The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 320
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Chapter 320. Let’s Begin
Han Seol-bing arrived at Palace Lord Bing Chwi-seol’s office in an instant.
“Sister!”
The informal address came out first.
Bing Chwi-seol smiled warmly as she welcomed Han Seol-bing.
“You’ve come? You’ve truly gone through much hardship.”
She had already heard about Han Seol-bing’s plan from Younger Sibling So Seol, who had arrived first.
“All preparations have been made.”
Bing Chwi-seol said as she rose from her seat.
“Let’s go quickly. To where the ice crystal is.”
She took the lead while Han Seol-bing and Bing So-seol followed right behind.
Behind them, Han Go-jeok, Na Hong-ryeon, and Ji Heon-wi followed.
These were the ones who knew Han Seol-bing’s plan precisely.
They had come along to witness that scene with their own eyes.
Thus, the six people arrived deep underground beneath the Palace Lord’s Hall.
Even now, fierce battles continued at the walls of the Palace Lord’s Hall.
Time was of the essence.
Bing Chwi-seol opened the firmly closed iron door using her internal energy and key.
An iron door that only the Palace Lord could open.
As the door opened.
Tremendous cold energy that seemed ready to freeze their entire bodies immediately burst forth and struck the group.
However, those who operated Ice Heaven Palace’s internal energy instead absorbed the cold energy as they entered.
The ice crystal, shaped like an elongated octahedron.
It floated in midair, scattering ice energy in all directions while also absorbing it.
The ice crystal was about the size of a baby around one hundred days old.
“First, recover your internal energy.”
Han Seol-bing had poured out all the internal energy she had gathered again in the final breakthrough.
From her appearance entering the office with a deathly pale face, it wasn’t difficult for Palace Lord Bing Chwi-seol to guess Han Seol-bing’s current state.
However.
Since practicing breathing exercises where the ice crystal was located would be much more efficient, they had come here first.
“Yes.”
With a brief answer, Han Seol-bing began her energy circulation.
In this short time.
She recovered eighty percent of her internal energy.
It was much faster recovery thanks to the flow of ice energy that the ice crystal emitted and absorbed.
When Han Seol-bing opened her eyes, those present were startled.
Even though this was where the ice crystal was located, it was far too fast.
“Are you alright?”
Bing So-seol asked worriedly.
Han Seol-bing nodded her head.
“Well, I’ll have to pay the price later.”
She had experienced the backlash countless times.
Han Seol-bing immediately went to the space in front of the ice crystal and sat cross-legged.
Behind her, Palace Lord Bing Chwi-seol also sat cross-legged.
From now on, these two people’s roles were extremely important.
Though Han Seol-bing could do it alone, Bing Chwi-seol was also absolutely necessary to unleash the ultimate power.
“Let’s begin.”
Bing Chwi-seol nodded at Han Seol-bing’s words.
Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power.
An internal energy mental method passed down through generations only to the Palace Lords of Ice Heaven Palace.
It was used to draw upon the ice crystal’s power and pour it into a specific place.
Now.
The place to use that power was the one sitting cross-legged before her eyes.
Han Seol-bing.
Bing Chwi-seol placed her palm against Han Seol-bing’s Life Gate Acupoint and pushed the ice crystal’s power, drawn through Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power, directly into her.
Tremendous power rushing in like a torrent.
Han Seol-bing immediately sent that power to both arms.
In her hands were two pure white daggers she had drawn from her bosom.
The daggers she had used to take Tak Ga Han-pung-dae’s life.
Ice Dragon Cold Snow Daggers.
A pair of daggers that were one of Ice Heaven Palace’s treasures.
They were a gift bestowed by the previous Palace Lord when she left Ice Heaven Palace to participate in the Murim Great War.
At the same time.
They were also the key to the ultimate formation Han Seol-bing was about to deploy.
Though it wasn’t impossible to deploy without them, just as the Palace Lord’s Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power was needed for ultimate power, the pair of Ice Dragon Cold Snow Daggers was also necessary.
Thunk! Thunk!
Han Seol-bing simultaneously drove the daggers into the ground on both sides.
The tremendous ice crystal energy that entered through Han Seol-bing’s Life Gate Acupoint traveled through her arms, passed through her hands and the daggers, then went directly into the earth.
Rummmmmble. Rummble. Mmmmble.
At the same time, massive vibrations began throughout the entire Palace Lord’s Hall.
It wasn’t just vibrations.
The tall walls that broadly surrounded the Palace Lord’s Hall.
The amethysts embedded throughout the walls began to emit a soft light.
“What, what is this?”
“What in the world…”
The Tak Family martial artists who had been attacking the Palace Lord’s Hall were startled by the sudden change and hesitantly retreated.
Meanwhile, the vibrations grew more intense.
They spread beyond the Palace Lord’s Hall to the entire vast Ice Heaven Palace.
