Chapter 193
Gong Cheol-san, having made up his mind to use his final remaining move, began to stealthily inch backward.
Slowly approaching the resplendent chair he used to sit on, he grabbed hold of a certain device located behind it.
Then, he smirked as he looked at the White Wolf Unit and Yeo Un-hwi, who were still continuing their fight with the remaining warriors of the Evil Love Palace.
Noticing that smile, O Chae-mu narrowed his brow.
He’s smiling? In this situation?
Just as he was feeling puzzled by that smile,
Chrrrrrrk.
Gong Cheol-san pulled hard on a chain with a handle, activating some sort of mechanism.
Then,
Rumble.
Massive walls suddenly shot up out of nowhere, surrounding the center of the Palace Lord’s Hall where Yeo Un-hwi and the White Wolf Unit stood.
“Bwahahaha! It worked! You bastards, you didn’t see this coming, did you!”
Trapped inside the walls, everyone stopped fighting and looked around in an instant.
Inside, it wasn’t just the White Wolf Unit and Yeo Un-hwi; there were also quite a few warriors of the Evil Love Palace.
“W-What is this?”
“Palace Lord! We are inside too. We’re trapped together with them!”
Even so, Gong Cheol-san paid them no mind and burst into loud laughter.
“Yes. I am well aware. I will remember your sacrifice well!”
Just from his words, it was obvious.
Gong Cheol-san fully intended to sacrifice all of his subordinates right now.
“This son of a bitch…!”
Realizing how the situation was turning out, the warriors of the Evil Love Palace spat out a barrage of curses and ground their teeth.
“Now, then.”
Along with his laughter, the sound of something else activating could be heard once more.
Rumble.
The sound came from none other than the ceiling.
Naturally, everyone’s heads turned upward.
“N-No… what is that!”
The original ceiling had vanished without a trace, and in its place, a massive ceiling densely packed with iron spikes was revealing itself.
Gong Cheol-san’s voice rang out.
“It is made of a metal that boasts a hardness comparable to Ten-Thousand-Year Cold Iron! With that, no matter how strong you bastards are, you’ll be helpless! Bwahahaha!”
Gong Cheol-san was just as sincere about protecting his own body as he was about amassing gold and treasures.
Thus, this was the final move he had prepared, thinking there might come a day when he would need to use it.
Now, with just a flick of his finger, that ceiling full of iron spikes would crash down to the floor and crush them all to death.
Since they were already trapped inside those walls, there was no way to avoid it, no way to escape.
That was exactly how the trap was designed.
Naturally, it had cost an exorbitant amount of money, but in the end, it was well worth the price.
Having driven them into a dead end in an instant, Gong Cheol-san smirked broadly.
They had acted so high and mighty, but now they were nothing more than rats in a jar.
In the end, he would be the one to survive to the very end once again.
“Hmm. That looks a bit dangerous, doesn’t it?”
Sure enough, the expressions of the White Wolf Squad members stiffened upon seeing it.
They had always kept various scenarios in mind, but they hadn’t expected him to have prepared such an brutal method.
One of them quickly fired sword qi toward the ceiling, but it didn’t work in the slightest.
“Then die now.”
Soon, Gong Cheol-san’s eyes gleamed as he activated the device once more.
Then, with a clanking sound,
CRASH!
The massive trap began to plummet rapidly down onto the heads of the White Wolf Unit.
The faces of the White Wolf Squad members, who had been relaxed ever since they stormed the Evil Love Palace and began the battle, grew urgent.
There seemed to be absolutely no way out.
Ultimately, in this moment, all of their gazes converged on Yeo Un-hwi.
At that, Yeo Un-hwi flashed them a grin.
“Now. Let’s end the verification of your training results here. Make sure none of you forget today’s experience.”
Even in that urgent situation, Yeo Un-hwi spoke leisurely to the White Wolf Unit.
And then,
BOOOOM!
Yeo Un-hwi lightly swung his fist.
At that, the massive ceiling that had been terrifyingly plummeting was crushed and bounced straight back up.
“Hoh. It really is quite a sturdy thing. In that case.”
Yeo Un-hwi’s eyebrows rose slightly, as if surprised.
Then, his eyes soon flashed.
[Demon Annihilation Fist]
A golden light erupted from his fist, and soon,
Craaaack-rumble.
