Baek Sowol scanned the person-like thing that was rushing at her as soon as it got up.

As a result of careful observation, although it was clearly a human phenomenon, it did not seem to be alive.

It was like.

'A jiangshi?'

A being that was a corpse but moved.

It was a being that Baek Sowol had only heard of in rumors close to ghost stories, not knowing if it actually existed.

An unnatural body, and in contrast, a hard body that seemed to be striking an iron plate.

Whoosh!

Baek Sowol twisted her body and avoided the arm that the jiangshi swung.

Kwaang!

At that, the jiangshi's arm smashed the side building and was swung.

The hardness, as if swinging an iron lump, and the unconventional power and speed that could not be thought of as a corpse.

It was a threatening being to any ordinary martial artist.

But.

'I can do it.'

Baek Sowol did not fall into the category of ordinary.

She drew her sword at the jiangshi, which was twisting its body bizarrely and swinging its arms at her.

Kwaang!

Although the sword and the arm collided, an explosive sound as if a thunderbolt had exploded spread out.

A situation where it was difficult to read because of the bizarre movements, but it was a situation that could be sufficiently deflected.

'But it's no use deflecting.'

The jiangshi showed bizarre movements regardless of whether its own bones were twisted or not.

A situation where she didn't know how a counterattack would come in if she deflected here.

"Then I'll push you!"

Baek Sowol kicked off the ground.

She had pushed away even a being with stronger power than herself before, and the current opponent was not to that extent.

In an instant, the jiangshi's arm was pushed away, and its balance was disturbed.

Baek Sowol did not miss the opportunity and stretched out her right foot imbued with internal energy, kicking the jiangshi's abdomen.

As the jiangshi's feet left the ground and it was about to fly away, Baek Sowol kicked off the ground again.

At the same time, she firmly gripped the White Iron Blue Autumn in her hand and swung it at the moment she almost touched the jiangshi.

Slice.

A fine line was drawn on the neck of the jiangshi, which was as hard as an iron plate, and it fell off.

Having passed the jiangshi's body, Baek Sowol immediately corrected her posture and turned around in an instant.

"Phew."

Looking at the decapitated jiangshi, Baek Sowol, who thought it was over and approached.

Shiiiik!

At that moment, with a sound as if a rough wind was leaking from a narrow space, the jiangshi raised its body and rotated.

Since Baek Sowol had not expected at all that the decapitated opponent would get up, her reaction was late.

The jiangshi's arm approached Baek Sowol in an instant, and Baek Sowol raised her arm and blocked it.

"Ugh!"

Baek Sowol's body floated up.

Before being slammed into the wall as she flew away, Baek Sowol corrected her posture, kicked the wall, and left the spot.

Kwaang!

The jiangshi charged at the wall that Baek Sowol had left, and the wall was shattered as if a huge boar had rammed into it.

Crack!

The building itself completely collapsed.

As a very short gap was created, Baek Sowol checked the condition of the arm she had been hit with earlier.

'Ugh, it hurts. I definitely protected my body with internal energy.'

An arm that was swollen as if it had been directly hit by an iron plate.

Although Baek Sowol was not an excellent external martial arts master, she had definitely raised her internal energy and blocked it, but her arm had not received the protection of her internal energy at all.

'Does that jiangshi have the ability to nullify internal energy or something?'

In the fleeting moment that Baek Sowol was checking her own condition, the headless jiangshi raised its body from the place where the building had collapsed and dust was rising.

Although it had no eye sockets, as if it had somehow found where Baek Sowol was, the jiangshi twisted its body unnaturally and rushed at Baek Sowol.

Shiiiik!

A bizarre wind sound continued to leak from the neck where the head had been cut off.

Baek Sowol glared at the rushing jiangshi and took a ready stance.

Although her arm was swollen, since it was not broken, there was no problem in moving.

'Phew, let's calm down. Ju Wol-lyang said that my tendency to get upset easily is a fatal flaw.'

Recalling Ju Wol-lyang's words, Baek Sowol calmly looked at the rushing jiangshi.

'I'm somewhat used to that bizarre movement. Let's receive the attack and then use that movement to cut off its arm.'

At that moment, her master Baek Yoonjun's words suddenly came to her mind.

-Sigh, why can't you do that? You can just do it by looking with your eyes... Is this difficult?

Upset.

Baek Sowol was momentarily upset.

'Why am I taking something that's not even a person seriously?'

And that upset feeling was directed at the jiangshi in front of her.

A light was imbued in Baek Sowol's sword.

However, unlike the starlight of other martial artists, it was a deep blood-red color.

Holding the sword imbued with a blood-red light that seemed to give off a bloody scent, Baek Sowol rushed at the jiangshi.

The jiangshi twisted its body bizarrely again.

