The World’s Greatest Martial Arts Instructor - Chapter 329
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Chapter 329. You’ve Become Quite Strong
This was a matter from the very distant past.
There was a woman of the Bing surname.
Her name was Ok-ryeong, and her sword was unrivaled under heaven, while her Formation Technique and Mystical Arts were the greatest of all time.
She had two disciples named Han Baek-rang and Tak Ji-myeong.
Han Baek-rang learned sword and Formation Technique, while Tak Ji-myeong learned Formation Technique, Mystical Arts, and sword.
Han Baek-rang and Tak Ji-myeong.
Both of them deeply loved their master in their hearts.
Though they knew it was wrong.
They could not control their feelings.
Then their steps led them to the North Sea.
They discovered the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal.
They established their foundation there.
Bing Ok-ryeong created new Sword Techniques and Formation Techniques while gathering people.
Han Baek-rang and Tak Ji-myeong each became her right and left arms, spending busy days.
They formed a single force called Ice Heaven Palace.
During this time, Bing Ok-ryeong found a lover.
Unfortunately, it was neither Han Baek-rang nor Tak Ji-myeong.
Han Baek-rang accepted reality and walked his own path.
But Tak Ji-myeong did not.
Though he appeared to accept reality.
Deep in his heart, resentment toward his master Bing Ok-ryeong took root.
A desire for revenge against his master, no, the woman who had ignored his love.
Tak Ji-myeong, who harbored this deep in his chest, let the years flow by like that.
He met a woman, married, had children, and then saw grandchildren.
He firmly established his position as a powerful family within Ice Heaven Palace.
It was truly by chance that Tak Ji-myeong discovered it.
Burning with revenge and devoting himself to cultivation as the years passed, his Formation Technique and Mystical Arts had eventually reached a level comparable to Bing Ok-ryeong’s.
While researching Formation Techniques using Ice Crystal Energy, he explored the surroundings.
This was to understand the terrain where Ice Crystal Energy was extending.
Then he accidentally fell into a deep cave.
When he reached a place so deep its depth was unknowable, there was miraculously a Dark Cave there.
“Th-this is impossible…”
Tak Ji-myeong could not believe his eyes.
The being before his eyes.
Was such an existence.
An imugi.
That is, it was a flood dragon.
Moreover, it was one trying to become a fire dragon.
A creature that had fallen into deep sleep for the final molting needed for ascension.
“H-how is it in this place…”
The extreme land, North Sea.
How could there be a fire dragon’s imugi here, not an ice dragon?
As Tak Ji-myeong examined the surroundings, he soon understood the reason.
The land where the Ten Thousand Year Ice Crystal was located.
In the deeper places, fire energy, its opposite, also overflowed.
No, perhaps because it was land overflowing with fire energy, ice crystals appeared to suppress that fire energy with their opposite nature.
Here, the flood dragon blocked the Ice Crystal Energy with its body and consumed the fire energy from underground.
“What heavenly fortune.”
Discovering a flood dragon on the verge of ascension in a defenseless state was indeed heavenly fortune as he said.
However.
“It is not mine to take.”
That was right.
With his current abilities, he could not do anything about this flood dragon.
Though opportunity was before his eyes, it was not Tak Ji-myeong’s to take.
His master might have been able to do something, but Tak Ji-myeong shook his head.
He did not want to inform the master who had betrayed him.
‘If I cannot take it.’
Having made his decision, Tak Ji-myeong drew twelve daggers from his chest.
Daggers made by mixing rice grain-sized fragments of ice crystal with cold iron.
Ice Dragon Cold Snow Rain.
A treasure he had completed not long ago.
A treasure that should belong to Ice Heaven Palace, not to himself.
A treasure destined to become a component of the ultimate Formation Technique the Palace Lord intended to create.
Tak Ji-myeong was responsible for crafting this, and he had completed twelve.
Tak Ji-myeong decided to use these for his private purposes.
His mind broke through extreme limits and began constructing a Formation Technique.
And the Ice Dragon Cold Snow Rain pierced into the ground.
He was constructing a Formation Technique to seal the fire dragon.
The moment he drove ten Ice Dragon Cold Snow Rain into the ground.
Wooooong.
With a small vibration, a transparent barrier appeared and completely surrounded the flood dragon.
Using a strand of Ice Crystal Energy that had extended to this place, he sealed the flood dragon.
