The World's Greatest is Dead Chapter 463

I moved with Yu Yeon in tow.

I say I dragged her along, but in reality, it was more like she was following after as I moved.

“You’re really coming?”

I asked as we moved. I used footwork and glanced back. Yu Yeon nodded at my words.

“...Hmm.”

Would this really be fine? I was a little unsure, but—

Nothing I can do about it.

There was sothing I needed to check anyway, so bringing her along was not a bad idea. I decided to think of it that way.

I would confirm it before noon passed. Thinking that, I climbed the mountain. A little farther west after leaving Liaoning’s county town.

I moved according to the information I had received. The location was far. Farther than expected.

Around here, maybe.

I felt sothing. There seed to be sothing a certain distance away. It was about ti to erase my presence.

Sssss—!

I used inner qi to kill my presence. At that mont, I felt spiritual energy move with it.

Can spiritual energy really be used like inner qi?

If so, that ant the amount of inner qi I could use had increased.

I had not confird that yet. I would have to check it all at once later.

I killed my presence and looked at Yu Yeon. I was about to tell her to do the sa.

“...?”

Yu Yeon looked at . Her eyes seed to ask why I was staring. I did not bother saying anything. She had already killed hers.

For all that, she was unexpectedly quick on the uptake.

—We’ll be there soon.

At my words, Yu Yeon slowed down. We moved through the trees and stopped at one point.

I could feel it in the distance.

There are a lot of them.

Quite a few people were gathered halfway up this mountain. However—

What is this?

Their presence was faint compared to the signs of people. Or rather—

I’m not perceiving them properly.

I could sense an encampnt far ahead, but separate from the signs of people—

Sothing is different.

Could I call this human presence?

No. This was not human presence.

Now that I was closer, I understood.

They’re spirit forms.

The souls inside human bodies. It seed I was feeling those as presence.

Why can I feel that?

Normally, I would not have been able to.

I should not have been able to see it, either. Sensing spirit forms this clearly ant—

The ring is loose.

Which ant it should have been an extrely dangerous situation. But it was not.

“Mm...”

I frowned. This, too, seed like so kind of change.

And.

The presence around this area. I could feel sothing like a formation laid out here. This was—

A formation?

It seed to be a technique in the formation category. That thing was suppressing their presence.

And if they’re suppressing their presence...

It ant they were plotting sothing. I moved my eyes.

I can’t just break straight through the formation.

Thousand-Mile Divine Eye’s study. I had read a few books there.

He had told to read them when I was bored, so I found and read them.

Most of them were formation manuals created by the Zhuge Family. They were a little difficult, so I had stumbled through them, but—

morizing is my specialty.

morizing and making use of it was my specialty. I even seed a little smarter than in my previous life.

Maybe because of my bloodline.

My mother’s family. The Zhuge Family, said to reach the heavens when it ca to using their heads. Perhaps because I had inherited their blood, my mind worked better than it had in my past life.

So those formation manuals I had read had also included thods to break formations.

But... trying to break it completely could be poisonous instead.

The fact that they could use a formation like this ant there was a formation expert inside.

If I dispelled the formation outright, I could be discovered.

Then—

I have to enter without being noticed.

I narrowed my eyes and opened Moon Eye as I was.

My eyes shone, and the world around turned blue.

As expected.

I had opened Moon Eye just in case. Since it let see what I could not normally see, I wondered if it might help here too.

Oh.

I could see it. A faintly spread mbrane was visible. In that case—

That must be the formation’s mbrane.

I looked at the things connecting it. Lines were linked here and there.

It’s complicated.

More complicated than I expected. The technique did not seem simple. But—

Tap. I ca down to the ground and examined the lines more slowly.

“This...”

I found sothing strange among the connected lines. Things buried beneath stones. Ropes tied to trees.

Among things that should not have connected, I found a commonality.

And that commonality...

Seed to be heading toward a single destination. I carefully touched a stone. Among the many stones, it was one that looked especially plain.

I was not certain. Still, I picked it up.

When I lifted it carefully—

Woooong. The mbrane trembled faintly.

“...”

Was this it? I tossed the stone I was holding upward.

“Now.”

I signaled Yu Yeon. The two of us entered through the mbrane as we were.

Tap—! The stone landed perfectly where it had originally been.

Woooong.

The mbrane did not distort or react.

Oh. Did that work?

Not bad.

“...Let’s go.”

Yu Yeon nodded.

*****

The inside of the mbrane was fairly wide.

I could feel human presence far ahead, but the distance was farther than it looked.

The circular area where the formation was active was also quite large.

Compared to that, the place that could be called an encampnt was not big.

So they’re packed tightly together.

We calmly entered while keeping our presence suppressed.

Then—

Swish.

I raised my hand. Yu Yeon hid behind a tree. I could see two martial artists walking ahead.

“You heard?”

Their voices brushed my ears.

“The ones who went out last ti. I heard they all died.”

“What? Did they get attacked?”

“Must be. But can an attack even happen in that forest? They said they’d put asures in place with the Murim Alliance bastards.”

“They took all that money and still stabbed us in the back?”

“Probably not. The fact that the Alliance bastards took our money is poison in itself. And they only hit the ones doing the work? Sothing’s going on.”

“This is ridiculous. Those Sky-Crushing Palace bastards boasted so much that we should trust them.”

“Trust? What trust? Hehehe. Where in the °• N 𝑜 v 𝑒 l i g h t •° Central Plains are there bastards worth trusting?”

I listened to the Sama Sect bastards.

They gave money to the Murim Alliance?

