The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 199

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Chapter 199. Focus

 

 

Early dawn.

Dan Mok Un-rae was already out at the Training Ground.

It was a time when no one else had come out.

It was just when the first light of dawn was breaking and darkness was slowly retreating.

Nevertheless, Dan Mok Un-rae silently warmed up his body.

Slowly.

Thoroughly.

He warmed up his body without missing a single spot, preparing for cultivation.

“Ahem.”

Just then, Ha Mu-baek appeared, letting out a big yawn.

“Don’t you ever sleep? You.”

Despite Ha Mu-baek’s reproach, Dan Mok Un-rae just smiled broadly.

His eyes were bright red.

They had turned red from lack of sleep.

“You really didn’t sleep at all, it seems.”

“I just couldn’t fall asleep at all.”

Dan Mok Un-rae answered with an embarrassed expression.

It was understandable.

He was finally going to learn his own family’s Martial Arts.

And it was his family’s Ultimate Technique that he thought had been lost.

“Should I teach you step by step from the principles? Or should I just quickly drill the Martial Arts into your head?”

“Even if it takes longer, I want to learn step by step from the principles.”

Dan Mok Un-rae answered immediately as if there was nothing to think about.

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“Let’s start with the Mind Technique first. After seeing the entire Secret Manual yesterday, there were three stages of Mind Technique. We’ll skip the beginner and advanced stages.”

At that explanation, Dan Mok Un-rae tried hard to suppress his pounding heart.

He knew what Mind Technique the Instructor was talking about now.

Yesterday.

The Secret Manual he had read over and over again, determined to learn it somehow.

That must be it.

‘So that was indeed the strongest Martial Arts…’

Dan Mok Un-rae thought his greed might have been excessive.

There were beginner techniques and advanced Mind Techniques, but what he had chosen skipped all of those.

“Well, at your current level, learning the first two would be a waste of time.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Dan Mok Un-rae’s eyes widened.

What did this mean now?

The only Mind Technique he knew was at most the Three Talents Heart Method.

“You have a large amount of Internal Energy, and your ability to utilize Internal Energy is above advanced Mind Technique level. Otherwise, how could you have faced the Taiji Wisdom Sword and Heavenly Star Galaxy Sword Technique?”

Ha Mu-baek paused mid-sentence.

Come to think of it, the Dan Mok Family Estate’s Sword Technique also included the term galaxy.

Along with heavenly star and illusion.

“Hmm. They’re similar.”

“Pardon?”

Dan Mok Un-rae asked at Ha Mu-baek’s muttering.

“It’s nothing important.”

Ha Mu-baek said casually.

If you dug deep, they were completely different Sword Techniques after all.

There was just a slight similarity.

Just a coincidence that the founders of both sects’ Sword Techniques got inspiration from looking at the Milky Way in the night sky.

“Sit down.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s instruction, Dan Mok Un-rae sat in Cross-legged Sitting.

Since he said they would start with the Mind Technique.

“Void Vast Heart Formula. It’s an excellent Internal Energy Mental Method. It’s a Mind Technique that’s absolutely not inferior even compared to the secret Internal Energy Mental Methods of the Nine Sects and One Alliance, Five Great Noble Families, or Eight Rising Gates. Its depth is just as profound. So pay proper attention and listen well.”

Ha Mu-baek, who had surrounded them with an Energy Barrier, slowly explained the Traditional Formula in detail.

Now that Secret Manual no longer existed in the world.

It only existed in Ha Mu-baek’s mind.

Dan Mok Un-rae concentrated all his attention, afraid he might miss even a single character.

Meanwhile, Cadets began appearing at the Training Ground one by one.

Then, seeing the two men, they soon positioned themselves at appropriate spots so as not to interfere and began their cultivation.

Even though Ha Mu-baek’s mouth was moving, they could tell that some kind of transmission was taking place from the fact that no voice could be heard.

 

A long time passed like that.

Nearly two hours.

Ha Mu-baek explained the entire contents of the Secret Manual in detail.

“Do you understand?”

“…It’s difficult.”

Dan Mok Un-rae answered with a frown.

It was understandable.

It was an Upper Tier Mind Technique after all.

Ha Mu-baek placed his palm on Dan Mok Un-rae’s back.

“Focus.”

Ha Mu-baek channeled his Internal Energy and moved it along the Energy Circulation path of the Void Vast Heart Formula.

“Remember this well. This is the basic Energy Circulation path.”

It was a path he had roughly guessed since the Traditional Formula had been explained in detail.