Rumble. Rummble.
The earth where Ice Heaven Palace stood trembled softly.
Naturally, Tak Yo-beom, Yang Jeok-san, and Tak Pung-geon of the Tak Family also felt the vibrations.
“What is this?”
Tak Yo-beom frowned.
The timing wasn’t right for it to be an earthquake.
Though earthquakes occasionally occurred in the North Sea, they had regular cycles.
And there had been none of the warning signs that appeared before earthquakes.
This meant the animals were peacefully going about their own lives.
“It probably isn’t an earthquake?”
At Tak Yo-beom’s muttering, Tak Pung-geon’s face hardened stiffly.
Naturally.
Tak Yo-beom and Yang Jeok-san’s eyes turned toward him.
“Su, su, surely…”
Tak Pung-geon’s eyes trembled violently.
“Pung Geon. What is it?”
Tak Yo-beom asked.
“Ha, ha, Han Seol-bing seems to have entered the Palace Lord’s Hall.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“If it’s not an earthquake… the fact that the entire territory of Ice Heaven Palace is trembling means… th, that formation has been activated.”
Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation.
The strongest and final absolute formation passed down in Ice Heaven Palace.
Ice Heaven.
True to its name meaning the sky of ice, the Ice Energy of the North Sea was an essential element, so it could only be deployed in the North Sea.
As much as there were spatial constraints, its power was truly earth-shaking.
According to the caster’s will, the nature of the formation changes unpredictably.
It could become an annihilation formation unparalleled under heaven.
It could become a Maze Formation where one could never find a path.
It could become an illusion formation where those trapped in the formation suffer in fantasies and go mad.
It could become a defensive formation to protect those inside the formation.
It could become an offensive formation that traps and attacks those inside the formation.
The most terrifying thing was that it could grant all these characteristics simultaneously.
Tak Yo-beom, who only knew it was a legendary formation with tremendous power.
As Tak Pung-geon’s explanation continued, his face contorted grotesquely.
Yang Jeok-san remained silent. He too knew the power of the Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation.
Such a tremendous formation?
Though it was called a legendary formation.
Wasn’t this an unbelievably tremendous power?
He understood even more why Tak Pung-geon had said they must prevent Han Seol-bing from entering the Palace Lord’s Hall.
“Wait. You clearly said earlier that it borrows the power of ice crystals…”
Tak Yo-beom recalled what Tak Pung-geon had urgently said.
Tak Pung-geon nodded with a grave expression.
“Even using only the Ice Energy of the North Sea creates a tremendous formation. But if it borrows the power of ice crystals as well, that power is…”
Tak Yo-beom bit his lips.
“At the end of the formation’s secret manual, the conditions for deploying the ultimate form of Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter were written. I saw it when I opened the final secret manual out of curiosity.”
“Ul, ultimate form?”
What was this supposed to mean now?
“It was an arrangement by Ice Heaven Palace’s founder, Gae Pa Jo-sa. The Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal, a pair of Ice Dragon Cold Snow Daggers, a Palace Lord who mastered Ice Crystal Radiance Great Heaven Power, a caster who mastered Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation to Ultimate Achievement, and finally the Palace Lord’s Hall. When all these conditions are met, the ultimate formation opens.”
“Th, then what kind of power does it have?”
Tak Yo-beom asked with a slightly trembling voice.
“Heaven Destruction. World Destruction.”
A short answer.
Tak Yo-beom and Yang Jeok-san widened their eyes.
“This was all that was written.”
“Da, damn it…”
Tak Yo-beom muttered as if entranced.
What the hell was this?
“All, all available personnel to the Palace Lord’s Hall! Pung Geon! You must find a way to break the formation by any means necessary, or even find the smallest gap!”
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Fog descends on the Palace Lord’s Hall.
Bitterly cold ice fog.
Ice mist.
It seemed to surround the Palace Lord’s Hall in layers, then completely covered it.
Han Seol-bing, sitting cross-legged, was inwardly surprised.
‘What kind of arrangement is this?’
The secret manual of the Ten Thousand Shatter Formation that she had studied thoroughly in the library.
She had mastered everything.
But the explanation of the ultimate Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation was only four characters in total.
Heaven Destruction World Destruction.
Believing that content, she had activated the ultimate formation.
Those who knew all these conditions were those who had read the secret manual to the end and the Palace Lord.
Currently, she guessed it was probably only herself and the Palace Lord.
Na Hong-ryeon seemed to know only that Han Seol-bing, the ice crystal, and the Palace Lord together could deploy a Ten Thousand Shatter Formation of powerful might.
Bing So-seol as well.
However.
The conditions for the ultimate formation were not just that.
Sitting cross-legged in the designated position and continuously channeling energy into the earth with daggers held in both hands to activate the formation.
Han Seol-bing felt as if she herself had become the formation.
