Return of The Mount Hua – Chapter 1401. It was so wonderful (1)
Editor: Hoamzz
Co-Translator: Xoxo
“Enemies ahead! Enemies, Advisor-nim!”
“It’s Mount Hua!”
“Mount Hua is attacking, Advisor-niiiiim!”
Panicked... No, desperate wails poured forth.
But those screams did not reach Ho Gamyeong. Rooted to the spot like a stone, he glared with wide eyes at the figures charging in.
'Why?'
Confronted with something beyond the limits of his imagination, Ho Gamyeong could neither think nor react.
‘How?’
Why were Heavenly Comrade Alliance and Mount Hua here?
They couldn't have known. Even if they crossed the Yangtze, it should’ve been impossible to find these people in such a vast region of Gangnam. So how could it come to this?
"How..."
A suppressed voice leaked through his lips. What began as a mere murmur finally erupted into a full-throated scream.
"Hoooooowwwww!"
The entire forest reverberated.
The sound of footsteps shook the earth, and with that resonance, nearlyone hundred Mount Hua disciples charged forward as one. Their fury poured over the Myriad Man Manor martial artists who had been threatening Mount Hua’s swords.
No one had given an order. No one had prepared for this.
Yet all their minds aimed at a single goal, and that shared will naturally form them into a single shape.
Mount Hua’s disciples formed a wedge-shaped formation that pierced the enemy formation. No, rather, Mount Hua's sword warriors formed a formation closer to a straight-extending sword and shot toward Myriad Man Manor's encirclement with explosive momentum.
“Th- They’re coming!”
“St- Stop them… No! Dodge! Dooooddge!”
Desperate screams erupted from all around. But soon, they had to face a one-armed swordsman who charged at them with killing intent as if he were an asura.
"Oooooh!"
The Plum Blossom Sword, imbued with crimson sword energy, carried boiling rage as it struck the necks of the enemies.
Paaaaat!
The head of a Myriad Man Manor martial artist, his face contorted in horror, soared into the empty air.
Un Gum who instantly took one life leaped into enemy lines with even greater speed.
“Chaaargeee!”
Kwaaang!
Hyun Sang stomped the ground violently and unfolded his sword. Crimson sword energy spread like plum blossoms in all directions.
“F- Fall back… Kuaaaaah!”
The Myriad Man Manor martial artists were helplessly pierced by the sword energy.
The swords of the two at the front were devastating. And the consecutive strikes from the rest of Mount Hua’s disciples came on even stronger.
Paaaaat!
Crimson sword energy burst like consecutive firecrackers. From above, it would have looked as though red plum blossoms sprang up one after another in the path of their advance.
It was truly a beautiful and fantastical sight.
But the beauty harbored deadly blades.
Sogok! Sogok!
Each time the sword energy, fluttering like flower petals and appearing infinitely delicate, scattered in all directions, the enemies’ bodies were mercilessly marked with crimson wounds.
"Euaaaaaaaaak!"
The eyes of Mount Hua disciples radiated icy killing intent.
They could see it all too clearly. Their sahyung dying with wounds covering their entire bodies.
Eudeuduk!
No one raised their voice to denounce the enemy. No one encouraged those around them. None of them raised their voice to condemn the enemy. None of them shouted to rally their comrades. Instead, they poured all their overflowing rage and hatred into their blades.
Even screaming felt wasteful. The only thing they needed to do now was save their sahyung who was bleeding.
Paaaaaat!
The crimson sword energy, honed again and again, ruthlessly violated the enemies. Mount Hua sword warriors, now a single crimson sword, moved forward and only forward.
"Blo- Block! Don't let them through..."
Kwadeuduk!
The man who tried to shout in panic toppled backward. The man who died without even closing his eyes had a black poisonous dagger stuck in his mouth.
“P- Poison!”
“It’s the bastard of Tang Family! Agh! Duck!”
Paaaaat!
They tried somehow to reorganize their formation, but it was impossible with countless flying daggers overhead and black poison powder exploding. The Myriad Man Manor martial artists' formation began to collapse.
“Cover them! Don’t let Mount Hua gain ground!”
At Tang Zhan’s shout, Tang Family members let out a deafening roar.
Mount Hua martial artists shot forward as a single sword in front, while poison daggers and poisonous smoke rained down from above from Tang Family's hidden weapons.
It was a truly vicious combination. Even if the Myriad Man Manor martial artists were at full strength instead of exhausted from their relentless pursuit from Hainan Island to here, it still wouldn’t have been an easy fight.
“Wh- Why are Mount Hua’s bastards here?!”
"D- Don't push, damn it!"
Those trying to retreat, those desperately resisting, and those hesitating were tangled together, and had their formation collapse
Crimson plum blossoms bloomed, interwoven with green flashes.
Then one of the Myriad Man Manor martial artists shouted,
"Damn it! Don't panic, there can't be that many of these bastards..."
Kwaaaaaang!
But his body was soon swept away by massive white sword energy flying from somewhere. And what appeared next were swordsmen dressed in azure sky martial robes.
“Save Sogaju and the Alliance disciples!”
“We obey!”
An azure sky spread over the forest of plum blossoms. The sword warriors of Namgung Family, well suited to their name ‘Azure Sky’, charged at the Myriad Man Manor with all their might.
“Gungju! We’ve arrived!”
Right behind them were swordsmen clad in white uniforms cold as ice, followed by the martial artists of Beast Palace led by Maeng So.
“Wipeout Myriad Man Manor scum!”
"Yes!"
