Chapter 513
He gritted his teeth.
The condensed blood energy of Blood Bullet Diamond pushed the lightning away. The crimson armor over his skin deflected it.
Not all of it.
Some broke through.
The smell of burning flesh rose.
His left shoulder.
Blackened.
But he remained standing.
He had dealt with all three spheres.
Dust billowed upward.
Through that dust, the Heaven-Law Immortal came flying.
The spheres had been bait.
While Unhwi dealt with the three spheres, the Heaven-Law Immortal had been charging toward him, concealing himself within the dust, gathering the full power of the Supreme Void Realm into his fist.
He burst through the dust.
Right in front of him.
Unhwi’s eyes widened.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s fist buried itself in Unhwi’s abdomen.
THUD—!!
Unhwi’s body folded.
“Cough.”
He spat blood.
But Unhwi’s left hand seized the Heaven-Law Immortal’s arm.
He did not let go.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s eyes widened.
He took a punch to the abdomen and still grabbed my arm?
Unhwi’s sword rose.
It aimed for the Heaven-Law Immortal’s side.
The Heaven-Law Immortal twisted his body.
Dodged.
By a hair.
His robe was sliced open.
But the blade did not touch flesh.
The Heaven-Law Immortal shook off Unhwi’s arm.
Unhwi’s grip broke.
He retreated.
One step.
Unhwi pursued.
He would not allow him even that single step of distance.
He maintained the gap.
One foot.
Sword range.
Fist range.
Unhwi’s sword moved three times.
A thrust.
A slash.
An upward cut.
The Heaven-Law Immortal dodged the first.
Blocked the second.
With his ruined forearm.
With an arm whose bone was exposed.
Thud. Crack. Crunch.
Bone met sword.
Bone reinforced by the internal power of the Supreme Void Realm.
The sword rebounded.
Before the third upward cut could rise, the Heaven-Law Immortal drove his knee into Unhwi’s abdomen.
THUD—!!
Unhwi’s body lifted from the ground.
In midair, Unhwi brought his sword down.
Aiming for the Heaven-Law Immortal’s shoulder.
The Heaven-Law Immortal jerked his head aside.
The sword grazed his collarbone instead of the shoulder.
Blood sprayed.
Shallow.
But Boundless Energy seeped inside.
The flesh around the collarbone turned translucent.
A mark where energy ceased to exist.
“Ghh...”
The Heaven-Law Immortal swallowed a groan.
Unhwi landed.
The instant his feet touched the ground, he lunged again.
He did not stop.
He thrust his sword.
At the Heaven-Law Immortal’s chest.
The Heaven-Law Immortal twisted aside.
The sword point grazed his ribs.
Blood sprayed.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s fist flew toward Unhwi’s temple.
THUD—!!
It landed.
Unhwi’s head snapped sideways.
His vision shook.
Stars burst before his eyes.
But his feet did not move.
He remained where he stood.
Even while taking the blow, he thrust his sword.
Into the Heaven-Law Immortal’s left side.
SHNK—!
It went deep.
Deep.
“Cough...”
Blood burst from the Heaven-Law Immortal’s mouth.
Unhwi twisted the sword.
The Heaven-Law Immortal shoved both hands against Unhwi’s chest.
Both hands.
His ruined hands.
The internal power of the Supreme Void Realm.
BOOM—!!
Unhwi was hurled away.
His sword tore free from the Heaven-Law Immortal’s side.
Blood gushed from the wound.
Unhwi twisted in midair.
Landed on his feet.
Slid backward.
Five steps.
He spat blood.
His ribs were broken.
Fine.
I’m not dead.
The Heaven-Law Immortal was still standing as well.
Blood poured from his left side.
He pressed one hand over the wound.
Blood ran from that hand too.
It was a ruined hand, after all.
The two faced each other.
Ten yards apart.
Both covered in blood.
Unhwi’s temple was split open.
Blood ran down over his left eye.
He had taken two blows to the abdomen.
His ribs were broken.
His left shoulder was scorched by lightning.
The Heaven-Law Immortal.
The flesh of both arms had been torn open.
Bone was exposed.
A mark of Boundless Energy scarred his collarbone.
A sword wound had pierced through his left side.