She could sense with her senses everywhere the formation was deployed.
There was no explanation of such sensations even in the secret manual.
A fact that could only be known by deploying it.
The Palace Lord’s Hall itself was a giant Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation.
With only the final key missing.
Ice Heaven Palace’s founder, the first Palace Lord Gae Pa Jo-sa, had created it this way.
The arrangement of buildings, the amethyst of the walls.
All of it was a component of the formation.
That’s why.
‘It’s not perfect.’
Han Seol-bing realized this fact.
A long time had passed.
The weathering of time.
Because of that, damage had occurred to the formation.
During the repair process, Gae Pa Jo-sa’s arrangement had been gradually altered.
This happened because those who didn’t know the formation had fixed it.
Han Seol-bing, who had realized Ice Heaven Ten Thousand Forms Ten Thousand Shatter Formation to Ultimate Achievement, had to step forward and fix it herself.
No, even if she had stepped forward, she might not have known.
Because she deployed the formation, she realized that the entire Palace Lord’s Hall was a giant formation itself.
Now she felt she could properly restore it.
But that would be after overcoming this crisis.
She could feel numerous Martial Artists rushing toward the Palace Lord’s Hall.
Tak Yo-beom also revealed himself.
Seeing the Martial Artists who didn’t know what to do with the ice mist that suddenly appeared in layers, he shouted.
“What are you doing! Attack quickly!”
Tak Yo-beom’s shout.
Even knowing the tremendous power of this formation, he pushed his Subordinates forward.
He was trying to attempt an assault with overwhelming numbers first.
Thus, about thirty Martial Artists selected as the advance party disappeared into the formation.
One hour.
Even though time had passed, there was no change whatsoever.
Tak Yo-beom gritted his teeth.
If he just pushed forward with numbers unconditionally.
He accepted the reality that he would lose them all by pushing them into a death trap.
Attacking would mean defeat.
He had to stop for now.
“Pung Geon!”
“Yes, Family Head.”
“Find it. By any means necessary. Until then, we only maintain the siege.”
Tak Yo-beom’s eyes were blazing with fury.
“It’s the Palace Lord’s Hall with depleted supplies anyway. I don’t know how much those bastards brought in with them. Either they come out and die by our hands, or they starve to death inside.”
Thus, countless tent barracks were erected around the Palace Lord’s Hall.
All of the Tak Family’s forces departed as soon as they were ready, gathering one after another in sequence.
And they surrounded the entire area.
Without leaving a single gap.
It was a manifestation of their will to capture even a single person who emerged and extract the method to enter the formation.
Tak Pung-geon circled around the formation.
He had learned the Ten Thousand Shatter Formation, albeit slightly, and mobilized all that knowledge and understanding.
The ultimate formation technique of Heaven and Earth Destruction.
What would its power truly be like?
He couldn’t tell.
To know, he would have to enter the formation.
But if he did that, it seemed he would never return.
Just like those who first entered the formation under the Family Head’s orders.
‘Tak Pung-geon.’
Han Seol-bing, who had her eyes closed, slightly frowned.
That man was there.
The one who had clung to formation techniques with the ambition to surpass her through formations.
Ten years had passed, so perhaps that man might have reached for the Ten Thousand Shatter Formation.
If that were the case.
He might notice.
The vulnerable parts of the formation that inevitably appeared due to the weathering of time.
The formation was deployed and the battle finally stopped.
Only then could the warriors of the Han Family and Ice Family sit down and rest.
“It seems like an incredible formation, doesn’t it?”
“Those bastards are completely invisible.”
“Was it because of this formation that we were told to come here?”
People shared their various speculations and discussions about the formation.
Then.
Someone spoke anxiously.
“But we still can’t get out either. The Tak Family bastards will be waiting outside.”
At those words, people began checking the provisions they had brought.
“How long do we have to stay here?”
Anxiety was gradually expanding its territory.
From those who realized they were trapped in a jar where the Tak Family couldn’t come in, but they couldn’t get out either.
The first person to read such anxiety was Bing So-seol.
After Han Seol-bing activated the formation.
She had come out to check the outside situation and witnessed such unrest.
“Don’t worry. Reinforcements will come!”
It was something already discussed with her sister.
They had decided to reveal the existence of reinforcements to eliminate the anxiety of being trapped.
Since Han Seol-bing spoke with conviction.
Only Han Seol-bing knew what kind of existence those reinforcements were.
No, Na Hong-ryeon also knew.
But she too only called them reinforcements and didn’t mention it was just one person.
The moment that fact was revealed.
Anxiety and confusion would grow uncontrollably.
They had protected the safety of numerous family members from the Tak Family’s clutches for now.
What remained now was a battle against time.
Whether reinforcements would come before the provisions and supplies they brought ran out.
Or not.
Aren’t you coming?
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