Synopsis and Starting Chapter Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105 - Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140 - Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142 - Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170 - Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203 - Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208 - Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239 - Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Chapter 263 - Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Chapter 282
Chapter 283
Chapter 284
Chapter 285
Chapter 286
Chapter 287
Chapter 288
Chapter 289
Chapter 290
Chapter 291
Chapter 292
Chapter 293
Chapter 294
Chapter 295
Chapter 296
Chapter 297 - Chapter 297
Chapter 298
Chapter 299
Chapter 300
Chapter 301
Chapter 302
Chapter 303
Chapter 304
Chapter 305
Chapter 306
Chapter 307
Chapter 308
Chapter 309
Chapter 310
Chapter 311
Chapter 312
Chapter 313
Chapter 314
Chapter 315
Chapter 316
Chapter 317
Chapter 318
Chapter 319
Chapter 320
Chapter 321
Chapter 322
Chapter 323
Chapter 324
Chapter 325
Chapter 326
Chapter 327
Chapter 328
Chapter 329
Chapter 330
Chapter 331
Chapter 332
Chapter 333
Chapter 334
Chapter 335
Chapter 336
Chapter 337
Chapter 338
Chapter 339
Chapter 340
Chapter 341
Chapter 342
Chapter 343
Chapter 344
Chapter 345
Chapter 346
Chapter 347
Chapter 348
Chapter 349
Chapter 350
Chapter 351
Chapter 352
Chapter 353
Chapter 354
Chapter 355
Chapter 356
Chapter 357
Chapter 358
Chapter 359
Chapter 360
Chapter 361
Chapter 362
Chapter 363
Chapter 364
Chapter 365
Chapter 366
Chapter 367
Chapter 368
Chapter 369
Chapter 370
Chapter 371
Chapter 372
Chapter 373
Chapter 374
Chapter 375
Chapter 376
Chapter 377
Chapter 378
Chapter 379
Chapter 380
Chapter 381
Chapter 382
Chapter 383
Chapter 384 - Chapter 384
Chapter 385
Chapter 386
Chapter 387
Chapter 388
Chapter 389
Chapter 390
Chapter 391
Chapter 392
Chapter 393
Chapter 394
Chapter 395
Chapter 396
Chapter 397
Chapter 398
Chapter 399
Chapter 400
Chapter 401
Chapter 402
Chapter 403
Chapter 404
Chapter 405
Chapter 406
Chapter 407
Chapter 408
Chapter 409
Chapter 410
Chapter 411
Chapter 412
Chapter 413
Chapter 414
Chapter 415
Chapter 416
Chapter 417
Chapter 418
Chapter 419
Chapter 420
Chapter 421
Chapter 422
Chapter 423
Chapter 424
Chapter 425
Chapter 426 - Chapter 426
Chapter 427
Chapter 428
Chapter 429
Chapter 430
Chapter 431
Chapter 432
Chapter 433
Chapter 434
Chapter 435
Chapter 436
Chapter 437
Chapter 438
Chapter 439
Chapter 440
Chapter 441
Chapter 442
Chapter 443
Chapter 444
Chapter 445
Chapter 446 - Chapter 446
Chapter 447
Chapter 448
Chapter 449
Chapter 450
Chapter 451 - Chapter 451
Chapter 452
Chapter 453
Chapter 454
Chapter 455
Chapter 456
Chapter 457
Chapter 458
Chapter 459
Chapter 460
Chapter 461
Chapter 462
Chapter 463
Chapter 464
Chapter 465
Chapter 466
Chapter 467
Chapter 468
Chapter 469
Chapter 470
Chapter 471
Chapter 472
Chapter 473
Chapter 474
Chapter 475
Chapter 476
Chapter 477
Chapter 478
Chapter 479
Chapter 480
Chapter 481
Chapter 482
Chapter 483 - Chapter 483
Chapter 484
Chapter 485
Chapter 486
Chapter 487
Chapter 488
Chapter 489
Chapter 490
Chapter 491
Chapter 492
Chapter 493
Chapter 494
Chapter 495
Chapter 496
Chapter 497
Chapter 498
Chapter 499
Chapter 500
Chapter 501
Chapter 502
Chapter 503
Chapter 504
Chapter 505
Chapter 506
Chapter 507
Chapter 508
Chapter 509
Chapter 510
Chapter 511
Chapter 512
Chapter 513
Chapter 514
Chapter 515
Chapter 516 - Chapter 516
Chapter 517
Chapter 518
Chapter 519
Chapter 520
Chapter 521
Chapter 522
Chapter 523
Chapter 524
Chapter 525
Chapter 526
Chapter 527
Chapter 528
Chapter 529
Chapter 530
Chapter 531
Chapter 532
Chapter 533
Chapter 534 - Chapter 534
Chapter 535
Chapter 536
Chapter 537
Chapter 538 - Chapter 538
Chapter 539
Chapter 540
Chapter 541
Chapter 542
Chapter 543
Chapter 544
Chapter 545
Chapter 546
Chapter 547
Chapter 548
Chapter 549
Chapter 550
Chapter 551
Chapter 552
Chapter 553
Chapter 554
Chapter 555
Categories Genre: Action, Adventure, All, Fantasy, Martial Arts, Ongoing, Supernatural Status: Ongoing Alternative names: HR, 영웅; 회귀하다, ______
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Chapter 393: Chapter 393
A parasite is a type of “bug” that hid inside another living creature’s body and parasitically sucked out nutrients from its host—a worthless, filthy, and insignificant existence that no one acknowledged or cared for.
