Radiant Dragon’s Otherworldly Reincarnation - Chapter 277 : Chapter 277
Chapter 277. It Can’t Be (2)
The martial arts of renowned orthodox sects often had distinct characteristics.
Shaolin, Wudang, Namgung Clan, and so on….
The deeper the history of a sect, the more distinct its martial arts.
But among them, if one were to pick the sect with the most distinct characteristics, nine out of ten would choose this sect.
The Mount Hua Sect of Shaanxi.
The Plum Blossom Twenty-Four Hands Sword Art they used had such distinct characteristics that even someone who didn’t know martial arts could look at it and say, ‘Ah, that’s the Mount Hua Sect’s sword art.’
A sword art that ranked within the top five under the heavens in the Jianghu.
Of course, Patrick knew it too.
“Keuk….”
Patrick hastily raised his sword.
He was so surprised that his response was momentarily delayed, and the plum blossom petals were already fluttering into his range.
Each and every one of those was a fatal sword qi.
He could not be careless.
[ Twin Dragons Eight Sword Forms: Fifth Form: Dragon Scale Whirlwind ]
Instantly, he spun intensely on the spot, forming a whirlwind of sword qi to block the plum blossom petals.
The plum blossom petals that hit the vortex crumbled and scattered, and as soon as the strong gust of wind subsided….
“Hah!”
Patrick became a single streak of light and rushed at the unidentified Death Knight.
And the moment Patrick rushed in, the Death Knight’s sword was swung again.
And the plum blossom petals that bloomed along with his sword.
Paaang!
Those petals scattered in vain the moment they were struck by Patrick’s Flashing Dragon Strike.
But….
One, two, four, eight….
The increasing number of plum blossom petals began to block Patrick’s charge.
Peopeopeopeopeong!
The plum blossom petals burst like firecrackers.
But the accumulating plum blossom petals gradually reduced the rushing power of the Flashing Dragon Strike.
In the end….
Peoong!
The charge of the Flashing Dragon Strike stopped.
Patrick’s Flashing Dragon Strike, unable to pierce through the plum blossom petals that had bloomed to fill his vision.
And at the moment Patrick’s feet stopped….
Swiiik.
From between the profusely blooming plum blossom petals, a fatal, violet-hued sword qi extended.
The sharply extending sword qi precisely captured the moment Patrick had stopped.
The weakness of the Flashing Dragon Strike.
It was a fatal swift sword that flew in, aiming for the moment of stiffness that came very briefly right after an attack was blocked.
But….
Spat!
What the sharp sword qi pierced was only Patrick’s afterimage.
It was the divine skill of Form-Shifting Position Change, one of Patrick’s specialties.
It was so perfect that even the unidentified Death Knight could not help but mistake Patrick’s afterimage for his real body.
In the first place, if he hadn’t been able to overcome such an obvious weakness, Patrick wouldn’t have been able to build up a myth of a hundred victories in a hundred battles in the Jianghu.
The Death Knight’s gaze turned to the right.
There, Patrick, with a hardened expression, was looking at the Death Knight and said.
“From Plum Blossoms Gradually… to Plum Blossoms Opening Advantageously…. It seems you’re a genuine Plum Blossom swordsman.”
“……”
“Can you hear me? Is it possible to have a conversation?”
“……”
The opponent simply raised its sword.
At that sight, Patrick closed his eyes, let out a sigh, and then….
“Very well. If words don’t work….”
Patrick took a starting stance and said.
“Let’s converse with our swords, as swordsmen do.”
The next moment, a single streak of light charged towards the profusely blooming plum blossom petals.
***
“What… what is that?”
“Good heavens, what in the world….”
“Is it magic?”
“Are you crazy? What kind of magic is that?”
The forces of the Schneider Duchy, who were watching the battle between Patrick and the Death Knight from a distance, could not close their mouths.
The knights who were about to intervene if necessary, and the Orc warriors who were not lacking in bravery, could only watch blankly.
With every clash between the flower blizzard, so beautiful it captivated the onlookers, and the flashing light, the aftershocks of terrifying destructive power spread in all directions.
Watching that, they couldn’t even get a feel for where and how they should intervene.
“Lady April, would it be possible for you?”
“……”
Normally, if Sanson had said this, April should have replied, ‘I am the vice-captain now. Please speak comfortably, Captain.’
But now, she couldn’t close her mouth and was just staring blankly.
The swordsmanship used by that Death Knight was showing her a sight she had never imagined.
