The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 260

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Chapter 260. All of You, Die!

 

 

A change occurred in Ha Mu-baek’s sword.

Dark sword aura formed on the pure white blade.

The Protectors rushed toward him, radiating killing intent from every fiber of their being.

This was to face them.

Each of their swords was imbued with their own sword aura.

And now the latter half sword forms of the Emperor Sword Form, which had become a familiar sight.

Ha Mu-baek launched his body first into their midst.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword swung in all directions.

Dark lines passed through midair.

Following those lines, swords and Protectors were split apart.

“Kraaaah!”

Blood splattered and screams filled the air.

It was far too futile.

Even though they deployed the latter half of the Emperor Sword Form, none could properly block Ha Mu-baek’s single sword strike.

Their level seemed still insufficient to manifest the true form of the Emperor Sword.

They gritted their teeth and swung their swords, but it was nothing more than meaningless gestures.

They collapsed as they were, spraying blood on Ha Mu-baek’s sword.

In an instant, ten Protectors met their end.

At such tremendous martial prowess.

Time seemed to stop for a moment.

No one moved.

Ha Mu-baek continued to show scenes that seemed unreal.

The Namgung Family Warriors couldn’t tell how many times their souls had left their bodies today.

Though they called him a monster.

To bring down all ten Protectors of the Elder Council in a single breath.

It was impossible for anyone in the Namgung Family Estate.

No, who in all of Gangho today would be capable of such a feat?

Would So Hwi-ung, the Jeongcheon Alliance Leader called the greatest under heaven, be capable of it?

Such questions arose for a moment.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon gritted his teeth.

How on earth was he supposed to stop that monster?

“Indeed, it’s Ha Mu-baek.”

Then six people appeared.

They too were elders of the Elder Council.

However, they were those whose faction differed from Namgung Hyeon-cheol.

Those who had entered the Elder Council from branch family origins.

Therefore, they were those who spent their time simply as elders without the position of Protector.

Among them, the one who appeared at the front.

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes turned toward him.

“Namgung Jong.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered quietly.

“It’s been a long time. About seven or eight years, wasn’t it?”

Saying so, he drew his sword.

At the same time, the other five people drew their swords.

They surrounded Ha Mu-baek.

At that sight, color returned to Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s face.

Those whose faction differed from his own.

So they were ones who clashed with him at every turn.

But when facing a great enemy like this, they were reliable allies.

It wasn’t easy for those of branch family origin to enter the Elder Council.

It meant they were truly outstanding individuals.

The direct line elders who followed Namgung Hyeon-cheol had all just met their end at Ha Mu-baek’s hands.

It was a devastating affair.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol bit his lips as he looked at Namgung Jong and the other branch family elders.

Hoping desperately that they would stop that monster.

Namgung Jong gazed intently at Ha Mu-baek while holding his sword.

“Having to face you as an enemy like this, I think I understand how those from the Demonic Cult or Blood Cult must feel.”

A bitter smile crossed his face.

“Can you not sheathe your sword?”

Ha Mu-baek’s question.

“As a member of the Namgung Family Estate, the command of the Azure Heaven Emperor Sword is absolute.”

“Even after hearing the entire situation?”

“That’s right. The current Family Head is the Family Head, after all.”

What a completely stubborn old man.

Ha Mu-baek raised his sword.

Though he was reluctant.

An old man who had been one of his comrades on the battlefield.

Now he had to cross swords with him.

“Tahat!”

Namgung Jong kicked off the ground with a great battle cry.

At the same time, five people launched their bodies.

Thus six swords formed a sword formation as they flew toward Ha Mu-baek.

The Azure Sky Unhindered Sword Formation deployed with the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword.

It was a formation technique for a small number to face a single powerful enemy.

Swords flying toward Ha Mu-baek in precise coordination.

Clang! Clang clang!

Kang!

Loud sounds rang out as sword aura clashed with sword aura.

Ha Mu-baek’s single sword strike that none of the Protectors could withstand.

The branch family elders were blocking it.

It was because Ha Mu-baek’s killing intent had subsided.

Because what they were deploying was not the Emperor Sword Form but the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword.

Because there were no traces of the Emperor Sword Form in them.

‘A Namgung is still a Namgung, I suppose.’

He had thought it was a place that had rotted through.

But such upright people still remained.

He thought they were the kind of people needed for a new Namgung Family Estate.

Because Namgung Ji-yu.

Had requested Namgung Hwa-u to dissolve the Elder Council.

He had shown even more fierce techniques against the elders.

No, seeing that they had learned the latter half of the Emperor Sword Form, he had also judged them to be those who had made some kind of deal with Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

But these ones were different.

They were truly wielding swords overflowing with pride.

A clear sword completely different from the turbid sword forms the Protectors had shown just moments before.

He had to respond accordingly.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword movements changed.

