Disciple of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 467

-Have you completely forgotten?

Shin Yeoul’s face was a mix of deep regret and a variety of other emotions.

There was also an emotion he had never seen or felt before.

-Really….

That was.

-Have you forgotten…?

Something akin to fear and worry.

“……!”

Lee Rowoon couldn’t hide his surprise at Shin Yeoul’s expression, which he had never witnessed before.

He was displaying an expression now that he had never shown in over a hundred years.

-What are you talking about, disciple?

Chaos’s playful voice echoed.

-Is there still more for you to play with me?

An emotion like anticipation.

And an unbearable joy flowed through his body, which Lee Rowoon could also sense.

-Remember.

Shin Yeoul’s voice was heard.

-Realize.

Shin Yeoul said, forcibly wrenching at his neck, which was held by Chaos.

It wasn’t the figure of the absolute being that Lee Rowoon knew.

It wasn’t the figure of the Martial King, who ruled the world of Eun and stood at the pinnacle of martial arts.

-Don’t be… consumed!

A mere human.

Lee Rowoon realized that he was in his fundamental form, not a transcendent being.

-Don’t forget!

Shin Yeoul shouted as if screaming.

“Ah…. Ah…!”

Surging emotions.

-Rowoon-!

When that name burst out, Lee Rowoon’s heart pounded as if it would explode as well.

Twitch.

Chaos, who was holding Shin Yeoul, paused.

But with that.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Lee Rowoon’s heart beat even faster.

But his head grew cold.

“…….”

He felt like he was going to vomit.

He felt like he was going crazy.

He couldn’t comprehend this moment.

“Why…!”

He shouted again.

“Why-!”

Shin Yeoul’s voice.

He thought it was directed at him, but.

“Why… doesn’t it sound like you’re talking to me?”

It was because Shin Yeoul’s voice didn’t sound like it was directed at him, but rather at Chaos.

Saaaah.

The beating heart stopped.

An unbearable coldness covered his entire body.

Lee Rowoon froze completely.

The throbbing head was so cold that it became calm.

-You are….

What was seen through the open gap was Shin Yeoul’s faint smile.

And.

-My disciple, and no different from my son.

When that bright smile spread.

Crack-!

The sound of Shin Yeoul’s neck bones dislocating was heard.

“Ah…. No.”

Lee Rowoon cried out in a hollow voice.

“Nooooooooooooo-!”

From Shin Yeoul’s collapsing body, a bright light was rising.

It was the moment when the fragment of chaos that Shin Yeoul possessed was being absorbed by its original owner.

And that meant only one thing.

“Masterrrrrrrrr-!”

Shin Yeoul’s death.

* * *

“Agh.”

He felt like he was going to stop breathing.

“Aaaagh.”

Even when he tried to make a sound, only a scraping noise came out as if a knife had been inserted into his throat.

“Aaaagh-!”

As he tried to break through that throat, blood gushed out.

It was impossible to describe the feeling of numbness.

It was as painful as if a huge truck had crashed into his heart.

He had already experienced it once.

‘Master.’

The death of his master.

The only people Lee Rowoon had opened his heart to and followed, after deciding not to give his heart to anyone or follow anyone else.

When he returned after sealing Chaos, they were already….

“Aaaaaaaaaaagh!”

No.

At that time, he thought his masters hadn’t died.

He thought that if he went back and found them, he could meet them again and spend the same time as before.

He had been denying it.

So this was the first time.

“Uaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh-!”

Experiencing the death of his master, and feeling it.

This was the first time.

Fahahaha-!

Bright lights poured out from Lee Rowoon’s entire body.

Faaaang! Puheong!

Lee Rowoon’s energy began to explode as it collided with its surroundings.

The seal created by the Shaolin’s proud Soul-Devouring Demonic Formation and the martial monks numbering over ten thousand.

Jjeoeong-!

Unable to withstand the explosion, it was immediately torn apart and destroyed.

He felt like he was going crazy.

No.

“Khehehe….”

He was crazy.

“Khehehehehahahaha!”

Laughter burst out.

He didn’t know how to express this emotion, and it felt like his head was broken.

It flickered.

-You are my disciple….

His master’s last face.

-And no different from my son.

The last voice.

It remained even more vivid and clear than the voices of the tens of thousands of vengeful spirits in the Soul-Devouring Demonic Formation.

Kwaaaang!

He swung his fist and whipped his arm like a whip.

Kwaaaang!

The resulting explosion was so intense and destructive that it seemed to annihilate everything.

The Soul-Devouring Demonic Formation had been torn apart long ago.

The plants and nature that his master had created were long gone.

Then.

Stood still.

Lee Rowoon stopped.

It was the moment when his constantly shaking pupils finally settled.

“Why….”

The question that filled his head momentarily suppressed his emotions.

Why, at the last moment, did his master….

“Why didn’t you say it to me?”

He had thought it was a word for himself, but he felt something was strange.

And now.

