The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 106

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Chapter 106. Was This It?

 

 

What strange weather this is.

Though autumn has ended and winter is approaching.

Whoooosh.

Heavy rain is falling.

The thick raindrops look chilling just to watch.

The Maengryong Squad Seven Cadets hurriedly entered an empty room in Gyoryong Hall’s school building to escape the rain.

They tried their best to block the rain with internal energy, but they were soaked in many places.

Only Ha Mu-baek remained completely dry.

“So there was a place like this too.”

Ha Mu-baek said while looking around.

“We’ve never used it before… but it’s a place for martial arts theory classes and such.”

Dang Jin-san said.

Since it was close to Group Seven’s training ground, Dang Jin-san had led the cadets here. He already knew about this place.

“Martial arts theory… Hah.”

Ha Mu-baek chuckled while looking around the room that could hold about ten people.

“There’s also a library on the eighth floor.”

Dang Jin-san said, seeming somewhat provoked by Ha Mu-baek’s laughter.

Gyoryong Hall’s main library was located behind the Director’s Pavilion as a massive structure called the Great Library.

This library was about the size of an annex to that Great Library.

Ha Mu-baek looked up at the ceiling. He could only see the wooden ceiling blocking his view, not the eighth floor.

“Secret manuals. Hmm. Good, secret manuals. But I wonder if there’s anything useful here?”

Ha Mu-baek stared directly at Dang Jin-san.

Dang Jin-san would visit the school building’s library to read secret manuals whenever he had spare time.

Among the Group Seven Cadets, only Dang Jin-san did this.

While the Great Library had access restrictions, the school building’s library had no such limitations. Anyone in Gyoryong Hall, even Maengryong Corps cadets, could freely read the secret manuals and books in the library without any restrictions.

“Of, of course!”

At Dang Jin-san’s answer, Ha Mu-baek smiled and asked again.

“So you’ve been diligently reading secret manuals here in your spare time. Has it been helpful?”

“H-how did you…?”

Dang Jin-san was startled by Ha Mu-baek’s question.

No one knew about this.

Even Dan Mok Un-rae, who shared the same room, didn’t know.

For Ha Mu-baek, it was simple.

He had occasionally sensed Dang Jin-san’s ki from this place. He just hadn’t been interested in what kind of place it was.

Coming here today, he found out.

The place Dang Jin-san mainly visited was the library on the eighth floor here.

“You had an unexpectedly scholarly side. But at your current level, you’d be better off sleeping more instead of doing that.”

“Still…”

Just as Dang Jin-san was about to say something, Ha Mu-baek spoke again.

“You’re already struggling to digest everything I’m teaching you. At your current level. Secret manuals are unnecessary. Besides, I doubt there are any particularly excellent secret manuals here. And even if there were such excellent secret manuals, they would be beyond your level.”

“…”

Dang Jin-san closed his mouth.

“And seeing once is better than reading a hundred times. Doing it once directly is better than seeing it a hundred times. So train diligently.”

“Just continuing with self-study…”

Dang Jin-san’s small muttering followed.

“…Mm.”

Ha Mu-baek’s words stopped for a moment.

Because that was an undeniable fact.

“Sometimes there are theoretical parts that get stuck or make us curious.”

Baek Ri-pyeong, who had been silent until then, interjected.

“When that happens, ask me. I’ll answer.”

Ha Mu-baek answered awkwardly, slightly turning his gaze away.

Because of his own actions up until now.

“Anyway, the secret manuals here probably won’t be particularly helpful to you…”

As Ha Mu-baek was saying this, his gaze turned to Dan Mok Un-rae, Yeon Ha-min, and Nak U-jin.

“No, wait. Dang Jin-san, Baek Ri-pyeong, they won’t help you two. But for you three, they might actually be meaningful.”

These three were practically beginners who had just entered martial arts this year.

Moreover, Ha Mu-baek had been constantly shouting about self-study.

“The instructor has been teaching quite roughly.”

Dang Jin-san nodded and spoke, thinking this was his chance.

Baek Ri-pyeong also nodded slightly.

