Chapter 510
Unhwi looked at the Heaven-Law Immortal.
Cold eyes.
But unwavering eyes.
“Kneel.”
“...What?”
“Swear that you will never touch my people again. If you do so, I will overlook the insolence of infiltrating the very heart of the Blood Heaven Sect and laying your hands on the people of the Blood Heaven Arbiter.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s mouth fell open.
This was truly...
“...You are insane.”
“I am serious. Does it sound like a joke to you?”
The Heaven-Law Immortal looked at Unhwi.
For a long time.
For a very long time.
He looked into those eyes.
It was not empty talk.
This man meant every word.
These were the words of someone who had crushed three outposts, killed more than fifty people, displayed their severed heads, and walked in alone.
There was no way it was a bluff.
Unhwi had told Han Soyeong.
The fate of the Heaven-Law Platform would be decided in one of two ways.
It would either disappear from this world completely.
Or it would become an organization that retained only its name.
It was exactly as he had said.
Unhwi had given them a choice.
What he was offering now was the latter.
A Heaven-Law Platform that existed only by name.
If they refused, there was no choice.
They would have to proceed to the first.
The Heaven-Law Immortal spoke.
“I will ask only one thing.”
“Speak.”
“Who knows that you have come here?”
Unhwi gave a small laugh.
“Vice Leader Yu Cheong.”
“...Hah... that sly bastard...”
“And the one we serve.”
“...What?”
“Is that not obvious? His reach is vast. No matter what anyone does, he watches from wherever he is.”
“...”
“Do not worry. Even if I die here, the one we serve will not intervene.”
“...Are you certain?”
Unhwi let out a sigh.
“You truly are very afraid. With that level of resolve, what exactly did you intend to accomplish?”
A vein rose on the Heaven-Law Immortal’s forehead.
But surprisingly, he possessed tremendous patience.
“Do you believe you can leave this place alive?”
Unhwi gave a faint laugh.
“There is a possibility that I cannot.”
“Yet you came?”
“I came.”
“Why?”
“Because I had to come.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal looked at Unhwi.
This man.
Was he insane?
Or did he truly have no fear?
He shook his head.
It was not that.
He would have fear.
A martial artist at Unity of Heaven and Man could not possibly stand before one at the Supreme Void Realm without fear.
He was afraid.
And yet he came.
Because someone had reached for his people.
For that one reason.
The Heaven-Law Immortal understood.
He did not want to admit it.
But he had no choice.
This man was not ordinary.
“Certainly... you mean that the Heavenly Lord will not interfere in this matter?”
“I understand that you have served the one we serve for a longer time than I have.”
“...”
“And yet you cannot be certain?”
The Heaven-Law Immortal closed his mouth.
He looked at Unhwi.
But the focus in his eyes had changed.
He was looking at Unhwi, yet not looking at Unhwi.
He was lost in thought.
His lips moved.
Almost soundlessly.
A murmur.
“So...”
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s gaze lowered to the floor.
“The Heavenly Lord sees this as... a conflict between martial artists...”
Unhwi did not move.
He listened.
“Master Yu... keeps his mouth shut... and he does not have a good relationship with you either...”
The corner of the Heaven-Law Immortal’s mouth twitched slightly.
“Yes.”
The murmur became clearer.
“I see.”
His head lowered.
His shoulders drooped.
He looked as if he had accepted something.
“Then that is how it will be...”
Unhwi watched.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s shoulders.
His hands.
His feet.
Everything.
And then he felt it.
The change.
The energy flowing from the Heaven-Law Immortal disappeared.
No.
It had not disappeared.
It had moved inward.
Completely.
The force of the Supreme Void Realm was drawn back into his body. The pressure crushing the room vanished. The energy rising from the cracks in the floor stopped. The air became light.
Silence.
Complete silence.
The silence before a storm.
Unhwi’s body reacted.
His instincts.
The hundreds of battlefields he had honed himself through in his previous life screamed.
He is coming.
The Heaven-Law Immortal raised his head.
Instantly.
It was not a slow movement.
From the lowered position of his head, his eyes turned toward Unhwi in the blink of an eye.
His eyes.
They were not the eyes of a human.
