was chaos.
This was the second time.
Witnessing chaos on this Earth.
Previously, he had faced the spirit of a Heavenly Demon imbued with chaos in the Wudang Sect, and now it was a ghost from the volcanic corpse disposal site.
Of course, the amount of chaos they possessed was extremely minute.
Merely at the level of having come into contact with chaos.
“Wh, what…!”
But even that alone was enough to pose an overwhelming threat, that was what chaos was.
It was amplifying.
Because it was the mother of all power, and all power itself.
Kwaaaaaaaah-!
The monster’s inner strength, morale, and demonic energy all combined and amplified in an instant.
Moreover, it wasn’t simple addition but multiplication.
Perhaps even to the power of two.
“Kuhahahaha!”
The monster’s maniacal laughter echoed through the void.
“My master, you say.”
Madness flashed in his lowered eyes.
“Are you….”
The monster’s blurred figure.
“Saying you will bring about destruction?”
Appeared before Yi Rown, clenching both fists.
From above to below.
It was just a simple motion.
He clearly read it, and could have avoided it, but.
Kwaang!
Yi Rown couldn’t avoid it.
Chaos, it was a power where everything was mixed and disordered.
Once you started using chaos, its trajectory became disordered, and the distribution of power became disordered.
He read it, but couldn’t read it.
“My lord!”
The monster stomped on Yi Rown’s head, which had been smashed into the ground.
“This power is destruction and despair.”
Kwaang!
“Yet, how dare you call yourself my master?”
The monster, who was not sure if he was sane or completely mad, continued to stomp on Yi Rown.
Ha Se-min and Lee Yong-jin tried to rush in while fighting the undead, but.
Kkaang!
The undead’s momentum was also fierce, preventing them from doing so.
However, what was strange was that the Death Knight was just silently fighting the undead in front of him.
“Then.”
The voice was heard then.
The monster looked down at his feet.
Yi Rown, who should have been smashed into the ground, was nowhere to be seen.
“……!”
Behind him.
Yi Rown stood there, holding a sword with a chilling gaze.
“I am despair, and destruction.”
Swoosh.
Anger moved.
A slow, honest trajectory.
However, just like Yi Rown.
“……!”
The monster clearly saw it, yet he couldn’t move as if time had stopped.
Slice!
A chilling sound of flesh tearing echoed.
“Cough, cough!”
The monster stepped back, clutching his neck.
“This, this can’t be….”
This power he had obtained, this power could absorb anything and imitate anything.
It was more powerful than any protective energy, and nothing could pierce this wall.
But.
Thud.
That man was capable of it.
“H, how….”
He couldn’t understand.
The despair he had felt and seen, it was as if it had taken shape and was approaching him.
“So, everything is connected after all.”
Yi Rown stood before the monster and looked down at him.
Even though the monster was clearly taller than Yi Rown, it was Yi Rown who was looking down.
‘When did he!’
What should have been below the monster’s shin was not there.
Yi Rown’s sword strike had cut not only the monster’s neck but also his legs.
“Chaos.”
Languid, yet lowered eyes.
“At this point, I can’t think of it as a coincidence.”
The ghost of the volcano.
This monster was a prisoner of the Assembly, destined to rot here for the rest of his life, holding the secrets of the Assembly.
For such a person to possess a seed of chaos, or rather, a fragment of it.
‘The spirit of the Heavenly Demon.’
In the past, the spirit of a Heavenly Demon, imbued with chaos, had rampaged in the Wudang Sect.
‘All of that can’t be a coincidence.’
They were all connected to chaos in some way.
Smirk.
Yi Rown smiled.
He had regained his past self and started his revenge.
He wanted to uphold his master’s will and reclaim and protect his master’s legacy.
All of that was.
‘A game.’
Just a temporary extension of life.
It wasn’t what he truly wanted to do.
But this was different.
“If it’s chaos….”
Yes, if it was chaos.
“It’s worth it.”
He was a gourd created to eliminate chaos, seal it, and destroy it.
Also, he was a weapon created to cut, crush, and burn it.
So.
Kwaaang!
How could he not be pleased?
***
The monster’s appearance was beyond description.
“Cough!”
Blood gushed out, and his entire body was so mangled that it was hard to recognize his form.
“Cough, cough!”
Yet, the fact that he was still alive.
That was a bizarre situation that was chilling.
Just as Yi Rown’s fist was about to strike the monster’s head again.
“My lord!”
Ha Se-min called out to him.
The fist stopped in front of the monster’s face.
“We mustn’t kill him.”
The purpose of coming here.
“We must find out.”
To find out the secrets the Assembly was hiding, they mustn’t kill this man.
Ha Se-min was saying that.
“Kihik.”
Even in his madness, he was creating a chillingly sophisticated formation and controlling the undead without necromancy.
It was hard to even imagine how outstanding his perception and intelligence were.
So, he understood.
“Kihit!”
That Yi Rown wouldn’t kill him, that he could prolong his life.
But in the midst of that, the monster’s face contorted.
“Plea….”
A twisted and mixed voice.
“Please kill me.”
A clear voice was heard by everyone for a brief moment.
“Please! Please kill me!”
This monster was once a proud warrior, a martial artist who had reached a sublime realm.
