Chapter 514: We're the Demon Supremes, Whose Help Would We Ask For?

TL: FoodieMonster007

"Shut up!" Gyo Cheon's shout echoed with the force of thunder.

SWOOSH.

The hem of the Blood Heaven Blade Demon's robes flapped violently. This voice was different from before. The Master's roar, which was filled with inner arts, struck the Blood Heaven Blade Demon like a sudden gale.

If he hadn't raised his qi to resist, he would have been sent flying and would have crashed in an unsightly manner. This shout alone was enough to reveal the profound inner arts hidden within the Master's old body.

A rough wind swept past him.

He could have been intimidated by that powerful inner arts, but this time it was the Blood Heaven Blade Demon who roared instead.

"You shut up, Master!"

Having been treated with such respect by him until now, Gyo Cheon's eyes widened in shock. Now, it was the Blood Heaven Blade Demon's voice that thundered through the hall.

"Why is your revenge like this! Annihilating people who have nothing to do with it, trying to start a war through instigation, using poison… is this pathetic display really all your revenge is after all these years?"

CRACK.

The chair's other armrest shattered. When he had broken it before, it had turned to dust like sand. This time, however, pieces scattered to the floor. He was so enraged that he didn't even realize he had broken it.

However, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon continued to raise his voice.

"You should've returned in style. If you weren't ready, you shouldn't have come back at all!"

After that outburst, he added one last thing in a low, sorrowful tone.

"…That way, I could've died for you willingly, couldn't I?"

The gazes of the Blood Heaven Blade Demon and Gyo Cheon locked in the middle of the air.

Was it because of the grief and sorrow in the eyes that looked at him? Gyo Cheon had believed that even his disciple's apology was a pretense, just an act. But in this moment, that thought didn't cross his mind.

He came to find me, prepared to die?

However, that thought, which was born from sincerity, could not break through the tightly sealed walls around his heart. After looking at his disciple for a moment, Gyo Cheon spoke to the two old men.

"Kill him. Kill him wretchedly and miserably!"

A smile of relief, rather than anything else, formed on the Blood Heaven Blade Demon's lips.

Yes, no matter what words were exchanged, the conclusion of his meeting with his master today was already decided. The only difference was who would die. He was almost grateful it had turned out this way. It meant he could fight without any lingering attachments.

"I will obey your command, Master."

The one who answered aloud was the Blood Heaven Blade Demon. It was a kind of jest, a mockery implying that he was the one who had received the order to kill.

Unlike him, the two old men's expressions remained unchanged. The Master must have raised them this way, devoid of emotion and solely for this moment.

And the Master's subordinates probably weren't just these two. No one knew what would come out of the Master's decades-old bag of grudges today.

VMMMM!

The Heaven Destroying Dao, infused with qi, let out a great cry. It was not a cry of fear. It was a cry full of trust from a beloved weapon that could feel its master's resolve.

Yes, I'm counting on you, Myeolcheon.

The old man in the red robe approached from the right, while the old man in the blue robe came from the left. All three of them had achieved complete mastery of the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique.

At this level, the match would likely be decided in an instant. Moreover, they knew each other's martial arts far too well.

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon imagined how the Master must have trained them. He would have trained them harshly for this very moment. He would want to kill him miserably with the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique, not some other martial art. The mindset would be, "I will take back the martial arts I taught you with the very same martial arts."

In that case?

The one who moved first was the Blood Heaven Blade Demon. The moment he kicked off the ground, he was already swinging his dao in front of the red-robed man.

SWISH!

The Heaven Destroying Dao flew in with a speed that defied its large size.

His opponent didn't evade. Instead, he swung his own giant dao to block.

Just before the daos could clash, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon lifted his. The dao's angle changed, and it created sparks as it slid along the opponent's blade.

FWOOSH!

The Heaven Destroying Dao, having calculated even the opponent's reaction, grazed the old man's face.

The old man was inwardly shocked. It was an unexpected variation. He hadn't expected him to unleash a variation aimed at his life on the very first move. His face had nearly been taken off.

This was a surprise attack by the Blood Heaven Blade Demon. He had turned the common knowledge that dao masters often test the waters with a clash of strength against them.

And the Blood Heaven Blade Demon didn't lose this momentum. He continued to press his attack.

He wasn't so unskilled as to be flustered by nearly being hit on the first move, but the old man had clearly lost the initiative.

CLANG! CLANG! CLANGCLANGCLANG!

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon's attacks grew faster and fiercer. The ringing of dao against dao deepened with each exchange.

The old man in the blue robe couldn't intervene to help.

Should it be compared to a carriage that had already departed? They had already started a fight that couldn't be interrupted. The two were fighting fiercely at close quarters. If he unleashed the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique, even the red-robed old man would be swept up in the enhanced qi.

