The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 261

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Chapter 261. Would You Like a Drink?

 

 

Internal Energy Core Rampage.

If he exploded his own dantian.

Tremendous power would burst forth in an instant.

Several times the power of drawing out his True Martial Power at full strength would explode in a single moment.

With this.

That damned monster might be unavoidable, but.

Those damn bastards could definitely be taken down.

Namgung Hyeon-cheol sacrificed his life to unleash the Final Ultimate Move of the Emperor Sword Form with the tremendous internal energy from his rampage.

The deep indigo form of the Emperor Sword rose up massively.

Kuuuuuuuuboom!!!

As Namgung Hyeon-cheol’s body exploded, deep indigo Emperor Swords burst forth in all directions.

Indescribable tremendous power!

At that explosion, Namgung Hwa-hyeon trembled all over.

The aftershock had reached even him who had lost his internal energy.

Not only that.

It was sweeping away even the Namgung Family Warriors collapsed in all directions.

There was no specific target.

Just a torrent-like explosion raging wildly in all directions.

It wasn’t just a problem for Namgung Ji-yu and Namgung Ji-hu alone.

Though they were the targets, the range of the massive explosion was wide.

It seemed like it would devour everything around.

“Huu. Troublesome to the very end.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered calmly and drew his sword.

And swung it lightly.

Really lightly.

Like a joke.

As if it were nothing.

No one knew.

That this light movement.

Was actually the Fourth Severance of the Infinite Adaptable Eight Absolute Sword Technique, Soul Crusher.

The qi energy that flowed out gently from the sword instantly spread like a net and embraced all the explosion that Namgung Hyeon-cheol had unleashed.

Then gathering it to a single point.

Crack.

It shattered without a trace.

Perfect annihilation as if truly crushing the soul to nothing.

It was a moment’s work.

That tremendous explosion was instantly annihilated and disappeared.

What on earth was this…

Ha Mu-baek sheathed his sword as if nothing had happened.

Now it was all over.

There was no longer any need for Ha Mu-baek to swing his sword.

He had either eliminated or neutralized all those who tried to attack them.

The Namgung Family Warriors escaping from pain one by one.

Some of them moved unsteadily as their pressure points were released.

However, they dared not attack Ha Mu-baek again.

They just sat down on the ground and stared blankly at Ha Mu-baek’s group.

Namgung Hwa-u was blinking his eyes.

No way.

The Namgung Family Estate.

Defeated by a single martial artist.

And it wasn’t even guerrilla warfare like the Peng Family’s case.

It was a frontal confrontation.

A frontal battle between the Namgung Family Estate and Ha Mu-baek.

The Namgung Family Estate was brutally shattered.

A perfect defeat.

To a single martial artist.

Ha Mu-baek.

Was he truly human?

A monster?

Even the word monster was insufficient.

But he didn’t know how else to express it.

Such a being was right before his eyes.

His silver tongue was nothing.

The moment Ha Mu-baek declared he would help Namgung Hwi, perhaps everything was already over.

No, it ended at that moment.

Namgung Hwa-u swallowed his dry saliva.

The words and promises he had made in front of him and Namgung Hwi came to mind.

Suddenly his throat felt cold.

‘I must, absolutely must keep them.’

Namgung Hwa-u resolved once again.

Step, step.

Namgung Hwa-u, who had swallowed his dry saliva, walked forward with composure.

“I believe everyone has witnessed Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s despicable behavior. Despite losing the life-and-death duel, he refused to acknowledge it and invoked the Emperor Azure Heaven Sword’s command, putting the family estate in crisis!”

Namgung Hwa-u’s voice rang out loudly.

People just listened to his words.

“I think all matters are already finished, but there’s still one thing we must clarify. Confirming who is the father of Namgung Ji-yu and Namgung Ji-hu!”

“Shut up! That’s impossible! It can’t be done! Even that bastard Chu Dong said it was impossible!”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon struggled to the very end.

Even admitting his contact with Chu Dong, which he had initially denied.

“No, there is a possible method! So we must prove it clearly!”

At that moment, Namgung Ji-yu stepped forward and shouted.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon glared at her with bloodshot eyes.

“Shut up! How dare a daughter humiliate her father like this!”

“Whether you are my father or not, we must confirm it! Clearly!”

Namgung Ji-yu stood her ground without backing down.

The family’s martial artists watched this scene.

“What’s been revealed now is only testimony from people who experienced those events, there’s no physical evidence. That’s why the Family Head is resisting like that. So we need to prove it clearly. If there were no method, it would be different, but since there is a way!”

At Namgung Ji-yu’s cry, the Namgung Family people unconsciously nodded.

They wanted everything to be proven cleanly without a single doubt.

At that sight, Namgung Ji-yu’s gaze turned to one place.

At the end of it was Gongsun Mu-oe.

Receiving Namgung Ji-yu’s gaze, Gongsun Mu-oe nodded and stepped forward.

“This valley lord will briefly intervene. It happens that among our valley’s mystical arts practitioners, there is one who can perform the art of determining parentage.”

