The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 292

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Chapter 292. That Too Is Fate

 

 

A tremendous baptism of Fist Force flying toward Ha Mu-baek from all directions.

The power was immense.

It felt as if he had returned to facing the Sect Leader of the Blood Cult.

To think of the Blood Cult’s Sect Leader while facing a Shaolin monk.

How ridiculous.

Ha Mu-baek raised his sword and swung it.

The power that seemed to bind him approached damp and sticky, dominating all directions.

Qi energies being cut by Sword Aura.

However, they continuously flowed out from Hyeon-hwang’s body again.

An attack as if he had grown eight arms.

Gang Qi unified in both fists and tentacles of Gang Qi sprouting from his body flew at Ha Mu-baek with the momentum to tear his body to shreds.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved quickly, blocking all eight attacks.

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

A pale, shining bald head, and eight-directional attacks rushing toward him.

“Bald with eight arms. It’s not even an octopus.”

Ha Mu-baek sneered.

“Gah! How insolent. How dare you call this master’s form, borrowing the shape of Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara, what? An octopus?”

Hyeon-hwang’s face turned bright red.

Ha Mu-baek let out a hollow laugh as if incredulous.

To dare mention Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara because there was no other subject worthy of mention?

A bastard monk worse than a corrupt fallen monk.

To compare himself to the greatly compassionate Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva who saves all beings with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes?

The moment he said those words.

The tentacles instantly increased to twenty.

They truly occupied every direction Ha Mu-baek could move.

‘If there are many, I just need to cut them all down.’

Ha Mu-baek’s eyes gleamed.

“I’ll turn you into grilled octopus.”

“This bastard still!!”

The moment Hyeon-hwang exploded in anger.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword moved.

Infinite Adaptable Eight Absolute Sword Technique.

Third Severance.

Lightning Division.

Lightning swords split as if to fill all space flew toward Hyeon-hwang’s tentacles.

Crack. Crackle crackle.

Lightning qi burned away all of Hyeon-hwang’s tentacles.

Lightning qi, which was incompatible with evil energy.

Lightning Division burned the tentacles of evil energy, surging upward and instantly rushing at Hyeon-hwang.

“Eeek…”

Hyeon-hwang drew up all his energy.

Gray Gang Qi gradually hardened and resisted Ha Mu-baek’s sword, but.

Crack.

It shattered.

“Kraaak.”

Screaming, Hyeon-hwang retreated backward.

This time it was clearly his loss.

Or so it seemed.

However.

Using the force of Lightning Division breaking Hyeon-hwang’s Gang Qi and attacking him.

Rather than that, he seemed to create distance from Ha Mu-baek.

Then he kicked off the ground and ran.

“You bastard! Did you say your name was Mu-baek! Just wait and see! I will definitely chew you up bit by bit and tear you apart to kill you!”

Leaving those words, he fled straight away.

Ha Mu-baek considered chasing after him immediately to finish it, but didn’t.

It was because of the sensation he felt in his hand while unleashing Lightning Division.

Though he seemed to have dealt a major blow, the hand feel was unsatisfying.

That bastard still had strength left.

If he used his full power, naturally Ha Mu-baek himself would win.

But now there was something more important than that.

Therefore.

Ha Mu-baek grasped the bow he had been carrying slung over his shoulder in his left hand.

Though it wasn’t his own.

Borrowing it for use once should be fine, shouldn’t it?

Thinking so, he pulled the bowstring taut with his right hand.

Ha Mu-baek drew the empty bow with nothing on it.

White Gang Qi seemed to form on the Four-One Thunder Bow.

Gang Qi gathered on the empty string, taking the form of an arrow.

Truly an arrow made of pure Gang Qi beyond Si Gang.

Hwa Heo Si Gang.

The moment Ha Mu-baek released the string.

The arrow made of pure white Gang Qi.

Now becoming a dot, aimed at Hyeon-hwang’s back as he fled far away and flew swift as a beam of light.

No matter how fast his Lightness Skill was.

It wasn’t as fast as the Hwa Heo Si Gang that Ha Mu-baek had shot.

“Kraaaak. You bastard. I will definitely kill you! Wait for me!!”

Hyeon-hwang’s scream and shout filled with deadly poison heard from afar.

The arrow seemed to have lodged in Hyeon-hwang’s left arm.

For now, this much was enough.

Right now there was a benefactor here.

Checking on that person’s safety came first.

And Gongya Hwi-yeon was here too.

‘I’ll have to go to Shaolin soon and deal with that monk Hyeon-gwang. To hide such an existence in Shaolin and then talk about punishing the unorthodox faction… What shameless hypocrisy.’

