The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 286

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Chapter 286. Take This With You

 

 

There was a human figure gracefully flying down the sheer cliff face.

It was Woomun Ga-yul.

She lightly kicked off the cliff wall as she slowly and gracefully descended downward.

After arriving at the bottom, she looked toward one place.

The location where the main base of the Sahae Alliance stood.

It was a magnificent building.

It was remarkable that such a wide space existed on the steep slopes of Hyeongsan Mountain.

It was also impressive that such a massive fortress had been built in such a treacherous location.

However.

That was not where she needed to go now.

‘Moklan Mountain in Hubei Province.’

The place where her daughter’s last traces remained.

She had to go there.

Just as she was about to kick off the ground toward the path leading down from Hyeongsan Mountain.

“Are you just going to leave like that?”

A voice came from beside her.

Woomun Ga-yul stopped in her tracks.

And turned toward where the voice had come from.

There stood Gong Ya-jang-cheon, looking at Woomun Ga-yul with sorrowful eyes.

“I greet you, Father.”

Woomun Ga-yul bowed deeply with full courtesy.

“I’m sorry.”

That was all he could say.

Because of his worthless son, this good child’s heart was rotting away with grief.

Woomun Ga-yul simply smiled gently.

Until that incident happened.

Gongya Jeong-mun had been the ideal husband for Woomun Ga-yul.

It was just.

He probably needed an excuse to escape from that day’s tragedy, time to process it.

That’s what Woomun Ga-yul thought.

Though she hadn’t expected that time to stretch on this long.

“Is the young master still…?”

At Woomun Ga-yul’s words, Gong Ya-jang-cheon nodded.

“Yes. He’s still living in the closed training room.”

Gongya Jeong-mun only came out once every few days.

Even when he heard the news that his daughter had run away, he silently devoted himself to training.

What he was chasing was.

That form his companion had shown him that day.

It seemed he couldn’t stop his seclusion training until he surpassed it.

Without realizing that his companion Woomun Ga-yul was also growing stronger.

“Then does he know about Yeon-ah’s situation?”

“He would have heard the news. I’m planning to go see him now.”

Gong Ya-jang-cheon answered while emanating an aura that seemed ready to break down the training room door.

“I will definitely bring Yeon-ah back before the young master comes out.”

Woomun Ga-yul spoke with a resolute expression.

Gong Ya-jang-cheon nodded.

“Take this with you.”

As he said this, he held something out.

It was a curved piece of wood.

Woomun Ga-yul immediately recognized what it was.

“It’s a horn bow that came from the East. I brought it from the secret vault. It may not match the Four-One Thunder Bow, but this is also an excellent bow.”

Woomun Ga-yul accepted the bow that Gong Ya-jang-cheon handed her.

She attached the bowstring he had given her to one curved end, pulled it taut, and secured it to the opposite end.

Its magnificent form was revealed.

“It’s called the Flower Phoenix Horn Bow.”

It was a bow that suited her perfectly.

True to the reputation of Eastern horn bows, the bow’s elasticity was tremendous.

It even contained a subtle thunder energy.

It was a divine weapon worthy of being stored in the Sahae Alliance’s secret vault.

Woomun Ga-yul gazed at the Flower Phoenix Horn Bow for a moment, then bowed to Gong Ya-jang-cheon once more.

“Thank you, Father.”

“Please. Return safely, both of you. I’m counting on you.”

Leaving Gong Ya-jang-cheon behind, Woomun Ga-yul kicked off the ground.

She ran toward Moklan Mountain at full speed.

The treacherous terrain of Hyeongsan Mountain posed no obstacle to her whatsoever.

 

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The place where Ha Mu-baek had disappeared.

Yeon-jin and the other Shaolin Monks stared blankly in the direction he had vanished.

Several were still sitting on the ground in shock.

“What a monster.”

Yeon-jin muttered.

Hoping his disciples would quickly recover from today’s shock.

“Hang San, come see me for a moment. The rest of you, get some rest. As planned, we’ll stay here tonight.”

Yeon-jin took Hang San to a quiet place.

And asked him in detail about what Ha Mu-baek had inquired about.

Hang San told him everything he knew.

“Gwancheon Sahwagung…”

Yeon-jin muttered quietly.

It was a name he remembered as well.

Though it was a name he had forgotten at some point.

“Yes. As you said. Certainly. I did hear that such an incident occurred in the evil sect.”

His expression seemed to recall distant memories.

