Return of The Mount Hua – Chapter 1706
Editor: Hoamz
Co-Translator: Xoxo
Jin Geumryong's eyes widened in shock.
The enemy he was facing had suddenly begun turning bright red. Simultaneously, orange flames burst forth like a raging inferno.
There was no need to even think. Instinctively sensing what was about to happen, Jin Geumryong reflexively kicked off the cliff face to move forward.
“I must stop....”
But before his will could even turn into action, Jong Nigok, who had been engaged with the enemy in front, violently twisted his direction and pressed down on Jin Geumryong as if tackling him. There was not even a moment to resist.
"Get dooooooown!"
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
The terrifying explosion that followed swept Jong Nigok, Jin Geumryong, and Isong Baek backward.
A terrible groan escaped Jin Geumryong's mouth.
The pressure enveloping his entire body felt as if it would crush him at any moment and tear his flesh to pieces.
'What...!'
This wasn't the kind of power an ordinary explosive could produce. As if the Sun Palace warrior wrapped in scorching yang energy itself had become a single gigantic bomb, it unleashed an unimaginable explosion.
The crushing pain in his body was agonizing, but what truly tormented Jin Geumryong was something else. The horrific scene entered his vision that he couldn't look away from.
Wooooong!
Soon, another Sun Palace warrior's body also began to be engulfed in vicious scorching yang energy.
One, two, and yet again…!
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
As successive explosions occurred, another massive shockwave swept over the cliff. Blood gushed from Jin Geumryong's mouth.
"Sto..."
They hadn't achieved their objective yet.
But if all the Sun Palace warriors clinging to the cliff threw away their lives and caused explosions of this magnitude... could this cliff really remain intact without collapsing?
Absolutely not!
“Stop it, you sons of dooooooogs!”
"Geumryong!"
As Jin Geumryong began to writhe, Jong Nigok held him and pressed him down as if to drive him into the cliff. Yet Jin Geumryong did’nt even spare Jong Nigok a glance, despite the grip that felt like it would crush his shoulder. He just stretched out his hand with all his might toward the enemies engulfed in flames.
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
Even at this moment, the explosions continued.
Shocks that a mere human body couldn’t withstand assaulted them every moment.
A milky-white protective energy barrier spread from Jong Nigok's body, enveloping Jin Geumryong and Isong Baek. Isong Baek's eyes flew open.
“Sect Leader-nim!”
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
The cliff shook once again. To those clinging to the cliff, it felt like an unprecedented earthquake was shaking the entire earth.
Kwadeudeuk!
Jin Geumryong's fingertips instinctively dug into the cliff. But before this massive explosion and trembling, it was nothing more than futile resistance.
Kuuung!
Each time the cliff shook, their bodies were flung upward. Jin Geumryong clung to the cliff with all his strength, enduring as though every bone in his body might be crushed.
'No.'
He had already suffered deep internal injuries. Blood forced its way back up.
Even so, Jin Geumryong’s gaze remained fixed on the enemies beyond Jong Nigok’s shoulder.
He saw another Sun Palace warrior’s body turn a vivid red. Gritting his teeth, Jin Geumryong instantly shook off Jong Nigok and leaped over him like a streak of light.
“Geumryong!”
Once he passed beyond the protective energy barrier Jong Nigok had deployed, terrifying heat and pressure struck Jin Geumryong as if they had been waiting for him.
"Hyaaaaaah!"
He swung his arm with all his might, his tendons bulging throughout his body. The sword that left his hand pierced through the fully amassed Scorching Yang Internal Art and embedded itself in the Sun Palace warrior’s neck.
Kwadeudeuk!
“Keugh....”
The blazing Scorching Yang Internal Art feebly extinguished like a candle which wick had burned out. At the same time, the Sun Palace warrior’s body began to plummet.
“Not yet! It’s not over yet!”
Jin Geumryong roared fiercely like a lion.
However, that roar was completely drowned out by the massive explosions that erupted one after another.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
Another Sun Palace warrior exploded. To be precise, the explosive hidden within his body did.
With the explosive going off inside his chest, there was no chance of surviving even by sheer luck. Yet, not the slightest hesitation could be felt in the movements of the Sun Palace warriors committing self-destruction.
They might harbor hesitation inside, but their bodies were thoroughly following the orders given to them without a shred of doubt.
"Stop them! Stooooop them!"
From somewhere, Namgung Dowi's desperate scream could be heard.
Those who came to their senses frantically threw their swords and unleashed palm forces toward the Solar Palace warriors amassing their Scorching Yang Internal Art.
Realistically speaking, they couldn't stop them all. Everyone here knew that was impossible.
But they had to reduce the number of self-destructions by even one, lest this entire cliff would collapse entirely.
“Uaaah!”
Swaeaeaeaek!
A violently spinning sword flew toward the Sun Palace warriors burning with orange light. Considering the skills of the Sun Palace warriors occupying the cliff, there was no way they would fall to flying swords thrown so hastily like this.
However.
Kagagagagagagak!
The sword, digging through the fully amassed Scorching Yang Internal Art, easily embedded itself in the Sun Palace warrior’s body. Immediately after, a palm force that flew across the air struck another Sun Palace warrior and smashed him straight into the cliff face.
"Keueok!"
The Sun Palace warrior rammed into the cliff and vomited blood. Meanwhile, from the mouth of the Sun Palace warrior with a sword blade protruding from his back, blood flowed like a waterfall. The spilled blood couldn't withstand the terrible heat spreading around and turned into red vapor before scattering into the air.
'It worked...'
A glimmer of hope passed through Jin Geumryong's eyes and across Namgung Dowi's face.
Right. It cannot be easy to amass Scorching Yang Internal Art that produces power of such magnitude. Naturally, they would be practically defenseless and vulnerable to attacks pouring in from the surroundings.
