The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 318

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Chapter 318. Go to the Palace Lord’s Hall!

 

 

Tak Family Cold Wind Unit.

A military unit of the Tak Family that took its name directly from the Cold Wind Unit, one of the three major military forces of Ice Heaven Palace.

It was composed of the Tak Family’s finest one hundred members.

Tak Yo-beom, upon hearing Tak Pung-geon and Yang Jeok-san’s words, immediately deployed them without a second thought.

After all, these were the ones originally arranged to face Han Seol-bing.

One hundred martial artists hurriedly preparing and rushing out of the Tak Family compound at the Family Head’s urgent command.

They ran toward the Han Family at full speed.

“The target is Han Seol-bing. Han Seol-bing. Ignore all the others and capture only that woman. You’ve memorized her appearance, right?”

It had been about ten years since Han Seol-bing left the palace.

Some couldn’t remember her face, and time had changed her appearance as well.

At the time of her return.

A few sharp-eyed individuals confirmed her face and drew it as a portrait.

The Tak Family Cold Wind Unit had memorized that portrait.

This was one of the reasons Tak Yo-beom hurriedly deployed them.

The Tak Family Cold Wind Unit charged across the ground toward the Han Family.

It was instantaneous.

No matter how vast Ice Heaven Palace was.

It was one faction.

As long as they were within the same boundaries, there were limits to how far apart they could be.

They saw countless people moving toward the Palace Lord’s Hall.

Those people also seemed to be running at full speed.

But with civilians in the middle, their speed couldn’t be fast.

A long stretched-out formation.

The vanguard of those people seemed to already be fighting the Tak Family martial artists who had blockaded the Palace Lord’s Hall.

“Commander. If we attack their flank now…”

The Vice Commander of the Tak Family Cold Wind Unit approached the commander and spoke.

His opinion was correct.

Doing so would weaken the attack on the Palace Lord’s Hall while inflicting fatal damage on them.

However.

The commander glared at the Vice Commander with frost-like eyes and said.

“Our target is Han Seol-bing. Preventing that woman from entering the Palace Lord’s Hall. That is our mission.”

A cold voice.

At that reaction, the Vice Commander had no choice but to bow his head.

“So there’s no need to attack the enemy’s main force. We don’t have time to waste searching for that woman. We need to make her come out.”

Deung-gwa, commander of the Tak Family Cold Wind Unit.

A sinister smile formed at the corner of his mouth.

“Vice Commander. Instead of suggesting we attack their flank, you should have suggested we attack the servants they’re trying to protect.”

At Deung-gwa’s chilling words, the Vice Commander couldn’t dare raise his head.

“They’re moving like that to protect the servants. If we target those people, she’ll come out on her own. Han Seol-bing!”

Deung-gwa shouted loudly with a voice infused with internal energy.

“Come out right now! If you don’t, we’ll ignore everything else and sweep away all the servants!”

His voice spread in all directions.

At those words, chaos erupted among the servants.

It was inevitable.

They were ordinary people who didn’t even know the Basic First Form of martial arts.

Even though they belonged to a martial arts sect.

But for martial artists to threaten to attack such servants.

Deung-gwa’s shout was effective.

At their rear.

There was movement among what appeared to be a suicide squad protecting the servants as they moved.

Someone trying to stop them and someone trying to break through them.

Looking carefully, all those blocking were martial artists from the Han Family and Ice Family.

Looking at the one trying to break through them.

It was a woman.

A woman.

Deung-gwa concentrated internal energy into his eye power.

The face of that woman he confirmed this way.

Almost perfectly matched the facial analysis he had received the day before.

“There! That woman is there! Strike the rear!”

At Deung-gwa’s command, the Tak Family Cold Wind Unit moved in perfect unison, forming a formation.

The formation they completed was the Wedge Formation.

A formation that breaks through enemies in the shape of an awl.

It was a formation technique that reflected the will to charge at a single point, targeting only Han Seol-bing.

The commander took position at the tip of the awl, at the head of the Wedge Formation, and charged straight forward.

“St-stop them!”

A Han Family martial artist shouted.

Then, Han Seol-bing’s sharp cry covered his shout.

“Move aside! I’ll block them, so go straight to the Palace Lord’s Hall!”

Thwack!

While saying this, she struck the martial artist blocking her and charged straight forward.

Han Seol-bing, who had drawn her sword at some point, ran alone toward the hundred martial artists charging at her.

The martial artists tried to follow her.

“Damn it! Go to the Palace Lord’s Hall!”

At Han Seol-bing’s profanity-laced shout, they hesitated and the distance between them and her widened.

They had missed the opportunity to join her.

In the end, they had no choice but to move toward the Palace Lord’s Hall while protecting the servants.

“You must return safely!!!”

Someone among the Han Family martial artists shouted in an anguished voice.

At that cry, Han Seol-bing grinned, but that smile couldn’t be seen by that martial artist.

Instead, it was clearly visible to Deung-gwa.

