The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 149

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Chapter 149. Uhhhhh

 

 

They were precisely aimed.

Toward the spot where Ha Mu-baek and Gung Mu-hyeok were currently standing.

When had such preparations been made?

Not just one, but a full four.

They fired simultaneously.

Though internal energy was needed for firing, it was solved with a mechanism device using Heavenly Silkworm Thread.

By holding it in hand and channeling internal energy, the internal energy would travel through the Heavenly Silkworm Thread to reach the trigger button.

At Gung Mu-hyeok’s shout, Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned toward the ceiling.

And he saw the four weapons that had once made him contemplate death.

The gaze of the Five Elders, who had just begun their offensive and defensive maneuvers, also reached that spot.

Their faces turned deathly pale.

The three elders who had leaped with strange weapons in hand at Gung Do-hyeok’s command glared at him with faces tainted by betrayal, but it was already too late.

The Five Elders all launched themselves without exception.

They had to get as far away from the target point as possible.

Gung Mu-hyeok’s face also turned deathly pale after letting out a desperate shout.

He had directly witnessed Ha Mu-baek surviving within the explosion of Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder.

But that time it was just one.

Now a full four were about to spew hellish flames toward a single point.

Even though he had created them himself, he couldn’t even begin to imagine what the power would be when four overlapped and fired toward one point like that.

Gung Do-hyeok looked down at Gung Mu-hyeok and Ha Mu-baek with a leisurely face.

Ha Mu-baek drew his sword.

It was instantaneous.

His swinging the sword toward midair at an invisibly fast speed and the four Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder spewing fire happened simultaneously.

Kuaaang!

The sword filled with pure white Gang Qi moved at a speed the eyes couldn’t follow.

A screen of sword aura that formed a massive barrier without allowing even an inch of gap.

Sword Screen.

And it was a Sword Screen of sword aura at that.

The Sword Screen that initially seemed to form as a flat surface covered Ha Mu-baek and Gung Mu-hyeok’s heads in a hemisphere shape.

Kuaaang! Kuang! Kwaaaang!

With explosive sounds that shook the Great Hall, crimson flames struck Ha Mu-baek and Gung Mu-hyeok.

The explosive flames that didn’t disappear but burned more fiercely and blazed intensely.

The Great Hall shook violently as if the pillars might collapse at any moment.

The pillars trembled and crumbled powder fell from various places.

Gung Do-hyeok watched those crimson flames with emotionless eyes.

A small smile hung at the corner of his mouth.

It wasn’t emotionless.

He was deliberately hiding his feelings of joy.

Wi Sang-hyeong was looking at the scene before his eyes with a surprised face.

He didn’t know.

Gung Do-hyeok hadn’t said anything to him either.

To think such a device existed in the Great Hall.

Just when had this been done?

Gung Do-hyeok must have installed it alone.

He knew that all Five Elders would be used as cards to deal with enemies and then discarded.

He had thought it was a strategy of borrowing others to kill using the enemy’s hands.

But to think it was just sweeping them all away.

The explosive power created by four Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder working together was beyond imagination.

The trembling of the Great Hall was becoming increasingly violent.

There was no sign of it calming down at all.

Would it gradually subside after that explosion ended?

“The Great Hall is sturdy. I was going to rebuild the Great Hall too.”

It was a building constructed sturdily, befitting the center of Manmulryeon.

Though it shook, nothing was broken anywhere.

Was it because it was concentrated in one place?

Though a tremendous explosion was occurring at one point, its range wasn’t that wide.

Gung Do-hyeok had calculated and set it up that way to eliminate Ha Mu-baek more certainly.

Thanks to that?

The Five Elders all survived for now.

Though their legs had disappeared, or one arm had vanished.

Among them, two had such faint breathing that their lives seemed in danger if not treated immediately.

Gung Do-hyeok didn’t spare them even a glance.

He was just looking at the place where crimson flames were surging.

Anticipating what it would look like when that blazing heat disappeared.

The surviving Five Elders looked at the blazing heat with terror-stricken faces.

They couldn’t even remember how they had escaped from that place.

The overlapping explosion of four.

It was incomparable to the test firing of one they had seen before.

