Disciple Of The Three Kings [EN]: Chapter 69

Cheong-gwi, Lee Shin-woo.

Known as the Blue Goblin, he was a Class A wanted criminal in Eun.

The leader of the Righteous Army, the Cheong-ui Army.

That’s why Baek Cheong knew.

‘Cheong-gwi!’

That he was here.

The reason Eun had failed to capture him despite countless efforts was that he possessed a hidden job, one of the few among players.

An Intervener.

The ability to access the very core of the Earth’s inhabitants, the players.

Zzzzzzz!

This power was definitely Cheong-gwi’s.

‘How could he…!’

She knew that Lee Shin-woo of the Cheong-ui Army could travel through closed gates using the Intervener’s power.

But even that required conditions.

Baek Cheong had prepared for this, considering Lee Shin-woo and Kwon Cheol, as this incident was related to the Heavenly Demon Tomb and was happening on Korean soil.

There was no possibility that Lee Shin-woo had entered this place late.

Especially not after the moment the Heavenly Demon Tomb, not the Heavenly Demon Cave, had opened.

Whoosh!

Her head turned sharply.

Baek Cheong’s eyes were on Lee Ro-woon.

‘From the beginning…!’

Ultimately, Lee Shin-woo being here meant he had been with them from the start.

Just like the man in front of her had deceived her, what if Lee Shin-woo had also deceived her?

‘If he’s with the players, at least….’

Baek Cheong, recalling Lee Ro-woon’s words, shouted with conviction.

‘You! You were a member of the Righteous Army!’

Not a warrior of Eunha.

Lee Shin-woo was his accomplice.

With a shout, Baek Cheong drew her sword and aimed it at Lee Ro-woon, and the Cheongcheonha raid members also quickly aimed at him.

‘Are you going to try?’

Baek Cheong bit her lip at the languid voice.

‘I was deceived.’

The opponent had never properly revealed his identity.

Baek Cheong had been the one thinking and judging on her own.

But as she recalled the reasons why she had no choice but to believe, Baek Cheong’s mind was thrown into chaos.

‘Let me correct one thing.’

‘What….’

‘I’m not a member of the Righteous Army.’

‘……!’

Lee Ro-woon stood at the tips of the Cheongcheonha raid members’ swords and spoke without hesitation.

‘Don’t you believe me? You can ask the Heavenly Treasure Orb.’

Baek Cheong gripped the Heavenly Treasure Orb within her gear.

It was when she was about to ask it.

‘But do you have time to be distracted?’

Lee Ro-woon’s voice, as if whispering in her ear.

‘It seems like that thing has a lot of pent-up anger towards you.’

At that moment, Baek Cheong’s head turned sharply once more.

Fwaaaang!

It was the moment when Baek Cheong’s sword moved instantly, creating a barrier of strong energy, along with the inner energy spreading in all directions around her.

Kuwuaaaang!

A massive explosion occurred before her eyes.

Burning blue flames.

Cough!

Baek Cheong coughed up blood from the impact.

Tearing through the blue flames, a grotesque, twisted, and mutated monster-like being revealed itself and spoke.

‘I-I-I’m not a b-b-bug!’

A human turned monster.

Yoon Tae-sun brought his hands together and slammed them down on Baek Cheong.

Kwaang!

***

Trickle.

Crimson blood flowed from the corner of Baek Cheong’s mouth.

The Jongnam Shaman [a shaman from the Jongnam sect].

A master of the Heavenly Rank, among the top hundred in Eun.

Who would have imagined she would look like this?

‘Are you alright!’

Moreover, if the Cheongcheonha raid members hadn’t rushed to her aid, Baek Cheong wouldn’t have been able to block the attack alone.

The barrier of strong energy that would never break had been shattered.

It was as if the state of Shin-geom-hap-il [a state of perfect unity with the sword], where one becomes perfectly one with the sword upon reaching the realm of Hyeon-gyeong, had been broken.

‘I-I-I’m not a b-b-bug!’

