The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 103

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Chapter 103. You Bastards…

 

 

The two children entered the room where Dan Mok Un-hye was staying and became absorbed in conversation.

It couldn’t even be called a room.

Recently, Byeokryeokgae, Ha Mu-baek, and Wi Ji-gun had helped to barely make it presentable.

Originally, Yeo Hwa had stubbornly refused help, leaving it as it was.

Yeo Hwa accepted help after being persuaded that the environment was important for treating Dan Mok Un-hye.

In truth, they should have moved houses entirely, but Yeo Hwa was refusing that much.

Ha Mu-baek and Wi Ji-gun sat at the tea table, savoring the aroma of the tea Yeo Hwa had brought them.

It would probably take quite a long time.

Just then, Ha Mu-baek’s eyebrows twitched. The same was true for Wi Ji-gun.

[What kind of bastards are they?]

[I don’t know. Their numbers seem to be gradually increasing lately… It seems we can’t just leave them be any longer.]

They had detected the presence of strangers.

It wasn’t the presence of ordinary people coming and going through Muchang.

They were definitely people who had learned martial arts.

And they were moving extremely stealthily.

The movements of those who had professionally learned hidden stealth arts.

It meant they had entered Muchang with some malicious intent.

Since Murim was a place where various types of people lived and there were many grudges and relationships, they had just left them alone until now.

It was because they thought there was no direct connection to Ha Mu-baek.

But now it was different.

Their movements had been detected even from Gyoryong Hall.

[What is the Beggar Sect doing?]

[Among the Beggar Sect’s beggars, those who can sense their presence can be counted on one hand. There are probably two or three in Muchang. Since they move while thoroughly avoiding such people, it seems the Beggar Sect hasn’t grasped the situation yet.]

[Well. If they’re hiding around like rats… ordinary Beggar Sect members wouldn’t know.]

Wi Ji-gun nodded slightly as if in agreement.

“It seems the children will take quite some time, so I’ll go out for a moment.”

Ha Mu-baek emptied his tea cup and stood up, speaking to Yeo Hwa.

“Yes. Don’t worry about here and go ahead.”

Since Master was with them, there was nothing to worry about, but at Yeo Hwa’s words, Ha Mu-baek answered that he understood and left Dan Mok Un-rae’s house.

As soon as he opened the door and came out, Ha Mu-baek’s body movement disappeared in an instant.

Only a small breeze stirred gently where Ha Mu-baek had been.

 

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“Hiyah!”

Dan Mok Un-rae thrust his sword with a powerful battle cry, but it was helplessly blocked.

The defense of the Taecheong Sword Technique that Ju U-myeong displayed was solid and without gaps.

It was a completely different kind of strength from Baek Ri-pyeong.

“Not bad.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered as he watched such a scene.

He was standing on a tree near the training ground while surveying the surroundings.

Even so, no one discovered Ha Mu-baek’s presence.

“Those guys are doing well, so I’ll just leave them be… Now, shall I catch some rats.”

Ha Mu-baek, who had come from Dan Mok Un-rae’s house to Gyoryong Hall in truly an instant, was looking for the rats that had snuck in near Group 7’s training ground.

He had clearly recognized their positions from the beginning.

“One, two, three, four. Good.”

He had also confirmed all the people in the places where presence could be felt.

Four people in total.

Though they were scattered throughout the vast Gyoryong Hall, they couldn’t escape Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.

When Ha Mu-baek moved lightly, this time his body movement disappeared without even leaving a breeze.

“Huh?”

“Gasp!”

“Urgh.”

Brief sounds of shock and groans.

However, no one heard those voices.

Ha Mu-baek had truly stealthily subdued three people in an instant.

And when he went to subdue the last one.

“Tch.”

The rat who sensed something wrong moved first.

But it was just struggling in Buddha’s palm.

The rat who realized he couldn’t escape Ha Mu-baek’s grasp instead charged toward Ha Mu-baek.