Nor could he jump in and fight alongside him. Their exchange was too intense. It wasn't a fight with swords but a battle of giant dao against giant dao. There was no room for another giant dao to squeeze in.

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon was fighting with fundamentals. His opponents would have spent all those long years honing only the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique. They would have naturally expected him to face them with that same technique.

A fight of fundamentals should have been a disadvantage compared to the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique. And yet, the one leading the fight was the Blood Heaven Blade Demon.

His skill hadn't improved just because of training. There was something more important. His life had changed. For martial arts to change, one's life must change. This grand principle of martial studies had been applied.

Watching their fight, Gyo Cheon's eyes darkened. The Blood Heaven Blade Demon was fighting better than he had thought. The moment he felt that he was stronger than he himself had been in his days as a Demon Supreme, jealousy and rage surged within him.

Then, the words the Blood Heaven Blade Demon had said suddenly came to mind.

[Your mind, Master, must be filled with fog.]

Is that why only these instincts emerge? Hating, envying, raging.

However, he couldn't wisely resolve this thought that had surfaced. He couldn't overcome that great wall he had built over so many years by himself. If he could have, he wouldn't have heard such words in the first place.

In the end, that jealousy led to another accusation.

Cunning bastard!

Among the things the Blood Heaven Blade Demon had said to him earlier, several words had stuck in his heart. The remark that it wasn't Geom Woojin who was cunning, but that the Master's own cunning had been exposed by Geom Woojin, had left a deep resentment. That must have been why.

This cunning bastard! He's the more cunning one!

He continued to hurl the word 'cunning' in his mind. The Blood Heaven Blade Demon's wise fighting style became 'cunning' to him.

The red-robed man, who was being pushed back by the Blood Heaven Blade Demon, leaped up and unleashed the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique. It was the Annihilation Blade Slash, the fastest technique to execute.

However, that was the moment the Blood Heaven Blade Demon had been waiting for. That fleeting opening when a major technique is unleashed, that brief moment when qi is forcefully circulated.

SWIIISH!

Just as the Blood Heaven Blade Demon's giant dao rushed in like a thunderbolt, as if it had been waiting, and was about to slice the red-robed old man in two!

SHAAAAA!

An enhanced qi flew in with a peculiar whistling sound. He could tell just from the sound that it was dangerous.

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon twisted his body, raising the Heaven Destroying Dao to block the incoming attack.

KRAKOOM!

As the enhanced qi slammed into him, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon was pushed back along with his giant dao, which he had used as a shield. It was an immense power. An attack that would have broken his wrist if his qi had been even slightly lacking.

The one who had saved the red-robed man with a palm strike was Gyo Cheon.

"Are you going to do this?"

At the Blood Heaven Blade Demon's words, Gyo Cheon laughed pleasantly.

"You're the one who should stop with the cunning tricks!"

He had finally thrown the word 'cunning' back at his disciple.

The conversation between the two could not continue. The red-robed old man, having found an opening thanks to Gyo Cheon's intervention, immediately unleashed the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique.

SWIIISH!

Normally, he should have regrouped and launched a joint attack, but his pride was wounded by the fact that Gyo Cheon had saved his life. Blade-shaped enhanced qi swirled and flew towards the Blood Heaven Blade Demon.

It was an unavoidable attack. If it could be easily dodged, this martial art wouldn't have been named the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique, the Fourth Technique, the Bloody Annihilation Blade Wind.

The way to dispel the Bloody Annihilation Blade Wind is with the Bloody Annihilation Blade Wind.

The blade energy extending from the Heaven Destroying Dao flew out, swirling. Within both whirlwinds of the Bloody Annihilation Blade Wind, small, blade-shaped enhanced qi were spinning. The two blood winds collided.

In that moment, an ear-splitting explosion occurred as the enhanced qi mutually dispelled each other.

SQUELCH.

A silence fell at the sound of tearing flesh.

The red-robed old man looked down at his chest in disbelief. An enhanced qi had flown like a bird escaping a net and had pierced him as if it were a lie.

The same martial arts had certainly clashed with similar power, but one thing was different. The Blood Heaven Blade Demon's Bloody Annihilation Blade Wind had more blades. As his martial arts realm had recently risen, his mastery of the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique had deepened.

"…Can they increase even more?"

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon answered him.

"How could this Senior Brother's be the same as his juniors'?"

The red-robed old man asked with fading eyes.

"But why didn't you use it from the start?"

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon slowly turned his head to look at his master.

"I was planning to use it on the Master."

Gyo Cheon's cheek twitched again. The Blood Heaven Blade Demon could see that it wasn't just his martial arts that had grown. He realized he had also learned a lot about how to handle the Master from Geom Mugeuk. He was using the same tactics on his master that Geom Mugeuk had used on him.

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon now rushed at the old man in the blue robe. This time, too, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon did not use the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique.

Watching this, Gyo Cheon grew even more furious. Didn't he just say it? That he wouldn't show the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique and was saving it for him? Yet he still wasn't using it.

