Chapter 324 Sun Wu Xi, Wu Nan Xue

Chapter 324: Sun Wu Xi, Wu Nan Xue

That was it.

Just as Wei Zhengguo had thought, they were the warriors of the Six Harmonies Sword Technique, specifically the Pacheon Trio that Sun Wu Jin had possessed.

The ones Wei Zhengguo had sent long ago to deal with Inparang of Haenam…

Those who had been reported dead by the Holy Maiden back then had appeared here, perfectly unharmed.

Wei Zhengguo simply could not comprehend this situation.

Not only was the fact that those declared dead had returned alive incomprehensible, but the very form in which they were wielding their swords was equally baffling.

Wei Zhenggu muttered blankly.

“Five of them? How?”

Originally, the Six-Combination Sword Technique was a technique where one core member at the center must move the other five members like limbs.

Yet despite the absence of the central core, the remaining members moved as one body.

He couldn’t understand how that was possible.

Puff!

“Gah!”

But while he pondered this, another master of the Hyeongsan Sect fell victim to the Six Harmonies Sword Formation.

Only then did Wei Zhengguo snap back to his senses.

Now was not the time to be curious about them.

But the moment he realized it, the balance had already been shattered.

The situation had reversed in an instant after two men died from the Six-Combination Sword Technique.

“Hahahahaha!”

Thud!

“Gah!”

In an instant, the spear of the Ganjak-hyeong pierced through the chest of one of the Hyeongsan-pa warriors.

With one of the flanking attackers gone, the remaining warrior couldn’t handle Gan Zhaoxing alone.

Moreover, that was only the beginning.

Shhhhh!

Puhwaak!

Simultaneously, on the other side, Bai Qiliang’s swift blade severed another man’s head.

On another side, another elder was skewered by the Sixfold Sword Swordsmen.

Wei Zhengguo couldn’t regain his composure.

Once the balance was broken, the masters on his side were collapsing far too quickly.

Only the formation differed; it was exactly as he had imagined earlier.

Wei Zhenggu muttered, his face blank with disbelief.

“This… this can’t be…”

At that moment, his eyes caught sight of Seolpung slowly approaching.

Now, a composed smile formed on his face.

Wei Zhengguo suddenly looked around frantically.

But now there was no one left to support him.

The elders who had been fed the Bloodlust Pill were already all dying helplessly.

It was an utterly absurd situation.

He gritted his teeth.

Grit!

It was then.

Seolpung suddenly addressed him.

“How does it feel? To be brought down by your own wicked deeds?”

At that, Wi Jeong-guk shouted convulsively.

“Don’t make me laugh! You dare accuse me of creating the Real Marriage? But weren’t you the ones who exploited the Real Marriages?! Look at Hyeongsan’s disciples! They are the very Real Marriages, the Six Harmonies…!”

Wei Zhengguo pointed at the Six Harmonies Sword Masters of the Three Sovereigns with his finger and gritted his teeth.

He intended to latch onto them and try to stir the Xingshan Sect warriors once more.

But his words couldn’t be finished.

Unbelievably, one of the Six-Combination Sword Masters, whom he had thought was a real husband, shouted with a furious expression.

“Who the hell are you calling a fake, Wei Zhenggu?!”

Startled, Wei Zhengguo could only stop mid-sentence, his mouth agape.

It was absolutely impossible for the Six-Combination Sword Masters, whom he had clearly made into real brides, to speak with such expressions.

But the other person’s words didn’t end there.

The Six Harmonies Sword Master continued shouting in an enraged voice.

“I cooperated with you out of love for Hyeongsan, yet you turned us into ghosts! Had we not been saved by them, wouldn’t even the friends I persuaded have become eternal ghosts?! I trusted a scoundrel like you as the head of the sect…!”

It was then.

Another member of the Six Harmonies Sword Sect, standing beside him, placed a hand on his shoulder and spoke gently.

“It’s not your fault, Jaseong. Stop blaming yourself now.”

The swordsman, who had been about to shout, sighed and lowered his head.

Other members of the Six Harmonies Sword Sect approached him and warmly patted him on the shoulder.

In truth, they were not yet fully recovered.

The poison still lingered within their bodies, and it was precisely because of that poison that Seonwoo Jin could move them as the Six Harmonies Sword Formation.

However, unlike the previous Bankrupt Clan, who had to be overwritten with entirely different memories, Seonwoo Jin chose to restore actual memories that had existed within them.

He judged this acceptable because the evil deeds of the Wei Junguk faction had been exposed for all to see.