Blazing heat that would make even the calamitous fires of hell seem laughable.

When that blazing heat subsided, it seemed like nothing would remain there.

 

“Uhhhhh.”

Gung Mu-hyeok was so shocked he couldn’t even make proper sounds.

He froze in place and was overwhelmed by the surrounding scene.

Crimson blazing heat surrounded him on all sides.

Those flames surging toward him as if they would annihilate everything immediately.

But they could never reach him.

Ha Mu-baek diligently swinging his sword with an indifferent face.

The Sword Screen created by white sword aura.

Not even a thread-thin strand of the blazing heat could cross the gap in the Sword Screen.

Everything was blocked.

Even a handful of heat couldn’t cross the Sword Screen.

Though it was blazing heat with tremendous heat that would make even the heat of the ultimate hell laughable.

Gung Mu-hyeok himself had created the Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder.

So he knew well how absurd his current situation was.

At the tremendous power of the overlapping Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder, and at the situation where that tremendous thing couldn’t even burn a single hair of his.

Having been shocked twice, Gung Mu-hyeok was out of his mind and couldn’t even make proper sounds.

Ha Mu-baek looked at the blazing heat trying to devour him with calm eyes.

‘Not bad. It’s strong.’

One and four were indeed different.

Power beyond expectations.

It seemed to be because of the overlapping.

‘But it’s manageable.’

That was right.

Last time.

The enlightenment when he nearly died from the Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder.

The wall he had crossed through that enlightenment.

If not for that, it would have been difficult.

If it had been the old Ha Mu-baek, blocking even half this power would have been his limit.

He would have somehow managed to block it, but probably would have exhausted all his strength and been driven to the brink of death.

Now it was different.

Though the four energies overlapped and thrust forth fierce, deadly fangs.

For Ha Mu-baek, it was manageable if he exerted a little more strength.

It was stronger than he initially expected, but it was just a matter of consuming more internal energy.

The white sword aura shone even brighter.

The white hemispherical sword screen that Ha Mu-baek deployed became more solid.

Though he was moving his sword without rest, there was nothing difficult about it.

One-fifth of a gak (about 3 minutes).

It was a short time, but also a long time.

What method had they used?

In midair where there was nothing to burn, flames had been blazing for all that time.

Considering the duration of the inferno, it was a surprisingly long time.

It was also a long time to keep moving a sword without rest.

An ordinary person would be gasping for breath and collapsing after swinging a sword for less than half of half that time.

Ha Mu-baek showed no change at all.

He simply swung his sword indifferently.

His breathing was also calm.

Not a single drop of sweat flowed.

Ha Mu-baek himself was slightly surprised.

He thought he had properly gauged his level through training matches with his master.

But engaging in actual combat like this was different again.

‘Should I say I became this strong thanks to that?’

The corners of Ha Mu-baek’s mouth lifted slightly.

Becoming stronger was a pleasant thing.

No matter how strong he became, it was never enough.

The Demon Cult and Blood Cult.

To completely exterminate these vermin, he had to become endlessly stronger.

This time, it was amusing that he had grown stronger by overcoming a life-threatening crisis thanks to that vermin from the Demon Cult.

In fact, it had been the same in the previous two wars.

The Blood Cult and Demon Cult.

Ha Mu-baek had grown stronger by overcoming various crises while fighting these bastards.

 

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“Tahat! Tat!”

“Keep better formation! Your position there is falling apart!”

Battle cries given with all their might and shouts pointing out such people.

It was a sound that reached Baek Ri-pyeong’s ears faintly as he left the Director’s Pavilion and headed toward Maengryong Dormitory.

‘But it’s break period?’

It was a thought that crossed Baek Ri-pyeong’s mind.

Now that the second semester had ended and they had entered the winter break period.

There was no reason for group training like that.

Baek Ri-pyeong’s steps unconsciously headed toward where the sound was coming from.

That place was the Great Training Ground.

The place where Baek Ri-pyeong had also received training.

The place where he had received shield technique training from Zhuge Ming.

As expected, Zhuge Ming was on the platform.

And those training earnestly were.

‘Second-year Maengryong Corps.’

These were the ones who had now completed their training process at Gyoryong Hall and had to go to Sanwol Demon Forest.

