The Heavenly Demon Who Reigns Chapter 165 : The Master of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Valley

'What on earth is that?'

Cheon Myeong tilted his head as he looked at the tiger on the cliff.

To think that there was a tiger in a place like this.

No matter how thick a tiger's hide was, the cold of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Valley was already at a level where living creatures could not survive.

So he had thought that there would be absolutely no living creatures in a place like this...

'A spiritual creature... is it?'

Just by seeing it standing so proudly in this cold, it would be safe to think that that tiger was not ordinary.

Moreover, although it resembled a white tiger at a glance, it also seed sowhat different.

More than anything else, the mont he saw that tiger, his ki sense was warning him that it was dangerous.

"Young Master... it's dangerous."

At that mont, Seol Baekmyo said with a tense voice from the side.

"Is it perhaps because of that tiger?"

"...Yes."

"What on earth is that thing?"

"...It is an ice tiger."

Co to think of it, it seed that the na 'ice tiger' had co out of Seol Baekmyo's mouth earlier.

It seed that Seol Baekmyo knew sothing about that spiritual creature called the ice tiger.

Cheon Myeong did not let down his guard against the ice tiger and asked Seol Baekmyo.

"Please tell what you know about the ice tiger, Young Palace Lord."

"This is also the first ti I have seen it in person. It's just a story I heard from my mother..."

"Still, please tell ."

"...I understand."

After taking a breath, Seol Baekmyo began to speak to Cheon Myeong again.

"In the Ice Palace, the ice tiger is considered to be the master of this Ten Thousand Year Ice Valley."

"The master of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Valley?"

"Yes. I don't know if it's true or not, but they say that the ice tiger can control the blizzard at will."

Certainly, a blizzard was raging fiercely around here now.

Although he didn't know if that was really the influence of the ice tiger, the reason why Seol Baekmyo had been showing a look of anxiety since the blizzard had begun to rage was probably because of this.

"Also, as the master of the Ten Thousand Year Ice Valley, no cold works on the ice tiger. I know that even the Ice White Divine Palm does not work on the ice tiger."

"..."

"And its hide is also extrely tough, so it is said that an average sword ki cannot even leave a scratch..."

"...There was a reason why its hide looked so cozy."

Cheon Myeong muttered that and drew his sword.

Seol Baekmyo's two eyes widened as she saw that.

Although she had just explained the danger of the ice tiger, Cheon Myeong's current appearance looked as if he were about to fight the ice tiger.

"Young Master! Don't tell you're going to fight the ice tiger?"

"Didn't you say that the cause of this blizzard is that thing?"

"..."

"If so, if I take care of that thing, this blizzard will naturally stop."

Then he would be able to reach his destination more smoothly.

For Cheon Myeong, it was a situation of turning a misfortune into a blessing.

He had been contemplating how he could stop this blizzard, and just then, hadn't the cause appeared on its own?

If he just killed that tiger, this blizzard would stop. It was a very clear and simple solution.

"The Ice Palace doesn't hold that ice tiger sacred, does it?"

"Pardon?"

"Is there a law that says you can't kill the ice tiger?"

There was no such thing.

Especially, the martial arts of the Ice Palace and the ice tiger could be said to be a really bad match.

In the first place, since no one had thought that they could kill the ice tiger, there was no way such a law would have co out.

"No... there's nothing like that."

"Then that's fine."

Cheon Myeong said that and held sothing out to Seol Baekmyo.

"Peep, peep, peep, peep-!"

Baekjo, which was gradually becoming an ice bird, held in Cheon Myeong's hand.

Seol Baekmyo received the Baekjo that Cheon Myeong was holding out in a daze.

"Please take care of that guy."

"Don't tell you're going to fight alone?"

"Yes. Didn't you say earlier that the Ice White Divine Palm doesn't work on the ice tiger, Young Palace Lord?"

"Even so..."

"That guy will freeze to death if he stays like that."

As Cheon Myeong said that, Seol Baekmyo's gaze belatedly went to Baekjo.

Baekjo, which had already beco stiff and had not moved an inch.

Seeing that, Seol Baekmyo hurriedly put Baekjo inside her clothes.

"Then I'll be counting on you."

