The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 328

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Chapter 328. Damn it…

 

 

Ten figures revealed themselves in an instant.

They were Tak Yo-beom’s Personal Guards.

These were the ten strongest among the Tak Family’s martial artists.

Those he always kept by his side to protect him.

Now was not the time to spare them.

“Go. Go and take that bastard’s head.”

Tak Yo-beom’s eyes turned red as he gave the order.

“We obey.”

With a brief response, the ten shadows quietly disappeared.

They didn’t make the mistake of attacking Ha Mu-baek directly.

Even at a glance, he was a master stronger than themselves.

Since he was currently facing countless Tak Family martial artists,

they quietly hid among them.

To wait for the right opportunity.

Tak Yo-beom watched this scene before turning around.

Though he had given the order, he didn’t expect them to succeed.

However,

he only hoped they would buy him time.

Tak Yo-beom entered his barracks.

He grabbed the ancient sword hanging on the wall, then slashed through the opposite wall with his sword and escaped through it.

Tak Yo-beom moved away, leaving behind his subordinates who were fighting desperately.

“I chose the wrong battlefield. If I had known that damned bastard was here… I should have faced him at the main estate.”

Tak Yo-beom walked steadily toward the Tak Family estate.

His steps were extremely fast.

He knew it too.

That time was of the essence.

If he couldn’t get through this moment, neither the Palace Lord’s position nor advancing into the Central Plains would matter.

So,

he had to bring it out now.

 

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The siege on the Palace Lord’s Hall had been lifted at some point, and instead,

they were all gathered around Ha Mu-baek.

They kept falling but continued charging at him relentlessly.

Han Seol-bing was sensing all of this process.

She had extended her senses around the formation.

“It’s done.”

A calm yet joyful statement.

Han Seol-bing released her hands from the Ice Dragon Cold Snow Rain.

Swoooosh.

At the same time, the Ice Mist gradually subsided.

Following Han Seol-bing’s actions, Bing Chwi-seol also stopped transmitting Ice Crystal Energy.

“Is it finished?”

Han Seol-bing nodded at Bing Chwi-seol’s question and rose from her seat.

The Ice Dragon Cold Snow Rain was smoothly drawn and came into her hand.

“Yes. All the Tak Family martial artists are focused on Dan-ju.”

Her words were true.

As the Ice Mist gradually subsided and revealed the Palace Lord’s Hall,

no one could turn their gaze in that direction.

They could only focus on Ha Mu-baek, who was rampaging with monstrous momentum.

Yang Jeok-san clearly watched the changes in the Palace Lord’s Hall.

“This is a disaster.”

Yang Jeok-san’s expression crumpled even more, though it seemed there was no more face left to crumple.

Now that all of the Tak Family’s forces were concentrated on Ha Mu-baek,

if the Palace Lord’s Hall doors opened and the Ice Family and Han Family forces attacked them,

they would truly be shattered by attacks from both sides.

Yang Jeok-san bit his lips.

“Damn it. How did things turn out like this…”

Today,

he had thought they would destroy the Palace Lord’s Hall and the Family Head would become the Palace Lord of Ice Heaven Palace.

But,

now,

what was this situation?

In just a few hours.

No, not even a few hours.

Had even one hour passed since that damned bastard appeared?

“I’ll have to pull some forces to prepare for attacks from the Palace Lord’s Hall… Damn it.”

The momentum of attacks toward Ha Mu-baek would decrease, but

this had to be done.

Yang Jeok-san quickly gave orders.

Now that Tak Yo-beom had entered the barracks, command of the battlefield was delegated to Yang Jeok-san.

He did his best.

Regardless, Ha Mu-baek continued moving his hands and feet unchanged.

Then,

the main gate of the Palace Lord’s Hall, which had been tightly closed, seemed to move slowly, and

finally opened wide.

And two people revealed themselves.

It was Bing Chwi-seol and Han Seol-bing with refreshed faces.

Bing Chwi-seol and Han Seol-bing’s brows furrowed slightly as they looked at the battlefield where the fighting had ended.

The main instigator of the rebellion,

Tak Yo-beom, was nowhere to be seen.

Ha Mu-baek was in the midst of taking down the Tak Family martial artists when

he confirmed that Han Seol-bing had appeared.

“Did you resolve it cleanly?”

A question directed at her.

Han Seol-bing only glared with fierce eyes and frowned without saying anything.

It wasn’t something to discuss loudly in a place where countless martial artists had gathered.

Ha Mu-baek chuckled at Han Seol-bing’s reaction.