The monster, still standing and shouting despite being thrown back.

‘How dare you….’

Baek Cheong glared at him with narrowed eyes.

‘A bug…!’

The thick blue light surrounding his grotesquely swollen body.

The swollen veins and burnt head were gruesome, but Baek Cheong could recognize the monster’s identity.

‘Yoon Tae-sun.’

The key to the Heavenly Demon Tomb.

The traitor of Dank.

He had come out to hinder her even at the very end.

The one who best deserved to be called a bug.

But now, he could not be ignored.

Throb.

The demonic energy imbued in the attack was beyond imagination.

He had shattered her strong energy barrier with a single blow.

This was the worst-case scenario.

‘Core Overload.’

The system core, like a player’s dantian [an energy center in the body].

Warriors and players had long studied each other’s powers, and many experiments had been conducted to see if warriors could use the power of the system core, or if players could use inner energy.

The results were all failures.

The moment the system core and inner energy met, the two forces would overload and explode.

But for that moment.

Kwaaaaa!

They could use immense power.

The transformed Yoon Tae-sun was now using unimaginable demonic energy, and at the same time, it was touching the system core and causing it to overload.

Cheong-gwi, Lee Shin-woo, who had been blocking this power, looked different now.

But at this moment, Baek Cheong had no room to pay attention to anything else.

‘Lend me your power.’

As long as Yoon Tae-sun was targeting her, she had no choice but to defeat him.

Baek Cheong took out the orb from her gear and began to insert it into the empty space of her sword.

Click.

The pleasant, clear sound echoed at that moment.

Fwaaaaa!

Due to the overflowing inner energy, the gravity seemed to have become heavier, and dust began to scatter.

‘I will deploy the Heavenly Sword Formation.’

At Baek Cheong’s words, the Cheongcheonha attack team began to move.

The Heavenly Thirty-Six Swords, which claimed invincibility by dividing the world into thirty-six directions and occupying them all.

The Heavenly Sword Formation, which fully contained its mysteries.

The Cheongcheonha attack team surrounded the rampaging Yoon Tae-sun.

Swoosh.

Baek Cheong threw herself into the midst of them and swung her sword.

Clang!

When Yoon Tae-sun’s hand blade and Baek Cheong’s sword blade met, sparks flew.

Woo-oong!

The inner energy of the Cheongcheonha raid members gathered and occupied the thirty-six directions.

If the Haenam’s Blue Sword Formation was a formation that was advantageous for a large number of people to fight against a large number of enemies, then the Heavenly Sword Formation was….

‘Now I’ll crush you to death, you bug.’

Concentrating the power of the formation on a single person.

Amplifying that power.

If that was combined with the power of the Heavenly Treasure Orb, it would be truly….

Saaaaaa!

The Jongnam Shaman, Baek Cheong, was born.

The overflowing inner energy materialized and flowed out, fluttering like a fairy’s dress.

The power, like an aura, spreading in all directions around Baek Cheong, was pushing back the blue flames emitted by Yoon Tae-sun with a clear, sharp energy.

Swoosh-!

It happened in an instant.

Yoon Tae-sun’s chest was split open, and a fountain of blood began to gush out.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Streams of blood flowed from the continuous wounds.

‘Kuh, Kuaaaaaaak!’

Yoon Tae-sun let out a scream of agony.

This was the true nature of the Jongnam Shaman, Baek Cheong.

No one could hold her back with the help of the Heavenly Sword Formation.

Unless they were a being of Heavenly Rank or higher.

‘Your long life ends there, bug.’

The moment Baek Cheong finished speaking and was about to retrieve her sword.

-Nananananananan!

A loud roar that shook even the soul echoed.

-I’m not a b-b-b-bug!

Yoon Tae-sun, devouring the blue flames that were rushing in from all directions.

His wounds had completely disappeared, and his body had doubled in size.

Kwaaaang!

He brought his hands together and slammed them into the ground.

* * *

The ground was overturned by the massive impact, and stone walls rose up.

