Monochrome Sovereign [EN]: Chapter 1132

‘This can’t be happening.’

Gal-yo was dumbfounded.

‘The Shin Hwa-Gyo [Divine Transformation Sect] should have had them tied down?’

It wasn’t just that he had too much faith in the Shin Hwa-Gyo. Rather, Gal-yo distrusted them. This was because their leader, Gi Cheon-Ung, had been ousted by his own son.

The fact that the head of the Three Cults was overthrown by a rebellion led by his own child, not some other power, showed how messed up the Shin Hwa-Gyo’s administrative system and doctrines were. It wasn’t that he hated the Shin Hwa-Gyo, but he distrusted them based on what they had shown so far.

However, according to ‘that information,’ the Shin Hwa-Gyo’s response was clear. As the group leading this initial battle, the Shin Hwa-Gyo’s decision to dispatch a total of 30,000 troops was both rational and courageous.

They had to prepare thoroughly, as they could lose a lot with this one mistake. It was a clear fact that Shin Hwa-Gyo forces were deployed in the northern part of the Imperial Palace, and that they were firmly holding the palace’s attention.

But where did that monster of a master come from?

And why is the might of the three thousand cavalrymen charging behind him so formidable?

‘Could it be that we were read?’

There was no way the Shin Hwa-Gyo could have made a mistake. ‘His’ demonic eyes and supernatural abilities would have proven it.

Then there was only one answer.

A terrifying strategist existed on the enemy side.

‘Even so!’

Let’s say it was possible to deduce the current situation with outstanding wisdom and insight.

However, deducing and actually dividing troops to prepare are completely different matters.

The Shin Hwa-Gyo’s northern surprise attack force included Il-Wang and Oh-Hwa-Wang. Just those two masters alone could turn any major sect into ashes in an instant.

Moreover, with 25,000 troops, even if all the Imperial Palace’s forces came out, it would be a close battle.

To ignore them and split the troops? This was not an easy task. No, it would be difficult to make the decision itself, as the fate of the Imperial Palace was at stake.

It didn’t matter that the information network in the Central Plains was fast and accurate. From the start, the Shin Hwa-Gyo’s forces were too strong. Even if they knew there were enemies targeting the western wall, they would have no choice but to focus on the north.

‘Are they confident that they can stop the Shin Hwa-Gyo with just the divided forces?!’

Gal-yo’s thoughts stopped there.

KWA-KWANG!

Even firing a cannon right in front of him wouldn’t produce such a roar.

Gal-yo’s face contorted in shock as he saw the cavalrymen in front of him flying through the air.

Whenever something flashed, a golden storm erupted, and when a strange sound of metal clashing against metal was heard, a chain of unimaginable length turned his allies into mincemeat.

The chain, in particular, was incredible. It was hard to gauge its attack range because its length was unknown and its swing radius was erratic.

PUH-PUH-PUH-PUNG!

He didn’t know how many were hit in that short time. Roughly, about a hundred were destroyed.

That’s right. Not killed, but destroyed.

There was no way to know what martial art he was using or how he was using it. With a flick, blood splattered, and with a bang, the black horses that could trample even a great tiger were reduced to flesh and bone fragments.

‘Crazy!!’

He was more dangerous than that terrifying old swordsman he had fought in Shanxi.

He was using a much more destructive martial art than the legendary divine spear of the Hwama cavalry’s lord, who had appeared late.

Moreover, he was doing this while charging alone, fighting by himself. Now, he couldn’t even tell if that person was human or demon.

Gal-yo shouted.

“Spread out! Keep your distance!”

They charged with enough distance between them to avoid each other’s weapons, but the range of the enemy’s martial arts was enormous.

The Silver Horse Cavalry spread out to the left and right as soon as the order was given.

Yeon Ho-Jeong’s eyes flashed.

‘They’re passing by.’

He predicted how they would move just by the change in their formation.

It had been a long time since he had returned to the battlefield, but his senses were not dead. No, now that he had pushed the Yellow Dragon Qi and Divine King Qi to their extremes, he was more sensitive and sharp than he had been during his days as the Black Demon Emperor, when he had experienced all sorts of chaos.

‘It doesn’t matter.’

There was no need to be flustered just because the enemy’s response method had changed.

They came to break through the western wall. They couldn’t target another direction now.

However, there was someone who could break through the wall alone, someone who could massacre the enemy with overwhelming force like himself.

‘Killing the enemy commander is a more important victory than eliminating the troops.’

Yeon Ho-Jeong swung the Gyoryongswae [Dragon Binding Chain].

CHWA-RURURURUK!

