The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 158

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Chapter 158. It Was Because of What That Bitch Blabbered

 

 

Ha Mu-baek glared at Sip Ho-beop. He didn’t avoid Ha Mu-baek’s gaze either.

“A strange thought just came to my mind.”

Ha Mu-baek’s voice was filled with killing intent.

“What kind of thought?”

The moment Sip Ho-beop asked the question.

Swoosh.

Ha Mu-baek appeared in front of him in an instant and swung his arm to grab him by the collar.

“Kugh.”

As force entered the collar twisted by his right hand, Sip Ho-beop groaned and struggled.

Ha Mu-baek leaned close to his ear and muttered quietly.

“Water is blue and the sky is also blue. Water is deep and the sky is high. Though the blueness is the same, the directions are opposite.”

It was still a voice filled with killing intent.

Though the words were whispered softly, since he infused them with internal energy, Yeong So-hyang could hear them too.

Yeong So-hyang tilted her head at Ha Mu-baek’s sudden incomprehensible muttering.

However, Sip Ho-beop was different.

“Ugh… Internal energy is also like this, kugh. When the direction becomes opposite… the essence can also change.”

Despite his suffering, Sip Ho-beop unconsciously recited the next incantation formula.

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“As expected, you learned it properly. You know the Annihilation Technique well.”

“Sip Ho-beop! What the hell is going on! Weren’t you just researching it!”

Realizing from Sip Ho-beop’s response that it was about the Annihilation Technique, Yeong So-hyang shouted loudly.

But there was no way Sip Ho-beop, grabbed by the collar by Ha Mu-baek, could answer that question.

Ha Mu-baek threw Sip Ho-beop with an expressionless face.

Crash!

Sip Ho-beop, who had tumbled to the ground, groaned and got up.

For Yeong So-hyang, everything was full of questions right now.

With Ha Mu-baek’s appearance, she clearly understood why she was fleeing so urgently.

But everything else was still in chaos.

Thinking that she needed to grasp the current situation as the Grand Princess of Haomun, she had no choice but to ask Sip Ho-beop even in front of Ha Mu-baek.

“So you were doing work researching the Annihilation Technique. Sip Ho-beop.”

Ha Mu-baek could learn about the identity of the old man before him from Yeong So-hyang’s outcry.

“But when did you become Sip Ho-beop? I don’t remember your face.”

Ha Mu-baek had seen all twelve Guardians of Haomun in the last war.

Though he couldn’t tell which Guardian each one was, he had seen all twelve Guardians’ faces.

But this old man before him wasn’t there at that time.

“Heh heh heh. Would there have been just one or two who met their end in the war? That’s how new people fill the positions.”

Perhaps there had been a change of heart in the meantime, as Sip Ho-beop’s attitude had changed.

Then a strange discord appeared on Sip Ho-beop’s face.

The human skin mask he was wearing on his face had shifted from the shock of tumbling to the ground earlier.

That sight added certainty to Ha Mu-baek’s suspicions.

“Right. That’s it. But it’s strange. As I said before, your level is higher than Ye Cho-ah’s. Having researched that far, why didn’t you inform Ye Cho-ah?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Sip Ho-beop, in his wretched state, smiled broadly.

“You seem to already know?”

Sip Ho-beop’s answer.

Ha Mu-baek bared his teeth and laughed.

“Right, you Blood Cult bastard.”

Ha Mu-baek launched a palm strike toward Sip Ho-beop.

The moment the terrifying palm force covered Sip Ho-beop.

Bang!

Sip Ho-beop countered with his own palm strike.

Slide.

Though he was pushed back about three zhang (approximately 9m) by the power of Ha Mu-baek’s palm force, Sip Ho-beop’s expression remained calm.

Sip Ho-beop smiled broadly as he looked at Ha Mu-baek.

There was a change in his face.

One eye was dyed blue, the other eye was dyed red.

“H-how…”

Yeong So-hyang looked at that sight as if she couldn’t believe it.

Blood Cult?

What on earth was happening?

“How did you know?”

“You researched it, didn’t you? The Annihilation Technique. In my judgment, even the state of the Annihilation Technique that Ye Cho-ah newly learned had surpassed Haomun’s capabilities. Well, considering the desperation of clinging to it with the resolve for sect destruction, I could think it might barely be possible. But you’re different. Your level absolutely cannot be improved at Haomun’s level.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Sip Ho-beop’s gaze turned toward Yeong So-hyang.

