Overlord of Sichuan Chapter 275 : Clash of the Ferocious Demon (1)

Chapter 275: Clash of the Ferocious Demon (1)

“Kuaaaaagh!!”

Gu Eum Majon’s single, piercing scream shook the battlefield.

Pishuu!

From the severed arm of his body, dark crimson blood erupted like a fountain.

Gu Eum Majon went beyond confusion and into sheer shock.

After crossing the Life and Death Realm, the sturdiness of the Protective Qi Barrier that covered his body had long since surpassed even the Diamond Indestructible Body.

He had never imagined that he would lose an arm so futilely.

Clutching his shoulder where bone was fully exposed, Gu Eum Majon staggered.

‘I, I… how could I… to a re lowly creature…!’

But it was not the pain that caused this reaction.

It was the shock of being pushed back—not by Sewoon, but by Qiongqi.

Gu Eum Majon glared at the Ominous God Corpse that had wounded his body, his eyes blazing with rage.

“Gyar.”

“……!!”

Gu Eum Majon’s face twisted.

Qiongqi was picking at his ear with a finger.

The creature made no follow-up attack on him, despite his missing arm.

As if there was no need to do so, it simply stood there silently, observing all of his pain and despair.

As though he were nothing more than a bug that could be killed at any mont.

‘How dare you! How dare you!!’

Gu Eum Majon drew up the remaining Demonic Qi into his one remaining arm.

That Demonic Qi had beco far more violent and destructive than before.

“Uraaaa!!”

With a furious roar, Gu Eum Majon charged fiercely toward the Ominous God Corpse.

Pouring out every secret art he had accumulated, he unleashed an unrelenting barrage of attacks upon it.

Paat!

Sseuaek!

Yet the Ominous God Corpse did not budge in the slightest.

“Yaaawn.”

As if utterly bored, it even yawned while effortlessly receiving every one of Gu Eum Majon’s attacks.

The sheer absurdity of that sight caused those watching to gape as if their jaws were about to drop off.

“Th-this… this?!”

Gu Eum Majon fell into despair upon realizing that none of his attacks were having any effect on the Ominous God Corpse.

Pussss!

It was not only his techniques.

The mont his Demonic Qi touched the body of the Ominous God Corpse, it vanished emptily.

The unknown energy surrounding the creature’s unfathomable body absorbed all of his abyss-like power without exception.

Kwaaang!

This ti, Qiongqi lunged forward as if mocking him.

In an instant, Qiongqi closed the distance and swung its clenched fist, smashing it into Gu Eum Majon’s chest.

Kwaduk!

A horrifying sound of bones being crushed and shattered echoed out.

“Gueeok!”

Gu Eum Majon violently spewed black blood.

A deep light of despair settled into his eyes.

Though it was only a single punch, it was a blow powerful enough to utterly shatter his will to fight.

But he could not give up, so Gu Eum Majon clenched his teeth and unleashed a counterattack.

Yet his attacks still failed to affect the Ominous God Corpse.

Like an enormous mountain range, it stood firm, receiving all of Gu Eum Majon’s attacks as if mocking him.

‘Even after receiving the power of grace… how…!’

Gu Eum Majon felt as though everything he had believed in was collapsing.

He had been certain that the power of grace bestowed by the Blood Demon could destroy everything in this world.

And yet, not even the smallest scratch appeared on the body of the Ominous God Corpse….

Pa-bat!

Stamping the ground, the Ominous God Corpse charged forward.

Its movent was far faster and more powerful than anything seen before.

Sseuaek!

With an air-splitting shriek, the monster’s right hand flew in like a spear blade.

This ti, it was not aiming for his arm, but to sever his neck.

There was absolutely no way to evade it.

‘Ah… my master….’

Sensing his impending death, Gu Eum Majon squeezed his eyes shut.

At last, the battle was coming to an end.

…That was what everyone thought at that mont.

Kwagagagaga!

Suddenly, an imnse Protective Qi Barrier erupted from Gu Eum Majon’s entire body like a storm.