Gongsun Mu-oe’s gaze turned to the last figure wearing a bamboo hat.

Ma Jin-gi removing his bamboo hat.

“I am called Ma Jin-gi.”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s eyes trembled violently as he watched this scene.

“You were all in this together. All in this together. Damn bastards.”

An angry voice flowed out, but no one listened.

Instead, people’s gazes turned to Ma Jin-gi.

He instantly created a sorcery formation.

A sorcery formation with two small grooves carved into it.

“If you place the blood of those presumed to be father and child here, it will work. Is there anyone who wishes to test it? You can verify it as many times as you want until you’re satisfied.”

Ma Jin-gi’s question.

Among the martial artists freed from pressure point strikes, two people with remarkably similar appearances came forward.

Anyone could see they looked like parent and child.

Each dropped their blood.

Ma Jin-gi recited a simple mystical incantation.

The blood that had fallen in different places flowed and merged in one spot.

However, there was no change whatsoever.

“They are not parent and child.”

A result different from their similar appearance. Ma Jin-gi spoke with confidence.

At his words, the two people nodded.

“Haha. That’s right. This child is my nephew.”

The middle-aged martial artist who had volunteered for the mystical arts spoke as if amazed.

The next two people came forward.

They went through the same process.

When the two people’s blood merged.

The sorcery formation emitted a gentle light.

“Parent and child.”

When Ma Jin-gi nodded and spoke, low exclamations flowed among the people.

He had gotten it exactly right.

This time it was two people who didn’t particularly resemble each other in appearance.

“My son takes after his mother’s side.”

The father said this and laughed.

Now people’s gazes turned to Namgung Ji-yu, Namgung Ji-hu, and Namgung Hwa-hyeon.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon, who had watched this entire process.

“That can’t be! This is ridiculous! It’s dark magic! Seonyu Valley has dabbled in dark magic!”

He babbled whatever came to his mouth.

Such a lowly appearance that one wondered if he was truly the Family Head of the Namgung Family.

However, no one paid attention to his words.

Ha Mu-baek approached him step by step.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon instantly couldn’t move a muscle.

Ha Mu-baek simply drew blood from his arm.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon’s blood scattered lightly and fell onto the formation.

Namgung Ji-hu dropped his blood.

The sorcery formation was activated, but there was no reaction at all.

The same was true for Namgung Ji-yu.

There was no reaction whatsoever.

Meaning they were not his biological children.

The atmosphere turned coldly silent.

“Ugh. Ughhh.”

Namgung Hwa-hyeon trembled violently and let out groans.

Now it was Namgung Hwi’s turn.

People were already in the mood to acknowledge that he was the father of Namgung Ji-hu and Namgung Ji-yu.

Nevertheless, Namgung Hwi had a clearly tense expression.

He dropped his blood.

Namgung Ji-hu also showed clear signs of nervousness.

Though he was certain this was his father.

Though it was already natural just from hearing Chu Dong’s words.

Still, this final step of verification.

Namgung Ji-hu dropped his blood.

The sorcery formation emitted light.

Everyone clearly watched that light.

Namgung Ji-hu’s body trembled. The same was true for Namgung Hwi.

Though they had been certain.

The light of the sorcery formation confirming it.

“F-Father…”

A single word that flowed from Namgung Ji-hu’s mouth.

“Ji-hu, my Ji-hu.”

The two embraced tightly.

Next was Namgung Ji-yu’s turn.

She too, with clearly nervous signs, dropped her blood.

Once again, the sorcery formation emitted light.

Drop. Drop. Drop.

Tears fell drop by drop from her eyes.

Tears that seemed to wash away the sorrows of past years.

“Father… sob…”

The moment her suppressed crying burst forth.

Namgung Hwi embraced her tightly.

“Ji-yu…”

Even Namgung Ji-hu, who had approached at some point.

Finally confirmed, one family held each other tight.

The sobbing had grown from one to three.

The three people shedding tears like that.

Just watching them made some people’s eyes sting, so some quietly turned their heads away.

The moonlight in the night sky warmly illuminated those three people.

Everything had been proven.

Having other men impregnate his wives to obtain children.

Deceiving all the people of the noble family.

That alone disqualified Namgung Hwa-hyeon from being Family Head.

The Elder Council was all dead.

Except for six.

Though they were branch family members.

They too were those qualified to be elders.

With their approval, Namgung Hwa-hyeon lost his position as Family Head.

The Family Head position of the Namgung Family became vacant.

That position would need to find its owner in due time.

Tonight.

Such great events.

So many events.

Had struck the Namgung Family.

Namgung Hwa-hyeon was confined as he was.

Ha Mu-baek’s group returned to the Guest House.

Namgung Ji-yu and Namgung Ji-hu were with them as well.

And so it seemed another new night was passing at the Namgung Family Estate.

 

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On a night when everyone was deeply asleep, exhausted from fatigue.

Ha Mu-baek quietly slipped out of his room.

