Chapter 126 : Heavenly Sound Witch
At my instructions, the eyes of Wi Ji-yeong and the other mbers of the Small Snow Squad sparkled.
This was because it was their first ti experiencing the information network of the Central Plains directly.
“Understood, Captain! Even if we have to raid the entire Liaoning branch of the Rogues' Guild, we will scrape up all the necessary information!”
At Wi Ji-yeong's spirited reply, I added in a low voice.
“Raiding is not the goal. Go to the place Cho Gun guides you, identify their communication network, and plant the eyes of the Rogues' Guild in advance along the route we will move. Do not spare gold if necessary.”
I already knew. When the sacred objects of the Ten Venerables under the Heavens began to resonate, not only the Saphaeryeon but also my brothers from the Demonic Cult would swarm into this Liaoning.
To grasp their movents a step ahead, the information power of the Rogues' Guild, which reached to the very bottom of the Murim, was essential.
After sending the Small Snow Squad mbers to the base of the Rogues' Guild, I turned to look at Cho Gun as the commotion in the yard settled down to so extent.
“We are leaving now. Lead us by the most secret path to the Sound Gathering Pavilion.”
“Don't you worry, Master! This Cho Gun will take you to an underground waterway entrance that even the rats of Liaoning don't know about.”
Cho Gun took the lead and climbed over the back wall of the rchant guild.
I checked the feel of the Blue and Red Twin Swords at my waist and took flight. Seol Ye-rin, Seong Sang-ah, and Cheon Deung-jin followed behind .
Liaoning Castle, where the shroud of night had settled, exuded an even more bizarre atmosphere than usual.
As we approached the coast, sharp tallic sounds were mixed in between the sounds of the waves.
—Chuckle, do you hear it? It is sound waves tearing through the atmosphere with energy infused into them.
—It seems they are doing sothing with sound waves.
Just like the words of the Sword Venerable and the Demon Queen, as we got closer to the Sound Gathering Pavilion, I began to hear hallucinations.
The scenery before my eyes wavered along with the illusion that soone was screaming in my ear.
“Young Master, put this in your mouth!”
Seong Sang-ah quickly handed a purple pill to the group.
“It is a Clear Mind Pill that clears the mind. And lightly plug your ears with this dicinal cotton. It will reduce the vibrations directly touching the eardrums.”
Thanks to Seong Sang-ah's quick response, the heads of the party beca much clearer.
Seol Ye-rin drew her ice sword and moved forward while scraping the ground.
A thin ice wall was ford wherever Seol Ye-rin passed, refracting the fluctuations of the sound.
“There it is! That pavilion on top of that cliff is the Sound Gathering Pavilion!”
In the place Cho Gun pointed to, there was a flamboyant pavilion hanging precariously at the edge of the coastal cliff.
Purple sound waves erupting from there were strangely coloring the night sky, and a massive whirlpool was churning in the sea below.
“The entrance to the underwater cave is opening.”
My eyes flashed.
The four types of energy inside my qi center resonated like crazy and pounded against my chest.
I drew the Blue and Red Twin Swords simultaneously.
“Cho Gun, you wait here. From here on, it will not be the realm of humans.”
“O-Of course! Because my life is precious! Master, you must return safely so you can pay the remaining balance!”
As soon as Cho Gun hid himself behind a rock, the door of the Sound Gathering Pavilion opened roughly, and musicians dressed in black clothes poured out.
In their hands, instead of weapons, they held strangely shaped musical instrunts.
“Are they intruders? How dare they try to interfere with our Pavilion Master's performance!”
When the crowd of the Sound Demon Blood Group plucked their instrunts, invisible blade-like sound blades poured toward my group like rain.
***
At the highest point of the Sound Gathering Pavilion, in the center of the pavilion where silk fluttered in the wind, a massive zither was placed.
It was a sacred object, the Heavenly Cry Zither, which emitted a chilling brilliance as if the Milky Way had been embedded into its pitch-black body.
