The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 186

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Chapter 186. That Person?

 

 

Ha Mu-baek first went to find a waterfall.

He couldn’t walk around in this smelly state.

Unless he was a beggar from the Beggar Sect.

It was a waterfall he occasionally visited to wash off sweat after cultivation.

A small pool had formed there, making it perfect for bathing. Since it was deep in the mountains, there were rarely any people around.

After washing thoroughly, all the smell that had slightly permeated his body disappeared.

“The clothes are the problem.”

No matter what he did, the smell wouldn’t come off.

Ha Mu-baek’s expression became troubled.

Since he hadn’t anticipated this situation, he had come out with just his body, traveling light.

There was no way he would have spare clothes to change into.

“Is there no choice?”

Ha Mu-baek summoned Samadhi True Fire and burned all the smelly clothes.

Even though it was poison he had burned off, there might still be toxicity remaining.

This was the most certain way to handle it.

Since fire energy was the natural enemy of poison energy.

Now only the completely naked Ha Mu-baek remained.

“What should I do… I can’t walk around like this.”

Ha Mu-baek looked around and fell into thought for a moment. Since there was nothing to use, at best he could only wrap himself with something like kudzu vines.

That appearance wouldn’t look very good either.

Thinking a bit more, he suddenly recalled the Ice Soul Gate Lock Formation that Han Seol-bing deployed. The one that completely blocked the surrounding view with frost mist.

“Well, as long as it covers me up. Let me try it once.”

Recalling the path of Ice Arts that Han Seol-bing had used and the movement of qi energy in the Ice Soul Gate Lock Formation, he moved his internal energy.

Whoooong.

Then.

White mist appeared thickly around Ha Mu-baek, completely concealing him.

An ability that would have made Han Seol-bing scream in disbelief if she had seen it, Ha Mu-baek simply used for the purpose of covering his naked body.

“This should be fine.”

Ha Mu-baek nodded his head as if satisfied.

“Still, it’s best to stay out of sight, so I really need to run as fast as possible without rest.”

Bang!

Ha Mu-baek kicked off the ground and ran at full power using lightness skill.

It was the fastest speed since he had learned martial arts.

He truly gritted his teeth and ran with all his might.

His destination was his dormitory at Gyoryong Hall.

He had to maintain a speed that would prevent anyone from seeing him until he reached that place.

An unseasonable gale blew through Muchang in the early morning.

 

Ha Mu-baek safely arrived at his dormitory and was able to take out clean new clothes to wear.

“I should buy some clothes too.”

He had originally come with minimal luggage.

He didn’t have many clothes left.

Thinking he should get some when this matter was finished, he headed to the training ground.

Today Ha Mu-baek was the latest to arrive.

Dang Ji-yeon and Han Seol-bing had already arrived.

Dang Ji-yeon had dark circles under her eyes.

Obviously she had stayed up all night again yesterday.

“Did you find out anything?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Dang Ji-yeon shook her head back and forth.

She had not found any traces of Blood Poison Art in the liquefied poison.

“I found it.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Han Seol-bing and Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes widened.

“H-how…”

“Really!!”

Dang Ji-yeon couldn’t believe it and Han Seol-bing was startled.

At their reaction, the cadets who had been training also gradually approached.

It would be a story related to Wolryong Inn’s cuisine. Naturally they couldn’t help but be interested.

“It was a terrifying poison.”

Ha Mu-baek shook his head back and forth as he slowly recounted the events of last night.

“If, if you eat that much… that happens?”

Dang Jin-san swallowed dry saliva and spoke with a pale face.

“It was a truly hair-raising experience I hadn’t had in a long time.”

Ha Mu-baek’s words.

Come to think of it, he had nearly died during the Ten Thousand Heaven Golden Chain Explosive Thunder incident too.

To have such experiences twice recently.

And once because of the Demonic Cult, once because of the Blood Cult.

Indeed, these were bastards whose roots needed to be completely pulled out.

Though he didn’t know if that would be possible, since they were more persistent than cockroaches and tougher than weeds.

“If, if you wanted to just eat dirt as it was, you really might eat anything in front of your eyes. Even if that was a person…”

Dang Jin-san muttered with an appalled expression.

At those words, Ha Mu-baek sharply turned his head toward him.

“What did you say?”

Dang Jin-san was startled.

“Th-th-th-that you’d just eat dirt as it was…”

“No, the last part.”

