In the face of the overwhelming power of the Supre Pavilion Lord, Seol-Hwi’s resistance was futile.
He couldn’t defend himself properly even once, and had to endure the onslaught of attacks.
Crash! Bang, bang!
The indiscriminate barrage of the Supre Pavilion Lord’s attacks continued for a long ti.
When he finally stopped his movents, Seol-Hwi was already in a state so miserable that his life needed to be checked.
The Supre Pavilion Lord sneered.
“How is it, your impression? Do you feel the gap in power?”
Seol-Hwi lay collapsed, his entire body covered in blood.
His eyes were already rolled back, and the blood flowing from his head made it doubtful whether he could live a normal life even with imdiate treatnt.
Looking down at the half-dead Seol-Hwi, the Supre Pavilion Lord shook his head.
“This is just…”
He smacked his lips and muttered.
He realized that he had used more strength than intended because he was too excited.
One more strike and the opponent seed like he would die on the spot.
The Supre Pavilion Lord swallowed his regret that he should end Seol-Hwi here.
“You’re worse than trash.”
Thud!
He kicked at Seol-Hwi.
Even with a simple motion, Seol-Hwi’s body was sent flying far away.
“Hmm.”
The Supre Pavilion Lord, who stood still for a mont, soon tilted his head. He approached Seol-Hwi again and kicked him once more.
This ti, he put quite a bit of strength into it.
Boom!
Seol-Hwi’s body soared into the air once again before crashing to the ground.
The face of the Supre Pavilion Lord, who was wearing a satisfied expression, suddenly hardened.
“What is this?”
The Supre Pavilion Lord’s expression was full of confusion. His gaze was fixed on sothing that had appeared above, and he looked as if he couldn’t believe it.
[State]
Seol-Hwi [Subordinate Squad Leader]
16 types of injuries including physical disability
Health 1/640
Internal Energy 1/2300
“Strange. He should have died several tis over by now…”
The Pavilion lord muttered.
His health was clearly almost depleted.
Normally, leaving him alone would have been enough to kill him.
Yet sohow, Seol-Hwi was still clinging to life.
“I can’t believe it. My heart is too soft.”
With a murderous glare, the Supre Pavilion Lord approached Seol-Hwi.
This ti, he reached out to crush his skull for sure.
But for so reason, his movent suddenly stopped.
‘This is…!’
Seol-Hwi’s eyes were unfocused. At first, he thought Seol-Hwi had just lost consciousness, but upon closer inspection, it wasn’t the case.
“No way!”
It was a sign.
One of the changes that occur during a breakthrough.
Usually, such a situation would lead directly to a qi deviation due to external shock, but with all his health and internal qi depleted, it was different. 𝘙ã𐌽őβËŞ
He was creating a change with the minimal qi needed to sustain life naturally.
“Damn…”
The Supre Pavilion Lord hastily infused his hand with demonic qi.
He realized that simply using external force like a kick wouldn’t be enough to kill Seol-Hwi anymore.
He intended to completely destroy his opponent with a more powerful demonic qi.
“Haaaaa!”
A demonic fla incomparable to before was generated.
The Supre Pavilion Lord’s fire demon, with power raised to 70%, was concentrated in his right arm.
As soon as the demonic qi gathered to a certain extent, he swung rcilessly at Seol-Hwi.
Boom!
The massive explosion and heat shook the space and spread in all directions.
It was an explosive demonic qi that could not be withstood with ordinary health and internal qi.
Seol-Hwi was engulfed in flas and soared into the sky in an instant.
“It’s over.”
The Supre Pavilion Lord was certain of Seol-Hwi’s death. It was a demonic martial arts attack he couldn’t have withstood even in a normal state.
Nonetheless, just in case, he checked Seol-Hwi’s stats as he fell from the air.
“Damn it!”
There were unbelievable numbers written there.
[State]
Seol-Hwi [Subordinate Squad Leader]
999 injuries including physical disabilities
Health 1/???
Inner power 1/???
Unchanging numbers.
Instead, incomprehensible things were listed after health and internal qi.
In a situation too unbelievable to trust his eyes, the Supre Pavilion Lord prepared for a final showdown once more.
“Pointless.”
“……!”
But Seol-Hwi, who was lying as if dead, slowly got up and spoke.
The Supre Pavilion Lord asked in shock.
“Could it be, you… achieved a breakthrough in that brief mont?!”
There was no other explanation.
To move with such a battered body defied the Supre Pavilion Lord’s understanding.
“No. If that were the case, your demonic attack would have driven mad.”
“Then how… are you still alive?”
“Thanks to your help.”
“What nonsense is that!”
Seol-Hwi didn’t answer the Supre Pavilion Lord’s question directly.
Instead, he slowly examined his own body.
After confirming his depleted health and internal qi, he spoke.
“Your punches opened all my acupoints.”
Seol-Hwi’s voice was calm.
“The mont my ridians connected, I experienced an enlightennt and a change in my state. However, my body’s condition was too critical for my physical abilities to improve dramatically. But your demonic qi attack can no longer threaten my life.”
The face of the Supre Pavilion Lord twisted at those words.
“Don’t be ridiculous. No matter how much effort you put into sustaining life, to say there’s no damage from my Fla Demonic Arts… You expect to believe that?”
A smile spread across Seol-Hwi’s lips.
“Then why don’t you test it yourself? See for yourself what state I’m in.”
As he extended his hand, the Supre Pavilion Lord, who seed ready to charge just monts ago, hesitated.
‘If what that guy says is true…’
Doubt sprouted in the heart of the Supre Pavilion Lord.