It was like a giant snake, its scales clashing like iron armor.

With a chilling sound, the Gyoryongswae stretched out and shattered the legs of the cavalrymen.

KWADEUDEUK!

It didn’t just break them, it tore them off completely.

It was much worse than being cut by a sword. That’s how it would feel for those being attacked.

DU-DU-DU-DU!

The Silver Horse Cavalry, which had split to the left and right and charged behind Yeon Ho-Jeong, collided with the vanguard of the Golden Sky Cavalry.

KWA-KWANG! JJE-JJE-JJE-JEONG!

All sorts of metallic sounds and explosions rang out.

Yeon Ho-Jeong shouted without looking back.

“Fire!”

The first commander of the Golden Sky Cavalry raised his hand.

“Thousand Bows!!”

PI-PI-PI-PI-PING!

The thousand cavalrymen at the rear fired massive arrows.

Surprisingly, the arrows they fired were special arrows five times thicker than normal arrows. The bows they drew were also three times the size of ordinary horn bows.

They were Dragon Eye Bows manufactured in the Imperial Palace. They were bows with much stronger tension than ordinary bows, and they were formidable weapons that even those with divine strength would have difficulty drawing if they had not trained their inner energy.

“……!!”

Seeing the arrows flying and covering the sky, Gal-yo predicted an ominous outcome.

The arrows were much larger than normal arrows, and the arrowheads were also long and sharp. They were weapons developed for piercing rather than sticking, seemingly made to deal with heavy armored cavalry.

“Block them!”

The arrows fired from the Dragon Eye Bows fell on the center of the Silver Horse Cavalry.

JJE-JJE-JJE-JEONG! PUH-BUH-BUH-BUK!

They were wildly deflected with long spears and swords, and the casualties were less than twenty.

Indeed, the Silver Horse Cavalry’s skills were exceptional. Their capabilities, which had inflicted serious damage on the Shanxi martial world with just ten thousand troops, were evident.

However, that one defense bought considerable time for the monster breaking through the center.

KWA-KWANG! KWA-KWANG!

No cavalryman could withstand a single blow from the Gwangryongbu [Axe of the Shining Dragon], which he wielded as if dancing on horseback.

HWA-AA-AK!

The destructive power was immense, but the killing intent that erupted right in front of them was also outstanding.

While Chal Geuk-Pyeong had suffered a considerable mental shock from the killing intent of Yeon-Wi, who was unleashing the Asura Eight Swords, Yeon Ho-Jeong was different.

Yeon-Wi forcibly drew out his inherent violence and madness and amplified it with the extreme Upper Divine Skill, but Yeon Ho-Jeong had honed and developed his innate killing intent by experiencing countless hellish battles.

Reaching a state where he was not swayed by killing intent did not mean he had lost it. If necessary, he could use a killing intent no less than Yeon-Wi’s to drag the enemy’s morale to the ground.

PU-RU-RURUK!

The black horses of the Silver Horse Cavalry, which had been thoroughly trained and tempered with demonic energy, had already surpassed the realm of beasts and stopped their charge, stamping their feet.

Where had their red eyes gone? Their eyes, contorted with fear, were wide open and white. The sight of the warhorses shaking their heads and not knowing what to do was hard to believe.

The cavalrymen were also bewildered. The horses, which had never hesitated in any fierce battle, were now afraid to advance.

“You bastards!”

“Hyah!”

They shouted, infusing their voices with demonic energy, and only then did the horses emit red light from their eyes again and advance.

Yeon Ho-Jeong’s eyes flashed.

PUH-UH-UH-UH-UK!

With one blow of the eighty-two-geun [approximately 49 kg] Gwangryongbu, the heads of five warhorses that had begun to charge disappeared.

The flesh exploded and shattered. Several warhorses that had tried to charge together flinched again.

Unlike the first commander, who had charged past Yeon Ho-Jeong with the cavalrymen, the second commander, Myo Sa-Ha, who was now facing him, felt a shiver of fear run up his spine.

‘He’s a monster……!’

It wasn’t like this even when he faced the dead commander, So Hyun-Jong.

FLASH!

Under the golden light, a faint white smoke flowed from his slightly open mouth.

Similar smoke rose from his body, which was soaked in blood. It was as if he was watching a mirage dancing above a boiling hot spring.

Myo Sa-Ha shouted reflexively.

“The One-Corner Formation……!”

“No!”

Gal-yo shouted from afar.

“You’ll be defeated individually! Let him pass!”

Myo Sa-Ha bit his lip.

