The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 190

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Chapter 190. Stay Right There

 

 

“What exactly is that?”

Dang Ji-yeon asked once more.

“It’s a Blood Sect transmission. Written in their secret code.”

Everyone’s eyes widened at Han Seol-bing’s answer.

Then did that mean all those birds were sent by the Blood Sect?

To think the Blood Sect had infiltrated Muchang so deeply.

“Then as expected, Danan Trading Company is…”

Dang Ji-yeon muttered.

Since they had secretly spread the Blood Sect’s poison at Wolryong Inn, it was reasonable to conclude that their main branch, Danan Trading Company, was part of the Blood Sect.

“I don’t know if it’s all of them or just part. But it’s certain they’ve revived the Jamhon Poison that creates Sik Gang-si. They’re sending the manufacturing method and half of their stockpiled poison to the Blood Sect’s main branch.”

“And?”

There was no way Ha Mu-baek would have rushed off so urgently just for that.

“…They’re going to spread the remaining half throughout Muchang.”

At Han Seol-bing’s following answer.

Dan Mok Un-rae immediately tried to run.

“M-Mother! Un-hye!”

Because his family was in Muchang.

But he couldn’t go.

Because Han Seol-bing held him back.

“Instructor Ha went. So he’ll somehow stop it.”

“B-But… if you’re poisoned by that Jamhon Poison, you become a monster like that. And it can’t be reversed…”

Dan Mok Un-rae’s gaze turned to the Sik Gang-si writhing on the ground.

Han Seol-bing couldn’t give any answer.

She could only desperately hope that Ha Mu-baek would stop the poison from being spread.

“We need to hurry.”

Dang Ji-yeon said.

“Jin-san. Come help quickly.”

Saying that, she approached the Sik Gang-si.

To continue the work that had been interrupted by the sudden flock of birds.

Her hands began moving busily.

How much time had passed like that?

When the small blade in Dang Ji-yeon’s hand passed over the Sik Gang-si, the skin split and black blood poured out.

“Catch it quickly.”

At Dang Ji-yeon’s words, Dang Jin-san moved swiftly.

“It’s a jiangshi, this thing. But how can it have blood…”

Dang Jin-san muttered.

Jiangshi are corpses.

Naturally, they shouldn’t have any blood.

“That’s why the Blood Sect bastards are so terrible. They use poison to turn living people into jiangshi…”

Han Seol-bing, who had come closer, spoke with a face full of rage.

“Then…”

At Yeon Ha-min’s murmur.

“Right. Actually, they’re easier to deal with. You just kill them like you would a person.”

Han Seol-bing said matter-of-factly.

Sik Gang-si.

It was a type of jiangshi that neither Ha Mu-baek nor she had seen before.

However, thanks to countless battles with jiangshi during the last war.

The moment she saw blood flowing from the flesh Dang Ji-yeon had cut.

She immediately finished understanding the Sik Gang-si.

“They’ll be easier to deal with than the jiangshi of Sanwol Demon Forest.”

Even at Han Seol-bing’s words, the cadets’ faces darkened.

If you’re poisoned, you become a jiangshi.

Then couldn’t that happen to your friends, your family?

Dan Mok Un-rae became even more restless.

“Are there any toxins in this thing’s teeth?”

At Han Seol-bing’s question, Dang Ji-yeon put on thin leather gloves and lightly struck the Sik Gang-si’s jaw joint with her fist.

Then the jaw dislocated, and the Sik Gang-si could no longer move its jaw freely.

And she examined the inside of its mouth with several reagents.

“There’s no poison in its mouth. I heard that Death Jiangshi of the Blood Sect have poison, so you become a jiangshi if bitten… This Sik Gang-si doesn’t seem like it would do that.”

A blessing in disguise.

“They might indeed be easier to deal with than Death Jiangshi…”

When Baek Ri-pyeong muttered.

Yeon Ha-min shook her head.

“They might be more difficult.”

At her definitive words, Baek Ri-pyeong looked at her.

“You. Could you cut down a disciple of Zhongnan?”

Baek Ri-pyeong hesitated at those words.

Yeon Ha-min’s gaze turned to Dan Mok Un-rae again.

Dan Mok Un-rae was even biting his nails.

Right now, he was filled with nothing but worry for his family.

“Damn poison.”

At Yeon Ha-min’s words, Baek Ri-pyeong could only nod.

Death Jiangshi were different.

They were obviously rotting corpses to anyone who looked.

Though they hadn’t directly witnessed the process of becoming Death Jiangshi, they had seen countless Death Jiangshi as the result.

Their faces were rotted and mangled to the point where they could barely maintain their original form – they were truly corpses.

But the Sik Gang-si writhing on the ground now was different.

Wasn’t it maintaining its appearance from when it was alive?

Only the focus in its eyes had disappeared.

When the poison is spread and many people become infected and rush at you to bite and devour you.

Could you really raise your sword?

