The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 233

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Chapter 233. Those Children…

 

 

Hwang Ryeok.

That was the giant man’s name.

He was one of those who managed the workers, and many had quit because of his harassment.

He didn’t dare mess with Wi Ji-gun, but he treated all other workers like vermin.

The people who hired workers had brought in a one-armed cripple, which already irritated Hwang Ryeok.

Wi Ji-gun had been protecting that one-armed cripple, preventing him from properly educating the man.

But today he was alone.

Until yesterday, he had been with Wi Ji-gun.

And now he was just standing there blankly without even sweeping.

He had been caught red-handed.

“If they hired a one-armed cripple as a worker, you should work hard. With only one arm, you should move twice as much as others do. What are you doing standing there so blankly!”

A burst of shouting erupted.

“Ah, I’m sorry.”

Namgung Hwi bowed his head.

“Sorry? Instead of saying such things, move that broom. Tsk. This place hasn’t been cleaned at all.”

The place he pointed to had been cleaned spotlessly.

Even so, he found fault, claiming it hadn’t been cleaned.

The cadets had already stopped walking at the sound of shouting.

Dan Mok Un-rae tried to step forward at his unreasonable behavior, but Dang Jin-san grabbed his arm.

And shook his head.

“This is a matter between workers. It’s unfortunate, but we shouldn’t interfere. It’s better to just inform Elder Wi.”

Dang Jin-san’s judgment.

Wi Ji-gun had somehow come to encompass all the workers of Gyoryong Hall.

Thanks to this, even the managers couldn’t treat Wi Ji-gun carelessly.

However, since Wi Ji-gun couldn’t always be with all the workers, such incidents occurred.

Dan Mok Un-rae gritted his teeth.

Then he looked at Ha Seol-ran.

“Where is the elder?”

“Hm? I think he’s near our training ground?”

Dan Mok Un-rae kicked off the ground.

It was to bring Wi Ji-gun.

“This is why I told No Baek that one-armed people won’t do. That old man Wi said it was fine and let it be, but this is how the work gets done?”

Hwang Ryeok’s abusive language didn’t stop.

No Baek was the one who had first seen Namgung Hwi and let him in to work as a laborer.

He was also one of the managers.

Unlike Hwang Ryeok, who was now getting heated, he had high regard among the workers.

At that moment, Namgung Ji-hu and Namgung Ji-yu spotted the Maengryong Corps cadets and quickened their pace.

They passed by Namgung Hwi, who was bowing his head and constantly apologizing in front of Hwang Ryeok.

Hwang Ryeok’s fault-finding made one frown just by listening.

Namgung Ji-hu’s gaze turned toward that direction.

The empty right sleeve.

The deeply bowed head, and the scars on his face that were glimpsed.

Zing.

A strange sensation swept through one corner of his chest.

“Why?”

Namgung Ji-yu asked.

Because Namgung Ji-hu’s steps had slowed slightly.

“Ah, it’s nothing.”

Namgung Ji-hu moved his steps again.

“Hey! Are you listening properly!”

Whether the Namgung siblings passed by or not, Hwang Ryeok kept treating Namgung Hwi like vermin.

However.

Namgung Hwi wasn’t properly listening to Hwang Ryeok’s words.

No sound reached his ears.

Though he was bowing his head, he could see from the corner of his eye.

The boy and girl passing by his side.

‘Those children…’

Namgung Hwi’s heart beat violently.

Because he was finally seeing them for the first time.

Even after Namgung Ji-hu and Namgung Ji-yu joined the group, Hwang Ryeok continued to berate Namgung Hwi.

It wasn’t a pleasant sight to see.

Namgung Ji-hu and Namgung Ji-yu also frowned involuntarily.

“But why are we stopped here?”

Namgung Ji-yu’s question.

“We’re waiting for Un-rae.”

Dang Jin-san answered lightly.

“He couldn’t stand watching that scene, Un-rae couldn’t.”

The two people tilted their heads at the following explanation.

However, they nodded when they saw the old man who appeared shortly after.

An elderly worker with a build no less impressive than Hwang Ryeok’s.

Elder Wi.

No one thought of him as a simple worker.

Dan Mok Un-rae was following behind him.

Wi Ji-gun didn’t stop walking and strode directly toward Hwang Ryeok.

Hwang Ryeok also spotted Wi Ji-gun.

A sign of flinching.

“What are you doing right now?”

“He wasn’t doing his work properly, so I was teaching him.”

Hwang Ryeok answered boldly to Wi Ji-gun’s interrogation.

“Where exactly did he not do properly? It looks clean to me?”

Wi Ji-gun said while looking around.

Hwang Ryeok couldn’t respond to that question.

He had just been finding fault for no reason; the cleaning had been done spotlessly.