“Even if that was a person…”

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes flashed sharply.

The existence called Sik Gang-si.

From Dang Jin-san’s words, he realized the danger of that existence.

Having experienced the terrible compulsion of that poison himself, he could be certain.

If poisoned by this, even if it was a person, one might attack trying to eat them.

It was truly a poison made to suppress the soul.

“So that’s why Grandfather said it was the most vicious poison.”

Dang Ji-yeon muttered.

She had only now realized the meaning of those words.

Dang Ja-cheong hadn’t told her that much.

The ancient person who wrote the old book had also destroyed the secret manual of Blood Poison Art for that reason.

It was truly a poison that went against heavenly principle and human ethics.

It was a poison that should not exist in the world.

“If we can’t completely eliminate this poison…”

“Gangho will be thrown into great chaos.”

Dang Ji-yeon responded to Ha Mu-baek’s muttering.

“Hm?”

Then suddenly, Ha Mu-baek shifted his gaze to one side.

The moment his eyebrows twitched.

“Kraaaaaaak!!!”

“Kyaaak!!!”

Loud screams echoed from the distance.

Ha Mu-baek kicked off the ground and launched his body. Han Seol-bing followed behind him, and then Dang Ji-yeon launched herself as well.

The Maengryong Corps Cadets also launched themselves at full speed.

They unleashed the Lightness Skill they had learned in Sanwol Demon Forest at full power, chasing after Ha Mu-baek.

 

The carnage at the place they arrived at was too horrific to look at with open eyes.

“Kraaaaaaak!”

A man was dangling in mid-air, caught by the throat in Ha Mu-baek’s grip, screaming and struggling wildly.

His eyes had already lost focus and rolled back.

His teeth and the area around his mouth were drenched in red blood.

“Uuuuu…”

“Ahhh…”

People groaning in pain.

Their arms and legs had clear bite marks with flesh torn away.

Blood flowed endlessly from the bitten areas.

“What in the world is this…”

Baek Ri-pyeong looked at the horrific scene around them with disbelieving eyes.

“That person is?”

Then Yeon Ha-min recognized the face of the one caught by Ha Mu-baek.

“He’s definitely one of those scoundrels called the Dongting Ten Heroes…”

He was the one who had crawled on the ground crying for fried chicken.

It seemed he had continued eating food from Wolryong Inn after that.

“Third Brother! Come to your senses!”

“Brother! Please!”

Then two men with torn thighs and arms cried out with desperate faces.

Their faces were also familiar.

The Dongting Ten Heroes who had tried to ignore the order. Two of them.

Ha Seol-ran watched the scene with a pale face.

Ha Mu-baek held the throat while pushing the Internal Energy of Mugeuk Yeoui Heart Method into the caught man’s body.

The poison resisted but soon gave way.

At the same time, the man’s struggling stopped.

He closed his mouth and eyes, going limp.

However, Ha Mu-baek still held his throat.

‘As expected. His head has been completely consumed.’

The poison filled his head completely.

The tail of poison that started from the tongue had invaded the brain, settled there, and completely devoured it.

Once it reached this point, there was no method.

If he burned the poison, this person’s brain would burn completely.

Someone had appeared who became poisoned and manifested symptoms from just regular meals.

Though this person had particularly craved food severely, there wouldn’t be just one or two such people.

“It seems we’ll need an antidote.”

Ha Mu-baek said while looking at Dang Ji-yeon.

“What about that person?”

“The poison has filled his brain. There’s no method.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Dang Ji-yeon approached carefully.

“May I examine him?”

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“Damn it. What did you do to my younger brother!”

Then one man who had been stopping the bleeding on his arm rushed over frantically.

Ha Mu-baek looked at him with cold eyes.

“Are you calling him younger brother after seeing that appearance earlier?”

When Ha Mu-baek had arrived.

The man consumed by poison was tearing at and eating this man’s arm.

“Even, even so…”

The man hesitated under Ha Mu-baek’s Qi Aura.

“He’s already completely poisoned by an extremely vicious poison and is beyond hope. If I let him go like this, he’ll charge at people like that again.”

“Right, right now!”

“I’m suppressing him with Internal Energy. The moment I let go of this hand, you’ll see that appearance again.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, the man’s eyes changed complexly.

“He’s already crossed a river of no return. No matter what method is used, he cannot return to normal. Even if we find Seonyu Valley.”