That was this creature in a nutshell, but that remained true only up until it coincidentally began parasitizing a certain corpse.
“What is this thing?”
The nutrients it absorbed felt different from the usual. The more it absorbed, the greater it transformed. Power overflowed within its body, and its outer appearance eventually changed.
The creature that was once a bug now grew to resemble an actual monster.
It was ecstatic. It learned to feel emotions, and its thought process broadened. Then, it began devouring other monsters using all the overflowing power in its body.
The more it led this life, the greater its greed grew while not knowing if it was under someone else’s influence all along.
“Won’t there be a creature much larger and tastier out there?”
Its greed and appetite—its thirst for possessing an even greater power—became ever-growing.
And so, this creature eventually transformed into a horrifying hybrid where its identity as a bug and the greediness of a predator had combined into one. It matured enough to possess a functioning ego and a mind that could reason, yet they were all suppressed by its greed.
And while in such a state, it roamed around many different worlds and dimensions to devour countless monsters. Eventually, it discovered a creature so, so much larger than anything it had ever seen before—a tree that enveloped an entire world, a gigantic tree that was basically a world in itself.
It had to be the best prey the bug had discovered so far, and so, the bug predator parasitized this tree for the past several thousand years.
In the beginning, the tree powerfully fought back, but it gradually lost its strength and even lost its ego, too.
And now, yet another delicious prey had appeared before its eyes.
Wriggle, wiggle…
The outer appearance of the mother body of all these parasites was quite bizarre, to say the least.
While its body and tail resembled a long, black parasite, the upper part of its body and its head resembled a humanoid.
“Did a person turn into a bug or did a bug morph into a person…?”
Su-hyeun couldn’t figure out what this creature even started off as, but he was sure that this thing was not only grotesque but also extremely dangerous. “Mister Luslec?”
“Yes?”
“I’ll lend you my summons. Please take care of the other bugs.”
Shu-wuwuwu…
Black aura flooded out of Su-hyeun and gathered around him to transform into his summoned creatures. He had summoned about a hundred or so creatures, which included the likes of Gluttony and the God of War, too.
When they materialized, Luslec nodded and also called out his own summons. “Understood.”
“Well, then…”
“Little bro, you take your time, okay?”
Pooow—!!!
Sun Wukong explosively flew forward and with blinding speed while carrying his Ruyi Jingu Bang in his hands.
His target was, of course, the “bug” in front of their eyes. Outwardly at least, the creature seemed like it should be slow-moving due to how large it was, making it easier to land a hit.
“Get longer…!”
Swhooooooosh—!
Bang, pow, poooow—!
The Ruyi Jingu Bang that was in Sun Wukong’s grip rapidly moved and slammed into the bug’s body.
It struck the creature’s torso, its head, its neck, and even where its heart should be. Each of Sun Wukong’s strikes was aimed at the vital parts, and as such, they were all quite lethal.
“Get smaller again.”
Whoosh, land…
Sun Wukong had swung his weapon dozens of times by then. He secured his grip on the polearm and leaped toward the bug’s head.
And then…
“Get bigger—!”
KA-BOOOOM—!
“Ruyi!”
In the blink of an eye, the Ruyi Jingu Bang enlarged to the size of a small mountain. It all happened within a truly brief time that wasn’t even a dozen or so seconds.
Su-hyeun observed this spectacle from a little bit of distance away.
For some reason, the bug was getting one-sidedly pummeled here.
“Maybe its reaction is slow? If not…”
This was strange. Rather than its reaction being tardy, the bug simply didn’t display any reaction whatsoever. Not even during the moments when it was getting hit, too.
If it lost consciousness after getting struck earlier, then fine, but it hadn’t, and it not displaying any sort of reaction to this degree made it difficult to understand why.
