My Father Is the Number One Under Heaven [Novel] Chapter 156

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The Martial God
[Chapter 156]

“W-well, pinch my face for me. I must be dreaming.”

“Did we really call a master like that a mere scholar?”

“W-we should be grateful our heads are still attached.”

The Peng Clan’s martial artists could not stop staring at Yeo Woonhwi, who stood some distance away, their mouths hanging open.

But among them—

“H-hahaha… hahaha!”

No Il-bong, who had occasionally taught Yeo Woonhwi the Peng Clan’s martial arts, was laughing with an almost deranged look on his face.

He was so ashamed of his former self for lecturing Yeo Woonhwi about martial arts and internal energy despite Yeo Woonhwi effortlessly overwhelming those mighty masters whose names resounded throughout the martial world that he wanted nothing more than to crawl into a mouse hole and hide.

He had even told him that he was already too old to start training and that he should not have high expectations, but instead calmly and comfortably accept his own limitations.

Thus, every member of the Peng Clan was left utterly dumbfounded.

The heads of the Five Great Families were no different.

“How could someone so young have reached such a realm?”

Calling it astonishing was an understatement.

Yeo Woonhwi had not even used any special techniques yet.

He was overwhelming them with nothing more than basic movements and attacks.

It was truly a display of martial prowess worthy of being called divine.

Even the Demonic Cultists who had already been rendered incapable of fighting by Yeo Woonhwi’s Killing Fingers stood there with pale faces, unable to utter a single word.

“Impressive. Truly impressive.”

Not only had he defeated the Ten Demons—each of whom had been capable of standing on equal footing with them—so effortlessly, but he had even completely overwhelmed the former Demonic Cult Leader, a man who had once occupied one of the Twelve Venerables of the World.

And this man was supposedly nothing more than the nominal leader of the White Wolf Unit and son-in-law of the Hebei Peng Clan, a man who supposedly did not know a single martial art.

They desperately wanted to ask Peng Mugang what on earth was going on, but—

“Huh…”

Seeing Peng Mugang looking even more stunned than they were, with his jaw practically hanging open, made them lose the thought entirely.

He clearly had not known either.

No.

Could something like this really be possible?

But then—

“It’s not over yet. Not yet.”

For some reason, Tang Jinwoo muttered with an uneasy look in his eyes.

Hwangbo Gyun asked as though he did not understand what he meant.

“What do you mean?”

“We can’t let our guard down yet. No matter how much that friend of ours is overwhelming him right now, that monster will undoubtedly pull out some ridiculous trick.”

Why else would it be called a monster?

A human being would not normally push their body to the point of irreversible damage.

But a monster that had lost its reason was different.

It would undoubtedly disregard its own body and attempt some unimaginable technique.

And sure enough—

Jingle. Jingle. Jingle.

Gwak Wundo frantically shook the bell with a pale face.

He had never imagined a situation like this.

He had never thought the Ten Demons would be killed so meaninglessly.

And what had bewildered him even more was that the monster had been utterly helpless despite unleashing its full power.

This was bad.

This was really…

At this rate, before worrying about what to do with the Five Great Families and the Peng Clan, they would have to worry about surviving.

“Get up! Get up, I said! Break the ‘taboo’ if you have to and bring that bastard down! Now!”

Desperate, Gwak Wundo issued an order to the monster that should never have been given.

FWOOOOOSH.

The taboo.

At those words, the monster’s body began to writhe.

Its body became completely red, as though it were heating up, and then tiny black spots appeared all over its body.

“KUUUOOOOOOOO!”

The air around them trembled.

The monster began using all the power it possessed.

No—

It was using power beyond that, enough to destroy its own body.

The veins throughout its body bulged as though they were about to burst.

But its power grew that much stronger.

No.

Even that description seemed insufficient.

Naturally.

It was a level of power that even the body of a man who had once been called one of the Twelve Venerables of the World could no longer withstand.

The monster stretched both arms out to its sides, its eyes glowing red.