“Well, that’s…”

“And. Regarding this friend Hwi, I’ve already discussed with No Baek that I would take full charge, so why are you doing this?”

Wi Ji-gun glared at Hwang Ryeok with fierce eyes.

Hwang Ryeok felt his spine chill.

‘What kind of old man has eyes like that…’

His back became damp with sweat.

With a build no less than his own, and muscles no less than his own.

He had no idea how old that old man was, or how he possessed such a body.

And what about that aura?

He had just wanted to find some fault because he didn’t like how the old man was protecting the cripple, but he hadn’t expected him to appear so quickly.

Hwang Ryeok’s gaze turned toward the Maengryong Corps cadets.

There was someone following behind Wi Ji-gun who had been walking with large strides.

But what could he, a mere worker, do to the cadets?

They were martial artists who had learned martial arts.

“There’s a lot of laundry piled up. That’s the only reason I came looking for workers. Hmm.”

Saying that, he smoothly turned around and disappeared.

Wi Ji-gun frowned.

“Ugh. That guy is always like that. Tsk.”

He clicked his tongue while watching his retreating figure.

Wi Ji-gun had heard that before he came to Gyoryong Hall, Hwang Ryeok had been truly arrogant and overbearing.

“Think of it as just one bastard barking and don’t take it too much to heart. Since the laundry has piled up, let’s head over there for now.”

Wi Ji-gun, who had comforted Namgung Hwi like that, took the first step.

Namgung Hwi’s gaze turned toward where the Maengryong Corps cadets were.

When his eyes met Dan Mok Un-rae’s, he bowed his head slightly.

He had roughly understood the situation.

And after briefly looking at Namgung Ji-hu and Namgung Ji-yu who were with them, he turned around.

It was the first time.

The first time he had looked at those children’s faces head-on like this.

Though it was brief, it felt as long as if time had stopped.

No, it was too short.

He wanted to keep looking at them again, but he couldn’t.

Not yet.

Not yet.

Like that, the two people disappeared to the north.

“But do the workers also do laundry?”

“Our martial uniforms.”

To Dan Mok Un-rae’s muttering as he tilted his head, Namgung Ji-hu answered nonchalantly.

At those words, the Maengryong Corps cadets’ eyes widened.

It was natural.

They washed their own martial uniforms themselves.

The Maengryong Corps wore individually prepared martial uniforms without any unified uniform.

“Since they’re issued by Gyoryong Hall, the hall also manages them. We wash our other clothes ourselves.”

Namgung Ji-yu added an explanation.

“Nice. The Jamryong Corps and Waryong Corps have it good.”

At Dang Jin-san’s grumbling-like muttering, the Namgung siblings chuckled.

“Come on, let’s go now.”

Baek Ri-pyeong organized the atmosphere and took the first step toward the training ground.

 

***

 

The group that arrived at the training ground.

It had been a long time since everyone had gathered like this.

“Who wants to go first?”

Dang Jin-san said with a grin.

Namgung Ji-hu stepped forward.

Since that day when they took the Muryangwhan.

Apart from overseeing the Waryong Corps 20th Group’s training, they hadn’t had any separate martial duels.

They had focused on maximizing the medicinal effects of the Muryangwhan.

Among them, those who achieved the greatest results were naturally Yeon Ha-min and Dang Jin-san.

They had been circulating internal energy for ten straight days.

“Good. Then I’ll go first too.”

Looking at Namgung Ji-hu, Dang Jin-san stepped into the center of the training ground.

His body was itching for action.

This time, he had definitely felt something.

The two faced each other, and the others stepped back at a distance.

The first to move was Dang Jin-san.

The Yeongsa Nine Whips flew toward Namgung Ji-hu.

Namgung Ji-hu’s response was naturally the Emperor Sword Forms.

It was Dang Jin-san’s first time seeing the Emperor Sword Forms.

However, he didn’t panic and focused on deploying his own martial arts.

The momentum of both their whip and sword techniques was clearly different from before.

As their internal energy had increased, their movements had more power.

After exchanging moves for a while, Dang Jin-san was gradually pushed back.

Since the two had similar internal energy levels, the outcome was decided by their forms.

Namgung Ji-hu’s Emperor Sword Forms were improving day by day.

“Puha.”

Before the match was completely decided.

Dang Jin-san stepped back, letting out rough breathing.

“Incredible.”

Dang Jin-san shook his head and said.

“You too.”

Namgung Ji-hu replied with a grin.

“What bullshit.”

At the familiar voice that was heard then, the cadets’ heads all turned in unison to one side.

It was Ha Mu-baek.

He had appeared without any presence.

How long had he been there?

“I went to the trouble of feeding you good stuff, and you can’t even use it properly, wasting it like that. What’s so incredible? The waste is incredible?”

Ha Mu-baek spoke as if displeased.

