The Genius Grandson of the Namgung Family Chapter 59

The Genius Grandson of the Namgung Family

Chapter 59

Namgung Mu-ryong felt the small enlightenment he had gained while training with Ha Hyeon suddenly becoming embodied.

Screech-

A chilling sound like fingernails scratching iron plate echoed.

It was the sound of Blood Sword Lord desperately trying to block the slowly moving sword.

However, there was no way to stop Namgung Mu-ryong’s sword.

“Uaaaargh!”

Blood Sword Lord exploded all his demonic energy.

Even against the Sword Saint, he wasn’t one to be handled so easily.

Bang-!

Blood Sword Lord stepped with tremendous internal energy.

The sound was several times louder than Namgung Min’s stance, and rather than merely raising dust, the ground caved in, causing Namgung Mu-ryong’s body to tilt.

Swoosh-

Taking advantage of that moment, Blood Sword Lord pulled away from Namgung Mu-ryong.

Having barely regained his senses, he looked over Namgung Mu-ryong’s shoulder.

“Kurgh-!”

Coincidentally at that moment, as one Blood Sword Squad member couldn’t withdraw his sword due to Ha Hyeon and So-hwa, Namgung Min’s sword pierced through his back, and he instantly perished.

Already three were dead, making it four against one.

There seemed no hope for the remaining Blood Sword Squad member.

Blood Sword Lord closed his eyes and opened them again.

His eyes regained composure as if his subordinates’ deaths were happening in another world.

Blood Sword Lord instinctively knew

That taking his eyes off Namgung Mu-ryong before him was suicidal.

“You have no chance.”

Namgung Mu-ryong spoke with sincerity.

If he had brought all his Blood Sword Squad members here, even against Namgung Mu-ryong, this place might have become his grave.

But he had brought only ten men.

That arrogance created the current situation.

“Shut up.”

Blood Sword Lord’s expression crumpled.

Rather than the moderate energy he had been using until now, a light demonic energy began to rise.

Just as Blood Sword Lord seemed to take his stance, his blade had already closed to within striking distance of Namgung Mu-ryong’s body.

It was truly an amazing swift blade, but as if Namgung Mu-ryong had anticipated this move, he stepped back twice to avoid Blood Sword Lord’s blade.

It was a mysterious step that one couldn’t tell how he walked.

“……?!”

However, at that moment, dismay appeared on Namgung Mu-ryong’s face.

Blood Sword Lord hadn’t simply swung his blade to cut Namgung Mu-ryong.

With the same force that propelled his body, he leaped over Namgung Mu-ryong.

He threw himself toward where Namgung Mu-ryong’s grandchildren were.

Swish-

His blade was aimed at Ha Hyeon, who currently had his back turned to him.

However, in that split second, Ha Hyeon sensed the massive energy crushing down on him and immediately turned his body while thrusting his sword forward.

‘I can block it.’

The opponent was a master who had exchanged blows equally with his grandfather.

But Ha Hyeon felt certain he could block it.

Crash-!

Strength naturally entered Ha Hyeon’s grip.

He gripped so tightly that his hands appeared to turn pale.

In that moment, sword energy flashed from Ha Hyeon’s hand.

A sword containing the subtle techniques of the Moonlight Sword Technique.

However, his Moonlight Sword Technique had changed significantly from before he left on his journey.

It was moonlight that had evolved further, improved by watching the Five Tigers Gate-Breaking blade of Paeng Gil-san.

Clang!!

“Kuhp!”

Ha Hyeon managed to stop Blood Sword Lord’s blade.

However, unable to absorb all the impact, he tumbled backward.

“……?!”

Question arose in Blood Sword Lord’s eyes.

He had put all his energy into the blade intending to cut through Ha Hyeon’s sword as well.

Though it contained the principle of speed rather than weight and lacked depth, it wasn’t a sword that such a youngster should have been able to block.

Swoosh-!

In that instant, three lights shot at him.

Namgung Min, Namgung Hwan, and So-hwa, as if by agreement, thrust their swords in during the momentary opening Ha Hyeon had created.

The three lights came at the same speed, aiming for his heart.

Clang clang clang!

Blood Sword Lord barely blocked their swords by showing the flat of his blade.

However, he couldn’t pull back.