[Great Transcendent Blood Serpent]

Soon, a gigantic red serpent, incomparably larger than before, uncoiled behind the monster and raised its head.

It was so enormous that it could easily be called a dragon.

Tss-tss-tss.

“Ah… Ah…”

Everyone watching turned pale.

The evil aura emitted by the red serpent made their bodies tremble.

But—

Whoosh.

Yeo Woonhwi waved his hand, cutting off the evil aura that was reaching toward the others.

The people who had been trembling in fear quickly regained their composure.

Yeo Woonhwi looked at the enormous serpent staring at him and slightly raised the corner of his mouth.

“You’re putting on quite a spectacle.”

“Fine. Then I’ll show you something interesting too.”

What was he thinking?

Yeo Woonhwi slowly sheathed his dao.

Then, after taking a short breath, he slowly closed his eyes.

He intended to use a power he had never used until now.

And the moment Yeo Woonhwi opened his eyes again—

“L-look up there!”

The clouds high in the sky suddenly split apart, and something slowly descended through the opening.

It was the shape of a sword surrounded by brilliant golden light.

When Yeo Woonhwi reached out and grasped the sword, his entire body began to shine with golden light.

As though his very existence had become the sun itself.

“Grraaaaaahh!”

Sensing something ominous about that sight, the monster let out a terrible scream and unleashed every ounce of power it possessed.

“KIEEEEEEEEK!”

Twisting its body, the red serpent’s energy shot high into the sky before violently rushing toward Yeo Woonhwi.

As though it intended to devour everything in the world.

Death followed wherever the serpent passed.

At this rate, it seemed that everyone present—not just the Peng Clan—would be swallowed by the serpent’s jaws.

At that moment—

“I shall cut down all evil that exists in this world.”

Facing the enormous evil rushing toward him, Yeo Woonhwi quietly spoke.

Then he swung the sword-shaped object in his hand.

Neither fast nor slow.

Vrrrrr.

A golden aura in the shape of a sword drew a single line across the world.

It was the line of Good that destroys Demonic Evil.

[Heart Sword]

The supreme realm known as the Formless Sword, or Mind Itself Is Killing, had just been unleashed through Yeo Woonhwi’s hand.

Soon, the world was filled with golden light.

FWOOOOOOOOOOOSH!

Before that light—

KIEEEEEEEEEEEEK…!

The gigantic serpent that had charged forward as though intent on destroying everything in its path vanished without a trace.

“GRRAAAAAAHH!”

At the same time, the monster—

No.

The former Demonic Cult Leader, the Heaven-Shattering Asura Emperor Gwak Cheon-gang, who had briefly regained his sanity in his final moment, also met his death without leaving behind a single trace.

Crack.

The bell Gwak Wundo was holding also completely shattered, as though it had fulfilled its purpose.

Perfect silence descended upon the battlefield.

The sight was so overwhelmingly powerful that both friend and foe alike were left speechless.

The shock was incomparable to anything they had witnessed before.

It felt as though every piece of common sense they had ever known, the entire world itself, had been turned upside down.

It was as though they had witnessed the very end of martial arts.

What more could they possibly say?

They were beyond astonishment.

They were filled with awe.

But that awe soon transformed into extreme terror for the surviving Demonic Cultists.

Step. Step. Step.

While everyone could barely even breathe, Yeo Woonhwi approached the Third Young Master, Gwak Wundo, who had been controlling the monster.

“Ah… Aaah…”

Gwak Wundo’s eyes trembled with overwhelming fear.

‘He’s a monster. That thing is an impossible monster.’

Gwak Wundo’s entire body shook.

He prided himself on having witnessed all kinds of horrifying sights throughout his life.

But he had never seen anything like this.

Soon, as he stood face-to-face with Yeo Woonhwi, Gwak Wundo saw him as an enormous golden dragon.

And the eyes of that gigantic dragon were fixed upon him.

This was not a being against whom he could even consider whether he could win or lose.