The overwhelmingly destructive shockwave blocked the Ominous God Corpse’s attack and instead sent it flying far away.

Everyone was stunned by this completely unexpected counterattack.

‘What…!’

Even Sewoon narrowed his brow upon seeing it.

Sothing was strange.

There had been nothing like that among the powers Gu Eum Majon had shown before.

“Kkeuaaaa!!”

Instead of relief, Gu Eum Majon scread once more after sending his opponent flying.

Drip.

Blood tears began flowing from both of his eyes.

From eyes where the black pupils had vanished, leaving only white sclera, streams of bloody tears poured down.

Duduk!

Geudeuk!

His body twisted grotesquely, as if being fried in boiling oil.

Dark crimson Demonic Qi wrapped around him, and eerie sounds rang out as flesh and bone seed to lt, then clump together again.

At the sa ti, the pressure emanating from Gu Eum Majon grew incomparably stronger than before.

This was no longer the pressure of a re martial artist.

It was an inhuman, horrifying aura, as if hundreds of millions of souls were screaming in unison.

Everyone stood bewildered, unable to comprehend what was happening—but Sewoon alone realized the reason behind it.

Those eyes were not Gu Eum Majon’s.

‘The Blood Demon…!’

That was right. The Blood Demon was gazing upon the world through Gu Eum Majon’s eyes, transcending the limits of space.

The chilling gazes of two beings beyond space t.

‘What are you plotting?’

Sewoon frowned deeply.

Yet in Gu Eum Majon’s eyes, the Blood Demon’s unmistakable delight was clearly revealed.

* * *

Gu Eum Majon was in unbearable agony.

The mont the Blood Demon descended upon his body, a horrific pain—one that even the power of the Life and Death Realm could scarcely endure—ca to dominate both his flesh and mind.

His body burned away as if engulfed in raging flas, and his consciousness felt as though it were being torn into shreds.

Yet that pain soon transford into reverence toward his master.

‘My master!!’

He realized that even this suffering was his appointed duty for the sake of his master.

The words the Blood Demon had spoken to him before he went into battle suddenly resurfaced in his mind.

-Your role is one thing.

-Command in anything, my master!

Before heading to the battlefield, the Blood Demon had summoned him alone and delivered an incomprehensible ssage.

-What that thing has prepared ‘this ti.’ Whether it has risen beyond its limits.

-…Pardon?

-I will see it all through your eyes.

-?!

-Rejoice. Everything shall proceed according to the inverse principle I have established.

-I-I obey!

At the ti, he had not been able to grasp even a shred of what those words ant. But now—

‘Ah, my master. Was this what you desired of ?’

Only now did he understand.

Not the natural order, but the inverse principle.

What the Blood Demon—who would rule over all things in existence and the entire Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds—desired was only one thing.

‘Martyrdom.’

It was his death.

Not rely the offering of his life.

It was a glorious death in which he devoted his entire being to complete his master’s grand design.

Through that process, and by the imnse grace of accepting his master’s eyes, what he must do next naturally surfaced in his mind.

At the very mont he wore that blissful smile—

‘W-what in the world is happening?’

Watching the scene unfold, Gui Yeongja trembled violently in fear.

Just when it seed Gu Eum Majon was about to et his death, the Blood Demon’s power suddenly poured forth from the Left Protector.

And then Gu Eum Majon’s body began releasing a frenzied, maddening power.

As events spiraled into a realm his mind could no longer comprehend, Gui Yeongja’s face turned deathly pale.

But then, an even more confusing scene unfolded.

Pupuk!

“!!!”

“?!?!”

With a grotesque sound of flesh being pierced, silence descended upon both the Blood Cult’s formation and the Murim Alliance’s formation.

And it was only natural.

“Kuh—khk.”

Gu Eum Majon had suddenly stabbed his own chest with his one remaining hand.

Kwaduk!

Then, with his own hands, he tore out his own heart.

Thump! Thump!

The heart he held was still beating ominously.

“W-what?”

