When the Spear Demon vomited blood and died, Dang Hong hurriedly approached Dang Myeong.
“Never do something like this again.”
“Of course. I also know this kind of action is dangerous.”
As he spoke, Dang Myeong shook out his wrist, and the silver thread quickly wound itself back into Silver Dragon Heavenly River.
Watching that, Dang Hong said, “Did you lay Silver Dragon on the ground in advance?”
“The Spear Demon is a peak realm expert skilled in chaotic melee, so he responded well to hidden weapons. In that case, I thought I would need a sudden hidden-weapon attack, so I released Silver Dragon in advance and laid it across the ground.”
As he spoke, Dang Myeong ran his hand over Silver Dragon Heavenly River. When the Spear Demon entered range, he had poured internal energy through the silver thread and burst the ground.
Dang Myeong turned his head and looked at the battlefield. Of the thirty Evil Fiends who had invaded the Tang Clan, around ten still survived.
But the problem was that they were overwhelmingly powerful peak realm experts. Against those peak realm experts, Tang Clan experts were vomiting blood and collapsing.
The only ones enduring against them were the Unit Commanders of the five units. The rest were attacking in formations of four or five.
“We need to create a Field of Fire...... but there is no space to construct one.”
At Dang Myeong’s murmur, Dang Hong nodded.
“They fear the main house’s hidden weapons as well, so they are not giving us distance.”
Without leaving distance, the Evil Fiends were engaging in individual battles within the chaotic melee. Once it became a chaotic melee, the Tang Clan’s experts could not use their hidden weapons freely. After all, they might strike their own allies.
And they had the skill to endure even while receiving encircling attacks from the Tang Clan experts in that melee.
That was why they were leading the battle into a chaotic melee.
Dang Myeong glanced at Dang Miryeong.
Dang Miryeong was fighting a bald old man.
‘Aunt is at a disadvantage in a one-on-one fight. Better instead......’
Dang Myeong turned his head and looked at one of the Secret Serpent Unit members nearby.
“Uncle Dang Cheongi.”
“By your command.”
“Can you block the one fighting Unit Commander Miryeong?”
Dang Cheongi was the Vice Commander of the Secret Serpent Unit and a peak realm expert.
“But if I go, your guard, Clan Lord......”
In the Tang Clan, which lacked peak realm experts, it would be difficult to protect Dang Myeong if those Evil Fiends targeted him.
“If you follow my order, then I too will do everything I can to survive.”
At Dang Myeong’s words, Dang Cheongi performed a Cupped-Fist Salute and said, “I will carry it out with my life on the line.”
Then Dang Cheongi undid the tie of his long robe and took it off, and the Secret Serpent Unit member behind him held out a new long robe.
Dang Cheongi took the long robe and launched himself toward where Dang Miryeong was.
PAAT!
When Dang Cheongi joined in, Dang Miryeong’s face brightened, and she swiftly threw hidden weapons.
PAPAPAT!
“Ha ha ha! Tang Clan bastards, cowardly tricks really do suit you!”
At the bald old man’s provocation, Dang Miryeong paid no attention and only attacked.
[The Clan Lord has given an order.]
At Dang Cheongi’s voice transmission, Dang Miryeong glanced toward Dang Myeong.
[Please withdraw and keep all the enemies in check.]
At Dang Myeong’s voice transmission, Dang Miryeong flinched, then kicked off the ground and hurriedly retreated while sending a hand signal.
Then several members of the Flat Bat Unit who had been attacking the Evil Fiends left the battlefield and took positions throughout the area. Dang Miryeong kicked off the ground, touched the shoulder of one unit member, and began swiftly crossing the battlefield.
PAPAPAT! PAPAT!
As Dang Miryeong flew by stepping on the shoulders of the Flat Bat Unit members stationed throughout the field, hidden weapons flashed one after another from her hands.
“What?”
“Hidden weapons! It’s Heavenly Net Fairy’s hidden weapons!”
With that, a change occurred on the battlefield. Dang Miryeong’s hidden-weapon technique was the finest in the Tang Clan; her hidden weapons swam through the air as if alive and shot forth like lightning.
Dang Miryeong roamed every corner of the battlefield while stepping on the shoulders of the Flat Bat Unit members.
Her hidden weapons saved Tang Clan experts in danger, and because of her hidden weapons, the Evil Fiends became passive.
After all, if they let their guard down against hidden weapon attacks they could normally block, dangerous hidden weapons would come flying.