But he could not simply die like this.

If he could somehow use his status, perhaps he could survive.

He desperately forced the words out of his mouth.

“I-I am the Third Young Master of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult. I will soon become the Young Cult Leader. So if you kill me, the entire Heavenly Demon Divine Cult will not stand idly b—”

But—

Slash!!.

He could not finish his sentence.

His head fell to the ground.

“Bullshit. You were the ones who started this.”

Then—

Tap!

The Red Demon, who was still alive, attempted to flee.

He had instinctively turned around and tried to run for his life.

But—

“I never gave you permission to do that.”

With those cold words from Yeo Woonhwi—

His dao flashed.

“Ghk…”

The Red Demon collapsed onto the ground like a puppet whose strings had been cut.

Excluding the ordinary Demonic Cultists, the only survivor among the Ten Demons was now the Chasing Demon.

“Uuuugh…”

His entire body trembled.

He frantically darted his eyes around with all the strength he had.

He wanted to live somehow.

But he had already seen with his own eyes that neither fighting, fleeing, nor negotiating could save him.

Then how…?

Ah!

He suddenly remembered the Protective Mirror that he had kept hidden inside his robes.

Chasing Demon quickly pulled out the Protective Mirror.

But there was a problem.

He did not yet know how to activate it.

Simply taking it out did not seem to activate the protective formation.

Meanwhile, Yeo Woonhwi’s expression twitched when he saw Chasing Demon holding the Protective Mirror.

“Why do you have that?”

But Chasing Demon did not answer Yeo Woonhwi.

Instead, he desperately screamed inside his mind.

‘Please! Please! Please! Pleeeeease!’

Then the words finally escaped his mouth.

“Please!”

At that moment, the Protective Mirror began to glow.

Chasing Demon knew.

The formation had begun to activate.

“It worked!”

But the light emitted by the Protective Mirror soon faded.

“H-how…?”

“The Protective Mirror can only activate while its owner is alive.”

“What?”

Those words meant—

“Ghk…”

Suddenly, his vision became strange.

The world turned upside down, and Chasing Demon saw his own body lying in the distance.

Only then did he realize.

He was already dead.

Thud.

The headless body of Chasing Demon soon collapsed onto the ground.

Thus, four of the Ten Demons, the pride of the Demonic Cult, along with the former Cult Leader—who had now gone mad and become nothing more than a living biological weapon—were all killed in the blink of an eye.

By a single man.

And in that very moment, when Yeo Woonhwi’s power was revealed to the world—

Everyone who witnessed it was left speechless.

The same expression appeared on the faces of everyone present, including the Emperor Sword Namgung Hwan, the Gale Wind Divine Fist Hwangbo Gyun, the Poison Rain Tang Jinwoo, the Heavenly Thunder Jegal Seung, the Hao Sect Leader Jin Sobaek, and everyone else who had been there.

It was a power that had completely transcended the realm of martial arts they had known until now.

Yes.

It was divine.

A level of martial prowess worthy of being called a Martial God.

“Hoo.”

Yeo Woonhwi slowly turned around and looked at the people of the Peng Clan and his friends.

His face was no different from the familiar face they had always known.

“Is everyone all right?”

No one knew how to answer.

Everyone looked utterly dazed.

Then, leaving everyone’s gazes behind, Yeo Woonhwi approached Peng Seoyeon.

“It took a little longer than I expected.”

“You…”

Yeo Woonhwi gave the confused Peng Seoyeon a faint smile.

By then, Yul had fallen asleep in Peng Seoyeon’s arms.

For some reason, from the moment Yeo Woonhwi arrived, Yul had neither trembled nor shown any signs of anxiety.

As though she had known that this would be the outcome all along.

“There are actually a lot of things I need to tell you.”

“I didn’t expect things to happen like this, though.”

After taking such a long, winding journey, the moment had finally come for him to tell her.

The secret he had desperately concealed until now.

It was a much longer story than she might have expected.