The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 256

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Chapter 256. You Call That Evidence?

 

 

“Ho, Ho, Ho-cheol… Ho-cheol…”

Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s voice came out trembling violently.

His face showed disbelief that such a thing could happen.

Soon the shock spread like ripples.

“The, the Guardian…”

“Wi, with, with, with one sword…”

They had seen it clearly with their own eyes.

It wasn’t even a movement too fast for the eyes to follow.

The pitch-black sword had cut through the sword aura and cut down Namgung Ho-cheol as well.

He who held the position of Guardian as an elder of the Namgung Family had vanished so helplessly.

They had witnessed that entire scene vividly.

The silence was broken.

Small disturbances were arising here and there.

It was.

Fear? No, terror.

Terror toward an unknown enemy who had displayed such tremendous power that his strength could not be fathomed.

The sword aura had been cut.

It was an unheard of, unseen feat.

They had never even imagined such a thing was possible.

To begin with, reaching a level where one could use sword aura was a distant goal for most martial artists.

That sword aura.

Had been cut.

By a sword swung so casually.

Then just what level had that enemy reached?

An inexplicable terror slowly began to consume the Namgung Family Warriors.

“You bastard!!! How dare you!!!”

A figure who came to his senses and launched himself forward with a roar.

His white beard fluttered as his eyes burned with rage.

“What are you?”

Ha Mu-baek asked.

“I am Namgung Yeom, an elder of the great Namgung Family!”

From his use of a single-character name, he appeared to be from a branch family.

Though it wasn’t set by family law, the direct line typically used two-character names matching their generation names, while branch families mainly used simple single-character names.

A figure who had risen to the position of elder despite being from a branch family.

He drew his sword and aimed it at Ha Mu-baek.

“Are you next? I told you, you’ll die.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke in a cold voice.

“The Namgung Family is not so weak as to submit to the likes of an evil villain. Come and receive my sword!”

He unleashed the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword.

A sword with brilliantly shining sword aura.

One of the few high positions in the family allocated to branch members.

Because of that, the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword he could learn was displayed at a masterful level.

However, it was irrelevant to Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved again.

One sword.

This time too, it was one sword.

Namgung Yeom collapsed dead just like that.

The sword aura he had displayed showed he was absolutely not at a lower level than Namgung Ho-cheol.

Yet he too could not withstand one sword.

This time too, the sword aura was cut, and Namgung Yeom was cut.

The same scene unfolded before others.

The terror grew even deeper.

Now there were no more who moved.

Who would rashly step forward against such overwhelming martial prowess?

It was because Namgung Yeom had a fiery temperament that his eyes had rolled back and he had rushed into the flames like a moth.

The result was being burned by those flames and becoming a handful of ash.

Both Namgung Hwa-hyeon and Namgung Hyeon-cheol.

Were glaring at Ha Mu-baek with eyes full of rage.

However, they did not act rashly.

They had realized this was martial prowess that no individual could face.

They had known he was a monster, but who could have known he was a monster beyond the realm of imagination.

Finally, Namgung Hwa-hyeon, having made his decision, opened his mouth.

“Prepare the Imperial Changgung Sword Formation!”

At that command, three military units of the Namgung Family moved.

The Changcheon Sword Unit, along with the Changgung Sword Unit and Changun Sword Unit.

It was the Namgung Family’s largest-scale, strongest sword formation created by mobilizing three military units.

This was a sword formation meant to face multiple enemies, not to face an individual.

Yet now they had decided to deploy it against Ha Mu-baek alone.

The personnel of the three sword units totaled one hundred ninety.

Nearly two hundred people formed a single sword formation and surrounded Ha Mu-baek.

Gongsun Mu-oe and Namgung Hwa-u’s group were outside the range of the sword formation.

Ha Mu-baek swept his gaze over the sword formation surrounding him and said.

“I told you you’d die, didn’t I?”

A voice that seemed almost languid.

At that voice, anger flickered across the faces of the sword unit members forming the formation.

They knew he possessed terrifying skill.

But to react so languidly when facing them.

There was no greater disregard than this disregard.

“So. At least listen to what I have to say before you die.”

Ha Mu-baek said this and sheathed his sword again.

The scabbard remained planted in the ground.

Then he casually extended one hand.

“Huh? Huuh!”

An exclamation of shock burst from an unexpected place.

It was Namgung Hwa-u.

He flew to Ha Mu-baek’s side in an instant.

Amazing levitation technique.

To pull someone from that distance so quickly and smoothly in an instant.

This changed the situation.

Now they could not easily attack.

Because Namgung Hwa-u might be caught in the sword formation’s attack.

These three sword units did not know what had happened inside the banquet hall.

