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Reincarnated Sword Ghost
Chapter 163 : Against the Heavens · Oct 12, 2026
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Against the Heavens
The shockwave brought by the Blood Lord’s death was tremendous.
It was, quite literally, a fierceness that went beyond mere numbers.
The cultists of the Blood Cult collapsed into corpses without being able to put up any meaningful resistance.
The warriors of the Heavenly Martial Hall wielded their swords without hesitation against those who now looked no different from scarecrows.
Among them, there was one person sweeping through the battlefield.
It was Yu Jeong-un, the two-stripe warrior of the Heavenly Martial Hall.
As if grasping lightning itself in his hand, he unleashed golden bursts of energy in rapid succession.
To the enemy, this was a scene of disaster.
After all, such a sight should have been displayed by their own sky, the Blood Lord.
Instead, when the impossibly young man who brought their leader’s head showcased peerless martial skills, even those who had been resisting with gritted teeth lost their fighting spirit.
It was an overwhelming scene that allowed no room for any last desperate resistance.
”Monster...!”
”R-run away!”
At last, they all threw down their weapons and began to flee.
The scream of the first man became a signal flare for the rest.
The end of a war so often looked just like this.
”Chase them! Don’t let a single one escape alive!”
The corps leaders shouted harshly, leading the warriors forward.
It was a precious chance to wipe out thousands of unorthodox villains who regarded human life so lightly.
Even just a moment earlier, they themselves had suffered from the enemy’s assault.
There was even a strange feeling mixed into every swing of the sword blade.
”Uaaagh!”
”Keuk...!”
In an instant, the battlefield transformed into a one-sided pursuit.
All around, the air was filled with screams and the sound of bodies collapsing to the ground.
”...”
Jeong-un slowly withdrew the internal power that had pooled at his fingertips.
As he did, the golden radiance enveloping his sword blade dissipated like smoke.
It was an utterly mystical sight—even the warriors of the Heavenly Martial Hall, slashing down enemies as they chased, stole glances at him.
”I’ve seen a similar sight before. When our sect leader cut off the head of that fiendish sect leader from the unorthodox faction.”
”It really is ’Against the Heavens.’ How can someone that young...?”
He let the words brushing past his ears simply flow away into the air, not paying attention to them.
Was it because he had just experienced a battlefield divided into the strong and the weak?
Now he felt like he wouldn’t have to care about such noise anymore.
Beyond that, even nicknames, fame, age, or identity seemed not to matter.
’... Swordsman. That’s enough for me.’
Jeong-un muttered so.
* * *
The Heavenly Martial Hall achieved a perfect victory. It was a battle on an unprecedented scale.
Even though the enemy’s numbers far exceeded expectations, the victory was overwhelming.
They searched every corner of the enemy’s stronghold and freed the hostages.
Most were innocent commoners or martial artists who had gone missing.
Judging by their condition, they had been used as fuel for the enhancement of martial arts, drained of their blood and vitality.
Besides that, they obtained a trove of the Blood Cult’s foundational data and documents.
They even secured the secret manual of the blood arts, the cult’s main martial technique.
It was a tremendous gain.
After all, wasn’t it a martial study systematically explaining how to drain the vital essence of others?
The Heavenly Martial Hall planned to thoroughly dissect it.
”There are so many injured children. At least the fortunate part is that fewer have died than I thought.”
Clan head Zhang Ju-myeong of the White Tiger Corps spoke.
After cleaning out the enemy’s stronghold, they descended the mountain.
The warriors of the Heavenly Martial Hall dispersed to various villages at the foot of the mountain.
They would rest sufficiently in those places and then return to the Heavenly Martial Hall via various routes.
It was to eliminate any remaining unorthodox villains they encountered along the way.
Now, they were in a small guesthouse in a little village in Nampung-hyeon.
The four corps leaders of the Heavenly Martial Hall sat together at a table in a corner, discussing what to do next.