The woman sitting in front of it and plucking the strings, the Captain of the Sound Demon Blood Group, the Heavenly Sound Witch, was staring at the horizon with unfocused eyes.
Every ti the Heavenly Sound Witch's fingertips brushed the strings, vibrations mixed with the scent of blood spread out to the sea.
“A little more... just cry a little more.”
Bizarre mutterings flowed from between the Heavenly Sound Witch's lips.
It had been several months since she occupied this forbidden area of Liaoning while swearing loyalty to the Saphaeryeon Leader Yong Il-gang.
The dissonance extracted by forcibly twisting the strings of the Heavenly Cry Zither was awakening the giant whirlpool sleeping beneath the sea.
Clang—! Booom!
At that mont, the explosive sound of tearing through the air coming from the entrance of the Sound Gathering Pavilion interrupted the Heavenly Sound Witch's performance.
Two energies that could never coexist, a mixture of cold chill and hot demonic fire, were tearing apart the sound blades of the Sound Demon Blood Group musicians in an instant.
“...Are they interlopers?”
A chilly killing intent dwelled in the Heavenly Sound Witch's eyes.
The Heavenly Sound Witch paused her fingers that were dancing on the strings for a mont and watched the red radiance erupting from the entrance.
“That energy...”
The fire energy was rising greatly. It felt like a mixture of several energies there.
The Heavenly Sound Witch smiled fishily and grabbed the strings again.
The Heavenly Sound Witch's fingers bent at a bizarre angle and roughly plucked the thickest string of the Heavenly Cry Zither.
[Heavenly Sound Severing Pulse Tune]
Wuuuuuung—!
The entire Sound Gathering Pavilion vibrated as if it were screaming.
The waves that were pushing in from below the pavilion froze in mid-air and then scattered into powder.
It was a lody of ruin that scraped directly at the soul beyond the eardrums.
“Brat, no matter how much mysterious power you possess, can you prevent your heart from bursting in the darkness where you cannot even make a sound?”
The Heavenly Sound Witch looked down with crazed eyes at the figures climbing the stairs.
A man surrounded by purple flas and three won protecting him.
The Heavenly Sound Witch grabbed all the strings of the Heavenly Cry Zither at once and then let go.
Boom—!
The sound waves beca a massive tidal wave and struck the entrance of the Sound Gathering Pavilion.
However, contrary to her expectations, I, with my purple eyes flashing, was shooting in like lightning while crossing the Blue and Red Twin Swords, breaking through that whirlpool of ruin.
“...Interesting. I'll have to listen for myself to what kind of tone your scream has.”
From the Heavenly Sound Witch's fingertips, a true performance of slaughter that would rip apart the night of Liaoning was about to begin.
***
Within the lody of ruin that rushed in as if to swallow the pavilion, I kicked off the ground while crossing the Blue and Red Twin Swords.
Even though the vibration that shook my brain even when I covered my ears swept through my whole body, my reason was maintained as coolly clear as ice thanks to the Clear Mind Pill Seong Sang-ah gave .
“That woman is the Captain of the Sound Demon Blood Group, the Heavenly Sound Witch.”
My purple eyes were fixed on the woman continuing her crazed performance at the upper level of the pavilion.
Every ti the Heavenly Sound Witch's fingers plucked the strings, the scream of the atmosphere being torn was heard, and that wave beca an invisible blade and brushed past my collar.
“I'll take the front! I'll freeze even with that disgusting sound.”
When Seol Ye-rin swung her ice sword into the air, a thick ice wall instantly rose above the tidal wave of sound waves that was blocking my path.
With a crunching sound, the vibration of the sound waves hit the ice wall and was refracted.
“I can't lose either. Burn.”
Whoosh—
Cheon Deung-jin also shot out through the gaps in the ice wall while emitting red heat.
When the fire energy emitted by Cheon Deung-jin collided with the wave of sound, the atmosphere expanded and a bizarre explosion occurred.
Ice and flas intersected and began to forcibly shake the sound field created by the Heavenly Sound Witch.