At that moment,

frost-like energy aimed at Ha Mu-baek from ten places simultaneously.

Ten sword auras flew at the same time.

“Those rat bastards…”

Ha Mu-baek tilted his head back and swung his hand.

He already knew there were ten who had snuck in.

He also knew they would attack if he showed an opening.

And that time was now.

It was an exquisite attack.

They weren’t complete fools.

They had exquisitely read the moment when Ha Mu-baek unknowingly scattered his qi aura slightly at Han Seol-bing’s appearance.

Ten sword auras grazed past Ha Mu-baek’s body.

Soon Ha Mu-baek’s sword was drawn.

With just one movement.

“Urgh.”

“Kugh.”

“Mmm….”

Ten groans flowed out.

Ten bodies collapsed to the ground.

A sword aura passed by the left side of Ha Mu-baek’s cheek.

Though it didn’t touch Ha Mu-baek’s body, it was the closest strike among all the attacks the North Sea martial artists had made.

“Not bad.”

Ha Mu-baek spoke with sincerity.

He hadn’t expected their swords could come so close.

“Well then, shall I finish playing around and wrap this up?”

Since he had already drawn his sword.

Ha Mu-baek decided he should end this quickly.

“Seol-bing.”

“Yes, Dan-ju.”

Ha Mu-baek, who had been fighting enemies, called out to her.

Han Seol-bing answered, knowing there must be a reason.

“Watch carefully. It’s quite an interesting technique.”

This had happened in Hocheon Corps as well.

Words he would say when teaching something to his subordinates.

He called it interesting, but each time he showed techniques of truly unfathomable levels.

Han Seol-bing still hadn’t reached the level of what she had seen before.

The moment Ha Mu-baek confirmed that Han Seol-bing was focusing and watching him.

Ha Mu-baek gripped his sword in reverse.

At that moment.

Dark sword aura formed on Ha Mu-baek’s sword.

“You’ve all worked hard.”

He plunged his sword into the ground in one motion.

The sword aura spread through the earth in all directions like a spider web.

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!!!

It caused a massive explosion.

The ground shook, cracked, and burst as if an earthquake had occurred.

Most of the Tak Family martial artists were swept up in the explosion.

They had no choice.

They had been surrounding Ha Mu-baek in layers.

“Wha, wha, what….”

“Wh, wh, what, what is….”

Yang Jeok-san was completely stunned.

This reaction wasn’t limited to the Tak Family.

The people of the Han Family and Ice Family were also staring at the scene unfolding before them with souls drained from their faces.

Bing Chwi-seol was no different.

Though she had access to all information about the martial artist named Ha Mu-baek.

Hearing about it and seeing and experiencing it were different things.

Look at the scene unfolding before their eyes now.

Was this something possible with human strength?

Only Han Seol-bing was different from the others.

Thanks to being with Ha Mu-baek and becoming somewhat accustomed to his inhuman aspects.

Even so, she too had her mouth hanging wide open.

Such a technique.

It was the first technique Ha Mu-baek had shown her.

It was indeed an attack worthy of being called an interesting technique.

‘Will I be able to learn it before I die?’

Such distant despair came first.

How could one possibly learn something like that?

Whiiing~.

A cold wind blew, sweeping away the dust.

The revealed scene was devastating.

Among the Tak Family martial artists, hardly anyone was standing on the ground with both feet.

Those remaining in decent condition were only those behind Yang Jeok-san.

Even that number didn’t reach thirty.

It was over.

A complete defeat.

Now even without Ha Mu-baek.

The combined strength of the Han Family and Ice Family alone could subdue the Tak Family.

Yang Jeok-san slowly came to his senses.

The two characters meaning ‘despair’ slowly settled in his eyes.

“There was no talk of such a thing….”

Who was he speaking to?

Yang Jeok-san muttered in a low voice.

“There was no talk of such a monster existing in the current world. And there was no talk of that monster being that human, Ha Mu-baek….”

He thought he had calculated perfectly and considered all variables.

But he hadn’t.

A natural disaster.

A calamity.

A being that could be described as such openly existed.

And due to his connection with Han Seol-bing, he was someone who would help the Palace Lord.

“Damn it….”

His eyes turned red and became moist.

It was unfair.

Truly, utterly unfair.

Wasn’t the intervention of such a being truly against the rules?

“Gangho rumors really can’t be trusted at all….”

Information about Ha Mu-baek’s true strength that he couldn’t access.

The divine prowess Ha Mu-baek had shown at the Peng Family and Namgung Family Estate.