It would have been different if Shaolin had been confining or punishing that monster monk called Hyeon-hwang.

But to release him into the world to capture women of the unorthodox faction.

At that moment, Shaolin lost its justification to punish the unorthodox faction.

Ha Mu-baek gazed briefly at where Hyeon-hwang had disappeared.

Soon he turned his gaze.

Woomun Ga-yul was watching Ha Mu-baek.

“It’s been a long time, benefactor.”

“You’ve grown up splendidly. Thank you for saving me.”

Woomun Ga-yul bowed to Ha Mu-baek with graceful bearing.

“I cannot accept such treatment, benefactor. Nineteen years ago. Just treat me as you did then.”

Ha Mu-baek waved his hands frantically in embarrassment.

But how could it be so easy?

Ha Mu-baek was already a fully grown adult.

Not only that.

Wasn’t he someone that even Mun In-baek-song, the Military Advisor of the Sahae Alliance, treated with caution?

“I heard from Military Advisor Mun that a great master named Ha Mu-baek agreed to help find his daughter, Gongya Hwi-yeon…”

“Yes. That’s me, benefactor. Gongya Hwi-yeon. I’ve already found that child. She asked me to help her mother, so I rushed here.”

“It seems you already knew that Hwi-yeon’s mother was me…”

Woomun Ga-yul awkwardly used informal speech with Ha Mu-baek.

Perhaps because of the divine prowess he had shown before her eyes, it wasn’t easy to speak to him as an equal.

It couldn’t be helped.

They had only spent two days together.

And that was about nineteen years ago.

When you think about it, it was practically no different from meeting for the first time.

“I heard about the previous owner of this bow from one of the Shaolin Monks.”

Ha Mu-baek said, glancing at the Four-One Thunder Bow he still held in his left hand.

Then, as if he had just realized something.

He respectfully offered the bow to Woomun Ga-yul.

“Ah, I’ll return it to its owner.”

Woomun Ga-yul gazed quietly at the Four-One Thunder Bow.

Who would have thought it was hiding such a form?

When she was actively using it on the battlefield.

It never showed her these beautiful seven-colored hues.

The platinum color was beautiful enough.

But learning that the Four-One Thunder Bow had hidden even from her made her feel a little hurt.

Being hurt by a weapon – what a ridiculous thing.

Woomun Ga-yul slowly shook her head.

“While I am the former owner of the Four-One Thunder Bow, I’m only the former owner. The current owner is someone else.”

Ha Mu-baek knew well who she was referring to.

He had first seen the ordinary form of the Four-One Thunder Bow when that child possessed it.

“I understand.”

Ha Mu-baek slung the Four-One Thunder Bow across his shoulder again.

“Now that I look at it, Mu-baek, you seem to suit that bow better.”

At Woomun Ga-yul’s following words, Ha Mu-baek made an awkward expression.

“I use a sword.”

“For someone who does. I’m seeing that fellow’s appearance for the first time too. Your skill from earlier as well.”

Ha Mu-baek understood the meaning of Woomun Ga-yul’s words.

“The color was a bit different from my memory, so I was surprised.”

“There’s no way it would have looked like this when that child used it.”

“Hwi-yeon hid the Four-One Thunder Bow in a dried well in some village. To avoid tracking by Shaolin’s Prajna Bodhi Mind Eye. Since the Shaolin Monks were trying to find it, I retrieved it.”

Ha Mu-baek’s explanation.

Woomun Ga-yul looked at Ha Mu-baek with wonder.

“So this fellow reacted to your martial arts then, Mu-baek? How curious. This fellow doesn’t react to orthodox sect martial arts.”

Hang San had said the same thing.

That it only reacted to evil sect martial arts.

Now Woomun Ga-yul was saying the same thing.

But Ha Mu-baek hadn’t learned evil sect martial arts.

‘Then again, are they not orthodox sect martial arts either?’

Thinking back through his memories, his Master had never said he was from an orthodox sect.

It was just.

Since the nature and characteristics of the martial arts he learned weren’t different from those of orthodox sects.

He had simply thought they were orthodox.

At that time, the most important thing for Ha Mu-baek was smashing the Blood Cult and Demon Cult bastards.

“I was curious too. It suddenly changed form. Well, thanks to that I was able to know who my benefactor was. Only this form remains clearly in my memory. There happened to be a monk who knew well about this bow.”

A small smile appeared on Ha Mu-baek’s lips.

“I see. That too is fate.”

“I heard you’re suffering hardships because of Ran-i and me.”

