The Swordmaster Wants To Live Peacefully [EN]: Chapter 208

Swordmaster Wants to Live Peacefully – Episode 211

White-Faced Golden-Haired Nine-Tailed Fox (2)

Ju Ji Yuk Rim (酒池肉林).

A pond of alcohol and a forest of meat.

This is a Sino-Korean idiom derived from Chinese history, representing the height of extravagance.

A forest of pleasure that the tyrannical King Jie and King Zhou of China created for their concubines.

“Your taste is atrocious….”

So, middle-aged kemonomimi [animal-eared humanoids] were Dalgi’s preference.

A forest with unidentifiable flesh dangling everywhere and the stench of alcohol so strong it made my nose wrinkle.

It was hard even to breathe, so this must have been Dalgi’s intention as well.

The sensation of all the energy being sucked out of my body just by standing there….

The smell alone was enough to make me drunk, so Yoo Seong-woo bit his tongue to invigorate his mind.

“How long can you endure?”

At the same time, fireballs flew in from all directions, restricting his movements.

Because of the alcohol that had soaked the floor, the places where the fireballs landed blazed fiercely, further trapping him.

Yoo Seong-woo swung his sword, extinguishing the fires with gusts of wind, and narrowed his eyes.

‘A highly complete unique world.’

Ju Ji Yuk Rim.

This world, embodying extravagance and pleasure, was what Dalgi desired more than anything.

It was a world built upon the wishes she had longed for over thousands of years, so its perfection was inevitable.

Moreover, she was now not just a simple yokai [supernatural creature], but a Yosen (妖仙) [enlightened demon/spirit] who had reached enlightenment.

Waves crashed from the pond of alcohol, and flesh masses mimicking humans emerged from within the Meat Forest.

With a halo rotating counterclockwise behind her, she pressured him using all sorts of magic, and Yoo Seong-woo’s body was increasingly covered in wounds.

“Tsk.”

A piece of flesh, from who knows where, grazed his cheek.

He dodged with minimal movement but ended up with scratches here and there.

Wiping the blood flowing from his cheek with the back of his hand, he muttered.

“For a fox, you keep trying to act like a human.”

“I’ve escaped the fate of mortality, so what does it matter what humans think?”

Moreover, perhaps she had attained enlightenment, as taunts didn’t work on her at all.

‘I can’t summon Black Serpent and Samjeong. It seems the connection has been severed as she constructed a new unique world within the existing Abyss….’

That just means the unique world is that much more complete.

This was not good news.

Then, he had no choice but to do something with the remaining three swords.

He couldn’t recklessly use divine power either, and perhaps he only had one chance.

Break Dalgi’s unique world with his own unique world.

That was the only way to overcome this situation.

But if there was still one problem, it was that he had not completed his unique world.

“Looks like it’s getting too much for you.”

When Dalgi moved her finger, flesh bullets flew in from all directions, and tidal waves of toxic alcohol crashed from above and below.

Yoo Seong-woo swung Ilseong mightily to fend them off and moved away, but no matter where he went, he was within Dalgi’s range.

This time, waves of toxic alcohol approached from all directions.

Yoo Seong-woo jumped into the air, swinging his sword to avoid the waves, and immediately turned to strike down the incoming masses of flesh.

The masses of flesh he struck down hit other masses of flesh, creating more space to move.

“How dare you.”

However.

Heaven and Earth Reversal (天地反轉) [a technique that inverts gravity].

Literally, his vision suddenly reversed, and the gravity generated by Dalgi slammed him into the ground that was in the sky.

He tried to get up and move right away, but before he knew it, a gruesome fox made of flesh was opening its mouth wide, trying to bite him.

“You son of a bitch!”

He hurriedly put Ilseong forward to split the fox, but the fox, split in half, regenerated into two.

And the pungent smell of alcohol wafted into his nose.

Toxic Alcohol Detonation (毒酒導火) [igniting the alcohol for an explosion].

Dalgi set the flesh foxes on fire, causing a chain explosion that engulfed Yoo Seong-woo.

A blazing inferno and storm.

An explosion with enough firepower to melt a person into ashes in an instant.

However, Dalgi had no intention of ending it unless she saw Yoo Seong-woo’s death with her own eyes.

She clenched her fist again and triggered a second explosion, and a mushroom cloud soared from the center of where Yoo Seong-woo had been slammed.

When Yoo Seong-woo’s presence could no longer be felt, Dalgi waved her hand to clear away the dust cloud.

“Not even a corpse remains.”

It would have been an explosion that a mortal body could not withstand.

Dalgi smiled contentedly and turned around, but then she felt a surge of killing intent and reached upwards.

Clang-!!

“Huh, you sensed that?”

“…You didn’t die from that explosion? It was enough power to obliterate tens of thousands of humans.”

Yoo Seong-woo, who had approached Dalgi without sound or sign and stabbed his sword at her, was dumbfounded and clicked his tongue.

He wouldn’t have made a mistake, so Dalgi must have blocked it purely with her instinctive sense.

“If an explosion doesn’t work, I’ll chop you to pieces!”

Her tails moved towards Yoo Seong-woo, whose entire body was covered in soot.

The twelve tails, taking the form of fox heads, tried to constrict him, but he moved faster than that and stuck to Dalgi.

“No, it’s the opposite. I’m going to chop you to pieces. Good idea, right?”

“In that state? A futile dream!”

“I told you. Let’s see who dies.”

At point-blank range, Dalgi’s hands and Yoo Seong-woo’s hands, now holding two different-dimension swords, intertwined chaotically.