Without missing that opening, I stepped on the railing of the pavilion and leaped into the air.
—Chuckle, it is a clash between a sacred object and a sacred object. Infuse the energy of your qi center into the ring of the Heavenly Cry Zither. Sound is ant to be broken by sound!
As soon as the Sword Venerable's telepathy was heard, I held the Red Sword in my right hand in a reverse grip and struck down toward the Heavenly Sound Witch.
Mad Fire Sword Drawing.
Purple flas shot out, drawing a massive wave along the blade of the Red Sword.
It was not a simple slash.
It was a ‘soundless vibration’ created by mixing the Buddhist power of the Buddhist Venerable and the ferocity of demonic qi.
Kuuuuung—!
The lody of the Severing Pulse Tune that the Heavenly Sound Witch was emitting collided head-on with my strike. Vibrations of different natures shed in the air, and the pillars of the pavilion were shaved away while screaming.
For the first ti, a look of astonishnt dwelled in the Heavenly Sound Witch's eyes.
“Erased sound... with sound? This brat, what on earth!”
“The performance ends here.”
My cold voice pierced the Heavenly Sound Witch's ear.
Before she knew it, I had approached right in front of the Heavenly Sound Witch's nose.
The Blue Sword in my left hand rushed in toward the Heavenly Sound Witch's neck while emitting a chilling cold.
The Heavenly Sound Witch hurriedly tilted her body back and blocked my Blue Sword using the main body of the Heavenly Cry Zither as a shield.
Clang—!
When the Blue Sword, forged from Ten Thousand Year Cold Iron, and the Heavenly Cry Zither, made of an unidentified material, collided, sparks flew in all directions along with a tallic sound that made the ears go numb.
The sharp ice energy that had been gathered on the Blue Sword traveled along the body of the zither and surged into the Heavenly Sound Witch's fingertips.
“Th-This chill...!”
The Heavenly Sound Witch scread and tried to push away by plucking the strings, but I was already twisting my body in mid-air and swinging the Red Sword in my right hand.
Mad Fire Consecutive Slashes.
The purple flas rotated like a gear and trapped all sides of the Heavenly Sound Witch.
The Heavenly Sound Witch, whose path of retreat was cut off, bit her own wrist with crazed eyes.
When fresh blood was scattered over the Milky Way pattern of the Heavenly Cry Zither, the zither began to emit a red light as if it were a living beast.
“O strings bound by blood, swallow all light! Blood Sound Soul Shaking Tune!”
As the Heavenly Sound Witch began a performance that ground away her own life force, the entire Sound Gathering Pavilion was dyed blood-red and space itself began to distort.
The invisible sound waves now beca visible red sword qi and stretched out in all directions.
“Young Master, be careful! Space is tearing!”
Cheon Deung-jin, who was leaping to the upper level, shouted urgently and set up a barrier of fire spirit, but the blood-colored sound waves tore the barrier like a sheet of paper and brushed past the Heavenly Sound Witch's shoulder.
Seol Ye-rin also set up an ice wall to defend, but thousands of cracks appeared on the ice wall in an instant before the massive resonance.
However, I, standing at the center of the ruin, closed my eyes instead.
—Chuckle, do not be misled by the sound and feel the source of the vibration.
—Even sound waves can eventually be cut!
When the advice of the Sword Venerable and the Demon Queen flashed through my head, I crossed the Blue and Red Twin Swords as if rging them into one.
The four types of energy that had been dormant in my qi center began to fuse strangely on the blades of the Blue and Red Twin Swords.
“Fla Severing.”
The mont I swung the swords down, flas covered everything.
The blood-colored lody and the roaring sound that had filled the Sound Gathering Pavilion disappeared as if they were a lie.
An absolute vacuum space where sound did not exist due to the explosion.
The Heavenly Sound Witch opened her mouth and scread, but no sound ca out.
Boom, boom, boom—!
The soundless strike struck the exact center of the Heavenly Cry Zither.
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