Gal-yo was right. He had the habit of always breaking through difficult enemies and advancing, so he wanted to push the enemy away with a sharp, pointed advance.

“Let him through! Spread out to the left and right and subdue the cavalrymen first!”

It was then.

CLACK!

In the noisy battlefield, the sound of metal on metal was heard unusually clearly.

Myo Sa-Ha’s eyes wavered.

He saw a chain hooked onto the end of the shaft of an axe as large as a human body.

‘Could it be?!’

PUH-UH-UNG!

Yeon Ho-Jeong, who had destroyed five more cavalrymen, rotated the Gyoryongswae.

BOO-UNG! BOO-OONG! BOO-AH-AH-ANG!

The Gwangryongbu was rotating above Yeon Ho-Jeong’s head.

The Gwangryongbu, connected to the Gyoryongswae, was rotating at a speed that was no longer visible.

The air was being sucked in like crazy. The sight of a giant axe weighing over eighty geun being rotated by a chain, not a circular iron ball, was overwhelming.

Myo Sa-Ha, who had been staring blankly at Yeon Ho-Jeong, snapped back to his senses and shouted.

“Spread out even wider! Run away!”

He had finally said the word to run away.

Yeon Ho-Jeong spread the rotating Gwangryongbu wide.

PUH-BUH-BUH-BUH-BUH-BUK!

The cavalrymen caught by the axe were all destroyed before they could even flee.

It was a sight that far exceeded the common sense of a martial artist, no, a supreme master.

It was the Blood Wind Dance he had shown when he led the Myeolsa Army and annihilated the marauder group of the outer regions, the Hoirangdan.

HWA-AA-AK!

Blood and flesh mixed in the whirlwind that surged along with the rotating Gwangryongbu. A red vortex formed, reaching a height of over ten jang [approximately 30 meters], blurring the vision of everyone on the battlefield.

At this moment, even the minds of the Silver Horse Cavalry, who were trained with strict military discipline, could only stare blankly at the whirlwind. Where else would they see such a sight? It was a superhuman disaster that captivated those who saw it.

Gal-yo gritted his teeth.

‘There’s no other way.’

He didn’t know if the opponent’s martial art was the strongest on the continent.

However, at least in terms of the range and destructive power of his martial art, it seemed that he could be considered the strongest in the martial world. The insane martial art, which abandoned subtlety and precision and created extreme destructive power, was showing extreme efficiency in dealing with cavalry.

‘We can’t clash anymore. It’s a bad match.’

Gal-yo shouted.

“Scatter and gallop!”

KURURURUNG!

The entire Silver Horse Cavalry, numbering in the thousands, began to scatter in all directions. It was a spectacular sight.

Yeon Ho-Jeong’s eyes blazed.

HWA-AA-AK!

Yeon Ho-Jeong, who had anticipated the enemy’s scattering, was looking at Gal-yo. He was the commander currently leading the enemy cavalry, so capturing him first would be the best course of action.

KWANG!

He grabbed the rotating Gwangryongbu in his hand, retrieved the Gyoryongswae, and threw the Baekryongbu [White Dragon Axe] again.

It was the Gwangpungseom [Whirlwind Flash] of the Gwangpung Guryongsal [Nine Dragons of the Whirlwind].

FLASH!

A secret technique of sword energy that flew like lightning.

It was a killing move that Gal-yo could never block in his current state.

JJE-EO-EO-EO-EONG!

The Baekryongbu, which had flown high into the sky, let out a pitiful scream.

If it had been Yeon-Wi, he would have maintained the sword energy until the end, but Yeon Ho-Jeong did not. There was no reason to, and he didn’t have the ability to. His Upper Dantian focused on diverse attacks and extreme destructive power. Subtlety and precision like Yeon-Wi’s were not Yeon Ho-Jeong’s martial way.

Therefore, he could look forward to a great match with the enemy who had appeared right in front of him.

“An axe?! You must be Yeon Ho-Jeong!”

Ji Ma-Hu, who had appeared in front of Gal-yo and deflected the Baekryongbu, spun his Cham-Mado [Executioner’s Blade] like a windmill.

WHOOSH!

Yeon Ho-Jeong, who had retrieved the Baekryongbu, immediately kicked off the back of his warhorse.

WHOOSH!

Yeon Ho-Jeong, who flew using the Thousand Miles Cloud Travel, swung the Gwangryongbu he held in both hands with the force of Mount Tai pressing down, and Ji Ma-Hu, who had charged in a low stance, made a horizontal cut with his spinning Cham-Mado.

KWA-AH-ANG!

The shockwave created by the two masters caused more than ten cavalrymen far away to fall.