The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 113

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Chapter 113. How Meticulous of You

 

 

“He’s not coming.”

Third floor of Yueyang Tower.

Sitting by the window with the best view, enjoying the scenery of Dongting Lake while drinking alone, the old man muttered quietly.

The execution date Sam Ryeong-ju had mentioned was three days ago.

In the meantime, he had also confirmed the rumors coming from Muchang.

Something about two fire dragons piercing through the darkness and ascending to heaven in the deep night.

“Not one, but two…”

A bitter smile formed on the old man’s lips.

Soon, the promised three days would be over.

If there was no news by then, it would mean failure.

The old man placed an empty wine cup on the seat across from him where no one sat.

Glug glug.

He poured alcohol, filling the cup to the brim.

After a moment.

“Yes. It’s a failure after all. Sam Ryeong-ju, may you go to a good place.”

The old man muttered as he rose from his seat.

And without any lingering attachment, he left Yueyang Tower and disappeared without a trace.

 

The carrier hawk landed in the back garden of Manmulryeon.

A deep forest where no one comes.

Gung Do-hyeok, who came to this place at the same time every day, discovered the carrier hawk.

“Is the job finished?”

This was someone he had planted without even informing Sam Ryeong-ju.

Muchang was a city with many murim people thanks to Gyoryong Hall.

Hiding one of his spies was no trouble at all.

He had given him a secret order.

To watch the inn where Gung Mu-hyeok was staying from afar and contact him if anything happened.

When Gung Do-hyeok raised his arm and whistled, the carrier hawk glanced at him.

Then it spread its wings wide, soared up, and perched on Gung Do-hyeok’s raised arm.

Sharp claws tried to tear through his clothes and dig into his flesh, but his arm protected by Body Protection Energy was unharmed.

He took out the letter from the small tube on its leg.

 

 

Though the content was brief, it contained enough news to make Gung Do-hyeok frown.

Gung Do-hyeok’s gaze stopped at the last part that said “please take care of yourself.”

“Hah. So you’re saying you’ll leave Ryeon to find a way to survive?”

Reading that intention wasn’t difficult.

In fact, if he had intended to share the same fate as himself, he wouldn’t have sent a carrier hawk but would have come running directly.

Gung Do-hyeok looked again at the two characters meaning “complete annihilation.”

‘So he really was an opponent worthy of Sam Ryeong-ju’s trembling fear…’

When that man spoke about Ha Mu-baek, he had trembled with extreme fear.

Ten Ten Thousand Heaven Blood Thunder and one Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder that he had prepared so carefully.

“Even that wasn’t enough?”

He quietly recited the disbelieving mutter.

He knew the power of Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder better than anyone in the world.

Because he had directly witnessed the test firing of the prototype.

The moment he saw it, he felt both terror and thrill simultaneously.

The thought that this was a weapon that should never come into the world, and the thought that it was a weapon that would make Manmulryeon the greatest sect in the world.

His brother seemed to feel only the former, as he sealed the Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder afterward.

He still couldn’t believe it.

An opponent who couldn’t be defeated even using that.

“I need to prepare.”

His quietly muttering voice contained resolute will.

As well as a thick scent of blood.

 

***

 

A few days into November.

Was the recent rain announcing that winter was arriving?

Now it was weather where you could say winter was coming.

“Ugh. It’s cold.”

Nak U-jin muttered as he grabbed both arms and came to the training ground.

“Hey. Muchang is still a warm place. You shouldn’t say it’s cold at this level.”

Dang Jin-san said with a chuckle.

Nak U-jin, who was about to retort, remembered that his home was in the capital city of Sichuan Province and closed his mouth.

It was a land that was hellishly hot in summer and deadly cold in winter.

Now there was just over a month left until the winter martial arts tournament.

The eyes of the cadets coming to the training ground were becoming increasingly serious.

“Where’s the instructor?”

At Nak U-jin’s question, Dang Jin-san nodded his head.

“Over there.”

Ha Mu-baek was still lying diagonally against his designated spot on the rock.

Ha Mu-baek lying on the ice-cold rock as if it was nothing.

‘Doesn’t he feel cold?’

That was the thought Nak U-jin had seeing that sight.

Since Nak U-jin had come from a region warmer than Muchang, his first winter cold in Muchang was quite difficult.

Ha Mu-baek didn’t care at all how the cadets viewed him.

Ha Mu-baek was mulling over the story he had heard from Gung Mu-hyeok at the new inn that day.

“It seems my younger sibling has caused trouble.”

People’s eyes widened.

His own younger sibling had caused trouble.

“What the Guard Captain told me through Sound Transmission before he died was that it was my younger sibling who recommended Un Yeol to the Guard Corps.”

“Un Yeol, you mean that traitor?”

Ha Mu-baek asked, recalling that name.

“That’s right. His joining the Guard Corps was over two years ago. My younger sibling had been preparing for contingencies since then.”

Gung Mu-hyeok’s face was dark as he let out a deep sigh.

“Ryeon-ju, to conclude so definitively based on that alone… couldn’t the Vice Ryeon-ju have been deceived as well?”

Gongsun Mu-oe said carefully. However, Gung Mu-hyeok shook his head.

“Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder. He’s one of the two people who possess it. I have two, and that bastard Do-hyeok has one.”

No one said anything.

“Unless the demonic cult bastards killed my younger sibling and stole it… And since I originally gave it to him to use in a life-or-death crisis, there’s no way it would remain.”

It was a self-deprecating voice.

It seemed like something he didn’t know how to accept either.

“What are you planning to do going forward?”

Ha Mu-baek asked.

“I’m not sure yet.”

That was the end of it.

The culprit had been identified, but the situation remained where they couldn’t decide what to do with that culprit.