Perhaps they can stop it. Perhaps….
But it was then.
"Keu... heu..."
The Sun Palace warrior, pierced by the sword and pinned to the cliff, trembled all over and looked down. As their eyes met, Jin Geumryong’s heart sank with a thud.
Anger and malice, resentment and hatred, and….
'Fear...?'
The moment he read the profound terror in the enemy's eyes, Jin Geumryong instinctively knew what would happen next.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang!
A tremendous flash obstructed his vision. The explosion swept across the cliff. The chain explosions that began to occur successively struck the cliff again and again as if to crush everything around them.
"Aaaaaaaaaaah!"
"Uwaaaaaaah!"
People of unknown identities were screaming and shrieking. In the pandemonium where frenzied cries ran rampant, the colossal explosions drowned out all other sounds.
Kwaaang! Kwaaaaang! Kwaaaaang!
Before one explosion could even finish, another erupted.
“Aaaaaack!”
“Geumryong!”
“Sahyuuuuuung!”
Isong Baek desperately stretched out his hand and grabbed Jin Geumryong, who was being flung backward.
“Hold on ti....”
The shock was immense, as if someone had struck a giant bell right before his nose. With no time to rest, the successive explosions dulled all his senses, making it difficult even to form words.
Isong Baek gritted his teeth and added strength to his grip holding Jin Geumryong.
Kwaaaaaaaaang!
As if it had been waiting for that moment, an explosion of incomparable magnitude swept across the cliff.
"Aaaaaaaaaaah!"
An uncontrollable scream burst from Isong Baek's mouth. It felt like something massive was sweeping across and tearing at his entire body.
Wooooooooooooooooong!
Heaven and earth overturned (번천복지(翻天覆地)). Heaven and earth flipped, and everything in the world lost its balance and shook.
Perhaps the expression ‘losing one's soul’ was meant for times like this.
Unable to withstand the pressure and shock, blood poured from the seven orifices of Isong Baek and Jin Geumryong. Despite Jong Nigok's best efforts to protect the two, he was helpless before the pressure of the explosion that occurred right in front of them.
Tuuuung!
To make matters worse, rock fragments falling from the cliff began to pour down.
“Keuhack....”
Isong Baek, hanging on the cliff, coughed up a large amount of thick blood. But in this situation, all he could do was cling stubbornly and wait for the shaking to subside.
‘Please!’
Isong Baek gritted his teeth.
‘Please!’
He forced his eyes open as they kept trying to close. He had to endure. He must!
Did that desperate wish reach the heavens?
The truly vicious shaking slowly began to subside.
"Huff..."
Isong Baek barely managed to raise his head and look up.
"Uh...."
Moments later, a dazed groan escaped his lips.
Gone.
The Sun Palace warriors who had tormented them so viciously, Evil Tyrant Alliance martial artists who had clung there so grotesquely, and even….
"T- The... cliff..."
Isong Baek's eyes trembled.
Above, the spot where the Sun Palace warriors had self-destructed in succession was hollowed out deeply, as if something massive had gouged it out.
His hands began to tremble at this horrifying sight.
It was then.
“Cough!”
“S- Sect Leader-nim!”
Jong Nigok, who had been holding on, staggered as if he were about to lose consciousness at any moment. Isong Baek was startled and grabbed hold of Jong Nigok.
“Sect Leader-nim! Are you okay?”
“I... am fine.”
Isong Baek himself felt as though his entire body was about to be crushed, but that couldn’t compare to Jong Nigok, who had stood in front of them and absorbed the brunt of the impact.
If it hadn't been for Jong Nigok, Jin Geumryong and Isong Baek would already have become minced meat scattered in pieces at the bottom of the cliff.
"Is it... the end?"
A dazed-sounding voice of Jin Geumryong reached Isong Baek's ears. Even the voice that had always been arrogantly confident was completely drained of strength in this moment.
"Sahyung."
"Is this the end?"
Doubt crept into Jin Geumryong’s eyes.
Really, like this...
Jjojojok!
It was at that very moment. That massive noise reached their ears.
Jin Geumryong's face hardened as he stared in the direction the sound came from.
Jjojojojojok!
This massive sound that evoked chilling terror... wasn't it the sound of something cracking?
Jin Geumryong's twisted his face and quickly scanned the cliff. The spot gouged out by the explosion, the remaining rock hanging over it like an eave.
The space where an ominous silence lingered briefly before departing.
Jjojojojojok!
Cracks began to spread rapidly as if lightning had struck the cliff.
"No...."
Despair flooded into Jin Geumryong’s eyes like a rising tide.
“S- Sahyung! We must get out.”
“N- No! The cliff!”
“Come here, Jin Geumryong! Now!”
Jong Nigok grabbed his shoulder and pulled him forcefully. Jin Geumryong resisted fiercely.
"Damn it, I said no! My brother is on the cliff!"
"I said come here!"
Gritting his teeth, Jong Nigok subdued Jin Geumryong, gripped him tight, and began to run horizontally across the cliff.
Even then, Jin Geumryong's gaze was fixed solely on the rapidly cracking cliff.
'No... don't. Please...!'
But that earnest wish was ruthlessly shattered.
Kureureureureureung!
The cracked cliff let out an earth-shattering roar. Through the split gaps, pale dust clouds rose like clouds.
Jong Nigok roared with all his might, and the entire cliff resounded.
"It's collapsing! Run, now! Right nooooooow!"
Kureureureureureureureureung!
Jin Geumryong saw it as he was being dragged away. The sight of the massive cliff pouring down over his head.
'Dongryong-ah.'
Profound despair wrapped around his powerless body.
Despair that could absolutely not be shaken off was pouring down in the name of collapse.
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