A sword technique unleashed with complete sincerity.

The dark Sword Aura had already transformed into pure white Sword Aura.

Namgung Jong was startled by the sight of the Sword Aura’s color changing.

It was the first time he had witnessed such a phenomenon.

Paying no heed to such things, Ha Mu-baek’s sword began to radiate magnificent qi aura.

Infinite Adaptable Eight Absolute Sword Technique.

First Severing – Opening Heaven.

The sword form that opens the heavens was unleashed toward the Boundless Sky Sword Formation.

“Kugh…”

Tremendous qi aura spread out in all directions.

It wasn’t just those who formed the sword formation.

Even the warriors who were still standing intact nearby felt their entire bodies tingling from that qi aura.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol gritted his teeth and drew up his internal energy.

Then he stood in front of Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

This wasn’t a qi aura that Namgung Hwa-hyeon, who had lost his dantian, could withstand.

The sword formation underwent changes to block the tremendous qi aura.

Six swords converging toward a single point.

The sword tips gathered at one point, and the tremendous force that burst forth from there

momentarily stopped the qi aura of Opening Heaven that Ha Mu-baek had unleashed.

The moment a smile of joy appeared on someone’s lips,

the balance of power was broken.

Ha Mu-baek’s qi aura, which they thought they had blocked, instantly surged like a storm and shattered all six swords at once.

The sky that the Boundless Sky Sword Formation had spread

was covered by the sky that Ha Mu-baek had opened

and was erased just like that.

“Kugh.”

“Urgh.”

Groans burst forth,

and they knelt before Ha Mu-baek’s sky that existed alone.

All their swords were broken.

The only figure standing with a sword in hand.

Namgung Jong.

“Hehe. Indeed, Ha Mu-baek.”

The Sword Aura that had been surrounding his sword gradually grew faint, then

Crack.

The blade crumbled to powder and scattered.

“Kuhek.”

And Namgung Jong coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Namgung Jong, who had blocked Ha Mu-baek’s sword at the very center.

Thanks to him, the damage to the other five was limited to that extent.

“You’ll need to recuperate for at least three months.”

Thwack.

With those words, he struck the back of Namgung Jong’s neck with his sword hilt.

Namgung Jong lost consciousness and collapsed.

The other five elders also collapsed.

“Next, come at me.”

Ha Mu-baek said while looking around.

However, no one moved.

How could they dare to attack?

After seeing that single sword strike just now.

It was truly a sword of a different dimension.

It was a sky that had split the heavens of the Namgung Family Estate and opened anew.

“Then I’ll go.”

Ha Mu-baek decided it was time to end this.

Once again, he unleashed his sword.

In the dark night,

Ha Mu-baek opened the heavens once more,

and storms raged in all directions.

“Kugh.”

“Ahhh!”

And screams burst forth.

As the heavens opened and closed once more,

there were no martial artists left standing.

All were subdued and collapsed on the ground,

trembling with pain.

Those who had attacked Ha Mu-baek first and fallen now showed faces where the pain seemed to be subsiding somewhat.

Thus, in the vast Namgung Family Estate, those left standing were

Namgung Hwa-hyeon and Namgung Hyeon-cheol.

Just the two of them.

Excluding those standing behind Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned to Namgung Hyeon-cheol.

“What about you?”

“Grr.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Namgung Hyeon-cheol gritted his teeth.

He wanted to tear that bastard apart right now,

but lacking the ability to do so, he could only grit his teeth.

“Won’t you attack?”

At the following question, Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s body trembled.

He wanted to deny it, but it was the truth.

He was frightened.

He was afraid.

Of that monster.

If he drew his sword and charged at that bastard,

it felt like his own head would roll.

The Emperor Azure Heaven Sword was still held in Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s hand.

However, unlike just moments before when he had held it up with great vigor,

now it hung limply without strength.

It had to be so.

There were no warriors to heed the Emperor Azure Heaven Sword’s command.

Only two people stood in this place.

And wasn’t he already battered beyond measure?

The limply hanging Emperor Azure Heaven Sword.

It was an utterly pitiful sight.

Though it was the Family Head’s sacred object that could issue absolute commands to all members of the Namgung Family Estate,

now there were no retainers to follow those commands.

It wasn’t just retainers that were missing.

Now he had lost his dignity, honor, power, and even his dantian.

The power he possessed had all fallen by the hands of just one man.

“Cowardly bastard.”

Ha Mu-baek said toward Namgung Hyeon-cheol.

However, he was blocking Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s path.

He was only trembling violently.

“Didn’t you say the command of the Emperor Azure Heaven Sword is absolute? You received a command too, didn’t you?”

“Ugh.”

Namgung Hyeon-cheol only let out a small groan at Ha Mu-baek’s words.

“Un, Uncle?”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon called out to Namgung Hyeon-cheol quietly.

“Kraaaah!”

