Yeon Ha-rin fought like crazy.

It was enough that the Homuryeon warriors who remained behind with her were scared of her.

So, how would the giant facing Yeon Ha-rin think?

“I underestimated you.”

He had to admit it. He underestimated Yeonharin thinking she was an easy target.

Yeon Ha-rin was far better than he expected.

Her martial arts were also strong, but she had a better sense of improvisation and fighting.

She had already passed crisis moments with that several times already.

However, the giant did not doubt his victory. The result was decided. It was just how long it would take to get there.

The giant glanced around.

Still, he had the upper hand, so he had breathing room.

And it was also one of the two reasons he couldn’t deal with Yeonharin yet.

The Homuryeon warriors were dealing with the half Kang-shi, but things were still tense.

But that wouldn’t last much longer.

The other ships were still full of half Kang-shi after all.

When the half Kang-shi on this side died, the guys on the other ships came over.

So, the number of half Kang-shi continued to be maintained, but the Homuryeon warriors were getting tired.

He checked a little further away.

The ship carrying the prospects arrived safely on the shore.

But that didn’t mean they got out of the crisis.

There were a lot of half Kang-shi there as well. They will never get out of there.

The important characters will be captured, and those who are not will all die or be reborn as a half Kang-shi.

There was a reason why the giant was so optimistic about the situation over there.

There was a real master over there on the ground.

There were also half Kang-shi that were much stronger than those here.

“If I don’t finish it soon, things might get complicated.”

This side needed to finish before that side. Otherwise, his abilities would be questioned.

“I wanted to get my loot without hurting it, but I guess I can’t. Even if it hurts, be patient.”

The giant said so and swung the sword roughly.

Woosh!

A huge cleaver aura spouted out and struck Yeonharin’s sword.

Clang!

There was an explosion powerful enough to shake the ship.

And Yeon Ha-rin slid back. A stream of blood flowed from her mouth.

However, Yeon Ha-rin’s fighting spirit did not die at all.

She rushed at him even harder.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Even though she could not properly stop the giant cleaver aura slashes, she never withdrew.

She was instinctively grasping that she shouldn’t step back now.

Yeon Ha-rin barely dodged the slashes.

In the meantime, her physical strength and inner strength were rapidly consumed.

Yeon Ha-rin’s movements gradually became dull.

Then she heard someone calling.

“Hey! there!”

The giant was amazed at the sound as if someone was speaking directly into his ear.

No, it wasn’t that much. It was as if someone was slapping words directly into his head.

This wasn’t the kind of technique that uses the air to transmit sound from far away.

It was a much higher-level technique.

The giant hurriedly stepped back. In his eyes, he saw Yeon Ha-rin who was also confused.

It was evident that Yeon Ha-rin had also heard it.

The giant looked around and confirmed the identity of the voice.

Someone was standing by the river and looking his way.

It was Byeoktaesan.

The eyes of Yeon Ha-rin, who found him, widened. Tears almost came out.

However, she thought it shouldn’t be acting like that right now. Tears get in the way of battle.

“Yeah. Pig, You.”

The giant raised his finger with absurd eyes, pointed at himself, and opened his eyes wide.

“Is there any other pigs there other than you? Why do you keep asking? It’s bothersome.”

The giant snorted.

“Ha! You bastard, do you even know who I am talking to me that way?

“Should I know you? Then how about you, do you know who I am?”

“I do not know, you bastard.”

Byeoktaesan laughed coldly.

“Then you have to die. Wouldn’t it be considered good business if you died for the sin of not knowing me?”

The giant stood confidently and stared at Byeoktaesan.

“Oh yeah? You are going to kill me? Then come and try it.”

The giant’s gaze turned to Yeon Ha-rin this time.

“Before you come here, I’ll show you clearly how I deal with that.”

The giant aimed at Yeon Ha-rin. An unusual energy began to sway.

“If you get caught here, you’ll want to die anyway, so die beforehand.”

The giant’s cleaver with enormous energy plunged toward Yeonharin.

Yeon Ha-rin urgently tried to stop it. However, no matter how much she looked at it, it was unlikely that she could prevent or avoid that.

Still, shouldn’t she try as far as she could? Even Byeoktaesan was able to come here.

Yeon Ha-rin clenched her teeth and swung her sword.

The moment the sword and the cleaver were about to collide, something broke through.

Clang!

A clear sound rang and the giant staggered and retreated. His palm was torn and bleeding.

The giant cleaver shook back and forth in the giant’s hand. He was shocked to the point that he couldn’t properly control his cleaver.

