The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 302

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Chapter 302. What Are You?

 

 

Sword and fist.

Fist and sword.

Black and white.

White and black.

Righteous and bright White Flame.

Evil and dark Black Smoke.

The two energies scattered fierce auras as they collided in midair.

Hyeon-hwang gritted his teeth.

Kuaaaaaang!!!

This was the thunderous crash Hyeon-hwang had imagined.

However.

It didn’t unfold as Hyeon-hwang had imagined.

Kwajijijijijik!

With a tremendous sound.

The righteous White Flame completely shattered the evil Black Smoke, splitting it in two.

A wide path was created between Ha Mu-baek and Hyeon-hwang.

The pure white flame was burning away Hyeon-hwang’s pitch-black energy.

Hyeon-hwang’s eyes widened.

The black energy that had extended from his fist split apart on both sides.

What filled his vision was a pure white world.

That pure white energy bursting forth from Ha Mu-baek’s sword.

It flew straight toward Hyeon-hwang.

“Th-th-this can’t be!!!!”

Hyeon-hwang’s scream.

The White Flame Sword Energy paid no heed to such screams and swallowed Hyeon-hwang whole.

Kwaaaaaaang!

The explosive sound Hyeon-hwang had imagined finally erupted, shaking heaven and earth.

The Shaolin Monks watched the scene with blank faces.

Among them, Hyeon-gwang seemed to have received the greatest shock.

“It didn’t go as Senior Brother thought.”

Hyeon-gil spoke calmly beside him.

His voice contained not even a speck of respect for the head abbot of Shaolin Temple.

Rather.

It contained contempt and pity for a fellow disciple who had strayed from the righteous path.

The storm of Gang Qi raged fiercely.

It was impossible to see what was happening at its center.

However, all the Shaolin Monks were expecting.

That Hyeon-hwang’s entire body would be torn to shreds inside, leaving no intact corpse to recover.

Ha Mu-baek’s sword technique ended.

The storm of White Flame Sword Energy also came to an end.

The scene revealed before their eyes.

Everything around was cleanly cleared as if nothing had ever been there.

In the center.

A single fallen figure.

It was Hyeon-hwang.

Surprisingly, though his entire body was covered in wounds.

He was alive.

“H-how…”

The Shaolin Monks couldn’t continue speaking in their shock.

Their expectations had been so spectacularly wrong.

No, that wasn’t the only reason.

How.

How could he maintain such an intact form in that tremendous storm of energy?

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

He had expected it since he felt something with his Ki Sense, but seeing it in reality was inevitably irritating.

“What are you?”

Ha Mu-baek asked with irritation in his voice.

What are you.

The question Hyeon-hwang had thrown at Ha Mu-baek.

It had returned to him exactly as it was.

“Keuhehehe. Keuheul. Keuhehehe.”

Hyeon-hwang laughed while lying sprawled out.

There wasn’t a trace of energy left in his entire body.

He had used it all in the clash with Ha Mu-baek just now.

Truly scraping the very bottom.

Thanks to that, his clothes were intact.

Though his entire body was covered in wounds, nothing had been severed.

He wasn’t laughing just because of that reason.

It was because of the new fact he had learned from being struck like this.

Hyeon-hwang slowly raised his body and sat on the ground.

“Kilkilkil. You bastard. You can’t kill me.”

Exactly that.

When Ha Mu-baek’s White Flame Sword Energy had completely engulfed Hyeon-hwang.

Energy that rose from deep within Hyeon-hwang’s dantian to protect him.

Darkness. Chaos. And Void.

It was those three energies.

That energy, whose hiding place was unknowable, protected Hyeon-hwang’s dantian as well as his heart and head.

Ha Mu-baek had felt that energy too.

That’s why he had asked Hyeon-hwang.

What are you.

Because he truly seemed like a non-human existence.

However, what returned was that confident laughter.

Smirk.

Ha Mu-baek slowly stepped up into midair and raised his sword again.

“Let’s see if that’s really true.”

The sword swinging again.

And Five Severances Heaven Breaking displaying that sight once more.

That magnificent spectacle unfolded once again.

This time, Hyeon-hwang didn’t shoot out opposing energy.

He didn’t have any internal energy left to do so.

But he was confident that Ha Mu-baek couldn’t kill him.

Kwakwakwakwakwang!

The area around where Hyeon-hwang sat was reduced to wasteland once again.

And the scene that was revealed.

Hyeon-hwang, sitting cross-legged as if showing off, grinned wickedly.

Because he had endured it again this time.

Even though he hadn’t put up any resistance.

So perfectly fine like this.

He felt something whoosh out from inside his body in an instant.