His teeth were exposed.
His mouth was stretched open as though torn apart.
The wrinkles between his brows deepened, twisting his entire face.
His eyes were bloodshot.
The veins looked ready to burst.
A fiendish face.
Not the face of a person.
The face of a demon.
That face charged toward Unhwi.
The full force of the Supreme Void Realm.
The Heaven-Law Immortal was already before him.
The distance disappeared.
There were not five lengths of space.
Not even one foot.
He was right in front of him.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s bloodshot eyes filled Unhwi’s vision.
A face filling his entire sight.
A distorted face.
The mouth opened.
“You bastard who deserves to be roasted alive and eaten piece by piece.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s fist flew.
Unhwi, who had been prepared, raised his arm to block.
BOOOOM—!!
His body was pushed backward.
“...You block me? A bastard beneath even an insect.”
Before the words had even finished, the fist tore through space and struck toward Unhwi’s face.
CRACK—!!
Bone rang.
Unhwi’s bones.
His cheekbone.
His jaw.
His teeth.
His entire skull vibrated.
His vision turned white.
Sound disappeared.
His sense of direction collapsed.
His body flew.
Through the wall of Heaven-Law Pavilion.
BOOOOM—!!
The wooden wall shattered.
Fragments scattered.
He flew outside.
From the second floor into the air.
And the Heaven-Law Immortal’s foot followed.
At the instant Unhwi’s body broke through the wall and flew outward, the Heaven-Law Immortal had already followed.
In midair, he drove his foot down into Unhwi’s abdomen.
BOOOOM—!!
A thunderous explosion rang out as Unhwi’s body folded.
His body bent around his abdomen.
Blood burst from his mouth.
It scattered through the air like a red mist.
His body fell.
From the second floor.
Into the courtyard.
Over the heads of the hundred martial artists standing below.
BOOOOM—!!
Unhwi’s body crashed into the courtyard.
The ground sank.
Circular cracks spread outward from where he fell.
Stone shattered.
Dirt flew.
Dust rose.
The Heaven-Law Immortal stood at the second-floor railing and looked down.
Before, it had been dignity.
An attempt to preserve his authority.
But now it was killing intent.
Pure killing intent.
“I will tear your limbs apart and kill you. Piece by piece.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s voice echoed throughout Heaven-Law Cliff.
A voice carrying the internal power of the Supreme Void Realm.
The mountains trembled.
The cliffs trembled.
The entire basin trembled.
The martial artists in the courtyard stepped back.
They were being overwhelmed by the commander’s killing intent.
Instinctively.
The dust cleared.
In the center of the courtyard, among shattered stones, Unhwi lay there.
Blood flowed from the corner of his mouth.
From his nose as well.
His cheekbone was swollen.
He slowly rose.
His organs felt twisted.
It felt as though his ribs were cracked.
Two attacks.
A single punch.
A single kick.
With only those two strikes, his previously solid protective energy had been completely shattered.
This was the Supreme Void Realm.
The Unity of Heaven and Man martial artists he had killed until now.
The martial artists at Manifestation of the Boundless.
Even those at Harmony realm.
Though they were all included within the same Five Realms of Martial Divinity, they were absolutely not the same.
From the Supreme Void Realm onward, the level was completely different.
He spat out the blood held in his mouth.
“Ptuh.”
He raised his head and looked at the Heaven-Law Immortal standing at the railing.
The corner of Unhwi’s mouth moved.
He did not speak.
He simply smiled.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s brow twisted.
It had already been clear from everything that had happened that this man was not ordinary.
But to smile in this situation?
That was different.
This was beyond simple madness.
Was this man not simply a different kind of existence?
Was he not just a complete fool?
Unhwi silently grasped the sword at his waist.
True Fire Heavenly Spirit Sword.
Shing.
It slid smoothly from its sheath.
The clear sound echoed throughout Heaven-Law Cliff.
Ice energy flowed from Unhwi’s body.
The stones in the courtyard froze.
Frost rose from the cracks between the shattered stones.
The more than fifty martial artists stepped back once again.
It was cold.
A chill so intense that every breath felt as if it froze the lungs.