It was beautiful and splendid.
But it was also fatal and intense.
She had thought that the person who was the best with a sword in this world was her beloved Young Master.
Whether it was the Imperial Sword Saint or the Hegemon King of the north, she had thought they couldn’t possibly be stronger than the Young Master.
But that Death Knight’s sword….
‘On par with the Young Master, no… perhaps even more so….’
It was the first time.
That she had lost her heart to a sword other than Patrick’s.
***
Kwaaaang!
After the clash with the Death Knight who had taken the Flashing Dragon Strike head-on.
Patrick lightly created distance and faced his opponent.
“Hoooooo….”
While he lengthened his breath to compose himself, his gaze never missed a single move of his opponent.
The same was true for the opponent.
Though it was a short time, after exchanging about 100 blows, there were two things he could tell.
One, that Death Knight was undoubtedly a Plum Blossom swordsman. It wasn’t that an undead had been made to learn the Plum Blossom Sword Art by some means, but he must have been a master of the Mount Hua Sect who had learned the Plum Blossom Sword Art through repeated training in his lifetime.
Two, he was at least not a Plum Blossom swordsman from the same era as the Radiant Dragon Great Master, Jin Cheon.
‘Absolutely not. If there had been a master of that level, the Mount Hua Sect wouldn’t have been pushed around by those Zhongnan guys back then.’
During the period when Patrick… that is, the Radiant Dragon Great Master, Jin Cheon, was active, the momentum of the Mount Hua Sect had waned a bit.
Although it was listed at the bottom of the Nine Sects, there were no particularly outstanding masters, and its influence was being pushed back by Zhongnan, a fellow Taoist sword sect.
Patrick, who had even crossed swords with the so-called Grand Elder of the Mount Hua Sect in a duel, was certain.
That Death Knight was far stronger than the Grand Elder, who was called the number one sword of Mount Hua of his time.
Therefore, he was definitely not a person who lived in the same era as him.
“I don’t know who you are, but…. I owe the Mount Hua Sect a bit of a debt.”
“……”
“Therefore, I will settle that debt right here.”
During the time when Patrick was collecting the martial arts of various sects to improve the martial arts of the Twin Dragon Sect.
He had learned the Mount Hua Sect’s movement technique, Dark Fragrance Float.
The people of the Mount Hua Sect, highly appreciating the enthusiasm of the Radiant Dragon Great Master, Jin Cheon, willingly….
[Gimme iiiiiit! Oh my, these Taoist guys are so full of greed for martial arts. You can’t even teach me one movement technique?! I even brought the gratitude token of a direct disciple of the Sect Leader, and you still can’t teach meeeeeee! Fellow comrades of the Jianghuuuuu! Mmph mph!]
Well…. He did learn it.
And it was actually a great help.
In the process of improving his footwork by incorporating Dark Fragrance Float, he had become able to perform the unique Form-Shifting Position Change that could be called the specialty of the Radiant Dragon Great Master, Jin Cheon.
So, Patrick felt somewhat indebted to the Mount Hua Sect.
“For a man who is a Taoist by name to become a Jiangshi and have his martial arts used…. It must be a humiliation. A disgrace.”
“……”
“Today, I will liberate you from that yoke.”
And a blue light flashed in Patrick’s eyes.
At the same time, for the first time since his awakening, Patrick released the energy of his middle dantian.
“Heueup!”
The energy that resonated and amplified from the two lower dantians was amplified once more in the middle dantian.
An energy cultivation method that maximized its output by double-resonating the energy.
It didn’t have an official name yet, but….
“Double Booster, or Radiant Dragon Heaven and Earth Primordial Heart Law… is what I’m thinking of calling it.”
Wooooooo…. Kwaaang!
And the energy that was overflowing from Patrick’s body literally exploded.
The aura erupting from his entire body as if exploding was the surplus of energy he hadn’t even managed to control yet.
In that state, Patrick bit his lip hard and said.
‘I won’t be able to do this for long.’
It wasn’t a power he could fully handle yet.
It was a power he had created to skin that damn cat bastard, but whether it would work was a question.
In that sense, this was a good opportunity.
There was a perfect test subject right in front of him.
“Here I come.”
“……”
“I’m really coming.”
“……”
“I’m really, really coming. Got it?”
No matter how emotionless a Death Knight was, this was enough to get pissed off.
At the moment he was about to move his sword first….
Pit.