As his thoughts reached that point, Ha Mu-baek erased his smile and spoke with a grave expression.

“That too is merely fate.”

Woomun Ga-yul said calmly.

“More importantly, where is Yeon-ah?”

Ha Mu-baek spread his Ki Sense widely.

He had told her to release the restriction technique and go to Anjing, but had she really followed his words?

‘As expected, she’s smart.’

She had followed them.

He could clearly sense her Internal Energy from an inn in Anjing.

“She safely entered Anjing. Let’s go together.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Woomun Ga-yul nodded.

They kicked off the ground and deployed their Lightness Skill, rushing toward Anjing.

This time, Ha Mu-baek spread his Ki Sense as widely as possible to survey the surroundings.

While also concentrating his Ki Sense toward Anjing to check on Gongya Hwi-yeon’s condition.

He alternated between the two forms of Ki Sense with brief intervals.

‘If I had done this earlier…’

Then he would have noticed Hyeon-hwang’s approach much sooner and could have stopped him before trouble occurred.

If that had happened.

Ha Mu-baek glanced at Woomun Ga-yul’s torn hem.

Now she had hastily fixed it so her skin wasn’t fully exposed.

Only slightly visible through very small gaps.

‘She wouldn’t have suffered such humiliation.’

It was due to his own inadequacy and complacency.

Such a thing must never happen again in the future.

Ha Mu-baek made this resolution while deploying his Lightness Skill.

While occasionally sharing stories about their lives with Woomun Ga-yul.

Ha Mu-baek’s face hardened stiffly.

“What’s wrong?”

Seeing Ha Mu-baek suddenly fall silent, Woomun Ga-yul asked with a worried expression.

“Ah, no. I think I need to observe a bit more…”

Ha Mu-baek held back his words.

The two fell silent.

They simply deployed their Lightness Skill.

Ha Mu-baek concentrated on the Ki Sense detecting Gongya Hwi-yeon’s Internal Energy.

‘What is this?’

An unknown foreign energy was mixed in with her Internal Energy.

There were limits to what he could discern through Ki Sense.

It seemed he would need to examine it directly with the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.

He could tell because he had carefully observed Gongya Hwi-yeon’s Internal Energy.

If he had just roughly observed it as before, he might have missed this very small foreign energy.

Of course, the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye would have been able to detect it.

But there was no particular reason to deploy the Infinite Bright Wheel Eye when looking at her.

He might have missed the timing again.

‘Hyeon-hwang. It seems like that bastard’s doing….’

Though it felt foreign.

It wasn’t entirely unfamiliar.

And the only thing he could think of right now was Hyeon-hwang.

It was the first time he had released the Internal Energy Restriction since being captured by that bastard.

Ha Mu-baek glanced back behind him.

The direction completely opposite to where they were currently running.

The place where Hyeon-hwang had escaped.

Perhaps the time to head to Songshan Mountain might come sooner than expected.

The moment they entered Anjing.

Woomun Ga-yul covered her face with a Face Veil.

Having experienced countless times what kind of repercussions her beauty could cause.

Ha Mu-baek took the lead walking through the streets of Anjing.

Woomun Ga-yul looked at Ha Mu-baek’s back with curiosity.

In such a large city.

With so many people around.

How could he accurately sense Hwi-yeon’s Presence Detection and head so unhesitatingly toward where that child was?

Just what level of mastery would one need to reach for such a thing to be possible?

At that time.

The child who had possessed only desperate determination and venom to protect his Younger Sibling.

How had he changed so much over nineteen years?

She had heard roughly.

That through fate he had met an excellent Master and made blood-shedding efforts.

But.

Not everyone reaches such a level just by doing that.

It was only possible if one was born with such talent and bone structure.

Now it seemed he had surpassed her by an immeasurable distance.

How had she failed to recognize that child’s bone structure back then?

‘Come to think of it, I might have been no different from a blind person.’

Nevertheless, one side of her heart warmed at the fact that what she had done back then wasn’t wrong.

If.

At that time.

She had simply passed by that desperate child.

This remarkable master, whose limits she couldn’t even begin to fathom, might never have been born.

“Here it is.”

Ha Mu-baek’s steps stopped.

It was in front of an Inn of considerable size.

In that place.

Her Daughter Gongya Hwi-yeon was there.

She had seen her when captured by Hyeon-hwang.

But truthfully, she hadn’t been in her right mind then.

She had simply been desperate.

How long had it been since she saw her Daughter with a completely sound mind?

Woomun Ga-yul’s heart began to beat slightly faster.

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