At that, Yun Soryeon frowned slightly and spoke.
”There were many who didn’t fight with their full strength. That’s undoubtedly why the fighting dragged on for so long.”
”What can you do? Most of them joined thinking only to endure five years somehow. It would’ve been hard to find a reason to throw their lives away so easily. Besides, they never expected the enemy’s strength to be so great, so some must have frozen when the battle proved bigger than they imagined. Still, I’d say they did well enough, not holding anything back.”
Tang Cheol-hwan, sitting nearby, replied. She couldn’t say much more, because he wasn’t wrong.
That was the limit even the Heavenly Martial Hall, the most righteous group in the martial world, had to bear.
From the start, they relied on the best young talents from all corners of the martial world.
It was unreasonable to expect total loyalty from them, after all.
Yeom Baek finally spoke.
”Whatever the case, we’ve completely wiped them out from this land. That’s enough for us. Our duty’s success or failure is all that matters.”
”Hmph, and even then, things didn’t go as planned, and we struggled. That madman—he kept sending High Priests against us in succession to buy time, while he himself went to a brat. Expanding his ki sense, really? Who’d have guessed such an absurd formation would exist?”
Lotus Blossom Divine Sword’s words were right on the mark.
As Tang Cheol-hwan predicted, the enemy expanded their ki sense by setting up a formation that covered the entire mountain.
Once again, it was proven that strange formations truly existed.
Even though they had purposefully chosen a route with weak defenses to ascend the mountain, they kept running into enemies because of that.
In the end, they had to confront five of the enemy’s main High Priests.
Their plan to kill the leader first and seize victory had fallen apart.
”But then again, the enemy’s plans didn’t go as they wanted either. After all, that Blood Lord never showed himself on the battlefield. That’s probably why we suffered fewer casualties than expected.”
A moment of silence lingered after Zhang Ju-myeong’s comment. It was because all of them thought of the same man.
He had not only faced alone the very man who should have formed the largest part of the enemy’s strength, outside the main battle, but also claimed his head.
Had the unexpectedly chaotic free-for-all not occurred, and had Jeong-un not beheaded the leader, more would surely have died.
It was Yu Jeong-un, the two-stripe warrior, who cut off that man’s head.
Tang Cheol-hwan asked,
”Did you truly not know?”
The question was for Yeom Baek, and it carried many meanings.
”......”
But Yeom Baek couldn’t answer easily.
’Did I really not know?’
How could he not have? F
rom the very start, that boy had stood out.
Even though he was the child of a minor provincial military hall, he qualified for the special test as Cloud Dragon Token of the Mount Hua Sect.
Not only that, he beat out all the rising stars, taking first place in the special test.
That much was possible.
The entrance exam for the Heavenly Martial Hall was strict, but it didn’t only rank by martial prowess.
It was a comprehensive evaluation—natural ki sense, outstanding intuition, all of it.
So everyone thought it was plausible.
But that wasn’t the end.
At the Divine Physician’s Tomb, he survived an encounter with the Demonic Cult Leader.
He uncovered the existence of the chilling group, the Blood Cult, infiltrating the martial world.
In Kaifeng, he uprooted the black path’s forces that had taken hold for years, and at Mount Song’s Shaolin, he fought the Demonic Cult Leader again, saving many lives.
And above all, he showed incredible growth throughout all of it.
’And then...’
He killed—single-handedly—the head of the Blood Cult, who had become a peerless expert on par with a great sect’s head.
Such a thing could not happen by mere chance.
Four corps leaders, all experts among the top hundred, had prepared to fight that fiend together.
In the martial world, ”accident” was not a word that matched life-and-death battles.
Even dying to a stray blade is, in the end, a fated death.
For someone whose ki sense is highly developed, a true blind spot does not exist.
’Did I really not know?’
So, all the more, he could not answer.
Even if he had been Yu Jeong-un’s direct superior, he wouldn’t have known.