The power that darkness, chaos, and void had drawn upon and used.

It was power to the extent that he wondered if he had ever possessed such strength.

Indeed, tremendous power.

Abyss.

From somewhere, it had replenished him with that much energy again.

Truly mysterious.

Right now, that was protecting him like this.

“Kekekekeke.”

Hyeon-hwang let out mad laughter.

“….”

“…Crazy….”

The Shaolin Monks looked at Hyeon-hwang with dazed expressions.

They had no choice.

It was surprising that he had survived Ha Mu-baek’s attack unscathed.

But Hyeon-hwang’s current appearance was even more shocking than that.

He had aged ten years in an instant.

How could a person suddenly.

Be like that.

Black smoke seemed to rise briefly from Hyeon-hwang’s body, then flowed out slowly to the surroundings.

And.

Hyeon-hwang slowly became ten years younger.

He had returned to his original appearance.

Instead.

The surrounding vegetation withered and twisted.

He had witnessed all of that.

“Really, what are you?”

Ha Mu-baek asked with an incredulous expression.

Not only had he drawn upon and used Innate True Energy, but he had also absorbed life force from surrounding living beings to recover that Innate True Energy.

That.

Was already beyond the category of human.

“Li, Life Absorption Great Method….”

Someone among the Shaolin Monks seemed to come to their senses and muttered like that.

He was terrified.

He had no choice.

Life Absorption Great Method.

Wasn’t that the worst demonic art that even the spawn of the Demon Cult or Blood Cult wouldn’t use?

That terror spread to the surrounding Shaolin Monks.

“Uuu….”

“…Euu.”

Hyeon-hwang’s gaze turned in that direction.

“What did you say? Life Absorption Great Method?”

Hyeon-hwang let out a snicker as if incredulous.

How dare they look at him and speak of such demonic martial arts?

“Lowly bastard.”

At those words, the Shaolin Monk who had made eye contact with Hyeon-hwang trembled all over and lowered his gaze.

Hyeon-hwang turned his gaze to Ha Mu-baek.

“Kekeke. What will you do now?”

Ha Mu-baek, positioned about three zhang away from Hyeon-hwang, sheathed his sword and looked at Hyeon-hwang with his arms crossed.

“You. You don’t know what just happened in your body right now, do you? There’s no way you couldn’t know.”

“What nonsense are you spouting?”

“I suppose it was called Abyss? That bastard seems to be interfering even with your senses and playing tricks.”

Hyeon-hwang frowned.

“Just now. The energy you used. That’s Innate True Energy.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke as if pathetic.

Innate True Energy.

The energy that was no different from the source of life that a person possesses from birth.

He had drawn upon and used that energy.

But he wasn’t even aware of that fact himself.

For an ordinary martial artist, this would be impossible.

Of course, a third-rate martial artist who couldn’t properly read their own energy might not know.

But even a second-rate martial artist who could feel the flow of energy to some degree could sense the movement of Innate True Energy.

Not being able to feel the movement of such important energy, which was no different from the source of life, was absurd in itself.

In other words, Hyeon-hwang’s current sense of energy was no different from a third-rate martial artist.

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Hyeon-hwang was startled and felt around his own face.

However, there was no particular change.

If he had drawn upon that much Innate True Energy, his face should have become wrinkled normally.

But the skin he felt at his fingertips was exactly the same as when he had obtained void.

“Where do you get off with such pathetic tricks….”

Hyeon-hwang glared at Ha Mu-baek with a considerably relieved expression.

“Tsk tsk. Can’t you see the surroundings?”

Only then did Hyeon-hwang turn his head to look, and his eyes became round.

It was natural.

The surrounding grass and trees were dried up and dead.

It wasn’t the appearance of naturally withered trees.

It was a scene where someone had completely drained all the life force beyond the limit.

“It’s your doing.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words, Hyeon-hwang trembled.

Only now did he understand the meaning of the Shaolin disciple’s words about Life Absorption Great Method.

“I ask for the last time. You. What the hell are you?”

It was the third question.

He had thrown the same question for the third time.

Hyeon-hwang stared at Ha Mu-baek quietly.

“I am Hyeon-hwang. A martial artist who obtained a fragment of primordial power. Hyeon-hwang.”

Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“No. Not you. The bastard hiding inside you. Abyss? I’m talking about that bastard.”

At Ha Mu-baek’s words.

Hyeon-gil’s expression changed.

Abyss.

When Hyeon-hwang had spoken of the primordial.

Hyeon-gil had inwardly nodded that Gwanghae Seong-seung’s speculation was correct.

The moment Ha Mu-baek mentioned Abyss, he was shocked.

The being he had encountered.