“Please…. Please kill me!”
But his end was a life of madness, trapped in this hellish prison.
The undead were his friends, the darkness was his blanket, and his home.
“You can do it. So please…, kill me.”
A life where he couldn’t die even if he wanted to.
He begged.
“…….”
Ha Se-min’s eyes twitched.
Because he was also a martial artist, he knew what the desperate request of a martial artist who had reached that level meant.
Clench.
Even Lee Yong-jin, feeling the desperation and sincerity, closed his mouth and didn’t say anything.
But even so.
“We mustn’t kill him.”
Ha Se-min said.
“We must find out the Assembly’s secrets.”
This was ultimately for Yi Rown, so he meant that everything else would be excluded and ignored.
And.
Swoosh.
Yi Rown withdrew his fist.
“Please….”
Just as Ha Se-min closed his eyes tightly.
Kwaaaang!
A huge roar echoed.
The scene that appeared in his hastily opened eyes was Yi Rown’s fist piercing the monster’s face.
Goooh!
A dark and murky energy seeped out.
A huge ominousness that could not be described.
Shwaaa!
It began to be sucked into Yi Rown’s body.
“…….”
Ha Se-min finally nodded.
He knew that Yi Rown had the ability to read the memories of the dead, but for some reason, it seemed difficult with this monster.
In the end, they wouldn’t be able to find out the Assembly’s secrets, but.
“You’ve worked hard.”
He would respect any choice Yi Rown made.
The monster’s breath completely stopped.
“What are you talking about?”
Yi Rown said, looking at Ha Se-min.
“We will get the information.”
“Yes?”
Was he talking about the ability to read the memories of the dead?
“This guy will tell us himself.”
“Ah…!”
When Ha Se-min, as if realizing something, widened his eyes.
Kuuu!
The tremors started again.
Kwaang!
The ceiling collapsed, and they quickly moved their bodies.
The weight was said to be several times, even tens of times heavier than ordinary steel, the eternal cold iron.
Kwaaang!
It poured down like rain, looking like throwing weapons.
“They must have been prepared.”
Yi Rown gestured towards the Death Knight, and the Death Knight picked up the monster’s corpse.
“Since he was someone who held the Assembly’s secrets, they must have tried to seal everything in a situation like his death.”
The collapsing void.
It seemed like there would be no way out.
But at Yi Rown’s gesture.
Goooh!
Undead that appeared from somewhere blocked the falling ceiling, clearing a path.
“Let’s go.”
Escaping wouldn’t be too difficult.
And.
‘I should call it a rare opportunity.’
Yi Rown smiled with satisfaction.
Obtaining the Death Knight, who was once the Plum Blossom Divine Sword.
And.
‘The corpse of a supreme expert who holds the Assembly’s secrets.’
It was like obtaining a very valuable treasure.
* * *
Kuuuuuuuu!
The ground and ceiling began to shake.
“What’s going on!”
The prisoners of the corpse disposal site were in a panic, not knowing what to do in the sudden situation.
Kurururu!
The shaking ceiling broke and began to collapse.
Before they became prisoners of the volcano, they wouldn’t have been afraid of the falling debris, they would have punched it away or dodged it.
But as prisoners of the volcano, having lost their cores and dantian [energy centers in the body],.
“Get out of the way!”
Kwajik!
The falling debris from the ceiling was as frightening and terrifying as a meteorite.
The prisoners, who had been doing labor that could have been peaceful, began to move quickly.
“Kkyaaaak!”
There were already many who were buried under the debris, and many who had lost their lives.
In the meantime, the volcano’s supervisors also appeared and moved.
“What’s going on!”
Their reaction was no different.
The last time something like this happened at the volcano’s corpse disposal site.
‘It’s similar to that time.’
It was similar to when Yi Rown, that bastard, escaped.
“Stop the prisoners from escaping and find out what’s going on!”
It was the moment the supervisors shouted.
Slice!
Red lines were drawn on their necks.
Thud. Thud.
Things that fell and rolled.
“What….”
The supervisor’s head, who was speaking without knowing what was going on.
Thud, thud.
Fell and rolled on the floor, no different.
The ones standing behind the supervisors.
They were also prisoners of the volcano.
Flash.
The ones emitting a deep killing intent, their identities were the prisoners of the volcano who had met Yi Rown.
-It’s the Blood Pill.
They had received a pill from Yi Rown.
Something called the Blood Pill.
The Blood Demon Divine Art observes the inside.
And that power.
-Will regenerate the dantian.
It would regenerate the terribly destroyed dantian and create a blood dantian.
-The blood dantian has such properties.
The efficacy of quickly absorbing and restoring any energy that had once resided in the dantian.
So, some of the prisoners of the volcano now.
“We must move according to the Blood Demon’s orders.”
It meant that they had regained all of their past power.
Terrible criminals.
No, they were martial artists that the Assembly and the volcano had been wary of.
On the other hand, the volcano’s supervisors were considered experts, but they were low-level.
As they were managing prisoners who had lost their dantian and cores, their skills were terrible.
Slice!
They had no choice but to become prey for the prisoners.
“Those who must be dealt with.”
Also.
“Those who must be saved.”
As divided beforehand.
“Move.”
The prisoners began to move.