The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 319
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Chapter 319. It’s, It’s Han Seol-bing!
‘What do you do when facing an overwhelming number of enemies? Well, you lure them to a battlefield advantageous to you and deal with them one by one. Don’t think of it as one against a hundred, think of it as doing one-on-one a hundred times.’
This was Ha Mu-baek’s answer to Han Seol-bing when she once asked how to face enemies with an overwhelming numerical advantage of over a hundred.
When she heard that answer.
Han Seol-bing looked at Ha Mu-baek like he was some kind of madman.
Easy to say.
One-on-one a hundred times?
An ordinary martial artist would collapse from exhaustion after just three times.
But to do it a hundred times? And win them all?
Some time later.
Only after Ha Mu-baek demonstrated that answer in actual combat.
Did Han Seol-bing finally realize that their Corps Commander (before he became Dan-ju) was an incredible monster.
‘First, did I lure them to a battlefield advantageous to me?’
The Han Family.
This was where Han Seol-bing was born and raised.
Though she had been away for over ten years, she still vividly remembered where everything was.
It was an overwhelmingly advantageous battlefield for Han Seol-bing.
‘Now I just need to win ninety-nine times.’
Han Seol-bing’s eyes gleamed.
Though not quite at Ha Mu-baek’s level from back then.
Now she was confident that she too had become quite a monster herself.
While luring the enemies deep into the Han Family grounds, Han Seol-bing pulled out iron rods from her bosom and threw them in various places.
She was setting traps in advance.
Ninety-nine.
They followed Han Seol-bing over the Han Family walls, not knowing they were entering their death ground.
“Catch her! Don’t face her alone, always attack in groups of four or more. Track her in four-man formations!”
The Vice Commander gave orders as soon as he crossed the Han Family walls.
Thus twenty-four groups were formed.
The Vice Commander moved with two subordinates in a group of three.
As they moved between the buildings of the Han Family.
Han Seol-bing watched them from the darkness beneath the rooftops.
‘This won’t be easy.’
The ninety-nine men hadn’t scattered into ninety-nine pieces.
Twenty-five pieces.
They had apparently become cautious after seeing Han Seol-bing cut down Deung-gwa.
Even so, this level was manageable.
In fact, only needing to win twenty-five times might be easier?
Han Seol-bing completely suppressed her presence and waited there.
For them to scatter more sparsely.
As long as she kept the Tak Family’s Cold Wind Corps tied up here, the Han Family and Ice Family people could enter the Palace Lord’s Hall more easily.
This much time passed.
The Tak Family’s Cold Wind Corps searched everywhere to catch Han Seol-bing in the empty Han Family grounds.
In the process, houses and furniture were broken and destroyed.
Han Seol-bing felt sorry seeing such scenes.
Since this was a place she would return to.
But right now, they were at war.
The priority was annihilating the enemy.
Such things could be repaired and replaced after the war ended.
Han Seol-bing’s eyes gleamed sharply.
No one noticed Han Seol-bing’s presence as they searched and destroyed innocent places, gradually spreading out.
‘Now.’
Han Seol-bing emerged from beneath the roof and moved stealthily.
It wasn’t Ice Heaven Palace martial arts.
It was the stealth technique she learned from Ha Mu-baek in the Hocheon Corps.
Silent Ghost Shadow.
A stealth technique Ha Mu-baek taught to all Hocheon Corps members, saying it was necessary for operations.
He had said he created it by mixing his exclusive divine movement with advantages from stealth techniques of the Demon Cult, Blood Cult, Sahae Alliance, and Jeongcheon Alliance that he had personally experienced?
‘He’s really a monster.’
She felt it every time, yet continued to feel it.
The presence of the human called Ha Mu-baek and his endless talent.
Han Seol-bing moved silently like a ghost between the Han Family buildings.
Swish.
Han Seol-bing appeared like a ghost behind the four men closest to her.
Slash.
With a dagger she had drawn at some point, she slit the throats of all four in one stroke.
“Urgh.”
“Guh…”
Thud.
The four collapsed simultaneously with faint groans.
Swish.
Han Seol-bing disappeared like a ghost again.
Eight people hurriedly appeared at the sound they heard.
All they could see were the corpses of their four dead comrades.
From then on, the hide-and-seek unfolded one-sidedly.
No one could even see Han Seol-bing’s shadow.
Han Seol-bing moved freely yet stealthily throughout the Han Family grounds.
When one hour had passed.
The Tak Family’s Cold Wind Corps had been reduced to half.
‘Hah, hah. This is tough.’
Han Seol-bing’s face was drenched in sweat.
Though it was summer, the North Sea was still cold land.
She had been moving enough to sweat this much in such a place.
‘My internal energy… about forty percent left?’
Sixty percent of her internal energy to deal with half the enemies.
The exchange rate didn’t match.