Although its arm came at Baek Sowol like a whip, Baek Sowol rushed at that arm and swung her sword.

Crack!

With a sound as if she had struck it with a club, not a cutting sound, one of the jiangshi's arms was torn off, but as if it had not received any damage at all, the jiangshi rotated its body, and its remaining arm came at Baek Sowol.

A situation where it was too late to retrieve the sword and defend.

Baek Sowol charged as she was.

Kwaang!

She slammed her forehead into the arm that was being swung at her.

At the same time, she kicked off the ground and rammed into it with all her might with her shoulder.

Although the jiangshi was moving in a state that had deviated from a human, it was a being that was clearly standing on the ground.

In an instant, the jiangshi's form collapsed.

Even as it collapsed, it stretched its foot towards Baek Sowol, and the power imbued in it was not ordinary.

Although Baek Sowol could have sufficiently avoided it, she did not avoid it and instead stretched out her arm, leaning her body forward.

Having grabbed the foot, Baek Sowol stretched out her own foot in that state and kicked the jiangshi with all her might.

Kwa-deuk.

Since she had kicked it while holding its foot, the jiangshi did not fly away, and Baek Sowol, in the state of having kicked it, poured her internal energy into her foot and pushed the jiangshi away.

Kwa-deu-deuk.

The foot of the jiangshi that Baek Sowol had grabbed was torn off.

Tossing the torn foot to the side, Baek Sowol charged at the jiangshi, which had completely lost its balance and had fallen to the ground.

Grabbing the collar of the jiangshi, which was in a tattered state, Baek Sowol slammed the jiangshi's body into the ground.

Kwaang!

The ground caved in, and the jiangshi's form bounced up.

Baek Sowol raised her foot and stomped down with all her might on the remaining foot of the bouncing jiangshi.

Crack!

The part of the foot that Baek Sowol had stomped on exploded as if a thunderbolt had exploded from within.

If it had been a person, he would have already lost consciousness from the pain and let go of his life, but the jiangshi swung its remaining arm at Baek Sowol.

"You're still moving?"

Without much thought, Baek Sowol stabbed her sword into the swinging arm and pressed down on the jiangshi's torso with her foot.

Although the body of the jiangshi, whose remaining arm was pinned to the ground like an insect specimen, continued to flinch and resist, it could not escape from Baek Sowol's foot, which was pressing down with a lot of internal energy.

Crack.

Baek Sowol's foot, which was placed on the jiangshi's abdomen, began to dig into the jiangshi's body little by little.

Fine cracks began to form on the jiangshi's body, which was like steel.

The surrounding ground also could not withstand the effect and began to crack and then began to sink.

Baek Sowol looked down at such a scene.

Her black pupils were so dark that they looked like a deep blood-red color.

Crack.

Baek Sowol's foot was completely buried in the jiangshi's body, and the surroundings collapsed.

At the same time, the tough jiangshi's body also stopped moving.

"Did it finally stop?"

Pulling out her foot, Baek Sowol brushed off the attached flesh and blood.

The jiangshi was completely shattered to the point where it was unrecognizable that it had been in the shape of a person.

'To think it would continue to move unless it was to this extent. What on earth...'

It was a very bizarre being.

A being that moved even if its head was gone and its limbs were torn off, a being that could not be seen as a living creature at all.

No matter how much it was a jiangshi that would only appear in ghost stories, this was too bizarre.

"Phew."

Having confirmed the jiangshi's state, Baek Sowol regulated her breathing, sheathed her sword, and reviewed the recent battle.

Although she had rushed in because she was upset, Baek Sowol's judgment had not been wrong.

Since it moved even if it was damaged and moved unpredictably, she had judged that it was better to fight it head-on like just now.

And so, as Baek Sowol judged that the battle was over and was letting her guard down for a moment.

"Geu-oh-oh-oh."

"Geu-reu-reuk."

The corpses in the village began to raise their bodies.

Although they had been ordinary corpses until just now, they began to raise their bodies with bizarre movements like the jiangshi.

"Damn it."

Sensing that it was not over, Baek Sowol drew her sword.

The number of rising corpses was at least several dozen.

'Isn't this something that even Master can't solve if he comes?'

As Baek Sowol was confronting the corpses with a deep sense of anxiety.

Baek Yoonjun's party had arrived in Sichuan and was encountering similar beings.

* * *

At the end of a long journey, Baek Yoonjun's party reached the vicinity of Sichuan.

'It was long.'

Baek Yoonjun was deeply moved.

'I want to go home.'

And he wanted to go back home and be cooped up in a corner of his room.

'Let's finish it quickly.'

Baek Yoonjun recalled what he had to do.

After gathering information through Hong Yungae, he would find Zhuge Hyun's whereabouts.