Namgung Hyeon-cheol suddenly let out a rough cry and swung his sword.

The form of the Emperor Sword appeared from him once again.

However.

The direction he was heading.

Was not where Ha Mu-baek was.

The complete opposite direction.

He launched his body with all his might.

In the direction that would take him as far as possible from Ha Mu-baek.

Ha Mu-baek looked at him with an incredulous expression.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon with a dumbfounded face.

It was an action from Namgung Hyeon-cheol that neither had expected at all.

He fled with all his might.

To preserve his own life, even if it meant being pathetic.

The desire for life.

Even Namgung Hyeon-cheol himself didn’t know.

That his desire would be this strong.

Ha Mu-baek, who chuckled, kicked off the ground.

Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement.

The swift movement technique unfolded.

Ha Mu-baek, who caught up behind Namgung Hyeon-cheol in an instant, grabbed his nape and threw him to the ground.

Bang!

Namgung Hyeon-cheol was slammed into the ground with a tremendous roar.

“Cough.”

As he coughed up blood and struggled to get up, he saw the siblings before his eyes.

Namgung Ji-yu and Namgung Ji-hu.

The fundamental cause of this trouble.

Why did such a thought suddenly occur to him?

‘Because of those bastards…’

Those things causing trouble saying they would find their father.

That rotten bastard Namgung Hwa-u exploiting that.

Who would have thought Namgung Hwi was alive, and even that bastard Chu Dong would appear.

Even though he had thrown everything away and chosen to flee.

That too had failed.

That monster bastard’s lightness skill was also monstrously fast, reducing him to this state in an instant.

Now he was as good as dead.

He couldn’t see any way to survive.

The culprits of this trouble appeared right before his eyes in such a state.

He couldn’t die alone.

Even if he died, he would take those things with him.

In a split second, these complex thoughts flashed through Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s mind.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol thrust his sword toward Namgung Ji-yu.

Namgung Ji-yu was startled to see the sword suddenly flying toward her.

It was something she hadn’t anticipated.

From when Namgung Hyeon-cheol unfolded the Emperor Sword Form and attempted to flee until he was slammed here, only a brief moment had passed.

So how could she have anticipated that a sword would suddenly fly at her like this?

Namgung Ji-yu’s body stiffened in surprise.

A sword shot out from beside her.

Clang!

The one who blocked Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s sword aimed at Namgung Ji-yu.

It was Namgung Ji-hu.

“Insolent brat.”

A deep blue sword aura emanated from Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s sword.

It was a turbid color, just like his nature.

A sword aura of the same color as the Emperor Sword’s form.

Against it, Namgung Ji-hu raised a white sword aura.

A pure white sword aura, transparent in its whiteness.

Though Namgung Hyeon-cheol unfolded the Emperor Sword Form and pressed Namgung Ji-hu, Namgung Ji-hu calmly blocked those strikes.

Not with the Emperor Sword Form, but with the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword.

No, it was the first part of the Emperor Sword Form that incorporated the principles of the Azure Sky Unhindered Sword.

Great Flame Sword Technique, Azure Sky Unhindered Sword.

The Emperor Sword Form that contained Namgung Ji-hu’s enlightenment about those two swords.

‘How, how…’

Namgung Hyeon-cheol was greatly shocked.

Because he saw the sky in the sword blocking his path. Because he saw the sea.

It was a different sky from what Ha Mu-baek had shown just before.

Deeply blue and infinitely high.

It was the sky of the Namgung Family Estate.

He would have to tear that sky apart to kill him.

So he tried to manifest the Emperor Sword.

Surge.

Only blood welled up in his mouth.

When Ha Mu-baek had thrown him just before.

It seemed he had suffered serious internal injuries.

His dantian throbbed.

Ha Mu-baek, who had returned at some point, grabbed Namgung Hwi’s left arm as he was about to rush out immediately.

Seeing Ha Mu-baek’s appearance, Namgung Hwi was barely able to compose himself and watch Namgung Ji-hu’s sword.

“Kraaaah!”

Namgung Hyeon-cheol screamed as if struggling desperately.

The blood that had pooled in his mouth splattered in all directions.

At that strike, Namgung Ji-hu staggered back two steps.

However.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol stepped back a full five steps.

Namgung Ji-hu’s clear superiority.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol looked at Namgung Ji-hu with disbelieving eyes.

To think he was being pushed back by such a mere boy.

Even though he had suffered internal injuries.

To think he couldn’t even take the life of such a mere brat…

“Good work.”

And Ha Mu-baek walked over from beside Namgung Ji-hu.

“Ugh, uugh.”

Despair began to color Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s eyes.

Soon it transformed into madness.

“Damn it! Everyone die!”

With those words.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol caused his dantian to go berserk.

Self-destruction that would lead to death together with his opponent.

It was the technique of Mutual Destruction.

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