The flood dragon was sealed while knowing nothing, in the midst of deep sleep for its final molting.
Without even being able to open its eyes.
“Huuu…”
Tak Ji-myeong exhaled deeply.
Just how much time had he spent in this space?
He could not know, nor did he want to know.
He sat cross-legged on the spot, struck by a sudden realization.
The unity of Formation Technique and Mystical Arts to seal the flood dragon.
As a result of performing this, enlightenment had come to him.
Thus, with his realm rising another level, Tak Ji-myeong collapsed the cave he had fallen into and emerged above ground.
Deep night.
Tak Ji-myeong read the heavenly signs.
An ability that became possible after gaining this enlightenment.
“A thousand years must pass.”
He contained all of this in a single sword and buried it somewhere.
A sword made to respond only to descendants who had learned the Martial Arts he would leave behind.
When this would be passed to his descendant’s hands would be a thousand years later.
And the time when the arrangement he had made for the flood dragon would be completed was also a thousand years later.
Tak Ji-myeong moved his base to the place where the flood dragon was sealed.
Now this place would become the Tak Family’s land.
Bing Ok-ryeong, who had received the Ice Dragon Cold Snow Rain, read the heavenly divination that night.
She read it with an anxious heart, sensing the change in her disciple.
The hazy heavenly divination was completely incomprehensible.
There was only one thing she could understand.
The disaster a thousand years hence.
She had to prepare for it.
That was why she built her dwelling on the ice crystal.
The Palace Lord’s Hall.
She constructed a formation technique using the entire structure.
So that any calamity could be blocked.
And she also created and left behind the Palace Lord’s sacred object.
***
Tak Yo-beom gazed at the being before his eyes.
It was unchanged from ten years ago or now.
It had been a transcendent existence.
But now.
“The corpse of a flood dragon…”
That was what it was.
The corpse of a flood dragon situated deep underground.
The flood dragon’s corpse surrounded by a pure white membrane.
Tak Yo-beom stepped into the membrane.
Whoooong.
The membrane tried to block Tak Yo-beom.
But when he held out his ancient sword, it let him pass through as if nothing had happened.
The center of the coil the flood dragon was forming.
There lay a red orb the size of a child’s head.
It was not an inner core.
If it were an inner core, it should have been inside the flood dragon’s corpse.
Tak Yo-beom raised his sword without hesitation and pierced the red orb.
At that moment.
Whoooosh!
Tremendous flames shot up, filling the entire space within the membrane.
In an instant, the flood dragon’s corpse crumbled away in the flames.
The small sphere that appeared to be the inner core also disappeared.
No, more precisely, it was absorbed by the flames, adding its energy to them.
Only Tak Yo-beom remained intact within the flames.
The red orb disappeared and all the flames that had filled the space were sucked into Tak Yo-beom’s body through the sword.
“Ah, ahhh…”
Tak Yo-beom let out moans of ecstasy, feeling extreme pleasure.
In his mind, a thousand years ago.
The deeds his ancestor had performed unfolded as if he were witnessing them before his eyes.
What he couldn’t do even after unlocking the sword’s secret.
He came to know all of it.
The inexplicable animosity the Tak Family had harbored toward the Ice Family.
He learned the root of it.
Soon, having absorbed all the energy.
Tak Yo-beom’s eyes and eyebrows, all the hair on his entire body turned red.
Crumble.
The ancient sword in his hand crumbled and disappeared as if it had fulfilled its role.
At that moment.
A voice echoing in Tak Yo-beom’s mind.
-Violate all women bearing the surname Bing and make them my slaves.
A voice overflowing with bitter resentment.
Whose it was was obvious.
Tak Ji-myeong.
It was his ancestor’s voice.
“If it’s my ancestor’s dying wish, I must fulfill it. Keheheh.”
A bizarre-voiced laugh flowed from Tak Yo-beom’s mouth.
His pupils turned red.
Power overflowed.
With this flame energy filling his entire body, he felt he could do anything.
Ha Mu-baek’s appearance in front of the Palace Lord’s Hall came to mind.
“Hmph, such a trivial thing.”
The move that had caused an earthquake splitting and overturning the ground.
He felt he could do it with a single punch.
Fierce flames flowed from his body.
“Bing Chwi-seol. I’ll make you crawl like a dog between my legs. Kehehehe.”