So they had no choice but to worry about the safety of Namgung Hwa-u, the Family Head’s youngest brother.

Being the Family Head’s younger brother, he held a position equivalent to an elder of the noble family.

In their minds, Ha Mu-baek had taken Namgung Hwa-u hostage.

“Co, cowardly….”

Someone frowned and muttered.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze immediately turned toward him.

“Cowardly?”

Ha Mu-baek chuckled softly.

“I’m just giving you all a chance to hear an interesting story.”

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned to Namgung Hwa-u.

“Now, I’ve set the stage for you. Time to say everything you need to say, right?”

Namgung Hwa-u looked around his surroundings.

It was exactly as he said.

It seemed like all the personnel of the Namgung Family Estate had gathered.

Due to the incident in the Inner Courtyard, even the warriors from the Outer Courtyard had all rushed over.

Most of the personnel had gathered, excluding women and children who hadn’t learned martial arts.

It was natural.

The banquet hall building in the Inner Courtyard had completely collapsed.

Wasn’t this an emergency situation?

“Ahem.”

Namgung Hwa-u looked around at his surroundings.

Soon he infused his voice with internal energy and began to speak.

His clear voice penetrated directly into the ears of everyone gathered here.

“At the banquet hall, I raised a certain question to my elder brother, the Family Head.”

People’s gazes converged on Namgung Hwa-u.

The same was true for the warriors forming the sword formation.

Just as Namgung Hwa-hyeon gritted his teeth and was about to give an attack order.

Ha Mu-baek glanced at him slightly.

A terrifying killing intent that constricted his entire body.

‘Kuk.’

His whole body stiffened in an instant.

He had missed the timing.

Namgung Hwa-u’s story had begun.

“Namgung Ji-hu. The reason for not making that child the Young Family Head. The reason for continuously keeping the legitimate eldest son in the state of Grand Young Master. When I asked why he was trying to hide this, Dae Ho-beop attacked me!”

Some people’s gazes turned toward Namgung Hyeon-cheol.

People’s interest rose slightly.

Even though the great enemy who had destroyed the banquet hall was right before their eyes.

The topic Namgung Hwa-u had touched upon was that shocking.

Something that had already occasionally become a topic of conversation among the family’s retainers.

“Twenty-some years ago, my elder brother went on a journey with his two wives and escort warriors. He said that if he left the stifling family estate, perhaps children might be born. And nineteen years ago, he returned with only two children. Of course, those children were indeed of Namgung blood. They received verification.”

Up to this point, it was a story known by those who knew it.

Since it was an incident from nineteen years ago, younger people didn’t know much about it.

“Yet my elder brother did not elevate Ji-hu to Young Family Head. No, it seemed like he was trying to prevent it by any means. What is the reason for this? Though Ji-hu is of Namgung blood, isn’t he not of my elder brother’s bloodline!”

A great shout.

Thud!

It delivered a shock to the people of the Namgung Family Estate as if striking their heads with iron.

Words that no one could bring up to the Family Head, his youngest brother had publicly uttered in a place where retainers had gathered.

“What nonsense! Ji-hu is definitely my son! What are the sword units doing! Why aren’t you immediately executing that traitor who’s trying to disturb the family with such ridiculous nonsense!”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon shouted as if having a fit.

Immediately defining his younger brother Namgung Hwa-u as a traitor.

At that moment, Ha Mu-baek’s hand moved again, and the two people in bamboo hats beside Gongsun Mu-oe and the Namgung siblings gently flew toward the center of the formation.

Chu Dong trembled all over as he was carried by Ha Mu-baek’s levitation technique.

A sword formation created by nearly two hundred warriors of the Namgung Family Estate.

He was heading toward the very center of it.

And what was his role there?

Chu Dong was extremely tense.

Sweat poured down from his entire body.

Drip.

Drip.

Sweat flowing down his chin and dripping onto the back of his hand.

‘What is this sweat….’

Chu Dong wiped the sweat from his face with one hand.

It came off abundantly.

‘Wait….’

It was sweat. Abundantly pooled sweat.

But looking at it this way, this was.

‘Water… too….’

A thought struck Chu Dong’s mind like lightning.

The three-dot water radical that had fallen from the tongue character.

Could it perhaps be this?

Chu Dong’s intense desire for life seemed to make him think so.

Chu Dong bet his life as stakes on that thought.

To change tongue into life .

He who had only lost repeatedly at gambling tables decided to make a life-or-death gamble.

Namgung Hwa-u removed Chu Dong’s bamboo hat.

At that moment, Chu Dong closed his eyes tightly.

He had realized it.

It was life with the water dropped.

That the divination of tongue had pointed to this moment.