Then, through Zhuge Hyun, he would find Baek Sowol's whereabouts and have Baek Sowol and Zhuge Hwaryeong, who was for some reason still dressed as a man, meet.

Baek Yoonjun had originally thought of stealthily slipping away around now, when they had almost reached Sichuan.

'Still, since I've taken on Yungae and Hwaryeong as disciples in a roundabout way, I have to do what I can.'

For Baek Yoonjun, he had made up his mind firmly.

'If it doesn't work, then it doesn't.'

Of course, it was only by Baek Yoonjun's standards.

And so, a trial came to such a Baek Yoonjun.

Sichuan.

A place with a crazy number of people.

To Baek Yoonjun, the born homebody introvert, it was a demonic realm where all sorts of dangers and hardships awaited.

But he still had to go.

'For now, since Yungae and Hwaryeong will do all the work, I should just stealthily go in and see Yuhwa. But that brat Yuhwa...'

Recalling Tang Yuhwa, Baek Yoonjun flinched.

It was because the memory of the night before Tang Yuhwa had left the mountain was so strong.

'Now that I think about it, isn't coveting a master a crime of deceiving the master and destroying the ancestors? What on earth is Yuhwa thinking? Is there no such concept here? No, it's because of what that brat said that I even thought of the crime of deceiving the master and destroying the ancestors.'

Although the crime of deceiving the master and destroying the ancestors was a heinous crime such as deceiving a master and plotting a conspiracy, since Baek Yoonjun did not have that much knowledge, he was accepting it appropriately to his own convenience.

'It's a little much, but since Yuhwa is also a disciple, I should go and see her.'

This time too, Baek Yoonjun had made up his mind.

'Should I just go home?'

Although it was only by Baek Yoonjun's standards.

And so, while Baek Yoonjun was having an internal conflict, Sichuan got closer.

'Hmm? What? What is this unpleasant aura?'

Although Baek Yoonjun usually controlled his senses to a minimum, since he had been careless in coordinating his senses while thinking about the problem with Tang Yuhwa for a moment, his senses had spread quite widely.

Although he would have been startled if he had realized it normally, this time, he couldn't mind it because of the strange sensation caught in his senses.

'It's strangely familiar.'

Feeling a strange uncomfortable, Baek Yoonjun got up from his seat.

"Brother Baek, where are you going?"

"Master, where are you going?"

As Baek Yoonjun got up from his seat, Zhuge Hwaryeong and Zhang Sanfeng asked, and Baek Yoonjun answered by raising his hand.

"I'll just go and look around for a moment."

Saying so, Baek Yoonjun came out of the carriage and moved his feet to a suitable place nearby.

'This should be about right.'

Having found a suitable spot, Baek Yoonjun focused on his senses.

Then he focused his senses on one place.

At that, that place began to be seen like a video in his head.

Baek Yoonjun's so-called, unique third-person sense.

The place where Baek Yoonjun had focused his senses was vividly seen like a video in his head.

"Kraaaaaa!!"

"Ah! You scared me!!" 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

Startled by the bizarre human form that was rampaging, Baek Yoonjun swung his hand, which was filled with a lot of internal energy.

Splat!

At that, the bizarre human form in Baek Yoonjun's mental image was crushed against the city wall.

It was a shape like a fly crushed by a fly swatter.

"Wh-what? I think I've seen it somewhere."

Baek Yoonjun focused on his senses again.

"Kraaaaaa!!"

"Ugh!"

Moving his internal energy, Baek Yoonjun swung his arm and crushed the rampaging being again.

As he crushed it, he examined it carefully with his senses and was able to know its identity.

'Isn't this the zombie that moves even if its head is blown off, which I saw with Brother Zhang?'

The being that Baek Yoonjun called a zombie by his standards had a very strong life force, but as he continued to press it down with his internal energy, it became completely flat and stopped its activities.

'Why is this in Sichuan? No, that's not important, but by the way, here...'

In the mind of Baek Yoonjun, who was flustered by the unexpected reunion, a being came to mind.

'Yuhwa!!'

Although Sichuan was bothersome, since he was more worried about Tang Yuhwa's well-being, Baek Yoonjun kicked off the ground.

At the same time, he did not forget the long-distance speech transmission that he had learned through the Three Talents Heavenly Record.

To be precise, although there was a proper name called sound transmission, since it was a technique that few other than Baek Yoonjun could use, he didn't care about the name.

-I'll go to Sichuan first, so follow me carefully.

Although the people in the carriage were surprised to hear Baek Yoonjun's sound transmission and looked around, Baek Yoonjun did not have time to mind such trivial matters now.

And so, what came into the eyes of Baek Yoonjun, who had arrived in Sichuan in an instant with his extreme lightness skill, was.

'Did a war break out or something?!'

A sight reminiscent of a battlefield.

(End of Chapter)