With a sound like thunder, a massive Golden Dragon soared high into the sky.
ROOOOOOAR!
Everyone’s eyes widened at the sight, which looked as if the Creation of Heaven and Earth was taking place.
Just like that, the hidden trump cards Gong Cheol-san had prepared vanished without a trace, and before anyone knew it, the ceiling of the Palace Lord’s Hall was blown wide open, revealing the sky.
The walls that had trapped the White Wolf Unit and Yeo Un-hwi had already turned to dust and disappeared.
For a moment, silence fell.
“Did you see that? This is how you handle such unexpected situations. So devote yourselves even more to your training, understood?”
“…Yes.”
No, I think only you can do that, Commander?
Everyone had the same thought, but in the end, each had no choice but to nod.
Because ultimately, there was no denying that they needed to train more.
Meanwhile,
“Guhhh…”
When a person is too shocked, one tends to lose one’s words.
Gong Cheol-san’s eyes were currently so wide they looked like they would pop out.
What is that? Is something like that even possible?
How is that possible? Is he even human in the first place?
No matter how he looked at it, that was a power that completely defied human common sense.
If there were people with such power in all of Murim,
“C-C-Could it be the Twelve Venerables?”
“Nope?”
“T-Then who on earth are you?”
When Yeo Un-hwi shook his head at the answer he had racked his brain to come up with, Gong Cheol-san cautiously asked once more.
Before he knew it, his tone had changed.
To that question, Yeo Un-hwi answered nonchalantly.
“I told you. We are the White Wolf Unit.”
What absolute nonsense!
Gong Cheol-san’s face crumpled.
Even if they were the Martial Force unit of the Hebei Peng Family, one of the Five Great Families, they were still just a mere Martial Force unit. Yet they possessed such ridiculous power? He should say something that makes sense!
However, Gong Cheol-san didn’t dare to lose his temper at Yeo Un-hwi.
No, anyone in the world would be the same.
Who would dare raise their voice at him after seeing that ridiculous power?
Meanwhile,
“Were you trying to kill us? Palace Lord!”
Someone shouted at Gong Cheol-san in a voice full of anger.
The ones who had fought against the White Wolf Unit as warriors of the Evil Love Palace until the very end.
They were now glaring at Gong Cheol-san with eyes full of distrust.
Even a fool would know.
The fact that Gong Cheol-san had tried to make them die in that terrible trap along with the White Wolf Unit was true.
Given the situation, Gong Cheol-san spouted a lame excuse.
“I-It was for the Evil Love Palace! You all know it too! If we don’t stop those bastards, the Evil Love Palace is finished. So…”
“Hmph! Bullshit! You just did it so you could live alone! You son of a bitch!”
“What? How dare you bastards! Do you know who I am?”
As the warriors of the Evil Love Palace growled, Gong Cheol-san also tried to draw his sword, as if he couldn’t tolerate it.
He couldn’t forgive these things that on a normal day wouldn’t even dare meet his eyes, now lunging at him like this.
But at that moment,
“Ghk, urgh… N-No, how is this?”
For some reason, Gong Cheol-san slumped to the floor.
The strength suddenly drained from his legs, and he couldn’t use his Internal Qi either.
What in the world.
Soon, Gong Cheol-san’s gaze turned to Yeo Un-hwi.
He felt it instinctively.
He was the only person here capable of doing that.
At that, the corners of Yeo Un-hwi’s mouth lifted.
Yeo Un-hwi had fired Finger Wind without anyone noticing to subdue him.
“Right. By the looks of it, this would be the miserable death most fitting for you.”
Gong Cheol-san’s face turned pale at Yeo Un-hwi’s smile, which seemed to anticipate something.
“N-No! No!”
Sensing that the situation was strange, the warriors cautiously looked at Yeo Un-hwi.
With the expectation that he might spare their lives.
However, Yeo Un-hwi spoke to them with an incredibly cold face.
“You all won’t be leaving here alive either. I’ve already taken care of it.”
“Excuse me?”
“Why? Did you think I would spare you? With the things you’ve done, I can’t do that. Right?”
Yeo Un-hwi knew.
That they, too, had committed countless evil deeds alongside Gong Cheol-san.
Naturally, he couldn’t leave them alive.
They all shut their mouths as well.
They had nothing to say in denial.
Just how much did this man know?