Only high-ranking members of the Jeongcheon Alliance could access information about that.

Since the one dispatched from Ice Heaven Palace to the Jeongcheon Alliance was from the Ice Family, even the Tak Family Head couldn’t obtain such information.

What Tak Yo-beom had focused on was rather information about the northern forces of the Central Plains.

It was land he would have to advance into someday after becoming Palace Lord.

That ultimately became his fatal mistake.

He knew Ha Mu-baek was a tremendous martial artist and a monster.

He never could have dared to imagine that it would be such a terrifying monster beyond the realm of recognition.

So he had the absurd delusion of crushing it with overwhelming military force.

“Family Head… I’m sorry… Because of my inadequacy…”

Yang Jeok-san glanced at Tak Yo-beom’s intact barracks and muttered.

“I truly didn’t know he was such a monster. To face such a monster, only another monster could…”

Yang Jeok-san’s muttering words came to an abrupt halt.

He saw one wall of the barracks fluttering in the wind.

A place sharply cut by a sword.

Yang Jeok-san hurriedly turned around and ran to Tak Yo-beom’s barracks.

He wasn’t there.

It was completely empty.

“Heh, heheh, heheheh.”

A hollow laugh escaped.

To think he was such a person.

Had he devoted his loyalty all this time for merely such a person?

Suddenly everything felt meaningless.

“People of the Tak Family, listen.”

Bing Chwi-seol’s voice flowed out.

“The price for the crime of rebellion. Now it’s time to pay for it.”

A cold and beautiful voice like jade resonated in all directions.

Those words became despair and descended upon the Tak Family’s martial artists.

Most were already in a state of combat incapacity.

Looking at that monster in the enemy camp.

Now even fighting spirit wouldn’t arise.

Ha Mu-baek looked around and frowned.

“What’s wrong?”

“It’s too easy?”

Ha Mu-baek answered Han Seol-bing’s response.

“The person who created such an absurd scene?”

“Even so. For a rebellion, it ended too blandly. More importantly, aren’t we catching the enemy leader?”

At Ha Mu-baek’s question, Han Seol-bing frowned and said.

“That rat bastard already ran away.”

In front of the Family Head’s barracks, only Yang Jeok-san sat slumped with a dejected face.

“He’s over there.”

Ha Mu-baek had already detected his movement with Ki Sense.

Since he would be like a rat trapped in a jar anyway, he just left him be.

There wouldn’t be anything he could do alone.

Han Seol-bing looked at the place Ha Mu-baek pointed to and muttered.

“Tak Family…”

That’s right.

The Tak Family’s territory within Ice Heaven Palace.

That was the direction where it was located.

Bing Chwi-seol approached the two people.

She had heard the conversation.

“Did Tak Yo-beom escape to the Tak Family?”

Ha Mu-baek nodded.

“He’s the ringleader of the rebellion, so regardless of others, we must catch that bastard and behead him.”

Bing Chwi-seol’s voice as she spoke was filled with anger.

Yang Jeok-san was already bound by Ice Family martial artists and thrown to the ground.

He had lifeless eyes as if it didn’t matter what happened to him now.

Not because of the rebellion’s failure.

Because he thought he was betrayed by his lord.

To abandon subordinates fighting desperately and flee alone from this place.

It was futile and hollow.

“We must behead that bastard and hang his head up as well.”

It was an incomparably beautiful voice, but its content was murderous.

Ha Mu-baek’s gaze turned to Han Seol-bing.

Han Seol-bing nodded.

“Then we should go catch the last one.”

Ha Mu-baek moved his steps toward where he felt the presence.

Bing Chwi-seol, Han Seol-bing, and several Ice Family martial artists followed behind.

Ha Mu-baek tilted his head.

It was because Tak Yo-beom’s presence kept going down underground.

‘What’s his scheme?’

Ha Mu-baek extended his Ki Sense deep underground.

He felt the energy of powerful and alien mystical arts.

“It seems he has some scheme.”

Ha Mu-baek’s steps quickened.

 

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“Damn it…”

Tak Yo-beom cursed.

His eyes were coldly sunken.

“Who would have thought I’d have to use this already.”

It was truly a secret weapon to use when advancement into the Central Plains hit a wall.

Tak Yo-beom quickly ran down the underground tunnel.

Over the past several years.

It was the product of his efforts.

No one else knew of this place.

It was a path he had carved out alone.

Thus Tak Yo-beom stood on his two feet again before the existence he had painstakingly carved a path to meet over several years.

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