Return of the Mount Hua Sect [EN]: Chapter 1319

“Hiaaaaak!”

Loud screams and shouts filled the air, like sounds from hell.

It didn’t make sense.

A jackal is just a jackal.

It can’t go where a tiger is guarding.

The Hainan elders were much stronger than the Myriad Manor members. It was like a tiger fighting against jackals. It wasn’t even a fair fight.

Logically, the jackals should have stopped and run away.

But the jackals, like they were crazy, kept attacking even when the tiger bit them.

Crack!

The body of a Myriad Manor member, who was running forward, was cut apart right away.

But the Myriad Manor members behind him kept running forward even faster through the blood and body parts.

“Kahaaaat!”

The Myriad Manor members screamed in a way that didn’t sound human. Their eyes rolled back, and they put all their power into their swords.

Clang!

The sword and blade hit each other with full power.

The Hainan elder’s face suddenly twisted. It wasn’t hard to block the blade because the elder’s power was much greater than the Myriad Manor members’.

But because the blade was so strong, he couldn’t stop it from hitting his wrist hard.

“You…!”

The Hainan elder was very angry. He pushed the blade away quickly and stabbed his sword into the Myriad Manor member’s chest.

Crack!

“You worm-like… Ack!”

Then, another sword came out of the Myriad Manor member’s stomach. It cut into the elder’s lower stomach.

“Keee… Ugh…”

His body shook. His dantian was destroyed.

“Elder Kwan!”

“Oh, no!”

Kwan Jo-young’s eyes showed shock and anger.

‘He sacrificed his comrade…’

Whoosh!

Right after, many swords flew and cut off Kwan Jo-young’s head all at once.

“You dog-like bastards! Aargh!”

The Hainan elders screamed as if in a fit, swinging their swords with all their strength. They attacked like a giant wave in a storm. Their blue sword power smashed into the Myriad Manor members.

Crack! Crack!

The Myriad Manor members were crazy. They swung their blades wildly at the sword power, but a knife can’t stop a wave.

The sword power cut the bodies into pieces right away. It was a very horrible sight to see.

But even after seeing this, the Myriad Manor members didn’t slow down at all. They even ran faster and attacked the Hainan elders all together.

A jackal can’t hunt a tiger.

But a human who is weaker than a jackal can hunt a human who is stronger than a tiger.

This is something only humans can do. Humans are the only ones who can throw away their lives like old shoes.

Thud!

Even with a sword in his heart, he swung his blade with all his might.

Slish!

Even when his stomach was cut open and his insides fell out, he didn’t hold his stomach. Instead, he grabbed the leg of the person in front and bit it.

“Aaaargh!”

Crack!

The eyes of the man who finally got his sword into the elder’s chest were full of joy. He had a very creepy smile. He twisted the sword, making the wound even bigger.

“Keeeaaaargh!”

The elder screamed with a pain he had never felt before. This pain was so bad that all his training didn’t matter anymore.

In a moment of desperation, the elder swung his sword wildly. The sword hit the face of the one who was smiling.

It wasn’t a martial arts move or anything like that. It was just a stab because he was desperate.

Soon, the man with the pierced face fell down.

But it didn’t matter if one man died. More swords came flying at the back of the falling man. His back was covered in cuts as he fell. It was a terrible sight.

“These, these madmen…”

The elders started to feel fear.

This wasn’t a practice fight or a duel. It was war, where anything is okay as long as you kill the enemy.

The craziness of war made fun of, laughed at, and destroyed all the martial arts they had trained so hard for their whole lives.

The elder, who had found a moment to breathe, looked up feeling completely helpless.

The small valley was filled with Myriad Manor members. It looked like a black river moving towards them.

Of course, the Myriad Manor members couldn’t stop the Hainan elders’ powerful sword energy.

But the elders couldn’t stop the river of death flowing into the valley either.

One head was cut off, then another, then dozens, but still more kept coming.

The courage they had felt at first was now gone, washed away by the terrible flood.

“Ugh…”

He was sure that he could stand strong, no matter how many people attacked.

After all, only three enemies could attack at the same time. Even if you counted the ones above, it wouldn’t be more than ten.

Also, they weren’t fighting alone.

He thought that if the elders worked together perfectly, they could stop anyone, even thousands or tens of thousands of enemies. Like a famous hero blocking a bridge, they could hold them back until they were too tired to fight anymore.

But…

The elder in front of him now looked scared.

As his hot anger started to cool down, he began to see what was really happening. Dead bodies were everywhere in front of him. The enemies were stepping on the bodies without stopping and kept coming.

And the bodies of the elders who had died first would be mixed in with the pile of bodies.

“Ugh…”

The Hainan elder’s feet, which had been standing strong, suddenly moved back a little.