Cheon Myeong said that and ran forward without giving Seol Baekmyo a chance to answer.

Cheon Myeong, who was running fast on the snow as if it were flat ground.

If you used the technique of 'treading on duckweed and crossing water', you could run on even deeply piled snow as if it were flat ground.

Of course, since it consud a considerable amount of internal energy, he could not use it continuously, but since the situation was what it was, it was not the ti to worry about such things.

Kuo-oh-oh-!

As Cheon Myeong began to run, the ice tiger also roared as if it had felt a sense of crisis.

At that mont, a vibration that continued as if an earthquake had occurred.

Soon, the snow that had been piled up on the cliff where the ice tiger was standing began to pour down, and it instantly rushed towards Cheon Myeong.

'An avalanche?'

Don't tell this was also the ice tiger's doing?

To attack on this scale from the very beginning, as expected, it was by no ans an easy opponent, as he had heard from Seol Baekmyo.

'It's already too late to dodge.'

From the ti the avalanche had begun to pour down, there was already no space to dodge.

When he tried to jump over it, its height was as high as the size of the cliff, and when he tried to dodge to the side, its scale was so vast that he could not see the end.

If so, then there is only one way.

Woong-!

At that mont, a red sword ki that was created from Cheon Myeong's sword.

And at the sa ti, Cheon Myeong ran into the avalanche.

"...!"

Seol Baekmyo's two eyes widened as she saw that.

Like her, she had thought that Cheon Myeong would also dodge that avalanche, but instead, he was running straight into it, so that sight could only be felt as a suicidal act.

"Young Master!"

The mont Seol Baekmyo shouted that, Cheon Myeong's body was already floating in the air and was rotating trendously.

Accordingly, a red sun that was created in the air.

As Cheon Myeong rotated quickly in the air with his sword ki raised, it felt as if a small sun had risen there.

"Ah..."

Seol Baekmyo was staring at that sight, entranced again.

Although the sight she had seen in the room at that ti was also very mysterious, the sight she was seeing now was also very marvelous.

And at that mont, the red line that was moving around Cheon Myeong was swung like a whip.

Swaa-!

The avalanche that was pouring down with a trendous force was split exactly in half.

If it were a person, the upper part of the avalanche was split as if its head had been cut off, and it was instantly shattered in the air.

And a human figure that popped out from the gap where the avalanche had split.

Even after passing through the avalanche, Cheon Myeong did not stop his montum and continued to run towards where the ice tiger was.

Kugugu-!

At that mont, the place where the ice tiger was standing began to collapse.

The sword strike that Cheon Myeong had swung had not only reached the avalanche but also the cliff.

Of course, although it was not deeply dug, the sword strike had sufficiently reached the edge where the ice tiger was standing.

"...!"

As the place where he was standing collapsed, the ice tiger quickly moved back.

Soon, the part where the ice tiger had been standing until just a mont ago was cut off and fell below the cliff, and in the direction where the ice tiger had raised its head, Cheon Myeong was now falling.

Woong-!

While maintaining his sword ki, Cheon Myeong instantly got close to the ice tiger.

Cheok-

At the sa ti, Cheon Myeong, who got into a stance.

As it was, Cheon Myeong's sword fell towards the nape of the ice tiger's neck.

Clang-!

A strange sound.

Although it would be normal for the ice tiger's neck to fall off as it was, unlike Cheon Myeong's expectation, the ice tiger's neck was still firmly attached.

Before that, far from cutting off its neck, Cheon Myeong's sword could not even dig into the ice tiger's flesh a little.

'Is this its hide?'

It was as if it had hit a hard tal.

No, an average tal would not have this much strength.

Although Seol Baekmyo had said earlier that the ice tiger's hide was very tough, even Cheon Myeong had not expected that he would not be able to cut it with his sword ki.

"Kwang-!"

At that mont, the ice tiger swung its front paw at Cheon Myeong.

Cheon Myeong, who moved back to avoid the ice tiger's attack.

And he was lost in thought for a mont with his sword aid at the ice tiger.

'The fact that I couldn't cut its nape ans that it will be the sa for other places...'

For any living creature, the nape was a part that could generally be said to be vulnerable.