“It was because of what that bitch blabbered.”

Sip Ho-beop’s sinister voice. At that voice, Yeong So-hyang flinched and trembled.

“As you say, Ha Mu-baek. The Divine Destruction Arts of a level superior to that far surpasses Haomun’s level. That’s why I haven’t been able to tell Ye Cho-ah yet.”

At Sip Ho-beop’s words, Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“Right. That’s it. In the world, the only ones who know the Annihilation Technique best are the Blood Cult. The level you’ve learned is impossible unless you’re a Blood Cult bastard.”

Ha Mu-baek had suddenly thought of that possibility. What added certainty to that suspicion was Yeong So-hyang’s outcry.

“Heh heh heh. Damn it. I didn’t know that stupid bitch Ye Cho-ah would end up drawing you in.”

His voice contained anger about how things had turned out. Anger toward Ye Cho-ah.

“So you were the one who coaxed Ye Cho-ah to analyze the Annihilation Technique… The trouble at the Peng Family was Ye Cho-ah’s rampage.”

“As expected. You’re smart. Unlike that stupid bitch. But why didn’t you attack Haomun then? Someone like you would have guessed the existence of the manuscript, right? If you had come then, it would have been a chance to recover instead.”

Sip Ho-beop’s question was full of regret.

In fact, at that time, Sip Ho-beop had already made arrangements to send Yeong So-hyang to the edge of Sichuan.

Under the pretext of inspecting Haomun’s Sichuan branch.

Persuading Ye Cho-ah wasn’t difficult. All he had to say was that since research was stagnating due to Yeong So-hyang’s interference, how about sending her far away to Sichuan for a while.

After that, when Ha Mu-baek attacked Haomun, he just needed to escape alone.

He could go to Yeong So-hyang, inform her of Haomun’s destruction, take her with him to Saeoe, and prepare for the future.

But Ha Mu-baek didn’t come, and Yeong So-hyang finished her inspection in Sichuan and returned to Haomun.

And because of Ha Mu-baek suddenly barging in, he ended up moving with her and got caught like this.

Everything had gone wrong.

“I’m the one who wants to ask. Why didn’t you flee alone? If you had fled alone, you wouldn’t have been caught by me.”

Ha Mu-baek’s question.

Since it was different from the behavior of Blood Cult bastards he knew.

It was a question thrown with the certainty that there must be some reason.

However, instead of answering that question, Sip Ho-beop gathered all the qi energy in his body.

At that sight, Ha Mu-baek frowned.

Because the Blood Cult’s Blood Art was being operated along with the Annihilation Technique.

He had already guessed when one eye turned red.

Red eyes were a characteristic that appeared not only in the Annihilation Technique but also in Blood Art.

However, the fact that he had missed the Blood Art with his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye was troubling.

‘It seems to have been hidden because of something called Divine Destruction Arts.’

It’s quite a cumbersome martial art. The Divine Destruction Arts.

A martial art that conceals the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.

“Kekekek. Let’s see if you can get an answer from my mouth! Die!”

Sip Ho-beop stretched out both hands.

Palm forces of different colors twisted together in a spiral form and flew toward Ha Mu-baek.

Red and blue palm force.

Ha Mu-baek hastily drew up his internal energy.

The incoming qi aura was far from ordinary.

Kwakwakwakwang!

A tremendous explosion erupted.

But that was all.

Ha Mu-baek looked at his hands with an unperturbed expression. The hand that had blocked Sip Ho-beop’s palm force felt slightly numb, showing skills incomparably stronger than before.

The power matched the extraordinary qi aura.

A strange form of palm force he’d never seen before.

‘To have such power by simultaneously using Destruction Art and Blood Art…’

And Sip Ho-beop ran with all his might.

Using even the recoil from the palm force he’d launched at Ha Mu-baek, he deployed his lightness skill to the maximum.

Ha Mu-baek saw this and.

“That bastard.”

Scowled fiercely.

He glanced at Yeong So-hyang.

“Either wait here or return to Haomun.”

Leaving those brief words, he launched his body.

And truly deployed his lightness skill with full power.

Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement.

Ha Mu-baek gritted his teeth and deployed the fastest lightness skill he could use.

He literally poured all the qi energy from his dantian into his legs.

He had no choice.

Only after seeing that damned bastard fleeing, or more precisely, the way he deployed his lightness skill, did he recognize his identity.