The Heaven-Law Immortal lightly jumped down from the railing and landed on the ground.
There was no sound.
At least within this place, the Heaven-Law Immortal was a true “absolute existence.”
He faced Unhwi.
Ten lengths of distance.
The Heaven-Law Immortal held nothing in his hands.
Barehanded.
Unhwi looked at that.
“You will not use a sword?”
The Heaven-Law Immortal answered.
“There is no need. Why would I use a sword against something as insignificant as a martial artist at Unity of Heaven and Man?”
Unhwi gave a faint laugh.
A laugh mixed with blood.
“You will regret it.”
“Keep talking.”
𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
The Heaven-Law Immortal charged.
Fast.
The same speed as before.
A charge that seemed to tear space apart.
The full force of the Supreme Void Realm.
Unhwi’s eyes moved.
This time, he saw it.
Before, he had been prepared, but he had blocked the first strike and taken the second.
He had not understood the speed.
Now it was different.
He had taken two strikes.
Two were enough.
His body remembered the Heaven-Law Immortal’s speed, trajectory, and direction of force.
Unhwi’s sword rose.
Heaven-Defying Vast Azure Sword, Sixth Form.
The Vast Azure Sword Draws Heaven and Earth.
Creation and destruction are accomplished within an instant.
The Vast Azure Sword.
Sword force erupted.
A blade extending beyond the sword itself into empty space.
It split the heavens and descended toward the Heaven-Law Immortal.
BOOOOM—!!
The Heaven-Law Immortal struck the sword force with his bare fist.
The internal power of the Supreme Void Realm concentrated into his fist.
The sword force split apart.
The divided sword force passed on both sides of the Heaven-Law Immortal.
The courtyard ground cracked.
Two lines of fissures stretched more than ten lengths outward on both sides.
The Heaven-Law Immortal stood there for a moment and looked at his hand.
There was an injury.
Not a large one.
A thin crack across the back of his hand.
Blood seeped from it.
His eyes narrowed.
...A wound from someone at Unity of Heaven and Man...
The Heaven-Law Immortal was well aware of the story of Unhwi’s duel with Great Elder Yeongunseong.
And he also knew that Yeongunseong had suffered serious injuries there.
He knew everything.
But he had not thought much of it.
The reason was simple.
He knew Yeongunseong’s personality.
He had definitely not been fighting with his full strength.
The level of protective energy he usually carried had also been greatly lowered.
That was the kind of person he was.
If he fought with his full strength, no matter how exceptional a martial artist at Unity of Heaven and Man was, their head and body would be separated in less than the time it took to blink twice.
Taking that into account, this injury made no sense.
The Heaven-Law Immortal was currently drawing out his full strength.
He was completely different from the Yeongunseong who had fought that duel.
A complete Supreme Void Realm.
And not merely that, a Supreme Void Realm expert standing at its very edge.
The protective energy surrounding him.
It had cracked.
Now.
“...You use an interesting martial art.”
“Do you like it?”
“Very much. But if that martial art was the reason for your confidence, then that is a great miscalculation—”
He could not finish.
Because Unhwi was already preparing his next move.
Unhwi’s eyes flashed.
The True Fire Heavenly Spirit Sword cut through the air.
Heaven-Defying Vast Azure Sword, Seventh Form.
A Single Heaven-Defying Sword Breaks Ten Thousand Ways, Gods and Demons Tremble, Heaven and Earth Weep.
Heaven-Defying Chaos Wave.
The sword swept horizontally.
This time, it was not sword force.
An invisible power.
Following the path of the sword, space itself twisted.
A sword that shattered ten thousand ways.
A sword art that nullified the opponent’s energy itself.
The Heaven-Law Immortal felt it.
Unhwi’s intention.
Unhwi clearly intended to completely destroy the protective energy surrounding him.
He stepped back.
One step.
No.
Three steps.
To leave the range of the martial art.
He watched the path of the sword.
At the instant the sword’s trajectory reached its end—
The Heaven-Law Immortal kicked off the ground.
Exactly two steps.
He reached close to Unhwi.
He had already taken the stance to throw a punch.
But in that instant, he flinched.
He withdrew his fist.
And stepped back.