The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 183

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

 

 

 

 

Chapter 183. Martial Arts

 

 

“We’ll be more careful as well. We’ve been putting our heart and soul into finding that bastard Gwang Hoe-cheon anyway.”

At Byeokryeokgae’s words, Ha Mu-baek nodded and said.

“Understood. Since they’re Blood Sect bastards anyway, I should look for them too.”

Ha Mu-baek rose from his seat.

“Then I’ll be going now.”

He turned around and left Gwanje Temple.

Byeokryeokgae silently watched his figure.

After Ha Mu-baek left.

The beggars gathered inside Gwanje Temple again.

“Call back all the kids who went out to look for Gwang Hoe-cheon.”

The beggars immediately recognized that it was a voice full of anger.

The Gaebang members bowed their heads.

“That bastard seems to be hiding in Danan Trading Company. Either Muchang or Changsha. There’s a high possibility he’s in one of these two places. We need to search thoroughly without missing even a single rat.”

“Yes!”

“Understood!”

The Gaebang members answered with great tension.

Byeokryeokgae got up and launched his body. His body movement disappeared in an instant.

‘I can’t leave my post for a while.’

Arriving at the Dan Mok House, Byeokryeokgae made up his mind and spread out a mat before lying down on the street.

Twinkling stars came into view.

In contrast, Byeokryeokgae’s heart felt only heavy.

“Cheon Seung…”

Muttering his old friend’s name, Byeokryeokgae slowly closed his eyes.

 

***

 

Ha Mu-baek, who left Gwanje Temple, slowly roamed throughout Muchang.

His ki sense was examining all of Muchang in detail.

He was especially looking for traces of Blood Art.

What exactly were those Blood Sect bastards hiding and scheming?

In addition, he was also looking for those with internal energy similar to the ones who had attacked Dan Mok Un-rae’s house.

“It definitely wasn’t Blood Art. It wasn’t orthodox or unorthodox internal energy either.”

But it didn’t matter now.

He had met them once, seen and felt their internal energy, and remembered it.

The problem was that he couldn’t determine whether they were Blood Sect or Demon Sect.

But meeting Byeokryeokgae had solved that problem too.

He was certain they were Blood Sect bastards.

Hearing the story, Ha Mu-baek could fully accept that they were Blood Sect.

So he really searched thoroughly.

But there was nothing.

The twenty people who had committed suicide after meeting him.

They were all there was.

‘What about outside Muchang?’

He expanded the range of his ki sense.

Now it wouldn’t be too much of a strain to examine even areas within a certain range outside Muchang.

However, there was nothing.

It wasn’t easy.

Just in case, he also focused his ki sense on Wolryong Manor where Danan Trading Company had established itself in Muchang.

There was nothing there either.

There was also no one who had learned the Dan Mok Family’s internal energy.

‘They said he would be hiding in Danan Trading Company… Is he hiding somewhere else?’

He couldn’t find any trace of the person called Gwang Hoe-cheon either.

“He’s hiding well.”

Ha Mu-baek frowned and muttered.

Just in case, he swept through Wolryong Manor once more.

Soon his already frowning expression became even more wrinkled.

The highest pavilion.

It was because he could feel the lewd movements happening on the top floor.

It was because he had concentrated his ki sense to the maximum limit to find the Dan Mok Family’s internal energy and the Blood Sect’s martial arts.

Usually when he spread his ki sense throughout Muchang, he couldn’t know such things.

If he could know such things, it would rather be quite tiresome.

How many pleasure houses were there in Muchang alone?

“Lucky bastard. Unlike me.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered with displeasure.

“…!”

And his expression changed instantly. As if he had remembered something he had missed.

 

***

 

Yuk-ro was looking at the reply that had come back to his report.

“They’re telling me to hurry up the completion of Soul Sleep Poison…”

His eyes were complicated.

“I think the current state is sufficiently usable.”

Yuk-ro’s subordinate expressed his opinion.

However, Yuk-ro shook his head. The amount consumed was too much for that. Control was also impossible.

In any case, they said the Sect Leader seemed quite satisfied with the results of this experiment. Even though it was incomplete Soul Sleep Poison.

“This is troublesome.”

In reality, most of the experimentation, improvement, and development of Soul Sleep Poison was being handled by Hyeong Ui-cheon.

If it weren’t for him, they wouldn’t have come this far.

He was currently in Muchang.

“I’ll go into Muchang to assess the situation and urge him.”

Seeing Yuk-ro’s complicated expression, his subordinate spoke once more.

“Do you want to go die?”

That wasn’t a place one could enter carelessly.

“No matter how great Ha Mu-baek is, how could he find me in that vast Muchang?”

Seeing his subordinate’s confident appearance, Yuk-ro could only give a bitter smile.

“What happened to those who learned True Blood Art?”

A question thrown instead of an answer.