Tak Yo-beom kicked off the ground and flew into the air.
Breaking through the ceiling of the dark cave, parting the tightly packed earth, he rose up, up.
***
Ha Mu-baek’s group arrived at the Tak Family.
Ha Mu-baek looked down at the ground below.
And soon frowned.
“What is this?”
“Pardon?”
Han Seol-bing reacted to Ha Mu-baek’s muttering.
“Deep beneath this place. There’s an unusual energy.”
The formation technique and mystical arts to seal the flood dragon.
Since they blocked the flow of that energy to some extent.
Even though flame energy was raging like a storm, Ha Mu-baek couldn’t properly gauge its magnitude.
A moment later.
Rummmmmble.
The ground shook violently with a rough roar.
Among them.
The Family Head Hall.
It was swaying precariously as if it would collapse at any moment.
“How noisy, tsk.”
Ha Mu-baek looked at the Tak Family’s Family Head Hall with cold eyes.
“What on earth is happening?”
Han Seol-bing said with slight bewilderment.
Ha Mu-baek seemed to guess the reason.
“There was something down there, and the Tak Family Head seems to have gained considerable power from it. He’s become quite strong.”
Ha Mu-baek’s face remained unchanged.
But Han Seol-bing’s face hardened.
It had to.
The expression “not bad.”
That was considerable praise coming from Ha Mu-baek.
Kugwagwagwa-kwang! Kwaaaaang!
Following that, with a tremendous explosion, the ground directly beneath the Tak Family Head Hall shot upward, and the aftermath shattered the Family Head Hall to pieces.
An enormous amount of debris scattering in all directions.
At the same time, a tremendous storm of energy swept through.
“Huk.”
“Keuuk.”
Han Seol-bing, Bing Chwi-seol, and their group were startled and tried to stumble backward.
But in an instant.
The pressure and debris suddenly disappeared.
When they lowered their arms that had been covering their faces, they saw a pure white energy barrier spread in a circle around Ha Mu-baek.
Covering even the area where they stood.
Bing Chwi-seol had a dumbfounded expression.
She thought she knew enough, but she didn’t.
She knew nothing at all.
How exactly should one measure that man’s level?
While she was wrapped in such questions, gazing at Ha Mu-baek’s back.
“Kahahaha! Power overflows! Power overflows! Now I can smash everything!!!”
Tak Yo-beom’s bizarre laughter echoed through midair.
Tak Yo-beom floating in midair, wrapped in red flames.
Cold sweat beaded on Bing Chwi-seol’s back as she watched that sight.
It was because she felt the dangerous and tremendous energy emanating from him.
That energy could be felt even beyond the energy barrier Ha Mu-baek had deployed.
What had happened in such a short time for Tak Yo-beom to change like that?
And what were those enormous flames?
Tak Yo-beom looked down at the ground.
Ha Mu-baek’s group came into his view.
“Keke. You’ve skillfully chased me all the way here. Did you come to die?”
Tak Yo-beom casually waved his hand.
Following that gesture.
Hwareureureureuk!
Massive flames writhed like a dragon and flew toward Ha Mu-baek.
“Uh, uhuh… th-that’s…”
Someone among Bing Chwi-seol’s subordinates behind her opened their mouth with a dazed expression.
Massive flames were shooting from midair and flying toward them.
It was such an unrealistic sight.
The others were equally shocked.
Bing Chwi-seol was no exception.
Only Han Seol-bing looked not at the flames but at Ha Mu-baek’s back.
An expression of trust in him.
Ha Mu-baek calmly watched the flames as if it were nothing.
Kwang!
Soon the flames that reached them struck the energy barrier.
“Euhuk!”
“Kyak!”
People screaming and crouching to the ground at the sight of the fiercely burning flames.
The flames were blocked by the energy barrier and couldn’t come any closer.
Nevertheless, watching flames blazing right before their eyes was quite a terrifying sight.
Moreover.
Only the heat penetrated through the energy barrier, making their skin tingle.
For Ha Mu-baek of Han Seo Bul Chim, such heat was nothing at all.
However.
‘Not bad?’
The opponent’s energy transmitted through the energy barrier was quite strong.
Ha Mu-baek modified the form of the energy barrier.
Into a shape that wrapped around the flames.
Open wide at the back.
“Step back a bit. It looks like I’ll need to make quite a commotion.”
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