The bleeding would not stop.
The Heaven-Law Immortal had taken more damage.
And yet he was smiling.
“...Good.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal spat blood and continued.
“How long has it been since I fought like this?”
Unhwi did not smile.
He was regulating his breathing.
Blood Bullet Diamond would not last forever.
There was a limit to how long he could keep the Fourth Gate open.
He had already consumed much of that time.
I have to end this.
Now.
The Heaven-Law Immortal was thinking the same thing.
Blood was still flowing from his side.
If enough time passed, his consciousness would begin to fade.
He had lost too much blood.
They moved at the same time.
They charged.
Toward each other.
The ten-yard distance vanished.
They collided.
Unhwi thrust his sword.
The Heaven-Law Immortal threw a punch.
At the same time.
Unhwi’s sword buried itself in the Heaven-Law Immortal’s right shoulder.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s fist smashed into Unhwi’s ribs.
At the same time.
BOOM—!!
Both bodies shuddered.
But neither retreated.
Neither of them.
Unhwi pulled his sword free and thrust again.
At the chest.
The Heaven-Law Immortal seized the blade with his shattered left hand.
Barehanded.
Blood burst forth.
The sword edge split his palm.
Bone pressed against steel.
But he held it.
The sword stopped.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s right fist rose toward Unhwi’s face.
Unhwi ducked.
The fist skimmed over his head.
White hair was severed and scattered through the air.
Unhwi’s left hand rose.
A fist.
Toward the Heaven-Law Immortal’s jaw.
THUD—!!
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s head snapped backward.
But his left hand did not release the sword.
With his head still thrown back, the Heaven-Law Immortal slammed his forehead down.
A headbutt.
THUD—!!
Unhwi’s vision turned white.
He staggered backward.
But he did not let go of his sword.
He yanked on the blade trapped in the Heaven-Law Immortal’s hand.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s palm split farther open.
Deeper.
The sword tore free.
Blood sprayed.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s blood.
Once someone reached the Supreme Void Realm, the body’s ability to recover was no longer human.
But when wounds continued accumulating like this, it became a different matter.
This was will.
Not the will of a common thug.
The will of a martial artist.
Unhwi regained his sword and staggered.
Blood ran down his forehead.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s as well.
Both men stepped back.
Two yards.
Their eyes met.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s bloodshot eyes.
Unhwi’s crimson eyes.
Only their ragged breathing could be heard.
The Heaven-Law Immortal slowly opened his mouth.
“...This power.”
He spoke.
“Was it originally yours?”
Unhwi answered.
“It was mine before, it will be mine after, and it is mine now.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal did not understand those words.
But there was no need to.
The reality before his eyes was everything.
A martial artist at Unity of Heaven and Man had torn apart the arms of someone in the Supreme Void Realm.
That was reality.
“...Good.”
The Heaven-Law Immortal drew up his energy.
Both arms were ruined, but his energy remained.
The full power of the Supreme Void Realm.
The last of it.
Energy exploded from the Heaven-Law Immortal’s body.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth surged upward.
Golden light.
The energy of heaven and earth unique to the Supreme Void Realm wrapped around him.
His arms moved.
His ruined arms.
Arms with bone still exposed.
They moved through sheer force of will.
The final formula flowed from the Heaven-Law Immortal’s lips.
One strike of the celestial force shatters the vault of heaven;
The power of a hundred lifetimes gathers within this blow.
The ultimate form of the Heavenly Ordinance Art.
Heaven-Shattering Celestial Force.
He gathered every trace of energy remaining in both arms into one.
It was no longer golden.
Platinum.
The final light wrung from the very edge of the Supreme Void Realm.
The Heaven-Law Immortal charged.
𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
He had lived for centuries.
He could not die to someone at mere Unity of Heaven and Man.
This was everything he had.
The strike of a martial artist standing at the very edge of the Supreme Void Realm.
Unhwi raised his sword.
Heaven and earth together return to the realm of Boundlessness;
When the sword descends from the heavens, all ages fall silent.
Heavenly Origin Boundless Sword.
Fifth Form: Heaven and Earth Boundless.
The world disappeared from Unhwi’s sword.
No.
The world had not disappeared.
The boundaries had.