“I understand what I have to do. I know why I must protect this place. But knowing it doesn’t make it easy to risk my life. The Myriad Man Clan were crazy, attacking without caring if they lived or died. This made even the strong elders start to doubt.”

“Hold strong!” Geum Yang-baek yelled, seeing them hesitate. But once doubt starts, it’s hard to stop. Right away, it went wrong.

“Aaaaargh!”

His sword hit an elder in the leg as the elder tried to step back.

Fighting with all your strength is very different from just trying to block while moving backwards.

He would not have been hurt if he could have fought properly. But now, the Hainan elders could not fight at their best.”

“Move!” Geum Yang-baek jumped over the elders in a single leap.

Shouting wouldn’t fix things now. He had to act.

Quickly thinking, he moved. Leaping forward, Geum Yang-baek stabbed his sword into the throats of the Myriad Man Clan rushing at him, their eyes wide and wild.

His sword was like a lightning flash.

In that one move, Geum Yang-baek showed he was a true leader of the Hainan Clan. The Myriad Man Clan members, throats pierced, fell like dry grass in a fire.”

‘More to come…’ *Scritch!* Suddenly, Geum Yang-baek jumped back. He looked at his sword arm.

Even as he fell, dying from the hole in his throat, a Myriad Man Clan fighter swung his sword hard, cutting Geum Yang-baek’s arm.

Geum Yang-baek’s eyes widened for a moment.

‘So stubborn…’

It was just a last bit of strength, of course. A neck wound doesn’t kill instantly.

But for a second, it felt like the dead were fighting back.

“Ugh!”

*Whoosh!* As if to get rid of the bad feeling, Geum Yang-baek swung his sword powerfully through the air.”

Again, his sword moved like lightning, cutting down not just the front fighters, but also those behind them.

“Kraaah!”

“Ack!”

The Myriad Man Clan screamed as the sword cuts went through their friends and into them. Because it was so sudden, it was even more shocking.

This sudden attack made the charging fighters stop for a second, and that pause made things even worse.

“Move! You idiot!”

*Thwack!* The swords of their own friends stabbed into the backs of those who had stopped, confused. Those with cut spines fell down, shaking and spitting.

The fighters behind them pulled their swords out of the bodies, stepping over the fallen to keep going forward.

Guilt? They felt none.

Once they started running, nothing could stop them. If they didn’t step on their friends, they would be stepped on themselves.”

“Aaargh!”

As he charged, screaming, many swords came down on him at once. He lifted his sword, using it to shield his neck and chest, and jumped forward into the attack.

*Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!* Swords slammed into his body again and again.

Bright red blood burst out, but even as he was being hit, this Myriad Man Clan fighter, who had only managed to protect his head, swung his sword wildly.

*Splat!* Blood flew from the sword tip and landed all over Geum Yang-baek.

The sword didn’t actually hit Geum Yang-baek, just cutting the air close to him. But the hot blood splashed onto Geum Yang-baek, covering him.

“Krrrk….”

The Myriad Man Clan fighter, with no strength left, fell forward. Geum Yang-baek watched him claw at the ground until his last breath, and a cold feeling went through him.”

*Whoosh!* Suddenly, something black flew at Geum Yang-baek. He quickly lifted his sword to block it. The black things spun around and wrapped tightly around his sword.

‘Chain scythes?’ Geum Yang-baek’s eyes went wide.

The Myriad Man Clan saw their chance. They roared louder and charged even harder.

“Kill him! Raaah!”

“Pull him down!”

Geum Yang-baek tried to pull his sword free with all his strength, but it was stuck, tangled in many chain scythes.

“No way, you—!”

Dang Pae reacted fast, even faster than Geum Yang-baek. Dang Pae jumped over Geum Yang-baek, smashed a bottle of poison, and at the same time, hit out with a powerful poison palm strike. He had managed to get a moment to breathe because of the elders, and now the poison smoke he made rushed out and covered the enemy like a huge fire.

“Die, all of yo—!”

Dang Pae was shouting at the top of his lungs, but then he stopped, unable to speak.

‘That…’ His eyes, red with anger, stared past the poison smoke. A ball, about the size of a child’s head, was flying right into the poison cloud he had made.

Dang Pae understood. What was coming towards the poison. And what it would do.

“Run! Everyone, ruuuuuun!”

*KABOOM!* The loudest explosion ever, like the sky breaking apart, ripped through the canyon.

*Rumble!* The narrow canyon and the cliffs around shook as if they would break and fall.

And then – *WHOOSH!* The terrible force of the explosion blew away Dang Pae’s poison smoke in an instant. The poison cloud that could burn everything was now rushing towards Hainan, not the Myriad Man Clan.”