The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 272

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Chapter 272. Is She Crazy?

 

 

Paying no heed to her opponent’s bewildered reaction, Gongya Hwi-yeon stared straight at Ha Mu-baek’s face with her own face flushed red.

Her gaze was so intense it felt like it would bore a hole through his face.

“Wh-what?”

Ha Mu-baek stammered, which was unlike him.

He couldn’t help it.

This was the first time in Ha Mu-baek’s life he had encountered such a situation.

No matter how he looked at it, this was a woman he was seeing for the first time.

Though he had briefly seen her during Maengryong Corps training, she was still a woman he was meeting for the first time.

Moreover, she was presumed to be of the Four Seas Alliance Leader’s bloodline.

Yet she was showing such a reaction toward him out of nowhere.

If she had been mercilessly drilled during Maengryong Corps training and was now venting her anger at him, that would be understandable.

But her appearance was like that of a woman meeting her long-awaited lover.

A woman he was seeing for the first time was showing him such behavior?

Ha Mu-baek could say with certainty this was his first time experiencing such a thing.

That’s why he was bewildered and flustered.

Because it was a completely unexpected reaction.

“Well, I mean, that is…”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, she hung her head low and couldn’t properly continue her words.

It was hard to believe this was the same person who had just shouted that she wanted to meet him.

Meanwhile, Ha Mu-baek gradually regained his composure.

Though he had been momentarily flustered by this first-time situation, Ha Mu-baek was still Ha Mu-baek.

He was someone who had experienced countless life-threatening situations.

Though this absurd case was a first.

“What is the Sahae Alliance plotting by infiltrating Gyoryong Hall? Even going so far as to use the Seven-Colored Sealing Ring.”

Even at Ha Mu-baek’s cold question, Gongya Hwi-yeon paid no mind and suddenly raised her head.

Her two eyes looking at Ha Mu-baek sparkled brightly.

“Y-y-you recognized it after all! As expected of Great Hero Ha Mu-baek!!”

It was an exclamation filled with emotion.

The Seven-Colored Sealing Ring.

It was a miraculous item among miraculous items.

Restricting the internal energy of a peak master was no ordinary feat.

It was an item whose true nature had been confirmed by virtually no one, though rumors might have been heard.

Yet Ha Mu-baek had immediately recognized that she had used the Seven-Colored Sealing Ring.

He truly was the greatest under heaven.

Wrinkles formed on Ha Mu-baek’s brow.

Because they weren’t having a proper conversation right now.

“What is your relationship with Gong Ya-jang-cheon?”

Nevertheless, he posed another question.

Upon hearing that question, Gongya Hwi-yeon’s mouth fell wide open.

It looked like a smile no matter how you saw it.

“Even though I hid my identity so thoroughly, y-you know that too. As expected…”

Continued emotion and admiration.

Ha Mu-baek momentarily thought.

‘Is she crazy?’

Such a thought even crossed his mind.

Noticing that Ha Mu-baek’s eyes were gradually growing cold, Gongya Hwi-yeon finally snapped back to her senses.

“He’s my grandfather.”

Before his patience hit rock bottom, Gongya Hwi-yeon properly answered.

Finally, they had reached a state where conversation was possible.

Ha Mu-baek nodded slightly.

Because he had been guessing they were related by blood.

However, the fact that she was his granddaughter was somewhat unexpected.

Because he knew how much Gong Ya-jang-cheon cherished his grandsons and granddaughters.

He would never have sent his granddaughter to this place.

“You ran away from home.”

A conclusion reached in one stroke.

It didn’t seem to be as serious a matter as he had thought.

He had been watching, wondering if the Sahae Alliance had infiltrated a spy with some purpose.

If it was simply running away from home.

However, why had she run away from home to come to Maengryong Corps?

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Gongya Hwi-yeon slightly turned her head and twisted her fingers together.

“M-my name is Gongya Hwi-yeon. And I really wanted to meet you.”

A repetition of what she had said earlier.

So.

This young lady is now.

Saying she ran away from the Sahae Alliance and entered Maengryong Corps just to meet me?

“Me?”

Ha Mu-baek asked.

Gongya Hwi-yeon nodded her head.

It was absurd.

“Why?”

Ha Mu-baek asked again.

“Well, I… I mean…”

Gongya Hwi-yeon hemmed and hawed.

Perhaps finding her own appearance frustrating.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath for a moment.

Then she answered confidently.

“I wanted to meet the greatest under heaven.”

But that answer was too ridiculous.

She wanted to meet him because he was the greatest under heaven?

“Who? Me? The greatest under heaven?”

When Ha Mu-baek asked again, Gongya Hwi-yeon nodded once more.

“Who was it? Who said such nonsense?”

Ha Mu-baek had never once thought of himself as the greatest under heaven.

In the vast world.

There was no telling what kind of extraordinary people might exist.