Moreover, the fact that the hidden weapons were coated with poison was also a problem.
Contrary to what those Five Poison Devils had boasted, the Tang Clan’s poison poisoned the Evil Fiends.
The corpses of the Evil Fiends who had failed to evade the hidden weapons and were struck were proof of that.
Even a single wound could cost them their lives. That was why the Evil Fiends’ nerves had no choice but to grow extremely sharp.
And conversely, because of that, the Evil Fiends did not have even a single wound on their bodies despite the fierce battle.
“The ground! Watch the ground!”
At one Evil Fiend’s shout, the Evil Fiends’ gazes quickly swept downward. And their faces hardened.
The hundreds, thousands of hidden weapons thrown by the Tang Clan experts were already scattered chaotically across the ground.
That meant the Evil Fiends had to watch their footing while fighting as well.
If they stepped wrong on even one and were wounded, they would be poisoned immediately.
‘Are the Tang Clan’s hidden weapons truly bottomless?’
‘Hidden weapons enough to fill the ground......’
The Evil Fiends now felt a little afraid. Though they were terrifying Evil Fiends, they were also people who had hidden all this time because they feared the Tang Clan.
They had come to take revenge after hearing that the Tang Clan’s elders and Clan Lord had been massacred.
But now that they had arrived...... it was different from what they had thought. It was true that the Tang Clan lacked peak realm experts.
The problem was that the Tang Clan had brought out forbidden hidden weapons and poisons. That was also why the Five Poison Devils, who had told them not to worry about the Tang Clan’s poison, had died immediately.
‘Those idiot Five Poison Devils!’
Enraged that the bastards who had told them not to worry about the Tang Clan’s poison had died at once, the Evil Fiends kicked off the ground in an instant.
PAAT!
And the Evil Fiends began leaving the battlefield and fleeing.
To them, their own lives were more important than revenge. That was why they had hidden despite possessing peak Martial Prowess.
Moreover, there was no loyalty among Evil Fiends to protect one another. The fact that the moment one fled, the others kicked off the ground at the same time proved as much.
When the Evil Fiends left the battlefield and fled, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s face filled with rage.
“You stupid bastards!”
With that shout, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon hurriedly twisted his waist.
PAPAPAT!
A Golden Butterfly swiftly grazed past his side. As the Golden Butterfly brushed by, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon hurriedly launched himself sideways.
“You cowardly Tang Clan bastards!”
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon spat curses and glared at Dang Song.
Dang Song was glaring at him with a Golden Butterfly Flower in each hand.
“You bastard, you are lucky! Next time, I will make certain to kill you!”
At the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s shout, Dang Song looked at him and said, “You are the unlucky one. You will not leave this place!”
“As if!”
With that shout, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s saber moved forcefully.
RUMBLE!
With a sound like thunder, Saber Aura burst toward Dang Song.
In response, Dang Song pulled his body back and swung the Golden Butterfly Flowers.
FLUTTER! FLUTTER!
At the movement of the Golden Butterfly Flowers, Golden Butterflies beat their wings wildly and flew toward the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon.
“Damn it! Golden Butterflies!”
With that shout, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon swung his saber.
RUMBLE! RUMBLE!
Against the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s Saber Aura, the Golden Butterflies beat their wings violently and moved. It was as if they were evading the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s Saber Aura on their own as they began climbing against that force.
At that, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon spat a curse.
“Damn Golden Butterflies!”
This was precisely why the Golden Butterflies were frightening.
The Golden Butterflies rode energy and climbed against it. Whether saber energy or palm force, when energy flew toward them, they rode that energy and climbed upstream.
That was what made the Golden Butterflies frightening.
Spitting curses, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon twisted his body and evaded the Golden Butterflies climbing up along his energy.
But that was not the end of it. In the place where the Golden Butterflies passed, purple Poison Powder drifted through the air.
The Golden Butterfly Flower was a problem, but that Dantian-Sealing Poison was also a problem. Martial artists circulated their internal energy through their breathing.
But because of that Dantian-Sealing Poison, he could not breathe freely. Moreover......
PAPAPAT!
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon hurriedly turned his head to the side.
The moment he turned his head, several strands of Ox-Hair Needles brushed past his hair and vanished.
On top of that, Dang Miryeong’s hidden weapons kept flying in, aiming for his openings whenever they appeared......
Glance!
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon looked at the Tang Clan experts. The Tang Clan experts were surrounding him from a distance and scattering something like powder into the air.
