The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 294

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Chapter 294. How Is Your Physical Condition?

 

 

‘This is…’

He found the true nature of what he felt through his Ki Sense.

But its identity was still shrouded in mystery.

A familiar yet somehow strange energy.

How could this have infiltrated Gongya Hwi-yeon’s body?

Ha Mu-baek released Gongya Hwi-yeon’s pulse point.

“Did you perhaps get subdued by that monk Hyeon-hwang, or attacked by him, or something like that?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon nodded her head.

Her entire body had been bound by an unknown force, unable to move an inch.

When Gongya Hwi-yeon explained the situation at that time.

“Like this?”

Ha Mu-baek asked again.

At that moment.

Gongya Hwi-yeon experienced that moment once more.

Her body perfectly restrained, unable to move an inch.

Only her eyes and mouth could move.

“Y-yes. Instructor Ha can do this too.”

After all, wasn’t Ha Mu-baek the one who chased away Hyeon-hwang?

If Hyeon-hwang could do it, then Ha Mu-baek, the Number One Under Heaven, could do it too.

“Is there something wrong?”

Woomun Ga-yul asked with a worried tone.

“When he subdued Hwi-yeon. It seems that monk Hyeon-gwang infiltrated his energy into Hwi-yeon’s body.”

That energy was small but still remained in her blood meridians.

“Then…”

“I tried to eliminate it.”

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

It wouldn’t listen.

It would hide like a ghost or slip between the gaps of his energy.

Perhaps because there were similarities to Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy.

It dodged quite skillfully.

As if it knew what nature Ha Mu-baek’s internal energy had and how it would move.

“It’s not easy.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s answer, Woomun Ga-yul’s face darkened.

“Not easy means there’s a way, though difficult, doesn’t it?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon read the meaning of Ha Mu-baek’s words and asked.

Ha Mu-baek nodded his head.

“Once more.”

Ha Mu-baek grasped Gongya Hwi-yeon’s pulse point again.

And as he flowed his internal energy in.

Gongya Hwi-yeon slightly frowned.

The feeling was different from before.

Unlike just before when Ha Mu-baek’s energy flowed in softly and warmly.

Now.

Her blood meridians tingled and she felt a small pain.

“It will be uncomfortable.”

Ha Mu-baek surrounded Hyeon-hwang’s energy with the internal energy he first flowed in.

So it couldn’t hide or escape.

He had completely surrounded it.

Even with the minimal internal energy he injected to do this, Gongya Hwi-yeon frowned.

“It will gradually become more painful.”

He gradually increased the amount of internal energy he injected to annihilate the surrounded energy.

Gongya Hwi-yeon’s face turned red and cold sweat beaded up.

Her frowning had already reached the level of severely scowling.

Woomun Ga-yul quietly watched that sight.

Though she was anxious inside, she hid such signs as much as possible.

Ha Mu-baek’s face became increasingly serious.

Because Hyeon-hwang’s energy was resisting more fiercely than expected.

To suppress and annihilate it with overwhelming force.

“Ahhh.”

From Gongya Hwi-yeon’s mouth, who had been enduring, came not a groan but a scream.

Ha Mu-baek removed his hand.

“It’s a strange and unknowable energy.”

Ha Mu-baek said to Woomun Ga-yul.

“Is it gone now?”

Gongya Hwi-yeon asked hopefully.

But she too seemed to know that wasn’t the case.

If it could be eliminated this easily, Ha Mu-baek wouldn’t have said it wasn’t easy.

Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“I’ve roughly gauged how much internal energy I’d need to inject to suppress and eliminate it by force.”

“What’s the result?”

“Your blood meridians would burst first before that energy is eliminated.”

In other words.

Gongya Hwi-yeon would meet death before the energy was eliminated.

“Then…”

“I’ll have to kill that bastard Hyeon-hwang.”

Ha Mu-baek answered with gleaming eyes.

He had planned to visit Shaolin soon anyway, but who knew he’d go this quickly.

Gongya Hwi-yeon nodded with determined eyes.

“You’re going back to the Sahae Alliance with Mother.”

Ha Mu-baek corrected Gongya Hwi-yeon’s misunderstanding.

“What? But it’s about eliminating the energy in my body…”

“I just need to properly identify the nature of the energy. You don’t need to go.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Gongya Hwi-yeon made an ambiguous expression, as if convinced yet not convinced.