“Well… Grandfather said…”

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

“The world knows So Hwi-ung as the greatest under heaven who defeated the Blood Cult Leader and Demonic Cult Leader. But the truth is different. Hocheon Corps Leader Ha Mu-baek is the true greatest under heaven.”

Gongya Hwi-yeon rambled on about the story she had heard from her grandfather.

‘That old man…’

Ha Mu-baek recalled Gong Ya-jang-cheon’s face.

He might know the truth of that day.

Though he wasn’t present at the site where the final decisive battle took place.

With his level of mastery, he would have been able to sense that battle.

Since he was dealing with masters of the Blood Cult and Demon Cult not far away.

“And he said that So Hwi-ung would be worth testing his strength against, but he had no confidence against Ha Mu-baek…”

Gongya Hwi-yeon added other words afterward.

‘Whew.’

He let out a sigh inwardly.

The supreme master of the unorthodox faction, Gong Ya-jang-cheon.

He wasn’t evil despite being unorthodox, and was someone who revered strength.

That’s why he had readily acknowledged Ha Mu-baek’s strength.

However, to think he had told such stories even to his granddaughter.

“That’s why I really wanted to meet you. The number one under heaven that grandfather acknowledged. You became my hero.”

Gongya Hwi-yeon spoke in a whisper with a flushed face.

It was truly absurd.

“The Sahae Alliance must be in chaos.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Gongya Hwi-yeon averted her gaze.

That young lady seemed to know well the repercussions of what she had done.

‘So that was it?’

Even so, on the way to the Namgung Family Estate, he had sensed the presence of martial artists presumed to be from the unorthodox faction several times.

The movements of Haomun also seemed different from usual.

It was all because of this young lady.

‘Hyeon-gwang. The day that monk learns of this fact…’

His head throbbed.

Hyeon-gwang, the abbot of Shaolin Temple.

He wasn’t a monk but an old monster.

One who became a cruel demon to the Blood Cult and Demon Cult under the pretext of Buddhist compassion.

He was also strong.

He was one of the few martial artists Ha Mu-baek admired.

That monk hated not only the Demon Cult and Blood Cult but also the unorthodox faction.

Demon, Blood, Unorthodox.

All were objects of hatred.

The reason was simple.

Evil things that brought chaos to the world.

All were equally targets for elimination.

But.

The granddaughter of none other than the supreme master of the unorthodox faction was at Gyoryong Hall.

That old monster would immediately kick off from Songshan Mountain and come running.

“So what are you going to do now?”

“Pardon?”

“You met me.”

“Uh…”

Gongya Hwi-yeon was at a loss for words.

Right.

The purpose of specifically entering Maengryong Corps had just been achieved.

Since she had met the number one under heaven she wanted to meet.

But.

She seemed not to have thought about what came after.

“Well…”

Gongya Hwi-yeon, who had been lost in thought for a moment, opened her mouth.

“There are some guys I need to get revenge on. I think I need to finish that business.”

“Waryong Corps 1st Group?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Gongya Hwi-yeon nodded her head.

There was no need to ask how he even knew about the revenge.

She thought it was natural that he knew what she knew.

Because Ha Mu-baek was the number one under heaven.

Gongya Hwi-yeon accepted everything with just that alone.

“They insulted me, so they should naturally pay the price.”

Anger was mixed in her voice as she said this.

“Wait.”

A story suddenly came to Ha Mu-baek’s mind.

‘Hehe. You don’t know how beautiful my granddaughter is, do you? When she grows up a bit more, she’ll have beauty worthy of being called a flower of Murim.’

Words that Gong Ya-jang-cheon had spoken like a boast.

And the Five Flowers of Murim that people talked about.

Among them, the Evil Pear Flower.

It must surely be Gongya Hwi-yeon before his eyes.

Since he hadn’t heard that there were two granddaughters.

But if she looked like such an ugly woman.

“It seems you didn’t just steal one or two artifacts.”

“Th-this is mine!”

Gongya Hwi-yeon said while covering her face.

She had changed her face and concealed her internal energy.

This was something that even if the Sahae Alliance grandfather himself stepped forward, he wouldn’t be able to find.

If it was the Gong Ya-jang-cheon that Ha Mu-baek knew, he would be searching all under heaven to find his granddaughter.

‘This is dangerous…’

Such a thought suddenly occurred to him.

That monk wouldn’t just stand by and watch unorthodox faction martial artists searching everywhere under heaven.

Especially Muchang where Gyoryong Hall with gathered orthodox faction rising talents was located, and Luoyang where the main branch of Jeongcheon Alliance was.

And that monk’s Songshan Mountain.

These three places were absolutely where the unorthodox faction should not be.

To that monk.

The reality was that there was no place under heaven without the unorthodox faction.

But that monk wouldn’t even acknowledge such things.

“You. Do you know what an absurd thing you’ve done?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Gongya Hwi-yeon opened her eyes wide.

“Go back.”

Ha Mu-baek said in a low voice.