Because behind him waited Namgung Mu-ryong, who was even more fearsome than them.

Thump!

Blood Sword Lord rolled his foot and sprang upward.

Rising about ten feet into the air, he rolled his body in mid-air and landed beside the one remaining Blood Sword Squad member who had been fighting Namgung Mu-ryong’s grandchildren.

“Stay close!”

Then he pressed his back against him and thrust his blade forward.

It was the same formation as when Ha Hyeon, Namgung Hwan, and So-hwa had faced the Blood Sword Squad members at the start of the fight. 

“Urgh!”

Even from far away, someone else’s death cry rang out.

Blood Sword Lord shifted only his eyes to look in that direction, where a Blood Sword Squad member, his waist half-cut by Namgung Gi-hyeon’s sword, collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath.

Judging by the wound and the amount of blood lost, survival seemed unlikely.

The Blood Sword Squad members facing Namgung Gi-cheol also seemed to be in a precarious position, as if the balance would soon break.

“This… How is this possible…?!”

The Namgung Family’s combat power had an enormous disparity from what Blood Sword Lord had thought.

While he could accept the strength of Sword Saint Namgung Mu-ryong and his sons, the skill of his grandchildren was beyond common sense.

‘Neunghu…!’

His anger rose toward Neunghu, who had already fled and disappeared.

It was Neunghu who had analyzed the Namgung Family’s combat power and assessed the possibility of this operation.

This kind of information wasn’t in the report Neunghu submitted to Blood Sword Lord.

His report had stated that they only needed to be careful of Azure Divine Dragon Namgung Min, and the rest weren’t worth mentioning.

“Blood Sword Lord. It’s over.”

Namgung Mu-ryong spoke softly.

Though he appeared calm on the surface, the fight must not have been easy for Namgung Mu-ryong either, as his fingertips were trembling slightly.

“Over, you say?”

“Yes. Wouldn’t any further fighting be meaningless? Come with us to the Murim Alliance. Share some news about the Demonic Cult too.”

Namgung Mu-ryong’s gentle tone.

It was as casual as if he were inviting someone over to a neighbor’s house.

But that only made Blood Sword Lord more furious.

“You old man!!”

KWAAANG-!!

As Blood Sword Lord once again unleashed his demonic energy, the force swept through like a gale.

He wasn’t just exploding with his original energy, but burning through his true energy and even his life force.

Whoosh!

Just as Ha Hyeon thought he felt his skin tingling from that energy.

BANG-!

When Blood Sword Lord stomped the ground, there was a sound like the earth collapsing, and he burst forward.

His sword seemed to shimmer with heat haze.

A crude version of the sword energy that was said to be achievable only by those who had reached the realm of immortals erupted from his sword.

It was blood-red sword energy, true to his name.

CLASH!!

The sword energy that Namgung Mu-ryong barely deflected was terrifying.

Even without direct contact, the rock right next to him split with a crack.

Blood Sword Lord moved straight into his next motion without pause.

Namgung Mu-ryong, not to be outdone, began channeling all his energy into his sword.

WHOOSH-

His sleeves fluttered constantly in the overwhelming flow of energy.

Tsss-

After a moment, something like mist began gathering around Namgung Mu-ryong’s sword.

Previously, this would have been his limit.

But Namgung Mu-ryong had trained with Ha Hyeon, and now he incorporated the enlightenment of transcendence he had just gained back into his sword.

WHOONG

As more concentrated energy entered Namgung Mu-ryong’s beloved sword, it sang as if pleased to receive a delicious meal.

And soon the mist materialized into blue heat haze.

SWOOSH-

The energy storm was so intense that everyone else could barely stand.

As if refusing to allow anyone but those two to remain standing in the area, tremendous internal force pressed down on them.

“Kyaa!”

So-hwa, who had the weakest internal force among those present, finally collapsed.

Ha Hyeon also wanted to sit down right away, but he barely managed to endure by using his sword as a cane.

“Keuugh!”

Blood Sword Lord looked at Namgung Mu-ryong and immediately rushed in, swinging his sword.

The pain of burning through his true energy must have been beyond imagination, as his lips were bleeding from biting them too hard.

“Die!!”

CLASH-!!!