But having it demonstrated directly through movement inside his body, he could understand it much better.

Parts that he couldn’t quite understand while listening to the Traditional Formula could now be understood as actual Energy Circulation took place within his body.

Ha Mu-baek removed his palm and stepped back.

Dan Mok Un-rae had already closed his eyes and fallen into a state of Energy Circulation meditation.

When Ha Mu-baek moved away from Dan Mok Un-rae toward the Rock that was his designated spot, the Cadets’ gazes all focused on him at once.

“What is it? A new Martial Arts?”

Dang Jin-san approached and asked.

“It’s Un-rae’s Martial Arts. Family Martial Arts.”

At the brief explanation, the Cadets nodded and withdrew.

It was because he said it was Family Martial Arts.

Showing interest in the martial origins of other sects was not the way of Gangho.

“But… how is it that you can teach him that, Instructor?”

Dang Jin-san asked again, struck by a sudden question.

“There are circumstances. Why, should I teach you some Tang Family Territory Martial Arts too?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Dang Jin-san shook his head vigorously.

He sensed something ominous in that expression.

“I’ll teach him without needing to trouble the Instructor.”

When had she arrived?

Dang Jin-san was startled by Elder Sister’s voice suddenly heard from behind.

The sight of Dang Ji-yeon appearing with a whip coiled around her waist looked like the grim reaper to Dang Jin-san.

“W-why are you here, elder sister?”

“Just loosening up my body. Focusing only on poison has made my body too stiff.”

She had been helping Dang Ja-cheong.

“It doesn’t seem to be loosening up well.”

When Dang Jin-san muttered, knowing Dang Ji-yeon’s habits well, she smiled brightly.

“Exactly. I’ll spar with you after a long time.”

Dang Jin-san looked at Dang Ji-yeon with a bewildered face and pointed at himself with his finger.

Dang Ji-yeon nodded her head.

“They say you’ve improved a lot. I need to check for myself.”

What on earth was this sudden situation?

He expressed his fierce refusal and stepped back, but.

It was already too late.

The cadets who heard their conversation surrounded them in a circle.

Everyone except Dan Mok Un-rae looked at the two with interested faces.

Swish.

The whip at her waist was untied and held in Dang Ji-yeon’s hand.

Crack.

Regardless of how Dang Jin-san reacted, her attack began.

Nine Spirit Snake Whips.

The whip technique that Dang Chu had used before.

However, the Nine Spirit Snake Whips unfolded in her hands were on a different level from Dang Chu’s.

Though Dang Ji-yeon was renowned for poison arts, her martial arts level was also by no means low.

“W-what are you doing!”

Dang Jin-san quickly moved his feet to escape from the whip technique’s attack range.

At that sight, a gleam appeared in Dang Ji-yeon’s eyes.

In the past, this single attack would have been the end.

The whip moved continuously.

It truly looked like a snake moving with agility.

Dang Jin-san also drew his sword to counter.

He faced her quite confidently.

A hundred seconds passed in an instant.

A subtle smile hung on Dang Ji-yeon’s lips.

Hearing about it in stories was different from confirming it directly.

After arriving in Muchang, there had been no opportunity to check Dang Jin-san’s skills due to the Blood Sect’s Jamhon Poison.

So she had stopped by the training ground today for this purpose, and her younger brother was showing performance beyond expectations.

Dang Ji-yeon withdrew her whip.

Her face looked refreshed.

“Ah. Not bad. Thanks to you, I loosened up my body well.”

A face filled with laughter.

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Dang Jin-san only breathed heavily.

He was able to last a hundred seconds because he knew all the forms of the Nine Spirit Snake Whips.

No, now Dang Jin-san could also perform them, couldn’t he?

That’s why he had blocked Dang Ji-yeon’s Nine Spirit Snake Whips with the Three Talents Sword Technique.

“This, this witch…”

A resentful mutter.

Dang Jin-san’s hand released the sword and grabbed the whip at his waist.

After realizing he could freely use whip techniques once the Copper Head Restriction ended, he had continued cultivating whip techniques as well.

That’s why he always carried a whip coiled around his waist.

Swish.

Dang Jin-san’s whip uncoiled.

The Nine Spirit Snake Whips unfolded toward his brightly smiling elder sister.

A moment later.

Dang Ji-yeon left the training ground.

What remained was Dang Jin-san with his clothes torn to shreds all over his body.

It was his miserable defeat.

The cadets turned their heads and returned to their respective training.

“Your whip technique is still quite clumsy.”

