Kang Sogun Chapter 93

The ferry carrying Kang Sogun reached the riverbank.

The one rowing the ferry was Hwang Oh, no, Jang Oh, who had now changed his surna.

As Jang Oh got off first and pulled the boat onto the land, Kang Sogun got off the boat.

Kang Sogun, who had been looking at the tent for a mont, slowly walked over.

Gu Yeongang stood in front of the tent and waited.

For the master of one of the Four Great Powers of the world and one of the ten great masters to co out and wait was truly a rare event.

That was how much Gu Yeongang showed respect for Kang Sogun.

'Who is that young pup that Faction Master Gu is being so polite to?'

The Prince of Han, Zhu Gaoxu, naturally found it strange.

The man, who looked to be in his mid-twenties, looked like a young master from a prestigious family.

When he had first seen him, he had looked sowhat familiar.

Although Zhu Gaoxu had seen Kang Sogun in the Empress Dowager's palace more than ten years ago, he could not connect the child at that ti with the young man in front of him.

Gu Yeongang spoke to the approaching Kang Sogun.

"You have not forgotten your promise."

Kang Sogun answered with a silent nod and looked inside the tent.

"I have invited the Prince of Han as the notary of today's duel."

Gu Yeongang said with a aningful smile.

Kang Sogun entered the tent without any change in his expression.

"I greet Your Highness the Prince of Han."

Zhu Gaoxu looked Kang Sogun up and down.

"I heard you were called the Blood Demon, so I thought you were a blood-soaked demon, but I am surprised that you are such a handso young master."

Zhu Gaoxu said, thinking that he looked familiar.

Gu Yeongang ca in and said with a calm smile.

"Do you not recognize him? It seems the maternal uncle and nephew have t after a very long ti."

"Nephew?"

Zhu Gaoxu finally realized who Kang Sogun was.

"It's Kang Hwi! I heard that you had returned, but I did not know that you had grown up so much."

"It has been ten years since I last saw you, so it is understandable."

"You are going to exchange blows with Faction Master Gu?"

"I only accepted because Faction Master Gu urged to a three-move agreent."

"Faction Master Gu is one of the ten great masters of the world and a master who cannot find a rival. But for you to be his opponent, I am surprised."

Zhu Gaoxu looked truly surprised.

For a long ti, the greatest master of the imperial family had been Zhu Gaoxu. He was a person who had rarely reached the realm of a super-absolute master as a mber of the royal family, thanks to his extrely outstanding innate divine power, his personality that enjoyed fighting, and nurous panaceas.

There were not a few things that had to be given up to beco a first-class martial artist.

Since one had to train constantly, there was no ti to get close to alcohol, won, or gambling.

For an ordinary martial artist to reach the peak, it was sothing that was possible only by devoting oneself to martial arts training all day long.

Of course, it was true that the prestigious families were more advantageous than others by obtaining panaceas and various other help, but still, one had to control oneself and set one's mind on martial arts training to step into the realm of the peak.

Zhu Gaoxu, who knew such facts, found it difficult to believe that Kang Sogun was an absolute master.

Because he knew how the children of the imperial family or the powerful families lived.

They were a tribe that had to be fed even the food in front of them.

'Is Faction Master Gu trying to make fun of ?'

Zhu Gaoxu glared at Gu Yeongang. It ant, "What is this?"

"Isn't Your Highness the Prince of Han a master of the imperial family? Now that a young master of the imperial family has appeared, I have invited you to evaluate his skills."

Gu Yeongang said, calmly receiving Zhu Gaoxu's gaze.

"Hmm. So that was the aning."

Zhu Gaoxu's complexion was not very good.

To Zhu Gaoxu, Kang Sogun was an awkward existence.

He was the son of Duke Kang, who had been his greatest enemy.

'It seems he ans for to make this fellow my ally. Faction Master Gu has done sothing unnecessary. This pup's origin does not match mine from the start.'

Zhu Gaoxu misunderstood Gu Yeongang's intention in his own favor.

Since he was a mber of the sa imperial family, he thought it ant to recruit him before the great undertaking.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Kang Sogun and then, as if he had suddenly rembered sothing, said arrogantly.

"I heard that you lost your soldiers and were taken prisoner on the frontier battlefield, so it seems you have gritted your teeth. Faction Master Gu seems to think highly of you and is going to give you three moves of teaching, so do your best."