“He just committed suicide?”

As chaos erupted within the Murim Alliance’s ranks—

-Everyone, fall back!!

Suddenly, Sewoon unleashed a thunderous lion’s roar.

Under that overwhelming pressure, everyone instinctively staggered a step back.

Swaaaaa!!

Kwagaga!

At once, black shadows burst from Gu Eum Majon’s entire body, twisting the very boundary of the world.

At the sa ti, only Sewoon and the Ominous God Corpse charged forward, and an unknown spell formation composed of black clouds devoured the two of them.

‘This place…?’

After being swallowed by the shadows, Sewoon found himself dropped into a space entirely different from the battlefield.

It resembled being swept into a formation, yet the dinsion itself was on an entirely different level.

Pasus!

Pas!

When Sewoon turned and extended his hand toward the direction he had entered from, a destructive energy surged back like a plague, bringing searing pain.

Entry was permitted—but escape was not.

Looking around, there was not even a Life Gate, let alone a Death Gate.

Horrifying Death Qi spread through the space like poisonous mist.

Sewoon frowned as the alien energy seeped in through his nose.

‘A dreadful spell. If I hadn’t intervened, everyone on the battlefield would have t a grueso death.’

This was a sorcery he had never seen even before his regression.

A spell formation deployed by offering the heart of a Life and Death Realm martial artist as a sacrifice.

How could he have ever encountered such a thing?

If Sewoon had not imdiately scattered his energy to suppress the resonance the mont he intervened, countless people would have been dragged here to die without understanding why.

‘The Blood Demon’s doing, no doubt.’

He realized that the Blood Demon—who had infused his power into Gu Eum Majon’s body—had used this thod to capture him.

“Grr.”

“You ca.”

At that mont, Qiongqi slowly erged through the darkness toward him.

Qiongqi, too, seed to dislike this place, its expression deeply contorted.

“First, let’s find Gu Eum Majon’s corpse. He sacrificed himself to activate this. If we can find it, there should be a clue to escape—”

That was when it happened.

Paaat!

A trendous burst of energy exploded forth. A horrifying Demonic Qi.

Cha-cheng!

Sewoon halted mid-sentence and drew his sword.

Qiongqi also swung a single punch toward the source of killing intent.

Sewoon’s sword strike and Qiongqi’s punch combined, slamming into the unknown presence.

Kkaang!

“!!”

But the sound that rang out was like striking solid steel.

At the sa ti, a massive shock reverberated through the sword.

The rebound force was terrifying.

Paaat!

Then, the attacker that had completed its ambush slowly revealed itself before them.

‘That is…’

It was Gu Eum Majon.

No—could that still be called Gu Eum Majon?

With a gaping hole in his chest where his heart had been, and his skin entirely ashen, the being radiated a power that dwarfed anything he had possessed before.

Moreover, from his eyes—now dyed white—the Blood Demon’s gaze was still unmistakably present.

Only then did Sewoon grasp the Blood Demon’s true intention.

‘You concentrated the power of the Half Life–Death Wheel technique onto his corpse.’

That was correct.

The true nature of this spell formation that had swallowed them was one that, upon the death of a Life and Death Realm existence, concentrated the entirety of the Half Life–Death Wheel technique’s power onto that being.

Now a jiangshi, Gu Eum Majon alone bore the Half Life–Death Wheel technique, releasing a power beyond all comparison to before.

There could be only one reason for imprisoning them together with this thing.

Though no words were spoken, Sewoon t the Blood Demon’s gaze—laden with unmistakable intent—and smiled coldly.

“So you want to see how much I’ve grown?”

Shaaaa!

Gu Eum Majon once again assud a combat stance.

Qiongqi tried to charge forward again, but Sewoon raised one hand and stopped him.

“Sorry, but I can’t yield this fight to you.”

Stepping forward, Sewoon continued,

“You’re free to watch if you like.”

He spoke to the Blood Demon who was watching him.

“In return, I’ll gouge out those arrogant eyes of yours.”