Even though it was criticism and scolding, smiles appeared on Dang Jin-san and Namgung Ji-hu’s faces.

They knew that the instructor they had experienced wouldn’t just scold them and end it there.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned to the other cadets.

“Let me see how you guys are doing.”

At those words, everyone paired up and began sparring.

However, the sparring didn’t continue for long.

Because Ha Mu-baek interrupted in the middle.

Having grasped all the cadets’ conditions like that, Ha Mu-baek looked around at them with pathetic eyes.

“You guys. I understand you’re excited because you ate good stuff and your internal energy increased. But the waste is too severe. If you keep using internal energy recklessly like that, even ten jiazi worth wouldn’t be enough.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Dang Jin-san chuckled.

Ten jiazi wouldn’t be enough? He thought it was ridiculous.

No, could a human even contain ten jiazi worth of internal energy in the first place?

To accumulate that through pure internal energy cultivation alone would require six hundred years of training.

“Internal energy isn’t just about constantly pushing it in. Push when you need to push, pull back when you need to pull back. Explosively burst when you need to burst.”

Ha Mu-baek showed rough movements while explaining.

The cadets watched those movements intently.

“Um, couldn’t you teach us by sparring directly?”

Ju U-myeong carefully requested.

“Hmm. That’s bothersome…”

Ha Mu-baek seemed reluctant.

However, under the cadets’ gazes, he was about to step forward as if he had no choice when.

Looking up at the sky.

“Let’s do it next time. I need to eat.”

And then he disappeared with a whoosh.

“Hah….”

Only someone’s hollow laugh flowed out.

Right, that was the kind of person he was.

That Instructor.

 

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Wi Ji-gun and Namgung Hwi arrived at the laundry area.

Hwang Ryeok’s words about a lot of backed-up laundry were not a lie.

The workers warmly welcomed the two men at the sight of the piles of laundry stacked up.

“Well then, shall we find our spots?”

Wi Ji-gun took a spot first, and Namgung Hwi took a spot nearby.

They were Jamryong Corps martial uniforms.

Names were embroidered on one side of each uniform.

As they were frantically doing laundry.

The name embroidered on the uniform Namgung Hwi had just picked up caught his eye.

Namgung Ji-hu.

His eyes trembled finely.

There couldn’t be two people with the same name.

It was the uniform of that child he had briefly seen earlier.

His hands trembled finely.

Even so, he carefully and slowly washed the uniform with all his heart.

He washed Namgung Ji-hu’s uniform so that not a single old stain would remain.

Thanks to this, Namgung Hwi’s speed slowed down to match that of an ordinary person doing laundry.

People tilted their heads in puzzlement as he, who had been quickly handling the laundry, now moved sluggishly.

After cleanly washing Namgung Ji-hu’s uniform and passing it on.

While washing another uniform.

This time.

Namgung Ji-yu.

That name came into view.

Namgung Hwi’s touch slowed down once again.

His fingertips trembling finely.

His eyes slightly turning red.

‘You’ve grown up well.’

Right now, only that thought filled Namgung Hwi’s heart.

Until Wi Ji-gun tapped his shoulder, he just did laundry earnestly.

“Is something wrong?”

“Ah, no.”

“Really? You’re particularly earnest today. Hehe.”

Though he noticed there was some story behind it, Wi Ji-gun just let it pass as usual.

“How about going to the armory alone today? I have some other business to attend to.”

It was already afternoon.

They had skipped lunch and focused only on laundry.

“Ah, but let’s eat first before that.”

After having a late lunch at Damryong Pavilion, the two men parted ways.

Namgung Hwi came to the armory alone.

Weapons covered in dust.

Namgung Hwi didn’t pick up just anything.

Instead, he concentrated his eye power to check the engravings carved on the weapons.

He hadn’t thought of it until now.

Only after seeing the two names embroidered on the uniforms earlier did he think of it.

Since he happened to come to the armory alone.

How long had he been looking around like that?

Namgung Hwi picked up two swords.

They were practice swords with Namgung Ji-hu’s and Namgung Ji-yu’s names engraved on them respectively.

He floated the swords using Void Grasping.

Once with cotton cloth.

Once more with oiled cotton cloth.

And once again with cotton cloth.

He polished them with all his heart.

Even more than when he maintained his own sword.

This was probably the most concentrated moment in his entire life.

Even though they were bladeless practice swords, the swords gleamed brilliantly.

They looked as if they could cut through anything at any moment.

An appearance that made it hard to believe they were practice swords.

“I don’t know when they’ll use these, but….”

Having finished the maintenance, Namgung Hwi muttered as he returned the two swords to their places.

And now he cleaned weapons as he picked them up randomly.

Movements clearly different from earlier.

Even so, the weapons shone with a clean appearance.

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