The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 313

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Chapter 313. How Should I Erase It?

 

 

Han Seol-bing rode her horse without rest.

Until the horse collapsed from exhaustion.

When the horse fell, she abandoned it and used her lightness skill toward the next village.

She obtained the finest steed from the nearest horse market.

Again, she rode until it collapsed from exhaustion.

When it collapsed from exhaustion, she used her lightness skill again.

News delivered by urgent report.

Because she couldn’t know the detailed circumstances.

She hurried even more.

What on earth.

The Tak Family’s stirring.

Ten years ago.

Even when Han Seol-bing left Ice Heaven Palace to participate in the Murim War.

The Tak Family didn’t dare.

They didn’t have enough power to do something like stirring.

At that time, the Tak Family’s power was slightly above ten percent of Ice Heaven Palace’s total strength.

The Han Family’s power was about twenty percent of Ice Heaven Palace’s total strength, and the Bing Family, which was the Palace Lord’s family, held thirty percent of the power.

The remaining power, slightly less than forty percent, was divided among various minor families.

Moreover, since the Bing Family and Han Family were practically in alliance.

It was as if more than half of Ice Heaven Palace’s total strength moved together.

Additionally, among the minor families, those supporting the Palace Lord were overwhelmingly numerous.

So the Tak Family couldn’t dare harbor different thoughts.

She had heard that the power structure had changed significantly while she was away from the palace.

That’s what she learned when she investigated the palace’s news regarding Im Dae-chi’s matter.

But now the Tak Family is stirring?

Stirring.

The literal meaning is that impure forces are showing turbulent movements.

Right.

It means turbulent movements, but.

If it’s serious enough to come as an urgent report.

It wouldn’t be just simple literal stirring.

It must be at a level where great harm has come to the palace.

That’s why Han Seol-bing was rushing toward the North Sea with all her might while minimizing sleep time.

‘Tak Family.’

If the palace is in such a state now, they probably couldn’t fulfill the request she had sent to her family last time.

That also worried her.

She had told Im Dae-chi to trust only her and not worry.

It seemed like her family couldn’t fulfill the request she had sent because of the strengthened Tak Family’s movements.

In the current situation, that was actually just a small worry.

What if the Tak Family’s stirring movements led to an uprising, no, a rebellion?

That was the truly big problem currently at hand.

She had to arrive at the palace as soon as possible.

She absolutely had to lend her strength.

Han Seol-bing gritted her teeth and spurred herself on even more.

 

***

 

The cadets diligently moved their shields and swung their swords.

Ha Mu-baek watched their movements carefully while giving commands and instructions.

He led the Maengryong Corps’ group training while pointing out areas for improvement.

However.

His mind was filled with other thoughts.

Nevertheless, his eyes didn’t miss any mistakes, and his mouth gave appropriate advice.

‘The scent of blood.’

These were the words that had become Ha Mu-baek’s topic of contemplation.

‘How should I erase it?’

He knew he had to do it, but he couldn’t grasp the method.

It had already been over a year since he lived a life away from blood.

He rarely directly took lives or stained his hands with blood anymore.

He had also erased the scent by shutting himself in the blacksmith shop and devoting himself to making swords.

Yet he still had to erase what remained.

During a brief rest period, Ha Mu-baek examined his own body.

Where could such a thick scent of blood be embedded?

What was the difference between his master and himself?

Ha Mu-baek carefully recalled his master’s killing intent.

Then he recalled his own killing intent.

This was different from checking his appearance in a mirror.

There was no means to reflect and show his own killing intent like a mirror.

He had to reconstruct only what he felt within his mental image.

‘Not easy.’

He was stuck from here.

Accurately reproducing his own killing intent in his mental image.

He had thought it would be easy to do until now, but when he actually tried, it wasn’t.

This too became cultivation.

Thus, Ha Mu-baek devoted himself to accurately observing himself while watching the cadets’ training.

Grasping how much scent of blood was embedded in him.

He judged that to be the first thing to do.

 

“Doesn’t the instructor seem a bit strange?”

Dang Jin-san whispered to Baek Ri-pyeong who was beside him.

Baek Ri-pyeong nodded his head.

It was certainly so.

As if he had some great worry.

“He’s completely different from yesterday?”

When he had just returned to Gyoryong Hall and drilled them.

He was the same instructor as usual.

But to change like this in just one day.

“Did something happen yesterday?”

