The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 298
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Chapter 298. Sutra Repository?
At Ha Mu-baek’s words, the Shaolin Monks looked at each other.
Why would he come to Shaolin looking for a martial criminal?
Mad Monk.
There were quite a few at Shaolin who had heard rumors of the notorious martial criminal from before the Great Murim War.
However, they only knew Hyeon-hwang as the Mad Monk.
They didn’t know he was from Shaolin.
Since it was the sect’s shame, they had thoroughly kept silent and hidden it.
Hyeon-hwang, you say.
If he’s of the Hyeon Generation, that would make him the same generation as the current abbot.
Their faces showed they had never heard of such an elder since entering Shaolin.
An intruder who suddenly barged in spouting nonsense.
However.
The monks of the Hyeon Generation.
And among the disciples of the Yeon Generation, those who were older.
Their expressions changed.
These were people who knew vaguely about the sect’s shame.
They naturally knew that the Mad Monk was from Shaolin and that his dharma name was Hyeon-hwang.
Some disciples of the Yeon Generation only knew that the Mad Monk was a Shaolin monk of the Hyeon Generation.
This man suddenly appeared and was looking for Hyeon-hwang out of the blue.
He had stated the dharma name precisely before calling him the Mad Monk.
Meaning he knew everything.
What exactly was the purpose of this bastard who came knowing Shaolin’s shame?
“What do you mean by that? Benefactor Ha. Why are you looking for a martial criminal at Shaolin’s main mountain? Though we do have demon heads and criminals confined in our Repentance Cave.”
“Hyeon-gwang. Your junior brother whom you released. That bastard must have returned to Shaolin, right? The forgotten martial criminal Mad Monk, Hyeon-hwang.”
Hyeon-gwang frowned at Ha Mu-baek’s words.
The Shaolin Monks were angry at Ha Mu-baek’s rudeness, then shocked to hear that the abbot’s junior brother was a martial criminal.
“Can you take responsibility for those words?”
Hyeon-gwang glared at Ha Mu-baek.
“Your master. You did well releasing the one that Gwanghae Seong-seung left a dying wish to never release. Going against even the master’s will.”
At Ha Mu-baek’s continued words, murmuring arose here and there.
The words pouring from the intruder who suddenly barged in were hard to believe.
How indeed should they accept such absurd claims?
The confusion of the wavering Shaolin Monks manifested as murmuring.
Ha Mu-baek laid out all the information he had obtained from the Beggar Sect to build justification.
“How exactly did you think to go against the master’s will? The will of the previous abbot, Gwanghae Seong-seung, shouldn’t be something you as the current abbot Hyeon-gwang could handle, right? Ah!”
Ha Mu-baek, who had been pouring out words, realized something mid-speech.
“There was a way, wasn’t there? You’re the abbot. You could use the authority of the Green Jade Buddha Seal!”
Ha Mu-baek’s words clearly reached the ears of all the Shaolin Monks.
It had to be so.
He was intentionally infusing his words with full internal energy so they would spread throughout the Shaolin Temple grounds.
So that even the monks cleaning the toilets could hear clearly.
“Your words go too far, Benefactor Ha.”
Hyeon-gwang replied quietly.
“Then? Can you show me that bastard from the Repentance Cave?”
“It is Shaolin’s affair and Shaolin’s prohibition. It is not something for an outsider like Benefactor Ha to interfere with.”
Hyeon-gwang spoke firmly.
He was looking straight into Ha Mu-baek’s eyes.
Hyeon-gwang was now provoking Ha Mu-baek.
The justification for this dispute was in their favor. Ha Mu-baek was merely a ruffian who had intruded into Shaolin.
Moreover, if Ha Mu-baek made the first move, that justification would become even more solid.
Besides, there was no evidence that he had released Hyeon-hwang.
Though he had used the authority of the Green Jade Buddha Seal.
That was justification to legitimately inform Hyeon-hwang that he was being temporarily released.
Since he had released him under the Green Jade Buddha Seal’s command when they were alone together.
It was also preparation for when elders or senior members might question this matter in the future.
In the end.
Whether Hyeon-hwang had escaped by his own power.
Or whether Hyeon-gwang had released him.
There was no way to prove it.
He could simply say that bastard had escaped.
Then.
Someone stepped forward.
Hyeon Chuk.
The head of the Sutra Repository.
He had stepped forward of his own will, completely unrelated to Hyeon-gwang’s intentions.
Despite Ha Mu-baek’s behavior that was no different from rampage.
The dharma name Hyeon-hwang reminded him of something.
“Abbot Senior Brother! Perhaps the intruder in the Sutra Repository was Senior Brother Hyeon-hwang. Then all the mysteries would be solved. If so, it means Senior Brother Hyeon-hwang escaped from the Repentance Cave… but how could that be possible…?”
He thought he had provided an answer to one mystery, but an even bigger mystery popped up.
At Hyeon Chuk’s intervention, Hyeon-gwang smiled inwardly.
