CLS-Chapter 419

Chapter 419

Wu-il looked at Wei Yan-ho with a somewhat pitiful expression.

‘He doesn’t know, this person.’

Wei Yan-ho had made his name known throughout the martial world in a short time. He was that much of a genius when it came to martial arts. Wu-il, who had spent her lifetime observing opponents, could guess one thing from this fact.

To reach a certain level in any field, one must obsessively dedicate themselves to that field. If so, they would inevitably lack common sense in other areas.

Wei Yan-ho had become a supreme expert of the world at such a young age, but precisely because of this, he lacked general common sense, as well as martial artist common sense.

If someone knew what the Terrifying Soul Confusion Array was, they would understand their current predicament. Even if they didn’t know what the Terrifying Soul Confusion Array was, if they had heard about the Zhuge Family’s formations, they would be falling into despair by now.

But Wei Yan-ho didn’t know what the Terrifying Soul Confusion Array was, nor did he know what the Zhuge Family’s formations were.

That’s why he could show such confidence.

Wu-il sighed deeply.

“It’s useless, Young Hero.”

“What is?”

“The Terrifying Soul Confusion Array isn’t something you can break just because your martial arts are strong.”

Wei Yan-ho tilted his head. Wu-il, thinking she couldn’t make Wei Yan-ho understand with words, opened her mouth.

“Try moving.”

“What?”

“Try moving around.”

Wei Yan-ho moved as Wu-il said.

The moment he stepped forward, Wei Yan-ho couldn’t help but flinch and stare ahead.

‘What the hell is that?’

An enormous wave was rushing toward him. The place that had been an empty field just moments ago was being filled by a wave of terrifying size. Judging by the approaching momentum and size, if he got caught in it, not even his bones would remain intact.

The body is honest.

The moment he judged it was a crisis, his hand was gripping the sword at his waist.

“Huh?”

But nothing was caught at his waist.

‘Ah, I left my sword behind.’

Come to think of it, his beloved sword was currently receiving a nice warm treatment at Baekro. Having rolled around for over three hundred years, it certainly deserved such luxury, but the problem was that Wei Yan-ho needed a weapon right now.

Just as he was pondering what to do about this, he felt a strong pulling force from behind.

“Huh?”

Wei Yan-ho, who had stepped back to return to his original position, looked around in bewilderment. The rough wave that had been rushing toward him had disappeared without a trace.

“This is the Terrifying Soul Confusion Array.”

“Wow, this is… really amazing.”

Wei Yan-ho was genuinely amazed.

He was confident he wouldn’t be surprised even if he split Mount Tai with his sword, but this was completely different. How could waves rush into this desolate field just from taking one step?

“Do you understand now?”

“What?”

Wu-il sighed and said.

“I know very well that your martial arts are strong, Young Hero. But this is a different realm from martial arts. No matter how strong you are, you can’t escape from here.”

“Really?”

“Can you distinguish between the illusion you just saw and reality?”

“…I can’t.”

Wei Yan-ho was an honest person.

The illusion from just now could hardly be called an illusion. The wind that blew as the wave rushed in and the cold sensation remained vividly on his skin. Why else would he have tried to grab his sword?

“When a person perceives an illusion as real, the illusion becomes real. If you’re lucky, you’ll just collapse from exhaustion while trapped in the formation, but quite a few people die of heart attacks while trapped in formations. And some drown on dry land or burn to death in places without fire.”

“Is that possible?”

“The formation doesn’t make it happen. The person makes it happen to themselves.”

“Hmm…”

Wei Yan-ho looked around with curious eyes.

‘Well.’

Even with his superhuman senses, he couldn’t perceive his surroundings. There should definitely be a pavilion ahead, but no matter how much he concentrated, the surroundings only felt like an open field.

‘So this is formation techniques.’

There were many things in the world more mysterious than martial arts, and those words were exactly right. Wei Yan-ho was amazed by this novel experience he was having for the first time.

“So what do you suggest we do?”

“Now… we have no choice but to wait.”

“Wait?”

“When dawn breaks, people from the Zhuge Family will come to inspect the formation. They’ll deactivate it.”

“Huh?”

Wei Yan-ho’s mind started working.

So, what that meant was…

“Then we’ll be discovered.”

“That’s right.”

“We can’t be discovered, can we?”

Wu-il smiled sadly.

“I’m sorry, Young Hero. I never thought the Zhuge Family would change the Life Gate. I should have considered it. It’s all my mistake.”

“No, well, I don’t want to argue about whose fault it is…”

Wu-il quietly looked at Wei Yan-ho.

‘Really… really strange person.’

If it were an ordinary person, they would naturally want to kill Wu-il the moment they heard this. While they wouldn’t kill Wei Yan-ho due to their relationship with the Guangdong Wei Family, it was certain that his dignity would be damaged and he would suffer hardships. But Wei Yan-ho was speaking as if such things didn’t matter at all.

“Thank you for helping me this far, Young Hero. I won’t forget this kindness even if I become a ghost.”

“What kindness when I haven’t done anything? And could you not talk like everything’s over?”

“There’s no other way.”

Wu-il closed her eyes and said.

“The Terrifying Soul Confusion Array is a difficult formation to break. Even if the greatest genius in the world came, breaking it wouldn’t be easy. Different illusions are prepared for each step. If you move without knowing the breaking method, you’ll alternately experience blazing hell and freezing hell until your mind becomes exhausted and you die.”

