The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 159

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Chapter 159. That’s What I Should Say

 

 

He ran and ran and ran.

He ran for a full day.

He only stopped for the minimum time needed for bodily functions.

He ran without eating.

He only replenished fluids from the water bottle at his waist.

He ran and ran and ran like that.

He truly gave it his all.

When escaping from that bastard, this was how it had to be done.

He had to run truly risking his life.

Only by running until just before death could he escape from that bastard’s grasp.

He had experienced this three times already.

This was the fourth time.

Do Mun-wi didn’t doubt for a moment that he could escape from Ha Mu-baek this time too.

Because he had run with all the strength he could muster.

Before long, the sun had set.

Night had deepened.

The long night passed and the eastern sky brightened again.

How far had he come in one night?

Was it his imagination, or reality?

It felt like it was getting colder and colder.

He didn’t rest.

He continuously sent internal energy from his dantian to his two legs.

He had to run and run again until all his internal energy was completely depleted.

He deployed his lightness skill to the ultimate achievement.

Continuing to run like that, twelve hours had passed, and a full day was about to end.

It was the point when the internal energy seated in Do Mun-wi’s dantian was about to hit rock bottom.

“Huff, huff, huff.”

He gasped for rough breaths.

He was in an extremely exhausted state.

Do Mun-wi collapsed with a thud and immediately fell into energy circulation and breathing.

Since he was on the verge of complete exhaustion, he had to quickly recover even a little internal energy.

And then he had to run again.

How persistent and tenacious that demon-like monster bastard was.

Do Mun-wi thought that half the reason the Blood Cult lost in the last war was because of that bastard Ha Mu-baek.

Do Mun-wi sat cross-legged and gradually sank into his inner self.

 

How much time had passed?

Do Mun-wi, who had recovered the minimum internal energy needed to run again, opened his eyes.

Just as he was about to get up, thinking he should go again.

“Gasp!”

Do Mun-wi’s eyes widened in shock.

Across from him, a man sitting on the ground with his chin propped up, watching him, waved his hand cheerfully.

Someone who absolutely couldn’t be in this place.

Ha Mu-baek.

He was smiling broadly.

“H-how…?”

He couldn’t believe it.

He had run at full strength for an entire day.

The time spent on energy circulation and breathing was only about half an hour.

Yet he had been caught up to in just that short time?

With Ha Mu-baek’s lightness skill ability that Do Mun-wi knew, this was absolutely impossible.

He acknowledged it.

Ha Mu-baek’s lightness skill was fast too.

But it was only reasonably fast at best.

It wasn’t extremely fast like his own.

Especially when he had run at full strength for an entire day.

“Why are you making that face? How long did you think you could keep succeeding at running away, Blood Flying Shadow?”

“How did you know?”

“Who else but you, Blood Flying Shadow, would run away so frantically in front of me? You succeeded three times and looked down on me too much.”

Ha Mu-baek patted his buttocks and stood up. Dust rose and flew toward Do Mun-wi’s face on the wind.

Do Mun-wi frowned.

Do Mun-wi slowly got up.

“Even so, with your sluggish lightness skill…”

His face still showed disbelief.

Ha Mu-baek smiled broadly.

“You seem to have lost quite a bit of your edge while hiding in Haomun. How many years have passed? Did you think I’d still be at the same skill level as back then?”

Ha Mu-baek’s qi energy gradually took control of the surroundings.

Thick killing intent settled around Do Mun-wi.

His back became soaked with sweat.

“What? Trying to run away again?”

Ha Mu-baek asked, looking at Do Mun-wi as if finding him ridiculous.

“Do you have internal energy left? How far could you run at full strength?”

His tone seemed to mock Do Mun-wi.

His face gradually turned red. It was because he was being provoked about his specialty, lightness skill.

“No matter how strong you are, if I run at full strength…”

“You got caught like this.”

Before Do Mun-wi could finish speaking, Ha Mu-baek interrupted.

“If you’re really confident, try making me chase you one more time…”

Getting away from this place was the priority. So he tried to use Ha Mu-baek’s mockery, but.

“Why would I? Release a caught fish? There’s no reason to do such a stupid thing. Especially when I’ve caught a Blood Cult bastard.”

Ha Mu-baek bared his teeth and smiled, full of killing intent.