Once the Evil Fiends they had been facing fled, all of the Tang Clan experts were approaching the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon.
At that sight, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s face twisted. The Tang Clan experts were currently scattering poison around him.
Moreover...... the range over which the Tang Clan experts were scattering poison was gradually narrowing toward him.
‘I have to flee.’
Hidden weapons could be dodged or broken. But poison was different.
If they began scattering a poison that poisoned him merely by touching his skin, there would be no time to flee.
He had to escape before the poison encirclement was complete.
“Haaat!”
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon swung a powerful Saber Aura at the Golden Butterfly Flower flying toward him, then shot backward at high speed.
“Old man! You are lucky!”
At the sight of the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon swiftly flying in a direction where there were no Tang Clan experts, Dang Song let out a great breath and collapsed where he stood.
Holding out against an expert like the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon, who had reached the extreme of the peak realm, was too much even for Dang Song.
Had it not been for the Golden Butterfly Flowers and Dantian-Sealing Poison, Dang Song might already have lost his life.
At the sight of Dang Song collapsing while breathing roughly, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s face twisted.
“You bastard! You deceived me!”
The man who had maintained a calm expression the entire time toppled over the moment he escaped.
But even so, he could not stop fleeing here. If the encirclement formed, the poison encirclement would be complete.
He had to escape before that.
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon launched himself with all his strength and glared at the Tang Clan.
“Ha ha ha! I will leave it here for today! See you again next time!”
At the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s Lion’s Roar, Dang Miryeong moved her hand.
Then several hidden weapons shot from her hand like lightning.
PAPAPAT!
When Dang Miryeong threw hidden weapons, confusion appeared on the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s face.
‘Why?’
The hidden weapons Dang Miryeong threw were headed somewhere unrelated to him.
As question and unease appeared on the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s face, the hidden weapons embedded themselves in the ground.
And......
HSSSS!
With a small, strange sound, the hidden weapons burst with flame.
BOOM! BOOM BOOM!
Then, from the points where the hidden weapons had exploded, green and purple flames began surging up around them.
“This......”
As the flames surged up, they began engulfing the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon in an instant.
FWOOOSH!
Unable to stop his running speed, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s body passed straight through the flames.
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon, who had passed through the flames in an instant, looked wretched. The flesh all over his body was melting, and even his eyelids and lips had melted away, revealing the raw flesh beneath.
Like a bloody man, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon limped.
Limp. Limp.
After emerging from the flames, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon limped onward and looked down at his own hand.
Looking at his hideous hand, whose skin had all melted away, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon muttered,
“Heh...... Twin-Flame Poison Powder...... I had only heard rumors.”
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon looked at the Tang Clan experts approaching him.
“Why...... now?”
He was asking why the trap had been set here, rather than where they had all been gathered.
If they had detonated it when they were gathered, the Tang Clan would not have shed blood.
At the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon’s question, Dang Myeong said, “Because there was no poison where you were.”
“Then that means...... there was poison here?”
“That is right.”
Dang Myeong looked around Tang Clan Tower.
“Did you think we left this place open for no reason?”
“Ha!”
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon burst into loud laughter and said,
“So the others avoided the trap?”
Looking at the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon asking about the Evil Fiends who had fled, Dang Myeong said,
“If I had used the trap on them, you would have avoided it.”
“Ha ha ha! You let nine peak realm Evil Fiends go and took me?”
“You are dangerous.”
At Dang Myeong’s words, the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon looked at him, then let out a faint laugh.
“In the Tang Clan...... the frightening thing is not poison and hidden weapons...... but that venomous heart.”
The Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon vomited blood and collapsed just like that.
Looking at the Heavenly Mountain Divine Demon, Dang Myeong turned around. In the distance, he could see the assembled heroes standing there.
At that, Dang Myeong raised his internal energy.
“All sects that invaded the main house today will be annihilated!”
“They will be annihilated!”
“They will be annihilated!”
When the Tang Clan experts shouted, Dang Myeong looked at the assembled heroes and shouted again.
“A favor tenfold!”
“A grudge a hundredfold!”
“A favor tenfold!”
“A grudge a hundredfold!”
At the Lion’s Roar of the Tang Clan’s people, the assembled heroes flinched and began retreating.
The bitter grudge and killing intent embedded in the Tang Clan people’s Lion’s Roar...... were terrifying.
To think that grudge and killing intent might be directed at them......