Dang Jin-san and Baek Ri-pyeong were disciples of prestigious families.

They had learned the basics systematically there.

“Fine. Since it’s come to this, and it’s raining. Self-study in the library. If there’s anything you don’t know, ask Dang Jin-san and Baek Ri-pyeong.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s declaration, the expressions of the five cadets changed strangely.

In the end, it was self-study again.

Regardless, Ha Mu-baek left the school building, leaving the five cadets behind.

The rain showed no signs of stopping.

The raindrops grew thicker, making it impossible to see ahead properly.

It was truly a late autumn downpour.

Ha Mu-baek climbed onto the school building’s roof and looked toward Dongting Lake.

His eyes sank deeply.

 

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“I wonder if this is fortunate or unfortunate…”

A middle-aged man muttered while looking out the inn’s window.

A fairly large inn by Dongting Lake.

It was full of people due to the unexpected downpour.

At Dongting Lake too, just like in Muchang, rain was falling so heavily that visibility was poor.

The man called Sam Ryeong-ju when masked, Hyeok Ryeon-pyo.

His eyes were indescribably complex.

All his subordinates had already gathered around Muchang.

Their number was two hundred.

In the current situation organized as cells, this was all the subordinates he could mobilize personally.

In his chest was the Mancheon Golden Chain Explosive Thunder.

He had distributed the Mancheon Blood Thunder among the ten most outstanding of his subordinates.

He planned to use all eleven of these firearms on that bastard simultaneously.

But then this sudden rain.

This kind of weather was the worst for firearms.

The Mancheon Golden Chain Explosive Thunder might be fine, but some of the Mancheon Blood Thunder might misfire.

That’s why he was just waiting endlessly for the rain to stop.

“Did this rain extend that bastard’s life… or did it extend mine?”

Hyeok Ryeon-pyo muttered in a very small voice.

Dae Ryeong-ju’s words kept bothering him.

Other Second Light Death.

But that guy is not some snake.

He was a dragon.

Perhaps his current actions might startle the dragon.

And the result could unfold in the worst way possible.

Hyeok Ryeon-pyo’s gaze turned not toward Muchang, but to some distant place.

‘Sect Leader. Please….’

He made no sound with his mouth, only thinking in his head.

May the Sect Leader’s seclusion training succeed.

After staring out the window for a long while, Hyeok Ryeon-pyo stood up.

Judging that this rain wouldn’t stop in just a day or two, he headed to the guest room upstairs.

He needed to rest.

In this state of being completely on edge with tension, he would only mess up important matters.

 

Three days later.

A clear sky spread out as if it had never rained so heavily.

Even so, Hyeok Ryeon-pyo did not move.

The rain had stopped, but the air was still humid.

He had to be completely prepared.

He had to wait for the optimal environment to use fire techniques.

At that time.

Ha Mu-baek was on top of the school building’s roof.

Since it was the highest place in Gyoryong Hall, he had been climbing up here frequently since taking shelter from the rain last time.

The view was much better than from the top of the Director’s Pavilion roof.

“Hmm.”

His troubled gaze turned toward Dongting Lake, then swept around the surroundings.

“There’s definitely something….”

It was an inexplicable premonition.

The rain had stopped, but the air still felt unpleasant.

Such air was surrounding the east side of Muchang.

A feeling as if something would happen at any moment.

It felt like it was directed at him.

But no matter how much he expanded his Ki Sense, nothing was caught.

Master said it was a sign of trying to break through barriers, but he couldn’t tell.

Even through two wars, he had never experienced this.

Really sticky, yet a disgusting feeling that seemed to exist yet not exist.

He had climbed up here frequently with a frustrated heart, but nothing changed by doing so.

Ha Mu-baek sat cross-legged.

He closed both eyes, entered meditation, and expanded his Ki Sense to the maximum.

To the point where he could expand no further.

To his very limit.

Ha Mu-baek’s face gradually contorted.

His dantian complained of pain as if it would shatter.

It was natural. He hadn’t just expanded his Ki Sense, but had added part of the mysteries of the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye to it.

Even so, Ha Mu-baek remained unmoved.

