Return Of The Mount Hua Sect [EN]: Chapter 1330

The arrow struck his chest.

“Aaaaargh!” A disciple from Hae Nam screamed, unable to bear the pain.

Of course, they could usually block ordinary arrows. They had trained hard for this.

However, they couldn’t do much against the arrows that broke apart when they hit the elders’ sword barrier and pieces flew everywhere.

“Ggh, ggrrrrh…”

His chest burned with pain, and he felt all his strength leave him. He fell to the ground, clutching his chest.

“Let go!”

Just then, Tang Soso rushed over, as if she knew what had happened. She pulled his hand away and looked at the wound.

“So, Miss Soso… Behind…”

Another piece of a broken arrow flew and hit Tang Soso in the back as she knelt by the injured man. But she didn’t even blink, focusing on his wound.

“Hold on!”

Tang Soso bit her lip and took a big needle. She quickly pushed it into the wound.

Crack!

At the same moment, the arrowhead went through his back.

“Aaaaargh!”

A scream of pain filled the air, but Tang Soso held the man down firmly, stuffing medicine to remove poison and stop the bleeding into the open wound. Blood flowed onto her hands, staining them red.

It looked like a rough method. But there was no other choice. If she left it, the arrowhead would dig in deeper and move through his body, maybe even reaching his heart.

Since she didn’t have time to cut open the wound and take out the arrowhead, this was the safest way.

Tang Soso quickly bandaged the wound and then hurried to another man who was groaning, with an arrow in his neck.

But before she could reach him, he pulled the arrow out. Blood gushed out.

“No, no!”

Tang Soso screamed and tried desperately to stop the bleeding with both hands.

“Ggh, ggrrh…”

Bloody foam came from his mouth, and his face turned pale.

“Hold on! Just a little longer! I’ll save you, so hold on!”

But her cries didn’t help. The light in his eyes faded quickly. The light of life was gone.

Tang Soso’s fingers trembled slightly. The blood on her hands was still so warm, but he was dead.

She closed her eyes tightly and stood up quickly. She ran towards another fallen man. She didn’t want to cry, but tears kept coming. She couldn’t see well.

But there was no time to wipe away tears, no time to be sad.

She felt helpless. So pathetic.

Even when she did everything she could, she couldn’t save those who were dying. She couldn’t stop the light from leaving the eyes of those who looked at her, begging to be saved.

If she had known that being a healer was so painful, she would have never touched medicine.

But even so, she ignored her despair and kept moving. Because she was the only healer here.

Wham!

Just then, something powerful flew towards her very fast. Tang Soso’s eyes widened when she saw it. Before she could react, someone rushed in like lightning and blocked it.

“Master!”

It was Baek Cheon. He gritted his teeth and glared at where the attack came from. He wanted to run over there and tear those bastards apart. But he couldn’t leave this place now.

‘Yoon Jong, Jo Gul! Hurry…!’

He had to trust those who had left and keep going.

“They’re coming again!”

Baek Cheon looked fiercely at the sky. The Hae Nam elders, who had just blocked the last attack, hadn’t even caught their breath before more arrows rained down.

‘No!’

Baek Cheon jumped into the air. His eyes were bloodshot. Even if no one helped, he had to do something. He couldn’t watch people die again.

He squeezed out every last bit of energy from his core (dantian). But before he could put it into his sword, someone else shot up even higher next to him.

“Samae!”

Baek Cheon shouted without thinking when he saw who it was. Yoo Iseol, soaring like a bird, swung her sword at the falling arrows.

Shhhhk!

With a sound like silk tearing, Yoo Iseol’s sword made a big circle in the air, like a full moon.

Yoo Iseol used the most powerful move of her sword style. Her sword moved like a perfect moon in the sky.

“Samae, be careful! More attacks are coming!”

Baek Cheon shouted urgently. At that moment, something flew past him with terrifying speed.

‘A flying knife?’

The flying knife, spinning as if cutting through the air, shot straight into the forest ahead.

“Aaaaargh!”

It was hard to hear because it was far away, but someone definitely screamed.

That flying knife had done something. Tang Pae, who arrived a little after throwing the knife, rolled to avoid the falling arrows and shouted.

“I can handle the cannons! You block the arrows, Acting Sect Leader!”

“Yes!”

Baek Cheon, who had landed, felt his strength returning. Just two more people had joined them. But suddenly, they could breathe again. It showed how much power one master could bring to the battle.

The others weren’t just standing around.

“Damn it! Stop moving forward and stay close to the cliff!”

Im So-byeong shouted, giving instructions.