“Why….”

Another question.

“Why… did I take over the body…?”

The body trembled with anger and sorrow.

The pain that seemed to break due to the rampage told him.

Nowhere was the chain of the seal visible, and this was the very place where his master and Chaos had fought.

He, who had been sealed after being switched with Chaos, had regained his body.

“…….”

That couldn’t be.

The moment he lost control to Chaos, there was no way to go back.

That was why he had been so wary and careful.

But he had returned.

There was only one reason why this was possible.

“Chaos….”

Chaos.

“That guy gave me the body?”

That he had put himself into the seal and pulled him out.

That was the only explanation.

“…….”

That was why Lee Rowoon stopped.

Unfathomable questions filled his head, and their collision stopped Lee Rowoon’s movements.

Sseuk.

Under Lee Rowoon’s feet.

“Master.”

Shin Yeoul’s corpse was visible.

His corpse, which was disappearing every moment as Chaos left.

“Master.”

No matter how much he called out to him, there was no answer.

Slowly and carefully, Lee Rowoon was about to take his master’s corpse in his hand.

Kwaaaang!

A huge explosion occurred at Lee Rowoon’s temple.

“Om….”

Kwakwang!

Explosions erupted from all over Lee Rowoon’s body.

“Om mani padme hum.”

Along with the voice that was heard.

Pueoooooooong!

A golden explosion was occurring in Lee Rowoon’s body.

“Om mani padme hum.”

-Om mani padme hum.

The sound coming from the human body resonated with space.

Pueoooooong!

It was exploding relentlessly, as if to tear Lee Rowoon’s body to pieces.

In that explosion, what appeared in Lee Rowoon’s vision was.

“Om mani padme hum.”

The abbot of Shaolin, Beopcheon, who was performing this ritual.

Hundreds of Arhats [Buddhist saints] standing behind him.

And.

Hwaaaak!

Thousands and tens of thousands of monks, who had become part of the seal without even showing their faces, appeared and chanted the mantra.

“Om mani padme hum!”

The wide-open eyes and the flow of energy that burst out seemed to represent their will and thoughts.

Pueoong!

They had been aiming for this moment from the beginning.

Knowing what the reunion of his master and himself meant.

And also.

Pueoong!

That when the two divine demons were in danger of mutual destruction, it was their intention to see the end.

Pueoong!

Lee Rowoon had known that fact from the beginning.

He didn’t think that they would have been kind and opened the way without any purpose.

However.

‘This too….’

Lee Rowoon thought in the midst of the exploding.

‘It must be something my master allowed.’

They had sealed and bound his master, but also set him free.

He also knew that they had helped his master so that his master’s will could be fulfilled.

This was his master’s will, and so he accepted it.

Pueoong!

But at this moment.

Kwaaaaaa-!

It was inevitable that anger would surge.

It was partly because of his master’s death.

Kwang!

And also because of the anger at daring to try to use his master and himself.

He had to release it.

He had to somehow pour out this surging emotion.

The explosions they were creating were explosions that were mixed with vengeful spirits and were prepared for annihilation.

The explosions created at the cost of the annihilation of their very existence surpassed the level of nothingness and affected their very existence.

Even his body, which had been trained and refined with the Heavenly Demon Divine Art and the Blood Demon Divine Art….

Ttuk, ttuk.

It had the power to melt and tear apart.

The explosions that erupted.

Kwaa!

Lee Rowoon’s power pushed everything away.

“Om mani padme hum!”

Beopcheon’s voice, as if surprised by it.

-Om mani padme hum!

The voices of the Arhats grew louder and covered Lee Rowoon, but.

Kwaaaaaa!

Lee Rowoon’s power, which had absorbed the fragments of chaos, surpassed even their calculations.

“I don’t want to….”

Lee Rowoon’s voice flowed out through the explosions.

“I don’t want to feel this anymore….”

Reddened eyes.

A red light, whether it was blood or something else, completely covered Lee Rowoon’s whites.

“I don’t want to feel this kind of thing.”

Kwaaaaa-!

The bright light that poured out.

It looked like the descent of a holy god.

Hwaaaak-!

It began to cover and annihilate everything that existed in all directions.

The space that had been a cave.

“Keheok!”

“Don’t retreat!”

“Om mani padme hum!”

The monks chanting the mantra.

It covered everything.

Paat.

When the light subsided, the world looked like a broken dimensional rift.

Lee Rowoon, floating in the void as if drifting through space.

He slowly headed downwards.

“Keheop!”

There, Beopcheon was spitting blood and glaring at him.

Behind him.

“…….”

The Arhats who had lost their upper bodies.

Behind them, it seemed that the Shaolin martial monks, who had not even left a trace, had turned to dust.

“Si…, Sir.”

Nearly half of Beopcheon’s face had melted away, but the deep level of martial arts seemed to have kept him alive.

But he was dying.

He was dying.

“It’s not… over yet.”

He ignited the last spark.