“That’s your common sense.”

Wei Yan-ho chuckled.

“Sorry, but before coming out to the martial world, I experienced a hell worse than that blazing hell or freezing hell. Moreover, the person who taught me is someone who would slap the King of Hell across both cheeks. I think that gentleman won’t even go to hell. There’s no way the King of Hell could handle that gentleman.”

“What?”

“That harsh gentleman taught me how to deal with every situation. At first I thought it was nonsense, but strangely, whenever I found myself in trouble, I’d always remember what that gentleman said. Among those things was how to break formation techniques.”

“Y-Young Hero, formation techniques require a breaking method…”

“No.”

Wei Yan-ho firmly waved his hand.

“According to that gentleman, you don’t need methods for breaking formation techniques. All formation techniques have a common weakness.”

“What do you mean…”

Wu-il was confused, but that time wasn’t long. Wei Yan-ho wasn’t a man of few words, and he was a man who didn’t hesitate to explain.

“There are three ways to break formation techniques. One is to dig a tunnel and go in.”

“Gasp…”

Wu-il’s eyes wavered.

“C-certainly…”

If you dug into the ground and went inside, the formation’s influence certainly wouldn’t reach you. Formation techniques create phenomena that don’t exist in reality by twisting energy. Who would set up a formation and include underground areas in its sphere of influence?

“Another is to jump up into the sky.”

“Th-that’s impossible. They’re not fools either, so they consider people flying in from above.”

“You just need to jump high enough.”

“…”

Wu-il, who was about to object further, closed her mouth.

She had a feeling that the ‘height’ this person was talking about was different from the height she was thinking of. Well, if you jumped incredibly high, what use would formations be?

“Lastly, there’s the easiest method…”

“Yes?”

Wu-il’s face was filled with anxiety.

She suddenly had this thought.

This person is not normal.

So the one who taught this person couldn’t be normal either. Then the words that came from that person’s mouth could never be normal either.

“In the end, formation techniques are like that.”

“What?”

“You stick objects filled with energy here and there to mess up this area.”

“Simply put, that’s correct.”

“Then those things should be somewhere around here.”

“Those things?”

“Objects filled with energy.”

“…Th-that would be right.”

Wei Yan-ho grinned.

That smile seemed like the most ominous smile in the world to Wu-il’s eyes.

“So you just need to break those.”

“W-wait a moment, Young Hero!”

It was the moment when vague anxiety became reality.

“H-how do you know where those are to break them!”

“They must be somewhere around here. So…”

Wei Yan-ho rolled up both sleeves.

“If I smash everything I come across, something somewhere will break. Isn’t that right? Then the formation will be neutralized, and we can easily escape.”

Her mind went blank.

“Young Hero, I think you’re missing the most important thing. Of course, with your martial arts, that would be possible. But then all the people from the Zhuge Family will come rushing this way, won’t they?”

“You’re saying strange things. Even if we stay here like this, everyone will come rushing when morning comes anyway, right?”

“Th-that’s…”

Wei Yan-ho smiled broadly and said.

“Rather than facing people who come prepared after dawn breaks, it’s better to deal with people who are sleeping.”

“But then Young Hero will inevitably become an enemy of the Zhuge Family, won’t you? If you stay put like this, they won’t be able to persecute you, Young Hero.”

“But I’ll have to listen to nagging.”

“…”

“I’m someone who hates nagging. I’d rather just fight than that.”

“I… Young Hero, no matter how I look at it, this doesn’t seem like the right path?”

“Well, there’s something my master used to say often…”

“Yes?”

“Do you know the saying ‘The Great Way Has No Gate’?”

“…”

“The great path has no gates. And what that means is!”

Wei Yan-ho grinned.

“When something seems to be in the way, if you clear away all the annoying things, that place becomes the path!”

That’s not what that means, you crazy bastard!

“So!”

Whoooooooong.

Bees began to buzz. Pure white radiance burst from Wei Yan-ho’s right hand.

The surroundings became as bright as midday.

‘At least the light won’t leak out since we’re inside the formation.’

Should this be considered fortunate or unfortunate?

Tears began to well up in Wu-il’s eyes.

I’m the crazy one.

I’m the crazy one for trusting such a person and trying to do something together!

She knew he was an unpredictable person, but she never knew he would be this unpredictable. If such a thing would never happen, but if she ever returned to the Zhuge Family, she would capture all those who wrote reports about Wei Yan-ho and blow their jaws off.

This person was ten times crazier and a hundred times more unpredictable than what had been written in the reports.

Wu-il, who was about to stop Wei Yan-ho with a glimmer of hope that ‘surely not,’ saw dazzling white light explosively extending in her eyes.

“Eurachararara!“

As if the sun had fallen from the sky, the world became brilliantly bright.

And then…

KWAAAAAAAAANG!

Cheonbungjieum — the Heaven-Collapsing Sound.

Along with a sound like the sky collapsing, a terrifying storm of energy struck.

“Kyaaaak!“

Just as Wu-il, caught in that storm, screamed, Wei Yan-ho pulled her into his arms.

“So, which way?”

Through the formation, now destroyed in an instant, the clear shapes of pavilions came into view.

She didn’t know anymore.

“Th-that way.”

“Hold on tight. Let’s go.”

Wei Yan-ho chuckled and ran forward.