A dagger-like ridicule that dug into a person's heart was mixed in.

A sneer flowed on the faces of the masters of the Prince of Han's residence who were standing inside and outside the tent.

Kang Sogun received it calmly.

"It seems the rumors have spread like that. It is not sothing that Your Highness the Prince of Han should worry about, so please just watch comfortably."

Zhu Gaoxu's complexion hardened.

'Arrogant pup.'

Gu Yeongang was inwardly satisfied as the sharp words were exchanged between the two.

Gu Yeongang had heard reports about Kang Sogun's martial prowess through various channels and had analyzed them.

And the conclusion he had reached was that he was one level below him.

In fact, the reports that had gone up to him were packaged with nurous excuses and exaggerations.

From the report that he had fought desperately with Kang Sogun and had been narrowly defeated, to the achievent of having inflicted a fatal wound by a surprise attack.

There was not much content that was written as it was.

Although it was no different from the reports that the generals on the battlefield submitted, there were many lies mixed in, especially about Kang Sogun.

That was also because the masters of the Heavenly Martial Faction had been defeated so helplessly.

They had often written that Kang Sogun had barely escaped alive to package their own shortcomings.

Only the Divine Strategist, Jo Gaeryang, who was standing on one side of the tent, was possessed by a strange excitent.

He had grasped Kang Sogun's martial prowess almost accurately. Because he had personally led the Heavenly Martial Faction and had pursued him.

'Perhaps Faction Master Gu will suffer a fatal wound.'

If so, he might have a chance to seize full power.

Unfortunately, Jo Gaeryang was also misjudging.

When Kang Sogun had fought with the Heavenly Martial Faction's military brigades or the Ten Guests of Heavenly Martial, there had been the Blood Dragon Qi that had raised his latent power by three or four tis.

If it had been at that ti when he was displaying abilities beyond human, Gu Yeongang might also have been able to suffer a fatal wound in three moves.

But now the Blood Dragon Qi had disappeared. Although he was drawing the latent power awakened by the Blood Dragon Qi into his internal energy through the Golden Elixir True Art, it could not be said to be the realm of a superman as in the past.

The reason Kang Sogun had readily agreed to the three-move agreent with Gu Yeongang was also to gauge his own martial prowess.

There was no need to set up a separate duel stage.

Kang Sogun and Gu Yeongang went to the riverbank and confronted each other.

Kang Sogun stood with his spearhead held down at an angle and his left foot half a step forward.

It was like the starting stance of a swordsman.

Gu Yeongang looked at Kang Sogun calmly and then drew his sword.

"You made draw my sword after a long ti. The three brothers of the Three Blade Sect died by this sword."

Kang Sogun grinned.

"Why are you laughing?"

"You are not qualified to be one of the ten great masters."

Gu Yeongang's eyebrows twitched.

"What do you an by that?"

Kang Sogun did not answer.

Gu Yeongang had tried to agitate Kang Sogun by ntioning the death of the three brothers of the Three Blade Sect, but he had beco excited himself instead.

'Th-this pup...'

The help of Cheonsal had been absolute when he had killed the three brothers of the Three Blade Sect. No one knew that fact.

But the sneer that filled Kang Sogun's eyes was as if he knew that fact.

'Does this pup know that?'

In a fight between masters, the psychological state was a huge variable.

Although Kang Sogun had pointed out the incitent tactic of Gu Yeongang ntioning the death of the three brothers of the Three Blade Sect, Gu Yeongang had misunderstood.

Although Kang Sogun maintained a calm composure as clear as glass, Gu Yeongang was in a situation where he could not shake off the suspicion that had once arisen.

"I will strike first."

Kang Sogun said a word, spun his spear behind his back, and then thrust it as if he were throwing it.

-Swish!

It was an incomparably light move.

Gu Yeongang's eyebrows twitched, and he naturally extended his sword.

Thousand Hands Without a Trace.

It was Gu Yeongang's nickna. Although it was a nickna usually attached to a master of fist techniques or seizing arts, the fact that it was attached to him, a sword master, ant that it had a special aning.

"Not a chance."

Gu Yeongang spat out, deflected the spear shaft with his sword held at an angle, and then imdiately struck down diagonally.

-Swish!