‘If I only think about what I suffered, I should tear him apart and kill him right now, but….’

Crack.

Ha Mu-baek ground his teeth.

The cadets were startled by the sudden sound and turned to look, but Ha Mu-baek was still lost in his own thoughts.

‘What should I do.’

He couldn’t easily make a decision.

After all, it was an internal matter of Manmulryeon, and he considered himself indebted to Manmulryeon from the last war.

This incident too was something he encountered in the process of repaying that debt.

‘Even so. I can’t just let this slide. At least both arms or so.’

He had really almost died.

Because of that incendiary device, no, weapon that bastard had given to Sam Ryeong-ju.

He had almost left Seol-ran behind and departed.

This was the reason Ha Mu-baek was quietly enraged.

What was the reason he had desperately survived the last two wars?

Wasn’t it his younger sibling Ha Seol-ran?

If Gung Mu-hyeok decided to execute his younger sibling to settle Ryeon’s internal strife, he was thinking of lending a hand.

Also combining it with his own revenge.

But if he said he would just cover it up with familial affection.

Then he was thinking of seeking out Manmulryeon by himself.

At minimum, he had to return what he received.

That was the way Ha Mu-baek had lived since leaving his sect.

The moment he made up his mind, subtle killing intent spread out in waves around him.

Feeling suddenly chilled, the cadets all looked at Ha Mu-baek in unison.

He felt those gazes.

‘Oh no.’

Ha Mu-baek hurriedly contained his killing intent.

Then he slyly turned his head and feigned ignorance.

The cadets tilted their heads for a moment, then devoted themselves to cultivation again.

Since they had the excellent motivation called the tournament system, they were working hard on their own.

‘Whew. I still need to adapt more.’

He had suddenly become several times stronger.

So his senses hadn’t yet adapted to his current strengthened state.

That’s why he sometimes leaked killing intent unexpectedly like just now.

In the past, not even a bit would have leaked out, but he failed to control it properly.

“Hmm.”

A soft sigh.

“For the time being, I need to solve this first.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered softly as if making a resolution to himself.

For now, he pushed aside the matter of Manmulryeon.

 

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“Have you made your decision?”

Gongsun Mu-oe asked, finding Gung Mu-hyeok getting some fresh air in the courtyard in front of the separate building in the early morning.

“Yes. Father-in-law.”

Gung Mu-hyeok answered surprisingly calmly.

“What do you intend to do?”

“Though he is blood, the sect’s laws are strict. Since he committed insubordination, he must pay the appropriate price.”

“Evidence?”

At Gongsun Mu-oe’s words, Gung Mu-hyeok took out two small cylinders from his bosom.

“What’s that?”

“These are the launch tubes containing the fuses for Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder.”

“Ah.”

Only then did Gongsun Mu-oe recall the memory of when they revisited the ruins.

Gongsun Mu-oe had given the inn owner sufficient compensation.

It was enough money to build four of the same separate buildings.

For the inn owner, it wasn’t a loss either.

Of course, it would take that much time and effort to clean up the surroundings and build a separate building again, but Gongsun Mu-oe paid four times the amount considering that.

At that time, Gung Mu-hyeok, who had gone together, seemed to be asking the inn owner something and searching for it.

“So you went together to find that?”

“Yes. Father-in-law. That evening, after calming my excitement and thinking about future matters, it occurred to me. That evidence would be needed to hold Do-hyeok accountable. And I thought that if it was a launch tube, it would remain even after that explosion, so I went with the intention of searching through the ruins before they were cleaned up.”

“He was a diligent inn owner.”

The two had revisited the inn owner the very next day after leaving that place.

When they returned after just one day, the ruins had been cleanly organized.

They couldn’t find the corpse.

Moreover, there was nothing there.

The inn owner had gathered and organized all of it.

The single leather shoe left alone, and also one metal cylinder of unknown identity.

The other one was what Ha Mu-baek had fired, which he had returned that day.

“But what do you intend to do with that launch tube? Would that serve as evidence?”

“Two people owned this: myself and Do-hyeok. The total number is three. Of course, he could claim they were stolen from the secret vault, but since they were stored in the secret chamber inside the deepest secret vault.”

“That would be impossible.”

Gongsun Mu-oe answered.

At Gung Mu-hyeok’s request, he had taken certain measures at Manmulryeon’s secret vault in Seonyu Valley.

“In addition to that, here.”

Gung Mu-hyeok pointed to one spot.

It was a part that would be completely covered by the palm when pressing the launch button.

“Please inject just a little internal energy.”

Gongsun Mu-oe flowed a very small amount of internal energy as requested.

Then that part glowed faintly and letters appeared.

Do-hyeok.

It was Gung Do-hyeok’s name.

The other launch tube.

So-yu.

Gung So-yu’s name appeared.

“I made them with hidden markings from the beginning, keeping in mind who I would give them to.”

“Heh, hehe. How meticulous of you.”

Gongsun Mu-oe let out a hollow laugh.

Gung Mu-hyeok just maintained a calm expression.

“However, for that to happen, I need to get healthy first. In my current state, I don’t think I can do anything.”

Only when saying those words did emotion appear on Gung Mu-hyeok’s face.

It was resentment.

Because he thought his younger sibling had harbored treacherous intentions due to his own weak body, and on top of that, even his daughter’s weak body.

“Right. Focus on treatment first. There’s plenty of time. Besides, judging by Instructor Ha’s expression, it seemed like he absolutely wouldn’t let this slide.”

Gung Mu-hyeok nodded slightly at Gongsun Mu-oe’s words.

On the day his body fully recovers through Ha Mu-baek’s treatment, he will return to Manmulryeon.

And his younger sibling will have to pay the appropriate price.

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