Patrick was already in front of him.
The Death Knight was also an absolute master, but he had not seen Patrick’s movement at all and had only perceived the result.
A tremendous speed that made even the disturbance in the air feel delayed.
And what followed was….
Kwaaaang!
Destructive power of terrifying might.
The Death Knight, hit by a blow with the destructive power to shatter a small mountain, was sent flying backward.
Kwang! Kwang! Kwaaang!
Flying for dozens of meters, destroying the obstructing buildings in the middle, the Death Knight was sent flying to the outer castle wall and got embedded in it.
The Death Knight was embedded like someone being crucified, but even amidst that shock, he did not let go of his sword.
And….
“Let’s go outside and finish this.”
This time too, Patrick Schneider, who had already approached, said in a small voice.
The Death Knight reflexively tried to swing his sword, but before that, Patrick’s attack was launched once again.
Kwaaaaaaaang!
It was the outer wall of the Schneider Duchy, built much thicker than existing castle walls to withstand the attacks of large monsters.
But Patrick’s attack blew a large hole in such a castle wall and sent the Death Knight flying outside.
“Follow… Follow the Young Master!”
“Hurry! Get outside the outer wall! Quickly!”
The soldiers of the duchy hurriedly followed Patrick and ran outside.
Whether they would be of help or not was secondary; they could not leave Patrick alone.
***
“Indeed…. a face I don’t know.”
The Death Knight’s armor and helmet had been broken by the aftershock of the two attacks.
And Patrick, having confirmed the revealed bare face, nodded his head.
The face and hairstyle were those of a person from the Central Plains, but it was not someone Patrick knew.
But….
“In fact, whether I know you or not, what I have to do doesn’t change. I will now put you at ease.”
Inside the castle walls, he couldn’t use all his power.
But now….
Wooooong.
“This is the end, nameless Plum Blossom swordsman.”
“……”
The Death Knight, seeing the extraordinary power being felt from Patrick’s body, also took a sword form.
The moment he saw the starting stance of raising the sword in front of his chest and placing the index and middle fingers of one hand in the middle of the sword, Patrick’s eyes twitched.
‘He can perform that?’
And the Death Knight made the first move.
Hwaaaaaaaa!
It bloomed, bloomed, bloomed, and bloomed again.
The profusely blooming plum blossom flowers had soon bloomed so much as if to cover the world, and at this moment, what tickled Patrick’s nose was the sweet and cozy fragrance of plum blossoms.
Ten Thousand Li Plum Blossom Fragrance-
The final sword form of the Plum Blossom Twenty-Four Hands.
This fragrance stimulating the tip of his nose now was proof that the swordsman’s intent had transcended the boundaries of reality.
In the Mount Hua Sect of the era Patrick lived in, there was no one who could properly use this form.
The Sect Leader had shown it for demonstration purposes, but in reality, there was no such fragrance, and not even a tenth of these plum blossoms had bloomed.
‘So this is the real Ten Thousand Li Plum Blossom Fragrance.’
He never thought he would get to witness the essence of the Mount Hua Sect, which he hadn’t seen even in his previous life, in this next life, and beyond the wall of worlds at that.
And Patrick responded to it.
[ Twin Dragons Eight Sword Forms: Combined Form: Nine Dragons Wild Dance ]
The nine dragons that spewed out from the tip of Patrick’s sword spread out in all directions and began to run wild ferociously.
The nine dragons, which roughly and violently bit at everything in all directions, pushed back the plum blossoms that had bloomed so thickly as if to cover the world.
And then, they intertwined with each other and became one, falling upon the Death Knight.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!
Terrifying destructive power.
The nine dragons that laid waste to the area might not have been inferior to the final secret art in terms of pure destructive power alone.
Kwaaaaaang!
And when everything was over.
“Hoooooo….”
Patrick closed his eyes, lengthened his breath to compose himself, and gathered the energy of his middle dantian.
“Cough….”
A small cough came out, and blood rose from his throat, but he swallowed it again.
He didn’t want to show a disheveled appearance now.
Patrick, who had sheathed his sword, walked towards the fallen Death Knight.
And then….
“Are you conscious?”
“…You… are?”
“Patr….”
Patrick, who was speaking out of habit, shut his eyes tightly, then extended both hands forward, clasped his fists respectfully to show courtesy, and said.
“I am Jin Cheon, the great disciple of the Twin Dragon Sect. I greet you, senior of the Jianghu.”
