The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 266

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Chapter 266. That’s Right, Isn’t It?

 

 

The Maengryong Corps that entered while hiding their identity.

Yes. I admit it.

I looked down on them.

Sanwol Demon Forest’s meat shields.

A military unit that accepts any Tom, Dick, or Harry.

That’s the mindset I had when I applied.

From what I heard, it wasn’t such a difficult place either.

The Maengryong Corps only becomes difficult when you finish the two-year training course at Gyoryong Hall and go to Sanwol Demon Forest.

A survival rate of fifty percent.

Truly meat shields sent to a place where it’s hard to preserve one’s life.

Even so, I was confident.

I was confident that I could somehow manage, whether by surviving in Sanwol Demon Forest or by withdrawing from the Maengryong Corps midway.

My purpose was singular.

Ha Mu-baek.

To meet that instructor.

He was my idol, after all.

The demonic path.

A world where the law of the strong takes absolute priority.

I had been born and raised in that place all along.

That’s why my grandfather, the Supreme of the Demonic Path, was my idol.

However.

The war between the Blood Cult and the Demon Cult.

The countless strong warriors who appeared and fell there.

Because my grandfather was the Supreme of the Demonic Path, I could hear many more stories that others didn’t know.

The strongest martial artist I learned about that way was Ha Mu-baek.

Idolizing the strong is natural for a martial artist of the demonic path.

That’s why I wanted to meet him.

I wanted to see directly what kind of person such a strong warrior was.

Hocheon Corps.

Since he was the Dan-ju of that place, one of Jeongcheon Alliance’s strongest military groups responsible for the Jeongcheon Alliance Leader’s safety, meeting Ha Mu-baek was a distant prospect.

It was an impossible task.

But.

Last year.

I heard he was demoted and went to a place called Gyoryong Hall as an instructor.

And it was the Maengryong Corps, no less.

A place where any Tom, Dick, or Harry enters only to be sacrificed as meat shields.

I heard he became an ordinary instructor there.

And his activities that I heard about after that.

It was thanks to consistently keeping my ears open because I was interested.

What he accomplished there was truly something that could be called legendary.

Not only the achievements of the Maengryong Corps cadets in Hatuje and Dongtuje.

But even the Peng Family and Haomun.

That’s why I wanted to see him even more.

And since it was the Maengryong Corps, there was a way.

I boldly caused trouble.

That’s how I entered the Maengryong Corps.

According to what I heard from grandfather, Ha Mu-baek’s Ki Sense is truly ghostly.

So I slipped out with a certain artifact.

Seven-Colored Sealing Rings.

A pair of beautiful bracelets that emit seven colors.

Unlike their beautiful appearance, when worn one on each arm, they’re artifacts that perfectly restrict the user’s Internal Energy.

They couldn’t restrict masters who had reached the Super Peak realm or higher.

But there weren’t many such masters throughout all of Gangho.

No, just being able to restrict the Internal Energy of masters who had reached the Peak realm was already an incredible artifact.

Usually, these are artifacts used to neutralize captured masters.

There were even better ones, but this was more than sufficient for restricting my own martial arts.

I put them on both my arms myself.

To restrict my Internal Energy.

If I didn’t do this, Ha Mu-baek’s Ki Sense would certainly discover my identity.

It’s been three months since I entered the Maengryong Corps like that.

I achieved my purpose for now.

Because I saw Ha Mu-baek right before my eyes.

He was indeed a tremendous martial artist overflowing with the dignity of the strong.

And.

‘He was brutal…’

He really worked us until we could taste sweetness in our mouths.

How many times did I vomit after finishing training?

He was truly a brutal person.

To the extent that I regretted restricting my own Internal Energy.

How many times did I stare at my wrists every night?

With the feeling of wanting to immediately release the Seven-Colored Sealing Rings.

Though they’re artifacts that can’t be easily released, I even brought the key.

Now, three months have passed like that.

I was at the bottom of the Maengryong Corps.

It was natural.

The other cadets had their Internal Energy settling in place, little by little.

Since I was under the restriction of the artifacts, even the Internal Energy of the martial arts I was newly learning was being restricted.

I was following others’ training using only External Arts.

Ha Mu-baek, who appeared after such a long time.

I felt his gaze glancing at me briefly.

‘What, what is it?’

But was it my imagination?

It was just a momentary glance.

Actually, I didn’t have the luxury to pay attention to such gazes.

Because Ha Mu-baek was watching, the training proceeded even more difficultly.

Thanks to that, I missed seeing Ha Mu-baek tilting his head slightly in puzzlement.

 

And so today’s grueling training also came to an end.

She went to satisfy her hunger with a thoroughly exhausted expression.

‘To the west pavilion today.’