“If you come along, you’ll only be a hindrance.”

Ha Mu-baek’s firm words.

Woomun Ga-yul also nodded as if agreeing with those words.

 

***

 

“Huff. Huff. Huff.”

Hyeon-hwang breathed roughly.

He looked at his left arm that he had roughly stopped the bleeding and bandaged.

There was considerable inconvenience in moving it.

It was the spot where the arrow made of Gang Qi had struck.

“Damn bastard. I’ll tear him to shreds.”

Hyeon-hwang, who had stopped to rest briefly, muttered in a voice filled with venom.

That bastard had definitely obtained one of the Primordial Six Divine Techniques.

And it was one that directly opposed his own power.

“But he said he hadn’t met the Primordial Abyss… Then how could he be stronger than me?”

Hyeon-hwang muttered as if he couldn’t understand.

Even though they were incomplete fragments, he had obtained two – Chaos and Darkness.

“Well, if he hasn’t met the Abyss, he won’t be able to eliminate that energy. Hehe. He’ll come looking soon enough.”

Hyeon-hwang smiled cruelly.

He needed to move quickly to get his hands on another fragment before that bastard arrived.

After catching his breath briefly, Hyeon-hwang immediately ran toward Songshan Mountain.

 

***

 

“Amitabha.”

Hyeon-gwang, who had been meditating in the Abbot’s Chamber, opened his eyes and softly chanted the Buddha Chant.

“How did it go…?”

Hyeon-gwang muttered quietly.

His gaze turned toward where Hyeon-hwang would have gone.

He hoped the task had been handled well.

“Ha Mu-baek. In current Shaolin, he’s the only one besides me who can handle that man.”

The retired masters of the previous generation might be capable.

But they were people beyond even the Abbot’s control.

They moved solely according to their own will.

If he presented the Green Jade Buddha Palm, they might reluctantly move.

But that wouldn’t be showing proper respect to those masters.

“Is anyone there?”

When Hyeon-gwang called out toward the outside.

“Yes, Master.”

A young monk answered.

“Has there been any word from Yeon-jin?”

“Here it is.”

As if he had just brought the message that arrived, he respectfully presented the carrier message and withdrew.

Hyeon-gwang, who read through all the contents.

Couldn’t help but frown.

It mentioned the encounter with Hyeon-hwang.

And Ha Mu-baek as well.

Ha Mu-baek’s actions made Hyeon-gwang frown even more.

He was completely taking the side of helping the unorthodox faction.

“Amitabha. I called it Pasa Hyeonjeong. How is this benefactor moving like this…?”

A mutter showing his displeasure.

He could only hope that Hyeon-hwang would handle the task well.

Since he had learned such mysterious and fearsome martial arts.

No, could that even be called martial arts?

Where on earth had he learned it?

Master had subdued him, they said.

But ultimately couldn’t destroy his Dantian.

That’s why three binding rings were used.

Gin-goa, Geum-goa, Geum-goa.

The first one used was the Geum-goa that sealed the Dantian.

Geum-goa didn’t simply seal.

It was a binding ring that could squeeze and burst the Dantian to destroy it.

The sealing succeeded, but Hyeon-hwang’s Dantian remained intact.

As if some power was protecting it.

Even against the power of the binding ring imbued with Buddha Lord’s power, it resisted without being destroyed.

That’s why Gin-goa and Geum-goa were used as well.

Because Geum-goa couldn’t destroy the Dantian.

A more thorough sealing was necessary.

 

***

 

A carrier hawk flew down to the Sahae Alliance.

The message was immediately delivered to Mun In-baek-song.

He immediately sought out Gong Ya-jang-cheon.

With urgent footsteps.

“What’s the matter?”

Seeing Mun In-baek-song who had suddenly come to find him, Gong Ya-jang-cheon asked urgently.

Something seemed to have happened, but he couldn’t tell if it was good or bad news.

“Ha Mu-baek and Madam have entered Anjing.”

It was an urgent message that had flown in from the Haomun Angyeong Branch.

“Their condition?”

“It’s presumed that Madam appears to have gone through hardships. But they said there’s nothing seriously wrong.”

“Then. What about Yeon-ah?”

Gong Ya-jang-cheon leaned forward and asked.

“She’s probably in Anjing, they expect. They say Ha Mu-baek and Madam haven’t moved since entering the inn.”

Various speculations were possible from that fact.