But there was no way Wei Jung-guk could have known they were not in a fully recovered state.

To him, it seemed as though they had fully recovered, which meant there were now even more witnesses to testify against his misdeeds.

Now, any chance of turning the tables had vanished completely.

‘This… can’t… be…’

Wei Jung-guk stared at them with trembling eyes.

Everything was truly over.

But even though everything was over, he did not stop.

His eyes filled with venom once more as he turned his head to look behind him.

Directly toward Sun Moo-hee and Woo Nan-seol.

He chuckled softly and muttered.

“In the end, I’ll become the fallen Overlord who died alongside Woohee. Perhaps it was decided the moment she became my woman?”

It seemed that he and Wunanseol were destined to meet the same fate as Wuhee, who had died in the arms of the fallen Xiang Yu.

As this thought crossed his mind, Wei Zhengguo suddenly lunged toward her.

“Come with me, Wu Xi!”

His sword thrust toward Wu Nanshu.

The distance and the opposite direction meant even as a master swordsman, Seolpung couldn’t intervene.

And she, barely at the threshold of her peak, couldn’t dodge Wei Zhengguo’s sword either.

The startled bystanders let out a cry of alarm.

“Whoa?!”

“Oh no!”

As everyone watched helplessly, the sword of the ruler pierced toward the chest of the black-clad figure like lightning.

***

Woo Nan-seol stared expressionlessly at the sword thrust toward him by Wei Zhengguo.

And he thought.

‘It’s okay. I knew this would happen.’

Truthfully, she had already prepared herself for death the moment she first resolved to become Wei Jung-guk’s woman.

It was a mission to infiltrate the heart of enemy territory, gather intelligence, and deliver it. Without risking her life, it was simply impossible to attempt.

Moreover, it was that mindset that allowed her to endure even as she lay with the man she despised.

After all, she thought her body was already dead.

Of course, even so, every single day felt like hell.

No matter how much she tried to convince herself she had given up on herself, accepting the situation of being that man’s plaything while fully conscious was too cruel for her as a woman.

So dying here meant she could finally escape that hell.

Somehow, she felt a little relieved.

She closed her eyes softly and thought.

‘Still, it’s a relief. To die while watching that bastard fall.’

Then she thought of her sister.

‘We’ll meet again soon, sister.’

It was at that moment.

The sound that reached her ears, as she waited for the sensation of the sword piercing her body, was quite different from what she had expected.

Clang!

‘Huh?’

Startled by the completely unexpected sound, she opened her eyes.

What met her eyes was the back of a man clad in black.

Someone had stepped in front of her and parried the sword of the Minister of State.

Beyond that back, she could see Wijeongguk staring this way with a look of utter shock.

Though he couldn’t tell who it was, it seemed the man in black before him had deflected the sword of Wei Zhengguo, one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Masters.

Wunanxue suddenly thought.

‘Perhaps…’

Perhaps he could survive after all.

He wouldn’t have to die carrying only those filthy memories.

Somehow, tears threatened to well up at the sight of that broad back shielding him.

***

Seon Woo-jin had actually been paying attention to Woo Nan-seol from the very beginning.

He had heard about the obsession of the royal court toward her from Jeong Mi-hee, who had served as her maid.

Jeong Mi-hee, who had relayed her whereabouts and current situation, tearfully pleaded with Seon Woo-jin.

‘Please save Lady Woo, my sister. You absolutely must not let her fall victim to that man.’

Therefore, Seon Woo-jin had been continuously observing the state of the Weizheng Kingdom since the battle between the supreme masters began.

And the moment his composure was shattered by the Six Harmonies Sword Masters he had deployed, he was able to approach her side while concealed.

Wei Zhengguo shouted with eyes blazing with fury.

“You bastard! Get out of the way in front of my woman!”

Wei Jung-guk felt like charging in immediately and slicing the bastard to pieces.

But he couldn’t move recklessly.

The unknown technique that had appeared before him in an instant, and the absurdly swift swordplay that had easily deflected his blade, both seemed far from easy to handle.

He could instinctively sense it.

The opponent before him was by no means inferior to himself…

At that moment, Seon Woo-jin chuckled and retorted.

“You’re a fool to the very end. Who says she’s your woman? Young Master Woo was never your woman, not even for a single moment.”

At those words, Wi Jeong-guk’s face twisted in anger.

How dare he say she wasn’t his woman? That was utter nonsense.

Woo Nansul was his own, perfect possession above all else.

An enraged Wei Zhengguo bellowed.

“What the hell are you talking about?! She’s my woman! Mine and mine alone!”