The Cheongcheonha raid members, who were at the center of the impact, were scattered in all directions, and Baek Cheong, who was at the center, had one knee on the ground with her sword planted in the earth.

It was a truly shocking level of destructive power.

‘Cough!’

The gushing blood wouldn’t stop.

This was because Baek Cheong had absorbed most of the power to minimize the impact on the Cheongcheonha raid members.

As a result, her internal organs were twisted, and she suffered severe internal injuries.

Crack!

The impact was so great that even the Heavenly Treasure Orb, which she and Jongnam were proud of, had cracked.

-Guh… Guh-uh-uh!

In front of her, Yoon Tae-sun, who had now completely turned into a monster, stood there, emitting blue smoke.

Only then could Baek Cheong fully realize what the being in front of her was.

‘Heavenly Demon Tomb.’

And what the warrior of Eunha had said.

‘Heavenly Demon Mound.’

Yoon Tae-sun.

The power that had taken over the body of the mere bug was the owner of this tomb.

‘Heaven… Demon….’

It was definitely the Heavenly Demon’s.

There was no other way to explain this power.

Baek Cheong’s vision gradually blurred, and her pupils began to fade.

The demonic energy emitted by the being with the Heavenly Demon’s power was burning and taking everything away.

-Guh-uh….

Yoon Tae-sun, who seemed to have regained his senses, was approaching Baek Cheong.

‘The end.’

The word death came to Baek Cheong’s mind.

It was a word that had disappeared at some point, but in the past, it was a word that lingered in her mind every day.

The time in the training hall.

The desperate time she had endured in Jongnam.

The worry of what to do if the gate didn’t open in her generation.

The disciples who were going mad because everything was lacking after being confined for a long time.

All of that flashed by like a panorama.

And finally, it was the moment when the monster’s hands were clenched into fists above her head, about to strike down.

Zzzzz!

Sparks flew.

Kwaaaang!

Yoon Tae-sun’s attack was blocked by it.

‘A-are you alright?’

A voice came from beside her.

He also couldn’t completely block the attack, and his face was pale as he stood there, trembling all over.

‘You… Cheong… gwi….’

Baek Cheong said in a faint voice.

‘If that’s the name Eun calls me, then that’s correct.’

‘Why…?’

Why was he helping her?

Cheong-gwi, Lee Shin-woo, was a member of the Righteous Army.

A being who stood in opposition to Eun and could never coexist with them.

Just as Eun tried to capture and kill him, they were in a relationship where they tried to capture and kill each other.

‘Because you seem like a human.’

Cheong-gwi said.

‘You’re just as crazy as the other warriors, but….’

He adjusted his glasses and said.

‘It seems like you’re crazy in a nice way, as someone said.’

Kwaaaang!

At that moment, Lee Shin-woo twisted his body as another attack came down.

His eyes were bloodshot.

‘I think you’re someone I can talk to. And….’

Lee Shin-woo was getting closer.

‘Jongnam doesn’t forget favors, they say.’

‘…….’

Baek Cheong had a blank look for a moment, then she chuckled.

She had never imagined she would hear such words from Cheong-gwi.

‘Jongnam… doesn’t forget favors.’

‘If we get out of here, will there be a chance to talk?’

Baek Cheong smiled again.

‘If we can… get out.’

‘Then that’s enough.’

Baek Cheong’s eyes showed a hint of doubt.

Cheong-gwi was also at his limit.

He had put everything into defense, and although he had blocked the attacks of the monster using the Heavenly Demon’s power several times, he seemed to be at his limit in Baek Cheong’s eyes.

But what was faintly revealed in Cheong-gwi’s eyes left a ripple in Baek Cheong’s heart.

‘It should be okay now.’

‘……?’

‘He’s never lied since he was young.’

‘……!’

She had thought he had run away.

When she saw the monster’s power, she thought it was impossible, even for him.

The incomprehensible power of the Heavenly Demon.

And one more person.

‘You held up well, though.’

The incomprehensible being was standing there.

Sway.