The giant urgently confirmed the identity of what made himself this way.

“A stone?”

A pebble fell nearby.

“Don’t explode your latent power in vain. I didn’t bring the doctors so I can’t even save you. I can’t let you die so easily can I?”

The giant looked at Byeoktaesan, talking slowly by the river, with scared eyes.

Did you mean that he threw a stone from there and left this much of an impact on him?

“Does that make sense?”

The giant mumbled like that, then stumbled and sat down.

He was just about to explode his latent powers, but the energy was disturbed by the stone, and the power flow reversed.

Paradoxically, because of that, the body was safe.

Although because his gimaek was twisted, the latent power was not dispersed outside, but rather became trapped inside.

Of course, it became impossible to fight any more.

When the giant fell, Yeon Ha-rin helped the rest of the Homuryeon warriors to fight the half Kang-shi.

Even so, she checked on Byeoktaesan constantly.

She saw Cheon Gyeong-wan and Yoo Seo-yeon arriving behind Byeoktaesan.

Yeon Ha-rin was relieved for some reason. Even though it absolutely wasn’t a situation to be relieved yet.

* * *

Byeoktaesan was standing by the river and measuring the distance.

He checked if he could jump and get on the boat at once, but the distance was a bit vague.

This was because the pirates worked in a place as far from the land as possible, to prevent people from running away.

“Hah, it wouldn’t even be a half step if it was the me from before, but how did I end up like this now.”

Byeoktaesan mumbled like that, looking for something to step on.

He thought if he put a few wooden planks between him and the boat then he will be able to get on the boat.

At that moment, the Geumokruju arrived.

She brought a few pieces of wooden boards.

“She’s decent.”

Byeoktaesan thought that, and took the boards from her and threw it over the river.

It seemed to be thrown roughly and randomly, but stepping stones made of wooden boards were put toward the ship at precise intervals.

However, because the water was flowing, the wooden boards were also floating.

“If you want to come along, I dare you to follow after me.”

Byeoktaesan left those words and jumped.

He stepped on the first board exactly and jumped again.

Surprisingly, the board only swayed slightly on the water, and barely moved.

It just flowed along with the flow of the river.

He stepped on the board a few times like that, went straight ahead, and quickly got on the nearest ship.

At that moment, all the half Kang-shi on the ship collapsed.

“Hmm. These are all mine too.”

The ship was full of pure spiritual power. Among them, the spiritual power that fit Byeoktaesan penetrated into his body.

Even if he did this once already, he was able to absorb spiritual power faster than he did before.

When all the half Kang-shi collapsed, only healthy people, namely, pirates, remained on the ship.

As Byeoktaesan lifted his finger, the pirates rushed and knelt in front of Byeoktaesan.

Byeoktaesan lifted his fingers and pointed at Cheon Gyeong-wan and Yoo seo-yeon at the riverside.

He didn’t say anything, but the pirates figured out what that meant.

Byeoktaesan waved his hand as if it was annoying.

But at that moment, surprisingly, the pressure point of the pirates clogged up in several places.

“This is just in case. If you run away, boom. You know what I mean right?”

Their faces turned pale.

Byeoktaesan jumped over to the nearby boat.

After that, ships driven by the pirates lined up along the river.

And the pirates quietly knelt in front of Cheon Gyeong-wan and Yoo Seo-yeon.

They did not forget to answer the questions of the Geumokruju with sincerity.

It was their own struggle to try to live.

* * *

The last boat on which Byeoktaesan climbed aboard was the one on which Yeon Ha-rin was on.

It was natural because it was on the opposite side.

By the time Byeoktaesan was on the boat, it was already after the Homuryeon warriors and Yeon Ha-rin had taken care of the half Kang-shi.

As Byeoktaesan has taken care of all of the rest of the ship’s half Kang-shi, it was inevitable that half Kang-shi was not able to reinforce this boat.

Byeoktaesan looked around on the ship with a regrettable expression.

He had a lot of elixirs so far, but he wished for more. What was wasteful was wasteful.

“My lord… … .”

Yeon Ha-rin slowly approached, looking at Byeoktaesan with her eyes slightly filled with tears.

Byeoktaesan reached out and said firmly.

“If you are going to cry, go somewhere else, and cry. I hate it.”

All of a sudden, the tears retreated.

Yeon Ha-rin stared at Byeoktaesan blankly. Even though he didn’t seem like this before, the actions and words he just made matched the usual Byeoktaesan.

“I am not crying okay?”