The subordinate hesitated before opening his mouth.

“Well… According to news that came in a little while ago, contact has been lost…”

“It must be Ha Mu-baek.”

Yuk-ro said calmly.

Hyeong Ui-cheon hadn’t learned Blood Art so it didn’t matter, but the others were different.

As long as that monster Ha Mu-baek is there, Muchang is practically forbidden territory for the Blood Sect members.

Even those who had learned the True Blood Art were defeated.

That’s why even now, Yuk-ro himself remains in Changsha.

Originally, the research on Soul Sleep Poison was conducted in Changsha.

The place where Danan Trading Company’s main branch is located.

Hyeong Ui-cheon left for Muchang with the results of research conducted deep within Wolryong Manor of the main branch.

Saying he would conduct experiments for the next stage.

Even bringing up past contracts.

“Could it be that Hyeong Ui-cheon went to Muchang with different intentions? Using Ha Mu-baek to block our approach?”

Perhaps due to the frustration of not being able to easily go to Muchang, his subordinate suddenly voiced such doubts.

However, Yuk-ro shook his head.

Because he knew well what kind of person he was.

“A year and a half ago, he said he had found the whereabouts of those he was looking for. And he started preparing to go to Muchang a year ago. Ha Mu-baek entered Muchang at the end of February last year. That was also sudden. The timing doesn’t match your speculation.”

At Yuk-ro’s answer, his subordinate closed his mouth again.

“And considering that bastard’s obsession with his goal…”

He must have gone to Muchang aiming to kill two birds with one stone.

By the way, the Sect Leader, who had shown no particular interest in the Blood Sect’s revival, was satisfied with that bastard’s research.

It seemed like a natural result.

He too had witnessed that tremendous spectacle firsthand.

He also clearly remembered the eerie appearance of Hyeong Ui-cheon smiling while watching that scene.

Being such a bastard, he must have betrayed his family.

Anyway, since orders had come down, he had to follow them.

Yuk-ro headed to Danan Trading Company’s main branch. There was someone there who could deliver a message to Hyeong Ui-cheon.

His subordinate quietly followed behind.

The content of the message was naturally urging him to complete the Soul Sleep Poison quickly.

 

***

 

Yeo Hwa was looking up at the night sky from the small back yard.

It was because of a stuffy feeling in her chest.

The energy beyond the wall felt ominous.

She didn’t have any special abilities, but somehow she felt that way.

Today was particularly like that.

A feeling as if there was commotion even though there was no commotion.

“Sigh. Has that bastard found this place?”

Yeo Hwa muttered in a small voice as if frustrated.

She couldn’t forget that bastard’s face.

Those eyes full of madness and obsession.

That was an evil spirit.

Family Head Dan Mok Cheon-seung had blocked that bastard and helped her, Un-rae, and Un-hye escape.

Remembering that time naturally darkened her expression.

He was truly a frightening person.

She couldn’t leave the hut in the slums because she was afraid of him.

Even as Un-hye grew weaker day by day from illness, hadn’t she refused Elder Bang’s help out of fear that bastard would find them and harm them?

She met a benefactor who quietly treated Un-hye, and they moved to such a decent house.

However, he was still a fearsome existence. An evil spirit who might appear anywhere, anytime, targeting them.

Recently, happy days had continued, allowing her to forget that evil spirit for a while.

Why was she having such an ominous feeling today of all days?

“Mother?”

Then Un-rae’s voice was heard.

“It’s late at night. Why did you come out instead of sleeping?”

“My chest feels stuffy.”

Dan Mok Un-rae answered with a bitter smile.

Yeo Hwa’s worried gaze turned to her son.

“What do you mean by that?”

“The air just feels heavy, making me think something might happen. Well, like a sixth sense…”

Her son had also felt a similar energy as herself.

At that fact, a deep shadow crossed Yeo Hwa’s face and quickly disappeared.

She couldn’t show such an expression in front of her son.

“How is your martial arts training?”

It was a question she brought up to change the subject.

“It’s interesting. And difficult. Also overwhelming.”

Dan Mok Un-rae said while looking up at the twinkling stars in the night sky.

“It seems like there are countless amazing people in the world, like those stars. Compared to them, I’m such a small existence. And the martial arts I’m learning…”

Dan Mok Un-rae didn’t continue his words.

Because he knew well that he wasn’t at the stage to think such things.

He knew how amazing the Three Talents Sword Technique he was learning from Ha Mu-baek was.

“Didn’t you achieve quite good results at Gyoryong Hall’s tournament? This mother was really surprised. Such amazing results.”

His mother’s encouragement.

Dan Mok Un-rae had reached the top 4.

With just the Three Talents Heart Method and Three Talents Sword Technique.

Dan Mok Un-rae, who hadn’t even been practicing martial arts for a year, had defeated all the disciples of prestigious families.