Ha Mu-baek’s mutter struck like a dagger.

“Ugh.”

Dang Jin-san swallowed his groan.

“Do you want revenge?”

Ha Mu-baek’s question.

Dang Jin-san looked back at Ha Mu-baek.

“How about it? Should I teach you some Tang Family martial arts?”

To Dang Jin-san’s ears, it sounded like a demon’s temptation.

“Please, I beg of you.”

And he succumbed to the temptation.

To refuse would be impossible, since he had been so miserably defeated by his elder sister.

 

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“Making people resistant to Jamhon Poison is no easy task.”

Dang Ja-cheong frowned.

“It’s not that there’s no method.”

Wi Ji-gun said.

Only after examining the Jamhon Poison several times following Gongsun Dan-gyeong’s advice did they find a clue.

Demonic Arts.

Finding traces of it in the Jamhon Poison naturally revealed a clue.

“Demonic Arts are wedged like foreign matter between the Blood Poison Art and the poison. If we attack that demonic energy, we can easily break the bond between the Blood Poison Art and the poison. Much easier than the antidote you created.”

At Wi Ji-gun’s words, Dang Ja-cheong nodded.

“Then it would be good to attack that demonic energy.”

Gongsun Dan-gyeong muttered.

Though he was called an old man by Ha Mu-baek, he was the youngest in age at this gathering.

“The problem is how to do that. Especially for ordinary people without martial arts.”

That was the current problem.

Jamhon Poison was more lethal to ordinary people without internal energy than to martial artists who possessed it.

Martial artists had an incubation period, so they could carry antidotes and take them immediately upon inhaling Jamhon Poison.

But ordinary people were different.

They became jiangshi immediately upon poisoning.

The reason only one person in Muchang became a jiangshi was because only that one person had consumed a lethal dose of Jamhon Poison that triggered the toxicity.

Even he was a lowly thug from the dark path who possessed some meager internal energy, which delayed the manifestation slightly.

“If we could make energy that counters demonic arts react to the demonic energy, there might be a way…”

Gongsun Mu-oe muttered.

The demonic arts used in Jamhon Poison were extremely minimal.

Therefore, even ordinary people without internal energy could attack the demonic arts if there was some energy acting upon it.

The eyes of the three people who had reached this thought met in midair.

All three knew of such energy.

“…Innate True Energy.”

A cry burst forth simultaneously.

All he needed to do was make the Innate True Energy react to a specific demonic art.

Wi Ji-gun had already identified the specific demonic art.

“We can prepare a poison that has similar properties to the energy of demonic arts.”

Dang Ja-cheong’s words.

“We need to mix in medicinal herbs that stimulate Innate True Energy. Otherwise, it would just be poison.”

Ordinary Innate True Energy was the natural enemy of demonic arts.

Demonic arts were the power of defying heaven, going against natural order.

Innate True Energy, which all humans naturally possess from birth, was truly the power of following heaven’s way.

The two were bound to be natural enemies.

Once they found a clue, things moved quickly.

Energy filled the air.

That’s when Dang Ji-yeon returned.

“Wh-what’s happening? Grandfather.”

The dark and heavy atmosphere from before she left had completely disappeared.

The air was full of vigor and hope.

“We found a clue. You need to move quickly too.”

Dang Ja-cheong’s voice was bright.

“Let me see. Three-Eye Thousand Poison Flash, Demon Crown Blood Scale Sand, Dark Blood Scroll, Corrupted Flesh Water, Soul-Breaking Demon Poison. With these, we should be able to create a similar energy…”

Dang Ji-yeon’s expression changed strangely as she listened to her grandfather’s muttering.

These were poisons and toxins that carried energy similar to demonic energy.

“These are hard to obtain here.”

“We’ll have to send a message bird to the Main Estate.”

“Understood.”

Dang Ji-yeon moved quickly.

“I should also send a message bird to the Main Sect. There are some medicinal herbs we can’t get here.”

Gongsun Mu-oe also moved into action.

“I need to rest a little now.”

He hadn’t slept a wink last night, lost in thought.

His eyes had turned bright red.

Even for Gongsun Dan-gyeong, this was pushing his limits.

And so everyone scattered.

Only Wi Ji-gun remained.

“Hm?”

His gaze turned toward the Maengryong Corps 7th Group Training Hall.

He felt a faint energy that was familiar yet strange.

“Hmm. What an interesting energy.”

It was the presence of the boy named Dan Mok Un-rae, and it seemed he was learning a new Internal Energy Mental Method.

It was an energy that felt profound.

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