The boundary between sword and sky.
The boundary between ice energy and blood energy.
The boundary between Unhwi and the world.
Boundless Energy spread beyond the sword, beyond Unhwi’s body, beyond the courtyard, until it enveloped the entirety of Heaven-Law Cliff.
Transparent light dyed the world.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s charge entered that light.
Inside it, he felt it.
His energy was disappearing.
The golden aura was being stripped away.
It was not melting.
It was being absorbed.
Within the Boundless Energy, the power of the Supreme Void Realm was losing all meaning.
“...This is...”
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s eyes trembled.
“Boundlessness...”
Unhwi’s sword descended.
Once.
The last time.
It pierced the Heaven-Law Immortal’s chest.
Precisely.
The heart.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s charge stopped.
His body stopped.
Unhwi’s sword remained buried in his chest.
The two stood facing one another.
Close.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s eyes stared at Unhwi.
Unhwi’s crimson eyes stared back.
The Heaven-Law Immortal’s lips moved.
But no words came out.
He was not merely at Unity of Heaven and Man.
Now I understand why.
Why the Heavenly Wayfarer values you, Seol Unhwi.
Why he brought you into the Blood Heaven Sect.
At the moment of death, the Heaven-Law Immortal understood.
His eyes stilled.
His pupils went slack.
His body tilted backward.
Unhwi pulled out his sword.
The Heaven-Law Immortal collapsed onto his back.
He did not move.
Unhwi looked down at him.
The blood-red mist was slowly fading.
His crimson eyes were returning to their original color.
The effects of the Blood Demon Heaven-Collapsing Art were wearing off.
Then the backlash came.
All at once.
His entire body jerked.
Blood surged up his throat.
He swallowed it desperately.
He clenched his fist so tightly that blood ran from his palm.
This was enemy territory.
He could not collapse.
No matter what.
Even if he did collapse.
There was one man here whose killing intent had been directed at him.
One who would clearly act the moment he had the chance.
The most dangerous one.
The one who would become a serious problem later.
That man had to die.
Unhwi turned his head.
There stood Baek Ryeon, Seventh Seat of the Heaven-Law Platform.
The moment their eyes met, Baek Ryeon flinched.
The killing intent he had been emitting vanished instantly.
It no longer mattered.
Unhwi kicked off the ground.
Before Baek Ryeon could do anything—
SHNK—!
Unhwi’s sword pierced his heart.
“Ghk...”
Unhwi spoke quietly.
“I warned you.”
“G... gh...”
“You were no martial artist.”
“You were nothing but a common thug.”
Baek Ryeon’s eyes trembled.
Just like the Heaven-Law Immortal’s, the light began fading from them.
“S-Spare... me...”
Unhwi ignored him.
He pulled out the sword.
Blood erupted.
Then he swung once more.
Slice.
Baek Ryeon’s head flew into the air.
Unhwi turned his head.
Pain surged through him as though his body were breaking apart.
Fine.
For now.
He adjusted his grip on the sword and looked around.
Everyone was staring wide-eyed in disbelief at Unhwi, at the dead Baek Ryeon, and at the Heaven-Law Immortal.
Among them were martial artists who had reached Manifestation of the Boundless, and even several from the Harmony realm.
They were likely the other members of the Heaven-Law Platform, including its First Seat.
Unhwi spoke quietly.
“Anyone else?”
“...”
“I am returning to the Blood Heaven Sect now. If you wish to avenge the Heaven-Law Immortal, Baek Ryeon, and Seop Gyeong, then come.”
Though he was clearly on the verge of death, strength remained in Unhwi’s voice.
No one answered him.
No one dared.
This was no longer a fight among ordinary martial artists.
Nor was it a matter that could be resolved at their level.
This was a matter for Heaven Beyond Heaven.
A matter to be decided by the core figures of Heaven Beyond Heaven.
“I will count to five.”
He began.
“One.”
“Two.”
“Three.”
“Four.”
“Five.”
Still, no one moved.
Without another word, Unhwi sheathed the True Fire Heavenly Spirit Sword at his waist and turned away.
He staggered slightly.
But he walked.
And kept walking.
Until he left Heaven-Law Cliff.
And even after that.
Not one person moved from where they stood.