At that sight, Do Mun-wi despaired. Since that bastard spoke like that, it seemed he would meet his end here.

“Heh. Do you really think you could run away if I gave you a chance?”

Do Mun-wi’s eyes flashed open.

What was this vicious demon up to?

“What do I need to do?”

There was surely an intention behind it, but surviving after going along with it was important for now.

“About one hour of energy circulation and breathing, and half an hour of waiting. How does that sound?”

Do Mun-wi’s eyes flashed open. Didn’t the meaning of those words mean he would give him a full hour for energy circulation and breathing, then wait another half hour before chasing?

Do Mun-wi cheered inwardly.

Though the bastard had gotten faster, he had barely caught up with just a one-hour difference after running for twelve full hours. And that was starting almost simultaneously.

But now he was saying he’d start half an hour later than him?

But soon he frowned. The conditions were too favorable for him alone.

‘Damn bastard, what is he thinking….’

For someone slower than himself to so leisurely propose such disadvantageous conditions. Knowing what kind of person Ha Mu-baek was, anxiety began to creep up.

But his confidence in his own lightness skill was stronger than his anxiety.

‘He may have been lucky to catch up to me this time, but it will be different if we do it again. And I have my own trump card.’

They were already inside Gansu Province.

What Do Mun-wi considered his trump card were the hideouts he had prepared throughout Gansu Province. Places that would be absolutely impossible to find under normal circumstances.

The nearest one was half a day’s distance away.

Ha Mu-baek would never be able to follow him there.

Ha Mu-baek’s question flew toward Do Mun-wi, who was rolling his eyes around.

“Yeong So-hyang. What about her?”

If he had been alone, he would have escaped long ago. He had been moving slowly only because he was burdened with Yeong So-hyang.

So Ha Mu-baek reached the conclusion that there was something about her.

Do Mun-wi pondered. But the conclusion was already decided.

The most important thing was his life. He had to stay alive first to plan for the future.

“…It’s because of Ye Cho-ah’s constitution.”

“Constitution?”

“That woman’s constitution has some resistance to the curse of Destruction Art. That was passed down to her two daughters.”

At that answer, Ha Mu-baek frowned.

“It’s a constitution called Vermillion Bird Spirit Body.”

“I didn’t particularly feel it was outstanding though?”

“Of course. It’s a constitution that only has resistance to the curse of Destruction Art.”

From that answer, Ha Mu-baek grasped everything.

In the end, he had tried to use the mother and daughter Ye Cho-ah and Yeong So-hyang to research and improve Destruction Art.

“Then what you’re preciously keeping in your chest isn’t Destruction Art, but the secret manual of what you call Divine Destruction Arts.”

“….”

Do Mun-wi quietly nodded his head.

“To be so obsessed even knowing the curse of Destruction Art, how foolish.”

Ha Mu-baek shook his head disapprovingly.

“It’s because of you. Our Blood Cult’s irreconcilable enemy.”

“That’s what I should be saying.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke with a voice full of killing intent.

“I hate to admit it, but the moment our Sect Leader was defeated by you, it was proven that all of the Blood Cult’s blood arts were useless against you.”

“Says the one who only ran away.”

Even at Ha Mu-baek’s sarcasm, Do Mun-wi’s expression didn’t change.

He had no choice.

All his attention was focused on surviving.

“For me to take revenge on you, I needed to obtain stronger power, and what I turned to was Destruction Art. To its tremendous power before the curse descends. I drank it knowing it was poison. With the single thought of taking revenge on you.”

If not for the curse, Destruction Art might be the most fearsome martial art under heaven.

That unimaginable growth until reaching the eleventh achievement.

Ha Mu-baek looked at Do Mun-wi as if he was pathetic.

“Just for that reason? Do you think it’s possible?”

Do Mun-wi gave no answer.

A moment of silence.

Then he opened his mouth to ask.

“Is that enough now? Can I go…”

At Do Mun-wi’s question, Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“Where are the other bastards?”

“Who?”

“The surviving remnants of the Blood Cult. I let a few of you Ten Elders escape too.”

“….”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Do Mun-wi immediately closed his mouth.

“I don’t know.”

An answer that came after a brief pause. Naturally, Ha Mu-baek wouldn’t believe it.

“Well, fine. Since I found you, I can find the others too. Then one last question, who knows the facts you just babbled about?”