Against your colleagues, friends, family?

Who knows.

Look there, at those gloomy-faced Dongjeong Nine Heroes.

Even those black path scoundrels were watching their colleague who had become a Sik Gang-si from afar with such pitiful faces.

“Hm?”

Then Han Seol-bing’s eyebrows twitched.

“Everyone gather.”

She spoke in a wary voice.

“Someone has infiltrated the camp.”

She was clearly tense.

And for good reason.

A place that wasn’t the life gate was being forced open by tremendous power.

“Hehe. My, my. Instructor Han. My apologies. Today the formation was spread quite strongly, so I had to force my way in.”

At the gentle voice heard through the frost mist, Han Seol-bing let out a sigh of relief.

“Phew. Elder.”

“Master!”

And at the sight of Wi Ji-gun revealing himself, Ha Seol-ran quickly ran to him.

“I heard the circumstances from Mu-baek.”

“Is Muchang safe?”

At those words, Ha Seol-ran asked urgently.

Wi Ji-gun nodded his head.

“Ah….”

Dan Mok Un-rae let out a sigh of relief and slumped down.

“Those bastards did spread poison, but thanks to Mu-baek’s quick thinking, most of it was recovered. There’s a little that got away, but it’s such a small amount spread widely that there shouldn’t be anyone who becomes a jiangshi immediately.”

At Wi Ji-gun’s words, Ha Seol-ran immediately sat cross-legged and concentrated her mind.

Why hadn’t she thought of this earlier?

She could just check with Ki Sense.

She hadn’t been able to think of it due to the shocking news.

She examined Muchang with Ki Sense spread to its fullest.

She felt the movements of countless people.

With the tremendous amount of information rushing in at once, Ha Seol-ran felt like her head would split immediately, but she concentrated even more.

‘Sik Gang-si.’

She thoroughly searched for any existence with a presence similar to the one currently with them.

“Thank goodness….”

Ha Seol-ran muttered quietly and opened her eyes.

“There are none. Not a single one.”

At her words, everyone’s faces brightened a little.

“Still, we need to quickly clean up and treat the people. We don’t know when the poison might manifest in those who ate food from Wolryong Inn or Wolryong Pavilion. We must treat them before that happens.”

At Wi Ji-gun’s words, Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes lit up.

“I’ll find a way to detoxify the Soul Confusion Poison before it manifests, no matter what.”

Now it was a race against time.

Which would come first – the poison’s manifestation or the antidote’s creation?

But would it be possible to make an antidote?

 

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“Ugh.”

Byeokryeokgae felt the ground beneath his feet suddenly give way and quickly tried to leap up using his own feet as support, but.

The hall’s roof pouring down from above caused him to fall straight down.

The hall collapsed on top of him.

Gwang Hoe-cheon had already moved his body out the window right after activating the mechanism that brought down the hall.

Since he had activated it right from the window.

He used the debris of the collapsing hall to perform lightness skill and slowly descended to the ground.

“E-Elder!”

As the hall collapsed, Gaebang Members who had been fighting throughout Wolryong Manor came rushing in alarm.

Knowing that Byeokryeokgae was in there.

“Now’s the time. Attack!”

Above such people, the warriors of Wolryong Manor – no, the Blood Sect – launched their attack.

Some of the Gaebang Members tried to clear the hall’s debris, while others blocked the Blood Sect’s attacks.

The evenly matched battle instantly turned into a defensive struggle.

Confirming this sight, Gwang Hoe-cheon quickly withdrew.

None of the Blood Sect warriors recognized Gwang Hoe-cheon.

They had no choice.

They only knew what Hyeong Ui-cheon looked like.

Having left Wolryong Manor, Gwang Hoe-cheon moved quickly.

 

The area around Wolryong Manor was chaotic.

It was natural since a battle had broken out.

However.

‘What’s this?’

Muchang was too peaceful.

If the Soul Confusion Poison had been spread according to his orders, this couldn’t be happening.

The plan to spread it in front of Gyoryong Hall to cause chaos in the Jeongcheon Alliance, then simultaneously spread it in nine locations to completely shake up Muchang.

It hadn’t even begun.

Something that should have been accomplished long ago by now.

‘It seems some variable has occurred.’

Gwang Hoe-cheon frowned.

‘It can’t be helped.’

The die was already cast.

He had to obtain the location and key to the secret vault somehow.

It would have been easier if the Sik Gang-si had turned Muchang into chaos.

Anyway, he had dealt with Byeokryeokgae.

Though it was a different method than planned.

Now there should be no one guarding Dan Mok House.

‘Perhaps this might be better.’

Whoosh, whoosh.

The surrounding scenery changed rapidly.

Gwang Hoe-cheon arrived at Yeo Hwa’s house, which he had scouted in advance.

“I don’t know who interfered with the work, but I’ll handle this as quickly as possible and leave.”

Gwang Hoe-cheon easily leaped over the wall.

 

At that moment.