“But. Why Ha Mu-baek reacted to that female sect leader’s title.”

His face showed he couldn’t understand.

“I’m also surprised that the Four-One Thunder Bow responded to martial arts other than archery. It was different from the records.”

Hang San said hesitantly.

That the contents of the Murim Weapons Compendium were wrong.

His face showed he could hardly believe it.

“I understand. You go rest as well.”

Yeon-jin sent Hang San away and found a suitable spot to take out brush, ink, and paper to write a letter to send to the main temple.

The task he had originally assigned to Hang San.

He had to do it himself.

It was thanks to Ha Mu-baek just leaving.

The carrier hawk flew up toward Songshan Mountain.

“Is there only one carrier hawk left now?”

Could they really catch her?

After witnessing Ha Mu-baek move like that.

He had lost confidence.

 

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Ha Mu-baek pursued the faint remaining traces of Gongya Hwi-yeon.

He too was skilled in tracking techniques, so he could find traces of Gongya Hwi-yeon.

He moved that quickly.

He didn’t bother erasing his own traces.

Right now, meeting her quickly was more important.

He had to ask about the owner of this bow.

The Sajiljaroeigung slung across Ha Mu-baek’s shoulder was scattering seven-colored light.

He arrived at a village near the border between Hubei Province and Anhui Province.

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s traces led to this place.

Inside the village, due to countless people, he could no longer follow those traces.

“Coming here means she was planning to cross into Anhui Province…”

Ha Mu-baek looked at the bustling streets where many people came and went.

“She must have rested here.”

The traces leading to this place had passed through unremarkable villages.

Places where traces couldn’t be completely hidden.

Though she showed efforts to conceal her tracks among other people’s traces.

With the abilities of those Shaolin monks who had tracked her to the village with the well, they would find their way here too.

Gongya Hwi-yeon probably anticipated this and ran here without rest.

However.

This place had many people.

So many that her traces couldn’t be found at all.

Gongya Hwi-yeon would know this fact too.

“She must have desperately needed rest.”

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned to the inns on the bustling street.

A young, no, a young woman.

After finishing Hatuje, she immediately began fleeing without properly washing or resting.

And this bustling place where traces could be perfectly erased.

Perhaps the first thing that came to mind was bathing in warm water?

Especially if she was the Four Seas Alliance Leader’s granddaughter.

So Ha Mu-baek searched the inns one by one.

He gave shopkeepers iron coins and asked if any women had come alone recently.

Appearance didn’t matter.

She could change her face.

What Ha Mu-baek asked about was a woman who had requested bath water and stayed alone.

It wasn’t difficult to find.

Even though it was a bustling place.

A woman staying alone was extremely rare.

“Ah, there was one. A guest who said she would leave alone at dawn and told us not to worry about her.”

That guest had also given him an iron coin while saying that, so he remembered clearly.

“Which room did she stay in?”

Another iron coin appeared in Ha Mu-baek’s hand.

“It happens to be empty, so let me show you briefly.”

The power of iron coins was amazing.

Since it was around lunchtime, the room would be empty if there were no guests.

Fortunately, there were no guests.

Ha Mu-baek entered the third floor room and examined it carefully.

Other people would have stayed in this room in the meantime.

He opened the window and looked outside too.

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes caught footprints below the window frame.

Traces of someone carefully going out through the window.

‘So this is where.’

She said she would leave alone at dawn, but left a perfectly good door unused and went out through the window.

She didn’t leave at dawn.

Ha Mu-baek gazed outside thoughtfully.

He thought tracking might become impossible from here.

His eyes examining the traces twitched.

‘The footprint size is different.’

The size was clearly different from Gongya Hwi-yeon’s footprints he had been tracking.

He had been following a woman’s footprints until now, but those looked almost like a man’s footprints…

‘Did she disguise herself as a man?’

That was the only reason the footprint size could have changed.

No other male guest staying here would have gone out through the window.

“By any chance, was there anyone who jumped out the window from this room or anything like that?”

“No. There was no one like that.”

The shopkeeper waved his hands dismissively as if he remembered clearly.

Ha Mu-baek placed another iron coin in the shopkeeper’s hand.

“Thank you.”

Ha Mu-baek left the inn.

‘She’s definitely clever. Even thinking to disguise herself as a man.’

Ha Mu-baek had almost lost the trail too.

The footprint size changing.

Could the Shaolin monks really find this?

Ha Mu-baek glanced up at the room where Gongya Hwi-yeon had stayed as he came around the inn building.