Abyss.

How long had it been since he had accepted him?

Ha Mu-baek was searching for Sim Yeon from Hyeon-hwang.

From his senior brother who had become a demon.

“Sim Yeon is merely an existence inherent in the power I possess.”

When Hyeon-hwang answered Ha Mu-baek, Ha Mu-baek shook his head.

“It’s not such a simple existence. You showed me yourself.”

Ha Mu-baek glared at Hyeon-hwang.

“Let’s see how long you can endure. Your Innate True Energy can’t be infinite.”

Ha Mu-baek raised his sword again.

And Heaven Breaking unfolded without fail.

After that, three more Heaven Breaking techniques were unleashed.

Hyeon-gwang endured all six Heaven Breaking attacks without taking any damage.

Instead, the surroundings turned into a land of death.

Even the trees where the Shaolin Monks had been withered and died completely.

Fortunately, that black smoke did not take human life force.

However, that was uncertain too.

Around the withered dead trees were dried corpses of field mice and traces of insects that had dried up and crumbled to dust.

It was also absorbing the life force of animals.

What if that ability grew even greater and took human life force as well?

That would truly become a wicked demon’s great method surpassing the Life Absorption Great Method.

The consequences when it reached such a state were deeply frightening.

Each time, with each Heaven Breaking he endured, Hyeon-hwang aged more severely and absorbed more life force.

The fourth Heaven Breaking.

It engulfed Hyeon-hwang’s body.

“Kheuk. Keheheheheheuk.”

For the first time, a groan filled with agony burst from Hyeon-hwang’s mouth.

Hyeon-hwang, who had been sitting still, collapsed on the ground trembling violently.

His entire body was withered as if he would die at any moment.

Even so, only his dantian remained unharmed.

When black energy shrouded the surroundings, grass and trees, and small animals like field mice and insects withered and twisted again.

The time for Hyeon-hwang to recover also grew longer.

“This seems like it will be the last time?”

A smile crossed Ha Mu-baek’s lips.

An expression that said let’s see if you can still endure.

Hyeon-hwang’s eyes changed.

Two eyes filled with black energy, the whites completely disappeared.

They grew blacker and blacker, then now deepened.

The moment darkness like the abyss of a bottomless pit filled his eyes.

“You bastard.”

Hyeon-hwang’s voice changed.

A hoarsely cracked voice.

At that moment.

Ha Mu-baek erected an Energy Barrier.

He didn’t particularly want the Shaolin Monks to hear this.

“Are you Sim Yeon?”

“….”

There was no answer.

White Flame Sword Energy bloomed on Ha Mu-baek’s sword.

“…That’s right.”

“What are you?”

Ha Mu-baek asked again.

“Consider it an honor. You’re the first to make me answer the same question four times.”

“Sim Yeon is simply Sim Yeon. It is not something.”

Ha Mu-baek looked at Hyeon-hwang, no, Sim Yeon with a crooked gaze.

“A power from outside the mortal world passed down from the beginning of time. The will dwelling in that power is me, Sim Yeon.”

“For something like that, the feeling is too unpleasant? It seems like you’ve gathered all the world’s wickedness and malicious energy.”

“Wickedness and malice, filth are also merely part of the beginning.”

The beginning.

The start of the world.

And everything in the world.

If that’s the meaning, then it’s correct.

Wickedness, malice, filth were all part of the world.

“What’s your purpose?”

Ha Mu-baek asked.

Sim Yeon answered.

“There is no such thing as purpose. We who are wills dwelling in power simply exist purely as we are.”

“Then what about what you’re doing now?”

“Hyeon-hwang who gained power. It’s merely his will.”

“You didn’t instigate it?”

“I merely do my best to fulfill the owner’s desires.”

The continuing questions and answers.

Ha Mu-baek frowned.

In the end, this bastard called Sim Yeon was a will manifested by Hyeon-hwang’s vile desires projected onto the power he possessed.

Though he called himself Sim Yeon, the will of the beginning.

In reality, he was another form of the caster’s deep inner will and desires.

That’s why he was Sim Yeon.

“Well, I’ll know if that’s really true by seeing.”

But Ha Mu-baek didn’t easily believe those words.

The sword moved.

Toward the only intact dantian.

Kwaaaaang!

A massive storm swept through.

“Keooooooook. Keook.”

A scream burst from Hyeon-hwang’s mouth.

It was different from before.

His entire body was covered in blood.

From the tremendous attack, one arm was torn off and his face was hideously ripped.

His knee was also bent in a grotesque direction.

Only the place where his dantian was remained unharmed.

Perfectly intact.

Ha Mu-baek smiled once more.

“See. This is your will.”

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