‘Smiling? Arrogant bitch.’

Thanks to Han Seol-bing not hiding and rushing out, the job became easier.

However.

To think she would step forward to block a hundred of them alone.

It was an incredibly arrogant thought and action.

But she didn’t care and began to unfold her sword technique.

Ice Soul Snow Spirit Sword.

A sword technique that all high-level martial artists of Ice Heaven Palace learn.

Naturally, it was a sword technique that Deung-gwa also knew and had learned.

Han Seol-bing took the ready stance of the Ice Soul Snow Spirit Sword and ran toward the enemy charging at her.

If you stand still and face a charging enemy, you’ll be swept away by their momentum.

To avoid that, she too had to build up her own momentum.

Even if it was a fight of one hundred against one.

That was what she had realized through experiencing two wars.

‘Of course, avoiding it would be the best strategy.’

But now it was a situation she couldn’t avoid.

A pure white sword aura had formed on Han Seol-bing’s sword before she knew it.

A sword aura that emanated bone-chilling ice energy.

Deung-gwa, who faced her, also drew up his sword aura.

His sword aura was also emitting pure white ice energy.

It was because they had learned martial arts from the same root.

Clang!

The two clashed.

The Awl Formation had already changed its shape.

Square-Circle Formation.

A circular formation for defending against attacks from all directions.

It was a formation optimized for defense.

However, their direction was now reversed.

A situation where swords were pointed inward, not outward.

It was a formation to surround Han Seol-bing.

Glance.

Han Seol-bing observed the movements of the Tak Family Cold Wind Unit.

The formation change was fast and precise.

Indeed, they were elite troops.

However, Han Seol-bing put all her effort into facing only Deung-gwa.

Those on Deung-gwa’s left and right attempted a combined attack.

Clang clang!

The two couldn’t withstand the power contained in Han Seol-bing’s sword.

It was a sword strike that required at least a Vice Commander to handle.

However, the Vice Commander was commanding half the formation from the opposite side of the commander.

The moment the Vice Commander moved positions for a combined attack, the formation would collapse.

In the end, Deung-gwa alone had to face Han Seol-bing and push her into the center of the Square-Circle Formation.

However.

‘Wh-what kind of sword technique is this…?’

Deung-gwa’s back became damp with sweat.

The sword technique Han Seol-bing was using was definitely the Ice Soul Snow Spirit Sword.

But it wasn’t the Ice Soul Snow Spirit Sword he knew.

The killing intent was even more chilling, and the variations were even more bewildering.

And what about the power of her sword aura?

Deung-gwa was barely managing to hold on.

‘These bastards are underestimating me. I can’t let this opportunity slip away.’

Han Seol-bing gritted her teeth and swung her sword.

Square-Circle Formation.

It was a formation technique that could be deployed to surround enemies.

But for a hundred people to deploy it against one individual, it was too sparse and flimsy a formation.

Even now, at most four people could immediately face Han Seol-bing.

If more personnel engaged Han Seol-bing, the formation would collapse.

It was due to their complacent thinking that four of them could easily handle Han Seol-bing.

She couldn’t let this opportunity slip away.

If time dragged on, those bastards might change their formation.

That’s why.

Han Seol-bing charged toward the one who appeared to be the commander of the Tak Family Cold Wind Unit, who had been giving orders.

Though the commander was different from the one she had known.

Such things didn’t matter.

First, she would cut down this bastard.

Han Seol-bing’s sword struck fiercely.

“Urgh.”

Deung-gwa hesitantly stepped back under Han Seol-bing’s momentum.

“This bitch…”

The movement of Deung-gwa’s sword changed.

It wasn’t the Ice Soul Snow Spirit Sword.

Not the common sword art of Ice Heaven Palace.

A sword technique that incorporated the Tak Family’s secret traditions.

White Heaven Hundred Night Sword.

A hundred swords flickering and flying toward Han Seol-bing.

Han Seol-bing’s sword also showed a change.

Ice Heaven Sunlight Sword.

A sword technique where the Han Family’s insights were incorporated into Ice Heaven Palace’s sword methods.

A paradoxical sword technique that infused hot and dry yang energy into sword methods filled with cold ice energy.

That’s why it was a sword technique that no one in the Han Family had properly mastered.

That technique unfolded from Han Seol-bing’s fingertips.

“Hah.”

Deung-gwa let out a scornful laugh.

He had recognized the Ice Heaven Sunlight Sword. And the story behind it as well.

Han Seol-bing’s single sword strike, having dodged all hundred swords.

Slash.

Cut Deung-gwa’s shoulder.

“Kuk.”

A strike he received while looking down on her.

Hot pain rose from his shoulder.

It was hot.

Two contrasting types of heat.

Literally, heat felt because it was too hot.

And.

Heat felt because it was too cold.

Though he shouldn’t have, Deung-gwa glanced at the sword wound on his shoulder.

And immediately his eyes widened.

It was an unbelievable sword wound.