When the two collided, an explosion louder than anything anyone present had ever heard in their lives rang out.

And as the ground turned over, thick dust rose and blocked everyone’s vision.

“Cough, cough,”

The pressing force was neutralized as the two energies collided.

Able to move her body now, So-hwa managed to stand up from where she had fallen.

“Urgh.”

Someone’s groan could be heard from within the dust.

With visibility still poor, no one dared to move carelessly.

“Grandfather!”

As the dust settled, the source of the groan became visible.

It was Namgung Mu-ryong, kneeling on one knee with a thin line of blood at the corner of his mouth.

He clearly looked troubled.

Blood Sword Lord stood straight on the opposite side.

However, Blood Sword Lord’s condition was several times worse than Namgung Mu-ryong’s.

His hair was disheveled and standing on end, and his internal injuries must have been severe as he kept coughing up blood.

His eyes flashed, and he swung his sword like lightning.

SWOOSH-!

That sword rushed toward Namgung Min, who had deployed his movement technique to support Namgung Mu-ryong.

“Kheuk!” Namgung Min succeeded in deflecting that light, but still suffered a wound to his thigh.

Fortunately, the power had been greatly diminished – if it had been the same sword energy as before, his leg might have been severed.

Blood Sword Lord had now decided to disregard his own life.

He rushed at Namgung Min, attacking with the determination to die together.

His will to take at least one life with him was apparent.

“Haap!”

So-hwa rushed at him but immediately tumbled to the ground after just one move.

Just before Blood Sword Lord’s sword could pierce So-hwa’s body, which hadn’t yet regained balance.

CLANG!

Ha Hyeon’s sword, appearing suddenly, blocked his blade.

Blood Sword Lord’s eyebrow twitched.

“You, from before!”

Blood Sword Lord’s aura grew fiercer.

He had now decided to kill Ha Hyeon, who had been continuously blocking his sword.

As his killing intent arose, his presence changed.

Fierce sword strikes cut through the air.

But at that moment.

Ha Hyeon once again had the sensation that the world had stopped.

‘This sensation again…!’

Ha Hyeon felt he could see everything.

It wasn’t just what he could see with his eyes.

Right now, Ha Hyeon could perceive everything about Blood Sword Lord.

How he gripped his sword, how his shoulders and arms moved when he swung it, and how the energy flowed accordingly.

Not just his movements, but they were etched in Ha Hyeon’s mind like a single clear picture.

And then Blood Sword Lord’s next move became visible.

It was similar to the sensation he had when defeating Moyong Cheong.

However, that sensation from that life-or-death battle was incomparable to before.

If that time was like a small candle, now it felt like a massive wildfire rising.

Ha Hyeon stretched out his legs and instead moved closer to Blood Sword Lord.

While it would be madness to face Blood Sword Lord with his original skill and internal force, his grandfather’s battle had depleted most of Blood Sword Lord’s energy, and he had even suffered serious internal injuries from burning through his true energy.

Ha Hyeon judged that in his current state, he could sufficiently handle him.

SWOOSH-!

Blood Sword Lord’s sword was still approaching Ha Hyeon with a tearing sound.

Ha Hyeon swung his sword toward that blade.

No, more precisely, he swung his sword toward the hand holding that blade.

SLASH-

It wasn’t even a particularly powerful sword strike.

He hadn’t used all his strength, nor had he moved at his maximum speed.

He had simply swung his sword toward where he knew Blood Sword Lord’s blade, and his hand, would be.

SLASH!

Blood Sword Lord’s wrist was cut by Ha Hyeon’s sword, spraying blood.

And along with the hand, the sword it was holding fell to the ground.

“This, this is!”

Blood Sword Lord quickly grabbed his wrist and tried to retreat.

But Ha Hyeon had predicted even that, and his sword didn’t stop there.

Blood Sword Lord’s eyes widened at the sword strike that flowed as naturally as water.

“The Young Lord’s…?!”

As if not worth answering, the sword that had severed his wrist continued upward along Blood Sword Lord’s body, emitting a dazzling light.

And that light passed through Blood Sword Lord’s neck.

SLASH-!

Thud.

The battlefield suddenly grew quiet.

In that battlefield, only the sound of Blood Sword Lord’s head falling to the ground echoed.