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Although it literally means “burning monkey,” it is actually used to describe a monkey that has absorbed the energy of the spiritual veins and is filled with yang energy.
Hwahu’s inner core is considered the elixir of elixirs, supplying endless power to martial artists, especially male martial artists full of yang energy.
Considering that the Inner Core of the Empress of Fire was what Murong Shangyuan, the young master of the Murong clan in the past, sought to protect until the very end even in the face of death, ‘You can see how highly it is regarded in the Jianghu.’ Moreover, the Inner Core of the Empress of Fire commands an even higher price not only because of its efficacy but also because it is difficult to obtain.
Who could catch a swift monkey with an endlessly burning spirit? A warrior? A hunter?
Anyway, for this reason, I also didn’t even bother to look at the existence of the Empress of Fire, even though it was specified in the Book of Gangho’s Elixirs.
It is no easy task to obtain a miraculous elixir that stays in place, let alone chase after the Fire Marquis’s butt all by yourself.
I thought that was impossible from the start.
Ughhhh!
I definitely had that thought…
A huge monkey with a massive build, baring thumb-sized fangs and howling ferociously.
Wait, can you really call this a monkey? Its weight class alone is bigger than an average person.
Whoosh!
Moreover, the scorching heat radiating from those hairs.
It clearly reveals that it is a different being from the monsters seen in Mukrim so far.
“……
So, you are the Empress of the Sun that Great Hero Yang was talking about?
Ughhhhh!
The Sun Lord, emitting a murderous aura while howling as if in response.
So there was a reason they said hunting was impossible.
You’re going to hunt something like this?
Are you out of your minds?
The killing intent it emits is enough to put an ordinary demon to shame.
The energy of the spirit veins felt within his body seemed to be ten times greater than that of the monsters I had seen so far.
Empty, empty, empty, empty.
Black skin was exposed near the chest instead of fur, and whenever he punched that spot, the space resonated loudly as if struck by a lump of iron.
It was enough to make me dizzy at the thought of how on earth I could hunt this.
Huh, this is driving me crazy.
As he hesitated and tried to back away, the Empress Dowager bared her fangs further and strode forward.
The path was blocked for a moment.
“The spiritual energy said to be used only by martial artists who have reached a high level. ‘Is this really an animal?’ No matter how spiritual a creature it is, its origins must have clearly been an animal.
For some reason, they are blocking off the entire space like deserters.
As if determined not to miss a single opening if shown even once.
Ha, but I feel wronged.
“Damn it… can’t you just let me go? I’m a completely different person from them.”
Grrr.
“Damn it… I knew it.”
As expected, true to his rugged appearance, he was impossible to communicate with.
Now there are no options.
Hoping that the Empress of the Sun’s feet would not be faster than the Heavenly Solitary God, I turned my body slightly.
Then…… next time……
“Huh?”
But something is strange.
I tried to leave immediately, but for some reason, the actions of the Empress Dowager weigh on my mind.
Because the other monsters attacked immediately as soon as they saw a person.
It seemed like the Empress Dowager also wanted to attack me, but I had a strong feeling that she was hesitating for some reason.
No, it feels like he’s putting on a brave face hoping I’ll back down.
Ughhhhh!
Whoosh!
Along with a loud cry, scorching heat spreads in all directions, as if the skin were burning.
And something visible through the flames that had spread widely around. ‘A wound…’ Hard, dried blood clots were stuck to the long wound stretching from the calf to the thigh, and a hollow space was visible in the fist pounding the chest due to a severed finger.
Not a wound that appeared and disappeared long ago, but a wound that has just started to fester not long ago.
Judging by the smooth cross-section, it wasn’t torn by animal teeth.
There is no way the monsters of Mukrim could have dealt with them in the first place.
The countless fragments of information gathered since entering Mukrim are fitting together into a single picture. ‘Is this what the instructors and academy students were chasing?’ The spirit who had been fighting the academy students day and night for the past few days was none other than the Empress of the Sun.
And that Taeyanghu escaped from the academy students and happened to meet me.
“Hmm, so that’s how it is.”
Krrrrr!
He stopped the movement of the internal energy he was gathering in his two feet.
“I don’t know where you learned this, but living…”
To be precise, he began to operate the Taeeul Jingyeong in a different way.
From the two feet to the whole body.
The place where the largest amount of internal energy is concentrated is.
Srrrr.
The Red Light Sword held right in the right hand.
I’m not inferior to anyone, either.
Aaaaaaaah!
A terrible killing intent emanates from the red light sword.
Taeyanghu, who had been pounding his chest, recoils and growls, baring his fangs.
No matter what, I can’t hold back on the finishing blow. As soon as I took an offensive stance, the Empress of the Sun rushed in first.