Very gradually, his Ki Sense spread beyond his limits.

One step, one step.

“Ugh.”

When he had gone about five steps beyond his limit.

Ha Mu-baek groaned and curled up his body.

He had no choice but to stop due to the severe pain ringing in his dantian.

“Whew.”

After the pain subsided, he let out a deep sigh.

There was no change at all.

It was the same.

Even so, Ha Mu-baek sat cross-legged again.

If he kept knocking like this, some change would surely occur.

He had such faith.

Until now, Ha Mu-baek had become strong this way.

Silently, steadily, uprightly advancing in one direction.

 

A cold wind blows.

Seven days had passed since the rain stopped.

Weather that had turned cold as if it had never rained so much.

And as it grew cold, the moisture in the atmosphere dried up.

Air that had become thoroughly dry.

Hyeok Ryeon-pyo made his decision.

“Today is the day.”

Evening, just as darkness was falling.

At the words of the masked Hyeok Ryeon-pyo, no, Sam Ryeong-ju, his subordinate beside him shot up a signal flare.

To someone who didn’t know, it would look like fireworks shot up for fun by travelers at Dongting Lake.

However, Sam Ryeong-ju’s subordinates knew.

Gather at Muchang.

And eliminate Gung Mu-hyeok and Gung So-yu.

Annihilate everything that interferes with that process.

Two hundred of Sam Ryeong-ju’s subordinates rode their horses toward Muchang at high speed.

Ha Mu-baek, who had still been deep in meditation, opened his eyes wide.

“Was this it?”

He finally realized the identity of that sticky feeling.

It was demonic energy.

Countless demonic energies rushing toward Muchang at high speed.

Because these had been around Muchang, he had felt such a sensation.

Indeed, as Master had said, it seemed like a sign of trying to break through barriers.

It was a feeling that his former self wouldn’t have noticed.

The moment they entered the detection range of Ha Mu-baek’s Ki Sense, he could immediately tell they were remnants of the Demonic Sect.

With the mysteries of the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye, he felt the demonic energy reeking with foul odor.

No matter how much they tried to hide, it was useless.

“Moreover, it seems they have no intention of hiding.”

There was no need for the mysteries of the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye either.

They were giving their all, approaching while emanating demonic energy without any thought of hiding.

“Did you sense it?”

Then Master came looking for him.

“Yes.”

“They’re Demonic Sect bastards.”

Master had also dealt with the vermin of the Demonic Sect and Blood Sect before.

He had traveled the world during the middle of the war.

Before meeting him and Younger Sibling and secluding himself on Cheongran Island at Dongting Lake, the vermin of the Demonic Sect and Blood Sect who had died by Master’s hand were countless.

“You’re definitely surpassing me.”

Wi Ji-gun said, looking at Ha Mu-baek.

Although Ha Mu-baek had been expanding his Ki Sense to the maximum, he had noticed the approach of the Demon Cult bastards considerably faster than Wi Ji-gun.

Ki Sense wasn’t the same as one’s level, but considering their abilities, what this meant was significant.

“Do you think they’re coming after you?”

At Wi Ji-gun’s question, Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“I can’t tell.”

He truly couldn’t tell.

Why were those bastards suddenly swarming into Muchang like this?

He had caught and eliminated the four rat bastards who had secretly snuck in last time, but that didn’t mean they would be targeting him.

If they were vermin from the Blood Cult and Demon Cult, they would fear him more than the grim reaper.

And they would know.

That a mere two hundred in number couldn’t do anything to him.

Yet they were charging forward so recklessly.

There must be a purpose.

The reason those rat bastards had entered Muchang last time.

Surveillance of Gung Mu-hyeok and Gung So-yu.

“Perhaps the target isn’t me, but Lord Gung.”

If that were the case, their reckless charge would make sense.

A charge where it didn’t matter what happened to their lives as long as they achieved their purpose.

A desperate advance toward a target they must eliminate even at the cost of their lives.

“I need to go to Lord Gung.”

“I’ll also go there after taking care of Ran-ah.”

The two figures disappeared from the roof of the School Building.

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