New Year’s Day.

They said they would depart for Sanwol Demon Forest four days after spending that holiday of the first day of the first month.

He knew about it since it was a process he would also experience a year later.

He thought they would be resting while waiting for deployment to Sanwol Demon Forest.

Some with anticipation, some trembling with fear.

However, Baek Ri-pyeong’s expectation was wrong.

They were cultivating while dripping with thick beads of sweat.

It was the shield technique he had learned in his first year, but it was different.

Formation had been added.

Not facing jiangshi alone, but with two, three, four, five.

Or formations where more people could cooperate with their shields to block jiangshi.

Unlike them, Baek Ri-pyeong had already experienced Sanwol Demon Forest and returned.

Therefore, he could recognize that those shield techniques and formation movements were effective.

‘These are movements thoroughly focused on defense and survival.’

It had to be so.

The role of Maengryong Corps was to block jiangshi attacks.

Attacking jiangshi was the role of the Demon Suppression Unit.

That’s what Baek Ri-pyeong had heard.

Risking their lives to block was Maengryong Corps.

Killing to achieve merit was the Demon Suppression Unit.

‘How unreasonable.’

It was a sudden thought.

He had known about it, but seeing the Maengryong Corps seniors training desperately with deployment right before them made him think that.

Were the Demon Suppression Unit really making efforts like that?

Baek Ri-pyeong’s gaze turned toward the training grounds of Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps.

And then he shook his head slightly.

He couldn’t sense any presence of cultivation whatsoever.

Some of those who completed Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps would be deployed to the Demon Suppression Unit.

That date was the same as Maengryong Corps.

The fourth-year cadets of Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps seemed to just be waiting for that day.

Unlike the hotly heated air of the Great Training Ground, the atmosphere of Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps seemed to be quietly settled.

Baek Ri-pyeong’s gaze turned to Zhuge Ming on the platform.

The instructor of Jamryong Corps.

Yet he was teaching Maengryong Corps with all his heart and soul.

Since it was break period, his official duties had ended.

Moreover, those shield techniques and formations.

He hadn’t known when he first learned shield techniques.

But now, after having been to Sanwol Demon Forest and returned, he could tell.

Those were shield techniques and formations created through thorough research of jiangshi movements.

Baek Ri-pyeong was certain.

‘Instructor Zhuge Ming has been to Sanwol Demon Forest before.’

It was something he could know because he had also been there.

The second-year Maengryong Corps cadets who would soon leave Gyoryong Hall.

Watching their desperate cultivation stirred something deep in his chest.

‘I don’t want to go back.’

An honest feeling echoing from his heart.

Thanks to that training, Baek Ri-pyeong was able to face his true feelings.

Jamryong Corps Instructor Zhuge Ming and the second-year cadets of Maengryong Corps.

Their fierce determination moved Baek Ri-pyeong’s heart.

After watching the training a bit longer, Baek Ri-pyeong moved his steps.

His destination had changed.

Not to Maengryong Dormitory, but to Maengryong Corps Group Seven’s training ground.

Anyway, he needed Instructor Ha’s approval to leave the academy.

Since he was away from his post now.

Rather than being cooped up in Maengryong Dormitory wasting time, it was much better to swing his sword one more time.

Just like those desperate and fierce Maengryong Corps seniors.

“Oh? You came today?”

Dang Jin-san welcomed Baek Ri-pyeong.

Group Seven’s training ground was already full.

Dang Jin-san, Dan Mok Un-rae, Nak U-jin, Yeon Ha-min, and even Ju U-myeong.

A smile spread across Baek Ri-pyeong’s face.

‘Yes. This is it.’

 

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The blazing heat like a calamitous fire gradually began to diminish its force.

The time it had burned so far was already remarkable.

Anyone who knew fire weapons and gunpowder would never believe it could burn for such a duration.

As the blazing heat of Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder subsided, the scene that was revealed.

At that sight, Gung Do-hyeok suddenly rose from the Grand Master’s Chair.

“Th-th-th-that is…”

A trembling voice.

Gung Do-hyeok looked at the scene unfolding before him with eyes that couldn’t believe it.

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