His sword moved quickly, aiming for Ha Mu-baek’s neck.

At the same time, he bit down hard on his molars. He was attempting suicide by biting the poison pill in his mouth while attacking the enemy.

Ha Mu-baek chuckled and flicked his finger.

Finger wind flew out and precisely struck the rat’s pressure point, and his jaw stopped right there.

The muscles around his tongue, jaw, and vocal cords all stiffened rigidly.

However, since the hand moving the sword remained the same, the sword flew toward Ha Mu-baek.

The bastard who realized suicide had failed burst forth with his entire body’s potential and infused internal energy into his sword.

The sword’s qi aura became even more ferocious.

At that moment, Ha Mu-baek’s expression changed completely.

It hardened coldly and killing intent appeared in his eyes.

“You bastards…”

A small but fierce voice flowed from Ha Mu-baek’s mouth.

Ha Mu-baek, who appeared before the rat in an instant, raised his right hand.

The opponent’s sword had already been broken.

It was impossible to know when or how he had broken it.

“How are you still around.”

With those words, his hand pierced through the rat’s dantian.

Since his pressure points were suppressed, he couldn’t even scream.

He only trembled all over his body in pain.

It was natural.

Ha Mu-baek had torn apart his dantian in the most painful way.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward the other three.

Three people whose pressure points were suppressed and thrown about carelessly.

There wasn’t a moment’s hesitation in approaching them and tearing apart their dantians either.

Then he picked up those suffering in agony with void grasping and headed toward a secluded place deep in Gyoryong Hall.

 

“Kraaaah.”

“Hueeegh.”

“Agh…”

“Krheuugh.”

As soon as he released their pressure points, screams and groans filled with pain burst out.

Since he had blocked the sound with an energy barrier, Ha Mu-baek didn’t care what those bastards did.

He only looked down with cold eyes.

“Speak. How are you bastards still here?”

A voice filled with killing intent.

It seemed he could kill all four of them with just his voice alone.

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, the four bastards froze stiff, forgetting even to scream and groan.

They looked exactly like mice before a viper.

Even so, their mouths did not open.

“How can Demon Cult bastards come to Muchang, and to Gyoryong Hall at that?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, the four men’s eyes trembled finely.

They never expected him to know their identity so precisely.

“The moment you draw up your internal energy, that filthy and vile stench of demonic energy flows out in streams – did you think I wouldn’t notice?”

An ominous voice.

Rather, it seemed as if demonic energy was flowing from Ha Mu-baek’s voice.

The Demon Cult and Blood Cult.

When it came to those two alone, Ha Mu-baek was more cruel than they were.

Even so, the four people kept their mouths tightly shut.

They couldn’t commit suicide since Ha Mu-baek had already extracted all the poison pills from their mouths.

“You won’t speak? Good, very good.”

Ha Mu-baek smiled broadly.

It was a cruel smile.

“I was slightly worried you might speak obediently.”

Ha Mu-baek’s voice sounded as if he had become a different person.

“You bastards have two ways to commit suicide. Internal energy reversal and poison pills. I already destroyed your dantians and extracted the poison pills. I also pressed your demonic blood points.”

While Ha Mu-baek continued speaking slowly, the four men trembled violently.

Even though they couldn’t move with their demonic blood points suppressed, they couldn’t stop the chills rising all over their bodies as they shook.

“That means you bastards now have no way to kill yourselves.”

Ha Mu-baek’s teeth gleamed blindingly white as he grinned wickedly.

To the four men’s eyes, it looked so terrifying.

It was a moment when one couldn’t tell who belonged to the Demon Cult and who was from the Jeongcheon Alliance.

They wanted to close their eyes and look away from the terror, but they couldn’t even move their eyelids at will.

Ha Mu-baek walked step by step toward one of them.

The moment he raised his hand with an expressionless face and brought it toward the man’s arm.

“Stop that.”

At the voice from behind, Ha Mu-baek stopped abruptly.