“Hwasan disciples and Young Lord, don’t waste energy on the arrows, just deal with the cannonballs! Elders, stand so close to the people behind you that their chests touch your backs while blocking the arrows! Then you only have to block what’s above you, you morons!”

Instructions in the middle of chaos were like a signpost. It didn’t matter if the one giving them was from the Demonic Sect or not. To survive, everyone followed the instructions.

Wham!

Yoo Iseol charged forward very fast as soon as she landed.

“Samae!”

Baek Cheon called out, but Yoo Iseol didn’t turn around.

Wham!

Maybe sensing Yoo Iseol as a threat, something flew towards her with terrifying speed. But Yoo Iseol, still running fast, swung her sword and blocked it.

Clang!

A sharp sound rang out as metal hit metal. The blocked attack grazed Yoo Iseol’s shoulder, leaving a long cut.

But Yoo Iseol didn’t seem to care about the wound. She ran as if she didn’t even know she was hurt. She seemed so desperate.

Sensing something was wrong, Baek Cheon took a step forward, then stopped. He bit down hard on his inner cheek.

Bodies were piling up on the ground. The bodies of the Hae Nam disciples and elders were full of arrows, like hedgehogs.

His job was to protect everyone here. To save even one person from ending up like that.

His energy was almost gone, and his sword hand was shaking, but he couldn’t complain. *I’m so tired,* Baek Cheon thought, *but I can’t stop. I have to protect them.*

Kwwaaaaang! Kwwaaaaang!

Hearing the attacks again, Baek Cheon rushed towards the incoming cannonballs like crazy.

Blood came from his bitten lip. But Jo Gul didn’t feel any pain.

Those archers in front, shooting arrows like rain, weren’t hard to reach and kill.

But Jo Gul held back, as if stabbing himself. *He’s hiding well,* Jo Gul thought, his eyes scanning the trees. *But I will find him.*

‘Where are you!’

He was definitely nearby. One of those archers firing the attacks! If he didn’t take him out, the others couldn’t move.

‘Where are you!’

Jo Gul quickly looked around. His sharp senses spread out.

A moment later.

“Found you!”

Jo Gul, crouching low, rushed forward like an arrow.

The archer, knowing he had been found, fired arrows at Jo Gul quickly. A terrifying rate. Many arrows came at Jo Gul at once.

But Jo Gul was faster. His sword moved so fast it seemed to cut the light, blocking all the arrows.

“You bastard!”

The archer, with a mask on, looked surprised that Jo Gul’s speed didn’t slow down despite the attacks.

But only for a moment. He knew firing fast was useless, so he gathered all his energy into his right hand and put it into an arrow.

Wooooooong!

When energy is put into a sword, it vibrates. The arrow he held began to shake like a living fish. He put the arrow on the bowstring and pulled it back as far as it could go, almost breaking it.

Kkkkkkk!

He aimed at Jo Gul with the bow pulled back.

But Jo Gul, knowing the arrow was full of energy, didn’t dodge and ran straight at him.

They got close enough to see each other’s eyes.

Thwaeng!

The archer let go of the bowstring. The arrow spun and flew straight at Jo Gul.

Kwwaaaaang!

The air spun towards the arrow, making a swirling wind. It looked like an angry dragon.

Jo Gul pulled his sword back over his left shoulder.

“Hap!”

At the same time as he shouted, the plum blossom sword, swung with all his power, hit the arrow.

Kaaaaaang!

A loud, explosive sound rang out.

Even with all his strength, the arrow, full of energy, didn’t bounce off but kept going as if digging into Jo Gul’s sword. The sound of the arrow spinning and grinding against the sword was scary.

If it was a normal sword, it would have broken. But the plum blossom sword, a special sword from the Tang family, held strong against the spinning arrow.

And then.

“Taaah!”

Jo Gul shouted and put his left hand on the sword. His hand, using the Bamboo Leaf Hand technique that made it as strong as bamboo, hit the other side of the sword where the arrow was touching with all his power.

Kwwaaaaang!

The impact changed the arrow’s path. But the arrow still grazed Jo Gul’s side.

A curved cut was made on Jo Gul’s side, and his left hand, which hit the sword, had a deep cut that showed bone.

Because of that, he was only three yards from the enemy.

“Kugh!”

The archer quickly jumped back, pulling another arrow from his quiver and putting it on the bow.

As he raised his bow to aim, a streak of light flew into his view.

Wham!

A fast sword went through the archer’s neck.

“Keok…”

The archer groaned and fell with a shocked look.

‘I didn’t even see it…’