With a light wave of his hand, all the traces she had left while going out through the window were erased.

No matter how urgent, he had this much time.

Could the Shaolin monks really continue their pursuit?

Ha Mu-baek searched the inn again.

Asking the shopkeepers different questions than before.

 

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Primordial Six Divine Techniques.

Mugeuk, Chaos, Void, Darkness, Radiance, Wish Fulfillment.

Six divine techniques.

The Demon Sect had obtained complete Void among them.

Heavenly Demon Formless Void Divine Technique.

This was the name of the complete Heavenly Demon Divine Technique from five hundred years ago.

After being split into five pieces, what remained in the Demon Sect became the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.

“Hmm.”

Deep furrows formed on Seok Cheon-gyeong’s forehead.

After meeting with Sama Hu-do, he had the secret manual of the Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method brought to him.

And it had been several days since he became absorbed in the secret manual.

The more he looked at it, the more incomprehensible it became.

It was certainly an excellent Internal Energy Mental Method.

But he couldn’t understand why this reacted to the fragments of the Void.

No matter how much he examined the secret manual, no answer emerged.

Surely there was something in this Mind Technique.

However, no matter how much he studied the incantation formulas, he couldn’t understand.

Even though he was Seok Cheon-gyeong, the Demonic Cult Leader.

He couldn’t count how many times he had read this secret manual.

Now he was at the point of memorizing even the calligraphy style completely.

“Should I learn it?”

Seok Cheon-gyeong was already learning the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.

Therefore, there was no particular reason to learn other Mind Techniques of the Demonic Cult.

Having learned the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique, which was at the pinnacle of all Demonic Cult martial arts, learning inferior martial arts would be a waste of time.

However, this time he had no choice.

The clue to the problem that even the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique couldn’t solve seemed to lie in the Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method.

Eventually, Seok Cheon-gyeong slowly moved his Internal Energy according to the Mind Technique’s incantation formulas.

He temporarily pushed the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique to a corner.

How long had he been absorbed in cultivating this new Mind Technique?

His Internal Energy flowed steadily through his Blood Meridians according to the incantation formulas of the Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method.

Seok Cheon-gyeong’s body glowed faintly.

Since the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique had reached a high level, it didn’t take very long to learn the Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method.

The moment he operated the Mind Technique.

Seok Cheon-gyeong unconsciously widened his eyes.

He had no choice.

It was because of the Qi Energy he felt from his own body.

The Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method reacted to the Qi Energy within his body.

More precisely, the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique that he had temporarily pushed to a corner.

The Mind Technique had reacted to the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.

‘Is it indeed reacting to the fragments of the Void?’

The Heavenly Demon Divine Technique was also one of the fragments of the Void.

He needed to check the other fragments of the Void as well.

Seok Cheon-gyeong picked up the Void Heaven Technique, a duplicate fragment, and read it.

It was as Sama Hu-do had said.

The Internal Energy of the Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method reacted.

‘But…’

Seok Cheon-gyeong frowned.

It definitely reacted, but the reaction was different from that to the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.

Why was this happening?

Did each fragment have a different type of reaction?

With such questions, he picked up the remaining secret manuals of the Void fragments.

As expected, his Internal Energy reacted.

But this time, it was the same reaction as to the Void Heaven Technique.

What he discovered from this was.

The Heavenly Demon Divine Technique was different from the other fragments of the Void.

And the Asura Thunder Spirit Return Origin Heart Method reacted to both the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique and the fragments of the Void.

This would be of great help in finding the remaining fragments of the Void.

‘But why does it react differently to the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique…’

The Heavenly Demon Divine Technique was also said to be one of the fragments of the Void.

Then why did it show a different reaction?

It had shown the same reaction to the other two types of fragments.

He had recovered two fragments out of the four lost fragments.

Two fragments remained until the complete Void.

But the reaction to the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique, which he thought was the first fragment, was different.

“I need to investigate.”

Seok Cheon-gyeong eventually left the Closed Training Room.

The place he headed to was the Archive Hall located deeper inside.

This place was truly the root of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.

The Main Branch of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult that burned and disappeared after losing the last war was merely a stem that had grown up from the roots.

As long as the roots remained intact, the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult would be revived someday.

Entering the Archive Hall, Seok Cheon-gyeong began to carefully examine the records left by past Sect Leaders.

He started from five hundred years ago.

From the time when the Heavenly Demon Formless Void Divine Art was split into five fragments.

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