Hyeon-hwang’s escape that he had been trying to lead to.
Hyeon Chuk had stepped forward and said it himself.
Hyeon Chuk, the head of the Sutra Repository who received the disciples’ full trust.
Now, no matter how much Ha Mu-baek claimed that Hyeon-gwang himself had released Hyeon-hwang, the disciples would think he had escaped.
“Sutra Repository?”
Ha Mu-baek’s Ki Sense instantly swept over the Sutra Repository.
The lingering traces remaining there.
The very faint lingering traces of emptiness left when the Thousand-Hand Sarira Bodhi Sutra was taken.
Ha Mu-baek felt it.
How could he forget?
The Demonic Cult Leader.
It was a lingering trace similar to what had been embedded in Seok Won-cho’s Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.
The moment he realized that.
Like lightning, another realization pierced through Ha Mu-baek’s mind.
‘Un-rae…’
It was precisely Dan Mok Un-rae’s martial arts.
The Void Vast Heart Formula.
The somehow familiar feeling he had sensed from it.
The identity of that familiarity was precisely the Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.
Since it bore the righteous and honorable character befitting the martial arts of the orthodox Dan Mok Family Estate.
Even with that familiar feeling, he had failed to recall the Demonic Cult’s Heavenly Demon Divine Technique.
Ha Mu-baek’s face contorted.
“How interesting. Traces similar to demonic arts at Shaolin Temple…”
Ha Mu-baek’s reverse scale raised its head.
A cold, killing intent-filled smile hung on his lips.
Ha Mu-baek stared directly at Hyeon-gwang.
“It seems an explanation is needed?”
Hyeon-gwang rolled his prayer beads for a moment at the question directed at him.
This was an unexpected development.
Who would have thought.
That Ha Mu-baek would sense traces similar to Demonic Arts at Shaolin.
The bigger problem was Ha Mu-baek, whose eyes had turned mad against the Demonic Cult and Blood Cult.
Hyeon-gwang had clearly seen what kind of monster Ha Mu-baek was during the last war, the Great Murim War.
The same eyes as now.
The same killing smile.
A situation that made dry saliva go down involuntarily.
“Amitabha. Such tragic words. Benefactor Ha. You go too far! How can you speak of traces of Demonic Arts in Great Shaolin, and in the Sutra Repository at that!”
Hyeon-gwang decided to strongly deny it for now.
At his outcry, Hyeon Chuk nodded his head vigorously.
As the master of the Sutra Repository, Hyeon Chuk had more reason than anyone to be angry at such words.
Demonic Arts in the Sutra Repository!
Then.
Whooooooo.
The air around Ha Mu-baek let out a wail.
“The conversation ends here. Hyeon-hwang. Bring that bastard here right now. Or I’ll make him crawl out.”
A sudden change.
Ha Mu-baek had already drawn his sword.
The sword gripped in reverse was already filled with dark Gang Qi blacker than darkness itself.
Ha Mu-baek raised the sword as it was.
“How dare you! To draw a sword so brazenly within Shaolin’s Temple Grounds!”
Hyeon-gwang immediately drew up his entire body’s Internal Energy rapidly.
His kasaya swelled up and fluttered.
Golden Gang Qi formed brilliantly in both hands.
Sacred and holy energy.
Vajra Tathagata Buddha Light Great Mudra.
Among Shaolin’s Seventy-Two Unique Arts, it was the strongest of Shaolin’s Three Great Divine Techniques.
Among them, it was the palm technique that held the position of Shaolin’s greatest palm art.
The tremendous palm technique that even Ha Mu-baek had admired during the last war.
Its ready stance unfolded and golden Gang Qi was about to fly toward Ha Mu-baek.
Truly a hair-trigger situation.
Ha Mu-baek’s movement stopped.
It wasn’t because of Hyeon-gwang’s Vajra Tathagata Buddha Light Great Mudra.
It was because of his Ki Sense.
His Ki Sense, which had been exploring various parts of Sosil Peak, was turning its direction toward Jungeuk Peak when.
It sensed a thick energy.
“Is it there?”
Still holding his sword, Ha Mu-baek kicked off the ground.
Woooooo!
The rough Dragon Roar bursting from Ha Mu-baek’s mouth!
The Shaolin Monks had blank faces at the sudden situation, but.
Hyeon-gwang did not.
“Where do you think you’re running!”
He knew where he was going.
But that appearance had to look like fleeing.
Hyeon-gwang also kicked off the ground.
A command burst from his mouth.
“Vajra Arhats follow me!”
Soon thirty-six monks launched their bodies.
And behind them were those who moved even without Hyeon-gwang’s command.
All high monks of the Hyeon Generation.
They too had no intention of just letting Ha Mu-baek go like this.
No matter how much of a Ha Mu-baek he was.
He had crossed too many lines at Shaolin.
Even if he were So Hwi-ung who had defeated the Blood Cult Leader and Demonic Cult Leader, he couldn’t act like this at Shaolin.
But a mere Hocheon Corps Leader.
How dare he.