Ha Mu-baek’s continued words.

Eventually.

The man dropped his shoulders and.

“…I understand. Please make it comfortable for him.”

He acquiesced.

He had no choice.

The Dongting Ten Heroes, no, what would now become the Dongjeong Nine Heroes, had all witnessed this man’s appearance.

Moreover, hadn’t two people been attacked like this.

That wasn’t the appearance of a human.

A monster, or perhaps an evil spirit.

What a frightening world, where there exists poison that turns people into evil spirits.

Just as the Dongjeong Nine Heroes were about to retreat, Ha Mu-baek gave a look, and.

Han Seol-bing blocked them.

“What, what are you doing!”

“We need to check whether you’re also being poisoned first. Especially the two people bitten by this guy.”

Death Jiangshi bite people with the Jiangshi Poison in their teeth, turning them into Death Jiangshi.

There was no law saying this Sik Gang-si wouldn’t do the same, so he had caught them.

Meanwhile, people who had fled began returning one by one and gathering.

The murmuring grew louder.

“We need to move locations.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Han Seol-bing nodded.

“You guys help too instead of just watching.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s nod, the Cadets stood beside each of the Dongjeong Nine Heroes.

Han Seol-bing and Dang Ji-yeon took charge of the remaining three.

“Follow well.”

Confirming the preparations were complete, Ha Mu-baek lightly kicked off the ground and launched his body.

The Cadets and Han Seol-bing followed behind.

Of course, while gripping the necks of their assigned Dongjeong Nine Heroes.

Ha Seol-ran looked somewhat strained, but with Han Seol-bing’s help, she could move without difficulty.

They arrived at an open plain outside Muchang.

They set down the Dongjeong Nine Heroes.

Han Seol-bing looked around and immediately took out iron rods from his chest, deploying a formation.

The frost mist of Ice Soul Gate Lock Formation perfectly dominated the surroundings.

“This is?”

Dang Ji-yeon recognized the Ice Soul Gate Lock Formation at a glance.

She seemed to have considerable knowledge about various things in Gangho, not just poison.

“The formation isn’t what’s important, so let’s examine this guy first.”

What he had tried to do earlier but couldn’t.

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Dang Ji-yeon grasped the pulse point of The Man who had already become no different from Sik Gang-si and examined his interior.

Soon Dang Ji-yeon shook her head.

“It’s just as Instructor Ha said. Not only his brain, but even his bone marrow has been completely dominated by poison. He’s not human anymore.”

Then she took out a small short blade and a small porcelain bottle from her bosom.

And she cut The Man’s arm directly and collected the blood in the porcelain bottle.

“This is all I prepared. Can you keep this guy subdued?”

At Dang Ji-yeon’s question, Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“It shouldn’t be difficult.”

“Then I need to go get some tools.”

At Dang Ji-yeon’s words, Han Seol-bing escorted her outside the camp.

And Ha Mu-baek.

Crack. Crunch. Crackle.

“Graaagh. Grgh. Graah.”

He shattered Sik Gang-si’s shoulders, elbows, hip joints, and knees.

Then he tossed him aside casually.

The Man collapsed on the ground, writhing.

However, he couldn’t move anywhere.

He just shook his head violently and kept opening his mouth as if craving something.

Even in that state, he still only tried to eat something.

Dongjeong Nine Heroes, who had watched all of this, trembled with faces pale as sheets.

“You wouldn’t want to end up like that, would you?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, the nine people nodded their heads vigorously.

When Ha Mu-baek gestured with his hand, they approached without complaint.

He grasped each of their pulse points and examined their interiors one by one.

Eight people had poison energy gathered under their tongues in clumps larger than rice grains.

“What food do you want to eat?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, the eight people shook their heads.

“We visited Wolryong Inn about one hour ago.”

That’s why they didn’t feel the urge. They had eaten the poisoned food from that place.

However, one person.

“Th, those dumplings…”

Ha Mu-baek grasped his pulse point.

The last remaining one.

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

Poison energy the size of half a peach pit had clumped together, and tendrils were slowly emerging from it.

Come to think of it, this person was the one who had craved food for the second time that day.

“You’re going to suffer a bit.”

Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy instantly flowed into his body and burned away the poison energy under his tongue.

“Kyaaaaaaah!!!”

An unrestrained scream burst forth.

 

 

 

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