The place he headed to was the rooftop of the Namgung Family Estate’s Family Head Hall.

There he met a man.

“Have you developed a hobby of eavesdropping now?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, the man smiled brightly.

“Eavesdropping? Haven’t you known I was here from the beginning?”

Came the reply.

Ha Mu-baek shook his head back and forth.

“The kids must be going crazy looking for the Alliance Leader, right?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, the man grinned once more.

The moonlight revealed his face.

Jeongcheon Alliance Leader So Hwi-ung.

He was at the Namgung Family Estate.

And secretly, without telling anyone.

“When you were around, I couldn’t even dream of such stealth movement. There should be some fun like this.”

So Hwi-ung plopped down on the rooftop.

Ha Mu-baek also sat down across from him.

“Want to have a drink?”

A small bottle of alcohol emerged from his chest.

“You seem to be in a good mood?”

“Of course. Very good.”

His expression was endlessly bright, completely opposite to the current situation of the Namgung Family Estate.

“Tsk. Is that guy Mu-heun angry?”

“No way. That friend is more loyal to Ha Mu-baek than to me, isn’t he?”

“Sure he is.”

Ha Mu-baek muttered as if he found it absurd.

“You seem very pleased that the Namgung Family Estate is destroyed.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s sarcasm, So Hwi-ung nodded vigorously.

“That’s right. Of course. It would have been better if I had just destroyed them when I said this would happen anyway.”

So Hwi-ung spoke as if he was happy on one hand but regretful on the other.

“For the reason that they hold back the Alliance Leader? Then what would be different from the Baekdo Association?”

Ha Mu-baek’s question.

So Hwi-ung spoke confidently.

“It’s about saving the rotting Gangho. It’s not the same as them.”

So Hwi-ung spoke calmly while shaking his head.

“So the Eight Gates of Divine Progress aren’t rotten?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, So Hwi-ung nodded confidently.

“Well now. What I saw was somewhat different.”

Ha Mu-baek recalled what he had seen at Gyoryong Hall after leaving the Jeongcheon Alliance.

First.

The bastard who had harassed and molested Yeon Ha-min.

Han Pyeong.

That bastard was an Instructor dispatched from Dorim to Gyoryong Hall.

And he had even learned the Heaven-Severing Demon-Slaying Blade.

Not simply from the Eight Gates of Divine Progress, but from So Hwi-ung’s sect.

A disciple from that place was acting like those evil sect bastards at Gyoryong Hall.

“A bastard who learned the Heaven-Severing Demon-Slaying Blade was molesting and harassing a Female Cadet while acting as an Instructor.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke calmly.

At those words, So Hwi-ung’s face hardened stiffly.

“To achieve great things, one must ignore minor flaws.”

“Perhaps it starts rotting from those minor flaws?”

“So being unjustly demoted for no reason was fine?”

So Hwi-ung answered Ha Mu-baek’s question with a question.

Ha Mu-baek stared at So Hwi-ung quietly.

How could it be fine?

That’s why he had created a reason for him, hadn’t he?

“I don’t know anymore what kind of Gangho the Alliance Leader desires.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, So Hwi-ung just chuckled and brought the bottle to his mouth.

“It doesn’t matter. I’ll create the Gangho I desire myself. You weren’t planning to return to the Alliance anyway, right?”

At So Hwi-ung’s words, Ha Mu-baek nodded slightly.

“You don’t understand. The feelings of one who was put in the Alliance Leader position to die at the front during war. Would the Baekdo Association bastards have just let me become Alliance Leader for nothing?”

And So Hwi-ung had broken the Baekdo Association’s expectations, leading two wars to victory and surviving.

Along with the reputation of being the greatest under heaven.

It was the moment the Baekdo Association’s calculations went wrong.

And from then began the fight between So Hwi-ung and the Baekdo Association.

They tried to move Ha Mu-baek to overwhelm with force.

But Ha Mu-baek didn’t move.

His sword was directed only at the Demon Cult and Blood Cult.

So while engaging in difficult secret battles, Ha Mu-baek was demoted.

But who would have thought that would turn misfortune into fortune?

After Ha Mu-baek went to Gyoryong Hall.

The Peng Family.

The Yeon Family.

Zhongnan.

All three places suffered major blows at his hands.

Especially the Peng Family and Zhongnan had their Family Head and Sect Leader changed.

Today, even the Namgung Family Estate was added to that.

Thanks to this, the Baekdo Association’s power had weakened considerably.

“Anyway, I’m receiving a lot of help from you. Please continue to do well in the future.”

So Hwi-ung stood up, brushing off his seat.

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

“Since you’ve left the Alliance anyway. Live for the Gangho you desire. I’ll create the Gangho I desire.”

Leaving those words, So Hwi-ung disappeared.

Movement befitting the Jeongcheon Alliance Leader.

No one at the Namgung Family Estate had sensed his coming and going.

Ha Mu-baek stared quietly in the direction So Hwi-ung had disappeared.

“The Gangho I desire…”

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