With Maeng So’s thunderous roar that seemed to shake the heavens, the Beast Palace warriors charged fiercely like beasts hunting their prey.
Those who call each other friends. Those who called themselves the alliance disciples. They had gathered here to protect those they must protect.
And.
“Save Mount Hua Chivalrous Sword! Now is the time to repay even a fraction of our debt!”
“Yes!”
With the shout of Hainan Sect Sect Leader Geum Yangbaek, Hainan Sect disciples led by Gwak Hwanso also charged with all their might.
Though their bodies were already worn to the bone, those who spoke of chivalry with their words and justice with their swords had a duty to fulfill, even if it cost them their lives.
United in one cause, they charged the enemy like a bolt of lightning.
“Damn it! Why are they here…?!”
“Stop them! Stop…!”
Swords keep flying toward the enemies who swing their blades like they're having seizures.
Paaaaat!
A severed head soared into the air. Hyun Jong, who had mercilessly decapitated an enemy with a single strike, tightly gripped his Plum Blossom Sword.
His children were right there.
Bleeding from head to toe.
Seeing his disciples who were too exhausted to even raise their bodies properly, Hyun Jong felt an intense anger that he had never felt before in his life.
Who was it?
Who dared make those children bleed?
Paaaaat!
A sword imbued with immense internal strength sliced through the retreating Myriad Man Manor martial artists in an instant. Warm blood splattered and stained his white hair, but Hyun Jong walked down the blood-soaked path without the slightest hesitation.
This was the price he paid for his hesitation.
The blood he should have spilled was being shed by his children.
Who? Who was it that made those children bleed?
Kwaaaaaang!
He unleashed the Violet Mist Divine Art to its extreme.
A tremendous sword energy fell forward, causing an explosion so massive it was hard to even stand.
Sogok!
At that moment, a dao flying from the side grazed Hyun Jong's cheek. Blood splattered as his skin split, but he felt not a trace of pain.
What truly tormented him wasn’t any wound carved into this old body.
Every scar on his children’s bodies, every drop of blood they shed here, pierced his heart like a rusted dagger.
“Eu- Euaaaaaa!”
Kwaaaaang!
Hyun Jong struck the enemy down in a single blow, then kicked off the ground.
“Protect Grand Sect Leader!”
Mount Hua sword warriors moved in perfect unison to Hyun Jong's left and right.
Their will is transmitted without needing to be spoken. Their vision aligned without a single command.
“St- Stop them…”
Kwadeuk! Kwadeuk! Kwadeuk! Kwadeuk!
The green flashes of light struck the crowns of those charging toward Hyun Jong without fail.
Hyun Jong advanced among those who collapsed into cold corpses. Crimson sword energy bloomed from his sword.
"Hyun Sang!"
"Yes!"
Head of Martial Hall Hyun Sang became his sword and drove away his enemies.
“Un Gum!”
"Yes!"
The head of White Dormitory Un Gum became his shield and pushed away those who rushed at him.
Hyun Jong advanced along that path. The path tore open by the swords of Mount Hua and blocked by the shields of Mount Hua. It was the path all of them had opened with a single will.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
And toward the path he himself had destroyed with his own sword, Hyun Jong moved forward.
Step. Step.
His footsteps gradually slowed.
Step. Step.
Before long, his feet came to a complete stop.
Having broken through all who stood in his way, Hyun Jong silently gazed at those before him.
His vision keeps blurring. If he parted his lips even slightly, weeping... No, wailing would pour forth.
“Ah....”
A blank voice came out of someone's mouth, as though they couldn’t believe he was truly here.
Step.
Hyun Jong came closer and gave a firm pat to the shoulder within reach.
“Sect....”
Jo-Gol stared at him as if in a trance.
“Sect Leader....”
Yoon Jong, Tang Soso, Yoo Iseol.
After touching the shoulders of each disciple who still couldn't let go of their swords, Hyun Jong then stood before one person kneeling on one knee at the very back.
He gazed silently for a moment. At Baek Cheon, who was still clutching Chung Myung protectively even in his state.
This must be what it means to have one’s heart torn apart.
Just as Hyun Jong reached out with a trembling hand, Baek Cheon flinched and moved his body. Because of this, Hyun Jong's hand stopped abruptly.
“To Grand Sect Leader... I report.”
Somehow composing himself even in this situation, Baek Cheon showed respect toward Hyun Jong.
“Great Mount Hua Sect... Acting Sect Leader Baek Cheon, though I could not... complete the mission..."
“....”
"...I carried it out... without going against Mount Hua's will."
Hyun Jong's previously stopped hand slowly moved again. And soon settled on Baek Cheon's shoulder.
The hand that was no longer shaking gently patted Baek Cheon's shoulder.
"Exceedingly."
“....”
"Exceedingly admirable."
This time, Baek Cheon’s shoulders trembled finely. Hyun Jong accepted the trembling as it was and slowly nodded.
A gentle smile bloomed on his wrinkled lips. A smile with tears in his eyes, so benevolent it would naturally comfort anyone who saw it.
“Leave the rest… to me, and to your sahyungje. We’re here now.”
The disciples of Mount Hua, who had stormed through the enemy, surrounded their wounded sahyung as if to guard them.
Looking at those backs filled with resolute will, Baek Cheon finally released what he had suppressed again and again. His eyes grew hot, and tears began streaming down his blood-dried cheeks.
"...I obey the command, Grand Sect Leader."
Just as Chung Myung was not alone, they were not alone either.
It’s here. The place they needed to go to.
The place they had to return to, it came here looking for them.
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