Another pleasure that makes it possible to endure at Gyoryong Hall.

The level of food at Damryong Pavilion is quite outstanding.

Moreover, the menu served at each of the four Damryong Pavilions was different.

He had researched the menu in advance and found a place that suited his tastes.

The place she headed to today was Damryong Library.

A place close to the training grounds of Waryong Corps and Jamryong Corps.

As she passed through the entrance of Damryong Pavilion, she bumped into five exhausted cadets.

They too looked quite tired.

However.

As soon as they collided.

Just as she was about to apologize.

“Ah, damn it. I’m already annoyed and now what’s this? What an ugly bitch.”

Curses flew directly at her face.

When had she ever received such insults before?

“I, I’m sorry…”

Nevertheless, she apologized. She was the one who had bumped into them because she couldn’t see properly due to exhaustion.

“What a waste of a voice. To have such a voice with that kind of face.”

The man with an unpleasant expression was still insulting her.

Byeok I-gyeom, who was extremely tired, was incredibly displeased.

He was already irritated, and now this ugly woman had bumped into him.

Moreover, looking at her martial uniform, she was from Maengryong Corps.

Unlike Waryong Corps or Jamryong Corps, they didn’t have unified uniforms, so he recognized it immediately.

“Maengryong Corps, huh. Tsk. Well, looking like that, she couldn’t even sell her body at a pleasure house… Maengryong Corps might be better for her. Damn it.”

Having said that, Byeok I-gyeom walked away again.

Left alone after they departed.

Gongya Hwi-yeon.

Her whole body trembled.

‘What the hell did that bastard just say?’

She had heard words for the first time in her life from that damn bastard.

Of course, her current appearance was extremely ugly.

Small eyes. Flat nose. Thick lips. Even pockmarks covering her entire face.

On top of that, she had tightly bound her chest just in case.

Even so.

She was furious.

Such an arrogant bastard.

“Hwi-yeon. What are you doing here? Aren’t you going in?”

A fellow group member approached her.

“Ah, I should go in.”

It was a grateful colleague who always accompanied Gongya Hwi-yeon whenever she moved around Damryong Pavilion.

The two of them brought their food and sat down.

A seat far away from those she had bumped into earlier.

Even so, she could clearly hear them chattering.

“Damn it. Ruining my appetite.”

“Crawling all the way here from Maengryong Corps, what a joke.”

Waryong Corps 1st Group, extremely irritated from continuous harsh training, was taking it out on the Maengryong Corps cadets who had suddenly appeared.

“Looking like that and still having the nerve to walk around showing her face.”

“Exactly. If she had any conscience, she’d at least wear a face veil. Damn it.”

Insulting remarks continued to be heard.

“Still, her butt looked usable though?”

“Then why don’t you try something with her?”

“Are you crazy?”

Continued mockery and insults.

Nevertheless, the two quietly focused on their meal and got up from their seats first.

“Hwi-yeon. You have to endure it.”

As they left Damryong Library, her colleague Jin Yeon-sim said.

She was one of the few female cadets who had entered Maengryong Corps for her poor family.

“I know. Being weak, if I don’t endure it, I’ll only face worse humiliation.”

Jin Yeon-sim nodded at Gongya Hwi-yeon’s words.

“But what exactly are those guys?”

Jin Yeon-sim was the information source for Maengryong Corps first-year Group 9.

Having great interest in all sorts of events happening in Gyoryong Hall, she knew a lot.

“Waryong Corps first-year Group 1. It’s a group consisting only of people of high status from the Eight Gates of Divine Progress. That’s why there aren’t many people to stop them even when they act so recklessly.”

Gongya Hwi-yeon nodded.

“And they’re currently making an interesting bet.”

Jin Yeon-sim said with sparkling eyes. Her face showed she was dying to share what she knew.

“Ah, ah. That bet?”

She had already heard about it roughly from Jin Yeon-sim before.

“Yeah. But what’s at stake is quite big.”

Since she had listened casually at the time, she couldn’t remember that far.

“What is it?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon asked casually.

The content flowed endlessly from her mouth.

After hearing the entire story.

‘Is that so?’

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s eyes lit up.

It seemed she had decided when to temporarily release the restriction technique.

Since it seemed unlikely that Ha Mu-baek would appear as a judge for Hatuje.

‘I’ll need to bring out my bow.’

 

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Gong Ya-jang-cheon had a bewildered expression in his study room.

“Th, this is…”

Small boxes placed in one corner of the study room.

One of those boxes was empty.

Discovering this was by chance.

He had seen it while briefly looking away from his books.

It was strange that he hadn’t noticed it until now.

One box had moved very slightly, making the dust pattern on the shelf slightly different from the others.

So wondering what was wrong, he picked up the box.

It was light.