“….”

Do Mun-wi closed his mouth again.

“You’d better answer properly this time.”

Ha Mu-baek’s words followed.

“N-no one. Really. It wasn’t time to reveal it yet. There was much opposition.”

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

He had learned several more facts from this answer.

“C-can I go now?”

Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“Wh-what! You clearly said….”

Looking at Do Mun-wi who was shouting frantically, Ha Mu-baek pointed at the ground with his finger.

“Energy circulation and breathing for one hour. You have to do that first. I keep my promises.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Do Mun-wi opened his eyes wide and asked.

“Don’t tell me you’re going to do something underhanded while I’m doing energy circulation….”

“Should I really do that for you?”

Ha Mu-baek’s growling question.

At those words, Do Mun-wi immediately sat cross-legged and fell into energy circulation and breathing.

Ha Mu-baek sat back down and stared at him intently.

While operating his Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.

He watched with eyes that wouldn’t miss a single movement of his internal energy.

‘It seems the Destruction Art that bastard calls Divine Destruction Arts hasn’t been passed to the others yet. Only Blood Flying Shadow has the secret manual.’

Thinking so, he focused on Do Mun-wi’s martial arts. To learn about the Divine Destruction Arts he had mastered from the flow of internal energy during energy circulation.

 

One hour passed.

Somehow knowing the flow of time, Do Mun-wi opened his eyes at exactly the right moment.

“You keep time well.”

Ha Mu-baek said while resting his chin on his hand.

Do Mun-wi got up from his seat awkwardly.

“Half an hour. Half an hour! Keep your promise!”

“I told you, I keep my word.”

The moment Ha Mu-baek spoke with an annoyed expression, Do Mun-wi kicked off the ground.

Do Mun-wi moving away leaving a red shadow.

This time he truly ran with every ounce of strength he had, even the strength from when he was nursing.

Ha Mu-baek watched that sight quietly.

“He’s still fast.”

Ha Mu-baek chuckled.

“But I’ve gotten faster.”

In fact, he only realized after deploying Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement at ultimate achievement.

That he could run even faster.

He thought he had run at maximum speed while rushing to Chang’an.

But he hadn’t.

With the thought of chasing Blood Flying Shadow, focusing only on lightness skill and giving his all, he could see a way to run even faster. No, he had entered a new realm.

It was thanks to Blood Flying Shadow.

By focusing on deploying lightness skill with full power for a full twelve hours, he could see a new realm of lightness skill.

Previously, no matter how fiercely he chased him, he couldn’t enter it.

But this time was different because he had the enlightenment gained from breaking through the wall.

It was a higher realm that came to him after running for a full eleven hours.

That’s why he was able to arrive about one hour after that bastard began his energy circulation and breathing.

Even so, the reason he gave half an hour of leeway was simple.

‘I can catch him.’

Because he was confident he could catch him.

Moreover, he needed to give that bastard hope that he could survive so he would speak in as much detail as possible about what he knew.

He had no intention of letting him live, but he had to make that bastard truly believe he could survive.

That’s how he decided on half an hour.

The one hour of energy circulation and breathing was also for that purpose, plus to examine that bastard’s martial arts.

All objectives were achieved.

Half an hour passed while he reviewed the movements of that bastard’s internal energy.

Ha Mu-baek rose from his spot.

“Shall we get going?”

Ha Mu-baek kicked off the ground.

Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement, which surpasses light to travel ten thousand li.

True to the meaning of its name, Ha Mu-baek’s body movement disappeared.

What was certain was that it was much faster than when Do Mun-wi had disappeared.

 

One hour later.

Do Mun-wi’s eyes widened in shock.

It was because of the human figure that instantly passed by him and blocked his path ahead.

He couldn’t believe it.

If he had departed half an hour later, he had overtaken him in just half an hour.

That meant he had run at least twice as fast as himself, but there was no way such lightness skill existed.

One source of Do Mun-wi’s pride was that his lightness skill was the fastest under heaven.

Throughout the Orthodox Sect, Demonic Faction, Demon Cult, and Blood Cult combined.

But now that was shattered.

“I definitely kept my promise. You’re just slow.”

“Th-that’s impossible…, guhk.”

He tried to shout something, but Do Mun-wi couldn’t.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword that flew in an instant had severed his throat.

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