At this rate, Han Seol-bing’s internal energy would be depleted first.
The cause was.
‘Silent Ghost Shadow. Hah…’
That was it.
That was the cause.
It was an excellent movement technique for stealth, infiltration, and surprise attacks.
But instead.
It consumed tremendous amounts of internal energy.
It wasn’t originally a movement technique created to face a hundred enemies alone.
Of course, Ha Mu-baek had handled over a hundred enemies alone using Silent Ghost Shadow.
Because he was a monster.
She had spent a long time together with such a Ha Mu-baek.
She watched and learned by his side.
So Han Seol-bing herself thought she might have reached somewhat of a monster’s level.
It was a foolish thought.
‘I’m still far off… still.’
Nevertheless, reducing the enemy’s numbers by half.
Their search net became even more sparse.
So.
‘Let me do some energy circulation and breathing for a moment.’
She had gained that leisure.
Energy circulation and breathing on the battlefield was an extremely dangerous action.
But it wasn’t the first or second time.
Instead, she opened her ki sense wide and expanded it to the maximum.
The martial artists of Hocheon Corps had no choice but to develop their ki sense compared to other martial artists.
Because they had experienced energy circulation and breathing in such extreme situations more than once or twice.
Han Seol-bing, who had fallen into energy circulation like that.
Soon her eyebrows curved into an inverted figure-eight.
In her ki sense that had expanded to the Han Family’s wall.
She felt a strange flow.
A flow of qi as if another group was moving.
Did this mean the forces sent by the Tak Family weren’t just the Tak Family Cold Wind Corps?
Impatience appeared on Han Seol-bing’s face.
Even if she tied up the Tak Family Cold Wind Corps here.
If others struck the rear of the Han Family and Ice Family, they would inevitably suffer great damage.
Han Seol-bing hurried her energy circulation.
Having recovered her internal energy to some extent, she immediately launched her body.
She swept through various parts of the Han Family even faster.
Accordingly, the frequency of deploying Silent Ghost Shadow increased.
Her internal energy was consumed at a rapid pace.
Nevertheless, Han Seol-bing had no choice but to do so.
Since she had detected that others were approaching.
Moving quickly, even Silent Ghost Shadow began to leave traces.
The more that happened, the less rest time she had and the more time she spent facing enemies.
The situation became more difficult.
In that situation, Han Seol-bing steadily eliminated the enemies.
Finally.
She had left only the last three.
The Vice Commander and his two subordinates.
“Huff. Huff. Huff.”
Han Seol-bing’s face was drenched in sweat, and her breathing was rough.
“Damn. This monster-like bitch…”
The Vice Commander looked at Han Seol-bing with a disgusted face and spat out curses.
“Thanks for the compliment. Huff. Huff.”
Han Seol-bing said with a tired but bright smile.
Monster.
Thanks to someone, it was a word she had wanted to hear about herself at least once.
On the other hand, the Vice Commander was truly disgusted.
Of the hundred members, only the three of them remained.
He never imagined such a thing would happen.
Was she truly a monster?
But even that monster was now exhausted to the limit.
It seemed he could finish her off soon.
Wasn’t she trembling just from looking at her?
“You bitch. Know that you won’t die peacefully.”
As if trying to drive away fear, he gathered as much anger as possible and spoke.
Lust slowly settled in the Vice Commander’s eyes.
Han Seol-bing.
She was a monster-like bitch, but even more than that, she was a beautiful bitch.
To drive away fear, he had to cover it with an even greater desire.
The Vice Commander chose lust for that.
“After catching that bitch, we’ll violate her to our heart’s content and then kill her.”
Lust slowly filled the eyes of the two subordinates standing beside him as well.
The fear of what Han Seol-bing had done so far was gradually forgotten, and only her beautiful face and curved, slender figure entered their eyes.
Sword aura began to shine on the Vice Commander’s sword.
Thanks to only searching and tracking until now.
His dantian was full of internal energy.
A stark contrast to Han Seol-bing, who was almost empty.
Haze-like energy also rose from the other two martial artists’ swords.
Swords filled with sword qi.
Han Seol-bing looked at those three people and hesitantly stepped back.
The three people stepped forward step by step accordingly.
Lewd smiles had filled their faces before they knew it.
They thought Han Seol-bing’s retreat was due to fear and lack of strength now.
When she had stepped back a few more steps like that.
A smile also formed on Han Seol-bing’s face.
“He always said to prepare thoroughly. Even if you might not use it.”
Han Seol-bing took out an iron rod from her bosom.
She stepped back one more step and planted the iron rod in the spot where she had been standing.
“Hah. What useless thing are you…”
The Vice Commander, who had spoken that far, recalled what the Commander had explained the day before.
‘She’s the one with the best skills in formation techniques in Ice Heaven Palace. You never know when she’ll deploy a formation, so never let your guard down.’