Sure enough…
Creak, gi-gi-gik…
The Ruyi Jingu Bang that had grown much larger and longer got stuck and couldn’t go forward anymore, and Sun Wukong’s expression slightly distorting also happened around the same time. He couldn’t move his weapon despite using more of his strength than before and forcing his will into it.
Whoooosh…
“Huh?”
Sun Wukong’s body was suddenly lifted up, along with the Ruyi Jingu Bang extending in front of him.
Fwhoooosh…
KA-BOOOOM—!
Soon afterward, Sun Wukong’s figure was slammed straight into the floor. What happened was that the upper torso of the bug that resembled a humanoid used its incredible strength to grab the polearm and lifted up both the weapon and its wielder, Sun Wukong.
Shu-wuwu…
The bug’s gaze then shifted over to Su-hyeun again. The creature had been doing that ever since the beginning of the fight. It only paid attention to him and no one else.
Screeeech…
But just as the bug began shuffling toward Su-hyeun…
“I don’t think I can start fighting against you yet,” said Su-hyeun.
“…?”
“If I do, I’m going to get scolded by my third brother, you see.”
BAAANG—!
The Ruyi Jingu Bang came in flying again and struck the back of the bug’s head with a much larger size and carrying so much greater force.
Stagger…
The bug that didn’t even flinch from the attacks earlier suddenly began staggering now.
Sun Wukong, who had swung his Ruyi Jingu Bang from a distance, beckoned with his finger. “My turn hasn’t ended yet.”
Hisss…
The bug’s head turned around, and at the same time, Sun Wukong’s body shot up high as well.
“Restrict that thing…”
Shu-rururu…
Clouds rose up from below to envelop the bug’s body. Sparks then arced from within all those clouds simultaneously as well.
And the exact moment Sun Wukong’s will reached the clouds restricting the bug…
Squeeze—
He tightly clutched his fist. “Strike now, lightning bolts.”
FLASH—!
Rumble, Ka-boooooom—!
A barrage of lightning whipped up viciously within the white clouds enveloping the bug. Su-hyeun shielded his eyes from the blinding light and muttered softly to himself, “Didn’t he say that it’s a type of sorcery?”
Even though Sun Wukong had gifted the Somersault cloud to Su-hyeun, it was as if he hadn’t lost it at all.
To someone like him who possessed near-infinite energy, commanding clouds and shooting lightning bolts through them were fairly easy things to do.
As such, Sun Wukong fought as if he still controlled the Somersault cloud even now. Even if the overall power didn’t come anywhere near the real Somersault cloud, at the very least, he didn’t need to radically alter the way he had been fighting all along.
Of course…
“It didn’t even work, though.”
Some little burn marks were the extent of the damage the bug had suffered.
And there was no way that Sun Wukong would’ve missed something that Su-hyeun was able to see from a distance away. The Monkey King roused up even more of his Dao energy and took an almighty swipe with his lengthened Ruyi Jingu Bang.
Whiiirl, swiiiiiiish—!
Sliiiice—
The long polearm scythed through the air. Several powerful thrusts followed, but all they produced was the sounds of air splitting and nothing else.
Su-hyeun couldn’t help but doubt his own eyes just then. “Son of a…”
Even an expletive, something he didn’t use all that often, threatened to jump out of his mouth, too.
Was he seeing things correctly right now?
Paaang—!
Sun Wukong’s Ruyi Jingu Bang was thrust at the bug’s figure once more, but the moment the weapon was about to land on the target, the huge monster relied on a truly bizarre movement, and its body seemed to bend away.
Paaang—!
Yet another sound of the air exploding resounded. The Ruyi Jingu Bang had missed its target again, and then, the bug’s body began emitting an ominous light.
Staaab—!
“Keuph…!”
A “thorn” suddenly shot out from the bug’s pitch-black body and impaled Sun Wukong’s side. His eyes shot wide open as his flashy movements of earlier came to an abrupt halt.
Suck, sluuurp…
The bug then began absorbing Sun Wukong’s Dao energy through the thorn. This was something he also suffered in the earlier battle against another predator. However, there was one thing different this time, and that would be Sun Wukong standing paralyzed as if poison was affecting him right now.
But then…
“Hey, punk.” Sun Wukong suddenly smirked and opened his mouth, “Above you…”
“…?”
The bug’s head tilted up at what Sun Wukong said.
Whoosh, whirl…
And that’s when it discovered the Ruyi Jingu Bang flying right above its head. Also at the same time, Sun Wukong said something else.
“Get bigger, Ruyi.”
KA-BOOOOOM—!
The bug’s figure got crushed by the enlarged Ruyi Jingu Bang and disappeared from view. As an added bonus, the thorn impaling Sun Wukong’s side lost its strength and went limp as well.