It was hard to believe, but it couldn’t be ignored either.
There was definitely a change in Seol-Hwi’s body, and his demonic arts had no effect.
It ant that the numbers in front of him didn’t tell the whole story.
‘It’s certain that his condition is unstable.’
The Supre Pavilion Lord organized his thoughts.
He still had his doubts, but it led to the thought that this might actually be an opportunity.
Even if it wasn’t a case of going berserk, Seol-Hwi’s condition was undoubtedly unstable.
He thought that if it was the extre heat of his Fla Body Demonic Arts, which could penetrate to the bones, it might be possible.
“Fine. I’ll check it out!”
Once he made up his mind, the Supre Pavilion Lord didn’t hesitate any longer.
He summoned the maximum power to generate Fla Body Demonic Arts.
As he pushed it to its extre, a massive fla completely engulfed his body.
“Haaat!”
With the Supre Pavilion Lord’s shout, the extre power of Fla Body Demonic Arts burst toward Seol-Hwi.
A hellfire that seed impossible to exist in this world unfolded before him.
Hwaaa—aaack! Kuang!
The fierce Fla Body Demonic Arts engulfed Seol-Hwi’s body. With flas penetrating every corner of his body, the Grand Master was convinced of his victory.
“You’re finished!”
True to its na, which claid that even a handful of flas could lt bones, the heat of the fire art, raised to its extre, was beyond imagination.
It was truly the pinnacle of the fire demon.
Without reaching the utmost level, it was impossible to handle, let alone control, these flas.
However, soon, the confident expression of the Supre Pavilion Lord began to waver.
“No matter how high you’ve ascended in the demonic arts… What is this!”
The flas were still fiercely blazing, but Seol-Hwi remained unfazed.
He was still alive, and his qi level did not drop below 1.
Seol-Hwi spoke in a calm voice.
“From the start, your power couldn’t affect . Even the power of the fire art you’ve mastered has its limits.”
While the Supre Pavilion Lord was at a loss for words, Seol-Hwi continued speaking.
“Now, I will show you a higher level of fire art. Of course, it will be with the true divine art, not demon arts.”
Whirr—
The fire arts that enveloped Seol-Hwi’s entire body concentrated in an instant.
For an ordinary martial artist, controlling such imnse demonic qi was an impossible task.
Only those who had reached the utmost level could achieve this.
But Seol-Hwi was different.
He controlled this rampaging qi with the principle of Taiji.
Instead of control, it was guidance. The demonic qi moved naturally, as if dancing, at his fingertips.
Swish.
Seol-Hwi did not stop there.
Along with the guided demonic qi, he drew upon the divine art of Yang qi.
His internal qi level was rely 1, but Seol-Hwi realized that the innate qi flowing within him far exceeded that level.
Roar!
Flas of two colors surged from Seol-Hwi’s fingertips.
One was the familiar red fla of the Fla Body Demonic Arts, the other was a mysterious qi that the Supre Pavilion Lord had never seen before in his life.
The sight sent chills down the Supre Pavilion Lord’s spine.
‘What on earth is this power!’
As the overwhelming qi surged in, the Supre Pavilion Lord hastily raised his martial arts form to take a defensive stance.
But his efforts were in vain.
In the face of Seol-Hwi’s power, he was as helpless as a leaf in a storm.
In an instant, his defense crumbled, and he was swept away by the trendous force.
Swoosh—
After the flas spread in all directions, the world fell silent.
Only the occasional crackling sound from the burning ground broke the stillness.
“…….”
Seol-Hwi slowly lowered his gaze.
The Supre Pavilion Lord’s figure was nowhere to be found.
As expected, his body had completely lted away, leaving no recognizable form.
Moreover, the fierce fire energy that had enveloped Seol-Hwi’s entire body vanished as if it were an illusion.
“It’s difficult.”
Seol-Hwi murmured.
He barely survived, but he found it hard to fully accept the current change.
Unlike the past, he couldn’t precisely gauge his current state.
“I pierced the Ren and Du ridians to reach a new level, but…….”
The realm he realized and reached was judged to be not the Peak Demon, but the Peak Master level.
However, the change happened so suddenly, and there was no dramatic transformation like rebirth.
So much so that Seol-Hwi doubted whether he had truly reached the Peak Master level.
‘Could it be because of this…….’
Seol-Hwi’s gaze turned upward again. His status window appeared before his eyes.
[State]
Seol-Hwi [Subordinate Squad leader]
Body Normal
health 30 million/30 million [Max]
Internal qi 30 million/30 million [Max]
Despite the significant changes, this figure seed to fall short of the level of Peak Demon. Furthermore, the word ‘maximum’ was grating on his nerves.
“Maybe it’s sothing that Jang Dal set up……”
Seol-Hwi considered the possibility that all of this was part of Jang Dal’s sche.
It could have been a chanism to prevent him from becoming too strong too quickly.
Just like the figures he saw at the first gate.
He thought that this limitation might be the reason why transformation was impossible.
“We’ll soon find out what state we’re in now.”
[You have passed the 4th gate.]
Seol-Hwi shook his head lightly. The fight wasn’t over yet.
Soon, he would be able to confirm his true strength through the opponent that would appear before him.
[The 5th gate is opening.]
As the door opened, a familiar figure appeared. It was an opponent more than suitable for testing Seol-Hwi’s strength.
“Nice to see you.”
A smile spread across Seol-Hwi’s lips.
The formidable adversary he had encountered just before gaining his fortune.
One of the higher elders of Mount Hua Sect, Goo Jong-myung, appeared before him once again.
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