He knew the face was covered with an elaborate human skin mask, but who would have thought his identity was that bastard.

Blood Flying Shadow Do Mun-wi.

The fastest bastard in the Blood Cult.

Fast enough that Ha Mu-baek had missed him three times in the last war.

One of the Blood Cult’s strategists and simultaneously one who deployed lightness skills that reached the extreme.

The tenth elder among the Ten Elders of the Blood Cult.

He was one of the ten strongest in the Blood Cult, excluding the Sect Leader.

Who would have thought the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye would miss that bastard’s martial arts.

‘Divine Destruction Arts, was it? He’s created something troublesome.’

It wasn’t other things that were troublesome.

The problem was covering the Blood Cult’s Blood Art so that the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye couldn’t detect it.

If it wasn’t being used, there was no way to notice it.

In their encounter just now, that damned bastard must have realized this fact.

That’s why he was fleeing with his tail between his legs like that.

“You bastard.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered with fury.

Blood Flying Shadow Do Mun-wi ran with full power.

He deployed his exclusive lightness skill, Moonlit Blood Shadow Body Technique, to its ultimate achievement.

Where he had passed, red qi energy briefly lingered before disappearing.

When deployed to ultimate achievement, it had the fatal flaw of leaving traces, but it was an extremely fast lightness skill where by the time the opponent discovered those traces, he was already far away.

The red qi energy only manifested at ultimate achievement, so after shaking off the opponent, he could continue deploying lightness skill without leaving traces.

An enemy that even Ha Mu-baek’s Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement couldn’t catch up to.

“That damned Ha Mu-baek has ruined everything. It’s regrettable, but I must survive for now. That guy doesn’t seem likely to do anything to Yeong So-hyang immediately.”

Do Mun-wi was equally furious.

The picture he had envisioned was completely ruined.

“More importantly, he didn’t recognize me. Probably because of the Divine Destruction Arts… It’s worth researching.”

Having clashed with Ha Mu-baek three times, Do Mun-wi thought he knew him quite well.

Though he didn’t know the method, that guy had an uncanny ability to identify opponents.

He had been speculating that he might have the ability to read opponents’ martial arts.

But today’s encounter showed him one possibility in the Divine Destruction Arts.

Though it would only apply to Ha Mu-baek.

“Hehehe. Next time won’t be like today. Ha Mu-baek.”

Kuaaakwakwakwakwakwa!

Do Mun-wi kicked off the ground frantically as he ran.

His direction was west.

He planned to pass through Gansu and enter Qinghai like this.

Do Mun-wi could deploy lightness skill for a full day without rest.

Fast, and able to run for a long time – it was an almost cheat-like lightness skill.

That was Do Mun-wi’s lifeline.

Ha Mu-baek ran with full power.

Because he knew how long and fast that guy could run.

However, he also knew that traces would be left.

Even the last time he missed him, after that red qi energy disappeared, there was no way to catch up.

But this time was different.

‘If you’re at the same level as during the last war, this time you’ll be caught in my hands.’

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes turned coldly calm.

Knowing this wouldn’t be a short-term chase.

He cooled his head.

And deployed Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement with full power.

His lightness skill had also become stronger after breaking through the wall.

He could run faster and longer than before.

He could maintain maximum speed continuously.

Therefore, this time he didn’t lose Do Mun-wi’s traces.

Running at full power, he could continuously see the red qi energy that was trying to scatter faintly.

Ha Mu-baek simply continued following that qi energy.

“At this rate, whoever gets tired first loses. Do Mun-wi. Until now it might have been me, but this time it’s you.”

It was a confident mutter.

Feeling the qi energy overflowing from his dantian, it seemed impossible to lose him this time.

Thus the chase between Blood Flying Shadow Do Mun-wi and Ha Mu-baek continued for a full day.

 

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The place where Sip Ho-beop and Ha Mu-baek had disappeared.

Yeong So-hyang stared blankly toward the west.

What on earth had happened.

There was one thing she could know for certain.

“Blood Cult…”

It was a mutter filled with fury.

She was filled with bitter resentment.

In the end, Haomun and her family had been toyed with by their hands.

Her younger sibling had even died.

Murderous intent flowed from her eyes.

“…I will definitely get my revenge.”

Muttering those words, Yeong So-hyang turned around.

Toward the place she had left behind.

Toward Chang’an, where Hao-mun was located.

 

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