Dan Mok Un-rae’s words.

But.

What in Gyoryong Hall could possibly make Ha Mu-baek like that in just one night?

They couldn’t guess at all.

“That doesn’t seem to be what’s important though…”

Nak U-jin interjected.

He was still diligently swinging his shield.

Naturally, his internal energy was still restricted.

The Seventh Group cadets tilted their heads at Nak U-jin’s words.

“This round, Seventh Group cadets! Ten repetitions! Completely out of sync!”

Ha Mu-baek’s shout rang out loudly.

“As expected.”

Yeon Ha-min muttered quietly.

That their shield formation was gradually falling apart due to idle chatter.

Only Nak U-jin and Yeon Ha-min had noticed this.

Thanks to that, Ha Seol-ran and Ju U-myeong also had to repeat ten times.

Since there were only two members in their group.

They were training by forming a shield formation of seven people mixed with the Seventh Group.

From a distance.

Wi Ji-gun watched that scene.

“Hehe. It doesn’t seem easy. Well, even I don’t know what to do about it. You’ve already surpassed me, so you must find your own path.”

Wi Ji-gun turned around with a pleased smile.

There were still many places to sweep.

Even the places he had swept yesterday.

Dust would have accumulated again after one night passed.

It was work that had to be done endlessly every day.

As a daily routine.

‘But I never expected to meet someone who had encountered the abyss… Ah. So that’s why. That’s why that bastard was such an evil enemy who shook All Under Heaven.’

Wi Ji-gun remembered the time when Hyeon-hwang, or rather the Mad Monk, ravaged All Under Heaven.

Just as he was about to step forward to deal with the Mad Monk due to the continuously spreading infamy.

He had heard news that Gwanghae Seong-seung had taken him to Shaolin.

Wi Ji-gun had never met Hyeon-hwang either.

So he couldn’t have imagined that he had obtained part of the primordial fragments and encountered the abyss.

‘The abyss…’

In fact, Wi Ji-gun didn’t know what kind of existence it was either.

Because the Infinite Sword Gate’s Infinite Mind Method had no abyss.

No, it had existed but now it didn’t.

One of the previous patriarchs.

Had removed the parts where the abyss dwelled from the mind method and developed it anew.

He deliberately didn’t tell Ha Mu-baek about this part.

Because he would naturally learn about it when he entered the Patriarch Hall.

‘So hurry and erase the smell of blood. Only then will the door open.’

The door to the Patriarch Hall.

That door which could only be opened by deploying the Infinite Mind Method to its extreme.

Would not respond to the mind method of one stained with the smell of blood.

 

***

 

Tak Mu-jeon was full of confidence.

After Ha Tu-je ended and he returned to Ice Heaven Palace as if fleeing.

He reported their cowardly behavior to his father.

It was natural.

Even though he was an illegitimate son, how could he, the son of the Tak Family Head, serve as an attendant?

He had sought out his father as a means to nullify that bet.

He couldn’t forget his father’s furious appearance at that time.

Those contemptuous eyes when he called him a worthless fool…

However.

When Tak Mu-jeon mentioned Instructor Han Seol-bing’s name, the reaction changed dramatically.

And his treatment also changed.

The final justification the Tak family needed.

It was because Tak Mu-jeon had returned with that.

As his treatment changed, his attitude also changed.

He moved confidently within not only the family but also Ice Heaven Palace.

The place where such Tak Mu-jeon was now walking.

It was to take revenge on the bastard who had humiliated him.

That bastard wasn’t in the palace now.

Of course he wouldn’t be.

What face would he have to return to the palace after causing such trouble?

He would still be staying at Gyoryong Hall.

However, just because that bastard wasn’t there didn’t mean there weren’t others.

Im Dae-chi.

Though he was a damn orphan bastard.

He had younger siblings.

Two of them, no less.

It was a peculiar case if anything.

Orphans were usually left alone, but three siblings had entered Ice Heaven Palace together.

Im Seo-wol.

Unlike that bastard, she was quite a pretty girl.

Fifteen years old this year.

Im Jang-mu.

A young boy who looked exactly like that bastard.

Eleven years old this year.

Tak Mu-jeon had already obtained his father’s permission for his plan.

Thanks to the merit of bringing justification.

“Hehe. I’m really curious how that bastard’s expression will be. Keke.”

Tak Mu-jeon let out a sinister laugh.