You're determined to kill me yourself?

His intervention in their fight was ultimately due to this anger, which was also what the Blood Heaven Blade Demon had hoped for.

Whenever the blue-robed old man was in danger, Gyo Cheon fired a finger qi bullet to help him. It couldn't have been easy to help in a fight where the two were entangled, but Gyo Cheon's attacks were sharp and precise.

FZZT! FZZT!

The finger qi bullets fired by the Master grazed his arms and legs. Meanwhile, in front of him, a master who had achieved complete mastery of the Heaven Destroying Demonic Blade Technique was trying to kill him.

Normally, he would have gotten excited and tried to kill his opponent as quickly as possible, but the Blood Heaven Blade Demon did not. He even fought while managing his inner arts. A handful of inner arts was worth trading for a drop of blood. He intended to survive until the very end and fight his master.

This planned and thorough fight of the Blood Heaven Blade Demon finally came to an end.

SQUELCH!

The Heaven Destroying Dao pierced the blue-robed man's heart.

The old man's resentful gaze was not directed at the Blood Heaven Blade Demon, but at Gyo Cheon. Gyo Cheon's help in this fight had actually been a detriment to him. If he was going to help, he should have done it properly. But that wasn't the case. Instead, it broke his concentration, and in the end, he couldn't display his full skill. The emotionally-driven help had not been helpful to him at all.

Gyo Cheon looked at the Blood Heaven Blade Demon, who was drenched in blood. He had not a single word of mourning for his dead disciples, nor did he regret their deaths.

"Quite impressive."

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon wiped the blood from his face and said, "Why do you think I'm the only one with 'Blood' in my alias among the Demon Supremes?"

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon's eyes were shining frighteningly.

Gyo Cheon met his gaze and said coldly, "No one will come to help you. You'll die a lonely death here because of your arrogance."

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon gave a lonely smile, as if accepting it all, and asked back, "We're the Demon Supremes, whose help would we ask for?"

Those words once again became thorns, piercing Gyo Cheon's heart. If his disciple was a Demon Supreme, then he too was a man who had once been a Demon Supreme.

Demon Supremes are beings who live by pride. They are beings who stand tall alone, never losing a fight and never asking for help from anyone. That was what a Demon Supreme was.

"You must have prepared more. So, who's next?"

At the Blood Heaven Blade Demon's confident appearance, Gyo Cheon roared. He had considered him a brat of a disciple, but now, not a single word he uttered failed to pierce his heart.

"This bastard, to the very end!"

Gyo Cheon couldn't hold back and unleashed a palm technique.

SHWAAAAAA!

A terrifying palm technique flew at him. Unable to dodge, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon hid his body behind the Heaven Destroying Dao as a shield and injected qi to its limit.

KRAKOOM!

The Heaven Destroying Dao shook violently from the impact. He had nearly broken his wrist and suffered internal injuries.

SHWAAAAAA! BANG!

A second palm technique flew in succession, and then a third palm technique flew in.

BOOM! KABOOM!

The Heaven Destroying Dao trembled as if it would break at any moment. The dao gradually tilted under the incoming impacts.

The Master's voice came from beyond the Heaven Destroying Dao.

"I'll break that arrogant dao of yours!"

SHWAAAAAAAAA!

The sound was different from before. A palm technique carrying an immense amount of inner arts was flying toward him.

The dao might break.

But that was unacceptable. The Heaven Destroying Dao was his symbol. Instead of raising his protective enhanced qi to its limit, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon injected his inner arts into the Heaven Destroying Dao to its limit. He intended to protect the dao, even if it meant suffering internal injuries.

KRA-KOOM!

A tremendous explosion erupted. And the Heaven Destroying Dao stood tall, unbroken.

The Blood Heaven Blade Demon saw it. He was still in the same spot. He hadn't suffered internal injuries, nor had he been thrown back. He saw a hand that had come from behind him, its palm pressed against the Heaven Destroying Dao.

The startled Blood Heaven Blade Demon turned around. The moment he confirmed who was standing behind him, the Blood Heaven Blade Demon called out to him, his face filled with intense emotion.

"Cult Leader!"

Geom Woojin was standing behind him.

Perhaps he had hoped the Cult Leader would come. He might have even believed deep down that he would. However, just as much as he wished for him to come, there was a part of him that wished he wouldn't.

Because on the day he killed his master, he had killed his brother. We had all desperately hoped it wouldn't turn out that way, but it did. He could only guess what kind of scars the Cult Leader lived with. He had never once asked about that day since. We didn't ask each other.

He had resolved to handle this matter alone because he didn't want the Cult Leader to have to recall that past. And yet, the Cult Leader had come.

And today, the Cult Leader's eyes resembled the young eyes that had looked at him on that day long ago.

"We were together on that day, so we should be together today, too."