And the iron rod visible to the eye.
It was mainly a form used when deploying formation techniques.
“St-stop her…”
Before those words could even finish, Han Seol-bing had planted the iron rod in the exact position.
Wooooong.
With a low vibrating sound, thick ice fog began to form around them.
“Catch that bitch!”
He launched his body toward Han Seol-bing, who was immediately visible.
But the Vice Commander was instantly trapped in the ice fog.
The two subordinates were also nowhere to be seen.
The Vice Commander looked around in panic.
“Don’t move! Stop right there! We need to find a way to break the formation!”
He shouted like that.
But with the bizarre sounds and illusions pressing in from all directions, he began to swing his sword roughly.
It was the same for the other two people.
Han Seol-bing, who had stepped back one more step, let out a rough breath.
The eight formations laid out in advance when entering the Han Family.
Those bastards had just entered the center of the most useful one among them.
‘Dan-ju’s words have never been wrong. At least not in battle.’
This too was something learned from Ha Mu-baek’s usual behavior during his Hocheon Corps days.
Preparations for unexpected situations, even if they might go unused and be discarded.
She had reaped the full benefits of that.
Ice Mist Soul Stealing Formation.
A terrifying killing formation that exhausts the strength of those who enter through endless illusions, ultimately causing them to die from exhaustion.
Exactly the formation Han Seol-bing needed right now.
After using even the handful of internal energy needed to activate the formation, her dantian was truly empty.
She hastily sat cross-legged and began energy circulation.
Those three would never be able to escape that formation.
They were neither knowledgeable enough in formations to discover the single path of life, nor strong enough to break the formation by force.
What remained for them was to wither and die within the formation.
Han Seol-bing fell into energy circulation while expanding her ki sense.
Recovery of enough internal energy to move immediately was urgent.
The rapid qi circulation technique used countless times on the battlefield.
Though the backlash that returned to the body after combat was severe.
Now was not the time to worry about such things.
It was a situation as fierce as during the Murim Great War.
Having recovered half her internal energy in this brief moment, Han Seol-bing immediately kicked off the ground and ran.
Ice Heaven Moon Shadow Flight.
She ran toward the Palace Lord’s Hall as if flying, displaying the speed of swiftness.
“St, stop them!”
“That breach cannot be allowed!!”
A fierce battle was taking place.
The fortunate thing was that all personnel had succeeded in entering the Palace Lord’s Hall.
The unfortunate thing was that they were in a precarious situation under the combined attack of those who had been blockading the Palace Lord’s Hall and the military force that had newly appeared from the Tak Family.
Han Seol-bing ran with her sword drawn.
There was nothing to consider.
Pure white sword aura formed on her blade.
Ice Heaven Sunlight Sword.
The sword technique she hadn’t used against the ninety-nine members of the Tak Family’s Hanpung Corps to conserve internal energy.
Han Seol-bing was now generously pouring in her remaining internal energy to strike the enemies from behind.
“Kraaaah!”
“Keuak!”
“Aaah!”
At the consecutive screams that erupted.
Those who had been attacking the Palace Lord’s Hall turned around.
And confirmed Han Seol-bing.
“H, Han Seol-bing!”
“H, how is that woman here??”
“What about the Hanpung Corps??”
The Tak Family martial artists fell into confusion at her sudden intrusion.
“Cheolpung Corps teams eight, nine, and ten block Han Seol-bing!”
An order that burst out from somewhere.
Three teams. Sixty martial artists turned around, but.
They were insufficient to stop her as she charged forward wildly swinging sword aura that radiated intense qi.
Han Seol-bing cut down everyone who got in the way of her sword.
They collapsed, suffering both frostbite and burns simultaneously.
Han Seol-bing looked only forward and charged straight ahead.
Those who had rushed toward her fell one by one.
A terrifying sight.
“M, monster…”
When someone muttered that.
Han Seol-bing had already arrived in front of the Palace Lord’s Hall wall.
She lightly leaped up and landed on the wall.
The Tak Family martial artists simply stared blankly at Han Seol-bing’s retreating figure.
They felt fear at her monstrously strong appearance, but.
On the other hand.
That figure leaping high and flying down was indescribably beautiful.
Like Chang’e from the heavenly Moon Palace.
The Tak Family martial artists stared blankly at that sight.
The Han Family and Ice Family martial artists looked no different.
Thanks to this, the battle temporarily stopped.
Han Seol-bing.
Because of her terrifying skill and beautiful appearance.
Having landed inside the Palace Lord’s Hall like that, Han Seol-bing immediately asked a nearby martial artist.
“Where is the Palace Lord?”
“H, he is in his office.”
Having heard the answer, Han Seol-bing kicked off the ground once more.
Toward the Palace Lord’s office.
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