He created invisible blades using divine power, kept Dalgi’s tails in check, and inflicted wounds on her.

He wanted to inflict fatal wounds, but each time she twisted her body with animalistic senses to avoid them.

“You haven’t wasted your thousands of years! You old fox!”

“You bastard!”

Dalgi’s sharp claws stretched out and swung wildly.

She didn’t react earlier as if she had attained enlightenment, but she seemed to care about her age, reacting to the word ‘old.’

Or perhaps she was too focused on the battle to have 余裕 [leeway/composure].

Either way, it was a good reaction for Yoo Seong-woo.

With her hand swinging wildly, a gap appeared. It might be a trap, but Yoo Seong-woo had no time to choose.

He couldn’t afford to be picky when his opponent was a high-ranking god.

Fortunately, Dalgi’s gap was not one that would cause problems if he took it.

“Keuk!”

Yoo Seong-woo’s other-dimensional sword drew a red arc, cutting off half of Dalgi’s right arm.

It was a pity he couldn’t cut it off completely, but this alone was a great gain.

“Gasp!”

Taking advantage of the gap where Dalgi’s arm was raised, Yoo Seong-woo accelerated once more.

As he drew up his aura, his hair turned red, and the world began to slow down.

Slowly, very slowly.

There was no need to rush. In this world using instantaneous acceleration, time was on his side.

In the slowed world, the speed was equal, but the cognitive speed that even gods couldn’t match wouldn’t be able to keep up.

Dalgi retreated to recover, putting forward her twelve tails.

The tails were transforming into various weapons through magic, surging towards him.

Yoo Seong-woo deflected the angles of the twelve tails approaching him with the tip of his sword and dug towards her.

He could see her pupils shrinking as he got closer and closer to her.

She tried to retreat even faster, but Yoo Seong-woo’s hand was quicker.

He released the other-dimensional sword in one hand, grabbed the collar he had previously held, and pulled her towards him.

Then, he headbutted her on the lips and stabbed the remaining sword in his other hand into her side.

This time it was deep.

It pierced through her side and reached her internal organs.

But as much as he gained, he also lost.

The slowed world accelerated again, and both retreated without exception.

“…I said I’d chop you to pieces. You damn fox bastard.”

“A mere human…….”

“Do you know how many times I’ve killed guys who say things like that?”

Yoo Seong-woo chuckled as he said that, but his condition was not good.

When he stabbed the sword into Dalgi’s side, he also suffered a large wound on his side.

He was somehow using aura to stop the bleeding, but it didn’t seem like he could last long.

The time had come to make a move.

Releasing the summoning of the other-dimensional swords, the sword he drew this time was the fifth sword.

Yonggwang.

The cursed sword made from the one and only tooth of a dragon.

“…….”

Holding Yonggwang in one hand, he glared at Dalgi.

Dalgi sensed an unusual atmosphere from him and immediately began to unleash various spells, launching an all-out war.

Toxic alcohol surged again from all directions, and explosions continued one after another.

The flesh masses of the Meat Forest approached, pressuring him.

Yoo Seong-woo swung and stabbed Yonggwang, pushing away the things that filled his surroundings, and took a long breath.

‘What am I lacking?’

He still hadn’t completed his unique world. The unique world he had shown to others before would not be able to surpass Dalgi’s unique world.

Then what should he do?

If he couldn’t complete a firm conviction and fill the world with the past, present, and future, what should he do?

The answer was not so far away.

‘A person usually has only one unique world, but that wasn’t the case.’

Dalgi in front of him was like that.

Her first unique world was the infinite labyrinth with an illusion barrier.

The world that made up the interior of the Abyss, based on the desire for power.

And the second was the world of Ju Ji Yuk Rim, of extravagance and pleasure.

Dalgi unfolded two unique worlds and even forcibly dragged out someone else’s unique world.

‘This is a special case.’

Dalgi had lived for so long that he couldn’t catch up even if he died and was reborn ten times.

She must have had many images accumulated in her mental world over the long years.

It was probably a way of consciously dividing them to unfold unique worlds separately.

It was an impossible method for Yoo Seong-woo, who hadn’t even lived for a hundred years yet.

He hadn’t even completed his own image, so there was no way he could unfold a second world.

‘So, I’ll borrow it.’

Yoo Seong-woo swung Yonggwang, creating a shockwave, and put strength into the hand holding the sword.

“…Yonggwang.”

As Yoo Seong-woo quietly called the sword’s name, Yonggwang resonated and answered.

The image to borrow was the world of Yonggwang.

As a dragon who roamed the entire sea as a disaster before falling to him and becoming a sword.

“You would know, right? What I’m trying to do. I need your help.”

At his words, Yonggwang trembled again.

The will of Yonggwang was transmitted from the hand holding the hilt.

Yoo Seong-woo drew up aura and divine power, pushed it into Yonggwang, and took a long breath.

The life of the Sea Dragon that he remembered was fragmentary.

But Yonggwang, the one and only tooth that was with the Sea Dragon from its birth, would know.

The fierce battles and currents, storms… the life of the Sea Dragon, who was the lord of the sea itself.

That was what Yoo Seong-woo wanted.

A vast sea that would completely overturn this disgusting world.

What was a pond made of alcohol?

What was a forest made of meat?

In front of the great sea, all those things would be nothing more than dust.

Yoo Seong-woo, who had once again swept away everything that was coming towards him, confirmed the blue light spiraling on Yonggwang’s blade and plunged it into the floor as it was.

“─Rage forth, Tsunami.”

The earth began to undulate.