“If she’s safe, Madam will contact us soon.”

At the following words, Gong Ya-jang-cheon nodded.

“What do you think?”

“The probability that Young Lady is safely at that inn seems to be over seventy percent.”

A positive answer.

Only then did Gong Ya-jang-cheon lean back deeply into the Grand Master’s Chair.

While letting out a sigh of relief.

“Phew. What on earth are they going through…?”

When Woomun Ga-yul’s message came, they would know the general situation.

 

***

 

A day had passed.

Having gone through a major ordeal, they stayed at that inn for a day.

Ha Mu-baek also didn’t leave immediately, and spent the night in a different room at the same inn to watch over Gongya Hwi-yeon’s condition.

Ha Mu-baek, who got up from the bed, frowned.

That energy had grown, even if slightly.

‘Moreover, it’s attached to the Dantian.’

The attachment was more problematic than the growth.

It might even take root in the Dantian.

The morning meal was to be brought up to the room where Gongya Hwi-yeon was staying, and they would eat there.

If Gongya Hwi-yeon and Woomun Ga-yul appeared on the first floor of the inn at the same time.

Probably quite a few spectacular scenes would unfold because of the two women’s beauty.

That’s why they decided to just eat in the room.

“Come in.”

Woomun Ga-yul opened the door for him.

“Please come in, Instructor.”

Her voice was still hoarse.

Since her vocal cords had been injured, her original voice would only return once they fully healed.

Ha Mu-baek carefully examined Gongya Hwi-yeon.

And he found a change different from the previous day.

A faint dark energy was cast over her brow.

It was a trace of what had attached to her dantian.

‘This is definitely…’

It seemed like that energy would take root in her dantian and eventually devour it.

“How is your condition?”

“I feel better after resting well. But my head feels somehow faintly unclear.”

As expected, it wasn’t simply injected energy.

It was energy that would gradually erode Gongya Hwi-yeon as time passed.

This determined when they would depart for Songshan Mountain.

Right now.

But before that.

He would try one last thing.

“Try using the Seven Color Seal Transformation once.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Gongya Hwi-yeon put on the Seven Color Seal Transformation on both wrists without question.

Soon the two bracelets emitted seven-colored light.

He examined Gongya Hwi-yeon’s energy.

It was different from before.

He could sense the energy.

That damned energy.

The Seven Color Seal Transformation couldn’t completely restrict it.

He could even sense the internal energy that was connected to that energy and her dantian.

“Release it.”

Gongya Hwi-yeon released the restriction of the Seven Color Seal Transformation.

He had tried this method wondering if the seal might restrict even that energy, potentially slowing the erosion.

It was impossible.

Restricting only her internal energy might even risk accelerating the erosion.

Conversely, it might slow it down.

But rather than spending a day here confirming that, it was better to depart for Songshan Mountain quickly.

Ha Mu-baek explained his thoughts to the two women.

“Alright. Mu-baek. If you say so, then it must be so. I’m counting on you.”

“Please take care of me, Instructor.”

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“Ah, and I think I should send word to Ryeon… Is it alright to tell them everything you mentioned?”

At Woomun Ga-yul’s question, Ha Mu-baek nodded once more.

“It doesn’t matter at all. Then I’ll be departing now.”

Ha Mu-baek rose from the dining table and left the inn with the two women seeing him off, racing toward Songshan Mountain.

‘Primordial. And Sim Yeon.’

Ha Mu-baek recalled the words Hyeon-hwang had spouted.

It seemed that energy was somehow connected to those things.

‘He also seemed to have some suspicion about my martial arts.’

 

-You didn’t hear the call of Sim Yeon, the will of the primordial, while learning that martial art?

 

That had been Hyeon-hwang’s question at the time.

It meant he knew something.

‘I should ask Master.’

Master would know much more about Mugeuk Sword Gate’s martial arts than himself.

Ha Mu-baek had left the mountain immediately after learning martial arts and achieving mastery.

He had been busy cutting down those evil bastards from the Blood Cult and Demon Cult.

Ha Mu-baek’s Lightning Ten Thousand Li Movement gradually increased in speed.

 

Hyeon-hwang’s lightness skill was faster than Ha Mu-baek’s.

Moreover, driven by desperate feelings filled with resentment, he increased his speed even more.

Before long, he had entered Sosil Peak of Songshan Mountain.

He moved quickly toward the place closest to the Sutra Repository.

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