But since he couldn't cut that place, wouldn't it be the sa even if he aid for other places?

In the end, Cheon Myeong ca to the conclusion that he would not be able to even leave a scratch on the ice tiger as he was.

'There's no choice.'

It won't work with sword ki. That was the conclusion Cheon Myeong had co to.

If so, then the only way is to press it with a much more overwhelming force.

Although he had planned to use it in a real battle after slowly training later, as expected, it seed that not everything went as planned.

'I can probably do it.'

He would have now reached a sufficient level for that.

Cheon Myeong thought so and concentrated his internal energy on the sword he was holding.

Woong-!

The sword ki began to shake violently.

A sword ki that was soaring and extending to the surroundings as if a fla were burning there.

The sword ki flickered fiercely, so much so that it seed to swallow even Cheon Myeong, who was holding the sword.

"Grrr..."

Seeing that, the ice tiger also seed to have felt a rather unusual energy and was being more wary.

"Kuo!"

The ice tiger roared.

At the sa ti, the movent of the blizzard changed and it swirled around Cheon Myeong, surrounding him.

Whoooosh-!

Cheon Myeong, who was trapped in a storm made of a blizzard and whose appearance had instantly beco invisible.

As if that were not enough, as the ice tiger roared once more, the storm began to rage even more fiercely.

The inside of that now would be a hell of cold and wind pressure.

The cold would instantly freeze everything, and the rough wind would shatter the frozen things like a blade.

"Young Master!"

At that mont, Seol Baekmyo belatedly ca to where Cheon Myeong was.

However, by the ti Seol Baekmyo had arrived, Cheon Myeong's appearance had already beco invisible.

Seol Baekmyo could see that Cheon Myeong was inside that storm that was now raging strongly.

"...!"

It was a storm so powerful that she couldn't even get close.

If even she, who was far away, felt that way, what would the inside be like now?

Seol Baekmyo thought that it would be impossible for even Cheon Myeong to survive in that.

"N-no...!"

She had to get Cheon Myeong out of that raging storm sohow.

As Seol Baekmyo was thinking that and was about to move, an unknown vibration was felt from sowhere.

The source of the vibration was inside that storm.

At that mont, a powerful energy extended in all directions from inside the storm.

Paat-!

As the energy spread in all directions, the storm instantly disappeared.

And a person who appeared from inside.

Cheon Myeong, who she had thought would have been swallowed by the storm, was standing there with his sword, looking fine.

"...!"

Seol Baekmyo looked at Cheon Myeong with surprised eyes.

To think that Cheon Myeong, who she had thought would not be safe, was standing there looking quite fine.

Although she was happy that Cheon Myeong was safe, she couldn't help but not understand that sight.

'How...'

At that mont, Seol Baekmyo's gaze went to Cheon Myeong's sword.

A bright crimson sword ki.

No, it was clearly different from the sword ki Cheon Myeong had been using until now.

"Don't tell ...!"

At that mont, realizing a certain fact, that exclamation ca out of Seol Baekmyo's mouth.

A powerful montum felt just by looking at it.

Seol Baekmyo could now see that Cheon Myeong had entered the realm of 'Gang'.

"Kwang-!"

At that mont, the ice tiger rushed at Cheon Myeong.

Cheok-

Seeing that, Cheon Myeong moved his sword.

A sword that moved leisurely compared to the urgent situation.

Accordingly, the crimson sword gang also followed the path the sword had passed.

And, finally, Cheon Myeong's sword was aid at the ice tiger.

Swaa-

A blood line that was created on the ice tiger's chest.

And in the place where the crimson sword gang had passed, the sa red blood poured out.

"Grr...!"

The ice tiger looked at Cheon Myeong as if it couldn't believe it.

And even in a state of spewing blood, its right paw was aid at Cheon Myeong.

As if he already knew the result, Cheon Myeong just watched him silently.

Thud-

In the end, the ice tiger's paw could not reach Cheon Myeong.

The ice tiger, which collapsed on the snow that was stained red by the blood that had flowed from its own body.

At the sa ti, the blizzard that had been blowing in the Ten Thousand Year Ice Valley disappeared as if it were a lie.

(End of Chapter)