He always thought the kid was an extraordinary prodigy, but never to such a degree.
Even Yeom Baek, who had seen much of the martial world, could not help but be shocked.
As Yeom Baek kept silent, Yun Soryeon, watching him, spoke up.
”I’ve seen that boy too. His energy was so pure it was almost strange—it made me keep an eye on him. When he came out of the Divine Physician’s tomb alive, I already thought he was unusual, but to grow like that... Well, his look in one’s eyes was upright, and his bearing was steady.”
The four corps leaders had come together this time to discuss Yu Jeong-un.
It was also why none of their expressions were truly bright, though they had achieved a great victory and completed their mission.
To reach such heights of martial skill at such a young age, barely past coming of age—many figures have risen in the long history of the martial world, but none had ascended to the level of peerless expert so quickly.
Even more than having eradicated a chilling organization, the presence of Yu Jeong-un itself felt like the greater event.
Zhang Ju-myeong, who had been quietly sipping tea, spoke.
He was the oldest of the four corps leaders and had held the position the longest.
All four held the same rank, so they interacted as equals without formalities, but he often acted as their center without realizing it.
”This is not something to conclude hastily. Whether that boy’s strange growth will become a blessing or a disaster—we’ll have to wait and see.”
”A disaster? I’m telling you, he looked incredibly upright. If anything, this is a blessing—why are you worrying about disaster?”
”The Heavenly Martial Hall is an organization akin to the military. Every member is a martial artist, and hundreds of the martial world’s elite are bound under a rigid hierarchical system. And now, a force beyond control is among us? I can’t predict how it will affect those around him.”
”...”
Silence returned. It was all too reasonable a worry.
Zhang Ju-myeong was right: nothing in the martial world ever went as expected.
But even his superior, Yeom Baek, still said nothing.
’Hard to control, is it?’
He recalled all the times he had seen Yu Jeong-un.
Was it really possible?
Would that boy, like most peerless experts, become eccentric and uncontrollable?
Yeom Baek slowly shook his head. If anything, he agreed with Lotus Blossom Divine Sword.
He didn’t think achievement would change Yu Jeong-un’s demeanor—he simply could not imagine it.
’We’ll find out in time.’
With that, he let the thought go. In any case, the decision belonged to the General Affairs Department, and above all, to the chief strategist, Zhuge Cheon-woo.
* * *
The four companions gathered again.
For once, they enjoyed a comfortable chat. They returned to their temporary lodgings in Nampung-hyeon.
Hearing of their arrival, the area magistrate rushed out, nearly barefoot, to greet them, his face stiff despite a forced smile.
Small wonder—it was not as if he was truly happy about their presence.
”Please, feel free to stay as long as you wish.”
”Thank you.”
”Not at all. With you folks here, the security is even better. Heh heh.”
He was not wrong.
As long as the Heavenly Martial Hall’s warriors stayed in the village, the unorthodox villains wouldn’t dare come near.
In fact, they’d just cut down a few careless bandits who had been wandering nearby.
In places where rumor outran even footsteps, no one would approach here for a while.
’Except for that guy.’
Jeong-un watched the retreating figure of the area magistrate and muttered inwardly.
Now, the only villain here was that man.
Despite his repeated warnings, upon returning, he found that rather than charity, the official had summoned commoners to work without pay.
”Is he thoughtless, or has he simply lost all fear?”
Beside him, Baek Il-gang muttered in a tone of disbelief.
In some ways, the area magistrate was truly unpredictable—just as ordinary people sometimes are.
Then, as if nothing was wrong, Baek Il-gang looked at Jeong-un and asked,
”So what happens now?”
”What do you mean, what happens?”
When Jeong-un returned the question with wide eyes, Baek Il-gang grinned mysteriously and continued.
”Do you really not know? Young Hero Yu’s merit is tremendous. I doubt this’ll end with just a promotion. I even think you might break precedent and go straight to four stripes.”
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