As if knowing how advantageous it is to go first.
Krong!
The flames spewing from the mane moved to the arm and then thrust out a fist.
pop!
Even though I raised the Red Light Sword to block it, the shock was not relieved.
My body floated up and crashed into a tree.
Boom!
What on earth is this destructive power?
I was hit just once, but my insides are shaking violently.
Ugh.
The sturdy trees of the forest were almost completely shattered.
I quickly got up and left the spot, and the tree with its trunk broken fell over, kicking up dust all around.
Boom.
Fortunately, the shock was not as severe as expected.
No, I guess I should say the pain feels a little less.
Even if I use internal energy, I can’t disperse all the pain… Is it thanks to the Geumgangcheong?
With such thoughts, I searched for the Empress Dowager, but she had long since left her original place.
Damn it, ran away……
huh?”
A scorching red fist piercing through the dust.
Pow! Pow!
Just before my ribs were about to shatter as I bounced off a rock and hit a tree, I gritted my teeth, twisted my body, and straightened my posture.
Whoosh.
As I scraped the floor and barely managed to stand up, lifting my head, the Empress Dowager was already sticking her foot right in front of me.
Where the hell did you learn this?!
I grabbed the guy’s ankle and the Yunsingong Lotus
I spread it out and slammed the guy onto the floor.
Ughhh!
As if not particularly shocked, the creature sprang up from the floor, supporting its body with its tail.
Phew, it feels like my body is finally loosening up for the first time in a while.
It’s my turn this time, right?
The Phantom Sword, starting with the Charrrrrrr Great Heaven Sword Technique, blocks the guy’s path and then surrounds him on the left and right.
Tap tap.
The guy, who had been dodging the blade with quick movements, soon realized he was trapped in a net of swords and bared his teeth in frustration.
I didn’t miss a single opportunity.
He immediately switched his sword technique from the Great Heaven Sword Technique to the Twin Heaven Sword Technique and pressured the guy.
Swaaaak, swaaaak, swaaaak.
No matter how fast you are, there is a limit to how fast you can dodge an attack poured out in sheer volume.
Scratches began to appear one by one on his body. ‘His skin is thick.’ Although I was clearly cutting through flesh, the blade could not penetrate properly, as if cutting through a hard paulownia tree.
I completely abandoned my complacency and began to draw out my sword energy.
While the only light around until just now was coming from the creature’s mane, now blue sword energy was rippling in all directions, ferociously targeting its vital points.
The moment I was about to cut off the neck and arms of the guy who was tightly surrounded by sword energy.
The creature’s entire mane turned red and it began to advance forward.
Swish, swish, swish.
I expected him to collapse soon, spewing blood.
Ignoring the small wounds, he narrowly dodged only the large ones and strode closer.
Like a martial artist who knows exactly how to deal with the Illusion Sword and the Face-Changing Sword.
“What the hell is this!”
Even at the moment my mind was running away, heat gathered in the guy’s arm again, and I couldn’t lose my senses.
“If you make it that obvious, there’s no way I wouldn’t know, you rascal!”
I reached out my hand, determined to unleash a spell and slam him to the ground.
puck!
A strong shock shot through my abdomen, and at the same time, a bitter taste surged up to the tip of my throat. ‘H-You’re using a feint?’ Because my body was lifted into the air, I didn’t have time to pay attention to how a mere baby monkey was acting like a human.
Eventually, he unleashed a punch he had gathered his strength for.
bang!
With a huge impact, the body is shot backward like an arrow.
“Cough!”
I felt a little relieved after spitting out a stream of blood.
I quickly pulled out the Flying Dragon Bird and braked my body before hitting the tree.
“Right… so that’s why people keep talking about spirits, spirits.”
Taeyanghu glared at me once again, his arms hanging limply like a beast.
I spat out bloody phlegm while looking at the guy.
“But… now that I’ve come this far, I have no intention of just going back.”
Put all your strength into your legs.
It leaps forward, turning over the surface of the earth.
If he is confident in his strength, I will just settle the matter with speed.
Rustle.
Sure enough, for the first time, I inflicted significant damage on him.
Aaaargh!
Taeyanghu screams as he looks down at his severed finger.
I shook the Red Light Sword to shake off the blood and charged at him again.
The Socheon Sword Technique, having reached its peak, imbues itself with sword energy and penetrates the enemy’s vital point.
“Let’s see if you can block this, too!”
As flames billowed from the mane all over his body, the sharpness of his sword energy dulled once again. ‘What on earth is this harmony?’ With sword energy, he could slice through even the hardest steel like tofu.
The skin of the one engulfed in flames shows absolutely no crack, as if it were made of diamond.