The center was red and cooked like a burn from heat.

But around it, white frost had formed.

Burns and frostbite.

He had suffered both simultaneously.

“What the hell is this…?”

“It was damn difficult… but it wasn’t a sword technique I couldn’t complete.”

Han Seol-bing muttered toward the shocked Deung-gwa.

She wasn’t easygoing enough to let such an opening slip by.

She had been through too many battlefields for that.

Slash.

The following sword strike.

Han Seol-bing’s pure white sword aura directly severed Deung-gwa’s neck.

“Kh… urk…”

Han Seol-bing leaped over Deung-gwa, who couldn’t even scream properly, and escaped the Tak Family Cold Wind Unit’s Square-Circle Formation.

Hanseolbing, whose skills far exceeded those who couldn’t even properly scream, escaped directly from the Takgahanpungdae’s defensive formation.

The Hanpung Corps members stared at that sight with blank faces.

The first to regain his senses was, as expected, the Vice Commander.

“Ch, chase her!”

Han Seol-bing unfolded the Ice Heaven Moon Shadow Flight.

Ice Heaven Palace’s exclusive lightness skill.

To be precise, this too was a lightness skill infused with the Han Family’s insights.

The direction Han Seol-bing headed toward was the now empty Han Family estate.

Ninety-nine members of the Tak Family Hanpung Corps chased after Han Seol-bing with all their might.

Toward the Han Family estate, her ancestral home’s front courtyard.

 

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“The Tak Family Hanpung Corps should be sufficient, right?”

At Tak Yo-beom’s words, Yang Jeok-san and Tak Pung-geon nodded.

“That woman isn’t Ha Mu-baek. She can’t handle a hundred Tak Family Hanpung Corps members.”

Yang Jeok-san spoke confidently.

Ha Mu-baek.

His reputation for martial prowess had reached even here in the North Sea.

Since the Tak Family always kept their antennae up toward the Central Plains.

They had obtained rough information about Ha Mu-baek.

Though not precise.

They had acquired information that he could handle about a hundred first-rate masters.

“She may have served as vice corps leader under Hocheon Corps Leader Ha Mu-baek, but that’s all. She’s just a vice corps leader. Ha Mu-baek wouldn’t have taught her martial arts either.”

Yang Jeok-san added.

“If the Tak Family Hanpung Corps properly deploys their sword formation, they should be able to capture her easily. No matter how skilled that woman is with formations, breaking through a sword formation created by a hundred people isn’t easy even for supreme masters.”

Tak Pung-geon also spoke with a tone full of confidence.

Tak Yo-beom nodded at both men’s assurances.

“So now we just need to wait?”

“How about attacking those who headed to the Palace Lord’s Hall?”

Yang Jeok-san’s suggestion.

“What forces can we mobilize?”

“The Iron Wind Corps will be ready in about half a hour.”

The Iron Wind Corps, composed of two hundred first-rate warriors.

Though not as good as the Hanpung Corps.

It was still a powerful military unit.

Initially, Tak Yo-beom had been negative about moving immediately.

But after mobilizing the Tak Family Hanpung Corps to capture Han Seol-bing, had his thinking changed?

He viewed the deployment of additional military units positively.

“Tell them to prepare for now. Once we capture that woman Han Seol-bing, we’ll strike the Palace Lord’s Hall directly. Those bastards will suffer considerable damage trying to break through the blockade forces anyway. Not giving them time to rest would be a good strategy.”

“Yes!”

Perhaps because his suggestion was accepted.

Yang Jeok-san answered vigorously and withdrew.

To convey the Family Head’s orders to the Iron Wind Corps.

 

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Early dawn.

Ha Mu-baek opened his eyes on his bed.

The previous day.

He had no idea what had happened at Ice Heaven Palace, what fierce battles Han Seol-bing had fought.

Though it was only half an hour of sleep, this was sufficient.

Last night.

He had told Master everything that needed to be told.

As expected of Master, he had quickly mastered the Reverse Dragon Technique.

Since there was no need to have multiple faces.

It was even faster since he only needed to create one face.

The face Wi Ji-gun chose was.

Unexpected.

Ha Mu-baek chuckled again as he recalled that face.

He had tried to leave immediately after that.

But Master stopped him.

He said to at least say goodbye to Seol-ran before leaving.

Though they spent more time together since coming to Gyoryong Hall.

Recently, Ha Mu-baek had been frequently leaving Gyoryong Hall.

Since Ha Mu-baek had no intention of disturbing his younger sibling’s sleep, he too had slept briefly.

Ha Mu-baek prepared himself and then moved.

In the direction of Yeonryong Lodge, the female cadets’ dormitory.

Ha Mu-baek stopped at a distance where the Yeonryong Lodge building was visible.

Then he slightly revealed his presence.

With Ha Seol-ran’s ki sense, she would naturally notice.

Indeed.

About an hour later.

Ha Seol-ran appeared, having roughly thrown on her outer garments.

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