The reason he personally came to this filthy place.

It was to take her away himself.

The younger sister among the two siblings.

“Im Seo-wol! Come out!”

The shabby building where orphan-born laborers stayed.

No, it was ridiculous to even call it a building.

It was nothing more than a dilapidated warehouse about to collapse.

Where the knife-like cold wind of the frigid North Sea leaked through everywhere.

Tak Mu-jeon threw open the door of that place and shouted.

However, there were only frightened glances stealing looks at him.

The person he was looking for wasn’t actually there.

“Um… sister went to clean the Palace Lord’s quarters a few days ago…”

Among the frightened people, one child carefully spoke to Tak Mu-jeon.

It was Im Jang-mu.

Im Dae-chi’s youngest sibling.

The moment he heard that answer, Tak Mu-jeon’s eyebrows twisted into an inverted V.

“Damn it.”

A curse flowed directly from his mouth.

Of all places, the Palace Lord’s quarters?

Rage surged up within him.

“Why is that girl there?”

An angry question.

“Uh, well, that is… about two weeks ago, no, a bit more than that, the Han Family’s General Manager told my sister to go there and clean…”

Im Jang-mu answered hesitantly.

Originally a clever child, but now he was terrified by the fearsome qi aura that Tak Mu-jeon was radiating.

So much so that he couldn’t properly string his words together.

At Im Jang-mu’s answer, Tak Mu-jeon’s expression twisted violently.

The Han Family’s General Manager would be Na Hong-ryeon.

‘How dare that woman…’

To interfere with his affairs in such a manner.

And of all places, it had to be the Palace Lord’s Hall.

Right now, the Palace Lord’s Hall was sealed off by the Tak Family’s military forces.

Entry and exit were completely blocked.

In this situation, he couldn’t possibly say he was going to bring out just one girl who was merely doing cleaning.

Even Father wouldn’t allow such a thing.

‘Damn it. I finally got permission to take her as a concubine…’

She was only fifteen years old.

Though she had grown quite a bit, she was still not of an age that could be called adult.

Noble families sometimes arranged marriages at young ages for their own reasons.

But taking a fifteen-year-old child as a concubine was almost unheard of.

Tak Mu-jeon was shamelessly trying to take fifteen-year-old Im Seo-wol as his concubine.

The purpose was, of course, revenge against Im Dae-chi.

However, the fact that Im Seo-wol was quite beautiful also played a part.

She was already this lovely now, but what if she properly blossomed when she came of age?

‘She wouldn’t lose to that woman Yeon Ha-min either. What a waste.’

It seemed he would have to wait for the Palace Lord’s Hall blockade to be lifted.

He had already received permission to take her as a concubine.

He could bring her after the blockade was lifted.

Tak Mu-jeon made a disappointed face and turned his steps away.

Im Jang-mu.

This boy was also Im Dae-chi’s younger sibling.

He could take out his anger and revenge against Im Dae-chi on this boy too.

But what could he do to a mere eleven-year-old boy?

Originally, Im Jang-mu was outside of Tak Mu-jeon’s interest.

Even so, looking at that face that so closely resembled Im Dae-chi made rage surge up within him.

Smack!

He struck Im Jang-mu across the face and then turned away, leaving the building that was no better than a shabby warehouse.

Im Jang-mu, who had been suddenly struck and rolled on the ground, could only clutch his face and tremble.

As if he was fortunate to have been hit only once and have it end there.

As if living while being beaten like this was too frightening.

His face was filled with all kinds of emotions.

‘Brother…’

Tears welled up in Im Jang-mu’s eyes.

 

***

 

His eyes were sunken.

The skin under his eyes had turned black.

Even at a glance, his entire body was full of fatigue.

Even so, Han Seol-bing was riding his horse with all his might.

Was he sleeping for one hour every two days?

He had truly put all his strength into racing toward the North Sea.

Leaving the Central Plains behind, heading north, ever north.

A blade-like wind brushed against his cheek.

Even so, Han Seol-bing’s face actually brightened.

This blade-like, piercing and cold wind.

It was proof that he had entered the North Sea.

Now there wasn’t much left until Ice Heaven Palace.

In the distance.

Far in the distance.

Faintly.

It seemed he could see the shadow of Ice Heaven Palace.

‘Please…’

Han Seol-bing earnestly hoped in his heart.

At Ice Heaven Palace.

At his family estate.

Please let nothing have happened.

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