Does that mean we can’t cut it down?
Rustle, rustle, rustle.
The creature’s mane appeared to provide some degree of protection.
However, that alone cannot block the entire sword energy, and to block the sword energy as well, you must gather fire energy just like when throwing a punch.
Whenever he gathered more energy into the vital points he persistently thrust into, I tenaciously cut off pieces of his flesh again and again.
Finally, as blood began to gush from the large and small wounds all over his body, he seemed unable to bear it any longer and started to run away.
“Where are you going!”
His movements as he climbed the trees and traversed the forest were surprisingly agile, but not enough to escape the Heavenly Solitary God. ‘I was scared for nothing.’ As he ran, chasing the tail of flames the creature left behind, the Empress of the Sun’s body suddenly boiled as if about to explode, and in an instant.
Whoosh!
A huge halo of light burst forth, large enough to obscure the view.
My vision was instantly lost to a powerful light attack that stung my eyes, and when I raised my head again after the light had faded, the trace of him had vanished without a trace.
“What on earth is this…….”
Does that make sense? Suddenly hiding?
It’s not like it soared into the sky or sank into the ground.
I quickly started reading the spirit vein.
No matter how much you hide your body, you cannot hide the energy of the spirit veins residing within.
“Huh… You even know how to use natural genitalia?”
The Empress Dowager was sitting crouched not far away.
It is hiding its true form deep within the natural ground.
I deliberately looked around as I spoke.
“Ah, where did it go? I can’t find it at all. I guess I should go back.……”
Saying that, unleash a sword energy attack!
Pow pow pow!
Squeak!
Taeyanghu burst out of the bushes, letting out a monkey-like scream for the first time.
I chased after him again, and I was dumbfounded by the things he was doing.
Every time he picked up a twig and tossed it, his figure would disappear or his path would change.
No, I mean, are you talking about Son Goku?
“At this rate, isn’t he going to use clone techniques too? He knows the path of Mukrim inside and out, and uses the Natural Formation himself to escape from the attacks of natural enemies? If I hadn’t been someone who could read spirit veins, I probably would have missed the Empress of the Sun long ago.”
They say there is almost nothing you can’t achieve by overwhelming the numbers, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t come up with a way to capture the Sun Empress within the Dark Forest without reading the spirit veins.
Moreover, even if one could read it, one had to be able to withstand this overwhelming energy as well.
“Therefore, you are unlucky.”
As the sword energy blazed and tore through the creature’s mane, it let out a scream as if in agony.
Squeak!
I am a fellow who knows how to read spirit veins.
Taeyanghu rolling on the floor with a long wound on his foot.
To completely subdue him, I brought the sword down directly.
Bang!
For the first time, the sun flew away.
It wasn’t as fast as the speed I flew earlier, though.
The guy, who sprang up as soon as he hit the tree and lay flat on the ground, glared at me intently.
It is absolutely ridiculous.
Just as he blocked my escape route, I also blocked his escape route.
They have completed all preparations to behead you immediately if you take even the slightest wrong move.
But this monkey isn’t moving an inch.
As if they knew exactly where I was blocking the way.
“haha…….”
I couldn’t get a clue at all whether I was dealing with an animal or a human.
Of course, even so, nothing changes.
I stepped on the Taeeul Palman Shinbo to create three illusions and distract the guy.
Ukii!
As the guy’s fiery fist exploded into the illusion and missed, I struck him on the head.
The mane of the hand he hurriedly raised shone brightly, but.
“Hmph!”
This time, I’m late.
Boom!
With a loud explosion, Taeyanghu tumbled to the floor.
He tries hard to stand up with a broken arm and injured foot, but he keeps falling down as if his body won’t move as he wants.
Seeing how he didn’t give up his fighting spirit until the very end, he was definitely a spirit creature.
Still, the feeling of regret did not go away.
“If you had just spoken human words, I wouldn’t have gone out of my way to skip the inner pill.”
As I admired him, I guess you could say I thought this could be a huge business hit.
I thought that if I just went around one castle step by step, I could quickly earn about a year’s worth of income for the Daechon Merchant Guild.
But did he understand even what I said? The Empress Dowager gaped as if she were about to speak.
The sight gave me goosebumps for some reason, so I quickly gripped my sword.
I will eat the inner pill well.
Hold the Red Light Sword in reverse grip and strike the guy’s heart.
puck.
With the sound of a rock shattering, Taeyanghu opened his eyes wide.
Swoosh.
As he draws the Red Light Sword, blood gushes out like a fountain through the small wound.
and.
From the mouth of the Empress Dowager, which had been gaping… … .
“W-Heavenly Horse…….”
The words just came out, and I froze on the spot.
“…….”
Uh, how did you do that?