“Tsk. That freaking hurts.”
This was Sun Wukong’s honest impression after a hole was punctured in his torso. He pressed his hand on his bleeding wound and watched Su-hyeun walk up to his side.
He asked, “What’s up?”
“You said you wanted to fight together, third brother.”
“But didn’t you say you’re definitely not a fan of fighting?”
“Well, for some reason, I’m hankering for one today.”
“Makes sense.”
Step—
Su-hyeun stepped forward.
Creak, creeeak…
Meanwhile, the enlarged Ruyi Jingu Bang was being lifted up. The bug that got crushed by the polearm was actually lifting the weapon away with only one arm while glaring at Su-hyeun.
“Alright, alright. I’m not going to stand back anymore, so come at me already.”
Giii-iiiing—
Shu-wuwuwu…
While wielding a spear in his left hand and a sword in his right, Su-hyeun flung himself forward.
Pooow—!
Bang, pow, whoosh—
The first few hits landed on target. However, the bug soon began twisting its body in a bizarre fashion to duck and weave out of Su-hyeun’s blades.
As he thought, this creature was rather fast, and more importantly, it still hadn’t shown a lot of what it was capable of yet.
“Surely this isn’t all it has.”
Tsu-tsutsu…
[Palm Leaf]
[Explosion Style]
Winds enveloped Su-hyeun’s sword. Right after that, he swung his weapon upward and sliced apart the bug’s head.
Chwa-jajajajajak—!
Tumble, driiiip…
The bug’s insanely tough flesh finally got cut open, and blackish fluid splattered from there.
Su-hyeun urgently tilted his body out of the liquid’s path. The black liquid landed on the floor and melted the tough body of the World Tree to leave behind a surprisingly deep hole.
Su-hyeun was quite confident of his resistance against most toxins, but that thing’s toxicity was just too ridiculous, even for him.
“What a troublesome creature you are.”
Creak, gigigik…
The bug’s figure writhed. It must be in pain, judging from how it held onto its half-sliced head. What an amazing thing this was for it to not die even after getting injured to that degree.
Pu-shu-shiiiii…
Suddenly, smoke escaped from the bug’s sliced body. Su-hyeun unleashed flames out of his own body to get rid of the smoke around him. Even though his immunity was strong, the smoke containing this level of toxicity would still prove to be dangerous nonetheless.
“Did it convert all the absorbed energy into poison?”
The creature’s regenerative power must’ve been considerable as well, as all of its wounds had been recovered already.
The smoke continued to spread around ominously. Then, the walls melted down, and the floor became soggy. What’s notable was the fact that the other parasites weren’t affected by the poison at all.
No, it would be more correct to say that these parasitic creatures became even more energized as if they were fish meeting water.
In the meantime, the World Tree began screaming once more. It was probably due to all the smoke containing poison rapidly filling up its interior.
Su-hyeun groaned at length at the screaming, “Gee whiz. I got it already.”
Ruuumble…
Su-hyeun used the divine Flame to dissipate the smoke and started walking forward.
His magical energy stat that had broken past the “10” mark imparted a completely different sensation. It felt like he was drawing a bucket of water to use from a massive ocean that would never run dry—so much so that he began wondering if this was what Sun Wukong had been feeling all this time while using his powers.
Shu-wuwuwu…
At the same time, the prana sleeping somewhere below his navel also began circulating.
Things were different from the last time when this mysterious energy simply tagged along as he activated his other powers.
“I think I can do this.”
Su-hyeun swept his gaze over the blackish smoke densely filling up the surroundings. While taking them in with his eyes, he slung his spear on his back.
And then…
Rumble, fwhooooosh—
The activated magical energy and prana permeated in his surroundings and gave birth to flames of high density.
[Flame – Territory Declaration]
RUUUMBLE—!
The surroundings, bathed in the black smoke and in which one couldn’t even see an inch in front of their nose, suddenly got brightly illuminated. Intense flames instantly filled up the interior of the World Tree’s trunk, utterly scorching the parasites to death and turning them into cinders.
However, the World Tree itself wasn’t burned in the slightest. The divine Flame only burned the things Su-hyeun wished to burn, after all. It went on to warmly envelop the injuries pockmarking the World Tree, instead.
“Wow,” Luslec’s jaw fell as a soft sigh of admiration leaked out of there.
The one now ruling the World Tree was none other than Su-hyeun.
Total Chapters in book: 555
Estimated words: 1462055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 7310(@200wpm)___ 5848(@250wpm)___ 4874(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 1462055 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 7310(@200wpm)___ 5848(@250wpm)___ 4874(@300wpm)
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