Chapter 17 close door training 3

Over the course of four years, Woon Seong had completely changed into a young man .

Everything was developed except for his pale skin from the absence of sunlight for over 4 years .

His jawline was firm cut, and the bridge of his nose was rather high .

His long blue hair swayed easefully through the light breeze in the cave .

His body and muscles looked as if he had been sculpted out of clay .

Even though his muscles and body were well-defined, he did look swelled up or even remotely close to it . He was sleek, compact, and fit to even the finest fiber of muscle .

It was the most suitable body possible, adjusted to the nature of spear martial arts, which emphasized flow, harmony and flexibility .

On top of that, his body was now strong enough to not be injured internally or externally, when it came to unfolding the Six Seals of Destruction or Divine Spear of the Ending Night .

Thanks to the body modification that Woon Seong had achieved, it was a body that was in a pristine state .

'But the only thing that's disappointing is that I failed to combine the two martial arts into one . '

After four years of effort, Woon Seong realized just how short-sighted he was in thinking that combining two incredible martial art techniques would be as easy as combining the two cultivation methods he had combined before .

Considering that the one who developed the Six Seals of Destruction, the Unrecorded Heavenly Demon, had taken his entire lifetime to perfect just that martial art alone . And the fact it had taken his master his entire life to perfect the Divine Spear of the Ending Night… it might as well just take as long for Woon Seong to combine the two into one .

"But the good thing is that it wasn't completely uneventful . '

He had caught the thread .

It was truly smaller than a needle, and was incredibly difficult to grasp, but Woon Seong had found the thread that would tie the two together .

'And if I can find the end of that thread completely... . '

With a faint smile hanging around the corners of his mouth, Woon Seong cut his hair with the speartip in his hands .

The hair that he hadn't cared about for four years, had grown down to his waist .

Woon Seong cut it to his shoulders .

Sagak-Sagak-Sagak-

After Woon Seong cut his hair, he scratched his unkempt beard and shaved it off roughly with the blade .

Shik-shik-

When Woon Seong finished cutting his beard, he felt the vibrations in the cave slightly as he looked at the wooden gate open in his room .

'Perfect . '

The door to meet with the other teens was opening now .

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"Hmm?"

Woon Seong looked beyond the exit and noticed something interesting .

The open exit was connected to another tunnel shrouded in darkness .

It seemed the trial wasn't over with just the closed door training .

"You want me to come in?"

As to be expected it seemed .

What would be after this would be unknown . Would it be the outside world? Or would there be yet another trial?

Whatever it may be, Woon Seong he would be able to confidently pass whatever was thrown at him due to his incredibly fruitful 4 years of secluded training .

Therefore, Woon Seong moved without hesitation toward the darkness waiting for him .

A dark passage ran all the way through the exit . The passageways narrowed and widened, went down and continued steep slopes at seemingly random .

Through the passage, Woon Seong was walking through them without batting an eyelid at what might be a difficult path to traverse for others .

Nevertheless, his speed was very fast running through the several obstacles in complete darkness . It was hard to say that it was a speed that could be produced simply because his eyes had become adapted to the darkness .

'I think I know now . '

Even without having to expand his reach of eyesight with his internal qi like before, Woon Seong's body was utterly perfected and optimized due to the effects of the Heavenward Soul Earthen Body, that whenever he concentrated his mind and heightened his senses, they were much vaster than before .

How much time had passed as he wandered through the passage?

Woon Seong was traveling through the passage relatively with ease when suddenly, a chink in his senses was briefly revealed and he reacted swiftly .

Woon Seong quickly pivoted his foot into the ground, revolving the spear over and across his back in a full swing .

Whik-!

The speartip collided and deflected a small dagger that had been flung out of the darkness .

Woon Seong could feel a warmth being emitted from the blade that had been heated and shot out at him .

Then he realized what it was when a terrible smell was picked up from the blade as well . It was poison .

Woon Seong shifted his gaze back to where the dagger had originally come from and narrowed his eyes .

'It wasn't an ordinary passage either . '

It seemed that there was hidden machinery and traps strewn about .

He could lose his life at any moment that he let his guard down .

This was just the passage and rite of way for the cult to measure if the teens had properly trained in the 4 years .

Woon Seong understood then . That even these exit was not meant to be taken lightly .

Sure enough, as Woon Seong moved along, more traps and machinery shot out hidden weapons and often revealed hidden pitfalls .

The range of traps varied from poisoned hidden weapons, trap doors, pitfalls, a hail of arrows, spinning blades and much more .

Of course, it was not a problem for Woon Seong .

Woon Seong's speed was faster than the trap's activation speed, most of the time . And if it wasn't something he could outspeed, he could block or parry with his spear with ease .

There eventually came a trap that Woon Seong had not encountered yet .

'Swamp of the Poisonous Demon . '

Woon Seong looked calmly at the black swamp in front of him . It was a heavy water filled to the brim with countless poisons that even leaves could not float without being melted on the touch .

It was made to look like a dark area of water, but it was the complete opposite .

As soon as one's skin touched it, they would start to sink while having their body corrode down from the skin, all the way to the bone .

The depth of the swamp was unknown, but Woon Seong had no intention of finding out .

It was natural that one had to either cross the swamp by either emitting enormous amounts of qi around their body, which needed one to at least be a Peak Realm martial artist to accomplish . Or, they had to be able to traverse it another way .

Woon Seong looked around the swamp .

The distance to the opposite side of the swamp was just over ten paces or so .

Considering the training that the Cave of Latent Demons had been arduous thus far, it seemed they obviously needed the children to be able to jump that far in order to cross .

'They would have to be able to at least become First-Rate in order to strengthen their limbs individually with qi . '

Woon Seong looked at the iron bracers on his arms and legs .

A weight of 90 kilograms in total .

A ten pace distance, and he wouldn't strengthen himself with qi either . He needed to be at least this much, he thought .

'Can I do it?'

He could easily cross with using his qi . But, he also wanted to not only wear bracers while doing it, but not even circulate his internal qi to his limbs .

'But . . what if I can't?'

The hesitation was short .

There was one reason . If he hesitated and ended up falling short, then he would never be able to get revenge . He had to be this strong at this age in order to slay the Murim Alliance hypocrites .

Not only that, but he needed to believe in his strength . It was the one of the core traits to becoming a martial artist .

'Let's do it . '

Woon Seong stepped back and blinked slowly .

Then, he gripped his right hand on the shaft of the spear and shot forward .

He decided to use a basic footwork that required no qi . It was the Gale walk!

Woon Seong's figure became a gale of wind that was light but firm .

Whoosh-

The gale flew through the air and stopped on the other side of the swamp . Woon Seong slowly stopped rotating his body and his hair swayed .