Shaking his head at the outburst, Seon Woo-jin sneered at him with a bitter smile.

Then, looking at Woo Nanseol, he asked.

“Would you care to tell us yourself, young lady? What this man means to you.”

Woo Nanseol stared blankly at Seon Woo-jin’s face, which was fixed on her.

He was a stranger to her.

Moreover, he was far younger and more handsome than she had anticipated.

His eyes were telling her.

It’s okay now.

That she could trust him and tell him the truth.

Whatever she said, he could handle it.

For the first time in years, she felt a sense of trust, as if she could finally rely on someone.

Then her face twisted unbearably.

The sorrow she had suppressed all this time burst forth in an instant.

Woo Nanseol screamed as if in agony.

“Me, your woman?! Don’t make me laugh! I hate you! No, I despise you! Not a single moment has passed when I didn’t hate you! If I could, I’d tear you to shreds! Every single day! Not a single day! Not a single moment went by without me thinking that! Because of you, because of you…!”

Tears streamed down Unan Seol’s face.

They were deep tears, the pent-up sorrow of all this time welling up inside her.

Seon Woo-jin, who had been looking at her with a sorrowful expression, gently took her shoulder and comforted her.

“It’s alright, Lady Woo. It’s all over now. You’ve endured so much these past years. It’s all thanks to you that we could bring that man down.”

At those words, Wu Nanshu finally broke down in tears.

The comforting words that she was alright, the assurance that it was all over, the acknowledgment that it was thanks to her—none of it could have struck her heart so deeply.

“Waaah!”

She buried her face in her hands and wept uncontrollably.

Seon Woo-jin gently patted her shoulders.

Meanwhile, Wi Jeong-guk stared at Woo Nan-seol with a dazed expression.

He couldn’t believe she had said those words to him.

That was it.

I couldn’t believe it at all.

She was his.

She had to be his.

There was no way she would say something like that to him.

With that thought, Wi Jeong-guk’s eyes suddenly turned back to Seon Woo-jin.

Then his eyes began to fill with madness.

‘Because of that bastard…!’

Wei Jung-guk believed all of this was Sun Woo-jin’s fault.

That bastard was the reason Woo Nan-seol had said those things.

Therefore, if he killed that bastard, she would undoubtedly return to him.

Wei Jung-guk’s eyes now glared at Seon Woo-jin’s back as if they could pierce through it.

His gaze happened to be fixed on Woonan Seol at that very moment.

‘You bastard!’

Wei Zhengguo couldn’t hold back any longer and lunged forward like lightning.

Thud!

And he thrust his sword.

It was aimed at Seon Woo-jin’s back.

Shhhhhhh!

Seeing this, the others let out a cry of alarm.

“Oh no!”

“No!”

It was at that very moment.

Without even turning back, Seon Woo-jin’s Moolrang Sword naturally slashed at Wi Jeong-guk’s sword.

It was another flash of the Dragon Sword Technique, a swift strike barely visible to the eye.

Clang!

“Guh!”

After deflecting his sword, Wi Jeong-guk swallowed hard at the sight of Seon Woo-jin calmly turning his head to look at him with serene eyes.

He had clearly been facing away, yet he couldn’t fathom how someone could do such a thing.

Today, inexplicable events kept unfolding one after another.

Then Seon Woo-jin spoke with an expressionless face.

“Don’t rush. Unfortunately, I’m not your opponent.”

“…What?”

Woo Jung-kook realized Seon Woo-jin’s gaze was fixed behind him.

He suddenly turned his head.

Then, a sturdy young man in a crimson robe caught his eye, striding toward him.

It was Seolpung.

He approached the government office, radiating a fierce aura like a tiger.

“These bastards…”

Wei Jung-guk gritted his teeth.

He could instinctively sense that both Sunwoojin ahead and Seolpung behind were formidable foes.

Now he had to face such men alone.

Wei Jung-guk despaired.

He could clearly see now that everything was truly over.

“Ha, ha ha ha.”

He let his sword hang limply at his side, bowed his head deeply, and let out a hollow laugh.

He appeared to have completely lost the will to resist.

Seeing this, Seolpung suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Seon Woo-jin sensed something was amiss and signaled to Seolpung, but he shook his head slightly.

It meant to leave him be.

It was at that moment.

A sudden laugh echoed through the air.

“Ehehehehe…”

It was Wi Jeong-guk.

He had suddenly started laughing like a madman.

Just as Seolpung frowned at that bizarre sight,

Wei Zhengguo suddenly pulled out a black pill and popped it into his mouth.

It was the Bloodlust Pill.