“…”

Dan Mok Un-rae’s mouth was tightly shut.

Among those training together were Ju U-myeong and Baek Ri-pyeong.

And occasionally, no, frequently appearing Namgung Ji-hu as well.

Taiji Wisdom Sword, Heavenly Star Sword Technique, Vast Sky Unhindered Sword.

These were the martial arts they were learning.

Recently, Baek Ri-pyeong was training in a new sword technique called Heavenly Star Galaxy Sword Technique.

Seeing such friends, Dan Mok Un-rae thirsted for martial arts.

His thirst for new and stronger martial arts was tremendous.

Though it was a thirst that wouldn’t be quenched no matter how much he drank, all that was given to Dan Mok Un-rae was the Three Talents Art.

A situation where he couldn’t even drink.

Such frustrating feelings were clearly displayed on Dan Mok Un-rae’s expression.

“Un-rae…”

Yeo Hwa quietly looked at her son’s face.

“I’ll go inside now. I guess it was needless worry.”

In the meantime, the bleak atmosphere had disappeared, and it seemed to have returned to the usual night air.

Dan Mok Un-rae still didn’t know how to expand his ki sense to detect the presence around him.

Therefore, he couldn’t know that Ha Mu-baek had just cleaned up the area around his house.

He only felt that the heavy and stuffy air had returned to normal.

Yeo Hwa quietly looked at the spot where her son had left.

“Martial arts.”

Yeo Hwa muttered while touching the old bracelet on her left wrist.

What her son desired.

Something only she could grant him.

But she couldn’t grant it.

Dan Mok Un-rae was the sole legitimate heir of the Dan Mok Family Estate.

Yet he couldn’t learn even a single basic form of the Dan Mok Family Estate’s martial arts.

It was both pitiful and frustrating.

Yeo Hwa stood there with such a complex expression for a long while, then slowly moved her steps toward the bedroom.

 

***

 

The place where something he had missed led him.

It was the Dan Mok House where he had first started.

Ha Mu-baek had returned to stand before it once again.

After searching all of Muchang, he was heading to Gyoryong Hall when something came to mind.

Precisely, it was when he felt unpleasant sensing the presence of sordid intercourse.

He recalled the memory of feeling a similar sensation, even if briefly.

A sense of incongruity.

That was how he could define the feeling he had experienced.

A sensation he had briefly postponed while chasing the fleeing bastards.

He had overlooked it while thoroughly searching Muchang like hunting for lice after failing to prevent all twenty men’s suicide.

He had felt it in this very place.

“It was faint but definitely here. That unpleasant and irritating sense of incongruity, as if someone was watching from afar.”

Someone must have extended their ki sense to examine this place.

In fact, sensing that was nearly impossible. No, it was impossible.

Even when Ha Seol-ran extended her ki sense to examine Muchang, Ha Mu-baek couldn’t feel or notice it at all.

However.

Earlier was different.

That sticky and uncomfortable, strange feeling had reached him, even if very faintly.

Perhaps he could have missed it and moved on.

Hadn’t Ha Mu-baek also postponed it and nearly forgotten?

If that intercourse hadn’t reminded him of that feeling, Ha Mu-baek would surely have returned to the bed in Gyoryong Hall’s dormitory.

Was it because someone forcibly extended ki sense beyond their ability?

Ha Mu-baek looked around his surroundings.

He was searching for where that feeling had originated.

But since he had felt it so weakly for just an instant, he couldn’t pinpoint it exactly.

However, he could tell the direction.

He turned his body toward that direction.

In the distance, he could see the tall pavilion of Wolryong Manor.

‘It was the qi energy of internal energy I had encountered before.’

Ha Mu-baek gazed at the pavilion with profound eyes.

Certainly, there was still nothing caught by his ki sense.

He could only detect the presence of humans who had finished their sordid intercourse.

They were people without even a handful of internal energy.

At least to Ha Mu-baek’s ki sense, no one with internal energy could be felt from that place.

There were many in the surroundings.

The warriors of Danan Trading Company.

Befitting the trading company’s warriors, they had learned various kinds of internal energy.

But nowhere was there the internal energy of the Dan Mok Noble Family.

“It was definitely the qi energy of Dan Mok Noble Family’s internal energy, even if briefly. Though the texture was somewhat different.”

Organizing that feeling once more, he could be certain.

Though it was a short time, someone who had learned the Dan Mok Noble Family’s internal energy had examined this place from over there.

By clumsily extending their ki sense.

Wolryong Manor.

It seemed like a place he should focus on watching from now on.

Gwang Hoe-cheon, whom Byeokryeokgae had mentioned.

If not him, there was absolutely no one who could currently use the Dan Mok Noble Family’s internal energy.

He would probably be somewhere in Wolryong Manor.

“Where are you hiding?”

Ha Mu-baek muttered quietly while looking toward where Wolryong Manor was located.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————