Now his life and death would be determined by his own tongue.

As Chu Dong stalled for time, Namgung Hwa-u spoke first.

“Elder brother, don’t you know this person? No, Shadow! Doesn’t Shadow know this person? You must have been desperately chasing him to kill him all this time?”

Namgung Hwa-jin, who had been hiding among the retainers, flinched.

It was exactly as he said.

This was the fortune teller he had been chasing for over ten years on the Family Head’s orders.

But why was that bastard here?

“What nonsense!”

“Chu Dong, a mystical arts practitioner from the Mosan Sect. This person met with elder brother countless times back then and informed him that elder brother had a body incapable of having children.”

Namgung Hwa-u’s rebuttal.

At those words, the Namgung Family Estate instantly fell silent.

Because of what Namgung Hwa-u had said.

A mystical arts practitioner from the Mosan Sect had determined that Namgung Hwa-hyeon had a body incapable of having children.

The shock those words delivered.

The Namgung Family Estate did not dismiss mystical arts as fraudulent methods.

Weren’t they currently using mystical arts to verify bloodlines?

Therefore, they were shocked by the mention of a mystical arts practitioner’s judgment.

“No, nonsense!!! I’ve never seen this person before!!”

“Namgung Family Head. How can you say that? This humble one has been meeting the Family Head since twenty-three years ago. You were the Young Family Head back then.”

Chu Dong, having steeled his resolve, shouted desperately.

Because he had to survive.

“Shut up. How dare a wandering fortune teller spout such nonsense!!”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon let out an angry roar.

“How does elder brother know this man is a wandering fortune teller? I clearly said he was a mystical arts practitioner from the Mosan Sect!”

Namgung Hwa-u’s immediate counterattack followed.

At those words, Namgung Hwa-hyeon was momentarily speechless.

The gazes of the family estate people directed at him also changed.

“Nonsense! It’s just obvious from looking at him.”

It was a poor excuse.

He was dressed in fairly clean clothes to appear as Gongsun Mu-oe’s attendant.

By no means did he look like a wandering fortune teller.

“This man says he knows everything about what happened that day! Let us hear it!”

Namgung Hwa-u spoke as if making a declaration.

“What are you all doing! Strike down those villain scoundrels immediately!”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon shouted furiously.

His aura was so fierce that several swordsmen flinched and were about to move when.

“The story isn’t finished yet. Move and you die.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke calmly.

With those words, the sword in its scabbard slid out by itself with a smooth sound.

“Th-this is qi control sword technique…”

An impossible level of mastery.

That simple display stopped the swordsmen’s movement entirely.

They didn’t want to die, and they were also curious about the rest of this story.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s command as Family Head had no effect.

Chu Dong spoke of that day’s events until his throat was hoarse.

He was desperate.

To survive.

He told everything he knew.

How Lady Baek became pregnant, how when that child was determined to be a daughter, Lady Ju was made pregnant.

And how he had fled.

Even his thoughts on what might have happened to the two ladies and the escort warrior afterward.

As the story progressed, the expressions of the family estate people gradually changed.

At the same time, people around Namgung Hwa-hyeon slowly backed away.

They didn’t want to believe that the Family Head they respected and served had committed such beastly acts.

But their bodies reacted on their own.

Only the Elder Council’s Protectors remained by Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s side.

“Th-this is ridiculous fabrication! It’s slander! Namgung Hwa-u concocted these lies out of greed to pull me down from Family Head and become Family Head himself!”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon glared at Namgung Hwa-u with furious eyes as he shouted.

“Where’s the proof of that bastard’s nonsense! How can you believe the words of such a man!!”

“Then why don’t you make Ji-hu the Young Family Head!”

“He’s simply not ready yet!”

“If that’s the case, the other children are even less prepared! Didn’t you see Ji-rin’s Emperor Sword Form with your own eyes!”

Namgung Hwa-u’s rebuttal.

Those who had witnessed the martial duel between Namgung Ji-hu and Namgung Ji-rin at the banquet hall nodded slightly.

By any measure, among the current younger generation of the Namgung Family Estate, Namgung Ji-hu was most suited to be Young Family Head.

“Shut up! That’s for me as Family Head to judge! How can you believe the words of such a one-eyed bastard without evidence or witnesses!”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon had half-lost his reason in the sudden situation.

That’s why he failed to consider that there might be more bamboo hat men.

It was due to the shock of what Chu Dong had revealed about that day.

“You speak of evidence?”

Namgung Hwa-u looked at Namgung Hwa-hyeon and asked.

Then he immediately looked at the one-armed bamboo hat man beside Chu Dong.

The man who received his gaze slowly removed the bamboo hat he wore.

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