They paid a bribe? If they ant this area, was it the Liaoning branch? Or sowhere else?

Either way.

They were called the orthodox faction, but I had known for a long ti that they were rotten. It was nothing surprising.

The problem was—

They’re connected to the Sky-Crushing Palace more deeply than I expected.

The information matched. At the sa ti—

“Then what happens to the Green Forest bastards?”

My eyes widened at what I heard from them.

The Green Forest ca up.

“Those bastards were always famous for not listening. I heard they’re moving separately.”

“Tsk. The Green Lord isn’t even around anymore, so why are they acting so high and mighty?”

The Green Lord was not around. That ant—

They don’t know the Green Lord is alive.

Those bastards did not know that much. Or else—

Hoyeon played so kind of trick.

It could be her doing. I would confirm that later.

The Green Lord isn’t important.

After the Green Emperor died at the Heavenly Demon’s hands, the Green Lord took the master’s seat.

And then those bastards threw themselves into the Demonic Cult.

Here, the Green Lord’s survival that Hoyeon had ntioned was not especially important. What mattered was—

That the Green Forest bandits joining hands with the Sky-Crushing Palace is true.

That was the only thing that mattered.

“No, so what happens with the next job?”

“Well, the captain said we’re short on numbers, so they’ll send more out and bring back the girls.”

“Ah, if that’s what they’re doing, I hope I get to go this ti.”

“Why? Want to have so fun?”

“Obviously. I’ve been stuck here so long my crotch is itching like hell.”

“Kekeke, true enough. Being holed up in the mountains all the ti is pretty rough—”

Slice—!

“Huh?”

I cut off the neck of the one on the left.

I did not want to hear any more. The mont he ca within a certain distance, I sliced his throat. I was about to kill the next one too.

Thuck—!

“Grk...!”

Yu Yeon thrust the tip of her sword into his throat first.

The n collapsed where they stood, and I stared at Yu Yeon in surprise.

“You...”

You can kill people? Couldn’t you not do that before? I looked at her in confusion.

“...”

Yu Yeon nodded expressionlessly. Had sothing changed?

“...”

It seed so.

Yu Yeon’s face was twisted too, perhaps because the conversation just now had been unpleasant.

—...Let’s move them.

I did not know what this was, but I decided to ask later.

I grabbed the corpses and threw them. After roughly tossing them behind us, I tightened my grip on my sword.

I did not even put it back in its scabbard.

Good.

I hardened my heart.

These bastards—

I’ll kill them all.

They were bastards I could kill.

*****

With that in mind, I went deeper inside.

A large building ca into view ahead.

That was probably... the Sama Sect’s base.

Impressive.

How had she found this? With even a formation laid over the place, it could not have been easy to discover.

That woman’s side is frightening in its own way too.

Hoyeon. Her information network struck as impressive all over again.

Their numbers...

Seed to be a little over thirty. That was how many presences I could feel.

What about their realms?

A few first-rate, and a few second-rate.

Their realms were not that high. However, there were people keeping watch around the area, and several groups were clustered together, so secretly assassinating them would be difficult.

I never learned assassination in the first place.

All I had done was suppress my presence and enter. I had never deeply explored assassination, so this was a little burdenso.

Hmm.

What should I do? As I leaned against a tree and thought—

“Enemy attack!”

A loud voice rang out.

“Enemies have entered the formation! Two scouts are dead. Change stance!”

The martial artists reacted to the raised voice.

“What?”

“Enemy attack...!?”

The atmosphere changed in an instant. How had they known?

They even figured out the deaths.

That ant—

They noticed when I killed them.

They had not known we had infiltrated. They realized it when soone died inside.

Did I make a mistake?

Maybe.

I looked at Yu Yeon. She was looking at . Her eyes were telling to decide what to do.

“Hmm...”

The killing intent I felt ahead grew stronger and stronger. There were a little over thirty of them, and their realms were low.

[What are you hesitating for?]

The Heavenly Demon’s voice sounded.

[Do you hesitate because you fear stepping on insects will dirty your shoes?]

[If not that—]

[Then do not hesitate. Such things do not suit one who will stand above the heavens.]

“...”

Who said I was standing above the heavens?

There were mountains of things I wanted to point out, but—

“...I’m not hesitating.”

As if mocking those words, I stepped forward.

Whoooosh—!!!

I raised my energy. I had wanted to confirm the changes anyway.

In that case, this was just right.

Thinking that, I leapt.

“Huh?”

“That’s...?”

“En... enemy atta—!”

The Sama Sect bastards discovered and tried to shout.

I looked at them and put strength into my sword.

Radiant Moon Flash Aura.

Pzzzzzzzt—!!!

Hard aura surged upward.

Woooong—! Wooooooong—!!!

A sword cry rang out.

I gathered more hard aura on the sword than usual, perhaps an inefficient amount, and slamd it straight into the ground.

Boom—! Kwaaaaaaaaaa—!!!

“Aaaagh!”

“Gaaah!”

The ground exploded along with the hard aura, and the people nearby scread.

Ruuuumble—!!!

Cracks spread in every direction.

“It’s the enemy!”

“Who are you—!!!”

The Sama Sect bastards shouted as they looked at .

Watching them, I slowly rose.

“Who am I?”

I swept up my hair. I put force into my blue eyes.

Sssss.

Energy rose through my body, and my white hair swayed.

“Sothing like the grim reaper, more or less.”

I said it with a smile.

[...Your line was sowhat poor.]

“...”

The Heavenly Demon pointed it out as if embarrassed.

I deliberately ignored him.