“Fifteen minutes. That’s the time you have left. And how you spend your final time is for you to decide.”
With those final words, Yeo Un-hwi led the White Wolf Unit and left the place.
As if he had no more business there.
Left behind, all the warriors of the Evil Love Palace wore blank expressions.
They were going to die soon? Like this?
It wasn’t even dying while fighting heroically; after receiving such a one-sided notification, nothing in particular came to mind as to what they should do.
No, what could they even do in that short amount of time?
They could only let out hollow laughs.
But then,
“Ughhh…”
Gong Cheol-san, who had been subdued by Yeo Un-hwi and couldn’t even walk properly, was crawling on the floor, desperately trying to escape with all his might.
He was someone who still hadn’t given up his lingering attachment to life.
Even though he had treated their lives so carelessly.
“…Right. There was one thing we could do.”
One of the warriors muttered, then gripped his sword again and moved toward him.
Soon, the other warriors also raised their swords and followed him.
They had all decided what to do in their final moments.
And that was…
“D-Don’t come closer! Don’t come closer! You bastards!”
Gong Cheol-san screamed with trembling eyes.
Their master, who had been so terrifying, was now barking like a dog.
“It’s just shameful and regrettable that I followed a bastard like you my whole life.”
A final Killing Intent flickered in the warriors' eyes.
And then,
Stab. Stab. Squelch.
Soon, their blades were directed at Gong Cheol-san.
Blood splattered in all directions.
“Keugh… I can’t die like this… Gurgle…”
Just like that, Gong Cheol-san was killed by the hands of the subordinates he had considered insignificant.
It was the miserable end of a villain who had wanted to live as a king.
“This is crazy. It makes no sense. Is this real? What did I just see?”
Munho, who had secretly followed the White Wolf Unit, took advantage of the moment when all the warriors of the Evil Love Palace gathered at the Palace Lord’s Hall to sneak inside.
It wasn’t a very difficult task.
Although not as much as using his fists, he was quite confident in his Lightfoot skill.
He was curious.
Just how they fought.
Honestly, even if they had just talked big and gone on their way, he would have understood.
There was a very big difference between fighting outside and storming a stronghold swarming with enemies.
But they had actually stormed the Evil Love Palace and wiped them all out.
It was astonishing.
He couldn’t close his mouth the entire time he watched.
The White Wolf Unit’s seasoned combat methods and strength were just that incredible.
But right now, what shocked him more than anything else was,
ROOOOOOAR!
Yeo Un-hwi had briefly revealed that ridiculous Martial Prowess.
A Thunder Sound rang out from the fist thrown by a man carrying a sword.
It was a sound that only one who had reached the Pinnacle of Fist Arts could produce, and the master who had taught him had said he had only ever thrown such a fist once in his entire life.
And that the only person in all of Murim who could throw such a fist at will was the Fist Emperor.
“He definitely said that.”
Munho was extremely confused by the sight that completely overturned all the common sense he had learned thus far.
And for some reason, he felt his heart had been boiling over since earlier.
It had been like that the entire time he watched the White Wolf Unit’s battle.
It was different from the competitive desire to fight them.
It was closer to wanting to fight alongside them.
Even he was bewildered that he would have such thoughts about people he had met for the first time today.
Just then, Munho ran into Yeo Un-hwi’s group as they were leaving the Evil Love Palace.
They were on their way out after retrieving the weapons they had surrendered on their way in.
Munho flinched in surprise.
He had been so lost in thought recalling the way they fought that he hadn’t thought to hide.
No, wait. Why should I hide in the first place?
As he stood frozen with a bewildered face, Yeo Un-hwi glanced at Munho and walked right past him.
The White Wolf Unit also looked at Munho with faces that seemed to ask, “Why is he here?” and followed behind Yeo Un-hwi.
Looking at their retreating backs, he felt something tickle in his chest.
But Munho had absolutely no idea what this feeling was or what he should do.
Thus, he was just quietly watching them leave, when Yeo Un-hwi, who was just about to depart on horseback, looked back and spoke.
“Will you come with us?”
In that instant, Munho’s eyes widened.
“Yes!”
Then, he nodded without realizing it and ran vigorously toward them.
It was the moment the youngest member of the White Wolf Unit, and the Genius Fist Master who would cause an uproar in Murim in the future, was born.