Yeo Hwa was about to have tea and snacks with Dan Mok Un-hye.

This place was.

At some distance from where the Sik Gang-si first appeared, from Wolryong Manor, and from the main gate of Gyoryong Hall.

Because of that, there was no commotion and it looked the same as usual.

Though there might be murmuring in the streets, for this mother and daughter who were only inside the house, it was just an ordinary day.

However.

The moment Gwang Hoe-cheon leaped over the wall.

Yeo Hwa felt an inexplicable ominous premonition that made her spine tingle.

“It’s been a long time.”

At the same time, an unforgettable voice was heard.

Yeo Hwa instantly embraced Dan Mok Un-hye in her arms.

And without looking back, she threw open the door and ran.

In the direction completely opposite to where the voice had come from.

But it was a futile movement.

“Kekeke. You know well that you can’t escape, Yeo Hwa.”

Gwang Hoe-cheon instantly blocked her path.

Though he wore an eyepatch, it was an absolutely unforgettable face that appeared before her eyes after years had passed.

“Gwang Hoe-cheon….”

Yeo Hwa muttered that name with a voice full of resentment.

Yeohwa muttered the name in a voice full of resentment.

“Uh, Mom….”

In this situation, Dan Mok Un-hye called out to her mother with a face full of terror.

“Ho. You’ve grown so much. Back then, you were just a baby who couldn’t even walk.”

Swish.

At those words, Yeo Hwa pulled Dan Mok Un-hye deeper into her embrace.

“Where is it?”

Gwang Hoe-cheon glared at Yeo Hwa and asked.

“What are you talking about?”

Yeo Hwa shouted with a venomous voice. Her expression was full of resentment.

However, behind that face hid an inner fear.

At this moment, there was no way to escape from the hands of that monster-like bastard.

“You know. The Dan Mok Family’s secret vault. I searched all of Changsha thoroughly. I searched the Dan Mok Family grounds too. But it wasn’t anywhere. I mobilized dozens of mechanism experts alone. That old man Dan Mok Cheon-seung would have definitely told you. Of course, he would have given you the key too.”

“There’s no such thing!”

Yeo Hwa said with a resolute face.

At that sight, Gwang Hoe-cheon chuckled.

“Right. Of course. That’s why your only son joined a place like the Maengryong Corps. While barely surviving in the slums.”

At those words, Yeo Hwa’s eyes widened.

It was surprising enough that he had found this place, but how did he even know about their activities in the slums.

“Honestly, it was hard work finding you. I never thought you’d be hiding in such a place. Yeo Hwa, who was the noble flower of the Dan Mok Family Estate.”

A complex aura of desire rose in Gwang Hoe-cheon’s eyes.

At that sight, Yeo Hwa stepped back hesitantly.

“But you were a vicious woman. Even more than me.”

A cruel smile hung on Gwang Hoe-cheon’s lips.

“I stabbed out one of my own eyes. And I placed restrictions on my martial arts. I lived as an absurdly hideous pig for years. But you know what? As far as I know, you’re an even more vicious type than me. So you left the secret vault alone and endured in the slums until now. Though I don’t know how you treated your daughter.”

Yeo Hwa’s eyes flashed upward.

He even knew that Un-hye had been sick.

“She’s a daughter who barely became healthy. What would happen if you lost her here?”

Crack crack.

Gwang Hoe-cheon moved his fingers.

Yeo Hwa’s eyes were colored with despair.

Dan Mok Un-hye in her arms.

She was an incomparably precious existence compared to something like the Dan Mok Family’s secret vault.

Thinking of Dan Mok Un-rae who felt the thirst for martial arts made her feel sorry, but still, how could she compare it to life.

‘Should I have given it then….’

That night a few days ago.

She regretted whether she should have told Dan Mok Un-rae about the secret vault then and sent him there.

“I’m busy. So let’s finish this quickly.”

One step.

Gwang Hoe-cheon approached Yeo Hwa.

One step.

Yeo Hwa stepped back.

Telling him the location of the secret vault and giving him the key.

It wasn’t difficult.

Because it wasn’t more important than her family’s lives.

However, the problem was that this bastard was Gwang Hoe-cheon.

Would he really just obtain that and leave quietly.

She couldn’t trust him.

Gwang Hoe-cheon took another step closer.

And slowly moved his arm.

When his fingertips aimed toward Dan Mok Un-hye in Yeo Hwa’s arms.

“Stop right there.”

At the voice that suddenly came from behind, Gwang Hoe-cheon quickly turned around.

Because he hadn’t sensed any presence at all.

The existence that suddenly appeared behind him.

“You, you bastard….”

It was an existence that absolutely shouldn’t be here.

Someone who should have become a Sik Gang-si due to his own foolish actions….

‘Come to think of it.’

Before spreading the poison, that bastard should have become a Sik Gang-si first. But how.

Only one person had become a Sik Gang-si.

If he counted that bastard too, it should have been two.

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