In the meantime, Byeoktaesan approached the giant who sat down on the floor.

Yeon Ha-rin said that and pouted her lips.

“Tsk, he’s practically dead. I don’t even need to kill him myself.”

“If you’re going to ridicule me, just kill me.”

Byeoktaesan didn’t even respond to that.

And he looked at the river on the other side.

There was still a fierce fight going on. That meant there were still a lot of half Kang-shi there.

“The elixir remains.”

Byeoktaesan mumbled and looked for the pirates left on the ship. But there was no such thing.

Because Yeonharin already took care of everything in the early stages.

Byeoktaesan naturally ordered the survivors and the Homuryeon warriors.

“From now on, we move to the shore. Move the boat towards land.”

At the end of Byeoktaesan’s words, the Homuryeon warriors moved.

Some of them had experience driving a boat, so they could move the boat more easily than expected.

The ship carrying them quickly moved to land.

As the distance decreased to some extent, Byeoktaesan jumped.

Since it was a little farther away than expected, Yeon Ha-rin and the Homuryeon warriors remained on the ship.

But they didn’t have to jump off the boat in the first place.

They witnessed a wonderful sight.

Whenever Byeoktaesan passed by, the half Kang-shi, who were swinging their swords like crazy, fell down without resistance.

Even though Half Kang-shi fell like that, they constantly rushed in, and continuously fell as soon as they got near him.

Byeoktaesan stood in the middle of the fallen half Kang-shi and closed his eyes.

Everyone gathered there just looked at Byeoktaesan.

And with that, the case of the prospects being raided by the pirates with half Kang-shi ended.

* * *

While Byeoktaesan absorbed the spiritual power poured out by the half Kang-shi, the Homuryeon warriors and other prospects and people of their families organized their surroundings.

A large pit was dug, the bodies were placed, then burned, and the captives were brought together.

Most of the ships were in good shape, so they moved all the pirates on the other side of the river to this side.

After tidying it up once, everyone decided to get on board and send them to Homuryeon.

As they were in the midst of clearing up, Cheon Chu Shin Ui and Il Chim Gui appeared, leading a bunch of the Homuryeon warriors.

The Baekhwaruju delivered the news to Homuryeon, and the Homuryeon gathered and sent their warriors hastily.

Cheon Chu Shin Ui and Il Chim Gui came in surprise at the news that Byeoktaesan had gone this way.

The two were relieved to see that the situation was over. And then they looked at Byeoktaesan with an expression that said of course it turned out this way.

And just in time, Byeoktaesan opened his eyes.

“My lord, are you okay?”

Cheon Chu Shin Ui asked carefully.

In response to the question, Byeoktae-san pointed to the giant who led the pirates with his chin.

“Save him.”

Then Cheon Chu Shin Ui replied right away.

“He is no different from being alive already.”

At the same time as his words, Cheon Chu Shin Ui and Il Chim Gui rushed to the giant.

It was a complicated situation in which the energy was twisted due to the reverse flow of power while exploding his latent powers, but the twisted energy was resolved immediately by the acupuncture of Il Chim Gui.

And at the same time, the exploded latent powers trapped inside were solved with acupuncture by Cheon Chu Shin Ui.

Cheon Chu Shin Ui alternately looked at Il Chim Gui and Byeoktaesan with triumphant eyes.

“How is it? With this could we say that my acupuncture skills are better than yours, brother?”

“You can stop with the bullshit.”

“You use cheap words again. How many times do I have to tell you not to? How the words in your vocabulary make up your character? What are you going to do if you die through old age while being pointed at instead of being praised?”

Instead of answering, he shook his head and approached Byeoktaesan.

“He is saved.”

“Good job.”

At the praise of Byeoktaesan, Il Chim Gui made a quaint expression. He looked at Byeoktaesan blankly but quickly bowed his head.

A quiet smile was caught on the corner of his mouth.

Seeing that, Cheon Chu Shin Ui hurriedly ran and looked at Byeoktaesan with his dog-like eyes craving food.

Byeoktaesan looked at him and frowned. But in the end, he threw him some food.

“You did well too.”

“Hehehehe.”

Byeoktaesan fell far away at the sound of the weird laughter from Cheon Chu Shin Ui.

Byeoktaesan looked around and looked for Yeon Ha-rin.

The first reason he had come here was the elixir, but Yeon Ha-rin also took a considerable stake.

And he had to find out about the strange familiarity he felt earlier.

Yeon Ha-rin was talking to an old man who had previously made plans with her from a distance.

Byeoktaesan slowly approached them.