The energy he had shown even briefly was terrifying, but.
This was Shaolin and.
They were disciples of Shaolin.
Kwakwakwakwakwa!
Ha Mu-baek rushed forward, shattering the air.
He ran straight toward the place where Hyeon-hwang was emitting streams of dark energy.
‘It’s different.’
Both the quality and power of the energy were different from when they had encountered each other near Anjing.
It was probably related to that lingering trace he had felt in the Sutra Repository.
‘So this was why.’
That’s why he had fled in the middle like that.
Because of the Demonic Arts remaining in the Sutra Repository.
“Kahahahahaha!!! It’s done!!! Kuhaha! Woooooo!!!”
Then.
From the Dark Cave, Hyeon-hwang flew up into midair with a great mad laugh.
A rough Lion’s Roar burst from his mouth.
The two people faced each other in midair before the steep cliff of Jungeuk Peak.
Ha Mu-baek swung his sword without delay.
Black dark Gang Qi extended in streams.
Hyeon-hwang didn’t dodge and reached out his hand to meet it.
The color of his Gang Qi changed.
His Gang Qi that had been grayish.
Was now black.
It was different from Ha Mu-baek’s dark color.
A dark black filled with ominousness somewhere.
Darkness.
It was like darkness itself.
Kwaaaaang!
The cliff shook.
Stone fragments scattered in all directions.
Even so, neither of the two retreated even a little.
Rather, they approached each other even closer and swung sword and fist even more lethally.
Bang!
Bang!
Kwabang!
Bang!
Jungeuk Peak shook violently.
Flying beasts fluttered roughly as they took to the air, and mountain animals ran excitedly through the mountain forest.
All in directions away from Ha Mu-baek and Hyeon-hwang.
The Shaolin Monks who had just arrived at Jungeuk Peak.
They gaped in shock at the confrontation between Ha Mu-baek and Hyeon-hwang.
How.
Could this be called a battle between humans.
Perhaps.
Could that Ha Mu-baek fellow be stronger than So Hwi-ung?
Just as this absurd question arose in someone’s mind.
“Hy, Hyeon-hwang Senior Brother is, how could he….”
Someone stared wide-eyed at Ha Mu-baek’s opponent.
“How did he break the Golden Chain Restraint….”
A figure unable to escape from shock.
It was Hyeon-gil.
The one who had directly learned the Golden Chain Restraint from Gwanghae Seong-seung.
Because of this, he had believed with absolute certainty that Hyeon-hwang could never escape.
Yet here he was, appearing like this.
‘I, I must confirm it.’
If the Golden Chain Restraint had truly been broken.
They would need to create a stronger restraint.
Hyeon-gil was the only one who had directly heard Gwanghae Seong-seung’s will.
Not a will left in writing, but one spoken directly with his own voice just before entering nirvana.
That’s why he had to confirm it.
Hyeon-gil turned his body.
Even though everyone was captivated by the fight between Ha Mu-baek and Hyeon-hwang.
Hyeon-gil ran in the opposite direction for the sake of his mission.
The place he was heading to was Repentance Cave.
The very place Ha Mu-baek had said to check.
Hyeon-gil ran while biting his lips.
His eyes shook, engulfed in confusion.
He realized as he began running.
Whether the Golden Chain Restraint was broken or not, both were problems.
“Kuhaha! This time will be different!”
Hyeon-hwang continuously swung both fists toward Ha Mu-baek.
His mad laughter seemed to spread throughout all of Songshan Mountain.
Ha Mu-baek swung his sword fiercely.
Hyeon-hwang was right.
It was different from before.
He had become incomparably stronger.
The power of each punch was incomparable to just a few days ago.
‘How….’
Though martial artists could change beyond recognition with a single enlightenment in just one hour.
This wasn’t that kind of change.
The very nature of his qi energy had transformed.
The already damp and ominous energy.
Had become like thick darkness that was murderous, impure, and void.
It felt as if all the world’s evil and negativity had been gathered together.
Heavenly Demon Divine Technique?
No.
This was something deeper and more despairing than that.
Six black energy tentacles reaching toward Ha Mu-baek.
They had the same form as before, but were different.
Ha Mu-baek’s sword cut them down.
But the tentacles grew back up again.
“This damn octopus-headed bastard.”
It was just an attack that made him feel disgusted.
Curses naturally flowed out.
“Klkl. Why don’t you have a taste of this octopus!”
Was it thanks to successfully absorbing the third fragment?
Hyeon-hwang wasn’t easily excited.
Even at the mocking curses, he rather laughed and spread both hands.
Pitch-black darkness opened from his palms.
The manipulation of that energy was clearly visible to Ha Mu-baek’s Infinite Bright Wheel Eye.
Though he couldn’t identify the nature of the energy, he could at least grasp its movements.
However.
That movement.
“Vajra Tathagata Buddha Light Great Hand Seal?”
Just moments ago.
It was exactly the same technique Hyeon-hwang had tried to unleash upon Ha Mu-baek.
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