It was a very familiar voice.

It was his Master, Wi Ji-gun.

“Master…”

“Tsk. You couldn’t even sense me approaching this close – you’ve lost yourself.”

It was a reproachful remark.

“But these bastards…”

Just as Ha Mu-baek was about to say something, Wi Ji-gun waved his hand. The four men who had been subdued by the stunning technique quietly lost consciousness.

“They’re remnants of the Demon Cult. Those cursed bastards. They’ve infiltrated right up to our doorstep.”

Ha Mu-baek protested as if wronged.

“So what if they are? To me, you are more important than those worthless bastards. Right now, truly terrible killing intent is flowing from you in streams. Others might not sense it, but it’s all too clear to me.”

That was why Wi Ji-gun had rushed here at full speed.

“What a bloody stench it is. It’s creeping out from your body again. I’m not worried about those worthless bastards – I’m worried you might enter the realm of carnage again.”

Wi Ji-gun’s calm words.

At those words, Ha Mu-baek’s eyes trembled violently.

“Master…”

“I fully understand that your anger toward those scoundrels hasn’t disappeared yet, but you must gradually let it go. Ran-ah is here too, isn’t she?”

“I understand.”

Ha Mu-baek answered quietly in agreement.

“But we must make those bastards talk.”

At those words, Wi Ji-gun nodded.

“Just don’t lose yourself.”

“I will do so.”

Wi Ji-gun stepped to one side, and Ha Mu-baek woke the four men again.

Though it was a short time, the bastards who confirmed Ha Mu-baek’s atmosphere had changed felt slightly relieved, but that was a hasty judgment.

Under Ha Mu-baek’s cold interrogation, they had no choice but to open their mouths before long.

The four men crumbled away like a handful of ash consumed by Samadhi True Fire.

“Why would Demon Cult bastards be watching Gung Ryeon-ju and So Yu?”

That was all they knew.

Surveillance of Gung Mu-hyeok and Gung So-yu, and those around them.

Expanding the surveillance range like that, they had flowed all the way to Gyoryong Hall.

Because they had set the entire Muchang area as their surveillance range.

“It’s incomprehensible. First, we need to clean out the trash in Muchang.”

“Yes. That’s obvious.”

Ha Mu-baek agreed with Wi Ji-gun’s words.

No, the moment he knew they were Demon Cult bastards, he had already made up his mind.

“I’ll handle them appropriately. Master, please stay with the children.”

“Yes. Do that. Be careful not to lose yourself.”

Leaving worried words behind, Wi Ji-gun’s form disappeared.

Ha Mu-baek’s form also disappeared.

He headed toward places where he sensed the presence of unfamiliar martial artists who had recently entered Muchang.

He just needed to distinguish and deal with the Demon Cult remnants among them.

Even if others couldn’t, it was an easy task for Ha Mu-baek.

He simply hadn’t checked until now because he didn’t know Demon Cult remnants had flowed into Muchang.

Using the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye, detecting traces of Demonic Arts was as easy as flipping his palm.

 

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“Hmm… No one is sending word…”

On the roof of a pavilion at Dongting Lake where thick darkness had fallen.

The masked man looked down at Dongting Lake and muttered suspiciously.

It was the same man who had met Gung Do-hyeok.

The promised time had already passed by one hour.

He had waited just in case, but no one had sent word.

It meant all those many people who entered Muchang had been dealt with.

His gaze turned toward Muchang.

“Is it that monster’s doing after all?”

There was someone he suspected – no, someone he was certain of.

From the beginning, the fact that he was there was the most important information his organization dealt with.

“This is why I hated Muchang.”

From information obtained from Hao Sect, he knew that person was connected to this matter.

Wondering if they could obtain more information, he had given orders yesterday to gradually expand the surveillance range, and this disaster happened.

“What to do…”

The masked man looked at Muchang with truly troubled eyes.

“I have to make a move.”

Muttering quietly to himself, his form disappeared.

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