The sword that was striking down bent in the middle and then suddenly changed. In an instant, about ten sword shadows appeared, and they all looked like the real body of the sword.

What was surprising was that a hand shadow flashed between the sword and the sword.

It felt as if he would grab Kang Sogun with his hand and cut his throat with his sword.

Kang Sogun grabbed the deflected spear with both hands, pressed it down again, and then struck Gu Yeongang.

It was a trendous form that struck as if he could not lose in terms of strength.

"Hah..."

Gu Yeongang took a step back and avoided the attack range of the spear that was striking down without any form.

No, he pretended to avoid it and swung his sword in a circle, wrapping around Kang Sogun's spear. As the sword wrapped around like a snake climbing a tree, Kang Sogun shook his spear up and down and deflected the sword.

-Thud!

The contest of strength exploded, and the two retreated one step each again.

"That's one move."

Kang Sogun said.

"I see."

There was a reason why Gu Yeongang had proposed three moves.

Gu Yeongang was confident that there was no opponent he could not kill in one move if he put his mind to it.

He wanted to kill Kang Sogun, who had killed his son, right away. But he was a hero who had the unification of the world in his heart.

Rather than killing Kang Sogun, he wanted to make him a sword to be used in his great undertaking.

Gu Yeongang had intended to reveal Kang Sogun's martial prowess to the maximum through the three moves and to show it to the Prince of Han.

But the first move had ended in a flash.

What Kang Sogun had shown was just striking down the spear that had been deflected after a thrust.

Although it was an appropriate changing form, Gu Yeongang was flustered by the fact that he had retreated because of it and that the first move had ended absurdly.

"Now, you take my attack too!"

Gu Yeongang hid his sword behind his back, took a step forward, and then swung it.

-Thwack!

As if the Milky Way had spread out in front of Gu Yeongang, sword light was rampant.

His ultimate technique, the Ten Thousand Rivers of Departing Stars, had been unfolded.

"Oh!"

"Indeed!"

Gasps of admiration poured out from around the tent.

The true sword of an absolute master had been unfolded.

The sword light, which had ford a huge sword wall, flowed continuously like the Milky Way and then at so point, it shot towards Kang Sogun.

Kang Sogun also sensed that he had to use all his strength.

He grabbed his spear with both hands, took a step forward, and then thrust it into the middle of the approaching wave of sword light.

-Woooong.

-Clang!

The spearhead let out a faint cry and dug into the sword light.

Energy flowed from the faintly trembling tip of the spear, and the sword light was swept away by that energy and was refracted.

Gu Yeongang's sword wall slowly collapsed.

-Boom!

At so point, the contest of strength exploded, and the two retreated ten feet each, and the distance between them beca thirty feet.

Kang Sogun calmly looked at Gu Yeongang with his spear held at an angle.

"Ah, to break that."

"To be at a level comparable to Faction Master Gu at that age, it is surprising!"

The ones around the tent were all masters.

Nevertheless, there was no one who was confident that they could receive Gu Yeongang's one move of the Ten Thousand Rivers of Departing Stars. But Kang Sogun had broken the Ten Thousand Rivers of Departing Stars without even changing his posture once.

'Hmm.'

Gu Yeongang let out a groan inwardly.

His complexion hardened gravely beyond compare.

'For this fellow's internal energy to be so profound.'

Kang Sogun's internal energy had been generated while fighting with the Blood Dragon Qi, unlike the normal path.

It was of a completely different nature from the internal energy obtained through circulating qi and resting. Gu Yeongang, who did not know this fact, thought that his internal energy was profound.

Gu Yeongang thought for a mont that he might have misjudged.

Perhaps it was right to kill him in this place and to eliminate the future trouble.

And he imdiately put that thought into practice.

He threw his sword horizontally, floated it slightly in the air, and then pushed the hilt as it was.

-Swish!

The sword flew. But its speed was as slow as a person walking.

All the onlookers were surprised.

"Faction Master Gu has entered the realm of controlling the sword with qi."

Kang Sogun felt that a considerable amount of skill was contained in the slowly flying sword.

If he carelessly deflected it, the sword would rush in ferociously and would tear him to shreds.

It would not be sothing that could be avoided by dodging. The sword, which was slowly approaching as if Gu Yeongang were holding it, was ready to change its direction at any ti.

(End of Chapter)