When he opened it, it was completely empty.

“The Seven-Colored Sealing Pills…”

There weren’t many people who could enter Gong Ya-jang-cheon’s study room.

Especially someone who would dare touch his belongings.

“It must be Hwi-yeon!”

His mind went blank.

He never imagined she would even take the Seven-Colored Sealing Pills.

Gong Ya-jang-cheon hurriedly went to find Mun In-baek-song.

“What?!?”

Mun In-baek-song was shocked.

It was natural.

If she had put on the Seven-Colored Sealing Pills herself.

No matter how skilled Ha Mu-baek was, he wouldn’t be able to detect her internal energy.

Finding her through ki sense would also be impossible.

“It seems the Young Lady had thoroughly planned this. The Ten Thousand Illusions Divine Mask and the Seven-Colored Sealing Pills…”

Mun In-baek-song spoke with a troubled expression.

“Sigh. What on earth is this child thinking…”

“This may be presumptuous to say… but it seems we must investigate the Young Lady’s room.”

At those words, Gong Ya-jang-cheon frowned.

“Are you suggesting we search through a grown woman’s room?”

It had been over three months since she disappeared.

No one had entered that room except for the dedicated maid who cleaned it.

“If she prepared thoroughly enough to take the Seven-Colored Sealing Pills, there must surely be some trace left behind.”

“Even so…”

“In truth, this is what we should have done first.”

Originally.

When Gongya Hwi-yeon disappeared.

This was what Mun In-baek-song had advocated for first.

Though they hadn’t done it due to Gong Ya-jang-cheon’s strong opposition.

But now they absolutely had to find some clue.

“Sigh, very well. But together with that child’s mother, ah…”

Gong Ya-jang-cheon, who had been speaking, remembered something and closed his mouth.

“That child must know the news too, right?”

“It was already conveyed when she first ran away.”

“Her heart must be burning black with worry.”

Gong Ya-jang-cheon smiled bitterly as he thought of his daughter-in-law.

“Call my wife. We men cannot enter a young woman’s room as we please. A grandmother would be acceptable.”

Thus Gong Ya-jang-cheon called for his wife.

To search through his granddaughter’s room.

“The Sun-Shooting Purple Lightning Bow is also missing.”

It was a weapon that Gong Ya-jang-cheon had gifted to her, recognizing her genius talent in archery.

It was a weapon that would have become hers naturally anyway.

At the news that the Sun-Shooting Purple Lightning Bow was missing, Gong Ya-jang-cheon actually looked relieved.

At least she had taken the family’s weapon with her.

“What about other things?”

“There wasn’t much else… but there was this.”

A scroll with a Single Brush Sweep calligraphy hanging in one corner of her room.

It appeared to have been written by Gongya Hwi-yeon herself.

Only three characters were written on it.

Might Makes Right.

“Hmm.”

Gong Ya-jang-cheon stared intently at the scroll.

 

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When Ha Mu-baek returned, the training became even more difficult.

To a degree that made one naturally say “as expected.”

Day by day.

As time passed.

The skills of Waryong Corps 20th Group continued to improve.

However.

Ha Mu-baek was not satisfied.

Perhaps it was because he had observed Waryong Corps 1st Group.

Eventually.

Ha Mu-baek pulled out another card.

A method he hadn’t used on Maengryong Corps 7th Group.

“All of you, come at me. Until I say it’s over. There will be no stopping.”

Ha Mu-baek’s quiet words.

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

A training match that wouldn’t end until Ha Mu-baek stopped it.

Would those guys really be able to survive today?

Such thoughts occurred to them.

The five cadets of Waryong Corps 20th Group gulped nervously.

Then they simultaneously rushed toward Ha Mu-baek.

Their sword formation maintained without a single error.

Five days remained until Hatuje.

They absolutely had to become stronger.

Thwack! Thud thud thwack!

“Aaaahhh!”

“Aaahhh!”

The five were instantly sent flying backward.

And they let out terrible screams.

Because tremendous pain wracked their entire bodies.

The training match that ended in an instant.

The five cadets writhing on the ground.

“I didn’t say it was over.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke calmly.

Yet the cadets still couldn’t get up easily.

“If you don’t come to me, I’ll come to you.”

At those brief words.

Waryong Corps 20th Group staggered to their feet.

Han Seol-bing looked slightly surprised at that sight.

“Dan-ju. He seems to be serious. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen him like that. Those guys are blessed.”

“What?”

At Han Seol-bing’s muttering, Dang Jin-san asked with a horrified expression.

“Of course it’s like hell right now. But if you experience it once, you’ll understand.”

At Han Seol-bing’s words, Dang Jin-san trembled all over.

Seeing that, Han Seol-bing muttered quietly.

“That’s really quite good though…”

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