Gongya Hwi-yeon shook her head from side to side.

Though she had run away from home and entered Maengryong Corps to meet Ha Mu-baek.

She had no intention of returning immediately just because she had met him.

Because one would want to keep watching their hero.

Then.

There was a presence approaching where Ha Mu-baek and Gongya Hwi-yeon were.

They were Jamryong Corps cadets.

Ha Mu-baek looked at Gongya Hwi-yeon with a face that said it couldn’t be helped and spoke once more.

“I told you clearly. Go back quickly.”

Ha Mu-baek disappeared just like that.

Gongya Hwi-yeon also moved quickly after Ha Mu-baek disappeared.

As the Jamryong Corps cadets drew closer, she too had sensed their presence.

 

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The Hatuje for Waryong Corps 20th Group was proceeding smoothly.

Each scattered to scout, then regrouped to exchange information.

Moving after stealth.

It was thanks to the strategy of ambush followed by surprise attack working well.

However, Waryong Corps 1st Group was nowhere to be seen, no matter which direction they had moved.

The shadows were gradually growing longer.

It was now afternoon.

Waryong Corps 20th Group was patiently maintaining their ambush.

 

At that moment.

Waryong Corps 1st Group was moving in search of Waryong Corps 20th Group.

“Haven’t those guys been eliminated already?”

Hwa Bo-myeong muttered as he walked.

It was a convincing speculation.

There was no way those trash could have lasted this long.

Hadn’t even the five of them struggled considerably?

If it hadn’t been for the training with the Iron Armor Cavalry, they might have been eliminated too.

Who would have thought they’d benefit from Cheol Ryeong’s useless actions.

“Heh. That’s probably it, right?”

A smile appeared on Byeok I-gyeom’s lips.

When they had survived with such difficulty, those bastards would have been eliminated long ago if they were going to be eliminated.

What were they imagining?

The smiles of Byeok I-gyeom and Tak Mu-jeon turned sinister.

Soon, sinister smiles spread to the other three as well.

“We should scout out some suitable pleasure houses for the second half in advance.”

“Huh?”

At Byeok I-gyeom’s words, Cheol Ryeong tilted his head. A pleasure house out of nowhere?

Wasn’t this a different story from what they had been thinking?

“We need to show those servant bastards once. What kind of place a pleasure house is. Kekekeke.”

It was a sinister yet lustful laugh.

Only then did the other four understand Byeok I-gyeom’s intention.

The five people who would become their attendants.

One of them was Yeon Ha-min.

Wasn’t he saying he’d take even her to a pleasure house?

They were already looking forward to seeing what reaction the proud Yeon Ha-min would show at the sight of them indulging wildly there.

They were already excited.

“Fucking bastards. It’s not even like they’re stepping up themselves. Making bets on winning against such trash.”

Cheol Ryeong muttered as if spitting.

He still hadn’t gotten over his anger at being beaten by Dang Jin-san.

It was also because even calling his mother had been of no use.

Instead, he had just trained like hell.

Though thanks to that training, he was where he was now.

The judge inwardly frowned at their conversation.

Though he appeared expressionless on the outside, he had sighed dozens of times in his heart.

‘Sigh. To think such bastards are the rising stars of the righteous faction… The future of the Eight Gates of Divine Progress is obvious too.’

He was an instructor from Jamryong Corps.

Swish!

Just then, there was a sound of air being torn.

Thud!

A blunt arrow struck Cheol Ryeong’s shoulder.

Still, since it wasn’t a fatal vital point, no death judgment was made.

The five immediately looked in the direction the arrow had come from.

There, some female cadet from Maengryong Corps was holding a bow and looking at them.

“That, that bitch?”

The moment they saw her, they remembered.

It was an appearance they could never forget once seen.

Of course, in a bad way.

An ugly woman whose appearance alone was disgusting to look at.

They had definitely bumped into her at Damryong Library.

So they had thoroughly cursed her out.

Had that bitch who didn’t know her place harbored resentment from that incident?

Such a surprise attack?

The Waryong Corps 1st Group cadets quickly surveyed their surroundings.

There didn’t seem to be others around.

The shields of Maengryong Corps cadets were quite troublesome, but no matter how they looked, it seemed only that bitch had come alone.

“The other bastards must have all been eliminated.”

Cheol Ryeong said with killing intent flowing from his eyes.

Then.

That ugly bitch nocked another arrow to her bowstring.

“Scatter and catch her!”

At Byeok I-gyeom’s words, they deployed their lightness skills and quickly spread out.

Indeed.

It was excellent lightness skill incomparable to other cadets.

Swish!

Thud.

Another arrow flew but stuck harmlessly in the ground.

Gongya Hwi-yeon glanced at that sight, then turned and began to run.

Waryong Corps 1st Group chased after her with full power.

‘Come on, follow me well. I deliberately shot weakly without putting internal energy into it for this reason.’

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